3rd Pov:
The whole area of Xicor's and Charlie's battle has been covered by heat that no Shuuki nor human can walk here freely.
Steam rose from the ground and a few spots closer to the crashed meteor become more and more thick. The meteor in the centre of their battle, remains still with the only movement being the steam and magma inside the miniature sun.
Walking weakly away from the meteor, Xicor's condition is obvious at the sight of him that he's struggling to even keep standing. His body is filled with grim wounds, which were closed by his blood manipulation. His lower garments have rips and patches of dirt and blood covering them with his feet bare, blood flowed from his forehead and covered the left side of his face. He leans against a wall to stabilise his breathing.
As his breathing became calmer, he breathed a sigh of relief before turning back to the downed meteor with his back leaning against the rock wall before spitting a mouth full of blood.
He let out a weak chuckle, "That should have killed it, I hope" he muttered as he turned away and waited for the system to give him his reward.
But after several minutes, nothing happened. He blinked several times, "You serious I'm not getting anything after destroying that thing... unless"
He turned sharply to the meteor, it wasn't moving nor was there any dramatic beam coming out of it but instead he saw the creature he thought he killed standing directly on top of the meteor like it just spawned there when he looked away.
Xicor clicked his tongue as he reluctantly pushed himself off the wall, "You've got to be kidding me"
Currently, Xicor has now around 15% of his total cursed energy left but from what he's sensing, Charlie is in a similar condition.
'It must have used cursed energy reinforcement to tank the attack at the last moment, good thing it can't heal itself otherwise I'm a goner' Xicor thought as he took in Charlie's body.
Its body has several burn marks all over its body with grim and blood which is red, making Xicor frown at the sight. One of its horns is missing, completely snapped in half.
Charlie leapt down from the molten rock and walked towards Xicor. Xicor responded by walking over to quite possibly his last fight in a world he quite hated and liked but he didn't care.
It's either he runs away and lets this thing continue to chase him, without giving him a second to recover or he fights until one of them is dead and this option has a higher chance of him surviving than the other one.
As Xicor got closer he muttered something under his breath, "flowing red scale: stack"
Hardened blood seeped out of the tattoos of his body, almost like a virus but it didn't harm him in any way.
Soon their walk slowly turned into a sprint as Charlie threw a punch at Xicor but he twisted out of the way in time before driving his elbow into its face.
Charlie recoiled back before swinging its body around, making its tail smash against his side but Xicor gritted through the sharp pain as he grabbed the tail, refusing to let go and pull it back.
Charlie was yanked back, tripping and falling backwards but before it could hit the ground, Xicor's fist came hammering down on its chest but Charlie managed to stop it with both hands on top of each other.
Charlie pushed the fist up before it spun its body around, kicking Xicor off his feet and quickly getting up like a dance move.
It used its tail to wrap around his ankle before smashing him against the wall and dragging him across it. Xicor managed to, with difficulty, clap his hands and swap their positions.
Xicor sharply kicked to his side where Charlie was in the wall as it plummeted through it and embedded itself into the wall of a cave behind it.
Xicor didn't give it time to recover itself as his knee came crashing into its face as it looked up where it came through.
Xicor pulled back and drove his knee back into its face, this was repeated several times before his knee was stopped by its hand and shoved to the side, leaving him open as it used its free hand to strike him into the stomach, launching him back.
Xicor instinctively moved his head to the side as a fist went past him and into the wall next to him. Xicor drove his elbow into Charlie as it backed away due to the pain.
Xicor quickly got up and immediately threw his fist directly at Charlie but it managed to block it and throw an attack of his own into Xicor's cheek, recoiling back only to have a knee driven into his stomach.
Gritting his teeth, Xicor grabbed the side of Charlie's head before he repeatedly punched him in the face but after the 3rd strike, he grabbed his fist by the knuckles and threw him aside.
Xicor rolled across the ground before he stopped himself with all 4 limbs touching the ground.
Charlie ran at Xicor before leaping up and crashing his knee into his face, rocketing him into the wall of the cave as the whole room shook.
He was about to quickly get up but just as his head looked up, Charlie's tail was already in his vision before his body was smacked through the wall and into the open and steaming ground.
Xicor's body shook with pain and exhaustion but with sheer will and adrenaline still coursing through his body, he got back up as he narrowly dodged a fist to the face.
He responded with one of his own but that was stopped by Charlie's forearm, Xicor backed his upper body away as an uppercut nearly landed on him.
He grabbed the arm by the wrist and pushed it to the side and kneed Charlie in the side before he used his free hand to grab it by the neck as they blurred away and appeared next to the meteor before Xicor forced its face into the molten rock not before smashing its head against it.
Steam rose high from Charlie's face as a sharp hiss was audible before Charlie pushed itself back and smacked itself into Xicor's head making blood splatter out but he didn't have time to recover.
As his head was grabbed and smashed against the meteor several times, he was pulled back sharply as his vision was dazed and blurry.
Charlie repeatedly punched Xicor in the stomach, throwing him up in the sky but just as Charlie was about to strike him, he clapped his hands in time striking Charlie in the chest with the same force.
Its body rocketed through several rock formations that were barely holding their own, they collapsed from the collision of a creature smashing through them.
Xicor, breathing heavily and remaining in the same pose as how he struck Charlie, collapsed on his knees as flowing red scales ran out and the hardened blood across his tattoos slowly cracked like glass before falling apart.
His cursed energy reserves are now at 9%, enough for one last trick up his sleeve, if it fails he'll be dead and no one will be able to save him.
