Author's note: Alright, I'm finally done with giving its finishing touches to this chapter. Sorry for the delay, but I just wasn't satisfied on how this chapter was coming up and wanted to release it only when it managed to be of my liking. There's still some issues I'm not totally 100% Ok here and there, but since are only minute things that can be easily skipped or ignored, I decided to give the go ahead and release this chapter already. Hope you like it, again sorry for the delay.
BTW someone was asking me for links to the manga and anime of Super Gal so I will be putting those on my profile page. So whoever wants to check that out should take a look in there.
Now today recommendations will be Gokusen, it's a very entertaining anime, though the manga is better and longer. Some may consider it the female version of Great Teacher Onizuka, it is not so. Even though both are teachers their methods are totally different and Gokusen deals with the Yakuza. But both teachers are awesome in their own way so you should check this manga.
And the other will be Golden Boy, a classic, and a good one. This is a pervert you will love. Check the manga, 'cus the OVA's are too short and leave you wanting for more.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, any material or copyright depicted in this story belongs to their respective owners.
Fall of YAMI
Round 2
Part 4
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A few minutes ago.
Iori Yagami VS Ryuto Asamiya
As the two combatants got ready to resume their battle, Ryuto couldn't ignore a feeling of aprehension that was gnawing him on the inside, seeing Iori with his ominous purple flames burning inside his eyes did nothing to reassure him.
"Let us end this…" Iori said, before he lunged at Ryuto with a fast combination of clawed strikes. As the wheelchair ridden fighter was not able to dodge attacks well due to his condition, he became hard pressed to block Iori's attacks. After parrying one particularly vicious swipe, Ryuto was able to counteract with a demolishing strike right in the middle of Iori's chest, the strength of the blow causing a loud thunderclap.
SHINTOUKEI!
The powerful strike was enough to make Iori reel, leaving him open to further attacks. "You're mine now…" Ryuto declared with a confident smirk before he unleashed his devastating Gungir technique once more upon the helpless Iori. The rapid and powerful palm strikes began to rain down upon the red-headed fighter with the strength of a piston, Ryuto thought he had a good advantage as Iori did nothing to fight back, until he catched him by the wrist on a single movement and began to crush his articulation using his immense strenght. Fingers that could pierce rock began to dig into Ryuto's flesh as his bones began to crack under the pressure. The whitehaired young man couldn't stop himself from moaning in pain.
"How…? Nnngh… How is it that you can shrug off my attacks so easily...? They are strong enough to break through concrete." Ryuto managed to ask despite still struggling against the pain, compleately astounded by Iori's fortitude.
The red-haired flame wielder simply smirked at his opponent's question. "It is because of the blood of the Orochi inside my veins that I'm able to ignore your feeble attacks. All who are descendants of the Orochi are blessed with increased vitality and strength, allowing them to survive and even ignore attacks that would outright kill any other person. We also have increased regeneration that allows us to recover from even the most grievous of wounds in matter of days. Compared to that, it only takes me a few minutes to heal from these small cuts and bruises that you've given me." Iori stated with no small arrogance.
Ryuto could only curse to his insides, as it was clear his opponent was beyond most mortals. Iori resumed his attack, still trapping his opponent fist, by swiping a clawed strike at him with his free hand that gave the Wheelchair-bounded fighter a nasty bleeding gash across his chest before he tossed his opponent away from him through several yards. Ryuto landed painfully on the ground.
Iori pressed on his advantage by launching a quick 108 Shiki: Yamibarai, the purple flame traveling the distance separating both combatants in an instant and striking Ryuto in full while he was still on the ground, burning him painfully.
The gray-haired fighter tried to push himself off the ground with his arms, But Iori pounced at him, reaching him in a moment with a leap and fell on top of Ryuto, grabing him by the head and pushing him into the ground, keeping him down. He then rose up, spinning high into the air in a helicopter motion, leaving a trail of fire behind him while dragging Ryuto along with him and in the end, tossing the crippled boy away like trash.
URA 311: SHIKI ORITSUME KUSHI!
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Meanwhile, as the battle raged on the construction site, in a higher plane of existence, inside the mainframe were the goddesses in charge of the maintance of the heavenly supercomputer Ygdrassil that that makes sure every single aspect of the universe is kept in balance on the Milky Way; we found Peorth slacking on her post reading one of the many romance mangas she has acquired on her previous visits to earth while the rest of her underlings carry on with their usual readings and calculations. One of them, a perky, bubbly and usually clutzy blonde goddess named Chrono, suddenly stopped on her work and called out towards her fellow bridge bunnies and the goddess of love supposedly in charge.
"Hey girls, check this out! Something seems to be happening down on earth." She said drawing the attention of her co-workers Ere and EX.
"What do you mean by that Chrono?" Asked Peorth, briefly looking away from her manga to take a glance at the younger goddess.
"Well, I was running my usual analysis on the Yggdrassil, when I decided to take a peek on how things were going down on earth…" The Admin goddess began to explain.
"You mean hacking on the humans TV signals again…" Ex commented offhandedly causing Ere to giggle and Peorth to smirk, knowing exactly what the youngest of the bridge bunnies tended to do when she was feeling bored. Chrono blushed in embarrasment as result.
"Ahum…! Anyway as I was saying…" The blonde goddess cleared her throat trying to get matters back on track. "I took a look on how things were going on earth, when I discovered most of the planet's communications are transmitting the same signal.
That last bit caught the attention of the brunnette goddess in charge. "What!? Well that is interesting… All right, put it on the main screen. Let's see what all the fuss is about." She said, closing her manga and taking a comfortable position on her seat.
Just when a giant hole-screen suddenly appeared above the control center, the leader of the valkyries Lynd, suddenly walked inside the bridge. "Peorth, what are you doing? Are you slacking on the job again?" The blue-haired goddes said unamused, taking her hands to her hips.
Peorth just waved at her fellow goddess unashamedely. "Ah, Lynd! Glad of you to drop by! We were just about to see what the humans were up to down on earth."
Lynd opened her mouth to scold her irresponsible fellow goddess, but she was interrupted by the ear-deafening impact of Iori's Shiki Oritsume Kushi, taking her attention away from Peorth and towards the desperate battle going down on earth and now being shown in the heavens themselves.
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It was now then when Ryuto crashed in a broken heap at the feet of a prone Rimi, Iori inadvertintly having put to much force on his throw. The Lolita dressed girl was left pretty alarmed at seeing the condition her paramour was left.
"Ryuto-Sama!"
She immediately forgot all about her own fight and crawled towards the mangled form of the grey-haired boy to check-up on him. "Who did this to you, Ryuto-Sama!?" She asked in distress, fretting over him.
