In the highest room of the New World, inside the Holy Shrine of the West, the spherical Barrier has become undone from Aniik's continuous slashes and ultimately from a clutch black fireball coming from the Demonic Lord, Akane. Kallian and Yulim are saved from the One-Minute-Rule and Ramael is no longer dependent completely on Yonuro's Humanity to survive.

Now united as 7, the Angels and Demonic Lords have all combined their strength in a final battle of the worlds. They are all ready to stop the Accursed Angel, once and for all.

Sachrist- Hah... I guess I'll have to stop going easy on you...

Sachrist's Eye of Omniscience focuses its piercing glare on Sachrist's Godly sparkling, brown green eyes and summon 19 illusions of himself in battle. Together with the real one, 20 Sachrists slowly approach the New World's last line of defense.

"Who has the number advantage now...?" all the Sachrists intimidatingly ask as they get closer and closer.

Everyone gulps and gets ready for battle.

In sync, half of the illusions initiate an attack while the others stay behind to protect the real Sachrist. The punches of these Sachrists are fierce and powerful. Our Angels and Demons can't counter them all and are hit by at least one attack each.

After getting hit, however, the illusions disappear and Sachrist has to recreate them with a quick snap of his fingers.

*snap*

The clones are back, more intimidating and fearsome than ever. Now they all launch an attack on Sachrist's enemies. If they don't do something about all these clones, they will soon be defeated.

Knowing this really well, Yonuro tries to understand who the real Sachrist is. While the others are fighting the clones, who keep on disappearing and reappearing, Yonuro takes a careful look around. The moment she sees one Sachrist trying to snap his fingers, Yonuro dashes towards him and throws a powerful uppercut.

Yonuro- Ahhhh!

Imbued with Ramael's Holy Energy, this attack will surely do some serious damage to Sachrist. If it hits the real one that is...

At the moment of impact, the illusion disappears. Yonuro was tricked by a fake snap from one of the clones. Now the real Sachrist, having complete control of the situation, gets behind Yonuro's back and performs a powerful front kick.

Sachrist- Know your place, mortal!

Yonuro flies in the air for 2 whole seconds until she falls on the floor again with serious injuries that Ramael tries to heal.

On the other side of the room, Aniik is confronted by 4 Sachrists and stands her ground. She slashes right through one Illusion with her Demonic Claws, and kicks the second one behind her and throws her demonic nails to defeat the third one. Yet the real Sachrist, the fourth one, is left unmarked. A powerful punch slightly dislocates her jaw from behind.

Sachrist- I'll make your jaw shaped like your dead father's.

Thankully Aniik doesn't get what he's implying, but Sachrist laughs nonetheless at her perplexed expression.

Aniik then stretches her head and jaw before responding.

Aniik- You're so lucky my attacks went for the clones...

Sachrist responds with "There's no thing as luck..."

Sachrist- When you're 100% sure of what unfolds!

Aniik tries to dodge Sachrist's left punch, but he quickly switches it up to a side kick. Aniik widens her eyes and braces for impact.

Aoi- Diabolic Shield!

Aoi blocks the attack and pressures her shield with both hands against Sachrist. A few seconds of blocking later, Aoi fends him off and gives Aniik a helping hand.

Aniik- Thanks.

Aoi- We've got your back, don't worry.

Aniik and Aoi take a moment to catch a breath and watch how spectacularly Kallian and Yulim deal with 5 clones at once.

Yulim- Grab my hand, Kallian!

Kallian- Certainly!

Yulim throws Kallian towards the group of Sachrists and the sisters execute a deadly combo attack.

Yulim- Now!

Kallian joins her hands together as if to say a prayer and creates a cube of holy energy around her and the Sachrists. Paralyzed as the now are, Yulim has a great angle to fire with her angelic bow. She steps once to the left so that they are standing perfectly in a row and...

Yulim- Take that!

A devastating holy arrow pierces through all 5 Sachrists and instantly annihilates them. The arrow also pierces through the huge spherical glass window of the room and fades away far into the sky, never to be seen again.

