Back in the huge spherical room, Yonuro, Ramael and Aniik have managed to use Aoi's hint in order to undo the curse "Ra' Men's Rim". Yonuro focused on her good old days with Geord, Samei and Ramael, Ramael on the fun times in her adventures with Yonuro, and Aniik thought really hard about when she first made friends with Yonuro and the quality time together with Geord and Samei in Yonuro's absence. These powerful memories made them able to win over the spell. Three more pages disappear from Sachrist's book.
As of the other two sister Angels, however, things aren't going that well. Even though they know what they need to think about, they have no happy memories to reminisce.
Yonuro / Aniik- Think about something happy! Yulim, Kallian!
Yulim- I know... But... There's nothing happy about our lives...
Kallian- Even before the formation of the Barrier... Plain misery...
They say that and their voices begin to lose their vitality. Ramael, Yonuro and Aniik try to comfort them and make them remember something happy, but to no avail. There are only few good memories from over 410 years ago, but these memories are as good as dead now. They are not strong enough in the slightest to undo the curse. As a result, despite their efforts, the sister Angels pass out in order to prolonge their lives as much as they can.
Ramael- Yulim! Kallian! Ah... Shit...
Yonuro- First Aoi and Akane now them... Fuck!
Yonuro sheds a tear from these losses stacked up together. Aniik taps her friend's left shoulder and tries to comfort her a bit.
Aniik- It's not like it was all in vain though. We have damaged Sachrist quite a bit and angered him a lot. We've got this Yonu—
The moment she says that, a loud soundwave of battleplanes drowns out Aniik's words.
Pilot 1- All units, open fire!
The swarm of planes open fire and break the glossy windows, constituting the sphere, one by one. Yonuro/Ramael and Aniik dodge to the left and right side respectfully and stay on the ground for a bit to avoid the mayhem of broken chunks of glass and bullets.
Yonuro- Oh no... The Faith Organization...
Aniik- They made it all the way out here...
Reloading their guns, the arial units of the Faith Organization get really close to Yonuro and Aniik and are readying for a second barrage of bullets.
Yonuro, Ramael and Aniik can't do anything to escape. They are just looking at their demise head on. The front windows of the planes are screeming "This is your end" in their heads. They close their eyes as the buttons controlling the automated guns are pressed again.
But then, all the bullets fly above their heads. They keep consistently missing.
Pilot 2- We have new orders from Zaiaku. Eliminate only the Accursed Angel, Sachrist!
The girls have their eyes wide open. The amount of relief they feel is insurmountable. Just a couple seconds ago they were ready to die, but now they are more optimistic than ever.
Ramael- They did it! Yay!
Aniik- Good job, Samei! I knew you had the guts to do it.
Yonuro- You saved us again, Samei! Wherever you are, we're letting you know how greatful we are.
In response to those claims, Sachrist bursts into laughter.
Sachrist- Hahahaha!
"She had the guts, yeah, but now she don't have guts a' all." Sachrist thinks while uncontrollably laughing.
Yonuro- What are you laughing for? Have you finally accepted defeat?
While trying to compose himself, Sachrist answers.
Sachrist- Who? Me? It's Nothing. Just something funny I remembered. And mind you, I don't think I'm in any danger at all.
"Although I have no more energy for clones, I can still do this!"
Pilot 3- Open fire, everyone! Aim for Sachrist!
Sachrist rolls once and avoids many of the bullets. He then starts running around the room, as more and more windows break one after the other. And when he gets the chance, he draws something in his book.
Sachrist- Ilu' Zón!
*What in the World is the particle Ilu' now?*
Sachrist says that peculiar spell and throws his book high up in the air, through one of many broken windows. Then, the book turns on the page that he drew a replica of the eye of omniscience and shines brightly with Godly Essence.
Just as the battleplanes are about to rain bullets again, they suddenly stop from what the pilots witness with their own two eyes. Coming from that book, a powerful wave of Godly Essence spreads out in the air from all directions, making it impossible for any unit to avoid.
