Ryuma gripped his fist with the gloves on. The blue light are emanating from it on some parts. His body still felt hot so he's been using ice magic to reduce the hotness of his body since earlier. That means he's been draining his mana for quite some time now.
Despite that, he doesn't get much of a choice besides defeating this giant Oni girl, Tenko. Among the two, Tenko is the first one to charge towards their opponents. Her hands sign to form a spear and attack Ryuma. But was evaded as she pierced through the wall. Ryuma watched Tenko pull her hand from the wall back and it didn't show a sign of broken bone.
("Even her fingers are quite sturdy. Now I have three options, The first is to break the bones of her arm or leg. Which one doesn't matter, but she mostly keeps her guard up on that. Second, runs away and searches for an environment to defeat her. Third, I just brute force my way through this...")
Ryuma walked up to her but Tenko was attacking him at the same time. Ryuma evaded the attack and gripped his hand. The light emanated in blue as Ryuma punched Tenko in her cheeks. Sending her flying.
("It packs this much of a power?! Holy shit this thing is busted!") Ryuma charged toward Tenko as she got up again and tried to use the gloves's power again. But it didn't go the way he wants to. The fist goes to Tenko's left ribcage but it didn't leave any damage. Instead, he feels like the power has been slightly weaker than when he wasn't using the gloves.
The consequence Ryuma got was hit by the punch on the abdomen and flying across the room. Ryuma wonders what's wrong with the gloves...
("This thing didn't pack up much power than when the first time I used it. Did it use mana? No, I would felt my mana drain otherwise.") At the same time, Tenko charged at Ryuma with both of her hands up and smashing the ground.
Ryuma evaded it meanwhile Tenko went further to the floor below. Before Ryuma could think again, his legs were caught up by the hand coming from the floor. The hand pulls him to the floor below.
"I can smell you!" Tenko spins Ryuma before throwing him to the wall. Almost out of energy, Ryuma took a while to get up while Tenko was only standing on her spot.
"Comes here, little kid." The provokes hit the nerves, and Ryuma sprinted towards Tenko at full speed. Tenko had a good view to hit him and gripped her fist. As Ryuma enters her range, Tenko throws a punch imbued with fire magic. But it did not hit as Ryuma takes a backstep at the last second.
On Ryuma's left foot, a dust and small stone pulsating on it in the form of a soccer ball. Ryuma swings his left leg, creating a smoke covering Tenko. Before Tenko knew it, Ryuma was already holding onto Tenko's arm. The next second happens...
*SNAP!!!*
"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!" Tenko screamed in pain as Ryuma broke her left arm. But once again, it turned into a moan. A water came out from her eyes and she smiled.
"Hihi... Hihihiahahahaha!!! The pain is getting to me! But at the same time, I'm feeling good!!!" At this moment, Ryuma thought that the extreme pain from her arm being broken was getting to her so he decided to finish her off by snapping her neck.
But the closer Ryuma gets to Tenko, the weirder it gets. From his perspective, Tenko is getting bigger and bigger but that wasn't the case. Ryuma looked around the room and finally realized that he was the one getting smaller.
Second later, Tenko gets up. Ryuma's eyes were caught on something obvious as she was standing. Tenko is the one that became bigger and taller. Too tall that her head is hitting the ceiling. Ryuma also realized one thing from this. The feeling of hot too was gone.
("I'm not feeling hot anymore. Huh! Don't tell me... I need to get away from her fast!") Ryuma decided to get away from Tenko but as Ryuma was about to pass the doorframe, he got grabbed from behind along with the rubble or remains of the doorframe.
"Tenko don't know about this. This is the first time Tenko has used this power. But you... You're quite small aren't you?" From Tenko's perspective, Ryuma was the size of the rat. He tried to get away but couldn't move an inch.
"But, this is fine! Now you're only a rat that was caught in my hand. But, I quite like the rat don't you know?" Tenko said that by opening his mouth to eat Ryuma alive. At that moment, Ryuma knew that, once he got in her stomach, the others would not be able to recover his body. Indicates that this is his death.
Tenko tried to stuff Ryuma inside her mouth but Ryuma was held on to her teeth as the last resort. But the teeth moved closer to each other as the fingers behind pushed him.
("I, I can't hold on!") Soon. The mouth finally closed. With its victim inside. To everyone who's watching they both fight. Might think it's his fate. To be eaten by an Oni. But... soon after. The orange color gleamed from under the chin.
"H-Hot!!!" Ryuma digs a hole under Tenko's chin. Ryuma had his mouth full of blood trying to bite something.
"I finally know what the requirement for these gloves for. It's not using a mana. Instead, it used blood. The blood I had on my head dropped to these gloves as I used them. So that's why the damage is powerful. And so, I realized it the second time when it hit the blood. From your tongue.
Ryuma spitted some of the blood as he said that. Second later, by using an iron ball, he's using a Fingshot and aiming at Tenko's hand.
"And now I realized it. Your ability to change the temperature and size had to have a second party for the ability to activate. The requirement to have a second party is for your hand to touch someone. If the user chooses 'cold', then the second party is 'hot'. When the user chooses 'big' the other party is 'small'. Think about this, what'll happen if your Unique loses its priority on me? This is gambling but let's see if it does work on an object too."
With a fine shot, Ryuma shot an iron ball towards Tenko's hand. The result is the iron ball is getting smaller as it hits Tenko's hand. But at the same time, Ryuma is getting bigger. Right under her chin.