Premoni7ion - II

Yuuto was waiting for confirmation from Ria. One day, he woke up and checked the last messages sent and received. It was strange: he saw messages that were marked as read, but which he did not remember. They had been sent a few hours before waking up.

“The target is already at the mall. Go before he leaves.”

"Understood. I am on my way."

Although not understanding, Yuuto just ignored the second message, which he himself had sent. He said:

– Maybe I was too sleepy when I sent this. Ria must still be waiting for me, I have to hurry!

Yuuto was going to change his clothes, but he realized that he had already done that. Perhaps he had slept in those clothes. He ran to the living room, when he saw an unexpected scene:

Genesis was kneeling on the floor in front of the couch, watching the TV. Haji was trying to comfort her.

But the strangest thing was Tatsuya, who was sitting on the couch. He had his hands on his head, as if he was very angry about something.

Yuuto, realizing that something serious had happened, forgot about Ria's message. He looked at the television. It was probably the reason for that tense atmosphere.

A newscast was playing, showing the deaths of two important people. The first was Wisedroid. The second, Yuuto.

Confused, he first asked Tatsuya:

– Tokihito-san, what are you doing here?

Tatsuya, without looking at Yuuto, got up quickly, ran towards him and grabbed him by the neck.

Staring into his eyes, he slowly lifted Yuuto off the ground by his neck. He didn't look like the same person from the tournament. Now, he had murderous intent.

Tatsuya, enraged, exclaimed:

– I knew you were up to something! Now I understand why your name brought back unpleasant memories: you were always my enemy!

Haji, surprised, ran to the two, trying to calm the situation:

– Wait, this is a misunderstanding! I know Yuuto would never kill someone like that!

Genesis, who was still kneeling, turned to the three. Her face was soaked with tears. With a desperate look, she said calmly:

– You mean he usually does a lot worse?

– That's not what I meant! I know he's not behind this, I swear! Tokihito-san, stop it already!

Tatsuya, upset, hesitated for a few seconds, until he let go of Yuuto's neck, saying:

– You better have a good explanation for that.

Yuuto, on the floor, started breathing again. When he recovered, he replied:

– I don't know what you're talking abou-

Tatsuya didn't wait for the speech to finish. He just kicked Yuuto's stomach, exclaiming:

– Do you still have the nerve to say that?

Yuuto, almost fainting from the pain, looked at Genesis. She seemed to have lost all trust in him. Trying to reach her, he asked:

– Genesis, you still trust me, right? You know I wouldn't do such a thing, right?

– I want to believe in you, Yuuto, but I just can't.

While saying those words, Genesis went to the door of her room and locked herself in it.

Yuuto woke up. He glanced at his cell phone, eager for confirmation from Ria. An unread message was visible:

– The target is already at the mall. Go before he leaves.

Yuuto used the message notification as an alarm. That way he would respond as quickly as possible. He just replied:

– Understood. I am on my way.

He ran to the mall. Before meeting Wisedroid, he activated the security system of the place with his power. A level 7 threat alarm sounded. That way, it would evacuate everyone nearby so he could concentrate on his target.

As the threat was located inside the mall, the reinforced metal doors were not closed, so as not to keep victims trapped. Everyone who was there quickly fled not only from the mall, but from the entire surrounding area.

He went to meet with Wisedroid, trying as hard as he could not to remember Ria's plan. Even so, Wisedroid already knew of his presence.

Yuuto found Wisedroid crouched in front of the cone-shaped hole. Without moving, the android commented:

– A hell of a hole, isn't it? If I said who did it, everyone would panic. Therefore, I try to prevent unnecessary information from becoming public. Don't you agree with me, Ishigawa-san?

– How did you know I was here?

– I know you're pretending to be unaware that I can read your mind. You know exactly what my power is.

– I am afraid of what you see daily in people’s minds…

– Don't worry about that. I filter out the details that don't interest me. But you interest me too much. I want to know everything you think, even the most inappropriate things.

– I definitely should be worried about that...

Wisedroid finally got up. He turned towards Yuuto, shooting a blue laser from his right hand. Yuuto, already expecting this, dodged the attack, commenting:

– You knew I would dodge. Why don't you just kill me?

Wisedroid started running towards him, while attacking multiple lasers from his two hands. With each attack, he intensified the next. Yuuto dodged all of them, each time with more difficulty. Wisedroid, while attacking, replied:

– I already said: you interest me. You are after me, but you refuse to attack me. There must be some reason behind it. I'm giving you a chance to talk me out of killing you.

Wisedroid, close enough to Yuuto, pretended to shoot a laser with his left hand. But he revealed an antimatter machine gun on his right arm. His entire body could transform. It contained an almost unlimited number of weapons spread across all members.

Yuuto, dodging the fake attack, had no time to dodge the machine gun, which started firing 777 rounds per second.

Each bullet was capable of passing through 7 kilometers of reinforced metal. In addition, they caused tremendous destruction in the surroundings. A hole measuring 77 centimeters in radius formed where the bullet penetrated.