The illusions have greatly diminished in number, and Sachrist can't keep making more of them forever. As a result, the real Sachrist is gradually getting easier and easier to detect and focus on.

Aniik slashes multiple Sachrists to the right, Yonuro and Ramael take down some of them to the left, and the sister Angels pressure in the middle of the room. At the same time, the real Sachrist orders the Eternum Horonomicon to fire beams at them, which they cleanly avoid while dealing with the clones.

Sachrist is now starting to get slightly angry.

Sachrist- Tsk* If only I had the power of Yulim or Akane and blast them all... Hm.. Well, we'll see what we can do about that.

Despite his troupes being chopped down, Sachrist confidently grins. He then decides to step forwards into the battlefield and reveal his position.

Sachrist intentionally snaps his fingers to let his enemies know he is the real Sachrist.

Kallian- There he is!

Sachrist- Yes... I'm here. Come at me!

Sachrist taunts them to fight him head on.

Akane- Black fireball!

Sachrist easily moves aside.

Yulim- Holy Arrow!

Still, the projectile miss. His omnisciene makes projectiles useless.

Aoi- Leave him to me! I'll beat the shit out of him from melee range!

"Diabolic Shield!"

Aoi readies her weapon and charges at Sachrist while screaming.

Sachrist- I guess you will do.

Sachrist blocks the spikey shield with his bare left hand. Despite him bleeding, Sachrist strikes back in a peculiar way. He grabs Aoi's face and then his Godly Essence infused hand interracts with Aoi, making something unbelievable to happen.

Akane- Aoi! Get out of there!

Sachrist whispers something to her, that only she hears.

Sachrist- K i l l t h e m a l l , A o i .

"Yes, Sachrist."

Yonuro and Aniik finish with the remaining clones at the sides and take a look at what is unfolding in the middle of the room. When they see Aoi walking away from Sachrist and giving everyone death glares, they are shaken to the very bone.

Sachrist- This one, you cannot counter, YONURO! She listens to me and ONLY me!

Aoi moves forwards with no hesitation or fear. Hearing Sachrist's whispers in her mind, she's completely under his control, ready to kill whoever stands in her way.

Ramael- From Sachrist's reaction, our incantation should not work... How do we deal with her then?

Yonuro makes a troubled face and tries to think of some other way. Kallian taps her chest twice and confidently says "Leave her to me!—"

The moment she says that, however, her counterpart Demonic Lord touches her demonic item with her free left hand and utters these next words on Sachrist's behalf.

Aoi- Diabolic Shield, Razor Cut!

The shield starts spinning at a particularly high speed, and the blades surrounding the item are now deadlier than ever. Sachrist's vast knowledge allows Aoi to use the abilities of her Demonic Item to its fullest.

Surprised as she now is, Kallian thinks again.

Kallian- Maybe not... I think I need some help here...

Akane comes forth and says she'll help her out.

Akane- I'll help bring her back. She's my twin sister after all...

Everyone nods and Ramael warns them before doing anything.

Ramael- But be careful everyone. Sachrist is unbelievably strong... Try to keep a safe distance from him, so as to not end up like Aoi. If we lose another ally and gain another enemy, it is going to be the end of us.

Ramael's precautions are clearly understood.

Aniik- Alright, you try to get her back to her senses, and the rest of us will target Sachrist. Come, Yonuro, Ramael, Yulim!

Aniik clenches her right hand into a tight fist and glares Sachrist first, followed by the others.

Aniik- Let's do this, together everyone!

Ramael- Use all your range attacks with me!

Yonuro- Okay. Ramael!

Ramael detaches from Yonuro and stretches her angelic body in the air.

Ramael- Angelic... RAY!

Ramael starts charging a ray of holy energy and waits for the others.

Yulim- Let me add some spark to your dazzling light!

Yulim's right hand is engulfed in holy flames which she redirects to the Angelic Ray with a quick snap. Now Ramael's ability has all the power in the World, now capable of damaging Sachrist.

Aniik- And... Zanir! Hunt your pray, Sachrist!

