Lightning's Bizarre Adventure

by Lightningflash101

Chapter 17: The Ripple pt. 2

The first few moments of wearing this mask were the most painful and the most tedious hours of entire life. It was a constant struggle of finding the right way to breath. The fear of losing the right tempo was giving me cold sweats. Every now and then a screen would appear to inform me that i “leveled up” the Homan breathing skill. As of right now, it's at level 2. I have no idea what happens when I reach the level cap if there is even one.

“Just... How long... Do I have... To wear this for?” I asked between breaths.

“Until I feel like you mastered the technique.” Lisa Lisa replied, “ for must hamon users, it took them about a month.”

“Like Hell, I'm wearing this for a month!” I declared, “I’ll do it in two weeks!”

Level up! ‘Hamon breathing’ lv2 -->lv3

“I’d like to see you try.” Lisa Lisa chuckled, “but that would be impossible. There aren't any shortcuts when it comes to hamon. “

“I never asked to learn your hamon!”

Lisa Lisa kept silent for a moment as if she was preparing something to say. But then she turned her back to me and started walking away.

“Your training will begin when Ceaser returns,” she stated

“Hey! Wait for a minute!” I shouted, “How am I supposed to eat and sleep with this?! Don't walk away from me!”

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Later that night

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I could complain about my current situation with this mask, but I have worse problems. As far as I know, I'm in sometime before world war 2. So I just have to hope that get out of this time soon. But without that archer’s time-jumping ability, I'm stuck here. The best I can do is wait here in Venice until my chance comes.

I sat up on the bed I woke up on.

“Open skill tree,” I commanded, a window appearing before me.

The screen was focused on a tree going downward with darkened icons. Then it zoomed on the only few colored icons. Hamon going down to Hamon breathing, which was branching off to multiple other darken icons. All of these icons say that hamon breathing needs to be at a certain level before I can unlock them. How I can unlock them when I can is unknown to me. As far as I know, this is Remastered’s Ability.

“Statis: hamon breathing” I ordered, a screen of text appearing in front of the first screen

”Hamon breathing” lv 5. Until next level: 200/400xp.
The skill required to charge hamon.
The skill cannot be used if the user cannot breathe.

I let out a sigh and laid back down on the bed. I could feel the screens disappear as my head landed on the semisoft pillows on the bed. At least Lisa Lisa let me stay here until I finish her training, even if I didn't choose to learn. I could feel my stomach rumble as I haven't eaten all day. I could eat a horse at this rate.

As if on cue, the door opened with the sound of someone walking inside. The feeling of familiarity had swept over me. When I looked to see who and walked in, I saw Hover with some bread and water on a serving plate. It could be my hunger talking, but that bread looked so good.

“Your still up.” she stated, “Aren't you tired?”

“Can't sleep,” I replied, shrugging a bit “too scared of suffocating with this thing on my face.”

“It's not that bad.” she said, “Your body will adjust to the breathing patterns of the mask on while you sleep.”

I was silent for a moment. I hope to god that was true. I really didn't want to pull all-nighters until I got this mask off. I watched as Hover had placed the plate on the desk next to the door. As she turned to leave, I swear I saw a smile on her face

“Hey Hover,”I called out, stopping her in her tracks

“Yeah, Inigo?” she asked, looked back at me

“I've been meaning to ask you this." I said, "But, how did you find me?”

“Actually, Ceaser was the one who found you.” she started

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"You see, it was during the middle of our late night sparing sessions when Ceaser saw some sort of light near one of the towers. It was brighter than any light he had ever seen in his life. I tried to stop him. But no matter what I did, he was determined to see what caused such brightness. It was as if he was being driven by fate to see.

When he came back, he was carrying you in his arms. You looked like in a real rough spot, so we brought you to Lisa Lisa. There was something about you that she saw. So she let you rest in this room while I tended to your wounds. From what Ceaser and I could tell, you were probably attacked by a vampire, the undead or worse, one of the remaining pillar man.

For the next two weeks, Lisa Lisa searched all of Italy to find any trace of the attacker. She found nothing during her search."

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I took a moment to let that sink in. Did I just really appear out of nowhere for them? No wonder Lisa Lisa was wanted answers.

"But hey," Hover said, "that doesn't matter anymore. Because when you're done with your Hamon training, you don't have to worry about getting into that kind of situation anymore. Now get some sleep, you'll need all of your energy for when Ceaser comes back tomorrow."

"Yeah..." I sighed, laying back into the bed, " 'night Hover."

I could hear the door close after Hover shot the light off in the room. Closing my eyes, I tried to fall asleep.

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TO BE CONTINUED