“Click, Lock, Engage!” Witchie and Gabriel both shouted at the same time, as they prepared their watches for battle via clicking buttons located on them - all before they then called out “Hikidama Matrix!” in order to summon the battlefield around them. There, on the amazingly vast battlefield of hologrammes and designs, did the known wheel of fortune spin - this time landing on Witchie. “Haha - I go first!” she shouted, as they both threw their marbles out into a plus shape. Then, Witchie kneeled down, and with her purple Daichan, shot. Hoping that it would hit an Akachan, she jumped up and down with excitement before it successfully did. “Hey, take that!” she giggled as the 7 Akachan she won gravitated towards her hand. “Hm,” started Gabriel in response as he tossed his Daichan up and down in his palm - “I will take that, but not lightly!” he shouted, before slamming his Daichan out into the air - from which it bounced around the place, only managing to knock out two Akachan. “Heh, pathetic.” Witchie told him, as she prepared to shoot her purple Daichan. “No, wait.” said Gabriel before she did - “The rules clearly state; that if my Daichan knocks out an Akachan and passes the vortex line whilst doing so, then it is the next person’s turn. But, if it doesn’t escape the vortex, then I can continue to shoot from the given place until it does.” he then told her, pointing at a sort of smaller matrix within the actual dome like one - that little circle on the ground was the vortex of course. In all, this made Witchie grunt. “Fine, go again I guess.” Witchie said, tapping her foot at the same time. “What, jealous?” asked Gabriel, as he walked to his Daichan, and gave it a good shove with his sharp sword. Fastly, it glided through the air, and smashed into the ground, knocking out 5 Akachan, and exiting the vortex. “Woohoo, Witches turn now!” said Kraüter, appealing to her little magic friend. “Yep, that’s right!” said Witchie, as she prepared her Daichan for another shot. “I’ve got to get this perfect.” she said to herself, eyeing the hologramme that read the score - ‘7W/7G’. “Go!” she then screamed aloud, as she then shot her Daichan straight to the centre of the vortex, causing it to hit three little Akachan. Thus, the score now changed to ‘10W/7G’. Witchie was very much admired with herself. “Think you can beat that?” she asked Gabriel, who was busy monitoring the displays. “I bet so.” he said in response, before picking up his Daichan, and observing it. Looking at it closely, he decided to make the choice not to use it. Instead, he checked the abilities of all the Akachan he had collected. Through all of them, he found a red one named ‘bloodess’ - who appeared like an angel, like the one he had used in the last battle of which he had fought. Except, unlike the angel of which he saw before, Bloodess seemed to be fallen, or darker in some major aspect or way. Nonetheless, Gabriel still chose to use Bloodess, and quickly leashed out its vial attack amongst Witchie’s little Hikidama that was named Solarack - and based on a bird of some sort. When bitten into, the enormous purple beast attached back, and chomped down on Bloodess’es dark red wings. In pain Bloodess shouted out across the room, which left everyone’s ears aching. “Attack once more.” Gabriel ordered, before Bloodess turned back to Solarack, and chewed up its wings. “No, with real might!” called Gabriel, as Bloodess put all of its grind into the bite it was sending. Luckily for Gabriel, the attack seemed to be working, as data was leaking from Solarack. In digital battles like this, data was the equivalent of blood, and losing too much could mean death. In a rush to avoid such an event, Witchie pulled out a random Akachan, and kicked it out into the field. This one was a giant white bear named Pochoee. “Pochoee, help!” said Witchie, not knowing what to do. But, despite her weirdness, Poechoee still understood what needed to be done. Hence, he headbutted right into Bloodess, and knocked him away from Solarack. “Oh, how brave…” said Frankie, before Bloodess ran back at Poechoee, and slashed him with his claw. “Ah!” screamed Witchie, as she watched the scene unravel. “Solarack, watch out!” she warned as Poechoee stomped down on Bloodess in anger.

“Give up now, you silly group of unrepentant sinners!” shouted Gabriel, as he began to give an almost silent laugh. As he did so, Charlotte slowly walked back over to him. Whispering into his ear, she asked him - “Gabe, what’ll happen if you win?”, wondering if defeating Witchie means defeating her group of friends as well. And, it might’ve been such. “Then we will rid the world of all these dagon people!” he shouted loudly, fixating his eyes on Witchie’s. “My turn, I guess.” he then finished, before shooting his Daichan off. It managed to hit 1 Akachan, but was still in the vortex. “I get to go again.” he reminded Witchie, before slapping his Daichan. Slowly, it rolled over for a few feet, but didn’t manage to hit anything. “Witchie’s turn.” said Castille while leaning on Flawrin’s side. “Why are you using me like a wall?” asked Flawrin to Castille. “I’m doing what Lucette’s doing to her maid.” said Castille, pointing her finger right at Lucette, who was, just as described - leaning on the side of Brittanica. “This is a serious battle.” Brittanica told Lucette. “I already know that.” replied Lucette. Brittanica looked up - “Judging by what was said earlier, our whole lives depend on this.” she continued. Lucette accidentally bit her tongue. “Ouch.” she told Brittanica - who didn’t know she was talking about the injury, and instead assumed that she was talking about the fight. “Ouch indeed.” she told Lucette, as she watched Witchie and Gabriel go back and forth - unleashing more Akachan every time - with Poechoee and Bloodess leading the fight. “They’re getting wilder.” said Amalia to Krtistoph. “That’s true.” said Kristoph. Kristoph always talked to Amalia with sentences like that one, for he never wanted to disagree - as one could imagine the problems that would cause.

