Yori bsted both of them out of the school into the courtyard below. However, she seemed to know it was ing and used her barrier to block all of the bst from harming her. Only the enviro was damaged. “…Yumi…”

  Whatever it was that stood in trol of her stared across the ruined field at Yori. White particles hovered around her looking ready to absp; “Would appear you’ve begun to hone your power that you awoke retly. This still is within my forecast.”

  “I don’t give a damn about your forecast! I want my sister babsp; And if I have to do so by force I will! None of you are stoppiil Yumi is normal again!”

  “That may be an impossibility for you.”

  Bck bdes materialized in Yori’s hands. “I will make it happen! I am her brother!”

  “Matters of family…I expected as mubsp; But that’s not what Yumi needs right now.” The white particles slowly began to take on a different color, transf into purple.

  Jumping in with his swords, Yori had little i in what the woman had to say. “You know nothing of what Yumi needs! Nothing!” She stood between him and his sister. However, she stopped his bdes with merely the palm of her hand. “What?!”

  “On the trary, you’re more in the dark about your own sister than you seem to thio be.”

  The woman had fiden spades. It wasn’t even arrogance; she knew she held the superior position to him. Such a look irritated him, especially since so far he hadn’t been able to do anything to prove her wrong. She towered over him in an overbearing presence despite her size and stature. It was as though none of the physical mattered to her. This woman was a tower that he couldn’t climb o around.

  Whoever it was inside his sister’s body, she mao look not like the sister he knew. Even though they shared the same face, the expressions and aura were pletely different. It wasn’t even the fact that she had pure white hair or deep blue eyes rather than soft average brown. He almost swore that he saw a different life buried in the carves that shaped her face.

  “What’s that supposed to mean?” Even though he wasn’t making any progress against her, he still pushed in with his body as though it would break through her defense. “Are you saying I don’t know my own sister?”

  Suddenly, a force shot out from behind her hand that sent Yori tumbling babsp; He cwed at the air, finding brakes until he stopped on the ground. The woman lowered her hand, staring down at him. “I thought I made it pretty clear that a question was unnecessary.”

  “You’re the stranger here!” He kicked off the earth and jumped bato the fight, unfortunately he ran across peared to be a trap. A beam of light shot through the earth where he stepped. Only his reflexes saved his foot from being ly removed.

  “I am a stranger. My life has nothing to do with either of you.”

  “Then leave us alone!” Yori released his left hand turning the bck bde into an orb of energy that he shot out at the woman. “We don’t need you!”

  A ter beam shot out from the side pletely over taking the attabsp; Through the smoke, the woman inside Yumi’s stared across at Yori. “That’s where you are wrong. She wanted us.”

  “She didn’t want you at all!”

  “We were brought here because of her.”

  “No, you were made by that arrogant bastard that’s developing a god plex!”

  “There is a reason for this.”

  “No, the only reason I see here is the one I allowed to be ignored when I listeo my sister. I never should have trusted him. It’s always just beewo of us, that’s all there o be!”

  “Looks like we’re finally getting to the core of the matter with you.”

  “Shut up! I don’t o hear anything from some fake personality that thinks it knows what’s best!”

  “Better than someorying to maintain a fake retionship.”

  Chapter 337 – The Moon Rises

  Yori didn’t know why he kept talking to the woman. She had nothing to do with them. She was merely a wall that he o crush in order to reach his sister. ‘She’s the reason why Yumi’s ged and keeps ging. It’s because of that bastard and this fake woman that she’s not the sister that I know!’

  Ref his bde, he charged ba for the attabsp; Deteg arap, he swiftly dodged out of the way, but only ran head first into another. It blew up in his face c the area in light and smoke. However, it didn’t rest with just the trap, another several bsts went into the smoke.

  Analyzing the results, the woman quickly assessed the situation and halted her attabsp; “He’s put up a barrier.”

  Within the bck barrier, Yori took pause, finding the situation quickly fell out of his hands. Though it looked more as if it never was, not that he openly would admit to such a thing. “Damn, it’s like she see the future, knowing where I’m going to be before I’m even there.” Unfortunately, he didn’t have much time to think about the mystery of the woman’s cirvoyanbsp; Another beam shot up through the ground inside his barrier.

