As Roi's footsteps approached the entrance, with each step, the light at the end grew brighter. He kept humming and walking playfully, though with full caution.
The necklace flickered red with each step. "Um..i think there are some hungry demons inside heating the area." He stared at his necklace. "I can't wait to close their mouths!" He ran faster.
"HEYYYOOO!" He burst into the room, seeing nobody. "..." He observed around, and there was another door in front.
He immediately took a step toward this door, entering it. Then, a huge chamber appeared in front. "Uh...i know you dogs are here, just come out already." He walked toward the middle.
"As you wish..." A sound passed through his right ear, coming from the left. "HEY! Your breath stinks!" Roi turned around, though there was no one.
A hit struck him from behind, "Ow.." It sent him a bit front. "Intruder...you still have a second chance to leave this area.." A voice muttered in his ears.
Roi stared at the ground, then scratched his head. "Oh well..i think you're right." He made his way toward the door he came from. As he was walking, a presence was felt behind him.
"OR YOU WISH!" He turned around with a punch toward the person's face, sending him flying into the midst of the room. Roi stood while his blue Reikonryoku flew slowly into his fists.
The guy stood amazed by Roi's reaction, "Brother..i think tricks won't work on this human.." Another figure appeared beside the enemy, "How about we make a deal, intruder?"
"A deal?" Roi raised his fists, getting ready to strike. The entities took off their masks, then lowered their capes together. "If we win..you have to bow under us." Tai spoke.
Roi stood normally, lowering his fists, "And if i win?"
Uai replied, "If you win, we will be telling you our lord's intentions..", Roi kept staring for a second, "Why would i want to know your intentions?"
"Then you want to worship us.." Tai smirked. Roi kept staring for a moment, then exhaled through his nose, a smirk tugging at the corner of his lips."Guess I don't have a choice here..."
He stepped forward, tightening his fists as blue Reikonryoku rippled from his fists, arcs of light cracking through the chamber air.
"...but to destroy you both."
The brothers grinned, Reikonryoku bursting around them in red and white.
Tai spoke, "Then don't die too fast, intruder."Uai cracked his neck. "Let's see if that smile survives a real fight."
Roi raised his fist and slammed it into his other palm, the shockwave echoing across the chamber.
"Don't worry..." His grin widened, wild and confident."I deliver pain personally."
The room shook as the three lunged forward at once, as their Reikonryoku collided in a blinding storm of blue and red/white.
Roi's blue, glaring pupils followed the strikes from the two, as Tai took the left side, and Uai took the right side. He kept blocking those sides and striking them.
"You've got some skills.." Tai said, delivering a blow. "Indeed.." Uai replied, delivering a kick toward Roi's gut. "Heh.. at least you admit IT!" He raised his left leg upward, blocking Uai's kick, replying with a strike toward Tai's face.
As Tai got sent backward, Roi turned to Uai, then grabbed his face, raising him midair to strike him as hard on his face, creating a blue Reikonryoku explosion in Uai's face. "GUHH!" Uai crashed into the wall.
The two brothers threw themselves back at Roi, "Tsk.." He raised both arms slowly to the two sides, holding Tai's blow and Uai's next kick. Pouring Reikonryoku in his palm while spinning them around, sending them in opposite directions.
Then this time, the two brothers landed on the wall with their legs. "OOOP!" Roi was already in front of Tai with his fist glowing blue. "TAI!" Uai lunged from the wall he stood in. "Tairyoku style...Crushing fist!" As the fist already charged backward, it was sent toward Tai's face, creating a shockwave that destroyed the whole wall behind him.
Blood splashed out of Tai's mouth as Uai reached Roi, "How dare you!" As Roi turned around to face Uai, two kick strikes were sent on his way. He immediately raised his left arm, blocking the strikes being sent away.
Uai held Tai in his arms, "Brother..are you okay?" Tai got up while his nose was bleeding.
He stepped forward, "At this rate..we can't fight this being..we have to do the technique."
"Wait Tai, that's dangerous!" Uai replied.
"Hey! Intruder." Tai shouted for Roi, "Hm..? Already want to give up?" Roi stood while blowing dust out of his clothes. "Heh..never..Though i have one question...What is your name?"
Roi smiled as he spoke, "Roi Washi...the strongest mailsman."
"Heh..i will never forget that name.." Uai and Tai stood next to each other, while Tai raised his left arm without looking at his brother. "Sorry, brother.." He snapped his brother's head off.
Roi froze mid-step. "Wait...did he just"Then, Tai proceeded to take his brother's head and raise it toward the air. "I think it is not necessary to know our current names.."
White Reikonryoku flew from Tai's palm, going for his brother's head. The head replied with red Reikonryoku, emerging together in one order. "Uai...AND TAI!" The chamber exploded with Reikonryoku.
"Holy..shit!" Roi raised both of his arms to block that explosion, being sent backward. The Reikonryoku is increasing significantly, sending more shockwaves of ryoku toward Roi.
Then, it faded slowly, showing a figure in the midst of the chamber. The entity was bent, raising its head slowly. The body color of this entity was completely red, like a demon, with markings all around its body. "We're now..Taui!" The entity spoke while breaths left out of its mouth, heating the area.
"I don't know what's wrong with you..killing your brother in need of strength!?" Roi spoke.
The newborn Taui appeared in front of Roi with a blow, "!" Roi moved his leg to the side, ducking down, as the fist passed above him. He felt that strong shockwave passing.
