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Few days later...

"We're going to deal with the Upper Generals of Legion Raksha first, Karuna informed us that he gathered only the quantity of the members--but the identities and type are still yet to be found. So, there are eight of them so we have to get your older twin Yukito to come here, Akito."

Akito nodded, they had to find him before the unexpected threat could take him away. Somehow, Akito still feel calm because of the experience he gained and all these times he fought all in order to protecting Sanju and others. "As per Althair's speculation and after witnessing all evidences, the other armies that were tasked as Maha's soldiers are slowly becoming more aggressive. So, don't make a wrong step," Karuna stated, he looks concerned and not sure what to expect but based on Izana's observation and Haruna's confession. Sanju was truly shook after how those phantom beasts were controlled and their leader was insane.

Sanju was reading the reports that he gathered from the Silver Slumbering Organization, regarding the hidden Cores of the Samsara and they also need to look for them. It seems like there has been a 'lair' of the eight remaining Rakshas from the Legion, but there's one that still unknown--which considered a 'glitch' according to Althair, and apparently, they would deal with this case before the next one. "Goddamnit," he cursed, seeing these Rakshas has their identities unknown even their abilities. "They're somewhere in the lair that located in these designated places, so please be careful," Karuna warned, as he explained the intel he had discovered from Izana's phone.

"We have to be cautious of our surroundings before encountering any trouble."

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The eight Upper Generals in the Legion Rakshas are known as Sentinels; a group of Rakshas that infused with the Psychic Binary that led them in the battle and controlling their elements that based on blood elements, combining them with their Raksha forms. Their level of psyche and skill to control the powers--and knowing that their element might or not change a personality and attitude. After all, each of them having different cores and not meant to be underestimated.

The first is Seiren, the Shadow Raksha; one who commands the shadows and darkness of all, she was strolling down the garden at night as she has been getting rid of the military soldiers from Singgahsana. She has a long raven black hair with uneven bangs fell over her golden-colored eyes and cheeks, fair complexion and has slender figure. She wears a black turtleneck sweater that reached her mid-thighs, dark gray coat and knee-length black boots. She has a scar on her left eye, while her sharp pupils detecting the area of her lair--where she'd captured and killed the government soldiers.

Seiren captured one of them and made them stuck into her shadow cages, not bothering to shove the shadow thorns into their limbs for blood. Hearing them begging for mercy did not affect her and thus she doesn't care, snapping her fingers that they were fallen and becoming weak after half of the woman's blood has ceased. "Now then, I will devour you next…" she muttered, as she approached her with her hand on her hip, she was terrified that she will be killed by her…

As she was going to lift her up with cold hand wrapped around her neck, her eyes widened as she felt something pierced her wrist which is from the tip of a katana. That made her hand released her and dropped her to the ground, seeing the purple marks on her wrist and she stepped back by the sudden attack.

"Good evening, miss."

Akito greeted her with a grim smile, appearing in his non-Raksha form while his back is facing her. "Akito Kujou, a pleasure to see you."

Seiren narrowed her eyes, until her eyes widened at the stigmata on his back coat--he was an Insect Raksha. She growled, before she taunted. "I have heard of your history. Just so you know... We don't fear you guys," she spoke in a bored manner, she had no chance of giving up this fight--in a battle to death. When he's folding his arms while still holding his katana, the butterflies surrounds him that he turn around to face her. "Huh, what was that again?" he repeated, after adjusting his glasses that turned a shade of crimson and let out his smirk. "Perhaps you did not expect a fighter like me, miss?" he grinned.

Akito was playing around with her, which the Shadow Raksha launched her shadow tendrils filled with thorns. He jumped and shielded every attacks, some of them managing to pierce the wall of his surrounding. She smirked, before one of the tendrils managed to surround the man as she just decided to let her go to watch. He snorted, giving that grin before running while slashing the shadow tendrils. He kicked her upwards onto her chin and spin-kicking her to the ground, there he landed on top of her and kneel on one knee. "I could use those eyeballs for juggling," he take a look on her left eye for a moment, before he goes to widen the right one. "Or, I could slice up your body and rip out the organs from your body into shreds and play jigsaw puzzle with it," he threatens.

