Kosetsu No Unmei
Chapter 10: Counter Attack! Defeat Demora!
By AnimayWriteY0
Juinchi and the Demi Elite Demora stood on opposing sides preparing themselves for their bloody battle, but before they could engage Juinchi demands an explaination towards the Demi Elite about why he is here and the reason behind going after the demons. Is he also here to capture or possibly kill Hakune? Similar to the likes of Raizen who tried to do the same but ultimately failed. Juinchi stood there waiting for the armored monstrosity to answer his question. No response coming from the creature, it's evidently clear the Demi Elite has no business wasting his breath to answer for someone he deemed unworthy or not wanting to waste his energy giving the human the satisfaction of gaining intel about the Elites and their roles of purging the worthless trash that abandoned their place on the food chain.
"So, you refuse to answer my questions! Then I'll..." Before he could finish his threat, he hears the monster chuckling menacingly. Juinchi narrowed his eyes towards the beast "Huh? What's so funny?" The noise coming from that hideous beast became all to clear the moment Juinchi stepped forth in its way. This being has no quarrels with him, not at the slightest in fact the turtle-like behemoth. It's as if the only thing keeping this monster from attacking now is because of his overestimation of his own powers compared to Juinchi's.
"He..hahaha..HAHAHAHAHA! You feeble pathetic human, do you honestly think I'll tell you anything? Someone like you don't deserve any words coming from me. It would be best for you to step back or else I'll stomp you flat to the ground like a tiny insect!" He took one step forward and stomps hard on the black road pavement thus shaking the surrounding mountainous area, to assert his power and dominance over Juinchi, like an alpha predator trying to exert his dominance over a challenging newcomer. Demora towers above the small and puny human showing that he is no match for him trying to get this pathetic human running for his life. Nothing happened to his disbelief. The little maggot had really said something that truly enraged the Demi Elite.
Unfazed by his tactic of trying to scare him away the orange head decided to go up at him doing the exact same thing showing that he's willing to challenge the creature. "That's funny...you said that I don't deserve words from you yet here you are keeping up with all your constant monologue about yourself. It's ever so tiring. You are one ugly egocentric hypocrite."Juinchi blatantly called him out for his insults for this so-called Demi Elite and racked a smirk seeing the reaction coming from Demora. It was clear that this Demi doesn't take back talking all too lightly.
In sheer rage and anger from such mockery he charges forward directly at Juinchi attempting to lunge him with his massive three toed claws. "You son of a bitch!" Demora throws a punch straight at Juinchi but before he even gets a hit in, he realizes Juinchi vanished. The turtle beast turned his head to any direction trying to pinpoint the location of this cowering opponent of his. "W-what the?! Where did he go!?" The gigantic Demi Elite curses scanning the area from his sides until he heard something from behind him.
"Behind you dumbo..." Juinchi called out with his arms crossed while giving off a patronizing smirk waiting for his enemy to finally take notice of where he's currently at. "What?!" Just before he could turn his massive body around to face this annoying bug, out of nowhere Juinchi does a powerful straight forward punch right at his abdomen with brutal force as a glimpse of blue energy ignited around the small fighter. The impact of that punch definitely showed the effects which causes Demora to go down on his knees placing his arms to where the human hits him clutching it in pain. The damage on his stomach was enough to make the Demi Elite froth at the mouth as his dark grayish eyes are glued directly at Juinchi with absolute hate. "W-what the? What is this p-pain!? You….! Argh! You Arrogant fool! Don't think you've beaten me with a lucky punch! Because I am the Mighty Demor…" Before he could finish another one of his ear-piercing monologues Juinchi does another forceful punch sending the turtle-like Demi flying all the way to a dense tree that help stopped the Demi Elite from being pushed any further. "Ughhnn...hahhhhhhhhhhhh." Demora now struggling to lift his one-thousand-pound body up. He viciously glared at his enemy and somewhat shocked at how strong this puny human exhibited; he can't afford to be prideful now. He needed to take him seriously at this point or else his efforts to get even with those cowering demons will soon passed. "You're no human, you're not even human at all!" The infuriated Demi Elite spoke as he wiped his mouth and come to realize that Juinchi has drawn blood from him. "N-no... not like this…"
This was the ultimate insult the biggest humiliation for a Demi Elite of his stature, having to see his own blood revealed had driven him to a raging fury as the turtle Demi Elite roared in madness for having to be outdone by a mere human. "You! You're gonna pay for that!" He screams up in the air wanting nothing more than to vaporize this puny human until he starts channeling something from within, Juinchi watches on intently to see what tricks he has up his sleeve. Soon enough the turtle creature's mouth starts to have flames spurting out like a miniature volcano. Demon cocked his head back and suddenly launches his head forward unleashing a deadly gigantic fire ball going straight at him. Juinchi wide eyed as used his enhanced speed to barely dodge the incoming fire ball. He had managed to let the flaming sphere of death graze his upper right arm with just a slight burn. The fire ball instead hit a nearby Semi truck and exploded into a big mushroom cloud full of smoke and residual fire scattering the roadside. "Oh crap that was a close one! One hit from that and I'd be burnt BBQ..." Juinchi sheepishly sighed while getting the sweat off his head.
