Dantega:Volume 3 Chapter 9

(PART 3)

"Shit this is insane!" shouts Niomyo as she desperately tries to avoid the numerous floating spheres that can so easily destroy anything in its path.

By now she has ran so far away from Ubica and the rest that they are completely out of sight. In fact, she was most likely the first to run away; she knew the way Mammon appeared that he had to be someone dangerous, so in order to not be a victim of any kind of collateral damage she fled.

Not wanting to miss the action however, she decides to try and get up on top of one of the three story housing complexes to give herself a safe view point. The problem is that there are more than a dozen bubbles floating in front of the front door of the building.

"Damn it." she mumbles, but then makes a break for it and runs in between them all until she breaks an entering into a house.

After running through the living room, she makes her way past the kitchen and starts climbing up a twirling staircase that leads up to the second floor, once there she makes a break down the hallway that leads to another staircase when in her peripheral vision she spots a family cowering in fear in a room on the right.

As a natural reaction she stops and goes into said room; she wants to tell them something but when the time comes to do so she can't find any words of advice to say. She can't tell them to run away because it most certainly isn't safe outside, and she can't tell them to hide somewhere else because the chances are, the event of a bubble hitting either of those places are the same. All she does is stare at them, a husband, wife, daughter, and son, all huddled up together.

A typical family that just moments ago who were likely getting ready for bed.

(That is...) she thinks to herself, (If it were not for 'him'.)

She grits her teeth and readies to leave them when from right behind her comes the ugly gray of a very large sphere.

The bubble hasn't imploded yet but it has already engulfed at least one third of the second story, and is eerily floating few feet from her and moving quickly in her direction. A cold sweat runs down her temple and she flops onto the ground and tries to stay as flat as possible while the bubble floats just inches above her face. Fear rips through her body as the warm sensation of it is felt blowing its wind through her short brown hair.

It passes her and enters the room; the bubble is so big that it takes up the mass of 3/4 of the area. The family bundled together in one of the three quarters of the room that's surrounded have no chance of escaping.

Niomyo's face goes numb when she shouts the only thing that comes to mind.

"STOP IT!!!"

But the bubble keeps moving until it is completely encircled over half of all their bodies, as if having a mind of its own, the bubble stops, and then comes the innocent sound of the 'pop'.

Just like before, only the upper halves of the family's bodies are seen, cut perfectly in the shape in which it surrounded them.

Niomyo's eyes are wide open and glued to this horrific scene until a piece of rubble is blown by the wind and lands in one of her eyes. The walls behind the family, and the entire room for that matter are completely gone; the sphere took it all along with the lives of the helpless family.

She sits there speechless rubbing her eye, her mind starts racing on the topic occupying it a few moments ago. (All of it, this tragedy is all his fault... If he wasn't here, none of this would have happened.)

She shakes it off and understands that sitting here isn't safe, so she gets up and runs up the second staircase. The third floor has more of an attic type environment, lots of different trinkets and old furniture, plus some random old family photos are laying around. This adds to the horrid pain she feels after watching them all die. All of the memories that are held in the photos and items here are all gone because no one is alive to remember them; such a bitter feeling is tasted when she looks at the bigger picture of their deaths.

She climbs up a ladder and opens the hatch door to the roof, she makes it to the top and quickly rushes to the edge to see the battle, but what first catches her eye is the utter destruction of the encircled town. Screams can be heard, fires can be seen, and houses that look more like Swiss cheese than that of prominent structures stand helpless as the sight of hundreds of those bubbles float into them like a ghost would float through walls.

"Oh no... All those people."

Chances are, the majority of the popped bubbles resulted in a few deaths, and by how many more spheres there are left, it is expected that there will be more deaths to come. Niomyo sits there zoning out until she hears the voice of Tsubiri mixed in with the other screams yelling.

"UBICA!!!"

She looks down and there she sees Ubica, face first on the ground and covered in blood.

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"What?" Messor asks herself when she sees the giant sphere that looks like a barrier of some sort.

She runs to its crust and tries to get in, but to no avail.

"Is this... Mammon?" She grits her teeth and clicks her tongue. "Shit, I knew I shouldn't have let him go... Now Ubica's in danger and I can't do anything about it!"

She slams her fist into the barrier.

Angered and alone, all she can do is stand there and hope that Ubica will somehow make it out safe.

