"Ah-uh... This hurts. I won't last long here anymore. I will set my heart ablaze, till the last stand. I can't put burden on their shoulders. This is life or death. There's a possibility here that we may get wiped out," Kaen thought as he tightened the cloth that was covering his left arm. It was still bleeding.
"Kaen! Are you okay? If not, stay there and don't move an inch. Try stopping the wound with a breathing technique. We'll kill them for now. And, Yuso! Be careful! That dark is targeting you, Harishima's brother," Chigau said as he shouted at the end.
They glance in the distance, and suddenly they see Harishima's brother begin walking toward Yuso. Their eyes widened as they heard a sudden silence that made them all freeze.
"Time doesn't Heal Anything. It just teaches you how to live with pain, and a lot of people become unattractive once you find out how they think, like you, Yuso, correct? I could see your soul. You've had a pretty hard time in the past yet you choose to live and fight for what you thought was right. I admire people like you, yet I need to finish you," Harishima's brother said menacingly as all of their eyes widened when they saw him vanished.
He left a black smoke trail from where he was standing. Chigau immediately turned to his left, seeing Harishima standing in front of Yuso. He was about to slash him and split him into two with his axe when, all of a sudden, it vanished from his hands.
The wind blew at them both as Harishima's brother's eyes widened. He turned his eyes to his right and looked at both of his hands, seeing that his axe was gone. He then looked at him without blinking, seeing him with his glowing, flashy eyes.
"You're not wrong about the last thing you said, but in the first line you said, you're wrong. And I find people very attractive once I find out how they think since you've got to remember that life is very unpredictable, like you getting slashed by your own axe instead of me," Yuso said calmly as suddenly his axe pierced through the back of his head and split him into two.
His body dropped to the ground as Harishima's eyes widened from a distance. The rest have their jaws dropped and can't believe what they've seen. They were speechless as Harishima immediately rushed towards Yuso.
He was running towards him without thinking when, all of a sudden, Kaen and Chigau blocked his way. Both of their blades were blazing with flames, and they were about to swing their blades towards him with great force and with a sensation in the air.
"Brother! No! You Swordsman! What have you done?! You'll pay for that!" Harishima yelled as he watched Chigau and Kaen both strike their swords at him at the same time when they got in front of him. Their sword blades erupted into orange flames even more. The ground on which Chigau and Kaen were standing was beginning to fracture as the air around them heated up.
Their blades were about to reach his neck when, all of a sudden, a sickle appeared in both of his hands and collided with their blades at the same time with great force. The ground that Harishima was standing on suddenly had massive cracks, and he sank a little.
"You two are really nuisances, huh?! The captain of the group can now use a flaming blade! How inconvenient!" Harishima exclaimed furiously as he suddenly started pushing Kaen and Chigau at the same time. Both of their eyes widened as they felt his unimaginable strength.
Suddenly, Chigau moved an inch of his finger and vanished in front of him. As soon as he vanished, Harishima swung his other sickle towards Kaen, but suddenly his left hand was severed, making his eyes widen. He then sensed a presence, prompting him to turn to his left, seeing Chigau raging and about to stab the blade of his sword into his head.
"He teleported?! Transported?! Who is this man? Can he do two abilities?! He did flame and teleportation! That's impossible!" Harishima thought as he immediately built a scythe in his left hand. He realized he wouldn't make it, and his head got stabbed by his flaming blade. It pierced through his head as Harishima still managed to swing his scythe to the left, about to hit Chigau in the waist.
He was about to get hit in the waist when all of a sudden he vanished again, making Harishima's eyes widen. He then turned his head to look at Kaen in front of him, seeing that he was about to cut his head off. He could feel the blade slashing above his head. He felt Chigau took a three-sixty turn.
"Die!" Kaen exclaimed as his flaming blade slashed Harishima's neck. He decapitated him, and there was a trail of flame as soon as he got cut, like a pillar. Chigau landed back on the ground, resheathing his blade. He then turned around and looked in the far distance, where Yuso was.