A cruel laugh drew her attention towards the direction of Iori, Ryuto's opponent, who was displaying a morbid joy from the pain he had inflicted upon the disabled young man. "For all his boasting, he was just an insect and was squashed as such."
Those words made Rimi to glare at him with unrestrained hate. "You! How dare you do this to Ryuto-Sama. Rimi will destroy you for what you did to him!" She declared before getting back on her feet and about to rush at him, when Angel appeared right in front of her blocking her path.
"Whoa! Where do you think your going, Kittykat? We still haven't finished with our fight..." The white-haired Latina said, smirking impishly at the smaller blonde.
Rimi just sneered back at her, stopping in her tracks. "You dare stand in Rimi's way!? Rimi's had enough of you! She will make sure to destroy the both of you! She will kill you two even if it is the last thing she does!" She declared in a fit of rage.
Angel snorted at her little tantrum, unimpressed. After all, she has been spewing such threats through all their battle, but Angel dosen't give them much importance, since the smaller blonde was too weak compared to her to carry them through.
But Rimi showed that something was different about her threaths this time around, she began to focus her Ki as her rage fueled her strength. The air around her becoming polluted by the 2 different energy signatures she was channeling inside her body, making them to be seen easily even to the eyes of those withouth the ability to use KI.
The two energies were total opposites of each other, one was clear and pure, the other dark and corrupted. The body of Rimi began to turn into a repository were the two energy mixed together and as result, the earth around her began to tremble due to the power she was releasing. The air itself was being charged with energy, sparks crackling wildly from time to time as result.
This made Angel's and Iori's demeneaours to turn serious, as they could clearly feel the great power that was being channeled by the blonde. "What the hell is this girl doing? What is this power that I feel?" Angel asked in thought with a slight aprehension, it seems she will have to take the girl seriously and take her out immediatly.
The great amount of power being released caused Ryuto to awaken and turn towards Rimi despite his wounds. "Rimi! What are you doing!? Don't tell me you're going to use that technique!? Don't be foolish! You will only end up hurting yourself!" He called towards her fellow disciple in distress, truly concerned about the girl's health.
"Do not worry about Rimi, Ryuto-Sama. She will not fail in punishing those who have humilliate us." She said in a distorted voice, as the great amount of energy she had gathered gave her expression an evil wicked look. She faced towards their opponents and began to charge her attack.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"
SEIDOU GOUI!
Rimi then launched herself at her enemies' dissapearing from all sight. Angel could only open her eyes in surprise before she had to put her arms in front of her to block a kick from the smaller blonde, the impact being so strong that it sent the white-haired Latina flying away.
"This I didn't see it coming…!" Was all that ran through Angel's head mid-flight before she was intercepted by Rimi and sent careening into a nearby concrete dumper with a kick. The Lolita dressed girl immediatly changed sights and pounced towards Iori.
Yagami was able to brace himself for the attack just in time, as Rimi's fist connected with his guard. The force of the impact shaking the ground around them and cracking it a little, the thunderclap released was almost deafining as the air around them was violently displaced in an instant with such force that it would have struck away a normal human being.
Rimi wasn't deterred on her attack however, as she began to push forward trying to break through Iori's defenses. But the redhaired flame-wielder didn't simply remain idle either, as he began to call upon the power of his cursed blood to counteract the younger blonde attack. His eyes began to burn with a piercing red flame as purple flames began to envelope his body, despite the harm that the flames began to inflict on her, Rimi didn't faltered even a little in her assault. But the power of the Orochi was just beginning to wake up fully and it is not something that a mere mortal is able to defeat that easily. Iori began to push back at the blonde, and both engaged in a brief battle of wills. But despite her newfound power, Rimi was clearly being slowly but steadily overpowered.
From the corner of his eye, Iori was able to see Angel leaping out from the wreckage of the former concrete dumpster, rubbing the back of her head as to nurse whatever bump she must have got from the violent crash. Iori called towards her. "Angel… Would you mind if we switch partners for a bit…?" he asked with grave voice.
Angel just waved at him uncouncerned, her attention focused on still clearing her head instead. "Sure, (cof) knock yourself out. I need some time to get myself back in order after that hit." She said, supporting herself on her knees and coughing some dust off.
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The people watching from the sidelines were caught by surprise by this new development.
"Can they actually do that, switch their opponents? Is that even allowed?" Whip inquired towards the gathered warriors on her right.
"Well, we never stipulated it was forbidden so…" Foxy replied with a shrug.
Pan response was to simply adress the referee. "Mister Lane, what is your verdict about this?"
The senior referee took a moment to consider his answer. "I'll allow it!" he finally declared.
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Iori Yagami - Angel
VS
Ryuto Asamiya - Rimi Kokorone
That answer made Iori smirk. "Much obliged…" He replied evenly, before unleashing his signature move again, the Kin 1211: Shiki Yaotome also known colloquially as the Maiden Masher. The slashes and clawed strikes rained down on the blonde girl cutting her painfully and making her blood rain down all over the place. Just when it seemed Iori had finished his technique he pulled out something else. After he ended his attack with his usual grab of his opponent before blasting them away with a small explosion of fire, he then intercepted the Lolita girl in mid-air before she fell with 2 long sharp slashes before releasing one big purple flame from the ground that rose up like a pillar of fire and struck the smaller blonde in full, blowing her away.
URA 316: SHIKI SAIKA!
"RIMI!" Screamed Ryuto in distress after seeing his fellow disciple being savagely beaten.
Thanks to the power granted by the Seidou Goui, Rimi got back on her feet promptly despite the heavy gashes and injuries she now sported and were bleeding. She spat a wad of blood to the side, ignoring all pain. "You will need more than that if you want to defeat Rimi!" The girl declared before rushing back at Iori. She clashed with the red-headed head-on and both were immediatle engaged in a brutal vicious fight.
"No Rimi, wait!" Ryuto called, trying to reach the girl overcome by rage, but he had more pressing immediate matters to attend to, as a shadow fell over him. He turned to looked behind him and found Angel looking at him with a deceptively sweet smile.
"I think you should be worried more about your own skin, boyo…! Since Iori and the Kitty-Kat are busy having fun, that means you and I are going to have some time to play together!" She said with a grin. Ryuto felt a heavy feeling of dread crawling up his spine. He couldn't help but gulp.
WHAAAAM!
He was sent skidding through several yards as Angel kicked him away throught the site, the white-haired woman then teleported to his position as he was still groaning from the hard impact. She began to teleport all around him looking above him with a mischevious expectant demeneaour, like a predator enjoying seeing his prey squirm before pouncing on him.
"Hope you're ready for this boy….! 'Cause… If you taste The Angel's extraordinary skills…!"
