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  Oremely brutal battle ter

  Orb, Iand Suzuka all y on the grouen and battered, with the body of the giant moth dead beside them.

  Taming his anger Orb says, “Both of you apologize now.”

  Iand Suzuka both scream in unison, “IT WASN’T MY FAULT, IT WAS ALL THAT MONSTERS!” directly at each other.

  With bright red hair, I say, “DOES IT LOOK LIKE I CARE!!!!!? Both of yhting alerted the wonderbeast to our location, and guess who was the first to be attacked, ME!

  It almost crushed my head in one blow, I ALMOST DIED! Not only that but it was able to mould all of its fluff into ons and all of its fluff was coated in some kind of weird drug, EVERYTHING AROUND ME IS SPINNING AND PINK!!!!”

  Suzuka says, “Hey we helped!”

  “DID YOU THOUGH! You both started fighting in the middle of the fight with the giant moth, and I had to do all the heavy lifting myself!”

  “THAT’S BECAUSE THE DUMB FOX COULDN’T KEEP HER MOUTH SHUT!”

  “SAY SOMETHING AGAIN AND MY FIST WILL FLY INTO YOUR FACE!”

  “ENOUGH!” I say with the voice of a demon. “All yhting ends right now go bow to each other and apologize or I will never five you again!”

  Iancu says, “Sorry, but my leg doesn’t bow to self-entitled brats.”

  Suzuka says, “Sorry, but I don’t think is will uand humaures.”

  They both get up and begin to fight each ain. Angered I ruo both of them and physically break them apart.

  “Stop with the nonsense and apologize!”

  “You're not my father, why would I ever listen to you!”

  “Cyrus, Atanta, Maple, Mommy, Daddy, Orb is bullying me!” She says while g.

  “’t you two just work together and be friends!”

  They both scream back at me, “NO!”

  Then they look at each other and again say in unison, “Stop copying me!” And then they tio fight.

  I have bested hundreds of men at a time, I have pulled off miracles oer another, and I have even found my own try, but I say ohing, no way will I ever be able to deal with these two.

  I sigh and as I do I hear something approach us at incredible speed, so I kick both of the fighting brats away, and then as the fast thing attacks me, I move away and using my legacy I punch it and create ipact.

  But the thing moves so fast that it gets away before I see it. As I try to yself from the surprise attack, I hear something right behind me.

  I don’t know what it is but it is approag me just as fast as the st thing, no even faster. I sehat a bde infused with spirit energy is ing towards my neck, so I move with as much force as I gee to get my head out of the way but it cuts off my right arm.

  After this I snowboost away, and notice that my arm isn’t regeing, how is this possible? Suddenly I remember my experimentation; those bdes must duct lighting that’s how they blocked my regeion.

  I activate my lega the part of my right arm that is left and freeze that entire area stopping blood from flowing out of it, and as I do that I say, “Iancu, Suzuka py time is over.”

  Even though I said this, both of them had already assumed battle positions.

  Φ Due to being a nightmare my physical capabilities are far greater than a normal human (though not to the same extent as a dragon), yet even with that I wasn’t able to even notice these things.

  Φ When it es to sensing spirit energy, I do it so well that having my eyes open actually hinders my ability to fight. Yet I couldn’t sehem until they were about to attack. Which means all this speed is physical ability.

  Still with only Orb and the dirty one around, I use my other method of finding people. Block out both Orb's never-ending stream of thoughts and Iancu’s disgusting thoughts, I hear for whatever’s around me.

  Suddenly I hear two voices in my head.

  “I should crush the ice brat first, he is the trol tower. Without him, the other two will be lost.”

  “I will simply follow the lead of brother like always,” A sed person thought.

  “ORB 78 DEGREES RIGHT!”

  Φ I instantly follow Suzuka’s instrus and create a wall of i that position.

  The one ing towards me is the slower one, and when I struck it earlier I realized it has rather tough skin so it would break through my ice. If I want to stop it I have to use Helix battle arts.

  Just like when I fought Ahmed on Jedidiah, I create snow around one of my legs and spin it to build up spiral energy, and then I trahat energy through my body and up to my fist and prepare to hit the thing.

  But as it crashes through my ice I look at it and am frozen stiff upon looking at its form.

  Φ Looking at Orb, I see he is sent flying into the air, and then nds behind the speeding thing. Seeing this I activate my legad then say, “Air resistancrease!”

  This causes both of the speeding things to slow down as they approach me and as they do I get a good look at them.

  They are both humanoid, one looks like a crimson rhinoceros beetle with heavy armour and a hammer. The other looks like a light navy stag beetle with two curved bdes. I stand there stunned as I reize what they both are.

  Suzuka then asks, “Are those humans?”

  “No, they are beastkin, a near-extinct race!”

  The rhinoceros beetle says, “Extinct? You must be kidding there are more of us here tharands of hair on your head.”

