"That's a weird-looking sword. Where'd you get it?"
Louis questioned as Ean shrugged with a smile on his face
"I don't know, I just magically found it while walking down an ally, the gods must've favored me"
Ean replied while walking towards Louis, they both slowly began to speed up as they got closer, soon beginning to run
"Well, it won't matter where you got it from once it's mine!"
Louis said as his smirk grew into a ginormous grin, proceeding to dash toward Ean, who did exactly the same. Clashing their fists the moment they reached each other, causing a shockwave in the process.
And once again, they began to rapidly exchange blows, causing shockwave after shockwave, running through the field once more, spreading the destruction of their flows, faster and more intensively
"Hahahaha!"
"What are you laughing about?"
Ean questioned as he dodged a punch from Louis, pushing his arm away with his own, proceeding to send a punch toward Ean's stomach, but just like his other attacks, it would harm him instead, making him take a few steps back before receiving two punches to the abdomen, an uppercut and a strong kick which sent him flying a few meters
"What am I laughing about? I mean just look at your hands Ean"
"My hands?"
"Yes! Their bleeding! Hahaha!"
Louis yelled, laughing as hard as he could while Ean would simply look down at his knuckles, which seemed to almost be ripped apart, the skin was open, and his wrists were swollen, all that while blood dripped from his hands.
At the simple sight of his seemly recently found out state, Ean would widen his eyes, but before Louis could continue to feed his amusement, Ean interrupted him
"Yeah I knew they were"
Ean replied with simplicity as Louis's expression of happiness turned into one of confusion
"Eh?"
"Yeah I mean, when we clash blows I'm not only receiving damage from our fists connecting, but also my own strength"
Ean explained with wisdom in his tone as Louis would just blink, tilting his head to a side before scratching the back of his head, still keeping that look of confusion on his face
"Ah. That makes sense"
"Well, if you think about it when fighting an opponent equal to you or stronger than you, you'd naturally be more cautious about the amount of damage you take"
"Yeah, that's true, but.."
"Huh?"
"Where did you learn that? A month ago you barely knew anything about fighting, how come you suddenly know so much?"
"Oh that—well, books I guess"
"Scrolls?"
"Yeah"
Ean responded with sincerity as Louis nodded, placing his hands on his hips before taking in a deep breath and in the blink of an eye, both of em them would disappear in a blur of speed.
Appearing again, this time in front of each other, they would clash their fists, begin an exchange of attacks.
Ean would weave his head to the right, dodging one of Louis's punches, before sliding his feet back and forth on the ground, dodging yet another punch, moving to the side as he continued to dodge the punches, docking down dodging a full power horizontal punch from Louis, while striking him on his ribs with a horizontal punch of his own. Of course, the force of the punch would be sent back to Ean, almost taking all the air from his lungs.
Taking advantage of this moment Louis would strike Ean with a similar attack, proceeding to barrage him with punches to the face, causing Ean to take a few steps back, but not letting go Louis would walk forward, continuing to strike Ean's face before jumping back, taking in a deep breath, recovering his energy, proceeding to copy a stance he read on a scroll, putting his arms beside his face, preparing himself to barrage Ean once again, but before he could react a punch was landed on his face.
It was Ean, who was quick to recover from the earlier beat down.
"How was I not able to se-"
Before Louis could finish his sentence, a punch was landed on his face again, irritating him greatly, but unable to show it as yet another punch would land on his face, specifically targeting his nose.
"Tsk, stop doing that! It's annoying me you fucking bastard!"
Louis yelled with anger in his tone before ducking down, dodging the attack with a smug smirk, but before he could follow it up with something, he would be brought back up to Ean's height, and again he would receive yet another punch to the face, this time it would make him step back, opening his eyes as he felt an unfamiliar liquid drip from his nose. With curiosity on his mind, he would move his right hand to his face, wiping off the watery like liquid that fell from his nose away
"Hah! I knew it! So you can bleed!"
"Blood? What are you talking abou-"
Louis's sentence would stop midway, as he lowered his hand, staring at it with a look of curiosity, and the moment he did his eyes would widen, this was the second time in his life that he'd felt something like this, he was bleeding and it wasn't to his liking at all, his curious expression would vanish being replaced by one of unmeasurable anger
"I noticed something while we were exchanging words earlier, remember? When you asked me about my sword. You approached me and shook your hands, so I thought, maybe if I hit you over and over in a certain place, you'd receive enough damage to feel actual pain, of course, I'd risk hurting myself too but.."
Said Ean as he copied Louis's earlier stance, clutching his fists while placing his arms beside his head
"It looks like it worked"
He added, while slowly approaching Louis, who now clouded by anger did the same thing. And just like before, with every single step their speed began to increase, eventually beginning to run before disappearing in a blur of speed, leaving behind a trail of their auras, rushing toward each other, clashing their fists harder than they'd had clashed them before, causing the ground below them to burst, creating a crater along with a loud shockwave.