Teamwork At Its Finest

The Flarean charged in faster and stronger than ever, he targeted Theseus since he was weaker but soon realised that none of his hits would connect, he would slash as fast as he could in various directions but no matter what Theseus somehow managed to dodge each and every single one, Jun saw this as an opportunity to land a devastating blow, he sneaked behind the enraged Flarean who only saw red, kept his left foot front and took a deep breathe. 

In an extremely quick succession, he kicked with his left leg directly on the left side of his opponent's stomach, used his right leg to do the exact same to his right side, and finished it off by jumping in for a whirlwind kick hitting the back of the Flarean's neck knocking him into a nearby shelf creating a loud bang.

"How is that fucker even losing with an artifact? I might have to step in, I'll give him an extra minute and if he hasn't won I'm finishing them all myself, now where is that mouthless girl." The slime started to get annoyed searching for Kancer, what ever was she doing?

"MASTER PLEASE, YOU MUST PUSH FORWARD, DON'T GO FOR THAT BLONDE HAIRED BOY ANYMORE, something about him, I don't know what it is but you just can't hit him, that Icarian is your best bet to live, I shall grant you as much power as I can but there is only so much I can do, please, break this curse."

"The Icarian huh, I'm going to focus as much as I can now." He twirls his scythe around as if he had finally adjusted to it, he spins it in all directions stylishly until he finally points it at Jun.

"You better stop holding back now, just like you said, on this battlefield, it's either kill or be killed." Jun was visually displeased by this comment and went back into his stance.

"Holding back? Why would he be doing that." Theseus curiously thought to himself

The Flarean dashed towards Jun planning to decapitate him, Jun sees his intent and reciprocates it by stomping the ground deforming it in front of him and creating cracks along the surfaces of the supermarket reaching the ceiling, this slowed down the Flarean enough for Jun to close the distance rather than vice versa.

"You are strong, there's no doubt about that, but a ruler such as myself does not have competition with mere citizens." He quickly jumped in with a triple kick using the same leg aiming for his chest, stomach, and leg, the Flarean barely blocks the first two hits but gets caught by the last, regardless of the pain he pushes forward, he understood that this attack would not allow him to move away quick enough since he was landing, he slashed horizontally in front of him, this cut was so deep it reached his bone.

"Ruler or emperor are nothing in the face of the right man in the right moment… COME ON SCYTHE, GRANT ME STRENGTH." Jun quickly falls back with a massive cut in his arm bleeding like a fountain.

The Flarean continues and attempts to slice him multiple times but Jun dashes back as far as he can, and staying away at a solid ten meters, he begins to think of a plan, but that was a clear blunder, he notices that his opponent is in deep thought and immediately throws the scythe at such a high speed it appeared like a massive saw blade, Jun blocks it with his arms but it digs deeper than the last cut and almost slices through his bones.

"Come back my scythe, let this fool bleed to death." The scythe magically returns back to him.

"How the fuck did he become so strong, I need to, think..." Jun has lost an egregious amount of blood and starts to get lightheaded.

Theseus watches this all unveil, he was only able to see this happen thanks to his eyes but if he were in Jun's position he would lose, but hope was not lost, Theseus decides to try one last idea.

Theseus shouts out to him "JUN! I KNOW YOU'RE STRUGGLING THERE AND I CAN BARELY HELP BUT PLEASE, I KNOW YOU STILL GOT SOME STRENGTH IN YOU, DON'T USE YOUR EYES, CLOSE THEM, IN FACT IF YOU CAN JUST SHUT THEM DOWN, LET ME GUIDE YOU I'LL TELL YOU WHAT TO DO EXACTLY ALRIGHT."

"Y-Yeah Theseus, you got this, think of this like, a fighting game, except people's lives are on the line and if you don't help your friend win they die forever and all their loved ones cry."

Jun gives him a thumbs-up whilst breathing heavily.

He gathers up all his courage and shouts to him as if her were commanding him "OK NOW, FLY STRAIGHT TOWARDS HIM, TRUST ME."

"You know I can hear you right?" The Flarean seemed confused, what was the point of all this if he could hear what was going to happen next.

"PAY ATTENTION OR YOU'RE GONNA LOSE."

"Did you not see the cut's on him? How am I even meant to lose-" But he should've realised to never underestimate his opponent, the fight isn't over till it's over.

"RIGHT HOOK INTO LANDING LEFT KICK TO THE SIDE." Jun shuts his eyes and does exactly that and begins to listen to Theseus's command, the downside to this is that the Flarean could hear all this, but it doesn't necessarily mean he could react in time, he blocks the kick to the side and tries to counterattack with a wide slash.

