*ZZIPP*

*ZZIPP*

*ZZIPP*

That long blade crushes everything it touches. Its unpredictable movement does overwhelm Varz. He can't just go offensive as he likes as that blade may lash him.

"Come on! Come on! Just keep dancing like that!" Exclaimed the guy who swings his whip-like sword around. "Yeah like that! Keep dancing like that! Vincent!" He exclaimed.

"I told you not to call me by that name!" Varz is still evading the lashes Franz launches to him.

Varz jumps everywhere by emitting gale from his soles to evade those hard-yet-sharp-iron-lashes. Varz is cornered, yet he is still able to make use of his ability to evade every blow Franz launches to him well for now.

"As expected from Vincent! You are as good at controlling as ever that you are still able to keep it up for a quite long time!" Franz exclaimed.

"I told you not to be so casual to me!" Varz who is still at the midair launches thunder from a swing from his sword to Franz.

Seeing that, Franz crushes the thunder by a single swing. Before Franz has time to launch a counter-attack, Varz takes the advantage to launch one first. He swiftly launches, yet...

"Gotcha!" Franz puts a smirk on his face.

Varz feels like he is stepping on a slippery thing and it ruins his balance that he slips. Varz did let his guard down as he has been focusing on Franz that he forgot something really important in this battle.

"Ba... Banana Peel?!" Varz realized that Franz launched a barrage to him just to keep him busy with it that he focused on Franz only that he forgot that his only opponent wasn't Franz. "That retarded monkey! Franz kept me busy to buy that monkey some time to set all of this. Damn!" Varz sees Franz, Irz, and Karz coming to him ready to launch an all-out attack.

"THIS IS THE END!" They exclaimed.

"They do make a good combo, yet..."

When the all-out attack is about to hit his body, suddenly a heavy twister appears enveloping his body. It spins hazardously that sends the trio flying.

It stops out of the blue, and Varz is seen standing there. The trio gets up and they are ready to go offensive. Varz just stays idle there while giving them a cold gaze.

"Vincent, don't you know that I hate that look on your face!" Franz is somehow irritated.

"So you do have a pet peeve, eh? Don't I have a right to give you this look or such? Just like the way you call me, right?" Varz replied casually.

"Vincent, I just wanna be your friend," Franz said.

"Will a friend dare try to kill his own friend?" Varz asked.

"Tsk!" Franz looked away.

"Unfortunately, I don't wanna be your friend," Varz said.

"Shut the fuck up!" Franz swiftly swings his sword to Varz.

That long blade is coming to Varz really quick.

"The same trick won't do." Varz swiftly unsheathes his sword and swings his sword to the almost-getting-him-blade horizontally.

The blade is split into two and the blade attached to the collar shrinks to its normal form yet the blade remains cut halfway.

"As I expected, Vincent," Franz said.

The blue Iru flows through Franz's sword making the blade reform to its normal state.

"Your regeneration ability is no joke. That what makes dealing with you a pain in the ass." Varz said.

"Oh, are you afraid of the ability of mine? It doesn't hurt anyone anyway." Franz said.

"Nah, I said it was a pain in the ass. Anyway, if we do have to kill each other here, you'll get killed first for sure." Varz said casually.

"SEGAWON!" Franz yelled at him.

Segawon is a swear word of Javanese. So, I'd rather not explain it.

"Hey, we are Balinese. Why did you swear in Javanese?" Varz asked.

"FUCK YOU!"

"Much better."

"CUT IT OUT ALREADY, YOU TWO!" Irz and Karz yelled at them for quarreling over something trivial.

Suddenly, Karz gets cut like a carrot dice cut and Irz's body gets crushed by a heavy wind followed by a tremendous thunder strike.

"SHUT THE HELL UP, WEAKLING!" Both of them exclaimed.

Yes, both of them finish Irz and Karz off in such a brutal way.

"Wh... What just happened?" Kartika is getting confused by what just she saw.

Everyone watching that is getting confused by what just happened, including the sages.

"Imbecile." The sages sighed.

"Good thing he is imbecile." They said.

Wayan clears his throat and says, "Irz and Karz dropped out!"

"Now, Varz just has to defeat Franz! He will win for sure!" Herman sure is excited.

"Don't be so sure." Nyoman cut. "You do know Franz's ability, right? Is it possible for Varz to defeat him?"

"He did when he betrayed you, remember? Have you forgotten that?!" Kartika replied.

"He did with that twerp assistance, right? But, what about now? Don't be so sure." Nyoman said in an underestimating tone.

Hearing that, Kartika and Herman remember the time they encountered Franz. That's true that Varz can't deal with Franz by himself, even Varz barely got killed by Franz at that time. That's true that they won because Alfi assisted Varz to deal with Franz, but they believe that Varz can win this battle.

Let's get back to the battle of Varz vs Franz.

"Shooting two birds with a stone, eh? Bluffing is effective for idiots." Varz said in his mind. "Guess I have to learn a lot from him." Varz smiles and chuckles.

"What's so funny?" Franz looks irritated now.

"Have you realized what you've done?" Varz said.

"Abou them? Who cares?"

"Really?"

"I don't need their existences here anyway. They are nothing but a burden for me."

"To hear something like that comes out from your mouth makes me believe that you are nothing but a scum."

"Look who's talking."

"Fuck you."

"But, I am surprised to know that we were brought to this realm."

"Huh?"

"Oops."

" 'Brought', you said? What does it mean? Spit it out! What happened to all of you?!"

