It was a soundless, quiet standoff as the two stared at each other for a while. Issei then spoke up, breaking the silence.
"It should be 5 P.M. in human world by now. C'mon, tomorrow is a very important day for me. So, let's skip the warm ups and finish this already."
Upon hearing him, Regalzeva gave a wry smile and stood sideways, with his head facing towards Issei and extended it towards him.
"Let's have some fun, shall we?"
He said as he extended his right hand. He folded all his fingers, placing his thumb on his index finger. He then pointed his ring finger and shot thin, purplish-black ray beams{Attack name – Evie Death Ray} out his finger at Issei. Issei, dismissed his colorless ki aura and dodged all of the beams as all of them went straight at sky and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Issei instantly appeared in front of Regalzeva. Regalzeva threw a punch at him, just to hit air as Issei disappeared again. He then instantly appeared beside Regalzeva and gave a high kick to his face, sending him flying up in the sky. Regalzeva then did a front flip to gsin stability and stood still facing towards Issei. Issei then lavitated up in the sky. He stopped at the same level Regalzeva was standing. Without wasting anymore time, they charged at each other and exchanged blows with each other instaneously. Regalzeva then threw a punch at Issei. Issei then grabbed his hand and placed his left arm under his elbow and pulled his arm to opposite direction of which a normal arms folds, breaking his arm. He then grabbed his neck with his left hand and his closed right fist under his abdomen to push him. He then threw him him towards the ground. A red colored sphere, of the size of his palm formed on his hand. Issei then extended his hand and yelled.
"Dragon shot!"
A discontinuous bred beam, of the size of his entire palm, got released. The beam then hit Regalzeva as he was falling with his front side of the body facing upwards. A small explosion occurred. Issei dropped down on the ground. A medium sized purplish-black sphere came out of the smoke{Attack name – Evie blast}.
"Ha!"
Issei yelled as he released a Kamehameha wave on the ground to push him up in the sky and evade the attack. The sphere then hit the ground and created a big explosion. Regalzeva came out of the smoke, charging at Issei, and started throwing punches at him. Issei evaded all the punches and did a spinning jump kick at him. But, Regalzeva evaded his kick and started throwing kicks at Issei, which he dodged every single one of them. Regalzeva then appeared in front of Issei and punched him, which sent him almost crashing on the ground but he just use his legs to stop it. A few stones broke and pointed up from the ground. As soon as he looked up he saw another medium sized, purplish-black sphere was coming towards him at a very high speed. He saw no chsnce of escaping it. So, he tried to stop it with his hands. But the force and speed was so much that it kept pushing Issei back as his feet dug the ground as he was getting pushed back. His back then met with a tall ruined building. He then used his feet to push himself forward by performing a wall forward jump. As he evaded the attack and the attack hit the building behind him, it anhilated the entire building. Regalzeva then folded his armsand jumped at Issei and started kicking him in mid-air. Issei avoided all the kicks and he himself started punching Regalzeva, which he evaded every single one. As Regalzeva dropped down on the ground, Issei tried to make him dall by performing a sweep, which Regalzeva evaded by jumping. Taking advantage of the situation, Issei bent down forward, placed his hands on the grounds and extended his leg up at high speed to perform a bent down horsekick, which hit Regalzeva in the head which concussed him. Issei the performed a spinning step kick to Regalzeva's face, which pushed him back. Issei then hit him with continously combos, which Regalzeva could not avoided and fell a victim to it. A small drop of blood came out the the side of his mouth. As he wiped it with the back of his hand, he said.
"Well. I surely underestimated you. You sure are better than Sirzechs is. And you also are way more skilled than Sirzechs is. Now, I need
to start comparing you with myself."
Saying so, he dissappeared in thin air. Issei tried to find him everywhere, but he could not. Suddenly, something hit him in the gut and then in in the face. He understood that he it was Regalzeva, but he was way too fast for even Issei.
"Damn is he fast. I gotta use kaioken now."
He thought. He then reactivated his ki aura.
"Kaioken!"
