Chapter 52
Soul Shattering Reality
At the same time Itsuki stands over Kei as he pulls his sword out of the ground and sits down on ground in front of Kei and Itsuki *smiles* as he says
"Do you have any complaints you would like to make about our services? If so then take it up with my father" Kei slowly gets to his feet as he says
"You are pathetic, just like your father" Itsuki *chuckles* as he says
"Listen, I know you think you're going to get underneath my skin. But you're fighting the wrong brother for that, you should have ambushed Dai if you were going to use these strategies. Granted you still would have lost anyways, but he would have probably broken every bone in your body" Itsuki stands up as he says
"Let's end this, I need to find my other brothers and get back home. From wherever you put us, and after that Kaito can decide what happens to you" Kei says
"How do you even know there here?" Itsuki says
"I can feel this entire planet shake as everything started heating up, that's all the proof that I need that both of my brothers are here. You probably even took Saigo and Gyomei, because they we're the last people with Dai. Actually you need to have taken Kaito as well, because Kenji's here. You actually fully invaded us, but I have to ask you one question. What next? You can't beat any of us and you've removed us from the region leaving it somewhat vulnerable, but you know we'll get out and track you down if you do something stupid. So what's next?" Kei *laughs* as he says
"You overestimate all of your abilities, the only people that are going to leave this place will be my people and my brother!" Itsuki *chuckles* as he says
"I don't know if you got the message, but Kaito doesn't exactly like you at all! I'm just-" Suddenly Itsuki drops to one knee as Kei points his hand at the ground and says
"ENOUGH! I will listen to you ramble no more child, my brother understands the importance of sacrifice better than anyone else. Our father taught us there is no sacrifice to great, and he may be angry but he has not forgotten that!" Itsuki slowly looks up at Kei and he throws his sword towards Kei but Kei leans out of the way as he pushes both of his hands down slamming Itsuki into the ground and Itsuki struggles under the pressure but he says
“Kei, I know you're a weak, sad, and pathetic excuse for a warrior but at least have some honor. Finish our fights like Kaito would, I know how much you wish you were him. So act like you're him!” Kei walks up to Itsuki as he picks him up by his throat and says
“Foolish child, I am not my brother!” Itsuki reach’s out and hugs Kei and Kei is *shocked* as he says
"What are you-" Itsuki says
“Even the most broken warriors deserve some compassion before death, I know who you we’re before your mind became corrupted” Kei *chuckles* as he says
“This is how you choose to plead for your life, my brother may have spared you as you did this. But I told you I’m—" But Kei spits up blood as he looks down and sees Itsuki sword is stabbed in his stomach as a voice from behind him says
"I'm not my brother either!" Itsuki opens his hand pulling his sword through Kei's back as it flies to his hand and Itsuki starts quickly dashing all around Kei slashing him all over his body until Itsuki uppercuts Kei launching him into the air and Itsuki puts his hand in the air as lightning slams down on Kei's chest but Itsuki's lightning branches across the air and turns into clones as they all start blasting Kei with lightning as he *screams in pain* and Itsuki *smiles* as he says
"How do you like my new ability, Angelic lightning! I had to make it significantly weaker so you wouldn't die too fast, but it's still a decent representation of its power!" Itsuki sits on the ground as a cloud forms underneath him and the cloud floats into the air above Kei and Itsuki stands up on the clouds as he points his hand at Kei and all of the lightning clones combine into one giant lightning clone as it punches Kei in the chest slamming him into the ground and it surges with lightning pushing Kei deeper into the ground until the clone disappears and Itsuki looks down and sees Kei isn't moving and Itsuki thinks
"I didn't even hit you with half of it's full power, you shouldn't be dead! Maybe he's weaker than I thought, I'll need to explain-" Suddenly the ground starts shaking and Itsuki notices the ground is shaking and Itsuki feels a wave of heat blow through the air and he looks into the distance as he thinks
