The World We Do Not Know - 175 Obstacle

“Oni Iaido!” Faust lowers the sword on his hip forward, draws the sword out by holding the handle and instantly withdraws the sword back before the whole blade is exposed.

A powerful slash travelled through the air towards Kira at a high speed. The attack travelled at the speed of a bullet but produced by a sword. But Kira evades the attack by swiftly moving to his left.

At the same time as Kira dodged it by moving to his left, Faust is waiting behind him with his sword, he swings his sword and Kira leaps forward with great speed barely dodging it,

“Tsk?” Faust gets frustrated as his attacks keep missing Kira.

“No doubt about it! It is teleportation.” Daniel utters out.

“Did Ares also have this ability?” Leviathan asks in a surprise since many things are matching and common between Ares and Faust.

*No! He cannot, he never did, but, even though this kid can teleport, he seems to be slow.” Daniel replies while observing Faust.

“Are you thinking that if you could try a little harder, you can catch up to me in speed? It is not that easy kid!” Kira smiles as a portal opens on his side.

He pulls out two black gloves which have metal spikes on the top. And in between the spikes on top of his hand, appears to be a purple stone and an orange stone

Purple stone on his right glove and orange one on his left. *”The purple stone on gloves than on a rifle? Is he going to electrocute me by holding me with those gloves? And that orange stone.”* Faust thinks to himself.

“Doesn’t matter! I will break your other leg too and wipe the floor with you.” Faust takes off without wasting a second. He clearly remembers that the orange stone is a healing stone that heals your body, he cannot afford to give time for Kira to heal himself.

Faust teleports behind Kira again, Kira swiftly turns back to stop the blade with the metal spikes on his gloves. Before the sword touches the spikes of the gloves, Faust teleports again and this time he is above Kira inches away from thrusting the sword into his skull.

Kira still manages to put his right hand above his head blocking the sword before it lands onto him, Faust the flips in the air kicking the hand of Kira away that is blocking the sword, opening a gap to land another attack on his head. But Kira puts his other hand on his head as a defence and grabs the sword of Faust with both of his hands.

Faust can see the orange stone shining brightly, which means the healing process has already begun and happening as he is fighting. Immediately, Faust can also see that both hands of Kira are above his head, defending himself from the sword, so leaving his sword in the hands of Kira, Faust teleports under him, inches away from landing a kick onto the inner knee of his right leg.

As both of Kira’s hands are on top of his head, it would take more time for him to bend down to him and defend. This opening is what Faust has been searching for till now.

Before Faust could land a kick, the right leg of Kira is lifted into the air and poured onto the right hell of Faust. He stepped on Faust’s heel as if he stepped onto some insect.

“AHHHHHHH!” Faust lets out a cry due to the pain of his heel getting crushed under the feet of Kira. This time he did not use his hands or gloves but used his feet.

Faust crumbles and shouts under the foot of Kira, while Kira doesn’t feel anything and he applies more of his body weight on his right leg, crushing the heel of Faust even more, if it’s a leg it wouldn’t have been so painful but having something pressed directly onto the bone is giving yet another sharp pain to Faust like his ribs.

Faust looks at his sword that is in the hands of Kira, he teleports it into his hand and swings the sword in front of him which makes Kira step back, Faust too teleports back a few feet away from Kira.

He takes the support of his sword and gets up on his feet while gasping for breath. Things are not looking good for him at all.

“Ohhhhh! It’s all healed now, aww feels so good.” Kira, on the other hand, moves his left leg freely and throws kicks into the air. His leg is completely healed.

“And now.” Saying that, Kira places both of his hands in front of him before his face and takes the stance of a boxer. He slowly starts to move his feet and shortly, he starts moving with a good feet work like a professional boxer.

*”B-boxing?”* Faust is surprised by the way Kira moves. *”He cannot hit me if I don’t go too close to him, sword arts is better than boxing, no matter how you see it.”* saying that Faust holds his sword tightly ready to make a move.

Suddenly, a thin bolt of lightning struck Faust on his left shoulder. Faust is surprised as his eyes widen and he falls down on his knees without being able to comprehend what has happened.

