101: Hero Name (1)

Chapter 101: Hero Name (1)

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Neji, Kimi and Nejire had slept really late last night. But it wasn't a problem since the next two days were off.

Neji had decided to spend the two days chilling, instead of training as usual. But he couldn't do so. His mind got agitated every time he recalled Nighteye's vision. He just couldn't rest even though he was pretty drained mentally.

So he spent the afternoon lazing around, playing some online games with Momo and Nejire, playing with Kurai with a ball, and making sure Kimi didn't slack on her job. 

The last part was a joke if anything. There were more maids in the huge mansion, and with Kimi's actual job being a bodyguard along with the fact that she was the Head Maid, Kimi rarely had to even do simple chores.

But Neji found it amusing when she couldn't read her manga. She would gladly say, this was a punishment that she didn't enjoy.

When evening came, Neji went to the huge training ground. With both Nejire and Neji studying to be future heroes, their parents had spent some bucks preparing things for them. This huge training ground was one of them. Neji couldn't train his strong techniques here, of course. It would destroy the place in seconds, so he instead trained his control here.

He was currently focusing on two things— Way of The Gold Dragon, and— Way of The White Tiger. 

Both were based on two of the four ruler monsters of the Great Forest inside the Tower Dungeon. Those beasts were really feisty in that region, so the intelligent monsters in the monster camps knew a bit about their techniques. When Mursha, the Ogre woman, had shown him some paintings from the old time, Neji got ideas to create two skill sets.

Way of the Gold Dragon is basically a long-ranged set of techniques specialising in speed.

Way of the White Tiger, however, was a set with techniques made for close-ranged absolute destruction. 

He was yet to get used to the latter, so his opponents might have died if he used it in the Sports Festival. That's why he didn't do that.

He planned to only use this against truly dangerous opponents...

Either way, he couldn't use those techniques here as that would destroy this training hall into bits. Meaning, he was left unable to use his Quirk. So, he had to work on something else…

"Erm… are you sure?" Kimi asked as she rubbed her right arm with her left hand while her tail danced around meekly behind her.

Today, Neji planned to train his physical fighting style, his reflexes and his instinct as a whole. Without using Eyes of the Lord.

Neji wore a simple black shirt and pants comfortable for a fight. Kimi wasn't in her typical maid dress, either. She wore a black sports bra and shorts and she had her hair tied in a ponytail. 

"You saw me at the sports festival already," Neji said. "Kids are not my match, and I can't get any fighting experience from them. It's time for you to use your Super Form, miss. That way, I would get my training and you wouldn't become too rusty."

Kimi hesitated still. But as she recalled how strong Neji was in the Sports Festival, she sighed and nodded.

"I guess…" She said with a deep sigh. "But, I will stop if things get too serious, for any of us. I still don't like blood, as you can tell." She said, confirming she still had her fear of blood even now. "Just don't bleed, and… I will continue training with you."

Neji nodded casually as Kimi took a deep breath in.

Then her body started to change.

Her cat ears and tail twitched, quivering, and first of all her nails started to enlarge in a pointy shape. Then her humane skin started to change in colour. In a stretched circular shape, the skin around her whole torso, from her collarbone to her lower abdomen went pale, very pale, while outside the circle her skin turned light yellowish golden. There was no fur on those parts, her skin simply changed colour. A bit of fur was only present on the side of her forearms, her spine and the back of her leg. The fur was sharp and needlely, and as they were placed straight beside each other, they worked like blades. 

Two thick whiskers appeared on each side of her cheeks. Kimi had those whiskers before even in her human form, but when she drank her first Tier Potion, those whiskers had vanished, giving her a more humane look. Neji only hoped her cat ears and tail wouldn't disappear too when she reached a high tier level, that would be a bummer.

The white of Kimi's eyes were now light yellow and her blue irises were now shining white.

"Ooohhh, I can see some changes since last time. Those two Tier Potions did you well, huh." Neji whistled. "It's my second time seeing this, but you look smoking hot as always. Mhmm… maybe we should do it in this form once in a while."

Kimi had her normal human nose and mouth. Only her lips were curled up in a 'ω' shape to try and imitate a cat's maw. 

With those lips, she smiled. "I'm physically stronger than before in this form." Her voice had a more cat-like twist to it. "And my heat-state is far hornier too. Ya can try to fuck me like this, but I don't think I would want to be bottom in this form."

