Takako smirked a little and suddenly began to ugh at Yuki. That wasn’t the rea that he expected to get out of her wheold her that he stopped her. ‘What’s wrong with her? I don’t need her to have a breakdown now because she’s lost.’ Unfortunately, Yuki’s gut was telling him something else. There was something wrong with the situation that didn’t feel right.

  She wasn’t ughing because she felt that she had lost. In fact, it seemed like she still had somethio py. And it left Yuki feeling very uled. He didn’t know what it was, but he had to finish things with her. ‘I just o ralize her powers… There’s nothing that she has left that stop me.’

  A quick shift of his powers off and on, he already arranged a new set of rules to deal with most of the threatening aspects of her power and abilities. He just everything to an end now. “It’s over now.” Materializing massive weights, they snapped onto Takako’s wrists and ankles restrig her movements.

  Gng down at the balls and that he made, she didn’t seem very bothered by all of it. “This is rather mundane for being a junky for the fantastical.”

  “Practicality over plexity. You uand very simply what it is without my expnation.”

  “True enough. I know this is pointless.” She lifted her arms up a little still within the range of the s. The fiden her expression still hadn’t dropped.

  The look he got from Takako only worried him more. ‘What’s she pnning? She’s ag like she still fight…’ Yuki didn’t know what she had pnned, but he quickly shortehe length of the s restrig her movements.

  “Still hung up on this idea that you keep me restricted.”

  “It’s time for you to surreakako.”

  “I haven’t lost yet.”

  “I’m willing to listen. Put everyone back to normal and we talk. We find an ao this that doesn’t have to involve any more bloodshed.”

  She sharply ged her expression. Harsh lines drew over her face as she became very serious with Yuki’s bargaining. “That’s an uable term. I won’t give anyone babsp; Because I won’t, you must die. Otherwise this never ends.”

  “That’s not the only way. There’s always a solution.”

  “Not here. This is my solution and because your morals won’t allow you to accept it, we will never see eye to eye.”

  Yuki felt like he touched into a rather important pieissing information. ‘There’s something there. Something she’s implying. I feel like this is the reason for all of this! But she’s still holding ba a full expnation!’ It seemed Takako was set on a death fight between them. He could see it in her eyes with how resolved she was while she talked now. “I ’t uand your situation if you don’t expin things to me.”

  “It’s a pointless discussion. I already know how it will turn out. This is the only way things will be settled.”

  “Dammit! Things don’t have to tinue like this!”

  “You’re right about that.” Takako pulled her arms up, tensing the s further. “I’m going to end this farbsp; You seem to be uhe false impression that you’ve got the upper hand now that you don’t have to worry about my devibsp; Allow me to show you h you are!” She suddenly lifted her arms up, taking the solid bck metal balls in the air with her.

  Grinding his teeth together, he started to uand that the fight was far from over. He didn’t uand how she was doing. But he knew what this appeared to mean. “Those are five hundred kilos each.”

  “Is that all? No wohey’re so light. You must not think mue.” He quickly ged the mass ierial, doubling the weight and it did very little to ge her rea. Doubling it again and again, he finally started to see a little struggling out of her. “Now you’re making me work a little.”

  “I took away all of your superhuman attributes. What are you doing?”

  Bored with the demonstration, she she metal bindings around her wrists. She quickly did the same to the ones on her ankle. Now freed, she met Yuki with a very fident gaze once more. “Is that what you tried to do? Afraid that it doesn’t work on me like that.”

  “I see…” It would seem that the fight wasn’t over as Takako had decreed. Though it was a strauation where it seemed that her could do something to the other to end the fight. ‘This ’t end in a stalemate. No, she’s already pnning on winning. She’s going to try to outst me… I ’t fight with the same sort of stamina as her. I’m going to have to get a little mgressive with my tactics.’

  Chapter 358 – Mind Lock

  Takako took the opportunity to charge at him to force him to use his powers up. Like Yuki assumed, she pnned on doing the exact same thing that Saki did in one of her fights. She was going to burn through all of his power until he ran dry. However, to her annoyance she hit a wall. Attempting to break it, it did nothing. An invisible wall stood before her that didn’t even make a slightest indication that she could damage it. “Going back to cheating powers.”

  “I did say I wasn’t going to be fair.”

  “You ’t stop me.” She walked around feeling the surface of the wall looking for the edge. However, she came to a er. Cheg the other side, there was a er as well. Takako jumped over to the side behind her and found a wall there. Stretg her hands up, she felt the ceiling as well like she expected. “You fot ohing.” She wound up her fist and rammed it into the ground to create a crater.

  Or she thought she was going to that. All that happened was a dull echo boung through the chamber. She gnced up at Yuki with annoyanbsp; “You really think I’d fet the bottom?” he questioned.

  “So your pn is to bore me to death?” She sat down seeing that she had no other options at the moment.

  “Hardly. I’m ending this like I said before. Even with superhuman abilities, you’re still a human. Nothing I’ve done has altered that. Which means you need air to live.”

