Hunter and Wayne stand off against each other, with Wayne fueled by his unyielding ambition and Hunter's malice technique leaving an air of intensity around them. both fighters make sure they're heard.
"I'm going to kill you! Hunter!"
"Come do your worst, brat!"
Wayne flies up with his jetpack, and Hunter follows with lightning circulating his body.
"Is this your game plan to run, boy?" Hunter shouts.
Wayne points his shotgun below him, shoots at Hunter, and instantly takes the recoil from the gun.
"Hahaha!"
Hunter moves out of the way of the bullet and sharpens his nails to the point he has claws.
"I don't have my adaptive ore on me; my defenses are nothing at this point! I must not get hit!" Wayne thinks to himself.
Hunter rushes at Wayne and tries to scratch Wayne multiple times but gets evaded.
"Hahaha! Stay still already, little bitch!" Hunter says as he grows a tentacle out of his back and smacks it across Wayne's face.
The very next second, Hunter shoots a black cloud in Wayne's face.
"Ach! My eyes!" Wayne yells as his vision goes blurry.
"Too bad you don't have that Gumalo with you! That second pair of eyes would have come in handy!"
With Wayne blind, Hunter quickly hits him with a barrage of punches, with each punch cracking a bone.
"Hahaha! Too bad a regular human like you can't use the sense technique!" Hunter shouts as he shoots a fireball at Wayne, which hits him directly.
"Ahhh!"
The fireball torches multiple parts of Wayne's skin and sends him spiraling to the ground.
"Hahaha! I'm not done yet!"
Hunter chases Wayne down, and once he's next to him, Hunter grabs Wayne by the throat.
"How does that Florence beast cloud feel those eyes burning, ain't they?" Hunter exclaims as he zaps Wayne with lightning.
Hunter then throws Wayne to the ground, where Wayne quickly uses the jetpack to slow down his fall.
"My body! It feels like my skin is going to turn to char!" Wayne says as he lies his back on the ground.
Wayne drops his gun and grabs some dirt from the ground with his left hand. Wayne starts rubbing the dirt in his eyes.
"He said a Florence cloud well knowing about every beast does come in handy."
The blur obscuring Wayne's vision begins to clear.
"I can't believe you thought a simple Florence cloud would be enough to keep me down! When it can be simply cleared with some dirt!" Wayne exclaims as his vision clears.
The very second Wayne's vision clears, he sees Hunter dropping toward him at enormous speed.
"Shit!" Wayne says as he tries to move while picking up his gun.
"Hahaha!"
Hunter slams down on Wayne's stomach with his right elbow, causing him to cough up blood.
Hunter sharpens his teeth, bites Wayne by the left leg, and then lifts him into the air.
"Ahh!"
Hunter slams Wayne onto the ground and brutally swings his fragile body around like a whip by the leg with his teeth.
"This pain hurts so much! But whatever I do, I can't let go of my weapons, or this battle will be even harder to win," Wayne thinks to himself as he grips his weapons tighter.
Hunter stops biting Wayne's legs and throws him into some rubble.
After hitting the rubble, Wayne falls to the ground with significant injuries.
"Damn it! That bite injured my leg. I'll have to rely on my jetpack for the rest of this fight!" Wayne mutters to himself.
With blood gushing out of his left leg as it shakes, Wayne rises to his feet as Hunter begins to walk towards him.
"The blood of a weakling like you tastes so sour. That's why I only hunt the strong!" Hunter says as he applies the flex technique to his arms.
"This fe—"
Before Wayne can get his sentence out, Hunter gets directly in front of him within a second.
"It doesn't matter if we're in flight or on the ground. This bastard will always be faster than me!" Wayne exclaims in his head.
Hunter quickly punches Wayne in the face and then uppercuts him, causing him to fly back.
"Oh no, not this time! Where the hell do you think you're going?" Hunter asks as Wayme's blood flies onto his face.
Hunter grabs Wayne by the collar and pulls him back towards him.
"Your Pops ain't here to save you this time, brat!" Hunter screams as he begins to punch Wayne over and over again in the face.
With each punch, Wayne's skull continually gets damaged, along with blood filling his face. Wayne begins to remember the barrage of punches Hunter hit him with back in Moro Zone before Kirata saved him.
"This is exactly the same situation when me and Hunter first faced off! Last time I had to get saved by Pops; if it wasn't for him, I would be dead right now."
"It's ok now, my son; your fight is over. Please rest and leave Hunter to me," Wayne remembers Kirata saying to him as he saved him.
"No, it's different now. I'm not the same Wayne from back then! I'm far from the same! Far from it!" Wayne screams with intensity as blood fills up his mouth.
Wayne activates the rockets in the back of his sword and almost cuts Hunter in the waist, but Hunter jumps back.
When Hunter jumps back and places his hand on his stomach, he sees blood.
"My ambition! It will never quit! You can beat me to death; my ambition will never die until you're dead and my dream is achieved!" Wayne screams in a passionate tone.
"Yeah, I agree," Hunter says with a smile as he regenerates the cut on his stomach.
