Divinity

--- [Lett’s perspective]

She has a dangerous ability, but I can do this.

After all that awful training, I’ve finally become someone that Shin and Alex can rely on.

I’m not the same person I was back then, and I’ll prove it to them.

I’ll beat her for sure!

She rushes towards me and reaches her right hand towards me.

Before it touches, I teleport behind her and throw a punch.

Before my punch lands, she turns around and tries to stop it with her right hand.

Just as she’s about to touch me, I yet again teleport behind her.

“Guah!” – Lett

She pre-emptively kicked behind her, and I teleported right into the kick.

She’s getting more used to my ability; I have to end this as quickly as I can.

She tries to follow up on her kick by turning around and reaching for me.

I avoid her attack by teleporting a few meters backwards.

She immediately starts running towards me, and I do the same.

As I move my left leg forwards to take a step, I teleport into the air right in front of her, and the momentum carries into a powerful kick right in her face.

“GEEH!!” – Lily

Blood is gushing out of her nose, and she is knocked backwards.

Without any hesitation, I teleport right on top of her and follow up with another kick to her stomach.

As if she was expecting me to do that, she grabs my leg and activates her ability.

The cloth on my ankle quickly rots away, and her ability starts messing up my leg.

I managed to teleport away before I was seriously hurt, but my leg isn’t looking too good.

I can’t feel it, and it’s hard to stand on.

I seriously can’t let her touch me again, especially not with her right hand.

Her ability is too dangerous.

I need to be extra careful; she might be tricking me into thinking she can only use her ability with her right hand.

She gets back up; she’s clearly hurt too.

Maybe knocking her out as fast as I can isn’t the best strategy.

To do that, I have to take risks.

If I can instead whittle her down, bit by bit, I’ll win eventually.

I just need to avoid her right hand at all costs.

“What was that about not letting me touch you even once?” – Lily

“Yeah yeah…” – Lett

“Your leg isn’t looking too good. You’re lucky you got away. Had you stayed for even a single moment longer, you’d have lost already.” – Lily

“Good thing I didn’t then…” – Lett

I teleport right behind her with my arm over her shoulder and my face close to her ear.

“… Because I’m not going to lose to you.” – Lett

She’s obviously startled, and it takes her a moment to react.

Before she can touch me, I teleport into the air above her.

I put my hands together and try to slam her from above.

Before I can hit, she reaches her arm up towards me.

If I hit her, she’ll touch me.

Right before I hit her, I teleport down to her legs, and I slam my hands down on her left foot.

I can feel some of the bones in her foot crack.

She’s quick to counter, so I teleport away before she hits me.

This is how I’ll win.

Little by little, I’ll wear her down.

“That’s payback for my leg.” – Lett

Looks like I can win without using that.

Just as I teleport to her, she starts spinning around in circles.

She’s spinning around as fast as she can, all while waiving her arm around like crazy.

She grazes my chin, and I teleport back.

She doesn’t stop spinning…

There are no openings; I can’t get through to her.

No matter where I attack her from, she’ll be able to touch me too.

So, although I could hit her if I wanted to, the exchange would favor her.

Her attacks are much more dangerous than mine.

This is a form of ultimate defense.

If she keeps this up, It’s a stalemate.

I can’t attack her without losing, but she can’t reach me while spinning around.

How long will she be able to keep this up though?

Eventually she’ll get tired or dizzy; when she does, that’s when I strike.

She continues spinning for a little while longer.

“How long do you plan on keeping this up?” – Lett

She doesn’t respond.

Is she waiting for me to attack her?

Hmm…

I have an idea…

I teleport into the air above her, then repeatedly teleport upwards.

After reaching hundreds of meters high, I let myself fall.

I relax my entire body and concentrate as hard as I can on channeling Divinity into my fist.

While falling down towards her, I charge up an attack to be as powerful as I can get it.

Her attacks might be more dangerous normally, but if I hit her with a fully charged up attack, she’ll be lucky if she just gets knocked out.

She understood what I was doing, and before my fist connects with her, she stops spinning and moves away.

If I teleport, I’ll lose my charged attack, but that’s fine.

All I wanted to do was to make her stop spinning around.

I teleport to her side an-

“GHHHHAAAA!!!” – Lett

She predicted where I would go, and grabbed my side with her arm.

My skin starts rotting away, and I feel my insides start to break down.

Luckily, I managed to teleport away before things got deadly.

“I’ve adapted to your teleportation. I more or less know where you’re going to attack from, and it’ll only get easier the longer the fight goes on. The damage I’ve taking is relatively minor compared to yours.” – Lily

She’s right…

After that last attack, it’s hard to even stay awake…

“The thing that actually seals the deal though is my defensive spinning. Right now, I can stall until you eventually pass out from all the damage you’ve taken. The only way for you to effectively attack me is with a charged attack from above, just like you tried before. But you’ll never hit me with that. All you do is let me perfectly predict when you’re about to teleport, just like what happened just now. It was a good fight, but it’s over now.” – Lily

“You’re right… It is over.” – Lett

I take a deep breath and look her deep in the eyes.

She realizes that I’m not giving up, and she starts spinning.

I’ll have to use that after all.

I don’t like doing it though…

It tires me out so much I can barely stand afterwards.

If it doesn’t work, then she’ll win.

It’s risky, but it’s all I can do right now.

I take another deep breath, then teleport right behind her.

I teleport again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

And again!

And again!!

Faster and faster!

Usually when I teleport somewhere, I have to visualize exactly where in I’m going and how my body should be positioned in space.

This technique works differently though.

I’m not putting any thought into how I’m teleporting, I’m just doing it.

Over and over and over again.

The reason I’m not putting any thought into it isn’t because I want to confuse my opponent or anything like that.

It’s simply because I can’t.

I teleport faster than I my brain can keep up with.

While doing so, I’m swinging my arms and legs around wildly.

The point is that although most of my attacks will be nowhere near the enemy, some will…

If even I, the one who is doing the teleporting, don’t know where I’m going, then there is no way for her to know either.

While teleporting around I get many hits in.

A kick in her thigh, a punch on her shoulder.

She’s getting pummeled from all directions.

But…

So am I…

Her spinning is insanely effective.

I keep randomly teleporting into her right hand.

This is another one of the downsides of this attack; I can’t dodge their attacks either.

I can’t stop though.

This is draining too much of my stamina.

The adrenaline is all that’s keeping me going at this point.

When I stop, it’s over.

I’ll be too tired to fight back.

Whoever gives in first loses.

I hit her in the chest with a punch, she touches my ear with her right hand.

Who’s going to lose first?

I kick her in knee, she touches my leg.

Who will go down first?

I punch her in the jaw, she touches my shoulder.

We keep going for a little longer, then suddenly…

…

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“And we have a winner! Congratulations to L…” – Leanne