"They, are reconciling?" Kartika is getting to wonder.

"Perhaps," Herman replied.

"Oh, I will." Franz unsheathes his sword. "But you have to make me spill the beans by force first!" Franz puts a sentence.

"Cih, what a sly snake." Varz unsheathes his sword and summons his wind sword on his left hand. "Challenge accepted!" Varz exclaimed.

"JUANCOK!" Kartika and the others yelled at the duo.

Juancok is another swear word of Javanese as well.

The battle is getting fierce. Those guys are still standing there giving a cold gaze to each other. Their gazes give an intimidating vibe. Hatred, a desire to win, rivalry, envy, everything can be seen from their eyes.

"Franz, the snake."

"Varz, the dragon."

They swiftly advance and launch their blows as fast as possible.

*STRIKE*

*ZZIPP*

*HOWL*

*FLASH*

Their swords keep striking each other that echo loud boom eventually. The sound of blades striking each other, the sound of roaring thunder, the sound of the wind howling, and the sound of the hard lashes are echoing in a row. The damage dealt by those two is very destructive that all the trees are cut off that they could be sued for illegal logging.

"Very nice! This is the battle I've always dreamed of!" Franz exclaimed.

"Satisfied already? Then, just give up already and spit it out!" Varz exclaimed.

"Never!" Franz points his sword to the front, and the blade extends coiling around Varz's body.

"Dang it!"

Franz smirks and sends Varz flying.

"Aakash Nirmay!" Franz is lashing Varz who is still on the midair without knowing when to stop.

The lashes of hard and sharp iron are cutting throughout Varz's body. Varz is trying to focus for a counter-attack, yet Franz just doesn't want to stop tormenting him like this. He just keeps at it while laughing manically.

"Varz..." Kartika can't stand to see Varz's being tormented like that.

Herman pats her shoulder and says, "No worries, Varz... He will win."

She knows that he was trying to soothe her up as she sees his teeth are gritting.

"What's is his problem with me anyway?" Varz is wondering in his mind. "A few minutes ago we could talk over something trivial, but now, he has turned mad. He has lost his mind already."

Varz is still able to see Franz tormenting him with a look that I have no idea how to describe on his face.

"Disgusting." He feels disgusted seeing the look on Franz's face. "Just by seeing it (Franz) has got my nerve, but with that look on his face, it seems like I really want to kill him. In any case, I have to focus."

"Do you want to kill him?" Duo asked.

"Just kill him already. That's the only way we have." Varz answered casually.

"Are you sure? We are talking about your friend here." Dora asked.

"What kind of friend? He even dares torment his own friend this bad." Varz asked.

"You are right. Let's kill him!" Duo is somehow getting excited.

"What kind of death you want him to have?" Dora asked.

"As grotesque as possible." Varz replied.

"Straightforward as ever, eh?" Duo said.

"Just do it, you may do as you like to his dead body," Varz said.

"OK." Both of them replied.

Suddenly Varz's body emits a heavy gale that breaks Franz's sword blade. He flies on the are with the gust of wind that howls from his soles and he is coming to Franz at a high speed.

Seeing that, Franz launches a bed of snakes from his sword to prevent Varz to get closer. With both of his swords on his hands, he slices up those snakes at an incredible speed. When Franz is about to launch more snakes, he feels something has penetrated his body all of sudden, It is hard, sharp, and... Cold.

It's Varz's wind sword. Franz sees Varz's empty gaze and Varz sees Franz with his eyes wide open. The purple Iru is gushing up enveloping him and his right eye is glowing purple. Both of his tattoos intertwined his arms are glowing purple as well.

"It's for that," Varz said. "Typhoon."

Varz channels his sword with his purple Iru turning the blade into a typhoon that spins heavily inside Franz's body. Franz screams in pain as his body is being crushed by Varz who seems to have mastered up the power of Doraduo. The typhoon keeps spinning and spinning and the more it seems, the greater the spin ratio becomes, and later...

*SPURT*

Franz's body bursts before Varz's very eyes. Varz just remains silent.

"You don't regret it, Varz?" Dora asked.

*ZZIP*

*STRIKE*

Varz manages to parry that surprise attack with his sword blade.

"You don't need to fake your death like that, you know? It's just disgusting." Varz turns around. "You hear me? Franz?"

That eerie creature before him is Franz in his Abiofusi mode. His slippery, slimy, and white with blue spots skin makes him looks like a dreadful creature.

"So you can use Abiofusi mode, eh? But, too bad. It seems you haven't fully mastered it!" Franz exclaimed.

"Even so, it's just enough to finish you off," Varz replied.

"Don't get too cocky." Franz extends both of his arms and swings them to Varz.

Varz slices them with both of his in a jiffy that Franz doesn't realize that both of his arms are cut off his body already.

"Incredible." Both of his arms regrow. "Ah, right. Say, Vincent. Do you know why do they loathe that Alfa so bad and why are we here all of sudden?"

"What?"

Franz just puts a smirk on his face. Seeing that, Varz, anger ends up skyrocketing.

"You! So it's your doing in the first place!" Varz enraged.

"If It is my doing, so what? Will the sages appear and seal me with their power here? Like the hell, it will! I've taken control of them already! And they will never believe you anyway, Twerp!" Franz exclaimed followed by his manic laughter.

"You... Why did you do this?!"

"Ain't it obvious already? I won't let you be happy nor smile in your life!"

"What is your problem with me anyway?!"

"So you don't understand anyway. Very well, guess pain will make you understand faster!"

