Bang-!
As he took the blow, blood rose in Jin’s chest.
Jin had fought and won against all the other battle kings except for Boras. With the exception of his battle with Teto, they were all messy fights. Jin had often attacked his opponents even after they had already given up, and even in cases where he had defeated them head-on, like in his second battle with Teto, he had shown no mercy with his ruthless swordsmanship, as if he was dealing with a mortal enemy.
He had even swung his sword at Linpa, who had expressed a desire to surrender.
As the other Plutonians said, if only he had attempted to have a conversation or simply asked to be recognized as the successor, his brethren would have easily granted his wish.
‘But that is not enough.’
-So, brother, please regain your senses and approach this fight with more thought. Regardless of the outcome and process of the Great War of battle kings, the brethren will undoubtedly still cherish Brother Jin as they did before… But let’s not forget that brethren are also living beings. If even a small resentment lingers, it will eventually fester.
Children who receive the favoritism of an absolute ruler will inevitably leave a poisonous resentment among their siblings.
Jin had learned this fact through Rosa and Joshua’s relationship.
Of course, the Plutonian tribe is different from Runcandel, but they are also living being after all.
Jin had thought that all the privileges and favoritism he had received from the Plutonian tribe could become a problem someday.
Today, Jin would destroy any trace of future threats without hesitation.
Like Kaio’s battle king special move, Baba’s sword also resembled a battle god. ‘Punishment’ had many similarities to Plutonian’s reign sword.
It also showed much stronger momentum than the first form of the real Plutonian reign sword against him.
Despite Baba’s energy surpassing him, Jin was not being pressured like he was against Kaio. He was swinging his sword as he pleased.
Looking back, Baba was at the center of the battle kings when Jin fought the opening battle through the battle god fusion.
At that time, the rest of the battle kings were assisting Baba so that she could attack properly, and Kaio was in charge of the core of that support.
“The battle god senses. If you hadn’t learned that, if you hadn’t shared the senses of the battle god through the battle god fusion, you wouldn’t have been able to mix your sword with me like this.”
“Even if I received any benefits, can it compare to being truly born as a member of the Plutonian tribe? You’re talking nonsense.”
Those watching the fight were shocked, not because of the conversations Jin and Baba had or any revealed intentions.
The Plutonians are surprised that Jin is fighting Baba on an equal footing.
From the moment Baba first saw Jin in the main hall today, she expected this to happen.
Still, she only had one thought, that the outcome was unchanged.
Sigmund and Light were fiercely entangled. The aura and lighting energy were corroding in all directions, but as time went on, the two people’s battle became closer to the most fundamental form of sword fighting.
Loud noise and explosive sound.
The sound of a huge crack that was almost unbelievable that only the two swords collided was resonating throughout the sky.
Since they were continuously entangled for even a moment, it even felt like no sound could be heard.
Both of them were getting more and more wounded.
Surprisingly, the number of wounds they had was exactly the same. When Jin struck once, Baba also struck once. Moreover, their positions were perfectly symmetrical.
The intense battle continued.
Eventually, the two men simultaneously distanced themselves.
Jin expanded his space by unleashing Erosion and Plutonian’s reigning sword, and Baba amplified her energy accordingly.
Baba’s power was slightly more dominant. Although Jin’s shadow sword 1st ultimate technique, which he unleashed by changing sword, compensated for that difference.
“What are you going to do with a sword that you haven’t fully mastered, Jin Runcandel?”
Unlike the time of Kaio, the shadow force was clearly blocking Baba’s senses successfully. It wasn’t that Baba had failed to block it.
It doesn’t matter.
Before she completely lost her senses, she closed her eyes first. And even in that state, she parried all of Jin’s attacks just like before.
She became even more formidable.
‘To be able to break through the ultimate sword technique like this…’
To be able to display even better swordsmanship when the senses are turned off. It is a level of monster that Jin could not even imagine if it had been before experiencing the battle god fusion.
Crack……!
A massive rift was spreading from the center of the main hall where the two were fighting.
The hall, which had withstood so many battles without losing its sturdy appearance, was now collapsing.
