The white-colored waves distributed in the directions of East, West, North, and South. The waves that headed East surged toward the middle cave, knocking down the rocks of its front side, which scattered around with the appearance of more gray smoke resulting from the explosions occurring inside the cave. Oshnirai moved her arms—with which she was protecting her face—away and turned quickly behind her to see the scene of a large amount of explosion smoke surging through her cold eyes, then returned her head to the front to see waves covering her side due to their intense whiteness until she returned her arms to cover her face. Soon, the waves began to clear and their white color faded little by little until transparency. The rapid water movement decreased, the bubble density lessened, and the movement and flying of rocks stopped as they descended to the ground slowly. The flight of Chyohana's feminine hat reached a stop as the water movement ceased at a hollow in a large rock that hadn't moved due to the wave push but had fallen from its place. The flying of Oshnirai's hair braid stopped to the point where the latter lowered both her arms from her face, and the place that was surrounded by white was revealed. Oshnirai looked to the right, then left, then forward, and her eyes reached the bottom to find herself in a large hole three meters wide and three meters deep as well, with Oshnirai continuing to look downward. [ Oshnirai ]: "The power of this blue force was enough to dig a hole that dropped me inside it... Honestly, I expected it to be more lethal than that." Her feet began to advance toward the wall of the hole in front of her. [ Oshnirai ]: "Anyway, there isn't enough time to waste; I must jump from the bottom of this hole." She pressed on her legs then her feet, and her body rose upward, jumping out of the hole. Some of the small rocks that were covering Djintoyda had fallen inside, and the latter's feet were draped over the edge of the hole itself. While Oshnirai was above the hole watching Djintoyda lying on the ground, she extended her left foot heading toward her like a rushing rocket, having pulled her spear that was hanging on her belt with her right hand, crossing a distance of half a meter between the rushing foot and Djintoyda's prone body until the latter opened her eyelids and moved her legs, rising both of them from the ground. Then Oshnirai's foot met Djintoyda's feet, colliding with lightning speed; she pressed on her legs, pushing Oshnirai's foot, so she was sent back a distance upward with a force that made the color of the water in their surroundings white. Even Djintoyda, after their collision, was pushed, frictioning more in the sand of the floor she was lying on, leaving a path behind her, and from the intensity of the friction, she flipped on her body until her movement stopped. Upon her stopping, she raised her right arm then the other arm to lift herself under the trembling of the arms until she stood up from her place. Her red handkerchief that covers the front part of her body had shown some damaged parts where it was torn during the friction. Djintoyda dusted off her handkerchief and then extended her hands on both the right and left sides, jumped a distance of five centimeters, then tucked her head with her handkerchief inside her circular shell for which turtles are known, and tucked both her hands and legs inside as well. Thus every part of her disappeared to reveal the shell shining with its presence at the bottom of the water as the sea water leaks the moonlight from the middle of the sky to it. At that moment, Djintoyda began moving herself rotationally, heading forward and specifically in the direction of Oshnirai who was watching her sharply. [ Oshnirai ]: "Finally, you showed your harsher and more playful side. A promise that it's the last time you will use this shell of yours; I will separate you from it and turn it before you into fragments like the rock shards whose destruction you caused." During this time, Chyohana was still standing in her place and lowered her hands from her face after having been protecting them from the surge of the white wave, and likewise her hair was still scattered on her shoulders. She raised her head upward and placed her hand on her head. [ Chyohana ]: "Aaah, so she decided to use her shell as her last means of defense." She lowered her head, closing her eyes, and turned back, directing her face right and left. [ Chyohana ]: "Fine, I will leave Oshi to deal with her rock while I search for my hat." Chyohana stepped forward, and at the same time, Djintoyda's movement of her shell increased in speed with the increase in the speed of the water movement around it to the point of whiteness. The reflection of her approach toward Oshnirai was reflected on her glasses, so the latter extended her hand in front of the incoming shell until the hands and the shell met in a collision where Oshnirai grabbed it, then they both rose and she threw it toward the ground as if a cannon had launched a stone mass. The shell descended with force, leaving thick bubbles, and struck the floor; frictioning with it caused a hole to appear under it. Then Djintoyda revealed her limbs in addition to the