"Shunko!"
While the seared flesh on Kisuke's knuckles began to heal, the veins in both of his arms and legs were suddenly ruptured, releasing a substantial amount of blood.
Tiamat was shocked at this gruesome sight, but never did she once think that this is a suicidal move, even if Kisuke started gathering a frightening amount of power. She didn't know what he's planning, but she waited in anticipation. Tiamat had already decided to join his team after his first attack, but she still wanted to see more of what he's capable of.
Instead of falling down, the blood gathered around his arms and legs, ripping apart his sleeves, wooden sandals, and a portion of his pants, 'Err... I forgot about this... I'll have to make clothes that won't be destroyed by this next time. I'm not really a fan of showing off my sexy thighs.'
While thinking such inane thoughts, the blood turned misty and swirled, covering his limbs. Shunko's initial form was completed.
Kisuke looked at his limbs and flexed them, 'The combination of Hakuda and Kidou, Yoruichi and Sui Feng is really great for figuring this out all on their own.'
After hopping in midair for a few seconds in an attempt to gauge the changes in his physique, Kisuke disappeared from his former position and reappeared under Tiamat's belly.
The latter already knew that he would reappear there as the enormous Blood Aura made his movements much more obvious. However, she still trusted her scales and poured her Draconic Aura into her defense. Nevertheless, that wasn't a very good decision.
Kisuke lowered his hips and stabilized his footing with an invisible foothold before rising up and throwing his fist covered in a blood mist once again.
Tiamat expected his hand to be seared again, but against this expectation, the blood mist just compressed itself and impacted her belly, sending a wave of debilitating vibrations that made her whole body rattle, '!?'
Tiamat tried to fly up, but it was already too late as she was sent flying outside of her own volition, 'What's this!?' Along with her confusion was a lump of blood emerging from her mouth. Her organs were damaged enough that she'd started coughing out blood.
But she didn't care any of this for now as she was still in danger and immediately reoriented herself to face Kisuke, only to see him putting both of his hands together and pointing his palms towards her, "Haaah!!!" A blast of crimson bloody energy instantly appeared from Kisuke's palms.
Feeling the threat, Tiamat hurriedly converged her blue flames in front of her to fight it off.
The large deafening sound from the collision of the two opposing forces pushed the sands, creating an enormous crater and a thick sandstorm in the desert. Despite this, the two of them could still feel each other's presence very clearly and moved to once again clash.
From the viewers' point of view, the whole screen was covered by the sandstorm, and Kisuke and Tiamat's figures would only be revealed for a fraction of a second when they clashed and changed that section's sand into molten glass, further adding to the turbulence.
During the last clash of leg and claw, the resulting shockwave pushed out all the remaining sand, revealing the two figures before they separated and stopped moving.
While the two of them seemingly have no visible changes at first glance from afar, Tiamat's scales have some minor cracks on them. In the middle of their clashes, she had to dedicate some of her aura to defending the inside of her body due to Kisuke's strikes having a resonance effect, especially on her blood.
Meanwhile, Kisuke was still the same except for the blood swirling around his limbs already forming into half-done crimson blood gauntlets and boots, 'He's slowly adjusting and evolving mid-fight... What a troublesome fellow, and I clearly underestimated him despite putting my guard up.'
"Still want to continue?" asked Kisuke.
Tiamat's eyes widened at his question, "I'd never thought you'd ask that when you're clearly on the verge of something. Shouldn't you use this opportunity to complete that technique? Any delays may affect its completion."
But Kisuke shook his head and replied, "The pressure you're applying isn't enough anymore. Unless..."
Tiamat received Kisuke's knowing stare and sighed, "This is supposed to be just a mock battle, but fine. I'll play along and stop holding back a bit."
Kisuke smiled, "You have my thanks~." He then calmed the raging energies on his limbs and rearranged them to become more efficient.
Tiamat, on the other hand, had her flames surround and cover her once again. Instead of getting bigger, the sphere became smaller than that of a Human before revealing what's inside. Tiamat had returned to her humanoid form, but this time, her scales acted as her body fit attire and her limbs were that of a Dragon. In addition to that, there were now two long curved horns protruding out of her head, parting her hair and revealing her shining sapphire blue dragon eyes.
Kisuke knew from the start that she'd been holding back because she used her Dragon form instead of the humanoid one when it was very clear to him that she was a master of martial arts due to her movements.
But as soon as she took her humanoid Dragon form, the atmosphere instantly heated up to dangerous levels before falling into freezing levels just as fast. The evaporated moisture instantly turned into icicles, producing impromptu snow in the desert.
However, Kisuke didn't think that she'd suddenly changed the element of her Draconic Aura and correctly guessed the true nature of the frozen world that had become of the Game Field, 'Absorbing thermal energy for her own use, huh. In this regard, when it comes to controlling heat, Captain Yamamoto is a child in front of her.'