While debries were falling all over the place with loud [BOOMS], banging across the city, Baroka was layed unconscious on the floor. While in this unconscious state, he thought to himself with a tired and defeated tone "Useless. I'm so useless. Why does it have to be me every time. During missions, I always get knocked out and unable to do anything. Even when I push myself to the absolute limit, when I'm down, I'm down. Rem and Kito end up doing all the heavy lifting after my dumbass gets taken out with a powerful blow.". His fingers started to twitch "I'm the absolute worse. Honestly, what kind of teammate am I? No matter how much I train, it's always the same. Even when we're holding our own, once I get hit with something fatal, that's it for me, and I'm supposed to come from a strong family. But still....", he tried getting up "I cant give up now. Sure, I usually get knocked out and tossed aside even tho I know I'm no fodder, but the important thing is that I get up at the end of the day.". Suddenly, his hands started to turn into pure stone, they were taking the shape of guaglets that fit the size of his hands "But still....! But still..... I can't stay down when everyone is fighting and sweating out their blood! I just can't!", Baroka forcefully pushed himself up "No fucking waaaaaay!". As he tried pushing himself up despite his body losing all the strength it had, he was still able to look forward despite how painful it was. As Baroka looked forward, his eyes showed him something shocking. Baroka saw Kazuma had been stabbed on the abdomen by a giant black nail, his eyes widened even more after he had fully processed what just happened. He heard Kito's scream "KAZUMAAAA!", Baroka muttered to himself with rage filled up in his eyes, "GET UP..... GET UP YOU FUCKING LAZY BODY.....!", he scremed at himself in anger as he struggled to push himself upwards. His body had failed him, his nerves had shut down, and his bones refused to help him "GET UP YOU PIECE OF SHIIIIIIIT!", Baroka yelled at himself with white energy starting to flare out of his body. With a loud scream of rage, Baroka bursted forward at a very dangerous speed. Rexus rushed towards Kazuma, his fists balled up as he was ready to punch through Kazuma with the black 2 foot nail he had impaired him with "IM GOING TO PUNCH A HOLE THROUGH YOU!", Rexus yelled out with anger as blood gushed down from his head. Kazuma thought to himself with a disappointed and saddened look on his face "Why the hell do I feel so numb? Did I just get impailed? I'm about to die? Ha, what a pain.", Kazuma saw Kito running after Rexus in slow motion. Kito was yelling out Kazuma's name in the background with his arm stretched out, Kazuma couldn't hear his friend screaming his name, all he knew was that he nor Kito could do anything about his death. Rexus yelled with an unhinged smile on his face as blood rushed down his head "IM GOING TO FUCK A HOLE THROUGH YOU AND PUNCH YOUR BODY TILL ITS NOTHING BUT WASTED CHUNKS OF MEAT!". To his surprise, Baroka came In at the nick of time with a huge outburst of energy, this caused both Kito and Kazuma to be stunned "Baroka?!", Kito muttered the name of his friend with shock. Baroka bashed Rexus on the face "I HIGHLY DOUBT THAT....!", he exclaimed with anger in his eyes and voice, he stretched up his rock guaglet arms and formed a giant battle axe the size of a building "You wanna know why?!...", he asked. Baroka yelled out with a tramendous amount of power blasting out of his huge battle axe "BECAUSE WE'RE THE ONE'S WHO ARE GOING TO BE BASHING YOU FULL OF HOLES! YOU HEAR MEEEEE?!". As Baroka was about to land his battle axe on his opponents head, Rexus stretched out his metal knuckles and blocked the bash "YOURE IN THE WAY!", Rexus screamed out with rage as his fists and Baroka's axe clashed and caused a terrifying outburst of power. Kito was in shock to see this display of power from Baroka "Uh? His energy reserves, and that battle axe...! Baroka.....!". Baroka and Rexus started to partake in a devastating battle that didn't just cause energy to flare all over the place, but caused the pillars around them to crumble. Baroka kept swinging his powerful battle axe at Rexus, but Rexus just kept punching and blocking the weapon. Each time he blocked and pushed Baroka aside so he could rush of to Kazuma, Baroka always kept jumping in to prevent him. Rexus was annoyed by the fact that a kid was blocking him from achieving his goal, as Baroka came In again with a swing, Rexus dragged him by the collar and pushed him away "OUT OF THE WAY!", he yelled. But Baroka, filled with rage, always kept pushing after him and preventing Rexus from reaching Kazuma. Kito ran all the way to Kazuma who was on the ground, Kazuma was losing a lot of blood from his abdomen, the nail was still stabbed into his stomach. Kito screamed out as he ran to his friend "KAZUMA!", he dropped to the floor beside him In order to heal him up "KAZUMA! CAN YOU HEAR ME?! KAZUMA!". Kazuma's eyes slowly opened "Kito....", he exhaled the name of his friend tiredly, Kito exclaimed with worry "HANG IN THERE!". He started to generate ice in order to stop Kazuma's bleeding "Kito... what's going on? What happened to the others?", Kito replied "Shut the hell up and let me help you!". Kito had frozen the gushing blood from Kazuma's abdomen, all he needed to do now was to pull out the nail. He covered his arms with ice and slowly started to pull out the nail Kazuma had just gotten stabbed with "I have to be careful while pulling out this nail, or I could accidentally rupture Kazuma's internal organs.". As he slowly pulled off the nail, he exclaimed in his head "I've gotta be careful! I've got to help him. I'm already weak as I am, I can't afford to lose a friend.....!". Kito managed to pull out the nail, froze the blood that gushed out of the hole in the stomach, and then ultimately used whatever energy he could muster up to close up the wound on Kazuma's chest. Suddenly, after Kito had saved the life of his friend, Kazuma's spirit mark activated, it was a double triangle with three dots at the edges. Kazuma sat up "Gah, thanks... Kito!", he said with a tired tone, Kazuma felt his stomach turn, it was as if he wanted to vomit his organs out. Kito explained to him "You idiot, don't get up so fast!", Kazuma asked "What about the others?", both Kazuma and Kito widened their eyes in shock. Baroka was dealing with Rexus who was dominating him despite trying to keep up. While Baroka was in this difficult time, his eyes glanced at Kito and Kazuma, Baroka was in shock "Kazuma.... he's alive!". Rexus turned to them and grinned in an evil manner, he pushed Baroka across multiple pillars "HAHAHA! YOU GOT MY NAIL OUT?! LUCKY YOU!", he yelled out with excitement and rushed towards Kazuma and Kito once again "THIS TIME, I'LL MAKE SURE TO KILL YOU!".
END OF CHAPTER.