Survive the Woods [Open]

It seems that a threatening fact that rang to this young man's ears wasn't enough. Sou went through his way and 'kindly' asked him to scram from the likes of this forest before he would get himself killed for nothing and that would be a simple waste of an effort to even come here. Life or Death, it was the choice of this human. Training or not, to Sou, these 'trainings' are nothing more but the memorization of the brain, and all you would need was to understand how your body works and how your brain runs its entire system within its reactive core of the human body, the muscles and blood cells that ran through each and every one of his veins. The Nightmare is one of those who prefer to fight against his opponents directly rather than to train, this is why he developed so far off from other human beings, and his development can match against the likes of humans that had a greater extent of their power with chi energy or soul force. He relied on the natural forces and never to give in against the power of the supernatural, and he will prove it to them that he has abilities much more superior to them.

His eyebrows rose after a sound of a girl, a woman echoing her soft yet sweet tone as they rang past the trunks of trees, its frequency shook the leaves of the trees, and to only see a human beside him to be taken by fear itself, and trying his best to overcome that fact by putting up a tough front. Humans, just like Sou himself, it was very interesting what these beings can do, and because the world does not acknowledge that there are huge potential even the powerless human has, there is no reason for them to be killed like that. It was a tough choice to stand between in protecting this young man, Katsuo, or to confront this beast of a woman, that seems to leave her own spiritual power openly for public use for a hollow like her. Well, its not that he despise women, he's just plainly dislike their very appearance, afterall, he had fought women since he first appeared within the depths of the city, his eyes opened to the dark side of the Karakura City and had a taste of it, and it was rather bitter for a city's dark side.

Although the settings made doesn't really had an effect on him, since he had seen and heard something worst than that, and it was the dying screams of his victims and the innocents he once killed. If one are going to use a song or a melody to scare someone, they should've done it better. Though for a hollow to have a tone like this, it is not some random hollow who just got bored and sung like they were some type of an angel to begin with, and the song just doesn't give him a good edge. He wants something for frightening, more violent.. Something where he can simply rip apart the flesh of the woman and drive her corpse to the end of the earth. It wasn't enough for a song, it needs an extra bloodbath to mix with the mood, and he is going to be the 'extra' ingredient for it.

Well, it wouldn't be hard just to guess one's gender by taking a good calculation of their energy's wavelengths and frequency, not to mention the distance away from both of them by tuning the calculation of the woman's melody that echoed ever so softly across the trees. The moment his neck stretched sideways, it cracked, the sounds of it simply makes someone to shudder from the sound of a neck popping when it was stretched sideways like its daily routine of warm-up. The Nightmare's face seemed to be calm again, his anger no longer flowing around his head, but he is preparing to strike first, since it wouldn't be delicate for a lady to take the first move, should he? Besides, it was just a preparation for his daily warm-up series between Heaven and Hell.


"Get down, you worthless brat."

His left hand simply slammed itself against the human's head with an outright force to push him against the ground, lowering his height from his current standing, before the crutch on his right hand was lightly taken to the left, before the short moment when the underarm crutch was swung to the right with full force, to the direction where the sound is taken as the loudest given to the frequency he received by the echoing tone of a single woman, it took no effort to pinpoint her position after a few equations. The force from his swing was simply terrifying, several scratches seemed to open across his right arm because of his body's muscle tissues were using an amount of strength exceeding the limits of his human body, and its power that stretched wide didn't took much of an effort before a burst of shockwave shot forth in a crescent formation. Every trees before the path of 1 feet away from him was simply taken down to dusts under the force of his strength, by using the colliding energy between the opposing momentum and the friction of the air, the momentarily burst of natural energy he collected into the weapon would glide across the air particles and ignite a burst of energy, before blowing up wihout flames to take its explosive energy, instead, it uses the capability of the wind to execute the great strength that the Nightmare possesses and carrying the force of his strength in a form of a vibration, colliding against each other as if it was an invisible object travelling across the air and ripping apart the very trees before him.

The wind created by his strength was devastating, as there were some trees visibly being blown to bits and floating above the air by the wind he made with a swing of his crutch. That is THE strength of The Nightmare, where they can call it an 'Infinite Strength', an ability that no more than a very few fighters had received such an ability, or if its within the recorded history, Sou may the only human who has ever achieved an amount of strength beyond recognition from even to be called a 'human' anymore. Just like it states, his strength is presumably infinite, with no limits nor an actual STOP sign beyond the horizon of his strength, thus achieving the level of infinity with just his strength alone. Its origins were unknown, and to Sou, it doesn't use any supernatural energy or power, it just uses one's natural energy where humans would use it everyday, whether it was a sake for walking, jogging or even running, riding a bicycle, moving, those requires the natural energy of a human to sustain their lives everyday and to replenish them, all we need was to eat and drink, that was all.

