Shattering Humanity-Chapter 270: Compassion Vs. Preservation: "SeiõrSense"
"Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious.
Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe.
Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion." -[Tao Te Ching Chapter 67]
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The older gentleman who left his buddy in the middle of their chess match is sucking wind as he reaches Daisuki’s "Head Hancho" office door.
He knocks almost as he opens the door to enter and see a surprised Scylia standing up in front of the desk.
She turns around, slightly startled by the immediate intrusion but understands something is up by the way the older man is out of breath.
Scylia: "Can I help you sir?
Is something the matter?"
She moves to the mini fridge behind Daisuki’s desk and grabs a water for the man.
Before she can turn around...
Older Gentleman: *wheeze* "The entrance...*wheeze*
Something...*wheeze* happened!"
Scylia’s eyes grow wide.
[Sanpaku Destroyed Entrance]
Shelly: "Oh, my bad.
I think you might be a little mistaken about the position you are in right now, caddy boy.
I am the one asking the questions.
Now I’m only asking you one last time, why did you two HFF soldiers destroy my Sensei’s barrier to his sanctuary?
Did MamMon or did Nephilim send you?
So help you God, you better answer me."
However, before the personal trainer to her original opponent can choke up an answer, both Katsu and Shelly can feel a spike in Seiõr around them.
Immediately Shelly drops the weaker enemy and just below her, Zeke bursts from the rubble of the Inner Sanpaku wall.
Shelly lunges back all the way to Katsu, standing in front of him, protecting her purpose while strong gusts off wind begin to blow within the underwater tunnel.
Jeremiah rolls off the mound of debris and coughs. His hand still bleeding but he looks up and sees his friend.
Unlike everyone accepted by Seiõr, the purple eyes of the HFF soldier cannot see any SeiõrShield surrounding Zeke, but with Jeremiah’s human nature and instincts, he can feel something is different the closer his calmly walking partner gets to him.
His HFF sweatshirt shakes from the mysterious windstorm inside the confined cement area.
Jeremiah: "Zeke?
What’s going on with you?"
A few yards away, Katsu and Shelly don’t take their eyes off of the newly accepted soldier of Seiõr.
Still concealed in her golden home, stuck to her owner’s hip, Madame Fryer shakes twice and Shelly softly pats the sheathed sentient sword two times back.
Shelly: "It’s okay as of right now, Madame Fryer.
Thank you for not interfering in my fight earlier, but I may need your assistance if he can weaponize hostile blunt force kinetic energy."
She looks at the Seax surrounded in her golden pink SharedSanguineSoulSeiõrShield.
The reflection of her blue eyes looking back at her from the freshly cut and chipped black blade.
Shelly: "I wonder..."
Katsu: "Shelly, I know it’s not my place, but you have to remember with that amazing memory of yours.
The power level of Seiõr those eye abilities release, fall short in comparison to the legitimate power level of your SoulSeiõr and the weapons you coat in it.
You can probably cut through those visible waves of Seiõr he releases like how you did with those sound waves yesterday...
I mean last night...right?..."
Shelly: "Thank you Katsu."
He perks up from her random gratitude.
Shelly: "I was wondering whether or not that strategy would be too dangerous or not, and now that you have the same game plan I was questioning in my head, I have complete confidence it will work."
Katsu looks across at the scene, no longer smiling, but instead his eyes narrow.
Katsu(thinking): *This moment.
This is the first and original time Seiõr powers up one of Shelly’s opponents without mutual acknowledgement from her enemy.*
His smile creeps back on his face while standing behind his beautiful guard.
Katsu(thinking): *It’s just more proof she’s actually the Main Character. The plot armor energy wants her to get stronger too.
’No such thing as a pointless fight’.
Without these moments, Shelly would get toasted by the DæMons later on, and Seiõr remembers that too!*
He looks at the back of Shelly.
Her gorgeous golden locks and iconic cowlick bangs flutter in the wind when she stands tall against danger.
While her Academy Squad 40 Captain sweatshirt is being repaired and tailored, her temporary plain black sweatshirt flutters.
Once Zeke makes his way to the bottom of the rubble pile to where his squadmate is, he looks down at his shaken up pal.
Not seeing the sad pitiful blue aura but feeling the gusts of wind produced from the limited SeiõrShield, dries the swear on Jeremiah’s temple.
Blood drips from the gash in his palm from the injury sustained trying to rescue his previously buried bud.
Zeke slowly reaches out and grabs Jeremiah’s shoulder.
