“Hell yeah! This is where it’s at!” he exclaimed. “I just love stompin’ on assholes who run their mouths only to find out they shouldn’t have done so, the hard way. I hope Hiro’s team doesn’t finish up that P.A. stuff too soon, ’cause I wanna enjoy these moments as much as I can first!”
The only reason Goh stayed with the Demonkin Nation’s faction of Masters rather than becoming fully affiliated with Hiro’s cadre was due to the fact that the demonkin always gave him their full backing to do pretty much whatever he wanted, which suited him greatly because he didn’t adhere to any particular sense of duty or purpose. He would kill people whenever he felt like it, and if he found himself in the mood for something more carnal, he’d abduct a woman from some random place and violate her without consequence. If he was hungry, he ate, and once he was full, he slept.
As long as Goh was free to live his life however he wanted, it didn’t matter which faction of Masters he was in, or how they viewed C. He wasn’t even a worshipper of C; if anything, that particular entity could go rot in hell for all he cared.
“Huh? What?” Still on his hands and knees, the boss of the bandits was at a complete loss over what Goh had just articulated, but the man in question simply smirked, before striding over to the boss and crushing his head with his foot.
“Ugh, the rush was so good, I let my tongue slip,” Goh said, checking to make sure his prey was dead. “But dead men tell no tales, and you’re the last of ’em—”
“Hey, you!” yelled the high-pitched voice of a girl. “You must be the baddie who hurt my friend!”
Goh spun around, his eyes landing on a short, busty young woman with gleaming platinum hair, whose forelocks swept over her bloodred eyes. She was wearing the armor of a knight, wielding a broadsword longer than her entire stature, and glaring at Goh with eyes that otherwise seemed large and innocent.
“How dare ya mess with my friend!” the girl repeated. “I’m gonna blast ya all the way to the moon, so prepare for the worst!”
Goh let out an audible breath in shock. For one thing, this girl had shown up practically out of nowhere and without any warning whatsoever, and moreover, the murderous energy radiating from her was spooking Goh to no end, despite his power level of 9000.
Where the hell’d this chick come from? Goh wondered, his eyes narrowing as he became hypervigilant of her movements. She looks dumber than a brick, but damn, she’s strong.
For those wondering how Nazuna had managed to sneak up on Goh without him noticing, this was due to a combination of Mera’s special tracking powers and the Unlimited Gacha cards. Nazuna was given Goh’s present location and teleported to a spot not far from the rampaging Master. She then activated an SSR Conceal card before taking to the air using an SR Flight card. With a bird’s-eye view of the whole area, Nazuna quickly caught sight of Goh and landed a stone’s throw away from him before canceling the Conceal card to make her presence known.
Goh instinctively knew Nazuna was no ordinary opponent, and because the Vampire Knight was uncharacteristically furious, she held her Prometheus sword aloft without paying any heed to his elevated power level.
Judging by how she’s carryin’ herself, I’m pretty sure she ain’t friends with any of these dinky robbers, Goh mused. She’s probably an ally of that snake-headed chick. Does that mean she works for the Wicked Witch too? If that’s a fact, what kind of insanely powerful army has that witch got hidin’ up her sleeve? This is definitely something to report on.
Goh felt an urgent need to tell Hiro’s side about the presence of not just two but three powerful warriors who were seemingly in the employ of the Wicked Witch of the Tower.
I don’t need to waste my strength battling this overpowered kid, Goh decided. I’ll just blow smoke up her ass and make her take a walk. She looks dumb enough for me to put one over on her anyhow.
Unlike Daigo the leveling freak and Gira the homicidal maniac, Goh knew when to pick his battles, and a fight with Nazuna was definitely not on the menu. Thanks to the Bracelet of Deception, he still looked like an ordinary human, so he used this to his advantage by taking the opportunity to flash Nazuna a disarming, salesmanlike smile.
“You seem to have the wrong impression of me. I was simply fighting back against these bandits who tried to assault me,” Goh said innocently. “I’m well within my rights to defend myself, so I think your anger may be misplaced, milady.”
Nazuna raised an eyebrow. “What’re ya talking about? I’m mad about ya hurting my friend, not these guys! And ya can’t fool me with that disguise of yours, so don’t bother! Y’see, ya have Mera’s blood all over your body!”
What? Blood? Goh screeched inwardly.
“My friend’s a chimera named Mera, and she’s got real special blood, y’see,” Nazuna explained vaingloriously. “Her blood can track an enemy for a nice long time! So ya can’t lie to me, ’cause I already know who you really are!”
I thought that snake-headed bitch was spraying all that blood over me to poison me, not track me! Dammit! Goh cursed. The Master had thought the way Mera’s spawn had gyrated her arms to splatter blood everywhere during her final attack was vaguely peculiar, but it was only in this moment that he was finally connecting the dots. As a sidenote, this meant Doc and Light’s brother were also being tracked by the chimera.