บท 33: Koyuki
My bad, i uploaded the wrong chapter. This is chapter 33
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He was a monster… a true predator.
That was the only thing that came to mind when he released the shackles he put on himself for amusement; when he released that petrifying pressure.
The paralyzing fear slowly spread through my body like a snake's deadly venom. I clenched my sweaty hands, the soft blades of grass rippled, swaying leisurely because of my trembling feet. The muscles in my legs continuously twitched, fighting the impulse to whirl around and sprint away.
A burning fire in the form of sweat stung my yellow eyes, but I dared not to blink. Slowly, painfully, my brain sent signals, picking up my feet, and moving them in a cautious, but steady gait as I walked into the manifestation of fear itself.
The memories a few hours prior to now flashed across my eyes.
Thousands of chains, made from different elements swirling around him, coiling around his limbs. It still amazed me how versatile he could be with the tools in his arsenal.
He couldn't perfectly mirror my martial art so he opted to improvise. The chains would yank at him whenever he misaligned his movements with mine, forcefully correcting them.
He was fighting me while controlling multiple chains. It could only be possible if his perception was faster than mine.
It was painfully obvious.
A stepping stone. A demon like me with an unquenchable thirst for strength, was being toyed with.
Rage took over me at that point. All I saw was red.
That rage however, soon turned into fear.
It was astonishing how he quickly he adapted. He found a pattern to my footwork and modified it to suit himself best.
Something, most masters of martial arts found hard to achieve, he accomplished this feat within a few hours. It was still incomplete but he was quickly closing the gaps.
Like a dry sponge, he took in everything I had and made it his own. At some point he even stopped attacking and observed me as I tried to hit him. Evading every attack of mine, he looked at me with an eerie gaze.
As the fight kept going on, I felt my anxiety increase.
It didn't make sense, with night creeping closer, I should be relaxed since muzan-sama himself would be coming.
No... maybe I knew.
This is my last fight. My existence would disappear once he gets bored of me. I never had a chance from the beginning.
Pulling myself away from mundane thoughts I focused on the young demon in front of me.
My rear foot rotated as I spun my hips to create as much momentum as possible into my strike. Unleashing my right fist, I could feel all of my muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones working in harmony, like a well-oiled machine.
I could see his lips curl up slightly as he ducked underneath my right arm.
I was thrown off using my own strength. The most basic of martial arts, using the foe's own strength against him.
It was a move practiced by many but executed very rarely. The move was useful but only if you were more proficient in it than your opponent.
'He already surpassed me...'
As I coughed from having the wind knocked out of me, yuuji held his hand against my neck as if it were the edge of a sword.
"Show me more." Saying that, he threw me and waited patiently.
I approached and took a posture as if I would launch the same punch as I had done just before. Instead, I used the punch as a feint and jumped up, launching my right knee to his jaw.
He used his left hand to gently shift the direction of my launched knee, pushing himself to my right side simultaneously. In a quick, fluid motion, he executed a deep throw, propelling me to the ground, head first.
A crunching sound broke out and I was kicked away with a deformed head.
The world turned black for a moment and my ears rang fiercely when I woke up. It shouldn't even be possible for a demon to experience pain from healed injuries but it seemed there were always exceptions.
Getting up again, I decided to chance tactics. Activating my demon arts I used shockwaves in bursts at my feet to use as launchers.
As I glided towards him, at the last moment I crouched down and dug my hands under the ground.
"HAA!"
The ground shook from the shockwave I released and a crater formed beneath yuuji's feet. I didn't let the attack end there though.
The ground shook from the huge shockwave. As he lost his footing, I propelled myself towards him using the same technique while charging up my arm with as much shockwave as I could.
I could feel my bones breaking from the pent up power waiting to be released. As more and more power got added, I lost sensation of my arm. It was no different from the time my arms got destroyed previously during our fight.
The humming noise of my demon art was the only thing making me believe that my arm was still there.
Creating mini shockwaves and using them on my muscles to reposition them into a curling fist, I directed my entire right arm towards yuuji's face.
The only reaction I gouged out from his reaction was a brief moment of surprise and then recognition.
A red aura rose up from his body like a blazing flame. Red lines formed on his face and covered his eyes. His fingers stretched out to form claws. The metallic sheen previously seen only on his arms now covered him entirely.
As his entire body swelled up, four hard tail-like extensions came out from his back and held him above the crater.
A new pressure descended upon my body. I couldn't breathe, I felt myself drowning in deep waters.
It was neither killing intent nor was it a separate technique. The various mysterious powers he had, spun around his body in a chaotic yet harmonic manner working in tangent to create something new.
"Dark art: Hymn of Erebus."
Darkness spread all over the place for a few seconds...
As I stood in position still charging up my attack, I felt alone in that brief moment. Like a pebble no one would ever notice.
Infinitely small.
It only lasted a short moment before my senses refocused on yuuji, the only other demon in this dark world.
We both rushed towards each other and attacked. Our fists didn't even make contact, in between our fists, I could see thousands of incomprehensible images.
It felt as if the dark world curved and condensed there to make something formless, intangible yet visible.
The next moment, I could feel myself levitating. The wind hit my face as I went up to the sky.
I saw was the beautiful rays of the sun hugging me.
My vision got blurry as tears formed. But the light still reached my eyes.
'What a beautiful world...'
With my dying breath, I struggled , tried my best to savor this image for as long as possible.
'I miss her.'
I couldn't understand these foreign emotion. Perhaps they belonged to the human part in me. Buried deep inside.
With these emotions, a face reemerged.
'Koyuki.'
I closed my eyes in happiness. At least I could remember her.
"Thank you for loving me koyuki."
'I'm sorry for failing to protect you...'
"I love you."
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