Franz launches a bed of snakes from his right hand. Varz slices all of them with a single slash, but those cut snakes regrow and come to his direction. In the end, Varz keeps slicing them up without knowing when to stop as they keep regrowing.

"You have a tough past and I will make sure that you will have a tougher future! No one will sympathize with you. One day, the ones you considered 'friend' will back-stab you!"

Even though Varz can slice those snakes to keep a distance between them and him, some of them manage to bite his body. Those small sharp and venomous teeth are biting his whole body, but Varz is still able to hold the pain.

"Ho does it feel? Painful, isn't it? The venom will spread throughout your body, mix with your blood, and your own blood will be a poison that paralyzes your body and nerves."

"I don't understand anything you just said."

"To make it simple, you'll die, idiot."

"But, before I die..." Varz sticks his wind sword to the ground and it causes a heavy wind howls tremendously devastating the snakes around him. "You'll die first!" Varz gives Franz a raging gaze.

"All bar-'

Suddenly Varz appears on Franz's behind. And...

*SLASH*

Something is flying over Varz in the air. It then falls before him.

"You do get my nerve," Varz said in a flat tone.

It is Franz's head. Right, Varz has beheaded Franz.

"You do have an incredible regeneration skill." His wind sword vanishes. "But, it looks like you forgot that I can cut and destroy your Iru circulation." Varz turns his head to behind. "In other words, you can't use your regeneration skill to regrow your head."

Franz's headless body falls. Varz focuses on that disembodied head of Franz. He raises his sword to the air and strikes that head to ashes with a thunder he summoned.

"Varz won," Herman said.

"Herman, look!" Kartika exclaimed.

"What?!"

"Don't underestimate Franz," Nyoman said.

Suddenly, a bed of snakes is coming and biting on Varz's body making Varz scream in pain as their biting is painful. Franz's headless body suddenly gets up slowly with the neck gushing out blue Iru to the sky like a smog coming out from a muffler. The smog is getting thickening and forming a snakehead in human head size.

"Too bad, Varz," Franz said.

A whole of Varz's body turns into a heavy gale that crushes those snakes again. It howls and gathers at one place forming Varz's body.

"As I thought, that you have mastered that eerie form, Franz," Varz said cynically.

"Do you think Sunekuo takes control of me all this time? How naive of you, Vincent. Never trust a snake as it stays idle waiting for the right time to have its prey."

"Then," Varz holds his sword with both of his hands and closes his eyes. "I guess it's time to use that mode. Doraduo, lend me your power."

Suddenly, the sky gets darker but it doesn't start to rain. The thunder roars and strikes everything but both of them and the heavy wind howls heavily without stopping.

"Vincent."

"Franz, I can't forgive you anymore. Though I do love you as my friend, I think you are right, I can't trust a snake." Varz said.

"Cut the crap! Who wants to be your friend anyway?! 'You love me', you said? The hell, with that bullshit. I don't wanna be loved by the likes of you!" Franz launches more snakes from his mouth and they end up gnawing Varz's body.

"No one loves you. You saw it yourself, right? We loathe you. Even Lucas does. Who wants to be your friend anyway?!"

It's such a great hit for Varz. That's true that he is hated by everyone in the first place. He used to be ignored by everyone and some of them even curse him. But, he still has a few people who are priceless in his life, Dini, Haris, ßenlong, Buriko, Aoi, Cocong, Jeje, Herman, Kartika, dan Alfi. They are really priceless in his life.

This tale has been unlawfully lifted from Royal Road; report any instances of this story if found elsewhere.

"'Who wants to be your friend?', you said? OF COURSE, IT'S THEM!" Varz shouted.

A tremendous thunder strikes Varz body devastating those snakes. A pair of great purple dragon-wing grows from his back. The dragon tattoo on his right arm is glowing purple and channeled by an almighty electric current. The dragon tattoo on his left arm is glowing green and surrounded by a gentle gale yet intense. His left hand wields something like a Chinese Dao sword that blade is made by a heavy gale. There are also two dragon heads on Varz's shoulders.

"So you've mastered Abiofusi," Franz said in an arrogant tone.

"Finish him off, Varz!" It comes from the dragon head on his left shoulder. Yet, it's Dora.

"Let's show him how strong we are!" And the one on his right shoulder is Duo.

"Franz, I, will finish you off!" Varz puts a stance.

"Interesting! Then, let's end it once and for all!" Franz puts a stance. "Let's see who is the strongest between us! Is it a snake or a dragon?!"

"Varz, the dragon."

"Franz, the snake!"

They are coming to each other.

"HAAAAH!!!!!!!!!"

"HAAAAH!!!!!!!!!"

*CRASH*

Their blows cause a great brattle followed by a great explosion.

The explosion causes a thick smoke that gets their way to see what is happening there. They just can't see who won the match, thanks to the smoke. When the smoke is getting thinner, they can see someone standing there. Seeing that, Kartika and the others are rejoicing in excitement. Yes, Varz won the match.

"I don't care about the diversity I have to encounter in my life. As long as I have them on my side, I will survive in this hellish world. I do this not for my own sake, it's all for protecting the world, the place we were born, play, rejoice, grieve, fight, and leave. You may hate me, but you will always be my friend ." Varz returns to his normal form.

"Franz dropped out!"

Hearing that, the white light appears capturing him and bringing him back to the sixteenth floor. He sees his friend are rejoicing for his victory and congratulating him.

"With this, we won!" Kartika said in excitement.

"Who said that?" Made asked.

