3rd Pov:
Inside a cave, deep within the dimension of Mato, the campfires flames illuminate two figures staring at each other, one with caution, the other in amusement and interest.
The woman stared at the Xicor, keenly taking in his every feature almost like she's plastering his form inside her brain permanently.
Xicor, also stared at the woman while simultaneously thinking of ways he could get out but at best they would end in failure if he already failed to sense this woman.
Xicor took a second to take in her features, if he made a move the possibility of him getting killed would rise so he'll play along whatever this woman has in store for him.
The woman takes her soon takes her eyes off him, finally taking in what he looks like, before looking at the two soup bowls on the floor near the still flickering fire.
"Are going to pass me your cooking, the one you prepared for both of us?" She asked with a tilt of her head as her smile grows slightly.
Xicor releases a breath he was holding in before cautiously picking up one of the bowls of soup, never taking his eyes off the woman, before passing her the bowl.
The woman grasped the bowl, not before letting her fingers touch Xicor's in mischief, wanting to test his reactions.
Xicor blinked a few times from the contact before awkwardly moving back to his bowl and sitting down, facing the woman.
The woman ignored his attention and tasted the soup. As soon as the hot soup entered her mouth, she was in bliss. She let the flavour satisfy her before swallowing before letting out a breath of satisfaction.
She was completely engrossed in the food that she completely forgot that there was someone in front of her.
'I guess she likes it' Xicor commented mentally.
Xicor silently enjoyed his own portion but as he swallowed his first consumption, the woman thrusted her bowl in front of him, startling him slightly.
"More please" she said with a happy grin and beaming eyes.
Xicor blinked a few times, not expecting someone who would be able to kill him without him even noticing.
Awkwardly, he took the bowl and scooped some more up from the pot, before he could pass it to her it was immediately snatched out of his hands and super speed.
He sighed and just enjoy his own portion before she asked for more. This repeated for several times before the pot became empty as the woman groaned and flopped on his bed.
"So" Xicor started, "can you explain who you are and your purpose here is"
The woman sat up right and coughed a few times, "Oh right yes, I came here to meet the first man with abilities to enter Mato and even call it home"
Her eyes bore into floor like it offended her, "if it were any of those females of your kind, I would have my fun with them for eating what belongs to Mato, damn thieves"
She lifted her gaze towards his crimson eye as her features soften, "but you are not like those females, you don't kill for fun, rather for survival and for greater heights for strength because you despise being weak, like any living creature"
She tilted to the side again with her knuckle supporting her cheek, more interested than interrogating "you don't touch the peaches even if you're desperate for the power it gives, you still stick to your own, why?"
"Because I take great pride in my own strength and curious to know where the end goal of it is" Xicor answered.
"Ah~ so this is your own power from earth?" She questioned, "can other humans gain this strange energy of yours?
"No and I believe it was lost to time" Xicor lied.
"So you're the only one who can use it?" the woman asked.
"Unfortunately" Xicor replied, "again, who are you?"
Her simile widens as she crosses her arms under her chest and puffs it out, "I am Shikoku, one of the eight gods of thunder here in Mato"
She goes into a more relaxed position as she stares at Xicor, "and now it's your turn to give me your name"
"I am Xicor, just a human running away from women for who knows what" Xicor said sighing tiredly at thought of the women still hunting him down.
"Do you have a general idea on why?" Shikoku asked curiously, trying to prod as much information as possible.
"The best I could guess is some science experiment as they kept calling me subject delta" he replied.
Shikoku hummed, "how did a human like you end up here? Did they throw you in here to see how long you would survive?" She asked cautiously.
"No, I came here on my own, one, to escape a world where I'm just constantly running and two, to grow my power in secret and find out why I am so special for them as well as to fight strong people to push me to my limits" he answered honestly.
'Him and Naruhime would get along' she thought amusedly, "By fighting the Shuuki?" Shikoku questioned.
"Honestly, yeah" Xicor replied as it would be difficult to get out of this lie.
