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'Bloodseeker' began to shake as it was slowly slipping through Zero's grip. He knew that Nyuu can't resist her natural tendency to suck up the blood of her enemies, after all, Muramasa made her that way. Zero walked over to the pool of blood and placed 'Bloodseeker' in the middle. As Zero walked back to where he was earlier, 'Bloodseeker' radiated more with purple light.

"Thanks Nyuu-san, you can rest for a while now." Zero said as he turned his attention back at Mizumaru-san. He entered his unorthodox unarmed battle stance he trained with in Library Island as his hands began to glow in gray-blue light.

"Besides...Gray Wolf wants to take you on as well." Zero smirked as he prepared to launch and attack.

"Here it comes!" And with that, Zero lunged once again at Mizumaru-san.

Zero shundo'd in front of him and met Mizumaru-san's pressurized water with Gray Wolf's aura emanating from his hands. There was a fierce struggle between the two combatants, both of them grinning sheepishly at each other as they grappled with one another. A few minutes have passed and they're still going at it, aura forming and imploding underneath their feet symbolizing the raw intensity of their grappling.

After a few minutes, Zero finally overpowered Mizumaru-san as he maneuvered his body in such a way that the force that Mizumaru-san exerted would turn on him which would break his balance allowing Zero to toss him up into the air. Zero took the chance and leapt high into the air to the same height as his opponent, but unbenknownst to him, Mizumaru-san was waiting for this opportunity as Mizumaru-san quickly recovered and fused the two pressurized waters on the palm of his hands into a single water ball aimed straight for Zero's torso.

Zero tried to block the attack with his left hand, and he successfully deflected the strike, but not without suffering some damage. The force of the united pressurized waters broke Gray Wolf's aura in his left hand, but with that break, it somehow managed to dramatically decrease the attack's power with Zero only suffering a dislocated shoulder as to what may have happened if Gray Wolf's aura wasn't active.

Knowing that there wasn't any more pressurized water with Mizumaru-san, he quickly struck him in the face with a powerful right hook, Gray Wolf's power amplifying Zero's punch ten-fold, which sent Mizumaru flying higher into the air. He then punched the air beneath him, and with the ensuing air pressure from Zero's punch amplified with Gray Wolf's aura, allowed him to rocket up to the airborne Mizumaru-san.

He grabbed Mizumaru-san's hand and entered into a barrel-roll with him, spinning faster and faster with each succeeding rotation. After he had gained enough momentum, Zero made one last roll and threw down Mizumaru-san. The force of Zero's throw sent Mizumaru-san screening down, like a bullet from a gun, and crashed onto the wooden ring.

Zero jumped back down and relocated his left shoulder until a loud crack was heard, meaning that his shoulder was okay now. "Ouch...that hurt..." Zero murmured to himself as the stinging sensation slowly disappeared. He flexed his, now relocated, left shoulder, reactivated Gray Wolf's aura, and returned to his unorthodox battle stance.

As Zero was being pulled down under the water, he noticed that 'Bloodseeker' wasn't radiating anymore and that the pool of blood had disappeared, probably because 'Bloodseeker' had already lapped up all the blood. Zero strecthed out his hand and beckoned his katana to come to him. At one, 'Bloodseeker' began to shake and then flew towards Zero's waiting hand, but right before he was dragged underwater. Inside the puddle, Zero was slowly being drowned, desperately gasping for air, but the icy hands that froze on his ankle prevented him from reaching up to the surface as he was dragged deeper and deeper into the water's dark depths.

A few minutes later and there was no sign of movement from the puddle, it looked like that Zero had drowned in the puddle, until suddenly, Zero jumped out from the puddle with a loud splash. He had somehow managed to break free from Mizumaru-san's icy grip, panting and wheezing for he had been submerged far longer than any human being could ever have been submerged without drowning or at least losing consciousness, but now he was to face a barrage of ice needles once again, and this thime, being in his airborne state, there wasn't much chance in dodging the projectiles.

