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CxC Chapter 15: Serious x Synergy
🕑 Added 2025-01-02 17:46:21 +0000 UTCA/N: Hope you had a happy new years everyone!
~Yuta Yukimura~
After taking a cold shower, or three, I started on my morning routine, I didn't wake up Asia since the girl was utterly exhausted after yesterday. So was I but she was human and I was a devil, I was built from birth to take punishment.
I took time out of my morning to cook several meals and refrigerated them for Asia to reheat when she wakes up. After that, I left my house after making sure my uniform was on properly and I was not missing anything.
Of course, the moment I left my house I saw Rias waiting for me again, I even left early this time too. For a king and Princess, she sure has plenty of free time.
"Ah good morning Yuta-kun, how was your morning?" Rias greeted me with a smile as always while I shrugged, I really didn't feel that great. I was uninjured but tired out of my mind. I followed her as we walked to school.
"Good morning Rias-san, could have been better after that insane exorcist nearly killed me." Rias stopped in place, making me furrow my brows. She turned to me with a dead serious expression.
"...Yuta-kun, what do you mean by that?" Rias said with a cold voice while I nonchalantly answered.
"Yesterday, I was summoned by a client, but it turned out he wasn't a client but a mad exorcist who shot me through my stomach, then my leg and stabbed me in the shoulder with his weapons. I drove him off though." Rias looked haunted, she clamped her hands on my shoulders and gave me a grave explanation.
"Yuta-kun, tell me everything, right now." Wow, she wasn't this mad about the fallen angels.
"Ok... but maybe let's get to the club or somewhere private first?" Without saying a word Rias grabbed my arm and formed a teleportation circle below us and teleported us to the Occult Research Club faster than I had ever seen her do before.
"We are here Yuta-kun. Now, what happened yesterday?" Rias asked me gently but furrowed her brows at my serious expression as I sat down.
"Rias-san, did you notice a demolished house yesterday?" Rias nodded.
"Yes, did Akeno tell you? We discovered the corpse of yet another contractor at the scene, it was most likely done by the fallen angels. Why was it perhaps..." In response, I wordlessly removed my top uniform, making Rias blush a split second before a much more serious expression settled on her face when she spotted the nasty scar on my shoulder and the smaller one over my stomach.
"It was actually done by me. I found who killed our contractors and was ambushed by him yesterday and drove him off." Rias narrowed her eyes, I could see an eerie aura around her as her hand crushed the desk she was sitting on with her grip. She spoke in a tone of barely concealed anger.
"Tell me everything Yuta-kun, don't spare any details, I want to hear everything, I will excuse you from your classes if we need time." I nodded and started telling Rias what happened last night.
I mentioned how I was ambushed by Freed, how Asia stood up for me, how I drove him off using natural weapons. By the end of it, Rias was hugging me like a teddy bear again, not that I minded being suffocated by her breasts.
"I'm sorry Yuta-kun... I'm sorry that I wasn't able to help you, I must seem pathetic to you." I could feel it in her voice, the fear and anger, at herself for me being nearly killed under her watch. She released my head and looked out of the window, the red aura surrounding her again.
"This provocation I can't ignore." She clenched her fist, tightly "I will find them and make them pay, even if they are from the Grigori, nobody hurts my family and gets away with it-" I cut in, my voice.
"Actually." Rias turned to me, the wind taken out of her sails with my voice, confusion apparent in her face. I looked Rias dead in the eyes.
"Rias, I will kill Freed myself."
"What are you talking about Yuta-kun? That's too dangerous, you already nearly died once." Rias frowned but I didn't back down.
"I need to kill him myself, I want to make sure I am the one that drains the light out of his eyes." My fist clenched. "And, I got stronger from surviving. So please leave this to me." I looked Rias in the eyes sincerely.
"Yuta-kun, this is incredibly irresponsible and needlessly dangerous." Rias met my gaze head-on.
"I know, but I have to, and I am confident in myself." Rias held my gaze for a full 10 very uncomfortable seconds before sighing in resignation and sagging her shoulders, making me release a breath I didn't know I was holding.
