After a few minutes of battling, Tuziku had found himself in quite the predicament.
Nēgus had pierced his stomach and then his leg using the Hakashi Technique's second form—Ken.
Not only that, but Tuziku was completely surrounded by hundreds of wind-arrows hovering above his head, waiting to rain down upon him.
"Above your head are five hundred wind-arrows waiting to rain down on you."
"This is the end of the road for you, brat!" Nēgus glared at him as he prepared to unleash his devastating barrage of wind-arrows.
Tuziku struggled to his feet.
Blood gushed from the wound in his right leg.
At the same time...
Kutcher and Prīōra reached the exit of the village and happened to see the countless wind-arrows filling a portion of the sky.
"Kutcher, do you see that?" Prīōra asked as they ran toward the source.
"Yeah!" Kutcher replied.
"That must be where Tuziku is!"
"Let's hurry, Kutcher!" Prīōra shouted as she ran ahead of him.
Meanwhile, the single villager who had followed behind them—
"Hey, hey, hey... what the hell is going on over there?"
"Is that brat really forcing the Chief to go all out in a battle?!"
"I better hurry and go see this!"
He ran off behind Kutcher and Prīōra as they headed toward Tuziku.
Meanwhile, back with Tuziku and Nēgus...
Tuziku approached Nēgus.
"You keep on boasting about how you've developed the second form..."
He limped due to the injury in his leg.
"I'll admit, out of all the Hakashi users I've met so far, your versatility with the second form is in a league of its own," Tuziku admitted.
"Hmph!"
Nēgus let out a conceited grin.
"However... you shouldn't let that get to your head!" Tuziku smirked at him.
Upon hearing those words, something within Nēgus snapped.
"Tch! Why, you!"
"Hakashi Technique, second form—"
"RAIN OF WIND-ARROWS!!"
Suddenly—
FWSH! FWSH!
The hundreds of wind-arrows above Tuziku's head began to rain down upon him at incredible speed.
Tuziku grinned as he gazed up at the countless arrows raining down on him.
And just before the arrows could make contact with him—
"HEAVY—GUST!"
FWOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
An insanely powerful gust of wind erupted from around Tuziku's body and blew away every single one of the wind-arrows that rained down upon him.
The gust of wind was so powerful that even Nēgus struggled to keep his footing against it.
As Nēgus watched this incredible feat unfold, he couldn't believe what he was witnessing.
"You've gotta be kidding me..."
"W-WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" he panicked.
Tuziku approached him.
"Heavy Gust..."
"The standard ability that all Hakashi users receive upon unlocking the Technique," he explained.
Nēgus shook his head in disbelief.
"That was way too powerful to be that simple Heavy Gust attack!"
"If you had aimed that at me directly... I would've been sent flying!"
Tuziku chuckled.
"Since this fight started, you've been gloating about how good you are with the second form."
"You clearly weren't lying to me. But what's so special about Ken?"
Tuziku tilted his head in curiosity.
"What the hell are you talking about?!" Nēgus snapped.
Suddenly—
FWSH!
Nēgus launched a surprise arrow from behind Tuziku.
However—
FWOOSH!
A powerful gust of wind erupted from Tuziku's body and blew away the wind-arrow.
"I wasn't done talking."
Tuziku's expression hardened.
"You're the absolute worst! The lowest of the low!"
Tuziku clenched his fists.
At the same time—
Kutcher and Prīōra arrived at the scene.
However, after observing the situation, they instinctively refrained from intervening.
They stood from afar and observed the battle.
Meanwhile...
As Tuziku approached closer and closer, Nēgus slowly stepped backward, maintaining their distance.
Tuziku snapped.
"You're an arrogant and short-tempered person!"
"You abuse your sister over the simplest things that you don't like!"
"You've betrayed and overthrown your own grandfather, and to top it all off, you tortured him!"
"You're absolute scum, Nēgus!"
Tuziku glared at him.
At the same time—
The villager who had been following Kutcher and Prīōra also arrived at the scene.
However, after noticing Kutcher and Prīōra observing the battle from a distance, he decided to hide behind a boulder and observe the battle as well.
Back to the battle...
After hearing Tuziku's words, Nēgus snapped.
"Tch! What the hell do you know about me?!"
"I'm ten years older than my younger sister, and yet they treat her like she's the best thing that ever happened to them!"
"My stupid father and grandfather stopped paying any attention to me from the moment she was born!"
Tears welled up in his eyes.
"They wanted her to be the next Chief of the village! Even though I was older and stronger!"
Nēgus' emotions finally overwhelmed him, and his tears began to overflow.
"So what if I don't care about other people... all I need is to become strong enough to protect the ones close to me!"
"But even so... they still called me a failure and treated me like an outcast!"
He clenched his fists.
"The old man deserved everything that has happened to him!"
He glared toward Tuziku, his tears still overflowing.
Tuziku clenched his fists passionately.
"How dare you say something like that while shedding tears!"
"I WON'T LET YOU SPOIL MY MOMENT, YOU STUPID BRAT!!" Nēgus snapped.
Nēgus raised both arms toward the sky.
Suddenly—
Powerful winds began concentrating in the sky.
Eventually, the wind began to take on a shape.
And in the end—
A giant wind-arrow, around one hundred meters in length, appeared in the sky.
Nēgus glared at Tuziku.
"This is the final act..."
He let out a smirk.
"This is everything that I've got!"
Nēgus instantly lowered his hands, causing the massive one-hundred-meter wind-arrow to come crashing down on Tuziku with terrifying force.
FWOOOOOOOOOO!!!
The giant arrow slowly descended toward Tuziku.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH—"
Nēgus wore a deranged expression.
"So this is your true nature..." Tuziku mumbled as he gazed at Nēgus with pity.
Suddenly, Tuziku raised his fist.
"Hakashi Technique—Third form..."
Nēgus gasped.
Did he just say third form?!
At that exact moment—
Tuziku vanished.
Then—
Within an instant, he appeared directly in front of Nēgus.
"SPIRAL WIND!!" Tuziku shouted.
He launched a powerful punch toward Nēgus' stomach.
However, just before Tuziku's fist made contact with him, he stopped his punch.
FWOOOOOOOOSSSHH!!!
"AHHH—!"
As a result, a burst of spiral wind erupted from his fist and made direct contact with Nēgus' body, sending him flying through the air.
Fwoooosssh...
THUD!!
Nēgus crashed into the ground a few meters away from Tuziku.
"AUGH!"
Nēgus coughed up a mouthful of blood as he writhed in agony from the impact.
And suddenly, the giant arrow above Tuziku's head slowly dissapeared.
CHAPTER 62 END!