Coming to my senses, we really failed the plan to get Rounin back or it rather backfired on us. Arima disappeared with that imposter to somewhere unknown, Rokoro, Toma and Asuka parted their ways with him too and now i'm here against someone that i have no chance to win.
We somehow got humaliaited by these people!
Isao made the same moves towards me this time, he tried to redo the same attack that he did towards the outcasts that i submitted.
He killed the fifty of them in a span of seconds...which means, the damage of his attack is too big!!!
What if i can't heal myself faster than his attack's demage?!
I could feel his attack coming right at me. His magic's speed was as fast as light and i couldn't clearly see what was coming. I had to use my mana in my speed's aspect at some point to just dodge the first attack.
But i failed.
BOOM.
When he activated his magic and sent it towards me it didn't look like an explosion type of attack but at the very moment it touched my skin, it exploded largely and involved the buildings around that area.
I was hit hardly. Even with the speed i used, Isao was still overpowered. While i was all lying down half-alive, my body was covered with scars and bruise.
Even if these scars get healed soon, i still have to bear this pain, huh?!
This is disrespectful!!!
Or so i thought...but i couldn't do anything about it anyway!
Delord and that system's admin are not fair...!
Wait, why did i think they're not the same person?! I mean if i think about it deeply something was off from the beginning.
I'll ask Delord about it once i'm out of this mess!!!
My head may have hit somewhere because i couldn't collect my thoughts and pull myself together before Isao get right above my head and look at me from that angle with a dirty smile.
Yeah...i guess i'm really done for if he crushes my head with his bare feet right now!!!
As he went for the very same move that i jinxed, i heard another explosion that even surprised Isao himself.
That second explosion looked familiar to me as if i saw it before somewhere...!
When the smoke that the explosion caused started to scatter and fade away, i could see that familiar face.
It was Arima.
Is he here to save me?! How's he back anyway?!
“Taio, don't move. I'm gonna give this trash the lesson of his life.”
“Can you really?! With me still being around?!”
The second voice belonged to some other guy that i've never seen before.
He had black hair, wore an strange white mask with a creepy smile drawn on it. The way he used accessories looked unique as well. Long earrings with a delicate chain connecting the ears together. Short black gloves and a necktie made of silk. One could say his style was of those old European nobles because all he was wearing was of high quality material as well.
And what was catching my attention even more, was the box above his head.
[HEALTH: 100%. MANA: 100%.]
Isn't his records the same as the one that looked like Rounin?!
Or maybe...
“Open the map.”
The manitor opened the map again and yes, there was no mistake.
I guessed it right and that guy was for sure Iwata Ray.
“Mr. Arima, this guy is super strong!!!”
“I know...if that strange guy didn't interfer, i would've died in that unknown place.”
Strange guy?! Who's he talking about?!
“Anyways, it's a long story. I have an opponent to defeat first.”
After what Arima said, Isao started to make fun of him. “An opponent?! Are you blind?! We're two people.”
Arima sighed and said. “Yes since you're not my opponent.”
Isao was offended by what Arima said and changed his posture to a threatful one.
“You think so highly of yourself.”
Maybe Isao was right. I had faith in Arima's power but i couldn't deny it...that Isao guy was surely strong. His records were super high but for Arima's case i still couldn't even see his records because for some reason the system had banned them for me!
[You have no access to this player yet.]
The note in his box wasn't something like this before...
It's changed slightly.
That 'yet' means i'll be able to have access on him in the future?! What kind of access though?!
But that wasn't the right time to overthink about trivial matters because Isao was about to start his attack on Arima.
The atmosphere was getting more intense compared to when Isao was against me and that might've been because he was warned not to harm me deeply.
It's changed slightly.
That 'yet' means i'll be able to have access on him in the future?! What kind of access though?!
But that wasn't the right time to overthink about trivial matters because Isao was about to start his attack on Arima.
The atmosphere was getting more intense compared to when Isao was against me and that might've been because he was warned not to harm me deeply.
The very moment Isao tried to activate the same attack he performed on me, i saw it. Arima's movements against Isao's attack. He arrived behind Isao's frozen body and neutralized the attack before he even attempt it and whispered, “See?! You're not my opponent.” and pushed his right hand towards Isao's back with so much strengh which caused Isao's body to be thrown forward.
I could not see where Isao was thrown away and that huge blow of Arima made me quite shocked.
I couldn't see his records so i understimated him until then.