Aniik throws all 10 of her Demonic Nails through the huge pillar of Holy Energy and makes them interract with the huge amount of holy energy after passing through. This rare occurence makes each demonic nail interact with Aniik's counterpart Holy Energy, making them God-slaying knives...

Sachrist- Clever...

All this chaos is thrown at Sachrist at once.

Aniik / Yonuro / Yulim / Ramael- Gooooo!

The Angelic Ray starts swirling with Yulim's fire, conceiling in this way Aniik's ever powerful demonic nails.

Sachrist creates 5 illusions of himself to take the most amount of damage and protect him with their lives, as escaping this mayhem is out of the question.

The pillar of dazzling light annihilates the clones, and the god-slaying nails are mostly blocked by their flesh and then disappear. Sachrist dodges to the right side to avoid the next few nails. But the angle Aniik fired her nails was a perfect cone shaped. In this way no matter where you stand, at least one projectile will hit. And apparently, it all worked out.

After the explosion is done and dusted, they all take a look at Sachrist. He seems to be removing a demonic nail from his left forearm. His Godly blood starts spilling on the floor. Even after giving a try at healing it, the wound stays as is. The god-slaying nail is their first real hit on Sachrist. This small victory makes them realise the following.

Aniik- Omniscience is... not unbeatable!

Yes. Even if you know what will happen in the future, where the enemy will attack, how they will attack, their thought process and strategy, it's all useless if you don't have a way to counter it. The only thing it does in this case is create pure frustration. Knowing you will bleed, then try to avoid it and still bleeding is a really infuriating thing. And Sachrist, although composed as a person, still has clear signs of being really mad.

Standing in front of the middle window, the spot that was earlier broken by Yulim's arrow, his long hair is flying in random directions making his vision slightly less clear. His expression showing clear signs anger and frustration, his left hand bleeding from the last attack, Sachrist isn't in the mood to talk back with irony. He instead ties his long hair back into a bun and then gives everyone a disturbing glare.

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Sachrist- Aoi! Come here!

Aoi who was previously fighting Kallian and Akane in a stalemate kind of battle, immediately stops fighting and joins Sachrist.

Akanae- Aoi... We can't stop his mind control...

When Aoi stands by his side, Sachrist summons his Godly Item, the Eternum Horonomicon and lets it stand on his open right hand. He then turns the pages quickly and gets on the final page.

There is a prestigious looking quill placed on the endpaper. Sachrist removes the binds that keep it there and firmly holds the godly quill in his hand. He then draws something on the left side, the final page of the book.

A flail made out of Godly Essence makes its appearance. Sachrist throws the flail to Aoi and orders her to grab it.

Sachrist- That's for you.

After drawing the flail on the final page, he also draws a staff which soon appears on the real World. Sachrist grabs the staff and spins it around once before touching the floor with it.

Sachrist- And that's for me.

After tossing the book in the air he orders it to keep firing illusion attacks and finally snaps his fingers for the final few clones of himself to appear.

Sachrist- I'll finish this here...

That's what they call a one-man army. Sachrist is now utilizing his powers to the fullest and is more powerful and fearsome than ever. Conjuring an army at the snap of his fingers, arming himself and his pawn, Aoi, with deadly weapons of Godly nature and having a flying book shoot out projectiles at all times is not a thing to laugh about.

Sachrist dashes forwards and attacks Aniik with his long staff from her left side. Aniik uses her demonic claws to block the powerful attack. Sparkles of Dark and Godly Essence come out from the impact. Yonuro tries to ambush Sachrist with a high kick, but he instantly stops his attack on Aniik and dodges to the right in order to avoid geting hit. While doing so, he also spins his staff around, an attack that Yonuro manages to dodge by jumping in the air. When she lands, Yonuro throws a lightning speed punch which Sachrist deflects before counterattacking.

Right next to them, Aoi flails her well... flail around and confronts Yulim and Kallian. Yulim steps back and readies her angelic bow to fire, while the enemy is occupied with Kallian.

