Kaijin Fighter: So I Have to Make Monsters, So What?-Chapter 1540: Cathartic Carnage
*Bing-Bong*
We interrupt this Chapter to inform the reader of this work that a scene has been removed by orders of the [CENSORED].
Apparently it was deemed too violent to written out in full detail, but we have been given the go-ahead on a summary of what occurred during the scene to justify its removal.
AHEM
After Zhen Liu was swallowed whole by Casshern Redoxa, he proceeded to use Blazejudicator’s power to not cut the wormy bastard open or burn a hole into them. Rather, he used the extra force generated to ram Casshern into Smoker from the inside of the former’s throat.
Whether it was by sheer luck, coincidence, or because Zhen Liu has that issue of being a karmic void, he managed to impale Casshern’s fake worm head directly onto Smoker’s broken arm bone.
A whole lot of screaming occurred, which was then amplified when Zhen Liu forced said broken arm bone to essentially gut Casshern like an eel being prepared Kanto-style, look it up.
Once Zhen Liu was freed from his wormy prison, he leaped out of Casshern’s now open back, landed on Smoker’s giant parasite shoulders, and...and...you can’t be serious. This what you wrote?
[Yes, yes it is.]
Okay...why?
[I got a lot of unresolved anger rolling around in my dome.]
Right...anyways... Zhen Liu landed on Smoker’s giant parasite shoulders and tore Smoker from the giant humanoid torso like he was a turnip being grown in a bloated cadaver.
The shock of this action killed Smoker almost instantaneously, and this feat was performed on Casshern in an encore performance.
We now return to your regularly scheduled Chapter, thank you.
...
Wait, I thought we had an R-rating for this kind of shit.
[Not for the level detail I included.]
Horrifying. Truly, just...horrifying.
*Bing-Bong*
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[So...you good now?] Nepherage asked her liege. [That was...a surprisingly brutal battle.]
[Brutal for who?] Hurricroak asked. [Maestro just turned those two into punching bags.]
[Punching bag is putting it lightly,] Screamira added. [That was more like a slasher film, except the victims are kaiju. Not the mutant Kaijin kind, but the rubber suit kind front from the movies in the library.]
[Seriously...though,] Frosttusk interjected. [Are you...okay?]
’That...was disturbingly therapeutic,’ Zhen Liu admitted to the kaijin. ’I think I need an actual vacation...or an actual meditation session after this. Like, enemies at the doorstep be damned, I’ll deal with them when I’m ready. Not when I think they’ll be caught with their pants down and their dicks out.’
[Huh...that’s odd,] Springerdermain commented. [That dirty joke of yours felt more...natural.]
’Huh? The fuck you on about?’
[I think I know what he means. You’ve been using humor to try and laugh in the face of danger right? Not going to lie, the last few times you did so, you sounded a little...forced,] Razorstella answered. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
’I did?’
[Yes.]
’Huh...’
...Enough banter, back to the aftermath of the bloodbath...
"Okay, if he’s done then—SWEET ANCESTORS ON HIGH, THAT IS SO MUCH BLOOD! "
"Oh...oh, I can see why he told us to look away..."
"It was...glorious," Rianna stated with an unhealthy-sounding shudder in her voice. "Like a spider in a roach nest."
The giant parasite monsters that were once known as Smoker Redoxa and Casshern Redoxa had been rendered corpses by Zhen Liu’s hands. Well, "corpses" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. It’d be more accurate to say that the two of them had been rendered into piles of gore and then reshaped into nightmarish modern art pieces.
At this point in time, Zhen Liu was sitting on what was once Smoker Redoxa’s severed foot while covered in black ichor. Lying at his feet were the torn bodies of the former Redoxa patriarchs, their faces twisted into screaming expressions. This would’ve been a tragically horrific sight...except for the fact that these two had their eyes replaced with weird insectile ones, and the back of their skulls appeared to have been replaced by weird hat-like insects.
Zhen Liu didn’t notice this feature when he was tearing them to shreds, but he definitely noticed it once they were both dead on the ground.
