Anti freeze spray...check, house size fire extinguisher...check, fire mattress... check, gas mask, check. Metal rod, pliers, tissues, a bunch of sparklers, a pack of matches, check, check and check, a Bunsen burner, dried red peppers, Tabasco sauce, vinegar, Mason jar, check, check and check...bleach, acetone, ice, funnel, glass tube...I mumbled to myself as I went through my 'shopping list'. Normally these things would cost me a hell of a lot, good thing Mi gave me 1k us dollar budget to spend. And I still have plenty left over for myself. During my shopping trip a couple people gave me odd glances but I ignored them. After I was done my shopping spree, It was near sunset, so I best figured to go home and prepare. No, I would rather find somewhere and cook this ruckus up, because I am really not looking forward for the tenant to kick me out for making illegal weapons inside the compartment. Anyway right now the only place I could think of that's safe to make this kind of crap is Mi secret meeting place. Just hopefully I don't end up blowing up her place and myself in the process, and I must pray to God once again, this shit better work.

***

Ying you are one hell of a badass. I told myself, feeling prouder than ever. Hours had passed in the tunnel, but I really couldn't tell the difference. All I know is that when I entered the tunnel it was still in the early afternoon, but by the time I exited the tunnel it was already night. I got up, stretched and headed out of the sky train station, feeling more confident than ever. To face the twins, what a glorious task. I got on a train that took me all the way from my part of the town to Area 8. It didn't really look any different from the part of town I came from: clustered apartments, people busying away their lives, and an awful lot of university students like me. This was home to the Ragnarok sisters and I was on their territory. And that means I cannot let me guard down for a single second. I assume the twins have spies and lookouts around here so it won't take them long to come and find me. Or I can initiate first...

"Eji." I muttered under my breath.

One of the bonus perks of my special ability is that it can be used to detect targets by picking up their thoughts from a distance. I will humbly brag give it about a humble 500 meter radius detection range. But doing so I have to be still for a period of time and would require extreme concentration. My target this time is the Ragnarok sisters, and in order to find out their location I first must know what they are thinking. Now comes the hard part. Knowing what the target is thinking is the most crucial part for this ability to work. With my lack of understanding of the Ragnarok sisters, it would be hard for me to pick up their thoughts so the best I could do is guess. Let's see what would a pair of twins with terrifying power such as creating fire and ice out of thin air think about? Hmm...burning people to death? Freezing people to death? I closed my eyes and concentrated for a moment, and turned up with nothing. Let's try again...oh yeah, besides guessing what they were thinking I could also search for intentions towards me. To doing that there must be a keyword...

my dearest sister...

Aurora: "my dearest sister Aine what shall we do to track down this pest escape earlier?"

Aine: "Track him down of course! My dearest sister, we can track down his home or just simply let him come to us!"

Aurora: "I see my dearest sister that is a genius plan! But what happens if he comes for us first?"

Aine: "That is the last thing I expect, but if that does happen, then I will just simply burn him until not even ashes are left!"

Bingo...and I really didn't need to hear all of that; especially the part where they called me a pest. Wait until I get my hands on them, and show those little bitches who's the real boss...which will be soon enough. Judging from the last place where I picked their thoughts, they weren't really that far away from me, in fact they were dangerously close. They were roughly a hundred meters away from me. Right now people were leaving work to go home or hit the bar. That meant there were a significant amount of people on the street. I hoped that no one would get hurt and well, if someone did get hurt then I guess it sucks for them. But regardless of the surroundings right now, I had to be the first one to initiate the fight. If I don't then I would have to run away, and this time I don't know if I can outrun them again since I bet they know their own turf way better than I do.

50meters. I sensed. I quickly ducked behind the building just to make sure they didn't see me. Just to make sure if the coast was clear I peeked my head out a little bit just enough to catch a glimpse of the twins; their appearance was the same as before. Nothing really changed about them, they just looked like a pair of ordinary cosplayers walking down the street in the middle of the night. Well that's still kind of uncommon, especially when you are not in Tokyo or an anime convention or something.