Both Wayne and Hunter begin to fly into the sky in their unique ways.
"Hunter!"
Wayne rushes in first and shoots twice at Hunter.
Hunter weaves out of the way of one bullet but gets hit in the leg by the second.
"He's getting slower! All those battles he's had up until this point have to be taking their toll by now! This is my best chance to kill him!" Wayne thinks to himself as he presses the button on his sword.
Wayne swings his sword at Hunter with the installed rockets, speeding it up, but misses. Without losing momentum thanks to the rockets in the sword, Wayne continues swinging at Hunter.
"Is this brat getting faster? He must be adapting to those new weapons of his. He's doing it at such a fast rate too!" Hunter thinks to himself.
Hunter spits green acid three times at Wayne and gets evaded all three times by Wayne's jetpack.
"Faster! Faster! Faster! I need to catch up to this son of a bitch!" Wayne shouts.
Below Hunter and Wayne's battle, Aurora is rushing toward the location of David and the other students.
"He's pushing that jetpack way past its limits. At this rate, he won't last any longer against Hunter," Aurora thinks to herself as she watches Wayne's movements.
In the Sky, Hunter shoots six lightning bolts and fireballs each at Wayne.
Wayne does a backflip mid-air and, when he's upside down, dives downward with the jetpack at full speed to avoid the attacks.
"Rahhh!"
Before Wayne can even get close to the ground, he fixes his position and begins to fly back up without losing momentum.
"Die!"
Wayne flies up at extreme speed, and when he gets to Hunter, he swings his sword upward to cut Hunter in half once again.
"I'm not done!"
Wayne spins to stop himself midair above Hunter and empties the rest of the bullets in his shotgun, shooting apart Hunter's body.
Wayne wastes no time and quickly reloads his shotgun and flies back down.
As Hunter's body begins to fall towards the ground, he regenerates.
"Damn brat, you're going to tire that body of yours out if you keep moving like this!" Hunter remarks.
"Shut the hell up! I don't care what happens to my body as long as you're dead!" Hunter screams as he shoots Hunter in the rib.
Hunter creates a ball of electricity in his left hand.
"Hahaha! I'm fucking with this new energy you got, boy! You're still a weakling, but at least it's better than whatever wimp you were when I killed you're pretend dad!" Hunter says in a mocking tone.
Hunter tosses the ball of lightning at Wayne, which hits him directly.
"Frahh!" Wayne screams in pain as he gets electrocuted.
While Wayne is off guard, Hunter rushes in and tackles Wayne up into the air. Then he instantly gets behind him and, with his hands clamped together, slams them onto Wayne's head as he flies up.
"Hahaha!"
Before Wayne can get sent flying too far, Hunter grabs him by the back of his shirt, and with him in hand, he backflips.
"Don't struggle too much now," Hunter yells.
As Hunter backflips, he throws Wayne up and bicycle-kicks him through multiple clouds.
"Shit, I feel like I'm going to blackout! No! I can't! This battle isn't over yet!" Wayne thinks to himself.
Wayne opens his eyes wide with determination, but that look quickly turns to shock as he sees Hunter is already above him.
"Did you forget I'm a feared legend? The less energy I have, the harder I fight!" Hunter shouts with a psychotic look in his eyes.
Hunter energizes his fingernails with lightning and leaves a huge bear-like scratch on Wayne's chest while also electrocuting him.
"Ahhh!"
Wayne spins around multiple times to get back to a favorable position.
"My body! My fucking body! It's all going numb! But he won't even take a break!" Wayne says as he watches Hunter rush at him.
Wayne begins to fly back, but Hunter keeps up with him. Hunter punches Wayne in the rib, slams his left elbow on his forehead, and then kicks him in the stomach.
"Ha! All these damn battles I've had within just 24 hours—it's so exhilarating! A weakling like you could never take advantage of all the damage I've already taken!" Hunter exclaims as he slams his knee into his chest.
With a smirk on his face, Hunter headbutts Wayne and then hits him with a left hook followed by a right.
"No, not yet! My ambition will do nothing but get stronger!" Wayne screams as sweat begins to mix in with his blood and his breath continues getting heavier.
Wayne activates the rockets installed in his sword at full blast and swings it at Hunter.
"Hahaha! Uh uh, you should calm down," Hunter remarks as he hardens his left hand.
Hunter punches the sword with his left hand, destroying the top half of the sword.
"No Excalibur!" Wayne exclaims.
"Yes! Make the blood rush even faster! Show me you're suffering!" Hunter says as he rips the broken sword out of Wayne's hand.
"Fuck! Fuck! Why won't you just die?" Wayne says to himself with a desperate tone.
Wayne flies back at full speed with the jetpack and starts shooting with his shotgun as Hunter approaches.
Hunter moves out of a few bullets but gets both his legs shot off and his left arm shot off.
Hahaha! Sit down, you level zero?" Hunter says as he grabs Wayne's face with his right hand.
