While Kai and the others fought against the assassins, Michelle and Tasha had trouble with Ikeda Kenzo.

They had underestimated the power of this old man.

*Pant*

*Pant*

Michelle looked at Kenzo with a tired face while the Dark Michelle suffer the same condition. They both were exhausted because of the constant fight against him.

"To think you are this powerful…" Michelle said with a smirk.

Of course, Ikeda Kenzo wasn't that much better than Michelle. Wounds covered his body and blood dyed the skin red. Despite being able to move faster since he was under the sun, Michelle managed to keep him at bay as Tasha managed to land a few hits during the battle.

"You two are less than twenty years old, but this powerful. This old man wants to retire just imagining it." He let out a long sigh.

"What the heck are you saying? She is almost twenty-one years old." Michelle pointed at Tasha with a poker face.

"Hoho. Is that so?" Kenzo smiled and raised his hands. He summoned a light ball that suddenly shattered as if something cut it three times, turning the original one ball into eight pieces. "Light Bullets."

Dark Michelle used her scythes to destroy four of them while the real Michelle leaped to the side.

"What?" Michelle frowned when she noticed that the two balls that almost hit her turned around, chasing after her. Knowing that running was useless, she slashed the two balls without hesitation.

As for Tasha, she simply raised her hand and created a pink shield, enveloping the two balls with a translucent pink mucus as if it was coated in a strawberry flavor silicon.

She grabbed both spheres and threw them to Ikeda Kenzo.

"…" Kenzo noticed the difference in his light ball and quickly erected a barrier for himself, only to find it was the correct decision. When it almost reached him, Tasha deactivated the coating and exploded the magic bullets.

"You are truly using interesting magic this whole time. Your Lightning Magic is powerful, but that weird magic is far more dangerous," praised Kenzo while looking at his surroundings. He noticed that Kai and others had killed a third of their numbers. With the magical beasts approaching, he really needed to end this as soon as possible…Alas, the talks he had been doing until now was to buy himself time to catch a breath. He thought, 'My age is not suitable to fight anymore…'

"Just surrender. We will kill you painlessly." Michelle harrumphed. "Besides, if you don't bring trouble to us anymore, we will spare the Ikeda Family. Isn't this what you want? I'm sure that a man of your caliber can see that you have no chance of winning against us. Unless you are mobilizing the entire United Asia, there's no way you can defeat our US base."

"Indeed. But this old man fights for his own ideal, so I hope that the two misses can forgive this old man because I will fight to the bitter end." He smiled.

"Tasha!" Michelle shouted.

"Spatial Lock. Magic Field." Tasha created a huge pink magic circle before a pink half-sphere was erected. It spans thirty meters in radius, making it look quite big. It barely reached the other battlefield.

"!!!" Kenzo frowned and raised his hand. A white magic circle appeared as he shot out a white beam toward the barrier, only to find it was engulfed by the pink barrier as though it was a bottomless pit.

"You won't be able to penetrate this barrier." Tasha smiled. This was one of the magic Rapakha taught her. Although it didn't have offensive power, the barrier could practically seal any attacks that came into their way.

However, it required a huge amount of magic power, so even Tasha couldn't maintain this barrier for a long time despite having most of Kai's magic power.

Michelle understood what she needed to do since they had talked about it before fighting him.

She placed her hand on the ground as a black magic circle emerged. It released a dark shadow that enveloped the barrier. Due to the lack of offensive power, the barrier didn't seal the shadow magic, so this was a perfect chance to seal Ikeda Kenzo's power.

The moment the shadow enveloped everything, no one could see anything inside the barrier. However, Tasha already put on her night vision while Michelle never had trouble to begin with.

On the other hand, Ikeda Kenzo tried to create a light ball to illuminate the darkness but to no avail.

"You better prepare your grave, old man." Michelle smirked. Her voice echoed inside the barrier, making it hard to locate her. Meanwhile, the Dark Michelle had been moving this entire time, successfully going around Kenzo.

The moment she saw an opening, Dark Michelle launched all four scythes toward him.

