"Heh. Unbelievable. You just raised another death flag. I suggest you surrender now and stop struggling."
"You bastard! I've put up with you long enough! Don't think I won't hit you!" Diva, whose brain was already failing him, flew into a rage and made to attack.
At the crucial moment, he remembered what he was supposed to be doing and stopped.
"Oh? Getting bold, are we? Don't think being ugly gives you a free pass. Go on, hit me if you've got the guts~" Wearing an infuriating grin, Tetsuhiro hopped into the middle of the dueling field to provoke Diva, then hopped back out.
"I'm warning you. Don't interfere with our sacred duel."
"Oh~ I'm interfering. What are you going to do about it? Here I am again! Oh~ Now I'm out again! Come hit me, idiot!"
"I've never heard anyone beg for it so obnoxiously! Damn it, I can't take this anymore!"
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The five pendants around the Millennium Ring suddenly rose, aimed at Tetsuhiro, and fired beams of black-and-gold light!
Somehow, he happened to hop aside at just the right moment, narrowly avoiding them.
The beams punched straight through the road beside him, leaving bowl-sized holes.
"I refuse to believe this!" This time, Diva fired three times in a row.
Yet Tetsuhiro hopped out of the way every time with effortless ease.
"Stand still if you've got the guts!"
"Heh. Don't blame other people for your lousy aim. If you're bad, you're bad. Try looking at yourself. Have you gotten any stronger over all these years? Have you been working hard? Ahem, I mean training hard?"
Getting carried away, Tetsuhiro rattled off memes from his previous life and nearly slipped up.
"You motherf-"
"Teacher Li, please step aside. I know you're helping me in a roundabout way. Don't