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Current These things I have spoken unto you, that in me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. -John 16:33
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Raiya followed Nemo back over to where Travis was unlocking the container. It seemed that everyone dealt with their own objectives nicely. Even with how well everything had been going, Raiya still had her doubts. "Not that I am looking a gift horse in the mouth or anything... But is it really safe to say that this will still work? I mean how do we know word hasn't reached the ship we're waiting for yet?" Raiya asked.

As she was speaking, it looked as though Travis was finishing up. It didn't take long after that for Travis to complete his objective. Travis opened the container up, Raiya waited for Nemo to lead the way inside.
Raiya raised her right hand to cover her right eye in contemplation. It was a talent mark, but unlike others who were talent marked, he aura was blank like a normal talent before she decided to specialize. This led her and others to ponder whether or not it really was a talent mark and not just a normal birth defect. However, the slit pupil was not something that could be a natural biological flaw, it had to be a talent mark.

"It's funny, I hadn't ever really thought it was snake-like until recently..." She explained with her right hand still on her eye as she looked down from her perch. "No, I didn't get to choose my iruzumi beast. There are only so many of them, so they are assigned and recycled throughout the generations in the yakuza. They are only reassigned after the previous wearer dies." Raiya explained, "Although, the style and depiction of the tattoo is up to the wearer. The iruzumi beast imbued into the tattoo is not a choice. It is assigned as a status symbol to the lieutenants and administration in the yakuza." Raiya continued, "It just so happens that I ended up with the hebi iruzumi." Raiya lowered her right arm, and pulled up her coat sleeve to reveal a flame-like orange snake coiling around her arm.

Raiya didn't fully understand how the spell worked herself. But she knew the iruzumi artist who gave her the tattoo somehow created a complex runic formula with his tattoos, and that the ink he was was special as well. It was natural for her to not understand it, though. The only person who did fully understand it was the artist himself. The method was documented, however the scrolls that contained the knowledge required to create the tattoos were hidden and closely guarded.
Raiya was a bit annoyed at the voice bit, but what really irritated her and pushed her a bit over the edge was the mock ahoge Nemo managed to erect. Normally she would have suppressed her emotions to not let it bubble out into a physical display of expression. But Nemo's joke got Raiya's goat so efficiently that she could not help but be flustered. Her face grew a bit red as she clenched her teeth and balled her fists a bit.

She turned her head upright violently and scoffed, "That's not very funny." She puffed out angrily. After regaining her composition, her lividity and expression returning to normal, she replied, "I don't know. Both of those girls are oddities. If things turn too ugly we could always step in, though."
Raiya felt a bit disturbed by the overt emphasis Nemo placed on, "protecting" her. After a bit of mental deliberation she decided to just ignore Nemo's insanity. Raiya released her sword letting it evaporate into her manainventory.

I mean, if he isn't just being crazy for the sake of it, he is probably just trying to manipulate me. Either way, I won't let anything get in between me and my goal so it's best to just disregard it and focus on my goal of finding my parent's murderer Raiya's mind briefly wandered.

Raiya leapt on top of a shipping crate and sat down on it letting her legs hang off it.

"Well," Raiya said to Nemo with a soft undertone of forced enthusiasm, "That's a useful trick."
Raiya watched the panicked Logan attempt to talk his way out of trouble. And, to her, it seemed as though he made a valid point. However, before he could finish his proposal, the poor birthday boy caught 5 inches of steel to his throat a few times over.

Raiya cocked an eye halfheartedly. "I'm not one to debate strategic decisions. However, it would seem as though we might have actually needed that idiot alive." Raiya said in an uncaring tone. "What should we do now?" Raiya asked.
As expected, Raiya's sword strike was blocked by Logan's bat. Any normal wooden bat would have been cut in two by Raiya's empowered slash, but Raiya assumed the runes on the bat prevented such damage. After the attack was blocked Nemo came in as Raiya suggested, and placed a powerful well placed blow on the birthday boy's torso. Shortly thereafter he jumped away wounded, and threw his bat back at them. The bat was empowered by an immense level of magical energy and had Nemo not jumped them away, they would probably both be dead right now.

Raiya looked up at Nemo who was previously on top of her but was now standing up composing himself.

"Yeah, I'm fine. A bit sore, but I'm all good. Thanks for the save." She said as she got up and adjusted her right shoulder which was a bit sore from the tackle. "Should we track Babe Ruth down and kill him? Or do you think he's not going to be a problem anymore?" Raiya asked.
Raiya stretched her arms out to each side, doing a bit of exercise stretches. "Sorry it's been a while since I have really let loose like this. I need to limber up." Raiya said to Nemo. Resuming her combat posture, she turned her attention back to Nemo, "My plan has been in full effect ever since I first engaged with birthday boy here. And, unless he has trained in resistance against poison, his right arm should be fully paralyzed within the next twenty seconds or so. Let's see this MLB wannabe swing his bat with an arm paralyzed." Raiya replied.