But just as she shoots the arrow, Aoi fends off Kallian with a powerful flail attack and then focuses on Yulim. Aoi bleeds herself on purpose with her shield's cutting edge and then glares at Yulim while holding the shield with both hands.

Out of nowhere, Akane shouts something and saves Yulim's life.

Akane- Move aside, Yulim!

As soon as the arrow lands on the Diabolic Shield, Yulim listens to Akane's warning and moves to the side just in time. The arrow bounces back and only takes some pink hairs with it in its way.

Yulim- Thanks... What was that...?

Akane points at her empty long left sleeve and looks away.

Yulim- Yikes.. Where's Kallian?

Aoi- Chaos Ligdas!

A thick cloud of dust appears as Kallian manages to counter Aoi's powerful flail attack with a shield of holy energy. Aoi's flail attack did connect, but reacted with the shield istead of Kallian's face.

Kallian- I'm alright, but I could really use some help here.

Aoi dashes forwards and starts a follow-up attack. Akane nods and forces her feelings aside.

Akane- Black... Fireball...

Akane shoots a black fireball from her Dark Sceptre and sends it at Aoi. The attack hits her from behind but it doesn't seem to have done much, other than get Aoi's attention and drive her up against the wall. Akane went easy on her and now regrets that mistake.

Aoi changes target and attacks Aoi, who is not in a state of battling in close range for obvious reasons. Focusing on only dodging her shield bumps and flail strikes, Akane is buying time for her allies to save her. In the nick of time, Kallian immobilizes her with a rectangle shaped cage made out of holy energy. Then Yulim shoots an arrow, breaking the prison and also creating a really big crack on the diabolic shield that was used to block. Aoi is knocked back a gread deal while blocking but still does not fall down. Even after all that she stands her ground and fights back. Resilient is not enough to describe Sachrist's mind control. It is irrepressible...

Similarly to how absolutely impenetrable his mind control is, Sachrist is nothing short of tenacious himself. With his other clones pressuring back alongside him, Yonuro can't catch a breath. She is in constant grave danger. Needing to deal with the eye of omniscience on top of all this, she just can't get out of the way from all the attacks. A clone manages to punch her, just as she tries to not get hit by an illusion beam, and another one side kicks her.

Seeing Yonuro getting hit like that, Aniik worries about her a great lot and momentarily loses track of Sachrist in this way.

Hiding behind his clones, Sachrist finally reveals himself and kicks Aniik's lower leg, following the attack with a downward hit from his godly staff.

Sachrist- Una, Imakabu Chibai!

Momentarily stunned from the kick on her leg, Aniik is unable to move during the downward strike and gets severely hit in the head.

Aniik- Ghk...

To make matters worse, Kallian is heavily bleeding from Aoi's razor cut and flail attacks. Not only that but an attack from the eye of omniscience has hit Yulim and she is now firing stray holy arrows, which everyone has to watch out for. Akane, the only person still standing her ground is overwhelmed by the remaining clones of Sachrist and is the last person to be brought to the floor.

Literal hell has befallen everyone in this room. They are all with one leg in the grave. If this continues, Sachrist will kill them all.

Sachrist- Inevitable, is it not? Everyone's deaths...

Sachrist stands before the fallen Yonuro and readies his staff to finish her off. Yonuro stretches her hand towards Aniik, who tries to get back up but to no avail.

Sachrist positions his staff above Yonuro's head and then devilers the final blow.

Sachrist- Farewell, Yonuro...

This is the end for Yonuro... But not for Ramael!!!

Ramael detaches from Yonuro and forms her body like a net to stop the attack from killing Yonuro.

Ramael- I won't let you! Yonuro's my best friend! I won't let a pathetic liar like you have things your way!

Ramael pressures back and uses her body to push the staff back. Sachrist shouts and tries to push through Ramael's defenses, but the veil stands strong.

Sachrist- Come on!!

Ramael- Get away from Yonuro!

What a fiercesome attack and even more impressive block. This is the first time a block has ever held for so long. Her once blinding love, now overshadowed by her absolute rage and hatred towards Sachrist acts as a fuel for Ramael's counterattack. Ramael won't give in to this monster.

