In the seats in front of the arena, Rose and the other two were chatting while they saw Louis wear the cloth on his face.

"Isn't covering his eyes a bit too much? Kat, is Louis that strong?" Asked Rose to the female bodyguard.

"He is that strong, miss. As far as I know, he covered his eyes while fighting weaker people thank him for giving them a handicap from him." In contrast to her cold usual self, she was educated towards Rose.

"But why is Mike placing the same thing on him? Doesn't he need to see to use telekinesis?"

"Wh... what?!" she then focused on the Arena again, Kat had no interest in the spar but got it suddenly while Mike covered his eyes too "Maybe, they won't use their abilities?"

"Oh, Mike said he never trained his ability, so maybe is because of that? But why the cloth anyway?" Rose had too many questions but Kat could only calm her curiosity while telling her to look patiently.

Rose always liked to have the answers beforehand, but she still showed attention to the combat.

Mike started moving with fast moves like he could see through the cloth, it wasn't tight but he still could not see with his eyes, his moves were professional, his peace fast but not tiring him enough.

"Wow! Isn't he using a cloth? Has it holes or something?" Asked Rose excitedly. She was behaving like a kid for the first in a long time.

"..." The female bodyguard was silent; she could not answer her. That made Rose mad but she got an answer from the other Side.

"Even if it has holes, is not possible for him to react with that speed" It was not the male bodyguard; it was Louis' assistant "But I can guarantee that it has no holes and is thick enough to not let one see things even in front of your own face."

Before she could ask again, she focused on the combat. Mike was fast, punch, defend, evade, it was all made in a way that looked like he had clear sight in his eyes.

Then they stopped, Louis said something, and Mike's face became serious.

"They are about to get serious in the fight, now that he knows Mike's strength, he will adjust" The assistant answered Rose before she could ask, that made her happy, why doesn't she have an assistant that professional?

The combat then started again, this time fiercer, Louis said some things from time to time, but those words were for Mike to teach him, and were in a lower voice so they could not hear them from where they were.

The next second, the punches finally became more than just fierce. It was a fight going all out against each other.

Louis was fast and Mike could not land a strong hit, even when landing one it was because Mike's defense was so sturdy that Louis made a hole on purpose so he could land a critical hit at Mike.

The assistant even narrated some of those strategies to Rose. Rose wasn't disappointed by Mike; she was happy that her bodyguard could at least stand for some time against Louis. More even when eyes covered.

...

Mike was bleeding badly, and Louis was fine, but Mike had no intention to surrender, much less take in mind Louis' words.

He said he would beat him badly if he surrendered, so he must fight to the end, fight, faint, or die, that was the Blood family's extreme method Claire taught him, and the one Louis just mentioned.

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Now he needed to fight to the end, he understood the defense he had only worked for a short time and needed to adjust his combat style to land hits on his opponent without breaking his own defense, his ability could not read all of Louis' movements at great details but to some extent.

Anyway, while thinking, Louis barely gave him time to think so he took some hits, still focusing on defense.

If he wanted to get another advantage he could have improve his reading on Louis' body. But how could he do it?

"I need to take some hits from him, I have no other way, by learning what his body says while beating me I can adjust in the future. Claire said my reaction speed using my ability is good, I just need a little bit of... combat insight!"

He took another punch, and made up his mind; he could get beaten by Louis, but at least would understand his moves and improve the reading of his opponent's body.

Some hits were aimed at his head, some at his chest, some at random. When he thought that understood Louis' body moves...

"It is not enough for you to improve, what about a more street-like style?"

"eh?"

By then, Louis' moves became different, attacking with all his body, grabbing Mike's in place to land harder hits. Mike defended and tried to counterattack, but his strength against Louis was nothing.

"Use your ability to the limit, I don't mind if you attack me with it" Said Louis.

Those words, illumined Mike's mind, he only used his ability to see the world around him, but in combat, it has more uses, just he still was not in the stage to do so.

Still, the pieces in his head started joining together, "It is an ability specially made to kill", screamed the new shape in his mind.

He used that ability to push things, make people stumble, and so on, never used it to attack, because it was not developed enough, but...

"That's it, stumble, I think I can do that kind of thing even while in combat, regret your words Louis, I will beat you, man!"

Mike made up his mind, he was ready to attack, when Louis made a move, Mike studied to see if it was the right chance.

While he took a kick, he took Mike's leg resisting the pain, and with all his force, he made Louis' only leg on the ground move.

Louis resisted and didn't fall, but still made him lose his balance. It was the perfect timing for Mike, but he doubted how to proceed.

He could start beating Louis, but when using his ability, he felt something amiss. His ability got him blind while using it to make Louis stumble. He got totally blind for a moment, but just a short moment.

He reacted quickly and then used his free arm to hit Louis who defended. Then Louis placed a hand on the ground when making himself fall down on his own, used that hand to keep hold of him and then used his free leg to make a kick, directed towards Mike's head.

Mike thought quickly and was ready to defend, but he made up his mind, that he will take the kick, but with his arm while defending.

It was very painful, his arm was in pain, but his head was safe and it gave him the chance to throw a kick at Louis who was still not standing in the right stand on his legs.

Louis rolled away but used the force of Mike's kick to get away and took the chance to stand again on his legs before Mike could get close to him again.

The people in the viewer's seats were almost with their mouths opens. "Not only he can stand but also can counterattack" that kind of reaction.

"Well well well... I underestimated your improvement speed, you are quick to learn, so let's get down to business already" Said Louis with a strange smile.

Mike could feel the smile showed something not good, quite the opposite of something good.

Louis' speed went up by a hundred percent, towards Mike. Mike could feel his cousin getting close and his moves, but this time, the moves were hard to read, it was similar to Claire's changes of moves, but more dangerous, cause he felt the danger of each move.

Just by a matter of survival instinct, he moved and could barely evade a punch towards his face. He evaded by pure instinct and not by his ability to read. It was a close call.

But could not think what to do when he felt the movement on Louis, tried to evade while defending at the same time just in case, and still got hit.

Louis was relaying on feint while attacking, and even while an attack was a feint it still worked as an attack to a certain grade.

Mike could not stand for too much time, he still could try to attack, and some hits were made, but only to be received with more beatings.

His brain was speeding up and his ability to the limit, but still tried to win, his power of will was at the limit, never wanting to surrender, never wanting to be watched fainting in combat.

He allowed it before because Claire was his trustworthy artificial assistant. But never was fond of showing weakness like that in front of people.

The people on the seats were not sitting, they were stunned by Mike's display of resistance towards one of the most powerful ability users in the world, even when Louis didn't use his ability.

Anyway, he could still not resist Louis' attacks, each hit was the hardest he ever felt, and not so long after that, all he could see was his world becoming dark. He could not feel his ability working and his conscience faded away.

This time nobody was there to catch him.