Before the woman began to kick Akito in his stomach with her right knee, making him stagger before he immediately felt her shadow tendrils pierced his back. He swiftly cut the tendril as he land his feet on the stone ground, and noticing she was able to sit up as she used her nails like the claw of a certain creature. Seiren used her blood element to launch the shadow tendrils to his sides before he able to defend, he only smirked and deflected her attacks. "Too bad, I could have dismembered you easily if you wouldn't resist against me."

Akito's disturbing words send shiver down into her spines and spreading fear, he looks like a psycho when he dealt with his opponents. He was an absolute fighter and not sparing mercy for others, because of his sadistic nature that will drive her opponent into fear--he might even play with their blood and kill in many ways to death and he have no regret of killing someone and this time, Seiren feel terrified of him. "Judging from your victims who were killed in here, there are twenty-four of them, except that woman you nearly killed, so I exclude that," he said with a calm tone with his shimmering orbs staring down at her, almost look like nothing but an insect.

Seiren was shaken by his intimidation against her and this is a humiliation to her, how could he was making her lower than him… even though he's just a Raksha?! This is far too much! She attempted to unleash the shadows from beneath her and he jumps off and take the tendrils down, creating a hexagonal-count constructive rupture from the impact between Akito and Seiren. The shockwave creating destructive vibration burst the land where the other generals could feel the vibration. It was harsh and the ground even shattered up in seconds, while Akito created that barrier with his hands and smiled triumphantly. Seiren growled while she used her shadow dash towards him, trying to launch on him. "I can see your weakness--" her eyes widened when he passed her to the side, she felt cuts on her limbs and her waist from that.

The thorn-like tendrils are cut into pieces by him, floating in the air when he lift up his chin. "I'm the one who see your weakness first," he outsmarted her as he stand in his position, the woman realized that he deciphered all her moves. He chuckled, before a purple butterfly fluttered around him and disappeared from her eyes. "Judging from your element as a Shadow Raksha, you rely so much on your element by that--you let your guard down and have some blind-spot."

Oh fuck no, she didn't expect that boy managed to detect all her weakness as she lay on the floor, kneeling and holding herself. He knew what kind of the basic knowledge and what kind of weakness she had in his eyes--Akito had so many things he could give her, but seeing her trembling in fear... he would probably leave her alive as Akito walked away. "I know what kind of weaknesses you have, therefore I know everything will be yours. Please, don't make such low blows," he commented coldly, but then he turned to face her.

"What's this? You can't even decapitate me, what kind of ability is that?!" she insulted him with the mocking way and he isn't surprised that she mocked him, besides it's common for them to insult him.

The Shadow Raksha began to launch towards him again without hesitation, he squinted his eyes and jumped into eight-count speed attacks through strike and inject his opponent with the tip of his katana. That made her gasped when she saw him lunged his hands towards her and got injected on her limbs, she stepped back and dodged to the side. "That's it, you're pissing me off--"

Seiren saw the butterflies and moths appearing out of nowhere and it was solemn, with cold piercing lights within them--the colorful butterflies were landing on her shoulders before it began to melt on her shoulders and limbs. "What is this--" she coughed in pain as she stumbled on the ground, coughing up blood from her mouth from the poison on her skins.

Akito spun his katana before catching it with his hand and turn around to her, looking down when he smirked at her. "What was that? I can't hear you," he said in his mocking of not listening to her clearly, holding up his hand next to his ear. "Apologies, it is unfortunate that I won't be able to severely slain you into pieces... but, I can produce and inject any kinds of toxins into the opponent's body and they can be incomparable to your blood type's abilities. Although, your stamina is quite weakened with multiple hits on certain areas on your bodies," the blonde explained to her, and Seiren shook her head before she snapped her head up in anger. "Why did you spare my life?!" she exclaimed, sounding like crazy from that victory and being able to make a comeback that would take her life. "I will kill you, I'm not holding back!"

