The fight between Bawl and the Judge continues as he is dodging the spears and trying to get close to the Judge, but he is unable to due to the spears getting in the way.

He manages to punch a row of spears, but more return, and he dodges again.

“Stupid stuff.”

“What’s wrong, is your strength not helping you here?”

Bawl dodges when he notices a pattern to his spear’s attacks, a triple row wall, a single shot, a chasing row, and repeat. Using this to his advantage, he punches the floor, creating a dust cloud to block his vision.

The Judge gets up and prepares himself, he sees a giant block of concrete thrown at him from the dust and he uses the shield to block it.

Bawl, having appeared behind him, tries grabbing him but another golden shield appears behind the judge and pushes him back.

“That was a smart play, too bad I’ve seen that so many times.”

Bawl doesn’t react to this, keeping his stoic, dispassionate expression. He picks himself back up and he flexes his muscles.

He tries punching again but again, being slightly faster, it doesn’t work, and the shield gets in the way every time, pushing him back into the wall again.

Bawl moves from the wall again, grabs at the floor, and throws it over, having multiple rocks fall towards him.

The judge uses his shield to block the boulders and comes from the boulders to punch him. The judge dodges the attack by flying on his own shield.

Bawl tries punching again, but he is frozen in place, a lock appears on his chest, and he struggles to move but is unable to.

“Why is this happening?”

Spears appear behind the judge again and he shoots them toward Bawl, Bawl tenses his muscles in hopes of not getting damaged, all but one spear does damage, causing a little blood splatter and cutting his shirt.

“Oh?” Bawl looks at his injury, for the first time in so long, he has taken damage, but he isn’t that fazed by it and ignores it, getting back into a fighting stance.

“Hm, it seems you’re not as durable as I thought.”

Bawl is no longer frozen and he charges at the judge in the instance, he tries punching, and once again the shield appears but this time it is a fake-out and he moves to the side to kick which the judge summons another shield to block the kick, but turns out, it was another fake-out, he uses his toes prevent himself from falling and turns his body around to move himself behind him, preparing to strike but a third shield appears and his attack is deflected.

“Annoying, 3 blockers.”

“I won’t lie, that’s smart, you assumed I had only 2 shields, so you were going to do a double fake out, you’re much smarter than all the other criminals I have fought.

Bawl taps his head a little before getting an idea, he grabs the ground and flips it over again, which causes the large piece of the floor to fall towards the judge, he summons his shield but then he notices that 2 pieces of concrete seem to have been thrown towards him on both sides.

“This kid just moved to my left and right fast enough to throw those both at me, that’s quite fast I’m not going to lie.”

He summons his other shields and finally, Bawl appears behind him preparing to punch.

“Holy shit, this kid knows how to adapt to his situation, finding a workaround with three shields instantly. Too bad.”

The judge summons a fourth shield and blocks all attack attempts, they all reflect in the opposite directions, some breaking the glass of the building and landing outside.

As this happens a strange black figure appears to be outside.

This pushes Bawl to the plastic chair, and he throws it to the side.

“Tired of this.” Bawl is now visibly angry, losing his nonchalant expression and his eyes glowing a bit yellow. He gets up and charges towards the judge again, seemingly with no plan in mind like before.

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“Seriously, again?”

As expected, he blocks the attack but this time, Bawl grips his feet to the floor and starts doing repeated punches, “What is he doing, he should know that won’t work.”

He keeps punching over and over and goes into an endless barrage of punches toward the shield, the barrage going faster with every second that passes.

“What is he trying to do, is he having a tantrum or something?”

He keeps punching and soon enough, a small crack in the shield appears.

“What the, was he, trying to overwhelm my shields!”

Cracks continue to appear on the shield and soon enough the shield breaks with a final punch to the center. Bawl winds up to punch the judge but he summons another shield to block. Bawl just goes straight to brute forcing his way through it again, the shield pushing the judge back from Bawl pushing it back with his punch.

The judge lands on the ground and Bawl catches up to him, throwing a Barrage of punches again. The judge backs up a little bit but stops.

“Damn it, if I could move from my shield much farther from me, I would’ve, this is the max of how far it can be from me.”

The judge keeps backing up as Bawl keeps punching the shield, following him, until it also breaks. He freezes Bawl in place and moves away from him, but Bawl seems to be resisting the skill and manages to break free from it, dashing towards the judge.

The judge is now visibly nervous, and he summons his last 2 shields and merges them together to create one big shield.

Bawl pushes the shield, uses his feet to prevent himself from being pushed back pushes the shield towards the judge, and presses the shield against the wall, the judge being on the other side and trapped, unable to escape now.

He relentlessly punches the shield, the judge knows that he cannot escape and tries locking him in place again, but it doesn’t work, Bawl effortlessly breaks through it and continues his assault on the shield.

“This kid’s crazy, he’s just brute forcing it, all strategy out the window, and it’s working!”

The shield starts breaking from being overwhelmed by Bawl’s punches, breaking piece by piece. The judge tries summoning spears to pierce him, but Bawl flexes his muscles, the spears break upon contact as a result.

“There’s no way I can break free from this. Once he breaks through, he’ll win. Not necessarily a bad thing.”

The shield, unable to take anymore finally breaks and Bawl clenches his fist, veins appearing and he punches the judge in the face, breaking the wall behind him.

“Done,” Bawl says, having finally beaten the judge.

Everyone looks at the screen, clapping at the outcome, Belle looks at the boy, impressed at the outcome, “When they leave the portal, bring him to be, understand.”

“Yes, Ma’am.”

The screen suddenly glitches out and cuts to black, everyone in the room is confused as well as the other audience of citizens.

The judge is rubbing his face from the attack and Bawl just stands there.

“Good job, you beat me, so you’re a free man.”

Bawl doesn’t know what he means by this, but he gives a thumbs up regardless. Just then, the building starts shaking violently and their building starts collapsing.

Bawl and the judge both look around and see the building is getting destroyed, Bawl grabs the judge and runs out of the building with him.

They both manage to escape the building before it collapses. When they turn around to see a man on the opposite side of the destroyed building. He is a tall, skinny, and thin man. He wears a pink and black suit with baggy pants a dress shirt underneath and dress shoes, his face is wrapped in numerous long white scarves, encircling his entire neck and a large portion of his head that has 6 vertical eyes and a smiling mouth that show only teeth, his nails are pink, and his hands show that is skin is extremely pale.

“Who the hell are you!” The judge screams.

The man doesn’t reply and releases a black steaming goo from his hands, it covers the entire ground extremely fast and the two can’t help but be confused at this strange development. Bawl jumps towards the man and tries punching him but at that instance, a pure black shape blocks his attack and throws him back.

The figure becomes much clearer and takes the shape of a minotaur, except it is pure black and its eyes and mouth glow bright pink.

The minotaur manifests a purple axe and swings it at the 2, Bawl tries to block but the judge grabs him and pushes him down, this results in a massive explosion behind them caused by the attack.

“What are you doing! That attack is far stronger compared to the minotaur you faced before!”

The judge pulls out a syringe-like object and injects himself with it, this causes his hair to glow a bit, and 4 shields appear.

“Huh?” Bawl looks at him in confusion, he knows he destroyed his shields, and yet he has them again.

The judge summons spears and shoots them toward the man, they hit him, but he just dissolves into goo, hundreds of more minotaur rise from the goo and then the goo dissolves, leaving the goo minotaur to fight the 2

“Well, this is going to be a problem, you can still fight right?”

Bawl nods to his question.

“Then let's kill them all.”