*!*

  The girl was shocked that her blue sword broke apart when it came into contact with his head.

  "FALL!!"

  Light throws the girl down towards an elevated highway below. The highway is as tall as a five-story building. This specific highway is currently closed, and no cars are passing by, though there are still a lot of cars and people on the road below the highway.

  The girl was launched downwards towards the highway, but a blue circle made out of light appeared just a few centimeters above the highway, where the girl landed on her back.

  *!*

  The girl immediately recovers and looks above. She saw Light coming down with a stomp towards her. She moves out of the way, and Light breaks the blue circle and cracks the highway below.

  "(Blue sword that shapes like a hand clock, a blue circle that, if I am not mistaken, looks exactly like a clock. Not to mention her insane agility and movement speed. Time-based Faith power? Though I don't know what her type is.)"

  The girl slides off the ground and recovers. She stands and collects her thoughts.

  "(Black hand, magnetic force of some kind? And he threw me down with such force that I couldn't recover mid-air. Not to mention that my sword broke when I struck his head. Probably Transformation type, though his Faith power is still not clear. . .)"

  Faith power is categorized into one of the five main types. Elemental, Armament, Transformation, Summoner, and Special type.

  Elemental type is a category of Faith power where Believers can both manipulate and generate certain elemental energy freely. The limits of how much one can produce elemental energy at once vary between Believers. The stronger the Believer, the higher their limit is. Elemental Believers have something called 'Source' on their body part that was selected at random when they first awakened their Faith power. If the 'Source' is damaged to a certain degree, they will lose access to their Faith power for an entire minute. For the first 30 seconds, their 'Source' will heal itself back to normal no matter how badly damaged they are, and then for another 30 seconds, they are unable to use their Faith power at all. Elemental type Believers also lost their sense of pain in the body part that became their 'Source'. There is no visual sign as well if a body part became a 'Source', only the Believers themselves know where it is.

  Armament type is a category of Faith power where Believers can summon forth a tool or weapon that contains special abilities that vary between each Believer. Their 'Armament' is indestructible from any kind of damage, and even if they were disarmed, they can simply summon their 'Armament' back into their possession. Armament type Believers have a passive ability called Vein Armor. It is an ability where their bodily veins will light up in colors that vary between Believers, and it will boost their physical capabilities by a large margin. They are now capable of things such as tanking a boulder to the face, surviving a car crash unscathed, running faster than a car, jumping higher than a tall building, having superhuman perception, having danger sense, and such. This Faith power type is strictly combat-oriented.

  Transformation type is a category of Faith power where Believers can transform their body parts freely into the state of a beast, usually animals or even fictional creatures, or an elemental state. All transformation body type can only transform their body parts about 40% of their entire body at maximum at the same time. When not transformed, if harm were to come into contact with their bodies, their bodies will automatically transform, protecting them from the damage they were supposed to receive. Though the way their damage is nullified varies according to the user's Faith power. There used to be a lot of Beast Transformation type Believers in the distant past, but nowadays, most Believers prefer to be an elemental Transformation type instead due to their clear differences in strength and capabilities. One thing that separates an Elemental type and a Transformation type is that an Elemental type can manipulate its quantity, while a Transformation type can manipulate its quality.

  Summoner type is a category of Faith power where Believers can summon forth a made-up creature that may or may not even exist in real life. Their summoned creature has special abilities that vary between each Believer. They are also able to copy their summoned creature's body part onto their own, thus gaining access to their special abilities as well. These creatures aren't living beings and are merely perfect puppets that will abide by the user's will with no downside. One Believer is only able to have one specific creature, though there are very rare cases where a Believer may have multiple different creatures that can be summoned to their aid. Their summoned creatures cannot die but are still able to receive damage or immobilized, though if they are damaged beyond recognition, Summoner type Believers can simply recall them and resummon them, and all of their damage will be healed fully, essentially making a confrontation against a Summoner type to be fully two versus one the entire time.