"What? We have more victories here, right? Bring him back and let us pass through!" Kartika exclaimed.

"I don't remember such a rule exists." Made said.

"Kartika! Look!" Aoi calls her with an anxious look on her face.

Kartika and the others focus on that white Iru ball. It shows Alfi laying sluggishly there with his body covered in blood.

"Wh... What is going on there?!" Kartika is startled by seeing it.

"With this, he'll perish!" Wayan said.

Suddenly, Varz walks getting closer to them and pointing his sword to them.

"Take us there," Varz said.

"What if we refuse?" Nyoman asked.

"Don't make me, old men." Varz uses his Abiofusi mode. "I'll finish all of you off right here, right now."

Herman and the other walk to Varz's side and they look serious to fight the sages.

"Kids these days." Wayan sighed.

"OK Boomer," Varz replied.

Another inevitable fierce battle has begun.

Now we move to the last arena.

Alfi is encountering Arz, Barz, and Larz. This event occurs right when Varz is encountering Franz.

They can hear the cries of the spectators who curse Alfi. They just keep at it, Alfi can hear all kinds of insult and swearing they swear for him.

"Do you wonder why they loathe you so much?" Arz asked.

Alfi just remains silent.

"Those are the casualties from the invasion," Barz said. "Can you tell? With your inability to defeating Waku-waku, they lost their lives for nothing!" He shouted.

"A thousand of life was wasted for nothing! They had to leave their beloved ones just for a twerp like you! Don't you have decency?! Do you ever regret it for what you've done for your inability?! YOU DEVIL!" Larz exclaimed.

Alfi still remains silent.

"Don't want to speak, eh? Do you really regret it, or you don't even have the heart to regret it al all?!" Larz exclaimed. "We even joined to fight with you as we believed that you would protect us from the terror Waku-waku gives. But, we didn't die for the world's sake, we died in vain just for a scum like you!"

The curses they speak of are getting worse. All of them are cursing him for his inability to defeat Waku-waku. He still remains silent while giving them a cold gaze. Seeing that, his friends are getting irritated for seeing their friend treated like that, yet they can't do anything but just stay watching from there.

"That fake Alfa. That scum just deserves to be treated as bad as trash. Nah, even trash is better than him." Nyoman said.

"Shut up," Kartika said in a flat tone.

"Excuse me?" Nyoman said.

"I said 'shut up'!" She stands up and gives him a gaze full of fury.

"There, there, Kartika. Just don't listen to him. Just sit down already." Aoi tries to persuade Kartika to chill down and take a seat.

Kartika then takes a breath and takes a seat. Yet, she just can't chill down as Nyoman keeps badmouthing her for her impudence. Kartika is upset by hearing it, yet Aoi keeps consoling her so that Kartika can control her temper. Nyoman just keeps at it and it just annoys not only Kartika but also everyone. As he can't shut his damn mouth up, Aoi then looks at Nyoman making him shut up and his vision goes empty all of sudden.

"It's alright Kartika. I've shut the shitty mouth of his up." Aoi smiles at her.

"Thank you, Aoi." She said.

"The words coming out from his mouth are dirty and inhuman. He doesn't deserve to hold the title of a sage."

"I know right."

Meanwhile, Alfi...

They are still at it. Cursing him eventually.

He knows that he deserves it. He'll take any kind of curse. No matter how harsh it is, he won't argue nor give a shit at all.

"Just keep going." He said. "I do deserve it. You curse me as you are disappointed with me, don't you? I won't blame anyone as I am at fault. But..." Alfi draws Pelidi from his bracelet. "I have to get outta here real quick to protect my world!" He holds the point of Pelidiand snaps it splitting it into two.

The two cut swords on his hands are turning to their normal form. Now, Alfi wields two Pelidis on his hands.

"I do regret it, but it doesn't mean I have to stay idle just to mourn what happened in the past. Just let goners be goners, as I'll make it up for the better future! I fight for the future, not the past!" Alfi exclaimed.

"Alfi." Kartika gets startled by what he said.

"Shut the fuck up! You are not the Alfa nor a hero! You'll just end up becoming a failure no matter how hard your strife is!" Larz launches the iron bars from his sword to Alfi.

"Level three: CG! The power of 3000 swords!" Alfi deflects the trajectory of the iron bar by striking it with Pelidi on hi right hand.

"You're nothing but trash!" Suddenly another iron bar that goes to the wrong trajectory turns curves to Alfi's direction.

"So, he multiplies it, eh? Then,"

Alfi deflects it again, but the iron grows more bars from its every side, and those bars are coming to Alfi.

"Multiplication regrowth?!" Alfi increases his deflecting pace, but the more he deflects them, the more bars coming to him.

Help! Why do I think about 'shafts' instead of bars here?!

Alfi is getting cornered. The harder he tries to, they just keep coming. There is just no end of them. Alfi then crushes those bars by launching Paw-pang to them from his bracelet. But, suddenly a thunder strikes him that he falls to his knee.

"Imbecile, you can't use any weapon but swords here!" Larz takes the chance to launch some iron shafts, I mean bars to Alfi.

Alfi is paralyzed by the thunderstrike that he can't fight back nor stand up. So, in the end, those bars get him. He finds himself coiled by those bars.

WHY THE FUCK DO I IMAGINE SOME KINKY STUFF HERE?!

"Shit!" Alfi swore.

"Gotcha!" Larz sends him flying.