Then, he took a step forward with a blow from down to Taui's gut, leading blue Reikonryoku shock to leave from Taui's back. "G..h" Taui stood in his place, "Kidding." He then grabbed Roi by the head, throwing him at the wall behind. My punch..didn't even hurt him!? Roi thought as he crashed into the wall.
Taui rushed toward him with another blow, "Shit!" Roi hovered to the side, causing the entity to punch the wall. The shockwave of that punch roamed all of the chamber, heating the area.
Then, the entity flew, rushing behind the running Roi. I don't want to use my ushi..but this guy is forcing me to.. He then stood, "Alright then..." He turned around at the entity running at it. Is he a joke? He was running from us a moment ago.. Taui and Roi exchanged fists, while Roi's strikes didn't hurt the entity at all.
"HAH! FEELING PAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME!?!" Two blows from the entity went toward Roi's face, causing his nose to burst blood out. "NOT YET!" His legs were forced into the ground as he pushed his body forward, with three strikes, one at the entity's jaw, then he charged his other arm to punch its stomach. Afterward, he raised his leg upward, hitting the entity from its head's right side.
The chamber went silent for a second, as Reikonryoku surrounded the hit marks on the entity's body, leaving from the back. "GRAH!" Taui was sent back a little, then he stepped forward to his original place to send a blow into the smiling Roi's face.
As it struck his face, his right fist glowed blue, forcing its way toward Taui's face.
Both of them were sent to opposite walls. The entity splashed black blood from its mouth while Roi's head poured blood onto his face.
Taui pushed himself forward a stud, "..." He then roared, "WHY ARE YOU GETTING STRONGER EVERY TIME I LAND A CLEAN STRIKE ON YOU!???!?" Then, he rushed at high speed toward the fallen Roi.
"You know why..." Roi stood up, "..." The entity got closer as Roi's fists glowed blue and black this time. He raised both arms upward, blocking Taui's punch, then striking with another one, sending Taui back. "My ushi is..Bleeding maniac!" He rose both arms as it exploded with Reikonryoku flow.
Taui landed on the ground while anger spiked his Reikonryoku range. "Every time I get hurt or hit, my raw strength and skills multiply significantly for a couple of times!" Roi spilled those words out as Taui got up, staring down.
Roi spat blood on the ground and then said, "Come at me, you ugly creature."
"Blah blah blah...normi..then you!?" The entity screamed, "WHY WOULD I BE OUTPOWERED BY WEAKLING HUMANS LIKE YOU TWO!?" It echoed everywhere in the destroyed chamber.
The entity appeared in front of Roi, rapidly punching him in every part of his body. Then, it punched his head from above, forcing him into the ground. "RAHHH!" It continued kicking him while he was on the ground, and his blood started pouring everywhere as he was crushed. The sound of bone snapping echoed through the chamber as he disappeared after the entity's last kick.
"You know why you always lose..." Taui turned around slowly. His hands trembled as his eyes narrowed fast all around. "BECAUSE YOU ARE AN IGNORANT PIECE OF SHIT!" He heard this voice behind him. When he turned around, he saw Roi, who charged his fist backward.
"No...NO..NOOOO!" Taui charged his fist, knowing it was too late, but at least a strike might work. Roi's fist glowed Blue and Red with Black Reikonryoku, as the flow of the energy increased by many.
"Now...BE ERASED!" They both sent their blows, crossing fists, "RAAHHHH", "TSHAA!"
The explosion of the Reikonryoku made the ceiling fall apart, causing tremors in the chamber that shook the whole area. Reikonryoku shockwaves exploded around them as the monstrous voices disappeared.
Explosions stopped, and the chamber calmed. There was no sign of a chamber anymore; destroyed concrete parts everywhere. The scent of blood roamed the area, while dust covered the scene.
The sound of hard breathing was heard as the dust started fading. Roi stood in his place while blood poured down his head; his left arm was completely broken, along with the right one that was covered in blood.
He breathed hardly, being injured in all parts of his body. "I nailed it..."
Then, he barely walked forward toward the fallen entity. Taui had no right side of his body; it was destroyed, with no traces of it, though blood spilled on the ground.
As Roi turned around to the exit, a voice shocked him. "You fought well.." The voice barely spoke. He immediately turned around to the entity, it continued, "You finally made me understand..the real reason i always fail.." Roi's emotions weren't expressable as he kept staring at the ground.
"I admire you...for that..i will tell you the secret.." Roi observed the entity waiting for it to speak.
"Your real enemy..never was the demon king..." As those words spilled out, Roi's eyes widened.
"That's right...your real enemy..." The entity stopped talking for a second, then the sounds of its heartbeats faded away.
Roi's vision was on the ground, "I need..to report to Kaien.." He turned around to where he entered, barely being able to walk. As he caught up to the door.
He stood and smiled, "At least... they'll have one less problem when they get there."
Then Roi fell on his face due to his severe injuries.
"I still have deliveries to make." His vision faded away.
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The masked man observed the same window, "One of my pawns down..? Impressive.."
He took a sip from his wine, "Yes, my lord, he almost exposed us.." A figure who stood behind the masked man, telling him the reports.
"At least..those stupid brats died before spilling the name." He returned the wine. The moonlight lit the room a little.
"Interesting ushi..i wonder how my real pawn is going to win in this game.." He sat down back at a chair he had. "Before that..i have to observe how Kaien would do against the divine demon.."
Chapter End.