Chapter 51

[Third Person's PoV]

Futarou was squatting down with his fist on the white floor and a hand on his leg while looking at the system in front of him.

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'Even with my divine protection and the training I've been doing, I've only reached a quarter of the way… raising it is much harder than I expected,' Futarou pondered.

"Are you two ready to begin?" Scáthach asked, looking between Tohru and Futarou.

"Second Gear," Futarou smirked as blood pumped from his arm and spread throughout his body, causing him to gain a red coloring and steam to come out of his body.

"Are they really going to fight?" Raiha said, looking between the two of them.

Grayfia put a hand on Raiha's shoulder reassuringly, "Don't worry, it's just a light sparring match between the two of them."

Tohru went on all fours, exposing her sharp teeth. Her eyes burned with the thirst for battle as her tail swung wildly behind her.

Scáthach then commenced the beginning of their battle.

Immediately, Tohru opened her mouth and sent a beam of pure destructive flames, which caused the ground to split apart as it made its way towards Futarou.

Futarou disappeared from where he stood and reappeared in the air with a hand in front and a fist pulled back, "Gumo Gumo no Jet Pistol!"

Futarou's fist stretched at a blinding speed towards Tohru, not giving her any time to react, and punched her in the face, causing the beam of destruction to stop.

As her head turned due to the force, she quickly grabbed the stretched-out arm before Futarou could pull it back and slammed him with great force.

Futarou's body bounced off the floor with an equal force, but he quickly recovered and pulled his arm back, snapping it into place.

The floor practically shattered due to Tohru's force as she rushed towards Futarou, but Futarou just smiled seeing her speeding towards him.

"Gomu Gomu No Gatling Gun!"

Futarou's fists blurred with great speed as multiple fists started attacking Tohru.

She crossed her arms as she was sliding back due to the strength and force of Futarou's fast punches.

As she continued to cross her arms, green wings appeared from her back. She took to the skies. Futarou's multiple fists tried following her as she flew, but she was just too fast.

Futarou then stopped as he saw it was getting him nowhere, but before he could take action, Tohru flapped her wings and disappeared, reappearing in front of Futarou.

Futarou was able to follow her lead due to his high senses but couldn't react in time due to most of his stats being sealed (by his own choice, obviously).

Tohru's fist sank into Futarou's stomach, causing him to cough up blood and get sent flying. The floor caved in, breaking apart and burying him.

"TAKE ME SERIOUSLY, DAMN IT!" Tohru cried out.

"He's not?" Raiha asked Scáthach.

She shook her head, "You can say that Futarou is playing around with her, which is infuriating her since she sees this as something important."

Futarou's hand reached out from where he was buried, but as he was getting out, Tohru took a deep breath and shot a breath that made the air around it ignite due to the heat.

Scáthach had to use her own aura to protect Raiha as she started to sweat profusely due to its power.

Before it landed, Futarou felt the heat from afar and quickly said, "Room, Shambles."

A dome materialized around the surroundings, and a piece of the destroyed floor swapped places with him.

As the beam of fire hit the spot where Futarou previously was, the floor started to disintegrate completely, leaving nothing behind except a huge hole which led into darkness.

Futarou dusted himself off and looked towards Tohru apologetically, "Sorry, Tohru. I was just testing something. I'll take you more seriously now."

Futarou's lightning mark started to glow a blue color as his eyes brightened with a golden hue. A pressure like no other then started to escape from Futarou, causing Tohru's large toothy grin to widen with bloodlust.

The surrounding pieces of the ground started to levitate due to the pressure Futarou was expelling from his body. Golden excess energy began to expel from Futarou in the shape of lightning, causing his hair to lift slightly from his face.

Grayfia was surprised. "What power," she mumbled in amazement.

The floor crumbled as Futarou disappeared and reappeared in front of Tohru, causing her eyes to widen as she wasn't able to follow his movements even with her dragon eyes.

She quickly crossed her arms, but it was useless against Futarou's strength. She was sent flying back, breaking the sound barrier. Futarou kept up with her speed and kept punching her harder each time, causing the floor to break apart. It was her turn to be buried in the ground.

"ROOOOOOOAAAAAARRRR!!"

From the rubble, a large green dragon appeared and started to speak in a language Futarou didn't understand.

The ground started to shake the more she spoke, prompting Grayfia to take hold of Raiha and fly into the sky. Scáthach started spawning runes around them, protecting them from what was about to happen.