"Damn you, Hunter! You think you're so strong, but I promise I'll kill you! I promised them all I put it all into my ambition!" Wayne screams as he shoots Hunter directly through the heart.
"Haha! Yes, your little ambition, you bring it up every damn second, but to keep it real..."
Suddenly Wayne feels a huge pain in his stomach area, and when he looks down, he sees a tentacle coming out of Hunter's back, and it's holding his broken Excalibur. Then he looks at his stomach, and he sees the tentacle stabbing the broken sword into his stomach.
"Your ambition is what makes you so weak," Hunter remarks as he drops Wayne, sending him spiraling toward the hard ground.
"Fuck! I'm losing so much blood! I'm going to die at this rate. I'm lucky Hunter broke the sword. If it were at its full size, it would have torn me into two," Wayne says as he slowly loses consciousness.
Suddenly the words of Kirata, his adoptive father, ran through his mind.
"You actually have everything you need; it's what you've used in every fight up until this point. All you need to do is continue adding fuel to your fire," Kirata says in a calm tone.
Then the words of Hunter ran through his mind.
"Your ambition is what makes you so weak."
"No!" Wayne screams as he snaps back away from falling unconscious.
Wayne pushes his jetpack to the limit and blasts his way back up to Hunter.
"Damn, even with a sword in your stomach, you're still so persistent," Hunter says in an uninterested tone as he digs in his ear.
"I don't care if there's a large sword in my stomach! I don't care if I'm on death's door! I don't care who you fought or who you beat! I don't even give a damn about your title! My ambition is what makes me a person! It's what makes me strong enough to beat you! So you're wrong, Hunter! My ambition to kill you will never stop!" Wayne screams with a passionate tone as he drops his empty gun.
"Ok fine I'll make your end painful," Hunter says in a menacing tone as he surrounds his hand in lightning.
"Rahhh!" Wayne screechs.
In the middle of the sky, Wayne throws his left fist at Hunter while Hunter throws his right.
Both fighters fist clash, and instantly every bone in Wayne's left arm shatters completely, and at the same time, the skin of his arm gets burned again by lightning, turning it black.
"Ahhhhh!" Wayne screams in excruciating pain.
"See, I told you to stay in your weight class, you stupid level zero," Hunter says as he prepares to finish the job.
Suddenly a sensation goes up Hunter's spine, and he instantly starts smiling.
"Yes! That's his presence! The presence of Nixion! Finally, you showed yourself!" Hunter shouts in an excited tone.
Hunter instantly surrounds himself with lightning and begins to fly toward Grava City Tower.
With his arm in a complete mess, Wayne floats with his jetpack. He continues to go back and forth between unconscious and conscious as he breathes heavily.
"Aragahargah," Wayne says as the pain overtakes him.
Wayne continues blanking out until he sees Hunter flying.
"No Hunter, get back here," Wayne struggles to say.
Wayne begins to push his jetpack to full blast so he can follow Hunter, but then suddenly the jetpack explodes.
"No, not now! Not yet!" Wayne exclaims as he descends downward while his dire situation sets in deep in his mind.
"His jetpack finally reached its limit," Aurora says in a disappointed tone from down below.
As Wayne begins to fall at enormous speed toward his death, he looks up to see Hunter leave.
"This is just like last time."
Wayne begins to remember his first battle against Hunter after his father, Kirata, was killed. He remembers the exact moment Hunter flew away after killing Kirata. He remembers the deep-seated hatred he felt as he flew away, completely ignoring him.
After remembering this feeling, Wayne grits his teeth in rage.
"Hunter you bastard!" Wayne screamed as tears filled his eyes.
From the top of a large pile of rubble, doctor David jumps up and goes toward Wayne.
"These goddam kids are going to be the death of me!" David yells.
David catches Wayne in mid-air and shoots flames below him to cushion the fall. David lands on his buttocks with Wayne in his arms.
"Are you damn idiot Wayne? Why would you try to chase him? you could've died! You're lucky—"
"Shut up!" Wayne screams as he pushes himself off David.
Wayne limped forward, but with multiple burns across his body, a destroyed left arm, a damaged left leg, multiple severe injuries, a broken sword in his stomach, and a large loss of blood, Wayne fell to his knees.
With his spirit damaged once again, Wayne clenches his right fist.
"Hunter!"
Wayne punches the ground with full force.
"Hunter! Hunter! Hunter! Hunter! Hunter!" Wayne continuously screams as his eyes twitch and he punches the ground with his right-hand full force over and over again.
Hunter keeps punching the ground until his hand breaks, and even then he continues punching the ground in rage.
David looks at Wayne from behind and lights up a cigarette.
"I swear all these kids need some damn therapy, especially this ungrateful psychopath.
David looks over to where all the injured students are and sees Aurora watching over them.
"Well, I guess it's time to get back to that damn dome. Mr.Brown is going to be annoying," David says in a stressed tone.
In front of David Wayne is still punching the ground in anger.
"I hate you, Hunter! I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!"
Wayne falls face flat on the ground, slowly losing consciousness.
"I hate you, Hunter."
Chapter 186 end