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Lien (Test Subject 11630) Character page
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While his emotions toward the environment around him were without pure, the motive behind his stroll was not. The second notice had come in for him. With the familiar, upbeat tone that the last one had carried. It read:
Target: Ralic Raye
Your second target has arrived my dear subject! This time instead of a deranged serial killer I present to you (drumroll please)… some kid with an axe. I mean I guess he used to be a part of a multi-billionaire family, but he pretty much cut all ties to them and is now his own free man. Just like you! Ha, but yeah, you fight him at around dawn in some dirty alleyway in the town. You’ll know when you get there. :D
There wasn’t a picture attached to the letter like last time, but the according to the note Ralic wouldn’t be too hard to find.
”Alright all I need to do is to walk around for a bit looking for someone with an axe. Although when I find him, I’ll need to follow him around for a bit first and try to discover if he has any supernatural powers.” Lien told himself.
Wandering through the city, Lien found himself going from the relatively clean streets into what was becoming more and more of a slum. Trash became more prominent as did the suspicious activity going on around in the hidden corners. Moving onwards, Lien found himself in front of what seemed to be too large to simply be an alleyway. It was actually quite spacious. Surprisingly so even, with hardly any pipe-lines and the space between the two buildings being at least 7 meters apart from each other. As predicted, a pungent stench gave off the distinct smell of rotting foodstuff and discarded tools all scattered across the ground. However, what got Lien’s attention was not the trash, but the strange rose-like plants that sprouted out of them. They appeared harmless enough, but something about them made Lien cautious.
More important though, was that there was a strange boy standing in the centre. His supposed opponent, standing still with only slight movements of his head. Lien quickly scanned this person for any outstanding details, but the only thing that stood out was the bright-green coloured axe that the boy held. The sheer contrast between the dark, bland colour of the alleyway and the strangely fluorescent weapon unnerved Lien, as if it was made of an otherworldly substance.
But other than his weapon Ralic himself didn’t appear to have anything else that stood out of the ordinary. He could have easily passed off as another average civilian. Ralic only wore a grey hoodie with long pants and didn’t appear to have anything concealed within them. Just simply looking at Ralic gave Lien the complete opposite feeling of the beginning of a battle. Ralic appeared completely defenceless, even wearing earbuds and bobbing his head to whatever music he listened to.
“My name is Lien, and I take it that you are my opponent Ralic Raye?” Lien called out, only to receive silence. Unlike with Penny (who at least acknowledged Lien’s presence), Ralic completely ignored his opponent.
“Hello? Are you Ralic Raye?” Lien called out again, only to again receive nothing. Losing his patience, Lien walked up to Ralic and took out one of the earphone buds, which finally caused Ralic to notice him.
“Oh hey! Are you my opponent?” Ralic asked Lien with an innocent curiosity.
“Yes. I am Lien, and I suppose you are Ralic Raye?” Lien replied, trying to cool himself down. He couldn’t let something so petty clog his mind before a life-or-death battle.
“Yeah I am! Hey, could I ask you something?” Ralic said again.
“Huh? Sure, but make it quick.” Lien snapped back.
“Alright, so you know how you’re here for the RHG battle? Can I just ask you… if you could just say you lost the battle for me?” Ralic requested, as if mocking the entire system of the RHG.
“What?” Lien was honestly dumbfounded. Although technically he could go along with the request, there would have to be an extremely good follow-up for him to actually comply.
“Well, you see… I just don’t feel like I want to fight. I mean, fights are deadly. ’Live long and prosper.’ you know? I like my life, and I’m sure you like yours so let’s try to settle this peacefully before I have to hurt you. Plus look at this place, it’s all dirty. I’m sure a sharp-dressed man such as you would hate to dirty such a refined suit. ” Ralic explained with a grin. Each of his words only further pushed Lien into a silent rage.
“This is… just plain stupid. If you don’t want to fight then just stand there and let me kill you.” Lien replied with a sigh. Never before had he felt this exhausted against anything and furthering the conversation would only continue to sap away at his patience.
