Rito's body appeared instantly in front of Lala and Yami.
"Lala, thank you, I'll take over now." He replied confidently while activating the Sage's Eyes.
Before retreating, Lala looks in his direction.
Seconds later, she said: "Understood, I'll leave it to you now."
Yami didn't attack. She kept looking at him with a peculiar gleam in her dark red eyes: "You seem a little different from before."
"Yes, thanks to you, I became a little stronger." He replied.
"But, do you think that just because you became a little stronger you'll be able to beat me?" She prepared herself with her hands in the shape of blades.
Rito made a pair of white feathered wings appear and his hands transformed into blades identical to hers.
"But what?!" For the first time, Yami shows total surprise.
That wasn't simple imitations of her power, they were exactly the same!
"Now that the real show begins, Yami." Rito smiled: "Let's start!"
"Yami?" She ignored the way he called her and said: "Don't think that imitating me will make you able to beat me."
*BOOM!*
*Zzzt! Zzzt! Zzzt!*
Four blades clash in an explosion of sparks and shockwave.
The thunderous sound made the space vibrate a little. At the end of the sound, it echoed like the loud sound of a sonic wave, along with the hiss when changing stations.
That vibration caused tremors in the hearts of the listeners.
Like in a storm on the verge of a deluge, the sounds of the attack exchanges were deafening.
From the ground, clouds of dust become present.
Mikan screamed with her hands over her ears while barely able to keep up with Rito and Yami who were flashing in the sky and various different locations.
"Is Rito this strong?" Mikan couldn't believe that her older brother was so powerful.
"You're wrong, Mikan." Lala, who arrived by her side, protecting her from any danger, revealed: "At this moment, Rito has become a mirror that reflects Yami. In other words, at this moment, it's more like Yami is fighting herself. If she uses more power, Rito can too, understood?"
"But, why didn't he do this before?" She asked.
"It's not that he didn't want to, but he couldn't, however..." Lala smiled: "Thanks to Yami, he became more powerful and started to be able to do this."
"So... From the beginning, my brother was wanting to use Yami to become stronger?" Mikan looks in the direction where the last visible shockwave happened: "Rito calculated all this?"
Lala smiled even more: "Yes, he did."
In the air, Yami gained distance.
Instead of continuing the blade strike exchange, she made her golden hair stretch and close into fists.
Rito did the same.
"Even this?" Yami saw when his brownish-golden hair also took the same shape as hers.
"Why not?" He didn't wait and started attacking first.
*POW! POW! POW! POW! POW! POW!*
In the air, the enormous fists made of hair confront each other.
Gradually, electric threads formed until it exploded in shockwaves with lightning.
Each confrontation came with the explosive sound of a dynamite blast.
"Hey, what an annoying thing!" For the first time, Yami raised her voice.
She seemed different from before, now she seemed a little angry.
"This is bad!" Lala noticed something and flew.
Yami's hand began to transform into claws with an enormous amount of power.
"I won't be able to arrive in time..." Lala aimed his tail in Yami's direction.
Rito who had the Sage's Eyes active, began to bleed from his eyes.
'Too strong...' He thought, being forced to deactivate the eyes.
"RITO!!!" Mikan screamed very loudly. She simply knew that this time he was really in trouble.
But, suddenly... A shattering sound echoed.
The barrier that surrounded them began to disappear.
Before, what was destroyed was replaced by a completely intact scenario, making what happened before seem like a lie.
Yami looks at the sky. This made her lose the will to continue what she was about to do.
"Lacospo makes his entrance!"
A voice from a loudspeaker echoed.
Mikan who felt as if feelings had been trampled, looks in the direction of the voice with a strange look: "Lacospo? What is it now... A new enemy?"
"Lacospo!" Lala repeated the name with anger. It was as if for her it was a detestable name.
And indeed it was.
When the barrier disappeared, the Barrier Maker began to fall.
Rito used the wind, catching it and looked in the direction of the spaceship: 'And to think that I would receive help from who I least expected...'
At the same time, he continued using orbs to recover.
Soon, the voice from before echoes once again: "But what are you doing, Golden Darkness? Why are you taking so long to kill a simple earthling?"
A golden light came out of the spaceship and hit the ground.
Making the sound of "Kachannnnh" as if it were a triumphant entrance, a small alien resembling a toad, with green skin, purple lips and pointed ears begins to descend through the golden light. He dressed in royal attire, with a blue blouse with the symbol of his planet's coat of arms, a red cape, several rings on each finger and a large green hat with a turquoise stone.
With a big grin while descending, he said: "Lacospo is here to visit you!"
"So you're the retard who hired Yami to assassinate me."
"Who are you calling a retard, you stupid earthling? How dare you interfere in my relationship with Lala?!" Then, he pointed in Yami's direction in a commanding tone: "Golden Darkness, finish off that boy right now!"
"Lacospo, so it's really you who's Yami's client!" Lala looks furiously at him.
"That's right~" He extended his small arms forward like a baby learning to walk, but it wasn't cute at all, just disgusting, especially with the babyish thin voice he made: "All for you, Lala. Now, let's get married~!"
"Not even if the cow coughs! I hate you, you sent an assassin to kill Rito, I hate you!" She placed her index finger right below her left eye and stuck out her tongue in total contempt.
With an expression of someone who took a great shock, his eyes become even more bulging and snot starts coming out of his nose while his mouth stays so open that a beer can would fit. He repeated: "The worst?"
"Exactly!" Lala pointed her index finger at him: "I will never marry someone as evil as you!"
Lacospo starts to retreat backward while murmuring "No chance", but recovered by shouting at Yami: "Hey, Golden Darkness! This is the result of not eliminating the target at once!"
"You arrived at a good moment." Yami's empty expression fixed on Lacospo who held his breath in fear: "I have a question for you... Rito Yuki's data turned out to be very different from what you told me."