Codey was sent into a shock, once a crystal came growing from under his foot and giving him an impact into his bottom foot, because the crystal landed only on Codey's foot, it forced him in the air, however into a backflip. In the middle of the air and backflip, Codey noticed a movement in front a few meters away and realized. A crystal came growing from the right side of the wall once Codey quickly twisted his body with crossed arms and defended the attack.
"With pleassure!" Giving a determinded smile, Tim called out his one Ginken, once preparing it. "Alright, you big book of crap! Time for you to be cut down!" Making a step forward Tim quickly abducted his stance and began running, once nearing Bookie he quickly jumped in the air with his sword raised up, when making a smile, Bookie was Quite a prankster so he was acting to be scared. "Yeah, be scared! Next time, they should give me a real opponent!" Tim shouted, finally nearing and swinging downwards. "Die!" The sword slammed at the top of the book, however, Tim froze on the spot when seeing that he was unable to cut through the book at all, instead it bounced back. Triple dot emoji appeared above Tim's mind, once still looking at Bookie. "Sorry matey, but I'm not an ordinary book!" Bookie laughed, he grabbed Tim's Ginken when spinning him at twisted circle. "Woah! Woah! Woah!" Loudly yelling while being circled around, Tim went blasting into the air.
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Zero World - Hinomaru Area, C.A.C. Arena - Thursday, 10:21 a.m.|
With a twister flip, Codey finally landed on the ground and followed up to clean his scratches and marks over his face, still ferciously tired, Codey's sweat dropped down on the ground. ("The body's defense that he carries around him doesn't get weaker... there is almost nothing I can do... his body is build to take hits.... damn it...") Codey wondered in his mind while his body slowly was shaking up and down from every hit he took thus far. "Your tries of taking me down are futile. And, even if you do succeed a blow, you're just not atthe right scale of my own power and defense... Codey Katorishi, give up or I'll keep pushing you, so long that my blows will break your limbs!" Tanaki was waving his palm in front trying to prove that Codey is outmatched. "Man, this fight... it's been going on for a while.... and based on timer they have both only have approximately 3 minutes and 34 seconds...." Mickee answered while speaking his thoughts clearly. Codey quickly moved his sight on timer as he noticed it counting down every second. ("I gotta finish this now. If I don't beat him in that short amount of time, the basic damage will easily be proven to others.... Tanaki will definetly be victorious... for that reason I have to come up with a different plan...") While the two Ginkenians faced each other... Ayuka came running to the crowd of spectators. "Myles! Hey! Are you here?" Calling out while searching for Myles, Ayuka raised her voice. People faced her, her voice even reached Codey which made him face towards her. ("Ayuka... what is she doing, I thought they returned to the other dimension... wait... no, that must of have been their plan, she must be searching for somebody.") Thinking and unable to focus, Codey felt a sound movement in front of him, with his eyes widening out, he foresaw an attack once a blank and surprise hit, smashed into Codey's face. "You let your guard down, idiot!" Laughed Tanaki and in a louder call, the contact forced the ground underneath the two opponents crack and shatter, twisting through the air, Codey's body shaped a flying blow of his body backwardd, spinning from convinient force, once Tanaki followed up with a circle sweep on the floor with his right foot, Codey gathered his stamina and noticed a crack behind him. A fast and sharp crystal grew from the floor behind him. Forcing his body to quickly turn, made him quite surprised, however. Quickly after such attack Codey grabbed the crystal with his outstretched arm and slipped around the crystal's body in a whirl, he dropped to the floor and luckly avoided the crystal from harming him. Before straightening up his body, Codey released a tremendous wind which quickly surrounded around his left handed boomerang. A storming throw of boomerang from side sweep of an arm went flying in a spinning motion, Codey caught his stance with the left foot and standing sideways with the left foot in front, he faced at Tanaki but soon realized something. Tanaki was unable to perfectly move and at an instinctive smash, the boomerang crashed into massy Tanaki. The guard that Tanaki had was completely canceled and leeked his foot backwards from the pummel of boomerang. Codey immediately realized something great. ("That's it!") His call in thoughts came to a conclusion.
"Damn.... where did that little brat run of to..." Ayuka questioned when turning around, she looked around once more to accept her thoughts of Myles lost. "He's not here... damn it..." She ignored the duel completely and quickly ran back through the area to search in hopes of finding Myles.
[Meanwhile]
Tokyo City - Furō Street - Thursday, 10:26 a.m.|
"He hasn't realized yet." Answered Gintoki. "Huh, what do you mean, did something happen, that we missed as well?" Rachel worryingly asked. "Not exactly, Ginkens only target a real Ginkenian or a Demon, but they do not target other livings, the attack that Tim did was not controled by Nensho, in fact it was his own doing. he was unable to cut through Bookie, because it was him who actually attacked, not... Nensho." "Wait... you mean... that Tim attacked Bookie on his own, without letting Nensho take control?" Tooru confusingly wondered when keeping her finger on her lips. "That's right. Bookie was unaffected by the cut, because Tim's Spirit Symbolism is much weaker than the one where Nensho takes control... mastering his own Spirit Symbolism is the most important achievement to becoming a Soul Caller, fighting Bookie and rather weaker opponent will sure allow him to learn his manipulation of Spirit Symbolism..." Gintoki carefully explained.