With another sigh of exhaustion, Lien went into his fighting stance and focused his mind. In the next moment, the image of a man in his suit lingered in the air before dispersing entirely. The image of the man then reappeared behind Ralic in mid-air. Contorting his body, his right leg flew through the air, impacting against Ralic’s body. However, instead of attacking flesh, what Lien’s leg hit was instead the strange rose-shaped weapon. Although the ensuing shockwave still occurred, and the area behind Ralic all got blown back, Ralic himself stood strong.
“Whoa! Careful there! This axe is made of a really hard substance you know! If you aren’t careful, you could break a bone or something!” Ralic exclaimed with another grin as Lien landed and jumped away. Although his outburst certainly was strange what Lien was surprised about was that his attack was not only blocked, but the shockwave that should that sent Ralic metres into the air only caused his hair and clothes to blow in the wind.
Regardless, Lien quickly landed and planned to continue his assault. Raising his right leg into the air, he quickly whipped it forward against Ralics head. Spinning around Lien then kicked Ralic with his left leg, sending the boy flying into the air with the shockwave. Lowering his leg, Lien looked over to see if he had won. However, instead of seeing Ralic crumpled over the floor, all he discovered was that his combo was once again deflected by the axe. Ralic himself was relatively unharmed and appeared no different than when Lien started his attack.
“Fine. You know what? You brought this on yourself, so don’t blame me for what happens.” The words rung through the air as Ralic finally took his axe and moved into his fighting stance.
Ralic immediately dashed forward, axe in hand and began his flurry of attacks. Targeting a different vital organ every time, Ralic swung his axe through the air at blinding speeds. Each swing sculpted a path that could have easily spelt out Lien’s death if he hadn’t shifted his focus into his arms and began blocking. Then, out of nowhere came a fist that bee-lined directly into Lien’s face. Completely destroying Lien’s expectations for the attacks to only be slashes with the axe, Ralic changed his fighting style from close-quartered weapon combat into hand-to-hand combat. Overpowering Lien with unexpected strikes, Ralic again suddenly appeared in front of Lien only to head-butt him backwards.
Axe still in hand, Ralic again switched back to striking only with his weapon. Still dazed from the head-butt, Lien was barely able to deflect Ralics assault, and soon found himself directly against a wall. With no other choice, Lien slammed his fist against the axe sending it flying back. Shifting his concentration into his legs, he simultaneously kicked Ralic away and leaped back to regain distance. Losing concentration on his legs, Lien entered his waiting period. Ralic too appeared to be winded by the attack and had a clearly visible footprint on his stomach.
At that point Lien came up with multiple theories about his opponent. Obviously, Ralic was not as weak as he showed. Perhaps he had some sort of supernatural power, or was his weapon enchanted, or maybe he is just naturally powerful. Maybe Ralic had all of those and his nonchalant persona was only meant to distract Lien and lead to an opening for attack.
”Well whichever of those that Ralic has, if I keep observing him I should find a way to defeat him.” Lien thought. Instinctively knowing that his waiting period had ended, Lien focused on his legs and disappeared again. This time he leaped high above Ralic. Shifting his focus into his arms, Lien prepared to smash into the ground and crush Ralic completely. However, by now Ralic had also recovered from the attack and quickly moved his axe upwards as if to defend.
”Whatever that axe is made of; it shouldn’t be able to fully withstand a blow like this. I’ll crush it to pieces!” Lien told himself as he descended to the ground. However instead of blocking, Ralic only muttered something under his breath.
The axe flew up to defend as Lien predicted, but then it continued its trajectory upwards. Colliding mid-air against Lien’s fist, the axe cut into his hand but his enhanced fist managed to chip the blade. The shockwave ensued, and caused the cracks in the blade to continue down until the entire side of the axe was covered in cracks. However, despite having his weapon plummet in condition Ralic still persisted in his swing. Completely thrown back by the attack alongside behind propelled back by the shockwave, Lien crashed against the wall of the alleyway. Naturally, Lien attempted to stand back up, but instead he only managed to slouch down even lower as he coughed up blots of blood.
”Damn it… my lungs.” He wheezed. Smashing against the wall probably fractured a few ribs as well and with every breath, a flood of pain coursed through his body. Luckily his right arm wasn’t cut too badly due to being strengthened, but strange thorns were imbedded within the cut and Lien was slowly losing feeling within his right arm. So now he was lacking not only in his right arm, but in precious oxygen.