  Lastly, Special type is a special category of Faith power where if a Faith power's general rule doesn't fall under any of the categories mentioned above, then it will fall under the Special category. Special type Faith power doesn't have any general rules. They operate under their own rules. Sometimes it's a combination of transformation and elemental rules, sometimes it's a combination of transformation and summoner rules, and sometimes it's so unique that only one Believer's Faith power has that unique rule that nobody else possesses.

  In a battle between Believers, determining the opponent's Faith power type is the basis. Once a Believer figures out their opponent's Faith power, they can now anticipate the way they either attack or defend themselves, depending on the type. But nowadays, people cleverly cover up their type to fool the opponent. There are also some cases where fights between Believers end without them both figuring out each other’s type the whole time.

  "I have no reason to fight you! Can you drop whatever it was that you were going to do to that man?"

  "I was about to say the same thing, but you'll interrupt me again if I go after that guy again, right?"

  "That's correct! I'm not gonna let a murder happen right before my eyes!"

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  "Then in that case, I have all the reasons in the world to fight you!!"

  *!!!*

  As soon as the girl says her words, she disappears and immediately reappears in front of Light. She is already holding her blue clock-hand sword in her right hand, and she swings it towards his neck.

  *CRANG*

  The girl swung her blue sword across Light's neck, but it only resulted in her sword breaking apart into tiny glass-like fragments. His neck turned pitch black when it came into contact with the sword.

  "(Tch!! Again!)"

  Light blackens his right hand, and he grabs the girl by the neck.

  *!*

  Or at least that's what he wanted to do. The girl slips out of Light's grip as soon as he touches her neck.

  "(How on earth did she. . .?)"

  *SLASH*

  *CRANG*

  All of a sudden, Light was slashed on six different body parts without him ever seeing any of those attacks coming. The girl appeared behind Light, a bit away from him. Her swords are breaking apart even after the impressive feat that she has shown.

  Light was slashed on his neck, his right hand, his left waist, his right leg, his left thigh, and his right stomach. But he was completely fine, as all of those body parts turned pitch black when they were slashed by the girl. He notices the girl behind him and jumps away from her. He lands about 6 meters away from her.

  "W-What did you do?"

  "I don't have time for this. . ."

  "What?"

  "I'm sorry! I don't really have any spare time to play with you!!"

  *?*

  The girl lifts her right hand upwards. Her right hand shines in the same light blue color as her sword. There's a small light blue clock made out of light floating on the back of the girl's right palm.

  *TICK TOCK TICK TOCK*

  "Time stop!"

  *!?*

  All of a sudden, the clouds in the sky stop moving, the breeze of the wind can no longer be felt by the skin, the moon high above in the sky no longer moves, and every car on the road under the highway stops moving. Just now, the girl has put the entire world to a complete halt with her Faith power.

  ". . . ."

  The girl turns around, and multiple swords appear on her back, acting as a pair of wings. Three on the right and three on the left. She flies back towards the earlier balcony.

  "Where do you think you're going?"

  *!*

  All of a sudden, Light was next to her. He punches the girl away from the balcony back towards the highway below while they're both still in mid-air. She stops herself in mid-air with her wings just as she was about to hit the ground and lands with her two feet on the highway as she dismisses all of her swords on her back.

  "W. . . W. . . What. . ."

  Light lands back in the hallway. He recovered and was shocked when he looked towards the girl. He noticed the girl had a very frightful look on her face.

  "T-T-There's. . . There's another guy. . . like him. . .?"

  *?*

  The girl uttered some words, yet Light has no way to interpret or understand her words. Given how different and how scared the girl looked so suddenly, it invites confusion from Light.

  "What's going on with you?"

  "SILENCE!!!!"

  He was greeted by a loud scream and was startled.

  "DID YOU KNOW WHAT JUST HAPPENED? HOW ARE YOU MOVING??"

  "W-What? How am I. . .? What are you talking about?"

  "ANSWER ME!! WHO ARE YOU??"

  ". . . ."

  Light was very confused by the girl's erratic attitude.

  "V-Very well! My name is Light Lunehart! I am a Judge! The Judge of Lust! I am one of the members of the Seven Layers of Judgement! I have come here to bring Divine Judgment towards the sinful!"

