An ahin line drew through his lips at Yumi’s remark. Thinning his eyes to a pierg stare, he looked insulted by her a. “You would hold back thinking you could beat me without your full power?” The ground suddenly began to shake and cracks ran out from under his feet tearing apart from the release of his demoniergy. “The arrogao think you could stand anywhere as my equal with such half hearted attempts!”
‘Seems I’ve angered him…’ she remarked, feeling the air ging. It became heavy and poisonous. Like the elder had described to her before, the demoniergy killed life. Just the exertion of his power was enough t the forest to its knees. Leaves turned bd rained like a dark ash around them. Soorunks would twist and dry out if it went on for much longer.
Yumi watched the demon p himself up in anger for being uimated. ‘This isn’t going to be like the hts I’ve had. If I don’t actually pay attention and fight for real, I could actually die here…’ She uood this feeling very well, the real feeling of death in the air and not from the demon energy. No, she could feel the demon wanting to kill her. Though that hadn’t really ged from the moment they met. But she felt it finally that he could actually do it. He was no pushover for her. He was a real threat to her.
This was familiar to her. She khat feelier than she would have liked. It wasn’t something she should know so well. Her life before meeting Yuki would have found it all scary and terrifying. She would have run away from it all. It would have left her pletely ed ihat she wouldn’t even be able to move.
Yet not anymore. She actually looked forward to it a little, what the demon could offer. Fighting wasn’t something she enjoyed, but she felt a little secure within the digital world to be freer. It made her wonder what he did have to challenge her.
“I will tear you apart and split your body in two! And the st things from your lips will be cries of agony begging for your life!”
Yumi grinned a little, finding herself oddly amused. “It’s like those shows on TV. Yuki probably feels like this, doesn’t he?” It felt like such a terribly cssic vilin lihat she couldn’t help but have trouble taking it very seriously. Though terrible threats aside, his power was no threat. ‘I ’t sense power, wish I could. I might have an idea how we pare…’
Her question wouldn’t go unanswered for long.
Chapter 395 – Bck Ash Demon
The demon disappeared pletely from her sight. For a moment before he disappeared, she could see a blur in his movement. She turned around trying to figure out where he was ing from. ‘He’s really fast… As fast as Saki?’ The few times she had watched Saki move, she never could see her whe effort into it. She had no idea how fast Saki could be never being able to follow her movements.
Caught in her own thoughts, she couldn’t see Tokaromaru ing when he did strike. All she felt ain across her face as she went flying backwards unprepared. Her head broke through trees clearing the forest of its well protected opy.
“Where is this power you cim to be holding in reserve?” tauhe demon. He then disappeared again, appearing above Yumi as she still flew. A spin kick to her ribs sent her into the forest bed carving out another crater deeper tha one. Bsts of red energy flew out of his hands engulfing the entire crater in a glow. The light stained his skin in a soft red highlight as he watched.
A distortion in the space around him appeared suddenly. He felt it increase quickly, but had enough time to escape before it cimed his arm. He adjusted his arm trying to figure out what happened. “It felt thid heavy… what strange power does this little girl possess?”
“So you escaped. You’re the first that wasn’t caught up in that attack.” Yumi stood up through the waves of clouds left behind from the attacks. She stared up at the demon. “I’m still getting the hang of it, but I’ve mao make it lethal pared to where it was only a month ago.”
“Taking this seriously now.”
Yumi wiped away the blood from her face left by the st attacks. They left her head ringing something awful. She thought she might have a headache with her head splitting trees. But she couldn’t give it much attention, not with the demon before her. “It wouldn’t do you well to uimate me either, demon.”
“Prove to me that I shouldn’t, then perhaps I won’t.”
“Who’s arrogant now?” Yumi jumped up into the air as she began to charge white particles to her hands. However, the demon didn’t wait to let her charge up for her attabsp; He dove straight in striking her iomach with his foot. As she bent over his foot, he grabbed her head and spun her around. He returned her back to the crater.
“That’s not going to be enough against me!”
Coughing through the clouds, Yumi rose once more. “We’ll see about that…” She began to gather up her energy again, but Tokaromaru disappeared from her sight again. Before she could eve, he was behind her with his hand stuck through her stomach.
It surprised her how little it actually hurt. She couldn’t eve. It didn’t even feel real to her. Had she actually been strubsp; Then she coughed up blood and she k was real. The pain spiked through her body sharply as it all rushed forward at once.
Her legs felt weak as she could have colpsed if it weren’t for the hand inside her still holding her up. Tokaromaru kicked her off his hand and bsted her with a red orb where she id. “You’re no threat to me. Your boasts are empty.” He stepped forward with his hand soaked in her blood. Lifting his bloody hand, he tasted her blood. “Surprisingly sweet for such a pathetic human.”
Standing over her, he pressed his feet against her arm while staring at her. “Left ht, first?” he grinned sadistically.
Grittieeth together, Yumi fought with the pain and blood loss that started to make her feel lightheaded. ‘He’s too fast for me to see…’
A distortion appeared in the air once more, but it wasn’t fast enough to capture him. She failed to get anything more than him off her. Struggling to keep her body moving, she leaned forward needing to be on her feet. ‘I’m not losing here… I win… I must or else I ’t follow him…’
Bsts of energy flew at Yumi suddenly through the haze of the forest. “You ’t catch me with such slow attacks.” She had enough time to get her barrier in pce, but it shattered immediately, only defleg the attacks away from her. He appeared in front of her, ung Yumi into the air with a blinding kibsp; Following her ast, he punched her through the forest carving out another line of destru.
