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Chapter 434:He Died As One
"Begin."The word had barely left Egries's mouth.The girl didn't wait. She didn't give Jabber a second to find his footing, didn't wait for him to settle into a stance, didn't do any of the things you normally do at the start of a sparring match when both people are supposed to be ready before anything happens.Her bow was already up.Her draw arm was already back.And her voice came out low and sharp and fast…“”"Flame Arc Technique— Piercing Sun."””The arrow left the string before the technique name had finished landing in the air. It came off the bow with a sound like something tearing, burning hot and bright orange, growing as it moved, not shrinking the way arrows are supposed to as they travel, but widening, pulling more flame into itself as it crossed the distance between them.Jabber's eyes went wide.He saw it coming. He had maybe half a second. Less.The arrow hit.The impact cracked across the training ground like a thunderclap, and the smoke came fast and full, thick or
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She said simply. "That is why."Jabber turned and looked at her with a long, slow, extremely patient expression that communicated several things without any words. Then he turned around and walked toward the fighting ground without another word.Asta watched him go. Then looked at Mira.She shrugged."He is though.” she said.…………The girl was already in position when Jabber walked into the center of the ground.She was standing at the far end, one hand resting at her side, eyes on him. Calm eyes. The kind of calm that isn't relaxed,the kind that's focused so hard it looks relaxed.Jabber stopped a reasonable distance from her and looked at her.She looked back."You can start.” He said easily. "Introduce yourself. I don't bite."She looked at him for a moment.Then she said, "I'm a long-range attacker. Bow and arrow is my specialty." She said it short and clean, the way people give information they consider relevant and nothing else. Then she held his gaze and asked. "Which dr
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“He had already spent most of what he had keeping up with the pace of the fight before he ever used it. By the time he launched that final move, the tank was running on what was left at the bottom of it." She looked at Caius where he was sitting on the bench. "His body was trying to execute a high-output technique on almost nothing. And when the aura dropped below the minimum threshold the body needs to keep all systems running, the legs went first.”“Then the arms. He was fully conscious. Fully aware. His mind was still in the fight. But there was nothing left for his body to run on."The ground was very quiet.Then one of the unit members near the front raised their hand."If the captain had controlled how much aura he was using through the fight,spread it out more carefully, would he have won?"Mira looked at them.Then she laughed.It was short and warm and completely honest, the laugh of someone who finds a question genuinely funny without finding the person asking it foolish.
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"If you keep forcing yourself up like that." She said.“You're going to injure your spine."He stopped fighting for a moment.She crouched down beside him, one knee on the ground, and looked at his face. His eyes were open. Alert. Frustrated in the specific way of someone who is fully conscious and fully aware of exactly what their body is refusing to do."What happened to me?" He said. His voice was steady, he was keeping it steady on purpose. "Explain it to me. I don't understand. I could feel the fight. I was in it. I could see you coming. And then I just, I couldn't move. Why can't I get my body up right now?"Mira looked at him."Wait.”She said. "You genuinely don't know what happened?""No." He said. Flat and honest. "I don't."She looked at him for another second."Huh." She said. "Okay."She reached down, got her arm under his shoulder, and stood up. He came with her,slowly, with considerable effort on both their parts, but he came up. His legs held under him, barely
Chapter 430:Finally
The training ground went dead silent.Not the silence from before, the impressed kind, the kind that comes with wide eyes and held breath because something incredible just happened. This was different. This was the silence of people watching something they didn't fully understand and weren't sure how to react to yet.Every single unit member on those benches was staring at the center of the ground.Where Caius was on the floor.He wasn't knocked back. He wasn't sent flying. He had just, gone down. Like something inside him had simply switched off mid-movement, his legs folding underneath him, his body dropping to the packed earth with a heavy, final sound that carried all the way to the back row of the benches.The unit member who had been so sure, the one who had been leaning forward with his elbows on his knees saying the captain was going to win, that the sparring was decided, that the Crimson Burial Strike would close it out, that same unit member was now sitting with his mouth o
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She was in the middle of another exchange, moving, redirecting, her expression completely calm. And he could see it now that he knew to look for it, the slight ease in her movement. The fact that she had not once, in this entire fight, looked like she was working hard. The smile that had been sitting on her face since the moment she powered up, easy and unbothered, the smile of someone who had given themselves a comfortable amount of room and was using only a fraction of it."That's why she's not finishing it." Asta said, the understanding arriving in his voice as he said it. "She's not holding back because she can't end it. She's holding back because she doesn't want to end it yet." He watched her redirect another of Caius's combinations without blinking. "She's letting him fight. She's giving him the space to show what he's got." He paused. "Because he's her little brother, basically."Then, from inside the fight, Mira's voice came across the ground, casual and warm, like she
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