Seiji went straight after Katsumi now that he could fight her with his full attention. It was always Kaede getting in his way or the other way around. He didn’t mind such fights, but their tag teaming made it very difficult to have any sort of fight happen. Nothing he did could get started.

  Now it was different. He could have a fight the way he preferred. Just the two of them, though it didn’t stop him from being unnerved by the ck of any sort of expression on her fabsp; She didn’t have the i in the fight, not like Kaede. It was like she was doing it because she was told to do so. ‘Is she fighting against the mind trol?’ he wondered while exging some introductory blows.

  He could tell from her puhat her heart was definitely not in the fight. ‘She doesn’t want to do this? Uhe irl…’ Until now, he never had a real ce to look at the girl, as the fight was too chaotic really to see something more subtle.

  It made him pause in the fight to question what he was doing. ‘ I really fight her? I’m already wishing that I wasn’t as much of a real man who doesn't punch girls, but they’ve forced my hand. But with her separated from her friend, she seems more passive than before…’

  Chapter 329 – Back-to-Back Doubt

  Uainty on the part of Seiji left him open for an attack by Katsumi. He took a punch to the fabsp; For stopping in the middle of a fight, he should have knower. It surprised him a little that it happened. He staggered back a little trying not to fall over and pletely embarrass himself.

  A thin trickle of blood slipped from his lip, sidering the state of the rest of his body, it was hardly something to be sidered over. Far worse injuries littered his arms and legs. “…dammit…” He wiped away the blood quickly and focused once more. She reminded him that he was in the middle of a fight and such things were mistakes. ‘That hurt more thahers…what’s with her? I don’t get her.’

  fusion couldn’t settle in for Seiji as he quickly had to block the punch thrown at him. He caught it with his hand this time, though a little bit of a vibratiohrough his arm. ‘Her strength has increased… What’s with her? Before she wasn’t really even in the fight…’ Seiji caught the other fist as well, but she pulled herself free to take swings at him. He started dug around her wide throws. ‘She’s really not familiar with fighting, that much is clear. The only thing she’s got going for herself is what Yuki gave her.’ It was hard to call her just weak, since a hit did still hurt, but there was little challenge. She cked any sort of trol or finesse. It was a plete amateur effort.

  Even though she was an easy fight the more he watched her, there was still the trouble that she presented. None of the blows he made actually seemed to do anything to her. He hadn’t given it his all yet. It was difficult to do. It wasn’t like any fight he had ever been in before. ‘I’m starting to wish I had the irl. I don’t know if I actually fight her…’

  None of that stopped Katsumi from tinuing to try to take down Seiji. Even though she couldn’t eything, she opped taking advantage of his doubt. ‘…dammit…what am I supposed to do?’

  Katsumi suddenly ged up her tactid darted around behind Seiji, not pletely catg him off guard. He partially mao block the attack, but it staggered him. It knocked him enough off bahat Katsumi could follow up quickly with several shots.

  He had to pick himself up several meters away. Fshes of red light far in the distance distracted him for a moment until Katsumi came up to him once more. Her knee rammed through his stomach taking him off the ground and falling to the floor. “Ugh…I’m getting tired as hell of this!” Seiji pouhe floor into a small crater as he stood up.

  Throwing his finger out at Katsumi, he tried to get something resolved. “Do you want to fight or don’t you?!

  Nothing.

  He roughed his hand through his hair annoyed. “Stop it! Either look like you want to fight or stop it! You’re fusing the hell out of me!” She remained silent for him. No answer only frustrated him further. “Dammit all! Why the hell are you fighting with that face?!”

  Suddenly ughter came out from Katsumi. It was pletely disjointed from the rest of her. Almost like her mouth eaker. It was still her voice, but the rest of her face didn’t match.

  Seiji took a step back feeling even more unnerved by the situation. It wasn’t very on that he saw horror movies, he absolutely hated them and couldn’t stand watg them (you remember why, right?), but the whole se really felt like something out of a horror film. Katsumi looked possessed, but it had only captured her void nothing else.

  “What the hell’s going on?! Why are you ughing?”

  An awkwardly ripped up smile came across Katsumi’s face as if the ers were pulled up with string. Out of her nearly unmoving lips came her disembodied voibsp; “So you’re the mauscle head Saki was telling me about.”

  “Saki!” Seiji immediately jumped at the mention of her name. “Where’s Saki?”

  “So single minded. I’m hurt.”

  “I don’t give a damn about you!”

  “Oh, but that’s not true. You came all this way just to see me. You seem to disapprove of my world view.”

  “The hell?” It took until then for Seiji to realize what was wrong. The horror imagery screwed with his mind enough that he didn’t sider it. “Who the hell are you?! You aren’t Yumi’s friend!”

  “So the big idiot finally figured it out after I spelled it out for him.”

  “You! You’re the one aren’t you?! The ohat is causing all of this!”

  Katsumi’s body cpped her hands together stiffly. “That’s right! gratutions! What shall I give you as a reward for uanding something so simple and obvious?” Her foot wound up suddenly and kicked a stray bit of debris in Seiji’s dire.