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"Hahahaha what the fuck was that!?" Mammon shouts as he laughs loudly, "I guess the rumors were true, he really is a hundred times weaker now!"

Tsubiri huddles over him, she rips a big piece of her clothing off, revealing her navel all the way up to the beginning of her chest and starts to put pressure on his wound. She becomes blue when the bleeding doesn't stop, she shouts his name a couple more times and gets ready to read his pulse but she halts when she sees that he is still breathing.

She really would've had a panic attack if she checked his pulse because his lack of a heart would make it so there isn't one. But this time is different, if that were the case, at this moment his blood flow from his wound should have stopped by now.

Mammon chuckles and walks to the front of them so he is facing them both and when he says, "Come on little lady, that isn't going to work... So back off of him for a second so I can end this mess."

Tsubiri frowns and looks at him with eyes full of fury. "I won't let you kill him."

"I'm not going to kill him, as much as I really want to, I can't. So I'm just going to turn him into a vegetable so he can't be such a pain in the ass anymore."

She grits her teeth and points her hand out to him. "YOU WON'T EVEN TOUCH HIM!!"

Mammon spreads his arms out and smiles, "Quite a big threat coming from you girly, may I ask what you intend to do about it?"

Out of Tsubiri's hands come blue lightning bolts that swirl and fly towards Mammon at an incredible speed, so much so that he literally has no time to react to it. The lightning bolt hits him in the chest and his whole body is put in a heart stopping shock as he is jolted off of his feet and propelled all the way into the nearest building to him.

He was flung with so much force that once he hit the stone house it caused a huge crack and indent on its surface.

Tsubiri breathes hard after she used her new ability in action for the first time, using this attack really warps her strength and it leaves her wondering how she'll be able to keep this kind of activity up in the near future without completely exhausting herself.

Her attention quickly goes from Mammon to the downed Ubica, she turns him onto his side and slaps his face a little to wake him up. When once again her efforts go fruitless, that hopeless feeling of not being able to do anything for him hits her; that's when she realizes something.

(Maybe I can jolt him awake?)

She puts her hand on his chest and says, "I hope this works... Please let this work."

With what remaining strength she has, little blue lightning bolts come from her finger tips and courses into his body. He jolts his body upward and takes a deep breath, then he falls back down.

"D-Did it work?" she asks.

And when she does, she sees Ubica open his eyes slowly.

She smiles and then excitedly slaps his face again. "Are you okay! Are you okay!"

His eyes are now completely open and he tries to tell her he's okay when his face his slapped again, shutting his mouth, "I'm oka---gggbbhh!?"

SMACK!

"Hey I said I'm fin----bbbggaahh!?"

SMACK!

She is so happy that she is subconsciously hitting him repeatedly, and rather hard at that.

Ubica's face is starting to get red and in order to not get slapped anymore he grabs both of her hands and shouts, "Would you knock it off!!! Why do I always end up getting slapped by you!?"

She smiles and starts to tear up. "Y-You really are okay..."

Ubica's frown turns soft when he sees her like this, not knowing exactly how to react, he pauses for a moment before he says something absolutely pointless to the situation.

"Nice belly button."

Her smile quickly fades and a confused look surfaces on her face.

"Haaaah?"

She looks down to her belly button and starts to laugh.

"What's so funny?" Ubica asks.

Tsubiri wipes the tears from her eyes and in an embarrassed yet relieved manner she once again says, "You really are okay."

"Oh wow, I think that attack of yours stopped my heart for a moment there girly." This ominous voice comes from Mammon, who is slowly getting to his feet.

Ubica stands himself up and winces at the pain in his back; he now understands that he needs to get Messor out of his mind and focus on the protection of the important person who is standing right next to him.

He looks at her and smiles, "Thank you Tsubiri.."

"I-It was nothing.."

He puts his hand on her face and moves it so she is looking at him, wearing the same expression as before he says, "I want you to get as far away from here as possible."

This time, instead of raising her voice she calmly replies, "No." She puts her hand on his and continues, "I'm not going to leave you alone, Ubica... I'm going to help you."

Ubica takes a deep breath and blows it out as though he had given up. "I was worried you'd say that... Fine, let's get this over with so we can go back."

"Right!"

"Aww how touching, you are way too soft Ubica, I definitely like the old you better." Mammon said as he cracks his neck.

Ubica lifts his sword and points it at him. "You aren't the first person to tell me that."