The Demi Elite slowly got onto one knee feeling the effects of stamina loss after launching that massive fire ball. "Damn you…" He cursed as the tired-out Demi Elite is having trouble breathing. "He's fast...this human...who is he?!" The monstrous Demi Elite slowly got up clenching his three toed claws. This is definitely no human, if he were a demon, he should have felt his presence a few minutes ago. "I'd must admit...You are full of surprises human...though...once I got my claws on you, you'd be dead in less than a second…! But still, despite your efforts...it will only come out the same as those demon trashes." He pointed straight at Kumi and Sara. "Once I'm done with you...I'll enjoy ripping them apart!"
Juinchi clenches his fist as sharp canines form from his teeth after hearing his threats over and over again. "You still talk too much! I don't see how a demonic being such as you deserved the title as one of the Demi Elites when you are clearly having trouble keeping up this battle! It's over just surrender already. If you continue this path of destruction, you leave me no choice but to end you like Raizen." Juinchi slowly advances his way towards the injured Demi. Suddenly Juinchi stopped the moment Demora laughed, almost like a maniacal laughter.
"Hah...hahhhahhh….AHAHAHAHAHA!" The turtle Demi Elite then made a sinister grin that adds trouble for Juinchi. "Don't get cocky kid...you may be strong physically I will admit that but let's be honest here. You have yet to know what I can do...you see even if you do damage me...the question is, are you able to last the longest than that feeble demon garbage's who attempted to stop me?"
That question had really made Juinchi confused and rightfully nervous at what this Demi Elite meant. "Huh?..." He stood there not knowing the full context of that meaning. Seeing Demora has finally gotten himself up, he goes into an unusual stance somewhat like a downward dog position. This signals trouble for Juinchi as the orange head fighter stays on guard readying himself for what Demora throws at him. Demora having his arms crossed while placing himself into a squatting posture places his upper body to bent forward. Despite that strange stance Juinchi finally notices that Demora had rammed his arms onto the concrete road. "So, you're finally ready to fight then...bring it!"
"H-hahahha...foolish human…." Suddenly a greenish glow starts to illuminate around his bulky body as something behind him revealed two pods that sprout out from his shell. Juinchi couldn't tell what was going on until his confused expression changes to shock as the pods spins ferociously around his back acting as generators for Demora. Juinchi stood there honestly worried what this meant until he sees green glitter sparkling around and engulfing the Demi Elite as he realizes that the punch mark inflicted by Juinchi has been neutralized thus fully recovering the creature. Demora stood up with no signs of struggling. As if his last actions and stamina loss were nonexistent "Ahh much better..heh…" The Demi Elite stretches his arms while turning to Juinchi satisfied from the change of expression on his face.