"Not going to lie," Zhen Liu began to say as his allies approached him and his kills with careful looks of worry and disgust. "I don’t think I actually killed Smoker and Casshern. I think I just swept up whatever fucked-up aftermath happened after the former betrayed the latter. I think those giant bugs on the back of their heads ate their brains and replaced them with shoddy knock-offs, hence the weird dialogue they were spouting out earlier."
"That makes sense," Rianna nodded in understanding. "I’ve seen it happen before to some big nasties in Insect Hell. Poor guys had fucked-up anatomies because of all the parasites in them. The snails were the worst."
"Gross," Zhen Xing commented.
"It really was."
"I hate to be a bother, but do either of you guys have any aether treasures or aether arts that can douse me in water?" Zhen Liu interjected once he finished catching his breath and stood up from his foot-shaped seat. "I’m pretty sure this ichor covering me is some kind of aether toxin, and it’s starting to get sticky."
"Uhh..."
Zhen Liu’s cousins, friends, and lovers all looked at each other and discussed for a moment before simultaneously shaking their heads. Evidently, none of them had any utility aether treasures on hand.
"Welp, I guess I’m going to have to bank on these guys having something in that fortress of theirs," Zhen Liu concluded as he gazed past his allies and towards the entryway where he left the hostages that he was initially going to trade for stuff. "I don’t think they’re going to kick up too much of a fuss over us looting their stuff."
Judging from the thousand-yard stares and the looks of terror in their eyes, the hostages had not listened to Zhen Liu when he said that he wanted people to look away from the carnage he was about to unleash on their former leaders.
Zhen Liu had wanted to negotiate a trade with whoever was considered the new leader of the Redoxa Family, but something in his gut told him that their position to negotiate had essentially evaporated.
"Huh," Zhen Liu eventually grunted as he stared up at the ceiling, black ichor still dripping off of him. "It just dawned on me how easy it would be for me to just roll up with the kaijin and just...do this again against someone else. Maybe with significantly less of a mess, but still..."
"Is...is this the part where you tell us you’re about to go on a world-spanning conquest of everything and everyone?" Zhen Tai asked. "Because you asked us to stop you if that ever—"
"Nah, nah," Zhen Liu said as he shook his head and looked into the eyes of his cousins, a hint of tiredness in them. "I’m just realizing that once this is over. I am going on a holiday."
"A holiday?" Lythero repeated. "I thought you were going to be heading over to the warzone between the Erupting Dawn Empire and the Sacred Flame Theocracy."
"I did," Zhen Liu confirmed. "But instead of going over there and doing my usual sneaking around and actively looking for trouble, I’m just going to go and check out both of these places like I’m a tourist or a traveler. I have come to realize that my enemies are going to be still stewing and planning no matter what I do, so I might as well take the time to breathe, relax, and be more...mentally put together to deal with whatever bullshit they send my way."
After making this declaration, he turned from the group and began to walk towards the former fortress of the Redoxa Family. As he walked, Frosttusk decided to join him.
"Besides, if worst comes to worst, and those motherfuckers try to jump me or harm any of you guys, I’m fairly certain that they won’t be able to handle it when I decide to sic all of the kaijin on them. Hehe."
As Zhen Liu made this joke, his innate [Chaos] decided to add a little emphasis to his words.
Several long shadows suddenly began to stretch out from his person, elongating against the walls of the fortress and the grounds of the greater cavern. These shadows took on the familiar silhouettes of the kaijin he had on his person, and each of the shadows began to make gestures that suggested that they were laughing alongside with him.
Positioned away from this spectacle, the others couldn’t help but notice this mildly unsettling sight and come to a single conclusion.
"Yeah...he definitely needs a holiday."
Then again, perhaps they came to this conclusion because several members of their ranks, the Zhen Clan scions and Antonio, were all currently being possessed by kaijin. And from this possession, they could all feel that Zhen Liu had made this statement less as a decisive statement and more like a cry for help.
A cry that they could actually answer...sort of.
"If you guys are done gawking, can you come and help me loot these guys? They have a lot of stuff in here!"
"Coming!"