He runs at him at full speed, leaving a blood trail in his wake and jumps up when Mammon gets back on a bubble and floats into the air. Once he gets close, Mammon smiles and again sinks into his sphere and it disappears; Ubica, still in the air is left having no choice but to land on top of one of the buildings and wait for his return.

Literally out of nowhere Mammon's voice can be heard loud and clear saying, "Hahaha, you're looking a little nervous there old pal."

Ubica clicks his tongue and looks around the area vigorously.

Mammon's voice once again rings. "You know what all of my bubbles actually are right?"

"Why would I know!?" Ubica responds angrily.

"Don't be so tense, it's only a question. Well since you don't know I guess I can explain it to you... Antimatter."

"Antimatter?"

"That's right, it isn't just a scientific term. You know how science and religion never got along in the past, both of them always tried to one up each other. So when science discovered this, it was only natural that religion came up with its own explanation for it."

Ubica frowns and shows his displeasure by saying, "Get to the point."

"Oho take it easy big guy, I'm almost done... We all know that the science was fact and the religious aspect of it was false, but that depends on how you want to look at that fact. Who's to say that someone involved in religion wasn't the one who created Antimatter in the first place?"

Ubica twitches his eyebrow as his eyes switch from all of the numerous spheres to gain any kind of hint as to where Mammon is hiding.

"Wouldn't that kind of thing be under God's realm of work?" Ubica asks.

"Beeeeeeehh!!! Wrong! Have you ever heard that Heaven was once infiltrated by Greed? Well that was me, I created it, and it is mine alone."

From behind Ubica comes a sphere the size of a small ball, he turns around and quickly postures his guard while it grows from its small form all the way to its regular size. Out of the bubble steps the little Mammon wearing a big smile on his face.

Sitting comfortably on top of the ball, he hits it with the hilt of his sword and says, "There's a little thing called particle physics, in that science, Antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to Matter. You see, everything in the observable universe is made up of regular Matter, so they speculated that there should be other separate places made entirely of Antimatter. The humans back then were quite smart, it's just that they didn't know that the separate place they imagined was actually made by a Demon."

The sphere he's sitting on becomes transparent and what can be seen are well over ten people, all scrunched in close to each other with scared looks on there faces. Their screams can't be heard but it is obvious that they have their voices on a tone as loud as possible.

Tapping his circled sword against his forearm, he jumps off the sphere and shoots Ubica a menacing glare.

"Isn't that the ultimate form of greed? I have absolute control of my own universe, is that not what God is? A greedy piece of shit that laughs at the inhabitants of his world!? Just like him, I decide who lives and dies in my universe!"

The bubble behind him begins to slowly shrink and the people become more and more pressed together; within a few seconds their bones start to break and they are being pressed together as though they were trash in a garbage disposal.

"The thing about my world is that I prefer a certain type of person to reside there. Dead ones. Their souls won't complain, they won't protest to better their pathetic lives, they won't succumb to their natural greed! That is the perfect world!!! You were born with the same kind of feeling as me, you should know how they are!!!"

"Don't do it!!!" Ubica shouts.

But the bubble keeps getting smaller and smaller, and with Mammon's grotesque laugh they are compressed into the size of a golf ball.

Every last one of them died a horrible death, and for no reason other than the sick pleasure Mammon takes in destroying lives in such a degrading way.

"You piece of shit! How can you do such a thing with a smile on your face!?"

"Oh come on Anti-Christ, don't act like a saint. It's not something you wouldn't have enjoyed in the past. And besides, it's not like these people are worth a damn anyway, in the end the majority of them have rotten souls that end up in Hell."

"That doesn't matter, it's still 'their' lives, you, nor anyone else has no right to take that away from them!"

Mammon laughs loudly as he puts his foot on the small sphere, slowly applying pressure on it he says, "This noble shit of yours is making me sick to my stomach! The person you are now is just as useless as these pathetic humans!"

He violently stomps on the sphere and it explodes with blood that sprays so far that is comes flowing like a waterfall off of all four corners of the building they are standing on.

"Hahahahaha it's amazing how much blood is in a human body!!"

As soon as he said that, Ubica rushes him and sends a vicious kick square in his face, Mammon is sent flying until he crashes into a building. As relentless as the kick, Ubica keeps his attack pressing forward at such blinding speed that he almost beats him to the building and is right on top of him; he swings his sword down at Mammon's chest but it is quickly wrapped up by the circled sword.

