The Tacti stared bnkly at Yuki for a moment processing what he said. “Did you just say that?”

  “Yeah, it sounded better in my head,” he admitted, taking a step back around the device he created. A moment ter, he had himself gathered once more. “We’re taking Yumi back.”

  She stepped forward willing to give them opportunity, though not without some effort. Purple hues began to emit from around her body in respoo her call. Rapidly, a multi-yer barrier erected around her in a stantly shifting hexagonal pattern. Multi purple energy based swords appeared in the air along with passive orbs of energy. “Yoing to have to prove to me that you’re able to reach the girl.”

  Undaunted and actually enced by this, Yori stepped up materializing bck bdes into his hand ready for the rematbsp; “I told you before I’m taking my sister back!”

  Immediately responding to the offer, Seiji and Nerine jumped out in front of Yori. They took side by side stances prepared to defend the position. Full arm gaus materialized around Nerine’s missing limbs giving her full arms once more. A faint pulse ran down Seiji’s scar with him prepared.

  Yori tried to step out in front of them, but they blocked them. “This one is mine! They owe me a rematch!”

  However, it was Yuki from behind that used some of his free power to grab Yori’s shoulder to stop him. “We need you back here. You won’t be fighting on the frontlines. Did you already fet the pn?”

  Growling over his annoyance, he remembered the pn that Yuki had in mind. He hated it, but agreed that it was the smartest py that they had. Just seeing the one trolling his sister standing before him made his body shake untrolbly. He ground his teeth together knowing where he had to be. The bdes disappeared from his hands. “Fine.”

  “You’re the most important part of this pn, Yori. Remember that.”

  “I don’t need you to tell me that!”

  Saki grabbed his shoulder and pushed him back out of the line a little bit as she made her way to the front. “You do if you just start charging in blindly at the first sight of your sister. Get your head on straight if you actually want to save her.”

  The Tacti gave a bit of a curious tilt of the head seeing things py out. Though the signs of Seiji and Neri on the frontlines did little to impress them. “I beat both of you st time, what makes you think things will be any different this time?”

  “I was fighting defensively st time,” Neried, as a sign that things would be different this time around.

  Then Saki disappeared and reappeared a meter away from Yori’s sister’s body with her fist hitting the barrier. Cracks shot up quickly from the impact before it shattered. “And st time I wasn’t in the fight. Things won’t be the same this time.”

  Chapter 377 – Missing the Point

  Quickly, the battle started with Seiji and Nerine joining Saki in the melee against the Tacti. Despite the numerical advahat they had, they did little in ging the tides of the battle. It remained firmly in trol by the ohat had her.

  ing out strange noises and motions, Yuki’s device already went into a. Aside from the odd movements that it made, nothing else seemed to be happening from it. Though Yuki appeared fident in his work. He turo Yori, who o do his part. “Don’t just be thinking about Yumi. They need your help out there! They’re buying you the time to reach Yumi, but it’s going to be over quickly without your help!”

  “I know…” Yori cut himself off early, having more to say, but kept it to himself. He turned his head up to the sky where the fight had dragged out to by the Tacti. This normally would have put both Seiji and Saki at a severe disadvantage, but they stood out in mid air like they walked on the ground.

  “Taking advantage of that woman’s creative powers,” they remarked, the fight tinuing without stoppie drawing them into the sky. “trolling three people in a fight at this speed must be very taxing.” Several energy attacks came in from multiple dires to snipe Neri of the sky.

  However, Seiji came in to block the attacks from the front as Nerine’s floating gauook the rest of the hits. Ashes fell down from Seiji’s arms as the attack had no effe him. He charged forward ohe smoke cleared at the barrier proteg the Tacti. A pulsing line exploded from his scar on his arm as it blew away the barrier. “This won’t be like the st time!”

  “Breaking a single barrier is a meaningless exercise.” Just outside of her blind spot came atack that they mistook for Saki only to find that it was one of Nerine’s gaus. A pistol within the gau pouhrough smashing another barrier. From below anau appeared, but was batted away with energy beams. Yet it was only a feint for Saki to e in from the blind spot and pletely destroy the remaining barriers as Seiji fihe charge to grab a hold of hers body.

  “I’ve got you now!”

  “You’ve got familiar pys,” they remarked, not feeling any sort of over their capture. Looking down at the roof, Yori stared at her. They watched his mouth move as ter pys went into a to break Seiji free.

  Three energy swords appeared around Seiji cutting into him, drawing up blood along with red ash. He immediately had to release her with another beam iween them. The wounds he took while trying to keep a hold of Yori’s sister were fortunately not very deep. They did nothing to slow him down as talismans appeared to seal them up.

  Straightening out her body, they look back up a small distah an additional array appearing in the sky. “You really did e in with a pn. The King is a very smart man. This should actually be iing then. The game begins again Yori.”

