"Don't make me do this, Aeryn. I don't want to."
"Then don't do it, I won't force you."
"Stop with the jokes and talk normally."
"Eh? What do you mean, I'm talking like I always do. Maybe you can't understand because your head is out of place?"
"What do you mean..."
Suddenly, Yashito felt an enormous killing intent from Aeryn. He couldn't move his legs, and he felt like he'd die instantly if he made the slightest movement.
"Oh? Did I put too much pressure on you?"
"Heh, that much is nothing." Yashito replied to Aeryn as he began to sweat from the killing intent.
Alpha on the other hand was unfazed. Who knows what she'd been through in the past to not feel anything from Aeryn's killing intent, which was so strong that everyone inside and outside the dungeon fainted
"Alright then, I guess it's time we got started." Aeryn said and with a quick movement she appeared in front of Yashito.
But he'd already made preparations. All this time while he was talking to Aeryn, he'd begun setting up ice spikes and traps all over the place.
So when Aeryn stood in front of Yashito, she activated a spike trap. But she immediately dodged it by doing a backflip and landing farther away from Yashito.
"I see you've already made preparations."
"What can I say? You can't blame me."
"Of course not, I know how dangerous I am."
Alpha was ready to come to Yashito's aid, but he told her to let him deal with Aeryn.
Aeryn swung her blade down with Qi imbued, but Yashito hit her blade head-on, forming a sword of ice and causing a large explosion that shook the ground and left a huge crater.
"Oh? You were able to withstand that? I'm amazed."
"Heh, don't underestimate me." Yashito, said pushing Aeryn back with a swing of his sword.
"Now it's getting interesting." declared Aeryn.
She charged at Yashito again and activated three spike traps, which didn't manage to hurt her as she slashed them instantly.
Yashito once again took her move head on.
"Countering my move again with such ease! Maybe I'll finally get a decent fight! " Aeryn grinned as she did a backflip and charged back with even more force.
She changed her fighting style by splitting her sword in two. When Yashito saw this, he was as surprised as Alpha.
"God ... how can she emit so much Qi? ", Yashito said as his eyes twitched in disbelief.
"That's her true strength, or let me correct what I just said. That's half of her current true strength," Alpha said as she walked over to him.
Alpha also formed a sword from her light ability and countered Aeryn's attack.
"So now it's one against two? No problem at all, I can take you two on.
But Alpha knew she couldn't win against Aeryn with her full power and sneak attacked her, causing Aeryn to fall to the ground.
"WAIVER SLASH"
The fallen girl released two Waiver slashes in X shape! Yashito gulped when he saw this.
Both of them couldn't believe the amount of destruction this fight was causing! The small forest behind them was completely obliterated, monsters and all...
Two figures clash against each other. One is Alpha, running at great speed and attacking Aeryn from every possible direction. Her long hair blows behind her and she looks like a beautiful shooting star.
But.
After all, a shooting star is just a small star.
The cultivator who Alpha is facing.
Alpha can't break through Aeryn's guard as she fixes herself firmly on the ground and overpowers Alpha.
No matter how fast Alpha leaps to attack her blind spots, Aeryn deflects the sword with a single swing of her blade and hits Alpha in the same motion.
"Ha—ah—"
Her sneak attack is blocked again, and she's wounded.
...She's able to retreat as Aeryn launches a counterattack due to her superhuman speed.
Alpha closes in and retreats with lightning speed.
But her efforts only prevent a fatal blow.
Alpha blocks Aeryn's attacks by charging.
As soon as Aeryn moves to attack, she and Yashito will be killed instantly.
"Alpha, are you okay?" Yashito shouted, getting ready to support Alpha.
"NO! Stay where you're. You can't face her." Alpha shouted to Yashito.
Alpha's speed is decreasing.
...It's only a matter of time before Aeryn catches up to her speed.
A few more seconds. Alpha will be out of breath when her next attack is blocked.
The moment Alpha loses her power and speed, Aeryn will cut her body in half.
Since Yashito could do nothing, he wondered why all this was happening. He just wanted to give her a new sword. This wasn't something that should lead to something like this.
At the same time, Alpha lost her balance and Aeryn got the opportunity to attack her and hurt her right arm.
Yashito rushed over to protect Alpha before Aeryn made the final attack.
But he didn't try to block her attack, instead he hugged her.
"Aeryn, please stop this."
"And why should I do that?"
"B-because I'm in love with you."
"What kind of nonsense are you saying?"
"Damn, I thought this might work."
Aeryn was getting ready to cut Yashito in half, but in that time Alpha managed to replenish her powers and save Yashito just in time.
"How did you manage to replenish your powers in such a short time?"
"I am not human, but that's a story for another time. We have bigger problems now."
"So Yashito, you are on Alpha's side now, right? All right."
"What did you expect me to do? Get killed by you?"
"Yeah? Well, that's what friends are for, right?"
"You are sick."
"Maybe I am, but who can stop me? Certainly not you two."
As she rushed toward the two, she triggered another of Yashito's traps. But this time she was not trapped in spikes, but in an ice cage.
"Do you really think that this thing can hold me?"
"I know it can't but it will give me enough time to tell someone to deal with you."
"Oh? Someone who can deal with me? And who would that be?"
"Don't worry, you'll find out soon enough." Yashito said confidently.
In the meantime, Alpha had started bleeding from her right arm, and Yashito tried to stop the bleeding by tying a piece of his shirt to the wound.
Aeryn decided to wait and see who might be the person to take care of her. But after some time, she became impatient.
"Come on, Yashito, where is this person?"
"She will arrive here soon."
"Oh? She? So she's a girl, huh?"
Aeryn freed herself from the cage with ease and slowly walked towards Yashito and Alpha.
"WAIVER SLASH" She yelled.
The two slashes moved towards Yashito and Alpha, but just before they could touch them, a black dot appeared and sucked them in.
"Huh, what's that?"
"Sorry to keep you waiting, I had to take care of some things." Said a girl's voice.
Aeryn turned her head to look at the girl. Her physique was almost like Alpha's. She had pink long hair and blue eyes and wore a uniform that was a little too revealing.
"So you are my opponent?" She asked Aeryn.
"I guess so."
"Ah, perfect. I'll do a little training tonight."
"We will see about that."