  "(Judge? Divine? His words ring no bells. . .)"

  "Now it's your turn! Please introduce yourself!"

  "Very well! My name is. . . of no concern! The only thing you need to know about me is that I am the 4th Strongest Believer in the world. I am the Queen of Time! Pleased to meet you!!"

  *!!!*

  "(4th Strongest Believer? Did she mean the Ten Commandments of God? She's one of them? The number 4 even? Are you kidding me? That's who she is? Is she lying? But her time faith power makes sense. . .)"

  The Ten Commandments of God is a group of ten Believers whose Faith powers are so strong that each of its members has the capability to end human civilization in the blink of an eye. Currently, they are divided into further categories; the first four Believers have Faith powers beyond human understanding, while the remaining six have the power that humans mostly understand. Hence why they're called the Ten Commandments because just like the first four rules of the Ten Commandments are about God, while the remaining six are about humans.

  The girl summons her blue sword in her hand and points it towards Light.

  "Now tell me, how on earth are you moving perfectly fine even after I stopped time!!"

  "You stopped time? What?"

  Light just realized that the world around does indeed feel a lot more silent than usual. He also doesn't feel any air coursing and brushes against his skin.

  "Y-You really stopped time, huh?"

  "Air doesn’t even move right now, yet you are here breathing, standing, moving, and talking as if nothing happened. ANSWER ME!!"

  ". . . ."

  Light thinks for a few seconds before he finally answers the girl.

  "As a Judge, I have this passive ability called God's Holy Grace. It is basically a buff that is always active and it protects me from all kinds of indirect attacks, no matter how powerful they are, such as invasion of privacy via Faith power, dark arts, curse, any immobilization technique utilizing invisible values of the world, such as time. . ."

  The girl has another terrible look on her face.

  "Did you just say. . . God?"

  "Y-yeah?"

  "Are you. . In cahoots with that man?"

  "Huh? Man? What are you talking about?"

  "SILENCE!! ANYONE WHO'S IN ALLIANCE WITH THAT MAN DESERVES TO DIE!"

  The girl summons a horde of floating blue clock-hand swords in front of her. She launches all of them at the same time towards Light. The swords fly towards him at speeds faster than light. Light teleports away from his spot in reflex and barely dodges them.

  "(Yup! Still couldn't even see them coming! One wrong move and I'm dead!!)"

  *!!!*

  The girl was suddenly behind Light. She swings her sword towards his neck yet again.

  "(DAMMIT!!)"

  Light raises his right hand and turns it pitch black. The girl swung her sword towards Light's neck, but her swing changed direction towards his right arm instead.

  *CRANG*

  *!*

  "(What? I didn't aim at his hand! It felt like my hand was pulled towards it instead. . . Gravitational force??)"

  Light's blackened arm absorbs the girl's blue sword and holds it in place. He moves his left hand forward and blackens it to try and grab the girl's neck. The girl simply lets go of her sword and jumps away.

  *!!*

  The horde of swords that the girl launched earlier all changed their directions towards Light's new location now instead.

  "(Her control over her swords is this free? Is she an elemental type?)"

  Light opens his blackened palm forward. All of the girls' swords change their directions yet again, and they all converge into one single angle towards his blackened palm.

  *ZZRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTT*

  Light absorbs all of the girl's swords in total, and it only takes him about two entire seconds to completely exhaust the number of swords the girl put out earlier.

  *SLASH*

  Again, all of a sudden, the girl slices Light on his right leg, but his automatic transformation blocks the sword completely.

  "(Tch! Definitely a Transformation type! What should I do!! This guy is kinda tough! AND YET I DON'T HAVE ANY TIME FOR THIS AT ALL!!!!)"

  The girl is pissed after assessing the situation. Light opens his palm towards the girl and pulls the girl again into it.

  "(. . .maybe.)"

  The girl was magically floating towards him, and as soon as the girl lands on his palm, she suddenly summons her horde of blue clock-hand swords from all directions, completely trapping them both inside.

  *!!*

  The girl smirks and whispers.

  "Die!"

  The girl launches all of her swords towards both Light and herself.