Seiren slowly transforming into a large shadow-like beast that doesn't faze Akito a little bit, he began to transform into his Insect Raksha form. The beast looks like a chimera with red eyes, it has shadow-like fur coat around its skin; a five eyes horn from the forehead, three eyes on either of its black wings, black neck; a mane of long shadows tentacles, body like a massive dog with four red eyes, spider leg on its upper arm with claws, canine lip and even the front legs with skull as if to hide those front claws, and its long claws but even though it has long tail and hind legs--it was far smaller than any normal.

"Too bad, I don't really like wasting my time on cleaning the battlefield..." Akito announced, seeing her bloodlust. But in a short times he dodges that attack by flying and landed on her and stab the stinger in its back. "Judging from your abilities... I would say that your basic skills could be exploited even more by your attacks. Come on," his eyes narrowed coldly, the shadow demon beast looked frustrated and it launched the barrages of the shadow cannonballs in attempts to blast him away. Akito produced some doses on his weapon so he can 'sting' her with that, such as blood element and her Shadow as opposed to his poison-like blood core.

"I know, how can this could end just like this? Come, I won't retreat and neither do you," he grinned, making her confused and pissed off to the point of her mind if he intended to behead her. Even if he could control the air currents, they're mostly short-ranged and it takes a distance and endurance with her attack types. "Worthless, useless for such weak person that you are," he said nonchalantly as he struck her down in speed. Due to his lack of decapitating Phantom Beasts, he make it up with his speed and agility--which in melee combat. "What a shame, if only your Raksha level isn't so low, I can kill you quickly so you couldn't suffer like this. At least, you were strong because of your elemental ability--but that is so noob for the likes of me."

The 20 meters tall demon beast became pissed off and roared angrily to the ground, making some pieces to explode from the vibrations of her shrieks. "How dare you, Akito fucking Kujou?!" the beast was trying to attack him, until it stopped when the poison inside her began to spread like a fatal wound. "... Don't you know not to mess with someone in your league? How fool of you, what kind of a Raksha have you been living in?" Akito questions her mockingly while he keep his stance, as he observed her movements and his own in progress, trying to keep her as low as he can handle it. But she is putting that much of resistance against the skilled swordsman, he held up his katana behind him and then launch towards her and kick her down to the ground with his feet.

"And here... the last shot."

When he injected the last dose, the poison began to react wildly inside her and creating a massive explosion--of course, he dodged and flew upward. He heard the shrieking noise when she exploded into a mess of shadows and blood--before she could have seen what was happening on her. Then, she died before laying on the ground--dying from the poisonous toxins that he injected inside her severely. "You know... I wouldn't have make it if I defeat your beastly form in my non-Raksha state, so... don't push yourself," he said, before the shadow cocoon above him vanished and released the fainted soldiers on the ground. He reverted back into his human form, before he sheathed his katana. "I wonder... what is Psychic Binary?"

Akito wondered, before he saw Kanae landed on the ground, yawning as she finished dealing with another member of Legion Raksha across them in the area. "You're quick, how did it go?" he asked, the Crane Raksha yawned as she stared at him with her sleepy eyes. "Well, that was easy. There is little fighting when you try to focus, you should try it one day," she said nonchalantly, to the point it annoys Akito. "I'm kidding, my opponent was annoying. It's a carbon copy of an actual beast," she explained in boredom and he watched her.

It wasn't that much of a challenging match.

Kanae was able to make her opponent retreated as she took them down so easily, of course, she is able to manipulate the physics and made the offense attacks intimidating her opponents. Despite her sleep-derived and clueless face, she's actually very strong and unbeatable in terms of physical stamina and strength in case she can use them. Akito just stay silent before looking up at the night sky, he saw the falling butterfly that he summoned it. "Can I touch it? Is it poisonous?" she asked, pointing out at the butterfly. "Huh, nope. Try touching it," he shrugged as she placed her palm and the butterfly landed on her wrist.

