Himiko is running around the continent trying to detect Eithan's presence but can't seem to find him.
She removes her mask and speaks to Kibou telepathically, "Kibou, why do we need to wear these masks when the are human mutants wouldn't they assume we're apart of them?"
Kibou responds, "Well, you see, mutants can detect novana, and when you make yourself other than a human mutant, they just assume you're a part of them. But if you disguise as a human mutant, they'll actually detect your novana for safety measures."
Himiko then breaks her mask. "I'll just hide my novana," she says and cuts contact with Kibou.
Himiko is actually very skilled in controlling her novana; she has absolute control over it, so this doesn't bother her, and mutants will just assume she's part of them.
Himiko runs through the continent and sees a very large army. She ignores the army and goes to find Eithan.
The Cile user glows a yellow aura and wonders, "That mutant human is fast, so I should probably make her a part of my army. And if she rejects, I'll just let the army chase her and brutally kill her."
"Hey, you mutant human! Come over here! I want to see if my army can keep up with you!"
Himiko just ignores the Cile user and runs towards a building.
The Cile then throws a bomb, and the building immediately explodes.
Himiko immediately jumps out of the explosion. Then multiple gunshots, aimed at her, and she immediately backflips and ducks under the bullets.
She lands on the ground and looks back at the Cile army, and notices that the Cile user is gone.
She knows in that instant that she is being a victim, and if she's going to be a victim, she's going to play hide and seek while doing it to the death.
She stops dead in her tracks, and the Cile user appears and says, "You're interesting, but however, I've never seen you around."
Himiko looks at the Cile and knows that this is an Orthodox, but what type of Orthodox?
Now she warps into the battlefield and immediately starts slicing heads off.
The army panics,the mutants are in horror and have no idea on how to track her.
Then Himiko says, "Let's play a fun little game. It's called hide and escape. Whoever manages to be out of my range gets to walk away and sleep well at night. And if I find you, then you will regret even gazing at me. 3... 2... 1... Let's go!"
The soldiers start running, and Himiko is still stoic. She is simply bluffing, but she has the feeling that they can disturb her mission to rescue Eithan, so she decides to actually kill them all.
Himiko then pulls out her fan and another fan which is made out of machetes.
Himiko then goes, "Novana technique: Warp area," and she immediately warps into the air.
She kills the soldiers one by one; no matter where they run or hide, she is there, and she is ready to remove their blood from their bodies.
Himiko runs towards a mutant and cuts it down. She completely hides her presence to the point it's like a non-existent being.
Not a single mutant sees her, senses her, smells her, feels her, or even gets the impression she is there.
Himiko stands on top of a building and breaks through it, already knowing that they are not stupid enough to face her.
She walks downstairs and sees a bunch of mutants killing each other. "I feel like something bad is going to happen," she thinks.
The mutants don't notice her until she kills the leader. The mutants pause, then slowly look at her. They all think she is a mutant human and think she is some other gang leader or drill sergeant.
They all back away, and Himiko looks down at the man who is being tortured, and it is an actual human. Himiko looks at them with hidden disgust, and within three milliseconds
they are gone completely gone, not even a trace of their body.
Himiko grabs the man's head, which is cut off, and starts making a wooden coffin.
She puts the man's body in the coffin, and his head.
The air is unpleasant and dreadful the atmosphere is dark, and there is a figure watching her.
"I already wiped out 95% of your men. What are you even stalking me for?" Himiko says.
The opposing figure says, "Shall I let myself introduce?"
Himiko doesn't reply and just carries the coffin. Then she teleports it into her office. "The problem is that we can't just teleport Eithan back. That's completely impossible because the cell he's in completely denies the iles and novana. But I just wonder how?"
The opposing figure just says, "My name is Resistenza. I am a banished Orthodox, 23 years old. I have the Cile, and I am very carefree."
Himiko just walks past him. "You're not my priority. Get out of my sight."
Resistenza just looks at her and pulls a gun from his pocket and points it at her.
"It's better off if you fight me to the death," Resistenza says in a simple tone.
Resistenza looks at Himiko waiting for her response but Himiko is unfazed and simply walks away.
Resistenza isn't angry, he's delighted and happy.
Resistenza immediately wraps he's arms around Himiko and says "I'll get in the way of your so called mission if you don't kill me"
Himiko stops and looks at him and knows in that moment that this person isn't just one of Zillows servants but one of the only people who don't care about Zillow and don't fear him.
Himiko can't just say Zillow gave me a mission, because Resistanze would just contact Zillow and ask if this is true.
Himiko says "Fine I'll fight you but just know that in this type of dark building I'll be haunting and brutality killing you to death"
"Now let's play" Resistenza said.
