"You got this right, Layla?" Heather asked in trepidation. "I've never felt someone so incredibly powerful! It's like standing in front of Voldemort times 100."
I patted Heather on the shoulder reassuringly. "Yeah, I've got this." I started walking towards Mephisto, who was slowly walking towards me as well. I willed my eyes to shift for the first time to the Rinnegan. My vision didn't change, but I immediately felt more powerful. I also instinctively felt multiple new abilities that I knew I could perform.
"Those are some creepy looking eyes you have now. I approve! Do they do anything interesting?" Mephisto asked, curiously. He wondered if those were what I fused to myself earlier.
I smirked and pointed my palm towards Mephisto. He raised an eyebrow at me in response. "They sure do! Almighty Push!" A wave of invisible force erupted from my palm and slammed into Mephisto, who was not expecting such an attack!
"Gaaah!" He grunted in pain as the force ripped him from the ground and sent him crashing through the nearby shrine. The wood and tiles, already damaged from earlier battle, immediately collapsed on top of him and bruised the evil deity.
"Damn, that was awesome!" I cheered as I inspected my palm. It hardly cost me any MP either. Sending Mephisto flying only cost me 50 MP. It was too bad that such a fun ability had a 5-second cooldown, though.
"Bitch!" Mephisto screamed as the rubble exploded off of him in a shower of flames! He levitated in the air and rocketed forward towards me! A sword of Hellfire appeared in his hands.
My Deva Path was on cooldown, but that didn't mean I couldn't try my other abilities out on him. "Susanoo." I stated calmly.
Mephisto quickly arrived at my location and tried to cleave me in two! His flaming sword was blocked! His attack was stopped by a large rib bone.
A large purple rib cage completely surrounded my entire body. I smirked at him from inside of my makeshift shield. I was finding that Susanoo was far stronger and more cost-effective than my Lightshield was. Plus, it could guard me from all sides at once!
"Fine! If I can't hit you, I'll just kill the two little girls!" Mephisto raced around me and immediately tried to go after Heather and Kunou on the sidelines. What a cowardly tactic…
"I don't think so!" I said. My cooldown ended. "Universal Pull!"
Mephisto made it halfway towards the two frightened girls before he was yanked backwards by another invisible force! He screamed in annoyance when he found he couldn't fight the pull! He couldn't even spin around to face me!
A powerful Lightspear formed in my hand, and I rammed it right through Mephisto's back! "And that's why you don't turn your back to me!" I kicked him in the back and sent him crashing into the dirt with my spear still sticking out of him.
I felt like testing another ability and pointed my arm towards Mephisto once again. He was stumbling in pain and trying to pull the burning spear out of his chest! His eyes widened when my arm transformed into a genuine rocket launcher.
"The fuck!?" Was all he could say before a literal missile slammed into his face! Instead of exploding with rocket fuel, it exploded in a shower of Light Energy! He let out another loud anguished scream as his red face was burned black!
"Holy crap! Are you a cyborg now, Layla!?" Heather exclaimed.
I willed my arm to transform back. That felt really weird. I wasn't sure if I was a fan of that particular Path… It also didn't seem to do that much damage compared to a general Lightspear.
"You fucking, bitch!" Mephisto finally yanked the Lightspear in his chest free and hurled it to the side. The hole in his chest started to close, and his burnt face started to heal as well. "Learn your place!" Mephisto screamed loudly, and then he started to swell up. He went from being around 6 feet tall to 20 in only a few seconds.
"Susanoo!" I called out again. I was glad that I finally had an ability that could counter enemies going supersize on me! I poured in far more MP this time and began to manifest the full skeleton!
"What!?" Mephisto exclaimed as a towering 30-foot-tall purple skeleton manifested in front of him.
My Susannoo's eyes were glowing at him eerily, promising him further pain and embarrassment!
"Do you know who the fuck I am!?" He shouted angrily.
His question was met with a giant skeletal fist smashing him hard in the face. The air around us vibrated from the force of the blow! Mephisto stumbled backward as his head wrangled out like a gong!
I made sure to punch him so he stumbled away from Heather and Kunou. I followed that up with another couple of devastating blows. Oddly enough, I could actually feel what my Susanoo felt, and with each punch it landed, I felt Mephisto's bones break and shatter. His avatar was getting the beating of a lifetime!
"T-this… This is fucking bullshit…" He huffed out as his large form struggled to stand upright. It was pretty hard considering both of his legs were currently broken. His regeneration was being pushed to its limits.
Shapeshifting himself into his larger form also seemed to focus more of his magic on that and less towards healing.
He quickly shrunk himself back down and my new eyes could see that he was about to cast some teleportation magic.
[He's trying to run away!]
'Not happening!'
Before he could, a giant skeletal arm completely wrapped around his entire body with crushing force! I squeezed hard until he screamed and his concentration broke. The teleportation spell he had been building up winked out in failure.
I de-manifested most of my Susanoo and only kept up a partial torso and the giant arm holding Mephisto in place. Susanoo was a powerful ability, but it was also an MP drain at full power. That minute-long fight cost me 2000 MP.
"You weren't planning on running away now? Were you Mephisto?" I asked while grinning up at him. I willed the skeletal hand to squeeze harder, and he let out another scream. I couldn't believe that I was toying with a Level 62 so easily!
…Although I wasn't aware, at the time, that as an Avatar, this Mephisto didn't have full access to most of his greater abilities…
"Fuck you, Fallen Angel! I'll get you back for this! I was so close to wiping out all the supernatural in this tiny world and taking it for myself!"
I shrugged. "So close, yet so far." I then closed my fist as tight as possible! The crushing force ended up bursting the Avatar like a balloon…and soaking me in a downpour of his disgusting blood. Needless to say, he wasn't regenerating from being turned to paste.
"Eeeeewwwwuuu! Gross Layla! You're covered in demon blood!" Heather whined out loud from the sides. "That's disgusting! And it smells…"
"You stink, Lady Layla." Even Kunou was giving me a grossed out look…
I groaned as I smelled myself…Yikes.
[You have leveled up x2!]
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–Back in Kyoto–
"...And that's what happened." I finished explaining to Yasaka.
"Uh huh…" Yasaka replied. "That was quite a crazy story." She'd heard tales of Mephisto, but never thought him actually real.
"It sure was…"
Yasaka looked to the side and could see the two Kunous sitting together talking happily. That brought a smile to Yasaka's face. Halfway through my story, the older Kunou had stopped crying and let Yasaka go when her own daughter came out to see what all the noise was.
"I could also use a bath. Maybe we could take one together?" I asked Yasaka with a grin.
A grin that would have come off more sexy if I wasn't covered in Mephisto's blood.
Yasaka shook her head. "Not happening…You need to scrub yourself thoroughly." She said and she had no doubts that I was going to require more than one bath… "I'm currently forced to use Senjutsu to block my own sense of smell."
"Awe…"
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