Kanae noticed the delicate, soft and gentle tint that soothe her skin--the shimmering butterfly disappeared in the darkness of the night.

Flashback...

Kanae has arrived in the area filled with swamps and lakes, she was surprised to see that those places were swarmed with Phantom Beasts as she hummed. 'One of the Elite Commanders' experiments used the Psychic Binary to generate a mutation of a Raksha in the Legion... it didn't actually occurred on any animals or creatures due to the type of beings they are--they are like a foreign entity who had merged into humans. Even mutating the organisms is illegal since we know the potential harm... How could they even do it?'

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So said, Kanae had to confront one of the Legion Rakshas; the Swamp Raksha known as Nerine--her eyes narrowed at the sight of the swamp serpent merging with the water and attacking her. Kanae used her Brahmastra; Suspension of Vagla--a glaive on her hand that has black metallic-handle with a black-silver blade with the silver beads on it--to deflect her attacks. Kanae is unpredictable when he faced her opponents, she doesn't even think too much and yet can be focus to her goal. She sprinted against the serpent and made a jump, creating a constructive rupture around them. Kanae could've make that happened, even making the air pressure fluctuates and increased--but how? "Interesting, for a simple-minded warrior like you."

Nerine watches her from the ground, feeling uncomfortable by her sharp eyes behind those sleep-like eyes and how sleepy Kanae seems but she kept his stance. Kanae has an advantage because the enemies doesn't know what the Crane Raksha was thinking of--so, she decided to strike first against the serpent. "For someone who think too high of themselves, I highly suggest you shut your maw and attack me--if you dare, but I wouldn't want to be troubled by this," Kanae sounds cold, though she doesn't get angry.

Kanae sighed, before she spun her glaive in front of her and kicking it--creating a wheel-turning attack of her glaive which can cut into pieces. Then, she dash against the serpent and swung her glaive--before launching a barrage attack through a spinning blades she produced while spinning around the serpent and launching it to her. She landed her feet on the ground to stand after she finished her assault, while her opponent screeched by the pain.

But Kanae became startled when she saw a stream of water dashing against her, she blocked it with her spinning shields. Kanae doesn't focus on that too much and concentrated on her other form, the serpent wrapped herself with waters and spouted like a geyser. "Ah, I think I need to make a spare one..." she said, before Kanae look up and narrowed her eyes. "You will regret this, snake!" she exclaimed as she throw her spinning blade to the serpent, slicing the tip of her muzzle and made it bleed in the middle. Then, she launched herself forward before striking down the other muzzle and landing a swing.

Nerine screeched as the serpent tried to launch at her, before seeing a feathers of crane that confuses her. "What?" the serpent spoke, before she felt a paralyzing sensation within her back--the crane feathers began to produce that effect and Kanae made them more deadly than usual. Kanae let out a calm chuckle, before she appeared in front of her. "You seems entertaining, little snake. You indeed wake me up from my slumber," she insulted calmly, but she found it amusing how fast this snake got herself weakened and this is interesting.

Though, Kanae found her weakness and she decided to take down in just few slashes. The serpent screamed, how can this human be so strong to defeat the Raksha?! Kanae shook her head, before she lifted her leg and the serpent have realized she was going to destroy her skull.

Kanae stepped on the muzzle, the serpent shrieked as Kanae began to crush it with her footwear. The Raksha shrieked in pain and terror before she made some water-like cocoon envelope her. Kanae landed on the air, jumping from the land that emerged from the lakes before landing on the ground.

Now it's the real Kanae of course, she may not be so open-minded as Sanju. But, she's quite a strong adversary because of her endurance and has high recovery rate compared to other types of Rakshas. The serpent struggled and Kanae already noticed the source of her weakness--Nerine have suffered a few blood loss from all her attacks, slowly becoming weakened and unable to make another moves while she struggled and attempt to crawl--until, Kanae stabbed her neck.

