Minosashi was sharpening his dual katanas in the weaponry of grand library, smell of iron was all in the room, different types of weapons everywhere, spears, swords, hammers and more. The sun, lighting the room with its lovely shine from the old windows of weaponry room, it's walls were filled with dust, as no one in the library uses weapons anymore... Sewn mouth, an agile monster with his old cloak and assassinated figure, sitting near minosashi, looking at his black greatsword with his bloody pupils under sunlight, he wasn't just a normal monster, he was an assassin with a curse that caused his emotions to be pain if shown, for it, he had to get rid of feelings as he couldn't even express them...
Minosashi : hmph... Guess the blade is sharp enough. ( he glanced at the edge of his katana, without any hesitation, he cut down the sharpening tool in half, the sharpening tool fell to the ground, it's sound, echoing through the weaponry room. Minosashi gently looked at the dust in the air as he smiled)
Sewn mouth : good job, was less than a millisecond. You still are on chart minosashi.
Minosashi : you weren't even looking at me how could you tell?
Sewn mouth : you forgot that I'm an assassin?
Minosashi : unrelated words. But I believe I actually did cut it in a millisecond.
Sewn mouth : As I said. But you know? I wanted to use that to sharpen my blade too...
Minosashi laughed a bit : I'm sorry, you know I have to cut something for a test after sharpening.
Sewn mouth : why not the wall, this woods, many things, even my body! But you choose the sharpener to annoy me when you know I can't express out feelings...
Minosashi put his hand behind his head and blushed : I said I'm sorry sewn mouth... I'll find a repairer mage for you. That's what you wanted to hear yeah?
Sewn mouth : most certainly. (he tries to smile a bit but the physical pain made in his body stopped him)
Minosashi : so you have to wait I guess, because...
Sewn mouth : because you are someone that will be lost in the library's constant hallway changings... Anyways. We will train again once you're back.
Minosashi : training is all we can do till it comes, words of the grand priest himself you know.
Sewn mouth : he is boring, always reading books or teaching that girl, I can see her potential but after all, she is a lover.
Minosashi : so? Love is a beautiful thing, and the strongest emotion someone can have.
Sewn mouth : it weakens her... Love is the weakness of humans, and she is a half human.
Minosashi : I'm a half human too. (he frustratingly looked at sewn mouth)
Sewn mouth : you are different as a hybrid, You are a samurai. You value honor above all. Your emotions don't weaken you. They grant you strength. She is a slave to her love for others, she can't handle a loss.
Minosashi silently looked at him, leaving the sharpening room for finding a repairer mage.
Once minosashi was gone, sewn mouth questioned : but isn't love the reason I'm fighting on this side?...
A while later, minosashi was walking in the library, trying to find a repairer mage, he always gets lost in the library, even after 3 years of being here. He found himself in front of the entrance doorways and said : man... it's the forth time I'm seeing this door... Why is this library so big...
Fojima came out of one of the class doors, sound of kids and younger magicians were mixed into the quiet front doors of library : is there something wrong minosashi? Do you require any form of guide?
Minosashi : don't be so formal fojima, we know each other as friends. It's been three years and you still resist to call me Mino rather than my full name.
Fojima blushed : um... Forget it forget it! Anyways. Do you need help? Seen you passing here three times already!
Minosashi : four times to be exact. I was looking for a repairer magician, not only I couldn't find them, I can't even find my way back to the sharpening room (he said with a frustration and laugh in his face)
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Fojima : oh well, that's not much of a problem, I can take you to...
Before he could finish his words, the doors were opened... A mysterious, huge figure entered the library. The figure was more than 2 meter tall, had a black cape on himself that covered all over his body.
Mysterious figure looked at minosashi and fojima and asked : are you... Minosashi? (his voice, cutting deep, while echoing in the whole library)
Fojima felt an immense amount of dark energy coming from him, his face was terrified and his ears, shaking in his presence...
Fojima : minosashi... He isn't someone to mess around with...
Mysterious figure : hmph?.. Seems like someone had a feeling of my powers... (he turned his face toward fojima)
Fojima stepped back as he was afraid of what he'd do next. Minosashi on the other hand, didn't seem scared or pressured by his presence, as fojima had expected, minosashi is way ahead of his league.
Mysterious figure : my question, is pending!! (his voice turned from calm to anger, causing fractures on library's floor. Minosashi was still silent, which made fojima more worried than before)
As minosashi began to speak, lionye came to the main hall, before he could speak, the moment he glanced at the mysterious figure, he stayed silent...
Mysterious figure : this has nothing to do with you nor your library, Lionye... (his voice again turned to a calm but sharp)
Minosashi and fojima were shocked and speechless on the words the mysterious figure established... He knew the grand priest...
Minosashi calmly responded : I am the one you're looking for.
Mysterious figure : hmph. Took you long enough, little samurai. (his voice, calm and sharp)
Minosashi : if your problem is blade, we'll fix that outside. (he then unsheathed one of his katanas slowly, pointing it toward the figure's face)
Mysterious figure : intriguing... Come at me! Minosashi!! (he shouted and made the pillars of library shake with it)
Lionye's voice was terrified : no minosashi... You don't have the power to...
Minosashi stopped his speech : I know what I'm doing magic master, I'm no ordinary idiot, I'm a professional. (he said while having a laugh on his face)
Outside of the grand library, down stairs of library.