Juinchi curses as to see who he's dealing with now. "Rughhhh...damn it he can rejuvenate..." Juinchi gritted his teeth from this ability this Demi Elite used. Now this changes everything for the Orange haired fighter. There's no way to know what he can do to beat this thing if it keeps regenerating his wounds. And there is a possibility that he'll tire himself out more and more if he tried to do damage to this cowardly Demi Elite. In the end it's definitely a battle of nutrition, if he can't find a way to beat him through physical force because of that regenerative ability then Juinchi will lose too much stamina and eventually give out leaving himself completely at this Demi Elite's mercy.
"Bingo...you little brat… just because you're all strong and tough doesn't make you any better than those puny demons I took care of…" He laughed more as if he had already won this battle. "It's pathetic that such beings like you would always come by and act high and mighty against a titan like me! So, what's it gonna be human? Are you willing to surrender? I'm being benevolent here allowing you to leave with your dignity intact!" He continued to laugh at the sight of Juinchi who's clearly torn and visibly angered by this hideous beast's sick pleasure of mockery.
"So, you were harmed before I showed up! Knowing that you have been damaged before by those demons that you attacked and killed...yet you rely too much on that rejuvenating ability...you coward!" His fist clenches in frustration and anger for what this Demi has done to those innocent Demons. "They were trying to live their lives building a future for themselves and their kin in this world!" He then added. "What gives you the right to take that away from them?!"
"Nobody can beat me even if its someone stronger than me! And there's no reason for me to answer to you maggot. Now then...what are you going to do?" Demora taunts as he chuckles at the orange haired fighter for his futile attempts of beating him at his game.
"Fine! Then try this on for size!" Juinchi concentrates his right palm as blue spiraling aura manifests itself around him focusing all his power into his palm thus summoning a pure blue electrical energy enveloping his right hand to form a sphere like orb full of energy thus readying to use his Torrent Breaker directly at Demora. "Ready! Have a taste of this Demora! HAHHHH! Torrent Breaker!" He placed his right arm back and without hesitation thrusts the energized fist straight at the turtle Demi Elite as the fiery orb ignites a pure blue orb of destructive energy projectile flying straight at Demora in Mach three speed. Reaching its target the sphere explodes upon contact indicating that the blast was a direct hit leaving a powerful aftershock that blew Juinchi away from where he stood fighting against the initial wind current. Juinchi places his hand over his eyes getting a better view of the shrouding smoke. As the dense cloud of dust and smoke dissipates and became clear Juinchi was left aghast that appearing before him is Demora completely unfazed. "How is that possible?! The amount of energy I collected into that attack should have incinerated you!"
"Haha! Did you not forget about my armor? It is capable of enduring any known spirit energy-based projectile moves and techniques that anyone can throw at me! So your simple mind tricks won't do you any good! But that move of yours, I now guarantee that you are no human! Which leaves me to take you on seriously."
"So...that's how he was unaffected by those demon's magic powers and energy-based moves because that thick armor plating of his helps neutralizes any sort of energy-based projectiles...this is going to be tougher than I thought…" He cursed remembering what the old demon told him. "So, that is why so many died...they tried so hard to overpower this coward! But he has two broken utilities that gives him a massive edge in battle." Juinchi sweat drops feeling quite overwhelmed for this realization, but he needs to try! There's got to be a hole to his fighting style.
With no other options, Juinchi has no choice but to use all his physical strength to deal with him but because that he can't entirely destroy him with his martial art techniques let alone having any sort of moves to fatally damage this Demi. Even if he does have the upper hand in terms of fighting, Demora will constantly rejuvenate himself each time he's badly injured. Which leaves Juinchi to the worst case, he'll eventually become fatigued and tire out from this indestructible walking/healing tank.
"Heh what's the matter, have you found your place now? Because you can't bea..." Once again Demora is met with a hard punch to the face with tremendous force done by Juinchi. As the agitated young fighter backed away from Demora's grasping reach. "Grauhhhhhh!" Demora goes down again but gets up immediately with blood shot eyes appearing on his pupils shaking in absolute rage. "RGGHHHHHAAAAAAAA" Shaking the ground as the loathsome Demi sets his dead eyes straight at Juinchi.
