*Starting Scene*

Both Sano and Mammoth stare each other down, the black-haired boy presently emanating a relaxed personality while his foe can't help being infuriated by the last thing Sano said, with Ruyi Jingu Bang continually hoisted forth to keep the red-eyed man at bay. Amidst their quiet confrontation, Cassius walks over to a wall located at Sano's lower right, leans his back against it so he could observe the battle to come with the intention of keeping his word about not partaking in the fight and folds his arms together while skeptically thinking, "Does Sano honestly stand a chance against the leader of the Wilde Family? It's hard to fathom a non-magic user capable of overcoming such a dominating opponent. Dante could possibly have better odds as a human, but that would be solely because of his gloves and shoes." The cloaked male focuses on Ruyi Jingu Bang as seriousness takes over and thinks, "He'll have to hope that his weapon will be enough to just survive a minute of the combat I went through."

With the end of Cassius' thought process, Sano earnestly smiles as his right hand's grasp on the orange staff doesn't falter and casually speaks. "Hey, Mr. Hero? I'm gonna' go ahead and introduce myself so we can get this fight going. My name's Sano Goken. What's yours?"

Mammoth demonstrates a mild quantity of surprise on his expression before thinking, "Goken?" The pompadour-wearing individual promptly asks Sano with a solemn demeanor, "Are you perhaps related to Sayuma Goken?" Mammoth glances at Ruyi Jingu Bang as he retains his current behavior. "It would explain this item being in your possession."

Sano sharply nods, having lowered Ruyi Jingu Bang a tad from Mammoth's chest, with some confusion showing. "Yeah, he's my dad. Did you know him?"

Mammoth firmly answers while tension commences to gather with his hands clutched intensely as veins are bulging randomly across his body. "Not personally. I do, as a matter of fact, know someone who did. He told me during the second time we fought, almost like he was rewarding my survival of our first battle by doing so, that there was this one human he couldn't ever forget. Not only did the human hold his own against him, a Spellcaster who has never tasted defeat nor found a worthy adversary in terms of magic wielders, he apparently took something that belonged to this powerful man and didn't waver even for a moment at the end of his life. That is how I know about Sayuma Goken. The former head of the Son Goku Clan and a man who forfeited his life for a troublesome woman named Nozomi Makunou."

Cassius keys on the name Mammoth just mentioned with a bit of curiosity radiating and murmurs, "Makunou is the last name of a Royal Family that were eradicated near the war's beginning... They suffer a fate similar to many other Spellcaster groups, however, it seems Sano's father had a connection with them before that."

Sano exhibits a confident composition as he places his left foot ahead of himself to join his left hand upon Ruyi Jingu Bang, restoring its aim on the enemy's chest, and now stands sideways without deviating his vision from Mammoth. "I had a feeling you had some sort of link to the guy who killed my dad when I laid my eyes on you, although I knew you weren't him. You're missing that dangerous aura of his that I'll recognize as soon as I see him."

Mammoth cocks his right eyebrow, somewhat insulted by Sano's words, and coldly inquires, "Are you suggesting that I'm someone not to be wary of?" He gives off an annoyed glare while harshly proclaiming, "Implying that to me, Mammoth Wilde, will be the gravest error you could have ever made in your life, you half-breed filth!"

Cassius becomes quite alarmed after hearing Mammoth's outburst while unconsciously removing his back from the wall as the hazel-eyed gentleman specifies his concentration onto Sano and yells out without restraint, "Half-breed?! That would mean you're...!"

Sano refrains from looking at Cassius, knowing all too well that it wouldn't help getting into any kind of discussion with the white-haired young man right now, as the tanned teen eagerly declares to Mammoth, "We've finally swapped names! I can now attack with a clear conscious! Here I go!" He quickly tugs Ruyi Jingu Bang backwards to then thrust it on the muscular male's left pectoral with a decent amount of force applied.

Mammoth hurriedly dodges via spinning toward his right, and as Ruyi Jingu Bang only caught air, faces Sano again with ferocity displayed prior to going into a high-speed dash that let him appear in front of the golden-eyed boy without breaking a sweat while his right arm is ready to issue a chopping punch from above.

Sano doesn't flinch at how fast Mammoth bridged the gap while uttering underneath his breath, "Retract." His elongated weapon instantly goes back to its original size so the black-haired lad could position Ruyi Jingu Bang in a vertical stance, slams the end closest to the ground as he grabs the top part with both hands, hoists himself toward that same height and completely eludes the oncoming fist. After doing that, Sano sways backwards with his left hand sliding down to implement a better hold as he remains airborne and flicks the bottom section of Ruyi Jingu Bang upward, making dirt kick up in the process, while hurling it at Mammoth's jaw.

Mammoth receives the hit since he didn't expect it to have much of an affect, however, was quite mistaken when his head contorts back by a few inches, which appears to be too insignificant to actually worry about from anyone else's perspective. In his case though, the green-haired adult's engulfed with astonishment while gritting his teeth lightly and then regains his bearing via fully fixing his composition to start throwing a plethora of punches at Sano as tenacity takes form.

At that moment, Sano drops back to the ruined terrain as he detached Ruyi Jingu Bang from the ground while elegantly spinning it and himself around in different directions. This lets the teenager repel all of Mammoth's attempts to pay Sano back for the blow to the jaw while gradually travelling backwards with each contact occurring between them.

Mammoth's shows a hint of aggravation while keeping up his assault even though there is very little progress achieved with vague tremors fluctuating and releases several determined grunts amidst his attacks.