20meters. Now was my chance. I quickly struck a match a lit up one my prized work and threw it at them straight out form the gloom. A homemade flash grenade, basically a tissue that contains a bunch of sparklers wrapped around a metal rod with part of it sticking out at the end. And all I have to do is strike a match and light up end of the metal rod. The twins screamed, but I didn't turn around to see their expressions, I just turned and ran. With Eji's powers I was able to hear them cursing inside their heads in a very unladylike manner. The homemade flash grenade was not as effective as a real one. And it is much shorter, depending on the target the stun can last from seconds to minutes. But, given the targets I was facing I didn't think the effect wouldn't last as long as it was supposed to. And I was right, seconds later I heard footsteps coming at me, along with a firestorm and icicles as long as my arm.

Hail storm 6 o'clock. Holy crap, now that's just kind of cheap. I quickly ducked and slid under an innocent looking cars. For the next few moments all I heard was the sound of metal being bent and crushed. I bet the car I was under was already in tatters, but, let's just hope the owner of this car bought insurances for 'destruction of car. On the other hand a pair of maniacal twins wanted to kill someone that was hiding under your car'...Yeah, I doubt any insurance company in the world covers that kind of crap.

Flame thrower 6 o'clock. I quickly rolled away to the opposite side of the car and went b-line for the D-tour ahead. I didn't even have the time to register the explosion as it knocked me forward and sent me rolling across the street. My clothes were smoke stained and tattered now, but no real damage was done to me...BAM! The car fell a meter away from where I was. From this close I could feel the immense heat coming from the remains of the car. I was lying with my side to the ground and most of my body was numb. My hearing was handicapped by the sound of the explosion and then there they were. Both twins towering above me, ready to pop their abilities any moment. Since they didn't do anything I thought they were kind of like the villains in cartoons. They are gonna bull s*** a lot, and eventually that will just buy the good guy enough time to recover and kick their ass in the end.

"Do you have any last words you sly coward?" Aine said with mocking shout.

"Yes. Yes I do in fact." I cleared my throat.

"My dearest sister Aine, let us eliminate this pest at once." Aurora suggested.

"Wait! Please don't kill me! I am just a pesty sly coward not even worthy of the attention to kill! You high and mighty goddesses please spare my life!" I know I sound pathetic, but it's all necessary to buy time for my plan to work.

"Ha! That's right, even a sly coward like you can acknowledge our true power, I will give you that." Aine ranted with her nose all pointing up. I knew her type really well, just keep on feeding her compliments and she wouldn't even know how she lost in the end.

"My sister dearest sister Aine, he is clearly lying to you." Aurora pointed out. "He can't be lying! We're awesome and strong and that's a fact!"

"Men like him are not the type to tell the truth, they will tell whatever lie necessary to save their own lives. He is truly not worth keeping alive."

"So what you said back there was all a lie?" Aine turned and faced me with a grumpy expression.

"Yeah your sister is right, man like me is not worth trusting; but have I ever told you. You are both so cute?"

I wasn't lying about that part that was just a plain simple fact. I know this because complimenting girls on their looks always catches them off guard. This time even Aurora even seemed too persuaded, but Aine took the full credit of it:

"...Uhh...Ha! Don't think you are able to persuade me with just a few simple words. Though I see even the lowliest men like you are able to see what true beauty is." Wow how vain she was it was truly impressive. Aine flicked her hair and wore a triumphant smile.

"Oh one more thing." I quickly added.

"Speak now; these will be your last words." Aine said with one hand covering her sinister smile and the other hand at her hip.

