Doa opens the door to the skill center and closes it behind her. Minaro moves his hand to open the door but he stops.

Minaro looks to his left, he's face to face with Yoshanai. Yoshanai grabs Minaro's face.

"What!?" Minaro thinks.

Doa notices Minaro get grabbed but it's too late for her to do something.

Minaro is thrown multiple times, over the trees and back into the forest. Yoshanai jumps after him.

Doa runs outside and tries to see where he went, but there was no sign of anything.

...

Minaro crashes into the floor. He slowly stands up and looks around.

He is super alert now.

"What happened!?"

Minaro looks to his left.

Yoshainai walks out of the shadows. He has a little grin on his face.

Yoshainai: Well, I've finally found you. The one with black blood.

Minaro looks angry and worried.

Yoshanai looks at his sword.

Yoshanai: I'm gonna kill you now.

Minaro reacts to this quickly and creates a giant spiky wave of ice that heads towards Yoshainai.

Yoshanai: No questions asked? Alright!

Yoshanai grabs his sword and gets into a stance.

"Astral Attack 6, Light Slice" Yoshainai says to himself.

Yoshanai dissapears, a giant hole is made through the wave of Ice. Yoshainai reappears right in front of Minaro and slashes his chest. Black blood flies into the air. Minaro is stunned.

"What the hell?" Minaro thinks as blood comes out of his mouth.

Yoshainai grins at Minaro.

"Also where am I?" Minaro thinks to himself as he looks to his left.

He could see a giant blue sun, some of the area was covered in light and dark blue clouds and a blue universe could be seen through some of the open holes in the clouds. A giant dark blue ring surrounded the blue sun which shined majestically.

Minaro falls to the floor and warm water splashes up. Minaro glances around.

All the ground was water with light reflecting on it and dark blue mountains could be seen, the area seemed surreal.

Yoshanai stands over Minaro.

Yoshainai: Surprised? This is the astral realm. The last place you'll ever see.

The astral realm, a place where Yoshanai is able to do everything faster and his opponents get weaker.

Yoshanai stabs his sword through Minaro's chest and then pulls it out. Black blood flows off Minaro's body.

All the black blood mixed into the water seeps back into Minaro and he jumps away from Yoshanai.

Yoshanai looks at Minaro.

Yoshanai: Oh, for a second I thought the battle was already over, I totally forgot black blood people can revive.

Minaro shoots ice balls at Yoshanai.

"Astral Attack 1, Continuous Move" Yoshanai says to himself.

Several projections of Yoshainai appear around him as he weaves past all the ice balls. Each of them being a different color of the rainbow.

All of the projections appear around Minaro. Minaro summons several spikes of ice around him which stop the projections and makes them disappear.

Yoshanai appears right in front of Minaro and stabs him with his sword. Minaro coughs out more blood.

Minaro jumps away from Yoshanai. Yoshainai appears in the location Minaro was going to jump too before Minaro does.

"What!?" Minaro thinks, he's really worried.

Because of the motion and speed, Minaro can't stop himself.

"Fuck! I jumped over there so fast and now I can't stop myself, I'm gonna die again!"

Yoshanai holds his sword up and Minaro jumps right into it. Minaro coughs out blood.

Minaro's body hangs lifelessly on Yoshainai's sword. Yoshanai points his sword down and Minaro's body slides off his sword and hits the water.

The black blood seeps into Minaro's stomach and humps away from Yoshanai. Yoshanai appears right in front of Minaro.

"How does he know where I'm going to go?" Minaro thinks.

Yoshanai tries to slash Minaro midair.

Minaro blocks it with his arm. The sword leaves a deep cut on Minaro's arm, then a projection quicky punches Minaro.

He slams into the water. Yoshanai lands next to him.

Yoshanai: You can't keep reviving forever. The chances keep on getting lower and lower.

"He's right, I have to do something or I'll actually die."

"...What do I do?" Minaro thinks.

Minaro creates as many clones as he can which is around 50. The clones surround Yoshanai and Minaro.

Yoshanai looks around. He looks at Minaro and smiles.

Yoshanai: This battle is too easy!

"Astral attack 2, Colorful Parade"

Yoshanai stands over Minaro, hundreds of different colored projections appear out of Yoshainai and all they attack the Minaro clones making them disappear.

All the projections disappear after all the Minaro clones do.

Yoshanai: What a waste of energy.

Yoshanai attempts to impale Minaro, Minaro grabs the sword with both of his hands and holds it to stop it from getting closer to his chest.

Minaro's grip gets looser. He looks worried.

"I can't hold onto it any longer, I've used up all my energy.

The sword hits Minaro's chest. It starts to sink deeper and deeper into his skin.

Minaro starts to cry.

"Fuck! I'm gonna die, I'm actually gonna die, there's no way I can get revived, I'm too tired, I've done everything I can!"

"I want to keep on living! I want to keep on hanging out with Rinka, I want to keep on going to places with him, why did it turn out like this!?"

Minaro then realized something.

"I'm too weak."

Yoshanai: Can you just hurry up and let go of the sword already, It sucks watching you cry.

"I feel bad for you, being born with black blood is a curse, you're always bound to die."

Those were the last words Minaro heard before he died.

Yoshanai pulls his sword out of Minaro's chest.

The astral realm around Yoshanai disappears. He picks up Minaro's body and carries it on his back.

…

Minaro is floating in space, unconscious. Galaxies and stars are around him.

Minaro hears his own voice.

"You are the god of the universe Minaro, you can't let your story end here."

Minaro eyes slowly open, several stars form into a bright glowing hand that resembles his. It extends towards him.

Minaro extends his own hand and touches the stars, the hand holds his tightly and pulls him up.