Sano, having his eyes locked upon Mammoth during his agile mobility, nonchalantly grins without a single shred of discouragement and continues receding.

Cassius witnesses what's transpiring as he feels the small shock-waves brush off his person, causing his attire to flutter a bit in addition to his hair, and is fairly amazed while mumbling, "He's holding his own against those overwhelming punches quite well." The Velkry Spellcaster sets his sights directly on Ruyi Jingu Bang and Mammoth's fists with concern brimming. "What's surprising me is that they can make these concussive blast so constant. It puts me to shame, considering this didn't happen when I fought Mammoth." Cassius promptly notices how Sano keeps maneuvering without a second of halting and demonstrates a stern attitude. "No time for me to gripe though. Sano's obviously getting pushed back, so he must be doing everything he can not to lose out in the exchange." Realization immediately envelopes the hazel-eyed individual due to taking account of the content overflowing from Sano while weakly commenting, "Wait... He's not..."

Sano chuckles before asking in a carefree manner with his counters persisting effortlessly, "You wanna' do this all day? You know you don't have to go easy on me, right?"

Mammoth narrows his eyes while emitting a disgruntled expression as his barrage suddenly ceases with his left hand poised ahead, having barely any space between itself and Ruyi Jingu Bang because of the staff being prepared to block.

Simultaneously, Sano has his back turned toward Mammoth with Ruyi Jingu Bang held behind him via both hands in a diagonal angle, which involved the elevated end of the orange staff to stick out above his left shoulder where his left hand resides while the other limb's gripping onto the bottom region. As he does that, the tanned gentleman momentarily peers at Mammoth through the gap permitted by Ruyi Jingu Bang and gives off an intrigued demeanor prior to swiftly taking numerous, acrobatic leaps forward to create distance. This lasts until confronting the Animal Tamer again in an upright posture at nearly twenty meters away with his weapon now stationed horizontally like usual and smiles excitedly. "Looks to me that you're really gonna' go for it this time."

Mammoth nods without hesitation after lowering both arms. "Correct. I am normally reserved about fighting humans. They are so fragile and weak after all. Despite my unyielding dedication to God, I can't bring myself to extinguish them instantaneously even if their actions are blasphemous. It is like unjustly killing an animal. However, I have mentally come to terms that you aren't a human nor a Spellcaster. It took me a while since it isn't often I meet a half-breed abomination." His method of speaking grows cold once more. "You will be the easiest creature I have ever slain thanks to there not being any possibility of remorse ailing me. It will be easier than killing a Demonic Creature."

Sano twirls Ruyi Jingu Bang like a windmill following him removing his left hand from it to wield the staff solely via his right hand as it's currently raised toward his right. "I doubt it's gonna' be that easy, but feel free to do your best." The golden-eyed lad chuckles again. "You'll need it." Sano sprints forth with Ruyi Jingu Bang partially placed behind himself while still spinning.

Mammoth's magic explodes, incredibly annihilating another layer of earth belonging to the basically demolished terrain, and yells in a demanding voice, "Trample him!" Multiple elephants then charge out of Mammoth to advance toward Sano with deafening stomps and mighty roars echoing.

Sano hurriedly reacts by swinging Ruyi Jingu Bang at the stampede with excellent precision, successfully striking their legs and head to put them out of commission, as he twists his body a few times so he could effectively land the attacks while continuing his way toward Mammoth. "Just like how you tend to avoid fighting humans, I'd rather not fight animals. Sad thing is that I already know that's likely not gonna' happen, so I gotta' make quick work of them."

Concurrently, Cassius observes Sano's fast triumph over each elephant while remarking to himself in minor bewilderment, "He's hitting their weak points with enough strength to knock them out and accomplishes it with such ease that it's almost unreal... Though I can do the same with a bit of a delay, the way Sano manages that feels like something he could do naturally... As if he's born to perfectly counteract everything thrown at him."

In the meantime of Cassius' monologue, Sano notes that Mammoth's stature and muscular composition has greatly changed, having become nearly the same height as the black-haired teen but a little bit shorter. This somewhat befuddles the jacket-endowed individual without slowing down his momentum, and once he bypassed all the elephants in his path, thrusts Ruyi Jingu Bang upon his foe's midsection in a sideways position with both hands firmly holding it.

Mammoth abruptly jumps ahead while initiating a roundhouse kick via his right foot, deflecting Ruyi Jingu Bang's trajectory with surprising power despite the red-eyed man's decrease in size, as a piercing glare embeds onto Sano from Mammoth and blandly says, "You must want an answer. An answer to why I'm like this."

As Ruyi Jingu Bang jerks toward his right, Sano keeps a strong footing before smirking tenaciously while swinging the orange staff back at Mammoth, however, faintly misses since the Wilde Family leader wisely ducked right when his feet touched the ground. Following that, the staff-wielder rapidly turns his back to Mammoth, bends backward with Ruyi Jingu Bang arching upward and slams one of its ends onto the back of the enemy's head due to Mammoth being contorted forth.

Mammoth, not predicting that kind of attack whatsoever, gets quite disoriented while quickly retreating so he can regroup as he utilizes his left hand to caress the afflicted area with his posture repaired and watches Sano in an agitated manner.

Sano faces Mammoth with Ruyi Jingu Bang only in his right hand's possession once more and has both limbs dangle on opposite sides as he retains his personality. "To tell you the truth, I don't. I've gotten the gist of what Animal Tamers can do already from fighting you and that girl named Kitten. No overblown explanations are needed, thank you very much." His smirk widens a tad.