For once, Ramael will fight for a truly better future. Not blindly following her loved one's orders, but by believing in herself, she now fights for only what she sees right. And that is to bring Sachrist justice and save her friends along with the New World!

Ramael- AHHHHHHH!!!

Ramael pushes the staff away from Yonuro and after crawling on it, she courageously launches herself on Sachrist's head. Ramael's body then changes colour and becomes golden with Holy Energy.

Ramael- If there's one person in this messed up World who needs to be erased, then that is you and ONLY you, Sachrist!

Ramael focuses all her strength to make her next attack hurt as much as humanly possible. Using her sheer anger as fuel, she tightly covers Sachrist's head and makes him unable to do anything to her.

Then, her body colour changes once more. The outer edges of her body turn into a unique light blue colour whereas the middle body becomes white. Her Holy energy has gotten so powerful and aggressive that electricity particles start zapping around the edges.

"You foolish, naive blanket!" Sachrist shouts, but Ramael is not offended by that in the slightest. On the other hand, Sachrist is the one furious as he knows what comes next. He knows he is unable to avoid Ramael's ultimate attack.

Ramael's Holy Energy is overflowing and her light blue colour shines ever more prominently, emiting this potent superfluous energy as electricity. Using that electricity, Ramael proceeds to unleash all her energy onto Sachrist in the form of an ever powerful holy zap.

Aniik is the only person other than Yonuro who witnesses what Ramael does to Sachrist. A powerful shock runs through Sachrist's entire body resulting in extreme pain and suffering through and through. His nervous system is currently malfunctioning with many neurons being disabled to some extent or even damaged beyond repair. His muscles are permanently contracted for now and he can't move his hands or even his jaw to speak.

After finishing with her ultimate attack, Ramael gets off his head and returns back to Yonuro's shoulders.

Yonuro- Ramael...

Aniik and Yonuro slowly get up, now that Sachrist is currently stunned.

Aniik- I haven't seen such power coming from sheer emotion. Nice one, Ramael.

Ramael- Now you call me by my name, Aniik? I needed to make a show for you to acknowledge me? Haha!

Aniik- You're still a blankie, don't get me wrong. A strong one to say the least, though!

Ramael and Yonuro slightly grin and then take a look at Sachrist.

Due to his brain suffering so much, all his clones have disappeared, the eye of omniscience has calmed down and most importantly his brain control on Aoi is also starting to fade away. Aoi is beginning to show signs of being herself, though her mind is still mostly dependent on Sachrist.

But similarly to Aoi doing better, Sachrist's muscle stiffness has also healed and he can now move all his joints. On top of that, his anger is now off the charts and never before has he been so mad.

Sachrist- You'll regret this... I'LL MAKE YOU SUFFER! ALL OF YOU!

Sachrist's conjures his godly book and grabs his distinct quill. Using that quill to write, Sachrist infuriatingly draws three lines on a page and says the word "Sakujo". He then turns the page, draws the exact same 3 lines, utters the same word and repeats the process for every person in the room.

After he's done with everyone, he utters these next words for the curses to activate.

Sachrist- Ra' Men's Rim!

Similarly to how Hellva does things, now Sachrist does it more masterfully and powerfully than ever. Their souls instantly start suffocating. Breaking piece by piece would explain it better.

All kneel on the floor from their scorching pain and try to find any way to counter it. Despair is filling their hearts. Even Aoi, his partially independent pawn, is suffering to death.

Yonuro tries her healing incantation which had worked on Aria, long ago. In this case it simply does nothing.

Sachrist raises his hands in the air and demonically laughs.

Sachrist- HAHAHAHA!

Akane and Aoi had overheard Hellva's final conversation with Sachrist earlier while being in a state between conscious and unconscious. Using that knowledge, they try to focus their thought on only their worst memories. Even that, not only miserably fails, but it also makes the pain even more insufferable.

Absolute despair has settled and everyone is slowly giving in. Having no possible way out of this, things are looking pretty bad. There's only one thing that Sachrist worries about. Aoi's great understanding of language and history.