From Jeremiah’s PoV, at that same moment of contact, the SeiõrShield becomes a SharedSeiõrShield.
The purple eyes of the ever so compassionate young man glisten slightly brighter as he can finally see the aura surrounding his squadmate and his matching sad blue aura released from his IceEye.
A soft half smile takes over the red mohawked delinquent’s face while making eye contact with his confused and bewildered personal MMA trainer.
Zeke: "Are you good Bro?"
Jeremiah: "Zeke...
What-
What the fuck is all this?!"
On the other side, watching the personal awakening to Seiõr being granted to their invading and unnecessary force, Katsu stands close behind Shelly and whispers to her in such a way, it’s almost like the evil intending Vessel is talking to the dangerous Valkyrie as her Yang consciousness.
Katsu: "Shelly, they might look like pals having fun discovering magic together, but they’re going to blab about this place to everyone back in the Mountains.
Sanpaku is officially in danger with those two alive."
Covered in her passed down SanguineSoulSeiõrShield, Shelly confidently closes her eyes and takes a silent, deep, full inhale.
Followed by a slow, calming, relaxed exhale.
However, in the same way the symbiotes and scarcely displayed by the azule eyes of DæMons, Shelly opens her eyes and the most faint of azule blue flames crackles off her iris.
Shelly: "I get what you’re saying Katsu.
I know exactly what you mean.
...
...
...
Shelly: "*ACHOO*
GODDAMIT WHAT TERM IS IT NOW?!"
[Sanpaku Training Area]
Leaving the entire padded area a bit more cloudier when they entered Saku, Friend, Itsuka, Laban, Xaaydagaay, Jormungand, and finally Drakania prepare to leave last out of all Takamagahara who stayed.
While holding the door open for his crew, just as Laban had aforementioned, Saku seems a bit less tense about the morning’s situation and has his hands in his pockets as he explains his next plans.
Saku: "Well, I kinda want to take a walk to the Demon District today, instead of relying on my abilities..."
Itsuka notices something in his voice and wonders to herself.
Laban DaeMon: "Awww, Sakiiiiiii!
You didn’t have to name your controll area after meeee! Ohhh, I love you too baby!"
She goes to smooch him but both Itsuka and Xaaydagaay deny her with a double shoulder tackle.
Itsuka: "He named it before knowing about you!"
Walking side by side together is the younger looking but older sister Drakania with her younger but older looking brother.
Drakania: "Well, I didn’t know at the time, but that smell brought back reminiscing memories of mother’s ’study’. And now I know why our Mother was so into crazy mythology and passed down tales Jormy."
Jormungand giggles at his cherished sister’s innocent realization.
Saku: "So whoever wants to tag along it’s fine by me.
I already know Friend and Xaaydagaay are down for a walk, right you two?"
Friend: "*Rrrrrufff!*"
Xaaydagaay: "*Eeiieek* *whhuuiiiuuuuuuuuu* *wwwrrrruorrrwwouuu*!"
With Friend and Xaaydagaay by his side, the Izanami captain holding the door open looks at his posse.
Saku: "Only D has the keys to get back in here.
So before I let the door close, does everyone have what they need from the reup’d supplies?"
Everyone quickly checks their pockets but the quick witted Jormungand is the first to register the redundance in his captain’s concerns.
He chuckles is disbelief at his own Big Bro and asks in the most respectful way possible.
Jormy: "Uhh, hehe.
Couldn’t you just use one of your abilities to get back inside without a key, Big Bro?"
Saku’s eyes are a little more red than usual and by his expression, it seems like he actually forgot he had magic alien eye abilites.
Saku: "Ohhh yea...
Nevermind." 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
Laban DaeMon: "Oh Saki, you’re so silly when your h-"
The mood of the group unpredictably flips, and everyone in the group except for Drakania looks in the same direction at the same time.
Friend and Xaaydagaay both growl in unison.
Itsuka: "What...
What is this feeling..."
Laban DaeMon: "Someone in that direction is being piggybacked by Seiõr’s pity.
Exactly like how I was against Skalmönd in our battle."
Saku activates his Anjell Eye, a Yin aura and Laban’s Eyelien imitates soon after. Always wanting the smoke, her symbiote has a grey aura emitted.
Laban DaeMon: "Since all of us here have been around a powerful, unfriendly force or two, you can all now tell when the natural state and the universal flow of Seiõr is being disrupted nearby.
It’s almost the same way as when our bodies pick up strong smells or loud noises."
Jormungand: "Wait, so in that case it’s technically called a..."
Laban DaeMon: "Yep, SeiõrSense."
