It has been 10 minutes; the showdown had already begun at Mount Kurogane. Each Shinken Red is fighting their respective opponents. Hiro fought his friends while Takeru fought his evil future self, Gedo Shinken Red. From the beginning of the battle, to avoid either of their opponents from fighting the wrong opponent, they fought at different portion of the mountain.
Hiro fought at the place they started while Takeru dragged his opponent into the forest area. Surprisingly, Hiro's friends each fight him using Nanashi's sword called Bantō Dokuhōmatsu. Hence, all 11 of them are clashing against Shinken Red (Hiro) using swords.
Shinken Red (Takeru) VS Gedo Shinken Red
Clashing and exchanging blows with their swords, Shinken Red (Takeru) continues his fight against Gedo Shinken Red. Both are really on par against each other, unlike how it all started. Gedo Shinken Red tried to cut Shinken Red but the latter avoided it and hit either the trees or rocks instead.
Surprisingly, the trees and rocks were cut into half after Gedo Shinken Red missed him. Currently, they are clashing against each other using Rekka Daizantou. "Not bad...you improved..." Gedo Shinken Red commented. "But only a bit!"
Takeru only snorted in response, perhaps not so interested with the compliment given. "For someone to fall into Gedo, you're pretty strong" Takeru retorted. "But I will defeat you!" he proclaimed. The two then pushed each other away and stood a distant away.
"Oozutsu Mode!" Gedo Shinken Red quickly transformed the Rekka Daizantou to bazooka mode, equipped with Tora disc and loaded with only Shishi Disc. Afterwards, he launches the disc, transforming it into a ball of flame.
"Hyakka Ryōran!" With his Rekka Daizantou powered up with flames, Shinken Red (Takeru) cut the incoming fire ball and frittered them. Though he suddenly recoiled to the ground after being shoot by a red laser.
Shinken Red (Takeru) saw that Gedo Shinken Red already took out the Mougyuu Bazooka loaded with Final Mysterious Disc and is currently aiming the weapon at the former. Upon seeing that more shots were launched, Shinken Red (Takeru) takes countermeasure.
He quickly gets up and block the shots with his big sword. However, the shots proved to be powerful that he was pushed back for every shot he parried. His defence eventually broke when an energy, flaming, charging bull collided against him, forcing Shinken Red (Takeru) to be sent flying. His Rekka Daizantou reverted to Shinkenmaru as he laid on the ground.
"How about now? Why don't you give up you big, twisted, loner liar? You made a big mistake if you think you can win against me alone. If you really wish to defeat me, you already know the answer. While being alive, leave the path of the righteous people and fall to Gedo" Gedo Shinken Red pointed out. "Wrong! I am not like you and won't ever be" Takeru argued. Shinken Red (Takeru) stood and held his Shinkenmaru.
"I am not fighting alone. In my heart, I'm fighting together with those guys and...my ancestors!" he proclaimed. Then he took out a crimson disc from within his buckle, which is the Kyoryu Disc. Upon equipping the disc and spun it, two things happened.
First, the Shinkenmaru transformed into a yellow-eyed Tyrannosaurus-shark hybrid like crimson sword with sky blue shadings, or known as Kyoryumaru. The second one is Shinken Red (Takeru) had a red flowing long coat equipped to his garment, upgrading him to Hyper Shinken Red. There is a Shiba crest on the left side and at the back of the coat.
"Hyper Shinken Red! Going Forth!" Takeru proclaimed. "So, what? Just because you upgraded yourself doesn't mean you can defeat me" Gedo Shinken Red protested. "I wonder about that..." Takeru retorted. Then the two had their swords in hand and began to clash against one another again.
Throughout their clashing, there was a moment that they kept their distance away. Gedo Shinken Red tried to use the dancing flame attack but Hyper Shinken Red got to him first. Using the Kyoryumaru special ability from his current position, he elongated the katana to knock down Gedo Shinken Red.
"This is the end!" Takeru pronounced. Then Hyper Shinken Red charged towards the fallen Gedo Shinken Red, who is getting up and quickly gashed the latter's front body before appearing a distant behind him. Afterwards, he turned and slashes or more appropriately whips a few more times using Kyoryumaru elongated ability.
Though nothing happened immediately and Gedo Shinken Red stand seized up for a moment after the last blow. "Shiba...Takeru...This victory is yours. But...don't forget that you will fall to Gedo someday" Gedo Shinken Red reminded.
Afterwards, Gedo Shinken Red fall to the ground and disappeared into thin air just like that. As for Hyper Shinken Red, he fell to his knees and reverted to Takeru. He began panting for a while after reverted. "It's over..." Takeru muttered. Afterwards, the samurai lord fell into unconsciousness as he laid face downward.