"The next time when you want to kill somebody, you shouldn't bull shit that much, because you might just give them time to do this!" I whipped out the Mason jar I had strapped to my side and threw it at their feet. I rolled away and made a straight run for my life. Judging from the distance of my thoughts, the twins did dodge the Mason jar I threw at them, but they did not anticipate what was inside. Homemade tear gas, cooked with a special recipe. Though it was not as powerful as actual tear gas its short term effects are just as efficient. The one I made had a lower concentration, but a higher radius anywhere within 10m of the centre of the blast that thing can literally burn your eyes out. Even though I made it out of the blast radius at the last moment, I could still feel my eyes tear up a bit. Behind me I could hear a string of curses coming from the twins as they temporarily retreated. It looked like they were going to take a different route to get me. Now, I think was the time for me to take out the twins for once and for all. But in order to do that I must lure the twins into a closed space. Ideally a closed small room...and I just thought of the perfect place: the washroom. The boy's washroom of course, since going to the women's washroom would defiantly be viewed as a crime for me. Even though I know the boys washroom sounds just as bad, but, we can overlook certain details in this high speed pursuit. Since most buildings are closed around this time, the only place I could think that still washroom potentially open is...No the gas station wouldn't work. Aine's ability will just blow the entire place up, silly of me just to even think about that. The more I thought, the more I stressed out I got. As I ran down the streets I saw a church, with only a few people coming in and out. Well, I never been to a church before, but I hope those religious folks won't mind being good Samaritans, since it's clearly written in the bible. Ugh I didn't really read the bible that much, besides I was kinda of desperate to carry out my plans. So without further ado, I rushed to the church doorway. There was priest looking guy in the front and he seemed to want to speak when I cut him off:

"Where is the washroom?"

"...up stairs to the right, but it's closed for prayer tonight..." he said trying to be polite as possible.

"Thanks." I pushed him right aside, I know it may seem rude, but it was completely necessary, trust me. By the time I reached the top of the stairs, I took out both the house fire extinguisher and the anti-freeze spray from my backpack, and held them up one in each hand. I sat and waited there, by the time the twins showed up I was ready, I aimed my fire extinguisher at Aine and the anti-freeze spray at Aurora. And both attacks hit the twins square in the face. They were coughing and thrashing around. I thought my tools did the job but it appears they were nowhere even near effective at handicapping their abilities. Out of all the confusion, Aine shoots out a fire ball and it hits a ceiling. That set off a fire alarm, next thing I know the sprinklers went off like crazy, and got me all wet. I quickly backed away and made a mad dash for the washroom, it seems that part of the plan didn't work out so well. But at least with all the water going around, Aine's ability was severely handicapped. The sprinklers could just stop at any time though.

Once I was inside my washroom, I pulled on my gas mask and turned to my final solution, and honestly if this doesn't solve the problem, nothing really will. I then hid behind one of the stalls and peeked through the crack as much as possible. At first I heard footsteps, very angry footsteps, next moment two stooped wet feral looking twins, came barging inside the washroom. They scanned the place for a moment and began searching the stalls one by one. Ha all the other stalls were deserted, it seemed I was the only one inside the washroom. That meant any innocents would be safe...for now. When they were about 1 stall away from me, I flew open from my stall and threw my ultimate weapon at the ground towards them; a homemade knockout gas. Contained in a glass tube, the gas would flood the room the instant the tube broke. Although the model I made was not as effective as the actual one this baby can take effect in a matter of seconds. This was the most risky part of the plan, mostly because I never thought my originally plan would go this way. Actually in my original plan I didn't even think I would make it this far, but this is the hour, this is the moment. Life and death lie only meters apart. My attack once again caught the twins completely off guard, but this time instead of running away from them, I ran right straight towards them. I barged into them and right out the door. Once through I immediately slammed the door shut. There were some scream and shouts, followed by a couple icicles penetrating through the door. One of them almost caught me in the head, no fireballs thankfully. About half a minute later all was quiet again, I took off the gas mask hardly able to catch my breath. Before I opened the door, I put on my gas mask once again. I didn't want to take any chances, and upon my entering the room the smoke seemed to clear a little bit. I could see the twins lying on the ground next to each other. Honestly I like them way better this way, when they are sleeping in harmony and not trying to kill me. Just to make sure that they were not faking it I poked Aine's face slightly with the end of a broom I found on the side of the room. I expected an explosion of anger that would probably blow up the entire building, but instead all I got was a soft snore. Just what the hell do I do with the twins now? Leave them here for the police to take them or something? Well the police will gladly take me for sure. But leaving two unconscious young pretty girls all cold and wet just didn't seem like the gentleman thing to do...just what the hell do I do now?