(I-I had to get away from this guy!)
The aura of electricity grew larger and larger in Rio's veins and his surroundings. But he seemed not to be attacking. At that moment, Valena thought that Rio had a problem controlling the aura. So she thought to herself.
(No, I had to defeat him here! There is a chance, but I don't know if it's worth it... Here I go!) She thought to herself as she tightened her grip on her rapier. Instead of running, Valena charged toward Rio. But that was all a trap. Rio, who is just standing there unmoving, finally decided to move his muscles.
"Tenjiro Signature Technique: The Pride of Lightning and Thunder!"
At the light speed, Rio charged at Valena. The moment Valena blinked her eyes, Rio was already in front of her.
(H-He's faster than before?!! And he was already in front of me!")
Rio was already in a stance to swing his sword. At this moment, Valena has to choose. It's either to block Rio's attack with her Void Rapier or attack him at the same time. To take him down along with her. Valena's mind wasn't very clear when her body was trembling from the aura of electricity from Rio.
Valena decides to take the first option. To block Rio's sword because she's confident, since nobody was able to cut her void rapier. Both sword and rapier were once again clashing with each other. Creating a huge amount of force around them.
("Ok, now I just need to misdirect the sword... And once his attack failed, I will strike back-") That was Valena's plan to defeat Rio. But instead, the thing Valena thought would never happen just... The opposite…
The void rapier Valena thought was invincible, was cut right before her eyes. Along with half of her body, from the right shoulder towards the left hip, Rio's sword just cut through the void rapier and Valena in one swing.
("This guy... cut through my void rapier?!! I-Impossible!") Valena couldn't believe it. The rapier she infused with a void energy that had never been cut. It was cut in two in front of her eyes. Valena falls to the ground along with half of her body. Slowly becomes lifeless as a huge amount of blood flows out from her body.
"Huuuh... I guess this duel is a draw..." Rio fell on his knees due to the blood loss. Not long after, Rio also reached the death door.
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Meanwhile, Ryuma is surrounded by Xenyi's beast. All beasts except the Flame Cockatrice charged toward Ryuma at the same time. At the same time, Ryuma concentrates and feels everything around him moving at a slow pace.
Ryuma dodged the attack from all three beasts. Along with the counterattack, Ryuma managed to stagger all three of them. The Cockatrice shoots a couple of fireballs. Ryuma saw the attack and decided to grab Cobra by the arm and use him as a shield.
"HIIIIIIIISSSSAAA!!!"
The Cobra was screaming in pain as he got shot by the fireballs. But it didn't do enough to make him 'disappear', so Ryuma held the Cobra's head and used the shockwave on its head. Which led Cobra to disappear completely.
At the same time, Ryuma, who is too focused on the beast has been surprised attacked by Xenyi. Xenyi held his dagger tightly to stab Ryuma but the attack was blocked with the palm of his hand.
The dagger goes through Ryuma's hand as a lot of blood spurted out.. Xenyi tried to pull back her dagger, but Ryuma held the dagger tightly and kicked her. Ryuma pulled back the dagger from his hand and stabbed the Wild Hound that was about to pounce on him, right on the neck.
("Ok, that makes it two. That leaves the Red Monkey and Cockatrice...") The Red Monkey just got up from being staggered. He then lifted a long wooden plank and swung it toward Ryuma. Ryuma jumped over the plank and ran toward the Red Monkey. But at the same time, he got interrupted by both Xenyi and Cockatrice.
At this moment, the great moment between Ryuma, who was fighting in close combat with Xenyi and Red Monkey, while the Cockatrice supported them from range. The synchronize all three of them is so great that even Ryuma has a hard time keeping up with them.
At the same time, the floor was about to crumble down because it was both burned and couldn't keep up with the weight of three people fighting on top of it. Ryuma, who realizes it, decides to take this opportunity to stomp the floor hard.
All three of them fall down into the basement. Cockatrice, who's been flying in the air, had a hard time seeing everybody who's fallen down to the basement because of the heavy smoke and dust covering them. And then, from behind the heavy smoke, a stone hit the Cockatrice at great speed, making him too, fall down into the basement.
The Red Monkey, who had just gotten up from falling, had both of his hands grabbed and got hit in the knee right on his face. Ryuma sends a few blows toward Red Monkey. As the Monkey was about to pass out, Xenyi tried to sneak-attack Ryuma from his blind spot.
Ryuma dodged a few attacks from Xenyi and countered them with a kick on the rib and a punch on the gut, thus sending her crashing onto the dirt wall. At the same time, Ryuma realized the Cockatrice who has been on the ground, has been charging his attack in order to create a powerful attack. At the same time, the Red Monkey had locked Ryuma from behind to prevent him from moving.
"Get away from me!" Ryuma tried to fend the Monkey off, but there was not enough time as the Cockatrice was already finishing up charging her attack. But, Ryuma realized that there was a wooden plank right beneath his feet.
As a last-second struggle, Ryuma lifted the planks upward. The Cockatrice sends a powerful beam toward Ryuma, but instead, the beam is blocked by the planks. But the force from the beam sends both Ryuma and Red Monkey to collide against the wall.
Ryuma was lying on the floor and noticed Xenyi's dagger on the floor. Ryuma grabbed the dagger and stabbed the Red Monkey in the throat. After the Red Monkey disappeared, Ryuma then threw the dagger right at the Cockatrice's torso.
"Now... that's all that has been taken care of. That leaves you..." Ryuma stares at the helpless Xenyi, who's on her four. Coughing up a little bit of blood from her mouth.
"Summon... *Cough**Cough*" Xenyi tried to summon another beast but failed because of her depleted mana. Ryuma gets up, grabs the dagger, and slowly walks to Xenyi. Xenyi prepared herself as she was about to face her "death". Ryuma, slowly raises the dagger...
*THUD!* Instead, Ryuma pierced the dagger right beside Xenyi's head. Xenyi was confused as to why Ryuma didn't finish her off.
"Hey, why didn't you finish me off?!" Upon hearing Xenyi's question, Ryuma sits down cross-legged since he doesn't have any energy left.
"Cuz I didn't feel like it. I'm too tired now..." As Ryuma sighed, feeling tired, Xenyi too, was struck by the same feelings.
"I understand, the responsibility to kill someone is high. Even though the victim can be brought back, It's not easy to shake the feeling of blood in your hands. I, too, almost vomited when I had blood in my hand for the first time."
"Wait, no. That's not what I mean. I'm just tired, that's all."
"Oh..." An awkward silence occurs when Xenyi is being dramatic with her words. Left both of them speechless.
"Also, you're wrong about one thing. The truth is I-"
"RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!" A bell rings indicating that the Deathmatch has ended.
"The first round of the Deathmatch has ended with Mika Najimo taking the badge from Ramilia Overstone!"
Meanwhile, on Mika's side…
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"Wait, wait, wait! I didn't even give her a punch or two yet! This is ain't fair!" Ramilia gave a sigh of relief as Mika let go of her.
("That was close... If he hadn't taken the badge beforehand, I can't imagine what'd happen to me. Mikage Najimo... just who the hell is this guy?") Kiyo, on the other hand, was still lifting Lorie, who was still unconscious like a giant doll.
"Oh, looks like we've won. As expected of Mika." At the same time, Lorie is unconscious and barely has any voice coming out of her mouth.