Chapter 40: Limitless

Arc: Train to the Capital . 

 While Zeke and Ayami fight on the last locomotive, Jason's fight against Ajax continues.

Jason to himself: " Damn it , one wound is enough to disfigure my face .... Also, I thought it would be easier to fight him on the train's roof away from the passengers , but I was wrong . "

Ajax: "Come on, I haven't used all my weapons yet."

Ajax threw two metals at him but Jason avoided them with his gloves, and at the same moment Ajax threw steel balls under Jason and he tripped, falling back with a backflip away from the metal sticks coming to him.

Ajax: "Not bad."

Jason to himself: "It was imminent again, what's up with that boy?!"

Greed surfaces angrily: "What are you doing, stop playing around and finish him off."

Jason shouts: "It's easy for you to say, didn't you find a way to stop the train?"

Greed: "We removed the diamonds from the train, and it didn't work."

Ajax to himself:" It's no use, the train won't stop, it's controlled remotely, I don't even know how to stop it."

Ajax: "Ignoring me again !!"

Jason:" Hey, let me ask you, why did you wrap that old purple ribbon on your hand?"

Ajax smiles:" Heh, since you asked...this right hand controls my magnetic field, I can use the  charged metals I've hidden according to my elaborate plan. "

Greed: "And this magnetic field is made by your own ?"

Ajax:" Yes, imagine that I am the center of the field, and the further away I am from the object to be attracted, the less its strength, but if I remove the tape from one finger from my hand, the force of the field increases, which means, I can increase its range. I wonder what would happen if I removed the tape from my whole hand?"

The two remain in shock.

Greed:" For heaven's sake, what are we against?!"

Jason: "Hey, if it's like you say, why are all metals attracted to me, and not the other way around?"

Ajax: "The field invalidation is the reason, do you know how long I had to master this magic, four years, four years of wear and tear, and my handsome face became disfigured.."

Jason: "Well, well, I got it ."

Jason attacks him rushing and faster than before using his white flame under his palm and Greed attacking Ajax from behind.

Ajax shouts: "The Magnet Prison ."

Ajax jumps and spins in the air and then kicks Jason on the chin and in a second he turns behind him and looks at Greed with the metal surrounding him. 

 Ajax: "If you move, these minerals will penetrate every part of you."

Jason: "You do like to smear people's faces, how many times  you punched  me in the face, and what's that you're wearing, a necklace?"

Suddenly the metals fell around Greed and Ajax stood staring at Jason, Greed ran to him and chained him in a rock prison with his magic on the roof of the train.

Greed,  grabbing  Ajax's hair: "How dare you put me in a situation like this...ha?..what is that drawing on your neck? (shock)..is it possible that you are?!"

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About 4-8 km from Jason's position, among the thickets of the railroad tracks, the twins, Christine and the Master hid from the soldiers and Brigadier General Harry.

Farsto whispers:" Lasto, can you continue now?"

Lasto,  as she regains her breathing pattern:" Lasto needs a little more time."

Master Valko: "Hurry up!"

Lasto:" Lasto is trying, what's in your hand, Christine?"

 Christine holds her muddy medical ear stethoscope ,when she fight against  Dusty and says out loud: "What?, I can't hear you clearly."

Farsto: "Shhh !, you're loud ."

Master: "Let's go on our way by feet ."

Lasto:" No, Lasto hates to walk."

Farsto:" Then recover quickly."

Lasto:" Lasto, knows."

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Ajax:" You!, give it back to me ."

Jason pointing at the necklace: " Give back what ?, oh you mean this? ,Oi Greed hands up ."

Greed catches it: "That's not the way you pitch a ball ,  it's like that."

Ajax:" No, wait,  it's really important, you'll .. you'll open it!!"

Greed: "Open it?!...Is there something in it?.."

Greed opened the necklace and a picture of Ajax with his parents appeared. 

Greed laughed hysterically: "Ha-ha-ha, this, that's really funny, Jason you should see this ."

Jason: "Let me see, hehe, oh my gosh, my stomach, huh."

Greed: " Is this clumsy here is really you ?!"

Jason: "Looks like you've gone through a lot to get to this weight. "

 Ajax's face turned red: "So what, you won't reach my current beauty even if you lose 12 of your weight."

