Seiji pulled at his body to respond to him. He fought with his arm to move. Anything o move. It didn’t matter what it was. A sign was all that he needed. Something to show that he was still in trol. He couldn’t stand knowing that his body was dead to him. He could do nothing to ge things. That he was just the helpless doll to this insane man.

  ‘e on! Damn body, do what I’m telling you!’ He struggled to find anything. Everything was so numb. He didn’t feel like he was in his own body anymore. It just felt like he was watg through someone’s eyes, but still felt the pain. ‘Are you going to just let him carve you up? Move damn it!’

  A faint glow warmed between the yers of papers around his arm. It pulsed softly.

  Grinning like a maniaas removed another fio show Seiji. The renewed screaming only made his expression all the more twisted. He drank up the pain with devilish delight.

  The resistance from his body made Seiji sweat more. Watg as degrade further and further from something that resembled human actually made him feel something he didn’t expebsp; It was a fn feeling for him. ‘He’s actually going to slowly cut me up until I die!’ Seiji’s eyes widened further until his pupils became only dots. The feeling washed over him. It made him familiar with it. It wanted him to be fortable. It was heavy. It was siing. Seiji hated it, but couldn’t help it.

  Fear. Absolute. Pure. ing.

  Chapter 234 – Death’s Assurance

  There were times Seiji might have felt it in the past, but it was only a little bit. It wasn’t enough to keep him from wanting to fight babsp; But this was so powerful it felt like it was over his entire body. Everything froze. His mind started to e to terms with reality. ‘I ’t…’

  His arm pulsed a little stronger.

  as took i. “What’s this? I don’t remember you having this before.” He stripped away a couple of the talismans ed around his hand. It took a little effort, but he reached skin. A thin scar started betweehe pinkie and ring finger would have been and ran underh the bandaging.

  His eyes lit up a little. “I remember now. This was the wound I gave you.” as peeled back a few more to find the sed scar. He checked further up on his arm needing to remove a signifit amount to reach the skin. “So you mao bind it back together and heal yourself. I recall you did something like that at the end now. You were getting less iing at that point, so I don’t remember the small details very well.”

  Seiji wanted his arm babsp; He wanted his body babsp; He wanted free of this insane man’s trol. It had to end. “Give…me…back…” Even his mouth had trouble obeying him. He fought just to get the words out.

  Closing in a little, as pyful drew a line down Seiji’s cheek with his finger. “Oh? You want something?” He gri him. “Do tell me.”

  The glow shined off his skin through the exposed parts as it pulsed.

  A little surprised by the brightness, as pulled back a bit. His fusion at Seiji’s arm twisted his forehead. “Something new you’re trying? You’re still under my paralysis. You ’t escape me!” He started ughing at Seiji's futile attempts. “Struggle all you want. You’re mine!”

  Another pulse came out, but it moved down his arm rather than all at onbsp; The tips of his fingers started to glow a little.

  “Give me…”

  “e on. Tell me what you want.”

  “Give…”

  Several waves pulsed through Seiji’s arm.

  “What is it you want?” as leaned forward up close to Seiji’s fabsp; He grabbed on to the back of his head. The sight of his futility pleased him. Toying with him was almost too easy.

  Suddenly, the talismans on his arm rippled. The outer yer loosened up and fpped around. The light pulsing through his arm became a stant stream. “Give me back my damn ARM!” Seiji shouted, finally able to speak again. All of the talismans threw off his arm spinning around at different speeds. The light that tained within before shined brightly. It blihe entire damn Field.

  Ohe light faded enough to see, Seiji was no longer in sight. It was his white glowing arm that signaled his position, as it was hard to miss. He rested outside of as’ Field. The talismans stopped moving. Hundreds of papers floated at different distances away from his arm.

  as lowered his eyes a little from the brightness. A urn of events he didn’t expect appeared before him. “What do you have hidden in the arm?”

  The shitty pain through his body had subsided signifitly. His hand still hurt like hell, but nothing like it was before. ‘I move again.’ Seiji flipped his eyes up towards as, notig his position. ‘It must be because I’m outside of his damn effects.’ Lifting up his scarred arm, Seiji stared at the light ing off it. ‘What’s happening to me? I thought I already kneower Yuki gave me. This isn’t the same sort of thing.’

  Seiji grabbed one of the talismans out of the air. It immediately straightened out in his fingers. “Huh? This looks like…” He never gave it much thought on his arm. When it happened during the fight, he was merely grateful for an arm to fight with again. After it was over, he just accepted it as fabsp; He never looked at it closely. But it was familiar. Damn siingly familiar.

  The more he thought about it the more he realized about it. ‘These showed up that time when the shrine was utack by the undead.’ The light from his arm calmed down. Most of the paper talismauro his arm, but a few attached themselves to his body. He couldn’t remove them no matter how much he tried. ‘They’re always appearing to help me. Is this your way of getting back at me?!’

  He would have preferred to ignore such help, but it art of him. It couldn’t be removed. Acceptance was his only optioant or otherwise. Seiji looked down at his maimed hand, bandaged back up. The two fingers he missed were sealed up.

  Seiji looked back at as with his awkward fist raised. His body felt a little different now. He wasn’t sure what the talismans did to him, but he at least had the poison purged. “Alright. Time to return the favor in kind.” Seiji began to walk back towards the sword Field.

  Grinning, as watched with anticipation of Seiji’s return. “You were safe outside my Field. My poison couldn’t affect you. But you walk ba here. It’ll make you succumb again.” Swords lifted up into the air around where Seiji would enter. “You truly are an idiot!”

