As the army marches towards yale, the townspeople of the capital waves them goodbye and wishes them good luck.
From nobles to peasants all seen together without conflict was a first to the kingdom. While some encouraged them, others just talked about victory. And in the midst of this was a child raised above the crowd who yelled a simple "bye"
The knights were more than pleased and some even cried, they have never been given support to this extent ever since the war which happened decades ago. A veteran knight said "we haven't gotten this much support in so long! Arthur's speech really was something wasn't it?
"True, This is getting exhilarating for me!" said the new recruit.
"don't be over confident, the people we're fighting is capable enough to overpower an army by themselves! Just numbers won't cut it for this battle." The knight's second in command said.
"why do you have to ruin everything? The new recruit replied.
Just as the knights were starting to have a conversation between them, Arthur gave the order "knights! Now! Onwards!"
As 2000 knights on horseback and 8000 knights marched towards the east on dirt roads, the earth beneath them shook due to their highly in sync footsteps.
TRANSITION TO A GIANT STADIUM
"You can't do this Ritsume!" said Miku
"If you think that if loosing this duel is what fate has chosen for me, then you're dead wrong! I will win! Even if It means that I have to use my blood technique, and I don't care if he is your brother as well because my pride is on the line here." Ritsume replied
"no, I don't care about him, he- he isn't my brother anymore! He changed… I am worried about you!" she argued
Ritsume didn't respond to her but rather asked her a question with a puzzled face. "but still, how is that guy your brother? I mean you both have entirely different names!"
Miku, now knowing that there is no need to keep it a secret, replies it to him "some guilds don't let family or siblings to join together or be In that guild because it 'complicates work'
Ritsume was pretty happy knowing this because he loves learning new things. "oh! I didn't know about that!'
Miku thinks in her mind "how can he not know about this if he knows about exclusive rights? I cannot understand him at all"
Suddenly a man with a peacock blue coat and a big mustache comes to the middle of the stadium and announces to all the spectators about the event.
"Ladies and gentleman! Today you are to witness a duel between Hinoyo Ritsume and Hinagaki Mitsuru; and do not be disappointed, both of them are highly skilled! And one of them has also become a national threat!
The crowd goes wild when they hear this, "a national threat?" "I heard these two are just kids!" "what? At that age?" "are we going to be safe?"
The announcer then calms them down and explains about the situation. "please stay calm, these two are not a threat because they want to bring harm to our kingdom! Rather its just that they have unexplained strength and the guild has just taken a precaution."
But those words made them even more on edge because the one of the kids were addressed as a national threat because he was strong. "are you serious?" "just because he's strong?" "this is ridiculous! We'll die if we stay here!" tension arose in the stadium; and with no way of calming the crowd the announcer starts the duel.
" Ritsume and Hinagaki Mitsuru, come on up to the stadium!"
After hearing this, the two who were in two separate rooms present in either side of the stadium coms up to the middle.
"are you two ready to begin?" asks the announcer
"ya! I am ready to show the world my terror!" Mitsuru replies
"I am ready" Ritsume replied
Even though the crowd was on edge, they still wanted to see the power of a national threat so while some of them calmed down, others were angry and scared but where willing to watch. And they calmed down and stayed silent.
"Well! Now that we have the audience's attention, LET THE RUMBLE BEGIN!" And the announcer disappeared and a flower fell down to the floor in his place.
The audience were not in shock as the announcer is a member of the guild and this was regular for people, but both Ritsume and Mitsuru were surprised. Ritsume was now even more sure that he has to join this guild after seeing this. "what was that magic?"
out of the corner of his eye, a shockwave comes out of nowhere and hits ritsume, sending him flying.
"aaahhh" blood flows down his head but it quicky stops. He falls down the wall and starts walking towards Mitsuru
"and you think that's enough to kill me? pathetic!"
"well it wouldn't be fun if the fight ended there" Mitsuru replied
"guess I'll be a bit serious, berserker technique- physical boost! , god blade technique- 100 slash!"
Ritsume runs up to Mitsuru and for the first time he uses his katana given to him by his father. But Mitsuru blocks the attack by using his arm.
"sooo weak! You really think that's enough to scratch me? ha!"