Shinken Red (Hiro) VS 11 GranSazers
One against many is nowhere near advantageous, especially if the opponents are skilful in combat. For Shinken Red (Hiro), he had to use the strategy 'Hit and away' as his friends were surprisingly skilful. He clashes a few times only against one of his friends at a time through random selection and retreats before fighting another.
He cannot even remember who he clashes first if asked. Currently, he is parrying the upfront attacks from Lion and Pisces with Shinkenmaru. While keeping his guard up, Shinken Red (Hiro) noticed that Remls, Gorbion and Tawlon approaches from each side of his blind spot.
Although Hiro hate to hurt his friends, he had no choice but to do it. He pushes Lion and Pisces away and confront the approaching three. Avoiding and parrying their attacks, Shinken Red (Hiro) countered by kicking Tawlon, banged Remls and head butting Gorbion's stomach.
Afterwards, he noticed the remaining charged towards him. Knowing the risk that he cannot confront that many at once, Shinken Red (Hiro) leaped high and passed above them. Turning back, he saw all of them had regroup, pointing their swords at him.
I had assessed them enough and knew what I should do. Now I should use those. Hiro considered. In the first place, he was trying to know their attack patterns before going all out. Shinken Red (Hiro) took out the black box or known as Inromaru and Super Disc.
He loaded the disc into Inromaru and points the black box forward. "Super Disc!" The black box indicator blink a few times and Shinken Red (Hiro) pressed the button. In a flash, Shinken Red (Hiro) had himself equipped with a flowing white long coat, upgrading himself to Super Shinken Red. There is a Shiba crest combined with a kanji of '真' (True) on the coat's back. Taking out another disc that is glass coloured with the kanji '奇跡' (Miracle) from the buckle and equipping the Inromaru to his Shinkenmaru and Super Disc onto the hilt, Super Shinken Red placed the disc he just took on Inromaru. "Miracle Disc!""Super Shinken Red! Going forth!" Hiro declared, resting the katana on his right shoulder. Afterwards, both sides began to charge towards each other. Just before Mithras or the others could land a hit, everything or more appropriately time suddenly went slow.
And before they knew it, Super Shinken Red was further away behind them. They turned but only to stop moving suddenly. Afterwards, traces of cuts on their stomach followed by red lightning around their body appeared. The 11 of them began to suffer as the kanji '奇跡' appeared briefly after being infused. The sufferings then ended, with them falling unconscious onto the ground. All of them immediately reverted to their human form and the Nanashi's swords disappeared afterwards. Putting away his sword, Super Shinken Red went towards his fallen friends and tried to wake them up, hoping they are still alive. Surprisingly, all of them had their eye brows wrinkled and lids slowly opened. The first thing that everyone saw was Hiro but in his Super Shinkenger form. "Everyone, you're all okay..." Hiro stated. There was a hint of relief in his tone.Soon, everyone tried to get up to their feet. "Hiro? What is that you're wearing?" Ban asked. "What happened and where are we?" he said, looking around at the scenery. "Long story, but I'll explain the details later" Hiro answered. "Can you all stand and walk?" he asked.
"Yeah" Jin answered. "Let's go" Hiro proclaimed. Then everyone stood up and about to take their leave. However, they seem exhausted and cannot walk fast, probably due to fighting Super Shinken Red. "Not so fast!" a familiar voiced cried. The team turned only to saw that it was Corroder, floating in the air not too far from them. "Corroder!" Hiro exclaimed.
"Your challenge... is not over yet" Corroder announced and snapped his right fingers. Suddenly, Ran screamed, which had the attention of Ban and the others as they gathered to her. Her actions, screaming and shutting her eyelids forcefully is crystal clear. The redhead seems to be suffering as she holds her dearly head. "Ran! What's wrong?" Ami asked.
Everyone tried to help but unfortunately Ran pushes off while getting away from them. As she continued to scream in pain, everyone noticed that a red aura suddenly appeared around the redhead. The aura is malicious and they had a bad feeling about this.
"This nasty aura..." Hiro muttered. He seemed to recognise this aura and become surprised as he got a clear idea of what is going to happen. "No!" he shouted while running towards Ran. "Don't listen to what was told in your mind, Ran-san!"
"Don't interfere!" Corroder protested. He then clicks his left fingers and a few yellow lasers came. Those lasers halted Super Shinken Red's movement, preventing him from approaching Ran. For Corroder, one second is worth to be delayed as his mischievous plan is about to unveil. The red aura engulfed Ran completely and in just a few seconds, it transformed her.
