"Stabilize and heal her Harumi," Clyde said in a deadly calm voice as he knelt at her side. The pink-haired girl did, intense worry in her eyes. "Tear, Yuki, Yusuke, take her to the hospital. Tell her about Maki’s fan club and the assault. The list of names can be found at the academy. The police will question Naomi when she wakes up. Make sure they contact those not under the control of Maki’s family."
He looked at Naomi one last time before passing her off. Harumi’s healing made her look better already, but he couldn’t chance the follow-up fever. Magic couldn’t heal hangovers. Fevers were probably no better.
He stood up and finally allowed a rage like never before to fill him. The sky darkened then turned red. Reddish aura burst around the young man, as his eyes glowed. Winds burst from nowhere, swirling around him then expanding. Red lightning struck in various areas.
[URGENT WARNING: DO NOT ACCESS THIS SYSTEM.]
He snarled, images of the horrible acts done to Naomi flashing into his mind, like quick-shot photos. The entire fan club. A trap meant for his Alice, sprung earlier than anticipated.
His blood boiled, the winds intensified. And no matter how much he tried, he couldn’t forget the images. These people threw away their humanity, his thoughts rang.
"After I fuck Maki’s shit up," Clyde said, "I will personally see to it that she’s thrown in prison. If she survives what I’m about to do to her. I will personally oversee it all. Fuck with my friend like this…Naomi didn’t deserve it…she didn’t."
He aimed one hand at the house again. The house he saw among the images. A sea of unnatural power erupted from the young man’s hand. It took on the visible form of lightning, but was so much more. And it disintegrated Maki’s house.
The monster and mastermind was now on the ground, playing with herself. She looked up at them and smiled.
"Want to finish me off anyone? I can make you come—"
Maki barely shifted out of the way of Clyde’s sword of red lightning and unknown matter. It seemed to poke a brief hole in reality. His aura pulsed against even his own friends with enough pressure to make them strain to stand.
"Sahara, do your job," Clyde said. "Everyone take your positions. And if you can kill her, do so. Because I sure won’t be holding back."
[Volume 3.] Episode 21 (Part 4)
Maki
Level: 50 (+35)
Type: human (+ metamorphosis)
Work under: ???
Special: Silent Noon.
Weakness: none.
Resistances: Arcane barrier resists all magic.
Secret: she loves watching bad movies to make fun of them on her free time.
[Your party has entered a Showdown!]
Maki shifted back into reality, laughing. Clyde slowly started for her.
"You’ve got some balls, challenging me," Maki said then pointed at the young man.
<Maki channeled Fire Flash>
Clyde dodged the fire-star, continuing forward at a casual pace. Seth charged ahead of him, covered in a blanket of blue and purple aura.
[Seth activated Volcanic raiding smash.]
His firey bat was blocked by Maki’s single finger.
"Seth, tsk, tsk," Maki shook her head. "You were always the stupid one."
<Maki channeled Ash Ton Noose>
Out of the finger came a display of electricity and colors of the rainbow. The Ki attack bashed the young man several feet into the air. He landed hard on his back.
[Seth’s innate resistance to Ki prevents him from taking damage. However, due to the concussion, he is currently incapacitated.]
Clyde shook his head. A resistance like that made him useful, but he needed more training. Getting him to show was more of a chore than normal but a threat from Kitome got him moving. Same for Yusuke.
Harumi moved to heal Seth. Maki only stared at them with a grin. Chika’s stealth vanished as she unleashed a devastating stab into the crazy girl’s back. Maki screamed as she fell forward. There was no blood or wound.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 220%]
She giggled manically then swept Chika off her feet. She wasn’t fully ready for Clyde’s sword—Ludacris. She took a grazing while rolling over. Then hopped to her feet to dodge Kitome, Toru, and Alice’s assaults.
"This is not fair," Maki whined. "You can’t gang up on me, where’s your honor?"
Clyde teleported behind her, furious, and he almost had the throat, but she managed to dance away just in time with the aid of her unnatural Ki. "I suppose it’s time I stopped playing around and use the power my master gave me. And not even you can stand against it, Stone-man."
"You might want to not die, pervy-monster," Natalia said. "I don’t want to charge this spell for nothing. It’s very draining. Do something about the shifting."
<Maki channeled Lustful lightning>
The yandere hurled bolts of pink lightning all over the place, setting Clyde’s friends in a dance of dodging. The young man didn’t move. He just watched Chika through his mind’s eye. His current chess piece. The Ki-lightning moved around him, but still posed a threat, mainly to the others.
Chika wasn’t just masked by her stealth, but Clyde’s plan. Despite his rage, the young man continued to be the decoy. The one to hold Maki’s attention. The more successful Chika’s stealth-attacks, the stronger they got.
He almost smiled. Maki continued to channel and miss him with her pink lightning. The others desperately dodged, knowing that getting hit by that would probably do severe damage or kill them.