While Lien was trying to regain his bearings and his breath, Ralic inspected his axe with a sigh.
“Son of a… This is a hereditary weapon you know! Completely priceless in material and in emotional value! Well I’ll just have to talk to some guys to fix it, but still. It’s really thoughtless of you to harm such an important heirloom just because of a battle!”
Slowly dragging himself up by using the wall, Lien looked over at Ralic. The youth still had his casual smirk on his face as he stared at Lien.
“See? I told you that if we fought that you would get hurt. Now you’ve made me draw your blood, and I hope that exchange was enough for you to learn our difference in skill and strength.” Ralic shrugged.
As if to make things worse, whilst Lien was trying to stand back up and regain his strength, the previously harmless roses had grown into massive plants of red and green that towered over Ralic, who was in the centre. As the plants reached their peak, they began to bloom and release a fine mist that slowly enveloped the area around themselves.
“’Every battle is won before it is fought.’ I win not only because I’m stronger, but also because I came prepared. Simple battle tactics you know? All I had to do was plant my seeds in the organic trash before you arrived and wait. You see, these spores will slowly, but surely sap you off all your strength. You won’t die, but it’ll be extremely painful, for you at least. I’m obviously immune to my own attacks. If only you had accepted my offer things wouldn’t be like this.” Ralic explained with a condescending glint in his eye.
Lien was now completely standing albeit by leaning against the wall, but his action only made him cough up another blot of blood. The ground became sprayed in another coating of crimson, but he could at the very least still move. He had rested enough so that he had exited his waiting period, but he could no longer opt to extend the battle. Ralic on the other hand, while weapon-less was still surrounded by his strength-depleting spores. Although by now some of the spores had already attached themselves to Lien and began sucking out his energy like Ralic had told him, it was not at such a rate that Lien would have to worry about for a while.
Breathing in deeply and enduring the pain, Lien sprang into action. By once again focusing on his legs, he sprinted forward leaving behind another afterimage of himself. Gritting his teeth to endure the pain, Lien reappeared behind Ralic with another raised leg. Although by now Ralic had caught onto Liens tactics and turned around to defend himself. Predicting that he would do that, Lien continued his attack except this time he aimed specifically at the weapon. Empowering his already sped-up kick by focusing on its strength, Lien kicked through the weapons tip, completely shattering it into a myriad of pieces. The shockwave itself hurled Ralic far away, smashing him deeply into one of the walls. Whatever Ralic had planned, Lien completely destroyed it alongside the axe.
As the blood from Ralic’s unmoving body ran across the floor, the pain from Lien’s chest finally got the better of him and he doubled over, vomiting over the floor. The spores now completely surrounded him and continued to suck away at his strength. The numbness in his right arm now turned to pain and Lien fell down, collapsed as his consciousness slowly faded away…
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…Upon awakening, Lien found himself back in his apartment with another letter by his bedside. Opening it, it read:
“Very good Subject 11630, although you could have at least tried to win without completely destroying such a valuable weapon you won none-the-less. Congratulations on surviving and look forward to the next time we call you~“
Closing the letter, Lien collapsed back onto his bed and closed his eyes to embrace the warm comfort of his bed and nodded back off to sleep.
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Ralic The Sakura Descendant Character page
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Right out the gate? I guess that's too be expected with the appearance of fresh meat, Ralic silently chuckles to himself as he stares down the behind of the rather ceremonious woman who had just placed a neat dossier in his hands. Round, plump, bulbous, and voluptuous, Ralic nearly sheds a tear as her beautiful figure is consumed by a crowd of busy men and women going about their respective lives.
I've gotta get that thirst under control..., Ralic brushes his brown knuckle against his temple gently as he directs his attention down towards the profile resting tight in his grasp, as if the wind of Stick Page City itself would attempt to swipe it for the sake of its own advantage. Ralic flips open the beige file and examines the details about his first challenger, taking numerous mental notes of the provided strengths and weaknesses without so much as missing a line of information. Especially intrigued with the lore, Ralic can not help but
“Such a tragic story behind this one. Do I put him out of his misery...or spare him and allow