Arz suddenly appears over Alfi with his sword that has been turned into a stone hammer on his hands. The iron bars coiling Alfi shrink to its normal form, and Arz launches his fatal strike to Alfi that Alfi falls to the ground. But, before Alfi crashes the ground, the stone arena ground expands two rows preventing Alfi from ring out.

"Arz saved me, why?" Alfi gets up with all of his might.

Arz lands smoothly and says, "Don't get me wrong. We won't let you have ring-out as we are not done with tormenting you."

"Arz controls the earth, and Larz can bind me with the iron bars that come from his sword. Speaking of troublesome opponents." Alfi starts to choose the move to attack. "But, the guy over there. Kartika said that he is only able to ram like a bull. Guess, I have to take him on first!" He grabs his swords and advances to Barz's direction.

Alfi launches his strike to Barz, and Barz just grabs the swords Alfi wields,

and...

Suddenly the swords move by themselves striking Alfi hard that he falls before Barz.

"Wha... What just happened?!"

Barz swiftly snatches Alfi's bracelet. Seeing that, Alfi grabs Barz's hand tight.

"Give it back!" He exclaimed.

"Shut up!" Barz smashes Alfi's hand with the pommel of Pelidi hard that Alfi lets go of Barz's hand.

"Megumi!"

*KICK*

Barz sends Alfi flying by launching a heavy high kick to him that Alfi falls with his body upside.

"You must think that I am the weakest, right?!" Barz kicks Alfi's body.

"Unbelievable for you underestimating us. That's what makes you weak, you know?!" Arz strikes Alfi's body with his stone hammer.

"Without your Jowa, you can feel the real pain and it gets doubled up!" Larz thrusts Alfi's body with the iron bars he launches from his sword.

Alfi has fatal bleeding and injury. A whole of his body is full of bruises and blood sprouts out from his body that his white shirt is painted red as it's fully absorbed his blood already. It doesn't end like that, the spectators are getting wilder now. As they feel cursing him is just not enough, they then come down and join the fray. Some strike him, hit him, stab him, lashes him, pound him, run over him with motorcycle and car, and etc. Alfi can do nothing but scream in pain. He can't move nor feel his legs as the bones are crushed already by them. He tries to lie down so he can crawl to make a bolt.

"Alfi!" Varz exclaimed. "Take us there, you old fart!" Varz is trying his best to land a hit to them, but he can't attack them at all.

It's all thanks to Ketut. He petrifies all of them. No matter how hard they try to move, they will never be able to move any single muscle.

"Can you just sit there and enjoy the show?" Ketut asked.

"We won't let you get away!" Arz, Barz, and Larz exclaimed.

They pound their weapon to Alfi's body. Some pound his back, leg, hand, even his head. His vision suddenly goes blurry. Though he has some strange object pierced on his head, he is still able to hold his consciousness. But, without his Jowa with him, Alfi now is nothing but a mere human who has his own limitation. His vision goes more blurry as time goes by, more strange things piercing his body and comes out from his body.

"I can't lose here!" He screams in his mind.

They are still at it. They torment him in various ways with no mercy shown on their faces.

"I... Can't die here! Bwagh!"

Alfi coughs blood from his blood as his vision gets more blurry.

"I think, I can't hold it any longer. I'm sorry, guys..."

Before he closes his eyes, he sees the memories he has made with them. The time he met Kartika, Megumi, Herman, the time he fought Varz, the time he was tested by Arz, the time when he fought with two of his best friends, the time when he encountered Waku-waku, the time when he met Jeje and the others, the time when the party reunited, up until now.

"I'm so grateful to have friends like you guys. Goodbye."

His vision goes dark and Alfi has lost his consciousness already.

"ALFI!" They exclaimed in shock.

The sages burst out laughing by seeing that.

"What's so funny, you bastard?!" Varz enraged.

"He is so useless! He even couldn't defeat those three! Is this what you call 'the world protector'?! Pathetic!" Nyoman exclaimed followed by his laugh.

They can do nothing but bemoan it. They are so distressed as they couldn't save Alfi at all. Aoi who sees that is getting mad that she stares at the sages and starts enchanting a spell in Javanese, not Java.

"oh, dosa maha maha. tulungana para wong dosa sadurunge aku lan wenehi kekuwatan kanggo ngrusak lan ngontrol wong-wong sing ana ing ngarepku."

The black Mana gushes out from her body and enters their bodies petrifying them that Kartika and the others move as Ketut's bind is worn out already. Kartika and the others are getting confused by what is happening, They see Aoi staring at the sages and she does look terrifying. Nyoman then touches that white Iru orb making Alfi, Arz, Barz, and Larz come out from it.

Alfi is still lying with the bleeding on his body. The sages then vanish in a jiffy. Arz, Barz, and Larz are startled by seeing that.

"Kartika, heal Alfi. You guys, get his Jowa which is on Barz's possession!" Aoi exclaimed.

Kartika comes to Alfi and starts healing him with covering his face with her hands that channels her Iru to Alfi.

"You, imbecile! What have you done to the sages?!" Arz exclaimed.

"Of course I crushed them just like what you did to Alfi in such a brutal way!" Aoi exclaimed.

"He is a twerp. He deserves to be treated like that! But for them, they are the sages who are not supposed to be treated that brutal like that!" Larz exclaimed.

"They are just as despicable as Alfi. No, even Alfi is better than them!" Herman exclaimed.

"Hand over the bracelet, and we'll forgive you!" Varz exclaimed.

"The hell with that! I will never hand this over! I'd rather die than hand it over!" Barz exclaimed.

"Can you still go for another round?" Herman asked.