Angel spoke, while making poses before slowly and elaborately dropping herself on the helpless boy with her elbow. She slammed on top of Ryuto, crushing the base of his spine with her elbow. The impact of the attack being so powerful that it broke the earth underneath the gray-haired fighter's body, leaving cracks in the shape of a spiderweb all around him. To all the people watching the fight, the attack looked rather painful and indeed, it was.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
SURVIVOR'S BANQUET!
Ryuto's screams of agony made Rimi to draw her attention away from the fight while she was once again locked in a contest of wills with Iori.
"Ryuto-Sama!" Said the blonde girl in distress, turning her head away from her opponent wich made her unable to see the wicked look and the cruel smirk that feel upon Iori's face.
"You should not take your attention away from your opponent!" He declared before cupping his right hand above a small flame he began to charge in his other hand, and unleashed a barrage of flame pillars that traveled forward thourgh the ground, hitting everything in their path. The flames struck Rimi several times and enveloped her entirely like a purple cloak. For a moment she found herself unable to move as the pain caused by the flames leaved her totally helpless to any follow up.
WINE CUPS!
Iori continued with his attack by running towards Rimi and delivering more clawed strikes, ending his attack by tapping even more into the power of the Orochi. His eyes began to shine in red and he let out a roar before he pounced on Rimi, grabbing the smaller girl by her face with both hands before lifting her up into the air, Iori smirked pretty wickedly in anticipation as he laughed like a maniac.
"Shine!" He said, before unleashing a massive explosion that created a gigantic pillar of fire that rose into the heavens, enveloping them both in a purple so bright that it was almost white. Everything close enough to the pillar was simply scorched by the bright light.
URA 1029: SHIKI HOMURABOTOGI!
In the end, the body of Rimi struck the ground hard, broken, smoking and covered in burns. The girl writhed in the ground pitifully undergoing an incredible pain. Despite her sorry state, the girl tried to get back to the fight, but her wounds were too severe to allow her to do that. She was left making gurgling noises as her body failed her.
Iori too was left smoking from his own attack, as it seemed his own flames had caused him harm. But unlike his opponent, he was reveling in his own pain taking a wild unreastrained posture with a scary deranged look on his face as his eyes shone in an ominous crimson.
Ryuto was too, enduring a terrible pain after receiving Angel's attack, but the sounds of a Rimi about to collapse forced him to ignore his own injuries. "RIMI!"
The blonde ignored his pleas and kept trying to get back on her feet. "Rimi, stop! If you keep using the Seidou Goui like that, the strain will eventually be too much for your body to take. It will kill you!"
Rimi finally was able to wobilly get back to her feet, she replied to Ryuto's concerns without turning to look at him, keeping her sight on Iori at all times. "Rimi apreciates your concern for her Ryuto-Sama, but even if it is you who is asking. I'm afraid Rimi can't obey that instruction; she can't let these two go unpunished after they hurt Ryuto-Sama. Only when the transgression they have commited against Ryuto-Sama is repaid with their own blood will Rimi finally stop." She stated all too serious.
"Why? Why Rimi? Why do you risk your life for my sake?" Ryuto asked still lying on the ground.
Rimi stare turned far-away, Ryuto was able to tell even if he was looking her from behind. "Because Ryuto-Sama is a very important person to Rimi, Rimi will do whatever it takes to please Ryuto-Sama if and make him happy. No matter how much Rimi gets hurt as result." She said with outmost seriousness
"I don't understand Rimi… Why? Why are you willing to do all that for me?" Ryuto asked with honest confusion.
Rimi still didn't dare to meet his gaze. "Because Rimi loves Ryuto-Sama with all her heart, she has loved him for a long time now. Always hoping that maybe one day he would feel for her the same way that she feels fro him, but Rimi knows it is just a foolish hope at best. She's well aware that Ryuto-Sama only has eyes for another woman and will never look at Rimi the same way he looks at her. But despite that, Rimi will continue adoring Ryuto-Sama and try her best to not dissapoint him. So that's why Rimi will not back up from this fight, she will keep fighting until all the enemies of Ryuto-Sama are destroyed." She stated with a strong conviction, tossing a harsh glare towards the two followers of Pan. And with that the blonde girl lunged at Iori once more.
The redheaded fighter was not moved by the display of emotions however. "What a beautiful declaration fo love… Too bad it will not help you to win this fight." He said mockingly before rushing to meet Rimi head-on.
Both combatants clashed, Rimi smashed her fist on Iori's face at supersonic speeds, but the otherwordly strength of the Orochi allowed him to shrug off the hit unconcerned. He buried his own fist in Rimi's abdomen as retaliation, not even displaying the smallest hint of discomfort from Rimi's attack; the two kept pounding at each other each other with wild abandon, the shockwaves of their impacts clapping loudly throughout the field.
Fists rained upon them both with impressive strength, but neither of the two bulged an inch from their attacks. It was during this heat of the moment that Rimi suddenly and abruptly stopped in her tracks and spat a smudge of saliva mixed with blood before her body locked up and began to spasm uncontrollably.
"Rimi!" Ryuto yelled after her. Even Iori was caught by surprise by this new development and backed a little from the now spasming girl on the ground.
"Blrgh… Wha…Rrrrgh… What is happening to me?" She managed to say with great difficulty through her convulsions.
"It's the Seidou Goui! Your body must no longer be able to hold the strain! Let go of the technique now before it causes you irreparable damage!" Ryuto yelled at her in distress, worrying greatly for her health.
The Lolita girl replied while spitting a wad of blood, face down on the ground. "Do not worry about Rimi, Ryuto-Sama. She will be fine; you just wait for her to finish dealing with those who have hurt us…." She said turning her head at him to give him an adoring look and a sweet smile.
Her tender moment was interrupted by the ominous shadow that fell over her. She turned to find Iori towering over her with an unforgiving stare. "You should not make iddle boasts about things that are beyond your skills to acomplish." He said in a cold, uncaring voice.
Rimi glared at him with all the hate she could muster. "It is not an iddle boast! Rimi will never give up until she gets her revenge on you and that other woman!"
Iori just replied with an amused chuckle at that statement. "I seriously doubt it… Say goodnight…" He stated before lifting up one of his legs and bringing his foot down harshly right upon Rimi's head, impacting her cranium on the ground with thunderous force and busting her head open with such a strenght that cracked the ground around the impact zone an created a crater were Rimi was left half-buried. Iori pulled his leg away, his shoes and the hem of his pants soaked in the blonde girl's blood. The girl herself didn't get back up anymore after that.
"Nooooooo!" Ryuto screamed in despair and that's when he began to see red. Even some of the most hardcore fighters watching from the sidelines winced at the sight of the punishment that the blonde girl had received.