  The speed of it wasn’t much to worry about for him. He simply lifted his arm up to deflect the debris away, but instead he was jerked backwards as blood sprayed through the air. Seiji threw himself against the wall needing some support. “What the hell?” He gnced down to see the debris embedded itself in his arm with part of it stuck through the other side. Blood streamed down his arm. Without a sed thought, he ripped it free from his arm as it poured out blood. “What the hell did you do?”

  “Better watch that, yoing to bleed out.”

  “Go to hell!”

  “Already visited.”

  “Damn you.”

  “You’re as charming as she described.”

  “Stop ag like you know any of us!”

  “Oh but I do!” Katsumi stepped roughly forward a step with her shit-eating grin growing. “I know all of you so very well see. I know what you’ve been doily in a little pce called Atntis. I know all about you and Saki and Yuki. She hates you, you know.”

  “Shut up! You don’t know Saki!”

  “Touch a nerve have I?” The creepy smile grew rger, nearly looking like a crest. “It’s the truth. She ’t stand you. She wishes that you’d just disappear.”

  “You’re lying!” Seiji’s fists tightened up. The blood started boiling for him listening to Takako. He knew what the bitch was trying to do. It still angered him that she would go so far as to make such attempts. He charged in after her. “I’m not going to allow you to talk about Saki like that!”

  Katsumi took Seiji’s punch to the forearm with only a push babsp; The force of his fist blew her hair babsp; Laughter came out of her once more. “She old you. She’s making you think that you’re all just friends.”

  He wound up his punches again, throwing more and more power behind them. Katsumi just stood there and took it all, barely doing anything other than sliding a little back, as her feet couldn’t keep a grip on the floor. At the end, all that he could see was her full arm length gloves were a little frayed. Some shitty ass tears were starting to develop, but nothing more really happened.

  “You’re upset because you know I’m speaking the truth.”

  “Shut THE hell up!” Seiji’s hand lit up briefly as he pulled back for another wind up. Katsumi took his rage head on, but this time the force was enough to knock her off her feet. She flew backwards a meter, but mao catch herself in time. Large ass tears tore through the cloth as it started to hang.

  She started to discard the gloves causally as she straightened back up. “I walk through their memories and thoughts the same as I’m walking through this girl’s body.” Katsumi’s hand brushed over her cheek to point out the plete dominance she had over the girl. “I’m so much more intimate with Saki than any of those who think they are her friends. So…much…more…” Laughter came out of Katsumi again. “She’s told me all of her secrets and all of her lies. She has so much darkness withi feels so amazing.”

  “You know nothing!” Seiji threw out another fist as he closed the distance, but Katsumi held up a pnk of wood from one of the walls. His fist crashed into the wood uo do anything to it. Blood sprayed up from his wounds applied from his forbsp; “Just stop talking!” He kept throwing more fists at Katsumi, always blocked by the wood until his knuckles were bleeding.

  Tossing the pnk behind her, she retrieved a new pair of gloves. This pair was dark browher with ptes of metal around the backs of the hands and thinly spaced around her fingers. “Trying to punch me quiet? That won’t work. You ’t beat me while I’m in this girl’s body.” Katsumi ran her fingers up and down her arms as though washing them. “This girl’s abilities are uniquely suited to being perfect just for you.”

  “I don’t care anything about any of that! I’ll still stop you!”

  Laughing, Katsumi started to move towards Seiji. “By all means make your attempts. I’ll show you how weak you are. You’re just a clueless monkey.” She rubbed her hands together looking like she was starting to warm up. Winding up her punch, she met fist for fist against Seiji. Nothing stopped her anymore. Explosive shockwaves flew off their cshes shaking the ceiling.

  Blood, Seiji’s blood, coated the knuckles of Katsumi’s glove. It only seemed to be getting worse for him. She no longer even lost her tra in the fight. In fact, she seemed to be getting helluva lot stronger with each punbsp; One of her punches slipped through Seiji’s defenses nding square in his jaw. He slid back a little staggered from the blow as blood started flowing from the impact.

  Seiji spit out the blood from his mouth and charged ba after Katsumi, or rather Takako. “Damn you!” However, while he was stunned, Katsumi retrieved a long board from one of the trashed s. Already in motion, Seiji put up his arms to block the hit.

  It was like being hit by a trubsp; He flew out of the hallway through a and out the window into the back of the school grounds (opposite of Haruo and Fumiko’s current fight). Seiji spun end over end through the dirt until he came to a stop in a pile of earth up against the er of the school fence.

  As he tried to pull himself up more blood dripped over his fabsp; His left arm was pletely thrashed to shit from the blow. It hung weakly at his side. He wasn’t sure if it was broken or worse, but he couldn’t move it. ‘…dammit…I ’t lose here, not to this psycho!’

  Katsumi marched out of the school still holding the wood board. “You don’t have to worry. I’ve no i in adding you to my army. You’ll just die here like everyone around you wants!”