Finally, Chika came through with the second backstab. Maki screamed and moved away, but the barrier that prevented her from being wounded held.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 190%]
Clyde figured the stealth-plan wouldn’t work anymore now—she was wary of Chika. The silver-haired girl smiled at her.
"You murderer," Maki said with a voice tinged with Mania.
"Says the girl who actually murdered someone," Chika said. "Demons are people too."
Maki snarled.
"Stupid girl should’ve taken my warning and left, even stayed home, before my master ordered her death. Now…Fun’s over. I’m killing all of you. And I’ll do it from afar."
<Maki channeled Shift.>
Nothing happened. She looked confused as she tried again and again, stomping her feet.
"I can’t Shift…what’s going on?"
[Sahara has used Ancient Battle of the Thirteen Witches. All fighters cannot escape. Conquer! Fight!]
The Fireside magical girl let out a breath.
"That’s exhausting,."
"Got you, bitch," Clyde said to Maki as he flashed stepped in front of her. When he brought down his sword, Maki pulled one made of inky blackness from thin air and blocked. It pulsed with Clyde’s. Sparks of electricity emerged at the collision point of the two.
Alice’s spin-kick knocked the shit out the girl. Kitome met her on the other side with a follow-up kick. However, Maki ended the combo, hurling lightning at Toru, forcing him to dodge. A stray bolt of pink lightning arched from seemingly nowhere and hit Kitome.
"Eat it!" Maki laughed. Kitome moaned sexually as she fell to the ground. She looked as if she struggled internally with something. "Give in to it. You know you want to."
[Kitome’s HP has dropped to 50%]
[Kitome has been inflicted with lust.]
[Harumi activated Greater Flash Heal.]
Clyde’s rage stirred stronger, but he knew the moment he got too hasty, the trickster would cheat. It was a cliché that he didn’t want to jump into—not that anything stopped the god from interfering now. But the presence looming over them was unmistakably him, watching, maybe even laughing. Making fun of them at Naomi’s expense.
He flashed stepped behind Maki then Roundhouse kicked her forward. As if not expecting that, she actually fell on her face in a heap, laughing. Laughing until Natalia’s attack erupted.
Clyde and his friends make sure they were far out of the
way of that. He had to grab Kitome of course.
[Natalia activated GODDESS TIER SKILL: Goddess Venus’s Eternal Love Becomes Heartbreak.]
Maki’s howl was lost in the sea of golden power and a noise that resembled the roar of hurricane-force winds.
[Maki’s Arcane barrier has been shattered.]
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 100%]
Maki panted and laughed while on her hands and knees.
"So what, you’ve broken his protection? You’ve misunderstood it. It wasn’t my protection, it was yours. And now that I can’t control the Black Ki, you’re dead. You’re all dead! All of us."
Black aura surrounded her then formed into angel-like wings. Her eye color glowed an eerie red. "You won’t like the power my master granted to me."
[Your party has entered a Showdown, phase 2!]
<Maki has channeled All Hands Met.>
Winds and blackness burst from everywhere and nowhere, covering the land and even the sky.
[All party members’ HP have halved.]
[Your HP: 65% MP: 60%]
[Alice HP: 250%]
Everyone else sat at fifty percent.
[Maki’s night angel Ki flow has prevented all healing. You are inflicted with night angel poison.]
[All party member stats are down by 25%]
[Alice activated Radiance.]
[Toru activated Zen mode]
[You invoked Mystic wrath.]
The blackness cleared, but he heard Maki’s airflow for just a second, enabling him to dodge’s her sword.
[Sahara activated Break of the thirteen witches.]
[Natalia activated teleport.]
Sahara’s pink magic struck Maki with the force of a car accident but did nothing. Natalia appeared on the yandere’s left.
[Natalia activated Princess Dire Spiral.]
<Maki channeled Will crush!>
Miasma briefly swirled around the loli, then she fell to her knees muttering to herself.
[Natalia has been inflicted with despair.]
[Natalia’s HP has dropped to 28%]
"I have nothing to live for. I am nothing, I am doomed…"
Maki laughed as she met Clyde and Alice’s blades, parry by parry.
"The power of my lord runs great! It’s so great! You don’t stand a chance."
Clyde aimed a hand at her, snarling.
[You activated Fallen Angel Spirit Wave.]
The silver blast hurled the woman back several yards, but she recovered, leapt into the air, and maintained a hover.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 60%]
[Maki has been inflicted with Fallen Angel Poison.]
[Maki is confused.]
She coughed blood.
"Huh? Ugh… agh…Mom…Mom where are you?"
Alice aimed a hand at her.
[Alice activated Super targeted strike bolt.]
The magic struck the flying woman with a fury and she fell.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 40%]
[Maki has snapped out of her confusion.]
Seth appeared out of nowhere, meeting the girl at the bottom of her fall. His swing with the bat looked incredibly painful. He struck with fire and anger. Maki only laughed as she simply dusted herself off.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 30%]
<Maki channeled Judgment Ki>
She would’ve killed Seth had Clyde not flashed stepped to his aid just in time. He delivered a swift Sound slash across her chest. A high-pitched wailing blasted her backward.