"DROP TO THE FLOOR, AND THEN DO A KIP UP DROPKICK." Jun falls to the floor instantly as if his body had collapsed entirely dodged the slash, and then pushes the ground below him to spring himself into dropkicking his opponents cracking multiple rib cages and sending him back a meter or two.

"I WILL NOT FALTER, I WILL KEEP MOVING FORWARD UNTIL MY BODY REFUSES." Although his injures were grave, the Flarean had the will and spirit that seemed never ending.

"LET'S END THIS NOW JUN, FLY UP INTO THE AIR AS HIGH AS YOU CAN." Theseus runs into battle whilst Jun rises up.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME? YOU CAN BARELY EVEN FIGHT ME AS YOU ARE NOW." He begins attacking Theseus Recklessly destroying everything in his path, yet his scythe did not touch him.

"OF COURSE I KNOW THAT, AND SURE I'M SCARED TOO, BUT I WILL PUSH FORWARD, ITS MY DREAM AGAINST YOURS." As Theseus dodges he continues to talk to his opponent mainly distracting him for Jun.

" YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND LIVE YOUR LIFE, I JUST NEED TO KILL HIM AND THEN THE CURSE IS GONE, THE SCYTHE TOLD ME SO."

"WELL TELL BOTH YOU AND YOUR SCYTHE TO GO FUCK YOURSELVES, JUN IS A MAN DESERVING OF MY ADMIRATION AND THAT'S ALL I NEED TO HELP HIM OUT."

"HOW DARE YOU, YOU STUPID, FOOLISH, IDIOTIC KID, SCYTHE, PUT EVERYTHING I HAVE INTO SPEED, I WILL GO BEYOND WHATEVER THIS KID CAN SEE." "AS YOU WISH MASTER, LET US SHOW HIM TRUE POWER."

The Flarean tripled in speed, with each frame Theseus saw he was in a different place with his weapon facing a different side, he quickly slices Theseus's ankles, although shallow it's enough for him to fall a bit, whilst falling he sees the end of the scythe almost reach his eye but just in time he moves his head.

"JUST A LITTLE MORE."

He took no moment to rest, he slashed at his stomach a couple of times along with his arm and chest, the slashes began to grow deeper the more this went on, they weren't as bad as Jun's but the average Human wouldn't last for much longer, but finally, when everything lined up perfectly almost as if someone were watching this all unfold, the Flarean decided to go on top of Theseus and decapitate him almost like a guillotine, Theseus pushed the scythe's blade upward even though it began to dig deeper and deeper almost reaching his bones.

"NOW, JUN."

As if he were an angel sent from the heavens themselves, the black-haired Icarian used his wings along with gravity to propel himself down at such a high speed not even the Flarean could dodge it, he bent both his legs and made sure both his knees would hit his target, the impact was incredibly strong, as the attack was diagonal, he hit around his back and side, you could hear most of the Flarean's bones breaking and crunching as Jun delivered the final blow, and the second he had died, the scythe cried a singular tear.

"Another victim to this abysmal curse..." The body disappeared into a black mist and then sucked up into the scythe granting it another eye near the heel of it.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WE FUCKING DID IT JUN, WE WON, WE ACTUALLY DID IT!" Theseus excitedly celebrated at the top of his lungs, Jun chuckled and coughed up some blood and seemed to start limping, Theseus picked up on this and put his arm over his shoulders, "H-Hey, don't pull my arm too hard it might just come off at this point."

"R-Right sorry."

"I-I'm surprised you knew what moves to have me do there."

"I'M SURPRISED YOU TRUSTED ME." They both laughed but things couldn't end so happily.

Within the shadows, the Slime saw them both heavily injured and did not miss up on this opportunity, he quickly summoned the sniper he had stashed away and told himself.

"HAHA DAVVERO? TWO KILLS RIGHT HERE? THAT GIRL WON'T BE ABLE TO FIGHT ME AND MY ENTIRE STORE ONCE I FINISH THIS THERE'S JUST NO WAY I LOSE HERE, SEE YOU IN HELL YOU MONSTERS." Whilst aiming for Jun's head he pulled the trigger, but nothing had happened, in fact, he was stuck, he couldn't move his fingers nor his body at all, as if he were stuck like a statue, looming behind him emerging from the darkness was Kancer, staring down at him.

"Oho? What's wrong mister Slime? Can't shoot?"

"W-Wai-."

"HAHAHA, you really thought I would just run away? I planted my special paralysing poison on everything I thought you would use, to think you chose this, OH, I just got a wonderful idea, how about I harvest those organs of yours? Huh? What do you say, you said you were going to do it to all of us right? surely you wouldn't mind if little old me had a couple of jabs at you, I heard those slime cores are quite the rare organ too." Kancer licked her scissors before she began operating on the slime.