  “Seiji retreat and make a feint to the left,” Yori ordered softly, “Saki, there are two attacks ing in to your rear. The right is a feint and the left is the real attabsp; Nerine keep up the support providing false attacks.”

  Staring at the battle pying around, the look in Yori’s eyes intensified. Things were pying out in a simir way as before. The pieces he had in py were strohis time though. ‘I lost to you st time because I wasn’t strong enough. Not this time!’

  He could see the moves and ter pys in motion. The field given to him was wider making it harder for the one inside her to out py him. Each py was visible to him. He felt more fident this time. Saki had speed that he couldn’t even keep up with his eyes, none of them could. She could out move evehe Tacti out maneuvered him, which happened more than he liked. He kept the pressure on them even though it still felt like they were losing nearly a third of the pys.

  It was an aggravating feeling for him.

  But he worked on his ter py. It was going to be the only way to win against someohat could pn so far ahead with ease. Pns within pns, ohat he couldn’t see. They were far better than him, that much he sadly admitted the st time around and it became even more apparent now.

  Yori turned his head a bit to look back at Yuki. “Is your device doing anything? It’s not even slowing them down!”

  “Of course it’s w, but if Yumi’s is buried deep in the yers of subscious and scious prote, it’s not going to be easy. You’re tinuing to try to speak tht?”

  “Yes! Don’t question my itment to saving my sister!” He turned back to focus on the fight, which stopped so much being a fight as it was a stant battle of maneuvers. The line he built with Saki and Seiji struggled to hold against the enemy’s pys. But everything was in position for him.

  Saki dropped the Tacti into the right position when she forced them to dodge her. “Neri’s time!”

  Dropping out of the rear, Neri her support position taking to the frontlines with Seiji. C for Seiji in his charge, she maniputed her gauhrough the air to clear away all of the moves. Seiji wound up his fists to bst through two barriers and flipped through the air to strike directly at the energy orbs put into pce for a ter py.

  While behind both of them, Nerine unveiled a massive gau overcharged with energy. It immediately released all of the energy blinding the entire field with its light. “Attempting the exact same move as before. You have to be more inal than this.”

  However, the energy did nothing to the Tacti or even the barrier. It had no impact at all. Yrinned from the roof to see his py worked. “Which is why I did it. You expected me to py moves the same way and I ted on that.” Rapid bsts of purple light blew up and faded away as all of the moves in py disappeared from Nerirue attack, aire fleet of gaus.

  Then from above Saki dropped down unseen by anyone, except for the Tacti, who raised a hand to block her fist only for Saki to fade through her. “Afterimage…” Saki came from a pletely different dire with the real attabsp; Yet it was stopped pletely with only one hand.

  “What!? Impossible! Yumi’s not that fast or strong!” she decred with surprise. She anticipated from everything that she had seen from her fights and through this fight what her physical attributes had to be. This wasn’t even possible with what she had seen.

  Seiji broke formation and tried to help Saki with them being distracted, but his powered up fist did nothing as well. He came to a grinding halt oher hand. Then thousands of tiny purple orbs appeared through the sky and shot down all of Nerine’s gaus. They then tossed Saki and Seiji back down to the roof at Yori’s feet.

  Slowly desding down to the water tower. “All of you grossly uimate the potential of this body.”

  Yuki grimaced watg things py out and then came to a quick realization. “Damn, it’s possible that because these personalities were created along with the piven to Yumi, they uaer how to access the full capabilities of what Yumi would be able to do.”

  The Tacti cpped for Yuki’s theory. “I see someone knows how to evaluate a situation correctly.”

  Saki pulled herself back to her feet, finding that her body felt surprisingly fatigued from the fight which had hardly been going for very long or even intensely. Yet the ter from the Tacti took more out of her than she expected. “Dammit, so you’re saying that how she is now is the most powerful she could be?”

  “Unlikely, they’re still holding back.”

  “Holding back?!”

  Seiji stood up grinning at the thought of a good challenge before him. “I’m ready for round two! Being more powerful isn’t enough to stop me!”

  All of the thousands of orbs floating in the air darted through the air and repositioned for the group. They moved in to end the fight before it started to grow any more b. “I’ve seehing I needed. None of you are worthy. You have failed to reach Yumi.” tless beams shot in from every angle and ged dires in mid movement making their vepossible to predict.

  Saki, Seiji and Nerine prepared their defense for the attack even with the purple beams being the only thing visible as they flooded the sky. But just before they struck a solid bck barrier appeared around them. The surface of the barrier rotated as squares broke out from the seamless sphere ag as a deflector to the beams shooting them off into the distance.

  To his friends’ surprise, Yori stepped out in froe the pn. He stared up at the Tacti ily. “You’re fetting about me. This isn’t anywhere near over!”