Mizumaru-san's replica turned his attention to Zero, aimed his ice needle gun, and began firing ice needles at him. Zero unsheathed 'Bloodseeker' and once again began deflecting the ice needles that rocketed towards him in a similar way that he did before, but now he wasn't going to stop until he was sure that ALL of them this time have been deflected.

The barrage of ice needles seemed to go on forever since it was like having an infinite ammo cheat in a game for the whole ring was full of water, and even the copy himself, was made of water -- plenty of ammunition indeed. This cycle went on even until Zero had reached the ground and his stamina was slowly deteriorating from having to sustain that kind of spinning speed, but it wasn't until Zero noticed something that could help him out of his present predicament.

The needles came almost simultaneously from each other, but Zero estimated that there was a slight .95 second gap between each barrage. Zero patiently waited for the ice gun to run out of bullets before he will launch a strike. After a few minutes, Zero noticed that the barrage had stopped and siezed the opportunity to shundo up to the Mizumaru-san copy and sliced him in two with his katana. He then sheathed 'Bloodseeker' back into its scabbard and entered into his sword stance once again, waiting for Mizumaru-san to reappear.

Zero just stood there as the hail of ice bullets came pouring down on him. He knew that this was just too much, too much for even 'Bloodseeker' to deflect. With no other alternative, Zero jumped high into the sky, high up past the clouds out of range from Mizumaru-san's ice needles.

Zero smirked as the staff hit him on the shoulder. Mizumaru-san's strike was extremely painful, painful enough to make him whince, but Zero beared with it, for if he did, his reward was far more greater than the pain. At once, Zero grabbed the staff and pulled Mizumaru-san closer to him.

"I got you..." Zero murmured in Mizumaru-san's ear and turned towards the direction of the ice arrows and used Mizumaru-san's body as a human shield. It was cruel, but effective strategy as the arrows hit Mizumaru-san in the back. Since they were homing, their only focus is hitting Zero, no matter what -- or in this case, who -- gets in their way, disregarding it as just some piece of armor or shield.

After a few hundred of his own needles hit him, Zero followed up and struck Mizumaru-san in the stomach, sending him crashing down onto the ice dragon, shattering it in the process. After this, Zero jumped back to the ground and returned to his battle stance.

Zero flew across the ring and crashed down on the wooden boards, sliding away until he reached the end. He slowly stood up and looked at Mizumaru-san, who seems to have activated his so-called trump card.

"The Ultimate Water Angel...the power and tenacity of a raging storm in the form of beautiful, glistening wings..." Zero said as he wiped the blood off his face and returned to his battle stance.

"This should be fun..." Zero smirked as he secured his stance and gripped 'Bloodseeker's hilt tightly.

Zero recieved the force of the blows at full force for it was both too fast to avoid and too powerful to deflect. As each of the two blows hit him, a large boom could be heard, indicating the punch's power, and also caused Zero to splurt of blood. Zero struggled to maintain his stance even after recieving those monsterous blows, but somehow he managed to keep it, and waited for Mizumaru-san to strike again.

"Was that the best...you can do? I thought that this is supposed to be your trump card...that felt more like a pinch rather than a punch..." Zero laughed and taunted Mizumaru-san.

Zero could only brace himself as multiple Mizumaru-sans converged on him. They ganged up on him and beat him down hard, much like to the situation he was in earlier, but this time around, there are a lot fewer copies to contend with, but a lot more pain. The copies continued to overpower Zero, both physically and magically, for a few minutes before Zero saw an opening. Although bruised and bloodied, Zero stood up and swung his katana in a circular pattern, striking all of the Mizumaru-san copies around him, which turned all of them back into water. The original Mizumaru-san flew back from the fray, but Zero shundo'd behind him and muttered something softly.

"You know, rage clouds the mind. You'll know soon enough why it's important to keep cool during a fight..." Zero murmured and struck Mizumaru-san on the back, grabbed the back of Mizumaru-san's head and slammed his face on the wooden ring. He then focused his strength on his hand and transferred it to Mizumaru-san as a strike of some sort, which produced a large shockwave, leaving Mizumaru-san's body embedded on the ring.