*Starting Scene*

Returning to Sano and Nash's face off inside Wukong Village, two chain-sickles simultaneously fly towards the staff-wielding teen as he remains in front of the building's entrance. In response, Sano calmly twirls Ruyi Jingu Bang via his left hand until jerking his arm in front of himself to repel Kusarigama back towards Nash.

Nash shows mild discontent as he swiftly lifts both hands and catches his weapon's chains just before getting hit in the face. After that, the man dressed in green draws both appendages towards his chest, uttering with seriousness taking form, "Chain Festival." A plethora of chains then advance towards Sano, compliments of Nash throwing his arms forward.

Sano's momentarily caught off guard by that, however, doesn't let it keep him from properly defending himself. The black-haired boy does so via placing his other hand on Ruyi Jingu Bang, and in different swings that forced him to spin multiple times, deflects the sickles whenever one got in range with excellent agility as many clanging sounds reverberate upon each contact made between their weapons.

Yuki watches in awe from where she's been standing since Nash's appearance while unable to fathom how both individuals are accomplishing what they're doing and only can say underneath her breath, "Incredible..."

At the same time, Nash tries to keep his emotions in check, despite feeling agitated by how well Sano's dealing with his attack, as his arms are nothing but blurs. Then, the black-eyed disciple retracts his chains to regain his hold on them and slants his head westward to crack it, both arms lowered presently. "It ain't often I face peeps who can handle my Kusarigama so well. Today's sure been unique."

Sano plants one of Ruyi Jingu Bang's ends onto the ground ahead of him after  confronting Nash. This is due to the lad having been in the middle of a spin when his opponent decided to halt his assault and displays vague skepticism. "Am I supposed to be flattered or something? Should I say thank you?"

Nash grins prior to shaking his head. "I wouldn't if I were in ya' shoes. I hate it when someone takes too long ta' die." He maneuvers his right arm towards himself, his expression becoming malicious. "Chain Festival: Act 2, Single." Nash launches another barrage of chain-sickles, although solely through his right limb.

Sano hurriedly dashes to the left, his staff held within his right hand, as Nash's attack practically obliterates the building that was behind Sano while a ton of smoke expels from the structure's destruction. Not much after that, the golden-eyed gentleman glances at the pulverized building by turning his head westward without stopping and is surprised. "Holy crap! Talk about powerful!"

Nash abruptly appears in front of Sano's path, managing to retain his grip upon the chain he just utilized. Concurrently, the Caucasian male has his left arm ready to strike via the Kusarigama held by that limb and confidently states, "Don't forget ta' mention fast too!"

Sano looks at Nash out of the corner of his eyes before commenting with no concern emitted, a mere couple of meters separating the two of them, "I know. Sucks that you aren't on my level of speed though."

Nash's briefly taken aback, however, isn't deterred enough to cease his assault and releases the left Kusarigama at a range he believes would be impossible for Sano to avoid. Unfortunately for the disciple, Sano hits the terrain via the end of Ruyi Jingu Bang, so that the jacket-wearing person can be elevated into the air. This permits Sano to dodge the chain-sickle as his adversary is left in bewilderment. Then, having rejoined his left hand onto his staff, and with a shift of momentum due to him swinging himself towards Ruyi Jingu Bang's right side, Sano lands a mighty dropkick on Nash's left cheek.

Yuki's delighted by Sano's counter amidst throwing both arms into the air, retaining her grip on the Ice Wand via her right hand. "He nailed him!" The pink-haired girl immediately realizes what she's doing after peering at her raised limbs while turning a faint shade of red before hastily putting them down, head lowered to view the road, and thinks in embarrassment, "That was very unladylike of me! Why did I do such a thing?!" She reverts her concentration to Sano as disbelief plagues her, mumbling, "What...?"

The reason for Yuki's behavior is because Nash barely faltered after receiving Sano's dropkick, wielding his head tilted eastward while sternly glaring at Sano.

His feet having yet to be removed from the black-haired man's face, Sano's eyes widen from astonishment as he remains in the air with both hands holding onto the orange staff. "Whoa... You're tough..."

Nash coldly retorts. "And mad!" The green-clothed individual grabs Sano's ankles via both hands and pushes him off his face. This causes Sano to swing himself back to the left side of Ruyi Jingu Bang, ultimately landing his feet on the ground as he releases his left hand's grip from the staff. While that happened, Nash jerked his left arm back to lift the Kusarigama off the dirt road and hurls it towards the posterior of Sano's head.

Sano unconsciously shifts his attention to see behind himself, and right when he does that, the chain-sickle cuts into the fellow's left cheek. As a result, the young man torques his body to the right while snapping his head in the same direction, barely managing to minimize the damage with a simple gash made.

Nash quickly catches the chain while preparing another attack with his right Kusarigama, but is cut off by Sano's Ruyi Jingu Bang being swung like a golf club thanks to the tanned boy swiftly tossing the orange staff high enough to grab onto the area near one of its end via both hands.  The strike almost would have hit Nash's jaw, however, the enemy had instinctively taken a step back as this leads to both males leaping to gain some distance so they can recollect their composure. In the meantime, Nash intently watches Sano with a scrutinizing conduct, mildly slouching forward, as a small bruise appears on the cheek his opponent struck. "It's nasty tha' ya' touched my face with ya' nasty feet, ya' fuckin' shit!"