"I know that's you Dai, what are you doing? I wonder who they had abduct you" Suddenly Itsuki feels a power surge behind him as he turns around and sees Kei surging with power as the ground starts breaking open as pieces of the ground floats everywhere and Kei slowly gets to his feet and locks eyes with Itsuki and Itsuki says
"Hmm, I thought I accidentally stopped your heart. It's good to see I didn't disappoint my father and can bring you back alive" Kei is *angry* as he screams
"DIE!" Kei closes his hand as all the chunks of the ground fly towards Itsuki and Itsuki starts flying away on his cloud avoiding the chunks of the ground but they change direction and continues following him and Itsuki starts slashing all of the chunks but they continue to follow Itsuki and Kei runs underneath Itsuki as he jumps into the air behind him and tries to kick him and Itsuki's able to block it but It pushes him back into the chunks as they all starts attaching to Itsuki across his entire body and as more of the chunks combine Itsuki is trapped inside a giant ball of debris pinning his hands down and Kei pushes his hand into the air pushing the giant ball of debris into the air and Kei *smiles* as he says
"I win child, this is your end! There is no escaping me, I AM DEATH!" Suddenly lightning slams into the top of the giant ball of debris cracking but it slams back together fixing the crack and Kei *laughs* as he says
"I told you child, you will die here! THERE IS NO ESCAPE!" Kei starts closing his hand together as the entire giant ball starts to cave in as Itsuki *screams in pain* and Kei starts *laughing manically* as he says
"You underestimate me child, you thought because you gained some strength that means you have become something. You are still that same pathetic child who should have died in the streets, all of you are nothing but dogs! You,Kenji,Dai, and that other pathetic one that died, all of you are nothing but TRASH! And after I'm done with you I'm going to finish off the rest of your family!" Kei is about to closes his hands together but suddenly the giant ball starts surging with lightning as it slowly starts re-expanding and pushing Kei's hand apart and Kei is *shocked* and he tries to close his hand together but he can't as the ball explodes apart sending lightning branching across the sky and Kei is *shocked* as he looks into the air and sees Itsuki pointing his bow at him as his bow surges with such lightning it's cracking the ground and Itsuki locks eyes with Kei as he says
"I was going to spare your life and bring you back, but you disrespect my family and speak about my brother. For that you will die!" Kei is *stunned* and thinks
"I can feel the pressure of his bow from here! How much power has he cast into it!?" Itsuki fires his arrow towards Kei but Itsuki's bow disappears as he falls out of the sky and Kei notices the arrow is small and he *laughs* as he says
"This is your best, you truly are a failure!" Kei flicks a finger towards the lightning arrow as it flies towards him and debris flies over and closes around the lightning arrow and Kei is still *laughing* as he watches Itsuki slam into the ground but suddenly he feels immense pressure surges around him and Kei looks back up at the arrow and is *shocked* as he sees lightning surging out of the debris until it explodes but the arrow becomes extremely large and Kei jumps into the air dodging the arrow but it redirects and stabs into Kei's back electrocuting him with such force every hole in his body surges out with lightning as the arrow drags him extremely high into the air and Kei *screams in pain* as he thinks
"It's so much power...My body can't even move, I'll need to use everything in my universe just to counter the explosion. And I don't even believe that will stop it, but I have no other choice!" As the arrow explodes Kei consumes all of his planets at the exact same time clash with lightning but the force of the clash breaks Kei's arm as his eyes close and he falls out of the air slamming into the ground and as everything settles Kei and Itsuki bodies both lay on the floor unmoving until Kei's right eye opens as he starts taking deep breathes and Kei *weakly* says
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"I...Can't believe I'm alive! Damn it, I can't see out of my left eye and I won't be able to fully move for a while, but at least I'm still alive"
