3rd Pov:
Deep within a barren and hostile landscape, the dimension of Mato is where the fruits dubbed peaches that grant females an ability based on their desires but it also contains aggressive creatures named Shuuki and very rarely specific Shuuki with hidden abilities of their own.
Both are very easily identified as Special Shuuki always have a unique appearance and regular Shuuki are black in colour with white masks for faces.
Inside a deep cave, lying in a fetus position was a boy similar to Xicor but has white hair as bright as a full moon and blue eyes that hold defeat and despair, he has no tattoos showing off his face to the world, his face is pale and his body has black crystals growing around him and red lines inside his skin like a parasite reshaping him from the inside.
"Mommy.... Papa... Big Bro" his raspy and hoarse voice called out, "Please.....K-Kill... Me"
The crystals continue to spread across his body like some virus as not too far away a group of scientists monitor the boy, jotting down each little change done to him.
Back in the human world, deep inside a forest far from civilisation.
A boy with sleek back black hair with red eyes and tattoos covering his face, torso and arms, his upper body exposed to the air with the only piece of clothing he has on being blue jeans covering his lower half, sat in a meditative position, his face calm with the sound of the river flowing gently.
Xicor takes a deep and long breath before opening his eyes and opening his template to see his progress with using blood manipulation internally in many ways.
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[Choso Kamo Template: 18% ]
[Cursed Technique: Blood manipulation]
[Speciality: Kyokushin Karate]
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Sighing, he closes the system and gets up and stretches, his bones cracking from sitting for a while, "I need to find a better way of increasing this template before something overpowering attacks me" he muttered to himself.
The clouds above are grey with slight droplets of water, Xicor ignored the droplets of water as something else caught his attention.
Thanks to the nearby wildlife such as rabbits, rats, mice, birds and other animals Xicor had the opportunity to learn to sense presence and test out his increased senses with blood manipulation, with it he can hear heartbeats, footsteps and breathing.
And right now he can faintly hear the crunching of leaves being stepped on like someone stalking prey as well as sensing around 7 presents of high strength.
Narrowing his eyes, Xicor speeds off behind a tree in an attempt to hide from them. Coming out of the brush were 7 female agents scanning the area, they split off inspecting Xicor's stuff and tracks.
"Subject Delta is around here, spread out and notify the rest of us as soon as you see him" one of them barked.
They moved with practised discipline and awareness as the slightest of movements would alert them, Xicor could only use his other senses with his sight to stay hidden, 3 can be heard going left 4 are going right but their exact position is still unknown to him.
'Subject Delta? Is that who I am to them?' Xicor thought angrily, his fingers digging into his palm.
'If I'm Delta then who is Alpha, Beta and Charlie?' He questioned thoughtfully.
He quickly left the thought at the back of his mind for later as he needed to move away from here before more of them came or they eventually found him as that is not an ideal spot to hide from if they are both sides.
Xicor slowly lowered himself to the ground until his belly was touching the ground, he crawled carefully through the ground trying to make as little noise as possible but it was a very difficult task due to how close one of them was.
'I can't take all of them on, they'll easily overpower me' he thought, gritting his teeth in frustration at his own lack of strength.
The women surveyed the air following where each set of Xicor's tracks led and possible places someone would hide.
1st Pov Xicor Samiel:
"Use your peach abilities, we must find him at all costs" the leader yelled out.
Alarmed by the sudden order, I started to panic as they would most certainly find me now. One of them must have a scout ability.
"There's something in those bushes over there" one of them called out.
Damn it!
Quickly jumping up, I coat my hand in cursed energy and swipe the tree, cutting it clean before kicking it at the agents before dashing off.
Hopefully that gave me a little bit of a head start as I don't know how long I will keep running but the fact that I am being actively hunted by these people is alarming.
Running through the forest in a random direction, I can hear them closing in, my speed is not fast enough to get away so I'll be forced to fight and continuing to run will tire me out.
I skid to a halt and dash to the closest one, bursting through the bush I land a right hook into her face and send her crashing into a tree but she quickly recovers and uses a whistle to call the others before I could stop her but I did land another hit into her stomach and destroying the whistle with my other hand by crushing it.
Quickly jumping back, a blue whip went between me and the agent. The blue whip wrapped itself around a tree. Another whip went past me from behind wrapping around another tree, following where they came from, I was immediately hit by a pair of boots sending me into some bushes.
Gritting my teeth, I spit out some blood in my hand that managed to form in my mouth. I used the blood I spat out to create a small needle before covering it in cursed energy as I threw it at the woman who kicked me.
The blood needle managed to strike the centre of her palm, my body blurred in front of her and land a hit into her side before I was forced to retreat as a woman with a sword for an arm slashed down where I was before something was wrapped around my ankle and I was smashed against a tree, destroying it.
"Don't kill him, our orders are to take him alive" someone shouted.
"Flowing red scale" I muttered under my breath as I felt my body tense significantly and my senses boost.
I was immediately behind the furthest one, being the one with the blue whips. I kicked high, hitting her arm and sending her out of sight in the forest. I caught a blade between my hands as I stared deep into the woman with swords and hands.
I redirected her blade to the side as I launched my fist directly into her stomach, infused with cursed energy. She froze on the spot as I pulled back my fist before she collapsed on her knees and onto her side.
Before I could go after the other 2 I was promptly kicked in the back, sent rolling across the ground. Despite having flowering red scale active I could sense her so she will be troubling.
I will need to be careful, I coated my hands to my elbow in hardened blood. I will have to use blood in more close quarters and self improvements, even just a single drop of my blood is important.