Ritsume now worried about his powers, asks him a question as a joke "did you do a deal with a devil or something to be able to do that?"
Mitsuru smiles ominously and responds "I thought you were just a dum-ass but I guess you do have something other than dirt inside eh?"
In his mind, Ritsume thinks 'what? I meant it as a joke! This guy! What has he done?"
Hearing this the spectators gets even more on edge "what is happening?" "this has to be a lie" "did he just say a deal with the devil?" "he's just a kid!" the tension arose significantly but the fight went on.
"earth magic! Bone crumbling sand!" sand started to pour out of the ground beneath and Ritsume.
"the sand is cutting my skin!" unable to block the attacks, Ritsume was eager to use blood technique. But the sand attacks would not stop leaving him without any time to think.
And this clouds Mitsuru's mind with a sense of victory and he laughed profusely but his smile soon faded after he glanced at Ritsume "what? His body should be torn apart! But there isn't even a single scratch on him" he thought in his mind.
The spectators were worried for Ritsume's life but after seeing him without any injuries, they became skeptical about this duel; their minds were all thinking about the same thing "is this staged? How can he be fine and without bruises after that?"
In anger the spectators throw food and random items at Mitsuru and Ritsume. "boo!" "fake" this however was not liked by the both of them, Mitsuru stopped his attack and looked at the audience in anger.
Ritsume felt the same anger inside him; so he asked Mitsuru "you know, if we silence these bastards then maybe we could fight without any disturbances!"
"hmmm… ah! I guess you're not just any idiot." Mitsuru replied.
With a grin on his face, Ritsume said "try to make them bleed! I can fight even more seriously with some blood!"
"ah! well if that's the case, then don't kill them, I have a use for their souls. Dead one's are bust they can only be used as food."
They both start running towards the audience and Mitsuru closes all exit with earth magic while Ritsume used god blade technique- sacred sword to cut one of he seating area into two. "eeehhh! Please don't kill me!" a man next to Ritsume cried.
God blade technique- rising swords!
"aaaahhhh!" swords started to burst out of the mans body. "Don't worry, all of your organs have been missed. And those swords will keep the bleeding to a minimum but you'll only last about 30 seconds….. " Ritsume replied.
As the audience could not escape, the two who where rampaging inside the stadium slashed, cut and tore them one by one. Miku who was watching all of this felt disgust and a sorry for the people. She was unable to do anything for those people. "how can they do this? Is a human's life not worth anything for them?" she thought.
She felt something cold running down her shoulder, and when she turned around, she was horrified! Blood flowing down and an intestine which fell down with it. She screamed after seeing this.
"ah! sorry, sorry, lil'sis, the woman just looked so tasty that I couldn't hold myself back!"
"huh?" "hold yourself back?' as she glanced at Mitsuru she saw a women's head wich was half swallowed.
"bhuahhh" she puked and fell down to her knees!
"what is that?!!!!!!!" she screamed pointing at Mitsuru
"a head, is it that hard to see it?" Mitsuru replied
"no,! your mouth! What is that? Those aren't a human's mouth!"
Mitsuru crushed the head with his jaws which revealed a circular hole with more than a hundred teeth and 3 tongues. "a devils mouth it is lil'sis! Just something I can use now.!"
Liter's of blood poured down Miku's head turning her face as red as blood. She fell unconscious as more blood dripped down.
"ah..... she is very sensitive...." mitsuru thought
In just 6 minutes over 200 people were injured and over 50 were dead. Mitsuru now knowing that the people will die of blood loss soon said to Ritsume to wrap it up and take all the blood that you want.
"Dont hurry me!" Ritsume angrily replied
"Blood magic- &@#&&@#&&#@
for some reason, what Ritsume said was not clear to Mitsuru but was still highly shocked to hear 'blood magic' he thought in his mind "how can he use that?
magic not even devils posses!"
Mitsuru came to understand that he shouldn't go easy on him anymore and decides to call his devil inorder to obtain the souls.
he takes some of the corpses, and does the ritual again, summoning Ki[please do not try these anywhere or believe this. this is just a story and doing rituals like this is illegal and harmful.]
Ki appears out of the ground but along with him were two other devils.
To be continued-