...
The scarlet shock wave, generated by the explosion, sends me flying backwards
After flying for almost thirty meters, my body hits a tree
BOOM!
The impact between my body and the tree brings down the tree
While I feel blood seeping in the corner of my lips, I look at my arms and say
"Damn it! That attack caught me off guard! Luckily, I still managed to defend! If that attack had hit my head, well... I think it would do a little more than just hurt!"
Even before the dust generated by the impact settles
I quickly lift my aching body off the floor.
At this moment, I instinctively bend my knees, roll forward and quickly look back
The moment I do that, I see another me appear on my back, right in my blind spot
He lifts his right leg and using all his strength he kicks a side kick right where my head was a few moments ago
The shock wave generated by his kick destroys the three trees that were beside
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
While he is still in the air, watching the explosions
I suddenly appear behind him, and while I have an evil smile on my face, I land a side kick on his head
"Hallo, my friend!"
BLOW!
My side kick, hits straight and his body is sent flying
After flying for about twenty meters, he hits a tree
BOOM!
As I wait for the dust to clear, I say with a big smile
"You know, I'm not going to stand around and let you hit me as much as you want!
It's a shame that I don't have that same scarlet energy as you do! Otherwise you would be dead!"
When the dust goes down I see that he is already standing
He slowly raises his head looks into my eyes and let out a long cry
"KIIILLL!"
After that, he growls at me, and I realize that all of his teeth are sharp
"Huh? Why the hell do you have shark teeth?"
While I'm distracted looking at his teeth
He leans his body forward, and starts running towards me
After a few seconds, when he is less than five meters from me
He quickly concentrates the scarlet energy in one of his hands
Then he jumps in my direction, and tries to scratch me
I easily dodge it, taking a step back and it scrapes towards the floor
When he does that, five scarlet lines come out of his fingertips
These scarlet lines hit the floor, and cut it easily, as if it were made of butter
SHHHN! SHHHN! SHHHN! SHHHN! SHHHN!
'Damn it! Glad I dodged this!'
I take advantage, that he is still crouching, and kick him in the head
My kick hits, and the other me, is sent sliding across the floor
BLOW!
He quickly puts his hands on the floor, to stop slipping
After sliding for about three meters, it stops
So while ignoring the blood that runs from his nose, he takes his hands off the floor and again runs towards me
"Tsk! It looks like this other me, is also able to ignore the pain! It will be a pain in the ass deal with it him! Sigh!"
After sighing, I start running towards the other me
"I HAVE TO KIILLL!"
When we meet, he again tries to punch me and I dodge
However, this punch was just a feint, and while I'm busy dodging
He quickly uses his other hand to launch the same attack as before.
"SHIT!"
Seeing the five scarlet lines coming towards me, I quickly tilt my body to the side trying to dodge attacks
With that, I can successfully dodge two of the lines, which hit the floor
SHHHN! SHHHN!
However, for being a second late the other three scarlet lines hit me
Cutting like this, my arms and part of my chest
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
After hitting me, the other I quickly tries to fit another punch
"DIIEE!"
"No, thanks!"
However, II was already expecting him to do something like that
Therefore, I quickly dodge and counterattack whit a side kick to the head
Seeing this, he quickly gives up on punching me and uses his arms to defend his head
BLOW!
After receiving my kick, the other one is forced to take a few steps back
I take this opportunity to check my injuries
In doing so, I realize that even though my arms and chest are bleeding a lot, and it hurts a lot, they don't hinder my movements
"Phew! It looks like the attacks didn't hit any important part! Anyway! I thought he was just an idiot. However, that last attack was clearly planned! Tsk! It looks like this fight is going to be harder than I expected!"
At that moment, the other me starts running towards me again while screaming
"YOU MUST TO DIE!"
Seeing this, I smile bitterly and run towards him
"Dude, I already said I'm not interested in doing that!"
...
After almost three hours of fighting, the environment around us is completely destroyed
Several of the trees have been felled and there are several craters spread over the ground.
Both his body and mine are full of wounds and are completely soaked in blood
I run towards him, and punch him with my right arm and he deflects leaning his body to the left, right after that, he tries to fight back by punching me in the chest
"I HAVE TO KILL YOU! YOU MUST-"
However, I use the momentum of my punch to rotate my body
With that, his punch just touches my clothes
After that, I quickly lift my left leg and try to kick his chest
"I know I know... I must to die! Isn't it?"
Not waiting for my actions, the other I can't deflect, and my kick hits him in the chest
With that, the body of the other self is sent flying
BLOW!
After flying for about ten meters, the other I can stabilize his body in the air and land
BOOM!
Then he gets up and looks at me full of anger as he says
"I have to kill you! However, for that I have to become stronger!"
"Oh, so you're able to speak normally if you want to!"
After saying that, he adjusts his body posture leaving his back very straight
Then he takes a deep breath and closes his eyes
"You fucking sucker! Why are you closing your eyes? Are you mean that our fight is so boring... that you are going to even take a nap? Okay, I'll help you take an eternal nap!"
After saying that, I start running towards him using all my speed
Arriving in front of him, I send a kick towards his neck
"Let's see what happens if I break your neck!"
