Chapter 18 - A Physical Anomaly

"Hey, ugly!"

Suna caught the twin-headed Ogre's attention.

It was now aware of her presence.

The Ogre was three times as large as a normal human being.

It wore metal plated lower garments down to its toes.

The metal was filthy and filled with the bones of humans which it proudly wore as a belt.

Dark, rusted metal kept the bones in place tightly.

Although it had possessed two heads, it only had one weapon.

A gigantic club filled with spikes.

The wood and metal spikes had turned brown due to dried up blood, presumably.

One of the heads had a blank lifeless expression which slowly turned into anger as its brows frowned.

It had a humanoid face, albeit having tusks long enough to reach its chin.

This one was also bald.

No hair whatsoever.

With sharp ears pointing towards the sky up above.

Meanwhile the other head looked pretty dull and stupid.

Its face was circular as well as its big, round eyes.

This one had facial hair all over its face.

The mouth was also covered with sharp uncountable teeth.

They were as sharp as a saw.

But the body was different from a generic Ogre.

It was not a typical fat Ogre which was slow.

No, this one was muscular and fit.

The Ogre was built bulky, built like a brick house.

Both pairs of its green eyes slowly made its way towards Suna as it turned its neck around.

"B-Brother! H-Human? Human!"

The dull head told his brother.

"Brother's eyes work. Quiet!"

The bald one responded.

"Your brother seems pretty…stupid?"

Suna said to the two-headed Ogre.

"Agh! M-Me no stupid!"

The monster had a deep, gravelly voice.

Suna assumed her fighting stance.

A laugh was heard in the atmosphere.

It was the bald one.

"That true! You stupid."

As it pointed at his brother's head.

Well, wasn't it basically pointing at itself?

Suna thought so herself.

"Puny human! Get crushed!"

The two headed Ogre laughed.

"Crush me if you can. Anyway, you're both stupid."

The dull one laughed.

His laughter was cut short when their left hand extended upwards and slapped him in the mouth.

Both the Ogre's heads faced upwards.

It screamed a loud roar to the sky.

As their heads went back to their normal positions, they looked at Suna's last direction.

She was no longer there.

Not a sight of her.

After a solid five seconds, she pummeled at a portion of their feet which wasn't armored – the toes.

The Ogres shrieked from the pain.

It swung its gigantic club in a downward motion.

Suna easily dodged the attack by jumping back a little bit.

One of the Water Slayer twins made her way towards Gavin.

"Mister, why isn't she using her skills?"

Gavin was perplexed at first, but he quickly realized that the child didn't know.

"Uhm, actually, she doesn't have an affinity."

The child was now the one with a puzzled expression.

"Well, I'll just put it simply in a way that you'll understand. You know why you and your twin are Slayers right?"

"B-Because we have water powers?"

"That's right. And you've noticed the others here have different elemental affinities, right? Different powers other than water, I mean."

She nodded.

"You see, that girl fighting over here. She has none of those. No elemental skills."

"S-So why is she fighting if she doesn't have one?"

"Because she's a physical anomaly. Her physical strength is monstrous. Because she's powerful in her own way."

Gavin answered proudly.

Suna evaded each thwack the Ogre did.

She was waiting for an opening.

The Ogre was frustrated by her raw agility and swiftness.

"Stop moving!"

It said furiously in their broken voices.

With both hands, it lifted the spiked club and smashed it against Suna with all its might.

She was almost struck.

It was only off by a few inches away from her face.

"This speed. It's not normal for an Ogre. Well, neither are the conjoined heads."

Luken said while observing the battle.

Yin almost jumped in.

The Commander placed his hands on Yin's shoulders tightly.

"Easy there, Yin boy. I thought you believed in Suna's strength?"

Yin looked down in frustration.

"Y-Yes, sir!"

Suna fell down on the floor.

She immediately got back up while picking up two pieces of stones with both hands.

"Phew, you almost got me! I really thought I was going to die, you know?"

The Ogre was now charging at her like a bull seeing the color red.

Its feet were causing the area to quake just from the sheer force of it.

Suna wiped the sweat off of her forehead.

The distance between Suna and the twin headed Ogre was quickly closing in.

Each second felt like it was going to be too late.

"W-What's she doing?!"

Cosette asked.

"Look at her hands, young lady."

Gavin answered smugly.

Both her arms were brimming with force.

But it was concentrated just enough to not crush the stone into dust.

When the Ogre was only two meters in front of her, that's when she saw her opening.

Suna threw the stones in each of the bald headed one's eyes.

The Ogre fell on its knees, slamming the ground in pain.

"Now then. It's time to get to work."

She cracked her knuckles whilst locking eyes with the stupid one.

"B-Brother?!"

It was useless.

The bald Ogre's head could no longer see anything.

As it stood up, it was now moving slower and more sluggish than earlier.

Its combat capabilities were cut in half now.

The stupid one was not used to fighting without his brother's field of view.

Suna gambled on that fact.

She did not waste a single minute.

Shortly after the Ogre was on its feet, she immediately jumped upwards.

The Ogre swung the club, but Suna had dodged it easily, it wasn't as fast as it was back then.

Where was she going?

That was the question on the dull head's mind.

"O-Our back!"

The bald one could sense what she was trying to do and tried to warn his brother, but he was far too late.

He couldn't see anything, after all.

Suna stopped her momentum just at the tip of the stupid Ogre's head.

She used its wide forehead as a jumping position to elevate herself once more.

The stupid Ogre thought she was going to jump straight into his mouth.

It opened it.

Revealing hundreds of teeth underneath.

But it had guessed wrong.

Suna merely jumped on its forehead, using it as a trampoline.

She made her way to the back of the Ogre.

This was her real target, the nape.

With all her might, she prepared her legs for a kick.

Her legs began to show joints and muscles contracting at the same time.

"Fall."

She whispered to both Ogre's heads.

Suna kicked the nape with everything that she had.

The loud boom caused a shock wave which made the birds fly away from the trees.

It wasn't the last shock wave though.

Right before it fell, she shouted at her friends nearby.

"You guys might want to jump!"

Cosette instantly grabbed the twins and leaped up a tree.

Luken and Gavin were already up above before her warnings.

Isabelle made her way upwards to a tree as well.

Yin on the other hand…

Well, he wasn't so lucky.

His mind kept thinking about why she warned them to jump.

"Hey guys why should we-"

He immediately stopped his question before he even finished it.

Seeing as nobody was there behind him anymore.

Suna covered her face with her hands in a shielding position.

Yin just closed his eyes.

As the Ogre fell to the ground, it had created a shock wave of dust and rocks around the area of its fall.

Yin was now covered in dust, pebbles, and branches.

Like a piece of meat dropped on the ground of a forest.

Luken couldn't help but laugh.

To which Gavin smacked him behind the head again.

"I thought you were going to bring him up?!"

"Well, I also thought it would be funny not to. You know?"

The Commander hysterically chuckled.

The battle wasn't over yet.

Although unconscious, it was still breathing.

Gavin threw Suna's sword at her.

Yin didn't even notice Gavin taking it from his hands.

She caught it easily mid-air.

"Thanks Gavin!"

She smiled to him with a glint of gratitude in her eyes.

Suna stabbed the Ogre through the heart.

This was the blow that finished the two headed Ogre's ambush.