At the same time Kaito stops the ball of light with his hands as his Icy Sun Flames attach and clash with the ball of light and he's able to cover half of the ball of light but suddenly he's stabbed in the back by two swords made out of light as he *screams in pain* and Kaito is able to push the ball of light back as he blast it back with his Icy Sun Flames but he drops to his knees as the ball of light flies towards him once again and Kaito points his hand at the ball of light but suddenly the ball of light is frozen and Kenji grabs Kaito's shoulder as he says
“Can you still fight?” Kaito slowly gets back to his feet as he says
“Can you pull these out for me?" Kenji walks behind Kaito as he grabs the two weapons and he says
"Are you ready?" Kaito *laughs* as he says
"No time like the present!" Kenji pulls the swords out of Kaito's back as he freezes them both and crushes them in his hands and Kenji touches Kaito's wounds as he slowly freezes them close and says
"That should hold you over until we're done, are you ok or do you need to take a step back for a second?" Kaito says
"This isn't my first time taking some damage in combat, I maybe a bit slower-" Suddenly a light sword stabs straight through Kaito's stomach and Kenji is *shocked* as Kaito falls to the ground and Kenji screams
"UNCLE KAITO!" Kenji's ice surges around him creating a Ice dome around them as he drops to his knees and Kenji says
"It's going to be alright, I'll patch you up quickly" Kaito *chuckles* as he spits up blood and says
"I guess I really am getting old...I couldn't even sense that one coming at me" Kenji grabs the sword as he says
"Are you ready?" Kaito *smiles* and grabs Kenji's shoulder as he says
"If this is going to keep happening you're going to have to stop asking and just start pulling them out" Kenji slowly pulls the light blade out as he lays Kaito on his back and starts slowly freezing the wound but suddenly Kenji hears someone knock on the wall of his ice and as he looks he sees Haruto knocking on the outside of the dome while *smiling* at him and Kenji stands up as his ice starts surging and Kaito says
"Kenji, be careful!" Kenji clenches his fist as the dome starts shooting spikes from all sides and Haruto blocks the spikes from hitting his face with his hand as he *laughs* and says
"Is this what you angry looks-" As Haruto moves his hand from in front of his face Kenji dashes forward as he punches Haruto in the face with his ice gauntlet making Haruto glide back through the air and Haruto's able to stop himself from flying back as he holds his chin and thinks
"Damn, I guess now you're going to show me how strong you are" Kenji starts walking forward as he freezes the ground with every step and he looks at Haruto as he says
"I'm getting sick and tired of all of you, why can't you just leave!" Haruto says
"We-" Kenji says
"Shut up! Because now I'm going to make you leave!" Haruto snaps as hundreds of weapons made out of light appear around him and Haruto *smiles* as he says
"Then come make me!" Kenji rushes forward as Haruto points his hand at Kenji and all of the weapons fly towards Kenji but as the weapons get close multiple hands and reach out of the ice with each step he takes and grabs the weapons freezing them and throwing them back against the remaining weapons but two of the frozen weapons explode destroying the ice on the ground and the weapons quickly fly towards Kenji but Kenji surges with ice freezing all of the remaining weapons in the air and Haruto is *shocked* as he notices the *anger* in Kenji's eyes and Haruto points his hand at Kenji firing a ball of light towards him but Kenji says
"If you truly think that's going to stop me, you're stupider than you look!" As the ball of light gets close Kenji's arms covers in extremely thick ice as he pushes against the ball of light and it pushes him back as he screams
"NOTHING IS GOING TO GET IN MY WAY!" Haruto opens his hand as the ball of light starts to slowly expand and it starts pulling Kenji's arms into the ball while still pushing him back and Kaito is *shocked* as he says
"Kenji, no!" Kaito slows makes it to his feet but he stops as he sees Kenji and the ball of light has stopped in place and Haruto *smiles* as he thinks
"Interesting!" Kenji slams his feet into the ground as he starts walking forward and the ground covers in ice as a dragons head shoots out of the ice biting into the ball of light as Kenji's able to pull himself out of it and Kenji grabs the back of it freezing half of the ball as he points his hand at it and uses
"Majestic Ice Wave" As the dragons mouth covers with an extremely thick fog of Ice obscuring Haruto's view into the dragon as the dragon opens it mouth blast away the ball of light with an extremely power wave of ice behind it and Haruto stops the ball of light with his hand but Haruto starts being pushed back by the force of the wave of ice and Haruto *laughs* as he says
