The bandit with brass knuckles charges at Hisashi. He then grabs the bandit that attacked by his kimono and his arm.
"UWOOOAHHH!!!" Hisashi lifts the bandit and proceeds to hit the charging bandit with the former. Seeing this, the bandit jumped backward to dodge. By that time, another already approached Hisashi who blocks using his unusual wooden sword.
The thrown bandit caved in the dirt but recovered quickly. As Hisashi was locked to another with katana, another one with a short sword engaged. He pushed the former and defended the latter's attack with a back kick.
With the other four not advancing, Hisashi goes offensive and flashes to the man with a short sword. He attacks him with one of his fire-clawed arms and manages to burn and injure him in the face.
"ARRGHHH!"
He wasn't dead though but one of his eyeballs was hit with the claw, blinding him in the eye.
Although they didn't know fully before if Hisashi is already strong, they can't help but admire the kid for his strength. Unbeknownst to them and even Hisashi, he was already strong and getting even stronger. The more Hisashi uses sorcery or magic, the more his magic power improves. However, he also becomes more and more unhinged as time passes by.
…
Usuma, who was fighting Sukehiro, was unable to hit him even after using more of his yoryoku, strengthening his sword. After the first almost his case before, he was unable to hit even closer to Sukehiro. The kid hasn't even used any magic to repel his attacks.
Although they cannot use a formal spell without their scrolls, they can still use strong unnamed spells depending on their skills. And seeing how skilled Sukehiro is with the sword, he knows that he has to have strong magic too, at least his utilization has to be.
They clashed even more, and Usuma tries to increase his intensity. Sukehiro's sword style that he learned from his father, however, countered that increasing intensity well. After all, it was a style created for the one nicknamed, "The Untouchable".
Seeing how much useless he was against the kid's defense, he starts to lose his cool. He pours more and more yoryoku on his sword spell, making it stronger and faster. Seeing this, Sukehiro's stoic face moved, albeit only his eyebrows.
Quickly thinking of any solution to gain an upper hand, Usuma's sword slightly slowed down. Sukehiro saw this quite well.
"Old man, are you distracted or something?"
Sukehiro's taunting enrages the man even more. He sends a downward slash and Sukehiro defends it. Usuma kept the kid in a deadlock and smile at him.
*Spit*
He sends a fast spit straight to Sukehiro's face, almost hitting him, if not for his fast reflexes. However, Usuma quickly maneuvers his sword, and using the opening he created, his sword strikes Sukehiro. However, he was shocked when he saw that the latter was still able to dodge, almost.
He jumps away from Usuma to gain some distance and the man didn't chase after him. A cut reveals itself on Sukehiro's nose. It was just a skin cut, however, some small blood drips out of it. He wipes it off his nose and then to his katana.
"Old man, you're kind of smart, eh? You're pretty good." Sukehiro looks at Usuma. The lazy look in his eyes then changed. He then takes a stance, different from his previous one.
"You're attacking now?" Usuma said, mockingly.
"Yep, after all, your friend there is already defeated," Sukehiro said as he points at Usuma's back with his mouth. Usuma then looks back only to see a defeated Kaato and a fresh-looking Ryuya who saluted him.
"Ya-hoo!" Ryuya teases with a smile on his face. Although Kaato doesn't seem to be dead, he has a lot of burn marks and cuts all over his body. He was shocked. He knows that if the two wanted to, he would've been already defeated. However, Ryuya just stands there, with his friend on his feet.
"You came here? Why not check on your other friend?" He asks Ryuya.
"Nothin'. I just wanna see which of you is stronger. Is yer friend stronger than you?" Ryuya shrugs his shoulder. Usuma didn't answer the question and looked at Sukehiro who is still in position. He readied himself to the latter's turn to attack while keeping an eye on Ryuya by activating his amateurish Ki.
"Come!" Usuma screams to Sukehiro who in turn dashes. Usuma has bloodlust in his eyes. He decided that even if he can't defeat the two, he would at least take out one of them or injure them for life at the very least.
However, his hopes are short-lived as he was defeated… in less than a minute.
As Sukehiro charges, his yoryoku gathers on his arms and sword, strengthening him. His yoryoku turns to darkness, something surprising to Usuma. He raises his sword and slashes down. Usuma became confused as there was still quite a distance in front of them.
He became surprised again when he saw a crescent blade of darkness coming towards him. He merely blocks it with his wind-covered katana. It was useless though as although he was able to slice it into two, it didn't disappear and merely divided into two. He was still hit in the head and the groin.
Luckily, it felt blunt but fluid. It knocked him back a couple of meters and when he recovers, he was hit in the neck with a blunt side of a katana. Obviously, Sukehiro's. He fell to the ground unconscious and the kid sheathes back his sword.
"What took you so long, dude?" Ryuya asks.
"I wanted to use father's sword style. That was good training if I say so myself." Sukehiro answers.
"Jeez, and I was the one called playful. Let's just check on the lil' twerp." Ryuya complains as he effortlessly lifts Kaato. The same can be said of Sukehiro.
The two older adults left Hisashi as per his request. According to him, the two of them just need to take care of the two as it would take less time, given Hisashi's suitability to fight more opponents. And so, they took the two adults far from their goons.
When they came back to where they left, what they saw made their expressions grim. There were bodies everywhere. To be exact, 7 of them. One without a head, one with an axe on his head and chest, one without a leg and a puddle of blood, and many more. They dropped the adults quickly and checked if anyone is alive.
Some are just unconscious, however, they have grave injuries. By this time, Ryuya looks at Sukehiro before saying…
"Man, don't get angry at me. However, I think that your brother has a problem. A serious one at that." Ryuya said with sincerity. Sukehiro has a concern in his face. However, he knows that his friend isn't wrong. This wasn't normal.
"Don't worry, I agree. I don't think that this is normal too."