Sano scoffs, the cut on his cheek bleeding a little, stands sideways with his left foot towards Nash while carrying Ruyi Jingu Bang behind his rear via both hands and casually says, "You sound like Axis. He always complained more than anyone about me walking barefooted. It was really annoying. It's not like I never wash them. I actually do it three times a day, but they get dirty right after." The  teenager laughs. "I did trick him into believing that I don't clean myself though. Axis' probably the most gullible person I've ever met."

Nash tries to restrain a small amount of anger that just tried to escape his being. "And ya' just lumped me in with him! I'm nothin' like tha' weak-ass bitch!"

Sano gives off a somewhat nervous expression. "Yo, chill out. I wasn't really lumping you guys together. All I said was that you both complained about my feet. That's it." Realization unexpectedly gains a hold on Sano prior to the jacket-wearing boy steering his focus to where Axis lies dead and even sets his sights on Berk. "Speaking of..." Sano returns his gaze to Nash with a firm demeanor. "You mind explaining what you mentioned earlier? You know, how the Son Goku Clan are all a bunch of weaklings."

Nash snickers out of amusement as he cocks his head to the right to crack his neck again. "Wha' is there ta' explain?! It's pretty obvious ta' anyone with half a brain! How else would I kno'?!"

Sano shuts his eyes and tightly clenches onto Ruyi Jingu Bang via both hands. "You killed them all... Just like you killed Axis... Right?"

Nash swings his left hand to the side with his posture fully upright. "Hell, I didn't just kill 'em! I slaughtered their weak-asses!" The black-eyed disciple puts his left arm down while controlling himself a tad. "Especially tha' old geeza' who was their leada'!"

Sano frantically opens his eyes to look at Nash, shock emanating. "Are you serious?! You fought my grandad?!"

Yuki covers her mouth with her left hand while letting out a distraught gasp and thinks, "Does that mean... He killed Sano's grandfather...?!" Tears begin to form under Yuki's eyes.

Nash can't help but be quite surprised. "Ya' grandad?!" He suddenly recalls something, allowing Nash to calm down, and demonstrate a pompous smirk. "Oh, yeah... Ya' name's Sano, ain't it? Tha' old geeza' said tha' name before I took him out with a blade to his right eye."

Sano gawks at Nash, slumping his shoulders, and slants his head westward a tad. "Is that... It?"

Frustration rapidly consumes Nash upon taking a few steps towards Sano. "Wha' do ya' mean?! Tha' was the killin' blow!"

Sano presents a bland attitude while straightening his head. "Well, did you inflict anymore damage on him?" He gestures his head towards Axis' direction. "Like what you did to Axis."

Nash expels a fake laugh. "I did tha' 'cause the fool woke up. He figured why I was there the moment he saw me and tried ta' run. Plus, he needed ta' be punished for failin' the boss." The Caucasian diverts his attention from Sano to focus eastward. "In tha' old geeza's case, I'm sure tha' stab at the eye was MORE than enough. He was weaker than those bitches I first slaughtered." Nash snickers again.

Sano cocks his head back and starts laughing hysterically with his eyes closed, compelling Nash to hurriedly revert his concentration to Sano while greatly confused.

Meanwhile, Yuki removes her left hand from her mouth as she keeps it below her chin and is equally dumbfounded with the princess' tears drying up. "Huh? Why is he...?"

After several seconds of witnessing Sano's laughter, rage surfaces on Nash's person as his body tenses up and fingers twitch from time to time. "Wha' is so fuckin' funny?!"

Sano gradually detains himself while veering his sight onto Nash without altering his head's angle. "Nothing really. I just remembered that I got my habit of tricking gullible people from my grandad. That and my staff wielding style in some aspects. Besides that, we're two totally different people, even though we're blood."

Nash's eyes narrow with his fury steadily increasing and bends down to a certain extent to get his next attack ready. "Who are ya' callin' gullible?! Act 2, Double!" He releases another plethora of chains with outstanding velocity at Sano.

Sano nonchalantly chuckles amidst properly positioning his head. "I already know the trick to that. I'm nowhere near as gullible as you." By using his right foot as a pivot, Sano spins his foundation around like he did fighting the Grunt Brigade and deflects both Kusarigamas in opposite directions. This resulted in each of Nash's weapons crashing into a building with sufficient force to not only penetrate their walls, but also cause them to profusely crack.

Right after that, Sano halts his agile mobility while confronting Nash with confidence brimming. "It's a high-speed flurry of those chains that move so quick, they actually seemed to multiply, but that isn't true. They just make afterimages of their following trajectory once they hit their first target and so on until you decide it's over. That's the reason your arms aren't visible. To do something like that, you gotta' be extremely fast-handed."

