Chains Of Pride

"Rikona! You're alive! I thought you'd left me, that I was all alone! Kura was acting like a little girl at this point. Crying with reckless abandon in the arms of her older sister, who patted her head with a warm smile to calm her down. Nowhere could you find the mistress of death that exerted her dominance over everyone present, or those left.

"I've got to get out of here, these girls aren't normal, and that damn Director didn't say a thing about this! F**k! I've lost all my men on this! The commander from before was still alive and was cursing while thinking of a way to leave while they were preoccupied.

"I should've known that something was wrong when he wanted a squad to take down 2 women!" He spotted the director with a solemn expression and tried to slowly make his way over. He looked all over as he walked, his face paled losing colour as he did so.

Nothing but bodies littered the ground, some of his men had blood leaking from their mouths as they laid there. The entire scene was a grisly as it could be. Indeed, the things he saw today was the stuff of nightmares.

'Gulp'

The commander swallowed whatever was stuck in his throat and saw a slight hope through this distraction. Praising and cursing that soldier that his shot didn't kill Rikona, lest everyone here without exception would be killed. However, before he started to move, that voice once again sounded.

"And just where do you think you're going?" The director looked up and saw Kura leaving her sister's embrace, staring down the Commander who was making his way over. "Don't think that you're leaving here alive after your sin, Concentrated shock wa-"

"Stop!!" with a gun in hand from one of the soldiers, the shout from the director stopped Kura in her tracks who only spared the old man a side glance. She, however, shifted her attention back to the commander, while a single phrase left her lips.

"I'll deal with you later, sit and wait."

"Is it wrong that I think your little sister looks even hotter than normal right now?" Makoto couldn't help but say while supporting Rikona, this remark nonetheless brought an elbow from the latter.

"Damn it! Ow! Alright sorry sheesh I won't say anything about your hot younger sister!...OW!"

Rikona, after landing another blow on Makoto, stared at her younger sister taking in the entire situation. "This is bad, she may have just been crying in my arms a while ago, but those tears have already dried. The more she uses her abilities, the more it feels like I'm losing her somehow."

Rikona saw that Kura's mannerism was changing the more and more she drew on her power. Becoming more prideful, more conceited, as though any value towards anything else in her eyes was getting less and less.

"Damn!"

When Kura's focus found the commander once more, the latter couldn't help but let out a curse. His grip tightened, and he suddenly felt the cold steel in his hands, with that he just remembered that he still had his gun and that the girls could be wounded.

He wasted no time with this and rushed to take aim before she could act, and he released several shots in succession. Several bullets hit the body, and the last one hit her forehead, which caused Kura's head to snap back from the impact.

"Yes! Now to get out of here before the other one goes bat shit cra-"

"Pressure," a calm voice interrupted his own, stripping him of the power to make any further movements.

Slowly, one could see Kura's head turn to face the commander.

"Wh-what the hell are you?!"

The commander was understandably shaken when he saw this, the only change was a faint mark in between her brows, smaller than a mosquito bite and her expression growing more severe.

His knees buckled from the pressure, and he knelt there as her feet slowly left the ground, floating closer to where he was.

"You know, I don't blame you for what you did. You just wanted to live; unfortunately, you're up against your greater and couldn't see Mt Tai, now leave me. Concentrated Shockwave."

When she said this, she turned away and headed over to where the Director was standing while the Commander simply spasmed a few times then fell forward, never to rise again. The gun in the Director Shihai's hands fell to the ground, she was practically bullet-proof now how do you fight against that?

"So this is how my life ends? Hehe, guess I bit off more than I could chew." 40 meters, 35 meters, 30 meters, Kura was slowly closing the distance between her and the Director.

"Listen, we need to stop my sister, and fast" Rikona came to a decision after seeing the proceedings saying to Makoto. "If she keeps this up we won't get her back, she needs a stronger mind for this."

"What are you talking about? Her mind seems pretty strong to me. By the way, isn't that Mount Tai proverb Chinese? Why does she know that pun? Wait…why do I?" Makoto argued back after questioning some mundane things at the end.

"Listen to me, you idiot! How long have you known Kura? When could you imagine that she would kill another person without batting an eye, much less slaughtering all these men?" She fiercely glared at Makoto with this before continuing.

"Don't get me wrong, the situation as it is, calls for tough handling, but from what I know, when we first realised what we were and embraced it without reserve, our mindsets changed." She looked straight at him as she spoke.

"We treated regular humans as lessers, which is why we treated you as we did before. However, when you said that you'd come with us, contrary to our expectations, you showed us that humans are capable in more ways than one, allowing us to control ourselves."

She started to stand on her own two feet as she kept explaining, feeling much better than before. "S-She unlocked a much greater power than ever before, and it is forcing her to become more prideful, more conceited. Hence, why we need a strong mind and will with this, so we don't lose ourselves. We must be prideful, but we can't let it burn us away if you can understand what I'm saying."

"I don't really get it, but the longer she's like that, the worse it gets right?" She nodded to confirm. "Then that's all I need to hear, but how do we stop her, she kinda got the whole evil superman flying style going on if you haven't noticed."

"I think I just need to reach out to her before she reaches the Director. I mean I don't like the man, but I don't want to lose my sister even more."

Rikona started rushing towards her sister with Makoto in tow, however, before she could get any closer a massive explosion went off between Director and the ever-looming Kura, slowing her down immensely.

The shock wave from the explosion sent Rikona and Makoto tumbling to the ground before they could get any closer. "Bastard! Where the hell did that come from?!" Makoto cursed as he was trying to get up while supporting Rikona as well.

"Well, this scene tells me that this was handled in a less than inadequate fashion. Yokubo that is you I see over there, correct? Looks like you didn't follow my advice when I told you to hold back I see."

A handsome man in his early 30's appeared on the field with a black-haired beauty by his right side and a large stern-looking man with multiple scars on his left.

"Machyal!" The name the Director just shouted was indeed Cheever Machyal, the mysterious head researcher at the facility and the backing that was always behind Mayuri.

"Yes Yokubo it is I, and please, no shouting please, I'm still a bit tired after rushing over," He said in a relaxed tone as if there wasn't someone floating in the air a few metres from him. On that note, however, his eyes slid over to suspended Kura and Rikona who had gotten up a bit further.

His eyes flashed with greed and d.e.s.i.r.e as he smiled then stated, "Hello Kura, Rikona, this is quite a surprise. However, I can't have you killing the Director, I have need of him."

"It is not your place to tell me who I can kill from who I can't. Step aside little one," Kura cooly replied with no change in her expression.

"Ooh, it seems your pride is burning fiercely, be careful, we got some who were lost that way," he laughed when he saw and heard this and looked to the man beside him and requested "I'll be needing your help it seems."

As he said this, the bulky man stepped out and walked towards Kura. The sphere that was beside her trembled, as she wordlessly sent out the pressure at the same level of power that suppressed the soldiers before and yet, the man's movements were undaunted. Kura's expression turned severe at this, as she whispered to herself.

"Talium …"