Ammo didn't run out. His body was capable of producing any type of ammunition infinitely, at a speed that could keep up with the rate of fire.

All he needed was internally produced energy. Most of it came from the sun, which was absorbed by the surface of the dark body.

Yuuto, in response, reflected all the shots upwards with the highest power, so as not to hit people who might not have evacuated yet. The bullets were so fast and heavy that Yuuto used up almost all of his energy reflecting them. The rest was used to dodge all the attacks he could.

A new attack appeared: the blue crystal on Wisedroid's chest lit up. When fired, it was capable of releasing energy large enough to disintegrate the entire mall and 7 kilometers further. Sensing the danger, Yuuto rotated Wisedroid's body upwards in order to deflect the laser to the sky.

But the android already knew that, and turned its left arm into an automatic missile launcher. It remained stable even when his body was rotated . He threw the laser into the sky and a string of 77 atomic missiles at Yuuto . Taking him by surprise, the missiles destroyed an area of 777 meters in radius.

Yuuto protected himself at the last second with his barrier, but was badly hurt. Wisedroid finally said:

– This is your last chance to convince me not to kill you.

– You know there were people who didn't evacuate yet, don't you?

– And? They were warned about the danger of this battle. If they died, the fault is not mine.

Yuuto finally realized what type of person Wisedroid was. He wanted to become enraged and destroy the enemy in front of him, but had a weakness in his power: when he pushed it too hard, his vision blurred. He was already at that point, seeing almost nothing.

Unfortunately, Yuuto couldn't protect everyone in the blast radius. A lot of people died, partly because of him, and he couldn't forgive himself. The only thing he could do was kill Wisedroid, who was the main killer. He was about to fight seriously.

Yuuto saw no reason to accept Wisedroid's offer. Waiting a couple of seconds, the android resumed:

– I will take that as a no. I warned you.

Yuuto advanced with all his speed towards Wisedroid. He landed a series of punches and kicks fast enough for no human eye to follow. But Wisedroid was not human, and managed to dodge all attacks without much difficulty.

Realizing this, Yuuto started using his strongest attack: ultimate gravity. If he increased gravity in a specific region to extraordinary levels, it would crush even the most durable material. He created several gravitational cylinders of 100 meters in radius. He activated them instantly, destroying everything in the designated region.

Wisedroid evaded the attacks at the last second. After a long time, he battled with everything he had. He fired more atomic missiles, but Yuuto returned them to Wisedroid, who fired them with the antimatter machine gun to explode them in the air.

Once again, he energized his blue crystal. Decreasing the trigger time, it activated in less than a second. Yuuto, realizing that he couldn't return a laser of that size, used all his strength to throw himself to the side, where he wouldn't be hit.

The cone-shaped laser devastated everything that was left up to 7 kilometers ahead. Once again, many innocent people died. Both were exhausted. One, for lack of energy. Another, for the dripping blood and the frayed vision. Again, Yuuto exclaimed:

– Don't you value other people's lives? You were supposed to be a hero, yet you are killing innocent people only to achieve your goal.

– Don't put your blame on me, kid. All you had to do was prove your worth.

– Worth of what?

– Of Tatsuya's trust.

Yuuto stopped for a second. If he answered that sooner, could all the people who were caught in the explosions have survived? But Wisedroid didn't specify his question on purpose, to make Yuuto feel guilty for not answering it. Angry, he replied:

– What the actual fuck you are to Tokihito-san?

– He doesn't remember, but we are longtime friends.

– If he doesn't remember you, it means he doesn't care much about a soulless machine.

– How odd that someone who let their childhood friend take part in an experiment would try to insult me.

Yuuto tried to calm down, but he showed an uncontrollable desire to kill his enemy. Pausing for breath, he said:

– What do you know about her?

– Slade is a fragile slave of the Boss. She wouldn't become such a pitiful creature if it weren't for you.

– I know you are lying. She promised me she would return safe and sound.

– And she did, but not in the way you'd expect.

– Bastard...

Silence covered the war zone. They stared at each other, waiting for the other to let his guard down. Finally, one leapt at the other quickly, about to strike the final blow. But Wisedroid saw something unusual in his Premonition: a bullet going through Yuuto's head.

He stopped midway, dodging Yuuto's attack and watching the future trajectory of the bullet, as well as Yuuto falling dead to the ground. He couldn't see where the shot was coming from, as he was out of range.

Confused, Wisedroid commented:

– What a shame. It looks like we've been interrupted by outside forces. Someone besides me was after you.

Yuuto didn't understand what he meant, but tried leaping again to punch him with all the strength he had left. Before he reached Wisedroid, a shot hit his head.

Ria was on the roof of a building 8 kilometers away from the battle. She had Yuuto in her sights the whole time, but waited for the fight to intensify to catch both of them by surprise. She murmured:

– Sorry, Yuuto, but I can't risk such a chance. Killing two troublesome birds with one stone is not something I can ignore.