Then he's army started falling from the sky and it was over 1 million people all in one building just to stop this one female.
Himiko realizes that the army she fought was simply a projection of them but she doesn't panick instead she's fuming with rage.
Himiko looks at Resistenza and says "I'll be using stealth on you guys try to find me"
Resistenza smiles and agrees.
Himiko vanishes in a flash,it was not like she existed,not even the air managed to keep up with her only gravity was able to keep up with her since gravity moves at the speed of light.
She started killing all of them before they even remember she was threat.
She decided to reveal herself out of pity and then ran to the furthest room.
The mutants chased after her, Himiko thought they would get tired but they won't, they can't accelerating and bam they broke into the room just to see her leaning on the window with a smile.
She killed all of them in minutes. She had already killed one third of the army and at this point Resistenza was loving it.
The army moved faster but Himiko is faster.
The army moves at the speed of sound but for Himiko that's just normal speed.
She uses novana technique: Sybil lash.
The army dissolves into thin air because Himiko is moving so fast that now even gravity is struggling to keep up with her.
Himiko destroys the entire army in a flash with low difficulty.
Resistenza smiles and walks upstairs "Hurry up and fight me" He says.
Himiko attacks him in a blizt,her fan at he's throat but Himiko knew this was merely a projection.She cuts the projections head off and said "reavel yourself coward"
The real Resistenza appeares, walking on wall from upstairs,the sound of he's footsteps are silent and the dust is low.
"You're Cile power seems useless,what's the point of infinite stamina anyways?"
Resistenza simply replies "Acceleration"
Then they fight.
Himiko attacks him but Resistenza simply dodges her attack.
Resistenza backs away a little bit then jumps off the wall and punches Himiko hard in the face.
Himiko skiddles back then vanishes in a flash but Resistenza simply goes "Artificial novana technique: Warp sight"
Then Resistanze senses Himiko behind him and immediately looks back only to get cut from the spine.
Himiko looks at him and walks past him "I'am stronger so you should have seen that by now-"
Before she finishes her sentence, Resistenza kicks her and Himiko skiddles back.
Himiko simply stays calm and says "So this is a battle of speed,fine now let's who's really going to die first."
Himiko and Resistanze attack each other and it's now on.
Himiko kicks him in the face, Resistanze blocks then Himiko stabs him with her fan then knees him to the face.
Resistenza accelerates and shoves Himiko to the wall despite he's injuries.
Himiko bites he's hand and uses her strongest novana technique: Dream in illusion.
This makes her so fast that the opponent is in an illusion and that very same illusion puts them ina dream, detaching them from reality.
Resistenza starts to lose he's mind and is immediately put in an illusion and tries to break it but only for him to get stuck in a dream within that illusion.
He then re lives he's past and Himiko watches him inside he's dream as he re lives he's past.
Resistenza was always a boy with anxiety and wanted to be confident and brave but he couldn't because the fear he had with interacting with people.
He was very sad and anxious all the time, he would believe what people would say and because of this people would manipulated him.
The truth is that mutants come from another planet and Zillow enslaved it so when Zillow saw he had the cile he decided to disillusioned him.
He's anxiety stopped and he become a person with an ego and the seed of cruelty was planted inside of him but something inside him stopped him.
He starts to realize that he was a fool and can't believe that he took this road all for some man who's just a fake.
He saw Himiko watching then saw her past then realize that they're almost the same but different.
Himiko was shy, Resistanze was anxious, Himiko wanted to be an extrovert, Resistanze just wanted company.
Resistenza smiles and says "Himiko correct? can you bring me back to reality there's something i want to head out to you"
He already knew that he was detached from reality and since Himiko had shown to be stronger that means she's the only one who can break it.
Himiko was tired and hurt. Resistenza boosted her stamina and said "My power doesn't make me strong as it seems i can only help allies and myself with it.
Just know that if you kill me there will be another Cile user and that Cile user is probably going to be stronger than me. I was actually holding back since my range is limited to this building.
Himiko you're unique just know that so don't stop being unique and just know that you're leader, Akira he's a cool guy"
Himiko smiled and broke the illusion but Resistenza started to fade.
Himiko's eyes widen and said" Why are you fading?"
Resistenza simply hugged her and said "Since i was detached from reality it means reality doesn't label me as an exist being it labels me as a non existent being. It's not your fault it's my stupidity but just know that you're unique and to never stop living you dumb girl"
Himiko teared up a bit but smiled warmly and just like that Resistenza fades away and the rescue mission continues. Himiko wondered what he wanted to hand out then finds out he handed her a coin.
They were two sides of the same coins people who choose to take their situations differently. So Himiko just smiles and puts it her pocket.