THE AWAKENING: BIO-GENETICS
Chapter 97: He Just Used His Fist?!

Chapter 97: He Just Used His Fist?!

Kazuya chuckled evilly. Anzai caught that and he knew something was up her sleeves.

"I have a feeling you did this purposely," Anzai said sternly.

Her seductive smile broadens more. "I have no idea what you’re talking about General Anzai," she said in an innocent tone.

Anzai shot her a look. "Oh General Anzai, that’s awful thinking I have something to do with Hiro’s blood weapon," she said huskily, folding her arms under her bosom, making it bounce up and down in a most alluring way.

Tori blushed, shifting his gaze away from it before he would have a nosebleed.

Anzai faced Kazuya with an unreadable look, his silence said everything... that he needed an explanation for this.

Kazuya sighs in defeat.

"Oh General Anzai, you are so protective of Hiro... relax I had nothing to do with it," she said with a hand raised in surrender, her looks turning serious.

"His blood weapon won’t transform until he gets to the Sp3 stage like the others... I designed it solely on that rule, it’s all up to Hiro" She states in a serious tone.

"So their weapons can transform due to their stage?" Tori asked, puzzled.

"Yes, I can’t exactly manipulate his blood to trigger his weapon... it’s an unknown virus after all" she said with a shrug. She may be a design genius but that was off her lead.

Anzai took the cigar off his lips, blowing a smoky air.

"Let’s see how this goes then," he said with an unreadable expression.

_ _ _

"How long is he gonna fight his robot?" Sumi said, folding her arms, they watched Hiro effortlessly dodging the robot’s fast punches.

He drew back more away from the robot to buy himself time. His fist tightens around his stick.

"Guess this won’t work then" he states, spinning the stick around his hand and then slamming the tip on the metal, as it deepens.

The robot dashed after him, and in speed, Hiro stood still, the robot now close to him using both its hands to crush Hiro. With one foot backward, his left arm folded close to his waist, his right hand in a fist plunged forward slamming the robot against the chest, but it gave just a tap sound.

Sumi held in a burst of laughter, but she couldn’t contain it as she set loose, her laughter ringing in the halls. "Did he seriously think he can fight a robot with just his physical strength?" she said in beaming amusement.

Shino scowled facing her.

"What?" she said with a shrug.

In silence, Shino turned back to Hiro, still in the same position as the robot.

"Hiro let me-"

Instantly the robot’s back bust opens into a big hole all of a sudden from unseen energy, they freeze at the unexpected action as the robot drops to the ground.

"He stopped the robot," Kaneki said, stunned.

"With just his fist?" Ten said in awe as his mouth dropped, that insane strength was just like General Anzai, but even better

Sumi’s eyes were widened by this, who knew just a punch could be so powerful.

"He didn’t even trigger his abilities," Shino said stunned, as his eyes shook at the scene, he was very certain Hiro didn’t use his bio-genetics strength to end the robot, he used just a punch?

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"My, My... I must be seeing things, who knows the boy has some crazy ass human strength... enough to pierce steel" Kazuya said in amusement.

"He almost measured General Anzai with that hit... I thought no one could ever possess such inhuman strength like you" Tori said with a smile against his lips, his eyes closed. But the kid certainly pulled that attack very well, he was good at using that strength of his.

Anzai shoved the cigar stick back into his lips.

"The kid has raw strength... I will give him that" he states remembering one year ago, during their training to take him down, the kick he plunge close to his cheek that didn’t even reach him... but still scratch him, purely energy and then he knew that moment Hiro had an insane strength lying within him... which is why they focused just on isometrics in the passing year and simple martial art he could keep up with.

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One Year Ago

Level 35: Unknown Facility

"When..." Hiro growled.

"Are we gonna..." he punched hard on the pad Anzai used to shield his palm as Hiro punched and kicked on it, they were both drenched in sweat from hours of training.

