Satoshi crouched beside him, tilting his head. “You know what? I’ve been holding back.” He grabbed the demon’s arm and slammed him into the ground repeatedly, each impact shattering the earth beneath them. Blood sprayed from the demon’s mouth, his once-mighty form reduced to a battered mess.

“Ultimate ability, Crucible Collapse”.

The sky was an endless void of swirling gray clouds, punctuated by cracks of blinding white lightning. A colossal black sun hung in the center, its light not illuminating but consuming everything beneath it. Around the sun, a thousand shattered gears turned slowly, grinding against one another, their movements erratic and unpredictable.

The ground beneath was a jagged expanse of obsidian, cracked and glowing faintly with molten white energy that pulsed like a heartbeat. Enormous stone pillars jutted upward at impossible angles, their surfaces carved with ancient runes that shifted and rearranged themselves. Rivers of silver flowed between the cracks, their currents defying gravity, spiraling upward toward the dark sun.

All around, the air buzzed with an overwhelming presence, an oppressive weight that bore down on anyone who stepped into the realm. Time seemed to splinter and fracture; past, present, and future overlapped, creating ghostly echoes of battles that hadn’t yet occurred—or had already been lost.

In the center of this chaos stood the demon, his body radiating an ethereal white aura that grew more intense the longer he remained in his dimension. Here, his power reached its peak, every fiber of his being synchronized with the volatile energy of the realm.

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Satoshi stared at the demon, calmly.

“Is this supposed to do anything? I don’t need to even use any of mine, let me test something I just invented now”.

A barrier surrounded Satoshi, something made out of pure energy, something like a miniature ultimate dimension, creating a hole in the demon’s ultimate.

The demon started to fly, firing beams of light towards Satoshi, but within the barrier, nothing could touch him.

“Anyways”.

He jumped behind the demon, smashing him into the walls of the ultimate.

“Bang bitch”!

The walls shattered like glass.

“Sayori,” Satoshi called out without looking back. “Is this the guy who gave you so much trouble?”

Sayori, still shaky and bloodied, nodded. “No shit Satoshi, you’re the number one hero, everything is going to be easy for you”.

Asami plucked one of her hairs out of her head as it turned into a tree summon, they walked towards the bloodied and injured Aoi, healing him back to normal.

“Of course.” Satoshi cut her off. His eyes glowed brighter, and the demon’s body froze in place. “I’ll take that.”

Golden chains of light emerged from Satoshi’s hands, wrapping around the demon. The air grew heavy as the chains began to constrict, pulling the demon’s remaining energy into Satoshi’s body.

The demon screamed, his voice filled with desperation and agony. “Please! Spare me! I’ll do anything”.

“Tell me where Shinji is”.

His voice shifted from a light hearted and playful tone to a serious and angry tone.

The demon moved back, his back against a wall, blood pooling under him.

“I-I don’t know either, I was here to find him too, the people that I-I beat up was part of his cult”.

“Really? Huh, anything else? Any hints on where he is”?

“He’s underground in a laboratory”.

“Thanks for the info”.

Satoshi left the demon there to bleed to death as he walked away from the scene.

“And by the way Asami, just leave him there, don’t heal him”.