The pieces of the statue's sword are being consumed by this monstrous energy emitting from Kairo's blade. However quickly with haste the statue leaps back, quickly landing on some more buildings as it slides back to come to a halt. It's a broken sword placed in front of it as it reconstructs itself with soul power. White specs flying off it as it fully rebuilds itself.
Kairo quickly forces himself to stand as the purple and black energy fades back into the sword. His expression was sharp and focused.
Holding his blade in front of him, Kairo darts off towards the statue, causing the statue's eyes to flash red once again and resume its combat training. The statue swung downwards without even moving forward. Trying to catch Kairo mid-dash, however, as the sword crashes against the ground, dust is kicked up once again.
Kairo comes shooting out of the cloud of dust and into the air. Appearing almost level with the statue. As it looks up at him, he thrusts his sword forward, shooting the monstrous purple and black energy out of it again. This time, as it takes a snap at the statue, it fizzles instantly, leaving Kairo open and confused.
The statue releases the greatsword, leaving it on the ground, and instantly drives a heavy and quick left punch into Kairo. Sending him flying like a bullet.
"Interesting!" Chirashi exclaims as the group continues watching the fight.
"But it's still not enough... Hm." Chirashi contemplates as she holds her fan up to her face.
Ingrid looks over at Chirashi as she's lost in thought before looking back out at the fight.
The statue picks his sword back up as he dashes forward simultaneously, the sword dragging through house after house as it creates a split in the ground. However, as it reaches Kairo's position, it raises its sword to the sky for another vertical slash.
However, firing out of the crash site, Kairo unleashes his sword's power as the sword comes down. The energy connecting with the statue's sword and instantly crumbling it into pieces once again.
With an opening, Kairo shoots the energy forward, launching him out of the crater he was lodged into. As he flew through the air, the energy retracted into his sword, sending another response to his body. Causing him to rest his blade on his left shoulder as he began spinning like a bullet clockwise.
The statue looked up as it couldn't regenerate its sword fast enough, immediately putting its fists up as a defense mechanism. However, as Kairo approached, he used his momentum and swung his blade. His sword unleashing the energy once again, this time giving his sword the push it needed to power through, allowing him to slash the arms and torso of the statue diagonally.
Passing through it all together, as he flew away from it. The statue stood for a moment still in one piece, then slowly slid in half as it crumbled to the ground.
Kairo's landing is disrupted by the force of the slash as he quickly skips against the ground, nearing Chirashi and the group.
"My, my, it seems you may be just what I've been looking for all these years. Kairo Neru." Chirashi smiles as she crouches beside Kairo's body.
Marin and Ingrid quickly joined in worry for their friend.
"How are you feeling, Kairo?" Marin asked fretfully as she fell to her knees and leaned her face close to his.
"Pain... lots of pain." Kairo murmured weakly as he lay still.
"Kairo, what exactly was that? That power, I mean..." Ingrid questioned as he continued staring at Kairo's sword.
"I—If I'm being honest, I don't really know. But—." Kairo chokes as his body struggles to keep itself together.
Chirashi was quick to begin healing him to investigate further.
"T-Thank you..." muttered Kairo as he slowly fell unconscious.
Chirashi just watched in disappointment as she continued healing him.
"I was hoping he'd be able to tell us more, but it seems I'll just have to investigate when he wakes up and continues training." Chirashi reported with a smirk on her face.
Marin and Ingrid look at each other in concern for Kairo's sake.
As they focused on Kairo, the statue that Kairo slashed into pieces began rebuilding itself, its eyes flashing red once more as its newly reformed body remained stationary.
Three Hours Later
Slowly awaking, Kairo begins to open his eyes, gently looking around at his surroundings. Quick to notice Marin resting beside him. But without a second thought, he abruptly sits up with an embarrassed look on his face. Shaking his head as if he had thought of something dirty.
Kairo quickly looks around, then back at Marin, then back in another direction.
"W-What the hell is this situation?!" Kairo screamed in his mind as she looked back at Marin once again.
"M-Marin, w-wake up." Kairo whispers to Marin so as not to spook her.
Marin continues peacefully sleeping, however. So the next attempt, Kairo places his hand on her shoulder and begins lightly rolling her.
"M-Marin, let's wake up now." Kairo whispers just a little louder than last time.
Marin slightly reacted with a displeased groan.
"Five more minutes, please..." Marin groans as she turns the other way and starts drifting back off to sleep.
"Seriously?! How do you even get up for school?" Kairo murmurs to himself as he feels hesitant to move. However, before he could even think of doing anything,.
The door to the room opens up, and Chirashi walks in holding a tray with a cup of water on it.
"Oh! You're awake!" Chirashi observing Kairo's current situation and smirking.
"I'll leave you two alone for a bit." Chirashi smirks as she quickly steps out of the room and closes the door behind her.
"I-It's not like that!" Kairo shouts, filling the entire house with his screaming.
"K-Kairo?!" Marin questions as she slowly starts to wake up and realize where she is.
"I-I, Y-You, you...!" Marin stutters before instantly shifting into embarrassed Marin.
As she instantly starts pounding on Kairo out of embarrassment. Her hits beat him into a pulp and almost set him back into an unconscious state.
"W-What did I even do!" Kairo remarks abruptly as his beaten body twitches.