"Who do you think I am?" Varz asked.

Varz is still on his Abiofusi form.

"This time, we'll save him!" Jeje exclaimed.

"Let me join then!" Buriko exclaimed with Morning Wood on his hand.

ßenlong rushes and Kartika who is still healing Alfi find them on ßenlong's back with the sluggishly-laying Aoi and Jeje who is guarding their surrounding.

"Just stay here, they might target you." ßenlong said.

"I'll watch your back. So, just leave the rear to me." Jeje said.

Kartika just nods.

"No worries, we'll defeat them for sure. Alfi can fight for us, and now is time for us to fight for him. Just focus on healing him, just leave the three idiots to us!" ßenlong exclaims.

She goes teary by hearing that. Her tears wet her hands that are healing Alfi.

"You are right ßenlong. This time, you don't need to worry about us, idiot." She said in her mind.

The loud and mighty booms echo on the sixteenth floor. Varz is encountering Arz, Herman is encountering Barz, and Jeje and Cocong are encountering Larz. While ßenlong is just flying around to evade the projectiles Arz, Barz, and Larz launch to him.

Herman keeps shooting fireballs to Barz, and Barz just simply evades it without even fights back. While Larz keeps launching iron bars from his sword to bind Buriko, yet Buriko keeps crushing those bars with Cocong who has been turned into Morning Wood. Not to mention, Barz often deflects the fireballs to ßenlong and so does Larz who launches some iron bars to ßenlong. ßenlong keeps maneuvering on the sky to evade those projectiles and Jeje keeps shooting blue beam from his hands to burst those projectiles.

"ßenlong, just keep evading like that. Don't go offensive! Make sure they are safe that I can retrieve his Jowa!" Herman speeds up his pace to attack Barz.

But, no matter how fast his pace is, Barz is still able to evade every single of Herman's blow. Herman advances to Barz in a jiffy and launches his fire fist to Barz's head, but Barz's head doesn't seem on fire at all.

"What?!"

"You let your guard down!" Barz sends Herman flying by launching a fire fist to him. "What do you think of getting hit by your own attack?!" Barz shoots fireballs to Herman who is still in the midair.

Meanwhile, Varz and Arz are having a fierce battle. They just keep on the offensive as they keep striking each other. Arz, with all of his might, swings his sword upward distracting Varz's balance and sends Varz flying crashing the ceiling by the swing of his stone hammer. Arz then takes the chance by sticks his sword to that wooden floor.

"Tektonik! (Tectonic)" Arz exclaimed.

Suddenly, the ground shakes like crazy. The whole room is shaking heavily that the tapestries, shelves, windows break, even the ceiling is collapsing. Seeing that, ßenlong swiftly flies taking all of them, except the trio and go away to the sky as he burns the ceiling that was about to crush them. If only ßenlong didn't make it in time, they would be crushed by the ceiling.

"Thank you, ßenlong," Varz said.

"He is too strong." Herman pants heavily. "Hey, Kartika. You said that he just rammed."

"It's true. He just rammed me when I encountered him." She said while healing Alfi.

"He doesn't ram! He copies my skill." Herman said.

"What did you say?! A copy skill?" Varz who has returned to his normal form gets startled by hearing that.

"Yes, he copies my skill perfectly."

"So, that's his true ability." Varz sighed. "Tsk, this battle is getting harder than I thought."

"What do you mean?" Herman is wondering to what makes Varz so upset.

"Barz, you can say that this is the first time he uses his ability as a Doki-Doki user," Varz explained.

"So, when I encountered him... He.." Kartika just can't believe what she just heard. "His horns are troublesome, and now he can copy his opponent's ability.." Kartika is getting agitated.

"If my assumption serves me right, the condition for him to copy one's skill is he has to see how his opponent launches the blow first so he can copy it. He is gonna be a troublesome opponent here." Varz said. "Hey, bullet brain." Varz turns his gaze to Herman.

"What?"

"Can you take him on by yourself?" Varz asked in a serious tone. "If my assumption serves me right, then I can't take him on. I can cut and destroy Iru circulation, and if he can copy it, he will be invincible.." He added.

"What is it? Are you underestimating me?" Herman asked. "Even if you didn't ask to, I wouldn't let you have him. He is my opponent!" He added.

Some iron bars are seen coming to their direction at a high speed. Seeing that, Buriko takes a leap and strikes those bars really hard. When he has landed on the ground, he sees more iron bars coming to him, Buriko then strikes them eventually while walking closer to Larz's direction.

"Leave him to me! Please take the other two as well!" Buriko exclaimed.

Herman and Varz then use their Abiofusi mode and jump down to their respective opponent, Varz to Arz, and Herman to Barz.

"Kartika! We leave Alfi to you!" Herman exclaimed as he lands smoothly.

Barz then shows Alfi's bracelet on his right hand.

"If you want this, you have to defeat me first," Barz said.

"I planned to!" Herman's body is engulfed in flaring flame already.

"All of your attacks won't do against me. You must know that, right?"

"So what? Though you can copy my abilities, it doesn't mean you can defeat me by just copying them, right? Copycat."

"We'll see then." Barz grabs both of his horns on his cap and pulls them out.

The horns on his Viking cap are a pair of 104 cm rapiers. So the horns are the hilts of his rapiers.

"Rapiers?!" Varz is startled by seeing that.

"Where are you looking at?!" Arz strikes Varz with his stone hammer, but what he stroke is just a wind clone of Varz.

