Chapter 251 Another victory
Chapter 252: Victory Again

Bang!Bang!Bang!
The muffled sound of fists and feet colliding continued. The fight between me and the puppet became more and more intense. Unlike the initial fight, the puppet began to have scars on its body, but its scarlet eyes were still full of energy. On the other side, I also began to have scars on my body, but I was already panting. The fight between me and the puppet had lasted for hundreds of rounds. With the full-strength fight at the beginning, I had to exchange injuries for injuries in the later stage. Yes, even with a physique like me, I would gradually lose my strength after hundreds of rounds of continuous fighting. Just now, due to the continuous collision of two whip kicks, my left foot twitched slightly at the moment of landing, and I lost my center of gravity. The puppet's fist also attacked me at the same time as I had a flaw, and hit me hard on the head. With just one blow, bright red blood flowed from my forehead. Of course, when I knew I couldn't dodge it, I leaned forward with all my strength. While taking a punch, I also punched the puppet's chin hard. The result was that I was knocked to the ground by a punch, and the puppet flew out.

"Ahem..." I stood up, wiped the blood from my forehead, panted, and shook my dizzy head. Taking advantage of the gap, I looked up at Hongzi on the platform. She was not in good condition at this time. She was half-kneeling on the platform, and her pretty face was pale. Sweat wet her hair. She looked a little weak.

"Is this kid a human?" Hongzi half-knelt on the high platform, and her breathing began to become rough and uneven. "It has been more than an hour since the kid and the puppet started fighting. Why hasn't he fallen yet? And..." Hongzi looked at me in disbelief. "That kind of attack method, even in the championship match of the fighting competition, it would be just like this, right?" While thinking, Hongzi adjusted her magic power. In this more than one-hour battle, her magic power was consumed by 70% or 80%, because she herself did not expect that the puppet she controlled this time would require such a huge amount of magic power. The opponent's physique was too strong, and the puppet she made would consume more magic power according to the opponent's strength. Because there was only one chance to make it, she was not prepared at all. And the less than 30% of her magic power left was almost unable to maintain the puppet's actions. In addition, every time the puppet was injured, a large amount of magic power would be drawn from her body to recover. Since the beginning, the kid and the puppet had exchanged injuries several times. Although the boy was also injured, he continued to consume like this. The outcome really becomes an unknown.

"If it gets injured two more times at most, the puppet will lose its activity due to insufficient magic power supply. There are still two chances to be attacked, and that little devil can still hold on?" Swallowing secretly, Hongzi reluctantly raised his hand and sent a stream of magic power into the puppet's body to restore its dislocated jaw.

"Huh... It was really fun." I wiped the sweat off my forehead. It's been a long time since I confronted the tenth-ranked Soul Sorrow. I believe that after this battle, my fighting skills will be improved a lot. After all, I am fighting against myself. This is the accumulation of experience and the honing of skills. Every time I clash with the puppet, I can find loopholes, advantages, and shortcomings in my attack. This has made my fighting skills explode exponentially in more than an hour.

"But this is about it. If I continue to fight, I will lose. After all, the person on the other side will not get tired." Thinking of this, the excitement in my eyes began to gradually subside, replaced by boundless killing intent. The momentum released by the fight also turned into a tsunami-like killing intent in an instant. A purple SAS dagger silently slipped into my palm. If the battle just now was between two brave lions, then at this moment, the puppet has to face a cold, strange, and poisonous snake with a mouth full of fangs. Killing with one move is what I am pursuing now. Although in terms of body structure. The puppet on the other side is the same as me, and his thoughts will be similar to mine. He must also understand my attack mode. But the difference from him is that I have a dagger like a hand and foot in my hand at this moment. And... He wears a dark red windbreaker more than me.

Whoosh!
I adjusted my breath and rushed out again, but unlike the hard fight just now, I chose to exchange injuries for injuries. The dagger in my left hand stabbed straight at the heart of the puppet. The puppet also saw through my attack. I saw him step back to the right and sweep his leg to attack my lower body. Of course, I had no way to avoid such a move at this time, so I could only lose my balance and fall down. The puppet also seized my weakness and punched me on the left rib with all his strength. This punch, if it hit, would be enough to break my ribs.

Bang! I was hit hard by the punch. However, I had anticipated this and leaned my body at the critical moment. The dagger in my left hand fell into my right hand, and my left elbow suddenly retracted. At the moment when the puppet's fist hit me, I hit his fist. Although a small part of the force was reduced, the huge force still knocked me to the ground with one punch.

"Ouch!" I endured the pain and reached out my left hand again, grabbing the dark red windbreaker of the puppet and pulling it hard to prevent him from retreating. My body suddenly bent, stretched out my legs to clamp one of his legs, twisted my body and bent it hard. The puppet leaned forward, and at the same time, the dagger in my hand flew towards his head. The whole action was done in one go. However, even so, with my own motor nerves, I could calculate that this attack would be blocked. Sure enough, at the moment the dagger flew out, the puppet raised its left hand and blocked it in front of itself. Even though its hand was pierced, the puppet also protected its head. But he fell down.

