Honestly just my luck that I find hookwolf trying to kill a aisan couple and it's even more my luck that the building that was refused to rubble was connected to the tunnel system that coil uses, I sigh as I roll my shoulder and follow the direction Gaia is pushing me towards because that's most likely where I'll find what's been bugging me since I'd saw the tunnel exit back up topside.
So with a bit of effort I push of the floor while using breath of the insect to massively boost my agility (thunder breathing is all about speed in a straight line while insect breathing boosts all around agility) and start tearing through the tunnels at mach Jesus without making a sound.
Line break
It takes a while to find what I need to but when I do it makes my blood boil more than anything other than rape has. I look at the child strapped to a table currently to drugged up to notice me as I gently push some of Gaia's energy into the young girl to boost her healing and let Gaia help the child mentally. I continue doing that as I effortlessly rip the bindings holding her loose and start walking back the way I came while carrying her and destroying everything I see with sun breathing to cook anything I miss.
I make my way out of the base I painstakingly snuck through without notice while destroying everything with absolute effort meaning that it was so incredibly hot in the tunnels that any normal human would get cooked instantly if I wasn't protecting them like I was for the little girl.
It was much quicker getting out than getting in as I didn't bother with doors or walls and instead chose the direction I came from and burnt a hole back to the entrance I found under the rubble.
I slowly exited out of the tunnel to see police and PRT surrounding the exit and Armsmasters along with miss militia guarding the area, so I raise one of my hands out of the hole to show I'm coming up before I make my way fully up the ladder and back above ground with the child cradled as best I can in my arm with her head in the crook of my neck.
"I found a child in a lab" I spoke clearly and bluntly so they can get the child help soon, "she was being drugged and I took exemption to that" I carefully manoeuver my way over to a free ambulance to lay her gently on the stretcher "I am not aware of the drug used but she was unable to notice me even as I picked her up and the whole trip back to the surface her heartbeat has fluctuated rapidly but I am unaware of why" I continue telling the EMT what I know and what I could see with the see through world of how her body was reacting.
It took a while for me to finish telling the EMT everything I thought would help before I backed away as there wasn't anything I could do for her now, as I stepped back I noticed that both parahumans on site where stood behind me and seemed to want my attention.
"I am sorry for making you wait but the child's health took precedence over anything you could need at that moment" I apologise for making them wait as I move to a large piece of rubble that has my haori sitting on it so I plop next to it in a lotus position.
"How many I help you" I say kindly not at all intending to make more work for the two of them.
"We would like to get a report from you about what happened and why you escalated to lethal force when dealing with hookwolf" that was reasonable so I went about recounting the events leading up to hookwolfs death.
POV change 3rd person
If Hannah was being honest with herself this man freaked her out something fierce, maybe it was the way the man seemed completely calm after killing another human being (then again it's a Nazi and was done in self defence and the defence of others) or even the fact he seems like a genuinely nice polite person, she just couldn't figure out why (it's the absurd amount of Gaia's energy being blasted out of him that nobody is attuned enough to properly feel)
As they continued asking the young man questions she noticed as small old lady hobbling over to them and when the Asian lady arrived she raised her cane and bonked Armsmasters on the head making said man to flinch and for her weapon to flicker into a taser.
"神を放っておけ,お前はブリキ缶だ" she yelled as she bonked Armsmasters on the head again before one of the younger men managed to pull the grandma away.
After a moment of the grandma yelling in more Japanese she thinks and the young man relying back to her in the same language the boy walked over to them to apologise for his grandmother's actions.
"What was she saying" she asked after the boy finished saying he was sorry, the boy took a moment to translate the words before he answered "she was saying and I quote 'leave the kami alone, you tin can'" the boy quietly said.
"And what exactly is a kami as she called the man" that made the boy pause longer as he thought about it "well a kami is quite a few things ranging from a spirit to a full on god linked to either an aspect of the natural world or objects of veneration" that got her wondering why the lady called a very obvious parahumans a kami.
"Do you know why she called him a kami" that question struck the boy almost physically before he answered like they were dumb for asking "because he obviously is" that confused them more as the looked over at the man to see him playing with the kids while passing food that seemed to appear from nowhere to the parents as he passed them.
As the man continued playing with the kids some of the little ones started asking for him to do magic, while the parents seemed both distressed at their children asking something of a kami and relaxed at the requests obviously not offending the kami from the gentle and loving smile on his face the swordsman took a moment to think and decided to indulge the children after their traumatic experience.
So with a few words to the little ones for them to back away and make space the man grasped the hilt of his blade gently and with a over the top display unsheathed the master crafted sword from its home.
"As a reward for allowing me to interact with all of you wonderful people I shall offer you a tribute" so with gentle and slow movements so the children could still se the blade move the man flowed from one action to the next in a stunning display of skill and power as with every move flickers of fire and warmth fluttered about the man and his spectators in mesmerising patterns.