Mills Lane flinched from were he was standing seeing the damage that Iori had cause. "Dear god, even I can see from here that girl ain't getting back up again…"
Rimi Kokorone
K.O.
Angel grimaced a little while appraising Iori's handiwork. "Damn…" She turned to look at the red-headed figther. "And you say you hate violence…?" She asked in mild disbelief.
Iori replied with a stoic expression. "Yes, I do hate violence since it brings all of my worse traits to the surface. Deep down I know I'm a bloodthirsty sick bastard who gets his kicks from causing pain to other people, so I hate fighting for making me show my true self to the world and I hate myself for being like this since this bloodlust inside of me was not my choice…" He remarked, looking at his hand harshly before closing his fist so hard to make the bones of his knuckles pop loudly.
Angel raised an eyebrow and gave Iori a strange look. "You got issues…"
Iori simply snorted at the white-haired woman comment. "Don't I know it…"
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People around the world were looking horrified at the savage violence that the red-haired figther was able to unleash.
In Kanto, Kenichi and company were paralized after witnessing the horrible beating brought upon Rimi. Hakufu and Miu were embracing and trying to reassure little Honoka who was crouched in the ground covering her eyes, as the little girl sensitivities could not withstand the horrible violence happening in front of her. The fighters from the Kanto schools were equally shocked at the brutality of the fight since they had never witnessed so much bloodlust before.
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In the temple were the Norns resided, Skuld could not keep looking at the slaughter and turned her gaze away. Belldandy was the most horrified of the 3 due to her kind nature, Keiichi was trying hard to reassure her. Even Urd who was the brazen of the sisters was taken aback by the brutality of it all.
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In heaven, the entire control center was speechless, none of the goddesses having expected this level of violence and brutality to be going on earth when they decided to watch the mysteryous signal on the main screen. The only one who was not shocked by the battle was Lynd, who instead had a look of outmost concentration and had her attention fully focused on the screen, taking notice of every single little detail of the battle raging on. Unknown to the rest of the goddess but her, a rising flame began to burn inside her heart. The call for combat was beginning to search for Lynd.
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Back on the fight, Ryuto's anger was reaching new levels. In his rage, a dark aura began to emanate from his writhing body before he began to channel a second type of energy opposite to the dark one. He was beginning to move beyond his own limits in order to forcefully master the Seidou Goui.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" With a mighty heave that made the earth shake the gray-haired fighter stood up, his legs regaining their motion and strength, and Ryuto found himself able to walk again.
Angel was only mild-surprised by this new development. "You can do that weird technique too?" She stated with a raised eyebrow.
Iori simply limited himself to make an observation with an unfazed expression. "So, you're able to walk again? Things are sure to turn quite interesting."
Ryuto looked at Iori with a grim stare. "Indeed, the last time I used this technique my body was unable to deal with the strain and it ended up crippling me. But you forced me to attempt to master it in a hurry and now that I have complete control of this technique I have fixed the damage it had done to my body and I'm able to move my legs again. I would thank you for having given me the drive to master the Seidou Goui, but since you brutaly hurt Rimi… I will have to break your face instead." He stated with a pop of his neck before launching himself towards Iori and disappearing from all sight. Ryuto reapeared right above the red-haired fighter and was about to drive his fist trough his head, when a leg connected to the side of his face and sent him crashing several yards away into the ground.
Angel landed on her feet carefreely, she had been the one that intercepted Ryuto and saved Iori from getting punched, not that the flame-wielder would appreciate it. She adressed the grey-haired fighter who rose immediately from where she had sent him to take a dive and gave her a cold look, a small bruise on his cheek. "Now wait a minute Boyo! You and I aren't done yet. Iori here has already had his fight, but I myself still not done yet. If you want to face Iori and avenge your girlfriend, you'll have to go through me first." She stated with a devilish smie.
Ryuto just spat a wad of saliva mixed with blood to a side as response. "Fine…" he said before he disappeared again.
Angel was simply grinning before she teleported away as a fist imbedded itself in the ground on where she was just standing a second ago. Ryuto pulled his fist from where it had been buried in the ground and looked to where the white-haired beauty was now, several yards further away.
Angel began to chastise him in a playful tone. "Nu-Uh! You will not be able to hit me that easily with that techique this time. The only reason why Kitty-Kay was able to land a hit on me was because it had caught me by surprise how much that technique had improved her physical prowess in an instant, but now that I know what to expect I will not be caught at a disadvantage a second time. And besides, even with your abilities augmented by that technique, you are still not as fast as her, meaning you're nowhere near my own speed." She stated assuming a combat stance.
Ryuto just wiped the spot were he was hit. "We'll see." He said before disappearing once more.
Angel just grinned as response. "Yes we will…" She said before she translocated away and disappeared.
The two combatants were suddenly engaged in a high-speed battle, their movements too fast to be followed by normal human eyes. The only thing that could be seen where the shockwaves and the thunderclaps of their punches, the entire field began to be covered by the craters that their impacts created, making it seem as if they appeared out of nowhere and turning the entire field into a veritable warzone.
While the two fighters were busy breaking the place apart, Iori turned his gaze towards the unconcious girl in the ground. He approached the unmoving body of Rimi and began to check her condition, realizing that she was not breathing and her heart rate had dropped dangerously low. He mused for a moment if he should do something about it or leave the girl to her fate. Normally, he dosen't tend to bother with fallen opponents, if they live or die is of no concern to him as it is his belief that anyone stupid enough to defy him deserve whatever destiny that befalls them as result. But this situation is different, since it is not him who should decide the fate of this girl but the new master he now follows. It is Pan who has to decide what to do with this girl's life and on that note, since he has now defeated her, her life now belongs to the warrior girl from another world and it is she wo should have the final word on what to do with the blonde girl less she gets displeased with him. And he has been rather pleased to serve her do far, already he can feel the results of her training bearing fruit even though she has only been training him and the others for little more than a week, but her training methods proved to be highly demanding and Pan had been rather thorough. Also the promises of being instructed in very impressive Ki techniques and exercises that he had never considered possible before, are also a good incentive to remain under her service for the time being… Very well, it may put him in a good standing if he's able to show that he can guard over his boss interests.
With the matter settled, Iori raised one hand into the air, his index and middle fingers stretched forward pointing down. He is no healer as his skillset revolves almost exclusively in ways to break people, not fix them. But as the last descendant of a once powerful clan and a consacrated martial arts that has fought in hundreds of bloody battles, he had to learn due to necessity to treat his own injuries in case he found himself without any kind of medical attention ready at hand. He brought his hand down on the girl and stabbed her with her fingers in a spot underneath her shoulder-blades, Rimi almost immediatly woke up in a fit, gasping for air before she began to vomit blood.