Mammoth's right eye twitches as he lowers his left hand after clenching it tightly out of fury. "You are talking to my baby sister, aren't you?!" The angered male points his right index finger at Sano with the appendage mildly trembling. "That would make you her killer!"

Sano shakes his head while emanating a serious attitude. "Wrong. Even an abomination has morals, especially when his dad drills it in his head. I would never, under any situation, kill a girl. Just like I wouldn't ever want to harm animals, but jackasses who use them to do their dirty work make that hard." The tanned boy shifts his gaze to where the grey creatures lie, still rattled by either their sudden fall or because of the hit issued on their head. Afterwards, Sano reverts his attention to Mammoth as a remorseful demeanor shows. "I did have to knock her out, but I guarantee that she's alive. If you don't believe me, that's your problem."

Mammoth retorts with his rage maintaining itself visible prior to regaining his previous stature and muscles as the downed elephants dissipate into nothingness. "Believing you isn't the problem!" The pompadour-wearing adult curls his right hand into a fist while keeping it elevated ahead as a grey coloring plagues his skin. "You admitting that you were a part of my home's invasion and the reason my beloved sister's injured is what forces my anger to bloom!" The tint of Mammoth's eyes fade until fully losing the light any person would have, signifying the disappearance of his eyesight, and states passionately, "I have no need to see such a disgusting being anymore! I will instill complete judgement upon a putrid monster such as yourself while taking on the blindness of the beasts I control with my Bestial Merging at its highest magnitude!" The Saints Organization affiliate puts his raised hand down while methodically moving his fingers. "Blame the misfortune of your blasphemous existence thanks to your father and mother! You would have been better off had they abided with the rules of the world!"

Cassius starts panicking during his witnessing of Mammoth's transformation, unfolding his arms in the process, with an enormous gust spreading across the whole district. "This is too much! His magic has far ascended the capabilities of any Spellcasters I've met aside...!" An image forms within his mind of a Throne Room decorated with red and brown furniture while two men, whose identities are veiled in mystery, reside there as the lone feature which sticks out is their blonde hair. Not long after that, the white-haired gentleman squints profusely and is overcome by malice while uttering, "He's similar to them, but at the same time, Mammoth Wilde is just an ant when entirely compared!" Cassius urgently draws his focus to Sano before worryingly shouting, "Get away from him, Sano! You won't stand a chance the moment he's done mutating!"

Sano doesn't heed Cassius' warning as the half-breed demonstrates some irritation while mostly undeterred. "That's stupid! You're indirectly saying I would've been happier never being born! Sure, my life isn't the best there is, but it's still mine to live! Don't ever think I'll regret it!" The golden-eyed teen aims his left hand's thumb at his chest amidst finishing that last sentence with his right hand keeping Ruyi Jingu Bang lowered.

Mammoth intently stares at Sano while a pair of big tusks protrude out of his mouth as he speaks in a raspy tone due to the pointed teeth causing normal communication to be difficult with arrogance surfacing a bit, "Dribble...! Ridiculous dribble is all a horrendous monster like you could spout...! You don't comprehend that you don't deserve life...!" The Asian inhales profoundly to scream with everything he has after bending forward as he separately clenches both hands, "YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO BREATHE ANY LONGER!"

That outburst sends another blast of wind, however directly to Sano this time, with the spiky-haired lad blocking it via a fast rotation of Ruyi Jingu Bang that he hoisted in front of himself and manages to neutralize the adversary's attempt. Sadly, the shock-wave was never meant to achieve anything outside of being a diversion, making Sano lose sight of Mammoth's whereabouts since the Animal Tamer unprecedentedly vanished within a split second. Thankfully, Sano senses immediately detects danger coming from above as a gradually growing shadow engulfs him, which leads to the jacketed young man looking up to investigate. Exactly when his eyes rested skyward, the teenager exhibits a distraught expression while seeing Mammoth descend onto him with extraordinary speed and fails to move accordingly.

Then, a giant impact resounds, creating chunks of earth that haphazardly flies everywhere in addition to a sizable smoke screen, while Mammoth presently has Sano pinned with both fists pressed forth as he's crouched toward the black-haired foe. "You...!"

Sano lies on his back as his vision's sternly set on Mammoth with Ruyi Jingu Bang horizontally poised between himself and the large individual via both hands gripping the weapon's opposing ends while burying his feet into the terrain to aid him in not losing the power struggle. "You oughta' know about the Son Goku Clan and what it takes to be the head! If you don't, I'm not planning on boring you to death with the details. Plus, I wasn't gonna' be considered for the part anyway, but that won't erase all the training my dad made me do just to hold Ruyi! That's what you're experiencing right now!" He takes his left foot off the ground to land a strong kick upon Mammoth's gut, however, finds it to be ineffective minuscule difference in their close proximity.

Mammoth, not batting an eye, unclenches his hands to grab Ruyi Jingu Bang and pulls it up toward a height higher than his head while fixing his posture as he lifts Sano off the landscape because of the golden-eyed male refusing to release his possession of it. Having done that, the currently blind opponent comments callously with a hint of calmness arising as he's only carrying Ruyi Jingu Bang via his left hand to display his amazing might, "You misunderstand the predicament you unwisely volunteered to partake." Mammoth closes his right hand yet again while bringing it backwards. "The strength I have far surpasses that of a lowly abomination and will not waver even to a Sacred Item's power."