At first, the attack seems to have done nothing. Even though the pilots are skeptical, they value more their mission and start shooting at Sachrist again. But the sad truth is that, for every single pilot, Sachrist's location is different due to illusion techniques. And the consequences of this are catastrophic. The planes start shooting down each other relentlessly, without the slightest hesitation, as in the pilots' minds they are just doing their duty.
The girls back in the Shrine are overwhelmed with fear from this unreal scenario. Two planes lose control of their engine and crush into each other. This powerful explosion drowns out the sound of the other planes losing altitude and falling. Even worse, some planes who fall from engine or wing failure land on the Holy Shrine itself, in this way shaking the bulding and the huge room more and more the farther up they explode.
The room they are currently in is starting to become extremely messy from all the explosions and the shaking. The picture of Sachrist with his dog, Alexander, falls off and breaks. His telescope, which he used to stargaze with his sister in the past, is also broken by a falling piece of glass. The expensive sofas, chairs, all the furniture, which were already pushed to the side from the Barrier earlier, are now well and truly unrecognizable. Everything is in pieces, completely destroyed.
The final battleplane falls while firing stray bullets aimed at nothingness. Sachrist orders his book to return to him, the same way the demonic lords do, and then takes a look around.
Sachrist- Hah... This scene... I've always been curious to see this mess in the flesh... It feels somewhat... rejuvenating. It marks the end of my long fought journey. It all ends in ruins... The ruins of my past... The ruins of this damned New World... And from these ruins and ashes I shall transcend time and space and create a World where I can live with my dear Hisami, again. Like a phoenix, the rebirth of our lives. Just a little bit longer, Hisami...
Yonuro finishes checking on Yulim and Kallian, who are still alive but unresponsive, and faces Sachrist together with her friends, Ramael and Aniik.
Yonuro- I once thought I could change you, Sachrist. Just like I did Aniik. But you're sick in the head beyond any comprehension. Your obssession meets no end, just like your selfishness. You are an irremediable monstosity... Your crimes are simply too great for any form of judgement. The only way to repent for your sins is by disappearing within these ruins, created by your own hand.
Aniik and Ramael deeply agree with Yonuro.
Aniik- Get ready to taste your self-brought demise, Sachrist...
Ramael- Playing with peoples hearts and lives as if they are mere toys... How sickening... Tonight, you'll pay for everything, "dear" Sachrist...
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Sachrist draws a staff on his Godly book one final time. When he first grabs it in the air, he spins it around and tightly holds it. Aniik summons her Demonic Claws and Yonuro/Ramael assume a fighting stance.
Sachrist- For Hisami!
Aniik / Yonuro / Ramael- For the New World!
Sachrist runs towards his enemies with his staff ready to attack and the others to the same thing towards Sachrist. Running with her claws ready to cut his head off, Aniik. Ready to "unleash" Ramael and devastate him with combo attacks, Yonuro and Ramael.
Everyone shouts as they get into melee range. And then the first of many clashes of weapons resound throughout the battleground. The godly staff collides with Aniik's slashes and Yonuro's Holy energy infused attacks at all times.
Yonuro- Ramael
In the midst of all this chaotic series of attacking and blocking, Ramael pressures Sachrist in a different way.
The Angelic Ray that Ramael casts aims to devastate Sachrist from above, while the others are keeping him in place. In response, Sachrist uses the Eternum Horonomicon to cast a pillar of illusional Godly Essence from below. The two pillars of energy powerfully collide and cancel each other out.
"Ramael,
Sachrist- Try whatever you like... You can't defeat me...
Aniik- Hunt your pray, Zanir!
The first 5 nails Sachrist easily avoids, but he's feeling unsure about the second wave. Aniik jumps in the air and throws them after rolling her whole body forwards, in this way extending the speed of the thrown nails beyond belief. Sachrist is hit by two projectiles, but soon heals up from his recuperative godly essence.
Leaving no room to do so without a proper punishment, Yonuro manages to connect a powerful punch on Sachrist and moves to the side to avoid his counterattack consisting of a fast circular strike with the staff.
