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Chapter 14 - CH13:

"I did see it coming, but my body froze as if the water around had frozen up," Yuki said, remembering what happened.

--- FLASHBACK ---

As he made sure the hatch was detached and the sub ('Captain Bubble') was on her way to the surface, he felt an oppressing feeling and was about to move. Shockingly, the water around him frozen, steel solid.

Not a second later, he found himself slammed through the sub with something biting through his sides.

Thankfully, he shielded himself with a space shield at the last second, stopping the bite from reaching the bone or any vital organs.

"Haha, you're one agile bastard," Yuki said, taking in the weird mouth and the head of this monster.

As a whole, it looked like an old female Whalefish, but way larger than normal, as this one could bite through a normal Blue Whale like nothing.

"Oh, no, you're not going anywhere," Yuki said. Noticing the bite strength decreased, he stabbed his sword into its mouth, along with shooting inside the mouth to free himself.

The shot broke the teeth embedded into Yuki, irritating the creature and sending it in a crazy dart around.

After a second in the coaster-ride, he noticed the lights intensify around. He smirked and used his techno-path ability to cause his lights to flick, sending a message.

"Now, only a wild bull ride until they get ready," Yuki smirked, and cliked a component into the sword, causing the handle to extend and blocking the monster's mouth from closing or opening.

"Hahah, okay, this is fun," Yuki laughed despite the injury, as he used the stabbed sword to more or less affect the fish's swimming trajectory.

Soon the lights around started to die down.

"Okay, this is my stop," Yuki said, balling his hand. "This is your payment." With his murmur, he buried his hand on the side of its mouth, and with a tearing motion, he dragged out a couple of teeth.

The moment he let go, the fish wiggled in pain, giving Yuki the time to slip away, materializing his wings and starting to ascend fast before it regained its bearing.

--- FLASHBACK END ---

"And the rest you know," Yuki said after recounting what happened. "The problem here is no matter what base we count this ability, it's a pain in the ass to counter."

Leaning his back on the wall, he looked at Wanda who was giving him a weird face. "What?" he asked, not understanding.

"What do you mean counter? You talk like you will fight it again," Wanda said.

"We won't?" Yuki answered, really surprised. "From what I know, or what I am allowed to know about the Guild, no way in hell are we letting something this interesting and dangerous go without confirmation."

"Sigh, right." Wanda sighed. As a matter of fact, if he wasn't hurt now, she would already be down there by now to take her turn in fighting that thing.

[The medical support is in wait in Bay 3.] Ruri said. [Papa, are you okay?]

Hearing the scared tone, Yuki smiled and said, "I am good, and I don't really need any support. Just keep the doctor in standby."

"I mean seriously, you really think I will need someone to tow me out with all the training John got me through?" he asked Wanda.

"In my defense, I only told them to prepare the medics," Wanda said.

[We are now on the surface, navigating to the bay.] Ruri said.

"Well, I guess the mask is on again," Wanda said, before pointing at Yuki. "You too. No matter what, the mask stays on in the presence of outsiders. Clear?"

"Aye, Ma'am," Yuki saluted mockly. "And we need to talk about that codename. Black Feather? Seriously thou, what the mask for."

"Hey, that's the Boss Lady's job, and if you have a problem go to her, also its thier to protct your ID" Wanda, now with her alter voice, answered before opening the hatch.

"Holy, man! I said medics, not backup !" Looking at what was outside, Yuki could only sigh.

As the nurses were about to help put him in the stretcher, he raised his hand. "I can walk on my own," and strolled through the corridor before stopping to look at the shocked people. "Is anyone going to show me the medical hanger, or are you expecting me to find it myself?"

"I will take you there. You sure you don't need help walking?" Miying did a quick count for the lethality of the wound. 

from the blood stain and what she could see. And talking frankly, he shouldn't be able to stand, let alone stroll and talking normally.

"Well," Yuki looked at the wound. "Nah, it's just a scratch."

Leaving the surprised group behind, he strolled in front.

"What is this dude made from?" DJ said in a murmur. "I am no doctor, but I can tell that wasn't a scratch."

"Well, as we like to say in the House," Wanda's voice came from the side. "we built different."