Jason:" Sorry, sorry, but I realized when I looked in your face because, you're such a good person, you had the chance to kill the passengers instead of going up on the roof with me."

Owen , wrathfully : "YOU TWO !, we're about to die here, and you're having fun with the enemy?!"

Greed puts his forehead on Ajax's and looks at him with a frightened look: "Stop the train...You're one of us, you're one of the guards."

 Silence pervades the surface, and the air speed passes through them severely.

Greed takes off his jacket and shows him his yellow  tattoo on his chest : "I saw your burgundy tattoo on your neck, the word Magnet 磁石 Jishaku."

Ajax:" No, I don't know how."

Jason sighs heavily:" You were manipulated too or what."

Jason hands the necklace to him: "You owe us now, help us stop the train, Prince."

Owen: "I'll get off."

Jason:" We count on you ."

The three went back inside the train while Owen got off the train and stretched himself holding the train's back end with one hand  as he pulled himself up and then threw his spear towards a distance in front of the train with the other hand . Then he  moved quickly, as if he  was flying on top of the train . Flexibly grabs his spear that was attached  to the ground and let go of the train's back to reach  up to his spear and stands next to it . 

Jason addresses the passengers:" Everyone calm down.. I need all of you to  go to your seats and hold on tightly."

Greed says to him:  "Whatever the cost , don't slip  Owen's hands away."

Jason emerge half of his body out of the train's window: "At least I won't let it go before you."

Greed, his body outside the window from the other side: "We'll see about that."

Jason:" Ajax, you too, even if you had to take the tape off your hand, you might make a big mistake that you regret if you didn't."

Jason's words to Ajax made him go back to his cruel past and remember the words in a warm voice that entered his heart.

Ajax holding Jason's arm: "Don't blame me later for what's going to happen."

The train approached to Owen at a frightening speed, approaching the edge of the road. Owen stretched out to reach Jason and Greed, his arms outstretched on either side of the train until his back hit the front of the train.

 Jason waits for Owen's arm to come to him: "It's coming."

Greed screams:" ROCK FIST ! "

A rocky hand appears with Greed ,controlling it, the hand grips Owen's arm very tight and Jason clips his gloves and claws together with  Owen's arm in the middle . 

The train was still advancing toward the edge, its wheels slowing to a halt, and the railway's sparking, screeching sound louder.

Owen: "More , More longer !!"

Owen's legs are starting to sink to the ground and the screaming passengers shakes the train. 

Jason screams :" Ajax!, it's now or never ."

 Ajax grabbed Jason's  shoulders with both hands to pull him as hard as he could, taking only three of his fingers off the tape . But because of the strength of the attraction force of Ajax, the train began to stop leaning  to the right, that is, the direction of Ajax magnet power while Owen's arm touched the rail.

 Owen resists in  pain:" Damn, I'm starting to hurt, my right arm touches the ground."

Greed shouts: "Jason, the train is coming towards you.!

Jason stared at Ajax and realized what he was saying through his looks.

Ajax:" I told you not to blame me for what will happen."

During their conversation, the fist of the rock began to weaken and crumble into small pieces of stone. 

Greed: "Wait, not now..."

"  You guys  need a hand ?"

Zeke was on an Air Sled as one of the equipment in the last locomotive , he  strapped a thick string to Owen's arm, accelerating the sled, pulling Owen's arm.

Jason: "When do you intend to appear?"

Farsto on the Lasto's ball: "Champions appear in the last moment of victory ."

Lasto approached the train and touched it and it began to float: "one hour zero gravity."

Then she fell on her brother's arm from fatigue, the train was floating above, calmly and poised.

Farsto looking sweetly at his sister: "Well done."

The rest , let go of Owen's arms and come back to him as he was lying on the ground in front of the train breathing, his eyes slowly closed, Owen : "Am I... am I dead?!"

Ayami approaches to his head:" No, you're not."

Owen:" Huh, I thought I'd die without marrying a pretty girl."

Ayami: "As if a girl would do with this personality of yours ."

Owen sits: "Ha!...how cruel."

Ayami: "Let me treat your wound so we can return to the others."

Owen:" Heeeeh! I'll always do this so you can cure me. Ouch!"

Ayami pulls his ear: "Do not rejoice too much."

To Be Continued....