"I can do this"

And now, Zeke is face to face with the creature, who was ready to kill him, only with his bare hands, without magic or other weapons, and without Yuki who could have intervened, it was just a fight between Zeke and Hals. The tension in the air was so dense that you could have cut it with a knife. Even though a few moments ago Zeke was trying to look cool in front of Yuki, he was scared, and he had every reason, he couldn't summon any weapon, or use magic, he didn't know how to, all he had was his brute strength and his strong body on which he could rely.

The moment of silence between Zeke and the beast ended, when the Hals rushed towards Zeke, and launched an attack with his sharp claws. That shot could be deadly to an ordinary human, but fortunately Zeke did not fall into that category, and managed to avoid the attack.

("Shit! That was too close, I have to be careful, with this Hals").

Then, the Hals uses his tail to attack Zeke again, but this time Zeke manages to avoid it, climbing on the creature's tail and preparing to launch a counterattack on the it. Nevertheless, the Hals doesn't give up either, and launches a counterattack, against Zeke's attack. And even as he was about to hit Hals' face, Zeke noticed that he was actually in a disadvantageous position, so he decided to retire in a hurry.

Yuki, also very worried, notices what happened, so she asks Zeke:

"Hey! Are you alright?"

"Uhh, uhh, I... I'm alright, It's just a little tiring. This thing could have left me without an arm until now."

"I told you, there's not much you can do against a D-rank Hals."

But even after hearing Yuki's words, Zeke just stood up and replied:

"It's not good to underestimate me".

"Neither do you on your opponent..." Then she made a small break "So? What's the plan?"

Zeke had answered this question in a calm and quite confident manner.

"I don't have one, you just sit here and wait, I'll take care of everything".

"Ha? You're an idiot? You're going to die faster than you realize..."

And this was the moment...In Zeke's head these words resounded continuously "You're going to die faster than you realize..."; "You're going to die faster than you realize..."; "You're going to die faster than you realize..." In Zeke's distant past, someone kept repeating these words to him: "You're going to die faster than you realize..." A figure of a middle-aged person, whose face cannot be noticed, looks at Zeke and keeps repeating this. "You're going to die!"

At that moment, Zeke gave in nervously and lost control.

"AHHHHHHH!!"

He screams so loudly, starts sweating and breathing harder and harder and finally falls to his knees and stares blankly at the ground.

"No... Why here? Why now? WHY CAN'T YOU LEAVE ME ALONE! WHY DO YOU ALWAYS FOLLOW ME!?"

Yuki gets scared and approaches Zeke asking him:

"Hey! What happened to you? Are you okay?"

But something in Zeke changed, he got to his feet, approached Yuki, grabbed her by the collar and slammed her into the rock behind them furious, then said in a very aggressive tone.

"I TOLD YOU! DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME!"

Then he leaves Yuki, going to attack Hals in a nervous breakdown. And at that moment Yuki was left worried and wondered:

"What happened to him? .. Did I say something I shouldn't? Did I somehow reach a sensitive point?".

Zeke rushes over Hals and prepares to attack him, but Hals launched a counterattack with his claws, ready to tear Zeke to pieces. Hals attacks Zeke but Zeke avoids using the creature's paw as a boost point, followed by Zeke using a 900 degree kick to the creature's face. Zeke's furious blow makes Hals fall to the ground and start bleeding, it's exactly as Zeke suspected, physical attacks have more effect on Hals than magic. Zeke's blow seems to have caused Hals more pain than all of Yuki's. subsequent attacks, but that made the Hals even angrier. He gets up from the ground and starts roaring at Zeke, but Zeke hadn't moved an inch, but that seemed to annoy him more.

Zeke said in an aggressive, angry tone:

"Don't underestimate me, beast, I'm not as weak as you think"

The Hals began to rush towards Zeke and prepared to attack him. This time he uses both claws to launch an attack of much higher power than the previous ones. It was a deadly blow to any normal person, but again, this was not the case with Zeke, suddenly he managed to avoid this attack as well. Only this time, instead of retreating, Zeke slips under the Hals and started throwing a burst of strong blows at the creature's stomach, causing him a lot of pain. The Hals began to bleed as more and more, a large amount of blood was already leaking from his mouth.

Yuki watched the scene behind the rock where she sat safely thinking in amazement.

"It's incredible... How is that possible? Even if he received some of the demonic powers, he shouldn't be able to keep up with such creatures so early this early, his power is much greater than I thought, surely this guy is a human?"

As Hals has already received several powerful blows, he finally manages to escape Zeke's raging storm of blows. He retreated a little behind and took a more defensive position. He received many powerful blows from Zeke, suddenly the bruises and scratches produced by Zeke were clear to the ***** eye, and the blood that flowed from different parts of the creature's body as well.

Zeke looked straight into the creature's eyes with a strange look. It is as if the places have been reversed, and the one who hunts has become the one hunted.

Zeke said with a wide smile on his face:

"Oh? What happened, beast? You look more like a scared cat now than the jungle king."