Sano, lightly keying onto the mentioning of the same name Dante once referred his weapon as, dangles in the air without a shred of concern notable on his person, his behavior recently becoming quite relaxed, while giving Mammoth a confident grin and softly laughs. "Talk is cheap." He sways his left leg to build enough momentum to impulse away from Mammoth so he could administer another kick with a courageous war cry escaping his lips as he stays airborne.

Mammoth isn't remotely bothered due to the green-haired Spellcaster already in motion of launching his own attack involving the hand that was commandeered behind himself a tad as ferocity returns. Both fighters strikes collide with each other, forging the most powerful shock-wave ever that effortlessly obliterates the surrounding buildings and concession stands, as this leaves Cassius no choice other than to drive his Longsword into the earth after quickly unsheathing it via his right hand to keep himself from being sent flying with his teeth gritted while retaining his eyes forward. After that, proving how vast his might is, the Wilde Family leader gains the upper hand of his brief deadlock with Sano and blasts the half-breed away, but mainly achieved that because of Mammoth letting go of Ruyi Jingu Bang.

Sano flips around several times until situating his person to confront Mammoth again while slamming his feet down to cease his undesired travel with Ruyi Jingu Bang solely held by his right hand once more and wholeheartedly comments, "Wow! I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you backed up your words so nicely!"

Mammoth suddenly depletes the distance and hits Sano's face with an attack so fast that it appeared invisible, making it impossible for anyone to even know what limb he used, while producing a massive shock-wave. This results in Sano being stunned as his head's pulled back a little, however, soon receives countless blows throughout his body, each giving birth to their own shock-wave, while forcing the tanned staff-wielder to contort repetitively with not a single opportunity to break free from the vicious bombardment. While that persists, Mammoth fiercely glares at Sano as he releases primal-like grunts over and over. "Praise from you is nothing more than an insult! Be silent as I batter you into dust!"

Feeling very frustrated since all he can do is watch Sano getting decimated practically, Cassius continues trying to resist the incredible winds expanding endlessly as the hazel-eyed lad mutters, "What the hell was Dante thinking?! He should've asked me to help him in the beginning, instead of standing by idly! Even I can admit that I wouldn't have been able to win alone, but now we're at the point of no return! Me helping would barely be an improvement!" The cloaked individual shuts his eyes, joining his left hand upon the hilt of the Longsword thanks to his right slowly losing its grip, while mildly lowering his head before yelling fervently, "I'm actually the one at fault here! I should've never depended on outsiders who wormed their way in!" Cassius cries out of disgust.

Sano unexpectedly swings the orange staff toward Mammoth after painstakingly managing to place his left hand on Ruyi Jingu Bang, although missed the pompadour male due to an abrupt halt of Mammoth's assault while swaying backwards so he could ensure avoidance, having anticipated the seemingly desperate attack from his younger opponent. Right after, the black-haired boy nonchalantly states with a slight smile, eliminating any possible thought of Sano being in dire straits because of how the sandal-wearing person's behaving despite the extensive damaged he suffered, as both arms are stretched toward his left, "Gotta' say, you really don't look like you merged with elephants. You're closer to a demon, honestly. That's seriously ironic."

The veins scattered along Mammoth's face pulsate, a decent amount of annoyance resurfacing, prior to the Asian resuming his flurry via implementing an invisible, underhook, right-handed punch at Sano's jaw. Unfortunately for him, his strike fails to land on its intended mark, complements of Sano horizontally positioning Ruyi Jingu Bang in the way, with a wind blast expelling nonetheless as a dumbfounded expression overtakes Mammoth. "How?!"

Sano gingerly laughs without putting Ruyi Jingu Bang down while holding the staff as if it was a sword with his left hand above his right hand. "There was a good reason I took all those hits. You may not be able to see it since you made yourself go blind, but I'm a tough cookie. A cookie that learns through experiencing what someone can dish out, and if they're too much for me, my body simply adjusts until I get back the lead. In layman's terms, I've gotten stronger 'cause of you. Thanks."

Mammoth roars threateningly and throws a quick, left punch following the retraction of his right hand. "You insolent monstrosity!"

Sano swiftly slides his left hand up Ruyi Jingu Bang to have a proper grip on it, snaps the end near that appendage's location as he deflects Mammoth's fist with unbelievable agility and confidently says while his upper body's partially twisted toward his right, "Obviously!" A new barrage of attacks promptly begins between Sano, who's once again spinning around per his fighting style, and Mammoth, who keeps up his persistence, while the entire area becomes overlapped by multiple tremors that cause unyielding destruction.

*Scene Change*

Farther up the eastern district, Yuki valiantly battles the goblins that she was left to contend with while unleashing a storm of icicles and steadily cut their numbers down. Then, as a couple of the green-skinned creatures attempt to attack her from behind, the blue-eyed dame swings around with her back in the direction of where the Eastern Gate's situated, points the Ice Wand via both hands and powerfully shouts, "Grand Frozen Shard!" An immense, ice-based projectile shoots at the goblins and swiftly repels them with heavy slashes plaguing their body.

After those goblins hit the ground, the others stood back close to each other as primal growls start echoing while glaring at Yuki's backside with their eyes glowing and commence to transform. It doesn't take the goblins long to become much more muscular than usual with their shorts tearing a lot and skin getting crimson in color.

