Saint Seiya: This Gemini is a bit of a trap.

"Are you so confident?"

"Of course, Mu, don't think I'm a child. I know your psychic power might be the strongest among us, but my speed is just as fast!"

"Alright, Aiolia, let me see just how fast you really are."

Mu and Aiolia took their stances, a clash of Nen and Speed, both displaying serious expressions.

At this point, only four people remained on the field: Jalong, Saga, Shaka, and Aiolos.

"Who should I choose?"

Jia Long glanced at the other three. One of them was touted as the incarnation of a god in the future, another as the person closest to a god, and the third was Seiya's grandfather, the one who possessed the God-Slaying Arrow.

They're definitely the three giants of gold; it doesn't really matter which one you choose.

Before Jia Long could even react, Aiolos, who hadn't made a move yet, leaped into the air and headed straight for... Saga.

"Saga, I'll be your opponent!"

"Aeolus?"

Seeing Aiolos approach, Saga's eyes lit up: "Aiolos, I've been wanting to spar with you for a while now. Everyone was vying for Aldebaran's Saint Card earlier, why didn't you join in?"

Aiolos shook his head:

"The sixth rule of the Sanctuary Code of Conduct states that His Holiness the Pope said that Saints are the embodiment of justice, and even in battle, they must face their enemies openly and fairly! I, Aiolos, will not participate in this kind of gang fight that violates the spirit of Saints."

"Good! No wonder he's a man who, like me Saga, wants to don the Bronze Cloth!"

Saga's eyes lit up even more upon hearing this: "Actually, I also hate gang fights and sneak attacks from behind. So, let's settle this fair and square!"

"We're betting on our grand ambition to become Bronze Saints!"

"it is good!"

Driven by their shared ideals, Saga and Aiolos were filled with a burning fighting spirit, like two enormous flames raging within them.

"Heaven-Shattering and Earth-Splitting Fist!"

"Lightning Fist!"

With a sense of mutual respect, Saga and Aiolos's fists collided heavily, sending sand and gravel flying and exuding a passionate atmosphere!

"Two idiots!!"

Jalon shook his head and walked toward Shaka; at this point, he had no other choice.

However, when he passed by the unconscious Aldebaran, he still picked up the body and took the strong, ox-like guy into another dimension.

Not far away, Shaka, who looked like a young novice monk, looked puzzled.

"Galon! Aldebaran is already unconscious and out of the game, why are you still attacking him?"

"I just kept him away from the battlefield."

"No, you're lying to me. I can feel the way you look at Aldebaran. There's no pity in your eyes at all. Instead, it's like you're looking at a hungry ghost seeing rotten flesh."

Shaka's eyes snapped open.

Without any visible steps, he suddenly covered a distance of seven or eight meters and appeared opposite Jia Long, as if he had always been standing there.

"Kanon, you have no mercy! I, Shaka, will purify you!"

"No mercy? Purify me?"

Although Shaka displayed a beautiful telekinetic technique, Jalong merely glanced at him briefly before meeting Shaka's gaze with equal force and calmly speaking:

"That's as if you, Shaka, have any compassion."

Shaka proudly declared, "Buddha is compassionate, and I am the reincarnation of Buddha, so of course I have a heart of compassion."

"Oh?"

Upon hearing this, Jia Long's lips curled into a smile:

"Alright, since you are the reincarnation of the compassionate Buddha, then have mercy on me. I'm very hungry now and I want the two Saint Seiya cards you have. Give them to me!"

"This……"

Shaka stared in astonishment, momentarily at a loss for words to refute Jalong.

"What?! Even Buddha could cut off his own flesh to feed a tiger, so how come in his reincarnation, it's difficult for you to even give two loaves of bread? You're not lying to me, are you?"

Jia Long stroked his chin and chuckled:

"Look at your stingy attitude, don't talk about being a reincarnation of Buddha, you're probably not even a monk. I was wondering before, how come a Buddhist came to the holy land of the goddess?"

"I……"

Shaka never dreamed that Jalong was so eloquent. In the past, when he used this trick on other junior fighters, it was always effective, and he would often win the battle by speaking first.

But now the tables have turned; facing Jalong's aggressive verbal attacks, Shaka has been the one to be preemptively defeated.