That killed Nerine in one shot, and it seemed to be unexpected that it was easy for the Crane Raksha--until Nerine suddenly began to launch another attack from all of her minions in the swamp. However, Kanae didn't waste time to transform into her Crane Raksha form.

"Quit bugging me..."

Kanae spun her glaive around before she swing the blade towards them, creating a circular constructive cuts and launching another slash. Kanae also slammed the blade down against the ground--that shattered a bridge across them and made them feel uncertain because the bridge was breaking apart. "I never understand this thing called Psychic Binary, is it so hard to imagine? Who was the fool who invented it?" she remarked in nonchalance, before she clasped her hands as if chanting a prayer--the crimson threads of lights and cracks spread across. Once she holds up her hand, a slash of light spread and slashing the serpent-like monsters into pieces and Kanae closed her eyes.

Kanae could sense the other Legions, so she can sense them well and is good at tracking the Legion Rakshas. After revert back into her human form, she observed the battlefield before she began to check up on the others.

End of Flashback...

"You did it, just like that?" Akito asked, watching her rubbing her eyes while trying not to sleep easily, like--right here, right now. Kanae doesn't respond, before she just turn around and she squirmed when he wrapped his arm around her neck; stopping her from walking away just to get a place to sleep. "Ah ah, don't you fucking dare to avoid my question~" he smiled threateningly, of course she got annoyed by that and she hates it. "Okay fine, whatever."

She pushed him away and he rolled his eyes, before the woman sat on the ground while he folded his arms. "This is why I prefer if Sanju has a bit more sanity, then he would help me of course."

Kanae spoke, as Akito glared at her. "No one shall be like Sanju, just saying. I would help you next time if you dared to die."

"Yeah yeah, shut it and mind your own business."

Akito bit her wrist that made her face comically darkens, making her sleep-derived self completely changed into brutal Raksha that could be intimidated--by all she needed was the killing energy. Kanae began to kick and bite him too, as he made her on top of him with his arms around her waist. "You are sure have been distracted for a while..." he told her, tapping her cheek while pinning her down--watching how funny that was, despite knowing what kind of Raksha she is.

Kanae stared at him, before she bumped her hard-ass forehead on his that made Akito yelled in pain. He glared at her but she just stick out her tongue and giving him that 'peaceful' expression. "Man, seeing her dead is the best thing," Akito stated, before the swans appeared and soaring the skies.

On the other side...

Kinana watched the lotus flower that floating in the pond, standing there while detecting any ambushes. The sixteen-years old girl was awaiting for her opponent, however there aren't any abnormalities or abnormal presences within the area. "There's no Phantom Beasts around this perimeter, so... where are the Rakshas in this one?" she muttered, turning around while she was humming--she saw a black and red fiery-like humanoid being appeared in front of her. Wait a second... what kind of Raksha is this?

Before her confusion have kicked in, she got shot by the blade that grazed her shoulder as she was trying to dodge. Cursing silently, she felt angry that her white-finger-blood laced blouse was ruined. "I just bought this yesterday... and I'm pretty sure nobody paid my clothes except for me," she remarked in a snarky tone, quite proud to mock him but the humanoid looked down. "I don't care about your wealth if you don't stand and fight."

'I'm not talking about wealth...' she frowned, before she folded her arms. "Who are you?" Kinana asked, what kind of Legion Raksha was she encountering? Has she ever meet this type of creature like him? "I do not think they bothered to send you to know about the incident... or perhaps they do not tell you anything or even underestimate the Upper Generals. It is too obvious, and you have no clue who your higher-ups are. Except for your team," the 'Red Diavolo' figure spoke calmly as he approached her, while Kinana was staring back at him.

Kinana tilted her head, being 'innocent' here. "I just want to know your name, and don't worry, nobody dies in here," he asked, while Kinana was glancing to the side and back to her opponent. "And don't think about strangling or murder me, because if I die, I swear that you are screwed and doomed even more, especially you," he stated, while she pretended that she was scared. "Hey, stop screwing around, 'cause you couldn't get me alive unless it'd be impossible--such as being struck by a train or something like that."