Everything was perfect. Zeke has already been shown to be stronger than Hals. It was only a matter of time before he could bring it down. After a powerful fight with Yuki, followed by one with even greater damage against Zeke, the Hals had little to live for. But you know how it is in life, not everything always goes the way we want, and even sometimes things can take an unexpected turn in the worst moments.

Hals took a defensive stance and was preparing something. It wasn't long before the creature began to roar very loudly. Normally this would not be a problem for Zeke, as it was already the second fight against a Hals, their roar was starting to no longer affect him, only this time something was different. The sound of Hals's roar was far more deafening than it had ever been.

Zeke had fallen to the ground closing his eyes and putting his hands to his ears, screaming in pain.

"AHHH! My ears! It hurts! What's going on? Why is the sound suddenly louder than before?"

He couldn't hear anything going on around him until he heard a voice in his head telling him:

"WATCH OUT!"

The next time he opened his eyes it was too late, the very next thing he realized was that he had just been hit by Hals's tail. It sent him flying until he hit a nearby tree and fell to the ground. Blood began to flow from Zeke's mouth. Zeke's advantage seemed to be gone. Not far from where Zeke had fallen, Yuki could be heard shouting worriedly at him.

"ZEKE! ZEKE! ARE YOU ALRIGHT?"

Zeke could be heard muttering in a whisper

"You.. bastard..."

Zeke rose slowly, dizzy from the impact of the blow.

"That hurts more than I thought"

"Okay, that's enough, we're exchanging now, I'll take care of Hals"

Then Yuki was prepared to attack the Hals, but Zeke grabbed her arm and pulled her back, then told her:

"I said you stay behind, this is my fight"

"What do you mean this is your fight? You're already starting to get beat up, you won't be able to resist like this for too long."

But Zeke walks slowly past her, replying:

"If to you to get a hard blow it means 'to get beat up' it means you still have a lot to learn about fighting"

Part of Zeke's T-shirt was already torn, so he decides to take down what's left of it, so as not to confuse him later in the fight. Seeing Zeke, half-***** Yuki begins to blush.

"HEY,HEY,HEY,WHA...WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING HERE?"

To which Zeke responds by making a poker face.

"Nobody told you to look in this direction"

Zeke's image seemed a little changed. In reality it was the same Zeke, a young man 180 centimeters tall, in shape, little defined by the training he practices daily, his black hair dropped down that covered a little of his right eye, his big eyes full of emotion, an emotion... unsettling, we can say. Although muscular, Zeke's body was now covered in scratches from his fight, but even so, something felt different about him, an dark aura could be felt around him, his raging emotions could be felt...However, he could still stand on his own two feet.

"Hey Yuki, I want you to answer a question"

"What would that be?"

"How can I kill this creature?"

"Oh? Are you becoming dangerous?

"Right now we're acting according to the law of the jungle, kill or you'll be killed, and as I already told you, I'm not going to die here."

"Do you think you're able to kill another being?"

"It's not the first time I go hunting, when I was little I used to do this with my father every weekend"

"Hmm, if you're so sure, I would say that there are several methods, I generally ended up killing them by stabbing them in the heart or cutting off their heads. Sometimes I also used magic against lower ranks.."

"Good"

"Get ready, I'll help you this time too"

However, instead of receiving help with open arms, Zeke had grabbed Yuki by the collar of her coat, lifted her to the ground, and told her in an aggressive tone again.

"Didn't I make myself understood? I said I would do this alone."

These words frustrated Yuki, so she answered Zeke with the same coin.

"You humans!... You are always like that, even if you have evolved and you think you are the most evolved race on Earth, you still let yourself be guided by the animal senses, you are not much over the creature next to us, which is ready to tear us apart! Ever since I told you you were going to die, if you're not careful, you started behaving like that, what's wrong with you? What did I say wrong? I'm just trying to help you!"

Then Zeke paused for a second, looked down, let go of Yuki, and said half-heartedly.

"You couldn't even understand if I told you, after all you said that you demons have no soul."

Then, without hesitation, Yuki slaps Zeke and then looks at him with a sad face.

"That's why you can't tell me? Because we demons don't have a soul? What makes you think you humans are so different from us? What makes you think you are inferior or superior to us? What makes you think that just because we don't have a soul, we don't have our feelings? What makes you think we can't understand your feelings?"

Zeke was confused and amazed at the same time, unable to find the right words to answer Yuki.

"I...I..."

But the conversation between the two was interrupted by Hals's tail attack. Fortunately, Yuki was able to dodge but Zeke was hit hard like last time. It's just that this time it was different, even though he was hit hard Zeke was still standing. He even stopped the Hals's tail attack with his bare hands..

"You bastard! Don't you think it's a little rude to interrupt other people's conversation?"

At that moment, Zeke concentrated his strength and tensed all his muscles to lift the Hals, and then threw him into the woods, then he looks at Yuki.

"Huh, Huh, You... Stay Here, I'll be back!"