Securing the sub while the main one was still doing a check dive not far from the station, she came upon this scene. Leaving her comment, she followed Li Ming and Yuki.

Inside the medical bay, the diver of the expedition just got out of danger as Yuki got in.

"You're still standing?" Wanda said to Yuki from behind before forcing him to take the upper part of his suit off, revealing the wound to Doctor Heler.

After freaking out for seconds, then he diagnosed the wound, he freaked again.

"Prepare the operation room," he said to his assistant. Then he signaled to the nurses to help picking Yuki, but again the man in question refused.

"As I said, I can walk. Lead the way, it's just a few stitches," Yuki said with an air of calmness.

And their surprise got greater, by the time they start the opertion, yuki rfuse to get injected with any drug.

As the operation completed, Wanda got to his side, knowing his and his mother's out-of-the-box thinking line, she knew for sure that he got them to do all that full consciousness .

So as his good Aunt, she was now playing guard on him while he geting rest.

--- GOING BACK TO THE MANA-1 TEAM ---

Calming the people around and gathering to discuss what they discovered.

"Heler, you okay?" Mac asked, noticing his friend's agitated state of mind. "If it's about Jason, he already accepted your apology, right?"

"Hmm, no, not that," Heler looked at Miying and sighed. "You noticed it, too, right?"

She nodded, understanding what he was aiming at, taking a small part of some kind of sheet.

And handed it to Jaxx. "Try to press it." As she did, she noticed the more she pressed, a face became solid, the other became soft as a pillow.

"That's part of the suit Black Feather was wearing. I saw something like this before in jet planes," Miying said. "And it has unique properties. The more the pressure on one face, the more solid it becomes, and the other is completely the reverse, playing like a shock absorber?"

"If I remember correctly, you need more than 900,000 psi to penetrate that, right?" Jonas said. "How the hell is he alive?"

"Here's the kicker: he's probably just a teenager," Heler added with a wry smile.

Looking at the team, he added, "I know, over 1.9 meter tall and that form doesn't scream teenager." He added, "But I am a doctor, I cut into enough people to know the difference."

"Wow, imagine the hunk he will be when he's mature enough," Jaxx murmured, surprising everyone.

Noticing the eyes, she blushed in embarrassment.

"What's more, I don't know how he did it, but broken bones, ripped muscle... all the damage was mended together, only by the outside muscle pressure," Heler added. "And it stayed the same even when I finish the operation. The funny fact: I have to change the needle 5 times."

All of them got silent for a second before Miying sighed.

"Well, not our trouble. We saw nothing and know nothing. That's the least we could do for the great favor," Miying said.

And one with the capitalist mind added, "That won't work for me, though."

morris dragged all the attention. "A man who can do a dive on that level, handle the pressur of that kind just fin? don't forget his suit is crushed with that attack, but he didn't get affected at all"

"Something like this, if gone out, everyone will want a piece," he smirked. "And add about what we found below."

"Are you an idiot?" Jonas asked frankly.

"Excuse me? Are you part of this now?" He looked at the others, and Wall shot back at him . "He and the teen you talk about saved our ass's, so yeah. both of them are in this team."

Mac smirked liking what he saw, and looked at Jonas to continue.

"You don't think that Thermic Fog is there for a reason? That our Mother Nature put that thing there for a reason?" he looked at the man in the eyes. "And what's more, you want to put a hand on a Guild member, and Sky Guild no less? Rich or not, you know what that means?"

the last part, was him feeling his telling a bad joke.

"Snort. If he knew, he won't be talking bullshit like that," an unknown female voice came from the side.

all the team turn in shook, as no door where haired opened, loking at the speaker, they found a lady with black ink hair, and a titled fox mask over her face.

Sitting elegantly, with a tea cup on her hand, as if she owned the place.

"Excuse me for the rude entrance. You can call me Fox, the head of the Sky Guild. Nice to meet you," Anna, appearing like it was no problem, introduced herself, she looked at morris as if observing him.

"Now, what were you speaking about? Please continue," Anna said breaking the slince she created, and that with humored voice. but the pressure she giving was no joke.

 

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