The figure was about touch her, until a sudden neon-green waves of lighting burst began to form around her; covering her entire body. The glowing silver-gold mecha tall humanoid Raksha began to punch him hard on the face that he stagger, because the sudden strength can be unexpected. He managed to quickly block it from the back of his hands and clenched his teeth--he could use his elements to finish her off, but he decided to hold it back and see what is she willing to do. However, the voice of the Mecha-Raksha hybrid became different--compared to Kinana's soft and bubbly voice, but now a sharp commanding tone. "It appears like I got a fair opponent here."

After punching him to the face, she was able to stab him on the stomach that caused him to stumble but not enough to make him fell on the ground. "Indeed, so you believe that. That's almost insulting, especially coming from someone in this game," he commented calmly, appearing that he has the willpower and emotion to the point he'll let out his emotions when necessary. "Just to answer you before, if you still had the foolishness to ask. What kind of demon am I? The answer is simple, I'm the Danava himself," he mocked confidently while keeping his eye to the opponent--that even though he was struck by her attacks, he still endure the pain. "Who are you, Raksha?"

"Me? I'm... the Destiny Raksha."

Meanwhile, Sanju has defeated the Void Raksha that recently tried to attack him out of nowhere. He effortlessly defeated the Raksha because Haruna used to got possessed by her (and that made him had to endure so many shit), so Sanju had to destabilize him and dealing with her by himself. The Void Raksha coughed as she look up at Sanju who stood in front of her, after he reverted back to his human form from either Yin or Yang Garuda Raksha form. "You... how did you...?" she muttered.

Sanju narrowed his eyes, while he make his black, light platinum and red sword with red blade disappeared on his hand along his black and gold flintlock.

"What? You think I can just let you roam freely like you belong in here?" he asked, while he smirked and he crouched in front of her and grabbed her chin with his calloused fingers. "Don't have the bright idea of what kind of power we wield, because it'll crush all of you to dust. If you know how powerful your boss is... then I wish that he would come for us so we can kill him off."

He tilted his head, while he hummed innocently. "At first, I never thought there's Void Raksha had to go crazy like this... so, any last words?" he asked, releasing her chin and standing up in front of her. The Void Raksha shuddered by the Garuda Raksha in front of her, could it be that her leader never take his troops seriously and trust them? Although she did sense Sanju's dangerous, wild aura if you bother to fight him. "You fucking disgrace him, it seems that you are a spoiled brat with a short-tempered personality!" she snapped, before she ranted. "You can never save this world, Sanjaya Adinata! Even if you choose to be a vigilante with your friends by those members of Silver Slumbering Dragon Organization, you still can't reach to your goal! You will get caught and get killed, maybe even sentenced to death--"

DUAR!!!

The Void Raksha was shot at the head in the point blank that can't be sensed in here, the bullet exploded that splattered the blood and brain--before all of her body began to explode and leaving the blood tainted the grassy ground. Sanju was shocked, watching the gruesome death that he witnessed--as he felt a warm liquid dripped down from his cheeks.

So is it really like this?

Sanju narrowed his eyes, before he simply wipe the blood off his cheeks. "People can hate me like this, so what? It's just a fucking worthless word. But I wouldn't be taken as low as they could be," he clicked his tongue, he feels uncomfortable by that kind of feeling and a sense of nausea creeping in--his emotions just erupted but he learned not to get affected by people's opinions. People will always be the source of most fear and phobias, making people felt scared and unease--but, nothing comes from them can drive him insane. All he had to do, is accept himself and be who he is.

He heard a battling sounds and such as he approached the sounds, before he saw a tall humanoid mecha battled against Danava--one of the members in Legion Raksha that has been implanted with Psychic Binary. Of course, he heard them speaks but he didn't know the Destiny Raksha is actually Kinana--so he choose to watch while making sure she can do it.

