Last chapter, with some encouragement and helpful hints from his robotic pal, through trial and error Seric managed to practice using the strange but seemingly overpowered knife form of his Blessing, allowing him to cut through anything as of now. After becoming too tired from the fighting, King Metallica intervenes as Karia arrives shortly after, challenging and charging at Virile without hesitation.

Seric's P.O.V.

"Impudent bitch, are you nothing more than a stupid animal?!" Virile roars with anger as Karia continues to bolt at him at top speeds, as he bends his knees and gets his arms ready in a sturdy fighting position.

As Karia is about to reach him she yells, "Spirit of Kodan-" but is interrupted as Virile himself charges towards her as well at a quick pace, using his momentum to throw his arm with an open palm out towards her, in which Karia responds and throws her arm up in a uppercut and shouts, "K.O.!"

Virile's hand then reaches her and chokes her neck, until a giant red ghost hand starts zooming upwards from underneath the sand between the two, which seems to surprise Virile as he pulls his arm off of Karia in order to avoid the hit, while the feisty girl herself uses her free arm to grab onto the soaring fist in order to start riding it as it flies up into the air.

Just as the fist dissipates Karia says in a quieter tone this time, "Spirit of Kodan: Battering Ram." as she swings her arm backwards along the side of her midair. However with his admittedly massive height Virile runs directly under a soon to be falling Karia, jumping up with his muscular legs and throwing his massive arm up towards her which shockingly allows him to grab Karia's foot.

"Karia!" I yell out in fear as Virile starts to fall and swing Karia down towards the ground, but before he can continue the "Battering Ram" Karia summoned beforehand swings into his arched back, causing him to lose his focus as even his massive falling body is forcibly pushed through the air. At the same time both of his arms including the one holding Karia swing behind him due to the momentum, which causes him to lose his grip on her foot and to send her upside down body flying into the yellow wall of his mansion behind him with a decent amount of force.

After flying through the air a bit, the fist disappears and Virile manages to retain his composure as he finally reaches the sand, and instead of falling over due to the heavy blow he runs along the ground at the same speed he was flying, until he finally slows down and is able to stop.

"...Hey King Metallica, that attack barely even touched him. If this gets even a bit worse for Karia, can you please go and help her?" I ask him nervously as I look up at King Metallica solely for effect, as I slowly stand up which my entire body curses me for doing so, and him continuing to watch and stand a safe distance away from the fight.

"Looks like you need to learn a whole lot more about the Five Kings pal, do you really have such a pathetic amount of faith in our prideful pal #2?!" King Metallica scolds me, and looking back towards the fight I can now see that Virile is still standing tall and staring down the path next to us, but is actually holding his back as he does so.

"I guess it did something but still. Just remember that that attack almost knocked out Adesia back at the fighting tournament, so-" I try to say until I'm interrupted by the stinging pain of King Metallica slapping his palm onto my lips.

"Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" I hear Karia yell from the distance behind Virile, causing him to spin himself around, bend his knees, and to grab the flying fist with both of his arms as he slides backwards through the rough sand.

"I guess she didn't hit the wall too hard, still though damn I'm surprised she could recover so fast..." I think to myself as I stare at her, seeing that she's panting and has already torn up her blue long sleeved shirt.

"Does your pride know no bounds? If you got lucky you could have pulled off an ambush while I was recovering, but instead you tried to look like some sort of show off by shouting like an idiot." Virile says calmly as he lowers his hands, standing in the two paths of sand he made with his skidding feet.

"I could give two shits about "saving this town", all I'm trying to do is to shove your macho bravado down your throat by kicking your ass fair and square!" Karia roars back in response as she stays still to recover herself.

"Tch! I'll admit that I failed to fully study your K.O attack, as well as having no clue about that battering ram. But, now I know how to counter those. ...After you're tamed, if you beg I may just let you become one of my-"

"Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" Karia shouts as she starts to run towards Virile once again as she punches through the air. But of course, he simply bends down and catches the hit once again, causing him to slide back as Karia continues to run towards him.