"Now all your constant talking is starting to piss me off!...just hurry up and bring it!" Both him and Demora dashes right at each other. The turtle Demi once again tries to grab Juinchi so he could crush him. Unfortunately the young fighter saw this a mile away side stepping to the right and delivered three punches and a strong high knee right at Demora's exposed sides where the shell doesn't protect. Despite the painful attack the Demi Elite felt from the inflicted body location he ate it all up and unleashed his left arm to make a huge arm sweep to get Juinchi off his blind spots. This made Juinchi jump back.
"Tch...not bad" Juinchi lost in thought couldn't find a way to get at this thing perceptibly struggling to think of a way to overpower the bulking Demi. "Now what...he seems to have been able to eat my attacks now, there's got to be ways to get through that armor of his.…" Then the cackling Demi looks on his somewhat tired opponent. "Awwwww what's the matter human insect does my power proved too much for you?" Juinchi retorts as he took a deep breath. "Heh...trust me Demora...I'm not worried of the slightest…"
The orange head dashes with immense speed straight at Demora and execute a powerful jump kick right at his chest followed up a rising kick at the same location causing Demora to fly over off the street, then he uses Demora's round stomach as a platform and ends the combo with a downward punch. This causes the Demi Elite to dive bomb down the cliff as Juinchi follows suit and jumps through rock edges. Demora have landed headfirst on the ground hard creating a miniature crater. Juinchi spin twist himself and landed on a nearby branch as he and Demora are at ground level under the mountainous road. Juinchi jumps off and sees whether if that did anything. But to his dismay Demora came up from the miniature crater with no damage.
"You ungrateful maggot! That actually hurt!" He fully healed himself and dashes straight at Juinchi throwing a massive knee, but Juinchi counters it by evading with impressive reflexes and agility. "Bahh! Hold still!" Demora follows his knee with a quick massive slam onto Juinchi yet the orange hair fighter steps back on time.
"Not a chance!" He sees an opening and does a downward sweep kick having Demora slip on his back. Immediately after, Juinchi steps on top of the Demi and quickly blast him with a quick energy cannon point blank right at his face, the most vulnerable area Juinchi could think of. The impact of the blast had created a massive explosion but not as strong as the first attempt as cloud of dust surround the forest area. Hoping that the blast did its job, Juinchi stood up on the corpse of the Demi Elite.
Despite a devastating blow from the blast Demora instinctively uses his tail to thwart Juinchi off him surprising the young man which sends him to a tree stump disoriented, the Demi Elite stood up revealing half of his face has been blown off. Yet with such an injury Demora stood up even more enraged and angry from this utter humiliation. Though it didn't kill him, this gives Juinchi an edge knowing that Demora's left eye is gone making it hard to anticipate Juinchi's next moves. Suddenly Demora's rage has gone to an unstable degree. As he completely loses his state of mind, fully driving him to fight instinctively like a cornered animal.
"D-DAMN YOU TO HELL!" He goes on fours to where he shows his spikes from his shell, Juinchi couldn't make up for this poster until he sees that Demora's shell has opened one of his spiked casings revealing sharp needle like spears pointing straight at him. Demora fired dozens of these sharp projectiles right at Juinchi's direction as hail of those sharp bone shards are flying towards him.
Juinchi tried to dodge them all but due to his overuse of his second Torrent breaker attack he succumb to stamina depletion which to his dismay one of those sharp bone shards have managed to land a hit right at his most vulnerable spot. The spear bone has penetrated through his right shoulder plates leaving a huge excruciating pain for Juinchi. "Uraghhhh! D-Darn it all!" Juinchi cursed as he took a glance of the spear stuck within his right shoulder. Demora sees the opportunity and charges at him with a shoulder bash that pushes Juinchi straight into a large boulder as the helpless orange head went straight through the rocky terrain. As dust clears Juinchi is shown now slouched down totally idle and injured to a high degree from the piercing bone stuck at his shoulder plate. "D-damn it!..."
"Hahahahahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHA! How does that feel now maggot? That is what you get for what you did to my face! Now it's your turn you little rat!" Now the battle seemingly going to Demora's control he circles around the badly hurt Juinchi, staking his claim for his next kill. The Demi Elite enjoys the sight of the orange haired fighter struggling to take the bone spear off his shoulders while being elated to hear the screams and agony coming from his apparently defeated opponent.
Juinchi slowly and cautious grabbed the bone spear and slowly takes it out but at the cost of dealing with more pain. "Argghhhhhh!...uaghhhhhhh..." The bone shard came off, but the damage was severe as blood starts to flow out from his wound. However, this doesn't stop Juinchi from giving up the fight as his whole-body struggle to stand up. "I'm still up and kicking…! And it's not over till it's over do you hear me Demora!" Futility trying to stay in place as his eyes begin to blur the more he tried so hard just to stand up.
"Don't make me laugh! You simple minded fool, now you realize that whatever you do won't stop me...!" He approaches the injured Juinchi, just before Juinchi could land a kick, Demora side swipes him which sent the tired fighter plummeting down underneath Demora's feet. When Juinchi tried to get up by forcing his only functioning arm to lift his own weight, Demora stomps his massive foot stump on top of Juinchi's back slowly suffocating him. "Now maggot...bow down to the Mighty Demora for mercy!"
He grits his teeth cursing at the Demi with absolute defiance while glaring straight at the ugly half faced creature. "Argghhh...never...I'd rather cut my own ears to deal with your continuous monologue." With that little bit of back talking Demora finally has his chance to crush this fool. "Rgggghhhhh,,,!" He grabs Juinchi by the neck and tosses him back to the mountainous road and follows the flying Juinchi up by doing a fierce jump thus landing on the mountain road. Juinchi's body rolls but was able to catch his own weight with his still functioning arm."Damn it...what a pain..."
"Heh...time for you to die...Though I do have to applaud of your feeble attempts to overpower me yet it shows that even with your strength you won't be able to outlast me!...Oh and once I'm done with you I'll continue to kill those demons that you foolishly tried to defend though I should at least let them know how you fought valiantly to the bitter end despite it being in vain." He then slowly charges up his next fire ball attack but this time he's increasing it's destructive power all the way to the max.
Juinchi gritted his teeth and demanded the Demi Elite of his true intentions of his hostility towards his own demon kind. "But why them? Why are you only attacking demons, even those who had nothing to do with you?…" That peaked his interest as the Demi Elite choked on his own flames and proceeded to enlighten his dying enemy. "Heh...fine I'll answer your long waiting questions since you're going to die by my hands... The demons here are the ones responsible for tormenting me for my inability to use my demonic powers because of my worthless stature as a helpless mongrel! I'm nothing more than living breathing punching bag! Those same demons also believed that I'll never surpass them! They have used me when I was vulnerable! As you can see their pride in their abilities is what I loathe so much while I have nothing to gain!...But because I was able to attain my full potential from being a Demi Elite I have risen up the ranks from any demon that stands in my way! Now that I have all this power, I can now show those demons on what helplessness truly feels like!"
Slowly changing to a more sympathetic look he kept his right arm still so he wouldn't allow it to bleed out more. As Juinchi lectures with the Demi Elite. "…Demora...even if you have a dark past that may have ruined you that doesn't excuse you of hurting innocent demons such as these here. If you wish to show those demons who treated you like crap you could just prove them wrong! There's no need to create all this bloodshed!" Juinchi then carefully leans back on a stone wall and rests himself. "You could have done something meaningful if you had just built your strength that you're more than just another power-hungry brute!"
That one remark coming from this human did have some merits as the Demi Elite made a look of self-reflection. Could this human be right about what he just said? No, it couldn't be, there's no way he should ever think such nonsense. He glared at the injured Juinchi and states his claim "You naive wretch, those demons don't care if you die, they don't care if you saved their lives, they are going to throw you away like trash just like me...!" The Demi Elite slowly stalks Juinchi getting ready to end his misery.