"Subject Delta, surrender now or we will be forced to subdue you by force" the woman who kicked me shouted as the rest came out of the forest behind her.
Shit, this is a losing battle. I'm outnumbered and they have more power than me due to the training and discipline they have received but instead of feeling hopeless and despairing.
I'm excited, the adrenaline rushing through my body and the prospect of the power I could farm from this is so overwhelming that I almost lost my sense of reason but I did laugh hysterically.
I haven't felt this way when I clutched a 4 versus 1 on a game and that was such an amazing feeling that it's repeating itself before I even won.
Once my laughter calmed down, the silence was long and loud. Not one person spoke or moved, just stared wearily.
"Surrender?" I spoke out, breaking the silence, "I don't know the first thing about surrender!" I screamed out as my body blurred and so did the leader.
Our fists met as our blurred bodies connected. We exchanged fists and kicks, the leader's experienced and trained movements clashed against instinct and adaptability.
I thrusted my fist at her shoulder but she caught my wrist, my instincts alerted me to incoming danger as I used all my strength to twist both the leader around and me.
The leader was struck by a rock the size of a football, gritting her teeth from the pain, she lifted my wrist above before letting go and kicking me in side before my ankle was grabbed by a blue whip and swung into a tree.
I felt the wetness of blood on my forehead, I needed to focus on those people with ranged attacks but the close combat ones will most certainly interfere.
My first target was the woman who uses the blue whips, I rushed forward to her before I was intercepted by the leader as her arms transform into iron gauntlets, she brought her arms up as she took my strike that was infused with cursed energy at the last minute, she held up but the crack of her gauntlets and the wobble of her body say otherwise.
Smirking, I infused cursed energy into my leg and kicked her in the side. Her body was sent tumbling against the ground until she crashed into a tree.
I focused back on the blue whip woman before I quickly tilted my head back and to the side as a blue whip went past. I grabbed it and yanked it towards me as the woman's stomach went into my fist causing her to spit saliva and drop limply on the ground, that's 2 down.
I ducked under a rock that was sent at my head, I looked over at the culprit to find a girl behind a bush as she repositioned herself and fired another and I dodged that one as well.
I clap my hands together as blood converged in my palms, "Convergence, Piercing Blood"
A beam of blood with an arrow tip was shot from between my hands, the girl had little time to react until the beam went through her shoulder.
Before I could switch targets, I was hit in my side and a second later on the forehead, I quickly jumped back before a foot connected to my cheek. Gritting my teeth, I grabbed the person's ankle and pulled back so they fell to the ground before I launched my fist, infused with cursed energy, straight into her chest.
I raise my forearm and quickly apply cursed energy reinforcement as an iron fist connected into it. My body skidded across the ground as I stood straight.
Slowly lowering my arm, I glare at the agent's leader. Her breathing was heavy showing signs that she's likely pushing her limit maybe or the weight of the gauntlets is slowing her since I noticed a slight decrease in her speed once she had them equipped.
Breathing heavily, my vision begins to fade a little signalling to me that I'm nearing my own limit. My blood gauntlets begin to crack before shattering as my control wavers.
Shit, I lower my control blood to a steady stream so I can stay conscious longer, but that will force me to switch my focus from internal problems and the problem in front of me.
Gritting my teeth, I push cursed energy into my legs and speed off behind the agent's leader. If only I had more control over my blood and a grown-up body I could fight more effectively but this will be a lesson for next time.
My elbow connected into the leader's spine before I grabbed her arms and threw her at a woman who was about to call for backup.
Their bodies connected with the leader's now unconscious body on top of the non-combatant. I tried to run but was shot in the shoulder, sending jolts of pain through my body.
Glancing at the culprit, I spot the last 2 agents both having pistols aimed at me, ready to fire if I try anything.
"Don't move subject Delta" one of them calmly said, a little confident for my liking.
"That ain't my damn name" I hissed, holding my wound as I concentrated my blood manipulation to stitch it up but I need to buy time so I can fix it to an acceptable level.
"Still though, you will come with us whether you like it or not" the other said as they stepped closer.
Thankfully, the bullet went through me so it won't get stuck inside me and cause other problems so I don't need to worry about anything.
Luckily the blood that was pouring out of my arms flowed on the floor as well as on my palm. Smirking, I cover my hand in blood and send a blood slash and simultaneously launching blood spikes from the blood on the floor in front of me.
The girls jumped out of the way of the attacks but one was scratched by the blood slash, distracting her with her injury for me to blitz forward and land my knee into her face as her nose sprayed blood.
I quickly landed on the ground and sped off behind a tree as bullets went past me. Now is my chance to escape, I coat my hand again in cursed energy and slice the tree I was behind and throw it at the injured agent and the other agent shooting at me after the barrage of bullets stopped.
I didn't look back as I ran off with every bit of cursed energy I have left into my legs as well as pumping blood into my brain to keep me awake.
I'm pushing my body way beyond its limits but hopefully it was worth it for the template to have risen a lot.
The sky above was now in the beginning stages of darkness, I was forced to stop as my legs gave in, my body rolled forward until I was lying on the muddy ground on my stomach, breathing fast and heavy.
I don't know how much time had passed but a few minutes of rest wouldn't hurt, right?
Just a little bit of rest.
I didn't care about the cold rain hitting my body and the pain I was still in, all I needed was just a few minutes of sleep.
I faintly heard the rustle of leaves but I had no strength left to even move or open my eyes, I was utterly exhausted.
I then heard a gasp and the voice of a distressed child, "Mama, come qui..." The voice died out as my consciousness slipped away.