Nash grits his teeth, refusing to cease his onslaught. "Why ya' fuckin'...!" He then harshly crosses his arms to tug on his chains. "Ya' ain't seen anythin' yet! Here's a kick-up of how fast I am! Act 3!" Both Kurasigamas free themselves from the walls they were planted into and are hurled towards Sano while numerous copies appear once more.

Sano does a double-take glance between opposing directions to depict where the attacks are generating from and slightly crouches down. "There's something else I'm wondering." The gentleman effortlessly jumps into the air, curls into a ball to perform a back-flip while keeping his staff behind himself and dodges the chain-sickles as they collided into each other right under Sano, creating a loud clanging sound. A split second later, Sano thrusts both feet upon the Kusarigama pair after finishing his flip and pins them onto the earth with his focus resettled on Nash. "I hope you don't mind, but I think you owe me this much."

Nash becomes silent, both hands poised in front of him because of his opponent preventing him from drawing Kusarigama back, and stares at Sano while clearly displeased.

Sano contentedly nods before momentarily using his left thumb to wipe away the small stream of blood running down his face. "I'll take that as you agreeing. Anyway, I just wanted to know..." Curiosity immediately overtakes Sano as he barely slants his head westward. "Did my grandad fight you barehanded?"

Nash raises his right eyebrow with confusion and uncertainty establishing itself as he replies. "Yeah... So wha' if he did?" An egotistical smile replaces the chain-wielding man's previous conduct. "He coulda' used one of those worthless sticks... Nah, he coulda' used a hundred of 'em and I'd still woulda' murked his old ass!"

Sano refrains from laughing, although it's plain to see that he finds Nash's words humorous, and slightly shifts his upper body to the right with a skeptical personality surfacing. "Wow, I'm gonna' have to search for a word that means a higher level of gullibility. You really got fooled. Not just that, you ignored what I said about where I got some of my staff wielding techniques."

Nash's anger resumes. "And I told ya' tha' he coulda' had a hundred and I'd still murk 'im!"

Sano chuckles after adjusting himself to fully face Nash with a cheerful composition. "That's what makes this entire situation SO funny! He isn't dead!"

Amazement overruns Yuki while having her left hand lowered to her side.

Meanwhile, Nash's eyes widen, baffled by Sano's declaration, until shouting furiously, "Ya' liar! No one fights me and lives!" He then aggressively pulls both arms to free the two Kusarigama's from underneath Sano.

Sano lackadaisically jumps into the air again thanks to the strength of Nash's recent actions, does an arching back-flip to land a tiny bit further rearward than where he was situated without losing his hold of Ruyi Jingu Bang and rests his gaze on his enemy, his posture vaguely contorted forward. "But I'm not lying. It's just how my grandad is. You see, like you mentioned, he's an old geezer. With that, even though he had once pride himself as the Son Goku Clan's leader, he's..." Sano pauses prior to gently dropping his head southward amidst closing his eyes.

Yuki and Nash, who had regained his grasp on his dual Kusarigama's handles with the same ease he has exhibited from the start, wait for Sano to finish his sentence while intrigue radiates from both of them.

Sano hoists his head while giving off a halfhearted grin and faintly shrugs his shoulders. "He's very lazy."

Both Yuki and Nash suddenly fall flat on their face. Afterwards, Nash hastily gets back on his feet as the black-eyed person's baffled. "Wha' ya' mean?!"

Sano opens his eyes, his shoulders now relaxed. "I mean he doesn't really care to fight anymore, and when he does, that OLD GEEZA' never fights seriously. Most of the time he goes barehanded, which is his weakest method of combat." The teenager scoffs out of amusement. "If you really wanna' face him when he's serious, then make him feel like you're worthy enough to use his staff."

Nash fiercely yells as he stretches both arms outward to opposite sides, "But he talked like he was gonna' die and was almost cryin'! Tha' why he said a bunch of garbage 'bout ya' keepin' on their teachin', even if ya' chose not ta' be the leada' of the stupid clan! It made not a lick of sense either since I killed everyone!"

Sano almost gags out of surprise, turns his head eastward and laughs quite a lot with his eyes shut. "Are you kidding me?!" He adjusts his body to be poised upright while locking his focus back to Nash as the golden-eyed individual displays a carefree attitude. "My grandad has no shame whatsoever. It's exactly how you stated. It's just a bunch of garbage...'Cause despite what granddad told me when leaving from the temple's grounds, I can safely bet his opinion of me is still pretty bad, no matter what might happen. He only spouted all that to make you think he had given up, so he can more than likely escape with his life intact, barely needing to put any effort on his part."

Yuki slowly rises to her feet with a pained grimace amidst peering at Sano, muttering in a sad tone, "Why do such a thing...? To his own grandkid..." She gulps. "He's a lot like me..." The princess instantly recalls a part of the conversation Dante and Sano had at the campsite while her eyes depressingly glisten. "Especially in the treated poorly by others part."

Nash commandeers his arms faintly so he can position them ahead to gesture as he raises his right eyebrow due to frustration. "Ya' really tellin' me tha' old geeza' did tha' with no prob at all after I killed his students! Tha' makes even LESS sense!"