Yonuro and Aniik take a moment to catch a breath, but Sachrist seems to have a lot of strength left to fight. Knowing when to go all out is key for any form of battle, and Sachrist knows that really well. On the other hand...
Aniik- Grab my hand, Yonuro!
Yonuro grabs her friend's hand and gets the necessary momentum to deliver an airborn front kick, coming at Sachrist from afar at lightning speed.
Knowing he can't possibly avoid it, Sachrist uses the staff to block. Due to sheer amount of moment granted to her by Aniik, though, the block isn't enough and Yonuro's kick pushes Sachrist's staff and himself back a few meters and almost makes him fall.
Sachrist- Tsk*
Sachrist tilts his head to the right and dodges the incoming demonic nails by a few centimeters. He then rolls to the side of Ramael's pillar of Holy energy, which breaks pieces of the floor in its way to him.
Sachrist- Alright... My turn.
Sachrist tosses his book on the floor and stomps his right foot right next to it. The pages of the book turn on their own insanely fast. The book shines with this yellowy orange color and the whole floor becomes an illusion. The marble pieces now turn transparent. After interracting with Aniik and Yonuro, the illusion pieces begin to show moving images of moments of their pasts that they wish they would forget forever.
The illusions on the floor feed off of their memories and simply present what's hidden deep within their minds as flashback cards. Throwing them off guard is the bare minimum of what Sachrist achieves with this. Making their thoughts incohesive and their minds ache is the serious damage this inflicts. And while all this is going on, Sachrist can simply just... fight them like he has always been.
Sachrist faints a circular attack into a front strike with the tip of his staff and hits Yonuro in the stomach. He then front kicks her while stunned from the previous blow and makes her temporarily fall onto an illusion showing her torturous past memories. This makes the process of getting back up a bit more difficult, from a psychological percpective.
On the other hand, Aniik's illusions mess with her mind a great deal. Her past is no thing to laugh about and all those wrong choices of hers drain out her self confidence and ability to give it her all in this fight. Using this as a stepping stone, Sachrist wants to assert dominance in this fight.
With his omniscience utilized to the maximum efficiency, Sachrist dodges all slashes from Aniik and continues to put pressure on her with consecutive front and circular strikes with his staff. Defense and offense are both immaculate. Aniik doesn't stand a chance to fight back. She takes a look at Yonuro. She has momentarily fallen. Things aren't looking good.
Another strike with his staff finds Aniik's left flank and a follow- up kick in the face marks the end for Aniik's consciousness. As soon as Yonuro tries to get up and help her friend, the eye of omniscience sneaks an illusion beam on her and makes everything futile. Although there are no clones of Sachrist at present, Yonuro simply watches as a myriad of them charge at her all at once. This illusion makes her unable to do anything. Alas, Sachrist hits the vulnerable Yonuro in the head with his staff and knocks her out. Blood is starting to cover her unconsious head and face. Ramael desperately tries to heal Yonuro at the best of her ability.
In this critical moment, where all allies are either immobilized or unconscious, an unexpected ally comes to their rescue. Despite being unconscious, Aniik's body rises up. The countless red scars everywhere in her body get magically healed. Her eyes, from which Dark Essence oozies out of, her Demonic Claws, the nails of which are longer and deadlier than ever, her untamable nature. This is not Aniik, but someone else entirely...
???- THIS .. .. .. IS .. .. .. YOUR .. .. .. END.. .. .. SACHRIST!
Sachrist- You..... The Demonic Lord that should have never existed...
Sachrist clenches his fisted right hand.
Sachrist- From the moment you were born, I've always hated you...... And now it's time. I'll put your ambitions to indefinite rest, ZANIR!
Sachrist and Zanir start exchanging deadly blows with each other.
A little bit later, Yonuro tries to open her indigo colored eyes with Ramael's aid. When she does, she witnesses the climax of a battle so fierce and intense that her jaw drops. Each slash by Zanir's longer absolute Demonic Claws is felt to the bone. The superfluous Dark Essence explodes on impact with Sachrist's staff at all times. And Sachrist is not backing down either. His omniscience and masterful combat techniques are particularly difficult to overcome and knowing when his opponent will momentarily slow down, he finds the opportunity to counterattack and strike where it hurts.