The wails of pain from the girl drew the attention of the recently crippled fighter. "What are you doing to Rimi!? Get away from her!" Ryuto demanded in anger.
He received a kick in the back of the head for his slip. "Eyes on the fight, boyo!" Angel declared as she kicked him again and send him flying away several yards, the white-haired human then rushed at him with her impressive speed and intercepted him with a long veritable barrage of kicks and elbow strikes that rained down on a helpless Ryuto, pummeling all over his body until he was punched away by a Haymaker.
LOYALTY TEST FOR LIBERALISTS!
The newly awaked girl wasn't able to regain her focus promptly as the blow to the head had leaved her quite disoriented, it took a few moments for her senses to be able to break through her haze, but once she did, the first thing she noticed was her paramour getting the crap beaten out of him. She reacted accordingly. "Ry… Ryuto-Sama! You wench! Leave Ryuto-Sama alone…" Rimi said and struggled to get back on her feet despite her pain, a futile effort, since she was no longer chanelizing the Seidou Goui her body could no longer ignore all the injuries she had received and had succumbed already to the damage. The girl was only able to flinch in pain and berely shake her head to her sides, unable to lift even a single finger.
"My, my, what a stubborn pest you are. And here I was trying to keep you from kicking the bucket out of pity; shouldn't have even bothered." Iori drawled in a bored tone, catching Rimi's attention.
The lithe blonde tried her best to turn her head to look at Iori, it caused her incredible pain but she was succesful. "You…"
"Careful, I you keep talking I may forget the reason why I spared you life in the first place and end up killing you anyway." Iori said grabbing the girl by the back of her head and lifted her up in the air without any concern for her wellbeing, the rough sudden movement making the girl cry out in pain. It again took the attention of Ryuto away from his fight as he was rising from the ground once again, ignoring all injury due to his Seidoui Goui.
"Rimi!" The grayhaired fighter exclaimed he was about to rush at Iori, but the red-haired fighter put the broken girl between him and Ryuto to keep the former cripple from doing something stupid.
"Ah, ah, ah… I wouldn't do that if I were you. We wouldn't want for your little girlfriend to receive anymore serious injuries now, do we?" Iori chided condescendingly, he used one of his fingers to find the open wound in the smaller blonde's head and sink a long sharp nail deeply in it, making the girl to let out a horrible and distressing scream of agony to make his point across. Ryuto stopped cold in his tracks, an impotent look of rage on his face knowing if he tried to do anything Rimi's life would be in danger.
"Do not worry about the girl; she is in good hands as long as you don't try anything foolish. Besides you have a fight to finish with Angel, better get to it." Iori stated with an unmoving expression.
Ryuto gritted his teeth helplessly, knowing he could do nothing to help the girl that had just declared her eternal adoration to him. Angel's comments from behind him changed the focus of his attention.
"C'mon Kiddo, don't get distracted now… Nothing has changed about our situation. If you want to save your girlfriend and have a shot at Iori, you still have to go through me…" Angel declared assuming a combat stance.
Ryuto could do nothing but curse inwardly at the great disadvantage he found himself in; he knew he had to deal with Angel first before going after Iori if he didn't wanted to be attacked from behind… But he couldn't just leave Rimi in the clutches of the vicious red-heahed fighter.
"So… What's it going to be kiddo? Will you face Angel? Or would you rather prefer I execute your girlfriend instead." Iori stated with a cruel smile as he strengthened his grasp over the girl, incresing the pressure on her skull so much that one could hear how the walls of her skull began to creak. The girl, unsurprisingly, screamed in despair at the unbearable pain she was under, horryfing a shocked audience that could do nothing but held its breath at the unrestrained brutality being displayed by the red-head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! AHHHH! RYUTO-SAMA!"
Rimi screamed with a soul-renching cry, openly weeping now as she was no longer able to withstand her suffering. Ryuto could do nothing but glance in hateful doubt between the smiling Angel and the tearful Rimi. None of the fighters on the sidelines were making a sound due to the seriousness of the situation; most of them were rather grim witnessing the unfolding drama, others like Sagat or Pan were totally impassive and uncaring about the cruel show. But some like Kazuya or K'9999 were openly smiling at the gruesome scene, enjoying the suffering that Iori was causing. For others like Doctor Jackal, it was hard to tell what his thoughts could be, as all he did was keeping his smiling face up without showing any other kind of expression.
From among the lines of the YAMI, masters however, some of the rections were compleately opposite.
"This is no honorable way to fight! To cowardly use hostages to hide behind! How can the girl Pan stand such honorless scum among her midst?" Cyril Rahman exclaimed in affront, insulted by Iori's willingness of using a hostage. In his mind, that was an affront that shamed the true meaning of combat.
Akira Hongo was of a same mindset, he was preparing to jump in the fight and intervene. "I concur; we cannot leave our disciples to suffer such travesty." The dark-haired man said, barely containing himself.
"I agree with both of you, let us not waste anymore time and put an end to this trangression against martial arts." Agaard Jum Sai said with conviction before turning towards Ogata Ishinsai. "What about you Ogata? Care to join us in saving your disciples?"
The lilac-haired fighter just snorted in disdain. "If they die in this battle is because they were not strong enough. They have made their choices, now they must endure the consequences." He simply stated and spoke no more.
Jum Sai scowled sligthly at him before turning away and adressing back the other 2 grandmasters. "Let's go my friends; it seems it's up to us to save the disciples."
The 3 grandmasters rushed forward and disappeared in a burst of great speed, but were suddenly intercepted by a beam of energy exploding and kicking a large cloud of dust in front of them just less than a dozen meters away from their original position, stopping them cold on their tracks. Once the dust dissipated they were able to see Pan on the other side of the field with her arms half-crossed as she had one of her hands pointing a finger at their direction. It didn't take a genius to know who was responsible for the attack.
"What are you 3 doing? I thought I had made clear I wouldn't tolerate any more interruptions." She stated in a plain voice.
"Pan, Why do you stop us!? Don't tell me you aprove of this travesty?" Cyril said in outrage.
The conmotion caught the attention of the red-haired fighter. "Oh? This is rich. Don't tell me the all terrible grandmasters of YAMI want to save the lives of their helpless disciples." Iori mocked with a sneer. It made the 3 grandmasters to scowl at him.
"You have no right to speak you damn coward! How you dare to take one of our disciples as hostage as means to gain victory on this combat!" Cyril retorted in anger.
