Chapter 29 - Naoto vs Ash
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The next day, everyone was at the arena.
With a tense atmosphere, it was as if they had become warier than the other group.
Especially the two groups, namely Jin Kazama's D-Ex group and Kyousuke's G-BF group.
“Hello everyone, have you been resting well?.”
Suddenly a man in a Cerberus mask appeared in front of them all.
"There's some good news for all of you."
"Oh? Why is the atmosphere here getting so tense?”
The man in the Cerberus mask greeted everyone in a happy mood, but after noticing the tense atmosphere around them, he stopped being cheerful and asked in confusion.
“It's fine, just a normal conflict. Are you saying that getting happy news? What kind of news is that?.”
Rubuck answered the confusion of the man in the Cerberus mask and asked what news the man in the Cerberus mask had received.
“Yeah, do you guys want to hear it?.”
The man in the Cerberus mask asked in a teasing tone.
"No, if you really don't intend to tell then there's no need to tell us."
Jin Kazama said coldly.
"Oh come on man, how cold you are to be a person."
"Even though I brought this happy news to all of you."
The man in the Cerberus mask said in a happy tone while looking at the expressions of all the prisoners here.
But unexpectedly they all stared straight at the man in the Cerberus mask.
“Huft, you guys don't look at me like that. Okay, I won't tease you guys anymore."
"About Jin Kazama's suggestion, after being discussed by the executioners they accepted the suggestion."
"How, isn't this happy news for all of you?."
The man in the Cerberus mask raised his hand saying confidently.
Hearing this, except for group D-H& everyone here became happy. Because the sooner the game is over, the sooner you will be free from the prison of Tartarus.
“Alright, please look at the virtual screen above. That is the battle list of the prisoners on the third day.”
The man in the Cerberus mask pointed upwards.
- - - -
3rd-day battle
5. D-Ex (Naoto) vs G-BF (Ash)
6. D-H& (Kinessa) vs. Z-OO (Jeff)
7. Z-OO (Skye) vs D-H& (Maeve)
8. G-BF (Talus) vs D-Ex (Crush)
- - - -
“For the prisoners who fought in the 5th match, please go up to the center of the arena.”
After saying that, the man in the Cerberus mask disappeared again from in front of them.
Then the two prisoners walked to the center of the arena, Jin Kazama saw a middle-aged man walking out of Kyousuke's G-BF group.
"Looks like it's going to be a tough fight for Naoto, I hope after this his abilities improve."
Jin Kazama muttered under his breath.
In the middle of the arena.
“Yo young man, it seems your group leader has really angered Kyousuke.”
Ash walked to the center of the arena and greeted Naoto by raising his right hand.
"Yeah, actually our group leader didn't mean it like that."
Naoto fixed his messy glasses with his right hand still tied with a bandage.
“Even though it's a reality, it still hit our weak point.”
Ash then stood still in his place.
“Since both sides have stepped into the arena, I hereby announce the start of the fourth match!!”
The voice of the man in the Cerberus masks from within the virtual screen.
"Get ready young man, I won't go easy on you."
After saying that, the middle-aged man named Ash immediately jumped into the air.
Then he pointed his palm towards Naoto who was below.
Seeing that Naoto suddenly felt something strange in the air, then he immediately jumped out from where he was standing.
Bam!
Naoto listened as if something had fallen on the ground.
The area where he was standing earlier was filled with dirt that rose upwards with rectangular print marks.
Seeing that, Naoto felt horror.
“Hehehehe, it's great that you were able to dodge it.”
After Ash landed on the ground, he once again jumped up and pointed his palm down. This time, he used both hands to strike at Naoto.
Bam!
Bam!
The ground around Naoto became imprinted with a rectangular box, but there was no figure of Naoto there at all.
"To think you ran away so fast, come on why don't you just take off your bandages? I want to see what your abilities are like.”
Ash who landed on the ground no longer jumped into the air, but raised his right hand towards the running Naoto. Then a beam of air appeared in the arena heading towards Naoto, this time thicker than before.
"Unlucky !."
Seeing this, Naoto immediately removed the bandage on his left hand and thrust his left hand forward to block Ash's air beam attack.
Bam!
Naoto's left hand was hit by Ash's air beam, even so, he had managed to destroy the thick beam of air in front of him.
"Oh? I became curious about your ability to crush my air beams to smithereens.”
Ash said in an interested tone after seeing his air beam attack being destroyed so easily.
"Let's see, how you will destroy this attack."
Ash raised his hand and pointed it above Naoto.
Then he swung his hand downwards in a motion like patting a flat object.
Seeing this, Naoto immediately fled from where he was.
"It's useless for you to run away, with a block of that size you won't be able to run anywhere."
Ash said that while shaking his head.
"Can't escape?."
Naoto heard this immediately gritted his teeth to deal with Ash's massive air beam attack.
He unwrapped his other hand and raised both hands.
When the huge air beam touched both of Naoto's hands, he momentarily felt the feeling of lifting a big car but the feeling only lasted for a while and the huge air beam shattered into pieces.
Naoto felt pain in his hands.
“Wow, I seem to understand why you covered your palms. It seems you can't control that great ability of yours.”
"If that's the case, then let me help."
After seeing Naoto's formidable ability, Ash said in an excited tone.
Ash's abilities weren't really suitable for close-range combat, even so, he wanted to experience close-quarters combat like he did when he was younger.
Then Ash rushed forward towards Naoto.
He hit directly at Naoto's waist from close range and from his fist it shot out like an air fist that sent Naoto flying.
Then Ash rushed at Naoto again and continued his barrage of attacks on Naoto's body.
Some of Ash's attacks were repelled by Naoto, but even so, Naoto's body was already heavily attacked by Ash's abilities.
"Argh! ! !.”
With a pained body, Naoto's body immediately bent forward to touch the ground.
Then all the ground in the center of the arena shook violently.
Boom!
The entire arena in the middle fell to pieces like rubble, even Naoto's own body was heavily injured by his own attacks.
“To think you could destroy the entire arena ground below into this, what a terrifying ability.”
With his two palms forming a triangle, Ash was protected by his beam ability.
"Young man, now it's my turn."
Ash raised his hand and pointed it at where Naoto was.
Then he swung his hand downwards in a motion like tapping a hard object.
Then the air above Naoto became very heavy, after looking up he saw a huge block of air that was piled up in three.
"What ?!?!."
Naoto who was shocked immediately raised his arms in the air, but unexpectedly when he wanted to raise his hands he couldn't move his body.
"Hehehe, I won't let you touch it again."
An exhausted voice came from Ash.
Naoto saw Ash's two palms form a triangle and pointed at him, Naoto felt the feeling of something pinching him.
Cracks!
Then for some reason, he felt a strange feeling in his heart as if there was a warm current flowing from the seed in his heart.
Cracks!
With Naoto's glasses cracked, he shouted into the air.
Unexpectedly he was able to move his hand, then touched towards the wall of air that was pinching him.
When his hand touched the air wall beside him, it turned into a compressed gust of wind. He was freed from the wall of air that was clamping him down, after which Naoto raised his hand upwards.
When the air beam touched his hand, he felt like he was holding a mountain. But it only lasted a moment before dissipating into a compressed air blowing over his body.
“Huft Huft Huft!!”
Naoto breathed erratically after enduring Ash's final attack.
Due to consuming a lot of energy, Naoto immediately fainted with his cracked glasses.
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