As he yelled, his colorless aura turned into a red, flamy aura. Regalzeva realized that even if his aura color changed, he power level did not change, it remained just like before in his base power, i.e., 3 million. Issei then jumped up and dissappeared. Regalzeva then suddenly got hit in the gut too. As he looked down, he saw it's Issei. Issei then started throwing punches and kicks so fast that Regalzeva needed time to adapt to it. The fight then escalated to another kevel where Issei and Regalzeva were moving so fast that even light itself would be ashamed of itself. Regalzeva then understood that this powerup that Issei just took, only would increase his speed, but not his power. Issei and Regalzeva instantaneously exchanged blows with each other in air. With every hit that they tried tried to hit each other with, lamded on nothing but air, as they evaded every single of the blows. They both then came down. Issei then entended both is arms horizontally with his fingers opened.
"Dragon Flares!"
He yelled as 5 pairs of small, red spheres got shot from the tip of Issei's fingers git shot at Regalzeva. They had aur yrails behind them as they made their way to Regalzeva. All the 10 hit Regalzeva from different directions and caused a decent explosion that tossed up dust and created a smoke screen. When Issei looked around, it seemed like he was standing in the middle of a garden, surrounded by many tall, ruined buildings. It seemed like he was standing in the middle of a large living complex, which was almost just ruins now. When the smoke cleared, Regalzeva was not there.The place where Regalzeva was prreviously standing was a medium sized crater, due to the explosion. This surprised Issei. Knowing Regalzeva, this was not how he behaved. He looked around without moving his head, by just using his eyes to see where Regalzeva really was.
"Looking for me huh? I am right here."
Regalzeva spoke from above. As Issei looked up he saw a purplish-black elliptical, rotatary sphere with spiky projecttions{Attack name – Evie Blazer} was coming towards Issei. Before Issei could move or take a step of could even react, the sphere hit him and caused a big explosion, which turned the garden into a crater. When the distance smoke cleared, Issei had dust and dirt marks on his Gi. The left side of the jacket of the Gi, from the under arm to waist, was torn now. Issei understood that the attacks never hit Regalzeva. They just hit the ground, which destroyed it. Regalzeva had discretely jumped up before the flares could touch him. Regalzeva then continued firing more of his spiky spheres and Issei kept jumping from builing to building, evading thise attacks. As the spheres hit the buildings, with an explosion, the buildings complete crumbled down along with the water tanks above the buildings. When the tanks fell and broke apart, they spread water that filled the craters and created small pools. Issei and Regalzeva then again clashed in the sky.
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As Issei and Regalzeva instantaneously exchanged blows with each other, destroying every place that came in their way. Here, The 4 were getting marvelled, except Vali.
"What power and speed, isnt it Sirzechs?"
Said Azazel.
"Indeed it is. Did I ever think that my little brother would surpass me so quickly. 2 years ago, I cornered him with my skills and now, it does not even look like I can even touch him."
Replied Sirzechs.
"And What is that red aura surrounding him?"
Asked Vali in a unhappy tone.
"It is Kaioken, isn't it?"
Azazel asked to verify his guess.
["Yes. It is indeed Kaioken. What else do you
think it is? He learned it from Goku"]
Ddraig replied. Vali got confused as he did not know what Kaioken really is. He asked.
"What is this Kaioken thing?"
"Kaioken is an ancient fighting technique of a God race name the Kais. It increases you strength, attack potency, destruction capacity, speed and agility. Currently, Issei does not have any multiplier on him. So, it won't increase his strength, but only his speed. But like anything which has both good and bad sides, Kaioken also affects the user in a bad manner."
Azazel stated. Ddraig went ahead and completed Azazel's statement.
["And just like any other user. Issei also has a limit. He has not told me how much that is, but since I am a very old Dragon, I have experience. If he crosses the given limit. It will start draining him. It can even hurt him. Not 'can', it 'will' hurt him. I hope that he does not take any rash decisions."]
"Don't worry, he is my brother. He will find out a way to defeat Regalzeva and come back alive. He has to get his promotion afterall. And don't worry Vali, you will get one too."
Said Sirzechs. Upon hearing the promotion stuff, Azazel wanted to clear his doubt.
"Yeah, about that. There is no level above, that he is currently in as a devil. And super devil won't be enough for him. What will you about that?"
Sirzechs did not have an answer currently.
"I will think about that."
He replied.
