Hikaru Shimo has the highest Senzai Reserve between his teammates. It gives him more opportunities to let go and be loose and experiment more with his techniques.
Lucy dashed straight at Hikaru her fist clenched aiming for his head. Hikaru pulled his sword up and at the last second the two contacted and a massive airburst exploded all around them crumbling the already tattered buildings all around the street. As that happened, the force of the punch and the block three each of them flying back crashing into the buildings in the opposite end.
Lucy just sighed in disappointment as she saw a family: a mother and her daughter huddled in the corner shaking. Lucy grinned as she walked towards them with a sway in her hips and she bent down and held the mother by her chin, her fingers threatening to crush the chin.
"Do you want to dream too?", Lucy said as a glowing purple aura surrounded them. Lucy closed her eyes and smiled continuing, "Ah, you miss your husband and your daddy... Aw.. here let me help you".
"Dreamweaving Senzai Art:
Oneiric Daydream"
The mother and daughter suddenly slump down and wake up as they see their husband and father standing before them. The two smile and hug the figure of their beloved.
Lucy watched from aside with a smirk. Afterall, the two were daydreaming, their husband wasn't existing in reality.
Suddenly, Hikaru with rage in his eyes, in mid air made a sneaky attack as he lifted his sword against her neck threatening to decapitate her.
"H-huh?", the Dreamweaver shrieked in fear as she saw Hikaru slowly exerting more force and cutting through her neck.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!", Hikaru roared as his veins and arteries bulged in a desperate attempt to muster as much as muscle to cut through her neck.
In a swift motion of the blade, Lucy's head gets decapitated cleanly off of her body. Her body stumbles and falls forward and her head rolled over and stares back at Hikaru in shock.
"No! How could I loose! Not like this!", Lucy wailed in fear as her body began to liquidity into a shadowy substance befitting the death of an Eclipse.
Hikaru looked back at the mother and daughter and snapped them out of their daydream. "Ma'am, please snap out of it. It's not true. The dreams are false," Hikaru says shaking her body by holding her shoulders.
The mother looked back at Hikaru and wailed hugging him close clearly missing her deceased husband. Hikaru stiffened for a moment and hugged her back as he could relate to losing a loved one very much. He closed his eyes and embraced her distress patting her back to soothe her.
Suddenly her eyes roll back and her daughter's eyes roll back to as they fall down limp and dead.
"W-wait what?", Hikaru says as his breath his ragged as he tries to wake them up. "Hey! It's over wake up, ma'am!", Hikaru continued wailing as he tried performing CPR on her.
Suddenly her head gets crushed by Lucy as Hikaru stared up in shock. "Wondering why I didn't die? Oh please, you thought some measly attack like that would kill me? You simply killed a hallucination of mine. You were under the spell of Oneiric Daydream too", Lucy said curtly grabbing Hikaru by his hair and making him look back.
Hikaru's eyes widened as he saw a decapitated head of a man, no, the husband and father he had just killed. He was tricked into believing it was Lucy.
"Aw how awful it must be for this pathetic family... The matriarch and the daughter died not knowing their somewhat saviour was the very man that killed their husband who was trying to find them amidst all the chaos of the rubble... You're a murderer, Hikaru~", Lucy snickers as she licks the seam of blood over his cheek. Hikaru looked mortified his breath ragged panting trying to cope with what he did.
Lucy sighs in pleasure as she holds Hikaru up to her height by his hair. She remarked, "You think you're a hero? No, you agents are very much villains themselves too. You can't save everyone... This job heh". She shook her head and continued with a sly smile tracing Hikaru's jaw, "being this so called Agent means stopping me by any means necessary and not caring about any lives in between. You couldn't save your sister, your brother, your mother, your friends from being my playthings... You can't save anyone sweetie... You're just a dog trying to follow orders and stop eclipses like me... And you came to Kawagoe thinking you could save everyone? Well, that's not happening, baby!"
Hikaru shuddered and looked back at her in anger as he kicked her face by flipping his body up free from her grasp.
"I will save everyone and kill you, fiend!", Hikaru said heroically as he held his sword in position.
Lucy actually got a bit hurt by that powerful kick and she rubbed her nose, licking the blood on her fingertips. "Not bad, Hikaru... Not bad indeed!", she said excitedly as she dashed at him.
"But you're wrong!", she yelled as she grabbed his face jumping out of the broken home and throwing him down on the street as the friction carried him down the pavement.