Neji blinked at her. So the masochist had an actual sadistic form. How unexpected...

"Anyhow, ya have any idea how we would do this?" Kimi asked, crossing her arm as her tail danced in the air behind her, no meekness this time.

"Oh well…" Neji just rubbed his neck. "Just rush at me, let us see our limits."

Kimi nodded, "Sure." and then disappeared in a fwoosh.

Neji only had a moment to turn on his Eyes of the Lord. He caught Kimi's movement with that before turning the Quirk off immediately. He recalled he had restricted himself to not use EL.

'But those movements…'

From the second he had turned his Quirk on, he saw Kimi's movements clearly. She was jumping around the hall, vanishing and reappearing all around. She was showcasing what Neji was going to face to not catch him too off guard.

'Incredible.'

Neji was impressed. He couldn't see her movement with bare eyes and could only see her body when she stopped on one spot. Shockingly, she was only Tier 5, yet she was faster than anyone he had seen until now. Maybe except for Prime All Might-

Neji's thoughts stopped momentarily as his eyes locked on the text hovering above Kimi.

<Kimi Sugihara - Cat Human - Tier 5>

It said tier 5, but it was flickering. 

Tier 6, Tier 5, Tier 6, Tier 5...

She was at the peak of Tier 5. So close that she was on the verge of rising in rank.

Neji suddenly felt a cold sweat form on his forehead as Kimi vanished from his eyes again whilst danger spiked in his mind.

Immediately, Neji raised his arms on his left in a defending pose just as Kimi's fist came hitting on his forearms.

It made a loud impact noise and Neji even slid back a few inches, but he still held on.

He was grinning. "Oh-ho, the hell's up with that speed?"

Kimi only blinked her shining eyes as she drew back her fist. "You have a great reaction speed yourself." 

Only a moment later she vanished again and came from the opposite side.

Neji blocked it again with a similar pose on his right side, as she nodded to him.

"Yeah, really fast reaction speed."

Then Neji's body hair stood up in a series of goosebumps just as his danger sense broke the ceiling.

While Kimi was on his right, from the other side where she was standing a second ago another Kimi popped up.

'...Afterimage?!'

That was all Neji could think of, just as the Kimi at left's knuckles crashed into his left ribs. Neji tried to react in time and moved his hands from his right side, but it only gave the Kimi on his right a chance to throw her fist into his right side.

Neji's eyes went wide as he experienced two attacks from either side in a succession. The Kimi from the right then vanished into essence while another one came from in front of him. 

'She can only maintain two after images at the same time. But I am still not sure who the real one is.'

Thinking so, Neji crossed his arm to block the one in front, giving the one on his side another chance to attack his ribs. For a moment his arms shook and his guts tightened. The notification of his END going up by 1 was the only soothing feeling before the Kimi at his front slipped her hand under his crossed arms and stuck on his abdomen. 

There was a loud boom as wind stirred and as if hit by a cannonball of air, Neji was flown far in the hall and hit the wall before falling face first.

He only stayed like that for 3 seconds before Kimi ran to him with a worried cry.

Kimi, having re-done her transformation, ran to Neji's body. She sat down beside him and raised his head on her thighs.

"Are you alright, y-young master?"

Neji huffed heavily but still nodded.

"Well, cough—" He coughed saliva on the floor before wiping his lips. "You put all your points in agility, it seems." He said, casually in between some rough breaths. "The punches weren't that strong except for the last one which carried the force of wind. So first, we have to train your strength."

Aaaand his own reflex and agility. But he can't say that to her. That'd be embarrassing. He has become too dependent on his Quirk, it seems. That was a bad thing since while his quirk allowed him exceptional flight speed, it didn't provide any boost in normal reflex and movements.

Neji could also understand something else here. Kimi's weapon wasn't her strength, it was her slash attacks using her bladelike fur. If this was a real fight, without EL, Neji would have been long dead, sliced up into dozens of pieces.

'But she won't cut anyone because of her Hemophobia… Guess that's another thing I gotta fix for her.'

Neji took some slow breaths in to steady his nerves and his usual calmness returned. From her lap pillow, he looked at her blue eyes. 

"Also, congrats, you are on the verge of your Quirk Awakening."

Kimi's worried eyes gained a confused light in them.

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