“There it is, the lightning gloves!” One of the people in the audience yells loudly.

“God stop this madness! He is totally outmatched.”

“Someone stop this match! He is just a kid! Let him live.”

“You already did enough! give up now Faust!”

The audience couldn’t take it anymore, they all keep asking  Faust to give up. They couldn’t stand watching the kid getting beat up mercilessly.

The place that the lightning bolt hit, pierce the flesh of Faust, his cloak and shirt are torn and the flesh around the wound is burned in black.

*”Gifter weapon huh? Just a little more.”* Faust gets up on his feet as his legs are wobbling like a toddler.

Faust is injured, wounded and exhausted by taking a lot of damage, whereas, Kira is looking anew, all of his physical injuries are healed and he is in perfect shape to take on Faust.

“Like my gloves?” Kira asks as the purple stone on his gloves shines brightly. His gloves can send lightning bolts to a distance like rifles.

Every time he throws a jab or punches the air by activating his elemental stone, lightning bolts are released from his gloves onto the enemies before him.

*”I guess I don’t have a choice, I need to really open my eyes to beat him in the battle of speed.”* Faust stands still closing his eyes.

“Is that it? You gave up? You better be.” Seeing that Faust is not moving, Kira punches the air three times a row and three lightning bolts travel in the way of Faust with insane speed.

*swoosh~*

All three lightning bolts miss Faust and lands on the wall behind him. Kira’s eyes immediately narrow and Faust starts walking towards Kira slowly.

Kira throws more jabs onto Faust and none of the lightning bolts touches Faust. *”What is this? The human smell that he had till now is slowly fading away.”* Kira, the closest one to Faust senses something. Daniel is the other one apart from Kira to sense the change in Faust.

Faust takes off in a blink, the land that he was standing on, turned into a mini crater as the effect of Faust taking off by putting all of his force in his legs.

He lands a powerful slash on Kira, who blocks it with his gloves. Faust’s swing has a lot of power packed in it that pushes Kira a few feet away.

On top of it, the top of his hand hurts due to the impact, the spikes stopped the sword from cutting his hand, but the impact is hurting his bones.

Faust opens his eyes that are closed until now, his hair is covering his eyes from the outside world but Faust’s eyes are blood red in colour. The white part of the eye is filled with striking red colour and his eyeball is blowing in green.

He suddenly teleports far behind Kira and throws his sword towards him with great speed. Kira moves to his right evading the sword. As the sword is passing behind him, Faust teleports to the sword he threw, which is now behind Kira, he catches his sword and lands another powerful strike onto Kira.

*Clack~*

Kira turned back in time and blocked the sword with both of his gloves and is still sent back a few feet away.

Every slash that Faust is landing is so powerful that it is sending shock inside Kira’s wrists, few of these strikes and he would end up fracturing his hands.

The teleportation secret behind Faust is based on his eyes. He imagines himself in a different position than the one he is standing in, and he will be teleported to the place where he is imagining.

Certain conditions should be met for Faust to pull this off:

1)He must see the place physically with his eyes.

2)He needs to put a lot of focus in his eyes and feel the metal and atmosphere around the place.

For Faust, the concrete, the land, the trees, roads and metal, all have life. He imagines the smell, the touch and the feel of the place he wants to go and he will be teleported in seconds.

At first, it took Faust hours and 40-50 minutes for him to focus and teleport once a time. Later he was able to achieve the teleportation by focussing in a spot for 1minute.

After practising thoroughly day after day, he can now teleport in a blink. And when his eyes turn red, the speed of his teleportation increases.

**Please Read The Author’s note!**

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Faust is using the same technique that Kira used. Hitting a strike with all of your strength is one thing and landing a strike in the momentum of full speed increases the impact of the force by ten folds.

*”He changed all of a sudden! It hurts my ego to fight him seriously.** Kira curses his fate for having to fight with Faust on serious terms.

He does not accept Faust to be a full-fledged soldier nor does he acknowledge his power of teleportation that impressed Daniel.

Kira raises his hands up guarding himself while looking at Faust. He punches the air two more times and goes back to his boxing dance, moving left and right.

