"Damn, you really forced me, in that case, I won't let you out unharmed either." Snored Selania coldly, she was in an awkward position and it was difficult to lose, she gritted her teeth and she clenched her hands: "Explosive fog," she shone with her magic and from her body a mysterious black mist rose and wrapped his lady like a cocoon protecting her.
Kotaro had gathered all his energy and condensed all the remaining mana towards his fist, raging flames ignited on his left hand.
Kotaro arrived in front of Selania and he was lifting his elbow back, ready to launch his attack!, but the latter was smiling sarcastically: "If you appreciate your life, so I advise you not to touch this fog, it contains burning gas and as soon as it is exposed to fire there will be a strong explosion that will hit both of us and you can't escape from this distance, I will get hit too but you won't be better than me, Huheh, what did you decide?" Selania tried to influence Kotaro and try to discourage him, but to no avail. Kotaro did not back down and ignore everything she said: "Dare I? Why don't I, stop gossiping and get ready to die".
"Crazy, so get ready" cursed Selania, but at this moment and by summoning every strength at his disposal, not caring what would happen to him after the black mist exploded, Kotaro punched: "Destructive Fire Fist," he shouted and the ruthless fist shattered, penetrating all of the mist and everything towards Selania's belly.
"Boom" and as soon as the spark of fire came into contact with the black mist, a bloody explosion occurred, red flames erupted and covered the entire distance surrounding between Selania and Kotaro.
"Ughkh" Selania coughed up blood, and from the scene of the explosion she was sent backwards, crashing into the destroyed platform. her belly was disfigured and from the outside it could be seen that a fist with five fingers had been imprinted on it, her body and skin were covered from top to bottom with hot burns that made it difficult to identify, and as for the internal damage she was worse off, half of the abdomen's ribs were broken and most of the thoracic bones were destroyed, as for the stomach and intestines, they were also damaged and there was severe internal bleeding, and in short Selania was in the worst possible condition, and it was not known whether she was alive or not.
About Kotaro, his condition was also difficult, he had used up all his magic and had no energy left to fight, and after being affected by the explosion as well he become even worse, he had some burns and some organs were also injured due to the shock, and fortunately for him, he was a fire magic user so he was not affected by the explosion's fire a lot, however, he became weaker, the gravity field was canceled and all of Selania's followers were freed from the dominant pressure, and at this time he was walking with difficulty, his body reeling like a drunk person, he couldn't move his body easily, this was also due to the effects of the narcotic that Contained by the pink mist that invaded his entire body, he was left with nothing but a stubborn will on which he relied on in order not to lose consciousness.
Without wasting any time or losing Selania's position, Kotaro headed straight toward the knight who had killed the old man previously.
When the knight saw this, his forehead was dripping with cold sweat and his weak body trembled in front of Kotaro's monstrous aura that unintentionally surrounded him.
This knight had seen his ma'am being destroyed by this child, so how can he not feel afraid?, but he did not know why Kotaro came towards him because according to what he thinks, Kotaro had previously forgivened him when he had the opportunity to kill him and he did not, so he was confused.
But at this time, Kotaro answered his question: "Give me the key to the cage." It seemed as if Kotaro was asking him this, but the knight was sure that he had no room for refusal. He quickly pulled out the keys and threw them to Kotaro: "take sir."
Kotaro turned around without a word, and when the knight saw this, he let out a breath of relief once more and his heartbeat returned to normal.
Kotaro was really exhausted, some minor wounds started dripping blood, at this moment he couldn't even move forward even a single step, his eyes were slowly closing and his gaze became blurry, he knew he had come to his limit and would fall in the next second, so he summoned all his strength and his will, then he raised his hand holding the key and threw desperately towards Akina's cage, while he was swaying and falling ground: "I'll leave... the rest... to you."
"..."
The key fell in front of the cage, Akina extended her soft hand and picked it up while looking at Kotaro, drops of tears formed on her eyes, and complicated feelings were painted on her face, she was sad that he had reached this state, but also happy that he won and no life-threatening damage occurred: "Don't worry, we'll take care of the rest".
Then she wanted and opened the cage and got out of it, as she headed towards Ryota and freed him as well, and with a piercing look the two of them swept all the knights in the hall.
The knights were not stupid to think of escaping or think that they would defeat Akina and Ryota because of their number, because they had witnessed with their own eyes the fight of Selania and Kotaro and had guessed that the level of Akina and Ryota would not be much lower than them, so they all froze in place and waited for the two of them to judge them.
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Two days later, Kotaro woke up. He found himself lying on a wooden bed, inside a modest room reserved for one person, he was covered with bandages along his body and only his head was exposed, and in front of him a person sat on a chair, this was Akina and she had been with Kotaro in the room watching him and checking his condition from time to time, and now she was closing her eyes and taking a meditating position.
Upon seeing Akina, and after inspecting his condition, he found that some of his serious injuries had recovered, which were not supposed to disappear on their own until after a long time, but still needed some time to fully recover. Of course, Kotaro knew that this was because of Akina, so it was clear that she was continuing to use her magic to heal him until she reached her limit, forcing herself every time after she restocked the mana.
"Ah, sweet Akina, I am really ashamed of myself." Kotaro sighed sadly in his heart, not knowing what to say more.
Then he got up and stood at the window of the room, staring at the place outside, there was a long street filled with markets and the shouts of sellers eager to sell their wares, this was the atmosphere of the usual fog village. Kotaro discovered that he was inside the village hotel, apparently because Akina and Ryota had brought him to this place.
Kotaro sat back on his bed and decided to wait for Ryota to come back to tell him what happened after he lost consciousness.
As for Akina, she was opening her eyes now and it seemed that she had regained some of her energy, and as she finished her meditation. Her eyes fell on Kotaro, and he stared at her with a warm and strong smile that suggested that everything was fine. Akina was surprised and then her sweet crying followed, things got complicated inside her but all that didn't matter, just seeing Kotaro's lively face and his confident smile again were enough to make her rest, in this moment all her fatigue and all the burden that was on her heart disappeared and she left herself resigned to her feelings, and continued to cry silently.
Kotaro was watching her, and he felt a weakness in his heart, and started blaming himself inside: "If only I had been stronger, I wouldn't have ended up like this and I wouldn't have made her live all this."