Shaka's momentum waned, but Jalong had no intention of letting him go.

"What do you mean, 'you'? Answer me!"

"I was never a monk to begin with..."

"But you're completely bald. You came to the Sanctuary with such a clean shave, are you deliberately trying to deceive people? Answer me!"

"This is a custom from my hometown. In our Buddhist region, only the strongest man can grow his hair."

"so what?"

"Why?"

"So when you came to the Holy Land, you had no goddess or Buddhist teachings in your heart. All you wanted was to become stronger and go back to not be bald. All you cared about was your hair! Right?"

"I……"

Under Jia Long's probing questions that went straight to the heart, Shaka's fair face turned bright red, as if the most hidden corner of his heart had been torn open.

Pity is his greatest weakness.

His hair was his biggest worry.

His biggest problem was the doubts he faced about the goddess.

Now that all the secrets hidden in his heart have been revealed, Shaka's mentality collapsed instantly, and he rushed towards Jalong as if he had gone mad.

"Garon, you are a demon in human skin, I will purify you!"

Although Shaka's mentality collapsed, his power did not diminish in the slightest.

Legend has it that when the Buddha was possessed by a demon, he became known as the Demon Buddha, who was also called the Sixth Demon King. He was known for his fighting prowess, so Shaka at this time was even more violent than before.

"The three fundamental mantras, Om~ Ah~ Hum~"

The three fundamental mantras of Buddhism are the fundamental sounds of the primordial life energy of the universe, namely the first three sounds uttered by the first human ancestors at birth: Om, Ah, and Hum.

Om represents boundless power!

Ah, representing endless bodies!

Hum represents boundless mental power!

The combination of these three elements constitutes Shaka's greatest secret.

As Shaka formed hand seals, he appeared as if the Buddha had descended, and a tremendous mental force suddenly erupted from his palms, stirring up sand and stones from all directions, which pressed down on Jawron.

Under the control of telekinesis, the sand and gravel flew in layers, like a giant lotus flower in full bloom!

"Garon, prepare to die! Heavenly Demon Subjugation!!"

Chapter 13 One-on-One Duel! The Man Who Recently Became a God (Part 2)

"That's it?"

Faced with Shaka's ferocious attack, Jalong was not afraid at all; instead, a smile appeared on his face.

In a battle between fighters of the same level, if your mentality collapses, you've already lost half the battle.

Of course, Jia Long wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip by. If he didn't get Shaka into the Mirror of Time for an X-ray today, he would be wasting all the saliva he had just used!

"Heaven-Shattering and Earth-Splitting Fist!"

With his hands crossed and raised high above his head, a massive surge of psychic energy emanated from Jia Long.

It was the earth-shattering fist that Saga had used.

Having lived, ate, and trained with Saga every day, Jalong naturally knew this move as well, and when he used it, its power was no less than that of Saga.

With a cold shout, Jia Long swung his hands out.

"Boom~"

A visible, explosive force crashed into Shaka's Tenma Kofuku. In an instant, a huge shockwave rippled out from where the two clashed, and the surrounding air currents howled and exploded, as if the entire canyon was shaking.

"So fierce?!"

Amidst the massive tremors, the other junior fighters in the valley all stopped fighting and looked toward the battle between Jalong and Shaka.

However, here the sky was filled with dust and smoke.

Even with the young warriors' keen eyesight, they could only vaguely see Shaka and Jalong being knocked back, and... the dimensional vortex that suddenly appeared behind Jalong.

There was a "whoosh" sound.

Jalong's figure retreated directly into another dimension, and then the vortex closed. When the vortex and Jalong reappeared, they were already behind Shaka.

Meanwhile, Shaka, who was flying backward, was still in a berserk state, waiting to land before continuing the fight with Jalong.

He never expected Jia Long to sneak up on him and set him up.

As a result, by the time Shaka realized what was happening, he was already being held tightly from behind by Jalong. No matter how Shaka struggled, the two of them still ended up entangled and fell into the dimensional vortex together.

"what's the situation?"

Everyone who witnessed this scene was speechless.

"What is Galon up to?"

Even Albiot, who had been keeping a straight face, was stunned.

To be fair, Yarubio was quite satisfied with Jia Long's performance so far.