-The Remnant(3): Two Muscle Maniacs-

“What did you…cough!!... what did you make me drink?” Trisha paled in fright, starting to gag as if wanting to vomit whatever she was forced to drink by Kenshin. She thought it was some poison or those numbing potion, where she would paralyze and would be on enemy’s mercy. She was afraid that she will be insulted once she was paralyzed and thus struggled vehemently, she even momentarily thought of committing suicide, but she couldn’t gather enough courage for that.

As a result, she was resorting to screaming at him to reveal what he made her drink, like a typical kid. Unfortunately, Kenshin had something much worse planned for her. He grabbed her head and slammed it down on the ground, eliciting a painful moan from the girl who seemed no older than 21 or 20.

“Hey, tell me what you made me drink…cough!!...cough!!...how can you cruel to a delicate girl?” Trisha didn’t give up, continued to ask about what she was made to drink. But, all Kenshin did was to stare at space blankly. In reality, he was checking the stopwatch on his system.

“Hey, …cough! Cough!!” just as she was about to spew some curse, Trisha suddenly broke into a violent fit of cough, and spewed out a mouthful of blood on the ground. But the coughing didn’t stop, neither did the spewing out of the blood. Soon, her seven orifices started to bleed too. Even the roots of hair started to bleed as her luscious hair started to fall off as if she was experiencing hair fall.

“Wha..at is th..is?” Trisha no longer had the strength to even speak, at the same time, she was experiencing extreme pain like her insides were burning. Her pale face had already become bloody with chunks of skin, together, with her long hair falling gradually from her head. She was looking hideous gradually.

Kenshin kept looking at her without a shred of emotion in his black eyes. Its as if he was looking at a corpse, not a living breathing human who was dying a gradual death in the most painful way possible. While looking at her, his mind flashed to that room in that school…those little girls, who should licking lollipop or flavored icecreams, and kissing their parents and family, being playful all day round, were tortured beyond belief. Some even had deep lash marks and multiple wounds, some swallow, while some deep ones all over their body.

As a brother of two little girls, Kenshin couldn’t sleep for a few days after seeing that horrible sight. That’s why he sent one of his zombies to kill them all, to not leave a single person alive… after that, he applied with Advanced level HP potion on those few girls and helped them to heal till their smooth skins were shown once more.

But… although he healed their physical wounds, he still fell short before psychological ones. It would only depend on themselves to heal from those mental scars. This matter had become a knot in his heart, which he revealed to Yuki that night… and vowed to take revenge when he got the chance. It was not even a month. This girl, Trisha really did have a bit of bad luck to encounter Kenshin so early, especially when his anger was quite raw.

“What you are experiencing is but a fraction of the pain you guys caused to those innocent girls…it was your bad luck to meet me as a member of that family.” Though Kenshin was muttering these, Trisha was in no position to hear him. Her mind was already going blank with intense pain that she was suffering all over her body, especially her head.

“You are in no position to hear me out, huh. Wait a minute, I can do that with her, since she is an enemy and near to death…” an idea struck to his head, making Kenshin break out into a fit of laughter. Then he kneeled on the spot, looking at her horrible face, as he started his plan to…

…

“Hah! Hah! Is he really a human? What the hell wrong with his defense?” Joy muttered, looking at his opponent, a topless dark-skinned man with short black hair and red eyes. Listening to Kenshin’s arrangement, he ran away from with Chiba in tow but who would have known, the moment he set foot on the second floor, he would be attacked relentlessly by this dark-skinned man.

At first, Joy rejoiced the fact that this attacker wasn’t as fast and elusive as that woman fighting with Kenshin, but his happiness soon vanished when he saw he couldn’t land single damage on him. Either his hands slipped the moment his fists touches his skin, or he was simply tanking it with his bare body. One has to know, Joy’s strength had been boosted several times, and his Thunder Knuckles had a passive ability to increase his attack by a small margin. Despite that, this man who hadn’t spoken a single word since the beginning was tanking him with his bare body alone.

As for Chiba, the maximum she could do was just stop him in his tracks, as for her skills like [Ice Javelin], they are like small pinpricks to the man. He was shrugging off her attacks without much difficulty. He was like a wall in the way, not allowing them to advance or retreat. He was like a robot, all actions, no words.

“He is definitely a human, he breathing, you can see his chest rising and fall…but he just too strong!!” Chiba panted in exhaustion, she was already tired from killing so many golems, and now before she took rest enough, they were pushed into this situation. In this situation, the only saving grace was that the man wasn’t attacking them from his own accord, giving them enough time to recover slowly.

“Don’t underestimate me, you cu*t!” shouted Joy in rage, his body started to glow a red faintly. He had entered his ultimate, Strength Boost: Overdrive. Strength Overdrive was like a cheating tool that heightens all his attributes to the maximum of his body if used once. If used twice, the skill breaks the limits of his body, propelling his attributes beyond, but such boosting had its own share of drawbacks. And the most prominent one was its backlash on the physical body, which would appear in the form of internal injuries once the skill was canceled.

But, a hunter’s body, especially one that had undergone its first awakening shouldn’t be underestimated. Although it couldn't handle the backlash, it could gradually grow strong enough to do so…and Joy was getting used to handling the backlash until the 3 stack overdrive. Currently, he used 1 stack, which was basically with 0 backlashes, as long as he had enough stamina and magic.

Propelled by his leg strength, he appeared in a flash in front of the man, raising his fist to give him a punch while his Thunder Kncukels crackled about. With Joy’s strength in overdrive, his other stats also boosted to compliment the changes, so his speed had also increased somewhat. The man wasn’t able to react to the punch and received a heavy punch to his face, but except for slightly sliding back, it didn’t do anything much to him. Regaining his footing, he just wiped his cheek, as the corners his mouth raised slightly, a clear indication of mocking Joy.

“You bastard!! I fucking kill you!!” Joy’s fuse lighted instantly. He shrugged off the long coat he was wearing, displaying his muscle shirt underneath as he flexed to get rid of the kinks on his body. He was the kind to show off everything he got, and after gaining such a perfect body, how could he not show off, especially when his enemy was doing so seamlessly?

“JOY!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” poor Chiba, she hadn't expected Joy to actually strip amidst the battle. She closed her eyes in one hand while waving it towards him in a sign of defiance.

“Hmph!” the man, finally after seeing Joy’s buffed up the body, showed a reaction, and that was snort. Its as if he was mocking Joy for not having enough muscles. To prove his point, he flexed lightly, causing all the muscles in his pectorals and torso to buff up and shake in a rhythm. After doing some poses, he extended his right hands towards dumbfounded Joy and Chiba, making a ‘come heather’ motion.

“You are On!!!” Joy’s shouted angrily, his T-shirt bulged as he leaped at the man.