He might have more than 70% mana powers...which is huge!
But not as huge as Iwata Ray's.
The real question was, if Arima was gonna be fine against that Iwata guy with a record of having both health and mana at 100%.
At this rate, isn't Iwata Ray literally the strongest person inside De-zone?!
[HE'S NOT. I'M THE STRONGEST.]
He's back again because he could disagree with me.
Wait, whenever i want him around i can simply make wrong assumptions, huh?! This is called 'dark psychology'. Hehe...!
[YOU'RE MORE CUNNING THAN I THOUGHT.]
I'm literally lying on the ground all beaten up, yet i'm the cunning one?! He could help me out but he refused.
More importantly...what's Arima going to do right now?!
Since my scars were getting healed slowly i could finally get up and sit. My feet were still unstable so i had no strengh to stand up.
Both of them were confronting each other with a safe distance, doing nothing special in particular.
I was wondering why none of them started any moves especially Iwata Ray since one of his people just got beaten up with a single blow from Arima.
If i was him, i'd be super mad.
“Now that we're back to the main world, that guy's not here to help you out anymore.”
Arima also mentioned before that an strange guy saved his life there.
My eyes were fixed on Arima, curious on what was he going to do next but once i moved my eyes towards Iwata Ray's direction, i just realised he had been looking at me unwaveringly for some time and that startled me.
His big white mask was covering his face completely but i was certain that i almost saw those icy golden eyes between those small lozenge holes that were placed in the same area.
Why and since when was he looking at me?!
I can't deny it, the tension of his stare gave me the creeps.
Iwata Ray moved his hands downwards, while his palm was facing forward, a beautiful bluish tornado-like magic erupted from his hands.
The intensity from Iwata's attack was so great that it influenced my body in a negative way. My scars that were almost healed, reopened.
Was i always this weak and sensitive?! Or is his magic just that powerful?!
I could feel the hidden pain his magic was carrying beneath it's surface as if it was entangled with personal emotions.
Or maybe that was only my stupid conclusion!!!
What was more surprising to me was the fact that Arima could handle the attack and actually defend it.
Once those deadly tornado waves approached his body, he used some strong protecting shield made of high quality mana.
“This is getting fun. You couldn't defend it last time!”
“Well, i never play the same.”
Play?! What i was witnessing was never like a play. These two are really monsters and i can't imagine if i'll be ever able to get as strong as them.
Arima started to run towards a building that was close to them and Iwata was following after him.
This scene looked like a tag play and i wasn't sure what was Arima's plan in that sensitive moment.
Once Arima got under the building's walls, he touched the wall with his fingertips and left that area right after.
Shortly after, the building started to collapse all at one.
Iwata Ray had to back off and dodge the buliding materials that were falling down.
When he was busy dodging the pebbles, he saw a reflection of a big shadow above his body.
That shadow belonged to Arima, floating on one of those big stone blocks and going after Iwata Ray's weak point which was his head.
He used the same move with his fingertips and touched Iwata's head bowl lightly to perform the collapse magic on him as well but he wasn't as fast as Iwata's defensive form.
He covered his whole body with a magic neutralizer that was effective against all kind of magic spells depending on that person's mana quality and quantity.
And Iwata Ray's mana quantity was at it's highest.
He could defend his body from that attack well but that wasn't the same case for his mask.
When Arima's magic took it's efficacy on Iwata, his mask started to crack in the middle and slowly got it broken in half.
Iwata Ray had to back off and dodge the buliding materials that were falling down.
When he was busy dodging the pebbles, he saw a reflection of a big shadow above his body.
That shadow belonged to Arima, floating on one of those big stone blocks and going after Iwata Ray's weak point which was his head.
He used the same move with his fingertips and touched Iwata's head bowl lightly to perform the collapse magic on him as well but he wasn't as fast as Iwata's defensive form.
He covered his whole body with a magic neutralizer that was effective against all kind of magic spells depending on that person's mana quality and quantity.
And Iwata Ray's mana quantity was at it's highest.
He could defend his body from that attack well but that wasn't the same case for his mask.
When Arima's magic took it's efficacy on Iwata, his mask started to crack in the middle and slowly got it broken in half.
Iwata Ray covered the right half of his face that was exposed with his hand in a hurry but it was already too late since Arima could take a short glimpse on his naked face.
Until then Arima was wondering if that creepy mask was only for the style and uniqueness or if he was deseperately trying to hide his identity.
And it looked like the latter was the right answer.
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