"Hostage?" Iori replied with amusement. "I believe you are clearly mistaken, I'm not using this weak girl as hostage to end this fight. On the contrary I want this fight to keep going on, I want cripple boy to unleash all his strength against me and Angel without restraint to make things more entertaining for us. I'm just keeping the girl from interfering since it seems she still wants a go at Angel even after she has already lost, she also is a good incentive to make sure your disciple dosen't lose his focus, since he still has a fight to attend but he rather seems to want to ditch my fellow fighter and go straight against me. Now don't missunderstand me, I wouldn't mind to break him myself, but I find that outcome not being particularly fair to Angel since I have already defeated this girl who was supposed to be her opponent. Wouldn't want to cheat her out of her fight after all…" He finished with an arrogant smirk.
The YAMI grandmasters just gritted theit teeth in impotent rage. "You don't fool me you soulless monster!" Akira Hongo replied harshly. "That is just an excuse for you to hide your true intentions and saciate your savage bloodlust, I won't forgive you for torturing our students with this uncalled and unnecesesary cruelty!" He stated in outrage.
Iori just let out a cruel laugh as response. "Oh this is just too much! The terrible masters that follow the path of the killer dare to lecture me about morality. Well let me tell you something then…" He began to increase the pressure upon Rimi's skull, eliciting another stream of screams from the girl. "This is how a true battle to the dead is carried out, where there is no place for pity or mercy for the weak, only the will of the strong. If you are not able to deal with this, then maybe you chose wrong on what belief to follow, not my problem anyway. So spare us all your useless posturing and keep ypur mouth shut." Iori then turned towards Ryuto once more. "Time's up Kiddo! So tell me, what it's going to be?"
Ryuto could simply not make a decision, he was probably in the worst instance possible and all he could do was grit his teeth in frustration. If he tried to attack Iori, he will without a doubt kill Rimi and the other option was not acceptable either. He could not just abandon the girl to fight Angel and leave her to keep being tortured by the red-headed flame wielder. He kept exchanging glances between the tear and blood soaked girl crying his name and the unforgiving harsh stare of the last member of clan Yagami.
Finally after what it seemed a long internal debate that seemed to have taken an eternity to him, Ryuto snapped.
"DAMMIT ALL!" He turned towards Iori "I GIVE UP! I give up, just… Stop hurting Rimi, I won't fight anymore… Just let her go…"
Iori hadn't expected that answer and wasn't pleased the smallest bit by it if his hard frown was any indicantion. He huffed. "Hmmph… So you chose the coward's way out? Sorry to dissapoint you kiddo, but this is not that kind of fight, even if you get down on your knees and beg, neither I or Angel will stop hurting you and your little girlfriend. Have you forgotten what the conditions for this match were…?" Iori asked mockingly, Ryuto began to feel a sudden surge of dread swelling inside of him. "Maybe we should ask the referee for clarification to refresh your memory." The redheaded flamewielder signaled towards Mills Lane. "Tell us referee, what were the conditions of victory for our fight?"
The senior referee began to reply with no small trepidation of his own. "Uh?... This is a no hold barred fight… That… Will not end until only one of the combatants is left standing…" Most of the audience could at this point feel how the blood on their veins turned cold at the realization. "Sorry Kiddo but he's right… This fight will not end until one of you is unconcious… or dead…" Mills Lane explained with a great deal of pity towards Ryuto.
Iori laughed sadistically after crushing the hopes of the former cripple. "See boy, there's no easy way out of here. You either stand up on your feet and die like a real man or we will give you a long tortuous beating and kill you like a dog. You know, you really dissapoint me kiddo. Here I thought you were a worthy opponent, and it turns out you're just a little weak scum. It pisses me off, I wanted to have a good fight, have a bit of fun by breaking a strong opponent. But now my only source of entertainment is gone because you've decided to throw the towel, there's no fun in breaking someone who has lost his will to fight." He again moved Rimi forward for all to see. "Maybe we should get done with it all and kill this girl already. Maybe her screams will prove amusing enough for me…" He said with such a cold resolution that it chilled the blood of all who were hearing. No one had any doubt that Iori would kill Rimi on the merest whim.
The ashen haired fighter mood seemed to deflate for a moment in despair, but then it got back up full of determination. "Very well then, if that is the only way to end this fight then let us get going with it already. I give my life in exchange for that of Rimi, you can cause whatever punishment you want to my own body to entertain yourself! So go ahead! Do your worst! I'll endure wathever pain you wish to inflict upon me, just stop hurting Rimi." He declared with conviction.
Iori tilted his head at a side and gave Ryuto a measuring look. "You want to suffer whatever punishment we can dish out in exchange for this useless girl life…!?" He let out a maniacal laugh. "Now that is interesting… Very well, if that is your wish then… I'll let Angel here show you what our opinion about quitters is." He said, motioning with his free hands towards a grinning Angel who made a show about crackling her knuckles as she walked towards the formerly crippled young man.
"This is going to hurt you more than it's going to hurt me! Oh who am I kidding! This will not hurt me at all! " Angel exclaimed happily before she delivered a devastating Haymaker right in the middle of Ryuto's face that lifted him up and spun him around in the air before he crashed painfully back in the ground. Once he was back kissing dirt Angel began to viciously kick him in the ribs until he started to spat blood and then turned him around with a kick, leaving him with his back on the ground looking up at her, before she jumped and let herself fall atop of him with her knee crashing on his face. The sound of broken cartilage signaled his nose being broken.
Ryuto grunted in pain and writhed in the ground bringing his hands to cover his bleeding nose, he snapped out of it quickly and slowly and deliberately stood back up, looking Angel straight in the eyes all the way, leaving for all to see the stream of blood that flowed down from his nose staining his lips and chin. "It's that all you've got!" He replied in defiance.
Angel smiled broadily once more. "Oh, this is going to be so much fun." She said before resuming the beating, going through every single technique and special attack she knew. Formalist blue, Senseless Fists, Bye Bye Rogue, Repun Kamui, Mad Murder Roulette, Red Sky of Japonesia, Citizen of the World, Shelter from Storm, Buggy and Coffin, With a Lamp for Pathway, Train to See Cherry Blossoms, Impotent Symptom, Crown Under Sky, Fullmoon Evening, State of Heat Haze, Cosmic Futen Swing, Lost Homeland, Loyalty Test for Liberalists, Survivor's Banquet, etc. In short, she made Ryuto go through the meat grinder.
The entire affair quickly became a morbid and rather gruesome sight to behold; the only sounds being heard on the field were the thunderclaps from the air being displaced by each attack, the sounds of bones being broken and the cries of Ryuto desperately trying to endure through it all.
Rimi began to cry again seeing the brutal beating Ryuto was receiving. "Ryuto-Sama!" She closed her eyes and tried to look away, but Iori didn't let her. He kept her head from turning sideways and forcefully made her keep watching by lifting her eyelids with his other free hand.
