'!!!'
Uro and Ryu's faces showed true and utter shock. They couldn't even hide their worry from Yuta or Furōkawa, but these seasoned sorcerer veterans quickly steeled their nerves.
Only a mere moment passed, but no fighter was in their original position.
Their speed was unbelievable!
Furōkawa used his wings to push Uro with a huge gust of corrosive wind, sending her reeling into the mall. Wasting no time, he shot inside of the window she crashed through and swung his axe wildly. To his surprise, Uro pulled the space and diverted the attacks into nearby debris.
On Furōkawa's last swing, he held Oryx high above his head and struck down, completely demolishing the floor and falling to the first level.
'It's time!!' Furō thought while he rose from the rubble. He subsequently sucked Oryx into the ring and slowly started releasing his invisible, corrosive mist-like cursed energy.
He stood with his arms crossed in the middle of the room, watching Uro stand atop the fallen debris from the upper floor.
"Somehow, someway, bastard men like you continue to make life difficult for me. Why won't you just die already!"
Furōkawa disdainfully snorted to her comment, and retorted: "It's people like you who are the problem. Your ego! Can you even grasp the situation at hand here? You want to fight to the death, but I'm not struggling against you as much as you are struggling against me. Don't you get it?"
Uro's face grew deeper resentment, blood running down her lip as she bit it in anger and hatred.
"You..What do you know about anything?! I was forbidden to have this "ego" you speak of! You've had the luxury of being able to make a choice! You've found freedom in strength, but I've only known mortal combat!"
She grabbed her head with both of her hands, and yelled with a mad smile, "And subjugation!"
Furōkawa stood motionless with his arms crossed, continuously releasing a low volume of gas as he listened to Uro.
"Kenjaku promised us another chance at a fulfilling life, and if you think I will let you rob that away from me like those damned Fujiwara, you are fatally mistaken!"
Furōkawa's eyes widened.
'Did she just say "Fujiwara?" From a gajillion years ago? This cannot be the reason she hates me so much..'
"You'reholding a grudge for over 1,000 years? The Fujiwara don't even exist anymore lady… You're pathetic, seriously," Furōkawa said with the most disdainful, disapproving face one could ever make.
This singular comment sparked something deep in Uro's heart.
A hatred burning so passionately that you could see it.
A hate so strong that it could be felt throughout the entire building.
"You're related to them, aren't you? ..Hehe..hahaha.."
"HAAAHHHAAHHHAHHAA!!!"
Uro began laughing hysterically, quickly reaching mania to Furōkawa's discomfort.
"How funny, Okkotsu is my cousin."
Uro's laughter stopped at once.
"It's my lucky day isn't it? A Fujiwara bargain sale!!"
Right as Uro was about to launch her technique, Furōkawa used the bracelet of Hrist to construct a giant hand to hold Uro in place while he reached her face with a solid reinforced fist.
He needed to engage in a short dialogue with Uro to distract her from his plan that would only work once. Luckily, she took the initiative to start the plan for him.
With a quick twist, he pivoted on his left foot and delivered a powerful kick to her side, dispelling the fist, shattering it and knocking her senseless.
"Had enough yet?" Furōkawa said while generating more toxic energy in his closed fist with a cocky smirk on his face.
"EERRRAUUUGGGHHH!!!"
'Uh oh!'
Space around Uro began to heavily distort as she pulled from both her hands, wobbling the building and forcing Furōkawa to lose his footing.
In that short interval when Furōkawa attempted to regain his balance, Uro struck him dead in the center of his gut with a devastating Thin Ice Missile.
The impact shot him into a stuffed animal factory. Furōkawa looked around with blood running down his lips, surprised by the force behind that attack.
"Ragebait successful, hmph," Furōkawa quickly handspringed onto his feet and sprinted with a boost from his wings out the factory, keeping his sharp awareness on Uro the entire time. When he reached the food court, he stopped running, skidding on the tile.
"Die!!!"
Suddenly, Uro's fist came out of nowhere with enough strength to push him back, but Furōkawa narrowly dodged, grazing his cheek. Before he could respond, she pulled him in and struck his jaw with her elbow, then drop kicked him into some tables in his path. Uro grabbed the tile flooring and pulled it up, yanking it down as if it were a big blanket. Every item that was grounded was sent flying around the building, including Furōkawa.
In the disarray, Uro used the flying furniture and other miscellaneous objects as cover to hide her incoming Thin Ice Missile.
"What I strike is the surface of the "sky," not the person themselves!"
CRACK!
Furōkawa winced as he was hit head on with a strong attack again. However, Uro wasn't finished with her combo!
She quickly followed up by grabbing one of Furōkawa's wings and spinning him around, throwing him into a nearby Italian restaurant.
When she tried to strike him again, instead of merely dodging the attack, Furōkawa released Caustic Sea on the passing fist, coating it in his cursed energy. With a twist of his hand, that gas became an Iron Maiden of toxic nails that completely latched and impaled through her arm in multiple different directions up her forearm.
(An Iron Maiden is a coffin of nails that point toward the inside.)
Furōkawa then did a quick back step and springed his leg back.
"Thank Ryu for showing me this!"
Furōkawa drove Ryu's powerful frontal kick directly into Uro's gut, concentrating and releasing a small portion of energy to take her out the fight.
She slid back, still on her feet, with lots of blood flowing out her mouth like a waterfall. Everything from her lower torso to the bottom of her breast now had dark purple— nearly black— discoloration.
"DING DONG DING DONG DING DONG DING DOOONNNGGG!! A PLAYER HAS ADDED THE RULE TO ALLOW THE TRANSFER OF POINTS BETWEEN PLAYERS!!" Furōkawa and Uro's Koganes poofed and announced simultaneously, but neither of them could pay any attention to it.
"Huff…huff… It's… not over yet!"
An enormous spike of cursed energy surged from Uro's belly.
'Domain expansion!'