Tetsuya placed a hand on his blade before Heracles breathed in and threw it in the air.
"Beautiful." Tetsuya stared at the club in the air before his eyes widened.
"W-What? Heracle has tossed his club in the air..." The announcer yelled into the microphone before the club turned into the head of a hound as it turned into a massive vortex in the sky. Tetsuya stared at the vortex blankly as Heracles held his hand up.
"Come forth... hound of Hades." A dark substance started to slowly appear out of the vortex before a three-headed Cerberus appeared from it. The Cerberus bit down on Heracles' hands and body, respectively.
The 12th labour. Calamity from the underworld-Cerberus, the hound of Hades.
Heracles' hair grows to his lower back, and he gained the characteristics of Cerberus, such as sharp fangs, claws, fur on his back, on his left shin and waist, and a spiked collar. He gains holes on the right back of his hand, forearm, and shoulder, with dark, crystalline spikes sticking out of his shoulders. He also has various-sized metal clips on his upper body, and a bone prominence on his right chest that penetrates his body and resembles four teeth.
Tetsuya immediately knew... that this was Heracles' final stand. It would represent his deadliest attacks... his swordsman instinct... told him to take a defensive structure... however... the respect and the kindness that he had seen from Heracles... told him to fight straight on.
"Ready?" Heracles readied his punch before jumping towards Tetsuya drew his wooden blade and slashed at Heracles' hand.
"Sun Breathing, Tenth Form: Fire Wheel." Tetsuya slashed at Heracles' hand before the wood exploded into multiple pieces. Heracles tried to punch Tetsuya, who leaned back and grabbed another wooden piece that represented a sword.
"Moon Breathing Second Form: Pearl Flower Moongazing." Tetsuya performed three crescent-shaped slashes while releasing a multitude of crescent moon blades along with them. Heracles was able to block that attack before trying to punch Tetsuya again. Tetsuya leaned back before the shockwave almost drove him to the floor.
"I see... Moon breathing... because it wasn't supposed to be an original breathing of yours, it's way weaker in comparison to sun breathing." Heracles stated, making Tetsuya click his tongue.
"THIS FIGHT'S GOING INTO OVER-DRIVE!!! HERACLES' FOOTSTEPS CRACK THE PAVEMENT! HIS PUNCHES SMASH THROUGH WALLS!!! BUT TETSUYA IS ABLE TO MAKE ANY WOODEN PIECES FROM THE HOUSES INTO A WEAPON! DESTRUCTION, DESTRUCTION, DESTRUCTION!!! HERACLES IS SHATTERING... ALL TETSUYA'S WOODEN PIECES AND NULLIFYING HIS BREATHING!!!" The announcer yelled into the microphone, and Tetsuya attempted to slash down at Heracles' arm again, only for Heracles to smash it into pieces and tingle Tetsuya's hands.
"My hand-" Tetsuya looked up as he saw Heracles' arm being enlarged.
"The great hero's fist," Heracles stated as he aimed his fist towards Tetsuya.
"Heracles seizes an opportunity!!" Heracles swings down his arm while the announcer yells as Tetsuya jumps up and avoids Heracles' fist before placing both of his hands on Heracles' arm and pushing away from the attack.
"B-But Tetsuya manages to evade Heracles' fiercest blows yet!" Heracles swung at Tetsuya again; however, he was just short of an inch as he missed Tetsuya entirely due to his missing arm.
"Heracles swings and misses! Having one arm might be throwing him off!" Tetsuya just stared at Heracles with a sense of sadness in his eyes, while Heracles just stared at Tetsuya blankly.
"What's going on? He's not using any sense of trickery; even with one arm off, he's still staying true to himself. What an indomitable being..." Tetsuya thought to himself before Heracles brought his fist down as Tetsuya drew out his wooden blade.
"Moon Breathing, Third Form: Loathsome Moon, Chains." Tetsuya performed two extremely broad crescent-shaped slashes directly in front of him, from which a storm of smaller crescent moon blades was released. Heracles' fist conflicted with Tetsuya's blade before the wooden piece was broken, and Heracles' fist connected with Tetsuya's face, sending him flying backwards.
"It's useless! Totally useless! Tetsuya's divine item is powerless against Heracles' blows, even with reinforced breathing techniques! What strength we are witnessing! We are seeing the true strength of a god! This is Heracles!" Heracles stood there with dignity and honour, basically radiating off of him, before Tetsuya stared at him with blood dripping down his head.
"So why did I... even want to fight him?" Tetsuya slowly stood up before shaking his head. "No... it doesn't matter anymore... revenge... killing him... I just wanted to fight..." Tetsuya grabbed another piece of wood before fire flashed behind him.
"Wonderful... you're surpassing anything... that I could've imagined..." Tetsuya rushed towards Heracles again before Tetsuya hopped on a roof, just for Heracles to jump after him.
"Moon Breathing Fifth Form: Moon Spirit Calamitous Eddy." Tetsuya creates multiple long and curved slashes layered over one another, essentially creating a vortex of crescent moon blades. Heracles punched through the vortex of moon blades before punching Tetsuya into a broken house. One of the wooden spikes pierced Tetsuya's stomach, making him cough up blood.
In The Spectator's stand
Tetsuya's brother gritted his teeth before placing a hand on his sword while glaring at Heracles. Ai covered her mouth and used a hand to cover Ruby and Aqua's eyes while that spike was piercing Tetsuya.
