[Scene opens – Shattered battlefield, The Edge of the Veil]
Two blurs clashed in the air—one burning with crimson-white flame, the other leaking black soulmist.
Jin Kuroya and Raikou Kuroya.
Brothers. Opposites. Now enemies.
Every strike from Jin's blade sparked like a meteor shower, while Raikou's corrupted blade bent gravity around it, like it was tearing space open with each swing.
The battlefield cracked beneath their feet.
Captain Aria stood at a distance, watching with narrowed eyes.
"This isn't just a fight," she muttered.
"It's a soul test. One of them isn't walking away the same."
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[Inside the clash – Dialogue mid-fight]
Raikou sneered between swings.
"You're faster than I expected. Renzai's accepted you… even evolved for you."
"Guess it just likes me better," Jin shot back, spinning low and countering.
"It doesn't like you," Raikou hissed.
"It's using you. Just like it used me."
"No," Jin said, eyes glowing.
"It's fighting with me. That's the difference between us."
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[Jin's Power-Up – Soul Veil: Flamebound Step]
Renzai pulsed, syncing with Jin's soul.
He vanished.
Flash-step? No.
Flamebound Step. Jin reappeared behind Raikou, slashing downward in a clean vertical cut, pure flame bursting from the strike.
"Soulburn: Scarlet Divider!"
The ground exploded. Raikou was sent crashing backward through a stone wall.
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[Raikou's True Power – Hollow Ascension: Black Bloom]
Raikou stood, breathing heavily, blood on his lip.
"You're pushing me already?"
He lifted his blade and stabbed it into his own chest.
"Let me show you what they taught me in the abyss."
Black energy erupted around him. His eyes rolled back, mask fragments crawled up his face, and his voice layered with something else.
"Hollow Ascension: Black Bloom."
Jin's breath caught.
Raikou's body transformed—veins glowing dark purple, cloak dissolving into ash, and his blade now vibrating like it was alive.
"Now you face the part of me that the Order tried to bury."
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[Full Power Clash – Jin vs Hollowed Raikou]
They collided again, even faster. Jin struggled now.
Each strike of Raikou's blade drained his soul energy. It was like fighting a void.
"You can't win this," Raikou snarled.
"You don't have the hate."
Jin gritted his teeth. "Maybe not. But I've got something you lost…"
He raised Renzai, and it sang—echoing like a choir of lost souls behind him.
"…Hope."
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[Jin's Final Move – Crimson Seal: Heaven-Cleaving Flame]
Jin focused everything. Renzai responded—its blade split open, revealing a glowing core inside.
The air around him ignited with sigils.
He leapt into the sky, spinning like a meteor.
"CRIMSON SEAL—HEAVEN-CLEAVING FLAME!"
He came down like a divine hammer.
BOOM.
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[Aftermath – smoke, silence]
The entire field was scorched. Fog cleared.
Jin knelt, blade in the ground, breathing hard.
Raikou stood across from him, burned, bleeding—but smirking.
"You really have grown…"
He turned, walking back into the mist.
"Next time, little brother… I won't hold back."
And just like that, he was gone.
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[Final Scene – Squad Six regroups]
Aria walked up behind Jin.
"You did well."
"Did I win?"
"…No," she said honestly.
"But you survived. And that means more."
Jin looked at the burnt field.
"Next time… I'll end it."