He slowly marched after her at the end of the line. “Seems you still had some energy left in you. Resisting will do you no good. Just accept your death.”
Yumi coughed up blood again with her vision being blurred. She could only trust her ears to hear him ing. “You sound like a cliché vilin…”
“Yoing to die, what does that matter?”
“I’m not dead yet…” She tried to stand up to face him once again, but her legs were failing her. And to make things worse, he was already in front of her. Yumi could hardly see him, but swung out at the air with her right hand.
It pletely missed, but the demon grabbed her arm. “Right it is then.” He pinned her down to the ground with his feet as he gripped on her arm tightly. “I prefer taking my time slowly cutting through the bone and severing tendons from flesh. But I’m not going to grant you such pleasure for your insults.”
As he began to pull on her arm, Yumi screamed in pain being overwhelmed. ‘He’s really going to rip off my arm! How am I supposed to kill something I ’t see?!’ Panic started to build in her mind. That fear she dismissed before crept forward. ‘This is supposed to be just a game. Why is it so real?!’
Yumi struggled trying to get her arm free, but the demo her pinned. She couldn’t even form her energy. Her mind was too erratic for anything to focus. Nothing was going to save her. Then she heard the pop of her joint as he dislocated her arm from her shoulder. It sounded even worse than she imagined a like someone had sliced through her chest. The pain spiked as tears poured down her fabsp; Nothing but her muscle and skin held her arm in pow and that wasn’t sting for long.
Her muscles tore and ripped apart uhe strain. Her skin stretched and snapped. Blood gushed out of her as she could no longer feel her right arm. The demon lifted her up as she hung there uo do anything. “I’ve got three left to go. Most will pass out after one and the strong only make it to two. You have to be just right about it keep someone alive for all four. I’ve no ied in seeing that with you anymore.”
He spped her with her own arm and kicked her into the earth prepping for the arm. ‘He’s going to kill me if I do nothing! I have to do anything! I’m not dying in my own mind!’ The earth suddenly shattered around Yumi as a storm of debris shot up away from her at the demon.
It was enough to get it off her and him to take some distanbsp; She rolled over clutg her shoulder as blood poured out. F up a barrier, she broke it into shards and buried one of the hexagon shards into her shoulder cutting off the blood. “Gah!” she screamed in pain, “Dammit, that hurts…”
Tokaromaru smiled, actually impressed by the boldness of Yumi’s a. “Such pain. You’re surprisingly stubborn for a weakling.”
Yumi struggled to keep her breathing under trol, but still panted heavily as sweat covered her entire body. Part of her felt unusually cold, but she focused on the demon. “I might be weak…but I’ll still kill you…”
“There’s that arrogance again.”
‘How do I do it?’ Yumi stared at the demon, gaining bae of her sight. It was still hard for her to see him, but it was enough for her to work with. She just had to accept it. Her body was pletely trashed from the beating. She was fortuhat she could still strike babsp; ‘He’s too fast for me to actually get an attack off, even when I was healthy. I need a way to know where he is going to be. If I khat I could kill him with my gravity power…’ Unfortunately, she khat she wasn’t going to be fast enough to catch him for something like that.
Distortions in the air appeared, f Tokaromaru to dodge. They were smaller than before, making them even easier for him to dodge. He moved closer to Yumi with each step. Nothing that she did was slowing him down or even reag him. “Still struggling with futility. You’ll die soon enough. Just accept it.”
‘I o hold him down somehow. So he ’t use his speed…’ Then it came to Yumi. She found a solution to the fight that had been evadihe eime. She fought with her body to get her back up, but she fell ain. Colpsed in the dirt, Tokaromaru approached to take her arm as promised. She stopped moving.
“Looks like you finally are accepting things.”
Fierce determination exploded in her eyes as she focused on him. Suddenly her white barrier came up around the two of them. Another and another barrier rolled up, sealing them inside under a fivefold field. “I finally got you.”
He looked around at the barrier as it shrank in around them restrig his ability to his speed. “You ’t beat me. I just kill you before you make any a.” A distortion appeared around his hand with him no longer able to evade it. “You think that is enough? Pathetibsp; He squeezed his hand down as a red glow exploded out tearing apart the gravity sphere.
A wet sound appeared from o his surprise. “What?!” He looked down to see a white bde pierced through his heart. It pushed through, exploding out his back as the energy blew out his chest ripping a hole through him. He staggered back against the barrier, shocked at the reversal.
Bloodied and uo move, Yumi smirked weakly at him. “You toyed with me, because you uimated me. But you showed me something important. I have to be swift and strike withard for fairness. A fight to the death is never fair or honorable. And now you’re dead.” Yumi shot out an arc of energy beheading the demon swiftly.
As the barrier fell, she saw oni gathering around with bloodlust in their eyes. A dark expression covered her face as she hovered into the air to save her body. “No more toying around. Taste my full power!” Large white spheres rapidly appeared around her in the forest tearing apart the demons uhe pressure of the gravity. Leaving nothing standing around her. “No mercy,” she spoke menagly as she turned away from the massacre.