Saving Jericho

Kuragami stops moving. He realises that it's not too late for Jericho to be saved.

"What's your name?"

"Machete."

"Ok. Machete. Stand up."

Kuragami brings Machete to his feet.

"You go protect the civilians from the Light Beams. I'll go save Jericho and bring him back to you."

"Are you sure you can do that? Turn him back to how he was before?"

"Your underestimating me. I befriended a Shadow Disciple. Jericho will be a piece of cake."

"Ok. I'm trusting you, Kuragami Nozomi."

Kuragami nods. He runs back to where he was before while Machete goes the opposite way.

Hasake and Kiyoshi have been holding back so they don't kill Jericho. But it has been difficult to suppress Kosokuoc.

They use multiple techniques against Kosokuoc. They were all effective but they barely did anything to the immortal beast.

Kuragami finally comes back to help them. He runs towards Hasake.

"Kuragami?! Why are you still here?! What about the citizens?!"

"I got Jericho's right hand man to take care of them."

"You got who?!"

"Hasake. Jericho didn't always used to be like this. He used to protect Wariko. Machete thinks I could help Jericho go back to his old days. He's only doing this because of the Peace Hunters."

"Of course! I should've known the Peace Hunters were behind his actions! Other than Kosokuoc, why else would they bring a Peace Hunter Captain here?"

"Exactly. So suppress Kosokuoc you guys said? I'm going to get Jericho out of there right now! Blessed Arm!"

Kuragami uses Blessed Arm. He charges straight into Kosokuoc.

Kosokuoc raises all his tentacles. He then strikes them all at Kuragami one by one. However, Kuragami is able to dodge them all.

He then jumps on one of the tentacles and starts running up.

"Kiyoshi! Go help him."

Kiyoshi nods his head and jumps up high. He sees that one of Kosokuoc's other tentacles are going to attack Kuragami. He pushes himself to the tentacle with his aura and punches it away.

The tentacle Kuragami is on rises swiftly. This causes Kuragami to be flung to the air.

"Not what I expected but this will work."

The aura at the fist of his Blessed Arm starts raising drastically. Kuragami is glowing in the air. He then starts falling fist first.

"Please work. Please!"

Then suddenly, the fist of the Blessed Arm starts to glisten.

"Yes! Okay! Let's do this!"

Kuragami is charging down to Kosokuoc at full speed.

"Heavenly Shooting Glacier!"

He hits Kosokuoc hard in the head which creates a painful buzz in its body. It also sends pain to Jericho trapped in the core.

Hasake realises the core has weakened.

"Interesting. So none of mine and Kiyoshi's attacks weakened the core, but Kuragami's did."

Both Kuragami and Kiyoshi land next to Hasake.

"Kuragami. We need you to hit Kosokuoc with your special ice more. It's weakening the core."

"Okay. But it's kind of hard to get my attacks to it."

"That's where me and Hasake will help. He will freeze its tentacles down while I immobilise any other movement. I'm thinking we get it to the edge of the country so we have the water advantage. So you need to hit him with a technique strong enough to fling him there while weakening the core."

"Can you do that?"

"Well, I have an idea. But I don't know if it will work. And it could hurt a lot."

"Don't worry about hurting Jericho. While in the core, he's immortal too."

"I'm not talking about Jericho. But let's do this! You guys go now!"

They both nod their head.

"Okay. Let my soul be one with yours!"

Kuragami activates his coating.

Hasake runs up under Kosokuoc. He brings his blade out and starts spinning it. Cold air starts to appear and surround Kosokuoc.

"Perfect."

The cold air suddenly freezes all its tentacles.

Kiyoshi then jumps up and punches Kosokuoc in the face. It stuns him for a moment.

Kuragami takes a deep breath in. He extends his right arm.

"Okay, it's time. Blessed Arm."

For the first time ever, Kuragami uses Blessed Arm while in Coating Form.

"Heavenly Ice, come on!"

The Blessed Arm starts glistening.

"Heavenly Shooting Glacier Amp!"

Kuragami flies to Kosokuoc at a blistering pace. His aura is stronger than it has ever been. He instantly punches Kosokuoc's centre with the technique.

Kosokuoc is pushed back a long distance by the procedure. On its flight to the country's outskirts, it demolishes several buildings. It's currently directly on top of the river.

Kuragami's coating fades away while his Blessed Arm evaporates. He drops to the floor, unable to move a muscle. His body is in a lot of pain. He used too much aura his body handle.

"You too, defeat it!"

Hasake and Kiyoshi run up to Kosokuoc. Kiyoshi jumps under it and uses his Inferno Aura to blast him up to the sky.

Hasake then appears in the sky above Kosokuoc, his Ice Coating engaged. He charges up an Ice Ball Technique in his palm. He throws it at Kosokuoc, causing massive damage and an enormous hole in the ocean. Then Kosokuoc falls into the hole. The Ice Ball breaks out on him, freezing all the water surrounding them.

Kosokuoc is now stuck and frozen in place. The three of them were able to supress Kosokuoc.