"Round 2?" He blurted, entranced by Ais's new look, he wouldn't have thought that Ais could get even more beautiful than she already was, she looked just like an angel.
Suddenly, his eyes flashed pink 'An angel that I'd like to Fu-' however, his "true" thoughts were short-lived, as a strong headache assaulted him and a broken system window covered his vision.
[###K3ep iT in y0uR P4ntS!###]
He held his head, grimacing at the pain 'Alright Alright!' his eyes turned back and the headache slowly dissipated 'What was that? Is the love potion acting up? Why? She hasn't even bonded with me. I'll have to ask Kala later'
Having calmed down, Calvin replied to her challenge "Come."
With a flap of her wings, Ais flew towards Calvin, swinging her sword in the process. The distance between them disappeared in an instant.
Startled by her sudden move, Calvin took a step back, barely avoiding her blade 'What? I didn't even see her move, those wings aren't part of her body, I can't read them' he jumped back, avoiding another one of her attacks and putting distance between them.
Just as he touched the ground Ais threw a particularly strong slash in his direction.
seeing the distance between them, Calvin lifted an eyebrow at her action, but his questions were quickly answered.
"{Ariel Blade}" from Ais's sword, a green glow emerged, as she swung her sword the glow left her sword in the form of a blade made out of wind that went straight towards Calvin.
Calvin slashed at the wind blade, splitting it in half and dispersing it "Good tricks… but I've got some too" holding Gram over his head, and slashing furiously "[Space-cut]"
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Immediately after he said that Ais felt an overwhelming sense of danger, in an instant her wings wrapped around her like a cocoon.
When Calvin's sword touched the surface of her wings, it stopped 'What?' he tried moving his hand, which was halfway down his slash, but couldn't 'Could it be…? No way, it's impossible, …right?' he feared that his assumption was indeed right, but even if he already knew that he still wanted to test it.
While Ais was slowly unfurling her wings, Calvin lifted his free hand.
"[Mass-splitting]" Creating hundreds of swords and making them levitate beside him, he then lowered his hand, pointing it at Ais and using [Speed control] on each of the copied swords, launching them towards her.
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As the swords approached Ais, they started swirling around her as if they had been sucked by a tornado.
"What?" Activating [Eye of the tiger] Calvin analyzed what just happened 'I see…, it seems like there's a constant flux of wind around her, although, unlike before, its range seems much larger'
Suddenly, Ais extended her wings and flapped them, sending All the swords that were flying around her, towards Calvin.
Calvin simply held his hand in front of him making all the swords stop abruptly, after all, he still had control over his swords "You're still too naïve" while looking at Ais in the eyes "Naïve people often get deceived…" he flicked his hand making one of the swords shoot from its position towards Ais ten times faster than it did before, but unlike last time its direction didn't change.
[Spell penetration]
The sword went directly through Ais's wind and kept going towards her, Ais barely had any time to move before it reached her, almost slicing her head off, cutting some of her blonde hair in the process.
Ais looked at Calvin wide-eyed, not believing that he was still holding back "Why!" she was furious, after all this time, how could he still hold back against her?
"This is your loss Ais" he calmly said lowering his hand and making all the swords, shoot at her.
After hearing his words, Ais felt like there was a hole in her chest, but she wouldn't let his words damper her spirit, seeing all the projectiles being thrown at her, she jumped, opening her Wings as wide as possible.
"It's not over yet! {Grand Ráfaga
}!" she held her sword with two hands and swung widely, flapping her wings at the same time.
A gigantic hurricane came from Ais's attack, deviating all of the swords and creating multiple wind blades that were dozens of meters long, crashing against the walls of the room and making deep grooves on the white stone.
Meanwhile, Calvin was leaning forwards with his arms covering his face, as the powerful winds threatened to knock him over.
When the wind subsided, Ais fell to the ground, barely standing, breathing heavily, sweating profusely, and a head-splitting headache. her wings and halo flickering between visible and translucent, struggling to keep their form.