Sano's eyes grow vacant and rebuttals callously. "There's actually sense in it, just not any good one. My grandad, Lord Yosen, is a firm believer that the Son Goku Clan can always find new members. As long as the leader lives, nothing else matters. Even though he forfeited that position quite some time ago. I guess something's better than nothing." The staff-wielding young man lets out a softer scoff. "Ironically, despite the two art forms that Son Goku takes pride in, my grandad never fully mastered Kung Fu, one of its mandatory arts, and still became the leader. Kind of makes it lose the meaning of learning them when you can still succeed in taking over without one. Part of the reason Axis might have been a good possible choice, except he didn't know either of the two in reality AND sucked in general. Plus, there was no way in hell I was gonna' let him take Ruyi."

Nash pulls his head back to stare at the sky, his expression changing to be stoic as both arms now dangle close to his waist. "I'm gettin' tired of this useless shit." The disciple gradually switches his gaze to Sano with a menacing aura emitting. "I'll just go finish the job right after I tear both of ya' into bits!" He then whips out his right arm to fully unravel the chain around it, revealing the weapon's full length that's around twenty meters, and grabs onto the cylinder-shaped weight. After doing that, Nash rotates the Kusarigama above his head with a snap of his wrist at the moment he extend his right hand towards the sky as it spins like a propeller in an extremely fast manner.

Because of Kusarigama being so long, the sickle-blade slices through the nearby buildings, which causes them to collapse almost simultaneously with immense smoke and rubble generating. In the meantime, Sano had no choice other than to frantically duck his head about a foot to evade the chain-sickle or he would have been decapitated by Nash's weapon.

Having staggered backwards a tad in fear of possibly getting hit by Kusarigama's repetitive rampage since she's narrowly out of its range, Yuki releases a distraught gasp with her body mildly trembling. "Oh, my God..." The pink-haired girl analyzes her surroundings with horror. "These guys always seem to want to leave chaos wherever possible. This is just terrible." Yuki diverts her attention to Nash and Sano.

As that took place, Sano's eyes are glued to the dirt road and is fairly stunned for a while. This only lasts until the spiky-haired boy cautiously returns his concentration towards Nash after taking into account that more space has been created from the collision of the destructive Kusarigama and thinks with a hint of relief, "Good thing the villagers were smart enough to bail instead of hiding in their homes. They were always the type to run over staying and fight. Part of the reason the Son Goku Clan exists in the first place." The tanned gentleman takes in a deep breath before exhaling out and then questions Nash. "You planning something big? Is that why you're doing this?"

Nash snickers with a stuck-up look forged. "Fuck nah. I just hate havin' stuff in my way when I wanna' fight all out, so don't shit ya' shorts after I rip this whole lousy village ta' fuckin' shreds." The green-clothed individual evilly smirks. "Tha' is if ya' alive when I'm done."

Sano gets serious while digging his feet into the ground. "I can't let you do that. I don't care how things were growing up, but this place is, by all means, still my home. Plus, I don't see myself dying just yet, so don't get your hopes up." The golden-eyed character immediately moves Ruyi Jingu Bang from behind himself via his left hand since he briefly relinqueshed his right hand's grip on it to aim one of the ends at Nash. Having done that, Sano positions his right foot forward to widen his stance, significantly repairs his posture as he's standing sideways, rejoins his right hand onto the dark orange staff above the other hand and shouts in a commanding tone, "Extend!"

Ruyi Jingu Bang promptly grows in length while headed towards Nash with impressive speed. The black-eyed Caucasian, startled by the oncoming weapon in a way he didn't expect, halts Kusarigama's rotation to whip it downward at the staff. Another loud clang resounds upon contact as Ruyi Jingu Bang's end hits the ground right in front of Nash and becomes submerged underneath it. Not long after, Nash looks at Sano with frustration and bewilderment overflowing. "Fuck! I forgot ya' could do tha'! But how can ya'?! Are ya' a Spellcaster?!"

Sano doesn't respond to Nash's question as he happily grins and mutters, "Retract." The moment those words were spoken, the staff started shrinking rapidly, however, in a manner that made Sano go flying towards Nash, which is precisely what the grey jacket-wearing teen was intending.

Concurrently, Sano positions his feet towards Nash to attempt another dropkick, although aimed at his opponent's abdomen this time because of the low altitude he's traveling, while continuing to quickly soar in the air.

Nash instantly realizes Sano's plot and throws his left Kusarigama to intercept the tanned fellow after yelling out with an irritated tone, "I ain't lettin' ya' touch me with those feet again!"

Sano spreads his legs open to prevent the chain-sickle from cutting through his feet while making his left hand let go of the orange staff and cocks his head back. By doing that, Sano manages to dodge Kusarigama's blade since its momentum hadn't ceased as the spiky-haired boy continues his way towards Nash, snaps his attention back to his adversary with intensity brimming, joins both feet together once again before thrusting them forward and successfully lands the second dropkick on the focused body region.

