Kuro vs Okayu

"Umm… can you not bite my finger? It hurts!"

"Even if it didn't, a continuous action of biting finger can permanently change my finger bone structure…" (based on real fact)

Despite his complaint, he didn't forget to pat the cute doggo.

At his gentle patting, the dog couldn't help but shake her tail…

until she noticed. "Halt!" She spouted a single sound before forcefully stopping her tail.

Korone were truly cute, even though she somewhat bears him a hostile mindset. "Koro-san… I hope we can become a friend someday."

While saying this word, Kuro began to prepare for his second plan to capture the cat.

The cat long since disappeared from her original position, she went to the open area a she captured Kuro's attention.

'Going out to the open area to make full use of that copying eyes of her, in sacrifices for her flexibility to jump around the trees.'

"Kuro~… let's duel." She somehow calmly said at the voice barely reachable to Kuro.

While Kuro went forward to agree with her proposal, Korone jumped on the top of tree's branch Ayame was watching, and then watched the scene unfolds.

At the same time, Kuro discarded the magic circle: [Shadow Fog] he prepared in struggle to disrupt her usage of [Copycat]. Although he didn't know the usage conditions of it, it didn't mean he had no way to try to disable it.

He planned to use the [Shadow Fog] to blind Okayu's sight, in hope of disabling her uses of [Copycat], even if this may be a waste of mana because she can see the Ki, more accurately than Korone.

Now that she asked for duel, Kuro decided to do a fair fight.

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There were no particular greetings between the two. When they faced each other, both of them has already started moving.

This is what happens, when both the person fighting has a low word counts.

They went straightly to the fight. However, Okayu suddenly disappeared from his sight, after blurring out, for an instances right there, Okayu was removed from Kuro's brain conscious.

Switching right his mind back to the battle, Kuro twisted his body right there, and spun at the place, slightly lifting his feet from the land, while also dodging Okayu's uppercut with hair width, Kuro sent out his fist.

Frustratingly, she easily dodged it by moving to the left, and her eyes shifted.

The direction of where eye was pointed wasn't toward Kuro but… 'Ayame!? Crap!'

'Although her moves is mainly about swords, Ayame can use a move that don't requires swords. Double-jumping, explosives acceleration to assists her sword drawing, ways to use her legs… or possibly a technique only shown to Okayu, the technique I don't know.'

'Wait, first of all, is it possible for her to copy a technique even without that person using it? First look and then she can automatically copy it whenever she want as long as she is looking at that person?'

'If that's so, then she is to cheaty.'

Kuro panicked in his eyes as he saw Okayu's left hand sticked in her hips, as if sheathing an invisible swords, no, her left hand itself was the invisible swords, the blade.

'Won't I die with that?' When her attacks was launched, is also when Kuro's feet can finally touch the grounds. This milliseconds never felt so long for him.

'Without the gravity, I can't brings out a strength out of nowhere, I can't do anything except for swinging my limbs, but that's waste efforts.'

'If I can't bring out any strength, I have no forces I can control, although I can control my forces to pass through an object and hit the object behind it, if there's no object to pass it, I can't sent it.'

'Moreover, I am not as skilled as Soujin to control the forces through air to air to finally hit the enemy to create an medium-distance attack. Damn it. No wonder 21 nor 17 mentioned jumping to dodge attacks unless necessary in manga.'

'Air for the current me is an dead end, without a meaning to move.'

Kuro's brain accelerated and despite his mind giving up on him, his body tried to dodge the swordless, sword drawing attack Okayu was about to do.

'Even if I have no physical ability nor the technique to kick the air…!' He struggled until the end. After all, if he gave up here and let the attacks connect without even trying, he's bound to do the same when a similar situation occurred.

Tightening the muscle, with his full force, and all the technique he can right now, he kicked the air with all his might…

Only to find out he moved 0cm.

"[Copycat], Swordless Demon." The moment her left hand was unsheathed… were the moment an slash wounds will appear from Kuro.

And surprisingly, she was merciless. She took one step forward, then her whole figure turned into blur, passing Kuro's falling body.

"…?" When she noticed it, her body fell to the front. It seems that she slipped from the spot due to an unknown… no, it was, "water."

There was no rain yesterday, nor the day before the yesterday. It was weird for the small pond to suddenly appear, at the exact place where Okayu was standing.

When Okayu slipped, Kuro's feet landed the ground, and he was unwounded… except for the small cut on the clothes he was wearing.

Ignoring the damage on his clothes, Kuro squatted down, and look seriously at the pond that suddenly appeared.

At this view of small pond that saved him from this match and created a miracle, Kuro couldn't help but laugh highly. "I thought I could only use this ability to predict correctly whether it'll rain today or not."

Now that he somehow had a gist of this strange power of 'his?,' it was the time to test it out.

The atmosphere of the fight suddenly seemed to have turned down, and it was siding on Kuro, but the fact that he was about to lose didn't disappear. Although Okayu was somewhat more cautious than before, she still charged to him.

And lowered her body posture to the point of disappearing from Kuro's sight. At the same time, her eyes for a moment, looked at Ayame.

'This is it!' Of course he wasn't tricked by it, Kuro's viewpoint after learning the lesson, was slightly lower when fighting with Okayu. And reading eye motion was his speciality.

Afger all, eyes shows out a clear emotion. Using that moment she took off her eyes off from Kuro, did Kuro focused at certain lands, and from nowhere, water wetted that lands.

As this was outside the conscious of Okayu, the moment she stepped that land, she slipped, and like that, almost fell, as Kuro caught her.

"I win." While Okayu under his arms, he didn't forget to pats her while smiling brightly.

Kuro had to admit himself. He was addicted in patting the two.