However, just when my foot is only a few inches from his neck
Suddenly, the other me opens his eyes, and all his muscles swell in a strange way
Then he leans back and sends a punch with his right arm towards my chest
'SHIT!'
The punch hits my chest, and I'm sent flying
"Blow!"
After flying for twenty meters, while I'm still in the air, I quickly kick in the air
With this movement, I successfully stop, so I quickly land on the ground
After landing on the floor, I kneel and I vomit blood on the floor
Then I look at my chest and notice that there is a big bruise exactly where the other Me's punch hit me
"Huehue! Damn it, if I hadn't tipped my body back at the last moment... My chest would have been crushed!"
I slowly get up, and wipe the blood from the corner of my mouth
Then look at the other me
"What the fuck?"
The first thing I see, is that the other me is kneeling on the floor
He's bleeding a lot, and on the floor in front of him there is a distorted piece of meat
This piece of meat distorted on the floor, is his arm
I slowly start to approach him
When I get in front of him, I realize why he is immobile
He is immobile, because all the muscles of his body are twisted in a strange way
"Man, was that your final attack? Well, in that case, it looks like after the attack ... the one who dies is you!"
In that moment, I hear him whisper
"Kill...Kill...Kill...Kill me!"
Hearing that, I smile broadly and shake my head, and then I say
"Nah, I'm not going to do that! You know, after all this fight, I finally realized who the hell you are!"
I kneel beside him, put my hand on his face, and while I look him in the eyes, I say
"You are my instinct! Well, being more specific... my Monster Instinct!
You appeared in my head, probably when I arrived in this world and I got this body!
However, you really started to gain strength… When I started to get stronger! That is, when I started to become a monster!"
After I say that, the other looks me in the eye and says
"...Kill me!"
I ignore the request of the other me and continue
"What was trying to make me fight and kill other monsters was you! Probably, as I get stronger... so will you! This is very dangerous! After all, you can try to take control of my body! Even so, I will not kill you!
Of course, I'm not going to kill you, for a reason, like... feeling sorry for you! Come on, I'm not stupid! The reason I don't do it is very simple! It's because I don't know if I kill you… you're actually going to die! You know, not knowing if you actually died, it's scary!"
"...Kill me!"
"Anyway, what I mean is that I'm not going to kill you!"
I stop for a second, look into the eyes of the other me and with a smile I say
"Instead, I'm going to absorb you!"
Hearing this, the other Me stops for a second as if he doesn't understand me, but he quickly recovers and still in a monotone and lifeless tone, he says
"....Kill me!"
Seeing the other me acting like this, I don't get angry and patiently keep explaining my reasoning to him
I get up I take a few steps back and under the eye of the other Me, I open my arms pointing towards our surroundings
"I imagine you must be asking yourself, how exactly am I going to do this, isn't it?"
"...Kill me!"
"Yes, as I expected you are really curious about it! The answer to that is simpler than you think! You know, all this space is a imaginary space!"
I lift one of my hands and as I point to my head, I slowly say
"That means that all this space is all here, inside my head! In other words, technically... I'm the owner of this space and as the owner of this place, well... I can do everything I want! For example, I can do this..."
I raise my hand and smash the air in front of me, then the sky above a more distant area begins to deform
Then under the confused look of the other Me, the sky starts to separate and a crack of several kilometers appears in it, on the other side of the huge crack there was only darkness
However, things don't stop there, right after the crack appears, something starts to come out of it – a gigantic hand hundreds of thousands in length appears
The hand slowly starts to come down and smashes everything under it
BOOOOM!
The result of this is a big explosion followed by an absurd amount of dust, as soon as the dust settles it becomes possible to see the damage
The big crack in the sky and the huge hand disappeared, even so, the place where the hand hit is completely devastated, and what used to be a large forest area, now is just an empty land
All the trees, plants and even the stones have disappeared leaving only a large crater in the shape of a gigantic hand
Seeing this, I nod in satisfaction seeing that my theory was really right, so with a big smile I look at the other Me who is still a little distracted by the vision and say
"So... should we start?"
Hearing my words the face of the other me, finally changes, and he starts looking at me in fear
However, before he can say anything I quickly put my hand on top of the other Me's head, and under his terrified look I say
"It was nice to talk to you, Me! Bye-bye!"
The moment I say that, the body of the other Me starts to fade and turns into a scarlet haze
Seeing this, I take a deep breath and start to absorb all the scarlet fog
About a minute later, the fog disappears.
At this point, I hear a beep ringing in my head followed by the following notifications
[The Host has overcome ???????????????? control!]
[The Host regained control of his own Body!]
[The host successfully absorbed the ????????????????]
"Ohhh, apparently I was right. That other me, must really be my instinct! Otherwise, there's no reason such a notification appears in such a perfect time!
Phew! I didn't expect fighting to be so much fun! Huehue! Well, maybe I didn't like it before... Because all the fights I had were with that damn girl! Arrgh! I even shiver just remembering!
Anyway! Let's get out of here!"
Having reached this conclusion, I raise my hand and slowly snap my fingers
"SNAP!"
The moment I do that, the space around me starts to fill with scratches
Crack! Crack! Crack!
A few seconds later, the space that has thousands of cracks, finally breaks
CRACK!
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