Yuki turns toward the horde, having lowered her weapon in front of her, and exhibits quite a bit of worry at seeing them change until resolving herself to act before the goblins finished as she focuses the Ice Wand to her enemies. "Again! Grand Frozen Shard!" The gigantic icicle quickly soars to the goblins without permitting them much of a chance to dodge and are haphazardly launched, crashing upon different sections of the street. In the meantime, the pink-haired princess keeps her arms hoisted forward as she happily nods. "That's a strike!" Yuki faintly drops her limbs once again with her left hand letting go of the Ice Wand to mount it on her hip while somewhat snobbishly declaring, "It sure was smart of me to attack during that weird transformation! Hmph!" She cocks her head back proudly and giggles a little with her eyes closed. "I'm such a badass!"

Just as Yuki uttered that, a lone, green-colored goblin methodically sneaks up behind the corset-wearing teen with its wooden club ready to hit Yuki's head via the barbaric being's right hand as a minor grunt seeps out of its mouth.

Unpredictably, Yui's voice dully resounds within Yuki's mind after lightly scoffing. "Hey, Miss Badass. You're about to get your block knocked off if you don't duck."

Yuki's eyes widen as fear rapidly engulfs her prior to snapping her head to the right so she could see what Yui's warning her about and discovers the goblin in mid-swing of its assault. Luckily, the fair-skinned girl had also heeded her counterpart's advice to duck amidst her investigation, successfully avoiding contact with the wooden club and hurriedly plants the Ice Wand's tip onto the creature's torso as she's leaning forth while firmly ordering, "Freeze!"

The goblin's midsection immediately commences to gain a frosty exterior, complements of the Frost Spell, while spreading across every part of it, ultimately killing it as the other members are in no real condition to continue on after the grueling combat they experience not only involving Yuki, but the beating a hefty number of them took from Sano previously and slowly begin vanishing.

Stepping away from the frozen goblin as it remains standing, Yuki observes the barbaric foe with an upright posture while her right hand's lowered and sustains her left hand on her hip. Afterwards, the pink-haired beauty steers her head to aim ahead for a second until dropping it to release a sigh of relief.

Yui abruptly quips in an arrogant way, "You're welcome!" She then gingerly laughs.

Yuki reopens her eyes to look at the ground before responding out of annoyance. "Please shut up and sleep." The blue-eyed female peers in front of herself while concern takes over due to noting waves of destruction endlessly occurring far away from her location, which creates winds that make her clothing flutter significantly.

Yui easily knows what's going through Yuki's head and curiously asks, "Are you going to go there?"

Yuki temporarily hesitates via her jaw hanging a bit, however, composes herself pretty fast as she navigates her vision to the right. "I don't want to be a burden. Even I can tell that the enemy over there is tough, so I'll put my faith in Sano."

Yui becomes very interested. "Hmm... How do you know it's him and not someone else? Like Dante?"

Yuki halfheartedly shrugs without diverting her gaze. "I don't know... I... I just know that it's him..."

Yui's tone softens while speaking emptily. "I see."

*Scene Change*

With debris flung all over the place, Cassius can't stand any longer while dropping onto his right knee as exhaustion radiates and sees the extraordinary battle occurring via lifting his head a tad. "No way! Is this the power of a half-breed?! After everything, he doesn't quit and continues fighting evenly with Mammoth Wilde! A Class S Spellcaster that's at a level beyond me!"

Overhearing Cassius' outburst, Sano responds without deviating his attention from Mammoth as their relentless combat demonstrates no signs of faltering. "I don't mean to be rude, but can you be quiet! It's hard to concentrate with someone doing commentary like I'm deaf! Especially if you're gonna' be indirectly undermining me just 'cause I'm doing so much better than you!"

Cassius becomes flustered before showing an agitated look and gently groans to himself with his lips pursed, almost like he's pouting out of shame.

Mammoth momentarily glances at Cassius while his anger boils over the instance he rests his vision back on Sano as the green-haired man tries to land a right chop atop his enemy's head with an intense shout reverberating.

Sano rotates toward his right via a counter-clockwise turn, making Mammoth's limb completely miss him. In the middle of doing that, the golden-eyed male looks at Mammoth out of the corner of his left eye after taking a sideways stance to aim Ruyi Jingu Bang to the mutated adversary's torso and chuckles as he utters ominously, "Extend." Ruyi Jingu Bang immediately increases in length, ramming onto Mammoth's stomach region with a profound quantity of might, and causes a loud cracking sound to be generated. Other than that, the orange staff drives Sano's enemy away after Mammoth couldn't keep his feet on the ground as Ruyi Jingu Bang continually grows in a rapid manner. Several seconds later, while about twenty-five meters of space has been made, Sano navigates his weapon to point skyward, hoisting Mammoth high into the air just when Ruyi Jingu Bang stopped its expansion.

Mammoth profusely gags because of him feeling quite a bit of pain gathering at his midsection while floating somewhat helplessly with his left hand grasping on Ruyi Jingu Bang to try to alleviate its contact as he mumbles, "He fragmented my sternum with that shot...!"

Meanwhile, Sano's expression tenses up a little prior to removing Ruyi Jingu Bang from Mammoth via a stern yank, forcing the Animal Tamer to let go of the elongated staff, and then swings it upward with his person tilting in the same direction so he could administer a second blow upon the top of Mammoth's head once he snaps his body to the left, which he does without any real lagging.

Mammoth hurriedly reacts by throwing an uppercut at Ruyi Jingu Bang with his right fist as he's still airborne, resulting in yet another blast, while successfully parrying Sano's attempt and declares outrageously, "Useless! You may have survived my previous attacks and clearly become stronger through openly receiving damage, however, that won't suffice! You will need something that can overcome my defenses overall! Merely trying to break the bones in my body until I am incapable of fighting will take you forever!"

