Raudo leans forward, steps hard and, leaving a small crater behind, covers the distance that separates him from Titania in seconds. His fist lunges at the girl, but all he manages to do is pierce a residual image of her. Titania appears behind the knight's back and attacks with two swipes of her claws, send sparks and metal fragments flying, forcing Raudo to step forward. The knight turns with his arm outstretched, but once again only succeeds in hitting the wind.

Titania leaps back and lands with her palms flat on the ground, raking the earth with her fingers, her smile and gaze fixed on the knight. She pushes with her hands, throws her torso back, and without erasing her amused expression, she binds her wrists together and fires a flare of color. Raudo responds with a punch from which a powerful glow emanates. Both attacks collide causing an earth-shaking explosion.

Raudo rushes through the curtain of dust and falling stone fragments, his hand outstretched straight above his head. He brings his hand down in a curving motion toward the girl's neck, too fast for her to dodge. The gauntlet sinks into flesh and snaps into bone. Raudo grits his teeth, furious. Titania holds her arm outstretched close to her face, the wound on her arm stains the floor with blood, but the girl's smile remains, it's almost as if she feels no pain, or as if she enjoys the damage. Night Slash lunges forward with his forehead at the silver helmet.

The knight steps back a couple of paces with the eyes closed. When he opens his gaze, he notices how a vertical line of light invades the inside of the helmet, he hears a crack, and the helmet splits in two like a melon. Both halves fall, revealing Raudo's burned face, his eye still bleeding.

"You have not only changed on the outside... Your bones and guts have also hardened and deformed" comments the knight.

But Titania does not answer him, and Raudo doubts that in her current state, Night Slash is still lucid enough to speak. The girl stares at him without blinking, with blood flowing from her open forehead and her fractured arm.

Titania leaps forward with her hands open at her sides. Raudo catches her smiling face in mid-air and pushes her against the earth, sinking the back of her neck into the ground. Raudo planned to squeeze the girl's head to a pulp with his hand, but she responds by wrapping her four limbs around the knight's one arm. Titania sinks her teeth into the gauntlet, pierces the metal and tastes the blood that gushes as she tears the flesh between his fingers.

Raudo grunts, raises his arm and brings it back down, slamming the girl's back repeatedly against the ground, but this fails to free her limb, and instead blood continues to pour from his gauntlet. The man stands up with the girl still clinging, and both the knight's gaze, and the looks of the over-reliefs on his armor, glow white. Raudo roars and throws a punch to the sky... Titania breaks away for a second before the pillar of energy ascends and illuminates Fernard's kingdom for a few moments.

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As soon as the glow ceases, Titania's blurry figure delivers two swipes at Raudo's breastplate, then a double kick to throw herself backwards and disappear again. Raudo looks to the sides as he makes side steps, trying to locate his enemy, but it is as if every second she becomes faster, appearing every few moments to fill the warrior's chest with blows.

At a certain point Raudo stops trusting his sight and closes the eyes. He waits for five breaths, until he senses the wind and dust swirling to his left. He opens his eyes and throws an unseeing swipe, hitting Titania in the chest, sending her flying, and bouncing her off the ground a couple of times. Before the girl can get to her feet, the knight's metal boot is planted once more in her chest.

Raudo raises his arm high in the air to cut off Night Slash head in a single motion, giving her no time to breathe or move. But then an angry meow is heard...

A brown, dark-eyed cat leaps out of nowhere at the knight's uncovered face, and lands a ferocious claw on the knight's eye. The cat lands, and the eyeball falls near him. Raudo screams, completely blind. He tries to crush the cat without seeing, but all he succeeds in doing is stepping on and destroying his own eye.

Titania seizes the moment and thrusts her leg over it, sinking her claws under the knee joint and causing the warrior to fall sideways like a collapsed pillar.

The girl straddles the knight's torso, now she is the one on top. Laughing like a madwoman, Titania hits the breastplate's chest dozens of times, filling it with cracks and grooves as if digging for treasure. Titania's laughter is cut short when Raudo's hand catches her neck and throws away.

Titania spins in mid-air, sinks her heels and then her palms, landing without a problem. She looks up at Raudo, who, although blind, is also straightening up and preparing to continue fighting. He may lack eyes, but his hardened fighting instinct still allows him to fight.

Titania propels herself forward on all fours like a wild animal. Raudo's countenance is still furious and determined, but Titania is no fool, she can see how his armor trembles, how the faces on the breastplate that tell of his legend distort in fear through the cracks, except for one... The dragon's image only looks mocking, or perhaps disappointed?

Titania leaps towards Raudo with an outstretched claw. If Raudo had thrown a punch with all his might, his fist would have shattered Titania's head. But the knight hesitates and does not do so, because he feared to step forward and be vulnerable in the darkness. Fear is the greatest sin a knight can commit.

Titania's arm pierces the breastplate and sinks into Raudo's chest. The girl places a hand on the knight's shoulder, and is clutched to his torso. She pulls, and rips out the warrior's beating heart.

The villagers watching the spectacle gasp. The princess from her balcony covers her mouth in horror. The witch sighs.

Titania jumps to the ground, puts the heart in her mouth, and devours it in two bites, soaking her chest and chin with the knight's blood. A glow covers her, but instead of being pure white, it is a deep red. She is clad in scarlet armor with horns. Her hands, with claws ending in points, move forward in a lethal X. He, despite the hole in his chest, remains standing.

The claws strike both sides of Raudo's waist. The knight is split in half. Body parts fall in opposite directions. The armor shatters and turns to silver dust.

The legend ends.