The rubble in the distance was pushed aside as Charlie limped out, almost tripping before holding its left shoulder, Xicor stared at its left arm, noting the lack of general control over it.
'It's broken, that gives me a better advantage' he thought as a ghost of a smile crept up his lips.
Using the last bits of cursed energy he had, he coated his hands, down to his wrists, it hardened blood with the tips of his fingers sharply pointed like daggers.
Charlie seemed to have a similar idea as, at the same time, it brought its tail in front of it as a red orb appeared at the tip but instead of firing it it grasped the red orb in its working hand as red electricity cackled around its arm with a red aura surrounding the arm.
Xicor and Charlie began to make their way over to each other by immediately running to one another, occasionally leaping and hopping over obstacles that got in their way.
As they came in range, Xicor immediately thrust a fist directly at the creature but it was redirected by its only hand and thrusted forward but Xicor caught it with his free hand before tightening his hold on the fist.
Xicor sent a flurry of punches and knees into Charlie. Charlie could barely do anything other than block with its knee and tail.
Charlie gritted his teeth and let out a screech before driving its bladed tail into Xicor's stomach. Both warriors stopped their movement as both of them stared down at the tail embedded in Xicor's abdomen with different emotions.
Charlie's sadistic satisfaction, extreme enthusiasm over the victory it had achieved.
Xicor's shocked, pained and frustrated expression but they were natural given what happened to him.
After all, he planned it.
Xicor's grip on Charlie's fist, which had loosened out of instinctive response to the pain he got, tightened even more than before as Xicor lifted his head at Charlie to view his expression change to confusion and annoyance as Xicor's lips lifted in a grin.
Xicor reeled back his only free arm and straightened his fingers into a blade before driving it through Charlie's chest and out the other side.
Below both warriors were puddles of blood but more was oozing out from Charlie's side.
"My victory" Xicor muttered under his breath.
But before Xicor could pull back his hand, the skin of Charlie began to crack like ice over a large body of water.
The skin or rather exoskeleton, shattered, leaving no remnant of the creature Xicor was fighting. In its place was a young teen around 13, his hair was black and his eyes, which were hollow and devoid of any emotion that it's almost like staring at a corpse, were black like his hair.
Xicor stared at this boy with widened eyes as memories of someone he cherished, taught, and practically defended from the horrors of the real world, whose face he couldn't remember and tried so many times to remember.
In front of Xicor is one person he wished to see to no end but the situation in front of him is a massive blow to his mental state.
"Wi...William" Xicor whispered out in disbelief and absolute terror as tears began to form.
Charlie, or rather William, didn't answer at first but as he registered the voice as well as his name, he looked at the person in front of him. The face was someone he didn't recognise but the voice of it was unrecognisable to him.
"X..Xicor?" His hoarse and pained voice came out with so much effort that it made Xicor flinch.
William slowly slipped out from Xicor's impaled hand in his chest as he slowly fell back but before he could hit the ground Xicor quickly stopped his fall and gently leaned him against his body.
"No...No No No Will, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, please don't you dare close your eyes, you hear me little bro?" Xicor desperately said as he brought a hand to William's open chest wound.
'Come on rct, come on rct' Xicor kept trying to bring out rct but it didn't even make an appearance.
Xicor's whole body was shaking in fear but before he could try again, a soft hand lay on top of his. He followed the hand's source to see William looking up at him with a smile that seemed to take so much effort to hold.
"Please...Don't" William whispered out.
"William...W-Who did this to you and how are you here" Xicor asked as water flowed down his cheeks, unable to hold back.
"On...Onmyou A...Agency... and... De... Demon Defen....Defence force... bright light... appeared in... white room... had energy they... never seen... before" William choked out as blood was spat out of his mouth.
Xicor's eyes widened as he suspected one source, 'cursed energy, me and him transmigrated here with cursed energy and they combined it with energy inside those peaches'
"F-F-Find...Mom... and Dad... Please" William's barely audible plea reached Xicor through his thoughts.
Xicor continued to hold his brother, "No No No, William don't leave me please" he said desperately as William's body grew more and more pale as his eyes slowly closed.
"Thank... you... for being... my... big brother" William breathed out before his body went limp.
"William...William... stop sleeping... this is not the time to be joking... we have to get you to Shikoku and Naruhime... they can heal you" Xicor choked out through tears, not wanting his brother to die, by his own hands.
But William did not move the only moment being the pool of blood growing underneath him and Xicor but he didn't register it until he subconsciously placed his hand down to support his heavier body.
He lifted his hand to his vision to see it painted red in blood, his brother's blood, his kin's blood.
Xicor's mind screamed and attacked him as he slowly stood up and backed away from the corpse of his brother without taking his eyes off him.
'Murder!'
'You killed your brother!'
'Why would you kill your brother!'
'You could have prevented this!"
'Why didn't you look for him!'
'He turned into a monster because you were too late to save him!'
'If you weren't weak, this wouldn't have happened!'
Voices screamed at him in all directions, attacking him in a mental battle he's losing. The last thin thread that kept him from killing his own species has all but disappeared.
The very thing he hoped to go back to, was killed by his own hands and humanity has tortured him and turned in a beast.
Memories of his time with his brother flashed through his eyes, their time playing pranks on each other or their parents, playing games together or against their father, he was the personification of innocence and it ripped from Xicor by his very eyes and hands.
He fell back on the ground hard, tears flowed freely down his cheeks before he started grinding his teeth and screamed into the sky that echoed across the land.