Considering the built-up velocity put into the attack, Nash is hurled backwards with a distraught expression surfacing and crashes onto the dirt road about five meters from his previous location. He rests there on his back for several seconds while having his eyes closed as some pain can be noted on Nash's being.

At the same time, Sano leisurely stands where his strike had landed, faces Nash's direction while his feet are surrounded by both Kusarigamas that now reside on the ground and commences twirling Ruyi Jingu Bang via his right hand. "What did you say about my feet not touching you again? 'Cause they just did." The teen faintly chuckles. "Oh, and to answer your question, I'm not a Spellcaster. Just a half-breed."

Nash's eyes open widely, dumbfounded by what he recently heard, while thinking as his gaze focuses on the somewhat clouded sky, "Half-breed?!" The Caucasian male slowly peers at Sano as he thinks, "If he's tellin' the truth, it's amazin' tha' he's still alive and kickin'! Peeps usually kill his kind more ruthlessly than humans woulda' Spellcaster! And tha' be from both sides!" A stern demeanor hurriedly overcomes Nash while thinking, "Now I get why he said wha' the old geeza' told me was a bunch of garbage." Nash casually sits up without taking his eyes off Sano.

The two males stare at each other for a few seconds until Nash decides to get to his feet, however, has his head down while individually cracking every single finger of his with a sharp flicking motion. "Ya' somethin' else, Sano. Ya' keep pullin' out some nifty tricks in really odd situations." He pauses to release a deep sigh. "Outta' curiosity. Why ya' wait 'till now ta' make tha' stick grow? Ya hoped I'd forget and wanted ta' take advantage?"

Sano shakes his head with a hint of amusement showing. "Not at all. I actually didn't have enough room, so I was saving that last attack I did for an opportune moment..." The teenage gentleman briefly motions his head towards his left and right. "But lucky me, you created space, so I can pull out my other tricks when needed. That's why I went for the one I was saving up."

Nash tilts his head to the right to loudly crack his neck and says in a malicious voice, "Then how 'bout ya' try those tricks against this? Chain Festival: Act 4."

Suspicion dwells within Sano as he halts his staff's gyration to hold it horizontally and intently watches Nash. Not even a second later, Sano witnesses Nash's entire body momentarily flicker right before his eyes, which caused the black-haired young man confusion, and then is pierced abruptly in his stomach by both blades. After that, the golden-eyed boy hastily gazes down at the chain-sickles with disbelief resonating in his eyes and asks in a strained tone, "When...?! How...?!"

While Sano contemplated what transpired, a rattling sound soon echoes from Nash's person. This makes curiosity consume Sano as he mindlessly lifts his gaze towards Nash, and just when he does that, two iron weights unexpectedly hit him dead on the center of his face. A look of agony overruns Sano with his eyes shut after elevating into the air due to the great force implemented through both cylinder-shaped weights.

Simultaneously, both chain-sickles are removed from Sano's stomach thanks to a swift and fierce jerk of Nash's arms, which caused Sano to gag while still idly floating. Sadly, it doesn't stop there as Nash pulls his arms around together and towards his left, so Nash can raise both limbs above his head with all four ends of his two weapons to be in the air. After doing that, the black-eyed Caucasian quickly takes several steps forward, tightens his grip on the middle of each Kusarigama's chain that he's now holding and gets ready to launch the following strike in a similar manner to fishermen casting their fishing line.

In the meantime, Sano falls to the ground, rolls along his back, uses that momentum to flip himself onto his left knee with his right foot planted forward and stabs his staff into the dirt road via his right hand to cease since he was skidding for a bit. Soon after, the tanned individual locks his focus onto Nash with urgency present. He's then met by a relentless barrage of the two blades and iron weights via continuous high-speed swings from the enemy thanks to Sano still being within Nash's range.

At that exact moment, Sano desperately attempts to withstand the onslaught with his Ruyi Jingu Bang still mounted in front of him while having joined his other hand onto the weapon so he can add more support. As he did that, Sano puts his head down to help prevent any severe damage from passing through to the notable weak spots in this circumstance involving a blade. In addition, only a small number of strikes leave their mark on Sano's body in the form of light cuts that tear through his clothing and make tiny sums of blood seep out, compliments of the sickles, or vague bruises where the weights managed to hit.

Considering how minor his current array of attacks are effecting his adversary, an intense demeanor takes hold of Nash while rapidly swinging his arms left and right in a large whipping motion. This allows the disciple to keep his assault going for a few more seconds and isn't thrown off by the fact his weapons repeatedly hit the ground with every swing because of their length while creating more damage to the terrain. Then, Nash decides to pull away his right arm to the side before whipping the Kusarigama in that limb's possession towards Sano's left. It promptly entangles around Ruyi Jingu Bang as Nash torques his right hand towards himself.

Sano loses some of his balance because of that, however, doesn't lose his grip on the orange staff with anger slowly presenting itself on the jacket-wearing individual while grunting. "What are you-?" He's interrupted by the sudden appearance of an iron weight next to his right cheek and is about to collide with it. Right after, Sano gets hit by the cylinder-shaped weight, snaps his head to the left due to the force applied and demonstrates a shocked composition.