He glances and sees Harishima's brother slowly regenerating. He grabbed his axe with his right hand and removed it from the ground. He regenerates like a liquid, slowly putting himself back together.
"You swordsmen are worth being killed by my hands. You all not only managed to be a hindrance to us but killed one of us. Harishima is just a fraction, a small portion of our real plans. The world will be ours, and once all of you are dead, no one will ever remember your names!" Harishima's brother said menacingly as he slowly turned around to glance at Harishima's body slowly disintegrating in the ground.
Suddenly, countless energy balls flew towards him. He absorbed it, and his darkening aura was shown combined with red and dark colors. All of them stood on their ground as Yuso got transported on top of a giant tree while on guard.
"What just happened? Did Harishima's energy fly back to him? He absorbed it, and now his presence became even more incredible, same as his energy. His dark red aura is showing, and his axe... It's starting to glow," Yuso thought fiercely as he kneeled on top of a giant tree, holding his sword in his right hand. He didn't remove his gaze from Harishima's brother down on the ground in the distance.
"Kaen! Mizu! Stay by me. We will attack as soon as he moves an inch. Let's start synching our attacks," Chigau said to them both. They were immediately on his sides, holding their swords in their right hands and having them raised and pointed at the sky.
"Okay!" They said in unison. Chigau's blade burst into flames even more, making the air around them three times hotter. Hyoketsu was kneeling on the ground, and the others were watching them, waiting for orders.
"We are brothers. We were once humans. Betrayed by our own family. We were thrown away by our own family because of the ugliness of this world. And now you killed him without knowing what really we're fighting for. We grew up in the streets starving and always getting bullied and abused. I wonder what's all your back stories. My name is Akuma! I shall grab the heads of all of you swordsmen! I'm tired! Just give up already and give us the location!" Harishima's brother exclaimed furiously as he stabbed the ground with his axe with great force, destroying it completely.
"Akuma? Devil? And he's past human, same as Harishima? Then who the hell is behind all this?! Is the one to seven of the darkening dimensions all humans? This can't be right, and I shouldn't be just jumping to conclusions! I mustn't lose focus. We must defeat him!" Chigau thought fiercely as he held his sword tightly with both of his hands.
"They killed my brother Harishima. He got careless and got himself killed when I accidentally split myself into two. This swordsman teleported my axe up above me. I'm sure I was clutching it, but why did it happen? How is he doing it? Perhaps I should fake my death for now." Akuma thought furiously as he turned his back to Chigau and looked at Yuso on top of the giant tree.
"Oh no, he got his eyes locked on me. He wants to kill me first so that everyone here should die, but our Captain Chigau won't let that happen, not on his watch. In fact, he could do what I can do. Akuma just doesn't know it yet," Yuso thought menacingly as he smiled behind the mask and raised his sword.
Suddenly, Akuma flew towards Yuso and reached him in the blink of an eye. He swung down his axe towards him, and Yuso jumped backwards, avoiding his axe. He did a backflip in midair, landed on the ground, and raised his head, seeing that the giant branch he was standing on was cut. That made his eyes widen when, all of a sudden, Akuma didn't show up next to the tree branch he cut.
Suddenly, he showed up on his side, running towards him, and was about to swing down his axe again. He was holding it with both of his hands when, all of a sudden, he was stabbed by a sword in both of his sides.
That made him come to a halt and spit out black blood mixed with red blood. He glanced left and right, seeing Kaen and Mizu have their swords stabbed into his waist, making him unable to move. Kaen was stepping on his left foot with his right foot, while Mizu was stepping on his right foot with his left foot. There were massive cracks on the ground as Chigau appeared above him.
He stabbed his head with his flaming blade as Yuso came in and decapitated him. He dropped his axe to the ground, making a loud metal noise and piercing it through the ground it landed on.
His head flew away, and Yuso got a glimpse of his face, seeing him smile. That made his eyes widen as he saw tears in his eyes. He then slowly vanished in midair as his body in front of him slowly kneeled to the ground and vanished. The four of them were stunned and their eyes widened when they realized the dark being they'd killed was kind and had been turned into evil.