Iseri turns around to see the figure approaching him and Hadane. The figure is cloaked in black with a scythe wearing an all black cloak.
Figure: Hello Iseri, I’d like you to move aside so I can take custody of her?
Iseri: First tell me who are you?
Figure: I think you’d already know based on my cloak and scythe…don’t you feel a familiar chill?
Flandon: Oh I know who this man is?
Figure: Ah Flandon, you know me quite well
Iseri: You must be The Angel of Death?
Death: Correct…and the girl is coming with me
Iseri: Oh why do you even care so much?
Death: Hadane came into this world even though she died during birth, she’s a living paradox and evaded my grasp via the simple act of living…so now I come to take her soul.
Iseri: I see…well then
Death: Now please get out of my way?
Flandon: Do you really want to do that?
Death: Huh?
Iseri: You see Mr. Death…I’ve had a bone to pick with you for some time…
Death: What do you want from me?
Iseri: Simply put, I’m tired of those around me always dying…so many people that have been close to me have died either in war or in peace…but I can’t condone prematurely ending this girl’s life now that we are finally face to face…
Death: So what are you suggesting?
Iseri: I’m suggesting that I’m going to fight you
Death: That notion is laughable…you cannot win in a fight against a fundamental fact of living…
Iseri: Oh it’s fundamental…that means it applies to you?
Death: I am the concept come to life…it’s rules do not apply to me?
Iseri: Do you wanna put that to the test?
Death: You’re making my job harder than it needs to be
Iseri: Maybe you deserve a hard life
Death: Do you desire a sword fight?
Iseri: I do
Death: Alright…then let’s battle to the death
Death’s Scythe transforms into a Sword emanating energies of death
Death: I’ll start whenever you do?
Flandon: Hey Iseri, how about we do this together?
Iseri: Huh?
Flandon disappears and his energy goes into Iseri’s Swords…
Iseri: Thanks old friend
Death: Alright…let’s get this over with
Fight against Death
When Death is at 90% health
Death: Huh I actually felt pain…maybe you’re stronger than I thought…
Iseri: I provide a fight of equals
Resume
When Death is at 80% health
Iseri: You know that I will defend everything I hold dear with powerful force…
Death: Why do you put up a fight that will ultimately be futile in the end? You and everyone else will eventually die?
Iseri: They say the struggle is enough to fill a man’s heart
Resume
When Death is at 70% health
Death: I wonder why the struggle means so much to you?
Iseri: Defying the odds is something that I love to do, I’m essentially telling the universe to fuck off everytime I clear something that should be impossible…
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Death: You can’t do that to me
Resume
When Death is at 60% health
Death: Clearly you have harbored a resentment against a world that has treated you poorly
Iseri: I have no ill will towards the world…it’s just you I have contempt for…since you are a curse
Death: Eternal Life would be no different than Eternal Death…the fact one can die is what makes living worthwhile in the first place
Resume
When Death is at 50% health
Iseri: Even if I defeat you here…death won’t just stop will it?
Death: If you win…only The Girl will survive…
Iseri: Alright…that’s enough
Resume
When Death is at 40% health
Death: In the end..this won’t even matter
Iseri: The inevitable outcome means nothing to me, it’s just time I actually try to save someone’s life
Death: Futile all the same
Resume
When Death is at 30% health
Death: I’m surprised a decrepid old man like you would fight me for someone else, don’t you want to really live a life that’s valuable to you?
Iseri: I’ve lived my life to the fullest already…
Death: Such a shame…
Iseri: I think it’s a shame how you can’t comprehend me not being selfish
Death: It’s less selflessness and more like foolishness
Resume
When Death is at 20% health
Death: The struggle is enough to fill a man’s heart huh?
Iseri: It’s what I believe anyway
Death: Such a stupid belief
Resume
When Death is at 10% health
Death: Wait I might actually lose?
Iseri: I bet you are shaking…
Death: This won’t be how it ends…
Iseri: Oh it will be I think…
Resume
When Death is at 0% health
Death: Well played asshole
Iseri: I just beat you in a contest of skill
Death: Hehe
Iseri: Let’s see if Death really is a constant
Iseri swiftly cuts off Death’s head, killing it and leaving the body dead on the ground…he picks up Hadane and brings her somewhere else, she opens her eyes and sees Iseri laying her on a bench, he begins to look up at the sky, he sees the Fortress has flown even further from Earth
Inside Agante’s Fortress, Ikutaro, Kya and Kyo are fighting through hordes of enemies in the fortress as it flies further and further up.