appearance of the head, then stood and looked up to where Oshnirai was. The latter sent her cold, sharp looks, and her circular glasses gleamed. Djintoyda also sent the same look after she jumped a distance of five centimeters and tucked her limbs and head again inside her shell, spinning it with a speed resembling moving an air fan while launching upward on a path to Oshnirai. During this, Chyohana was walking back to where she was, and her hat had returned to her head, and she had raised her face high. [ Chyohana ]: "Unfortunately, I missed the moment of this living rock's friction with the sand; I won't allow missing the scene this time." [ Chyohana ] (Screaming): "Hey Oshi, in this round you must pass the ball to me; don't be selfish, play with your team!" Oshnirai looked coldly at her and extended both her hands again. [ Oshnirai ] (Screaming): "If this is what you want, then prepare; I will pass the ball to you and we will break it as well." Upon her saying that, Djintoyda's shell collided with her hands and she lifted it high again. [ Oshnirai ] (Screaming): "Here it is for you, Chyohana, take care of it to the fullest!" She threw it, launching it toward Chyohana, so the shell flew like a falling rocket. She took her spiked umbrella that was hanging behind her back then fixed it between both hands as if she were holding a bat, then made her body lean slightly, her left foot retreated back and the right remained in the front until the shell arrived and only a distance of millimeters remained until Chyohana waved her umbrella like a bat and struck the shell with it. The latter flew back upward toward Oshnirai. In a lightning moment, she grabbed it, lifted it quickly, and threw the shell beneath her toward the ground. The latter fell with force, digging the ground with the flying of sand, and the floor shook from the effect of the shell falling on it; the hardest part was touching the ground sand and the less hard part was toward the top. A few seconds passed until Djintoyda brought out her right hand then the left, then her left foot then the right, reaching the extraction of her head. She raised her hands then lowered them to the ground, pressing on them as she used them to stand vertically; after that, she tightened her fists, looking upward toward Oshnirai with piercing looks. [ Djintoyda ] (To herself): "I feel as if I am being played with like a ball; my physical shell is not a toy; it is for shattering, breaking, and crushing bones, not for being messaged between hands." Chyohana opened her umbrella while watching Djintoyda. [ Chyohana ]: "It seems you are tired. Did you think that conducting a match with us would be an easy matter?" Djintoyda turned her head slowly, looking with her right eye at Chyohana. [ Djintoyda ] (To herself): "That frog; I was wrong when I cared only about the old woman's matter, for the space is not occupied by her only, for there are other ants. I won't allow my body to continue being a ball between their hands, and this time the turn is coming to that frog; I will tear her sticky skin with my beak, I will make her bleed like her companions." Djintoyda turned her entire body toward Chyohana, a look of coldness rising on her face with the water moving her short black hair. She directed her arms toward her chest and made the left side of her body lean more to the left. At the same time, Chyohana closed her spiked umbrella and made it drape over her shoulder. [ Chyohana ]: "Finally, the time has come for me to face you. Come to me, come forward, for my hands yearn for your meat. Or are you tired from fighting my companion?" Djintoyda continued looking at her. [ Djintoyda ]: "And who would an old woman tire? I am not one of my workers who seem to have mostly been defeated by her hand. But I am their mistress and not one of them, so how would she cause my exhaustion?" She began exhaling water with force, making it return to her mouth quickly due to her rapid breathing. [ Djintoyda ] (To herself): "Honestly, I really am exhausted." Chyohana's feet moved slowly forward, walking for a few steps, then stopped. [ Chyohana ]: "I see that you say something and your body says something else... Since you are exhausted, why don't you allow me to attack while you defend? Instead of wasting time standing in your place like this." [ Djintoyda ]: "Needless chatter also increases the chance of time running out." Djintoyda pressed with her feet on the ground and tightened her fists; then not a second passed until she disappeared from her place, launching faster than before. At the same time, Chyohana returned her umbrella behind her back by hanging it to the edge of her dress then stood in a straight, balanced manner with cold, piercing looks. [ Chyohana ]: "What is this stubbornness? If she had let me attack her instead of her, she would have gotten some rest, but she wants to meet her end early... Fine, her wish will be fulfilled." A moment passed until Djintoyda was in front of her, so she raised her right fist and the fist launched as if it were a stone thrown in the air, heading toward Chyohana's face. The latter extended her hand, stopping the fist launched toward her, and then Djintoyda retreated backward, pulling her hand by