Seeing the two jumping towards each other, she decided it was time to shoot. She aimed at Yuuto's forehead.

She chose that building because it had an advantageous view of most of the city and was beyond the reach of Wisedroid's power.

The plan was for Yuuto to not only distract Wisedroid, but also himself. That way, Ria would catch both of them by surprise.

The secret of how to kill Wisedroid that only a few people knew, among them Ria, was the 7 second foresight limit. If something happened shortly after those 7 seconds, Wisedroid would drop his guard and stop using his power.

Ria loaded her carbine with an EMP bullet. It disabled all electronics within a 10 kilometer radius.

Shot.

As the carbine was extremely powerful, Yuuto was unable to deflect the bullet with his power. Even if he tried, he wasn't in a position to try harder than that.

Wisedroid approached Yuuto's corpse, commenting:

– I really hoped you could convince me. Too bad you had more enemies than I thought.

As Ria watched the scene, she muttered:

– 10… 9… 8… 7… 6… 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… Zero.

The EMP bullet had a countdown to the explosion. Wisedroid did not foresee anything dangerous to him when the bullet hit Yuuto's head, so he deactivated his power.

Then, an electromagnetic pulse went off. All electronics within a 10 kilometer radius have been disabled, including the androids. Genesis was in range, so she was forcibly shut down.

Wisedroid was no exception. Caught by surprise, he took a few seconds before shutting down completely. At that time, he murmured:

– I can't believe I fell for such a cheap trick...

Wisedroid fell to the ground. Ria only needed one more bullet to destroy his body. Since her power only created bullets that empowered its targets, she was using special ammo.

She used an explosive bullet. 7-Up worked on androids, as they were considered living beings. So a single bullet wouldn't be enough to kill him from that distance, even if the carbine did most of the work.

Shot.

Yet another atomic explosion was caused. Everything within a radius of 1 kilometer disintegrated, including Yuuto.

Tatsuya was walking around the city, aimlessly. There were explosions powerful enough to be heard across the city. Shortly thereafter, a cone-shaped laser disintegrated a large area.

Trying to understand what was happening, he ran to the epicenter of the commotion. When he was about to reach the place, another explosion even bigger than the ones before happened.

His instinct told him that Yuuto had something to do with it. After all, that person was the only one that awakened any memory in him.

Before he knew it, he used his power on himself and Yuuto.

Ria had already exited the building, convinced her plan had been a success. She didn't see Tatsuya, the man who had committed the massacre at the abandoned building.

Tatsuya left Yuuto's house, dissatisfied with his answer. Both didn't remember anything that had happened that day. But no one believed in Yuuto, apart from Haji.

Haji invited Yuuto to lunch at a random restaurant, to try to remember everything little by little. They both sat down and ordered whatever they wanted.

They didn't realize it, but they were in a maid cafe. The maid in charge of them was surprised by their unusual presence. The maid was Kiseki. Embarrassed, she asked:

– Young man, haven't I seen you somewhere before?

Yuuto and Haji turned to see her more closely. Recognizing her, they exclaimed:

– Kiseki?! What are you doing here?

– I work as a maid...

– Wait, are you a level 6, nurse, doctor and maid? Won't you tell me you're an idol too?

– I am…

Surprised, both were stunned. Yuuto was happy to find such a perfect girl. Haji, not so much.

Haji, folding her arms with her eyes closed, said:

– Whatever! That's not all that impressive. Now give us the best you've got.

– R-Right ! Sorry for the inconvenience, miss.

Kiseki shyly ran towards the kitchen. She would prepare everything on the menu. She didn't intend to charge them for it, as she couldn't forgive herself for pissing off a customer.

Haji, trying to understand Yuuto's situation, asked:

– Yuuto, do you mind telling me why you killed Wisedroid? Genesis won't forgive you if you don't tell the truth.

– I do not remember anything. I'm sure I woke up, went to the living room and saw that he and I were already dead.

– If that's what you say, I trust you. You've saved me in the past, and I wouldn't be here without you. But Genesis and Tokihito-san don't think so.

– I know. I swear I'll try to remember everything.

– You don't have to push yourself too hard. By the way, you already died once. We still don't know how you came back to life.

Kiseki arrived with five plates piled up in different parts of her body. If they blew on it, everything would be ruined. But she managed to lay it all on the table, saying:

– This is my apology. Please accept.

Haji, amazed by the generosity, said:

– When I said I wanted the best you had, I didn't expect all that.

– But, miss, I disturbed you, and I must apologize. Please accept this as a gift from me.

Yuuto, afraid of the price of all that, warned:

– This is going to cost a fortune. I don't know if I'll have enough to pay you.

– Don't worry, lad. This is all on me.

– What?! Are you sure?

– Yes. Please enjoy.

Yuuto, once again, was enchanted by Kiseki's purity. Again, he remembered the meaning of her name. After all, she was a miracle, a being beyond his comprehension.