"I'm nothing like you...and besides what you said about what you're going to do to them is out of the question." The Demi Elite stops while raising his visible eyebrow or what's left of it towards the orange fighter, somehow, he sounded normal despite the injury. "Even if you do have a good reason to hate them you can't blame those who are totally innocent which lead you to become the very thing you hate the most." Juinchi gets up and holds onto his injured shoulder. "Besides, trying to go after the demons that you attacked are safely evacuated." Juinchi smirks triumphantly.
"W-what?!" He turns to the wreckage and come to realize that there's no signs of demons to kill or maim. Then he turned back at the orange haired fighter who's loving the sight of this Demi Elite's utter confusion. "Heh as you can see...I have used myself as a distraction to stall for time so my friend can escort them out of danger." The wide eyed Demora once again became furious at this deceit. "N-no! No! You! Argghhhhhhhhh!" The raging turtle monster is about to land a harsh punch right at the orange haired fighter but to his absolute horror Juinchi caught Demora's punch with his injured arm. "N-No way?!" And then the grinning Juinchi pushes him away like a rag doll while doing a summer salt kick sending the Demi Elite back 12 feet away from him.
Right after he made some distance between the two Juinchi continues to brag. "Oh, and I can use my right arm since the shoulder fully healed." He examines his arms and throws his fist at the air showing that it's been fully rejuvenated. Demora is now scared."Y-your injury!? But how?!"
Juinchi answers straight away making a toothy smile. "Heh...I can regenerate too but at a slow rate and because of your constant chattering my demonic blood cells can repair any damage you've inflicted on me. Which allowed me to buy some time to get back up to full strength." After his short explanation Juinchi vanishes swiftly. This causes Demora to look frantically in search of the disappeared fighter. "W-what?! S-so much faster than before!..."
Out of nowhere Juinichi does a drop kick from behind causing Demora to fall over landing face first on the ground. Next the energized guardian grabbed Demora's tail and began to slam him repeatedly up and down on the ground with sheer force followed by a power swing which causes the Demi to become disoriented the more he goes around in a circle. Juinchi finally throws him straight at a cluster formed boulders from the mountain wall. Having crashed into the rubble Juinchi has relentlessly punish the now helpless Demora with several pain inducing combo attacks at an unrelenting motion. There's not a single second wasted as Juinchi continues to pummel the creature and ending it with a deadly side kick which forcibly twists the Demi's large claw arm in an unnatural placement. The Demi Elite screams in agony from such an excruciating pain while Juinchi finishes him with a downward hammer crush on his head causing him to fall head first down on the ground.
Demora continues to try and heal himself, but the young fighter just does not stop attacking him. "D-damn it all...if he continues to do this, I may not be able to rejuvenate...in time!" Demora struggles to get up after so many fatal physical blows that even his own body can't support his own weight not allowing him to cast his rejuvenating ability. "How, just how?!…" Demora demanded as he stares dead set at his smirking enemy.
Juinchi smiled triumphantly "That is exactly why I figured your strategy the moment you let out your first rejuvenation. You basically stood there hoping I wouldn't attack you. Which explains why you always try to make that same intimidating face whenever I get close to you." He ended this fact with the most crucial one. "The thing is, that ability takes time and concentration. Too bad because I'm not gonna let you do that again. Ever." The Demi Elite now immobile to do anything. "C-curse you!" The damaged Demi pushes himself up but couldn't be due to all the fatal injuries he received from around his entire body.
And when things couldn't go well for the Demi Elite Juinchi pointed out the two hatches on his back shell. "I also noticed that there is a gem on your back, and I can see that it glows every time you try to regenerate and seeing those two healing generators come out from your shell to heal you, I figured that the gem is the key component of your rejuvenation ability." He stood confidently. "If blunt force couldn't break that gem then a piercing weapon should do the trick!" He took a quick glance at his friend as he requests to borrow his sword. "Kyto throw me your sword so I can finish this guy off!"
Kyto gladly does just that. "Sure thing! Here catch!" Kyto proceeds to take his prized sword and threw it at Juinchi's direction. "I figured that if your gem is incapable of being smashed than getting pierced is the right way!"