One blow for another. My entire left hand was pierced by the sharp blade, and my left rib was seriously injured. From the perspective of the puppet, I lost this time, and the injury to my left rib would make my next actions very disadvantageous. The puppet, who did not feel pain, did not have such worries. Only Hongzi's magic power would be slightly depleted, but for Hongzi, such magic power consumption was still acceptable.

"Huh... I finally won." Hongzi breathed a sigh of relief. The last bit of magic power slowly entered the puppet's body. "Fortunately, the little ghost was seriously injured at this time, otherwise it would be hard to predict who would win and who would lose. What's next?!"

puff!
The dull sound of the blade piercing flesh filled Hongzi's ears. Before she could react, she saw the boy lying on the ground twist his waist again. At some point, a dagger shining with purple light appeared in his left hand again. A flash of purple lightning pierced into the neck of his puppet, and after less than three seconds, the demon puppet exploded. And Hongzi's last output of magic power also lost contact with himself in an instant.

————The scent of orchids, the scent of lavender, the scent of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————

"How... How could this happen?" Hongzi couldn't believe what was happening before her eyes. In just a moment, the victory and defeat were reversed. Looking at her own exploding puppet, Hongzi's eyes were filled with shock and amazement.

"Huh...Huh...I don't think I told you that I only have one dagger?" Lying on the ground, I gasped and looked up at Hongzi who was standing on the platform with a look of astonishment. "It seems...Ahem, I won this battle again." I struggled to get up and walked towards the platform where Hongzi was.

"You, what are you doing!" Hongzi panicked. Her magic power was almost exhausted at this time. Even the barrier covering the entire school began to become unstable. "Nothing, I just want to tell you that the battle is over and you can open the barrier. If there is nothing else, I will go back."

"What a joke!" Hongzi couldn't help but get angry when she saw that I looked like nothing had happened. "I won't let you... Ugh!" Before she finished her words, Hongzi's mind was in a trance, and a strong sense of dizziness attacked her brain in an instant. The puppet exploded, and the last output of magic power backfired. The school's barrier also shattered in an instant and turned into a sky full of red light. Hongzi, who was already exhausted, lost consciousness in an instant, and her feet softened and she fell down. When she came to her senses, she had lost her balance and fell from the high platform to the ground. In an instant, fear covered her pale face.

Hongzi, who had lost her strength, closed her eyes tightly. At this moment, she couldn't even raise her hands to protect herself. She could only hope that she would not die from this fall.

Bang. .

There was no unexpected pain, but a shock instead. Although I could clearly feel my legs scraped, I obviously didn't feel any pain in my upper body. And there seemed to be a hint of lavender lingering between my nose. I slowly opened my eyes, and what Hongzi saw was a pale gold color and a slightly painful expression.

"Ahem... It's really hard to hold you in this state." I coughed twice. "Hey, Miss Hongzi, if it's convenient, can you sit up first? I can't breathe." God knows why I saved her, maybe it's a pity to see such a beautiful woman fall and get hurt. But at the moment she was in a trance, my body couldn't help but rush out. And saved Hongzi, whose life was hanging by a thread.

"You... why?" After thinking for a long time, Hongzi sat up and asked me with a puzzled look on his face.

"I can't bear to see you die like this." After Hongzi sat up, I sat up too. "Besides, we don't have any deep hatred, why should I fight you to the death? What's more, you made such an interesting toy. To be honest, if it wasn't for the hard work this time, I would have wanted to come a few more times." I chuckled.

"Toy?" Hongzi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. That was a demon puppet that she had used up all her magic power to create, but in front of this little devil it was just called a toy?

"Well, I had a lot of fun this time, but I hope we can meet peacefully next time." I stood up while talking. "Ms. Hongzi, you owe me a life this time. As compensation, don't bother me anymore. Kaito and I are good friends. Even if I am really a demon, I will not hurt Kaito in the slightest. Please remember this. By the way, my name is Xun, Mingya Xun. It can be said that we are acquainted after fighting. Well, see you later."

I stood up and ignored Hongzi's puzzled expression, and limped out of the school gate.

"Mingya... Xun." Hongzi frowned and warned. "... What, what, it's like this again!" Seeing me leave, Hongzi was ashamed and angry. This was the second time that I left Hongzi, who had no power to fight back, aside and left on my own. "Damn brat! I won't let you go!" Just like last time, Hongzi pounded the ground under her again. But the difference was that she herself didn't realize that the anger she originally had for Kaito and Heian had gradually turned to another emotion. And where was the direction of the emotional change?

Well... who knows.

(End of this chapter)