"Please... Tetsuya, stand up..." Ai thought in her head before going back to the screen.
In the Arena
"Without a katana, huh? If that was on the same level as your sun breathing, then I probably couldn't have punched through it." Heracles landed on the floor as Tetsuya coughed up more blood.
"Who... who could've foreseen this? The spikes... Tetsuya is skewered on the spikes of a broken house!" Tetsuya gritted his teeth before pulling the spike out of his stomach. Tetsuya started to pant before Heracles gripped his fist.
"No matter what you do... it won't help. There is nowhere in this city... for you to hide!" Heracles yelled at Tetsuya, who just sighed before slowly stepping back while holding onto a piece of wood.
"Without a demon art... this is all I can do, huh? You might be right... I don't have anywhere to hide..." Tetsuya held his stance as blood flowed out of his wound. "But have you forgotten? Moon Breathing, Sixth form: Perpetual Night, Lonely Moon, Incessant." Tetsuya rapidly performs a multitude of curved slashes several meters in front of him that release a wild barrage of crescent moon blades.
"The entire... Shibuya... is my weapon." The moon blades started to cut up multiple houses before placing his hand on all of them, allowing them to collapse onto Heracles. Tetsuya rushed in and jumped up.
"Sun Breathing, First Form: Dance." Tetsuya swung his blade down on Heracles, who grunted and blocked before bouncing Tetsuya away. The houses crushed down on Heracles, who tried to hold them; however, he was quickly overwhelmed due to one arm missing.
"Th- This... is unbelievable. He turned multiple buildings into a divine item... and collapsed it on Heracles! A building-sized divine weapon has collapsed onto Heracles. Even the indomitable Heracles may not..." Multiple people stared at the scene in despair as Tetsuya stood over the building while panting heavily.
In the spectator's stand.
The red-eyed boy smiled while making the Eiffel Tower with his strings. The boy with puffy hair stared down at the spectator stands before immediately placing his face in his hand.
"Turning a building into a weapon... luring Heracles in range, stopping him in his tracks... bouncing off Heracles to escape to safety... what a devlish plot. He learned how to be really cunning." The boy with puffy hair sighed before leaning back and suddenly rubbing his cheek and adjusting his gloves.
"You're a weird guy." The boy with red eyes stared at the eyes of the puffy-haired boy, which turned from their original colour into blue, before sighing.
In the Arena.
Tetsuya slowly walked away from the rubble before immediately turning back.
"Something's off... I can still see his body..." Tetsuya thought to himself before a fist appeared out of the pile of rubble that Heracles was buried under.
"You serious?" Tetsuya adjusted his gloves before Heracles slowly pushed himself up from the rubble.
"Oh my! U-Unbelievable! Am I dreaming?! No! No! No! Our hero... as crawled back to life from the depths of hell!" The announcer yelled into his microphone before Heracles stood up and glared at Tetsuya with a huff, and Tetsuya panted.
"So much willpower... then why... did he commit those heinous acts? It's not possible, right?" Tetsuya drew out his blade again before getting into a defensive position and smiled, covering up the panic that rampaged inside his mind.
"Welcome back, garbage god. Did you enjoy the oversized gift I gave you?" Tetsuya kept on smiling before tightening the pin on his hair.
"Neither my spirit... nor my sense of justice... will waver, no matter what you do." Heracles had smoke come out of his body before Tetsuya widened his eyes and started laughing.
"What's so funny?" Heracles questioned while staring down at Tetsuya, who held his stomach.
"Haha... ouch... my stomach... I'm sorry... It's just that... that the love and the care that I saw in my brother... was fake... I'm just like Ai, I'm unable to comprehend what love feels like, but after seeing everyone like this... I now know that... true love... is much more beautiful than I thought! I thought that having kids would help me achieve that, but... sadly... they never did. You... garbage god... are filled... with so much love, that even my eyes can't see without turning blind." Tetsuya sheathed his sword before going to the pin around his hair.
"And that... makes me want to..." Tetsuya released the pin on the hair, letting the hair that was previously tied up in a bun fall down near his waist.
"Kill you and make you submit before me so that I don't have to be reminded of how you killed my family that night." Tetsuya smiled at Heracles, who grimaced a little and stared at the spectator stage before going back and smirking at Tetsuya.
"Go for it!" Heracles gripped his fist while smiling at Tetsuya, although the look on his face told Tetsuya he had no idea what he was talking about.
"Something is... very wrong..." Tetsuya thought inside his head.
In the spectator stands.
The boy with red eyes slowly looked down at the stage before standing up from his seat and closing his eyes.
"May I ask where you are going? I sincerely hope it is not with the intention of interrupting the battle." The boy with puffy hair adjusted his gloves before tilting his head to one side, while the red-eyed boy just simply smiled without opening his eyes.
"I'm just going to... talk to someone, you see, it's just really someone that I want to understand." The boy with red eyes grinned while his eyes were those of a flower.
"Ah… I understand. Then, from the bottom of my heart, I wish you happiness and success as you set out on this departure." The boy with puffy hair gave a bow before staring at him with his blue eyes.
"Don't do that, it's creepy." The red-eyed boy shivered before walking out of the room, while the puffy-haired boy tilted his head in confusion. The red-eyed boy smirked before playing with the strings again.
"Now, let's find the real culprit of Akio-San's massacre~" The boy suddenly made a spider out of his wires while grinning.