Like a geyser, lava started sprouting from the ground, creating havoc. Futarou took to the skies and started to conjure water magic attacks to combat it.

He conjured his own water dragon as Tohru did everything she could to hurt and defeat Futarou.

The two continued battling each other, conjuring more elemental magic, each attack more deadly than the last, their fight lasting hours into the middle of the night.

To the point that even Raiha got tired and fell asleep. Grayfia had to hold her in her arms as she slept with her arms around her neck and a thumb in her mouth.

Tohru started teleporting around the area. Futarou's clothes were covered with blood and were semi-destroyed but he had no wounds due to his regeneration.

On the ground, a few of Tohru's scales lay tainted with her blood. They were both exhausted after battling for so long.

The area looked like a wasteland. Even with the surroundings getting repaired due to Scáthach's runes, the aftereffects were still present. There were mountains of rubble, obsidian from the cooled lava, smoke from craters that were starting to heal, and lakes of water a few meters away from them.

Futarou took a deep breath as he put his hands together. "This is my final attack. Get ready, Tohru," he said seriously.

An aura of pure destruction escaped from Tohru. "Bring it on!"

"Mana Art: Heavenly Avatar," Futarou muttered with his eyes closed.

With Futarou at the center, golden mana started to exude from him. An avatar in his figure with his features began to form, growing larger and larger in size until it even exceeded Tohru's dragon size.

Grayfia and Scáthach stared at the towering figure with their mouths slightly agape.

The figure was on one knee, looking down at everything before it reached its hand into the sky. In its hand, a lightning bolt made entirely out of lightning began to materialize. Before long, the lightning started changing colors from white to red to black, finally setting on a bright and beautiful golden color. No, it wasn't yellow; anyone present could immediately tell that it was pure gold.

From Tohru, a ball of fire started to appear, spinning at a rapid speed. As it spun, it also started to change colors, going from red to blue to purple to black, and finally to a pure white color.

Futarou's avatar flexed its arm back before smiting the lightning down with powerful force, while Tohru opened her mouth and released an inferno of white flames with the same heat intensity as the sun.

As the lightning and flames met, they were all blinded by a white flash of light that engulfed everyone.

Then it was like time stopped. Everything stopped moving. The space around the two attacks started to twist and turn before a singular black dot formed in the middle.

Time resumed and Tohru and Futarou were each sent flying in opposite directions with no way of stopping.

The black dot in the middle then started to consume the lightning and the flames. After feeding off the attack, the black dot started to grow in size, consuming everything in its path.

Scáthach quickly moved into action. She reached the expanding black hole and started to wave and conjure runes at the speed of light, surrounding the space. Ever so slowly, the space started to eat into itself as the black ball grew smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared, causing Scáthach to release a sigh of relief.

Tohru crashed into the ground and started to breathe heavily, an exhausted look in her eyes.

Between the two of them, Futarou was the first to get up from the ground. Futarou started slowly limping towards Tohru before his regeneration came into action.

When he arrived, he smiled as he looked down at her and offered his hand. A single tear cascaded down her cheek, signaling that she had lost.

She reached out her hand and Futarou pulled her up. As he did, he pulled Tohru close and kissed her red lips, causing her eyes to widen before she slowly melted into his embrace.

He pressed his forehead against hers. "I love you, Tohru. Don't think I don't. It doesn't matter how many more women or 'mates' I get in the future, there will always be a special place in my heart for you, no matter what," Futarou said confidently and reassuringly.

Tohru went on her tiptoes, wrapped her arms around his neck, and kissed him herself as tears fell from her eyes. "I love you so much, Futarou," she cried out, tears staining her face. "I was just scared that if you get more women in your life, you would completely forget about me!"

"I would never do that," Futarou said as he brushed her hair and kissed her again, their kissing becoming more and more passionate.

Scáthach and Grayfia just looked at each other with an awkward expression seeing them.

"Oh wow" Raiha said, having woken up by the previous explosion.

Grayfia quickly covered her eyes, "You're too young to be seen stuff like that" Which caused Raiha to pout.

"Please go back to sleep," Grayfia pleaded.

Before long Tohru and Futarou separated, as they looked at each other's messy state they broke into chuckles and little giggling.

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A/N: I needn't mention what's coming next chapter right?

Here's a hint: Horn Pulling...