Yuugo yelled the feelings raging inside him, as if to clear away the anger from being beaten up without a fight.
Meanwhile, the mail beetle was also put through a hard time because of him, and howled with anger.
“Jyugiraoooooh!”
Immediately after, it charged forward.
The mail beetle showed its fastest moves so far, with the most momentum behind them, as it raised its sword to cut Yuugo.
With that momentum behind it, it mustered up its full power to bisect Yuugo from his head, but a dull impact hit its face just as it was about to attack.
“!?!?!?”
Its vision was twisted. The pain came a moment after the impact.
The mail beetle did not know what happened, but it realized it had been punched when fists kept hitting it.
“Ooooooooooooooooooh!!”
“Jyugih!? Gugah…!!”
It was too fast to see. It could not block, let alone dodge.
The mail beetle was covered in armor, and could not hide its surprise at the amount of damage it was receiving anyway, like Yuugo was completely different.
It was a one sided battle before. Yuugo resisted, but that was an acceptable level of pain… Now was completely different.
The hits were hard, sharp, and painful. It had no idea why Yuugo was suddenly so strong.
The mail beetle had no way of knowing Yuugo was under severe debuffs before, and it got hit hard and was blown away while confused.
It groaned and rolled on the ground, but as it tried to get up with bursting anger… It saw him.
The heat whirled around him, and burst in the form of flames.
The moment it saw Yuugo with a fluttering crimson flame scarf, fear began to swell inside it.
“Gah…!?”
Yuugo was in front of it, and suddenly disappeared.
The next moment, its stomach was hit with a flaming fist, the pain and heat of the hit making it groan, and the monster armor beast leaned forward.
“Uoooooooh!!”
“Jyu, jyugi, jyura…!?”
Then an uppercut followed by a front kick.
Yuugo hit the mail beetle while yelling, and the monster armor beast, feeling enough fear to overwrite the anger, lost its will to fight.
It let go of its weapon and turned around to run away, but Yuugo would not let it.
He picked up the sword, transformed it into his own weapon, and raised his head as he used the power of the flaming armor to cover the sword in red hot flames.
“Blaster… Explosive Manifestation!!”
“Jyuhh…!!”
He leaped with a crimson light in his eyes, holding up the flaming sword as he jumped at the mail beetle.
The mail beetle saw it just before the hit. The burning sun behind the attacking Yuugo.
“Blaster Judgment!!”
Fire magic energy spreads from the magic crystal in Yuugo’s chest.
Yuugo and his weapon were powered to the maximum by that magic energy as he let the momentum guide him down for a swing, bisecting the mail beetle and its strong armor from head to crotch.
“Gya, guaaaaaaaah!!”
It let out its final scream as flames burst from the cut, followed by a big explosion.
Yuugo exhaled and held the sword more loosely, and Neries walked over to him with her breathing now composed.
“Yuugo! You did it!”
“Yes, thanks to you. Thanks. But…”
Yuugo bumped fists with Neries, as they praised each other for a hard fought battle.
With Blaster still on, Yuugo looked around at the barrier that was still up, and had a sour look on his face because of that and the fact that Uno had not spoken to them yet.
Uno said there were three rounds before the exam. If that was correct, it should have ended the moment he took down the mail beetle.
And yet, there was no sign of it. Thinking about all the odd things in the last battle, it seemed his and Neries’ bad feelings were correct.
“Hey hey, what’s going on?”
Yuugo mumbled because of all the trouble that involved him, and he remained on guard and ready for anything as he looked around.
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