A bit of annoyance washed over Kaede at the sight of Miyako. Unlike before in the fight, Miyako actually looked excited for a fight. She wahe fight more than anything now. The eagerness rather than unease or shock left her not pletely sure what to make of Miyako. ging into her new form, Kaede pnned for a different sort of rea. Nothing she could have thought up would have prepared her for su expectation. “So you’re just a muscle bound idiot. Not very adult-like of you.”

  “I’m still going to be puttin’ ya in yer pce.”

  “I guess we’ll have to see then. you keep up with me?”

  “A little speed ain’t enough to stop me,” Miyako boasted.

  “Is that so? Let’s see how long that arrogas!”

  “Long enough to take ya down!”

  Chapter 334 – Back-to-Back Brawl

  The two charged in fueled for different reasons. First strike went to Kaede. Speed proved to be on her side against Miyako. But Miyako took it barely even leaning back from the blow, her feet pnted firmly in the ground. Her terattack began as she grabbed Kaede by the wrist. Turning her arm, Kaede’s body flipped over and smashed her bato the earth. Cracks and rumblings came from the force of the flip.

  Stunned for only a moment, Kaede leapt out of the small pit created by her body before Miyako could follow up with her fist. Miyako’s hand disappeared, a little embedded in the earth. “Tch, yer a fast one I’ll give ya that.” She ripped her hand free from the grouing the bits of soil fall bato the tiny hole she punched.

  “Still thinking you beat me, huh?”

  “Yer ten years too early to think that you kill me.”

  Kaede charged forward in a straight attack that had no fsh or thought put into it. Speed definitely gave her an advantage, but Miyako dealt with such types too many times before. She easily sidestepped the charge and spun her leg around to kick her in the back of the head. The teenager slid over the earth face first until it piled up arou her to a stop. “Damn you, you bitch!” she coughed with her hand popping up through the pile.

  “Upset that you realized that you won’t be able to kill me?” Miyako ched her hands trying to ignore all of the pain burning through her body. ‘I’m gd she’s so inexperienced. If she could actually fight, I don’t knoell I would fare against her. She’s powerful and I’m still not fully recovered from our st fight.’

  Most of the bahat Miyako had from the st enter with Kaede had been removed before she went into the raid team with Hiroshi. She didn’t want him thinking that she was still injured. It wasn’t a battle that she was going to run away from, not after the sacrifices made already. The battle had to have her.

  Up until fighting Kaede, she hadn’t worried herself over her body’s dition. None of the fodder she fought gave her any challenge. She uood her limits well enough that she wasn’t going to be able to take on Takako or the others at the top of the ranks in her army. Though she didn’t t on Kaede being potentially in those ranks as well. ‘Still…this is going to be harder the lo drags out and she’s resilient…’

  Her previous injuries had thankfully been not too severe, so her recovery had been quibsp; But inplete as it was, her body tried to remind her not to overdo it. She had no pns on listening to it.

  Taunted into the fight, Kaede came baore. She could use her speed to get in close. A minor hit usually was all she was able to achieve against Miyako before she terattacked. All around the grounds, their fight spread with little given up.

  However, Kaede started to get a little more of an edge on Miyako in the fight as it dragged out. Her punded ly against Miyako’s cheek sliding her babsp; Miyako quickly responded with a simir straight punch thrown out. They both slid apart tinuing tle.

  Blood dripped down Miyako’s lip and , reminding her of the punbsp; ‘Damn, I think she’s improving in the middle of the fight… This isn’t good…’ It became harder to just blod ter. Worse, even tering her didn’t seem to do as much as she desired. She just kept getting back up. “At least you’re making this fun!” she shouted as she charged after Kaede.

  An offense was the only pn that Miyako had anymainst Kaede. Her defensive pn worked only so well. She was able to keep up with the speed because she could see it ing and got a feel for it. It stopped being a blink out of reality and more of a blur now.

  Kaede didn’t expect Miyako to go oabsp; So she could only evade the first attabsp; But Miyako stayed on her. They danced around with Miyako giving chase. Her speed was only enough to keep her out of a direct hit. But Miyako mao get in some gng blows against Kaede. Bruises started to appear from the marks left behind. Her body could only take the hits so well. Out of frustration with Miyako, Kaede tered with a kick rather than her usual fists. “Stay down!”

  Miyako’s body flew back crashing through the wall. Explosions of metal ah jumped up from the collision. She disappeared amongst the smoke. However, it became clear that it hadn’t done enough as coughing came through the thick clouds.