Minaro feels something awaken within him.

...

Yoshanai gets kicked into the floor. Minaro jumps off his back.

Yoshanai looks surprised, he looks at Minaro.

Minaro was standing emotionless, his eyes are purple and his pupils were bright stars.

Yoshanai stands up and points his sword at Minaro.

"How? How is he alive!? And now his presence is different, it's bigger than mine." Yoshanai thinks to himself.

The astral realm slowly appears around Minaro and Yoshanai.

Yoshanai: I'll just kill you again and again no matter how many times you come back!

Minaro is silent.

Yoshanai can hear cracking.

Unnatural white cracks start to form beside Minaro.

Minaro looks menacing.

2 rifts appear beside Minaro, both of them leading to space. Two solar flares come out of the rifts and head towards Yoshanai.

Yoshanai jumps away from the flares, Minaro appears right in front of Yoshanai.

"What!? I couldn't predict where he was going!" Yoshanai thinks.

He is stunned.

Minaro punches Yoshanai in the stomach and launches him into the floor.

"This is an odd feeling, it's almost like I'm not in my own body, everything I do is so fast. I do all my attacks automatically like I've done this before." Minaro thinks.

While Minaro is still in the air, he sticks his hand into one of his rifts and pulls out a piece of a dying star.

"I can see everything that is possible with this power."

Minaro slams the star into Yoshanai, and a small supernova explosion happens. It burns Yoshanai a little and launches him into the air.

Minaro appears right in front of Yoshanai. He dodges a punch from Minaro and safely lands.

Several colorful projections appear out of Yoshanai that run towards Minaro. Several rocks appear out of Minaro's rifts that fly towards the projections and destroy them.

"I'll guess I'll have to use a different method to beat him." Yoshanai thinks.

Yoshanai ties his sword to his back with his bandages and runs towards Minaro.

Minaro runs towards Yoshanai.

Minaro tries to punch Yoshanai. Yoshanai ducks under the punch and grabs Minaro's leg, then he throws him.

Minaro slams into an astral realm mountain and little rocks fly into the air.

Yoshanai appears right in front of Minaro and kicks him off the mountain. Yoshanai jumps off after him.

"Every option, everything I can and can't bring through these rifts, I can see it all."

Minaro's rifts follow him and tons of rocks shoot out of them.

Yoshanai dodges the rocks midair and attempts to punch Minaro. A giant meteor comes out of Minaro's rift and hits Yoshanai.

It takes Yoshanai higher and higher. Minaro lands on the meteor and kicks Yoshanai off it and onto the floor.

Minaro hops off the asteroid and towards Yoshanai.

Yoshanai claps his hands several times. several sound waves appear and head towards Minaro.

Fire blasts shoot out of Minaro's rifts as he looks down and creates a path of ice under him to slide away from the sound waves.

Yoshanai moves away from the fire blasts.

Two gamma rays shoot out of Minaro's rifts.

Minaro jumps from his ice path and appears right in front of Yoshanai. He grabs Yoshanai's arm and throws him at the gamma rays.

A pink projection appears from Yoshanai and throws him down to avoid the lasers.

Minaro appears in front of Yoshanai and tries to kick him, Yoshanai blocks it.

Minaro repeatedly attempts to punch Yoshanai, but Yoshanai is able to block the punches.

Minaro and Yoshanai throw and punch each other around the astral realm all while more and more gamma rays come out of Minaro's rifts.

"Whoever you are, I'll kill you! I'll fucking kill you!" Minaro thinks.

Minaro charges his right fist up and gets ready to swing.

50 Minaro clones appear around Minaro, each with their own two rifts beside them. Several gamma rays shoot out of the rifts.

Minaro punches Yoshanai as hard as he can in the stomach and launches him into the air.

The gamma rays head towards Yoshanai. Yoshanai quickly pulls his sword and reflects all of them.

he lands safely and then gets caughts off guard as Minaro appears right in front of him.

"With the last bit of my energy I'll bring out a magnetar." Minaro thinks.

Minaro uses his right hand to grab a blue glowing orb from his rift and holds onto it tightly. He slams his fist and the orb into Yoshanai's stomach.

The area shines blue. Yoshani coughs out blood. He looks down at where Minaro punched him.

The spot that Minaro punched was dematerializing, the molecular structure was starting to get messed up. Yoshanai is launched away and part of his stomach falls off.

Yoshanai lands safely and stumbles around while holding his stomach.

Minaro walks towards Yoshanai, Minaro sticks his hand into his rift and pulls out a medium sized dying star.

"There's so much killing intent, it's terrifying, holy shit." Yoshanai thinks.

The astral realm around them starts to disappear revealing the forest.

Yoshanai's eyes widen, he trembles.

"Why? There's never been a person with black blood that's been this strong."

"So just who is this guy?"

Yoshanai starts to run away. Minaro holds the star and squints his eyes.

"I just have to get away! I need to live, I want to live!"

The star is thrown. Yoshanai feels it hit his back, but nothing happens. Yoshanai keeps running. The star hits the floor.

A giant explosion occurs, an explosion made of several different colors. That destroys a lot of the trees and ground. Yoshainai yells as the explosion hits him.

...

Doa notices the explosion from the entrance of the skill center and starts to run towards it.

The colors disappear, Yoshanai is nowhere to be seen, blood is on the floor where Yoshanai was.

Minaro's rifts disappear, his eyes return to normal. He falls and hits the floor due to exhaustion, he closes his eyes and lays still.

…

Rinka and Sumairu are stunned by the explosion they just witnessed.

Sumairu: Oh wow! You wanna go check it out?

Rinka: Sure. Lets go.

Rinka and Sumairu start running.

TO BE CONTINUED..