Unknown how his strength can reach the point into the world of Infinity, it is considered one of the rarest forms of strength that most may not able to achieve wihout millions or billions of years-worth of training, since raw strength is something that cannot be achieved naturally, Sou was able to pick up what was left behind of his monstrous strength that he despised over the years and finally made an ability that can level an entire city and put it into ashes with just a single punch from his fist alone. All the facts that was pointed out that there was a hollow lurking in the shadows, he wouldn't be hesitating much nor to even hold back his hands from ripping this being to shreds. Well, it is a forest and if someone wants to be a soul-eating villain, they would have to get through the human that drove all the way from Hell just to meet your skull and drive it back into the land of the dead.

Proven that Sou never had a spiritual power to begin with, it was hard to describe nor to measure how far his strength can stretch, and the reason of his own that allowed him to attain this power was something he called 'Mother Nature's Power', something like that. Gifted with a natural ability to use his strength wihout the usage of any supernatural energy, he could exceed his own limits of being a human and break through the boundaries placed against the human's laws that limits them from achieving superhuman capabilities, and his mind broke the law, developing self-concious and self-awareness where everything in his head would run by its own systems and rules, and at times, it would go under Sou's rules of using it for further analysis and calculation against his enemies.

Scratching his own head, there was an annoyance behind that calm expression of his that he tried so hard to keep it up wihout drilling nails into the skull of this man's stupidity of even staying here, and not long, his aggressive tone rang again and this time, it was something that they call an 'advice' although it sounds more drastic, it was the only thing he could advise him of before any lives would be lost in this shit of a battlefield, "If you want to live, then scram. If you want to die painlessly and meaninglessly, then stay at your own risk. Because this isn't a normal hollow we're dealing with, otherwise, i would've gone to such an extent myself."

Popping his own neck again, his mouth lets out a huge sigh, his eyes shifting right to a direction where he considers the energy signal to be at its peak, his breathing rate suddenly changed, taking a defensive stance with his legs widened a space, his left hand was let loose whilst his right hand was gripping against the handle of the crutch tightly. His eyes were closed, concentrating his flowing energy and blood flow, including the nervous systems of his body to keep them in check and ready for combat, and the second his eyes opened, the pressure around him increases to the spike. It wasn't a spiritual pressure nor does it had any contents of supernatural behind it, and it was created with just sheer pressure from Sou's physical body itself that unleashes the capacity of his brain's strength. If one were to measure it spiritually by taking account for how much of a roaring pressure that his body unleashes, it was somewhere between a level of a captain's, as it should be presumed and not entirely accurate, it was somewhere near or at that level. His breathing rate became normal, and hopefully, the young human doesn't suffocate nor to be crushed under the terrifying pressure that Sou unleashed, and that power can simply scare off every possible demons and hollows that has the guts to approach them. The Nightmare shouldn't be a human despite being a human himself, but this is how the society works. If you have the sufficient power, use it to protect at least a life that shouldn't be wasted too easily for someone that is 'training' in the woods with edgeless blades of their body that could not even handle something as trivial as this, not to mention to be scared at a point to say that he is 'hearing things'. He wondered if this young man's a male or a female, to be afraid at this point where not even Sou himself was hindered by its fear-like tone, only to bother his ears from listening to its annoying pitch and tone. No taste in music, it seems.

Sou wasn't a shinigami, a demon, a hollow nor a vizard, he IS a human, someone who has abandoned his sanity and soul for the sake of more power, to show to the world that humans can protect, and it was the first time he used it to defend a being as weak as he is. It was terribly annoying but for now, the hollow was his main target, and what he wished that this woman or the hollow is strong enough to stay on the ground against him, since it might take less than a minute for him to take her out before she could even blink. His voice roared across the entire forest, the tone was fierce and intimidating, hopefully to draw her out before she has the time for a surprise attack, "COME OUT BEFORE MY BARE HANDS COULD DIRTY ITSELF WITH YOUR FRESH BLOOD OF THE NIGHT. DON'T LET THE NIGHTMARE CATCH YOU OR THE CONSEQUENCES MAY BE DIRE FOR A CORPSE TO DIG IN!"