Naota and Skar stare at each other. Skar has readied his sword while Naota bends his knees and readies his blade. Naota holds his blade right in front of his eyes.

(I don't know how but in my mind, I already know this stance)

Skar sighs.

"You can still give up." Skar says to Naota. Naota looks a little surprise. "Why would I give up when I am the one protecting here?" Naota questions Skar. "Talking to you is hopeless." Skar says. "Of course it is! I am a very stubborn guy after all." Naota grins.

"That is what will be your demise!" Skar says as he rushes Naota.

(What the hell, his fast!)

Naota's blade and Skar's sword connect.

(That was damn close, tsch! This might be harder than I thought)

"You did well to react to my attack." Skar says as he vanishes from front of Naota.

"Then what about this one?" Skar says as he appears behind Naota. Naota's eyes widen.

(Shit! I can't reach to it!)

Heavy blood splashes as Skar uses his sword to cut Naota's back. Naota backs off.

Blood drips can be seen on the ground as Naota backs off and even now blood drops off of Naota's back where a huge cut was made by Skar. Even the tip of Skar's sword is covered with Naota's blood and it drops from the tip of the sword.

"I see that you don't feel pain that easily." Skar says to Naota. Naota smirks. "That was nothing compared to what Feril and I went through." Naota says to Skar.

"You mean the traitor?" Naota's eyes widen. "Well, he died a horrible death and I shall give you the same death as him." Skar says as he points his sword towards Naota. "No, no, Skar. Give him a death worse than that traitorous fucker." Pistom gives an evil grin.

"I understand my liege." Skar bows and says to Pistom. "I shall give him death worse than Feril." Skar continues.

Naota runs towards Skar. Skar stares at Naota as he arrives. "HAAAAAA!!!!" Naota screams and rolls himself towards Skar while attacking him with his blade. Skar blocks Naota's blade with his sword. Naota's blade and Skar's sword keep on clashing.

The sword and blade keep on clashing until Naota throws his blade in the air taking Skar off guard. Naota brings out the zephor ball out of his pocket and throws the ball at Skar's guts with full force like he is throwing a baseball ball.

The ball hits Skar's guts and Skar spits out blood from his mouth onto the ground. "Damn...I didn't expect you to have such a heavy item..." Skar says as he holds onto his gut. Skar wipes blood off of his lips as he gets back to his normal position.

"Clearly, I have underestimated you. You may not be strong but you are a very intelligent person." Skar says to Naota as Naota keeps on staring at Skar.

"But it seems you have completely underestimated me too." Skar says as he readies his sword.

(Something is strange...It's almost as if the zephor didn't affect him at all)

"Boy, did you know that there are certain people in this world who carry special abilities?" Skar says to Naota.

(Special abilities...What is he talking about? Is he a reincarnate too?)

"My special ability is..." A hand appears above Naota.

"Huh?!" Naota looks above him.

(No time to dodge!)

The hand lands onto the ground causing a huge impact towards the ground.

"Return, the ability to reverse any blow that my opponent inflicts upon me, that is my ability." Skar says to Naota who is smashed onto the ground.

"The blow that your zephor ball gave me was indeed quite a strong one but almost 80% of that was returned to you. This means you can't move anymore and your bones must be broken, maybe you're even dead." Skar says as he walks towards the huge hole that the impact created and looks at Naota whose body seems to be on the ground.

Naota's body is filled with bruises and blood. It seems that Naota is unable to move anymore but is still breathing.

"You're very lucky to survive that boy." Skar says as he walks towards Naota to attack him. "But this is your end, right over here." Skar says as he readies his sword to attack Naota.

Skar was about to swing his sword but...

"You want me right? Then take me! STOP HURTING HIM!" The two girls that Pistom was after, they stepped right in front of Naota.

"Look at this, I left a small portion of my food into the sea but the two big one's caught it." Pistom says with an evil smile.

Maria, Lily and Grafali arrive at the scene. "Tsch! We are late..." Grafali says with an angry expression.

"Skar, come back and bring those two with you." Pistom orders Skar. "Understood, my liege." Skar bows and takes both Adana and Rochel away.

"Stop...Them..." Naota who can barely speak says. "I would love to kill you Takaki Naota as I hate you but I got what I came here for. So I will let you live so that you can know what defeat tastes like."

"Naota! Naota! NAOTA!" Maria, Lily and Grafali gather around Naota.

"I told him not to mess with Rochel...Only if he would have understood..." The assassin looks at Naota from a tall building. Then she notices something. "Wait...Isn't that...."

"My lord, is that man okay?" A man's voice.

Everyone turn around to see who this man is. Grafali's face widens as he sees the man.

"I will be taking him into my care than." The man says as he picks up Naota.

"HEY! WHO ARE YOU?!" Maria and Lily seem to be angry and ready to attack him. "Don't worry, I have no evil intentions, all I want to do is help this young man." The man says to everyone. "Now, I will take my leave." The man says as he disappears out of everyone's sight.

"Who was...That guy...?"