"Die! Shadow Slash." Michelle shouted as she released two sword strikes toward Kenzo in order to take his attention.

Unfortunately, Ikeda Kenzo seemed to haven't used all his might this whole time. He raised both hands and waved them vertically, creating two crescent-shaped lights.

It turned out that the two hit Dark Michelle's four scythes simultaneously before blowing it away.

Dark Michelle prevented the scythes from hitting the barrier while Kenzo's attacks vanished as soon as they hit the barrier.

At the same time, he stopped Michelle's Shadow Slashes with only his fingers before snapping it into two.

"You shouldn't be too reliant on your eyes alone," said Kenzo as he closed his eyes. In other words, he had been able to sense all the attacks coming into his way, so this darkness advantage was nothing.

"Yeah! And you should know that this is my turf." Michelle's power ricocheted because there was no sun inside this barrier, allowing her to use the full potential of her Shadow Possession.

Kenzo's hands were enveloped in light as he began to clash with Michelle's swords and scythes.

"Huft." While she was hitting Kenzo's finger, Michelle's breath became even vaguer as if she gradually became one with the darkness. Despite how intense the fight had become, Michelle's head and heart became cooler and cooler until one point.

Zap.

A fast stab pierced Kenzo's shoulder.

"!!!" He opened his eyes and pushed her away before leaping back. "No wonder you are strong. So, this is your trump card. Not only will this place seal most of my power, but it will also strengthen you. If I'm not wrong, the other girl's magic is not space magic. Instead, it's Sealing Magic.

"To be honest, this is more dangerous than Space Magic because you can literally compress air and seal it as a bomb. But I guess there is a limitation to do that. She then sealed the air around this area and turned them into a barrier which allowed her to stop all my attacks."

"I thought you were smart, but I guess you are a fool." Michelle shook her head in disappointment. What Kenzo said was true, but there was no way that she would admit it, right?

Instead of talking, she decided to pressure him again to prevent him from assessing his situation.

However, Kenzo only took this as another advantage as he spoke. "I see. There is something wrong with the barrier and it's not like my guess was wrong. Since the Sealing Magic girl hasn't shot another arrow this whole time…There must be a weakness to this barrier. It's either that it's too consuming for you to do another activity or physical attack is the one that works!"

Once Kenzo said those words, he grasped Michelle's wrist in exchange for a stab on the side of his stomach before throwing her toward the edge of the barrier.

Tasha clenched her teeth and teleported right before Michelle and stopped her from hitting the barrier.

At the same time, Kenzo smirked. "Found you!"

He placed his hand on the ground as a giant white circle appeared, enveloping him with light. Just like Michelle's possession, Ikeda Kenzo had one that could forcefully raise his strength during the dark.

Michelle felt dread as she and her Dark Persona charged at him together.

Kenzo took this chance and increased his speed to the limit so he could reach Tasha's location before turning in another direction, breaking through the barrier with his physical body.

His voice then echoed on the battlefield, alarming everyone.

"We lost. Retreat!"

On the contrary to the attention it brought, Tasha was more concerned about another thing as she roared after feeling that her chest was touched by the old man.

"What's the problem with that old man? He dared to sexually harass me?"

However, Michelle had a different opinion when she looked at her. There was under a note in Tasha's pocket as she quickly scanned the area, finding that the old man had escaped. Since Kai would be able to pursue him, Michelle decided to check the note first before informing Kai.

She walked toward Tasha and grabbed the note.

"What are you—" When Tasha was about to erupt, she noticed the paper in Michelle's hand. "What is that?"

"This must be the note he stuck on you. Because of our clothes, only yours have a pocket." She pointed her at her chest before shaking it. "And accidentally touch this big melon of yours!"

"…" Tasha clenched her fists and took a deep breath. After knowing the real reason, she became calmer before asking, "What's in the note?"

Michelle shook her head in confusion as she also let Tasha see.

The moment she opened the note, the two couldn't help but suck a cold breath.

"This... This is impossible," Michelle muttered in shock.