Upon Vina's insinuation that he was a member of the gentry after seeing his actions speak for themselves, he momentarily adverted her gaze, tilting his head in the opposite direction. With a somewhat embarrassed face, he began caressing the bottom of his cheek with his left index finger in a nervous fashion.
Riiight, well.....lets just say.....I have quite the notorious reputation. I guess formally being the "Black Duke" of Astorea will have that effect.
He than remembered what Vina had said about herself, that being she was no lady. That instantly made him remember his first love and the ways she used to act. He found himself laughing a bit again before he finally turned to Vina with a half hearted, suggestive smile.
Well not all ladies need to fit the stereotype of being prim and proper, though one should know when to draw the line.
He said that with a tone of experience. Having experienced politically arranged marriages and alliances, both in this world and even the other, he had a pretty good idea how a daughter or woman of prestige or nobility should and would act, and how far they could go before breaking the so called rules. He couldn't say that for Michiko but she was a different breed entirely.
Your most welcome.
He mused in a sincere demeanor, though as things usually went, he soon found himself interrupted by the mischievous voice that was the Grand Witch, whom would than go on to remind the two that she was still in dire need of sweets. Though he would make a internal sigh at her request, he found himself agreeing with Vina. He had never heard of chocolate covered mushroom's, sugar coated apples or candy flavored steak but he was sure it wasn't pleasant. For once however, he did find himself agreeing with Majolica, If only because him and Vina had already come to a understanding of sorts. He wasn't looking forward to her picking his brain but that was a worry for later. Everything changed however when his ears heard the beginning of a sweet llullaby escape from vina's lips. Once it reached his own, he found himself tilting his head in her direction. When their eyes gazed upon each other, she reassured the two she wouldn't be left behind, citing she had something up her sleeve. She said that but he was undoubtedly skeptical given how fast he could move. At first, he was undoubtedly skeptical, given how fast he could move potentially, but that view point quickly changed when she returned to her llullaby, this time enriching it as a ever growing whirlwind continued to take shape around her.
As a consequence, his eyes lit up as he stood there, watching as her hair flickered through the wind, her hips swaying to the left than the right. If he was a lesser man, one that was seeped in the carnal pleasures of the body like the many younger players out there, he too would find himself captivated by her beauty, and wanting more. Fortunately, he held enough willpower to look away, to hide his eyes from such a beauty. By the time he had regained the confidence to return his gaze on the vixen, he found himself being offered a rope that looked to be imbued with vines? He wasn't sure what to make of it but after everything he had seen in this world, this was far from the strangest thing he had seen so far. If anything, he found his eye's blinking at Vina as she hovered above the ground, sitting comfortably above the whirlwind she had created for herself. If that wasn't bad enough, while she continued her beautiful lullaby, he could feel powerful gusts of winds swirling behind him, very gently pushing him in the direction he was already going. Normally he would be a tad shocked in a situation like this but now wasn't the time to be a gawking monkey or start questions, rather he kept to his serious persona he was famous for. Wrapping the rope tightly around his waist, any by extension, his white yukata, he turned his attention to Majolica.
This might tingle a bit.
Taking his eyes off Majolica and on the cobblestone road, he proceeded to twist his neck to his left than to it's right, causing a series of faint cracking like sounds to appear. It had been four years since he had traveled at the speed of sound but It didn't concern him. Despite being rusty, he was sure he could handle it. He began by controlling his breathing, to slow his intake and out, to better focus. Next came the closure of his eyes as to prevent his focus from lingering on the unnecessary. If there was a threat, Vina or Majolica could handle it. From there, as his mind began delving into the depth's of his own body, and by extension, the constant streams of energy that flowed through his body, he continued, first having his subconscious bring it all together. Once he gathered as much as he could without bringing risk to his mind and/or body, he changed it's very nature & shape to meet his needs before finally, rupturing it at the surface. After a full minute of silence, his entire body found itself engulfed in a faint aura of electricity with a continuous series of feeble lightning bolts spewing from his eyes. Flashing said eyes open, he gave Vina one last look from the edges, giving her a nod to tell her It was time.
Quickly turning his complete attention back on the cobblestone road, he immediately lowered himself to that of a track starting position. For a few seconds afterwards, he remained motionless as he made further refinement of his breathing control When he deemed himself ready, and without warning, he fired himself forward, triggering a sonic boom in the process, causing a tremendously loud, thunderous like sound while all the tree's in the immediate vicinity began to tear and shake violently. In a instant, he found himself flung at blinding speeds, so much so he took on the appearance of a white thunderbolt to the untrained eye. Along with his "new" appearance, his reflexes immediately kicked in at the same time as hundreds, possibly thousands of obstacles came at him all at once. Remembering his training and the countless experiences he had witnessed, he instinctively leaped, bent, weaved and tilted his head & body to dodge the countless obstacles that instantaneously came at him, some only by millimeters, as he blasted through the various forests after leaving the initial cobblestone road they were. Despite this achievement however, having achieved a speed comparable to a fighter jet in the other world, this was NOT fast enough, nor was he anywhere near his full potential. Making a smirk, It was time to try out his mastery over time itself, ever so curious how much faster he could make himself.
