Chapter 166 Interlacing the past and the present (seven)
It's getting late...
So, let's get started.
When Hao Qing clenched his fists and stood up, it symbolized that their third round of battle had begun under the bright moon.
Miso miso miso miso——
The ground shattered under the heavy tread, and the surging heat created a scorching whirlpool. It was so painful that Xiang Xiang closed his eyes for a moment. Between the lightning and flint, the red fist was close to Xiang's body.
In front of it, it will be imprinted on Hibiki's face, causing it to deform and fly upside down.
"Oh!"
Unexpectedly, at the critical moment, the soles of Hao Qing's feet suddenly softened, and his whole body movements were deformed. His fists flew away from Xiang's ears, and the hot air blew away the short flaxen hair.
"After a while, he himself fell on his face and gnawed in the mud.
"..."
The way he stood up with a grin on his face looked extremely embarrassed.
But Hibiki didn't laugh because she held back.
And...this is a good opportunity.
Raising his hand, the black-gold arm armor rapidly expanded and deformed in the surge of energy, forming a huge glove. As he stepped forward, the red fire of karma ignited, and he rushed forward in a straight line with the shortest speed.
, like a red-gold whirlwind, sweeping past.
[The voice of hope resounds across the sky...]
Too bad!
Hao Qing, who was still lying on the ground, looked up and saw this scene. He was already prepared to be hit. What he didn't expect was that Xiang, who was wearing a huge glove, failed to control the weight of his arm and actually punched him away from him.
Wiped it on my head...
Hibiki himself fell forward with him.
Unfortunately, Hao Qing in front of her became a cushion. He couldn't get up and was pushed to the ground. He scored twice and chewed a mouthful of mud.
"My body doesn't obey its orders..."
After regaining his composure, Xiang felt the load on his hands, and immediately understood his current situation - the fighter with the sword drawn could still use it, but his body, which was consumed too much by the rampage, could no longer keep up.
Logically speaking, in her current state, she should be able to deactivate the ignite module on her own, but this is not a question that Hibiki will examine. Even if she wanted to examine it, she was interrupted by someone's next words——
"Bah, you crushed me to death. I can't tell why you are so heavy..."
Heavy?
A tic-tac-toe popped up inexplicably on Hibiki's head, he smiled and gave someone beneath him an elbow, and the noisy voice stopped.
Was someone talking just now? It was an illusion...
tumultuous……
But at this time, a faint sound came from under Xiang's body.
This sound is...
When Hibiki noticed it, it was already too late. The red vortex that exploded from below set off strong hot wind and blew the two of them away at once.
call--
The wind came and went quickly. The two flew less than two meters away before falling back to the ground.
"Oh, I can't do it anymore..." Someone who was lying on his butt looked at his smoking right hand and sighed softly, "Is this all you can do now?"
The energy in the body is extremely scarce. Being able to maintain the red form unchanged is the result of the body adapting to low power consumption. The distance limit is almost reached.
And the stance is almost unable to seal the wound...
But just keep insisting and give me more time.
Concentrating, this traumatized body once again gathered strength, ignoring the rattling load, driving him to stand up again.
"If you say you can't lose, then stand up and continue fighting!"
He stepped forward and pulled the bell.
"This is what I give back to you."
"No need for you to remind me!"
The unseemly fists staggered and hit each other's chest, abdomen, and shoulders respectively. After one blow, the impact and reaction force caused them to fall backwards and fall to the ground.
[What are these hands meant to hold tightly...]
Lying on the ground, panting like a wind machine in their chests, enduring the pain, the two of them forced themselves to get up again, waving their arms desperately to attack, but in vain. The two people who were staggered tried to turn, but they couldn't help it.
After shaking twice, he still fell to the ground. He narrowed his eyes in shock and tried hard to shake his hands and try to hold on to the ground. After several failures, he fell to the ground and gasped for breath to recover.
"Ha...ha, it won't work. I wanted to get rid of you in one go, but I didn't expect it still wouldn't work."
"You said it was impossible, but you were quite energetic when talking..."
