Chapter 17 - Prayer Of War

'Hearing a tragic story always left some bad taste in my mouth,' Ace thought his anger towards Muzan greatly increases, but the demon lord is the most coward of the demons. It's like he can hide in the fucking air.

"I will be lying if I said I understand your pain because I don't know how it feels to lose a love one," Ace honestly said, He still using his healing magic while patting Mukago's head.

Mukago doesn't say anything, tears just keep falling from her eyes.

"Do you want to get revenge?" Ace asked.

"I-i-i am too afraid to fight the demons," Mukago said.

"That is bad, being afraid because you don't have the ability is perfectly understandable, but now you have the strength to redeem yourself," Ace said.

"What do you mean?" Mukago stopped crying.

"Look around you, no human has that much strength to destroy trees and ground with bare hands, You have the power to make changes, to make your wrongs right," Ace explained.

'Well, Mitsuri and I have monstrous strength but she doesn't need to know that now,' Ace thought.

Ace stood up and stops using heal, "Mukago, When the world turns its back on you..."

"You turn your back on the world." Mukago finished Ace's quote.

"Wrong!" Ace grin, "You just need to face the world again, no matter how hard it is."

Ace left the area as Mukago resolve herself to do what she needs to do.

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"Oh, so you finish the interrogation?" Shinobu suddenly appeared beside Ace with arms behind her back.

"Eh? what do you mean?" Ace asked.

"I mean did you manage to get her story? interrogator-san?" Shinobu asked with a smirk on her face.

"You mean that I am the one tasked to interrogate her?" Ace asked to make sure.

"Bim bom bim bom! Yes! Correct! your price is...my friendship!" Shinobu cutely said.

"Eww, I don't want my servant to be my friend," Ace humorously said.

"You're a bad man aren't you Mas~ter~? You force that poor gorilla to make actions than being drowned by guilt and fear," Shinobu said.

"Hahaha, you catch me red-handed," Ace raised both hands like surrendering position.

"Well then I need to deliver my report to Oyakata-sama, see yah," Shinobu said then disappeared.

'Why strong people always acting like batman, always disappearing, can't they leave normally?" Ace thought.

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A man seating in a lotus position can be seen on the roof. The aura he is producing is tranquil and peaceful like nothing is wrong with the world.

[Thirst for blood, Desire for battle, deliver me strength, grant me power. for I am inevitable, Prayer of War.] Ace silently said as his yellow aura slowly turns to bloody red.

This is the most dangerous prayer out of three. This prayer will not turn off until Ace desire so.

His strength will double every minute until his body cannot handle the increase in strength and burn him. That is why Ace needs to watch the time.

This prayer also wouldn't allow him to use any other skills because the energies in his body are going berserk. If he tried to use healing or detection in this state he would literary explode.

The roof floor is cracking because of the intense aura Ace is secreting.

"My overall battle capabilities are doubled," Ace said then wait for one minute.

Another surge of red energies entered his body, The roof floor literary got destroy by the sudden power-up, "Shit this is bad, they will make me pay for it,"

Ace tried to jump but ended up in the sky, "Clouds? Shit..." Ace suddenly crashes because of the gravity pulling him down.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom! (I want you in my room)

Multiple trees got devastated while the ground formed a long crater. Ace carefully controls his strength so he can stand up without making himself launched upward.

"and that is only two minutes, This technique is really dangerous, I am four times stronger now, let wait another minute," Ace ponder.

After one minute a stronger surge of aura entered Ace's body but this time the trees around him started to burns.

The veins on Ace's body seem like it going to explode, "Argggh, This hurts too much, is this why dragon ball characters always shout when powering up."

"But I feel good, It hurts but I feel so powerful HAHAHAHA," Ace laugh like a battle maniac experiencing his battle after a long time.

'I need to calm down, all of this strength is going to my head," Ace thought he normalize his breathing then turned off the prayer.

"Shit..." Ace passes out because of the sheer pain cause by the prayer of war.

"He passed out while training! So manly! So lovely!" Mitsuri said while approaching the unconscious Ace.

Before Ace starts training his prayer of war, he requests Mitsuri to watch over him incase anything happened to him, Which the love Hashira gladly does so.

Mitsuri single-handedly carried ace to her shoulder and brought him to the butterfly mansion for healing.