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Chapter 38 - Closer and Closer

Carver and Elizabeth started walking toward each other.

"You're Toyomo's son so I won't be holding back!"

"Don't want it any other way." Carver smiled then they both ran at each other and clashed fists! They both smiled at each other then moved so fast it looked like they disappeared and reappeared! Then Liz threw a punch at his chest, Carver caught the punch and pulled her toward him and threw a punch at her face! She quickly pulled out her dagger and sent it straight into his hand and slowed down the carver! But it wasn't enough, and he still punched her in the face sending the dagger even deeper into his hand! Then he side Kicked her away.

"If my body wasn't so good a healing this would have been dangerous," Carver said as he pulled the dagger that was so deep in his hand it went into his arm out.

"You're acting like that punch you were about to give me wasn't dangerous." Liz stood up and laughed.

"Welp this dagger is way too dangerous now so I'll be keeping it." Carver put the dagger on the side of his pants.

"Guess I'll just beat you and take it back!" Liz shot plasma at Carver! He dodged out of the way and used Parimana Irppu On the dagger and cut through the next shot.

"Parimana Irppu!?" Liz said in shock.

"I'm still not too good at using this since it's not my natural power but I still can." Parimana Irppu is the ability Ashley has.

"How much do you want this knife back? All you gotta do is ask nicely and I'll give it back." Carver held the knife drenched in his blood in front of him.

"What are you planning?" Liz stayed on guard.

"Nothing really. Here I'll toss it to you." Carver gently threw the knife to her. as the knife traveled in the air everything went in slow motion.

"...Don't they say everything goes in slow motion when you're about to die? If I touch this knife...I'm gonna die!" Liz thought to herself as she quickly jumped back away from the knife. The knife his the floor.

"So you trusted your instincts and avoided death! Good job!" Carver said, giving her a thumbs up.

"What did you do to my knife!?"

"I didn't do anything. You stabbed me and got blood on your knife which really sucks for you because my blood is super poisonous. That's why I hurried and punched you before the blood could go on your face." Carver basically gots super aids that don't kill him.

"So you were testing to see if I would trust my instincts?"

"Well it doesn't matter now, we still got a match going." Caver wrapped his hand up.

Liz smiled then rushed at him and went for a jump kick to the head, Carver dodged and let her land.

"Hey! Stop going easy on me!" Liz looked irritated.

Carver sighed, "Fine."

Carver then rushed at her so fast she lost track! He threw a punch aimed right at the face, She quickly put up her hands to block but then he clenched his fist and grabbed her arm and kneed her in the stomach! The knee sent a sick feeling through her body. He let go and kicked her ankle and swiped her leg off balance and made both of her legs crossed then sent a devastating side kick into her exposed ribs and sent her flying into the barrier walls. She slowly stood up and fired a fireball shot at Carver and he casually swiped it away. But then something happened...something strange. The fireball was right in front of him again and he had to dodge.

"What the hell was that? I know I swat that fireball away but it reappeared again."

Liz didn't respond. She stood there for a second then looked at Carver and her eyes were bright yellow.

"Da hell..." Carver said then out of nowhere with no words Liz rushed at Carver at least 100 times faster than before and threw a punch at his face! Carver quickly dodged but as soon as he did the same punch that he thought he dodged was once again right in front of his face! Carver again dodged and tried to send a punch back to her but the spot that he thought she was in she wasn't! Now she was on the side of him and she dug a punch right into his left cheek then kicked the back of his leg and made him go down to one knee and was about to kick him in the back of his head but he turned around and almost caught her foot but she was never there according to fate. He turned around and caught nothing then caught a kick to the back of his head! He slid then quickly jumped up.

"What the hell is going on here!? This isn't teleportation I can tell that much. And I'm definitely not in an illusion! She's way faster than before but when she rushed at me I saw her clearly without any problems. So what's happening!? ...Ok I need to calm down and think. It seems like she doesn't want me to touch her. I need the test this theory though." Carver got out of his thoughts then looked at Liz. Then he rushed at her and tapped her with one finger and she didn't use the move that she was just using to dodge. At least not with his finger on her. As soon as he left his finger she used it.

"As I thought, she can't use whatever she is doing if I touch her. Then I guess I'm going to have to speed blitz the shit out of her. She is at least 100 times faster than what she just was so I guess I'll overlap her by 10 full." Carver got out of his head again and stretched.

"Don't look away...not even for an Attosecond...try to keep track of me." after Carver said that just as he said she tried to keep track but her eyes couldn't keep up with something at attosecond speed and just like that he was behind her and he picked her up and suplexed her and knocked her out cold!

Everybody was in shock the whole battle but the way he finished it was definitely the best part. A perfect backbend suplex.

After a few seconds, he let go and got up. Then after about 10 seconds Liz woke up and looked around in confusion.

"...What happened?"

"You started using this weird-ass ability so I suplex the shit out of you. And judging by your reaction you completely lost control" Carver reached out his hand and helped her up.

"And the winner is the guy!" Liz and Carver completely ignore the announcer.

"I...lost control? I was using a weird ability? I have the ability to understand any language when I hear or see it but I don't have anything that helps in a fight." Liz shook her head in confusion.

"Really? Hey, quick question when exactly did you feel like you got a power boost? was it after dad left?" Carver asked.

