It actually seemed that fmes appeared in Eudokia’s eyes. Her fury increased again only barely trolled by her reason. “Personal?! Self serving?! What the hell do you even know!? You know nothing about what is happening here! You know nothing!”

  “Maybe if you actually expi I’d uand.”

  “YUKI!” Eudokia exploded off the chamber wall shooting straight for Yuki.

  Narrowing his eyes, a strange glow surrounded Yuki before he disappeared suddenly. He met in the middle of the room clutg Ayumi’s head in his hand. In the instant, he dropped to the ground smming her whole body into the stone floor. Blood coughed up from her mouth.

  Yuki stood up staring down at Ayumi with a different look in his eyes. “Let’s finish this already, Ayumi.”

  It took her a moment to recover from the shobsp; When she gred up at Yuki, something did not sit right. Her eyes narrowed a little trying to read what had ged. ‘How did he do that? That should not be possible in his w set. I know everything about his w set.’ Separating from him, she shot herself out of the area. Landing ba her feet, she wiped away the blood that dripped down her lips.

  He seemed even more ready for a fight than she saw from before. Previously, he ehe fight and exerg his abilities against her. That part annoyed her to no end. However, now he seemed to have left that part of him behind. He just wao put the fight to end. He wanted a clusion.

  It did not ge for her. She wanted an end as well, her end. The new Yuki seemed to make that less of a reality for her. He felt unknown tain. “What did you do? That sort of movement shouldn’t have been possible for you. You should have passed out from the G-forces alone.”

  “Not if you remove G-force from being a thing.”

  “That’s not possible for you. Your Law set doesn’t allow for that.”

  “My other Law set doesn’t allow for that.”

  Eudokia groueeth together, uanding immediately from that clue. ‘I ’t believe he figured out that advanced of a teique from only a few fights.’ She tightened up her fists feeling tension in the uainty. She was correct before thinking he was pletely different. Yuki had bee an unknown once more. She didn’t know what he gave himself anymore. “…bastard…”

  Yuki slowly walked towards her. “I didn’t have time to make it look any different, which actually worked out for me. But I got the idea from the old man and that insane guy I fought. They both did something like this.” He flexed his hand a little. All of the mist had pletely disappeared from him. “Keeping two different Law sets in your head is a little rough. But now you don’t know anything about what I do.” He disappeared again, moving too fast for Ayumi to see. His fist smmed into her stomach throwing her back against the dome.

  Chapter 276 – Fire and Ice

  More blood coughed up from her mouth. She could feel the pain in her body. It wasn’t like Yuki’s previous method that relied on dealing internal damage. His fists were purely physical. Everything eled through the speed and force.

  She dropped back down to the floor. It took her even loo recover than st time. ‘Dammit…I ’t let him touch me like that again…’ The back of her hand pushed away the blood leaving a smear across her cheek.

  Eudokia k down preparing for her attabsp; “You think you’ve got me just because you’re fast now and I don’t know what your Field is now?” Dust kicked up reag to the power in her feet. “I’ve been holding bay full power for you. But no more!”

  “Good, this’ll be over soon then.” Yuki motioned with his hand to have her bring it.

  Accepting, she charged at him, pletely disappearing as well. Yuki leapt straight in for her. It was only when they cshed that they popped back out. Shockwaves exploded off from the force smmed against each other. Yuki’s fists ected with Eudokia’s cws with both powers being equal.

  From the sidelines, Yumi could only watbsp; They moved in a blur for her. She could barely keep track of both of them, but her body couldn’t keep up with all of the movement. No longer relying on Yuki’s prote, she created a barrier from all of the fmes. It was the less straining part of her power. Even still, her body didn’t agree with the usage from all of her fatigue. ‘e on, Yuki! You beat her!’

  Yuki pushed himself harder to keep up with Ayumi’s movements. He was hardly used to such speeds. A normal human body wasn’t designed for such as. It required a signifit amount of special Addendums and powers to make it all work in a way that didn’t just ht kill him. ‘Damn…this is not easy to keep up. I ’t do this forever, even though Ayumi only seems to be gettier. She really is more experienced.’

