Strongest Superhuman System - Chapter 413

Chapter 413: So You’re The One?
ROARRR!

There was still a large cloud of smoke and steam covering Mark and Luna, but Mark could hear the shark anima roaring loudly in victory as it thought that Luna died in the attack. Mark clicked his tongue in irritation and decided to stay hidden for a few more seconds to give Luna some time to get back on her feet.

Mark had been keeping an eye on the fight since it started, and Mark knew that Luna was seriously outmatched by the Elder Eldritch. Luna told him that she would normally fight a monster like this with the help of her other guild members, so Mark wasn’t too surprised. But honestly, Mark was disappointed. He thought that Luna would be able to handle a monster like this easily. Even though it was an Elder Eldritch, the anima was something that Luna shouldn’t be struggling against this much. Mark knew that the only reason why Luna was struggling this much was because of how she was always holding herself back, but that was something she did on her own, so it was no fucking excuse!

Mark turned his head around to give Luna a look, and once Luna saw the look of disappointment in his eyes, she looked away from him in embarrassment. Luna couldn’t bear to see that amount of disappointment in Mark’s eyes, and she knew that he was only disappointed because he expected her to be able to handle this monster. Luna couldn’t believe she made Mark come all the way here to protect her. There was a part of Luna that felt happy that Mark came here just to protect her, but Luna killed that part of her quickly as it was replaced with anger at herself! Luna shouldn’t have needed Mark to come here at all!

Mark noticed the internal dilemma going on with Luna, and he sighed in irritation while running a hand through his hair roughly. Mark wasn’t going to try and make Luna change who she was, but Mark knew that with the way things were going, Luna was only going to end up getting herself killed before long. Mark spoke up calmly.

“If you keep holding yourself back like this, then you’re only going to end up dead before long. I won’t say I know enough about you to tell you to change, but I can at least tell you that much. Well, I guess it doesn’t matter. If you don’t want to change, then it’s fine. You can stay right where you are. I’ll protect you for as long as you need me to.”

Luna’s eyes widened in shock, and she looked up at Mark immediately when she heard those last words! What was that!? Luna’s mind traveled back in time to a long time ago when someone else said those exact same words to her. When KING said those same words to her.

Slowly, Luna’s mind started to race as it pieced together the inconsistencies that she had been noticing around Mark all this time. From the way Mark’s fighting style was so similar to KING’s, to the way Mark was always being targeted by anima no matter where he went! Even the anima that Luna had just been fighting said it was here to find and kill KING. Luna felt hope growing in her heart, and she didn’t want it to get too strong before she actually found out the truth. Luna spoke up curiously.

“Mark. Was it you?”

Mark raised a curious brow when he heard what Luna said, wondering what the hell she was talking about. Luna saw the confusion on his face and slowly stood up as she explained.

“That day when the Armageddon attacked. KING broke into a house in the lower districts of City D. He broke into my house, and we talked. When he was leaving, KING told me those same words. He said the same thing you just said to me. It was you, wasn’t it? You’re KING.”

How the hell did Luna come to that conclusion from what he just said? Mark was obviously confused, his face scrunching up in thought for a few seconds as he tried to remember what happened on the day he fought the Armageddon. He went through so much that day that it was almost impossible for him to search through all the memories at once! But then, Mark seemed to recall something from that day, and his other brow raised in realization before he chuckled in amusement. Oh, so it was her!? That girl who took care of me when I was tired from fighting the Armageddon. I broke into a house to rest and met a young girl with white hair there! How the hell could I have forgotten that?

“So you’re the one I met in that basement that day? I was wondering where I’d met you before, but I just couldn’t remember it. Now I get why you seemed familiar when I first met you. Well, I guess I wouldn’t have recognized you without some sort of lead. You’ve changed a lot since then—you used to be so thin.”

Mark didn’t need to say anything more for Luna to realize she was right! Luna couldn’t believe it right now! He was right in front of her all this time! Luna had mourned KING’s death just like everyone else! She told herself that she was going to get over his death and tried her best to do just that because she knew there was no way he was coming back! But she couldn’t believe that KING had been standing right in front of her all this time! He had always been here!

Luna felt all the energy in her body immediately vanish as a small laugh escaped her lips. What the hell had she been doing!? What kind of cruel trick was life playing on her!? Luna felt a surge of anger she hadn’t felt before pouring out of her!

Luna had so much she wanted to say to KING! So much she wanted to tell him after that day! But she held everything back and told herself she would never be able to because KING was dead! Luna couldn’t believe how stupid she was! How didn’t she see it!?

“M-Mark…”

Luna reached out and tried to talk to Mark, but Mark shook his head while turning back around to face off against the monsters in front of him. The octopus-based Eldritch had chased Mark here, and now it was moving towards them quickly while the shark was still roaring in victory. Mark knew Luna wanted to talk to him about everything that had happened, but now wasn’t the time for that.

“If you’re out of mana, you can stay back and rest. I figured out a way to deal with the anima, so it shouldn’t take too long to finish off that first one. I’ll handle the second one once I’m done with that.”

[A/N: Had to drop this here for those of you that don’t read authors note. The next few chapters are going to be very science oriented. If there’s any confusion then feel free to ask in the comments, or you could just ignore it and think ‘Oh they did a lot of science stuff here’. I wont get mad, I promise.]