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How many beats are they gonna’ send!?” cried Stelline, looking at Lune for a response. Lune just shrugged, but Meishu did speak. “I hope they’ll stop soon - it’s giving me head pains.” he said. “That’s right…” said Yu, as she walked over to see the back of Meishu’s head. “Oh, dear.” she said, as she stared into it. “What - what’s the problem?” asked Meishu. Yu gulped. “I think our protection is bulging out from your head!” she said. “Crap.” said Meishu, as he could feel it doing so. “I think it’ll pop out!” said Yu, as she looked at it - “I can feel very epic Roman music coming on now.” said Ciel as she viewed the situation. “Good.” said Adeline as she watched as well - before blood started leaking from Meishu’s head. “Ugh!” he cried, before the blood spray grew more intense, and into a long line - that soon splattered everywhere. All the kids moved away, and even Gabriel and Witchie stopped fighting to watch. “Meishu?” asked Witchie as she watched him scream out. “Argh!” he then shouted, before the Hikidama came out from the back of his head covered in blood, and began to float up. “What’s happening?” asked Kraüter as her eyes followed it.

It began to glow, and grow larger, before becoming a large orb of light. Soon, the ball morphed itself into a prophesied shape. “The Angel from Witchie’s story of Kaminari!” shouted Charlotte. “That’s right - that’s Kaminari’s Hikidama!” said Lady Gael’. Nobody knew how this came to be, but now the Seraph floated in front of them, with its bloody white wings. “Brilliant.” said Lune, as she stared up to it, waiting for it to say something.

“You are all unacknowledged and ignorant humans!” yelled the Seraph at the group. “Well, that was something.” Lune said in head, before the Seraph shot out large white beams of light in every direction. “Run, escape!” shouted some women and they dashed about, trying to find exits near them. The group of kids joined in on the escape run, and were searching for a place to leave from as the building crumbled and fell to places. After they ran through light hitten halls, and mountains of falling walls - they found an exit outside, from which they ran to. “I’m alive!” said untalkative Aloevia, as she fell face forward into the ground. “Don’t go too far,” said Stelline - “we’re near a cliff.” - they were. Meaning that, if the Seraph were to come out here, they’d be toast. But that didn’t matter to some people, like Yu, anyways. Rather than that, Yu wanted to go back inside the building - remembering the child that she found there earlier. “Guys, there’s a kid stuck in there!” she brung to the attention of the group.

“Did I ask?” asked an unknown female. “Really?” asked Yu - “We’ve got to save her, and I need one person’s help!” she said. But, yet again, no one offered to help. Until, Meishu stood. “I can go with you.” he told Yu, with a bloody face. Yu clenched air. “No Meishu - it’s fine, you’re hurt. I’ll just go on my own.” she responded. But, Meishu insisted. “Let me go alongside you.” he told Yu, holding her hand now. “Fine then - come with me.” Yu said, while holding Meishu’s hand, as she ran off into the burning building.

Inside, she followed the path to the little nurse’s office. “Nurse!” she called when she arrived there, “Are you here?” she then asked, pushing through the crumbled stuff that blocked the entrance. On the inside, the nurse sat by herself, sobbing. Yu hugged her - “Don’t cry.” she told her, as she picked her up, and walked out through a cracked window. “Come.” she ordered Meishu, as he followed her, back to the cliff.

“How are we getting down there?” asked Lavinia to everyone. They all didn’t know. But then, the little nurse spotted something. “Up there,” she said - “Up there, there is a perfectly large paper flag, bring it down.” she asked, to which Meishu came to her aid by climbing up the falling stones, and pulling it down. From there - the little nurse gave Meishu instructions;

“Fold the paper in half horizontally, then unfold. Now, fold it in half vertically, and unfold again. From here, fold from the bottom left corner to the top right , and then release back to its normal phase. Lastly, do the same but with the bottom right to the top left. Notice that there are now triangles across the paper, that could altogether, make a pyramid. I want you to bend the paper so that it does. Then, pinch and apply pressure to those lines between sides to ensure strength, and pyramidal shape. Alas, place the shape upside down, so that the empty base faces upwards - and let everyone get in!”.

Everyone got into the shape, and from behind, with all her force, the little nurse pushed at the pyramid, but could not get it off. “I’ve got it.” Yu tried to say - but someone else came over. “Coachman!” said Lavinia and Charlotte, recognising the man despite his bloodied and muddied appearance. “For you young girls, I put my life - Lady Nurse, please get inside.” he said, lifting up the little nurse into the pyramid, before stepping behind it. After giving a short prayer, he then pushed the pyramid off the cliff, as the Seraph destroyed the rest of the building into flames. As they glided down to lower grounds, the kids watched the coachman as he waved goodbye to them, and got engulfed in the burning flames. Charlotte watched and shed a tear, but Meishu was there to aid her.

Flashing over all his helpful assistance from the day, Meishu’s watch turned red and orange.

“Meishu!” screamed Charlotte as she looked at it - “Meishu!.