  As Yuki bounced around the air, a quick appearance of circles appeared at his feet. They gave him something to stop on, but also thrust him bato the fight. It acted simirly in nature to Eudokia’s leaping. Their battle resulted in a very mirrored look as they both moved like the other.

  However, Yuki khat even with the new power he gave him that it wasn’t beating Ayumi. He couldn’t defeat her this way. He o do something more. ‘I shouldn’t really be ed about cheap shots at this point. The win is more important than anything since if I lose I’m going to have to be a bed-ridden King for the rest of my life. I’d never be able to see Momo, Jun or Ken ever again…’

  The thought of the alternative gave Yuki the resolve he needed. He was very thankful for the additional powers that he built into the Law set. ‘If I didn’t have this trag program I’d never be able to actually reliably follow Ayumi…’

  Alternating with his less domina hand, Yuki pushed on Ayumi with a series of punches. He o knock her a little off banbsp; The distra was enough, but he to t for more. ‘There!’

  Suddenly, a simple sword materialized in his right hand and sshed downward at an angle. Eudokia naturally blocked it, but blood still sprayed up from her body. It came from her babsp; The hit stunned her enough that Yuki delivered several more blows to her body.

  She crashed to the stone floor in a cloud of dust from the a room. Blood painted across the intricately detailed stone from her impabsp; Even now, she didn’t uand what happened. ‘Another of his powers? How many different things did he give himself? I don’t have time to figure it out.’

  Slowly, Eudokia pulled herself back up. She gred back at Yuki, who tio improve at an uling rate. ‘He’s mao make his power close enough that any mistakes I make I ’t e. Dammit!’ Grindieeth at the turned around situation, things started to bee even more desperate for her. “Cheap triow.”

  The look in Yuki’s eyes didn’t ge at her accusation. “I’m not a fan of them, but this is a fight over my life. I ’t allow myself to be held ba such ats!”

  “Then I won’t hold back either!” Suddenly the fmes disappeared from the Field. Eudokia jumped from the ground, going for a direct atta him. He succeeded in blog her, but fmes appeared from the air shing out at him. Restraining and burning him, Yuki couldn’t block the series of sshes Eudokia left for him.

  Yuki mao break free from the hold with a couple of swift strikes, but the damage was already done. Blood dripped from his chest. Even with the repaired gi, it started to turn a dark crimson soaking up the blood.

  He slid through the air, circles of light supp him. Clutg his wounded chest, Yuki bit through the pain. ‘Figured she was still holding something back despite saying that she was going t it all. I was holding back as well, so it’s only fair.’ Fairness meant little though in a fight for life. He wasn’t about to let Ayumi’s attacks slide uurned.

  The cshes of metal and fme tinued. Both of their iies increased further with the fight being more lethal. Blood trailed through the air from both of them. New wounds carved out in their bodies in respoo each failed blobsp; In spite of their bodies getting worse with each passing minute, her could allow themselves to stop.

  After a heavy barrage of attacks sting for nearly two minutes uninterrupted, they came to a pause. Sweat covered their skin and their chests heaved from shortened breaths. All of the signs from their bodies went ignored.

  ‘It’s a dimensional bde of sorts,’ she thought, having figured out most of its fun. ‘However, he’s able to ge where the damage es out making it nearly impossible for me to predibsp; Damn su annoying power…’

  ‘Yuki…’ Yumi became even more worried about the fate of Yuki. It was hard to tell which was winning in the fight. They looked evenly matched. And sihey seemed evenly matched it would only take one major mistake for the fight to be over.

  ‘I’m going to o end this soon,’ ented Yuki, feeling the pain c through his body. ‘I’m already having to make up for a lot of my body's movements through my power. It’s falling apart quickly.’

  Little choice came for Yuki when he already noticed the movement of Ayumi once more. She seemed to have enough of their break. He pushed himself bato the fray with the same iy aermination. Despite his body, he wouldn’t show her the weakness building.

  Fmes arced around their bodies as sparks and shockwaves burst from their ons. Yuki had bee a little familiar with dealing with the fmes. But Ayumi kept mixing up the dire and angles. She had signifit trol over her Field despite being so focused on the melee. Requiring the om awareness of the etlefield made it even more challenging on Yuki.

