Chapter 207 (1/2)

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As if proving his apotheosis, Shiro’s hair which was mostly white-colored turned into pitch black. Even his laughing face turned into something twisted, something that destroyed his original personality.

The moment he did, he landed a punch on my cheek and got me blown to the wall.

I didn’t feel pain from my back that hit against the wall, but pain soared in my punched cheek. I bit my inner cheek a little bit.

Blood accumulated inside my mouth, so I spat it out.

I was slightly startled by the pain that I hadn’t felt for a while.

Since I had my nonsensical status, I never felt pain anymore…… When I was reminiscing of how it felt like to experience pain, Shiro appeared before me for a second time.

“Do you really have the time to play stupid?”

Shiro punched an uppercut. I barely saw that coming and got blown to the ceiling of the passageway, and still his fist caught up with me and caved into my stomach, causing the ceiling to gain a hideous crack.

And then Shiro grabbed my clothes, throwing me off to the ground.

“Urgh……”

“Come on, what’s wrong with you? Is it over already? Are you going to die just like this?”

“I don’t need you to tell me what to do, really…”

I forcibly pinned down the pain running all over my body, and I also executed my apotheosis.

“Let’s do this thing!!”

My deified self stood up right away and threw a punch to Shiro.

With his ever plastered smile, Shiro grabbed my fist and threw his own as a counter attack, but I stopped that one and put us into this battle for dominance.

He snickered.

“Gugigigigigi….”

“Ahahahaha….”

Please spare me already…… Your laugh really grates on my nerves!!!

I pulled Shiro close and headbutted him. He staggered, and in that small gap, I kicked him away.

Shiro already flipped mid air even as he was kicked off. Standing on his feet, he made a perfect landing.

“Ahahahaha!! As expected of Wazu-kun!! You’re so, so strong!! But….. It truly seems that after going through apotheosis, I’m the one with the higher status between us, am I right?”

I also thought the same as his words.

It wasn’t as if we had confronted each other after the apotheosis for a long time, but I could notice that much.

Just like he said, I was slightly weaker than him…… It was more accurate to say that I had lower divinity though, because it truly felt as if he was of a higher position than me.

“……Tch.”

“I wonder, why that is~”

“The hell if I’d know!!”

I instantly went to Shiro’s vicinity, but he saw my movement and met my punch with his own fist.

Just like that, I got blown away and hit the wall just like before.

“Eh? You really don’t know why? Then, let me tell you the reason. The difference between me and you, Wazu-kun, is the different between the complete and incomplete apotheosis!! Isn’t your resolution way too weak? Are you really that reluctant to shed away that mortal shell of a human? Why are you so fixated on that? Isn’t it better to get higher praises?? Because the two of us are the ones chosen by the God!!!”

…….ah, I see now…… So it’s something like that…….

In that case, I just need to properly complete my apotheosis!! He’s right though, I do feel a bit terrified of becoming something that’s not human…… This divinity thing is a completely unknown territory for me…… But even if I’m hesitating, I can’t let myself die here…… Because I have people waiting for me to come home to them!!!

I gathered power into my body and in that instance—

I felt the structure of my body turned into something that wasn’t human.

I knew this was how it truly meant to obtain divinity.

“Can I ask you one thing?”

“What is it?”

I stared straight into Shiro’s eyes.

“You put your effort to teach me how to win…… Shiro, do you really want to die that much?”

“……”

Shiro replied to my question with silence.

He was no longer showing a smile. His expression turned as still as a noh mask.

“……You see…… If you really want to have your answer…… I’ll tell you the moment I die.”

“Uh, isn’t that the same as saying that you don’t want me to know?”

I inwardly laughed the moment I had that mysteriously frivolous answer from him.

In contrast with Shiro’s expression, I was the one making a bold smirk.

“Then here I go now!!”

“Anytime you wish~~!!”

After that, we punched, kicked, gripped, threw each other. We did about everything that we could do with our bare hands. That was our battle.

It felt like we did so many things in such a long time with my body, but I actually didn’t know if those happened in a second, a minute, or an hour in reality.

However, I did know that it didn’t take that long.