*Step* *Step*
Calvin approached Ais "You look like shit" he didn't actually care about her appearance at all, this was just a small provocation.
She gave him a tired look before straightening herself, getting ready to go again.
"What are you doing?" a question that need not be answered, a trace of worry in his voice, while in reality, it wasn't worried at all.
Ais tried to move, but her body wouldn't listen to her.
"You lost Ais, there's no need to keep going, just give up"
Once again she tried moving, this time using {Ariel} to support her body, but she was quickly assaulted by her ever-growing headache, making the wings and halo dissipate.
"This is all you could do, you know I think I didn't even hit you at all, I don't know if I should feel ashamed, or prideful, seeing as I won without hitting you"
'Shut up' she was getting tired of his voice, always talking like that, as if she was a little girl.
"Well, I think I would've won way sooner if I had gone on the offensive-" his words were cut short when Ais pointed her blade at him.
"Shut… up…" barely managing to get words out, her body staggered from side to side, unable to keep itself standing straight.
"Oh? And what are you going to do? If you would have won, I would be praising you instead" he looked down at her, his eyes full of judgment.
At that moment something seemed to snap inside Ais "I STILL HAVEN'T LOST" she roared, her aura changing drastically. She moved her body out of sheer will alone, jumping at Calvin, and slashing with her sword, which was covered in a black-red aura.
'That's dangerous!' his senses were telling him to not get hit by whatever that was, he went for a block, preparing himself to take the hit, he held Gram strongly.
*Ting!* both blades struck against each other.
*CRACK* huge cracks formed from below Calvin, the strength of Ais's attacks far exceeding any previous encounters.
"Gah!" Calvin winced feeling the bones on his arms tremble, through the pain, he saw how the black-red aura from Ais's sword was being absorbed into Gram and then onto his arms.
[The user's bent has made contact with 'Avenger' that increases strength when fighting against monsters and increases strength massively when fighting against someone who wronged or took something from you]
'So much power!' he could feel the strength rushing through his veins and just as Ais was about to hit him, he met her slash with one of his own.
*Ting! * The two blades clashed.
*Crack* 'Huh?' red cracks appeared on Gram, rapidly expanding and covering most of its surface until… *Crack! * Gram crumbled as if made out of sand, broken into a million pieces, on his hands only fragments of what used to be a hilt remained.
He slowly looked at Ais "That was a little bit too much Ais" genuine fury on his voice kicking Ais in the stomach, slamming her into a nearby wall, destroying it in the process.
[Shaping]
He made all of the fragments melt together into 2 different metal bars, one white and the other red.
'Calm down… don't make hasty decisions, for all I know Gram could be the only sword made just for me' he "sheathed" the 2 sticks on Gram's scabbard and then returned his attention to Ais, who came out of the ruble and jumped straight towards him with incredible speed, even though she wasn't using {Ariel} at the time.
Dodging her first attack, he tried talking some sense into her "Ais!" however, his shout was welcomed by a slash that nearly got him.
As Ais continued her assault Calvin could do nothing but keep dodging.
"Stay still!" her Movement became even faster, and the black-red aura grew thicker.
Her speed was such that Calvin failed to keep up with her, a slash coming right to his neck 'Shit!' suddenly his body became see-through using [Phasing] on its own, but even that wasn't enough to evade her attack, her sword managing to cut his right check and take a bit of his ear.
And as ready as he was for the pain, he couldn't even imagine what was about to happen, his wound suddenly started to burn, not the normal pain his getting cut, a pain so immense that he could only describe it as burning from the inside out.
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"Arghhhhh!!" he shouted, his brain getting overwhelmed by the pain, dispelling [Phasing] and forgetting for a second that he was in the middle of a battle, but he realized too late, as the only this he saw was Ais's slashing down at him 'Is this how I die?' his survival instinct flaring up, his hand unconsciously getting between him and her blade.
[Divinity...