"I shouldn't be talking, but I must. You women are all the same. Femininity is naturally in your nature, and you were nurtured by society to be one way your entire life, and yet you force yourself to be something else!" Virile roars as he stops sliding and Karia reaches him.

"Spirit of Kodan: K-!" She yells as she starts to throw her arm up into the air, in which Virile quickly steps back, and without hesitation after the fakeout Karia yells, "Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" before he has time to think, causing him to bend down and stretch his arms out on instinct. However, Karia instead punches her arm up diagonally, causing the giant red fist to appear from thin air and launch towards his lowered head.

With the furrow of his brow he quickly springs back up to his full height, sloppily raising his arms to the height of his chest as he does so, which the fist does slam into from below however as he was not prepared, with a slight cracking sound Virile's hands seem to be injured and are pushed into his chest. This almost causes him to tip over, however just as he's about to do so with a few grunts the fist disappears.

Karia stands a distance away from him as she catches her breath and tries to stay cool, but Virile has no intention of letting her do so as he immediately starts to charge towards her at a decent pace through the sand. However for some reason Karia isn't running away even though she has the time to.

"What the hell is she doing?! Is she too tired to run or something? I guess that's the only reasonable theory, so I guess she's planning on doing some sort of attack while staying still..." I think to myself with some fear, but still being able to be entertained as I'm not the one fighting that monster.

As Virile is now coming closer to her and starts to pull his arm back, Karia shouts, "Spirit of Bersia: Hide of Aegis!" as she quickly pulls out a purple translucent hide from thin air with both arms, then proceeding to quickly pull it to the side so that it just covers her front.

"Smart!" I quickly think to myself- however I change my mind as Virile does not stop moving whatsoever, as he forgets about his right arm he just pulled back and raises his left arm around and behind his neck. He then leans forward and twists his entire body to the left as he reaches her, and with his massive height this allows him to reach over Karia's hide, and to swat his long muscular left arm towards her exposed side- just like Karia's own battering ram.

I'm shocked and so is she, but luckily Karia reacts fast enough to immediately drop her hide, and at the same time she swiftly turns herself to the side and jumps away in a spring like motion from the attack. However Virile's fist slams into her back before she can get far enough, causing her to be sent flying and to skid across the sand.

"Hmph, to think that a stupid woman would be able to act fast enough to avoid most of the impact from that attack..." Virile says to himself as he shakes his hands and seems to be catching his breath- which I'm guessing is due to Karia's attack from beforehand. But he still barely shows any noteable signs of weakness after all of that...

"King Metallica come on, you've gotta help her now!" I try to beg him as I tug on his robe, but he simply continues to stare at Karia- who's starting to raise her head from the ground.

"...F.A.I.T.H. boy F.A.I.T.H. do I have to beat it into you?! Now shush!" He scolds me as he doesn't even bother to stare down at me this time.

I flinch a bit as he raises his voice, but then in annoyance I think to myself, "...Wait. I know what to do! Once I rest up a bit more I should be able to use my knife again, and then I can throw it at Virile to draw his attention away from Karia! Then King Metallica will be forced to help me when he comes towards... us..." I stop as I realize what's wrong with the last part of my plan- King Metallica'll throw me right at Virile and call it "training".

I quickly shake my head, forcing myself to have faith in Karia. Speaking of which, she is now trying to stand up, with her hair looking like a mess and with a few bleeding scrapes on her face. Probably with a pretty painful back injury too I'm guessing.

"As I was saying before, can you not see what I mean? You're forcing yourself to be something you're not- nothing but lies. Whether it be on the streets or in the sheets, whenever men are involved no matter how tough you may act you women always end up bowing down to the patriarchy! A woman can act as fierce as she may- but whenever you ask them to truly take up the role of a man they simply ridicule you!" Virile spits out his rant, as Karia finally fully stands up.

"..." I the start to think about his point.