"Don't worry of me getting angry over that" she waved her hand as she giggled, "I experiment with them and send them to the demon defence forces to test their strengths, so I'm not better than a murder or worse"
'Has she come to experiment on me?' Xicor thought.
As he was about to question her, Shikoku's laughter echoed in the cave, "ah~ your reactions are so cute and funny" she continued to laugh.
Xicor rolled his eye at her, "yeah, yeah laugh it up"
Soon she stops laughing and eyes his body more deeply, his scar over his injured eye as well as the numerous scars all over his body.
She stares at each scar, mentally guessing they were from Shuuki before her eyes land on his own. His eyes held the tiredness of someone who hasn't slept well, determination towards to achieving greater strength and survival.
'I still don't understand why humans would reject someone like him, who would be a great asset for them' Shikoku thought before her smile grew, 'I guess I may just thank them for this gift'
"Well, now that my curiosity is satisfied, I want to know more about where you came from" she said getting off the bed and sit down next to Xicor, not taking her eyes off him.
"But first" she said before placing a hand on the scar over his eye as black slime covered the left side of his face.
This alarmed Xicor greatly as he flinched upon the contact as well as Shikoku appearing next to him but his anxiety ceased when he felt a warm and soft sensation over the left side of his face.
Soon the black slime went back into Shikoku's hand but she didn't pull back, wounding how he feels. She removes her hand from his face and examine her work.
The scar over his eye is gone, Xicor slowly opened his left eye and let it adjust to the light before opening it fully. It was slightly blurry but his vision is coming back.
His hand hovered over his once unusable eye, 'It's healed, I can see more better now' he thought before looking back at the purple haired goddess.
"Think of it as a reward for giving me that delicious soup" she said with a slight giggle.
"Thanks" was all Xicor said, unsure on how to respond.
He got up and walked over to his shelf of books, 'I guess I'll start with animals' he thought as he picked out a book and sat back down with Shikoku, she scooted over slightly with their thighs touching but both didn't care as Xicor explained each animal in the book with Shikoku listening and eyeing each picture of the named animal.
2 hours later:
Shikoku stretches as she lets out relaxed hum, "that was a great reading session, I will anticipate the next now we will have and maybe you will tell me more about those mythical creatures you said like those dragons you imagined as well as those dinosaurs that came before you humans" she said as began to sink into her shadow.
"Bye~ bye~ Xicor" she waved before blowing a kiss and a wink.
Xicor stared at the spot she vanished through, "come back next time" he hoped.
He continued to stare at the same spot, hoping she will return in a moment but no matter how much he stared and hoped, she never returned.
Sighing he got up from his spot and put the book back where it belong and began to clean up his bowls, the fire has already been put so there's no need for extra warmth.
Once he finished with everything, he lied down on his bed, staring at the ceiling. The image of Shikoku repeatedly entered his mind, the way she laughed, the way she commented about him, she was someone who didn't see him as something else.
He attempted to let sleep overtake his form but no matter how much he tried he couldn't, 'I'll just get rid of some steam' he thought as he got up and walked towards the entrance of his home, not before placing his mask over his face.
Leaping out of the cave, Xicor searches through the barren land before spotting his targets. A group of 7 Shuuki travelling on along a cliffs edge.
Xicor leaped up high and levitated up in the sky before blood sipped out of the tattoo's on his cheek bones, they formed into two swirling balls of blood.
"slicing exorcism" he muttered as the balls of blood zipped down towards the, the blood balls pierced through two of the Shuuki's head before splitting into two small ones each as they too went through the Shuuki's head, leaving only one standing.
The last Shuuki backed up from the corpses of its kin, it was about to run away but a beam of blood shot through its chest as the light in its eyes turn dark.
The body of the demon fell forward. Landing heavily on the ground behind the group was Xicor, walking through the corpses he doesn't spare a second glance at them and continues on.
He picked a random rock from the ground, about the size of a football. Xicor used his anti-gravity technique to make it levitate above his palm, slowly increasing the template more and more.
