Above the Catastrophe, Senzo was sweating bullets with wounds all over his body, but the weakened Hyoubu was completely unharmed.
"Urg."
Senzo groaned while cracking his neck; his clothes had lots of small and large cuts, and blood was dripping down, staining them as well.
But Senzo's eyes were confident and defiant as ever; he would come out victoriously no matter what!
"S-Senzo, please, go to the others and just leave me here," Hyoubu weakly pleaded.
But Senzo was having none of it, and he just shook his head at Hyoubu's words.
He didn't need any words; his actions would be the answer.
With a smirk on his face, he braced himself for another wave of bombs and suicide drones, but then he suddenly heard something that caught his attention.
"SENZO!!"
"Hmm?" his head turned sharply as he focused all his senses on the place where he had heard that male voice scream his name, and what he saw left him boiling inside.
"..."
Yugiri was about to be loaded up in a helicopter together with a barely conscious Sophie, and Andy lay opposite them with a wound on his shoulder. Then his senses swept across the whole ship, and his last bit of restraint just snapped.
Momotaro lay there unconscious while Magi, Momiji, and Yo were running around with all the kids trying to evade the guards and make it to a safe space.
"Wh... What have I been doing all this time?" Senzo muttered as he stared at his hands, which were clenched tightly into fists.
"I was so confident that I could monitor everything while protecting Hyoubu, but in the end I didn't notice any of that until he screamed my name?"
A tear fell from the corner of his eye as his earlier relaxed attitude was gone; instead, he was boiling with pure, unfiltered rage.
Aimed at not only the USEI soldiers but also himself for being so conceited, he had even vowed to himself that he wouldn't do that anymore just a couple hours ago, but here he was making the exact same mistake.
But that wasn't the most important part right now; he needed to rescue Yugiri and Sophie and get the Catastrophe with the children to safety as fast as possible.
"How dare you all hurt them like that!" he growled as his expression darkened.
Hyoubu could feel the change in Senzo's demeanor, and recognized it was similar to his own rage when he'd heard that voice on the intercom.
But stopping that right now would only hinder the rescue of everyone, so he could only grit his teeth and hope Yugiri or Sophie could get through to him so he didn't destroy everything.
Please don't make the same mistake as me, Senzo.
Senzo felt like something had unlocked inside him, as all he wanted to see was the absolute destruction of the USEI's forces; he couldn't care less about them at this moment.
"You all will suffer for what you've done," he stated, and a moment later it happened.
His powers went haywire; everything with him as the center completely froze in place. And with a single look, all the drones simply imploded, but not with any grand explosions; no, they just vanished from sight.
"I don't have time to deal with this nonsense anymore," Senzo said casually as he and Hyoubu vanished from sight and appeared next to Andy a second later.
***
"W-What just happened!?" a man demanded aboard the largest USEI ship; he looked to be 80 or 90 years old with scars all over his face.
"We have no idea, sir," the soldiers echoed in unison, their mouths agape at the sight that had just transpired in front of them.
"..."
The old man's expression darkened as he was deep in thought. Oh, Hyoubu, how dare you escape from my grasp once again, but don't worry, I will kill you with my own hands, and that will happen today.
A sinister smile crossed his face, terrifying all the other soldiers, who quickly turned their heads and went back to their assigned tasks.
***
Senzo stood next to Andy, glaring at all the soldiers in front of them with such a chilling look that the soldiers started sweating buckets, but the moment he saw Sophie and Yugiri's faces, he knew what had to happen.
With a single step he appeared in between the two, and all the soldiers became blood mist.
"You guys are lucky that I'm in a hurry," he said, with a deadpan expression as both helicopters also imploded without a sound.
One second they stood there, and the next they were gone; no sound, no warning—they just vanished.
But Senzo didn't care in the slightest; he just carefully took Yugiri out of the mechanical pod and put her in Sophie's arms, whom he was carrying in a princess carry.
"Are you okay, Sophie?" he asked, his voice full of concern.
"I'm fine, but they roughed Yugiri up quite a bit," Sophie explained as she looked at the raging Senzo. She was taken aback by how brutal he could be as her eyes darted between the blood clouds and the expressionless Senzo.
"What? What did you just say?"
The moment Senzo heard that, it was like time had stopped. Have I failed her again? Even after promising her?
"How dare they," was all he muttered.
When suddenly the whole catastrophe started violently trembling under the increasingly impossible amounts of pressure Senzo was emitting, but he had to keep his head at least a little rational, or he would annihilate everyone, not only the USEI forces.
In less than a second, Senzo had put Sophie and Yugiri next to Hyoubu and Andy, and now he stood right in front of the director.
"Any last words?"
But before the director could say anything, Senzo turned him into paste.
"S-Senzo, please calm down now," Sophie said, while clearing her throat.
He was clearly enraged right now, but doing too much was also not good.
And she hoped he would just get them out of here already before wiping out the whole fleet down the line; that would only bring about more issues after all.
But Senzo just kept walking forward until he stood at the edge of the deck; as he took a good look at all the ships surrounding the Catastrophe, something just snapped, and he flashed a smirk.
"Perfect."
Then he just snapped his fingers, and massive spears of water formed all around the Catastrophe, and with a single wave of his arm, he shot them toward all the ships from the USEI; it looked like he wanted to wipe them all out for good.
***
"What the hell is that!?" someone atop the massive ship screamed while pointing at the massive spears of water that were coming straight for them.
"..."
Silence followed as nobody had any idea what the hell was going on anymore; this was supposed to be a big but simple operation to recover a very important machine, but now they were under attack?
"Retreat! Retreat immediately!"
Then panic erupted across all the ships as everyone was running around like headless chickens trying to get the ships to turn, while some fast thinkers just jumped off the ships hoping to dodge the massive water spears.
Boom! Kaboom! Massive explosions followed as, one after another, each and every ship was hit without mercy, leaving holes everywhere as the sea started coloring a light red from all the blood that was being spilled.
One after another they started sinking faster than they should have, so no one could prepare any of the rescue rafts on time, and they just all jumped into the water, but most of them, even before landing in the water, just turned into paste.
Senzo was showing absolutely no mercy as he had turned his powers into absolute killing machines; with just a glance everyone in his vision turned into blood paste, and he pulled the ships down to the bottom of the ocean by multiplying their weight by thousands of times.