  “Dammit…I’ll keep beating you down until you ’t move anymore!” Kaede flew in at her top speed unwilling to wait on the smoke to clear. Which proved to be a poor pn as Miyako caught her by her wrists. Before the speed caught up to her body and threateo flip her painfully around, Miyako used her foot to throw her into the air.

  The auburn haired girl sailed over the grass street outside of the school until she crashed into an abandoned home. Miyako flipped up to her feet and looked onto the site. “Yoing to have to keep trying if you think you do that.”

  Grabbing at her shoulder, the pai from the kick she took throbbed loudly. Her body didn’t feel pleased that she wao ig as well. All of her other injuries were minor, she told herself. Which was rgely true. Added and stacked upon each other started to make them less minor. ‘Damn, that st hit really took a lot out of me. I don’t know how I’m going to be able to end this fight in any reasonable fashion. Killing her or not, both are not going to be very easy anymore. Not that I have the time to be pining…’

  Aruth, Kaede already recovered from the surprise throw and started to leave the home. She looked about as pissed off as she had been before, but made some failed attempts to look more pissed off. None of it was w, though Miyako knew what she was trying.

  None of it mattered in the end. Miyako charged after Kaede once more, not letting their fight slow down for long. It was the only way to keep her mind off her body’s failings. Everything was getting sluggish, but she pushed through the only way she knew how. “Don’t give me that look! Things are only just gettiing!”

  It had been a while since she had fought a battle where she wasn’t proteg someone. Reality was that she still fought even now to protect, but it was different than hts. There was no ohat she kept out of harm’s way. All of the attention and energy could be put into the fight. Such fights had lo her behind due to how she chose to live her life after that fateful day. She might have never wao fight in the past, but still did in spite of it. So it was never for fun or the thrill of battle. Even now, she couldn’t feel the thrill of it. But it did push her and make her strive to find how much she had inside her to give. Such a fight wasn’t really something she was familiar with. She sort of liked it as much as she hated the situation.

  She exged blows with Kaede knocked each other backwards into separate ruined houses. The hit slowed her body down enough that Kaede came after her. Miyako only mao get to her feet when the blow came in for her. Her fist came up to meet her head-on.

  A shockwave blew out from the collision ripping apart the fragile house. Debris flew in all dires as Kaede suddenly grabbed Miyako’s wrist. She pulled on Miyako and threw her over her head and back down into the shattered floor.

  Miyako id in a body sized crater of her own making, but she snapped back to life and clutched onto Kaede hand tightly before she released. Showihe same kindness, Miyako threw Kaede into the floor. The two women ected together pounded each other into the pletely unreizable floor until they both id on their backs panting from the exertion.

  “You’re so annoying,” pined Kaede, still uo kill Miyako.

  “I ain’t gonna lose.”

  “I’ll still make you!”

  “Try me.”

  They staggered to their feet equally unwilling tn the fight. Their bodies both yelled at their stupidity fn them, but it went on deaf ears. Both focused on each other. Defense had disappeared from their attempts as both id down a heavy blow ihers fabsp; The force shot them out of the ruins and through several neighb homes.

  F herself back up to her feet, Miyako began to walk out of the house and towards Kaede. Blood and bruises covered her body. Her clothes were in shreds only holding together out of kihan anything else, not that Kaede looked to be in much better shape.

  However, a strange red glow came from Kaede that made Miyako force open her half-closed eye. “…the hell?” She slowly started to move closer and closer trying to figure out what was going on with Kaede. The glow became a haze that seemed to surround her whole body. ‘…it’s like she’s on fire…literally…’

  Before she could get too much closer, a fireball suddenly flew after her. She had to duck out of the way of the surprise attabsp; Behihe house blew up in fmes casting gusts of wind to her babsp; ‘A pletely different power…’ Little time remaio think about the situation as another simir attack forced her to dodge.

  Rolling out of the way, Miyako found several more fireballs ing to where she nded. She jumped out of the way just in time to ride the explosions forward. They rocked her around and forced her into the ground roughly as she cwed at the earth to recover.

  Already on top of her, Kaede stood with her left fist a light with fmes. Miyako rolled away to dodge the first and sed puhat left the groued and smoking. However, she couldn’t get away from the third, taking it straight to the upper arm. The searing pain roared through her body and she yelped. F Kaede off her with a kick, she mao be released from the burning.

  Miyako stood up with her left arm feeling numb and not moving the way she wanted. She finally got a good look at Kaede to see that once more she got a ge in haircut. Her hair had grown out ih to hit he middle of her bad rge spinning and ing curls id over her shoulder. “So your power is ected to your hair, huh?” Seeing it a third time made it all clear.

  “That’s right. I have several different powers thanks to the way this power works. You ood a ce against me! My fmes will burn you to ash!”