Once the rift started, it absorbed the shocks like a whirlpool. Just like the relationship between Jin and the Plutonian tribe.
At this rate, it would collapse soon.
Jin decided to end the fight at that moment. Clearly, Baba was stronger than him.
‘I will digs in at the moment she falls.’
Suddenly, if the ground they were standing on disappeared, no matter how skilled Jin and Baba were, they would inevitably lose their balance for a moment.
“I know what you’re thinking.”
“If you do, then counterattack accordingly. Have you already forgotten my advice?”
The hall of battle god never collapsed before in the history of the Great War of battle kings. In addition, the rules of the Great War of battle kings include disqualification over fights outside the arena, which meant both of them were violating the rules.
It was an exceptional case, but Vahn did not stop the duel.
In fact, the fight between the two couldn’t even be seen as a great war of battle kings anymore. It was closer to the fight between Jin and the Plutonian tribe.
If it’s Vahn strength. She could have used her strength to hold the crumbling hall together and prevent it from collapsing, but she chose to let it fall apart.
The main hall of the battle king Duel was located in the center of what was once known as the Mitra Desert, which had become a dead world after losing the war against the gods. Vahn allowed the hall to collapse, knowing that it would destroy the heart of their homeland.
Boom, crack……!
As the main hall split in half, the Plutonian tribe members all closed their eyes tightly.
They couldn’t bear to watch as the fight that had started as a small disagreement destroyed the heart of their homeland.
“Everyone, open your eyes and watch carefully.”
But they followed Vahn’s solemn voice. All the members of the Plutonian tribe stared at the sight of the hall collapsing, and the two combatants fighting like demons amidst the wreckage.
As planned, Jin had launched his attack when the hall was about to fall, stepping on debris to close the distance between him and Baba.
The Ultimate Sword technique had already been released. Baba also stood her ground and faced him head-on, and the two of them once again suffered the same injuries.
They had both sliced each other’s left arms. The arms of the two were mixed in with the debris of the falling main hall, disappearing from sight.
Then, they both landed at the same time.
Thanks to the force of their mutual strikes, Jin and Baba inevitably ended up with their backs facing each other.
As if they had made a promise, they both turned around and stabbed each other with their swords.
Ha……!
The match was over.
Jin’s sword stopped without reaching Baba’s chest, and Baba’s sword pierced Jin’s shadow force armor and chest.
When Baba turned her sword once, Jin bent his waist and vomited blood.
It’s not that Jin didn’t ‘stab’ Baba. It’s just that Baba’s sword was faster than his.
“If you have anything to say, say it now.”
“Thunderbolt…….”
“What?”
“Explode the thunderbolts… like I did to Kaio.”
“You think I can’t?”
“Try me. You said you’d kill me, didn’t you?”
Blood was dribbling from Baba’s lips.
Jin tried to lift his right arm, which held the sword, up in the air. His body, still pierced by light, wasn’t quite responding as he wanted it to, but his senses were slowly returning to him.
Everyone watched as Jin struggled like a wounded animal to lift his arm and stab Baba again, but given enough time, he could summon enough strength to do so.
“Let me ask you one thing, Jin. Why go this far? Why?”
The conversations they had before mixing their swords.
The discrimination and anxiety Jin claimed to have felt, and the reasons he crossed the line.
To Baba, and to the Plutonian. All those things didn’t provide enough justification for the current situation.
“You can’t explode it, can you…?”
“I can. I can explode it anytime I want. But tell me one thing first. Why did you push the situation this far?”
Bradamante was slowly raised up to Baba’s neck.
It raised to the point where it was a span from the neck, then it fell down out of strength, and raised again, getting closer.
Sister Baba, just put an end to it!
Not a single Plutonian tribesman, who were so angry at Jin’s actions so far, was screaming like that.
They simply stared at the two with trembling red eyes.
“Please, please… tell me the whole story. That wasn’t all you said, right? Right?”
“Are you going to keep talking loudly…. loudly?”
Squeaky……!
Eventually, the tip of Bradamante reached Baba’s neck. Although it barely touched, the sharp blade easily penetrated Baba’s neck.
