Previously On Unknown: Yuji and Akishima engage in a fierce battle, with Yuji initially dominating using fire magic and physical prowess. Akishima, enhancing his abilities with mana, fights back with agility and strategy, ultimately managing to deliver significant blows. However, Yuji's overwhelming power and intense pressure bring Akishima to his knees, leading to a climactic moment where Akishima, enraged and determined, vows to kill Yuji despite his predicament.
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Yuji chuckles at Akishima's declaration. He stomps his foot on Akishima's back and releases even more violent bloodlust. At this point, the air is so heavy that it's hard for Akishima to even breathe.
Akishima's right eye switched in and out of the devilish color, and his vision became blurry. His mind starts to go blank as his consciousness slowly fades. However, right before he faints, a huge surge of violent mana erupts from his body. Yuji was caught off guard, and in his state of shock, Akishima escaped his grasp and then leaped in the air to deliver a spinning back kick. The attack was caught by Yuji who smirked and kneed Akishima in retaliation. The boy spewed up blood while hurdling back.
Akishima caught himself mid-flight, and as he stopped with one knee on the floor, he gazed at Yuji whilst wiping the blood from his mouth.
"Damn it all! This is getting nowhere." Akishima assesses, "I just keep running in and flying back. My movements are too slow and predictable and Yuji is just making it obvious the way he is toying with me." he grits his teeth in frustration as he evaluates the situation.
"I don't know exactly how much time I have left but I know it's not a lot." Akishima thinks. "So now I've got to go all out and stop stalling." He concludes as his aura intensifies. His eyes glowed with a vibrant blue and his overwhelming and violent mana cracks and cackles around him.
Filled with determination, Akisima utters, "World Grip…" his feet grip the floor and crack the ground around him as he continues, "First Step!" In a flashing stream of blue light, Akishima zips forward heading straight for Yuji.
Yuji grins in excitement and prepares himself with a battle stance.
Whilst dashing forward, Akishima readies with his right fist. Mana gathers into his fist and condenses while his eyes burn with violent blue mana.
As he reaches combat range, he puts out his left foot, twists his body, and punches Yuji.
Yuji held up his arms in defense but as Akishima attacked him, his eyes widened in shock.
"The hell?! What's going on?" Yuji mused in bewilderment. "This kid… he's gotten stronger!" He realizes in shock.
At the same moment, Akishima shouted as he forcefully broke Yuji's guard. Caught of guard and defenseless, Yuji receives a multitude of punches from Akishima.
Akishima then jumps and uppercuts Yuji, and as he lands, he delivers a powerful back kick to Yuji's lower torso. Yuji spewed out blood and flew back a few meters.
Akishima chases after him and Yuji dashes at him as well.
As both stirred closer, Yuji kicked Akishima so hard that he knocked the wind out of him.
"I'm done messing around, kid!" Yuji roared in anger as he kicked Akishima away. He then throws a flurry of fireballs exclaiming, "Crimson… Barrage!" all the fireballs head straight towards Akishima and start pummeling him.
In a fit of rage, Akishima shouted, dispersing the fireballs with a blue mana shield. He began panting, exhaustion catching up with him.
Yuji chuckles with malice as he watches Akishima once again defeated.
Akishima stood with his head down, his ragged rough long hair covering his eyes. He suddenly grits his teeth and mutters in frustration, "No matter how hard I try, no matter what I do," he continued, his voice rising ever so slightly. "no matter what I sacrifice…" As his anger rises to the surface he grits his teeth, clenches his hands and shouts, "I JUST CAN'T DEFEAT YOU!!!"
Yuji laughs at Akishima's confession. "Oh~, is that so?" he teased, "Weren't you the same person who said you were going to kill me just moments ago? Or was that just empty threats?" Yuji glared at Akishima, his eyes emitting a faint crimson glow.
"𝔗𝔥𝔞𝔱'𝔰 𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱. 𝔚𝔞𝔰 𝔦𝔱 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔢𝔪𝔭𝔱𝔶 𝔱𝔥𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔰, 𝔟𝔬𝔶?" A sudden demonic voice commented.
"Huh?" Akishima's eyes darted around searching for the source of the voice.
He then paused, seeming to know whose voice it was. "No, it wasn't empty threats… in fact I meant it down to my soul." Akishima asserted his eyes filled with a new sense of determination.
