Taking advantage of the students' break, Nobaru set out on her special level secret mission.
Upon arriving at a dense forest, she began to inhale a repulsive smell of rotting flesh.
"What a horrible smell! The deeper I go into the forest, the worse it stinks," Nobaru thought.
The Horror of the UMI Clan
Nobaru soon saw the source of the stench: the UMI Clan.
The UMI Clan was one of the most powerful families, controlling a vast network of kidnappings, extortion, prostitution, and drug trafficking.
They were one of the "Parallel Clans," powerful and unprincipled families who did not follow Oki's original teachings. Oki, for these clans, was seen not as a divinity, but as a perverse being who should remain sealed.
The UMI sect was known to be extremely dangerous. They raised humans to make them suffer intensely, and then brutally killed them. The goal: when a human dies in a state of extreme suffering, an Elite Osmo emerges from them. The UMI Clan was formed to be composed entirely of these Elite Osmos, the strongest and most evolved.
Nobaru saw several dead humans being thrown into a hole. Cars and more cars unloaded bodies, treating them like pigs. Nobaru watched the scene, hidden behind a tree.
"NO!" Her whisper was a sound of icy horror. That stench was not just of rotting flesh; it was of contempt for life. "Scum! I will... I will stop this! I WILL STOP THIS NOW!"
Gash, the head of the UMI family, appeared. Although he was only fifteen years old, he possessed brutal strength, the result of the childhood training imposed by his parents. He assassinated his own parents to become the new clan head. Gash was a sick child, whose laugh paralyzed even the soul, a child without an ounce of compassion.
He spoke with one of his favorite prostitutes:
"I'll do anything," the prostitute said.
"Really?" Gash asked, with his cold smile.
"Yes."
"Then let me kill you," he replied.
His contempt for human life was abominable. Gash took a knife and plunged it into the woman's head. The Osmo left the body, taking the form of a weak and pathetic fox.
"Even your Osmo is trash," he commented.
Gash sensed Nobaru's presence.
"Beautiful Nobaru, why don't you join us? Looking hidden is wrong, you know?"
Nobaru stepped out from behind the tree. Her eyes, previously tense, were now two flames of fury.
"Excuse my rudeness. Seal Break!"
Nobaru SHOT forward, trying to cut Gash's neck with a quick and lethal blow. He dodged and laughed, the sick laughter echoing.
"Your strength is incredible, my beautiful Nobaru. I think it's even stronger than mine."
"Thank you," Nobaru replied, her laugh loaded with pure contempt.
"Would you accept working at my brothel? I would make you my special lady."
"That's very kind, but no. I already got a job," Nobaru refused.
"Too bad."
Gash's henchmen joined together to kill Nobaru.
"I would even let you live, but you saw too much. Now you know the UMI Family's plan, and no one can know yet. Seal Break!" Gash opened his dimension.
"Running away?"
"No, of course not. I'm going to leave these three to kill you. If you survive, come after me," Gash disappeared.
"YOU BASTARD!" Her scream echoed through the forest, a primal roar that silenced even the birds.
"I WILL FIND YOU! I WILL KILL YOU AND EVERY MEMBER OF THIS CLAN! I SWEAR IT BY THE SOUL OF EVERY VICTIM YOU DESTROYED!"
Gash's servants — Shiba, Minuki, and Cute Cat — advanced.
"Miss Nobaru, how would you like to be killed? I can make art with your body. I can break all your bones and make a beautiful sculpture. It would be magnificent," Cute Cat said, with psychopathic enthusiasm.
Shiba ATTACKED, holding Nobaru from behind.
"Are you enjoying it, my love? No use trying to escape," Shiba said.
Shiba's body changed shape; he kept wrapping around Nobaru.
"This is my secret technique. The more you try to run, the more my body wraps around yours and injects small paralyzing needles, cutting off all your body's functions until death. Don't you think it's fun to die with a handsome man?" Shiba grabbed her nipple.
Minuki appeared in front of Nobaru and delivered an IMPACT KICK to her stomach. Nobaru FLEW far and SKIDDED across the dirt, coughing up blood.
"My body is getting stiff, my vision is failing in one of my eyes, and the other is completely sightless!
" Nobaru murmured, BUT IT WAS NO LONGER OUT OF HORROR, BUT OF DAMAGE ASSESSMENT.
She was wounded, but her focus was like a laser.
"This poison will kill me in an hour.
My body will stop moving in 20 minutes. I will be completely blind in 25 minutes."
Nobaru clenched her fists into the muddy dirt. Blood streamed from her mouth, mixed with the rage rising in her throat.