"So, he's probably going to send an attack out at us before the poison has fully taken effect. When you feel the attack come out, that's our queue to split up. Then what we will do is a two pronged attack in a scissor-flank formation. I'll hit him from the left first, which will leave his right open. That's where you come in with a quick attack, he won't be able to stop you." Raiya finished.

Right as she finished a blast sent out as an attack came just as Raiya said, it flew down to blow up Nemo and Raiya. Raiya was able to easily escape with her biri-biri aura. Right away she ran and hopped up on the container Logan was on, and sent out a horizontal slash at his left side with her blade.

Raiya was satisfied when she felt the pull of her blade biting into flesh. Of course, no basic magic shield could hold out from her barrage, and she was surprised it held out as well as it did. After he dodged out of the main barage, Logan let out a quick quip, which Raiya smirked at. Then Logan proceeded to go fully on the offensive. Raiya was focused on the forward attack which was a ruse, and the blinding explosion might have disoriented someone other than Raiya, however, Raiya's senses were different than the normal mage's senses. It was a good attack, the blinding blast of the first attack was enough to even throw off the most keen manalysis user. However, Raiya did not need manalysis, nor did she rely heavily on it. With her enhanced sense of smell and sensitive skin, she was able to quickly track the movement of the mage without ever using manalysis, so most of the time she kept her manalysis suppressed only activating it when she was in areas that her enhanced senses wouldn't be as effective, such as the shipping yard. However, as soon as Logan and Boslan appeared, she suppressed her manalysis, relying on her enhanced senses instead, switching only into manalysis when she had lost the target with her regular senses.

When Logan appeared behind Raiya, she felt the warmth of his overworked body. She could hear hear his exasperated heavy breathing. She could feel the displacement of the air as he took his swing. Raiya deftly dropped down and twisted both her lower and her upper body, flipping horizontally under the bat swing. Mid twist she lifted her leg up to capture Logan's neck in a lock coming in at the right shoulder, if her movement succeeded, Logan would be flipped onto the ground, his head in a leg lock.
What Raiya expected from her attack was an opening. She had hoped that he would leap out of the way and then Raiya would use the opening as he was in mid air to land a strike that Logan could not escape from. And, Logan did leap in the air, like expected, however, before Raiya could use her enchantments to meet him in the air with an Iaijutsu finishing move, he used a rune to teleport back to the ground. Raiya began to formulate another plan, looking for a different opening. Raiya used a moment to materialize her scabbard, sheathing her odachi within it.

After a brief exchange with Nemo, Logan was sent flying into a crate, leaving him disoriented and created the opening that she was looking for. Using her biri biri no sokudo enchantment she moved to position herself in front of Logan within striking distance. She then charged her sheathed sword with mana, preparing it for her next spell.

""SEN HEBI NO KIBA! (Thousand fangs of the snake)" Raiya shouted, releasing her Iaijutsu technique. The same technique she had used on the giant ogre skeleton. She immediately unleashed a thousand crescent slashes within a 8 foot square area in front of her where Logan stood disoriented. If he could make it out of the kill path in time, chances were that he wouldn't leave unscathed, which is what Raiya counted on.
Raiya's attack at Logan's back wasn't a full fledged attack. Raiya was merely testing her opponent, seeing how well he could react to her attacks, and how fast he could counteract. From that one instance, she had enough information to make a full onslaught. But as she prepared to engage, Nemo stepped in. She had expected the counterattack, and was fully prepared to fein into it and end the fight there, but Nemo stepped in her way.

"Tch!" Raiya let out an irritated scoff. She didn't let Nemo's intervention throw her off, though. Her plan she had formulated still would work, even with the distance now between them. That was when Raiya felt the manawaves of a spell echoing towards them. it's heading towards Nemo- no the target is me! Raiya thought.

Thinking quickly, she used her enhanced flexibility from her tattoo runes to bend unnaturally backwards. The spell whizzed above her, her backwards bending flexibility allowed her to completely dodge the spell. The tattoo runes weren't exactly runes. Her iruzumi tattoos were an ancient shinto spell formula that integrated with her and enchanted her entire biology. There were others like her, with other shinto iruzumi tattoos that morphed their biology a bit, but only she possessed the hebi iruzumi.

After successfully dodging the crescent shaped magic attack, Raiya began to put her plan into motion. First she moved out in front of Nemo, and then stabbed her sword, "八岐の大蛇 (YAMATA NO OROCHI!)" Raiya shouted. Her sword's blade extended underground and then split into eight different blades which shot up all towards Logan. The blades were made of mana, but they weren't manaegis like Felix's spell created blades. They were temporary iron blades created by magic from the earth surrounding the original blade. As soon as the spell faded, the blades would revert to dirt once again.
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