  Outside of the test round of fighting, Yuki ched his left hand tightly. He nded on the circle, throwing himself babsp; However, a new glow came about his hand. At the moment of the csh, ice exploded in all dires tering the fmes. They fought against each other while the twled over their ons.

  “Damn you, Yuki! You even pnned for this!”

  Groaning in the power struggle, he increased the ice to try to bat the overwhelming fmes. “Unfortunately, I ’t take credit for that muning. I pnned on having the ice to e your own ice powers. But this works just as well.”

  Yuki quickly encased some of the fmes in id grabbed a hold to pull himself around into a different dire. The shift threw off Ayumi allowing him to get a deep wound on her babsp; However, she shed out with her fmes as he lost focus on the i the moment.

  Blood trailed off her back as she colpsed to the stone. A dull groan came out of her. The st hit left her body wrecked and in deep pain. She struggled to get herself ba her feet.

  Searing paihrough Yuki’s body from the fmes. He refocused on the ice to fight off the fmes, but the damage was already done. Yuki fell backwards to the opposite side of the chambers. The impact coughed up a massive amount of blood from his mouth. A reminder of how thrashed his body was from everything.

  Slowly standing up, Yuki looked across the room through blurred and half-closed eyes. He could see Ayumi back up on her feet. “Damn…”

  “…Yuki Hayashi…”

  “Looks like I’m going to desd into cliché again, but we’re in no position to keep fighting.”

  “Speak for yourself,” snapped Eudokia, holding up her body just as much through her power as Yuki. Her bluff had to it.

  “So let’s decide this on one final attabsp; Everything we’ve got.”

  “Tch!” She looked away from him for a moment.

  Coughing a little, Yuki smirked. He saw the look in her eyes. “I’ll take that as a yes. If I win this is all over, no more me being King, Ayumi.”

  Eudokia grimaced at the thought, but she had to accept it. It was the fight to decide everything. “Fine. When I win you’ll be King.”

  Yuki tried to ugh, but his body did not like the idea. More blood dripped out of his mouth. “Still got that fidence, I see. Well let’s do this, Ayumi!”

  “Call me, Eudokia!”

  “Damn, so picky.”

  Building up his strength, he needed everything he had to offer for the final attabsp; He slid his sword down to his side, too many samurai movies. Ice gathered around the bde creating a haze in the air.

  Across the chamber, fire covered Eudokia’s metal cws. She bent down on all fours with her legs primed up against an invisible wall like an Olympian sprinter.

  At the ter before evearted to fight, their Fields had already begun. Each pushed their Folding to the limits and beyond. Their mental capacity straio keep everything together. Fire and ice sparked around through the air as though to py out the increased tension.

  They had everything pushed as far as possible, pletely disregarding their bodies or minds. All that mattered was the importance of the st siabsp; Each representing what was unshakable to them. Powered by their resolve, they disappeared.

  Blood sprayed up and cshed at the impabsp; A massive shockwave shook the chamber, shaking all of the dust free and knog Yumi off her feet.

  In the moment, two bodies sped out from the ter smashing into the walls of the chamber. First to their feet was Yumi. As the spectator of the fight, she looked at both sides trying to see who was more injured. She saw the entire exge. It hadn’t been a siack, but rather five attacks so fast that their bodies had to be falling apart or broken. Eudokia fmes overpowered Yuki’s ice, but his dimensional sword hit deep. There was almost no defense, only offense.

  her could have bee with much of their body.

  She thought one would rise before the other, but both actually seemed to be standing again. However, it didn’t look natural, almost as if they were puppets with strings attached to their limbs. Blood dripped off their deep wounds. ‘Who won? They’re both standing, but almost dead too!’

  Panting heavily and spent, Eudokia gred with the same fierce resolve at Yuki, who refused to fall. “Damn you, Yuki! Just…fall…accept your…fate…”

  In er shape, possibly worse, Yuki stared back at her. “I…make my…own…fate…not you…Eudokia…”

  It was the first time she heard him use her name. “…damn…you…” Her body suddenly colpsed to the ground, her strings cut.

  Yuki smiled with relief on his fabsp; “It’s…finally…over…” His eyes closed as he fell into Yumi’s arms, rushing to his side. His sciousness faded.