Forbidden Finishing Move

The contest between demons came down, fundamentally, to more than just the strength of their equipment. The greatest measure was the intensity of the Emperor Power between the two demons.

Yet Gu Yu, standing before King, was not a demon of King's world at all—he was human. For some reason, however, he wielded Emperor Power far more skillfully than ordinary demons.

The Sealing Barrier Gu Yu unleashed this time was even faster than the one Kurenai Otoya had forcibly activated when he was on the verge of death.

It even gave King an illusion...

—Could this kid possibly have used the Dark Kiva Armor before?

No, that wasn't right. When he first came into contact with me, his body had only shown signs of Honkai Energy disruption. His life force had not yet visibly withered.

He had forced me into this state on his very first use of DarkKiva?!

As he immobilized King with the Sealing Barrier, Gu Yu deliberately strengthened the amplification of Emperor Power, causing a massive amount of the Emperor Power King had absorbed into his body to flow into the Sealing Barrier.

Thanks to that maneuver, King was unable to move in the slightest for the time being.

But only Gu Yu himself knew the true state he was in.

For one thing, after forcibly using the Dark Kiva Armor, Gu Yu—a human who was not even a demon—was having his life force frantically drained by the Dark Kiva Armor.

If he had not mimicked the Aguru Belt when he had forcibly broken through Kuuga's strongest-form KamenRide, Super Rising Ultimate, with energy earlier, thereby vastly improving his physical capabilities again, he felt he would already be close to death.

At the same time, after he had drawn massive amounts of Emperor Power and Honkai Energy into