In an instant... truly just an instant, a single brief exchange was all it took for him to be defeated, and defeated without a shadow of a doubt.
Asuya stared blankly at the falling rain in the sky. The icy raindrops slammed into his face, seeping straight into the deep wound that pierced his chest. Defeat had come so fast that Asuya hadn't even had time to process it, let other than mentally prepare himself to accept it.
Yet the intense pain radiating from his chest clearly reminded Asuya that he had indeed lost. He could feel his life force rapidly draining away from his body. Where the rain soaked him, his body temperature was steadily dropping, and the bone-chilling agony actually cleared his mind somewhat on the brink of death.
Chapter 477