"Alright, I trust that you'll win, just be careful. If anything happens to you, Yuka will kill me!" Maki glanced at Akira, her brows twitching as she regained some of her confidence.
The corners of Maki's mouth curled unconsciously at Akira's confidence and his leisurely stance. She was worried for a second that he would lose, but if he is that confident, then he will definitely win.
She trusts him.
"Oh? You trust me that much? Sure, I'll pound that curse into the ground just for you~, now go before that woman dies from internal bleeding,"
Akira grinned as he turned away from Maki with a satisfied look. Facing the destroyed prison facility, a mountain of rubble was trembling as the curse was about to spring out from it.
Maki wasted no time in turning around and running away to create distance from Akira, not wanting to become a burden if the curse attacks her again.
'That other sorcerer is slow from injuries, judging by Akira's words, so she must not have gotten far,' Maki narrowed her eyes, her green hair swaying fiercely in the air as she sprinted, leaving behind after images.
"Now that I don't have to worry about anything anymore, how about we start this again?"
Looking behind him until Maki's back vanished. Akira spoke as he locked back to the curse, who burst out of the rubble with a furious growl, sending shockwaves flying.
'It's a cursed technique that targets my brain... So I need to create a technique to counter it,' Narrowing his eyes as the curse in front of him tensed, its cursed energy reinforcing its giant body.
A tense atmosphere lingered between the two as Akira stood casually, every muscle in his body relaxed, causing him to sway in place as if he were liquid.
'Brain...'
Akira closed his eyes, flipping through every book he had read and every YouTube video he had watched about the human body while creating his fighting style and Mach Movement.
Boom!
The curse rushed forward, going invisible and vanishing from Akira's brain. Akira tensed his body, a massive force crushing into him as a beam of pure cursed energy struck him in his right peck.
Bang!
The ground around Akira cracked and exploded outward as he stayed in place, glued to the floor, a bruise forming on his chest as his jacket got torn to shreds.
'Almost...'
Akira rushed to the right side, the ground where he stood suddenly caving into a massive crater as an invisible figure slammed down. The invisible, cursed spirit shrieked in shock and surprise at Akira's dodge, before continuing his attack.
Boom!
Pure raw cursed energy shot out, while a long, scaled tail struck from the side in a curve. Akira's unfocused eyes narrowed, a prickling feeling shooting up his spine.
'LEFT!'
Boom!
"Urgh!"
Akira groaned as a heavy tail, carrying the force of a freight train, crashed into his side, his hands and knee up in a block. The force caused him to slide to the left, leaving trenches in the ground.
"I blocked it-"
Boom!
A massive explosion rocked the place as the three beams of cursed energy struck Akira's body. The ground was disintegrated, while a shockwave spread out, blowing the destroyed rubble away like bullets.
Swoosh!
Akira's bloodied and burned figure rushed out from the massive smoke cloud on the left, his left hand limp by his side, broken from blocking the explosion, and his chest burned from the explosion.
Many scratches and gashes were torn into his body. But even as pain assaulted him, Akira had a successful smirk on his face.
"Fuck, I'm a fucking genius! I just created a new technique!" Akira could not hold back from shouting outloud as he stood upright, ignoring the burning sensations in his body and his throbbing hand.
!
Swoosh!
Akira jumped over a black talon that shone with a sharp gleam, as if it could cut space itself. His eyes turned blood red, his back tensing as his hair started floating, defying gravity.
The air around his body shattered, before distorting as if space itself couldn't handle his presence.
[Demon Back!]
Switching the knuckleduster from his broken hand onto his working one, Akira felt his stats double on top of all his buffs. Akira clenched his fist, using Mach Fist as he struck towards the spider.
Boom!
"ARGHHHHH!!!"
The curse shrieked in pain and a hint of fear as half of its right side turned into a bunch of mushed-up meat and bones, dripping with purple blood that left a stench.
Its sharp senses went haywire, threats from all over the area, in a 360-degree assault on its mind, and the spider curse instantly knew there was no escaping this threat anymore.
It turned invisible, but Akira grinned as his eyes followed him to the right. The neurons inside the creature's brain sent signals into Akira's own brain, allowing him to sense its presence.
Not only that, it allowed Akira to anticipate when the curse would move, meaning he knew when the curse would move before the curse itself knew he wanted to move.
"Trying to escape now that you're the prey? Sorry, but my mercy is not that great~,"
Swoosh!
Akira vanished, appearing above the running spider. His face looked cold and emotionless, saliva flowing down his lips as he focused all his intent into his working hand.
Clenching his hand around the knuckleduster, Akira relaxed every single cell in his body, transferring his energy into his arm, hardening it and boosting its strength.
"Mach Fist!"
The air around the area vanished, a massive vacuum appearing as Akira's punch landed on the curse under him. Its body froze before starting to disintegrate into black ash.
Boom!
"Argh!" Akira felt his ears ring, and his internal organs screaming in pain and denial as the vacuum was filled with air, his eardrums bursting from the sudden pressure.
With a loud crack, the knuckleduster on his hand broke into pieces, flying all over the area.
The air in the vacuum crushed the ground into ash, creating a crater spanning dozens of meters wide, while sending Akira flying towards the distant curtain wall.
A woman watched all this happen, covered by barriers that erased her presence.
"Hmm? Not bad, that last strike had some power in it. It seems you're improving at a fast pace, Akira-kun." Looking into the air, Kaori smiled as she watched Akira's body flying towards her.
"W-What the hell do you want with Akira, you bastard?!-"
Boom!
"Ugh!"
A blast of enormous gravity crashed into Maki for an instant, quieting her before she could continue speaking.
Blood erupted from her pale lips, staining them red. She fell onto her face, with bruises all around her body, her bones cracked, and her glasses broken on the floor.
"Hmm? Well, isn't that obvious? I want his genes~, among other things."
"What?!"
Maki's eyes widened before a black blur hit her in the neck, knocking her out cold. Kaori smiled in amusement as she looked down at Maki and Utahime, both of whom were out cold on the floor.
Swoosh!
Boom!
Kaori spun around, catching Akira's heel with her palm, reinforced by cursed energy and gravity, along with using Stack from Blood Manipulation to strengthen her body.
Instantly, a shockwave threw Maki and Utahime's body back, while Akira's ferocious expression locked with Kaori's leisurely one, a satisfied smirk on her face as she felt the force in her palm.
"We finally meet face to face, Akira-kun~,"
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