Although it only went in a little bit, with a little more force, Baba would have met her death.
Even so, Baba was still unable to explode the sword that pierced Jin’s chest.
“…… Jin.”
Through her cloudy and darkened pupils, she saw the blade on her neck, and then she saw Jin again.
After looking at him like that, Baba closed her eyes. Tears mixed with blood flowed between her closed eyelids.
“Okay, Brother Jin. I can’t understand it myself, but if this is what my brother wants, I’ll accept it.”
Resolution. She had one resolution before this fight.
That is, she would never let go of him, even if she was killed by him, if Jin did not stop until the very end. As a brethren, as her most precious family.
“But before you stab me in the neck… know this. None of us, including me, has ever given up on you while you were going astray. Even if we were angry and hated and cursed, even if we said we were no longer brethren, it was just words. Just words that we spat out in anger.”
Baba released her grip on her sword, light.
Then, after opening her eyes again, she looked at Jin’s wound and grabbed Bradamante’s sword with her right hand.
“If you really hated us, you would have break brother Kaio’s heart when you stabbed him, brother Jin. You still have the strength to stab me, but you stopped the sword. But even if you move your sword again, I won’t avoid it. If this is really what you wants, then please come back after I die. We are brethren after all….”
Even then, the Plutonian, who are watching, didn’t shout. There was no one to tell Baba to stop or ask why it was Baba who was dying instead of Jin. Even those who said that there is now Lingling anyway.
They were the ones who would not abandon Jin, even if he killed them all like this.
“Why am I doing this, you asked. Sister Baba.”
Sister. At that common title before her own name, Baba lowered her hand holding the blade and caressed Jin’s face. Bradamante fell to the floor.
“Yes, tell me, brother Jin.”
“Even though I’m doing this…… My brethren always forgive me. That’s why I did it.”
You should hate me at least once. We should have had a real fight once. Even if we hurts each other this much, I was sure that we wouldn’t let go of each other in the end.
Jin finally confessed why he played being a villain and collapsed into Baba’s arms.
And all the brethren run towards them.
Bang-!
As he took the blow, blood rose in Jin’s chest.
Jin had fought and won against all the other battle kings except for Boras. With the exception of his battle with Teto, they were all messy fights. Jin had often attacked his opponents even after they had already given up, and even in cases where he had defeated them head-on, like in his second battle with Teto, he had shown no mercy with his ruthless swordsmanship, as if he was dealing with a mortal enemy.
He had even swung his sword at Linpa, who had expressed a desire to surrender.
As the other Plutonians said, if only he had attempted to have a conversation or simply asked to be recognized as the successor, his brethren would have easily granted his wish.
‘But that is not enough.’
-So, brother, please regain your senses and approach this fight with more thought. Regardless of the outcome and process of the Great War of battle kings, the brethren will undoubtedly still cherish Brother Jin as they did before… But let’s not forget that brethren are also living beings. If even a small resentment lingers, it will eventually fester.
Children who receive the favoritism of an absolute ruler will inevitably leave a poisonous resentment among their siblings.
Jin had learned this fact through Rosa and Joshua’s relationship.
Of course, the Plutonian tribe is different from Runcandel, but they are also living being after all.
Jin had thought that all the privileges and favoritism he had received from the Plutonian tribe could become a problem someday.
Today, Jin would destroy any trace of future threats without hesitation.
Like Kaio’s battle king special move, Baba’s sword also resembled a battle god. ‘Punishment’ had many similarities to Plutonian’s reign sword.
It also showed much stronger momentum than the first form of the real Plutonian reign sword against him.
Despite Baba’s energy surpassing him, Jin was not being pressured like he was against Kaio. He was swinging his sword as he pleased.
Looking back, Baba was at the center of the battle kings when Jin fought the opening battle through the battle god fusion.
At that time, the rest of the battle kings were assisting Baba so that she could attack properly, and Kaio was in charge of the core of that support.
“The battle god senses. If you hadn’t learned that, if you hadn’t shared the senses of the battle god through the battle god fusion, you wouldn’t have been able to mix your sword with me like this.”
