Dabura stepped down from his throne. With heavy pride, he descended the steps and stood directly in front of Yagami.
Yagami sneered and said with a contemptuous look:
"You're so proud of your throne… that you stepped down from it with that much arrogance?"
Then his expression turned serious. His voice was calm, but cold and decisive:
"Thrones remain… but those who sit on them? Never."
Dabura burst into laughter and replied:
"I've been sitting on that throne for over a hundred years… and no one has ever been able to drag me down from it!"
Yagami gave a sinister smile, raised his sword, and said:
"Well then… be happy. Because today is the day you lose that throne."
Dabura's eyes flashed with rage.
He growled, drew his sword from its sheath, and charged straight at Yagami!
Yagami was ready. He raised his sword and blocked.
BOOOOM!
A massive wave erupted from the collision of their auras.
Sword, fist, kick, magic…
Blow after blow… the labyrinth was collapsing…
But Yagami and Dabura were fighting as if in another world—
a world created only for two kings.
Dabura shouted with a crazed laugh:
"It's been so long since I felt this excited… I'm happier than ever that my opponent is you, Yagami!"
Yagami smirked and said in a mysterious voice:
"Alright, if you're that eager… then take this!"
"Blade of Death!"
A deadly blade was released from Yagami's sword…
but this time, it was stronger and different than ever before.
Dabura's eyes widened in shock. For the first time, fear appeared in his gaze…
but he immediately regained control.
He pulled his sword back, tightened his muscles, and at the exact moment the blade reached him, struck it with all his strength.
BOOOOM!
But the blade did not stop.
With relentless power, it pushed Dabura backward.
With clenched teeth and a twisted expression, he could only resist…
there was no other way.
Suddenly, Dabura shouted:
"Devouring Blade!"
And in that instant, Yagami's blade was swallowed by Dabura's strange sword!
Yagami looked at his sword in surprise, then said mockingly:
"So you draw your power from that sword… how shameful."
Dabura replied with a proud laugh:
"That's what you think?… Then let's fight without swords!"
The swords fell to the ground…
Fists were raised.
This time, would fists decide the victor of this battle?
With every punch Yagami and Dabura exchanged, the walls of the labyrinth collapsed one by one, and the stone floors crumbled.
At that moment, Satan emerged from the labyrinth.
When his eyes fell on the bodies of Shinkuro, Saya, and Kaoru, his eyes ignited with fury.
He cast a hateful glance at Aileen and raised his fist…
but then remembered that Yagami had ordered that she not be harmed.
He swallowed his scream and forcibly restrained his rage.
Inside the main chamber:
The battle continued…
Yagami and Dabura punched each other like lightning.
Yagami drove his fist with all his strength into Dabura's face!
The shockwave hurled Dabura backward, slamming him violently into his throne.
The throne shattered.
Yagami laughed, lifted his sword, and said mockingly:
"So much for your throne! You don't have a throne left to rule from."
Suddenly, the stones of the labyrinth walls began to glow…
A crimson, ominous color filled the entire space.
Yagami merely watched calmly…
Dabura emerged from within the stones.
With a thunderous roar, he raised his hand, and all the magical auras embedded in the walls were drawn into his body.
Dabura let out a deafening roar…
Yagami grew serious.
He tightened his grip on his sword.
Before him, Dabura advanced step by step like a monster, wrapped in a bright, green aura overflowing with power.
He shouted loudly:
"Kusanji! Come here!"
Dabura's sword, as if alive, lifted itself from the ground and flew into his hand.
Dabura spun the sword and roared:
"Blade of the Eight Kings!"
A radiant, deadly green blade shot toward Yagami with devastating force.
Wherever it passed, destruction and ruin followed.
Yagami stepped one foot forward, the other back.
He gripped his sword with both hands and shouted with overwhelming force:
"Blaaade of Deaaath!"
The two blades collided…
A colossal explosion shook the space.
But Yagami's blade was stronger.
It pierced through Dabura's blade and rushed straight toward him.
Dabura staggered back with wide eyes full of fear and whispered:
"Damn you… Lucifer…"
And…
It was over.
Dabura, engulfed in the brilliant light of Yagami's blade,
was destroyed, his fading groan slowly disappearing.
Yagami stepped forward.
He looked at Dabura's sword, Kusanji… picked it up from the ground, and left the labyrinth with a serious gaze.
A screen appeared in the sky:
— Second Demon King, Dabura, has been defeated!
— Defeated by: Yagami
— Reward: Magic Crystal
— New item: Sword of the Second King — "Kusanji"
Moments later, Yagami and everyone who had been summoned into that labyrinth suddenly returned to the real world.
Yagami took out the magic crystal…
With a swift motion, he crushed it in his hand.
A brilliant green light, like a calm and sacred wave, rose from the crystal and settled over the lifeless bodies of his comrades…
And suddenly…
All of them returned to life, gasping for breath, their eyes trembling.
(To be continued…)