Sano smiles determinedly before switching Ruyi Jingu Bang's angle to have it directed toward Mammoth while eagerly yelling, "Challenge accepted!" The tanned boy hastily starts jabbing Ruyi Jingu Bang on Mammoth, creating a vast number of whooshing noises to fluctuate.

Mammoth swiftly weaves himself around to elude many of Sano's strikes and derails all the ones he can't avoid via punching or kicking Ruyi Jingu Bang away as he's brimming a serious demeanor. Not long after that, the pompadour gentleman begins to fall toward the terrain below and eventually plants both feet onto it with an enormous crash resounding, but that didn't really seem to obstruct his focus as he keeps moving according to the constant attacks.

Sano maintains a good pace during his effort to land at least one hit upon Mammoth with tenacity glimmering in his eyes and steadily shrinks the gap dividing them via gradually sliding both hands along the orange staff one after the other so he wouldn't have to reduce its length. Unfortunately, the black-haired teenager unintentionally gives Mammoth an opportunity to make a move of his own due to there being a brief pause in Sano's assault each time he drew closer toward the currently blind adult.

Mammoth uses his amazing agility to sprint toward Sano without much trouble coming out of wearing getas while rendering Ruyi Jingu Bang's bombardment totally futile since his dedication to reach the jacketed lad is so great that nothing seems to faze him anymore. "I will not tolerate this to be prolonged further!" He soon gets to Sano's location as his magic accumulates all over his right arm, symbolizing that every ounce of his power has been brought there to ensure a devastating hit, and releases a primal roar while thrusting his right limb forward, again aiming for Sano's face

As he has minimal time to spare, Sano rushes to revert Ruyi Jingu Bang's size, diagonally places it in front of his face once the staff did exactly that with both hands poised near opposing ends and braces himself the best he can. Afterwards, the right-handed punch collides with Ruyi Jingu Bang, abruptly causing it to commence breaking right down the center, as the sight of this overwhelms Sano while his eyes widen out of shock.

Mammoth grins victoriously, sensing that Sano's weapon had gave way to his raw strength, while restraining the urge to laugh as the Asian-looking male remarks confidently with his fist continuing its pursuit, "You have failed the challenge!" His tone changes to be more aggressive and passionately screams, "HERE IS WHERE YOU DIE!" Mammoth suddenly experiences a peculiar sensation quickly enveloping multiple parts of his being, especially the appendage that continues to be stretched forth, as he's quite stunned and instantly halts in his tracks. Right after that, a bunch of cuts spread across his body, tearing away fabric and making blood shed outward, while the Wilde Family leader cautiously steers his head to the right prior to letting out a faint whimper.

At the same time, Sano's revealed to be standing on the side where Mammoth instinctively commandeered his head, having temporarily vanished from the spot he was formerly stationed, and peers at the transformed individual out of the corner of his eyes while casually speaking. "Really? I don't feel dead and I'm pretty sure I haven't lost either." It's then displayed that the golden-eyed person's carrying the separated halves of Ruyi Jingu Bang in each hand, his right presently lowered to his side while the left rests the other one atop his shoulder belonging to the same side, as both parts of the staff had recently receded even more than normal. This makes Ruyi Jingu Bang's structure to be more compact, and thanks to that, a long, thin blade is now protruding out from the two divisions, as if they took the place of the hard wood that comprises Ruyi Jingu Bang. Also, the two blades glisten because of the sunlight while containing pointed tips reminiscent of Cassius' Longsword, however with a smaller girth overall, as Sano retains his nonchalant attitude. "You only made Ruyi's fangs come out. That's all."

Cassius gawks at Sano and the new form Ruyi Jingu Bang has taken as he's left speechless with his hands remaining on the Longsword while unable to get up due to fatigue.

Mammoth agonizingly confronts Sano with blood seeping out of him while firmly asking, "Fangs? I don't know-"

Sano inconsiderately interrupts Mammoth as the half-breed momentarily opens his left hand before closing it so he wouldn't lose possession of Ruyi Jingu Bang. "Of course you don't know. It's a trait of Ruyi that not just anyone can know about. Kind of a last resort to tell you the truth. The Son Goku Clan has a reputation of being masters of hand to hand combat and staff wielding, so people finding out that the leader's sacred weapon contains such a contradictory secret would be shameful to all of them." He shrugs in an uncaring method. "Not that it bothers me. I actually think it's very cool that Ruyi can separate and turn into a pair of swords. Makes the crazy training my dad put me through worth it." Sano gazes up at the sky with a halfhearted smirk after veering his head forward. "I always bugged him why he would randomly order me to swing Ruyi like a sword, alternating hands as much as possible, and tell me to create a style that could use it that way. He must've known I was gonna' welcome the discovery of it, although I'm not that confident about how good it'll be. That's the main reason I hesitate in using Ruyi like this at all." The spiky-haired young man promptly blocks a right punch that originated from Mammoth without warning by raising his right arm to vertically elevate the blade in the attack's path, keeping Ruyi Jingu Bang upside down, while its edge is embedded into the Spellcaster's knuckles.

Following that, some blood splatters onto the tattered street while a ferocious tremor blasts out, shattering any teetering objects that had managed to stay upright despite everything transpiring up to that point, with Mammoth consumed by astonishment again.

