>>5693586>>5693588>>5693843During the time since the end of her last fight, Eclipse appears to have darkened a little more, recovering a portion of her energy. As Yoshifumi cowers, the sorceress pours the brunt of her lingering power into a single, mighty tendril to lash his entrails apart! He screams in horror and is helpless to defend himself! The sorceress levitates ever-higher, an ominous specter of dread, and yet, at the pivotal moment her magic reaches its crescendo and is about to slay him where he crouches, she sneezes! The tendril snaps backward instead, viciously lacerating her own leg! She cries in sudden agony as smoke pours out and she loses her concentration, plummeting to slam into the stone!
Yoshifumi sees his chance, picks up a rock, and goes for it as fast as he can! As he comes near his hand slips and throws the rock backward, vaporizing a minor tendril that would've snared his throat! His panic at the noise causes him to turn around while still moving forward, kneeing the prone sorceress in the face! Eclipse falls back and hisses as she draws a wavy dagger and slashes at his chest, but deflects on his belt buckle and into her own face!
Now you can see dark, violet blood gushing out along with the smoke and she howls in frustration! She drops her dagger and lunges with sudden intensity, wrapping her hands around his neck and making to throttle him! The same second, she catches a violent headbutt as he ducks down to reach for her weapon and she's sent prone again! Yoshifumi grabs the dagger and lifts it up to strike, only to cry in pain on touching the handle and drop it, where it stabs clean into the sorceress's thigh! The darkness surrounding the woman vanishes, though her form itself is unchanged. She holds up her open palms and half-snarls, half-sobs from the pain.
"When I caught a scent of your aura in the festivities, fate-twister, I knew I should have gone no further. I yield!" He looks down at her and nods in sudden, nervous confidence. "Okay... I accept!" Eclipse pants- "You have not seen my last."- and vanishes into a cloud of smoke half a second before a random piece of fallen masonry from the ceiling would've crushed her skull like a grape. At the sight, he puts his hand on his forehead and steps back, visibly terrified of himself. The arena waits for almost a minute before no more unlikely calamities happen and Old Man Fong announces.
"And the victor is... YOSHIFUMI!"
In response, the poor, lucky man dry heaves from the enormity on his shoulders and walks to the arena wall. He doesn't even bother with the ladder, he just closes his eyes, throws himself against it, miraculously unharmed and blindly climbs the spikes into the seats, not once cutting or poking his hands. Once he reaches the top, you can hear him screaming in a foreign language.
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