  He had to use his bdes to try to deflect the energy, but not before it ran up part of his upper arm and shoulder leaving red sear marks from the attabsp; Yori bit through the pain. ‘This isn’t as painful as the battle with Athene… This is nothing pared to that…’ Trying t it off wasn’t very easy for him. Despite all of the training he went through, it was still different for him to deal with it. ‘It’s like she said…I’m still soft…and inexperienced…’

  Yori stood up bsting out his barrier to wipe away the smoke that prevented him from seeing his wall. Immediately gaining visibility, he had another beam shot at him. Not even his reflexes were enough to react to it. Only by luck of his bdes being where the beam came did he have any bsp; It immediately pushed him back as he quickly tried to put his weight behind his bdes to deflect the attack.

  His bdes weren’t enough for the power behind the attabsp; Cracks appeared along the bck bdes the lohat he held against them. They had to break eventually, Yori struggled to hold their form together, but nothing he could do was enough. It only prolohings. When they finally broke, he mao move himself out of the danger, but they still tore through part of his shirt.

  “Misguided and weak.”

  Looking across the field at her, the situation had remained unged. It annoyed him how much she breathed her superiority with every word and expression. “Shut up! Shut up! SHUT up!”

  “You’re quite the disappoi sidering how much she values you.”

  “Enough with your lies!”

  “You’re pathetibsp; A small man stu the past. You’re looking for a bird in a cage, not your sister.” A purple barrier appeared around her and quickly turned into shards. tless pieces hovered in the air spag out over the entire field. “It’s best that I take you out now before she learns the truth of how petty of a being you are now.”

  Yori screamed and charged straight for the woman without thinking about his situation or the ohat developed before him. All he had armed with him were his swords, which already showed to not be very effective against her. Yet, he did it anyway. “That’s enough from you! I’m taking back my sister!”

  Shards started to spin around in the air. One shot out for Yori that he dodged, but only went into the path another prepared for him. His sword cut through it, but he had to evade again. At every turn, she had ters and traps prepare for him. He actually ended up getting pushed back rather than making any progress towards her.

  At every step he made she seemed to predict it and made attacks at them. It was barely keeping his footing against her. Her attacks became more lethal as the fight carried on. He couldn’t hold them off simply with his sword. Gng blows snuck past him that his abilities couldn’t make up for.

  Before long, he had minor cuts along his arms and legs in an effort to protect his body. None of it mattered in the end. ‘She’s just toying with me it feels like. Every time she looks at me it’s like she’s saying that she kill me whenever she wants. I hate that look…’

  “Is this going to be where you end?”

  “Kill me if you seem so certain of it. You said that you would.”

  “Already giving up. Was all that effort you cimed to make poihen?”

  “Shut up… I didn’t train to fight with words.”

  “You already lost in words, so fight with what you have left.”

  “With what I have left… I really hate you…”

  “Only because you know that I speak the truth.”

  “Nothing of what you say is the truth.”

  “Then prove your cim.”

  The fight had barely even gotten started for Yori, but it was the first time he really had a good reason to fight. His fight with Athene ointless even though he gave it his all for her sake. It somehow felt different for him. Back then his body responded and he could keep up, but against this woman he was already feeling exhausted. His body was sluggish.

  ‘I don’t want to die…’ That was the only thing he ko be true at the moment. The woman said so many things that it had his mind pletely scrambled. He had questions and doubts popping up everywhere. It was distrag.

  Yori struggled to move his body. It hurt, hurt a lot. It moaned and pio him. This wasn’t the sort of thing that he did. He was a student and a brother. Fighting wasn’t something that he did. That was for the bastard Hayashi and his friends, not him. Yet they dragged him into their world. ‘I followed Yumi to this end…she wao go… I’m only here because I wao watch over her and keep her safe. This whole thing is dangerous and she’s being hinking that she wasn’t going to be hurt. Everything that she already suffered in Atntis…’

  He didn’t feel like he had the sort of resolve he saw ihers around him. They believed more strongly in what they did than him. He just followed along. It wasn’t his fight. But they had his sister and they forced it to be his fight toring across the area at the unknown woman, Yori found a little pieake his legs move. They shook and wao run away. Every part of himself told him that this was a losing fight. She could kill him whenever she wanted. He khis, but he had a small piece to g on to. Something that was y or fake to him.

  Hardening up his bdes, he stiffened up his stanbsp; “I’m a stranger. I’m not a fighter. I hate you. And I hate this situation. I don’t belong here. But I know ohing! I’m her brother and that will never ge! Lies, fake, truth, whatever you want to say! Brothers fight for their sisters! End of story!”