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Regalzeva had caught up to Issei's speed by now. Perhaps, he was a bit faster than him. This was quite a disadvantage for Issei. He had to keep his Kaioken multiplier as low as possible to keep his energy and body in a proper state. Regalzeva then started pulling up big rocks from the ground with his gravity manipulating powers and started throwing them at Issei. As the rocks were coming towards Issei. He jumped above them to move close to Regalzeva. He started jumping from one rock to another even faster than before to conserve time. He then made then final jump with more power and went straight towards Regalzeva. He then gave an aerial back kick to Regalzeva ,which Regalzeva caught with his hands. He gave an horizontal elbow hit to Issei's back and threw him towards the ground. Just when Issei tried to stand back. Regalzeva instantly made it near Issei and punched him in the face. Regalzeva, with his fist on Issei's face, carried him towards the ground. When they hit the ground, Regalzeva did not stop there. He applied more force which started digging the ground. Regalzeva carried Issei through inside the ground untill an end was there. Under the Underworld's 1st level. The 2nd level was discovered by both Issei and Regalzeva. Issei was seeing the 2nd level of the Underworld for the first time. The entire thing was just lava. Only a few island like structures to stand on were there. The lava was indeed hot, but was not boiling. For that, a person has to reach to deeper level of Underworld. Regalzeva then pushed Issei with force. Issei almost fell into the lava but he stood back just a few inches above the lava. Issei then slided back while splitting the lava in two for a short while due to the energy transfer and then jumped back, causing a ripple in the lava. He then landed on a small island like structure. The moment he stepped on it, he could feel the burning temperature due to the exposure to extreme heat. As he looked down, he saw that the structure was made from black igneous rocks. Regalzeva then descended down and landed on another same structure, which was slightly larger in diameter than the one Issei was standing on. Regalzeva then smirked and said.
"You sure are a good one. I am having fun fighting you."
"What a coincidence, I am having fun too, unfortunately. I am not supposed to have fun. So, whatever it takes, id does not matter if you are a thousand times stronger than me. I am bringing you down."
Issei replied with a smirk. Regalzeva then made a normal face an said.
"Then what are we waiting for. Warriors should use their hands to talk, isn't it? Let's finish this."
"Very well, then."
Issei responded back to him. The then dissappeared from their position. The again clashed in air. They appeared while exchanging blows in high speed, just for a second or even less than that. Regalzeva the punched Issei down, which pushed him near the lava. He just avoided fallinng in lava everytime he came near it. Even though he was resistant to very hot and cold weather. Regalzeva then sarcastically said.
"You do like heat right? Have this.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL!"
He then extended his arm and turned his hand up so that his palm would face the ceiling{Though no celing is there. It's just complete stoned with just one hole. The hole Regalzeva dug while pushing Issei.}. A big amount of lsva got lifted. Regalzeva then extended his arm towards Issei and the lava went straight towards him. Issei evaded the lava. Regalzeva threw more of the lava at Issei as he dodged all of them. Issei then backflipped and landed on a large islandic structure. Regalzeva also landed on the same place. Issei and Regalzeva went for a complete melee combat then. Regalzeva and Issei started throwing punches and kicks at each other. As Regalzeva missed a downward punch, Issei gave an uppercut under his chin. He then gave a scissor kick to Regalzeva, breaking a few bones in his waist region. Issei then took a few steps back and then run forward and did a double jump kick, pushing him back. He then jumped and performed and front kick and then a jumping back kick simultaneously. He then jumped up and did a heavy axe kick above his head, concussing him greatly. He then gave a horizontal front kick to his chest. Sending him back, crashing to a rock. Regalzeva then got back up and charged at Issei witth high speed. Issei realized that he was even faster than before. Before Issei could move or react, Regalzeva dashed at Issei. He then turned sideways and bashed Issei with his shoulder. Issei lost his control and momentum carried him inside a lavafall. When Regalzeva thought this is over, went out from the hole to the 1st level. He then went back to where the other 4 were standing. He then said.
"I really wanted to interrogate him but, he is
dead now. Game over!"
"You guys were fighting in the 2nd level, weren't you?"
Asked Sirzechs. Regalzeva then replied.
"Yeah, so?"
"So, what happened?"
Sirzechs asked again.
"Well, I pushed him and he fell into the lava."
Regalzeva replied. Hearing him, everyone started laughing except Vali, who did not know so much about Saiyans. Regalzeva confused. So, he went ahead and asked.
