[Arc II-Royal Hunt]

The ground around Riki was suddenly destroyed in an instant. His ability was definitely activated. Everything around him was destroyed and nothing was around...even the dust that was around him before was gone.

One things for sure is that the range for his ability was small and obvious since it was a sphere covering Riki and it was clear to see it. My main problem was that I couldn't get near him even if I have , I did not want to risk it. I could instantly die if my theory was wrong.

He started to grin and dashed towards me with high speed. The rods were fully summoned and I surrounded them around me but the moment one of the rods touched the sphere, the rod disappeared.

"What!?" I panicked and quickly leapt backwards to distance myself away from Riki.

For a moment, I could see death's door right in front of me. I didn't expect my would be futile to him. Riki stopped and looked at me with an irritated face and clenched his fist tightly.

"OI! OI! OI! WHAT'S WRONG, RUNT!?!" Riki shouted as he was closing the distance between us.

"Damn you! Do you really think I'm that stupid to go near you!?" I shouted as I quickly ran away from him.

While he was chasing me, I kept thinking of a way to beat Riki but his was making it impossible. I then thought of some thoery about his ability. Was it a time limit based ability or deactivates at will or maybe there was a condition that needed to be fulfilled to deactivate it.

I tried to ambush Riki with surprise rods but they were still useless as long as he has that sphere. As I kept distancing myself, I suddenly heard a soft distorted voice in my head.

"Plea- //// ke- //// This- //// a- //// r- e- //// ot- e- //// l- //// at- ////"

"What....?" I suddenly stopped as my head hurt so much to the point my vision had gotten blurry. I kept holding my head as it kept getting even more painful for me to handle.

I blinked multiple times as I was trying to get my vision clear. The pain was too immensely painful to the point my ears started ringing. At this point, I thought I would die from Riki since I was just standing around fidgeting but I didn't....

I turned around to find Riki and saw the blurry silhouette of Riki standing. It seemed that he did not want to attack since I'm in this state. He wanted a great and manly fight and not some cowardly fight to just desperately win.

I respected his actions and sweared that I would give him the greatest fight but for now it was impossible. Few minutes had passed and I was laying down on the ground, looking at the blurry sky to the clear sky. My vision had gotten better and the pain in my head was fading away.

"I...can see now....." I muttered as I slowly got back up. The moment I got up, I tripped onto a rock and scraped my palm.

"HA! YOU'RE QUITE DISAPPOINTING! I WAS PREPARED TO FIGHT YOU WHEN YOU GOT UP...BUT...YOU'RE EXTREMELY WEAK RIGHT NOW!" Riki shouted very loudly with an extremely irritated tone and face.

As I got back up again and brushed my pants and prepared to fight, Riki instantly closed the distance and kicked me in the face. At that moment, I thought I was seriously dead but I realized that I was still alive. When a thought came to my head in a flash, I quickly got up and looked at Riki...

His....

His was gone.

It got deactivated.

I was happy at first but I did became worried. Some questions started flowing into my head like 'Did he deactivate on purpose?' or 'Did he became tired?' and so on.

"Wait....Maybe it's different...." I muttered to myself and goes through the possibilities.

"HUH!?! THE HELL YOU STANDING MUTTERING AWAY AS SOME KIND OF MONK CHANTING FOR HIS YOUTH AS AN OLD MAN- KAK!"

"What? ....... Oh....So your voice do have a limit of the amount of shouting."

"SHUT UP! HERE I GO, RUNT! HOPE YOU'RE WELL DAMN READY!!!" Riki charged forward and he became faster. I just stood there waiting for him to come at me.

"HEH! SO YOU FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!" Riki shouted as he punched me in the guts and kicked me away.

"Yup....I finally figured it out." I said proudly as I unconsciously smug.

"TCH! SINCE YOU ALREADY KNOW THE GIST OF MY ABILITY! "

"Your is a defensive ability. It can't do offense at all unless someone goes to you and attack but if you approach to someone and attack, your sphere will disappear. Basically, your ability will be deactivated the moment you get close to someone!"

"HOW DAMN SHARP OF YOU, RUNT! SO!?! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO NOW!?!"

He was right. Even if I figured out the mystery of his ability, I still couldn't attack him. The only way I can attack was to let Riki get close to me and the moment it disappears, I'll quickly take my chance to attack...

"Easy really."

"HUH!?!"

"I just need to be extra cautious and have immense amount of patience and great precision!" I said as I was grinning with confidence.

"HA! BRING IT, YOU DAMN RUNT!!!" Riki shouted as he was getting even more excited and grinning with the eyes fill with bloodlust.