"If that's truly what you want to do, I will not stop you Yuta-kun, I will respect your wishes. But I want you to remember that whatever you need help with I will help you with it, you do not have to do this alone. Tell us if you need anything all right?" I nodded and smiled a little.
Thankfully Rias was still very understanding even if I was the one being unreasonable here. If I was in her position I know I wouldn't let myself go.
"Thank you Rias-san." Rias' frown gave way to a light smile but her narrowed eyes told me otherwise.
"However, if you recklessly go in and get hurt I will not be very forgiving understood?" I mock saluted like she was my superior in the army.
"Yes ma'am" Rias' expression finally softened as she leaned over and hugged me again, I did not mind as she was really soft but it was still a little weird regardless.
"Alright, Yuta-kun, I am choosing to trust you so don't disappoint me. Now, we should get going, we dont want to be late for class more than we already are." We both got up and headed to class after that since even Devils cannot afford to be tardy I suppose.
But the thought that lingered on my mind was...
Well, I better not disappoint after I talked all that.
I was going to crush Freed swiftly and thoroughly.
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~Yuta Yukimura~
Although I wanted to bust down the church door and tear Freed to shreds, as Rias had said earlier, it was very reckless for me right now.
In a direct confrontation, I wasn't confident in besting Freed, he was fast and strong, ruthless too. And he wasn't sadistic enough to drag the fight out
But unlike last time it wouldn't be so one-sided, because this time it wasn't Freed ambushing but hopefully it would be the other way around. The importance of initiative in a fight cannot be underestimated.
Still, I need something.
So that was why I was now in the woods at the back of the Occult Research Club, no one came here, which was perfect ground for some improvised training.
I was not strong enough with just my current powers to take down Freed, maybe with Iron Manipulation but I wasn't confident enough in it to trust my life with it. Then I thought about something.
My instincts as an Esper tickled something in the back of my spine, it told me that I wasn't utilizing my abilities well enough, a nagging feeling that I hadn't tried something.
I stared at the abilities screen in deliberation.
My abilities individually weren't anything too impressive, only Natural Weapons managed to drive off Freed because he was caught off guard.
Individually...
My eyes opened wide as I looked at the ability screen closely.
___/Abilities\_____________
-Active(2/2)-
[Uncommon - Natural Weapons]
[Uncommon - Sand Veil]
What if I try to use them together? But that doesn't work, there is no way for Natural Weapons to affect the Sand Veil and vice versa. Sure I could use the help Sand Veil provides to ambush my enemy with Natural Weapons but... that doesn't seem to be what my instincts tell me, I already knew about that, if it was that then I wouldn't feel such a nagging sensation.
I looked into myself. The points of light inside of my soul slotted into imaginary notches representing my ability slots.
Use them together. Together...
Their effects, not using them one after another or that sort of thing. Their effects, use them together, where do their effects intersect? Where could they intersect?
I felt it, it was almost like a magnetic force once I had found it, with a nudge, I felt the abilities want to combine as I pulled on both lights together in tandem.
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Temporarily Combine [Uncommon - Natural Weapons] and [Uncommon - Sand Veil]?
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When I approved I felt the sand of Sand Veil, instead of doing what it normally would and creating a sandstorm around me, instead swirled around my arm violently, I felt it, my command over the sand, I could shape it into weapons, projectiles.
My eyes moved over to the window. My lips curled into a smirk as saw I was what was on my ability list.
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[Combination - Desert Weaponry]
|Rarity: Rare| |Combination: Sand Veil & Natural Weapons|
"Desert La Spada!"
Allows you to form violent sandstorms into a variety of weapon-like projectiles.
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My inner weeb cried its heart out, even the system was telling me, just do it, it was begging.
I reared my arm back and the sandstorm grew more violent before I swung.
"Desert La Spada!"
The sandstorm I threw out turned into multiple fan-shaped sharp blades, like guillotines made of sand, tearing through multiple trees like they were made of paper.
...So, this is what actual power felt like. My body felt tingly, like a current of electricity was hooked up to me. I felt like a child again, finding a fresh chest of toys to play with.
I looked over my ability list before deciding on a combination.
