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“Wow! That was closed!” Haru hardly dodges Sora’s thrust and her body keeps wiggling like a serpent while moving closer and closer to her opponent.
Sora suddenly switches from right to left hand grabbing her sword and the trail of her attack morphs as well.
“Oops!”few more cuts are made on Haru’s limbs. She stops her progression but just to find she is enclosed in a “web of silver blades”.
Haru takes a breathe and makes her strike trying to break out. Hundreds of thrusts spread out like 【Wings of Phoenix】Mini explosions of air round her burst out like fireworks!
But they all hit nothing.
Sora has withdrawn her “web”. Instead she dances like a butterfly and thrusts and slashes like 【Raindrops of Spring】The attack looks “casual”&”random” but they just being able to penetrate through the 【Wings of Phoenix】,leaving minor cuts on her body while few of them almost end up to be critical wounds.
”Amazing….”it is the first time Haru feels pressure while fighting with Sora. She knows she will loss if she cannot resume her own “rhythm”.
{Remember Sora, in a 1 on 1 combat, the one who controls the rhythm of the fight will have the most advantage over.}
This is what Haru had taught Sora in the past.
”What about this!?” Haru changes her attack mode again. She swings her sword like a 【Flaming Salamander Coil】
While Sora’s attack emphasizes on “Points”, Haru’s lingering sword draws “Line”- Line connects points. Haru not just blocks Sora’s attack but somehow “guiding” her to positions that may favor her checkmate move.
”Good.”Sora twists her wrist and instead of making [points], she is now drawing [circles]. Each generates a stir in air which sum up as a layer of powerful turbulence like a 【WaterSpout】This pulls and coils the [string] in Haru’s hand. Sora takes control the situation once again! This is going to spell the end of the fight!
Not yet!
”Aaaaah!” Haru shouts and suddenly throws away her sword like a 【Shooting Star】The momentum is so great that it drags her opponent’s sword off the grab as well.
The two rotating swords fly high in the sky keeps combatting- Holy and Hell, Good and Evil, opposing, neutralizing, challenging each other while making shrilling thrilling sounds and sparkles like fireworks in the sky!
”This is…..beautiful!” Okada Ryuichi watches and praises both fighters. It is a great and fascinating tournament that should amuse every swordsman like him. He has forgotten that this fight would determine the destiny of his clan already.
”Ar!”Sora feels a great pain in her tummy. Haru has just kicked her hard.
She suppresses the pain and use her elbow to block Haru’s next high kick towards her head. She squats like a Mount and strikes with her right palm. It is a powerful move Sora learnt from the [Mount] House called 【Moving Mounts! Trembling Seas】
Haru is almost blown off but she nails her feet deep into the soil then using the reaction force to bounce towards Sora with a powerful knee strike. This “payback” move which imitates toughness of Bamboo called 【Upright like Bamboo in The Wind】
Sora grits her teeth and pushes her hands through Haru’s underarms from behind, paralyzing her upper body and headbutts her face. This is nothing to do with Ten-Ryu liu anymore.
The impact almost sends Haru to unconscious. She shouts and wrests Sora with both arms around her waist and rolls together on the ground vigorously!
The masterful fight of swordsmanship has now turned to a ruleless street fight of two rouge girls. Head-butt, kick, stamp, bite, anything to inflict pain onto the rivals.
Until they are both exhausted and kneel on ground, they burst into laughers.
If the sword fight represents an affectionate conversation between two lovers suffering from a long-term separation, the cat fight was a showdown of throwing tantrum to each other to express their deeply concerns and anxieties for each other all through these harsh days…..,
and now that they are having each other once again, they fell that the moment has come to say GOODBYE THEN.
Two Lovers, know that their love is forbidden and could never bear fruit.
”Haru…..why should we have to end like this?”
”Because you are the Successor of the Holy Blade. You are a symbol of GOODNESS AND WELLNESS! But look at me! My hands are DIRTY AND I REPRESENT EVIL AND PUNISHMENT!”