"Ah, ah, ah, I will not let you turn your gaze away that easily, you will watch this until the bitter end. Take a good long look; this is the price of your own weakness. All this pain your boyfriend has to go through is your own fault because you were not strong enough to defend yourself and now he has to suffer in your stead. He must really love you; just look at all he's willing to go through for your sake. It is an enlightening experience, don't you think? And you dare to scoff at his sacrifice by looking away? What an ungrateful little brat you are…" Iori whispered on Rimi's ear, tears flooding down her cheeks at the sight of the man she loved being horribly injured. She could do nothing but take it all in full, whimpering in helplessness as she kept shedding tears of despair.
After almost 20 minutes of what could be considered a savage inhumane beating, Ryuto was left bleeding and broken in the ground but still staring defiantly at his executioner despite all the torture he had to endure. If it wasn't because his Seidou Goui was boosting his physical capabilities, he would have passed out a long time ago. "Have… enough yet!?" He spat through bloodied teeth.
Angel just wiped her bloodstained knuckles off and nodded as reply. "Yeah, I'm done. I'm starting to get bored anyway. My bloodlust has already been satiated and I have worked all of my frustrations out of my system. I guess I should let Iori take over for me at this point." She said half-musingly, turning her back at Ryuto before walking away from him as she made signals towards Iori that it was his turn to carve his pound of flesh out of the ashen-haired boy.
"How very kind of you, I appreciatte this gesture. Now I wouldn't want to imposse but would you mind to hold this little brat for me while I go have my fun." Iori said, motioning to the broken girl in his grasp.
"Sure, no problem." Was the chirpy reply.
Iori simply tossed the smaller blonde towards the whitehaired Latina as one would do with a piece of disposable trash, Angel catching the helpless girl fairly easily. He then began to walk towards the downed Ryuto with big menacing steps, his impressive height making him look increasingly bigger and terryfiyng the more he reduced the distance between his target.
Rimi was beginning to suffer a mild case of eschizophrenia as the pain of her own wounds, expecially her head injure, and her heartache for seeing her loved one suffer started to addle her mind. "Why…? Why…? Why is this happenning? Why are you being so cruel to Ryuto-Sama!? This is too much… This is too much…" She whimpered pitifully through falling tears.
Angel was not fazed by her pleading, she kept smilling as she began to hug Rimi and rub her cheeks as if she were a little child. "Hush, hush Kitty-Kat. There's no need to worry about your boy-friend, I'm sure Iori will be most careful while playing with him. Just stay put and keep quiet like a good little girl and enjoy the show alright? We wouldn't want to distract Iori and make him injure your friend by accident, wouldn't we?"
"No… No…"
The YAMI masters who had been forced to witness the barbarie from the sidelines could no longer remain quit. "For God's sake Pan! Haven't you had enough! Are you going to let a helpless boy be murdered in front of the entire world!?" Akira Hongo called with boundless outrage.
Pan simply replied by licking her front teeth carefreely. "I specifically stated that I would not interfere in the fights of my followers in any way whatsoever, unless asked directly and even then it would be at my own discretion. Your students all agreed to the same terms as my minions for this battle, so I don't understand why you are all whining about it. If they're too weak to handle it, then they shouldn't have accepted to battle my people in the first place. So wether Iori kills your student or not that is his prerrogative. Out there in space things like this are pretty common and this is just a small taste of how battles are carried out there. But I wouldn't worry about your student's life too much; I have been personally overseeing and taking a hand in the training of all my minions using my own methods. Though it's only been for a short time, I have already gained a fairly idea of what they are capable of. So I trust Iori will make the right decision regarding your student's fate." She said decisively putting an end to the conversation.
While they were speaking, Ryuto managed to rise back to his feet and glare defiantly at Iori to his eyes. He was not going to show fear in his presence.
"So kiddo… Ready for the next round?" Iori asked with a hint of malice.
Ryuto didn't show any hesitation and replied bravely. "Do your worst."
Iori just chuckled in amusement. "Believe me, I will…" he said, before he slammed Ryuto's head violently into the ground, his fingers digging painfully into his skull in preparation for another Ura 311: Shiki Oritsume Kushi.Iori simply smiled as he hovered over his downed opponent like a predator about to go for the kill.
"Shine!" Was all that Ryuto heard, before his world exploded in pain.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The following detonation of purple fire was strong enough to blow the hair backwards of all the people present on the construction site and blind anyone who was looking directly at the explosion. Unlike the normal version of this attack, Iori didn't let Ryuto be sent flying away by the force of the explosion. Once the dust dissipated, everyone could see how the two figthers were still in the same positions, with Iori pinning Ryuto into the ground with his hand still digging into the ashen-haired fighter's skull.
Iori didn't waste time to follow up with another explosion.
"Shine!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
And then another, and another, and another, and another, and another. One after the other, Iori kept releasing explosions of fiery destruction right upon Ryuto's head. Each one burying the gray-haired young man, more and more into the ground, to the horrified stares of the people witnessing the fight trough the live feed. People around the world could only stare in morbid disbelief at the terrible punishment that the red-headed flamewielder was inflicting upon the helpless Ryuto.
By the time Iori was done, he had burned out his own clothes and singed his own body, leaving him only with his turtle shell and charbroiled pants. A much better condition than Ryuto's own as his entire body had been completely charred by the flames. Iori lifted the broken martial artist into the air with the same arm he had been helding him all this time as a deranged look began to take over him.
"We are still not done, boy!" Iori growled, his eyes shining red, before he slammed Ryuto back into the ground and began to strike him with a variant of the Maiden Masher in which he stabbed him in the torso with his nails, riddling his entire bare chest with bleeding holes, before he slammed both of his arms on him for a last fiery explosion that propelled Ryuto briefly into the air.
Iori finished his attack by dragging his fingers through the ground forwards and launching a violent swipe in a rising 180o arc in front of him that cut through the air and through everything else in its path. In this case Ryuto, as he was intercepted by the attack while he was falling, slashing his flesh open and making blood rain down in a shower of crimson, leaving him with 5 long bleeding gashes running through his entire back.
KIN 1218: SHIKI YATAGARASU!
Ryuto was left with deep wounds bleeding in the ground, moaning desperately in pain. A general feeling of dread fell upon the audience as they saw Iori was still not done, he approached towards Ryuto once more with deliberate steps and grabbed him by the neck with both hands, lifting him high above his own head.
Everybody watching throughout the entire world held their breath in anxiousness, waiting for Iori's next move.