While running away, Bookie who chased after Tim, swung his arm towards Tim's back. "Hey back off you ugly leather!" After shouting such word, Tim was smashed and slapped in the back, knocking him away. "Who're you calling 'ugly leather', don't be so foolish! You're as ugly as a crappy dirt! What a joke that you cannot even cut through a book like me!" Laughed Bookie with a pointed finger towards Tim, quickly standing up, Tim faced him and scratched his back. "Shut up already! I've heard enough of your love message!" "Love message?!" "That's right! I can write a love message to my teacher in those papers of you!" Tim shouted with an angry comedic expression. "How dumn are you! Do you have a thing for your class teacher?!" "No you idiot! That was just a discourage! Damn it!" Tim quickly stepped forward and ran towards Bookie. "You will regret such speech!" Bookie prepared his arms when pulling one on the right behind. He punched forward when an instinctive thought came to Tim's mind, a realization. ("Hold on. My body... I'm moving it.") Tim thought in his mind, while seeing the arm flying towards him. ("I'm the one moving it! My attacks were unable to cut through his leathered body.... because... I never realized tge strength I've put in the attack! This has nothing to do with Nensho controling me! But if Nensho is now part of me, this gives me an idea... I have some memories of movement I've done when I was controled.... that's right!") Tim gave a smile with an confident knowledge.
The hand from Bookie approached Tim as it slammed down. Tim quickly took a step to the left and escaped the attack. Bookie was caught in surprise when Tim reversed his pace with a follower of his step and sole. Tim continued to take a right step forward while using his left sole for the turn. Tim fastly ran forward with his sword drawn back and quickly grabbed the sword with both hands. He pulled forward along Bookie's long arm as the sword slid down the tracking arm. Tim's smile appeared. Due to the extensiveness and transformation of knowledge, this time Tim's power was enchanted. The papers flew out of his hand as Tim jumped high into the air, this time of his choice. His sword was raised high above his back as Bookie became surprised. Tim's sword erupted in a small and secondary but violent smoke but in an instant it vanished. Tim finally stabbed and cut through Bookie's body. Tim's laughter was gifted. The few who spectated became surprised. "Oh, I see he figured it out." Said Gintoki when leaning back. With Tim's smile still appearing through, an arm of Bookie was swung towards him, but from force Tim used the sword to strike further and bounce his body backward into a backflip. Tim landed on the floor. "He managed to figure it out... and honestly, it only took a few minutes for him to figure it out... an honest experience..." Issa answered with her crossed arms.
Zero World - Hinomaru Area, C.A.C. Arena - Thursday, 10:28 a.m.|
Codey sidestepped and avoided another crystal. ("Just gotta get closer at the right moment and I should be able to finish this in one blow.") "Oh! You're thinking that you may have a chance of winning! You can continue dreaming on, Katorishi! But this will end it!"
Codey prepared as Tanaki suddenly slammed the floor. This time he used more power than he used to. Codey ran forward and jumped into the air with a turn. Tanaki noticed and looked surprised. "You do realize that you have no where to go! Crystals are everywhere around you!" Tanaki made a smile and raised his arms. ("There! Perfect!") Codey turned quickly and unleashed an extreme amount of wind. Tanaki looked up as the wind stopped him, Codey quickly dispelled. During the moment the crystal rose from the side wall. Tanaki lost sight of his opponent but in a quick wind the body of Codey finally appeared behind Tanaki. Codey overturned his body as Tanaki swung behind him, however, Codey put his hands to the ground, and slipped out into a hand-standing position, Codey released another insane amount of wind as he spun in a standing position, his legs hit Tanaki in the back and added advanced attacks to it. Codey quickly pulled his boomerang and quickly tripped Tanaki with a kick to Tanaki's legs. The moment Tanaki fell, Codey stood up and swung a boomerang up close, delivering an attack directly into Tanaki's back. With such frightened attack and hit in the neck was bounded. Tanaki was thrown into unconsciousness from the hit in the neck, as his body was slapped at the floor. The spectators became surprised once Codey stood up with a confident look. "Sorry for such delivering blow...." Quickly regaining his consciouss, Tanaki questioned. "How... did.... you, know?" "Know what? Oh. About your ability. It was simple. Your ability is really powerful, however it has an instantanous weakness. Whenever you use your body to unleash crystals, there is a few seconds, where you cannot use it again. Using more of power, it takes more time to recover, so I used that little time I gained to go in for the hit. Basically, you can move but you are unable to deliver a powerful blow, that's why I appeared behind and used my speed to gain advantage. All you can do is release an arm swing, it was the same thing earlier, first thing you did was to swing your arm for a second and only then you were able to use your ability. I figured it out, right after you released a lime of crystal walls towards me, a few minutes ago. That moment you were unable to release it again... and because you used the crystal from the side, it gave me another few seconds to take that instant to hit you..." Codey explained while spinning his boomerang on his right pointing finger. "Damn... thay obvious... huh." Immediately after Tanaki spoke, his shield shattered and dropped into a sleep. "That's it! The winner of this match is Codey Katorishi!!" Rez shouted and right at the shout out, the people who watched, cheered Codey on. Codey was moving to the next round as he walked away. Rez made a smile. ("Great...do it, perfect! Codey!")
To be continue...
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