Sano leisurely drops his head to reset his vision on Mammoth as he's easily fending off the extended fist while optimistically stating, "Well, I guess now's the best time to check if I can make it a habit." The sandal-wearing teen shoves Mammoth's fist away and confronts his foe with the other half of Ruyi Jingu Bang dismounted from his shoulder to slash down on the grey-skinned adult's abdomen.

Mammoth withdraws his right hand to deploy his left fist to counter Sano while blood spills instantly upon contact, drawing out a pained and annoyed grimace via a fragile groan escaping his lips. Soon after, the Animal Tamer commences throwing an array of punches and chops that are too fast for Cassius to see, however, Sano doesn't have that problem as the golden-eyed gentleman rapidly swings Ruyi Jingu Bang's blades to match all of Mammoth's efforts, deflecting them every time.

Cassius' in total awe of what's happening, having at least been able to rise to his feet with the Longsword still poised ahead of him as he keeps his hands on its handle, while mentally discussing in a distressed way, "I don't understand! Why can his attacks cut Mammoth's skin, but mine didn't?!" He changes his attention to be on Ruyi Jingu Bang, although he can't really get a good look of them since they are moving at a high velocity like Mammoth's barrage and thinks as he tries to calm down, "It must be a special property of the blades. Whatever kept my sword from inflicting any significant wounds on him is no longer showing the same result."

Once Cassius finished his thought process, Sano goes through Mammoth's defenses with the right fang advancing toward the Asian's left cheek, hoping to decapitate Mammoth, and radiates an immense sum of determination.

Knowing that his life will be in peril if nothing's done, Mammoth hastily cocks his head back as solely his left tusk falls victim to the strike, getting fully cut off, while briefly hovering in the air next to his face. Suddenly, something snaps within the pompadour-endowed person's mind amidst the tusk's descension toward the earth prior to his speed profoundly escalating and caught his dismembered tooth via his left hand. After doing that, Mammoth stabs the tusk's pointed end deep into Sano's ribs due to putting his right arm forth in a vertical angle while bending down to reach the target.

That action didn't permit Sano even a vague chance to block with either of Ruyi Jingu Bang's fangs because of how Mammoth had positioned his right limb in the way and lets out a horrendous gag as blood slowly starts oozing from his side.

Mammoth harshly talks while remaining contorted toward Sano, however, his face is aimed passed the black-haired lad, as if the lone fact of his eyes resting onto Sano despite currently being blind would cause him disgust, and demonstrates a disgruntled composition. "You had me on the ropes, but your arrogance... It gave me what I needed to put you in your place, abomination!" His left arm unprecedentedly becomes detached from his shoulder with blood gushing out uncontrollably as the appendage hits the terrain via multiple grotesque thuds since it was launched at a decent distance away while Mammoth's eyes tremendously widen.

Sano, with his right arm stretched skyward after having utilized the right half of Ruyi Jingu Bang to slice off Mammoth's arm, sets his sights onto the bent forward enemy and says in a laid-back tone, "What was that?"

Mammoth, as his left cheek and neck are now stained by a large amount of blood that spurted onto him, stutters unintelligibly and is quivering a lot with his right arm gradually faltering to the right.

Sano abruptly leaps backwards to create a little room between himself and Mammoth so he could steer both hands toward his right, turning the cheek of the two swords to face in the Wilde Family leader's direction, before swinging them with all his might. Not even a second later, Ruyi Jingu Bang's fangs slam against Mammoth's face and left side while sending him flying with explosive agility until crashing roughly five meters in front of the Eastern Gate. The moment that's accomplished, the jacketed boy removes the tusk etched into his ribs by use of his right hand grabbing a hold of the tooth's base, tosses it behind himself without releasing his grip on the half of Ruyi Jingu Bang within that limb's possession and has both hands lowered as he's facing where Mammoth landed while continuing to bleed. "That's what I thought." Sano cheerfully smiles.

Cassius unexpectedly chimes in with a serious tone, "He's not dead yet. You refrained from using your weapons' edge for that attack. Why?"

Sano shrugs again while maintaining his vision fixed upon Mammoth's location. "No idea. I'm probably accustomed to ruthlessly beating my opponents rather than dicing them up. I did say I was gonna' check if I can make a habit out of this style, but looks like I need to work on differentiating them a bit more." The young man lifts the left Ruyi Jingu Bang to his face as he examines it. "Now that I'm thinking about it, I could've sliced through his right arm to stop him from stabbing me, but I ended up getting lost in the heat of stuff and kinda' screwed myself."

Cassius shakes his head, quite displeased by Sano's behavior, until faintly noticing the severe injury expelling out a steady flow of blood and considerably inquires once he locks eyes with the now sword-wielder, "By the way, will you be alright like that?"

A hint of surprise takes shape on Sano's expression since he didn't predict any concern from Cassius whatsoever following the reveal of him being a half-breed and then smirks contentedly with his left hand back down. "Yeah! I'm good-" The tanned individual's quickly interrupted by the sound of exhausted grunts echoing from the Eastern Gate and focuses on the source with a blank demeanor.

Mammoth stands up with his posture slouched toward Sano's vicinity, his right hand perched on his right knee for leverage, as the socket of the red-eyed man's left shoulder constantly drips blood. He gasps for air repetitively while still quivering and attempts to speak, however, his voice fails in vocalizing anything he desires to say with his head presently down. Eventually, while mustering his magic to emanate out of his fairly devastated body, Mammoth raises his head and begins regaining his eyesight, giving him the ability to glare at Sano in an enraged manner. "My... My Bestial Merging...! It's crumbling..." The pompadour Spellcaster makes an effort to walk, but stumbles because of lack of balance as he's slanting toward his left.