Suddenly, nine lightning bolts struck Faust, piercing his cloak, shirt and his flesh. All the bolts landing in critical areas. Also, having nine lightning bolts passed through his body at the same time, electrocuted him to a crisp.

Faust and everyone saw Kira punching only twice in the air but the lightning bolts appeared after he punched after he went back into his guard stance. How fast are his punches are for everyone to not see them?

Even after taking all those lightning bolts, Faust barely stands on his feet. In the back of his head, he is worried about Tsumugi leaving the house forever.

This matchup just seems so unfair, everyone lost their hopes. Awarnach and Elton decides that they are going to live in Carlos’ house. Tsumugi closes her eyes, knowing that she has to leave her house and submit an official document to the main building about her departure from the family. Faust holds his ground barley for the hopes of her family. He is in a position where even the slightest little touch can make him collapse.

Kira Instantly realising that Faust is still standing on his feet, runs towards Faust with great speed.

He punches Faust on the forehead with his spiked gloves.

Everything is silenced for a moment for Faust. It feels like a brutal attack. Faust is already hanging and pushing himself past his limits to stand on his feet. Now he feels as if he made contact with a metal bat that swung at him with all the batter’s might.

At first, he literally saw bright flashes of light equivalent to stars, there is no pain or burn. He is stunned and shocked realizing that something awful has happened. He can hear a ring vibrating in his ears continuously.

Then – he felt something wet oozing out of his forehead, the left side of his forehead was completely numb as he lay on his back in the dusty arena. He knows where he is, he knows what he is there for and what happened.

Both of his eyes are closed, he can hear the shouts of people. He knows he is directly under a tree, his head in the lap of his Grandpa.

“Try opening your eyes, Faust, you have a mountain to conquer.” Gus asks while running his fingers through the strands of his hair.

“I’m afraid I lost my eye. I cannot open.” Faust says in a scared tone, he wants to assess himself if he lost his sight or if it is blurry, but it is too painful for him to open his eyes.

“It is okay! Grandpa is here! I will fix you up in no time, open your eyes.” Gus assures Faust.

As he opens his eyes, he sees the branches of a green tree, rustling leaves due to cold breeze. Under the tree, he sees the smiling face of his grandfather. Immediately, after he flutters his eyelashes. He sees people yelling at him from behind the walls.

Every Time he blinks, it is becoming painful, “Are you awake?” The referee comes up to check upon Faust.

“Gr-grandpa?” Faust asks as it is too bright for him to see anything, he needs to force himself to open his eyes and all he sees is white lights falling onto his eyes directly.

“Are you done? Do you wanna quit?” The referee asks as he sees Faust laying on the floor from two minutes.

“No! I’m okay!” Faust replies to the referee without thinking.

“Okay! Try to get up on your feet.” The referee suggests, but as he tries to get up, his head is spinning and it hurts like hell. He slowly touches his forehead as he feels cold fluids oozing out, flowing from in between his eyebrows to the sides of his nose.

As he touches, it feels sticky and squishy with lots of liquid, he brings his hand in front of him and its blood on his hands, flowing from his forehead where the skin is cut open.

He realised he fucked up big time. He tries to stand on his feet but his vision is getting blurry, he somehow manages to get up on his feet and starts searching for his sword which he thought he left on the ground somewhere.

“It is right in front of you!” He hears a voice

He keeps searching in front of him but all sees are sand and dirt.

“I said in front.” The voice resonates from his front.

As he raises his head up, he sees Kira with his sword in his hands, Kira plays with the sword shuffling it in his hands and throws it far behind him near the audience

“FAUST! GIVE UP AND COME HOME ALIVE.” Elton yells from the noble’s balcony as tears are pouring down his eyes. No matter how tough the competition is, Elton and the others thought they would win!

With Faust on their side, they hoped it would be a walk in the park. But not against a general, they are all prepared for what is about to come their way.

“Jo-johnny!” His eyes widen as he realises his purpose, he is entirely taken by the pain that he forgot why he is struggling in the arena.

“Why do you keep getting up on your feet? You are weak! Did you have anyone that you wanted to protect? I’m sure you do and you did not protect them. Because being this weak, You won’t be able to protect anyone! Just like that woman and her house.”