Hoshiko ran towards Enji who was still doing battle the Kyubi. The eyepatch she wore to cover her left eye was missing, revealing a blue eye. Despite not being an enhancer, her physical ability said otherwise.
She somehow jumped from the ground, right next to the giants neck.
"Advanced enhancement technique: Awaken."
The moon slashing sword excluded a power which it had never displayed before. Power great enough, to perhaps even cut a mountain in two.
A giant burst of blue energy emerged from the sword, which Enji was about to use to cut off it's head.
But he suddenly she redirected her slash to one of tails, that attacked her from behind. The force from the clash flung her back down into the ground.
"DAMMIT, THIS THING IS TOO BIG!"
Hoshiko quickly ran towards her, and asked if she needed help to which, Enji refused.
"My left eye is an evil eye. It can see 10 seconds into the future, but it's pointless against something as big as that."
It roared as it prepared another blast of fire. Something that Enji didn't want happening again, no matter what.
"Hoshiko! Go check on Arashi! I don't know why it can't move, but I'll hold this thing off."
She threw another slash at the Kyubis jaw which caused it's attack to explode early.
Shiro stared into Akiras tired eyes. They were filled with hate for him, but there was nothing that could be done now.
He also noticed that Akira was missing a great amont of spirits compared to before.
There was no need to exchange any words. They were psychics. If they wanted to exchange feelings, then they only need to fight.
"Abyssal expansion, labyrinth of a hundred demons."
Akiras shadow grew larger as it encompassed the whole area, even reaching to Shiro. Sensing danger, he immediately blew up his own legs and started to fly.
Part of Akiras spirit control, allowed him to store the spirits he dominates in his shadow. By expanding this space using the spirit of his mother, Akira effectively increased their range.
A great amount of shadow spikes, emerged from them, which Shiro avoided.
"Locust swarm."
A swarm of locusts also emerged from the shadow, which Shiro was especially suspectible too.
" You wanna know something strange? Although I sensed hundreds of spirits from you last time, you only have around 20~ right now, but these locusts aren't counted towards them."
He used his psychic sense, and noticed something odd. One of the locusts felt far different from the rest.
He flew head first into the swarm, and felt his skin being torn off piece by piece, eventually even reaching his flesh and bone. But he persisted until he finally reached it.
He grabbed onto that specific locust, and crushed it in his hands. The rest of the locust swarm suddenly halted before disappearing.
From Akiras shadow the great serpent was then summoned, along with the sword and shield spirits close by.
The serpent lunged at Shiro, who easily avoided it as he grew back his legs. He began to run down it's back, and met with the sword spirit which confronted him.
"Dead rocket!"
Shiro fired a dead rocket which the sword spirit easily cut in half as it exploded. Shiro then splattered a bunch of blood on purpose, which blinded it.
The confused spirit took a step back, but then Shiro double kicked it through his own blood.
The sword spirit fell off the serpents back, and fell into the shadows.
Akira then said, "It's finally ready."
Back when Akira and Shiro first fought at the school, Akira was in possession of 400 hunred spirits. After two days, with the help of Asclepius and others from abyss, he gained up to 600, but today he had much less.
1 day prior to the attack on the temple
Asclepius sat Infront of Akira as he told him his plan.
"Your ability is very powerful. Perhaps even one of the strongest in this age. It's greatest strength is that you get stronger every time you dominate a spirit, but at the same time that's your weakness. It's domination, not tameing or control. The beings you dominate can only be physically controlled, not mentally. The second they sense weakness in you, they will rebel, so never sleep, otherwise they'll devour you."
Akira came back to his senses, as his rage reached its peak. 200 hundred spirits were placed in the south to distract Enji, 200 in the north for Arashi, and the final 200...
A giant pot emerged from Akiras shadow.
"Jar of deadly poisons. In it weak spirits reside, all devouring eachother until only 1 with the power of that 200 remains!"
The jar then exploded, revealing the single spirit it contained with in. It was a humonid spirit, covered in a strange white armour.
Shiro immediately threw a left hook at it, but it did zero damage. It didn't even flinch.
"This thing is hard!!"
The spirit extended out it's right hand, showing off its claws. It tried to swipe at Shiros' head, but he just ducked.
"Its stupidly slow though!"
He grabbed onto the spirits arm, and then pulled him closer towards him. At the same time, he leg sweeped the spirit, causing it to fall.
Shiro tried to plant it's head into the ground, but the spirit instead sinked into Akiras shadow.
The spirit reappeared from behind Shiro, and was about to tear his head off.
Before it could, a blast of fire hit it in the head. Shiro noticed that the part of the armour which was hit, was damaged and exposed.
"Hoshiko!?"
Spirits were weak to the divine power of blessings.
Using this opportunity, Kai forced his hand into the opening, and blasted the spirits head off by blowing up his own hand.
Akira summoned the spirit of his mother, and it's hair began to form into a giant blade of shadows.
"WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DIE?!"
The spirit slashed at Shiro, which he couldn't avoid without losing a leg. He ascended to the sky in preparation to use his final attack.
Akira focused the power of the gheki spirit into a single spear while Shiro blew up both his arms and aimed at Akira.
Enhancers reinforced their body through outer or inner enhancement. Inner allowed the user to build up phsyic power in the users body. It didn't matter if it was a severed arm, or even a drop of blood, the part would still be strengthed through inner enhancement.
Right now, Shiro was applying inner enhancement to his very blood cells.
"Shiro style: Blood shower."
Shiro concentrated on the regeneration of blood cells, which caused a fountain of high pressure blood to be released. It was even more powerful since the blood was enhanced through psychic power.
Akira fired the shadow spear at the blast, and it was instantly torn apart.
"HURRY UP AND MOVE!"
Akira had been awake for many days and nights to not lose control of the spirits. Due to exhaustion, his response time was far to slow. He was about to give up, and let himself die, but then the gheki spirit of his mother moved in front of the attack.
The spirit tried its best to defend, but the blood shower mercilessly ripped it apart.
"Mom?!! MOM!"
Once Shiro finally got his blood under control, he instantly collapsed to the floor. He dedeicated a large amount of power to this, so he was super anemic and was about to pass out. But before he did, he approached Akira who was equally exhausted.
"I lost? With this power, I thought I could finally get my pay back on this world, but instead I eneded up losing to you."
"..."
Akira fell onto his back and was starting to pass out. Before he did though, he got one last look at Shiro. His eyes weren't filled with hate towards him, but they weren't forgiveness either.
"Those eyes... I so terribly want to hate you, but those eyes prevent me from doing so... Those eyes are trying to understand me aren't they?"