The wind blows to the side of Arz forming Varz's body and Varz swiftly launches a strike to Arz, but Arz blocks it with his sword that a few seconds ago was a hammer.

"Not bad, Varz!" Arz said.

"Quit with the chit-chat already!" Varz swings his sword upwards dismantling Arz and thrusts his swords to Arz's chest.

But, Arz dives to the ground and emerges from it sending an uppercut that sends Varz's flying. Arz then ascends to the sky by raising the ground he stands on.

"This is bad!" Kartika gets agitated seeing Arz coming to their direction.

ßenlong is trying his best to speed up, yet Arz can keep up with him. Jeje on the rear is trying to shoot Arz with his blue beam, but Arz can evade it by curve the trajectory of the ground. Jeje then shoots the ground that connects Arz and the surface resulting in him getting fallen.

"Gotcha!" Jeje exclaimed.

"Good one, Jeje!" Kartika exclaimed.

"What?!" Arz exclaimed coming to them with another ground that is raising to the sky.

Arz raises another ground so he won't fall like that.

"How persistent!" Jeje keeps shooting blue beams to Arz.

Though Jeje manages to crush Arz's foothold, Arz can simply get another foothold by raising another ground around his foothold. Seeing that, Varz expands his wings and comes to Arz. Realizing that, Arz launches a strike to Varz, and Varz blocks it with both of his swords that echo a great boom.

"Just focus on healing that idiot, Kartika!" Varz exclaimed. "Jeje! Watch my back!"

Jeje flies to the sky while shooting blue beams to Arz, Barz, and Larz for distraction, but Arz can take care of it by launching some pebbles to crush those beams just like Alfi's Paw-pang. Varz and Arz are getting a fierce battle. Their swords are giving pressure real strongly that they got bounced by the clash of their weapons, yet they are still able to launch their own projectiles in the midair while coming to each other for a counter-attack. As they fight really fast just like Dragon Ball fight scene, guess I don't need to describe it.

Meanwhile, Buriko is still striking those iron bars with his sword while getting closer to that unharmed Larz. When Buriko is getting near Larz, Buriko launches a smash to Larz, but Larz's body suddenly turns into a set of iron cells that catches Buriko's body. Now, Buriko is getting restrained by the cells and the restraint gets stronger as time goes by that Buriko lets go of Morning Wood.

Larz suddenly appears beside the under restrain Buriko.

"They say that those who go offensive really often in a battle are idiots," Larz said seeing Buriko. "And I guess it's true." He smiled. "I even didn't move for an inch just for defeating you."

"You bastard, Kuh.."

"That won't do. This cell will get narrower and narrower pressing you that you get crushed. I can't believe that these imbecile things are that twerp allies." Larz bursts out laughing. "Well, if we are done defeating all of you, we would resurrect you guys so you can see your friend, Alfi gets tormented again."

"Kuh.." Buriko feels the restrain presses his body too much.

"Well, if we can do so though. But the good news is, you can see him in Hell."

"Kuh..." Buriko is getting irritated as he hears Larz's chatters. He tries his best to crush the restrain.

"What? Trying to break it out, eh? That won't do, the harder you try, the narrower it becomes."

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

Buriko keeps forcing his body to break out. He puts more and more force that his whole body turns green and his smooth and glimmering hair turns messy. The green Mana envelopes his body, and he shouts aloud while putting more force to break out.

"Shouting won't strengthen you."

*CRACK*

Buriko manages to break out. The irons from the cell come to Buriko and Buriko crush them with just a single punch.

"Impossible!"

Buriko grabs Morning Wood and says, "I don't wanna be underestimated anymore. You have underestimated Alfi, us, and me. Then, I won't hold back anymore."

"Oh, interesting," Larz said arrogantly.

Buriko draws something from his pants pocket. It's a bag full of emping that Alfi gave him before.

"Alfi, please lend me your power." Buriko eats up the emping inside the bag.

"Last food for your last wish, eh? Guess I have to make a move to crush you already." Suddenly a set of the iron belt appears from the ground Larz stands on. "Let's finish it once and for all!" He looks like having a tank track now.

"Come!" Buriko exclaimed.

Larz comes to Buriko like how a tank moves while launching iron bars to him again and again. Buriko then dashes while breaking those bars. Larz is ready to strike Buriko who is on Larz's range so is Buriko who's running to Larz's direction. The clash of their weapon causes a great shockwave.

Meanwhile, Herman looks irritated by seeing Barz wielding both of his rapiers which blades enveloped in flame. Both of them are having a fierce battle. Herman shoots a great fireball to Barz, but it gets absorbed by his rapiers. Barz advances to Herman for a counter-attack. Barz attacks Herman by using his rapiers to thrust rapidly like an expert. Herman can't read Barz's movement that he takes a lot of damage from Barz's rapid thrust. Seeing that, Barz increases his pace that ends up attacking Herman again and again. Herman is just able to endure the thrusts he takes from Barz. It's painful, but still, he has to try to retrieve Alfi's bracelet from Barz's possession. Herman then launches some fireballs to Barz, but all of them get vanished by a single swing of his rapiers.

"I am impressed that you could make me use my rapiers," Barz said. "You are kinda tough, eh?"

"Kuh." Herman is getting overwhelmed and he lets Barz sending him his rapid thrust again and again.

"Come on, where's the determination you showed me before? Don't you want to snatch this bracelet for that trash life? Or, is it just a mere bark? Menyedihkan!" Barz is still at it while intimidating him like that.