"... Finish Isometrics training... sir," Hiro said in a haste breath, taking harsh breaths, his hands in black bandages trembling vigorously.

"You don’t heal like a bio-genetics, you practically just have hastened senses, the rest of the traits you don’t have," Anzai said.

"In order words half bio-genetic then," Hiro said, taking harsh breaths.

Anzai made a hmm sound, one good way to call it.

"You could say that... in order to avoid being the vulnerable one, we have to build your body to withstand anything, the weapon training will be at the last month" Anzai hissed at Hiro in full speed, sending punches.

Hiro dodges them as quickly as he can but he wasn’t sure how he could, in response to that, he lands on his butt hard, and he groans rubbing it.

"Weapon training should be the least of your concern now... Kimura Hiro" Anzai said sternly.

Hiro gulps hard at his words, whatever he says goes without question and he had a weird feeling that Anzai sorted the best for him.

"Yes sir!"

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Present Day

Anzai blew smoke from his lips, his eyes fixed on Hiro.

_ _ _

"Are you okay?" Yuki asked, staring at his hand.

"I’m fine" he states turning to his blood weapon, the stick looked as normal as ever, and he scowled.

"Just not in a good mood" he adds sternly.

’Hiro’ Ten thought with shaky eyes, he was still amazed by what he did. ’... he still doesn’t seem like someone who was bedridden over the past year... his body structure, what he pulled off... it’s almost as if...’

"Ten"

Shino’s voice broke Ten out of his trance, he faced him, but Shino’s gaze was still on Hiro.

"There’s something odd about Hiro isn’t it" he states.

Ten gulps hard, he must have caught notice of it too. His gaze drifts to Hiro.

"Yes, there is".

_ _ _

Hours Later

Level 17: Bio-genetics Level

Room Hall

"Here hasn’t changed pretty much," Hiro said, sitting on his bed, he felt his hand on it.

"It’s laid," he said a bit surprised,

"Yeah, I kept it laid for you... you know with the vigorous training and all there wasn’t really much time to visit so I did what I could do at the moment... kept the bed laid in case you came in" Ten said forcing a smile, he was seated on his bed also.

"Wow... that’s nice of you Ten," Hiro said with a small smile on his lips.

Ten just chuckled slightly, and Hiro frown.

"Is there something you wanna ask?!" Hiro asked curiously, he could tell from Ten’s voice.

"This past one year... you weren’t exactly bedridden were you?" Ten asked with anticipation. He couldn’t hold on to his curiosity anymore.

"I was... but General Anzai trained me a bit, I had to build my body because it’s too weak... it was under the Prime Ministers’ order" Hiro states firmly.

"I still don’t get it... I know the virus cost you your eyesight, but you’re a bio-genetics just as much as we all are, aside from the weird thing you do with your eyes, it’s like the pure raw energy of your abilities going off all at once, but I have never seen you use any inhuman strength as we do... I saw how you defeated your robot, we all did... it was purely more of your physical strength... which is crazy bizarre... I don’t exactly get it... you are definitely in the sp3 stage just as we are but still, your ability didn’t quite aline well with ours, its almost as if.... as if the virus infected you diff-"

"Ten!" Hiro yelled.

Ten froze at his outburst.

"Enough," Hiro said sternly as his grip tightened against the bedsheets in a tight hold.

Ten shaky eyes on him.

"I’m not something you have to figure out," he said in a low tone but Ten heard him loud and clear.

Ten gulps but he didn’t back down.

"But still we can’t just overlook the facts here... I mean this is an unknown virus we are yet to oversee what it’s capable of!"

"STOP IT TEN!" Hiro shouts, rising to his feet abruptly. "Can you even hear yourself?!" he yelled.

"You sound like them", his teeth clenched.

"You sound just like the rest of the scientists who wanna skin us as guinea pigs"

Ten froze at his words.

"So just stop it! I’m not something you can figure out! I’m not a damn puzzle!"