The moment the aura disappeared, everyone except Corroder was shocked. Hiro knew what happened to Ran and grunted upon seeing her form. She had fallen into Gedo, yes, a Gedoshu. Hiro could not describe in details well but seeing the appearance of a feminine demon with a few mouths on her body, he remembered a Gedo that she resembled with.
Indeed, she resembled closely like Usukawa Dayu. How did he know? Mako told the bluenette about Usuyuki's history of unrequited love that turned her into Usukawa Dayu. There was a man named Shinza who Usuyuki loved but unfortunately the feelings are not mutual.
On the day of that man's wedding with another woman, Usuyuki suddenly came with a stick lighted with fire and she burned everything at the wedding. Usuyuki is willing to stay by his side as Shinza is apparently death. Fortunately, he is still alive but very weak.
Worse to Usuyuki's dismay, he extends his hand just to reach the corpse of the woman he is planning to married to earlier. The woman who started all this fire due to unrequited love feels even more heartbroken.
Reaching her limits of patience, she held the weak Shinza tight and refuse to let him go to that other woman until she turned into Usukawa Dayu. The man, Shinza turned into a Shamisen. Even in death, we'll be together! Even...Even if I fall to Gedo! The voice of the anguishing Usuyuki suddenly echoed in Hiro's head.
For Hiro, he can although he never wished to imagine that both him and Ran are in that similar situation. He was the man who betray Ran and loved another woman instead of her. To hear Ran said such words and acted like Usuyuki is truly a nightmare.
However, the nightmare is currently being a reality although such scene is yet to happen. Ran transformed into a Gedo identical to Usukawa Dayu except she does not have the shamisen or anything in her hand. Everyone else was too speechless to say anything. Turning to the culprit responsible for this, Hiro barked, "Corroder! What did you do?! Why Ran-san?!"
The ghost merely snickered as a response. "Before that her name is now Mukuwarenai Ai (Unrequited Love). Simple. I merely instilled the memories of the stray Gedo, Usukawa Dayu into her. Although in her mind, she experienced that situation herself differently and you are the one who betrayed her. As for why, I figured out that she and you had a special relationship. Putting such special persons to each other to fight against one another is truly worth for destroying you" Corroder explained.
The ghost began to laugh sinisterly after his explanation. "Corroder! You scum!" Hiro snarled. His fist clenched, his emotion is raging with hatred towards the ghost. "Will you two die in each other's sword? Or you will be turned into a shamisen for her to play and soothed Dokoku? The General would be pleased for any of them" Corroder proclaimed.
"Why you! Turn Ran back to normal!" Ban demanded. "If you really want it that much, do it yourself. Although, I can guarantee that it is impossible" Corroder snickered as he then vanished from their sight. "Wait!" Jin shouted.
However, they do not have time to go after Corroder. Because Ran or Mukuwarenai Ai is charging towards them while wielding the dagger called Sange Hankontō. Before she could cut anyone, Super Shinken Red quickly intercepted her and parried the attack with his sword.
Everyone else is still speechless about Ran turned into a Gedo but even more when they saw Hiro in the form of Super Shinken Red wielding a samurai katana. "Hiro-kun...?" Yuuya muttered. "Everyone! Go and take cover up there!" Hiro ordered, referring to the higher ground level from their current position. "But, Hiro. We can..." Ban argued but halted.
The brunette and the others seemed tired and hurt. "Listen and leave this to me!" Hiro emphasised. He drags Mukuwarenai Ai away from the others by pushing her and he continued clashing. "Hiro!" Gouda called out. "Everyone, let's do what Hiro said" Ami suggested.
"That's right..." Jessica concurred. "We can't do anything as we are now" Kazu stated. "Let's go" Kirito declared. Then Ban and the others do as Hiro ordered them and went to the higher ground. Upon reaching there, they were worried about Hiro and Ran so they watched them battle from above. They saw the two stood some distance away from each other.
Mukuwarenai Ai (Ran) pointed her dagger towards Super Shinken Red while the latter rested the sword on his shoulders. "I had a bad feeling about this" said Asuka. The tension is indeed very stirring. "I agree. Why a couple who loved each other would ended up like this?" Yuuya questioned curiously.
Sendou then took out a random tarot card, which usually describes what would happened or at least giving him a rough idea about it. It was labelled Reverse Judgement, at least that is what he can read. Reverse Judgement. The point of no return. This is bad. There wouldn't be a chance for any of them to stop and think about this. I can't even think what will be the outcome. Sendou thought.
He put away his card and continued observing them. Everyone stared at the two fighters at the ground below them. They did not even budge or say anything a bit. Of course, only the fighters involved can understand what is happening between them, not the people watching them. And this will be a battle where no one can be certain of the outcome.
Sorry for the delay, here is the new update. By the way, I like the Kyoryumaru. It works like a whip. Please rate and review like always.