Trip Back
Both of Yoichi's hands came away from his temples, and his fists struck the turf below several times. Punch after punch, Yoichi seemed to resist the incredible internal pain with his teeth gritted.
In the next moment, something never before seen happened to Kenji. The little demon dragon's eyes opened wide, and it lost its breath for an instant: as if a mysterious force was pushing them upwards from below, the small black horns of Yoichi's pet increased in size, stretching a few centimeters.
Being made of many thin concentric rings of the same resistant material, a short but intense blaze enveloped the newly formed rings.
At the end of that extraordinary shape-shifting process, the flames on Kenji's head disappeared, and the intense pain clutching Yoichi's temples ceased instantly.