Ms. Celsi [2]

Aswa Sent Flying...

"You have got to be kidding me!... Her attacks are impossible to see! All this time she was hiding her true power." Arca gasped, his voice strained.

Celsi stood perfectly straight once more, her red eyes glowing with unnatural intensity.

Arca struggled to move his battered body, every muscle protesting. Meanwhile, Aswa remained motionless on the ground where he had fallen, his breathing ragged.

"Is this really all the strength you possess?! How dare you cause trouble when you are this weak?!" Celsi's voice dripped with contempt as she looked down at Aswa and Arca.

*WHOOSH!*

With sudden movement, Arca and Aswa both leaped toward Celsi at the same time.

"Your words hurt so much, you know!"

Aswa laughed happily despite the pain, his smile never fading.

"...I never knew someone this strong was here! Someone like you does not belong in a place like this!" Arca shouted as he moved.

Even after being beaten so mercilessly, they showed no fear instead, their expressions were almost... excited.

"Let me try that move you used on me earlier!" Aswa said as he attempted to mimic Celsi's devastating aerial kick mid-air.

At the same time, Arca prepared to deliver a powerful punch aimed directly at Celsi. But in that instant-

Celsi disappeared before their eyes.

She reappeared behind them in a flash.

*CRACK!*

Aswa took another brutal kick to his stomach, the force sending him flying backward until he smashed through the school wall with a thunderous impact.

*BOOM!*

The students inside the classroom screamed in panic, some mistakenly thinking it was an earthquake.

Arca tried to use this moment of distraction to strike Celsi from behind

"Are you... still not understanding the difference between us?!"

*THUD!*

Before he could land his attack, Celsi's fist collided with his face, sending him crashing to the ground.

And yet... both of them were smiling.

The grins of true hunters. The grins of battle-crazed madmen.

Without hesitation, Aswa forced himself up and charged at Celsi again, his speed pushing his body to its limits. "At the very least, let me land a single hit on you!"

But before his kick could connect, Celsi's fist was already driving into his stomach the same spot she had targeted before.

Aswa's body rocketed upward into the air. Celsi did not let up she vanished and reappeared behind him mid-flight, kicking him like a ball in the opposite direction.

Then again.

And again.

Aswa became nothing more than a human pinball, helplessly thrown back and forth without pause.

Over.

And over.

And over.

Until finally-

Aswa's eyes rolled back, the whites completely visible. His consciousness faded, his body limp.

Celsi stopped, allowing him to crash into the wall one final time. Defeated.

She turned her attention back to Arca.

He stood frozen, stunned by the sheer brutality he had just witnessed. Behind Celsi, the battlefield was completely destroyed-grass torn from the earth, deep craters marking where strikes had landed, the ground itself scarred from their clash.

Then-

A suffocating, bloodthirsty aura suddenly erupted from behind Celsi.

She immediately turned around.

Aswa's eyes, once blank white, now flickered with a deep crimson glow. The very air around him seemed to warp and tremble.

*WHOOSH!*

Arca took advantage of the distraction and attacked from the side—but Celsi dodged effortlessly, grabbing a nearby metal pipe and smashing it across his face with brutal force.

*CRUNCH!*

Arca collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

When Celsi turned back to Aswa, he still had not moved. Yet... that same terrifying presence now pulsed from Arca's direction instead.

His eyes now glowing an eerie blue snapped open.

The aftermath of their battle surrounded them: the school walls were shattered, the fences twisted and broken, the ground torn apart. Even the sky above had darkened, storm clouds swirling ominously.

Without another word, Celsi grabbed both unconscious bodies and dragged them inside.

The winner of this fight was undeniable.

[Elsewhere, On the School Rooftop]*

A shadowed figure stood silently, observing the entire battle from above.

As the fight concluded, the figure turned and vanished without a sound just as the lens of a nearby security camera adjusted with a quiet mechanical whir.

"Hehe... I have obtained another good one."

-TO BE CONTINUED-