When the moment came when he cleared a forest, with one hand, he clamped down on Majolica's body with even greater superhuman strength while with the other, he forced a small white, glyph like circle to appear, which in response, triggered a even larger, white like glyph like circle to appear. Obviously unable to stop, not that was his objective, he instantly blasted into the center of the circle, causing the three to temporary enter a mirror dimension of the world, but when they did, they had found time had came to a exact stand still besides themselves whom were still traveling at the average speed of a fighter jet. Despite this new revelation, having never used this ability before, he was entirely too focused on his current objective, as well as keeping his holding over Majolica for dear life to give it any thought. He also very much doubted either one had the reflexes to comprehend what was happening, given the usual human limitation of the body and mind. With the palm of his free hand still risen, he quickly opened a portal before blasting through that one as well. When he ruptured back into reality a moment later, he entered in at even greater speed than before, triggering a even larger, more powerful sonic boom than the initial, causing any tree's in the immediate vicinity to be torn from their resting spot in the ground. As he bursted forward however, a small black like sphere suddenly appeared where he had entered reality. There was momentarily a concern for what that was but he couldn't daddle on that, especially not now that he was now going a fourth faster than he had been going previously. Removing the thought entirely from his mind, he kept his sole focus on repeatedly more of the same, wanting to increase his speed even further than what It was now. Over the span of only five or six seconds, he opened several time portals to enter, to somehow gain even more speed before blasting back into reality, creating a ever increasingly powerful sonic boom on each reentry. Along with that however, with each reentry back into reality, the black sphere's came larger, more intensive and stronger in terms of density until they started creating small craters in the ground beneath them.
It became apparent that by manipulating time so much in such a short period of time, he was inadvertently causing damage to the time continuum but he quite literally had no time to focus on that. Blasting through the final portal at hyper speeds even he had difficulties in keeping up with, he found himself utterly shocked, horrified even when he found the dimension he entered shattering like a mirror into countless, miniature fragments that looked like crystals or pieces of broken glass. If that wasn't bad enough, he became even more horrified when the magically infused vine that held him and Vina together finally snapped. With only milliseconds to spare, with all the remaining energy he could hope to spare, he immediately spawned a spectral looking claw made out of electricity from his side and sent it soaring towards Vina in the hopes of catching her and keeping her tight. As he couldn't begin to comprehend what would happen to her If he dropped here, in a collapsing dimension, he would never forgive himself If he allowed her to perish here or worse. He had no idea if Lady Luck was still looking out for him but a genuine, wide eyed smile formed over his face when Vina landed in the clenches of his spectral claw, just as he about to make their exit from that hellscape that was that shattering dimension. When the three of them finally tore back into reality, triggering one last massively powerful sonic boom to go off that was soon followed up by a portal sized black sphere that crashed into the ground, creating a equally massive crater under it before It became saturated with a veil of electricity hovering around it, they found themselves within Pormont, the heartlands of Falderen.....and a thick walled town in the distance. His eyes widen yet again, despite having escaped one horror, he now found himself in another. If he didn't act in the next second, the three of them would find themselves squashed like walls or worse, he destroy the walls of the town and most likely kill & destroy everything in his wake. Like hell he was going to let that happen! Acting quickly as he could, with his one free hand, he again arose the palm of his hand and summoned the reserves of his energy.
FIRST BARRIER! SECOND BARRIER! THIRD BARRIER! FOURTH BARRIER, FIFITH BARRIER, SIXTH BARRIER, SEVENTH BARRIER, EIGHTH BARRIER, NINTH BARRIER, TENTH BARRIER, ELEVENTH BARRIER, TWELVE BARRIER!
At the moment of his roaring, twelve massive, green colored magical barriers took form between him and the walled town they were now almost on top of. In the next second, despite attempting his upmost at trying to slow himself down via his mastery over dynamism, his body end up slamming into several of his magical barrier like a cannon ball until the final barrier of course, broke their momentum, causing the three to fall to the ground just a few dozen feet away from the walled town they were now at. With Vina being released from his spectral claw that was now gone and Majolica having fallen off his back, a exhausted & now hungry Seto immediately kept his back on the ground as he nervously chuckled out loud.
PHEW! Well that was a close one right?
He mused outload before he continued chuckling on for several more moments, even as the surprised ridden guards on the walls continued to stare them down. He did it, and faster than he had even anticipated. In under twelve seconds, he not only went from the eastern forests of the country to it's very heartlands where they grew food. He did get them almost killed TWICE for pushing his abilities too far so lesson learned but dam, he hadn't really didn't expect these sort of results. He hoped his passengers wouldn't kill him though, If they could even comprehend what had happened. Than suddenly, as If his stomach took a page of Majolica's book, his stomach too began rumbling. He found himself slightly surprised. Did he waste that much energy getting them here? Well he did push himself too far and on abilities he wasn't accustomed too. It also gave him a further excuse to find somewhere good to eat with Majolica and Vina, If they didn't want to kill him that is. He continued laying there in the prairie, staring up the light blue sky that continued to strike him with the rays of the sun. He was fine here until his companions pulled themselves together and either decided to kill him or picked his sorry ass up to get something to eat...
@Majolica
@Vina Skysong