Lucy then jumped down on Hikaru's body riding his body like a skateboard grinning maniacally at him, "How about I show you how pathetic your attempts are before I make you my personal plaything".
Hikaru furrowed his eyebrows in rage as he held her waist and suddenly stood up stopping his drag and summoned his technique again.
"Frost Senzai Art:
Deepfreeze!"
The ice around her waist started to coat her and penetrate deep into her body threatening to freeze her and slow her down. Lucy sighed in disappointment as she grabbed his throat pumping it a bit. She let go of his throat and yelled in strength as the aura around her exploded in fury, throwing Hikaru way back into a building as the sheer output of her Senzai began to nullify the effects of his Art.
"You're a fool to think you can stop me, Hikaru but I thank you for letting me let loose like this," she said as she seemingly teleported infront of Hikaru because of her superior speed and held his head. "But, I'm getting tired of your feeble attempts at resistance so why don't we break your 'indomitable' motivation, eh?," Lucy continued as she started running back holding his head infront of her.
Her speeds increased and suddenly it felt like she was flying above the ground. She grinned with murderous intent and held his head firmly as she crashed through buildings. Hikaru and Lucy began flying through buildings killing the hidden and scared people inside from their sheer strength. Tens of Buildings collapsed behind them leaving sickening displays of mutilation as the assault continued.
Hikaru shuddered in panic as he began screaming still in her grip as she used his head to pummel through a crowd of people coating the two in blood, "STOP! Please! Stop! I- I WILL SURRENDER JUST STOP! DON'T KILL ANYONE ELSE!".
Lucy smirked as she suddenly stopped, the air behind them crashing forward from her sheer speed. She threw Hikaru down, moonlight coating the two in eerie glow and said, "I'm so glad you learned your place... You are a murder, Hikaru... You killed oh so many people...".
Hikaru clenched his fingers on the ground crying and shaking in agony as he tried to contemplate what happened. All he saw were the face of the innocent people he had taken their life with by simply being too weak to let Lucy use his body like a shield. Maybe she was right? No! But he was too weak.
Lucy swayed her hips as she walked towards Hikaru making him look up at her by holding his face with her hands. "Why do you cover your face with this hair?", she commented as she softy pushed the hair drapped on his right eye back. It was a sickening display of care: she just killed hundreds of people using his body as a meat shield and now she was soothing him? What a sick joke.
Suddenly Lucy's eyes widened with a hint of shock and something more twisted as she saw the clenched eyelids of his right eye: he didn't have an eye, but Lucy saw something else beyond that.
"You're me, one of us Hikaru...", she said as she gently rubbed her thumbs over his cheeks. She leaned down right besides his ear and whispered continuing, "you'll be such a great addition for the mistress and master... now let my power overwhelm you...".
Suddenly Hikaru's eyes roll back and his body convulsed as his brain and memories start frying up. He screamed in desperation and pain. His nose bleeding as he saw memories starting to blur. He saw Yoru again and again as she started to fade then his friends. Gradually, he saw a silhouette of a man in his subconscious with red eyes and yellowish pupils just like an eclipse. "W-who are you...?", Hikaru said in his mind as the man lent out his hand with a terrifying grin, his face and body hidden by shade. Then without anything else the feelings stopped and Hikaru saw something.
Lucy got punched deep into her ribs by Yoru's elbow, a fierce determination in her face as she continued pushing deep into Lucy's ribs. The sheer strength of Yoru as she smacked Lucy away, making her crash far away into the town shocked Hikaru. His boss was THAT strong? Yoru looked at the direction Lucy flew away too with a look of protection etched on her face. She looked back at Hikaru and smiled comforting her employee. Hikaru felt a surge of emotions... a sisterly ... No motherly love welling up in his heart as he saw Yoru with a grateful expression.
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Yoru hugged Hikaru tightly and comforted him by grimacing, "Oh god I'm so sorry, Hikaru... I-i thought the mission would be a D ranked mission, but it turned out more sinisterly and this Dreamweaver is a very strong A Class Eclipse...".
Hikaru's eyes widened his lips separating to speak but nothing. An A Class Eclipse? No wonder why they were getting tossed around like ragdolls. This is far above their paygrade. Hikaru is lucky that he isn't dead yet.
Suddenly, right behind Yoru, Hasuke stepped down with a smile, he was wearing a shirt, a tie and an undercoat, his hand on his hip as he smiled.
"P-professor!? Wh-when?", Hikaru said weakly but his eye looked at Hasuke with awe. Help had arrived and now it was his Literature Professor? Was he strong?
Chapter 32, end