The semi-finalists were ordered to gather in the arena. In the distance, he saw Shawn and Rintaro. "How do they even know about such things in the first place? Let's just go and ask." Ron thought as he made his way towards Shawn. "Hey, you must be Shawn. I'm Ron." He exclaimed. "Hello Ron, or should I saw, Ronin." Shawn smirked. Ron was speechless. "How does he know? Maybe he's just speculating." He thought. "See you in the match. Let's continue where we left." He said and made his way towards the podium. Ron couldn't believe what had just happened. "Shawn knows my identity. Or even if he's speculating, it's on point." Ron thought. This made him nervous.
"Rintaro VS Grogon! Both of you, in the arena. All the best. May the mightiest win." Dik announced. They shook hands and the battle started. Grogon teleported behind Rintaro and punched him, sending him flying in the middle of the arena. Grogon jumped and knuckled him back onto the ground midair. Now, Grogon rushed at him and stomped on the ground, shattering it completely. Rintaro managed to dodge his attack and not take a direct hit, though the stomp did some damage to his body. He had no choice but to fight back. He concentrated his energy towards his right hand and rushed face forward towards Grogon. "Hell Rocks!" Grogon chanted. Multiple portals opened on the ground, from which hellish fired rocks appeared. He fired them towards Rintaro, but they were easy to dodge. Rintaro jumped to punch Grogon, breaking his jaw on impact. "Argh!!" Grogon screamed. Rintaro again concentrated his energy towards his fist, and punched him in his abdomen area, throwing him backwards. Grogon fell hard on the ground, breaking his arm. He stood up with difficulty, and chanted, "Hell awakening, death ball." A huge spear of hell fire appeared in the air.
"Weak sickens me." Shawn commented as he teleported. Ron was looking at him all while the battle occurred, giving him heads-ups. He rushed towards Ela and Sam.
Grogon trajected the spear towards Rintaro. The speed was far superior to that of Rintaro's. It nearly hit him when suddenly, the spear vanished. The audience cheered as they thought Rintaro nullified the attack. Suddenly, he looked up and his face went pale. Shawn was levitating up in the air. "Pathetic. Each one of you." He commented. "What? How is that possible?" Grogon gasped when he saw Shawn took control of his spear. He threw it towards Grogon, which hit him instantly and burnt him. He looked at Rintaro, who had already peed his pants. "Puny humans." He said as fire engulfed him and turned him into ashes. Everyone freaked out and ran towards the exit. Even Dik hid behind a wall and made his way towards the exit. Ron swiftly went to Ela and Sam. "Are you two alright?" He asked. "We're okay. What even is that person? Just grab the Katana and get out of here, Ron" Ela suggested. "Alright, you both run to the exit. I'll be just behind." Ron said. He ran towards the platform to get his Katana.
Shawn reached the platform and said, "What do we have here? Ah, splendid. This belongs to an old friend who I tried getting rid of. Here, while I have the opportunity, I'll get rid of this as well. Where is he anyway?" Shawn smirked. He then noticed Ron running towards the platform. "Fatality, is all you seek here." He said. He then trajected hellish fireballs towards Ron which were easily dodged. One ball hit the floor beneath him. Before it did, Ron jumped towards the platform. Shawn flew up and fired a huge hellfire ball towards the platform. Again, before it could even touch, Ron grabbed the Katana and slashed the hellfire, nullifying the magic.
Suddenly, lightning came down from the open sky and hit Ron directly. The whole area was under smoke, with zero visibility. "Hiding? What a human thing to do." He commented, blowing away all the dust and smoke. To his surprise, he witnessed the mighty warrior, standing on the platform. A black mask, red eyes, long hair, a cloak, and the Katana. "So, you're actually back, Ronin." Shawn said. He yelled and transformed into a gigantic demi-human. He grew horns, a tail and his body grew in size. His eyes looked fierce. His aura was so strong that those who were near them fainted. Ronin looked him dead in the eyes without fear.