”No! You are not! You don’t deserve this tragic life!……Don’t you remember? YOU WILL STAND FOR ME no matter what happens. You must keep your words! You and me, will live our own lives in our own will!”
”No…. I can’t. And we must not! Sora, don’t waste time on me. I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD anyway. So you should live your own life from now on, alone and not with me! No……from the moment we got ENLIGHTENED, we chose our different paths already.”
”I LOVE YOU!…..Haru…”
”I love you too, Sora.” Haru picks up her Hell Blade on the ground and throws the Holy Blade back to Sora, “that is why we should end this in OUR OWN HANDS, NOT BY OTHERS!”
The Hell Blade glows in sinful crimson. The Successor of the DIABLO DRAGON is filling her last drip of power into the sword, getting ready for the LAST BLOW.
Sora closes her eyes. She recalls the conversation with the Kami of Aqua, the Holy Dragon,
{You can! Just because that you are SORA. My Friend.}
The Holy Blade glows in a peaceful and soothing bluish aura.
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Haru initiates the attack first
【一刀萬殺】A Judgement Blade to Perish All Adjudicated Quilt
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The Hell Blade transforms into a Mitotic Red Hot Illuminator. It reproduces glowing blades like mirages on both sides of it and the process goes on in a light speed that creates a conspicuous collection of ten thousands burning swords’ images in front of Haru, a Diabolical Troop waiting for her command to consume every living beings on site!
Just as everyone is scared to death by such horrifying scene, they suddenly feel an aura of tranquility and peace embracing them each, following by an image of the Holy Blade floating in front of EACH OF THE MORTAL BEING. This offers Peace and Calming to their trembling hearts as well as Physical Shielding to safeguard them from any Evils on Earth.
The Diabolical Troop charges, leaving terrifying ten thousands trails of cutting on the ground. While the Holy Sword images in front of everyone shines unreservedly.
The two polarized forces go head to head!
“Arrrrrr!!!!”Sora shouts to swing her Holy Sword towards the ground. All the images in front of the vulnerable perform the same move, managing to smash, shatter all the flaming red hot images into pieces after a loud bang!
The Diabolical Troop is totally neutralized!
When everyone yells a scream of joy to celebrate their miracles of survival, Sora’s face turns pale, hopeless and stunned.
It was too EASY TO DEFEND! That attack was a DECOY!
It only consumed half of Haru’s remaining energy. She has reserved enough energy, equal if not more than the previous loading, to make another blow, the actual Final Blow.
”Sorry, Sora. I didn’t teach you the last trick. 【In War, nothing is too deceitful 兵不厭詐】”
Another Diabolical Troop of Evil Blade is gathering in front of Haru.
This is the End! Everyone closes their eyes. Waiting for their last moment to come.
”WHY!!!!!!!?” Sora shouts. Her eyes turn reddish. Her skin burns like a piece of cast iron in the furnace. Strange marks appear on her face, her limbs: like flames spreading all over her body. A voice thunders above
following an enormous shadow descending from the sky!
The Kami of Flame, the Diablo Dragon is summoned and grants Sora the Forbidden Power of Evil and Curse, this once.
The Holy Blade turns Red. Another Diabolical Troop of Flaming Blades assembles in front of Sora. Following a hysteric cry of the Successor, ten thousands swords are charged towards Haru!
Haru smiles.
She turns around to release her hungry Troop. But instead of counterattacking Sora’s Troop, they charge in the same direction: towards the Back of herself.
In the blink of an eye, Haru is buried in the crimson sea of raging blades. They drown her, charging nonstop towards her back and join force with Haru’s attack.
Pathetic cries burst out as the tsunami bulldozes the fortress wall and levels the forest further behind, revealing a troop of hundred soldiers, samurais and ronins, killed or disabled by the Diabolical Troops- a joint force of both Successors!
99% of the ambushers are killed except FIVE SAMURAIS remain in their guarding poses standing in front of their Commander, a Shogun in black. They may have suffered from serious damages but are still alive with limited battle effectiveness. While their master, the Shogun has none to minor injuries at all.