"What is so funny?"
["Funny? You are such a tyrant, you can sense other people's energies,and yet, you don't know why we are laughing. Haha. C'mon man, Issei is a Saiyan."]
"Yes, and Saiyans are extremely resistant to extremely hot and extremely cold weather. He won't die so easily."
Ddraig at first replied to Regalzeva laughingly. Azazel the completed it with his own reply.
"WHAT?!"
Regalzeva exclaimed. A tall wall of lava bursted up from different place than the hole which existed before. As Regalzeva looked back and the lava fell down, he saw Issei floating in air. Issei then said on his behalf.
"Yes, he is right. And I did not even fall in the hole completely. Thanks to a rock from nowhere inside the fall. I just grabbed on to it. It is not good to leave your opponent and skip to others before the fight is not even over. Let's continue this then."
Regalzeva then smirked and nodded. He then charged at Issei. Issei then disappeared from his place. When Regalzeva looked around, he saw Issei flying away. He the chased him with high speed. As Regalzeva reached clese to Issei, he threw a punch at him, which he failed to land on him. They then started fighting in mid air. They went from places to places while exchanging blows with each other. Their speed was so phenomenal that no one in the Underworld would be ever able to follow up with them. With each exchage of blow, a crater was created from the energy transferred on the ground. Issei then came down on the ground. Suddenly, Regalzeva tried to kick him from behind. Issei jumped above and then got behind him by performing a few front flips. Issei then came back at high speed while fcving his back with Regalzeva's. He the tried to land a slashing horizontal back kick on Regalzeva, which Regalzeva easily dodge. He in return tried to give him a vertical high punch. Before the punch landed, Issei disappeared into thin air. He then suddenly came down, charging at Regalzeva. He then slided his fingers of one hand with the space between two fingers of the another and vice-versa. He held his hands strongly and when he got close to Regalzeva, he pulled his hands down in a plan to hit Regalzeva with them. Regalzeva, by srnsing some thing like that was coming, instantly jumped away. Issei's hands then hit the ground. The mere impact created an enormously gigantic crater on the ground. Issei then follwed the direction, in which Regalzeva went. He thrn entered a medium-narrow alley. Between a large number of buildings. He saw Regalzeva a few meters ahead, flying through the alley. He was fying along the extreme left of the alley. Issei soon caught with him. He was just beaude him, flying along the extreme right of the alley. They then closed the distand and started exchanging blows with each other. The went on doing so until the alley ended. As soo as it did, the jumped far back to their respective sides. All the buildings, at the blink of eye crumbled down due to the created that w got created in the alley. Issei then charged at Regalzeva at high speed. He tried to punch Regalzeva, but he evaded and landed a heavy punch of his own on Issei. Issei then suddenly got squished and he completely turned into a red, blood like liquid. Regalzeva did not understand what happened. The floating liquid then disappeared in thin air. When he finally understood what just happened, he instantly turned back, just to get his face met with Issei's feet, sending him crashing down on the ground. Issei then pulled him arms back with his finger curled and his palms placed one above another, leaving a few inches of gap. A blue sphere started forming between his hands. When the sphere filled the gap between the two palms. He extended both his arms at full force while yelling.
"KAMEHAMEHA!"
A big, blue clored energy wave got released from his hands. The wave gushed at Regalzeva and hit the ground where he fell, creating an enormous explosion. When the smoke cleared, Regalzeva could not be seen as a huge amount of rocks stacked on the place where Regalzeva fell.
Issei then dropped down on the ground. The rocks the started shaking. The nex second, a the gaps of the pile started glowing and gave out rays of purplish-black light. With an explosion, the rocks scattered everywhere. Regalzeva came out with dust and dirt marks all over his body. He then dmirked and complimented Issei.
"A hell of a trickster you are, I did not expect the hologram clone there. Unlike Falbium Asmodeus, you surely know how to distribute your ki in exact equal amounts. And also, I got to know one of your other energy attacks. I would have been badly injured if I did not did the ground a little deeper. We have been in warm up for quite a while now. Let's get diwn to real business instead of just sandbagging."
"Yup."
