Hiroshi tried to lift his arm up to guard against all of the dust and debris thrown around the room, but it failed to move well for him. The cloud pletely engulfed him along with the two fighters. Only in the split seds before the chaos happened could he see what happened.

  The multitude of Takakos gave Yuki’s es trouble. Initial dodging proved to only go so far. Her speed increased dramatically making the old speed that Yuki’s es worked at iive. She destroyed the es quickly. The pace that she took made it look like she would find the real Yuki in time.

  All the clouds kicked up were from the speed at which Takako moved. The illusion that she held on the room seemed to be weakening as the dirty parts began to seep through piece by piebsp; Yuki chipped away at her, but it was still far from a victory for either.

  Yuki remained hidden from her sights and she had plenty of fight left in her. her were ending any time soon. ‘Now that Yuki showed her that he’s serious in fighting her, she meeting him head on. This is where things heat up now. Will you be able to still keep the advantage Yuki, now that she’s started to py her cards? The same cards that defeated me with ease…’

  Chapter 354 – Mind Tricks

  Moving at such speed seemed like it should have started to affect Takako, but she showed no signs of weakness. She dealt with the Yuki es as fast as they popped up. However, sinone of them were real and what she did really didn’t destroy them it was a pletely pointless exercise by her. Not that she seemed to be willing to listen to such arguments.

  Takako finished off the remaining es with signs of no more appearing. She turned around seeking out Yuki in any part of the room. He was o be seen. “Going to stop hiding?!”

  “Seems that I’ll have to take you on directly,” answered Yuki, materializing out of thin air tht. He threw out his fist while he earing leaving her little time to reabsp; Though with her reflexes and superhuman speed it was still plenty of time for her.

  Intercepting his punch with her right hand, she looked ready to ter, but was suddenly hit from a pletely different dire. The blow knocked her off her feet and against the wall of the . It cked the same sort of power, but it still left a mark.

  Rubbing her cheek, Takako looked on fused at Yuki. ‘I know I saw a hand hit me. But I didn’t see anyone. It wasn’t him, but who hit me? There another person with him?’ She tried to figure out what happened, but her sight hadn’t been focused on it.

  Hiroshi stared on a little stu what he saw. It left him a little unnerved having seen it. ‘It’s frightening all of things that I see him do…’

  “I might be normal, but don’t think it’ll be easy.”

  “Damn you…” Takako stood ba her feet. “All you’ve got is tricks.”

  “Did you really think that I would give you a fair fight? With everything on the line I’m not going to be nice.” Yuki rammed his fist into her face while he fialking, not waiting oo take the a.

  Her head smacked into the wall crag the dry-erase board. The couple of hits knocked her head through the wall pletely with her shoulders denting the board as she dahere. She still breathed and more intehan before, likely angered.

  ‘Is he going to be able to win?’ There was some uain hope stirring around in Hiroshi’s mind. He still couldn’t t Takako out of the fight. She still had plenty left in her. But he started to uand how itted he was to the fight. ‘e on, Yuki…’

  Dragging Takako out of the wall, he threw her down to the floor across the room. All the while, he rained down attacks ohis time not hiding that they weren’t his actual hand this time. There was no need for tricks at the moment. “I would have just suffocated you from the start if it wasn’t for your array.”

  Laughing, a slightly bruised, though not bloodied from all of the ret attacks, Takako woke back up. As to be expected, she wasn’t injured from all the attacks. She only looked in a little disrepair from the fighting. “So heartless of you.” Standing up, Takako carried a dark shadow over her face cealing an uain i. “You’d make Saki cry to hear you talking about killing me.”

  “It’s the fastest way to knock you out so I could undo all of your deeds. I already made myself clear that I don’t pn on killing you, just ending this as fast as I .”

  “Ending this as fast as you ?” The atmosphere in the room suddenly ged as she spoke. It felt like they were in the desert. A strange glow came off Takako introdug a new killing i not present before. “How far is that fidence going to take you when faced with this?”

  Fmes erupted up around Takako bathing her in the red-e hue. Both of her arms transformed into fmes along with the ground. Circur arrays began to appear in the air building up. Takako’s powers pletely ged, no longer making any seo Yuki.

  Off to the side, Hiroshi uood well what he was seeing. ‘This is where it begins. They’re both using tricks, but I still don’t know what Takako’s trick is… I failed to figure it out. Yuki…’

  “You think that’s going to worry me?” scoffed Yuki maintaining a stonewalled expression when faced with something new. ‘That’s troubling…it looks like she’s got trol of Fumiko’s fme judging from the magic array’s I’m seeing. I think I’m starting to get a picture of the whole now…’

  Magic threads eled into the arrays building up several fireballs before Yuki. The speed that Takako worked at now made it easier for Yuki to mahings on his own. Physical speeds weren’t something he could handle unaided. So he prepared his own Field for the ining attabsp; ‘Law Switch, rule set #1!’

  Mist returned around Yuki as he made the swit his powers. ‘This is already getting more plicated than I want. Thankfully, I’m somehow able to remember all of this. I guess it’s part of the power.’ Filling out the space around him, he had his normal prote back.

  “You think that’s going to be able to protect you?”

  “I guess we’ll find out.”

  She took the challenge and fihe build-up of magibsp; Fmes shot out at Yuki in a barrage. There was no holding back or easing into the battle. Takako pushed up the iy of the battle quickly. “Hahese fmes then!”