This duel is on a whole other level. Yonuro had no chance against the frenzied Aniik when she was her enemy. Therefore, Zanir's strength is beyond normal, able to take on Sachrist solo.
And now, in the climax of their battle, Zanir uses her last trump card. By licking her Demonic Ring, she makes illusions of herself and dashes towards Sachrist instantly and delivers an ever deadlier slash with her long nails. Only Sachrist could ever deflect this attack, using his omniscience as a trustworthy source to learn who the real Zanir is.
After the attack is powerfully blocked by Sachrist and both attacker and defender are standing their ground with their lives on the line, Yonuro finds the strength to get up. Walking toward them, Yonuro detaches Ramael and decisively shouts the following.
Yonuro- If it was even till this point, then I think it's now over, Sachrist!
Yonuro closes the gap in an instant and throws a fatal punch on Sachrist. In the nick of time, Sachrist pushes Zanir back and manages to deflect Yonuro's punch. Although that powerful punch is blocked, Yonuro doesn't lose her composure. On the other hand, she points with her free left hand above Sachrist and grins.
Ramael- Angelic Ray!
Despite knowing what comes next, Sachrist has no solution at hand to deal with all three attacks. Yonuro does a backflip to keep a safe distance and the angelic ray lands on Sachrist and makes him roll a couple times before kneeling on the floor. When he gets ahold of himself again, Sachrist wipes the blood off his left cheek and then instantly heals it with his Godly Essence.
He's in a very rough spot. Zanir and Yonuro launch another attack. Sachrist picks up his fallen staff, gets up and thinks about what's at stake.
Sachrist- I won't let this end like this... I promised you, Hisami!
Sachrist keeps on blocking as countless slashes and punches come his way. Unable to dodge all these extremely fast attacks, he gets bruises and scars all over his body, just like when he was little, still all for Hisami's sake. But pain is a word that doesn't register in Sachrist's head anymore. So much has he been used to it, that he is almost immune to it.
Yonuro- Take that!
Zanir- SLASH!
Another punch comes, yet another slash lands, but Sachrist doesn't budge at all. Still, the bruises are multiplying and his scars are getting deeper. Surprisingly enough though, the pain not only doesn't register at all, but together with his intensifying rage, it translates in his mind as an energy source. A fuel that he can use to fight back. All this build up rage and suffering is quite frightening to say the least...
Sachrist suddenly opens his eyes and gives Aniik an insane, piercing glare. As she is about to slash one last time, Sachrist maddenly shouts and approaches her insanely fast.
*Aniik get out of there!* I desperately try to warn her, but Sachrist has already made his final move. Sachrist reveals his final ace. Keeping enough energy just for this moment, Sachrist ignores all of Zanir's slashes and grabs her face tightly. He then uses his final ounce of Godly Essence, to whisper something to Aniik's ears.
"K i l l Y o n u r o , A n i i k!"
Yonuro catches up to them and tries to hit Sachrist with a powerful uppercut which is then surprisingly blocked by... Aniik.
Yonuro takes a few hesitant steps back. She can't believe this is happening. Just a couple seconds ago, Sachrist was at the brink of defeat and now... the turns have tabled...
Yonuro- Aniik..?
Dark Essence oozes out of her grey eyes, as Zanir slowly approaches Yonuro with killing intent.
Ramael- This is unreal.....
Yonuro- Yes, this can't be happening....
"Aniik!" Yonuro shouts once again. Answering her call, Zanir brings out her pure Demonic Claws and menacingly says the words Sachrist previously told her.
Zanir- Kill.... Yonuro......
Yonuro and Ramael widen their eyes. Zanir is undeniably under.... Sachrist's control.
Standing in the backlines, Sachrist tends to his grave wounds while mocking Yonuro.
Sachrist- Don't be scared of her, Yonuro! Go on! Move a bit closer! Hahah— Ghk* Ghk*
Yonuro tears up and says her friend's name once again, this time with a somber voice.
Yonuro- Aniik...
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To be continued...