Back in their battle, Mori let out a loud scream of rage causing his energy levels to spike out of his body, shooting up into the air and giving him a massive boost in power. Mori was pretty much broken and bloodied, but he had already regenerated most of his lost stamina before he could regenerate the injuries he had. He gritted his teeth with anger and pain as blue energy shot out from his body, his hair had turned into flary blue energy while his hands were in the same situation. His fingers were like claws of blue energy too, Mori growled "LIMIT BREAK: SECOND STAGE: OVERDRIVE!", his voice sounding like a loud roar. Pride, his alternate version that he had been fighting against for the past ten hours, his face exposed with its top side bleeding, as well as his arms also bleeding too, was looking at him with a smirk on his face "Ah? Overdrive? Well your naming skills sure are good, me!". He waved his sword of pure blue energy that felt like he was holding a long cold metal rod "ALRIGHT THEN, I'LL JUST HAVE TO BECOME JUST AS STRONG AS YOU ARE, DEAR OLD ME!", Mori yelled as his energy spikey upwards "DONT YOU COMPARE MYSELF TO YOOOU!", he shot himself forward at alarming and dangerous speeds towards Pride. Pride laughed with a maniacal smile on his face "HA!", and also shot himself forward with a burst of speed. Both Mori and Pride started clashing swords and indulging in a flurry of combat, they ran as fast as they could while trying to kill each other with every sword swing. The impact of their strikes were powerful enough to cause the mountains to shake, the sky also kept shaking, and lightning was sparking all over the sky with every strike they parried. Mori and Pride, tho fighting with their swords with complete mastery and brutality were not completely even. As the two continued to put their insane sword skills in display, it was obvious that Pride was having the upper hand in the fight. Despite the power jump, he was able to dodge most of Mori's long range slashes, keep his distance and still get into close contact with Mori where their blades met again. Mori gritted his teeth with annoyance, he was the one struggling in the fight while Pride, who was also taking the fight seriously, seemed to be the one enjoying his victory, leading to a smirk on his face. This definitely made Mori irritated, his ego got stabbed by the manifestation of his Pride's cocky grin "You foolish imitation!", Mori sneered and then ended up kicking Pride below the jaws, sending him flying into the air. Pride obviously felt this "Tch!", he clicked his tongue "You....", stretching his hand out for an attack. But Mori flew in fast kicking and punching him, flying accross the battlefield while almost losing his balance as they swerved in the air, causing huge explosions of energy. Mori at the moment was the one causing the explosions of energy with every blow he let out, this limit break of his that he had activated [OVERDRIVE], was a limit break he had come up with on the spot after a few hours of fighting Pride with his limit break [SWORD DEMON] form. With this new limit break, Mori had much more explosive amounts of energy, so much so that his output at this form was higher than Sōn's who had much more fire power than most of his friends in the squad, even higher than Kinto's output. Not just that, but Mori had also been able to achieve two hundred percent of his full power in the overdrive state. Mori kept on dishing blow after blow after blow, each blow causing not just insane outputs of energy, but very strong blasts too. Mori's punching force and speed only became stronger at the moment, Pride on the other hand could only block most of the blows in which he struggled "DAMN IT! THIS GUY! WHEN DID HE LEARN HOW TO HARNESS ANOTHER LIMIT BREAK?!", he screamed in his mind before getting punched on the face by Mori who let out a loud scream "GAHH!", Pride was the exact same thing as Mori, so it made sense for him to understand how he was abke to manifest a new [LIMIT BREAK], even tho he too wqs surprised. Pride was sent flying kilometres away from the final blow from Mori, his body spinning and cutting through the air. At this point, he was getting tired of being beaten by Mori, so when Mori chased after him, Pride stretched out his hand, causing sharp swords of blue energy to stab out of Mori's hands and ribs. Blood immediately rushed out of him "What the?!", he exclaimed, only for Pride to grin. With one wave of his hand a sword made from blue plasma tore through the ground, something that would have hacked Mori in two since he was momentarily off guard "YOU SEE?! YOU CANT COMPETE WITH ME! IM THE REAL YOU, THE YOU WHO WOULD HAVE BEEN IF YOU DIDN'T BECOME SO SOFT!", Pride yelled and growled while Mori's eyes widened on seeing an attack coming from below. Pride shouted out again "SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: ARC ANGEL'S SWORD!" this attack immediately slashed upwards. Mori, had focused all his energy into his hands while his legs were spread out, trying to make sure he didn't get cut in half with all his strenght. Mori struggled, his face looked worried as he gritted his teeth "GHN! GHN!", his mind raced "If I lose now.... I'LL DIE!". Yes, if Mori had lost then and here, he would have died as Mori Katakuri, and who would have taken his place as that would be none other than the [PRIDE] version of himself he was fighting. Hence, Mori would no longer be Mori if he were to lose right here. Of course, Mori knew this. We are talking about a man who was trained to fight and kill more than anyone in this world of soldiers and assassins, he had been in a war himself a few months after he had clocked eleven. Tho he wasn't always fighting the heavy hitters of the enemy cult that made it's sole purpose to destroy the City of Kagahara, but he was constantly at full power, fighting and killing children soldiers his age, dodging beams and bullets that moved hundreds of times that of sound and even reached lightning speeds, at that age, Mori shouldn't have had any business being able to be that fast and strong, even prodigy's from decades ago weren't even that good at the age of eleven. Mori, even tho he was the kind of person who liked depending on sharp weapons, had to use blasters and guns to fight. He was the first kid in his generation to actually have been in a war from a very young age, so even he knew the stakes of things when it came down to it. Mori at the moment struggled to hold off the plasma slash that raised itself to kill him, Pride laughed with joy "AAH! LOOK AT YOU, STRUGGLING! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A DISAPPOINTMENT! A FAILURE! YOU LET YOURSELF GET INFLUENCED BY PEOPLE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN STRONGER THAN! YOU'RE A FAILURE AS A KATAKURI, MORI! YOU'RE A FAILURE!", Pride mocked with insanity. Mori on the other hand, sensing he was actually going to die, struggled to hold down the plasma sword from below, he tried everything "AAAAAAAAAH!", he screamed in rage as both blue lightning and blue flames shot out of his body, the two changes in elements that he knew very well even before entering the academy. Mori raged out as he held down the sword, giving it his all "NO! NO! NO! NO!", and at that very moment that he struggled for his life, he got cut In half. Mori was shocked, his face in disbelief as he was split into two. Pride on the other hand had a mocking and satisfied grin on his face, his tone was one that could make any person such as even Mori himself get frustrated "See you later, Katakuri.".
END OF CHAPTER.