"It's okay, Yuka! Rika does it because she loves Yuka!"
"Hehehe, I love you too, Rika."
Yuka shook her head at Rika's excited voice in amusement as she was placed on her feet. Yuka looked down at her palm, clenching her hands slowly as she felt her cursed energy.
'I can control it better... It's like I was blind to cursed energy before, but now I can barely see it...' Yuka analysed with wonder at the heavenly feeling coursing through her body.
In the distance, Geto slowly climbed out of the crater, gory injuries marring his body, and blood staining his face as he lay on his back, coughing out blood, gruelling pain assaulting his senses.
'My skull is definitely cracked, and my ribs are also definitely broken...' Geto placed a hand on his chest, feeling the burning pain at the slightest touch as his broken ribs moved.
Geto's eyes moved to the side, noticing Yuka and Rika standing still. Yuka was looking at her palm with deep focus, while Rika glared at Geto, watching his every movement.
'Looks like she is in a high, feeling the benefits of hitting a Black Flash... Satoru, you really do have some dependable students... Too bad I couldn't see that other one, Akira.' Geto chuckled in mock amusement at his own thoughts.
Even after everything that happened, he still couldn't sever his feelings for Satoru or any of his past friends, for that matter.
"Fuck..." Geto groaned out in pain as he slowly pushed himself onto his feet with effort. Once on his feet, Geto panted in pain, barely able to stop himself from doubling over.
Looking at Yuka and Rika in the distance, Geto began to doubt himself in his capability to finish what he started.
'With Rika in the picture, I can't land a finishing blow on Yuka as she will just heal her... I need an attack that will kill her in one attack, and if Rika tries to interfere, it would also push her back at the same time...'
Straining his back, Geto's doubt vanished, replaced by cold and firm will as he clenched his fists. Putting Playful Cloud back inside the warm wrap around his neck and waist, Geto let out a sigh.
'There is only one attack that could accomplish such a thing in my arsenal...' Geto concluded as he slowly raised a hand, his finger pointing to the sky.
It will put a massive dent in his reserves of cursed spirits, but it's all he can do at the moment.
Just in time for Yuka to come out of her high state. She looked up confidently, her understanding of cursed energy and cursed techniques higher than before.
Geto and Yuka's gaze clashed in the air like two blades, sparks flying around. Yuka noticed Geto's firm look and immediately knew he was planning to settle this with one attack.
"Rika..."
"Are you ready?"
Yuka looked back at Rika, resting her palm on her large arm. Rika shuddered in happiness, nodding her head rapidly at Yuka's words.
"Then let's do this, full effort and without holding anything back!" Yuka turned to face Geto. She lifted a hand in front of her, a finger pointing at the sky lazily.
"YUKAAAAA!!"
Boom!
Rika exploded with cursed energy, injecting it into Yuka without holding anything back. Yuka aided it by adding her own cursed energy, using both of their immense cursed energy output to the full.
A ball of pulsating pink, cursed energy condensed rapidly, floating on top of Yuka's finger, and spinning lazily. The air trembled around it, a sense of gigantic power emanating from its mere existence.
Geto narrowed his eyes, a shiver in his spine at the sense of power contained in that fist-sized ball of energy.
"Seems you are determined to finish this in one last attack as well... Well, I can't hold back anything more either," Geto spoke with an unhinged grin, revealing his bloodied teeth and battered face.
Waaaa-ahhh~
A sudden wailing filled the area as a dark ball of energy appeared above Geto, spinning lazily.
Thousands of cursed spirits wailed in despair and agony, faces and red eyes flashing constantly as the dark ball of energy began to spin, converting into a spiral.
Thousands of cursed spirits and two Special Grade cursed spirits were all mixed into the ball of dark energy, pulsating with negative emotions and an eerie wail.
There was no need for words to be exchanged between them; both of them knew that the loser of this clash is gonna be the one to die at the end of this fight.
"Rika, let's go!"
"Maximum: Uzumaki!"
Geto attacked first, thousands of cursed spirits condensing into a single devastating blast of cursed energy.
"Pure Love Blast X Projection Sorcery!"
Swoosh!
Yuka released the blast from her fingertip, using Projection Sorcery on it to increase its speed significantly. Before Geto's beam even made it halfway to Yuka, the pink blast of devastating energy arrived to clash with Geto's attack.
Geto's eyes widened as the blast gained momentum and force, arriving at the moment he released Uzumaki.
Boom!
The two beams collided for a moment, stalemating, before Yuka's beam pierced straight through Geto's Uzumaki, dispersing the black beam into a scatter shot from the sides.
"Oh shi-"
Geto muttered as he saw the pink beam push through his beam. He barely had time to utter a single word before the beam hit him square on target.
ZZZZZZZZT-KRAKOOM!
The beam rushed out for hundreds of meters, erasing anything in its path. The beam left behind a dozen-meter-wide trench, tens of meters deep and extending for hundreds of meters into the distance.
The shockwaves overturned every rubble remaining, collapsing every standing structure in the area. The shockwaves and rumbling continued for a minute straight before fading.
Slowly, the beam fizzled out as Yuka and Rika stopped channelling cursed energy into it.
"Fwoooh!"
Yuka let out a breath, her body bending over as she felt tiredness hit her like never before. Sweat coated her now slightly wet clothes, her forehead shining in sweat.
"Ahhh... If Akira saw me like this, I bet he would get a hard-on..." Yuka spoke with a sheepish smile, while Rika slowly lifted her up, carrying her tired body.
Resting in Rika's hands, Yuka recalled Maki fighting those other curses, and her eyes snapped wide open again.
"Rika! Quickly, take me to Maki!" Yuka called out with slight panic. Although still grumpy about how thigns are, her relationship with Maki has been improving.
She can now tolerate her, though only because she can see that Akira likes her.
Rika nodded, flying towards the distance rapidly, where the sound of fighting was still going on.
Boom!
An explosion rocked the area as Maki slashed Kimitsu down, slicing a cursed spirit in half. The remaining two cursed spirits growled, circling her slowly as they felt fear towards Maki.
"Maki! Move away from there!" A shout came from the distance.
"Yuka?!"
Maki looked back at Yuka, who was rushing towards her with Rika. She immediately jumped away, creating distance while Rika opened her mouth.
"Get Crushed!"
Boom!
The two remaining grade 1 cursed spirits were crushed into meat patties, unable to shape their bodies to avoid the force acting upon them.
Meanwhile...
"Looks like she did a number on you," Akira spoke with an unhurried look as he followed the staggering Geto, who had his entire right arm and shoulder blown off.
_________________________________________________
What do you guys think of Yuka's use of projection sorcery? In my opinion, she should be able to use it for energy besides just her body, but it's just my opinion.
Leave a Power Stone!