Demora in a fit of panic along with his self-preservation kicking in. The defeated turtle Demi Elite tries to crawl away in fear of losing the only ability that kept him alive for half a century. "N-no you can't! I won't let you!" In sheer desperation Demora finally found the strength to pick himself up and recklessly charges at Juinchi but to his absolute horror this allows Juinchi the opportunity to jump over his shell. Having faced the gem Juinchi pierces Kyto's sword straight into as the entire thing shattered to pieces causing Demora's rejuvenating ability to stop. This also causes Demora to flop down fully down for the count. Juinchi grabbed the sword out of the gem and jumps off the defeated Demi Elite and hands the sword back to Kyto."Heh...thanks Kyto you're a real-life saver again." As both of them made a bro fist. "Hey dude no problem, thanks for holding him off so I can get all the remaining demons out of this hell hole." Juinchi nods. "I appreciate that, thanks man."
Suddenly Sara came up to them and wanting to thank the two for saving her and Kumi. But little do they realize is that Demora isn't done in yet and sees the chance to take someone out with him.
Sara went back with Juinchi as she hugged him tightly. "Thank you so much Tatagashi Oji San! I'm so glad you came! You're like a superhero!" Juinchi blushes and scratches his hair in embarrassment. "Awwww shucks it was nothing, glad you're doing okay kiddo." He pats the little scamp on the head.
As soon as Sara came to check up the two boys, her mother follows suit. "Sara dear...you shouldn't be here…" Kumi then turn her full attention on both Juinchi and Kyto. "I'm sorry guys but she always does this whenever someone is there to help. Especially someone she knows all too well." She took a glance at Juinchi and nods with a gentle smile. Sara pouted " Awwww okay mommy..." She then stood in front of her mother and glances at the duo. "Awww it was nothing really...wait wait wait...did your daughter know my friend?" This caused the fox eared mother to tilt her head in confusion. "Ehh?" Then Kyto elaborates further. "You and your daughter somehow know my friend Juinchi?" It was clear that these two who he just met somehow knew Juinchi without even knowing it.
Kumi coughs trying to find her wordings. "Oh right it's a long story, its gonna take a lot of time to explain." Then Juinchi urgently asked her why she's here out in the open like this. "Kumi...what in the world are you doing here?!…" The tension grew when both Juinchi and Kumi argued. Kumi defended herself. "I was trying to get Sara to an amusement park and spend some quality time, but the timing was just horrible...we were attacked by that beast..hurting so much of those poor demons they didn't deserve to go down like that...But how in the world did you get so strong?…"
Now that is a good question, something Juinchi needed to answer for. "Yeah...well same as ypu, it's a very long story...too" He sighs and chuckled. "It doesn't matter, thank you for saving me and my Sara...I never thought I meet you again in such a predicament like this…"
Kyto stood by and watches them chat in confusion not knowing how these guys know each other until now. How in the world did he miss this? He and Juinchi are longtime friends, he could have known Juinchi was spending time with these two but didn't. Once Kyto and Juinchi are out of reach with the mother and daughter suddenly a loud noise came from behind them.
"DIEEEEEEE!" Demora shot his remaining energy cannon straight at the little girl and because Kyto and Juinchi have let their guard down they were unable to stop the blast. But before it could reach Sara, Kumi took on the blast full force letting out a fatal shriek when the shot hits. After the blinding flashes fades Sara looks on in absolute horror as her mother had been severely burned by the blast. Limply holding her only child secured around her arms.
Juinchi, Kyto, and Sara are at shock from this unexpected loss as the mother slowly dies still holding on to her child. Sara traumatic eyes begin to cry as she screams for her mother pleading her to stay alive but the impact of the blast have done too much damage as her internal organs are beginning to shut down on her. "S-Sara...you m-must live...I'm so sorry... Stay…..with...Juinchi…" And with that Kumi fell onto Sara's tiny arms while the young girl keeps begging her to wake up. "No Mommy! You can't die! Please mommy! No!" Sara uncontrollably sobs pleading her mother to stay with her, but it was all futile as her mother's last bit of life slips away. Sara in an unbearable state of loss held onto her mother. Completely broken.