Mammon swings it away and shoots out a little bubble that hits Ubica's stomach and explodes, creating a good lengthy gap between the two. Ubica flies into the air, leaving a smoke trail in his wake.

"Tch!" Ubica hisses as he holds his gut.

While the pain distracts Ubica, Mammon appears out of a sphere behind his back just like before; but this time he doesn't slash him, instead he hurls another bubble that hits him on the wound from earlier and explodes again.

"Hahaha you're like a damn ping-pong ball!!"

Ubica is sent hurling to the ground and he lands very hard like a sack of potatoes that were thrown from a window. Once on the ground, he coughs up a little blood and squints his eyes in pain.

Seeing him struggle to get up, Mammon decides that this is the time to secure his victory by using an exceptionally powerful attack. He lifts his sword and a building sized sphere forms atop of it.

"You are a million years too weak to even dream of defeating me Ubica! Allow my sword Ebuillo to end your miserable existence!!!"

Mammon readies to swing down when he is suddenly electrocuted, lightning bolts speed through his body, stealing all forms of control of his own movements. Like he is some kind of magnet being pulled, he is flung to the ground and lands far worse than Ubica did, so hard in fact that he created a three foot deep crater in the stone street.

Once the electrocution stops, he finds himself feeling very nauseous and his body is still tingling all over. Shifting his eyes to his left he sees Tsubiri standing there with the palms of her hands pointing at him, she is breathing hard and the blue lightning fades away.

"Y-You..." Mammon's normal cheerful face turns sour and he has eyes full of blood lust. "You fucking bitch... That's twice.." He stands to his feet and gingerly holds his shaky posture, "I swear to all that I am... I'm gonna fucking kill you."

Tsubiri's knees are trembling, she used all of her strength in that last attack and now she is a sitting duck. She looks over to Ubica, who is bloodied and desperately trying to stand, he is looking at her with such a horrified face that it makes her even more nervous. This situation she's found herself in is dire, she knows that all chances of victory have been destroyed, but, she won't give up without a fight.

She shows him a strained smile that tells him that she's ready to do the unthinkable. "As long as you're okay... This is okay, right?"

She takes a deep breath and turns to the angered Mammon, putting out her hands once again and a thunderstorm worth of blue lightning surrounds her.

"None of your piece of shit attack is going to touch me."

Mammon spreads his arms and an ugly gray light churns around his body until it forms a perfect sphere, he takes a step and the ground he walks on breaks off and orbits around him like comets do a planet or an asteroid belt.

Tsubiri sees this and becomes more frightened, this along with the wear on her body from the attack is making her vision blur and she is starting to lose consciousness.

(Damn it... Not now,) she yells in her chest, (I have to win! For his sake!)

She wants to look in Ubica's direction but she is distracted by the sound of all of the structures that surround the area breaking and orbiting around Mammon. With all her might, she uses what little energy she has left and send a massive lightning bolt hurling towards her enemy, but to her dismay, it collides with his sphere and joins all of the rest of the debris that orbits him.

Mammon's face stays stern when he explains, "This is an ultimate defense. Greed is like the sun, it tempts people into its warmth but turns them to ashes if they get too close. And from what I can see, you are getting awfully close to me girly; the more I walk toward the people, the more the sun's heat is felt, it in turn becomes the ultimate offense."

He keeps walking closer to her and in a last ditch effort, she sends her biggest bolt yet. Knowing that it's not going to work, she looks over to where Ubica is, hoping to see his face one last time. When she turns to him, she finds something that surprises her, he is gone, the only thing there is the puddle of blood he once was lying in.

(W-Where is he?)

She scopes the rest of the area trying her best to at least get a glance at him when she senses a horrible presence just a couple feet in front of her.

(Damn it... I never even told him.)

She turns to face what she thinks is her death when she catches the sight of the one person she wanted to see, Ubica is standing between the two.

He grabs Tsubiri's attack with his hand and tosses it like nothing into the sky, Tsubiri falls to her knees and watches in amazement as he walks toward Mammon's sphere as if there were no danger to it.

"Oho!? Just what the fuck is this?" Mammon asks with a frown and a smile, "Do you think your chivalry is going to work? Give me a break, like I said, you are way too weak now."

Ubica has his head leaned downwards and his silver hair is cascading over half of his face; just by looking at the line of his bloodied mouth one can tell how serious he is.

