A figure blurred into existence from the right side, his fist pulled back, before releasing a confident grin. The cursed spirit's eyes constricted, a sense of danger shooting through its body.
"Mach Fist!"
Akira's right arm vanished, surging forward with the force to destroy buildings. The wind condensed in front of his knuckledustered fist, acting as a wall before it was pierced.
Boom!
A massive beam-like shockwave surged forward, striking the wall and shooting out of the prison into the distance, carving a gully from Akira's full-powered punch.
The cursed spirit's Spider-senses had managed to warn him beforehand, and with a jump, the cursed spirit shot back, causing the punch to miss its head.
Swoosh!
"Huh?!" Akira suddenly tensed, sensing no presence of the cursed spirit around him anymore. He looked around, his Demon Brain activating, but even then, he couldn't see anything.
"Did it run away?" Akira muttered to himself as his tense body was ready to launch an attack at any notice of movement. Akira turned around. Looking down at the injured Utahime.
"If I may ask, why are you here? There was no other sorcerer supposed to be here besides my partner and me," Akira crouched down, bringing himself eye level with Utahime, who coughed into her hand in pain.
"I-I was assigned a mission to come and take care of a Grade 1 cursed spirit, but as you can see, it's anything but Grade 1," Utahime struggled to get up, levering herself wiht her hand as she barely managed to stand on her feet.
"Oh? It seems someone was trying to send you to your death-"
Squelch!
"Behind you!" Utahime's eyes
Akira looked down at a black talon piercing through his chest, confusion in his eyes as he spun around. Turing his hand into a knife, Akira slammed his hand down with white eyes, his knuckleduster the focus, veins on his forehead from anger.
Splash!
"ARGHH!!"
A black spider leg was cut off instantly, and Akira quickly pulled the talon from his chest, leaving a finger-sized hole right next to his heart. Blood seeped out, staining his shirt and sticking to his skin.
The cursed spirit screamed in pain before jumping back from Akira in fear and pain. Immediately, its stump started wriggling, before flesh grew back, healing his spider leg.
Akira narrowed his eyes at the curses healed leg. The speed was much slower than Hakari's healing, but it still made it more difficult to beat it without it.
"I see, so you can erase your presence, even from my eyes... No, your technique causes my brain to automatically ignore you," Akira touched his chest, flexing his muscles and stopping the bleeding while talking to the cursed spirit casually.
The cursed spirit growled in a low tone, its legs flexing as it opened its snake mouth. Akira tensed, his core lowering as he got ready to counterattack.
Swoosh!
"Shit!"
Akira cursed in anger as the presence of the spider, along with the visual representation, vanished from his brain. He spun around, looking with caution.
Boom!
A beam of red cursed energy suddenly appeared behind Akira. It pierced the air, smashing into his back like a fright train. The energy exploded on impact, creating a massive explosion that destroyed the ground and the roof for a dozen meters.
Swoosh!
Bang!
Akira groaned, blood leaking from his mouth as he smashed into a wall, coming to a halt as he carved two deep trenches into the concrete ground.
'I can't react fast enough or sense his presence... So I am basically fighting an invisible curse that I can't hit...' Akira slowly wiped his lips from blood, calming down as he straightened up.
[Endorphins.]
[Adrenaline.]
[Demon Brain.]
The world returned to calm under Akira's eyes as the throbbing pain in his body faded. His muscles relaxed, and he could feel his body's durability, speed, and endurance increase slightly.
'I need to leave Demon Back as a last resort, or I'll run out of stamina before finding the weakness of this curse... ' Akira lowered his stance, his legs widened slightly, his hands raised in front of him.
'First things first, an area-wide attack.'
Akira's hands vanished, only for a resounding explosion of sound to rock the surroundings, cracking walls, disintegrating the ground right under him as his palms crashed together.
Boom!
A shockwave of sound rushed out in a 360-degree area, but Akira waited for a second, and nothing happened. His eyes narrowed, but even wiht his X-ray, he couldn't see the cursed spirit.
'Does things without cursed energy really not affect them?... Fuck!'
Akira took a deep breath, calming down.
'His cursed technique must be related to my brain... Forcibly making my brain ignore his presence and mask his cursed energy at the same time, how do I stop that?...'
Boom!
Akira's pupils constricted as an invisible strike hit him.
Akira was sent flying, blood leaking from his nose as a massive tail whipped him in the head. His body shot out like a missile, straight out of the prison facility into the distance.
"Akira?!"
The running Maki froze in shock and worry as she saw Akira flying past her like a missile. She spun around, intending to run after him, only for her body to shiver as her instincts screamed at her.
'Dodge!'
The only thought in Maki's mind was dodging, and her body instantly followed that command, rolling away, just as a talon was about to pierce her head, killing her on the spot.
From a distance, Akira's eyes caught the cursed spirit being dodged by Maki.
'He missed?!' Akira came to a stop, surprise on his face as he watched the cursed spirit miss Maki. Then anger filled his mind as his calves tensed for a split second.
'Mach Movement!'
The cursed spirit, still not in his invisible mode, felt his spider senses go off, his body swaying to the right. But it was too late as a full-speed Akira punched towards him with his knuckleduster.
Boom!
A knuckleduster smashed into the chest of the curse, its scales cracking apart, revealing bloody flesh under it. Akira grinned, blood leaking from his nose into his mouth, turning his teeth red.
The curse shot out from the attack, smashing into the prison facility with such force that it instantly came crashing down. The ground trembled, smoke and debris flying everywhere.
Maki shielded her eyes as the dust got blown into her face from the shockwave, her pupils trembling in shock at the shockwave of power. She had never seen such a destructive attack before.
"Maki, there's a woman inside running towards the curtain. She is seriously injured. Take her to Ijichi and go back to the dorm. I'll take care of this curse by myself."
Akira spoke, a confident smirk on his face as he looked back at Maki.
"Will you lose to that thing?" Maki asked with sweat sliding down her temple, worry in her eyes. Her hands trembled from clenching too hard, annoyance flashing in her chest at her weakness.
"Me?" Akira asked with a smile, before replying.
"Nah, I'd Win~,"
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