"I wonder why you so care about that twerp. Does he feed you or something? Don't you feel ashamed or something? You fight just for a self-claimed-world-protector twerp! You are nothing but a bunch of twerp waiting for the time to be killed brutally like this!"

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Herman's body explodes that throws Barz away.

The smoke that came from the explosion comes to Barz. When Barz is on its reach, the smoke forms Herman who launches a heavy smash to Barz's face that flings Barz away.

Barz gets up immediately and he sees a whole of Herman burning body has turned into an iron one.

"Iron?!" Kartika is startled by seeing it.

"No way! How is it possible for him to have two abilities?!" Barz exclaimed.

"It's not two, but three!" Herman exclaimed.

Reminder, Doki-doki user but Alfi is only allowed to have one ability. Having two abilities like Kartika and Varz is such a rare phenomenon.

Suddenly the ground launches a lot of hot solid nail to Barz. Barz is trying to break those nails with his rapiers, but as they keep coming from every direction, some of them that came from his blind spot manage to pierce his body.

"Explode," Herman said.

The nails on Barz's body burst altogether sending Barz flying. Herman then takes a leap and smashes Barz's abdomen. Herman, with his fist on Barz's abdomen, puts a lot of force on it to press him to the ground and ends up Herman smashes Barz really hard that Barz crashing the ground as they fall.

"Three abilities?" Kartika looks wonder.

"Kartika, I guess when Herman defeated Katon in such a way, Katon's ability got inherited to Herman that results in Herman possess Katon's ability," Cakra said in her pendant. "Now I understand why it is forbidden." He added.

"You see that, Alfi? Everyone is doing the best for your sake. That's why, please wake up." She said.

Meanwhile, Varz and Arz are still at it. Varz flies fast to Arz to launch his blow and Arz just hits Varz with the hilt of his sword really hard flinging Varz away, yet he doesn't fall as he has wings on his back.

"Abiofusi, eh? Who would expect that you could master it?" Arz wields his sword with both of his hands. "I am so happy to be able to have a spar with you, but too bad, I have to finish you off here. So..."

The ground shakes tremendously for the second time. The ground soars to the sky and engulfs Arz. The ground envelopes him and forms a giant rat head.

"I'll use my Abiofusi form to finish you off, Varz!" Arz exclaimed.

Both od the dragon heads on Varz's shoulders emits thunder and wind from their mouth to that giant rat head earth, but it doesn't crack at all.

"Too bad, Varz. You will never be able to make a crack on the absolute shield of mine!"

"You use a rat head that children love as a shield? You have lost your mind, haven't you?"

"I'll back you up." Jeje appears with his Jeje Kaizer form.

"Thanks for the backup." Varz smiles.

"Light Stick!" A blue light stick appears on his right hand.

They look confused by seeing what Jeje wields on his right hand.

"Oops, wrong one. Light Saber!" A blue lightsaber appears on his right hand.

"Jeje Judai Keizer!" Jeje exclaimed.

"It's a rat extermination time!" Varz exclaimed.

Varz and Jeje are trying their best to crush that rat head. But, no matter what they do, the rat doesn't even have a crack on it at all. It launches two earth blocks shoving Varz and Jeje to the surface crashing the ground really hard.

Larz launches many iron bars coiling Buriko's body. He then swings Buriko to the sky and slams Buriko to the ground really hard.

Barz dashes to Herman really quickly with his solidified rapiers. Yes, he managed to copy that one. Herman gets flung away crashing a tree that it gets cut off.

Varz, Jeje, Buriko, Cocong, and Herman are cornered that they come back to their normal form. None of them can stand up anymore. Arz, Barz, and Larz approach them.

The trio bursts out laughing before them. Aoi doesn't awake yet and ßenlong hesitates to land. Kartika has no idea what to do. She just hopes Alfi can be fully recovered and they can join the fray together to save them.

"You lost already," Larz said.

"Not yet." Varz is trying to stand up with all of his might.

"We still can fight." Buriko tries to stand up while grabbing Cocong on his right hand.

"Giving up is not an option," Cocong said.

"It's nothing." Herman tries to get up with all of his might.

"WE'LL FIGHT FOR HIM!" They exclaimed.

"Rubbish." Larz lashes them with his extended sword making them fall on their knees again.

"Let's just finish it once and for all, shall we?!" Barz exclaimed.

Arz launches many earth blocks from his shield, Barz launches flame from his rapiers, and Larz launches many iron bars to four of them.

"Alfi, I am sorry." They said in their minds.

When the trio's blows are about to hit four of them, a black wave appears before them out of nowhere vanishing those blows. When four of them open their eyes, they can see someone, in a black jacket in an irregular way and blue jeans. They can see red color printed on his shirt.

"Alfi," Herman said.

"You, idiot! Get away from here already!" Varz exclaimed.

"You?!" Arz, Barz, and Larz exclaimed.

It's Alfi. He appears before them with an eerie look out of nowhere. They can see many bloodstains on his shirt, jacket, and jeans. Not to mention his face which is full of blood and opened wound.

"Alfi? Since when did he?" ßenlong is wondering since when Alfi ended up there.

"Alfi! Please get away from them! You can't defeat them with your current condition!" Kartika pleaded.

"I am the twerp," Alfi said in a flat tone. "I am the disgraceful starless. You may treat me like rubbish. I'll let you hurt me, insult me, hate me, anything you like, and I won't fight back. Yet..."

None of them dares to speak nor move as Alfi's presence is intimidating them like crazy.

"NEVER EVER HURT MY FRIENDS, YOU MAGGOT!!!"