“Even if I received any benefits, can it compare to being truly born as a member of the Plutonian tribe? You’re talking nonsense.”
Those watching the fight were shocked, not because of the conversations Jin and Baba had or any revealed intentions.
The Plutonians are surprised that Jin is fighting Baba on an equal footing.
From the moment Baba first saw Jin in the main hall today, she expected this to happen.
Still, she only had one thought, that the outcome was unchanged.
Sigmund and Light were fiercely entangled. The aura and lighting energy were corroding in all directions, but as time went on, the two people’s battle became closer to the most fundamental form of sword fighting.
Loud noise and explosive sound.
The sound of a huge crack that was almost unbelievable that only the two swords collided was resonating throughout the sky.
Since they were continuously entangled for even a moment, it even felt like no sound could be heard.
Both of them were getting more and more wounded.
Surprisingly, the number of wounds they had was exactly the same. When Jin struck once, Baba also struck once. Moreover, their positions were perfectly symmetrical.
The intense battle continued.
Eventually, the two men simultaneously distanced themselves.
Jin expanded his space by unleashing Erosion and Plutonian’s reigning sword, and Baba amplified her energy accordingly.
Baba’s power was slightly more dominant. Although Jin’s shadow sword 1st ultimate technique, which he unleashed by changing sword, compensated for that difference.
“What are you going to do with a sword that you haven’t fully mastered, Jin Runcandel?”
Unlike the time of Kaio, the shadow force was clearly blocking Baba’s senses successfully. It wasn’t that Baba had failed to block it.
It doesn’t matter.
Before she completely lost her senses, she closed her eyes first. And even in that state, she parried all of Jin’s attacks just like before.
She became even more formidable.
‘To be able to break through the ultimate sword technique like this…’
To be able to display even better swordsmanship when the senses are turned off. It is a level of monster that Jin could not even imagine if it had been before experiencing the battle god fusion.
Crack……!
A massive rift was spreading from the center of the main hall where the two were fighting.
The hall, which had withstood so many battles without losing its sturdy appearance, was now collapsing.
Once the rift started, it absorbed the shocks like a whirlpool. Just like the relationship between Jin and the Plutonian tribe.
At this rate, it would collapse soon.
Jin decided to end the fight at that moment. Clearly, Baba was stronger than him.
‘I will digs in at the moment she falls.’
Suddenly, if the ground they were standing on disappeared, no matter how skilled Jin and Baba were, they would inevitably lose their balance for a moment.
“I know what you’re thinking.”
“If you do, then counterattack accordingly. Have you already forgotten my advice?”
The hall of battle god never collapsed before in the history of the Great War of battle kings. In addition, the rules of the Great War of battle kings include disqualification over fights outside the arena, which meant both of them were violating the rules.
It was an exceptional case, but Vahn did not stop the duel.
In fact, the fight between the two couldn’t even be seen as a great war of battle kings anymore. It was closer to the fight between Jin and the Plutonian tribe.
If it’s Vahn strength. She could have used her strength to hold the crumbling hall together and prevent it from collapsing, but she chose to let it fall apart.
The main hall of the battle king Duel was located in the center of what was once known as the Mitra Desert, which had become a dead world after losing the war against the gods. Vahn allowed the hall to collapse, knowing that it would destroy the heart of their homeland.
Boom, crack……!
As the main hall split in half, the Plutonian tribe members all closed their eyes tightly.
They couldn’t bear to watch as the fight that had started as a small disagreement destroyed the heart of their homeland.
“Everyone, open your eyes and watch carefully.”
But they followed Vahn’s solemn voice. All the members of the Plutonian tribe stared at the sight of the hall collapsing, and the two combatants fighting like demons amidst the wreckage.
As planned, Jin had launched his attack when the hall was about to fall, stepping on debris to close the distance between him and Baba.
The Ultimate Sword technique had already been released. Baba also stood her ground and faced him head-on, and the two of them once again suffered the same injuries.
They had both sliced each other’s left arms. The arms of the two were mixed in with the debris of the falling main hall, disappearing from sight.
Then, they both landed at the same time.