Issei agreed and gave nod to Regalzeva. Regalzeva's 5th eye glew up. It was clear that he was going to use kne his his another powers now. The suroundings then started shaking as the rings and broken rocks and stones lifted up. Regalzeva lavitated high above the ground. He then raised both of his hands and threw his left hand while yelling.
"Taste the power of my Telekinesis!
HAAAAAAA!"
As he threw one of his hands, one big rocks automatically got throqn at Issei, as he dodged it. Regalzeva kept throwing his hands in different directions as all the rubble, rocks, metal fragments and steel rebars got thrown at Issei. Issei, who had practiced and trained and was capable of omni directional movement, evaded all those thimgs that got thrown at him. Regalzeva then started throwing his hands even faster as the speed of the objects being thrown st Issei got faster. He was finding it diffucult to dodge all those objects but with his skills, he was still able to dodhe them.Regalzeva now started swonging his arms fully with full force. The objects were going even faster niw. Now Issei was just somehow able to dodge sll the objects. Signs of frustration could be seen on his face. It was also easy to say from his facial expressions as he gritted his teeth, the he was finding the current situation difficult. In the flow of the man my bojects being thrown at him, on large bar of metal hit him on his torso. He gritted his teeth and clise his left eye to show pain. The bar then carried him towards the ground and he fell down crashing on the ground. He then applied a bit of his strength and threw the big piece of metal far aside. As he got up, it could be seen that a large section of his outer shirt , going across from the right collar bone to his left waist region, was torn. The tearing was long but thin. The cloth lower half of the cut was hanging a little. Issei started to dust himself off when Regalzeva spoke to him.
"Sick movements there. You have literally mastered omni directional movement right there. But niw you see, your shirt has a big cut now."
"Thank you, I guess."
Issei replied back. He then charged from the ground to the place where Regalzeva was floating he then tried to hit him with many punches that he threw at him. Regalzeva dodged of the punches just by standing right where he was. Issei then went for a roundhouse kick, but he failed to hit Regalzeva as he moved aside. As soon as Regalzeva found an openning, he grabbed Issei's leg, punched him in the chest and threw him down, as he was facing down towards the groundwhile he was falling. He knew that Issei would stand right back up again. So, he raised up index finger of the right hand up, drew back his arm along the shoulder lime as a tiny purplish-black sphere formed abovebhis finger. The sphere soon got surrounded with flamy, purplish-black aura. He then brought his finger Forward, releasing the sphere with firey aura{Attack name- Evie Shot.} The attack then striked Issei's backs and carried him down, crashing to the ground. Issei then with the support of his hands got up. Just when he was to turn back, he felt that something is coming towards him. When he looked back, he saw the same elliptical, spiky sphere is coming a at him very fastly towards him. The only difference is that, the sphere was dark purplish-black in color and felt way denser than before{Attack name – Evie Exploding Blazer}. He knew that being hit by something like thks would be a very bad news. He, without looking here or there, without wasting any time, started flying away. He put all in this evasion. The sphere then got faster and closer and closer. The sphere then went straight up high then came down very fast and hit Issei's back. The sphere then brought Issei down on the ground. Issei's face, as well as hit body hot the ground very hard. The sphere then exploded as soons as it came in contact with the ground. The explosion, that occurred, was utterly massive. When the environment calmed down and back stable, and the smoke cleared. Issei could be seen lying on the ground with big chunks of coarse and lose dirt on him. Issei then regained some strength and stood up, showing his back to Regalzeva. The upper shirt, from the lower back to the nape got ripped away. He then turned back, facing Regalzeva. A drop of blood came out of the lefternmost corner of his left eyebrow and fell down. Issei now was in the situation, where he knew had to step it up. Issei then jumped then charged at Regalzeva in his Kaioken form, leaving a red aura trail. As he got closer to Regalzeva, he tried to punch him while flying up. Regalzeva evaded by moving behind then threw a powerful punch at Issei. Though Issei dodge it, The punch was so fast and sharp that it cut Issei's upper shirt through the between of the right shoulder. Issei then backed up, turned around and started flying away. Regalzeva started shooting more of his purplish-black slim rays at Issei. Issei moved in every direction to evade all of them. Regalzeva then with his telekinetic powers, pulled up a large boulder and threw at Issei. Issei looked behind while flying forward, as he saw the