“Uooooooooooooh!!”
“Don’t… underestimate me!!”
Yuugo dropkicked the tornado with the trio’s magic energy combined, and Zaraki howled as it was pushed towards him.
Zaraki pushed the tornado with magic energy to blow Yuugo away, refusing to give in.
“Friends!? Partners!? Weaklings are still weak no matter how many you put together!!”
Zaraki was told his power was empty and false, and yelled as he released magic energy to deny it.
He rejected his weakness, and wanted to crush Yuugo and the others to deny them since they pointed out that weakness, as he continued to howl and push the tornado.
“I’m gonna crush everyone I don’t like! I’m gonna make everyone who doesn’t do what I want yield to my power! I have the power to do that! Weaklings that are just gonna lose shouldn’t be resisting for nothing!!”
“Uh, oooooooooooh!!”
Zaraki was fighting the trio alone… and he had also been fighting people like Marcos and the guards alone.
He beat most of them, and even now was fighting pretty much on equal ground, so there was no way he was weak. The pride in his strength told him so as it burned and seethed, and he pushed Yuugo while yelling.
“I! I…! Am the strongest man in the world!! Don’t… Don’t deny me!!”
Great loong power. It was polished, heightened, and made his, and there was no way he was going to lose to some nobody kids. That could never happen.
He took a step forward, and infused all of his magic power into the tornado.
It was over, he thought as he was about to blow the dropkicking Yuugo away, who tried to penetrate the tornado and reach him.
“Aguh!?”
Suddenly, a pain he could not ignore hit his face.
Something dazzling burst, and Zaraki felt numbness and an intense pain. As he realized he was hit by lightning, he was shaken by the sudden turn of events.
(What was that!? Where did that…!?)
There should be no one there who would attack him in this raging wind. Even a long range lightning attack would be erased by the strong wind…
He traced the little remaining magic energy and turned to the side, and gulped when he saw who it was.
“Ahh, ahh…!!”
“You! Raiha…!?”
She was supported by Jinba and Skull, and breathed heavily as she pointed the magic item in her hand at Zaraki.
Zaraki remembered his face being struck by that claw just before being sealed, and his feeling of humiliation swelled.
(That time!? That lightning attack…!?)
Raiha showed just a bit of resistance as he completely looked down on her.
He thought she just scratched his face a little, but… she actually set up a trap almost unconsciously.
Now that she was freed from the jewel, she released the lightning attack she set up then.
Zaraki’s focused attention was scattered by the pain, and he turned to her with anger because of this further humiliation, and she spoke without faltering.
“It’s not useless…! Our unwavering feelings and bonds… are not pointless resistance!!”
Because Yuugo risked his life to save Marcos and the others, an indomitable fighting spirit took root in their hearts.
With that in their hearts, they continued resisting Zaraki, Ryuuga brushed away his revenge, and ran there.
Ryuuga saved the sealed Raiha, and they all cooperated to stand against Zaraki… And it was in the middle of this resistance that Raiha’s carved attack was activated.
This would not have happened if any person there was not present.
They continued fighting, overcoming dramatic fate and an imposing wall, with that spirit in their hearts, connected like a baton relay.
And now, that baton was back to the person who entrusted his feelings to his friends at the start.
“Ah, gah…!?”
Zaraki’s attention was on Raiha at this moment.
With his attention away from the tornado and Yuugo, he made the grave mistake of creating a moment when he was completely unguarded.
By the time he realized this, his tornado had split in two.
Two smaller tornadoes flew back to him as if drawing a circle, and he found himself stuck between them.
“Gah, gagagah!?”
Zaraki let out a distressed voice as he found himself between them.
His body was cut from left and right, wounds were gouged into him, and as he continued to groan in pain, the black iron warrior’s kick landed a clean hit.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”
Zaraki was dropkicked into the tornadoes that carved his body.
Yuugo had put his all into this attack, mustering up all his power to kick him away.
“Gaaaaaaah!! Guh, oooooooh!?”
His gray scales were scraped off, blood was sprayed, and Zaraki screamed.
He felt pain as though he were in a grinder, and Yuugo’s kick pushed him through the tornadoes and into the ground, where he landed in tatters.
“How’s that…!?”
The hit felt good, and should have plenty of power.
Even someone as powerful as Zaraki would not be fine after taking an attack with all their power.
Yuugo prayed that Zaraki was down and it was over, but…?
“Not yet…! I’m not beaten yet!!”
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This guy doesn’t give up! Also I’m all caught up damn.