Thanks to the force of their mutual strikes, Jin and Baba inevitably ended up with their backs facing each other.
As if they had made a promise, they both turned around and stabbed each other with their swords.
Ha……!
The match was over.
Jin’s sword stopped without reaching Baba’s chest, and Baba’s sword pierced Jin’s shadow force armor and chest.
When Baba turned her sword once, Jin bent his waist and vomited blood.
It’s not that Jin didn’t ‘stab’ Baba. It’s just that Baba’s sword was faster than his.
“If you have anything to say, say it now.”
“Thunderbolt…….”
“What?”
“Explode the thunderbolts… like I did to Kaio.”
“You think I can’t?”
“Try me. You said you’d kill me, didn’t you?”
Blood was dribbling from Baba’s lips.
Jin tried to lift his right arm, which held the sword, up in the air. His body, still pierced by light, wasn’t quite responding as he wanted it to, but his senses were slowly returning to him.
Everyone watched as Jin struggled like a wounded animal to lift his arm and stab Baba again, but given enough time, he could summon enough strength to do so.
“Let me ask you one thing, Jin. Why go this far? Why?”
The conversations they had before mixing their swords.
The discrimination and anxiety Jin claimed to have felt, and the reasons he crossed the line.
To Baba, and to the Plutonian. All those things didn’t provide enough justification for the current situation.
“You can’t explode it, can you…?”
“I can. I can explode it anytime I want. But tell me one thing first. Why did you push the situation this far?”
Bradamante was slowly raised up to Baba’s neck.
It raised to the point where it was a span from the neck, then it fell down out of strength, and raised again, getting closer.
Sister Baba, just put an end to it!
Not a single Plutonian tribesman, who were so angry at Jin’s actions so far, was screaming like that.
They simply stared at the two with trembling red eyes.
“Please, please… tell me the whole story. That wasn’t all you said, right? Right?”
“Are you going to keep talking loudly…. loudly?”
Squeaky……!
Eventually, the tip of Bradamante reached Baba’s neck. Although it barely touched, the sharp blade easily penetrated Baba’s neck.
Although it only went in a little bit, with a little more force, Baba would have met her death.
Even so, Baba was still unable to explode the sword that pierced Jin’s chest.
“…… Jin.”
Through her cloudy and darkened pupils, she saw the blade on her neck, and then she saw Jin again.
After looking at him like that, Baba closed her eyes. Tears mixed with blood flowed between her closed eyelids.
“Okay, Brother Jin. I can’t understand it myself, but if this is what my brother wants, I’ll accept it.”
Resolution. She had one resolution before this fight.
That is, she would never let go of him, even if she was killed by him, if Jin did not stop until the very end. As a brethren, as her most precious family.
“But before you stab me in the neck… know this. None of us, including me, has ever given up on you while you were going astray. Even if we were angry and hated and cursed, even if we said we were no longer brethren, it was just words. Just words that we spat out in anger.”
Baba released her grip on her sword, light.
Then, after opening her eyes again, she looked at Jin’s wound and grabbed Bradamante’s sword with her right hand.
“If you really hated us, you would have break brother Kaio’s heart when you stabbed him, brother Jin. You still have the strength to stab me, but you stopped the sword. But even if you move your sword again, I won’t avoid it. If this is really what you wants, then please come back after I die. We are brethren after all….”
Even then, the Plutonian, who are watching, didn’t shout. There was no one to tell Baba to stop or ask why it was Baba who was dying instead of Jin. Even those who said that there is now Lingling anyway.
They were the ones who would not abandon Jin, even if he killed them all like this.
“Why am I doing this, you asked. Sister Baba.”
Sister. At that common title before her own name, Baba lowered her hand holding the blade and caressed Jin’s face. Bradamante fell to the floor.
“Yes, tell me, brother Jin.”
“Even though I’m doing this…… My brethren always forgive me. That’s why I did it.”
You should hate me at least once. We should have had a real fight once. Even if we hurts each other this much, I was sure that we wouldn’t let go of each other in the end.
Jin finally confessed why he played being a villain and collapsed into Baba’s arms.
And all the brethren run towards them.