"You can never make Sanjaya Adinata happy, nor if you--"

Those words made the latter snapped, catching Sanju's attention.

"That's wrong!"

It was Kinana's voice now, he recognizes it--before she continued while didn't know Sanju is hiding behind the trees. "Sanjaya is my friend, but he also my big brother figure that reminds me of my deceased brother! Don't you see how much he suffered from the Phantom Eruption because of your master?!" she snapped, making Sanju surprised by the sixteen-years old's outburst--huh, she thinks that to him? How nostalgic. "Yes, that's what makes me to be able to be with him, no matter what! Even if we're going to be executed, that's none of your concern! We'll follow him until all of our deaths, that's what we'll do! And if you care about our group or Master at all... perhaps you shouldn't!" she pointed out as she attacked him with her metallic neon blades from her gloves, while the Raksha laughed mockingly.

Danava started to mock her, "You actually cared about them... you know I wish I didn't have to read people's mind, because what you're doing right now isn't really a great sight to behold," he stated, she flinched in the back. "Oh really, I know something that you don't," the mecha-humanoid being added in a different voice, making Danava confused by the new voice and heard him saying those words in three different languages. "There's something I must be tell you, otherwise there's still an unknown enemy who is hidden in here," Destiny reminded in his calm, deep and friendly yet mysterious voice. "You know what is it?"

"W-What?" Danava mumbled, that he didn't have the time to dodge as he was hit on the head that made him stagger, and somehow, it was giving him a splitting headache. It was enough to make him yelped in pain, but he got blindsided and he staggered as his stance was fragile for now. Destiny began to unleash his ultimate weapon, his Brahmastra; Rudra's Rebirth that took form of a saber with a neon-blue and green ombre colored blade--before she swung her sword like a swinging chakram that made a slicing whirlwind towards him.

Before Danava realized it, the explosive blade launched against him as he tried to defend himself--and he had to leap back when he heard the boom. But, he felt the blade beheaded him on the neck while he trying to block the sword--then, he was sent crashing to the ground before the whole battlefield was destroyed--and he had to be beheaded. His body burst into a mess of shadows with metallic scales as he dissolved into the shadows, while he didn't realize that he just got defeated by this little girl.

Kinana reverted back to her human form, sighing before she yelped to see the nineteen-years old Garuda Raksha approaching her--Sanju was... flabbergasted, but a bit pleased to be able to fight the most interesting Raksha. "Haah, you almost had a near-death incident," he covered his eyes, mocking her as he patted her head playfully. "Are you okay, Sanjaya? Did you got hurt?" she asked, worried as she glanced to the side and back to his face. "If you're fine, what about Kanae and Akito?" Kinana added, after grabbing her right arm. Sanju raised his eyebrow, before looking at Kinana. "They should be okay as they are, besides we've got another--huh?" he noticed that she was sneaking towards the two of them from behind, it made him decided to stay quiet.

"HA!"

Kinana scared them that scared the fuck out of them, the sixteen-years old girl watched the two nineteen-years old young adults shrieked and face-planting their faces to the ground. What an unexpected moment, now they all facepalmed by the shock and the birds were already gone. "Was that..." Sanju tilted his head when Kanae sat up with a groan, she slowly turned towards Akito who growled. "Kinana, don't scare us like that!" she exclaimed as Akito rubbed his poor face. "Wait, you guys are done?" Akito asked.

Kinana nodded with a smile, while Sanju simply tucked his hand inside his pocket of his coat. "I just got done too, but I was on the other side that time--I already saw Kinana defeated one of them... much to my surprise," he said, ruffling her hair that made her smiled. Akito wanted to pinch her cheeks so bad (because he can't handle her 'adorable' expression to herself), even Kanae couldn't handle those cuteness so bad.

Akito sighed as he stood up along the other two of his teammates, before he grumbled. "Now, we're waiting for Raiden, Senja and Karina... they were the ones who always takes a long time to arrive, but not on purpose."

Of course, the three were the offensive fighters and has unstable powers unlike them.

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