Chapter 123: The Angel (7)
The ground broke around me once more as I rushed towards him, even though I wouldn’t be able to break the barrier. Right now we are just trying to beat him in endurance.
’I’m catching on now.’ Akina thinks to herself.
I lift my fists before beginning to throw a flurry of punches towards him, all while keeping my current speed. Each hit to the barrier hurt like a bitch but I wasn’t going to I stop since this was just to outlast him.
This is also proving that I can still get close enough to try and do something against him.
"I admire your dedication to the fight, Young dragon." The Angel says with a bit of excitement in his voice.
"I’d stay focused." I reply with a serious tone.
I won’t let what he says get to me. This fight is serious and it is going to take a lot to win against him. Enduring ruthless attacks that he could throw at any time.
My fists started to hurt more with each punch against the barrier, slowly blood was also starting to fall from my fists.
Drip. Drip. Drip. The sound of my blood hitting the ground was all that I could hear all of a sudden. Something about it stole my attention.
"Distracted?" He questions.
A strange sensation started to build up, something that felt familiar yet unfamiliar at the same time.
Flashes of the humans I killed started to appear as I stared at the blood on the floor. Each one worse than the last, every one of those deaths were pretty bad.
My vision was starting to turn to a dark red haze with my heart starting to feel like it would burst out my chest.
Is it possible that somehow bloodlust is activating? I haven’t killed any other humans in awhile so why would I suddenly be going through this out of nowhere?!!!
Kill them all. Satisfy yourself. It is time for them to suffer.
The control was no longer there. It felt as if I was now watching a hollow shell of myself fight against the Angel.
Punching relentlessly against the barrier, even though blood was spilling every direction. I could feel something brewing from within.
Burst!!!! Flames came out from my body as I continued to punch against the barrier. Power felt like it was starting to rise once again as the bloodlust made itself known.
Shatter!!! The barrier finally broke once again as my fists started to connect with the Angel. Each punch felt like I was throwing a truck at him, a surge of power kept rising into my fists as well.
Kill him. Shatter everything about him. He deserves the worst possible death.
Rika wasn’t even the one talking anymore... This was the version of me that I heard before. The one who craved the killing.
Bam!! Pow!!! Each punch did major damage to him, it was obvious by the amount of blood coming from him.
"Gahhh! Come on now!" He shouts in pain.
Maybe it wouldn’t be the worst idea to just absolutely kill him with everything I have. It is better to just do this so we don’t have to deal with him ever again.
A flash of white light cuts across my chest without wasting any seconds, the blood immediately sprayed out from my chest but it didn’t bother me.
My focus was on the Angel in front of me. I kept throwing punches as he tried to fight back against me.
"Rokuro!!!!!" Akina shouts in the distance with worry in her voice.
Everyone will die around me again if I can’t protect them. Maybe bloodlust has always been the answer to my problems.
I could hear the Angel grunting in pain as I keep pushing him back but the pain was also catching up to me with each second as well. Those attacks weren’t light by any means.
My chest was on fire internally now too, the light definitely played a big part in how much damage it truly did to me.
"Why... Won’t... You slow down!!!" The Angel shouts as blood drips down from his mouth.
Flash!!! Pierce!!! Something was stabbed straight into my chest. Finally I was able to focus back on what was happening to me again as the red disappeared.
He stabbed the sword straight through my chest... It took him long enough to use the sword against me instead of just throwing the arcs of light.
Splat! Drip. Drip. There was so much blood hitting the ground from my wounds.
I think I truly did throw everything I could at him in the end. What else could’ve been done? My bloodlust even activated out of nowhere to fight him so tell me, what could’ve been done?
My vision started to fade as I fell backwards, hitting the ground I could see the room disappearing around me.
I’m back Rokuro. I don’t know what happened but why are you on the ground all of a sudden!?! No, wait...
I think I’ve finally reached the end of my journey Rika. I’ve hit every possible limit that I could against him and still lost.
My power has also been exhausted at this point so how would I be able to survive the final blow he gave me... Was there really anything else that could’ve been done?
Rokuro, I won’t let you did here.
Ghost still needs me and Lilly will probably go ballistic if I don’t return. It sucks that it played out this way, especially after everything that happened.
I was finally starting to enjoy having close relationships with people again after losing Minami. At least that was a good experience to have before dying.
Though... I don’t think dying a virgin is something that I hoped for. It would’ve been great to lose that before meeting the end of my journey.
Shut up! You aren’t dying so you’ll be able to get everything that you want, okay?
I hope that I gave them the chance to win the fight somehow.