"This is the end…" He declared, before slashing Ryuto's throat open by swiping his two hands at the same time down to his victim's chest in a cross pattern. He just let the poor boy fall into the dirt as he began to writhe in a pool of his own blood taking his hands to his neck in an attempt to stem the tide of vital liquid.
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In Kanto, Kenichi let out a scream calling for his former friend from his childhood, worried desperately for his sake as all the gathered students could only stare in horrified disbelief at the massacre that had just occurred.
"RYUTO!"
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In heaven the entire control center was utterly shocked by the slaughter brought about by a single man, believing if the red-haired fighter must have been under demonic influence, for the power he wielded seemed quite unnatural. The only one that had not lost her bearing was Lynd, who was still watching at the screen intently with stoic determination. Seeing the young gray-haired fighter willingly endure all that gruesome punishment made her respect him and consider him a worthy fellow warrior, she just couldn't understand why her fellow goddesses had such horrified looks on their faces. Couldn't they see and acknowledge his courage? Didn't they saw the heart of a true warrior beating inside his chest?
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In Nifelheim they were also having their own reactions at the fight. Hild had been greatly amused by the savagerie displayed by the red-head. "My, my… Quite the vicious fellow isn't he? And so handsome too… Maybe I should take some vacations and pay another visit to earth soon… I wasn't aware there were many interesting people inhabiting it as of late… What do you think, Haggal-chan? " She said in a playful tone, turning towards somwone to her right.
The beautiful blonde woman in the red dress, standing next to the Daimakaicho, did not know how to respond. She didn't know humans could be capable of so much terrifying violence and bloodshed. She shuddered to think what her mistress could want by involving herself with people like that.
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Back to the construction site.-
Iori simply turned around and began to walk away, stopping after a few meters to address the wounded boy one more time.
"I must say I'm impressed at your courage for having endured all of my punishment. To have willingly submitted yourself to this torture in order to save another person… You have earned my respect. Do not worry about bleeding to death; I avoided slashing your yugular. You will live as long as you receive medical attention promptly… I hope you survive and become stronger. I would like to fight you again in the future, this time without any outside interference." He then turned towards Angel. "Let's go Angel. We are done here…"
Ryuto Asamiya
K.O.
Iori Yagami - Angel
VS
Ryuto Asamiya - Rimi Kokorone
Iori Yagami - Angel WIN!
Brutality!
As he walked past the white-haired woman holding the crying blonde girl in her arms, Rimi snapped at Iori with scorn for what he had done to Ryuto. "YOU HORRIBLE MONSTER! How could you do that to Ryuto-Sama!? Have you no heart!? How could you be so cruel to him!?" She yelled in a fit of anger.
Iori just gave her an odd look. "Cruel? On the contrary, I'm being kind. I'm letting him live am I not? If I had been cruel, I would have make sure that I had injured him heavily as to make him unable to move and then I would have killed you in front of his eyes before finishing him off next. The fact I decided to spare both of your lives speaks volumes about my mercy, as very few people have walked alive away from me after challenging me to a fight, which is still a lot more mercy than what my father had with me when I was growing up." He said before keeping walking back towards Pan's lines and ignored the girl from that point forwards. Angel followed him suit, bringing Rimi along.
Seeing the fight already over, Pan adressed her little robotic assistant in a dry tone. "Giru, I want you to collect Ryuto and bring him here. Then treat him on his more serious injuries by applying the medical liquid used on the healing chamber directly into his wounds."
"It will be done Pan, giru." The little robot said before carrying out the orders of his owner.
When Iori walked closed to her, she only took a glance at him and said. "You didn't kill him, that's good. But next time, try at least to leave your opponent good enough to be able to walk away on his own feet. I'm particularly not looking forward to having to spend my somewhat limited and very precious medical supplies on every single new recruit that joins our group."
"I'll try my best to control my urges. It's not so simple for me to keep my bloodlust down once I awake my Orochi's blood, but I'll do what I can." He said evenly.
Pan just narrowed her eyes at him. "We are going to increase your training once we are back at the headquarters and work at your control. We'll also have to speed up your learning curve to make you able to overcome your Orochi blood much sooner than I had expected. I don't want any outside influence manipulating my minions' decisions." She stated before taking her gaze away from him signaling the end of the conversation.
Iori nooded in reply before moving on, once he went want to take his place among the other warriors, Kazuya turned at him with a big devilish grin on his face. "I must say I'm impressed at the ruthlessness you showed when breaking those weaklings and the delicious vicious way in which you caused them pain. I look forward of working with you in the future." He said in amusement between evil chuckles. From behind Kazuya, Doctor Jackal was seen nodding in agreement.
Iori just lifted an eyebrow as response. "We'll see…"
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Pan seeing that all the fights had already concluded called for the next set of matches to begin. "Alright! Since everybody has already finished, let's start with the next fights! Who's next!?"
Some masters from Yomi, particularly those from the weapons division, were openly gaping at the way that Pan casually dismissed the massacre that had just taken place. "What!? You mean right now!? You're not going to even give us a few minutes to recover from the shock of the last battle?" Rin Tachibana exclaimed doumbfounded, surprised at the total indifference of the girl from outer space towards extreme violence.
"If you need some time to recover your frail sensibilities then you're welcome to chicken out from the next set of fights if you want. Meanwhile I'm going to push some more of my people upfront and you can decide who is going to face who." Pan said, not giving a flying fuck about what YAMI's opinion. She pointed behind her towards her more experience fighters, most of them as equally vicious and ruthless like Iori. Many among the YAMI Masters felt a chill down their spines at seeing the maniatical evil grins on the faces of the fighters surrounding Pan. Kazuya, Doctor Jackal, Juri, Foxxy, Nina, Vice and Mature could barely wait for the next battles to begin.
Well that's up for now, hope you like it even if it was a bit in the bloody side. Before you ask, no I don't particularly hate any of members of either YOMI and YAMI, if I make them suffer is all because to give drama to the story and up the tension. I'm of the generation that grew up with the classics, those that started all. Think Hokuto No Ken, Bakki the grappler, Saint Seiya, Hunter X Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho. Their entire premise is built around gruesome fights that have a high level of cruelty. Hell even Dragon Ball Z follows this trend. Or have you forgotten how Freza exterminated the entire Namekian race?
As I said, I wanted real battles in this story all of them inspired and homaging the old glories, when every single battle was running high with tension as the protagonist could well lose his live if he were to make a single mistake.
So that's it for now, make sure to give me a review and tell me what you thought about this chapter, which should not take me as long as this one if everything goes well and words dosen't fail me.
Also if anyone you know the original name for the Wine Cups technique of Iori, please let me now since I wasn't able to find it anywhere and I want all the naming conventions to be the original ones.
Anyway, read you all later.