'Should I trust that god' Xicor thought, thinking back his time with Shikoku, 'is she just milking me for information and then after she grows tired of me she'll probably cast me aside or just experiment on me, like all scientists when they see something they want to fully understand'
He shook his head, 'this will probably be my only chance at having a decent conversation with someone and I'm already thinking they want to bloody turn me into a monster'
He used his other hand to rub down his face, trying to wash away the inner voices constantly whispering in his mind of all the possible cons with Shikoku.
The sound of groans alerted him to something, glancing down the cliff he spot a trio of Shuuki surrounding something he can't identify.
The rock above Xicor's hand dropped to his palm before he poured cursed energy into it and throw it towards them.
The rock plummeted into the back of a Shuuki, causing smoke to kick up and a shockwave that push the others away.
"Change" Xicor mumbled under his breath.
He then form a hand sign with one of his hands as cursed energy covered his hand, "Ryu" he called out as a Chinese dragon shout from his hand and grew in size as headed directly towards the Shuuki.
Ryu sank its teeth into one of the dazed demon's and violently rip off his head and devour it before ramming its head into the last one and smash it into the wall.
Ryu reeled back and completely envelop its head, its snake like body whipped around in a savage frenzy. The Shuuki used its hands to scratch and beat helplessly.
Ryu soon increased the pressure as it crushed its head as green blood spurted from between its teeth as some flowed down the demons body.
All of it was done like an out of control beast but it was effective and quick. Xicor de-summoned Ryu as the system popped up in front of him.
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[Ino Takuma Template: 100% ]
[Cursed Technique: Auspicious Beast Summon]
[Speciality: None]
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[Kaori Itadori Template: 76 - 77% ]
[Cursed Technique: Antigravity System]
[Speciality: None]
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[Congratulations for Reaching 75% on a Template]
[Reward:
[+1 Template roll]
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Without wasting a second he used the roll immediately. Xicor has never stopped using the ant-gravity system once Ino's template was fully done after fighting that combines Shuuk for the entire time he had a gravity barrier around him that constantly drained his cursed energy as well as increase the template at a steady pace but the more heavier the object is the more it fast it increases.
Like back at the fight with giant Shuuki its weight was greater and the more Xicor held it up the faster his template went up.
With the numerous boulders and rubble around him, it was constant battle of how long he can keep the technique active before he runs out of cursed energy.
But this has become something of an assist in his cursed energy control as each time his reservers almost deplete and fuel back up, he slowly learns to reduce the cost of technique and this goes towards the others as well.
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While it rolls, Xicor jumps down to ground below and inspects what the Shuuki were crowding. There lying on the ground was an unrecognisable form of a person with the only signs it being a person being the red stains of blood as well as the scattered pieces of clothing.
He inspected the site more to find a damaged wallet a few feet an away with a black trench coat in almost good condition with the only signs of damage being slight rips but overall, its wearable.
Xicor puts on the trench coat so it doesn't fly away by the winds of Mato before inspecting the wallet. Inside we're good amount of cash but here it's only good for a fire starter so he takes the papered cashes before checking the ID of the dead persons wallet.
On the ID card is a man in his early 30s but his name is scratch out, making it impossible to make out so he throws it away.
With nothing else useful in the wallet he tosses it aside, "rubbish" he spat out before opening his system to see what he got.
Xicor's eyes widen in glee as a massive grin was plastered on his face, "it's about time I got something with some destructive abilities" he laughed out.
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[Jogo Template: 0% ]
[Cursed Technique: Disaster Flames]
[Speciality: Fire resistance]
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His laugh echoed up into the upper parts of the cliffs above that he didn't care if any Shuuki even saw him. Xicor removed his mask and summoned a flame in the palm of his hand as he stared at with the blaze of chaos reflecting in his eyes.
"Watch out scientists, I've got more fire power than you realise, I wonder how well I can do against the demon defence forces now?"