Ikutaro: How many monsters does she have on call?
Kya: Doesn’t matter
Kya slashes through another minion as Kyo blocks an enemy
Kyo: That coward will have to face us eventually
Ikutaro: I bet she would have too
Ikutaro shoots currents of mercury at the minions
Kya: She will and-
Kya’s next sword strike is blocked by a glowy fist, followed by the face of Atagne herself
Atagne: Surprise
Atagne throws Kya across the room as she rushes with her sword towards Kyo
Atagne: Figured I’d let my minions in on the fight
She tries to cleave Kyo in two but Kyo dodges and Atagne begins chasing him
Kya: Oh no, Ikutaro we gotta chase after them
Ikutaro: On it
Kyo runs down the hallway and then slides down the stairs with Atagne hot on his heels, firing blasts of solar energy and trying to skewer him with her sword
Kyo ends up in a throne room with Atagne holding him at bladepoint
Kyo: Ok…so you’ve got me here?
Atagne: Once I finally kill you…I’ll be able to live forever
Atagne tries to stab Kyo but a mercurial jet from Ikutaro hits Atagne in the back of the head, diverting her aim, causing the sword to jive to the side
Ikutaro: Missing us?
Kya: I said I’d kill you myself
Atagne: Ok heroes, come and try
Atagne rushes at Kya but Kya parries, Ikutaro tries blasting her but Atagne blocks the shot, Kyo runs up from behind Atagne and tries to impale her but Atagne dodges expertly
Kya: Enough
Kya tries to cleave Atagne in half but she dodges and instead runs through Ikutaro with her sword
Ikutaro: Victory or death eh…it’s up to you two now…
Atagne discards Ikutaro’s body by throwing it aside
Kya: I think you’ve finally crossed one-two many lines, I think I shall use every ounce of rage in my body to turn you into ash
Kyo: And I shall help her vanquish you
Atagne: You’re lucky to try
Fight against Atagne
When Atagne is at 90% health
Atagne: How about you two make this easier on yourself and let me kill you?
Kya: How about you make this easier and kill yourself?
Resume
When Atagne is at 80% health
Kyo: I will do anything to be rid of your influence
Atagne: Maybe you should give up and let me kill you
Resume
When Atagne is at 70% health
Atagne: I believe that you two are finished and will not be able to continue the fight?
Kyo: We’ve only just begun
Kya: I said I’d kill you…and I don’t bluff
Resume
When Atagne is at 60% health
Atagne: Do you understand that what you’re doing is going to result in nothing productive?
Kya: Do you understand that we’re incredibly stubborn and that you can’t dissuade us from killing you and throwing your corpse thousands of meters down to the surface
Atagne: At least I tried
Resume
When Atagne is at 50% health, she falls down to the ground
Kya: Had enough?
Atagne: Not nearly…
Atagne rises with wings made of pure light
Atagne: This is me putting my all into this, I will be immortal and won’t let you two stop me
Kya: Alright, then let’s go
Kyo: Let’s do this for real?
Resume
When Atagne is at 40% health
Kya: I think that you’re really making it harder than it needs to be?
Atagne: I agree
Resume
When Atagne is at 30% health
Atagne: Wouldn’t you kill your sibling if you could be immortal?
Kyo: An eternity immortal would mean nothing without the person I care for the most
Kya: You’re damn right, don’t compare us you firey pretender
Resume
When Atagne is at 20% health
Atagne: I’m still losing regardless of my divine powers
Kya: What is a god to someone who doesn’t give a fuck?
Resume
When Atagne is at 10% health
Kyo: I believe we’re almost done here and I’ll finally be able to rest in a life I make all my own?
Kya: And I’ll be there every step of the way…
Atagne: Heh…it won’t matter in the end anyway…
Resume
When Atagne is defeated, she falls to the ground and Kyo and Kya both slice her limbs off before throwing her body against the throne and lopping off her head
Kyo: So…I’m finally free
Kya: Now we must return to Earth
They go outside and see that they can see the stars from where they are and that the clouds are below them…
Kyo: So this is what she meant by it not mattering in the end…
Kya: She’s trying to kill us as well…an act of true cowardice
Kyo: How will I be able to make my own life if I die drifting into space?
Kya: Well…we have each other and I know there isn’t a place I’d rather be then at your side…
Kyo: Ya know…I feel the same way…ok…let’s go into the final frontier together
Kya and Kyo continue looking at the stars from the floating fortress, drifting closer and closer to space…