1176 Impulsive Anna / Cautious Ann
Date- 5 April 2321
Time- 04:13
Location- Southern Region, Blossom district, Sky Blossom City, Outskirts
A person’s individuality was the greatest freedom they could have. And no one would give it up for a second. The same was true for both Ann and Anna. The Alter Ego Possession allowed both of them to fuse their bodies and minds to turn into one greater being with enormous power that transcended levels but neither Ann nor Anna trusted each other enough to allow the skill Alter Ego Possession to fuse their mind with the other.
Yes, it was Ann and Anna who did not let the skill Alter Ego Possession fuse their minds into one just like it did with their bodies. Though they posed as twins, they knew they weren’t twins, they both were the same person. What if they fuse their minds and one of them loses themselves to the other? As much as they did not want to lose their individuality to the other, they also did not want to lose the other. Anna and Ann had spent decades not agreeing with each other, underneath it all they both knew that they would miss the other.
So all the times they used this skill they never actually fused their mind. And because of this their perfectly fused body was missing a perfectly fused mind but instead, it was running on two mediocre minds. As expected the body had control issues, it was like a puppet with two mediocre puppeteers. If Ann and Anna were to work in sync, they might actually pull this off but they both never actually got along or agreed on things.
Anna was impulsive, she acted on the first thought that came to her mind whereas Ann was cautious, she liked to think twice or thrice before acting. They were opposites, when Lois taunted them saying, ‘Is that the best you got?’
pAnDa (nov)e1 Anna fell for Lois’s taunt and her first reaction was to shove her fist into that bitch’s face. Whereas Ann, did not fall for Lois’s taunt, rather she carefully considered the events, where Lois received their devastating punch with her face, there wasn’t a scratch on her face to show after. How was that possible?
While going through events in her head Ann realized that their fist had lost all force behind it even before it connected with Lois’s face. Ann clearly remembers she felt a kind of suction on their fist. Learning that there was a trick to Lois’s stunt, Ann wanted to explain it to Anna, as Anna was the one who was controlling the body but that hothead had used the strongest strength they could summon to attack Lois again, it was too late for a warning yet Ann said, “No, Anna, don’t.”
Once again even before their fist connected to Lois’s smug face, they felt a suction force that swallowed the force behind their punch. Since the attack this time was stronger than the last one, Lois could not use her ability subtly as she did previously. So this time even Anna realized that there was a trick behind Lois daringly taking their fist to the face.
“Do you want to take any more shots? Because when I start you guys might not get the chance to,” Lois said with great confidence. But it felt more like she was talking big as she could still not free her fist from Ann(Anna).
‘Anna, don’t attack her, it seems her right eye can swallow the energies in our attacks,’ Ann mentally conveyed to Anna and then added, ‘Though I am still not clear on the range of Lois’s ability to swallow energies of the attacks directed at her, how about we experiment by crushing her hand first.’
‘Now you’re talking my language,’ Saying that Anna immediately tightened her grip around Lois’s fist caught in her palm, this time to crush Lois’s fist for real.
*Crack*
Blood splattered and Lois was finally free after Anna(Ann) crushed her fist. This was also what Lois wanted because she knew that if she wanted to separate and gain distance between herself and the southern emperor, she would have to sacrifice her fist which was in the grasp of the southern emperor. Lucky for her, the southern emperor helped her make the difficult decision.
As her fist was crushed by the southern emperor, Lois groaned in pain, abandoned her mortally wounded fist, and hurriedly retreated to create a little distance between her and the southern emperor. And then used a card to regrow the palm of her hand at an incredible pace, later she summoned a potion and drank it, and with that her fist grew in a few seconds as if it was never crushed in the first place.
‘Anna, it seems, the range of her swallowing ability is less than her melee range. I have very little info to work with, so I may be wrong about this but I think the reason why she keeps receiving our punches with her face must be because of the limited range of her skill. This time aim at another part of her body and try to avoid her face even if she tries to receive your punch with her face,’ Ann mentally explained her hypothesis to Anna and then asked her to attack Lois avoiding her face.
‘Watch me,’ saying that Anna(Ann) prepared to attack Lois but then she heard Lois say, “Do you know where all the energy I swallowed from your last two attacks go?”
“Who cares,” Anna yelled, ready to roll the booster dice once again but Lois vanished, then feeling Lois presence in the mid-section of her channel connecting her to the spiritual plane and Lois’s presence vanish again, Anna hurried turned back preparing to attack while shouting, “You must think I am a fool to think that same move will work on me twice.”
But to Anna’s dismay this time Lois did not appear behind her but in front of her, since Anna had preemptively turned thinking that Lois would appear behind her, now, her back was wide open to Lois.
Lois took the opportunity to sneak attack not bothering that she just revealed that she could arrive anywhere in the surrounding of the target. This info on her ability wasn’t important but sometimes it made a difference, right now it