The two are walking toward each other, and when he sees that Ubica is not going to stop, Mammon's mouth turns wide with a devious grin. He knows that Ubica will be ripped to shreds if he gets any closer.

"Are you out of your mind!? There's no way you ca---"

Mammon is interrupted by Ubica's hand gripping the entirety of his little kid like face.

(Impossible!!!) he immediately thinks to himself.

Not only did Ubica break through such an impenetrable barrier, but he is completely unscathed. Just by looking one can see that if someone were to get through, there is no doubt that he'd be torn and shredded by all the debris that's orbiting the sphere in such a violent manner.

Ubica lifts his head and shows a face that shakes Mammon to his core, the sclera of his eyes are as black as the darkest of skies, and two black lines start to fall from them and slowly reach all the way down to the edge of his jaw.

Ubica frowns and says, "I don't want to hear it."

A green light glows around his arms and like a cannon being fired it shoots out his hand and screams into Mammon's face. The beam shoots into the sphere, instantly destroying it and exits out into the surrounding buildings, it blasts through those buildings, and never stops until it reaches the edge of the massive sphere they are entrapped in.

Once the beam vanishes and the smoke dissolves, Ubica mercilessly drops Mammon to the floor.

From behind him, the cracked voice of Tsubiri is heard saying, "U-Ubica..."

He doesn't turn around nor say a word, instead he steps on Mammon's charred head and presses rather hard, a brutal way to finish a battle to say the least. But before he can deliver the final blow, a sharp and excruciating pain rips through his neck and into his brain.

"GUUURRAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!"

He screams while gripping his head. He steps away from the downed demon and writhes in pain, this feeling is brought to him by the little tattoo of the fly from Beelzebub. The poison from it is effecting the evil that Ubica has allowed himself to be swallowed by.

Waking from his temporary coma, Mammon opens his eyes to the sight and the sound of Ubica in a terrible state. "I didn't even think that you'd be able to reach that level of evil again... Not since Beelzebub poisoned you." He stands up and cracks his neck, he opens one eye and smiles, "Damn Beelzebub, way to poison him with something that lags! I almost got my head taken off there."

"URRAAAHHHH THAT FUCKING BASTARD!!!" Ubica shouts.

"Hahaha, awwh how sad, you can't even go back to your true self without going through torture. It must be awful to be eternally weak."

Ubica glares at him with the most hate filled eyes Mammon's ever seen, he gets a pleasure in this and taunts him even more.

"I just realized, attacking you is pointless, if I really wanted to hurt you I'd kill this girl here. That's it! That's what I'll do, I'll slaughter her right before those two black holes you call your eyes."

He menacingly turns to Tsubiri and walks toward her.

She can't move, she's pretty much completely paralyzed, every last drop of energy has exited her body in a manner that any normal person would have passed out. She doesn't worry about the oncoming danger, but rather the health and well being of Ubica; she is scared about the state he is in, she has never seen him in pain and she most certainly has never seen his eyes look like that.

"Are you okay Ubica?" Tsubiri asks.

"If I were you, I wouldn't pay him any mind, you're in deep shit girly."

He takes another step in her direction when Ubica's voice rings through his ears, "Don't you dare take another step."

"Oho? You aren't in any shape to make demands. This girl is going to die, and you are going to watch!"

Mammon swings his sword at her, she flinches and shuts her eyes, only to find that after a second or so, nothing happened.

She opens them and sees the sword he calls Ebuillo being held by the now cut and bloodied hand of Ubica.

"I told you not to move."

Ubica knees Mammon in the gut and sends him into the sky, it is apparent who is the stronger one here, even in an exhausting pain, Ubica is far superior than Mammon by simply sensing the presence of the two.

It would seem that Mammon senses this as well, he spits out blood and looks down at Ubica, who is holding the sword.

Ubica snaps it against his knee, breaking it right in half.

The devastation in Mammon's face can be seen as plain as day, he clinches his fist so hard that his fingernails dig into his palms.

"I'll kill you for that."

He raises his hands and every bubble he released earlier, all gather and form into one giant black sphere hanging above his head.

"Mixing Matter and Antimatter will cause the two to annihilate each other..." he says.

With his free hand, he points at a street that holds a cluster of houses and other shops, they all crumble and collide together, and begin to take the shape of a huge ball.

For an odd reason, Ubica is letting this slow process of Mammon's attack go by without any hindrance, if he wanted to, he could easily attack but he isn't moving.