"𝔄𝔩𝔯𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔫, ℑ'𝔩𝔩 𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔱𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲… 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔧𝔲𝔰𝔱 𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔟𝔬𝔶… ℑ 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔫𝔬 𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔥𝔢𝔩𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔶𝔬𝔲, 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 ℑ 𝔡𝔬 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔪𝔶 𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔟𝔢𝔫𝔢𝔣𝔦𝔱. 𝔖𝔬 𝔡𝔬𝔫'𝔱 𝔟𝔢 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔥𝔢𝔫 ℑ 𝔱𝔞𝔨𝔢 𝔞𝔡𝔳𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔞𝔤𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔴𝔢𝔞𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰." The devil asserted as a dark reddish aura began to emanate from Akishima. "ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯, ℑ 𝔴𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔰𝔞𝔶 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔞𝔯𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔰𝔱 𝔳𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔩 𝔴𝔥𝔬𝔰𝔢 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔲𝔰𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔪𝔲𝔠𝔥 𝔬𝔣 𝔪𝔶 𝔭𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯. 𝔚𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔢 𝔦𝔱 𝔪𝔞𝔶𝔟𝔢 𝔞𝔫 𝔦𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔤𝔫𝔦𝔣𝔦𝔠𝔞𝔫𝔱 𝔞𝔪𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔱, ℑ 𝔱𝔯𝔲𝔩𝔶 𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔱 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔰𝔱𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔱𝔥, 𝔟𝔬𝔶." The devil continued, the aura around Akishima intensified and his eyes once again turned into its devilish color.
"Takayuki!" Akishima yelled as he stared Yuji down.
Takayuki, who was on the sidelines along with Matsumoto, was confused. Akishima turned his gaze in his direction and with a smirk he declared, "Let's end this… together!"
"Oh~, a 2 v 1? How unfair." Yuji chuckled in amusement, then continued, "But I guess it's time to finish this."
Takayuki, now understanding Akishima's words, joined the battle. His eyes flickered with a fiery crimson mana and he dashed into the battlefield.
"I don't have much strength left." Akishima revealed, "I intended to fight him alone but it's clear he's still way stronger than me." Akishima continued, then concluded, "So I'll end this fight… I'll end it… with a bang!"
"Oh, so am I just here to buy time?" Tajayuki inquires.
Akishima replies with a smirk, "Not exactly, but pretty much."
"Alight, let's do this!"
Simultaneously, both boys dash in opposite directions, aiming to block Yuji on both ends.
"Futile!" Yuji shouts, unleashing a huge amount of bloodlust.
The boys struggle to keep their balance, not willing to go so soon.
Against all odds, Takayuki breaches through the wall of bloodlust, his eyes radiating a fiery crimson hue.
He roars like a mighty dragon and dashes towards Yuji, tearing apart the floor behind him.
He swings his right arm, going in for a right hook.
Yuji pary's the attack and uses Takayuki's moment against him, performing a judo throw.
As Takayuki hits the floor, Akishima comes out of nowhere with a powerful right kick.
Caught off guard, Yuji gets sent flying into a wall.
Not wasting any time, both boys dashes towards Yuji and a 2 V 1 ensues.
A barrage of different martial techniques are unleashed. Knuckle-breaking punches, bone-shattering kicks and overwhelming magical prowess.
While the boy's fight the hardest battle of their lives, Yuji is having the most exhilarating experience ever.
"Come on! ATTACK ME MORE!!!" He shouts in excitement unleashing his fiery aura in retaliation, Takayuki also starts to unleash his aura.
"Impressive." Matsumoto remarks. "To think you'd be able to use your manki once again so soon." He examines. "You are truly worthy of the title 'The Dragon's Son'."
Takayuki's aura intensifies and a familiar energy returns once again.
He once again utters the words, "Mana Circulation: External Flow: Manki…"
"What!" Yuji exclaims in utter shock. "How can you use it again? How can you use it so soon!" His shock is imminent as an unbelievable phenomenon is happening right before him.
As the aura around Takayuki intensifies, so does his entire body. The previous strain of using his manki returns, however he remains resolute and shouts, "Hateshinaku Nai Ketsui!! (Endless Determination!!)"
Radiating a bright yet furious aura, Takayuki approaches Yuji. Every step he takes melts the floor underneath his foot.
As he stops, he gazes upwards at Yuji with fearless eyes.
"So how about… Wanna fight fire with fire."
*On The Outskirts Of Garton*
A strange figure limps on the coast of Garton, breathing heavily the figure suddenly collapses from severe exhaustion. Right before the figure's consciousness slips they mutter, "...Brother..."
(To Be Continued)