Chapter 43

Yukina began to fly away, but before she did, she blasted the laser gun on the ground, some distance from the Archdemon, she then threw the gun on a certain spot.

The Archdemon took guard against what Yukina did and looked around the area.

"What did she just do?" Yuji thought, he then began to look carefully at the surroundings of the area she blasted.

"No, why did she do that?" thinking carefully, he had a grasp of what she wanted him to do and smiled, "I don't know what you're going to do... but you want me to put her out there in the perfect open spot, that's clear enough for me,".

Going very focused, "Now I just need to focus as much as I can, and get that to..."

Suddenly, Yuji was speechless and stunned by what the archdemon did in front of him.

"Why is it..."

The Archdemon walked over to the spot where the shot mark and the gun were and stood over it.

"Does it think that I need to get that weapon?" Yuji thought, "in my current state, getting a new weapon would be treated as a threat, if that's what it thinks, I'm actually impressed," Yuji then let -out a slight smile and quickly covered it with his right hand, "but that's not what we're aiming to do... in fact, this makes things a lot more better!"

The Archdemon then lowered its head, as if it was a change of expression, with its eye still locked at Yuji.

Yuji got a sudden thought, "if it has that kind of intelligence, then I need to keep it thinking like what it's thinking now!".

Yuji observed the Arch Demon carefully.

"So, you decided to guard that huh? damn it!" Yuji said.

"it's just like playing with a child..." he thought, he then began to slowly make his way towards the Archdemon, "a child that can kill me that is..."

Yuji suddenly charged at the Archdemon with an incredible speed, trying to grab the gun behind it.

The Archdemon reacted to this and blocked Yuji's path, along with its spear-like flesh ready to attack once Yuji gets in the distance.

Yuji didn't stop his approach as he gets closer to the Archdemon.

Once he got closer, the Archdemon swung its spear-like flesh at Yuji at an incredible speed.

CLANG*

A sound of two heavy metals clashing with each other emerged as Yuji deflected the Archdemon's attack.

Yuji scowled, "seriously... what are these things on our backs made of?" he said.

CLANG* CLASH*

The sound of clanging metals gets louder and louder every time their weapon-like object clashes.

They clashed continuously for a matter of time, then suddenly, Yuji felt light-headed which got in the way of his attacks.

Due to his feeling, Yuji stepped back multiple times, gaining distance from the Archdemon who stayed at a certain position.

"Ugh... the louder we get without stopping is messing with my head..." Yuji said, holding his forehead, "I won't be able to...".

Yuji looked at the Archdemon, seeming that it was in the same situation he was in.

The Archdemon took a step and lost half of its balance.

"It's dizzy..." Yuji thought, as he thought of an opportunity, he took a step but suddenly lost balance and almost fell to the ground.

"Crap... I'm quickly recovering but that was a misstep," Yuji thought.

Fully recovering, the Archdemon once again had set its gaze on Yuji, locking eyes with each other.

"My goal isn't to beat it right here and now..." Yuji looked at the weapon Yukina dropped, some distance from them.

"We're some distance from it!" Yuji thought, as he suddenly dashed towards the gun.

The Archdemon quickly followed, trying to stop Yuji.

"Stay back!" Yuji shouted as he swung the object on his back towards the Archdemon.

The Archdemon reciprocated, resulting in both of them getting blown away from each other.

Like swords, they continued to clash back and forth, pushing heavy blows on each other, as they both try to get closer to the gun.

"Pushing heavy blows on each other gives us intervals so that the loud sound can't go on continuously and make us dizzy," Yuji thought as he continues to clash against the Archdemon, "but I'm concerned of one thing... since earlier, it hasn't used neither one of its lower ones," he thought being cautious of the two more reddish spear-like flesh on the Archdemons lower half.

"There are two, and one was used to stab me..." Yuji thought, "then if I remember correctly, earlier while I was still distant from both of them... the one that extended all the way to Yukina when she exploded those cars at it, was probably that one based on its color... if so, does that mean it can't casually use it?"

CLANG*

Yuji drifted his feet earlier in order to shorten his distance from getting blown away and so did the Archdemon, "now that I think about it... getting stabbed by that thing felt somewhat similar when glutton threw that needle at me..."

Yuji then paused, as he had thought of an Idea, "wait... can I..." Yuji's eyes shined brighter as he attempted something.

He let out a slight smile, as he stood still in the opposite direction of the Archdemon, where the gun was placed.

"So, you got there first..." Yuji said, "then let's try this out...".

Yuji took a deep breath, then locked eyes with the Archdemon.

As Yuji stood before the Archdemon, it was as if he was in an immense focus, with no expression or any signs of anxiety, or emotions.

The Archdemon felt a certain pressure coming from Yuji.

Yuji then suddenly charged directly at the Archdemon.

The Archdemon then swung its spear-like flesh towards Yuji as he deflects it.