___/Abilities\_____________
-Active(2/2)-
[Uncommon - Natural Weapons]
[Uncommon - Sand Veil]
-Storage-
[Uncommon - Regenaration]
[Rare - Pearl Jam]
[Rare - Disguise]
[Rare - Iron Manipulation]
[Elite - Ghost Form]
I focused on the sensation of unlatching and Desert Weaponry turned back to Natural Weapons and Sand Veil. I waited a bit to switch out Natural Weapons with Ghost Form and to my delight I felt the sensation of a potential synergy again.
And combining them gave...
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[Combination - Sandstorm Shift]
|Rarity: Elite| |Combination: Sand Veil & Ghost Form|
Allows you to turn into a living sandstorm. You can freely control the sand stream, the only way to damage you in this form is to destroy the sand particles that make up your body. Your sand cannot extend more than 20 meters away from your centre.
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A defence even better than Ghost Form, if I trained I could even pull a logia and transform the moment a punch hits me. The problem it had was that its on-and-off states were more difficult than Ghost Form. With Ghost Form, I could simply flicker it on and off. But with Sandstorm Shift I had to gather everything in one place to turn back.
Unfortunately, I didn't have all day and all energy to keep working on synergies so I focused on Sand Weaponry the most during the break I had since the teacher was sick. Straight-up strong stopping power with decent was very valuable to me, especially against Freed, with its range he didn't have many ways to respond to it.
I could definitely work with this.
Synergies were seriously useful things weren't they?
A/N: Rias gives Yuta the go-ahead to go on his roll-collecting trip- I mean his revenge mission against Freed that is totally unrelated to the hefty stack of tickets he will get from clearing Act 1: Fallen Fiasco.
I decided to refine the combination abilities in MHA to a more refined version and came up with the synergy system, because Yuta has a lot of potential synergies, especially with Natural Weapons. What did you guys think about the synergy system? Do you like it? Have any ideas for your own synergies between Yuta's abilities? I'd love to your thoughts about it!
Comments
Colin Peden
If he could do the iron manipulation and combine it with natural weapons, he could possibly make his devil wings have actual metal edges, backed by magic to reinforce it. That could be a really nasty surprise for some folks. Or once he unlocks 3 slots, that combination with disguise, so they don't even see the attack coming. Also if he ever gains to ability to just phase part of his body with Ghost Form, use that instead of disguise for the attack? Just spouting out ideas.
Colin Peden
It would depend on how much iron is in the snad make up. If he can control the individual grains of iron that came from his body, he should be able to do it. The problem being, if he makes an iron weapon and then he throws it, it might go beyond the control range. He would then either be unable to return to normal until he finds the lost iron, or he would reform, but have a severe iron deficit in his body system.
Rumble Cloud
Nice. Synergizing Pearl Jam might be a good way to make temporary combat Stands
BronzDeck
Perhaps, I thought about permament combinations but they probably won't happen soon. I like the idea of Yuta rapid firing combinations like a rubix cube since it makes fights more complex and fun. Also, any Elite ability is already Bloodline Ability worthy, who would take bug control over Ghost Form after all? I'm glad you enjoy the chapters.
fiddlerlee
Or iron manipulation and natural weapons would that make him wolverine?
fiddlerlee
If you did pearl jam and regeneration I bet that'll work very well
dragongod0117
Once third slot is unlocked, ghost form + sand veil+ natural weapons = 🐊
Jaded
I was thinking that exact thought. Maybe it would take those two skills and natural weapons to be Garra.
Loghead101
Love the combinations that come with the powers. Maybe the system will update and keep a log of popular ones that he can slot in without difficulty or even wholesale combine them into better skills after enough time. Not temporarily but wholesale make a new skill or ability. If that’s the case though then it probably be better to keep skills in the same category. Like Natural Weapons with other Bio skills and Sand Veil with Iton Manipulation for Geokinesis. After enough time and effort Yuta will have what amounts to several bloodlines if we’re going by devil logic. Also the second pov is apparently from Takumi’s perspective. Anyway, loved the chapter, these always feel too short but there sweet and I love that you update just about every other day so I’m not complaining. Can’t wait for the next one man!
Son Jacob Uchiha
Would Iron Manipulation and Sand Veil make him a pseudo Garra?