"Wait! This could be dangerous, now that you don't know where it..."

But Zeke already disappeared.

"... could be...AHHH YOU BRAINLESS MONKEY!"

As he followed the direction in which the Hals was thrown, Zeke began to notice claw marks on various objects in his path. Zeke had already arrived in an area with dense trees and a lot of vegetation, you couldn't really distinguish many things from each other. It was the perfect place where a hunter could hide to hunt his prey.

Zeke stopped and looked closely at the area around him, many details that could lead him to his death at that moment. And suddenly, he heard a rustle coming from a bush. He had taken a defensive position and was preparing to attack. After that, a rabbit comes out of the bush, looks at Zeke, then runs away scared.

Zeke sighs. "Ah... Now, where are you hiding beast?"

But by the time he realizes, Hals is already behind him, ready to tear him to pieces alive. Hals lunged at Zeke, slammed him to the ground and trying to bite him with his sharp fangs. Even so, Zeke somehow managed to block the creature's attack, grabbing it by the fangs and resisting. After that, Zeke hits the creature in the throat with his leg, causing it to drown for a second, and so Zeke manages to escape the creature's clutches.

But it's not over yet, even though he escaped the creature's attack, Zeke still didn't want to let go of his fangs, he held them tight, and looked into Hals' eyes, telling it:

"Let's see how dangerous you are without these, beast"

Then with all the power he had, Zeke snatches the creature's fangs, then retreats, leaving Hals in great agony. Hals was sitting on the ground, screaming with anger and pain.

"Yuki said the weapons work best against you, let's see how true it is."

The creature's fangs were huge, they were so big that in Zeke's hands they could be used as daggers. Now the odds seemed to be in Zeke's favor again. Hals rose from the ground and rushed to Zeke. Zeke did the same, attacking the creature, this time with it's own weapons.

The moment Zeke approaches the creature, it uses its claws to attack him, fortunately Zeke manages to avoid it, and stabs the creature in the side, and then cuts it. The creature's fangs were so sharp that not even its dense skin could withstand it. But in a moment of inattention, Zeke was caught in a blind spot, and by the time it was too late, he could no longer avoid Hals' counterattack.

Hals managed to injure Zeke, leaving a deep wound on his chest, after which he hit him with his tail, throwing him into a nearby tree.

After that fatal blow, Zeke begins to lose a lot of blood. Too much blood began to flow from his mouth and gets very dizzy from so much loss.

" (Cought, cought), This...This is to dangerous...I need to finish this quick, before it's to late."

In Zeke's mind the same image reappeared, it was the silhouette of a person who kept repeating to Zeke 'You're going to die' 'You're going to die'

Zeke bit his lip in frustration and said in a silent voice:

"I told you it wouldn't be like that..."

Then Zeke rushes to Hals, sliding under it and cutting it's stomach. Both Zeke and Hals have already lost too much blood. The battle was coming to an end, and the winner would not yet be decided. It was time for both of them to use all their remaining aces.

Hals took his defensive position, and prepared for the last attack. He uses the same strange roar as before, hoping that the result will be the same as before. But his misfortune was that Zeke had already noticed the trick behind this attack.

"So you're applying magic to increase your roar effectiveness? Damn, that girl, there are a lot of thing you can you with magic and you haven't told me yet, aren't you?"

Even so, although he realized the secret behind the enemy's attack, Zeke could do nothing, he still didn't know how to counteract the magic, all he had was an extraordinary physical force.  So this time, Zeke decided to cash in on the attack, and everything else had Hals ready. However, he was not going to lose, his willpower was to big, it was unshakable.

Zeke's ears began to bleed from Hals' attack, but Zeke didn't seem to care too much, instead Zeke attacked Hals, but Hals retaliates using his tail. Then a bright smile appeared on Zeke's face:

"I got you beast"

Using the creature's fangs, Zeke manages to cut Hals' tail. He roars in pain and then attacks Zeke with his sharp claws. The fight was over, Zeke uses a fang and stabs Hals in the hand. The wounds and the lost blood were already saying their word, Zeke could not continue this fight, so with his last strength he uses the other fang and stabs Hals in the neck. The creature's loud roar of pain was slowly fading. Eventually the Hals fell to the ground and died.

Zeke is the winner of this fight, but at what price? He was sitting in a pool of blood full of scratches, and with a fatal wound on his chest, next to the creature's corpse, which began to turn into particles and then disappear.

Zeke said in a weak, tired voice.

"What was that...?"

Zeke slowly begins to lose consciousness and later faints and falls to the ground. But luckily, someone was there to catch him, it was Yuki, who was looking worriedly at Zeke's wounded and bloody body, she begin to hug him from behind after that she was going to tell him with a smile full of relief.

"You brainless monkey, you've gone too far.

Then Zeke replied with half a mouth.

"I've told you...I...can do this..."

Then Zeke lost consciousness.

"Hmm, you were right, I'll try not to underestimate you from now on, it's okay, you can rest now"

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