”………Kill them all.” The Shogun whispers and the Saint Five recharge themselves a little bit and march towards the people inside.
Sora dashed towards her dying friend.
Haru remains kneeling using the Hell Blade to support her body before it is completely fainting on the ground.
Sora drops her sword and holds Haru in her arms.
”Why!!!!!? Haru! Why?!” Now that Sora understands…..
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Haru has been following her steps for months, for years, not to spy on her, not to waiting for chances to avenge her,
but to investigate on her potential enemies and to protect her from any ambush. She finally discovered that Tenno is the ultimate threat and the Saint Five is the assault team responsible for the mission.
And from the beginning of this fight, Haru has been trying her best to direct Sora to execute her Diabolical Power, the only chance to eliminate the threats hiding behind and to guarantee her safety.
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Haru doesn’t answer, anymore. Though the tears on her face are still warm, her body is cold and stiff. And her radiant smile is unforgettably heartbreaking.
Sora knows her friend has reached her destination. She holds her tight and whisper in her ears,
”If I fall, you will catch me, you will be waiting for me in Heaven, you have promised me. So please keep your words!
Because I Love You, Haru.”
Sora gently laid her lover’s body onto the ground, resting her arms crossed peacefully on her own chest.
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The Saint Five have gathered within a distance of less than 30 feet from her.
A samurai, holding a 9 feet long Odachi, steps closer and closer. Sora can now see his face clearly under the sun. His skin looks pale and feels vital-less. Even his lips are in deep brown color like corpse having just buried underground.
But what makes Sora uncomfortable is not his appearance. It is his surrounding aura that somehow RESONATES WITH HERS, A EERIE FEELING OF FAMILIARITY which disturbs and irritates her from head to toe.
”WE WILL FIGHT ALONG WITH YOU! TIL DEATH!”
Sora’s eyesight has not moved away from the Man. Yet she can feel more and more people keep gathering behind her following the proclamation made by Okada Ryuichi, the senior warrior and leader of the clan she has just strived to protect.
It will be a Thousand Vs Five Battle. Yet the Invincible Saint Five are confident to collect their trophy soon- the head of the BLIGHT!
”Brother, we will spend our best effort to defend her.” Okada Kentaro, the brother of Ryuichi, comes closer and closer Sora and Ryuichi. He is holding his Tachi in his right hand while his left hand is slowly pulling something out from his hakama.
”Sora Sama, upon your command, we shall!Ar!”Kentaro could never finish his sentence. Blood splashes from his back like fountain as the tip of the HELL BLADE emerging and pointing to the sky. Then he falls backward with his left hand remaining inside his hakama. Sora’s back hand thrust has sent me to Hell right at once.
”Sama! Why?!”Ryuichi is surprised to find out that her brother is killed all in a sudden. He may need an explanation⋯⋯if he is not discovering that a dagger shimmering in a poisonous blue is being hidden by his left hand inside his hakama.
“…..you FOOL….. but how? How did you know that, Sora?”
”Haru told me.”
”?”
Sora doesn’t explain further. She is so reluctant to recap the sorrowful moment just encountering in the rest of her life.
As Sora smashed all those Diabolical Blade aiming at everybody, casted by Haru, the first time by her Holy Swords, she noticed that each attack bears more or the less the same amount of energy, except one- the one aiming at Kentaro! Then she knew that Haru was trying to tell her a secret, an effort Haru had spent nights and days on her investigation to figure out who might induce potential threats/dangers to her Loved one- who was the insider, the traitor amongst the Okada.
And it must be Kentaro! As per Haru’s metaphorical suggestion! So crystal clear.
The confidence in the eyes of Saint Five just experienced a subtle decrease. But this subtle decrease makes a huge difference to their Commander.
”……Retrieve.” He turns around and is going to leave without looking at his targets anymore.
Four of the Samurais turn around and follow their Commander’s footsteps.
“……….Successor of the Holy and Diablo Dragons, let us meet in another occasion some day. And until then,” The {Zombie-Like} Man turns around finally while leaving his last advice,
“Reserve your Life to me, you BLIGHT!”
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