  Guiding the mist in front, the fmes cshed, blowing out parts of the mist, but it still held strong against the attabsp; Behind his mist, he caught fshes e from the magic exploding. He saw it poking holes through, but only the heat so far had peed through. ‘I’ll o make it thicker for the round. I held bauch.’

  The round however wasn’t so simple. Takako looked ill pleased by the ck of results from her attabsp; She immediately went to the bigger guns. Larger and more plex arrays appeared around her and on the ground. “Don’t get coow!”

  “Oh hell…” Yuki jumped out of the way knowing that his mist didn’t have the strength to block su attabsp; Several thick streams of fmes roared just over him. What mist hung around him still as he moved was pletely obliterated by the attack.

  Takako could tell that her attack was far more successful and something that Yuki feared. She grinned a little, moving her arms around to alter the fmes’ course. “I’ve got full trol over this! Don’t think you escape me!”

  Yuki took cover in the hall that he puhrough with his mist. He had to stay on the move as Takako didn’t stop searg for him in the most brute force ossible. ‘Damn it… It’s still not ready! I’m using so muy pht now on the mist… The heat alone would have roasted me already without it…’

  He wasn’t liking his current situation with Takako. ‘I’ve let her take trol of the battle now. I ’t allow her to maintain the pabsp; If I don’t trol the pace then I lose my only advantage in this fight. It’s already an uphill battle against someohat my powers won’t work on directly.’

  A slight glow came off his mist that surrounded his body. It protected him from the bulk of Takako’s fme. It wasn’t perfect, but it did what he o remain in the fight. Sweat still dripped down his face from the fme attaarrowly missing him. He jumped down the dirty hall feeling his skin nearly boiling from it just passing over his leg.

  It was only for a sed, but it felt like it had been an hour. His leg screamed at him from the stinging. The burn was bad, but he was going to have to live with it. Yuki threw himself into the , thankful that it was actually empty. His mist returo his side not needing to proteyone.

  Panting a little from the effort, Yuki could tell that he was finally getting warmed up from all of the dodging. Up until that point, he remained fairly stationary using other things to fight for him. He did what he could to ighe burned skin. It felt worse than it actually was he knew. And he had been through far worse than some burn.

  He dodged aed trying to deflect the fmes with his mists. The fmes burraight through the angled wall he created proving that it was still not enough. ‘The iy of the fmes and force is too muy mist to handle. It’s not a very strong painst something real…’

  Yuki kept ahead of Takako’s attacks, no longer feeling the pain in his leg. The adrenaline began pumping through his body. But her attacks came in stronger and more focused as each minute passed. He had trouble staying out of the way. ‘I ’t believe I heard that Fumiko supposedly has an even more powerful fme than this…if this is truly her power Takako’s wielding…’

  Maniputing his mist in the hall away from him, he flung some debris into the at Takako. It gave him enough of a distra for him to jump bato the room. Though it didn’t take long for her to immediately return to attag him directly. Skating around on his mist, he pulled it around to guide his body around the room to keep dodgitacks.

  Ahat Yuki remained out of her grasp, she covered much of the floor irying to limit his area to dodge. “You’re fast on your feet. you still keep up?” The fmes became more streams and ns than fireballs anymore. She stopped using any of the small attacks.

  Out of room, Yuki ran up the side of the wall and to the ceiling hanging upside down. “There’s always somewhere to go. Unless you fill the entire room with fire you’re not going to be able to stop me.”

  “Is that right?” A smirk came across her face hinting at something new in store.

  The uling feeling ing off Takako made Yuki worry a little. ‘She’s already shown herself to be fast and trol fire magi top of her mind trol powers. This is way too many powers to be normal. I’m really worried about where my theories are headed. If I’m right, this is going to be even worse than I imagined…’

  Suddenly, Takakht arm transformed into water leaving the fme on her left. Soft blue magic arrays appeared in the air o the fire. The two different elements mixed together spreading steam into the entire room.

  Yuki slid back over the ceiling wanting space for reag. ‘I don’t like this. She’s blocked off my ability to see her attacks. I don’t have anything useful for clearing it away. The mist isn’t suited for that purpose.’ He built up the mist into a thick wall with multiple yers extending outward as early warning for attacks. It was not much, but it was all he could prepare on short notice.

  However, he was getting a strange feeling from his mist. Something was bumping into them, but it was not a normal sort of attabsp; ‘What’s this feeling? What is Takako doing?’ Then he suddenly felt the whole school shaking. It reminded him of the earthquake that split the school. Though it didn’t have the same sort of feeling. Everything about it felt strange, but still violent.

  Something bumped into him against his babsp; He immediately whipped around and sliced through it with his mist only to find that it was a branbsp; “A tree? Huh?”

  Then the mist started to clear away and more branches pushed into his personal spabsp; He had to float in the air as the ceiling no longer was avaible. Parts of the schools rained down in ks of debris as a massive tree ripped through what remained of the school.

  No longer tained in the room, the steam dispersed and faded away. It wasn’t just oree around him. Yuki suddenly found himself inside a forest. He couldn’t even really see the school anymore. It id in a pile of awkward debris and half of the neighborhood went with it. “What’s going on?”

  Takako appeared walking out from the shadows of a thick trunk. She had the fident look bao longer looking like she ying Yuki’s game, but her own now. “Thanks to my power I bring out the full mastery that even they don’t know yet! Think you stop me now, a master of all powers!”