CHAPTER 450: RATED E FOR EVERYONE

A figure moved through a dark building late at night.

They walked without making a single sound, passing through rows of bookshelves and supply racks before reaching a shut door.

The figure opened it without hesitation and was blinded by a wave of light that poured in from the inside.

"You’re home late. Patrols came back hours ago. They said you went for a walk unattended?"

Kenji shrugged off his coat and hung it up on the nearest coat rack.

"....I suppose I needed a moment to clear my head."

Ayuka got out of her husband’s chair and allowed him to sit in it instead.

Once he was seated, she began rubbing her husband’s shoulders dutifully.

"Is the stress of starting a new regime beginning to get to you?"

"...Not quite."

Kenji placed his hands over his wife’s to stop her.

"Did you know that our daughter called twenty years ago, asking to come home?"

Kenji heard his wife’s heart skip a beat. He felt her body tense up through her hands.

"...So you did know."

"I didn’t think it was of any importance."

"Not of any importance??" Kenji stood up abruptly and threw back his chair. "That was our child; she was all alone in America, anything could have happened to her there! They sell firearms in grocery stores!"

"It was for the best!" Ayuka yelled back. "Our aviation business was expanding, and we were on the short list for a government contract!

I wouldn’t have that jeopardize just because that child wanted to be a whore and run away with the first boy to give her a flower!"

"Damn the business! That child is our blood! She was carrying our grandchild!"

"You were virile, we had another child."

"We did not have Sato to replace Sei!!"

"And yet he is a clear improvement! At least he didn’t run off to America to become some bisexual gaijin hunter!"

Suddenly, the door to the room was kicked open with a bang.

The old couple was surprised to see a young woman in a leather jacket and jeans standing outside with a fierce glare.

Kenji felt his stomach drop.

"S-Serana, I don’t know what you’ve heard, but-"

"You know... on my way here, I was really questioning myself. I thought ’Serana, are you really going to beat up an old woman who’s already got one foot in the grave? It’s not what your mom would want, and she did tell you to leave it all alone.’"

Serana closed the door behind her and locked it.

"But after hearing what you just said, I don’t really have any doubts anymore. Since you’ve already got one foot in the grave, I might as well break both your legs and toss you in there my damn self."

"Now wait a minute, Serana-" Kenji began.

Serana flew across the room without waiting for her grandfather to finish.

She jumped across his desk like an Olympian and slammed her foot into Ayuka’s jaw.

There was a satisfying snapping noise as she was kicked. Her body sailed through the air and crashed through the window.

"Ayuka!"

Kenji started to chase after his wife when Serana shoved past him and jumped after her first.

Ayuka landed hard on top of an abandoned car on the street.

She cried out in pain as she felt glass pierce her side.

Rolling over in clear discomfort, she plucked a fairly large piece of glass out of her side.

The wound slowly began to close, but the pain still lingered.

"We’re not done yet, you cold-hearted bitch!"

Looking up in horror, Ayuka barely managed to roll out of the way as Serana stomped hard on the ground to create a small seismic event.

"Child, stop this!"

The wind seemed to turn against Serana.

Her body was lifted up by a great unseen force and flung high into the air.

She caught sight of her grandfather Kenji with his hand out and surrounded by a blistering green aura.

"That is quite enough, young woman! Has your mother taught you to-"

"NEITHER if you know what my mother taught me because you weren’t there for her! You have no idea how much that woman sacrificed for me, for us! I’ll die before I let anyone talk shit about her!!"

Serana unhinged her jaw and a massive tarantula crawled out.

The arachnid grew to the size of a lifted truck and lunged at Kenji with its fangs bared.

Frightened, the old man called upon the winds to keep his foe at a manageable distance.

When his plans failed, he was tackled out of the sky by the large creature.

Serana’s illusions were nothing to turn one’s nose at. Especially if a person didn’t remember what her power was.

It was easy for her, with her grandfather distracted to focus her attention on the woman limping away.

Serana followed her from behind menacingly, her teeth gnashed and her knuckles clenched.

"You have no idea of the kind of woman your daughter turned out to be! For twenty years she didn’t have a social life, she didn’t date, all she did was work and take care of me! And you think I’m going to let you badmouth her like she’s some dirty rag?! Fuck you!"

Serana’s figure blurred as she appeared right in front of Ayuka.

A swift kick to her right knee produced a loud snapping shot through the air.

With her leg bent backward, Ayuka crumpled to the ground screaming and holding on to her broken leg.

The sound of her screams didn’t bother Serana one bit.

She looked over the woman she shared blood with as if she were an angel of death

"It took a stranger to show my mom what it was like to have a mother care for her, because you were too much of a twat waffle to do it. So now when I look at you, I don’t feel anything at all. The only grandmother I’ve ever had is already resting peacefully."

Serana grabbed the woman roughly by the hair and raised her fist to cave her nose in.

"I might as well send you to her. Maybe then you’ll have someone to teach you how family is supposed to act..!"

Serana threw the single most satisfying punch of her life.

The way that Ayuka’s head snapped back and her nose caved in was immensely gratifying for Serana.

In that moment, she felt like all of the hardship that her mother had suffered was finally being avenged.

It brought her an extreme sense of catharsis.

But in the moment after blood flowed from her grandmother’s nose and she fell back onto the ground, everything suddenly changed.

Serana’s body was suddenly wracked with pain.

Fire seemed to shoot through her entire midsection as she was impaled by the very ground she stood on.

Blood rushed up through her esophagus and spilled past her lips.

She wanted to scream, but her body was in too much agony.

The world became blurry, and her hearing began to dip in and out.

"Oh, darn it, I missed her head... I’m still getting used to these new powers... Understanding the ground and minerals is sooo boring...!"

Serana forced her neck to turn so that she could lay eyes on the individuals who’d snuck up on her.

The last thing she expected to find was the prime minister of Japan floating in the air with a young woman who was dressed like she was pulled straight out of an idol video.

"Oh dear..." The prime minister clicked his teeth. "This is the problem with Americans nowadays. No respect for their elders."