  Takako threw up her hand against the surface of the wall. It took her a little by surprise. “Yoing to suffocate me? Thought you said you weren’t going to kill me.”

  “I just need you unscious. I should be able to figure out a way to keep you in an artificial a until I undo everything you’ve done. Then I deal with you again and you will expihing.”

  Her fingers pressed tightly against the invisible wall. “I’m not going babsp; The only way out of this I will accept is death! I’m not going back to a livih ever again!” Some genuine fear slipped through into Takako’s face as she uood the extent that Yuki was willing to go against her.

  The sight that Yuki saw made him even more curious about what made her so afraid. It wasn’t as simple as she seemed to imply from her words. There was something deeper that he saw behind her eyes. Something that sat at the core of everything. He just didn’t know what it was. “You’re out of choices, Takako. I already gave you the ditions for your surrender.”

  “And I already gave you my answer.”

  “Then this is the only oute.”

  Grindieeth together, Yuki had pushed her into a er that she didn’t think that she would have been put into. She looked around her invisible chamber quickly. And then looked down at the flain that she sat upon. “There’s a be to having a thousand abilities.”

  “You ’t escape, Takako. I’ve made it pletely invulnerable to any forms of damage.”

  “Is that right?” she taunted, calling his cim as though it was bluff. Even though it wasn’t a bluff he made, she still stood up preparing to take a. “I’ll show you that there is still a way out!” Wiping off the blood from her face from the punch that Yuki made, she wound up her fist.

  ‘What is she trying now? What ability could she have that I haven’t ated for?’ Yuki didn’t feel like he was being fident for no reason. Yet, he could see that Takako felt assured of her success. There was a fear drivio keep fighting and never give up. Ohat he wasn’t going to be able to beat with simple half-hearted attempts.

  Throwing her fist down against the flain, there was a very slight dey, but suddenly the entire chamber filled with dust from the earth. Takako had somehow mao break free again. She defied the expectations that Yuki had and made him question if he could actually stop her anymore.

  Out of the crater filled with dust clouds, Takako emerged with a slightly bloody looking fist for her troubles.

  Yuki still had trouble uanding what she did. He k ower that Takako possessed, just not ower could do that. “No amount of brute force could have broken that.”

  “No prison is inescapable.”

  “It would seem that way.” Yuki threw up more invisible barriers that should have been unbreakable to hold back Takako. Yet, she smashed through them with her bloody fist. She kept getting closer to Yuki. It was being dangerous once again to fight her. The methods that he thought would work io a stop failed.

  She met him with her speed with all of his other defenses down. The only thing that protected him still was his mist. Her fist ripped through it, rocketing Yuki across the ground.

  The impact alone made him cough off blood. His mist had done a lot to mitigate the damage, but he couldn’t avoid all of it. Most of it was the sheer foring through the dispced air around her fist rather than physical hit, which didn’t actually make tabsp; Had it, he would have died immediately.

  Once he uood what happeo his body, he could stop himself with the mist before it got too harmful for him. He hovered over the ground seeing Takako in the distaning after him. ‘There’s o trick she’s pying. Unfortunately, I ’t do anything about it, since I don’t know what it is. So the only option I’ve got is to just hit her with enough power to knock her unscious. I just don’t know how much power that is…’

  Yuki prepared to receive Takako as she came after him. She destroyed more of his barriers to reach him. It became clear to her that her punch worked on him, even if he still stood. She just o keep it up now. A forced exhaustion like Saki was no longer needed. Takako could just kill him ht.

  Yet her fist went right through Yuki and he disappeared into a puff of smoke.

  She looked around for Yuki, surprised to see him so close to her. And he had already gathered up the power of something. “Let’s see if I avoid looking like a copycat with this!” A massive beam of pink energy shot out of his hands straight up into Takako. It pletely engulfed her with not even a silhouette appearing.

  As the light from Yuki’s attack faded away, he could see Takako falling in the distanbsp; He panted heavily, feeling that straining his body and mind. It was hitting him harder than he expected. “Hopefully, I didn’t kill her.”

  Flying over to Takako, he checked out the effects. However, even before he finished making it ns of movement could be seen. Takako staggered to her feet, making Yuki stop early. He then tried to avert his eyes away from her.

  The bst pletely destroyed her clothes and underwear, but also something else a little more important and critical to the mystery. Apart from severe burn and wound marks from the bst on her skin, it seemed that there was skin peeling off her skin. She had an outer yer of skin that was nearly pletely vaporized from the attack.

  Uhat on her own skin, Yuki found something shogly familiar. Across her entire body, she had scars, but they weren’t battle scars or just acts from growing up. They were ret and most definitely iional. “You didn’t?! That’s why my powers aren’t w on you!”

  Takako smirked despite the fact that her secret had been revealed. “That's right. I figured you might be able to do something with the device or it just couldn’t work. So I needed a back-up pn.”

  “And that pn was carving the array straight into your skin?!”

  “Your powers ’t pee me to alter me anymore. I’m immuo your powers!”