  “I’m fih that,” replied Seiji, marg into the shitty Field. The momeepped in a flicker came off the talismans attached to his body. “Things won’t py out the same way a sed time.”

  “Did you fet I have plete trol within my Field?”

  Pung his foot down into the Field, ks of the damh jumped up knog away many of the swords lined up for him. His left hand grabbed a free sword and swiped away the rest in a siion. “Did you fet this is the sed time I’ve fought you?”

  “So you found a way to protect yourself from my poison. I just stre.”

  “You really think that’ll work?” Seiji kept walking forward. He had his badass fidence babsp; Everything was under his trol. His body felt great. “All you do is work within your pre-defined limits you’ve pced upon yourself. Strengthening won’t do anything to affect me. You’ll have to ge it to actually have a ce against me now.” He smirked a little at the thought. “And you ’t risk that. The moment your damn Field is off you’re mine. You have to work with what yiven.”

  as grinned along with Seiji. It pleased him. It was enjoyable, but als before. The feeling he had now was more satisfying. “This is the way it should be. This is far more iing. It’d be s just cutting you up when you ’t move.” Suddenly two swords appeared in his hands and grew immediately to unwieldy sizes of five meters. “But don’t think I’m out of moves. No, we’re just getting started now. So I expect you to keep making things iing for me until I remove that head of yours!”

  The length of the swords actually impressed Seiji a bit. They seemed like they stretched out to stab at him, even though he remai a safe distanbsp; He rubbed his left hand over his right hand subsciously. There was no pain.

  He could feel the iy of the atmosphere. The deadliness poiraight at him. His emotions calmed for the moment. ‘I have to end this before I lose myself once more. This man brings out the worst in me. Inside I know he deserves worse than what my heart wants to give, but I ’t let it take me over. Not again! I o fight my way, not on his terms!’

  Seiji charged in for as. He watched the massive bdes slowly moving up. ‘They’re too big for him. Though he seems ued by their size, I ’t imagiually swing them very easily.’ The slow movement made them very easy to dodge. It almost seemed like as allowed himself to get caught up in the sense of a fight to allow such a weakness. However, it was too early to judge.

  The earth roared a the moment the crappy bdes crashed into the ground. Massive waves of debris shot off the impact zone. It didn’t matter if Seiji dodged the bdes, their effect would still reach him. They carved up the earth with ease.

  After only two attacks, Seiji fell off his course. He stumbled around on his feet trying to make up for the loss. However, in this dey, as had a follow-up already pnned. Seiji caught it in time. The left sword was already ba the air and tur with the bde poi him. It moved signifitly faster than before. The slow movement was just a deception.

  Seiji leapt up in the air just in time to nd on the bde as it crashed into the other sword. Sparks flew up from the scrappial. The bdes rang loudly over the battlefield. ‘Damn…’ He looked down at the close call. ‘That was close, he’s still pying around.’ Seiji jumped back to get off the sword.

  The attack was already beginning. Seiji had to dodge the varied speeds of the swords. her seemed to move at the same speed. It made it difficult for him to dodge. He already experiehe sharpness of the smaller bdes. He didn’t want to take one directly on at such a size.

  Dodging was all he could do for the moment. as was on a heavy offensive. “Don’t get b on me again! I’ll cut you up if you do!” He smirked at him.

  Grunting a little as he made an awkward backward dodge, Seiji hated being defensive. But the actics weren’t something he was used to against as. “You’re already wanting to kill me. I don’t think that’s much of a reasht now.” He had another close dodge. Each move seemed to be getting harder to avoid tha.

  Some ughter came from as. “Getting a bit of a mouth on you for retorts, huh?”

  “Damn, I’m starting to sound like Yuki.” He leapt up on the shitty ass swords as another dodge came. The size made it very easy to run up the length as his only catch for a ter. “I o keep to my own character.” Bdes jumped up from the surface of the sword halting his progress. The surprise attack left him with a small knick, but it felt like his entire limb had been severed. He bit through the pain, jumping away, his route closed.

  “I wondered how long it’d take you to accept the invitation.”

  Seiji ripped off a talisman from his arm and put it ohin wound. It worked well closing up the wound. ‘Damn, they aren’t normal ass swords…’ He looked back at the bastard as approag. A reminder of the situation had to gh Seiji’s head. It was easy to fall into the assumption of what he sahat reality was, but they subverted reality.

  “You shouldn’t rex just because you think you’re safe!” The swords suddenly grew ih to reach out to Seiji. Safe distano longer meant the same thing. The swords moved at an even faster speed than before leaving Seiji with little openings.

  Seiji gasped for a moment as he felt the bde slice through his entire body at the waist. It seemed like everything wasn’t real for a moment. He couldn’t feel anything. Then he looked down. He mao escape, but not without taking a shallow wound in his waist as the extending bdes caught a taste of him in mid-swing. Soured down his face from the experienbsp; ‘What just happened?’

  as lifted the left sword up to rest on his shoulder. “Surprised? I told you before, didn't I? I’m not out of moves. Things are only getting started.” The sword shrank down to a normal size. “That was merely a taste of things to e. That bde creates illusions, increasing the severity of any wound you receive.”

  The right sword, still massive, shined a strange light blue. A cold wind blew from it until the air froze. Ice expanded over the bde and stretched out catg Seiji unaware. He couldn’t move in time for the ice to grab his legs. “How will you get out of this?” as tossed the smaller sword into the air letting it grow back to gigantic proportions. It spun down at him threatening to cut him down the middle.