"Now that I think about it, it was a few days after he left. But I recently started feeling even more powerful. Why?"

"I think your new ability and the sudden boost in power is because of him. In his book, he left me he dropped hints of something like this. He said 'I tapped her head and seen her ability of the gods and goddess and gave her fate.' Then later on he talks about a book with the power of fate and how 'I gave her the book of fate and now she and the goddess name fate will soon be equals.' Did he touch your head at all?"

"Yeah right before he left...wait that person he's talking about...is me?" Liz rubbed her head.

"A book of fate. He gave you power. And he must have given you this book after he saw that you can understand any language by touching your head. It also must have been the way he gave you the book without your knowledge. Wait so that's what he meant by only our family has the ability to transcend fate! So somehow I had the ability to stop your fate power! Do you know what this means!?" Carver grabbed her by both of her shoulders.

"W-what!?"

"He was 20 steps ahead of everybody and he probably knew this fight was going to happen. I was hoping one day I can be as smart as him but how the hell do you compete with that." Caver said sadly.

"...Yeah, I couldn't tell you that one...Anyway, If you're above fate then how were you affected by it? My power I mean." Liz said patting him on the head to make him feel better.

Carver let go of her, "Well I don't think you were affecting me. I think you were using it on abjects and yourself to make a thing that happened never happen or repeat. Fate manipulation! We should definitely think of a better name though." Carver didn't even bat an eye on how dangerous the ability could be.

"I'm still having trouble processing all this hold on! So he gave me this power because of my natural ability to understand any language?"

"Yep."

"I and how do I activate this ability?"

"Hell if I know. But it seems it activates when you're in extreme danger. You looked like something out of a manga!"

"Whats a manga?"

When Liz asked this carver just sat there and looked at her with absolutely the blankest stare.

"...You're joking, right?"

"You're making me feel dumb, stop!"

"Oh, I'm about to expand your mind!" Carver picked her up and left out of that place faster than anybody could see. They arrived at the shack.

"what are we doing here?" Liz asked.

"My father spoke of a secret bookshelf where he made his weapons full of manga. This is definitely the place, come on let's go inside." Carver tried to pull her inside but she pulled away from him.

"I don't think I'm strong enough to go inside this place. The last time I tried I went through terrible pain." She explained taking some steps back shaking.

"Pffh, If you think you're not strong enough then you got self-esteem problems. I was in here while I was damaged to the point where you could have beat me with little effort. You'll be fine." Carver grabbed her hand and quickly dragged her in.

"Wait! I said stop! ...Oh this isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be." Liz relaxed and looked around.

"Told you. Now he said that this bookshelf holds the manga. He said to press the first book then tap the 10th one the pull out the one second from the left of that one. Got it!" Suddenly all the books on the shelf turned into manga.

"Damn they got the good stuff!" Carver took out a book and handed it to Liz.

"Here read this I think you'll like it."

"Hmm, It doesn't seem like much but I'll give it a try."

6hr's later...

"N-no Nagisa! Don't fall asleep! Don't leave him and the kid behind!" Liz was balling her eyes out.

"Damn it's ok Liz come here." Liz sat the book down and hugged Carver.

"You ok?" Carver was trying not to laugh at her crying.

"...No. But I'll read until the end." She wiped up her tears and kept reading.

2hrs later...

"No...It's not night time...why is she saying that...She going to be fine Ushio is going to be fine...Why'd her hand dropped? No, she's just sleeping right?" Liz turned and looked at Carver hoping she would say yes as they were sitting next to each other.

"Nah..." When Carver said this tears real tears of nothing but sadness came rushing down her face and she stayed silent.

Caver reach over and pulled her close and let her cry, "you know what...giving her a sad manga wasn't probably the best idea. Especially her first one..." Carver smiled with shame as a manga fan.

"Hey...do you want to keep reading?" Carver asked looking down at her face buried in his side.

She nodded her head yes and picked up the manga.

Sometime later...

"I'm so happy that white word saved them." And now she was crying tears of happiness.

"Seeing you like this is great," Carver said, chuckling a little.

"Manga is amazing! and all the stories are different?" Liz was on the way to becoming a weeb.

"Yeah. I'm you're becoming a woman of culture." Carver grinned and closed his eyes feeling proud of himself.

"My side is all wet from all your tears. But I don't mind it felt nice to hold you." Carver said, giving a thumbs up.

"Hey, Why do you like me?" Liz asked as the moon shined through the window.

"At first it was for your looks because you are cute and sexy. But then more I've been around you I started to like you and your feisty personality and the way you smile. And the fact that you like manga attractively makes you attractive. To me, a girl like you only comes once 100 years. So I guess I like you because you're you Elizabeth." Carver placed his hand on her's and scooted closer.

Liz started blushing uncontrollably, "If he keeps looking into my eyes like that I won't be able to help myself..." Liz started to get closer to Carver's face. And Carver got closer to hers.

Then suddenly Liz jumped and pushed him away.

"I-I'm sorry." Liz looked away.

"Oh...right, you got a husband. It's ok I understand. It's getting kinda late. Why don't you head home," Carver said leaning against the wall.

She nodded then got up and left.

"Ugh...So close." Carver said to himself smiling.

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