Chapter 38: Kurt vs Easia – What Master Dom Taught Me

Chapter 38: Kurt vs Easia – What Master Dom Taught Me

Returning to soon after the heroes separated from each other.

Kurt confronts a young woman, who is tying up numerous civilians on a street with a strange pink, glittery magic substance. She keeps her left arm behind her back.

“Stop that right now!” Kurt demands.

Easia turns to face Kurt. “A challenger? Let me introduce myself. My name is Easia. I am of the poachers and we do not respond kindly to people who get in our way.”

“My name is Kurt and I won’t just get in your way. I will stop you.”

“I see. Well then, I will just have to defeat you using my Fairy Magic.”

Magic-made fairy wings appear on Easia’s back, both very glittery and white.

Kurt releases his aura and it encompasses a five-foot radius around his entire body. With no hesitation, he charges forward at Easia.

“Aura Magic?” Easia notes questionably. “Why does it expand so much?”

As Kurt closes in, Easia becomes enveloped within Kurt’s aura radius. An aura whip extends out from the ground and strikes her, knocking her back against a building wall.

“I see,” Easia says. “So, stepping into the radius of his aura automatically causes it to attack. How convenient for him.”

“Spreading my aura out like this is a new ability I gained recently,” Kurt says as he charges toward her again.

Easia dashes toward Kurt to meet him head on. As she enters his aura, she ducks under his punch and then punches his torso, causing him enough pain to dissipate the aura field before it can make a whip to attack her.

She rapidly spins in a circle with her leg sticking out.

“Spin Kicks!” she shouts.

Her Spin Kicks hit Kurt repeatedly, dealing continuous blows to Kurt. She finishes her attack with a slamming kick that blows Kurt back into the glass doors of a grocery store, completely shattering them.

Kurt stands up amid the shards of glass scattered all over the floor. He scratches his head as he clenches his teeth for a moment. “I’ll have to apologize to the store owners for this.”

It distracts him long enough for Easia to launch in and slam her knee into his gut, knocking him even farther into the store, near the cash registers. Scared people disperse, trying to stay out of the fight.

He stands up, breathing heavily.

“Why do you keep your left arm behind your back?” Kurt asks. “Trying to beat me with one hand?”

Easia pauses her movement, his question taking her by surprise. “No, I just prefer to be like this,” she replies, almost stuttering.

She glances around the inside of the store, grinning ever so slightly. “You know, let’s continue our fight in here. A grocery store is the perfect place to fight.”

Kurt scratches his head at the statement. “Uhh, why…?”

Easia doesn’t answer, instead dashing forward, her legs starting to glow yellow as her speed increases.

Kurt thinks urgently, “She’s using magic to increase her speed! That’s impressive!”

He unleashes an Aura Whip to attack Easia mid-dash, but she easily sidesteps to dodge. She leaps and kicks him straight in the face, knocking him farther back into the store until he crashes into a shelf, knocking it over.

“I got more where that came from!” Easia says with excitement as her magic wings begin to flap, creating a pink dust in the area.

Kurt notices that his own speed and reactions are beginning to slow down as he stands up.

“What is this?” he asks.

Easia grins with confidence. “My Fairy Magic can create dust that affects my enemies. In this case, your movements and reactions are slowed.”

With her increased speed, Easia quickly reaches Kurt and punches him twice in the face. She then thrusts her knee into his gut before slamming her leg into him horizontally. The kick sends him into more shelves, knocking them all over in the process.

He grunts as he rubs his head, just trying to sit up but failing. “Damn it…”

“Look on the bright side,” Easia suggests with a grin. “You can eat your favorite foods before you die. Hahahahaha!”

Kurt remains lying on the knocked-over shelf.

“What would Master Dom do in this situation?”

He has a flashback to his days training with his master. He sits with Master Dom in a training room, one built with well-painted brown wood walls, a gray mat on the floor, and lit candles hanging on the walls. Master Dom’s messy black hair gives off a disheveled impression. His black beard and mustache are full but not long, with no patchiness at all. He wears a green robe, similar to what Kurt wears.

Staring at Kurt with a warm but serious expression, Master Dom asks, “Kurt, do you know what the biggest advantage of Aura Magic is?”

“No, master. Please tell me.”

“You can still manipulate your aura even if you can’t move. It does not require precise movements like other types of magic. If you ever find yourself in a situation where your movements are limited, try this technique.”

Master Dom begins to form an aura around his whole body. He makes his hands connect diagonally like an upside-down V, and his finger tips of each hand touch each other. The aura moves forward off of Master Dom’s body. The result is that in front of Master Dom is an aura creation that resembles himself.

Upon finishing his technique, he continues speaking. “When you yourself can’t fight, you can create an aura version of yourself and fight through it. A disadvantage to this, though, is that it leaves your actual body more vulnerable so only use it if it’s necessary.”

Kurt gratefully smiles. “Right. Thank you, Master Dom.”

Kurt’s flashback ends, and he thinks, “I still haven’t been able to perform the technique, but I must try now or it’s over.”

He slowly connects his hands diagonally.

“And what is this supposed to be?” Easia asks, amused by his desperate attempt.

Kurt shouts, “Aura Image!”

His aura comes off his body.

Easia opens her eyes wider in surprise. “What the…?”

Soon after, Kurt’s aura does take on his appearance, standing up while his main body is lying on top of the knocked-over shelf.

“What technique is this?” Easia asks, beginning to feel unease.

Even still on his back, Kurt confidently smiles. “It’s my Aura Image. I can use it to fight you without any movements from my body.”

“It won’t change the outcome,” Easia states. “I will destroy your aura.”

She holds up her right hand and shoots five small glittery beams from the tips of her fingers.

“Fairy Beams!” Easia shouts.

The Fairy Beams make contact with the aura, but they just go right through it and have no effect.

Easia stares oddly at the Aura Image, one of her eyes only half open while the other eye’s eyebrow is raised. She then flaps her Fairy Wings, sending pink dust swirling around the Aura Image.

“That will slow you down.”

However, the Aura Image charges at Easia and punches her in the face, sending her flying back into some shelves, knocking them over. She quickly stands up with an irritated glare etched on her face.

“My Fairy Dust doesn’t work on aura… I should have known.” she laments before she starts screaming, “If you push me any further, I will reveal my ugly left arm!!”

Kurt stares at her in confusion. “Seriously, what is with that left arm…?”

Kurt has found a way to fight even with slowed movements! But what exactly is the secret of Easia’s left arm?!

Chapter 38 END

To be Continued in Chapter 39: Easia’s Left Arm Revealed