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Chapter 62 - Darkness & Light

Darkness stood there with his dark blade at the ready, his other hand was clenched, and his stare remained on Shogeki. Shogeki began with a small step forward, and Darkness prepared himself, knowing Shogeki could move insanely quickly and could come from any direction.

Darkness once again attempted to ping the darkness on Amora, but it didn't work. He looked around to gather his surroundings in case he needed to use anything before looking at Shogeki once more. Shogeki's eyes were glowing purple, and Darkness suddenly felt his heartrate increase, and immense fear grew within him. He couldn't move whatsoever.

"F-fuck." Darkness whimpered, trying to move his hand, but it was to no avail. Shogeki charged at Darkness and he couldn't even move to defend himself as Shogeki sliced his head clean off. Where his head should be, a bright light, and a head with the facial shape of a woman was.

Shogeki stood behind Darkness' beheaded body, wiping the darkness off of his blade. He turned to face the body with a small smile on his face, a smile that quickly faded when he noticed that the darkness from Darkness' body was slowly rising to where his head was, forming a new head over the bright head quickly.

Darkness' head quickly twisted around to face Shogeki, and his body leapt off the ground and jabbed at Shogeki with his dark blade.

Shogeki blocked the blade with his own sword, Darkness' dark sword's sharp point stabbed into the flat end of Shogeki's sword, but all it did was push Shogeki back a little.

Shogeki leapt over Darkness and stabbed into Darkness' back, pulling the blade back out before Darkness could retaliate.

"So, cutting off your head won't kill you, huh?" He said, flipping his blade in circles before catching it and swinging, slicing Darkness' dark blade arm clean off, sending it flying in the air, and showing that same bright light inside all of the darkness.

Shogeki quickly followed up by lighting his hands aflame and punching through Darkness's chest, the flames began to consume Darkness' flesh, and unable to heal now due to the flames, Darkness falls to the ground and lay there silently.

Shogeki stared down at him with a small smile, not an ounce of pity for Darkness whatsoever.

The flames consumed more and more of the dark substance on his body, revealing more and more of the woman inside of him. A woman made of pure light, who appeared to be unconscious. The remaining dark substance on her body burned away, except for a small little pile of darkness that lay atop the woman. The woman's eyes open and she gasps, and as she does, a burst of light explodes from within her and blinds Shogeki for a moment. 

He blocks his eyes with his free hand and looks away, and when he looks back, the woman is gone. The bright light and sound seemed to attract Amora, who stood nearby behind Shogeki, both her blades in her hands.

"What did you do to him?" She asked, not even in an anger or sad manner, just emotionlessly.

"A disgusting creature that was created by corrupting a beautiful one. And to think she allowed him to live off of her when he was just using her so he himself could live."

"He's done far better things than you." She said, wasting no time lunging at him with her blades in an offensive position.

He turned quickly and parrying her blade swing, smiling slightly as he did, but a followup kick from Amora took him by surprise, sending him into the air. Amora leapt off the ground, using air to boost her jump to reach the same level as him before she kicked him back to the ground, a cloud of dust exploded from where he landed.

She plunged her blade into the ground, but as the dust settled, he wasn't there, and the blade was instead jabbed into the dirt. He sped toward her, using the fog as a smoke screen, swinging his blade at her, but she used her other blade to parry this attack, shoving her body forward and sending him backward, where he landed on his feet, and slid, using his blade to slow his slide.

Amora threw a blue fireball at him as she ran from his other side. He dodged the fireball and clashed blades with her once more, the two swung at each other multiple times. Their blades clashed and sent sparks flying as they leapt around, continuing to clash.

Shogeki faked a jab and instead went for a slash, throwing a gust of wind as well. The slash landed just below Amora's neck due to her quick thinking, leaving a deep gash, while the gust of wind hit her in the stomach, sending her back.

She rushed at him once more, but another gust of wind sent her sliding back once again, however this didn't stop her as she rushed forward once more, her expression serious.

He attempted another gust of wind but she leapt over it, landing in front of him and clashing blades once more. Each swing was too fast to see, and all that could be heard was the clashing of metal against metal constantly.

He attempted a quick swipe at her, which slashed into her arm deeply, which caused her to stumble back a little. He took this opportunity to lunge at her, but she leapt off the ground into a backflip, landing a medium distance away. The two stared at each other. His eyes still glowing purple, and her's glowing red.

"You've yet to do much damage to me, Amora." Shogeki boasted, smiling like he did in the graveyard.

"Your confidence and cockiness will be your downfall." She said coldly, feeling her Elemental Crystal begin to pulsate and surge with energy. "I'll make you suffer the way you made me and the others, but believe me..." Her eyes flashed red and her wounds healed in seconds. "...You won't have the luxury of dying quickly."

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