"*hah hah* So what? Girls are naturally built a hell of a lot weaker than guys, so the weaker girls who put on a tough act regardless have probably got bigger balls than you. Besides that's not the point, I'm nothing like those girls, I'm tough through and through! So I'll show you just how strong a chick can be!" Karia responds with a grin on her face, as she raises her arm and gives Virile the middle finger.

"Badass but- are you asking to die here Karia?!" I think to myself as I mentally facepalm and squint my eyes.

"You're... you're just like her, always blinded by your own stupid pride! I'll rip those layers of lies right off of you DAMN IT!" Virile shouts with might as his normal stern face turns into gritting teeth and furrowed brows, in which he immediately starts to charge at Karia once more.

"Shit this is bad! Virile already knows how to counter her Spirit of Kodan and her Hide of Aegis! Wait! Karia said that she had three spirits with her Blessing, I bet she'll use that to stop him! Maybe?" I think to myself with hope- but then uneasily as I continue to look at Karia and see that she's still inactive and simply cracking her neck and catching her breath. All the while Virile is just getting closer to her.

"Spirit of..." Karia starts to say as another fakeout I presume, but Virile doesn't seem to care and continues his charge like a madman through the sand.

Karia then looks surprised for a second until she finally says, "Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" as she punches through the air towards Virile, a second later causing her giant red ghost fist to start flying at him. This immediately causes Virile to pull his fist back as he continues to run, and using his momentum he finally stops running and launches his arm outwards towards Karia's attack.

CLASH!

With a loud battle cry and a clashing sound Virile slams his fist into Karia's Spirit of Kodan with all of his might, and not but a second later, Karia's red translucent ghost fist somehow... cracks and shatters into millions of pieces?!

"WHAT?!" Is all I say to myself as my mouth is wide open, in which Karia's face is even more shocked then my own with her eyebrows raised and her eyes widening to that of a saucer, as well as her gritting her teeth probably thinking "Oh fuck.".

"Oh fuck!" Karia shouts as she pulls her arm back once again and punching it through the air as she yells, "Spirit of Kodan: Strike!".

...

But nothing happens.

"What kind of Blessing do you have you bastard?!" Karia shouts out to him as she starts to back up at a quick place. Virile on the other hand seems to regain his composure as he takes a deep breath.

"Blessing? You truly think I need a handicap to fight a wench like you? I suppose it may be cocky of me to explain this but- I'll take a chance to humiliate you all the more. Your striking fist obviously seems to be made of the same material as that purple hide of yours- which I already know can be destroyed. So really, with my knowledge of physics I only had to make a rough estimate of how much force my rock launcher exerted on your hide beforehand in our first fight, and replicate that and modify it a bit with my own arm using my momentum. Which therefore, allowed me to destroy it." Virile says with his stern face as he confidently walks towards Karia to not let her escape as she wishes to do so.

"Tch, but there's something important you forgot about my Blessing you dumbass!" Karia shouts out to him as she turns herself sideways and starts to run towards us at a extremely fast pace.

"Phew, good thing she was able to forget about her pride and retreat there." I think to myself with relief, but with fear as well as I realize that King Metallica may make me fight that monster of a man.

"Guys! Don't even think about fighting him or anything, I'll be back to kick his ass in two minutes tops!" Karia shouts to us much louder than she should have as she is just about to pass by us.

I then try to say, "What?! Easier said than don-"

"I guess I was right. You really are just like any other woman, all bark and not a speck of bite. Just how many handicaps do you need to stand a chance against a man?" Virile mocks her in a loud but composed tone. Immediately after Karia slows down until she stops running entirely.

"Karia come on just ignore him, Virile's just trying to bait you into fighting him when you're weak!" I try to convince her as she clenches her fists.

"...Shut the hell up kid. I don't care if it's bait or not, no one fucking gets away with saying bullshit like that to me!" Karia says in a grim tone as she glares at me for just a moment, until she spins herself around, causing her purple hair to fly in the wind as she charges towards Virile once more.

