"This box looks suspicious" the guard stated to his squad as they all eyed the strangely out of place crate in the middle of the streets"Probably just merchants that dropped their goods, we should just leave it here for now in case they come back." Inputted another guard
The leader of the squad shook his head and walked up to the crate and signaled for someone to help him. As they both lifted the crate up and looked down they saw nothing beneath the box.
"Well, guess I was just being a bit too paranoid" he admitted
"Don"t worry about it, I thought it was a bit strange too." a female guard said as she pat her leader on the back
"Well, let"s just leave it for now in case someone comes back for it, if it"s still here in the morning then send it to the lost and found" he ordered as they all went back to looking for the thief
Within the box, a certain white haired shinigami could be seen holding onto the insides of the crate for dear life as sweat dropped from his forehead. The plan was to be like a video-game stealth character and pray n.o.body would notice the box. Real life just isn"t like the games is what he learned in that moment.
"Give it up princess, you"ve ran out of mana" Shiro heard a voice a bit away from him but still enough to hear "princess"
The white haired shinigami peeked out of the box to see a disheveled looking little girl surrounded by shadow guards. Now if Shiro was in his normal state of mind, he would have put together that they were there to kill the girl. Unfortunately in his stressed out state of playing real-life metal gear solid, he just thought "IMPORTANT HOSTAGE".
The 14 yr old boy leaped towards the princess using mana augmented legs and held her slightly up in the air with his blade directed at her neck.
"DON"T MOVE OR SHE DIES" he cried out to the dumbfounded a.s.sailants
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Lolz Sol was livid. First he was separated from his master, then he was surrounded by suicidal idiots.
"You honestly don"t believe this is enough to kill me, do you?" He spoke as he gazed to the 20+ shadow guards. He was a warrior who was in the awakening stage, meaning he was above level 100. He was level 235 and had plenty of time to reach the second awakening.
The group of shadow soldier"s eyes hardened as one replied to the black armored warrior
"No... but at the very least we should be able to keep you here long enough. We are prepared to die for this! BROTHERS FIGHT!" the man roared out to his comrades as they attacked.
The slight look of irritation along with the visage of respect was seen on Lolz"s face. Gripping his halberd, he made the first swing.
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Mirrah Sol was not doing well. First, Lolz disappeared to G.o.ds knows where. Then She was separated from Rei as they tried to escape. Now she was on her last leg without any mana. To make matters worst, some idiot is holding her up with a blade pointed to her neck. Her mouth was covered up by his dirty hand. The nerve of him! She was a princess! You can"t just casually touch the lips of royalty!
The 11 yr old princess of the Sol empire had no mana left. But she still opened her jaw as wide as physically possible and clamped down on the hand of the ignorant person who dared to make a mockery of her.
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Shiro felt nothing for a moment. Then a raging pain a.s.saulted his hand as he yelled out
"f.u.c.k!" he actually began to shed tears as the little princess didn"t let go of her bite.
"YOU BIT ME!" he exclaimed. Who bites the hand that holds you hostage!? Is she not afraid of the blade that is literally an inch from her neck!?
The shadow guards finally snapped out of their confusion. The leader of the group just shrugged to his subordinates "Kill them both" the order came out as they all released a hail of throwing knives.
The turquoise eyes of the shinigami widened along with the princess"s. Out of fear for his life he blurted out "[BRINICLE Sh.e.l.l]" Mana began to drain from him as a layer of ice encompa.s.sed the two.
The manenforced knives became stuck on the barrier as a few were able to pierce through, lodging them in Shiro"s flesh. "WHY IS IT ALWAYS THE SHOULDER!?" he cried out as he began to run with the sphere of ice as if he were a hamster in a ball.
Some of the shadow guards were unable to react to the bizarre sight of the human sized hamster ball as they were knocked out of the way or outright flattened by it.
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If one were to be observant of their surroundings they would notice a human sized hamster ball made of ice leaping over a fence into a courtyard. Shiro"s breath was a little ragged, he was really pushing himself to keep up the sh.e.l.l as he was afraid of more hidden weapons being thrown at him.
He looked down to his "hostage" with an annoyed look.
"Why are they even trying to kill you!? How can I use you as a hostage if people want you dead!?" he complained to little girl
Hearing this, Mirrah Sol got a bit teary eyed. "It"s not like I asked for this! My brothers probably paid someone to get rid of me." she continued to cry indignantly
Why was she being questioned by someone who threatened to kill her a few moments ago? Where were her overpowered retainers? Why did things have to go so badly this far out away from the mainlands!?
Shiro let the useless hostage down to remove the daggers lodged into him. Then he had a thought.