Worry hastily consumes Yuki after gasping.

Nash, being an opportunist, yanks his right hand to tear away Sano's hold on Ruyi Jingu Bang with a sinister smirk emanating while thinking, "Chance!"

Sano's attention hurriedly switches to his staff and refuses to let go of it as he's thrown off balance again. "Not happening! I'd die before I let you take Ruyi from me!"

Nash snickers in a menacing manner. "Then tha' settles wha' I gotta' do!" The green-clothed Caucasian steers his left hand backwards to make Kusarigama fling towards that direction prior to swinging it at Sano again.

Sano tries to react, but can't since the effect of his enemy's previous assault had piled on the golden-eyed teen's body. This results in the left Kusarigama's chain tightly wrapping Sano's neck, which caused panic to overtake the boy's face, and frantically grabs it with his left hand to set himself free. "For the love of-!"

Nash doesn't permit Sano to finish his sentence, and with both hands, pulls with all his strength while turning around to make his adversary fly into the air above. After that, as the tanned gentleman's elevated, Nash swings Sano all over the place in a heartless way and crashes him with everything that he can, which includes what little is left of the nearby buildings that were pretty much demolished by Nash's Kusarigama.

With each impact, Sano's overwhelmed with pain while desperately trying to persevere through his current predicament and admirably keeps his grip on Ruyi Jingu Bang as distressful groans escape him.

Meanwhile, Yuki's on the verge of not being able to watch any longer as a hopeless feeling gathers at the core of her chest and mutters, "Sano..."

Yui unexpectedly interjects within Yuki's mind in a desolate tone. "He's going to die at this rate, you know?"

Horror radiates from Yuki before she plants both hands on her head and crouches with her eyes shut. "No! Don't talk! I don't need to hear it!"

Yui becomes enraged. "Or what?! You're going to cry again?! You're so pathetic! Just let me out and I'll save him for you!"

Yuki frantically shakes her head. "I won't! I have no control over you! How do I know you won't kill him too?!"

Yui retorts with her anger increasing. "Stop being such a baby! You have no other choice! If you don't, you'll get us all killed!"

Yuki screams as she throws her head back, "STOP IT! PLEASE! DANTE, HELP ME!"

Nash smashes Sano's back onto the ground about five meters in front of Yuki while giving her a disgusted look. "Wha' the fuck's wrong with ya'?! Ya' crazy or somethin', girl?!"

Yuki looks at Nash, stunned by his uncaring statement, as despair floods her person, drops her Ice Wand that dissipates before touching the ground, gradually shakes her head and then cocks her head back while releasing a heartbreaking cry. "MOMMY!"

Sano's eyes snap open with fury resonating and then fiercely glares at Nash by tilting his head back since the black-haired young man was flung upside down.

Nash feels a shiver go down his spine and thinks, "Wha' the...?"

Sano quickly holds Ruyi Jingu Bang horizontally in the air as he firmly stares at it. "Extend!" Upon his order, the orange staff greatly ascends in length towards its master's left, and not even a couple of seconds later, Sano swiftly rotates it clockwise from his point of view.

That results in Ruyi Jingu Bang to accelerate towards Nash's face from his left. In response, Nash instantaneously looks out of the corner of his eyes and squats down with an immense quantity of fear showing.

Witnessing Nash's actions, Sano pushes his right foot off the ground, spins himself to face the black-eyed disciple while changing his hands positioning on Ruyi Jingu Bang so he can draw the end that missed the enemy towards the sky and firmly holds it by the other end without taking his eyes off Nash. Having done that, the grey/orange-clothed teen lightly pulls his staff back until swinging it downward with a powerful torque of his upper body while ignoring the fact that he continues to lie on the dirt road.

Nash has no time to dodge as all he could do was lift both arms over his head, spreads his legs to gain more stability and takes on the full force of Sano's staff. Because of this, a horrific crack emits from Nash's arms following Ruyi Jingu Bang slamming right into the Caucasian male's forearms. Nash grinds his teeth after that occurred while unimaginable agony aches at his entire being as he gazes at his arms and the orange staff.

Sano briefly watches Nash until coldly muttering after heavily breathing for a while, "Retract." Ruyi Jingu Bang does what it's commanded and returns to its original state. Once that happened, the black-haired teen casually removes the chains around his neck and staff while dropping them to the earth. Then, Sano curls his legs towards his chest and hops to his feet with very little effort.

Nash doesn't change his posture with his eyes glued onto his arms, kind of like if he was frozen in time.

Sano examines Nash for a few seconds, holding Ruyi Jingu Bang only in his right hand again, turns his concentration to Yuki by stepping backwards via his left foot and notices that she's once again curled up into a ball. Not long after that, a shadow of Sano when he was little appears towards Yuki's left while in the same position, which causes the teenager to display sadness. He's then about to say something to Yuki, however, gets distracted by an alarming sensation while thinking with his eyes widening, "I smell murder...!" Sano snaps his attention back to Nash's location while plagued by concern.