He turns to Tsubiri and looks at her with the green glow of his pupils flowing through his black eyes and asks, "You aren't afraid?"

His presence is causing her to have a terrible headache, and just like Trojia, he's making her lose her consciousness as well.

Struggling to keep her eyes open, she replies, "Of course not..."

"Why not?"

She smiles at him and softly says, "Because I'm with you..." She grabs his sleeve and shuts her eyes, she leans her head on his shoulder and with a voice falling from its usual lively tone, she speaks, "You... Owe me a big explanation... Jerk.."

She passes out and slides down his arm, before she hits the floor Ubica catches her and gently lays her backside on the ground.

He looks up at Mammon and reveals a huge smile, a maddening smile that only comes when a huge weight has been lifted off ones shoulders.

"Show me what you've got Mammon!!"

"Hahaha! There's that cocky smile of yours! Allow me to wipe it off your face!!"

The two massive spheres mix with each other and an incredible light show can be seen as it brightened everything around into an almost blinding white light.

"When these two form into one, high energy photons rise to an unsustainable level, and when that happens it creates a little thing called a Gamma Ray!!! EVEN FOR YOU THIS IS UNSTOPPABLE!!!"

A huge yellow light zings toward Ubica and Tsubiri, it is obvious how strong this beam is, it is obliterating everything it passes and the heat from this thing turns even stone to flames.

He looks back to Tsubiri and grits his teeth as he says to himself, "Even for me huh? This me is different... This me has people to protect."

He raises his arms toward the beam and takes a huge breath, using all of his strength, he sends a green and black light to clash with the Gamma Ray. The two hit and light show increases, now the upper hand goes to no one and the two powers are stuck in the middle of the two men.

Ubica frowns and shouts words that boost his attack's intensity, "Because of those people... I WILL NOT LOSE!!!"

With that, the green and black swirling light rampages through the Gamma Ray at an immense speed.

Knowing that his time is drawing near, desperation starts to show in Mammon's face. "No!! There's no way that I, the Demon of Greed would go out like this! You should know that Ubica!!!"

He screams at the top of his lungs trying to find some more strength but it is too late, Ubica's light hits him and he instantly starts to disintegrate. With his body literally melting he shouts what will be his final words.

"This little life you've come to enjoy with them isn't going to last old pal! All of them will die!!!"

Mammon dissolves like sugar in water and Ubica's beam hits the overhanging sphere and shatters it like glass until it fades away.

The battle ends as abruptly as it started, but just because the fight is over, doesn't mean that the pain that Ubica feels is gone. He is desperately trying to bring himself back to his normal state but it isn't working, every time he tries the pain gets worse, and it gets to the point where he starts to panic.

Fearing that he'll be stuck like this forever, and fearing that he will lose the will to fight it, he drops to his knees and stares at Tsubiri.

His vision becomes blurred as he crawls to her, he slides his hand down the side of her face and smiles, his black eyes start to go back to its regular color and the black lines fade from his cheeks.

He lays down and repeats the words that he said earlier, "Because of those people... I will not lose..."

Ubica passes out and the two lie next to one another in peace, as if it were meant to be that way this entire time.

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Someone doesn't find this scene peaceful at all, looking around at the utter destruction and death, she thinks this has to be a scene of pure evil.

The person thinking this walks out of a dark alleyway and stands over the two; she is Niomyo, and she is wearing a face full of hate and disgust.

"All of this tragedy... It all could have been avoided if you weren't here."

The royal guard pulls out her standard issued Trojian sword and points it at Ubica's neck.

"Everything bad that has been happening is all because of you..." She then lifts her sword and smiles, "For the protection of everyone, and especially the Princess, I'll kill you myself!"

"What are you doing?"

This girl's voice interrupts Niomyo's action, she looks at the source and sees Messor standing there underneath the last flickering street light.

Without any hesitation in her voice she replies, "I'm going to kill him."

"Oh? Why are you going to do that?"

"Because he is evil, and he is a danger to the Princess, and everyone else for that matter."

Messor's eyes glow and she smiles when she says, "He doesn't look too dangerous to me, sleeping like that."

Niomyo frowns and shouts, "Well you haven't seen what I've seen!! If you had witnessed what just happened then you'll understand why he has to die!!!"

"I get the feeling like you've said that to someone else before me... Let me ask you something, since you know who he is, do you know who the False Prophet was?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Just answer the question."

"Well of course I do, that person was the one who helped him gain more followers."

