When the guests went off and the household members went to sleep, Kaido sat in the garden and gazed at the starry sky. "Maybe I'm not cut out for this," she said to herself sadly. "Why are you sitting here alone?" Akira asked from the window. "I can't sleep," Akira replied, jumping through the window and sitting down. "Are you jealous of Kaen?" Kaido firmly shook her head no. "Hmmm, so maybe you're not good at controlling mana," Kaido nods in agreement. After a moment of silence, Akira stood up and said, "Mana will never obey you. You are at its mercy, so you must submit to it... that's what my mother told me when I was learning mana control." Kaido seemed to not understand what Akira was trying to convey. Akira reached into her pocket and said, "Sometimes it's easier to let go," pulling out a necklace with a beautiful red and blue stone. "I found this when I moved to the capital. I don't remember where I got it, but I know it helps with mana control," tossing it at Kaido's lap before leaving. Holding the necklace in her hand, Kaido said to herself, "So I have a bigger goal now," clenching her fist, she lies down on the grass with a smile and soon falls asleep. Akira returned to carry her home, and when he laid Kaido in bed, Akira sensed a powerful mana, and shortly after, through the window, there was an explosion in a nearby village. Everyone in the house woke up, and Gamble immediately ran to Akira and asked, "What's happening?" Akira said in a serious tone, "Stay here, I'll check it out." Gamble stops Akira and says, "I'm going too." "What about protecting the children?" Akira asks, slightly annoyed. "Go, I'll manage to defend the house," Aki says with a sword in hand. Akira and Gamble nod to each other and quickly put on their clothes before running to the village with all their might. When they arrived, they heard screams and begging for life from the villagers. "AKIRA, WATCH OUT!" Gamble shouted. Akira dodged a wave of fire. "Unnatural waves of fire... WHO'S THERE?" Akira shouted, receiving laughter from a woman in response. Akira and Gamble assumed an attack position, and a woman emerged from one of the burning houses, scantily dressed, her face obscured. "New toys?" she asked. "Do you want to play? Then come," Gamble said. The woman just chuckled, and a girl about 14 years old, with a blank expression, appeared beside her. Akira dropped her guard, and the girl immediately took advantage of it, but Gamble managed to block her with his shield. "Now's not the time for daydreaming, Akira," Gamble said. "She's forcing her to fight," Akira replied irritably, then shouted, "Don't you want to introduce yourself?" The woman chuckled, "Hahahah, you guys are funny. So be it," the woman jumped down, revealing her face and hair tied like horns. "I am Jona, and you in red... you already belong to me," Akira loudly laughed and replied, "Since when does a man belong to a bitch?" These words infuriated Jona, and she created ice blades with hand gestures, sending them towards Akira and Gamble. The boys easily blocked the blades, and Akira added, "Ice in the midst of fire? Aren't you missing your blonde hair by any chance?" This further infuriated the woman, and she attacked Akira directly, but he blocked her with a sword and redirected the attack towards Gamble, who then buried her hand in the ground, preventing her from pulling it out. "Looks like she was just showing off," Gamble said, after which she stopped laughing and cried out, "SISTER!" The boys were momentarily surprised and sent flying into a burning barn. Akira quickly created a dome of wind to protect himself and Gamble from the fire. "What do we do?" Gamble asked. "One shot, and we're on the other side of the whiskey," Akira replied. After a moment of thought, Akira destroyed the barn with the wind dome and said calmly and confidently, raising his sword, "Let's fight." "So you're the condemned one," a mysterious female voice said from behind Akira. He immediately jumped back and created small shurikens from the ground in his hand and threw them at the woman, but she took Gamble's shield and shielded herself. Shocked, Gamble uttered a spell, "Let the gods close you from my will, divine cage," closing the woman in a cage and showing her face. "Too shallow," she said, after which the cage collapsed, and the woman pushed Gamble away with her shield and sent him to the forest with a kick. "So now it's fair," the woman said. Akira transformed his sword into a beautiful orange flame blade with flame patterns. "So, it seems we'll need to go with everything," he said, wiping sweat from his cheek. "Let's see how long you can stay alive," the woman said, fixing her hair. Akira attacked, throwing his sword like a boomerang and attacking the woman with three strikes, finishing with a kick that sent her into the air. "Not bad at all," the woman said, then noticed the approaching sword and used wind magic to avoid the attack. "Predictable," said the sword as it flew away and returned, but the woman avoided the attack almost at the last moment. When she tried to grab the sword, Akira shouted, "CHANGE," then switched places with the sword and attacked the woman with a flaming fist. The woman landed firmly on the ground, and Akira immediately ran to finish her off, but was obstructed by the emotionless girl. "Is it you again, Emo?" he said, blocking her attack. Then he jumped, throwing the sword at the girl and switching places with it, but this time he was hit by Jona. Akira immediately got up after the attack and counterattacked, but she blocked all his blows except the last one, which caused a lightning flash upon impact. Akira jumped away from Jona and started running around, including the emotionless girl and the woman stuck in the ground, creating a tornado and jumping high into the air, when he was in the middle of the whirlwind, he attacked with a fiery kick, executing the spell "Flame Hurricane." Then he jumped out, leaving the girl in the center. "That should be enough," Akira said, slightly tired, but the woman stopped the whirlwind and gathered all the mana into fireballs, shooting them at Akira. He easily avoided the attack and said, "Don't you get bored of this?" In the meantime, Gamble reached the village and saw Aki running towards the battle. "What are you doing here?" Gamble shouted. Aki ran to the injured Gamble. "We were helping the civilians. What happened to you?" she asked, taking Gamble under her arm. "Some woman attacked, and when she took my shield, she drained my mana," he said, pulling out a stick from his arm. "Don't you have enough to heal yourself?" Aki asked. "No, but that's not the problem now. You need to help me ignite Akira's fighting spirit," Gamble said seriously. Aki nodded and took Gamble to the battlefield, where Akira was effectively blocking and avoiding the attacks of three women but couldn't land a successful blow. Meanwhile, Aki and Gamble were on a nearby building. "It will work, right?" worried Aki asked. Gamble confidently replied, "Yes, you just need to hold on to your word." Aki took a deep breath and shouted, "Akira, if you defeat them, I'll do anything you ask for," the women stopped their attacks, and Jona mocked Aki's words, "Pity that he needs such motivation." The older woman said, "You said it, you have it. He's not here," surprised, Jona looked around and then received a powerful kick to her face, causing a lightning symbol to appear. "WHAT IS THIS?" Jona shouted. "Impossible," said the older woman, "That's what you think," said Akira, without revealing his position. After a while, the same treatment was given to the quiet girl, but this time on her back. And after a while, the older woman also, but on her shoulder. "IF YOU LOSE YOU ARE GAY AKIRA!" Gamble shouted with a laugh The women start laughing even more, and when the older one tries to kick the lying Akira, it turns out he's not on the ground. Surprised, she starts looking around, and after a moment, she receives a powerful blow that, upon impact, bursts into flames and ultimately explodes in her face, sending her flying towards her sister. "Damn you, mortal," shouted Jona, looking at her fingers in her blood and at Akira, whose eyes were glowing with flame color in the middle of the white nothingness of his eye sockets. "Cool, huh? If you want to know its my spell Explosive Fist" said Akira with a smile, and Gamble was pleased that it worked, while Aki was in shock. Akira took a boxing stance and said,

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