Aether clenched his grip on Denial's hand and pulled him towards him, putting his other fist right in the path of the pull, so that he would be hit by it. Yet he didn't expect it to hurt this much, Denial's punches. Plus, Denial just passed through his fist; he had forgotten that it only makes that specific part of the body physical. He needed to find a way to make it hit him with parts of his body that were more vulnerable.
He gritted his teeth before letting go of him. He needed to exchange blows, after all, if he kept him in his grip, the guy could also attack him easily, and it would hurt more.
Plus, it wasn't like Denial was going to wait after he let go of him.
It was just that he saw every last one of his movements.
Denial moved, yet he only saw this when he had already moved ten centimeters; he saw his shadow after all, not him. A delay that was small, yet at the same time deadly in many situations, and this one was close to being one of them.