Nash finally repaired his posture and gives Sano an empty expression with both arms hung at his sides. "Ya' should be proud, kid."

Sano completely faces Nash without a single difference to his attitude and stays quiet.

Nash sighs. "I've got myself a pretty mean streak... Total number of kills: 804. Among them I murked 615 Spellcasters. The rest are humans. Ironically, those of tha' weak-ass clan of ya' old geeza' are wha' make up tha' category. It was 805 'till ya' told me the old geeza' faked his death, so I'm gonna' give ya' tha' honor instead."

Sano remarks in a somewhat smart-ass tone, "Not much of a reward, if you ask me."

Nash brims with hatred replacing his earlier expression. "How 'bout this motherfucka'?! Final Act!" The disciple's body flickers a second time with both Kusarigamas near Sano's feet disappearing.

An instance later, a huge amount of blood sprays from Sano's limbs and torso just a split second prior to the staff-wielding teen's sent soaring backwards with outstanding speed. At the same time, he passes along Yuki's left, which makes the pink-haired girl immediately open her eyes while awestruck since she didn't fully see what transpired with her clothing and hair having fluttered due to how fast Sano flew. Then, Yuki hesitantly veers her focus at where she felt what passed her go and maintains both hands on her head. Soon enough, the blue-eyed princess' finds a bloodied Sano lying on the ground farther ahead of the two dead Enshin's Disciples members with Ruyi Jingu Bang having escaped his grasp.

Yuki's lips quiver with tears steadily flowing from her eyes. "Sano..."

Nash slants his head to the left to crack it while still bothered. "Tsk! Tha' damn bastard sure gave me a hard time!" He calms himself quite a bit. "Ta' think, I actually went ta' my Final Act. Somethin' only Enshin took straight on and survived." The chain-wielding man scoffs. "Fuck, Enshin even beat it, but tha' was Enshin! No fuckin' way tha' son of a bitch coulda' eva' win against my Final Act!"

Yuki puts both hands down while watching Sano's motionless figure until a cold gust of wind picks up. "You..."

Nash raises his left eyebrow with curiosity taking over. "Wha'? Wha' 'bout me? Ya' wanna' have a go, girl?" The black-eyed individual sticks out his tongue in a taunting way. "Like ya' stand a chance! Just die!"

Yuki, with tear-filled eyes, shifts her attention to Nash, summons the Ice Wand once more within her right hand, aims it at the ruthless man via both hands and declares in a determined voice, "Make me!"

Nash draws both arms towards his body like he does when performing Chain Festival and arrogantly replies. "Oh, I will! And in my Final Act too, just 'cause I feel like it! Now, fuckin' die!"

Right when Nash's about to launch both Kusarigamas and Yuki's in the middle of casting her Duo Grand Shard Spell, a bloodstained right hand grabs the princess' left shoulder before pulling her backwards without any regard. This leaves Yuki bewildered as she blankly witnesses Sano taking a step ahead of her and asks while spacing out, "Sano?"

Sano glances at Yuki out of the corner of his eyes with a lackadaisical demeanor, continuing to be cover by multiple wounds and blood, as he now carries Ruyi Jingu Bang in his left hand. "I said that this is my fight, didn't I? You're in the way. Please, stay back."

Yuki's eyes widen from great shock and thinks, "Just now... He sounded like Dante."

Nash can't help being surprised by the fact that Sano's still alive, but immediately regains his composure and shouts in an upset tone, "For the last fuckin' time! Die!" He only sends out the two chain-sickles that way he can get more of a range with blinding agility, which made Nash flicker for the third time, while targeting Sano's jugular.

Unfortunately for Nash, Sano simply deflected them with an effortless, single-handed swing to his left side.

Nash pulls his head back as disbelief surfaces. "Impossible!"

Sano abruptly dashes forward with speed equivalent to Dante's Accelerator. The golden-eyed individual narrows the gap between the two in a blink of an eye as he's holding the lower end of Ruyi Jingu Bang with both hands and has it poised to his left. With that, Sano swings his staff like a baseball bat and hits Nash on both shins. This forces Nash to do an uncontrollable front-flip and falls onto his knees after doing a 360 degree rotation with a minor cracking sound generated on contact.

Nash, both disoriented and baffled by what occurred, attempts to regain his barrings with his person lightly slumped forward.

Simultaneously, Sano elegantly swaps the grip he has on Ruyi Jingu Bang to be able to release a right-angled swing of the same kind as the previous one, however, is directed at the back of Nash's head. This strike promptly connects, creating another cracking sound, while Nash becomes stunned by it and gradually begins falling down. For Sano, he doesn't plan on letting it end just yet, as the tanned male is in the middle of a spin that puts him facing away from Nash. Following that, Sano jumps backwards to do a half cork-screw flip, so he can face Nash, and does a multiple revolution, high-velocity, front-flip before nailing the back of Nash's head a second time with a relentless downward swing.

Seeing that, Yuki takes a deep breath out of astonishment while remaining where Sano had stationed her.