"Nue, stop with the show already. Finish your task." Another demi-human appeared from the sky. He was accompanied by a small army of demons and wyverns. "You're already late moron. Don't tell me what to do and what not to do!" Nue grunted. "You think you'll be able to return back to your little hideout? You're heavily mistaken, Neu and Nue. Why did you kill him!? Why did you kill your own fuckin students you moron!??! Was this hunger of power really more important that your goddamn students!?" Ronin shouted. "I should've killed you when I had the chance. Right next to him. Never mind my past mistakes, I'll rectify them right now. Now that I'm free of his curse, I can finally slash all of your body parts and kill you with my own fuckin hands!" Nue exclaimed. Ronin grunted. He teleported right in front of Nue to slash him. He swung his Katana but to his surprise, Nue blocked it easily with just his tail. "Weakling. Both of you were bloody weaklings. I'm surprised you even made it this far. You're still as weak as before!" Nue laughed.
"Worth a watch." Neu commented. He sat on the back of a wyvern, watching the battle.
He pushed Ronin and said, "You've not even gained any strength! I remember how pathetic you were. How you fighting in that battle made no sense and how you were nothing but liability to your master! Even today, fighting battles that you should know you cannot win. Pathetic!" Nue laughed. "Nue and his stupidity." Neu commented again.
Ronin sent multiple slashes towards Nue mid-air which were easily nullified with just bare hands. He summoned a sword out of nowhere. "You're boring, Ronin." He said and then trajected three magical slashes towards him. Ronin was barely able to block two of them. He tried to save himself and block the third but was unsuccessful. The wounds were very deep, even damaging his internal organs. Ronin fell on the ground, breaking his shoulder on impact.
"Weakling!" Nue commented as he dashed towards Ronin to finish him, when suddenly, Ronin stood up. His eye color changed into Carmine red. He gave Neu a sudden death glare. He backed off midair as that one glace sent shivers all along his body. Ronin took a stance, and his Katana started electrifying. "With the power I hold, I swear to his soul, I will be the death of you Nue! You both wont' be spared." Ronin shouted. Within milliseconds, he swung his Katana, sending a magical electric slash towards Nue, catching him off-guard and hit him directly in the abdomen, wounding him deeply. "How come I didn't even sense that attack!?" He thought. To his surprise, the wounds didn't heal at all.
"Flee, Nue! This timing is not right. If you want to be the death of him, Flee right now." Neu shouted as he flew away, warping in a different dimension. Nue, using the wyverns, started jumping up in the air as the wounds damaged his wings. "You won't run away!" Ronin shouted. Again, he sent a slash towards him that cut his left fit off. Screaming in pain, Nue didn't stop and continued jumping to reach the portal. Ronin sent another slash, this time wounding his left upper shoulder. All the slashes took away his ability to heal.
Suddenly, Nue slashed the head and a wing of one of the wyverns. He attached the head to his hand and the wing to his shoulder which in turn started to heal his wound and attach to his body. He made his way to the portal and shouted, "Not today, but I am going to kill you! Ronin! Just the way I killed your fuckin master!" He shouted and fled away. Ronin was in no shape to even stand and yet held his stance. He fainted and fell on the ground.
"The building, it's collapsing!" Sam gasped. "Ron! Wake up!" Ela shouted as the two rushed towards him. The stadium couldn't uphold Ronin's, Nue's and Neu's magical powers and started to shatter slowly. A huge piece of rock was going to fell on Ela and Sam when suddenly, it shattered. They saw Ren standing behind it. "His healing abilities aren't working as he has lost a lot of blood. His wounds are also deep." Ren grunted. "What should we do? Help us please, Ren-sama!" Ela cried. "First, I need to stop this place from falling apart." Ren said as he stood up and chanted, "Grant me the strength my lord. Binding magic, time threads!" Suddenly, magical threads appeared out of his hands. Using them, he sewed the whole arena back to how it was before. It was just like time travel.
Picking up Ronin, he said, "Let's head back to the mansion for the time being." He then opened up a portal which led them straight to the magical world.