Back at Sugurai residence Hakune's eyes suddenly opens up with fear instilled in her eyes as she feels the destructive energy being emitted by Juinchi from a far. "Oh….no...it's happening!" The sheer intensity of this malicious feeling radiating around Juinchi became all too clear for Hakune on what is happening.
From such a horrible tragedy that just happened right before Juinchi's eyes his anger drove to the next level as his blueish aura began to change to a darker pure red energy as it illuminates his entire body, his pupils start to glow bright orange, ahis teeth sharpening into giant canines, and the massive destructive energy that Juinchi is emitting has caused Kyto and Sara to be pushed back.
"Not again! Not again! Not again!" Juinchi kept repeating the same phrase over and over as his features changed drastically. The sheer anger built within his heart and the amount of remorse he feels is eerily similar to that same memory that plagued his mind. The very same memory where he lost basically everyone from that fateful incident. The very same feeling he felt right now for Sara who lost the only person she had as family! It was as if fate has cursed Juinchi to experience a very similar tragedy in a form of Sara. One who is young just like Juinchi back then. Everything from his mind went completely blank as the enraged Juinchi places his hatred filled eyes towards Demora.
The very being responsible of taking the life of his friend and Sara's mother. He must pay, Juinchi needed him to suffer for what he had done. With a grotesque inhuman roar, Juinchi teleports directly right on top of the downed Demora. And with no hesitation savagely pummels him with gruesome punches, each one more deadly than the last beating down the already injured Demora as Kyto immediately covers Sara's eyes to not let her see Juinchi in that state. "Sara don't look!" Seeing his friend act this way is genuinely frightening as the horrified Kyto watches on in utter disbelief.
Demora wails in pain from each annihilating punches given by the enraged Juinchi as he viciously ripped off one of Demora's arms thus causing the turtle Demi to shriek in agony actually begging Juinchi to stop. But Juinchi isn't having it as his sharp claws from his hand have pierced the shell off Demora destroying every flesh he has thus leaving the helpless Demi to suffer a horrible death of mutilation, Kyto continues to keep this savage scene away from Sara as he finally rushes over at Juinchi and grabbed a hold on him using his Spiritua to enhance his grip to stop his uncontrolled friend. "Juinchi! Stop! That's enough man! He's dead...he's dead.…" For a brief instance Juinchi went down on his knees and punched the ground hard tears flowing down from his eyes. "Arghhhhh! It's not fair! It's not fair...!..." Kyto tries to keep his distraught friend calm and makes him stare directly at Sara, "I know but you're further scaring Sara...! Look..."
Finally found his sanity and saw Sara's completely terrified look towards him, Juinchi looks away utterly terrified of what he had done as he looks over at the corpse of Demora. "I….I did this?" The amount of blood and mutilation he caused on the former Demi was just too much for him to take in. He is even more ashamed to have made this even more traumatic for Sara. Kyto holds Sara and goes straight back to where he escorted the injured demons back at the nearest shelter. He glances as his friend with concern and fear which made the swordsman cautiously walking past him.
The next day at the cemetery the crowd of people stood behind each other lamenting the loss of Kumi the mother of Sara. Every one of Juinchi's friends, the dead demon's families had also arrived to mourn for their past loved ones looking down on their graves where the atmosphere is dark and depressing. Sara placed flowers for her mother's grave wishing that it doesn't have to end like this as tears fall from her eyes. As time passes by, everyone had done their service for those who died at Hoshikage Street. Just as Hakune is about to go with Juinchi, Kyto then stops her and ask her some questions.
"Hakune...I need you to tell me what is really going on?" He looks directly at Hakune with a solemn look while his hands clench into a fist. The worried Demoness asked carefully "About the Demi's?" Hakune hesitantly asks. "Yes...but there is something else that's bothering me...it's about Juinchi..." The two looked on at Juinchi from the distance as they noticed him looking at his own hands realizing what he had just done. "W-what...is happening to me…." Juinchi gripped both his hands tight and gritted his teeth. "So much blood on my hands…!"
To be Continued...