"Karia don't be stupid, he'll kill you damn it!" I yell to her shakily, but she doesn't care at all and continues her suicidal charge as she starts to stumble and almost fall over as she reaches the giant brown vested man with a victorious look on his face.

Without a word Virile steps forward and slams his arm down towards Karia, in which she swiftly jumps backwards, immediately jumping forwards again as she nimbly turns herself to the right, allowing her to reach Virile's bare chest. She immediately presses her palm onto him and says "Spirit o-" but without hesitation Virile swings his left arm towards her, causing Karia to duck and roll between his legs to just dodge it.

She then plants her palm on his bare brown vested back, and places her other palm on top of it for some reason and says quietly and quickly, "Spirit of Bersia: Electron Passover." Virile starts to shake and loudly groans in pain right after the fact, but after a few seconds he regains his composure and swings his entire body around, using his left arm like a baseball bat, causing Karia to let go of him and quickly squat down below the attack.

Virile is about to finish her off with a punch, but instead takes a few steps back and holds his back in pain.

I'm amazed by the damage she did to him, as after he removes his hand once more I can see the small uneven circle of disgusting black roasted skin on Virile's back, with the damage decreasing from the center and outwards.

"Whoa! That worked way faster and was way stronger than her normal electric shock, I'm guessing it was because of how Karia put her other hand on top of the one shocking him." I think to myself.

However, Karia is also now on her knees as she holds her hands in pain, in which her own hands have severe burns on them as well- but not black at least, just red and a bit of white. Still nasty though.

"Karia... damn that must hurt like hell..." I think to myself with a hole in my chest as I can see her wiping her eyes with the bottom of her palms from afar. I can guess why, although I doubt she would admit it.

"Hmph! Here I was about to give you a bit of praise, and then your femininity rises up of course! Once I reach you, this fight is over, and you'll see how weak you truly are!" Virile says as he removes his arm from his back one last time, in which he starts to somehow stomp towards her, not seeming to mind the pain.

"Sh... shut up already. Just how obsessed are you with hating girls, you're worse than a damn radio. Some girl... dump your pathetic ass or some shit?" Karia says weakly- and without a grin this time.

"..." Virile doesn't respond, but instead his eyes soften, but just for a moment. His face then simply becomes even more enraged.

"King Metallica come on, now's the time to get in there!" I beg him, but he's still unmoving as he continues to watch the fight with his arms crossed.

"I can see what ya mean pal- but wait. The only thing that got fried up were her hands, meaning that she can still use her incredi-pal speed to outmaneuver him! Besides I'm sure you out of anyone know how P.I.S.S.E.D. she would be if we shattered her pride and interfered with H.E.R. battle!" King Metallica defends his actions, but I still don't agree with him whatsoever.

Karia finally starts to get up, holding her damaged hand in pain and visibly trying to shake it off- but failing to do so.

Virile finally reaches her, in which he stares down at her in a degrading fashion- only moving his pupils downwards as his head stays tall. Karia doesn't falter and stares up at him, panting heavily with teary eyes. Without a word he then surprisingly kicks his leg at her, which catches her off guard as it slams into her- not sending her flying but instead causing her to gag and hunch over in pain.

The monster then grabs her right arm, grunting and throwing his gripping hand up along with her, until he starts to spin himself around with her at a dangerously fast pace. He's using Metallica's move!

"My Best Friend!" I call out without a second thought as I immediately throw my open palm out, but before it even lands in my hand King Metallica is already charging towards Virile to save Karia at a quick pace.

"You want to save her? How noble, then here you go!" Virile shouts as he finally releases her, launching her towards King Metallica using the centrifugal force he created with the spin.

I'm relieved at this as he's about to catch her, but panic and yell "Metallica move!" When I realize that even if she does fly into his arms- it'll still be the same as slamming into two metal poles.

A/N: The real fight with the monster Virile begins, with his genius and brawn being seemingly unbeatable! Is Karia really out of the fight?

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