The Alternative/Overwatch
Holy Water Baths (Part III)

(Distinction : Tatsumaki Miyuki)

Really apes indeed. We are just 2 women who happened to have the power to fight, told to fight a horde of undead war veterans from ancient times and famous mythology who had business with us before.

"You want to give up?" Hisao asked me in a dismissive tone. I rubbed my sword blade from the base of the blade to the end of the blade slowly using my palm. My rubbing marks made my sword blade burn by a very bright and very hot blue flame.

Hisao who saw me lining the sword using blue flames chuckled.

"That doesn't seem like the answer is no... " Hisao.

"We've come this far, Hisao. It'll be a waste if we give up here." Reply me.

"Or die here and become part of this black mud." Hisao enveloped the pair of shoes he wore with obsidian scales and shells onto both his legs and became monster feet. Sharp-nailed, scaled, and shell-patterned.

Hisao then put up the position of the horses like a person who wanted to do a sprint. With as fast as the wind Hisao triggered his run. Even to leave a pseudo-trench on the surface of the mud. Perseus swiftly jumped at an abnormal height. It was because of the flying sandals he had. Medusa was the one being targeted by Hisao. Medusa was attacked by Hisao and used as a skateboard to skate on black mud.

"Your abilities are the most troublesome. So sorry yeah." Hisao tried to pull Medusa's head off until her neck was cut off. But Medusa swiftly grabbed Hisao's hand and kicked Hisao to get rid of him. Hisao crashed into the air quite high, about 6 meters.

Medusa pressed her hands against the mud surface, allowing her to turn back and return to her standing position. Medusa then made a gesture like she was pulling something in each of her hands.2 layered chains of manna were seen in each of her hands and bound to Hisao's hands.

"Since when is this chain...?!!" Hisao flinched knowing his hands were bound by the chains of Medusa.

It was likely that Medusa tied it to Hisao's hand with the chain when Medusa held Hisao's hand before she kicked him into the air. Medusa very strongly pulled her chains very hard down and it made Hisao fall from the air very hard and hit the black mud surface very hard even to the point of creating a ripple explosion in the air the surface of the mud that is the size can be said is not small and it must hurt.

"Yeah! It feels terrible to drink mostly...!" Omel Hisao whose head came out of the mud.

I saw from above Perseus trying to kick a swoop in Hisao's face. Its bad. Perseus is traveling at high speed. I won't make it if I hit him from here. I immediately ran towards Hisao the flames started coming out from my left hand. Please, I hope you arrive....!! The explosion happened again. This time the explosion was accompanied by fire.

In the last few seconds before Perseus's foot hit Hisao's face I had a chance to dispel Perseus's foot kick with Ifrit's hand. Perseus retreated by jumping and landing beside Medusa.

"Thank you." Hisao extended his hand to me. He asked me to pull his hand so that it could be lifted and released from the black mud that swallowed from the neck down.

"Keep it well and treat me later after we've made it out of this horrible place. Focus on." My word.

Achilles started to drive his three horses. The train he was riding started to run. Though the surface that we are stepping on is mud but the Achilles train can move very easily. The horses of Achilles neighed with horror. Achilles circled us in his carriage as if hinting that we could not get out of the circle he made. The longer the carriage rotates, the faster the speed even I can not see where exactly the carriage is. But strangely why did Achilles also include Yudhishthira in his vortex?

"We better turn our backs on each other again." I'm suggesting.

"Good idea." Hisao said without protest.

Yudishthira quickly threw his spear at us. Hisao and I managed to avoid it so that the spear slid into the wall of the vortex. From beside us the throwing of the spear shot towards us, more precisely coming from the wall of the vortex made by Achilles. I got hit by the spear but Hisao managed to avoid it.

The lance that was launched was captured by Yudhishthira. His spear was different from the one thrown by Yudhishthira before he threw it. Yudhishthira then threw again his spear at us. The previous pattern repeats itself and the longer it gets faster. This is the same as a carom game only the media game uses 2 spears. My body and Hisao's body had already begun to scuff and were wounded by the carom reflection effect of the combination of Yudhishthira's attack with Achilles.

I've had enough of this carom attack. Time to release the stress. From my body came a very powerful explosion in the form of a very bright blue fire. Hisao could not be affected by the explosion because I had set the fire so as not to hurt Hisao. The attack stopped. Achilles and Yudishthira got bounced off the blast wave I created earlier. Their bodies suffered 3rd degree burns, though not all over.

Suddenly the bodies of the four of them were dismembered before they could react. Me and Hisao instantly could neither react nor move after seeing what had just happened.

"Yes-yes quite interesting. Honestly, I was quite amused by your game." Said someone behind us who somehow got behind us.

I looked behind me slowly. It turned out that the one behind us was Ryomen Sukuna.

"Not be afraid of that. I was on your side from the beginning. And it just so happened that my mood got good after seeing you dance earlier." Even at every step Sukuna made felt like intimidation.

"Then...What's your reason for helping us?" I asked slowly even though my lips were shaking.

"There's nothing special about my reasons. After all I was the strongest and most ruthless Ashura of his time, so I did not have that kind of empathy. But watching you fight desperately for your child who turns out to be the reincarnation of my son makes me a little nostalgic. Really nostalgic. Thank you." Thank you." Sukuna.

Sukuna then put her four hands back into her black yukata. The haori he had taken off suddenly flew up and reattached to his shoulders. Sukuna then walked away from us. Every step of his made him sink even more into the black mud as if he was descending down this staircase under the mud. Sukuna completely sank into the mud.

Suddenly from the surface of the mud sukuna sank out slowly the body of a boy we were looking for. Just like we first met. I quickly ran towards the boy but the atmosphere he was in was shattered by the one sentence he blurted out when our eyes met.

"Oh hi mom." Gen with a face without feeling guilty.

"SERIOUSLY?!!! NO FAMILY DRAMA JUST YET?!!!!!!" Me and Hisao menggedumel.