The Steel of Mortal | Genshin Impact x Male Reader

Ch 99 - The Snow Petal of Chronos Rose

(Y/N)'s P.O.V

I froze upon saw him in front of me. The father figure that was saved pitiful boy in great fire is become my own enemy. His cold gaze and tired eyes is still same as ever which mean, he would kill even myself in order to gain his objective.

Everything seems passing by in slow motion. None of us daring to make the next move, all sounds went instantly mute and my heart beat faster.

Never once myself expecting, I would fight him in the bloody duel.

It's either me or him...

That will walk away from this battle alive...

Yet... there is something been in my mind ever since he revealed himself.

(Y/N): "Hey, Old man..."

Kiritsugu: "What?"

(Y/N): "Where's the milk?"

Kiritsugu: "Forgive me for not bring anything..."

(Y/N): "Then, you shall pay it with your bloods, deadbeat!"

I jump toward Kiritsugu as reinforcing my feet which made him bring out one of his old toys. The submachine gun, Calico M950 before speaking up with a cold tone.

Kiritsugu: "Have you ever heard to never bring a sword in a gun fight, son? You need plot armor to survive this bullets"

(Y/N): "I am the plot and you are the one who needs armor, old man!"

I said before yeet away the sword and projected Usumidori upon saw Kiritsugu squeezing the gun's trigger, with loud gun shots piercing my ears, the bullets flying toward me while I'm raising up the blade toward my enemy.

"Usumidori - Heavenly Blade Steps!"

I steps side dodging the bullets with speed beyond the speed of sound by using fluently movements.

Kiritsugu: "What!?"

He stops squeezing the trigger before speaking up with his usual cold tone as I'm already stood behind him while tighten my blade and aiming at his neck.

Kiritsugu: "Time Alter: Triple Accel"

I sweep horizontally toward his neck, hoping that he wouldn't react but he dodged it as ducked below the slash before jumping forward and launching a knife behind which I deflected it.

But once again, Kiritsugu vanished and landed in bushes and I can't sense his presence.

Soon, I understood his Magecraft.

Time Alter... is a type of bouded-field magecraft to manipulate time within one's body. It's to speed up or slow down blood flow, hemoglobin metabolism and muscle movement.

When he speeds up, he's perceive the world in slow motion...

When he slows down, his presence is not even recognized by my five senses because it was combined with Presence Concealment skill...

And do you know what's the worst?

That he is a Servant, which mean he could handle the burdens from negative effect of Time Alter.

(Y/N): "Dang it!"

I couldn't help but slowly curses under my breath as ready up my stance.

Let's calm myself and analyze the situations.

Kiritsugu's Origin Bullet won't have a effect on then completed Projection products which mean, he will shot that bullet while I'm projecting weapons.

Since higher level weapons needs more time to project. Therefore, I should keep it under C-rank weapon.