Sano calmly rebuttals to Mammoth's words while gyrating his right hand's wrist in preparation of something. "So that means it's over. Now you're the one who needs saving." The golden-eyed lad lightly chuckles.

Mammoth unceremoniously charges forth, throwing caution to the wind, after temporarily composing his stance as he had taken his hand off his knee and vigorously yells with bloodshot eyes.

Sano swiftly places his right foot backwards so he could be sideways with his head mildly tilted in Mammoth's whereabouts, having winced a little thanks to the movement adding pressure toward the wound on his side, and horizontally stations both halves of Ruyi Jingu Bang before his chest as they're perfectly parallel to one another while excitedly muttering, "Sink in your fangs, Ruyi! Extend!" He hurriedly thrusts both hands forward with the hard wood pertaining to Ruyi Jingu Bang stretching outward with miraculous velocity, and in about two seconds, stabs its blades profusely inside Mammoth's torso, one poised higher than the other. Immediately after, Ruyi Jingu Bang's extreme momentum brings Mammoth off the ground again while planting his back onto the Eastern Gate via a giant bang as a plethora of cracks envelop its metal and is on the verge of collapsing.

Cassius gasps from disbelief, unconsciously taking his hands off the Longsword as a result, and watched the tears plaguing the Eastern Gate while thinking with some worry included, "Impossible! That gate, like the entire wall surrounding Velkry, was forged to be unbreakable by a very respected Creation Spellcaster..." The white-haired Caucasian finishes his sentence out loud, emitting a bit of anger in the process, and tightly clutches his hands into fists with them located on opposite sides of his person. "My father... Haruki Henseka! How could Sano have the power to do something no one else has ever done?!" Cassius sharply shakes his head in denial. "This is total nonsense!"

Simultaneously, fully pinned to the Eastern Gate, Mammoth's strength has been zapped out of him while absently staring at Ruyi Jingu Bang's fangs submerged into his body with blood secreting quite a lot as his feet dangle several feet above the blood-covered ground. Soon enough, the adult loses control of his Bestial Merging Spell, rapidly decreasing in stature because of it, with elephants commencing to spawn atop different sections of the terrain while knocked out and lying down. This leaves Mammoth plainly defeated with heavy panting generated as he focuses on Sano after taking a moment to analyze the situation he's currently in while weakly commenting, "I never imagine that... There would be someone... Other than Desmond... To do this to me... And appear generally unfazed... At the conclusion... Of a fight."

Sano holds himself back from laughing, straightens his posture to face Mammoth without letting go of either Ruyi Jingu Bang's halves that are directed forward and sheepishly questions, "You call this UNFAZED?!" The sandal-wearing boy nudges his head toward his being, mainly to the rib injury that keeps releasing blood. "You don't know what you're talking about!" Sano briefly pauses so he could cock his head to the right prior to saying in a curious tone, "Who's Desmond anyway? That name sounds familiar to me, but I'm not positive that I've met him."

Mammoth slyly grins while his mind starts to fade since his physical condition's so sickly now. "Unless you were present... When Sayuma died... You wouldn't know him... He's the man who killed-"

Sano intervenes with no real care displayed while leaning forth and has his head upright. "Retract, Ruyi."

Mammoth suddenly groans in pain, feeling Ruyi Jingu Bang's fangs hastily being yanked out of him, as the Animal Tamer slips off the Eastern Gate and smashes his stomach against the street while coughing hoarsely a couple of times, having his right cheek pressed onto the terrain.

Following the two Ruyi Jingu Bangs reverting to their normal length, Sano joins the swords together in front of himself as they become one with the weapons's wood completely masking the thin blades and states lackadaisically while his eyes are locked upon the staff, "Say no more. I know it contradicts what I've been taught, but I honestly never wanted to learn that guy's name. Obviously, why would I need to know the name of a dude who killed my dad? Instead, I made sure to remember his aura that day as I was hiding 'cause my dad begged me to choose life over certain death, so when we met..." The spiky-haired teenager gives Mammoth a fervent glare while having a determined smile. "I'd tell him with a small wave from my right hand and Ruyi ready in my left hand... SALUTATIONS, NO NAME! YOU'RE GONNA' DIE!" Sano straps Ruyi Jingu Bang to his lower back by use of the same hand he just mentioned, aiming his right hand's middle, ring and pinky fingers at Mammoth after standing sideways, while totally sustaining his pure intention. "Still, though I know his name thanks to you, that won't change my plans!"

Mammoth scoffs and retorts in a skeptical voice while reaching the limit to his life-span. "Don't be foolish, Half-breed... Desmond is atop a pedestal... That only few can attain..." The pompadour-endowed male closes his eyes. "You should not feel proud... For beating me... When all I managed was to survive... When confronting that man... On multiple occasions... There is no hope... Desmond Einsburn is the... Epitome of strength... You will... Lose..." Mammoth expels his last breath with that strained declaration.

Cassius simply observes Mammoth's death while eliminating most of the tension that was residing within.

Sano puts his hand down with confusion overrunning him as his right eyebrow's raised a tad. "Einsburn? But that's Dante's last name." An excruciating sensation abruptly rocks the golden-eyed person's mind and body before falling toward his left, causing a decent sum of dust to kick up on impact, while passed out.

*Scene Cuts To Black*

To Be Continued...