  “You’re kidding me,” I say shocked again at this revetion.

  Putting on her mask, Suzuka says aggressively, “We didn’t do anything wrong so why are you attag us?”

  The Rhinoceros beetle says, “You attacked the Aisachta over there and we are its guardians.”

  “We fought it for some time so were where you?”

  They both start to sweat and theag beetle says, “It definitely not because we fell asleep on the job.”

  The rhinoceros beetle hits the stag, and says, “Don’t go around telling them that!”

  “Sorry bro, I will do better!”

  I ’t believe beastkiill around in such a rge number, but more than that what are they doing here under Fimbulwinter, and more specifically under Orb’s house?

  Breaki of my thoughts, Suzuka says, “Iancu!” While pointing at Orb.

  On the ground, Orb is rolling and screaming in pain, whilst gripping the part of his body with the judgement attack imprinted onto it.

  Orb said the pain from the judgment s only activates when he is hit there, but the way Orb is ag is like his whole body is in pain not just the judgement part.

  Suddenly a memory of Elpída pys in my mind. Didn’t this happen as well when he found out that Man was a beastkin? Did seeing a beastkin trigger something in his legacy again?

  As Iancu tio mull this over oes pletely unscious. Seeing this both Iand Suzuka lu the beetles in front of them and try to get past.

  But they are both repelled away and are sent backwards. The rhinoceros beetle says, “Do you really think we were going to let you both get past us?”

  “Hey, dumb fox.”

  “Hey, dumb bat.”

  Looking at Orb, with determined looks they both say, “WIN!”

  Iancu runs and attacks the rhinoceros beetle, while Suzuka attacks the stag beetle.

  Φ I send my tails and try to attack the stag, but it moves so fast that I ’t hit it.

  “Too slow!”

  “We will see about that. Fox art; Limb breakers.” I my tails around my legs and arms so they reinford mimic muscles, then using that strength I dash forward to attack the stag.

  I meet the stag in close-quarter bat, my reinforced fists csh with its twin bdes, and as they do I gain ground.

  Io-head bat, its movement speed doesn’t matter as much, ae how fast it looks its blows are actually very light, so defleg each blow isn’t taxing.

  After my left fist and his right bde csh I put more force behind my fist which causes his right arm to fly backwards from the impact, and then with my other fist, I strike him iomach sending him back.

  “Is that all you got?”

  Standing up he says, “Not in your wildest of dreams!”

  From both his bdes lighting appears, and as he swings them the lightning es towards me.

  I instantly release the breakers around my arms and then use my tails to shield me from the lightning, but as I do from my left side I am cut by the stag beetle moving past me really quick.

  As he cuts me a shock gets sent through my body, and I ’t move my left arm. So I use breakers against my left arm, which allows me to move the arm even though it is paralyzed.

  I then chase after the stag beetle, but in terms of movement speed I am pletely outcssed, so before I catch up to it I am struck by it again.

  He attain this speed without spirit energy so it is difficult to track him, and I ’t track the lightning with anything other than my sense, sht now I am at a plete disadvantage.

  What to do, what do I do!? Gng at Orb, I start to panic but as I do I remember something my father told to me.

  “Suzuka, the easiest way to defeat an oppo, is to create a miracle, or to put in simpler words take something they believe is stant otlefield and make it variable.”

  I take off all my tails from my body, and then I pluhem into the ground, as he approaches me, I make them all pop out of the ground and make them surround me in a plex pattern.

  My tails are far from me making a plex all around the area as the stag beetle as he moves, so they block his paths towards me. He may move fast but my rea speed is definitely higher.

  “Do you really think making a cage around yourself will keep you safe, all it has done is distance your only defence for you!”

  He starts to move through my incredible speed and as he does that I bring me closer like how oightens a shoece while throwing stones infused with my spirit energy at him, but he dodges them all.

  He tio e towards me and I tio y in, at this rate my will close in and bind him to myself and in that moment I will win.

  But the moment before my catches him he suddenly accelerates and whispers as he cuts me, “I use spirit energy to go even faster.”

  Φ Cutting the girl twice, I shock her and then start heading towards the rgest hole i to escape before it closes in, and after I do that I will turn around and deal a killing blow.

  As I head towards the hole, I notice that the pletely disappears, and the girl's spirit energy increases tremendously. Suddenly I notice she is right beside me, and I am subsequently hit with a devastating blow that knocks me directly onto the ground.

  On the ground, I say, “How did you do that?”

  “The wasn’t made to catch you but to make you folloecific path so that after you strike me I would instantly know where you would be without having to think about it

  I then turned all of my tails into spirit energy, and using speed you would have hought I was capable of I caught you. Took something you thought you had the advantage in a a trap with it; your speed.”

  Looking at her, I say, “A plete defeat.”