"You mortals might be a bit stronger than I thought, but you still will pay for the sins of your father and uncle” Haruto slams his foot into the ground stopping himself from moving and he presses his other hand on the ball of light and Kenji jumps through the dragons head to the side of it as Haruto pushes the ball of light towards the dragon and it flies extremely fast towards the dragons head as it slams into it destroying it as the ball of light flies into the air and explodes as Haruto and Kenji lock eyes and Kenji says
"And you're gonna pay for the sins of pissing me off!" Kenji rushes up to Haruto but he starts dashing all around Haruto leaving afterimages everywhere and Haruto *laughs* as he says
"You're not nearly fast enough for this to work on me!" Haruto closes his eyes as he says
"Matter of fact I'll make it slightly more challenging for myself" Haruto senses Kenji still dashing all around him as he turns around and grabs him by the throat as he says
"Do you understand what I mean now, I've watched you for sometime and I've never seen you this aggressive. What's changed?" Haruto opens his eyes but he's *shocked* as he sees an Ice clone in his hands and a voice from behind him says
"I just get tired of everyone trying to come for my father, as if any of you could beat him" Haruto turns around as Kenji punches him in the face making him stumble back and Haruto turns to Kenji but Kenji's clone grabs Haruto by the neck freezing half of his body as Kenji rushes up and punches Haruto all over his stomach as two Ice Golem pull themselves out of the ground and grabs Haruto arms and legs as Kenji creates an Ice blade and he stabs towards Haruto's stomach but before it makes contact Haruto surges with light destroying the Ice Golem as it pushes Kenji back and Haruto rushes Kenji as he grabs him by his face and punches him in the stomach as he slams Kenji into the ground and Kaito rushes towards them but chains made out of light come through the ground wrapping around Kaito's arms and legs making him fall to the ground and Haruto snaps as a sword and spear appear in both his hands and Haruto says
"I've underestimated you, allowing you to catch me off guard. It won't happen again!" Haruto stabs Kenji in his shoulder with the sword as he grabs him by the throat and tosses him in the air stabbing him through the stomach with the spear and Kenji *screams in pain* as he spits out blood and Haruto throws the spear stabbing it into the ground causing it to pin Kenji to the ground as well and Haruto walks towards Kaito as he says
"I always learn from the mistakes I make, if the boy is this strong when he gets serious I can only imagine how strong you will be. Too bad I can't allow you to show me" Haruto stops as he's standing over Kaito and snaps creating hundreds of spears above him as he says
"But unfortunately I can't kill you quickly, I must let your screams be heard through the entire multiverse. I may not be able to show you to my lord, but he will still be pleased hearing your cries of pain slowly fade into nothing" Kenji *spits up blood* as he says
"Don't! Get away from him!" Kenji tries to pull himself off of the spear but he can't and Kaito looks at Kenji as he *smiles* and says
"It's alright, Kenji!" Haruto snaps as two spears stab through Kaito's back causing him to *scream in pain* and Kenji tries to pull the spear out of his stomach as blood pours out of his mouth and he screams
"STOP!" Haruto snaps as three more spears stab through Kaito's back making him *scream in pain even louder* Kenji's eyes slowly starts to close as he spits up blood and *weakly* says
"Please...Take me! Let him go!" Kaito is *shocked* as Kenji hand falls to the ground and Kaito starts to *tear up* as he screams
"KENJI! NO!" Kaito's Icy Sun Flames surge across his entire body with such force it makes Haruto slide back as he's covering his eyes from there blinding light and Kaito tries to break the chains but he's unable to as Haruto slowly starts walking towards him as he's staring at Kenji's unmoving body on the ground and Haruto says
"Truly, you would have made a great underling. But you simply weren't ready for the responsibilities that came with it" Kaito looks at Kenji as he starts *crying* and screams
"GET UP! KENJI, YOU HAVE TO GET UP! PLEASE!" But Haruto steps on Kaito's neck and firmly press down against his throat causing Kaito to stop speaking as his Icy Sun Flames disappear and Haruto looks at Kaito as he says
"Now it's just us!"