Chapter 29: Soul Pocus
Kozuki Toya signaled Noctyre to retreat.
Noctyre obeyed instantly, vanishing from the clash.
Yura remained.
His eyes were deep and dangerous, burning with fury as he continued circling. Vital Force surged at its peak, flooding every muscle, every nerve.
He slammed a fist into Hiroshima's face.
THUD!
Hiroshima crashed into the ground.
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!
Yura rained down punches relentlessly, each strike heavier than the last, the ground cracking beneath them.
Hiroshima burst into laughter—wild, unhinged—and released a shockwave that blasted Yura away.
Yura skidded back, feet digging into the ground, then immediately began circling again.
Is he… getting stronger? Hiroshima thought, his grin tightening.
For the first time, Hiroshima lunged forward aggressively.
"Kael is a shithead!" he screamed.
Yura's voice dropped to a whisper, calm and deadly.
"I will kill you."
In a lightning-fast reflex, Yura dodged the punch by a hair's breadth and countered—his fist crashing into Hiroshima's face.
Blood sprayed.
Hiroshima staggered back, nose bleeding.
Yura leapt into the sky, Vital Force erupting beneath his feet, then landed hard—and kept moving. Circling. Never stopping.
Hiroshima stepped back.
"…I have no choice," he murmured.
He formed a hand sign.
"Supreme Expansion of Space: Soul Pocus."
The world twisted.
A domain bloomed outward—purple, warped, suffocating. The air grew heavy, pressing against the chest, clawing at the mind. Fear whispered from every direction.
Inside this space, hesitation was death.
Those who felt fear—those who doubted—had their souls ripped away.
{Kozuki Toya vs June Kennedy}
June lunged forward, her hands burning with unstable, borrowed Vital Force.
"Borrowed Knuckle!"
BOOM!
Her punch collided with Toya's blade, shattering it into multiple pieces that scattered across the ground.
Toya sighed calmly.
"…Now my sword is gone."
A sickening crack echoed.
June screamed as her arm shattered—bones breaking, flesh tearing. Pain flooded her senses.
I got careless… she thought, collapsing.
I shouldn't have borrowed this much Vital Force.
And so, the tides shifted.
With Neraxis unleashing destruction somewhere beyond the battlefield, and Soul Pocus swallowing Yura whole—
no one knew what would happen next.