Yes, Aoi is the only person in the room who can identify what the particles Anu and Ra' Men mean. Studying a lot about history in her free time, especially after joining the Demonic Council, she knows what these radicals refer to. A curse based on Dark Essence, Anu, or an incantation based on Holy or Godly Energy, Ra' Men.

Ra' Men is always connected with recuperative effects, happiness or life. Seeing this contrast with Sachrist's curse, things don't add up. In order to counter the spell "Anu's Rim" one must think of all the negativity in the World. Therefore, using the particle Ra' Men in this curse, then that should mean...

Aoi widens her eyes and changes her strategy to only think about happy thoughts.

Sachrist- Tsk*...

Aoi focuses on all her positive thoughts in her life; when she brought Akane to the good side and all the memories she has had with her beloved sister. She then opens her eyes and looks at her hands. She can clearly move them. She feels no pain. Yes, Aoi managed to counter Sachrist's curse and the page written for her in the Horonomicon magically disappears into thin air.

Aoi- Everyone! Try to think of ha—

Sachrist- Shut your mouth, AOIIII! THIS IS AN ORDER!

Sachrist's mind control still stands strong. Aoi can't tell the others the secret to undo the curse. So done is Sachrist with Aoi in fact, that he does something unthinkable.

Sachrist- I have no need for you any longer. You're a nuisance to my plans. Aoi, I order you to fall to your death!

Aoi- Yes, master.

Aoi starts slowly walking towards the broken window of the room. Akane widens her eyes and faintly says the name of her sister "Aoi!". She can't do anything else other than that due to her terrible situation.

Aoi steadily moves to her death. Akane starts tearing up. Eveyone else is getting more pessimistic by the second. She's halfway there. There's no way to save her...

But at that moment, Aoi manages to fights back.

Aoi- Think of—

Sachrist- I SAID SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

Her short red hair starts getting messy due to the wind, coming from the broken window just a couple meters ahead of her.

Aoi keeps on walking. But the closer she gets to her death, the more she can resist Sachrist's orders due to her intensifying fear of dying. Not her fear of dying herself, but mostly for everyone else's. She can't let it end this way.

Aoi- Think of....

Sachrist- STOP IT!

Aoi- Everyone... think of... happy thoughts...

The message gets through. Aoi smiles and then proceeds to take her final few steps.

Everyone starts thinking about happy thoughts. Especially Akane. She uses all her brain power in order to break the curse in time.

And she does. Akane frees herself just as Aoi is about to fall.

Akane- AOIIII!!!! DON'T DO IT!!!

Akane runs as fast as she can in order to prevent her sister from jumping. On her way she gets past Sachrist and shouts "Make her stop!!!" but Sachrist, knowing what unfolds, grins and lets their string of life and death unfold for itself.

Akane almost catches up to Aoi, but she is too late. Aoi's right foot is already... airborn.

Akane- Aoi! Noooooooo!

Akane jumps in the air in order to catch her falling sister and hugs her with her only working hand mid falling. Everyone widens their eyes and shout both of their names, but without any resolution. The twins have both fallen off the tallest building on earth...

Akane- I'm here, Aoi... Just how you were for me back then. I'm here for you...

Falling and falling, the twins have accelerated from gravity to a point of no return.

Aoi- Akane...

From this much distance, Sachrist's brain control is completely undone.

Akane- Thank you for saving us. You're the best, Aoi.

Aoi slightly grins and sheds happy tears knowing that her last moments will at least be spent while hugging her beloved twin sister.

Aoi- Thank you for being here, Akane. It was fate for us to be born together, and also to move on together...

One sister can't do without the other, so Aoi is content with Akane's choice. Instead of having to suffer in her absence, Aoi thinks it was best for them to die together.

Akane tightly hugs her sister one final time and says the following while grinning "I'm so glad you were my twin sister, Aoi." to which Aoi respectively responds with "The pleasure was mine, from the very beginning, till the very end, Akane..."

The sisters close their eyes and accept their end. The last thing they hear as they meet their end is an unrecognizable sound of some arial unit passing by.

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To be continued...