Chapter 521 (1/2)

Chapter 521

Sonic Youth was a hero

Everybody in America knew this His real name, Mark Gordon took pride in this His alter self, Sonic Youth was tasked to protect the dreath He kneas his duty to do so

America is the land of freedom The spirit to achieve success is called “The American Drea it into his personal pride

When he was young, his faive up He stood up aher and higher, drea up

In following years he was the MVP of American Football, the Top Gun of the Air-Force and he became an Astronaut

It wasn’t for him to be praised, nor did he want to be better than everybody else He simply liked football, liked to pilot a plane and he wanted to see space with his own eyes

He showed the world that dreams can come true

After that, was it by chance or fate, he attained the inhuman ability, Over Sense

With all of his dreaht to himself “This must be fate”

He achieved his dreahly of it Now he has powers

For what purpose?

For sure, it was to protect other people’s dreaht to pursue their dreaht to take it away Whether it was criht them off

It was for Manhattan, no, New York or yet, for America’s people

He persuaded himself so That’s why he can’t lose here

[… Don’t bother I fight to protect people’s dreams, I won’t lose]

Mark, no, Sonic Youth was standing on top of the guard-railings a down at his enemy

He heard from his partner lately, that Crimson had someone from Metallica, a japanese man as a modified human, sent to assist them This must be that man

[Hey now Sonic, he insists this ht here and now?]

Slipknot, who cahtly of the situation

He didn’t like this part of him

[Slipknot, you and I are different I fight to protect the people]

He fought with him on multiple occasions, and he (Slipknot) supplied inforured out what drove his

Slipknot fought “to kill” people Whether it’s for revenge, or self-satisfaction, he was obsessed with taking down Cri and the top brass

Because of his principles, nobody wanted to cooperate with him

But soon he realized his mistakes Sonic Youth’s condition for thehts to decide what should be done to the criminal

Since he agreed to that condition, they both worked together He even agreed to hand over the criminal captured to the Guardians

Perhaps Slipknot’s objective, Mr Big, was the ultis hiht Slipknot was coainst himself

If they paired up, he knew their strength would be absolute, and that was the truth

Criminals and even Crimson were steadily taken down by both of them

He knew they would eventually find thethat and abandoned his former principles

[You won’t kill him? I’uy that held the whole city hostage, blowing up high-rise buildings and all If I reht, he was called Nate]

[

What?!]

Sonic Youth again looked at the man from Crimson, Nate

[… So, what of it Slipknot?] (By Neito)

Nate’s face didn’t express anything He didn’t feel anything It looked like that to Sonic Youth

Nate continued

[Sonic Youth, you said you won’t lose because you’ll protect everybody’s dreams? Ha, how noble of you You can’t defeat me Not because “I won’t lose” but because I in It’s definite I’ll do anything to win No ets destroyed, I’ll attain what I want That’s how I’ve always been]

He was showing off an i intent Directly and indirectly, Sonic Youth’s Over Sense sensed danger fro it

But he (Neito) wasn’t afraid On the other hand, it raised his fighting spirits He kneas going to be a tough fight

He couldn’t forgive this man He tried to steal the people’s dreams

Evil Enemy

[You-!]

He juuard rail and landed in front of Nate

The as blowing and the sot bloay

[You… Do you kno many crimes you have committed?!]

Sonic Youth declared it in front of hi and yearned for justice His aura was enough for average villains to contemplate their crimes and cower before him

[It’s 385,204 incidents]

Nate didn’t cower before him His expression was still cold as ice

[Wha-?]

[Didn’t you heartrial The total incidents I committed are 385,204 Both directly and indirectly]

Sonic Youth didn’t understand hie amount Did he count each crime he committed? Did he take those cri?

This is no ordinary ainst him

Sonic Youth took up his battle stance once again

(TLN: Back to Neito’s POV)

Maybe I spoke too much

Speaking to Sonic Youth directly, a little bit of him melted off

He counted them He counted the amount of crimes he committed and remembered them

He wasn’t asking to be forgiven He counted them to remind himself to carry those sins he coht, it was for self-assurance Those who got hurt (killed), and things that got destroyed, they won’t coet them

Those feelings weren’t supposed to be shown to the enemy He reflected on his actions

[But I never thought of it that M-uch!]

In the next moment, he used his claws and slashed upward His claere powerful enough to cut through steel

[Too slow!!]

But it didn’t hit Sonic Youth Leaving his after i a summersault flip and landed behind him

[Che- you’re one fast bastard…!]

[Take this-!]

Neito turned around and assumed a defensive stance

It was close, but he ed to block him off He blocked his accelerated spin hook with both of his arain distance

They both stared down each other

[… I see… I can’t do it half-heartedly huh…]