Chapter 20 Humiliating defeat

"So, this is where I get beaten into the ground and humiliated once again, but this time not just in front of the school, but now the entire new school in a big, powerful kingdom, a kingdom that will soon know how pathetic I am and probably spread the word about it to this entire new world… Now that I think about it," Sora thought as he lay sprawled out, his arms and legs spread apart after being sent flying into the air by a massive uppercut from Takashi as the fight had just started.

Time seemed to stop for him as he soared through the air, looking at the sky. "Hmm, now that I'm taking the time to look at it more closely, the sky... It's quite beautiful. Nature is nice. However, thanks to being stuck indoors most of the time back in Japan, I really couldn't go and look at nature much, could I?" he thought as he continued soaring up in the sky, flying up and up until eventually, he stopped up there.

"Anime, yes, I used to watch that when I could. It was helpful. It helped release the pain, the frustration, and the anger! Hmm, now that I think about it, this reminds me of that one scene from that anime, when that guy was flying up there like me. However, he wasn't getting beaten up like I'm about to be, though. What did he say again when that happened? 'Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the honored one…' haha," letting out a little chuckle as he thought about that one scene from one of his favorite anime and anime characters when he had been fighting against that one homeless strong character with a restriction from heaven for the second time. That was one of his very own favorite moments from that anime.

"Thump," his body crashed down with a loud thumping sound as his body hit the ground, making him groan in pain a bit.

"Haha, look at you, not even five seconds into the fight and you're already on your back, you weakling. I don't see how you're a hero, you damn failure. I don't see how you were even summoned as a hero like us, but then again, you're still the same way; you didn't get any new forms. What did you even get for your ability, something weak, I bet? Hahaha, how pathetic."

Getting back up to his feet, shaking a little as he felt as if his bones were vibrating and shaking from that blow, taking an unintentional step back, his eyes widened when he saw Takashi's arm come shooting at him, swinging and barely missing right in front of his eyes. It would have smashed his head if he hadn't stumbled back due to how weak his legs felt.

'Is he-' he couldn't finish his thoughts as Takashi quickly went back on the offensive, pulling his arm back and smashing it down into his chest and dragging his whole body like a rag doll on the punch down into the ground, leaving the shape of his fist there as he had broken and cracked a few of the ribs, causing his ribcage to start caving in from the powerful blow that he had received.

Takashi smirked in satisfaction as he felt the punch land before seeing the even more satisfying results. Sora was once again on the ground, his eyes had rolled back and gone white; he felt the bones cracking under his fist, and he saw him coughing up blood. It seemed the broken ribs had pierced through some organs.

"Hahaha, is something wrong, loser? Don't tell me you're all worn out now, are you!?" Takashi said as he pulled his hand from his chest before he got to the side of his laying body before raising his leg up and smashing it down on his chest, making him wake up from his unconsciousness, going straight into a screaming fit of pain.

Sora screamed out, feeling his lungs being rather strained and cramped as if they were being squished but also had something in them. A big spurt of blood came shooting out as he felt the shooting pain intensify as Takashi started to push his leg down on him harder. That's when he realized it: his lungs must have been damaged and getting filled up by the blood.

'Shit, my lungs are too full, I can't speak!' Sora worriedly thought as he tried to speak, only managing to barely make a gurgling sound from the blood.

'Now that I think about it, this is just like… that one time… back in my world when I was drowning when I jumped in that lake… the blue sky almost like the clear water of the lake, the blood, almost like the water itself but thicker. Alright, when you get in the water deep enough it might as well be the same… the crushing feeling, but this time it's only my chest, though, but will I die this time?'

'But I- I don't wanna die…'

'I can't die yet…'

'But I can't fight it, can I?'

'This place… yes, there are more things than last time I was helpless then. I barely survived by pure luck when a police officer found me there after my body floated up when I passed out. But right now, I won't get that lucky. But I also have more; this is a new world, and even though my ability sucked, I must have some secret move to save my life in this battle, something, anything!' Sora thought about his past for a second before gaining determination, the will to fight back!

Takashi watched as Sora's face changed to a look of determination, coming on his face, and he felt his body harden and tighten up under his feet, and the painful face turned into a serious one.

"Finally, you're gonna start using that ability for you're trash?" a bloodthirsty smile spread across Takashi's face as he spoke.

"What's that noise?" Takashi muttered as he looked around for the one responsible.

"GRRRR," a loud rumbling sound came from the ground where Sora was laying.

'Is he…' jumping back from his opponent, he was expecting something to see that nothing had happened, maybe a stone spike, but nothing happened, not even his body moving. All that happened was the growling noise simply continued.

'What the heck is that noise? Is he charging something up? Should I stop him or crush him after he finishes or break him utterly? Wait…' looking down at the ground, he was shocked to see that unlike what he had thought before, the ground wasn't shaking at all like he had thought it had been. There was only the growling noise from where Sora was, no. Not from where he was… it was from Sora himself.

"Is- is your freaking stomach growling… you bastard!" Takashi growled in rage as a vein popped on his forehead.

"I'm gonna kill you, you little shit," Takashi said with an ominous fiery aura surrounding him as he walked towards Sora's still down body.

'Well damn… I'm really going to die, aren't I? He's gonna kill me.' Sora thought as he realized he really did not have some out-of-nowhere powerful ability; he couldn't fight back, he couldn't use the powerful deep inside if he even had one. In the end, this was not a fantasy game or TV show; it was real, and he would die here…

His body was simply pulled up as Takashi reached him and grabbed him by the neck, raising his limp body up before punching him in the guts and dropping him to his knees. Then, he grabbed his head and held it in place before using a lot of force to slam his knee into his face, breaking his face more and more with each blow.

'This is it-.' His head was smashed again, causing his thoughts to pause before he continued.

'I came to a new world-.' It happened again.

'Just like in those animes-.' And again.

'I did come like I wanted and so many others, but-...' and again.

'I failed… I'm gonna die before I can even accomplish what I wanted to do. I really died as a failure-.' Once again, it happened over and over.

'In the end, I couldn't get a harem, cool powers, some awesome life story, nothing-.' once again and continued. His face looked broken, battered, his eyes were white and disoriented.

'I was really nothing but a side character after all, pathetically killed by my own bully of a classmate…' His head was pulled back one last time before it was brought into the knee of Takashi one last time with a sickening crunch, causing his mind to go completely blank.

"Tsk, the little shit really went and died without even using his ability, which, unknown to him, was not the case, as Sora, in fact, had used his only special ability "stave" to try to fight back. However, it had not helped and only made him extremely hungry and nothing more."