[Maki’s HP has dropped to 5%]
Maki’s maniac grin still held.
"Was this all worth it?" Clyde said as he walked over to her. "Everything you’ve done up to this point made little sense."
Maki backed away, allowing the grin to slip away, replaced by a look of panic.
"You can’t do this. I’m a goddess. I demand respect."
"You’re not a goddamn goddess," Clyde said. "You let that thing, that voice trick you into this shit—compel you—and well, you were already crazy. Now you’re motivated and crazy. After what you did to Naomi…" He aimed a hand at her.
[You activated ---]
<Maki channeled Black Flash.>
Clyde gasped as he felt a stinging sensation, combined with the strike of a brief blinding light. He fell to one knee.
[Your entire party has been inflicted with Black blight. You are stunned.]
Maki knelt by Clyde and kissed him. She licked his neck then straddled the young man
"You and I are alike in a way, Clyde," Maki said. "We both do what we must, but unlike you, I’m willing to do whatever it takes, even if it means letting a demon god use me. So, before this ends, how about a little pleasure. Would you like to taste, Maki? You’ve hurt me into so much ecstasy—I lost my cum count. It’d be only fair if I return it to you."
[Maki prepares to use Silent Noon. The attack will kill you.]
She kissed Clyde again then pulled his face into her breasts. "You let that slut keep you from me. You were supposed to be mine. My pleasure and definitely your pleasure."
Clyde laughed scornfully.
"You want pleasure? Oh, I’ll give you pleasure. Pleasure that you’ll be willing to die for."
The hornet’s stinger plunged into her lower back. Maki let out a loud moan and convulsed, falling forward on top of Clyde.
[You activated Summon Hornet. Number of summons left: 0.]
Maki tried to pull off Clyde’s clothes but the hornet had her secure, paralyzed and full of lust.
The young man stood.
"To think she almost killed us all."
Half a minute later, everyone’s stuns were gone. Harumi wasted no time at healing everyone. The hornet held her foot on Maki.
"Shut up," she barked. "Some of my hornet sisters swing both ways while in the moment, but I only prefer men."
She gave Clyde a longing look. "Master, what should we do with her?"
"You do realize that this is a one-time summon," Clyde said. "No need to lay on the dramatics."
"But I want to serve," she said.
Alice glared at Clyde. He suddenly found interest in other directions.
"Chika, handcuff her. Oh and someone find something to bind her with. As long as she’s inflicted with Sahara’s status, she can’t go anywhere. We’re going to pay a little visit to Ashen city, get this Ki disabled, then make her repay everything."
Maki whimpered through the lust.
"Please …don’t kill me. I was only following orders. He’s too powerful to resist, please."
"I’m aware of that," Clyde said. "There’s no way in hell a mere mortal could hold back both Alice and me." He took a breath and let it out. Mere mortal? Where did that come from? "You’ll be useful with all of your techniques and you will teach me how to use Ki. Serve me well or I will kill you. Oh, and be prepared to take one hell of an ass whooping from Naomi—I’m not getting in the way of that. She needs to know what she faced—and demon ordered or not, I think she’s going to come after you. As for your fucking fan club, I can sense them in handcuffs on the way to jail right now. Naomi has already given out the details. The only reason why you’re not on the way is because no mundane prison can hold you."
[You have enslaved Maki. Tsk,tsk, slave-driver, desu.]
[Maki has lost the will to fight.]
[Your decision has been approved by someone of higher power. She has been slammed with an unbreakable contract, except by you.]
"I…I’ll serve," Maki said, face flushing, breathing sexually. Clyde shook his head. Where was the demon god? Someone needed to die from his rage before it completely cooled. Or was it raged? He still had a long way to go to fully master his power, but he was a tad better at using it.
"MORTAL!"
That was the sound of Mortem’s voice, roaring in anger. The last voice he wanted to hear actually. Time froze around him. "YOU!" Mortem appeared in front of Clyde, surrounded by raging red aura. The blue-skinned entity still sported a
suit and tie. Instead of looking at him with a shark-like grin, it was a snarl. A snarl, from Mortem. Shit. "You will learn the consequences of breaking systems! I’m getting yelled at by my masters—fucking hell, I’m going to—You system disrupter!"
[Volume 3.] Episode 21 (Part 5)
Mortem
Level: ???
Type: Entity
Work under: ???
Special: ???
Weakness: ???, taint.
Resistances: ???
Secret: likes to sneak grapes from his main master’s bowl when she isn’t looking. Secretly likes dark elves.
[You are being confronted by overwhelming power….]
[Prepare yourself. Endure…]
[You have entered a Super Death Sentence!]
[Mortem activated gold tier skill: Divine Lashes of Punishment.]
Clyde put a spirit shield but the gold whip that appeared from nowhere smashed through his shield. He rolled out of the way just in time as it put a huge dent into the sidewalk.
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