"That's right, she harvested the souls of people into ripeness for the service of the Anti Christ. But that was just a part of it, her main job was to protect him... At all costs."

Niomyo looks confused and with a wary voice she tries to clarify, "I still don't see what your getting at."

Messor takes a step closer to her.

"My name means 'Harvester' in Latin you know..?"

"So what."

"Hmph... I guess the Bible never did say what our names were."

"Huh?"

She inches forward once more and her face turns intense. "I'll ask you one last time, what is it you intend to do to Ubica?"

Niomyo puts her sword closer to his neck and bluntly answers, "Kill him."

Messor takes a sharp breath and exhales as if sighing, she spreads her arms and starts to chuckle, "I've had a hard time keeping myself from killing those three girls who are ever so obviously making advancements on Ubica... Although that's not an offense the new me would deem worthy of a death sentence, attempting to harm him in any way will forever be unforgivable."

Niomyo is still confused as to what is going on, she has yet to see Messor even angry before now so this fierce look in her eyes has got Niomyo a little nervous.

Trying to stay strong, she scowls and shoots her a look like she isn't phased one bit when she asks, "Are you threatening me?"

Messor holds her hand out like she is offering someone to take it and calmly answers, "No... As the False Prophet, I'm condemning you to death."

Niomyo's heart skips a beat, now the puzzle pieces are formed together and what Messor was saying just a moment ago makes sense.

"You're telling me that it has been this way the whole time!?"

"Yes, the False Prophet will never leave the Anti Christ's side."

Niomyo clicks her tongue and shifts the blade of her sword from Ubica to Messor, an immense pressure can be felt when she starts to charge her. Literally, the air is so heavy that it could break someone's neck if their head was leaning to the side. This is Niomyo's new ability.

"I'll use the power you gave me to crush the both of you." Niomyo says as she moves closer.

Her ability focuses on the gravitational force surrounding an item or person, she can make it so the air around them can grow heavy and weigh an incredible amount or she can make it so light that it would be an impossibility to breathe.

Messor smiles.

This is something that shouldn't happen because the weight of the gravity around her shouldn't allow her to even lift the corners of her lips, but she defies its laws and then raises her hand. She presses her fingers together and flicks, a simple 'snap' sound leaves her finger tips and in that instant the pressure is gone, and along with it, all of Niomyo's strength.

Niomyo falls to the ground and in her adrenaline she quickly stands up and reveals a shocked face. Staring at Messor with eyes full of terror, she listens to the girl with her silky white hair blowing in the passing gust of wind.

"You are no different from the humans of the past, as a way to harvest their souls I'd perform miracles for them and they would all worship Ubica. And once they got used to my miracles, they became greedy and spoiled. Soon after, they would complain that it wasn't enough and that they'd want more, and eventually they attempted to betray us just like you... You know what I did to those people?"

Messor snaps her finger once more, and with that simple action, Niomyo's heart jolts in a body cringing pain. She drops her sword and falls to her knees, while holding her chest she shrieks through her dry throat.

Messor walks a few steps closer, still wearing her usual smile, but this time her eyes glow more intense then ever before.

"I took everything away from them."

Now lying in a fetal position, Niomyo is looking at Ubica through the tunnel vision of her bloodshot eyes, more and more she starts to become afraid. Death is coming and it's coming fast, she is fading away and all her hopes of protecting Trojia are slipping down the slippery slope along with it.

Her voice is shot and raspy when she mutters, "P-Princess."

She reaches out her hand towards Ubica, but her process comes to a screeching halt when the vicious stomp of Messor's boot lands on it.

"Not even a finger..."

Messor said as she twists her heel and crushes a few of Niomyo's bones.

She presses even harder and says, "Not you... And most certainly not your little Princess."

Niomyo tries to scream but her voice is gone, and this time her voice will never return.

With the visions of memories with Trojia and the rest of the royal family racing through the last working portion of her brain, her heart explodes and blood comes spraying out of the mouth that was trying so desperately to speak.

She turns limp and lies there on the ground lifelessly.

Messor mercilessly kicks her hand away and walks to Ubica.

She leans down and strokes his fringe with a gentle smile. "I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner..."

She stands back up and the gentle smile turns into an angered frown when she looks at Tsubiri. Glancing at the dead Niomyo and then back, her eyes glow once more when through her teeth she says,

"You and the other two girls... Will soon share the same fate."

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