A third cracking sound is heard from Nash, but this being from a region that has been struck twice and could be easily guess to be the skull's cranium breaking. It doesn't take long for the green-clothed disciple to finally fall on the dirt road, face first, and lies motionless on his stomach. Concurrently, Sano lands on his feet after doing one more flip due to the extra momentum that had sustained itself, despite the collision between the two opponents, and carries Ruyi Jingu Bang in his right hand yet again as the staff-wielding gentleman pants to regain his breath.

Relief takes hold of Yuki prior to the princess displaying a joyful smile.

Sano sets his sights onto Yuki as he notices her smile, which gave him a content feeling inside his being, and halfheartedly grins with exhaustion present. Afterwards, the golden-eyed teen commences walking towards Yuki, and just when he's about to reach her, he sees stress overflowing from the blue-eyed beauty. Having once again obtained an unsettling sensation, in addition to Yuki's behavior, Sano frantically diverts his attention to back where Nash's located and sees the disciple standing with his face drenched in blood from a split on the back of his head.

Not even a second goes by before Nash states in a ragged and dark voice while showing a demented expression, "Ya' fuckin' shit...!" He then lets out an infuriated scream while extending his arms back, head cocked back, and throws both chain-sickles with all his strength.

Sano's time to react is very little considering the Kusarigamas' speed is faster than ever and knows that if he dodges, then Yuki will fall victim to the attack. Because of this, Sano makes his decision without hesitation and hurls Ruyi Jingu Bang at the two sickles. As a result, both of their weapons are sent flying into the air due to how strong the impact was.

Nash recklessly switched his focus to the ascending weapons and starts to tug on both chains to recall the Kusarigamas.

Taking account of the opening the bloodied disciple has created, Sano sprints forth to advance at Nash yet again without even waiting for Ruyi Jingu Bang to descend as urgency overruns him. This distracts Nash's effort to reclaim his Kusarigamas and prepares himself for Sano. Then, the moment both are within range, Sano suddenly releases a right-footed thrust kick aimed at Nash's face, although misses thanks to Nash swiftly tilting his head to the left and even wraps both arms around Sano's leg to not allow him to get away.

In the meantime, Ruyi Jingu Bang pierces the ground a few meters ahead of Yuki, which startled her a tad since she was so immersed into the new confrontation between Sano and Nash, as the two Kusarigamas have become intertwined with the orange staff.

While that happens, after failing to land the kick and being caught by Nash, Sano quickly twists his body to the left. This leads to entanglement due to Nash neglecting how the chains were positioned within his grip and loses his balance during Sano's fast motion. Meanwhile, in the middle of him twisting his body, Sano hops to fully turn to face Nash once more without attempting to kick his adversary because of how quick he's dropping, and instead, grabs one of the chains with his right hand. Then, Sano continues to fall while sternly yanking on the chain in his possession and wholeheartedly yells, "Extend!"

At that precise moment, Ruyi Jingu Bang commenced dropping because of Sano's pull on the chained-weapons and immediately shoots out while pointing towards the two individuals.

Nash lifts his vision as he does all he can not to fall with Sano and is hurriedly met by Ruyi Jingu Bang being impaled onto Nash's forehead, however, doesn't falter while staying completely still. Alas, another cracking noise profoundly resounds from the inflicted area with Sano staring at Nash in a passive manner. Silence then drowns the area until Nash steadily slouches, eventually keeling backwards with his black eyes becoming lifeless, and falls down.

Yuki watches on, lack of emotion demonstrated since she isn't sure that the battle is finished for real, and finally manages to ask after many seconds without saying anything, "Is it... Over?"

Sano cheerfully nods with his eyes closed, both arms extended to opposite sides, while lying on his back. "Yeah!" He looks at the sky with Ruyi Jingu Bang notably next to him, having reverted to its usual form, and lets out a delighted breath. "I won!" Sano contentedly chuckles.

Yuki swallows deeply as numerous emotions starts surging inside her, has her Ice Wand vanish and momentarily hesitates before sincerely smiling with her eyes shut while joining both hands behind her back. "That's wonderful! Congratulations, Sano!"

Sano peers up at Yuki with his content replaced by curiosity, however, promptly establishes it on his face again while feeling really good, even though he's still heavily injured, and takes full pleasure of this moment. "Thanks." His gaze returns to the sky with pure happiness as he mutters, "I appreciate that a lot."

Yuki quietly maintains her focus on Sano prior to deviating it towards the section of the village that's behind her and gives off a worried attitude while thinking, "I wonder how Dante's fight is going..." Sadness adds to her eyes without losing any of her worry. "Just please survive. I don't know what I would do without you."

Sano spaces out while analyzing the sky and then calmly says, "Hey, Yuki."

Yuki sets her gaze onto Sano with a hint of concern. "What's up?"

Sano wholeheartedly smiles. "I was thinking... Is it fun? You know, being friends with Dante, you, Ilya and Cyclops... I mean Trace."

Yuki faintly tilts her head to the right as confusion surfaces. "Hm?"

Sano chuckles in excitement. "If it is... Then things are REALLY gonna' get fun from now on!"

*Scene Cuts To Black*

To Be Continued...