CH 21: "FRESHMAN VS SOPHOMORE(8): DEFYING FATE(3)"

In the most confident counter Hikari had witnessed in her lifetime, her most powerful attacks faded into the dark abyss of shadows, the sounds of impact lost to the night. The shadows continued to spread across the ground, like ink on a blank page, until the whole arena was consumed in darkness.

The radius of the shadows spread until it reached the outer edges of her terrain, leaving Hikari in a world of darkness.

"Dark Echo," he christened his technique at its climax, floating in the air; basking in the glory of his creation.

Behind him emerged a large dark blue coin that rotated infinitely to symbolize that even in the midst of Typhon's Wrath, the endless stream of every outcome of fate was in his hands.

Hikari could not believe her eyes as her opponent was more than able to conjure the same technique upon the severe damage he had sustained.

'Something's off about his Konkyuu,' she theorized. 'It's incomplete. It's as if he just laid the foundation of his technique rather than unlea