boulder coming towards him. He moved left in screwdriver action to evade the rock, but his head hit on a strong building. He rubbed his head with his hands as he looked above. It was the gigantic water tank that supplied water to the entire southwest region of the Underworld. If that would leak, the entire southwest region would be under water. Just then, he sensed that an energy attack was coming. He instantly turned around and saw that the same dense elliptical, spiky and rotatary sphere was coming towards him. Before the thing could even hit him, he went. Because saw something like this coming, he launched another same attack. Surprisingly, both the attacks hit their respective targets at the same time. The first attack hit the water tank, and the second one hit Issei and created two massive explosions.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
As the smoke cleared, it could be seen that the entire water tank, from top to bottom, had broken down, and the entirety of the southwest region was under water now, except a few higher lands m, where a person could stand. Then Issei could be seen, gritting his teeth, with hurt marks all over him. He had his fists closed and were beside his waist. The right arm was lower than the left one as the entire right side of his shirt was hsnging on his left arm. He then descended down and stood on the the boulder thrown by Regalzeva. Regalzeva reciprocated Issei by also descending down a stand on s big mass of land, which was a big higher land. The two ends of Issei's belt, which hanging in front, also was torn in half. Issei held the left side of his shirt with his left hand and the right side with the the right one. He the lifted up the shirt a little, so that the shirt would not remain lodged in his pants. He then ripped his shirt in half and threw the 2 pieces in the opposite sides.
"Damn it! If don't step this up, I will not be able to keep up with him. There's no choice but this then."
He bent forward, clenched his fists tighter, and made his hands harder as a few veins poped up from his hands. The firey red aura that surrounded him, remained the same in size, but became fierecer and more red. He then yelled.
"KAIOKEN TIMES 2!"
He then jumped and disappeared. Regalzeva had lost the sight of Issei. Suddenly, Issei appeared in front of him and punched him in the sturnum, breaking a few rib.
"BHWAAH!"
He vomited blood out his mouth. Issei then landed the second hit on his face which sent him flying backwards. As Regalzeva stood still, Issei again came at him with very high speed. Regalzeva lifted a chunk of rock from the ground to slow Issei down. But Issei stepped on the rock and dod a front jump kick, hitting Regalzeva's chest. Regalzeva was sent down towards the ground at high speed. But before he could even landed safely, Issei got below him and kicked him in the back with a low horse kick, again sending him up in the sky. Regalzeva the stood straight. Issei then charged him at high speed. Regalzeva extended his hands and palms together and spread his fingers apart. Many small purplish-black bream rays, that could bend or curve, were released from his plalms{Attack name - Evie Tracers.}. Then bend in different directions and curved back towards Issei. Issei dodged all of them while moving forward. Soon, Issei got close to Regalzeva and hit him with his knee, in the abdomen. He then hit Issei with a back elbow strike on the face, followed by a powerful uppercut, suspending him in mid-air. Issei flew high above and then stopped, looking down at Regalzeva. He started yelling and then drew his hands to his sides as whitish – blue energy spheres got charged by him. He then entended his hands forward, together with fingers spread apart.
"FINAL CRASH!{Yes, this is the same attack Vegeta used against Recoome. Issei is going to use this attack a lot many times in this series.}"
He yelled a a large whitish-blue beam hit Regalzeva and created a large explosion, as Regalzeva fell to the ground. As Thee smoke cleared, Regalzeva could be seen having blood spots all over his body. As Issei dropped down to the ground, Regalzeva thought
"So that's it. Previously, he did not have a multiply of this Kaioken he is using snd it just increased the speed. Now his power level in 6 million. The number times his form is multipled, his strength gets multipled by the number and he gets faster than before. Very well then."
Regalzeva then said.
"Nice speed that you've got there. As you know-"
He raised his right index finger and continued.
"I had been using just 1% of my overall power. But after understanding that you can multiply your strength-"
He closed all his eyes as the sky grew darker. One straight lightning struck on him as he electrical aura flowed around his body for a while then disappeared. He then opened all his eyes and continued.
"I am going to use 50%(150 million)of my power. That should be enough for you."
After he finished, Issei had a completely frightened expression after feeling that Regalzeva's power shot up beyond sky high. Regalzeva then gave a smirk after witnessing Issei's expression.
To be continued…
Chapter End
