Noboru was fully prepared to fight to the death, before a tugging at his collar caught him completely off guard, and, in a swift motion, Kuremi tossed him out of the window and hurtling down towards the ground. Landing on his back, Noboru let out a groan of pain as his ass was surprisingly not broken. Wincing as he got up, Noboru was still holding tightly onto the broken leg of a chair, before Kuremi fell as well. Hurriedly scrambling to try and catch her, he was surprised that she managed that landing, and, seeing that she was alright, his full attention turned to Aoi...and her sister.

Silence overtook him as he watched, his balled fists trembling as he thought of why this could happen, or what could do something like this to people. [b]"Its all HIS fault, you know."[/b] a voice rang out in his head for a moment. [b]"Your mom, your friends' family...he's using them all like little slaves."[/b] it added, before Noburu clutched his head. [color=FFEFD5][b]"Shut up. Shut up. Shut up,"[/b][/color] he said, fighting back tears as a sharp pain welled up in his right arm. Wincing as he looked up at Aoi once more, he saw her holding a spear and...covered in armor? This had to be a dream. It all had to be just one really bad, really fucked up dream that he was having from staying up too late. 

[b]"Its not a dream. People will die if you don't act. But after all, its not your problem. Just run away and survive; They can manage themselves."[/b] the voice said, now perfectly clear, as if someone was speaking over his shoulder. 

[color=FFEFD5][b]"SHUT UP!"[/b][/color] Noboru suddenly bellowed, smashing the leg of the chair against the fence beside him, twisting the metal from the force before his eyes fixed on the school building. [i]"She's still up there...she's still running. I can save her, I can save everyone. My body...our body..."[/i] his thoughts were taken away from him as a searing pain overtook his right arm, as flesh turned to bark, and bone turned into sturdy brambles interwoven beneath the verdant flesh. [color=FFEFD5][b]"AOI! REBECCA! KUREMI! RUN AND LEAVE THIS TO ME!"[/b][/color] Noboru yelled forcefully, an almost bestial ferocity to his eyes as he suddenly bolted to the school building, smashing apart a window to draw attention to himself. As shards of glass harmlessly scattered off the wooden flesh of his arm, Noboru stared down the marching hordes of stone soldiers, and at the head of them was his mother, silent and expressionless as she pursued him. Arrows flew by his face, but...they seemed to be moving so slowly now.

[color=FFEFD5][b]"Mom...I'm here."[/b][/color] Noboru said, walking towards her slowly as she approached, sword drawn.

[color=FFEFD5][b]"I'm sorry that I didn't thank you for breakfast today...I-It was delicious. My favorite, even."[/b][/color] he said, as the first swing she made was caught by his altered right arm.

[color=FFEFD5][b]"...Mom. I'll save you, alright? So just...sit tight and wait."[/b][/color] Noboru said, tears streaming down his face as he gently held his mother's calcified wrist.

[center][color=f9ad81][b][i]"Say the words. You know them already. You who are my master, make my flesh your own. Install..."[/i][/b][/color][/center]

[color=FFEFD5][b]"...Install."[/b][/color] Noboru said before a green light erupted from his right arm just as a few more stone soldiers moved to pierce his still body. 

	[url=https://youtu.be/MRXmOElc0oo?t=47]In an instant, a chain wrapped around Noboru, intercepting their stone swords[/url] bound for his chest, furiously whipping away and knocking the soldiers aside, as Noboru emerged, twin antlers piercing his skull and jutting out of his hair as he looked at his mother, giving her a brief hug, her arm still forced still by his grasp, before he suddenly dashed past her. As if the chain had a mind of its own, it lashed out wildly against every attack bound for him, deflecting arrows and knocking the armored stone soldiers aside and into the walls as he ran forward. This speed, this power, this reaction time...right now, he didn't care for its source. Seeing that the stairwell was made impassable by the volume of soldiers ascending and descending, Noboru instead jumped out the window, his brown smock fluttered as he moved. Planting one foot firmly upon the side of the building, Noboru sprinted up the wall and crashed through the window on the second floor, and right into the thick of a horde of stone soldiers approaching Maggie. 

[color=FFEFD5][b]"Sorry. It must have been scary."[/b][/color] he said, looking back at her. [color=FFEFD5][b]"Find someplace safe."[/b][/color] he requested, before starting to fight against the stone soldiers, furiously cracking his chain against them and knocking them aside, to the ground, and in some cases even out the window he'd come from.