Compared with Hao Qing, Xiang's voice is a bit weak. Also, since the beginning, she has forgotten "I don't want to sing only in front of you". With her current state and her singing characteristics, she is naturally very sensitive to her voice.
Unfriendly.
"Hey, but at this rate, there seems to be no winner."
"...Isn't it you who said I would stay with you until the end?"
In response to this, Hao Qing forced a smile on his face, and after a few seconds, he said slowly: "Of course that's not what I meant... Use other methods to decide the outcome."
"What method?"
Before Xiang could regain his senses, Hao Qing said loudly: "Of course... guessing! It's simple and fast, and the outcome will be decided in one round!"
"……ah?"
This nonsensical answer left Hibiki stunned.
"Look, it's hard for us to stand up now...but we still have the strength to swing our arms." Hao Qing raised his hand, tremblingly gestured with scissors, and then fell to the ground with a snap.
, "Look, just like now...can you see clearly?"
"It turns out you are serious..."
"Well, so...what do you think?"
It's almost like a joke... They have beaten each other like this, can they still solve it in this way?
But correspondingly, she felt a little nostalgic because this feeling... was like returning to the past.
[Unlike noise, we are all human beings and can definitely understand each other!]
Did they feel the same way at that time?
"So, when does it start?"
By some strange coincidence, she agreed.
"Of course... right now!"
Eh?
Without thinking, I raised my hand as soon as the other party gave the call.
Why are you shouting so fast...
After coming back to her senses, she was stunned when she looked at the other person's gestures and her own.
Cloth to cloth.
According to the rules of guessing, this is a draw.
Is this... a coincidence?
"Ah, if it's just one round, there's nothing we can do if it's a tie, so that's it."
"You want to just let it go? Stop joking, there's no such thing as such a good thing!"
She couldn't forget... could these things just go away?
This made Hibiki unable to resist, just like the white-haired girl who often scolded him for being such an idiot, she retorted to him.
But this time... there was no response.
The person in front who had been noisy and quarreling with her fell silent at this moment.
"you……"
This silence made Hibiki's heart skip a beat, and that ominous and extremely irritable premonition drove her to struggle to stand up from the ground.
"Ha ha……"
He finally stood up, but the figure reflected in the trembling golden eyes was already covered in blood.
He...is dead?
Hibiki touched his cheek with a trembling hand, and there was still a warm feeling on it, making her want to grab it again and again, not wanting to let it go away, as if she was grabbing his life.
No, it won't be... You survived like last time, and you will definitely survive this time...
It's just that the feeling transmitted from the hands is getting colder and colder, and the sound of breathing disappearing from the mouth and nose, all verify the fact——
Yes, he is dead.
She didn't know why, but looking at that relieved smile, along with a heartfelt pain, her vision blurred.
Look, isn't this what you want? Tachibana Hibiki.
it's all over.
The voice in her heart smiled at Xiang, but at this moment, she couldn't laugh out loud.
So uncomfortable...
It was as if just now, something was completely lost from my heart.
The burning light and shadow of the back of the past flashed through my mind, as well as my blood-stained hands, and the two figures overlapped here.
Yes, there is nothing left...
Because in the end, the person she was related to... had been destroyed by her own hands.
Self-blame, guilt, regret, pain, loss, emptiness.
A variety of emotions mixed together, tearing apart all rationality.
She wanted to cry and roar, but she couldn't shout anything.
The intense pain could not be expressed, it was just suppressed... until the dark nothingness completely covered the field of vision, everything could rest.
jingle.
The undressed sling fell to the ground, making a shattering sound representing the hateful structure inside.
The existence that was bound was at this moment... freed.
"It really made me watch a great show."
Under the shadow, a trace of the pale figure showed, but then he clicked his tongue and ran back.
"Isn't it time yet? Well, my fun has just begun."
In the moonlight refracted from the sun, a small figure stepped into the ruins and reached out to pick up the exhausted two people.
"Everyone of them... is an idiot that makes people worry."
Looking at the mess left around it, it sighed softly.
"However, this is much more noisy than I was before..."
Thinking of this, it chuckled, shook its head, and left with the two people who were completely different in size from its own, disappearing into the shadows.