"Hey you"re a princess right?" he asked as as he looked down to the girl again to confirm
"That"s right, I am Mirrah Sol! the 3rd princess of the Sol Empire!" She dramatically introduced herself as she puffed out her non-existent chest
The 14 yr old shinigami just had a blank look on his face.
"Shiro Aversis. So.... does that mean you could get the guards to stop chasing me if I help you?" he asked returning the introduction.
Mirrah raised a brow "Are you the idiot who stole all the junk equipment in the guard"s barracks?" She asked recalling her retainer"s description of the thief. Short spiked white hair, roughly 14 years old and a bit shorter than 5 feet.
"I"m not an idiot! and what do you mean junk, it was an armory! Why would people keep junk there?" he said indignantly. He worked hard to plan his way into there
"And yet you only stole the most common of equipment for the basic guards of the city, if you were trying to get something valuable you should have aimed for the blacksmith"s vault or even the governor"s collection." She countered to the ignorant b.u.mpkin
"Well I didn"t know they existed, back on topic though. Can you get the guards off my back?" He asked filing away the other places in his head.
"I should have enough authority to pardon you if you were to help me." She confirmed his thoughts
"Sweet, so I help you and you help me. Deal?" Shiro raised out a hand for a handshake
Mirrah looked at the hand held out towards her and just sighed
"Deal, now can you transfer some mana to me?" she asked as the shinigami raised a brow
"Transfer?" he asked with imaginary question marks over his head
"How do you even not know that? Never-mind just focus your mana to your hand and I"ll do the rest." She instructed
He just followed her instructions and flared his mana on his hand. He felt a tug on his reserves, he felt he could stop it but decided not to. After a short moment the princess let out a breath.
"You have an abundant amount on you, are you a mage?"
"Uh, nope. I just swing a sword around" he said as he held up his zanpakutou
"Well, get ready then. were surrounded." She said as the shinigami was amazed a little girl was able to sense around them when he couldn"t. Geniuses are hax was his thought.
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Lightsabers, elegant weapons that weigh next to nothing and are easy to carry around. Shiro nearly had a nerdgasm moment when he saw the little girl take one out. He wondered how it worked, unfortunately he probably would never get to use one since he had a zanpakutou but it was still cool to see one.
"Dear G.o.ds, your weapon is bada.s.s!" he complimented as he was in awe of the light blade.
The little girl smirked as she continued to cut down another a.s.sailant.
"Of course it is! This was custom-ordered from Arcana. A coalition of Mages and dwarves who seek to make the ultimate magic weapons!" Some of the shadow guards were beginning to get annoyed that their foes were more focused on talking to eachother instead of them.
The boy literally had daggers sticking out of him. Some of them were poisoned! That poison would be enough to take down water beasts in the swamps! Not only that, any opening that they had to injure the princess would be blocked by the boy who used himself as a meatshield! Does he not fear death!? If they had known killing the princess would be this difficult, they would have asked some of the higher levels to stay back. But they were tasked with holding off the retainers.
The wall on the other side broke down revealing an enraged armored girl with twinblades.
"PRINCESS!" she cried out as she threw out her crossed twinblades cutting down the rest of the a.s.sailants.
In most cases, Shiro would be happy to see his enemies quickly disposed of. That is until he noticed the spinning twinblades heading towards him as well knocking him back through a wall to the next courtyard.
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"Wait, he"s with me!" Mirrah tried to call out to Rei to no avail. She was p.i.s.sed and was eliminating anyone who was an unknown.
Shiro could practically hear his bones creak as he blocked an overhead slash from the crazed twinblade berserker. The wind was knocked out of him as the woman kicked his chest sending him flying back again. He could feel his broken rib-cage reconstruct itself as it regenerated.
Unfortunately the berserker and the broken rib-cage was the least of his problems as he picked up his black and blue bamboo hat.
[System detects the above level 100 ent.i.ty again] rang out the system as something crashed onto the ground causing a ripple in the large pond in the courtyard.
The shinigami didn"t have any time, a figure simply just appeared in front of him out of nowhere. As if by his survival instincts, he immediately blurted out "[BRINICLE Sh.e.l.l]"
Unfortunately the manenforced ice just shattered like gla.s.s the moment it made contact with the casually swung halberd that continued to head straight for Shiro. By some freak of miracle, the halberd didn"t destroy his hat that was held up like a shield when it made contact with the halberd. The shinigami"s bones felt like they were being completely crushed as the swing sent him flying in the air as if he was a baseball flying towards a home-run. Shiro finally knew how team rocket felt when they get sent blasting off into the sky.
Over a hill, a short way from the city. A silver-haired girl could be seen gazing at the city as her eyes tracked what seemed to be a blue comet flying out of it. She whistled at the sight that her eyes caught "Well, someone looks like they had one h.e.l.l of a night." She commented as she continued to make her way to the city to visit her old friends.