Fojima and lionye, were watching minosashi and the mysterious monster standing in front of each other, their sheer aura, breaking the magic in the hills of Jivana...
Lionye : this is a death standoff...
Fojima : does... Minosashi... stand a small chance?
Lionye stayed silent.
Sarah shouted from a distance : master!!!
Before lionye could react, fojima rushed toward her at the speed of sound, causing cracks on the stairs, reaching her and hugging her : sarah... Please.. Do not interfere... This is something beyond our power and place to handle... (his voice was filled with dread)
Sarah : what do you mea... (before she could finish her words, her eyes gazed at the mysterious figure, his aura alone, vibrating the very air around him, speaking volume of his immense power)
Sarah was terrified and whispered : now... I understand... your words...
The wind was blowing harder than before, the trees were shaking beneath the speed of wind, the smell of grass turned to bitter smell of their steel blades, the calm looming magic in the air was breaking apart from their standoff, their aura and warrior's will, shattering the area they were standing...
The figure throw away the cape, revealing a humanoid body with black purple skin, horns in his back, two bracelets of dark/blue mix, his fingers looking like the fangs of snake, and his whole body was muscular, resembling a professional fighter, his face, full of war scars with a large one in his chest, his lips having loads of cracks that were filled with his black blood, and 4 horns on the head, one horn was cut down by a blade... And the most terrifying detail, a composite sword in his back... A sword that can be stretched or retaliated depending on the distance of battle...
Minosashi was more serious than ever. His focus for this combat was absolute and his will, stronger than ever...
Fojima : Minosashi's face... He is also aware of what he is facing...
Lionye : he is. But his stubbornness doesn't let him resist the fight... He puts his honor above all things in battle...
Fojima : you are not gonna interfere?...
Lionye responded : even if I wanted... I couldn't compete with him... He is a brute, I'm a magician...
Mysterious figure : minosashi! Unsheathe your sword! your blades, against mine! (his composite sword, moved around like a living creature in the hands of it's ultimate tamer...)
None hesitated, in a blink of an eye, they rushed toward each other. Area underneath them was broken and destroyed by their sheer strength and speed. Their swords, fully unsheathed, clashing with each other in a speed that was unseeable...
Fojima was shocked at their speed : what... What form of speed was that... I couldn't see the moment they their blades clashed with each other...
Sarah was speechless : what.... Did I just... Witness...? (she said while thinking : all my trainings seem useless against them... Is it even possible to operate on that level as magician?...)
The sound of their clash of swords was filling the area, their immense speed was causing after images and that, was the only thing they could see in the fight...
Mysterious figure : more! Entertain me more! (he was pushing minosashi back and laughing while saying this)
Minosashi thought : I've.. never seen a creature with this amount of sword mastery... Who is this guy?...
Mysterious figure : push yourself to your utmost minosashi! Son of Tokimo!
Minosashi was shocked : How... How do you know my father's name? (his voice was full of frustration and anger)
Mysterious figure : You will find out. Focus on our battle little samurai! Come on!!!
As their battle rages on and on, minosashi was getting pushed back, his body, utterly drained from the attacks he had to block.
Sewn mouth ambushed the mysterious figure from behind but it was a shot in the dark... the mysterious figure causally stopped his blade with bare hand : pathetic. (he smiled in a devilish way and then throwed sewn mouth into one of the hills, causing immense explosion as sewn mouth collapsed with the hill)
Mysterious figure : guess I used my power too much there... Hehehe...
Minosashi shouted : sewn mouth!!!
Mysterious figure : focus minosashi!!! (he strike him with bare hand, Minosashi's knees, collapsed to the ground and his bones cracked...)
Sewn mouth : hold on a little, comrade...
Sewn mouth, came out of the dust, bleeding and abs shattered... jumped straight back to battle, throwing himself from down of the hill toward the mysterious figure.
The figure was enjoying his battle on a one vs two against minosashi and sewn mouth, his power was forcing them back even more than before.
Sewn mouth : we have no other choice mino...
Minosashi : I guess so... third eye open! (a wave of energy went out of his body and granted him even more strength and speed than before)
Mysterious figure whispered : well, this will be fun! Time to use my technique...
Sewn mouth put his 2 fingers into his blade's holder : third eye open, the reaping blade! (his greatsword turned into a black scythe with an eye on it, both sewn mouth and the eye of scythe looked at mysterious figure before rushing toward him)
Mysterious figure : interesting! But not enough!!! (he shouted while his voice echoed through the hills, breaking the ground around himself)
He dodged all of their attack : bad that I found an opening!!! (he punched sewn mouth, smashing him to the ground while striking minosashi away, putting him down easily with his blade...)
Sewn mouth tried to get up, but the pain of his broken ribs and chest, shattered him to the ground...
The figure watched the two defeated warriors : this was a fun experience... get strong minosashi, I need you to fight me in the "finale"...
The figure opened a shadow portal behind himself to leave, but before entering, he hesitated : I am Liniah, 4th general of the abyss, I won't say more... ask the rest about your priest, he knows me well... Hehehe... (his laugh echoed through every part of their body as he faded in shadows, while his smirk was the last thing to fade in front of their faces, leaving more pain in their heart)...