"This might seem like we're back at the start..." Yuji thought as he began clashing with the Archdemon, "but this time...".

"on a split second, create it!" Yuji thought, "without being noticed and without losing your guard!" the clashing of their weapons became more and more intense, "and as fast as possible...".

Suddenly as if time had slowed down, something the Archdemon didn't expect came in its direction.

A glowing luminous blue light suddenly appeared from Yuji's back, in a spear-like form, pointing towards the Archdemon.

"Stab it!" Yuji shouted in his mind.

STAB*

Yuji stabbed the Archdemon under its chest, as the impact blew the entity away.

"That's payback!" Yuji shouted as he grabbed the gun lying on the ground, "though that wasn't as deep as what it did to me... I didn't have enough time to make it perfect after all...".

"creating a new spear in a split second can cause such a situation… though…"

The Archdemon stood on guard, as its wound began to let out smoke.

"it's healing..." Yuji said as he locked eyes with the Archdemon.

"It's staring at me as if it's saying, what now?" Yuji thought, and suddenly he paused.

"wait... what now??" he thought, "I got the gun... but now that thing is distant from this position, and I doubt this thing can actually be useful even if I use it..." Yuji thought, looking troubled, as drips of sweat went down his forehead, "am I... in trouble!?".

"it all depends on what Yukina will be..." Yuji looked around, and after a short glance, he noticed something that made him shocked yet delighted.

Yuji let out a smile as he looked directly at the Archdemon, "don't look at it so that thing won't notice," Yuji thought, "in fact...".

Yuji held the gun with two hands and pointed it at the ground between the Archdemon and himself.

Yuji pulled the trigger then a strong blast of the laser from the gun hit the ground, as Yuji directed the blast horizontally, resulting for smoke to fill the area.

The Archdemons vision got filled with smoke from the ground, as it stood still at the same position.

"Normally that blast would have thrown me off balance," Yuji said loudly coming from the Archdemon's left, "But then again, normally I wouldn't actually be able to fire that weapon," he said coming from the Archdemon's right.

Then, sounds of scratches on the ground along with Yuji's voice filled the area, as if Yuji was running around in circles.

But as the smoke fades, it was quiet.

Barely seeing across the fading smoke, the Archdemon saw Yuji standing from a distance along with Yukina with a raised arm beside him.

And as Yukina puts down her hand.

A large shadow filled the ground, as something large was blocking the light of the sun, making the area around the Archdemon dark.

The Archdemon took notice of this, and as it looked above.

CRASH*

Suddenly a massive half of a tall building came crashing down directly at the Archdemon.

Yuji was stunned quiet by what had happened, as the smoke from the fallen building filled the area.

"Not yet..." Yukina said, placing both of her arms in front of her with open hands.

"Huh?" Yuji said.

Yukina then clenches her fists and stretched her arms on both sides.

CRASH* CRASH*

The destroyed building came crashing down further more than its recent state.

"What's happening??" Yuji said, surprised, seeing the building crumble down even more.

After a short moment, the crashing stopped and Yukina kneeled on the ground.

"What did you do?" Yuji asked, crouching down beside Yukina, supporting her.

"I used every metal within the building and its walls, and made them fly all over the place, especially where that thing was supposed to be standing," Yukina said in a tired tone.

Yukina began to pant, "that... took a lot... from me..." she said as she held on to Yuji's shoulder.

Yuji took a look at the building, "we should probably get go..."

CRASH*

Suddenly the Archdemon arose from beneath the debris of the building.

The Archdemon's whole body was smoking and had a long metal pierced through its left shoulder, and was moving awfully wild.

Yukina continued to pant as she tried to pull herself up using Yuji's shoulder.

Yuji let Yukina down as he stood up in front of her, "catch your breath... I'll take care of things from here," with confidence, yet shaking nerves, he stood up ready to face the damaged Archdemon.

The Archdemon pulled out the long metal stuck in its shoulder and began to shout in a deep voice.

"That thing seems like it's going crazy..." Yuji said, "not that it had any sanity, to begin with,"

The Archdemon then did a familiar stance as it stood before them.

"Could it be... an explosive move!?" Yuji said, he then tried to cover Yukina, "if it's going to come straight at us, might as well make me its only target..."

The Archdemon and Yuji had locked eyes, as Yuji was preparing for what it would do.

"What's this..." Yuji thought, trying to focus, "I can't tell... I don't see any hints..." Yuji thought, being nervous, not knowing what it would do.

"Guess I'll just have to..." Yuji thought, then suddenly, something unexpected happened.

"React..." Yuji said, as the Archdemon quickly disappeared from their sight.

"What..." Yuji thought as he looked around keeping his guard up.

After a few moments, nothing strange happened, or anything suspicious.

"Did it... run away..." Yuji said.

Flop*

Yuji turned around, and with relief, he let out a big sigh.