force from Chyohana's hand, then pressed with her feet again on the ground, launching also once more with lightning speed toward Chyohana. Chyohana herself still stood firmly, passing her hand over her body. [ Chyohana ]: "Come on, I haven't enjoyed myself yet." The two collided after moments passed and began sending each other strikes that could hardly be seen by the naked eye, the water moving with the movements of their hands. Every strike one delivered to the other was like rockets that had just launched. Also, they were not standing in their place; rather their legs move with the movements of their bodies, once more to the right and another to the left, once retreating back and another advancing forward. During this time, Djintoyda opened her mouth until her front beak gleamed and brought the mouth close to Chyohana's right shoulder, trying to bite her. In the same seconds, Chyohana pulled her umbrella with her left hand and, with the rapid passing of seconds, placed it on the shoulder that Djintoyda's mouth targets. Then Djintoyda bit the umbrella instead of the shoulder, which led to the appearance of blood from the mouth due to the sinking of the umbrella's spikes into her mouth's flesh. Chyohana raised her leg and directed it toward her stomach, so Djintoyda moved away after being pushed by Chyohana's foot, her feet retreating back frictioning with the ground, pushing water bubbles with them. Djintoyda spat, bringing out blood, so some of it ran under her mouth, her eyes staring at Chyohana. [ Chyohana ]: "What? I won't allow you to bite me like what you did with Oshi; my skin is not for biting." During this time, Oshnirai was still in the upper water, and her three-headed spear was firmly held in her right hand, which was still enveloped in metal, her eyes watching what was going on below her. [ Oshnirai ]: "The turn has returned to me, but this time my spear's sharp heads will pierce her head with its rotten brain." She raised the spear upward then rose a little more and returned to descend to the ground toward Djintoyda, rushing with a speed that made the water around her turn white, and the spear continued waving until she later flipped it downward in preparation to sink it into a surface, until the spear heads actually sank above Djintoyda's head. The latter's head bent forcefully downward with her body. Oshnirai pulled her spear, so three fountains of blood launched from Djintoyda's head, the blood moving with the water and bubbles. After that, Oshnirai herself extended her leg and struck Djintoyda with it, so she was pushed until she arrived in front of Chyohana, and the distance remaining separating them was half a meter. Blood appeared with her movement, forming three red lines. Djintoyda raised her face slowly, trembling while opening one eye. [ Djintoyda ] (To herself): "Something sharp has been sunk into my head. Yes, it happened and it was pulled out, and now my blood is leaking from my head. If this continues, I will die here and the bomb will blow up my remains and I will lose." During these times, the hill formed from the small and large rocks destroyed by the white waves and in which Yoriki was buried was moving, its stones falling. The speed of their falling increased more until Yoriki's hand came out, and the stones continued falling and the other hand appeared, and all the rocks fell completely, revealing Yoriki. He dusted off his clothes and arranged his hair which resulted from being stuck inside the rocks. [ Yoriki ]: "The same thing that happened inside the left cave with Yonsharin happened again; it won't be repeated a third time." He began to step forward and completed his walk running. [ Yoriki ]: "What happened with the two of them now? The waves that caused my burial inside the rocks ended, so what happened now? Did Chyohana or Oshnirai eliminate the turtle Djintoyda?" Yoriki continued his run until he arrived in front of the trio and stopped running, standing in his place, his face moving between the trio. [ Yoriki ]: "It seems they made Djintoyda a toy while I wasn't near them. Unfortunately, I missed the moments of her torture. I see that the turtle's head is bleeding, and most likely Oshi made her spear pierce her brain. How unfortunate, I missed all these scenes." [ Yoriki ]: "Now I must treat you, Oshi, from your arm injury." He advanced more toward the trio until he approached Oshnirai, so the latter looked at him. [ Oshnirai ]: "Welcome back, Yoriki. You missed a lot. Where were you?" [ Yoriki ]: "Don't ask me. And can I now treat you?" [ Oshnirai ]: "You can now do what you want, Mr. Doctor." Yoriki sighed, releasing some bubbles from his mouth. [ Yoriki ]: "Finally. Now, come down to me so I can make your wound heal." Oshnirai descended, sitting on the ground. [ Oshnirai ]: "There, I have sat; you can begin." Yoriki placed his hand on her arm that was covered in blood. [ Yoriki ]: "Initial Treatment: The Healed Wound." A green wave appeared from his hand and circled around Oshnirai's arm, then he moved his hand away. [ Yoriki ]: "Now I am finished. What is the next thing you two will do?"
Chapter 15 - Chapter Fifteen: A Plaything of Steel and Blood
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