"You really thought standing that close to me was a good idea? You are so na?ve!"

  "(Right, I just deduced of how his power works. I was being very careless.)"

  Light immediately jumps back away from Quroe to keep his distance.

  "Ukh!"

  "(Wait, these are all light wounds. None of the cuts were deep. So, he wasn't really trying to kill me? Did he really mean it when he says we wanted to test me?)"

  Quroe looks at the cracked ground and the walls in the area.

  "You really are destructive. These poor people have their walls cracked even though they did nothing wrong."

  "Don't worry, I have someone to fix them later."

  "So, because you have a way to undo your mistakes, you made mistakes anyway? Is that what you're saying?"

  Quroe closes his eyes and puts his right hand on his head.

  "I think a childish person who lets their emotions get in the way doesn't fit to be the leader of the Judges! I'm gonna knock some senses into your tiny brain!" said Quroe as he opens his eyes and stares at Light with murderous intent.

  *BAM*

  Suddenly, Quroe was punched right in the face.

  "You got emotional there! You even closed your eyes in a fight, are you a moron?"

  Quroe was launched a few meters until he regained his balance.

  "Not bad! You are a sly person, huh? And also, a softy. You should've knocked me out with that punch. You won't get another chance."

  "I could say the same to you. You should've killed me with those invisible slashes!"

  "(Tsk! I act though but, wearing down his transformation isn't easy. Not to mention the teleports that he keeps doing.)"

  "(I'm out of option. Everything that I throw at him doesn't work. He simply cuts them in half. And warping in and out is a no-no, either. My transformation would be grazed by his invisible slashes the moment I warp close to him. Although his slashes are slower, this isn't like when I fought Lily, where I can just simply absorb both her faith and herself towards my transformation, I don't have anything to counter those slashes. Speaking of Lily. . .)"

  Light puts his palms facing himself.

  "(I never actually tried this outside of my fight against Lily but, I have to try gathering those lights on myself.)"

  "Why are you just standing there looking at your hands?"

  ". . ."

  "Well, if you're not gonna do anything, I will!"

  In an instant, Quroe disappeared from Light's view.

  "(WHAT?)"

  "This will leave some serious scars!"

  "(From behind? How?)"

  Quroe reappeared directly behind Light through an unknown method. He uses his invisible slashes on Light at that close range. The same exact things happen as earlier. Light's automatic transformation protects him, but they immediately break apart. Light jumped away and again, got grazed by a few more slashes.

  "Urgh!"

  His right forearm got multiple deep cuts, and they bled. Aside from that injury, he also got light cuts all over his body. His T-shirt and pants got a little bit torn here and there.

  "What was that? That was an entirely different ability from what I've seen so far, and no matter how I think about it, I see no connections between that instant teleportation and your aura blades and invisible slashes. Are you perhaps. . . a Hybrid?"

  ''I'm surprised you know about that term. Not that many people nowadays even know about it. Yes, I am a Hybrid."

  Hybrid is a term to describe a Believer who has not one, but two Faith powers at the same time. There's still no legitimate confirmation or official information on how someone can achieve this state, even to this date. The two Faith powers that reside in the same person will never interfere with each other's rules and drawbacks, even if both Faith powers belong to the same type.

  Quroe's other Faith power is Teleportation, a Special type. It is an ability that can only be used to teleport himself to anywhere he locked his right eye towards. He can also teleport things from his right hand to where his right eye gazes at or vice versa.

  "(First, my left waist, and now my right arm. I've never been this careless in a fight. . . I guess Lily has been on my mind a lot more than I thought. . . Tsk! What am I thinking? I have to teach this guy a lesson first, in hopes he will rethink his way of doing his Judgment. No, rather than hoping, I will make sure he will!)" said Light in his head as he shook his head to clear his mind.

  Light transforms his right and left forearms. He once again tries to focus on gathering something with his blackened hands.

  "The hell are you doing just standing there and staring at your hands, again?"

  "Don't worry. . ."

  "(Remember that sensation when I fought Lily. Remember the sensation of absorbing her power. Remember the sensation of gathering the fabric of time.)"

  Light's blackened hand starts glowing purple.

  “I'm gonna end this soon. I'm gonna give you one hell of a lecture afterward!" said Light confidently.

  Light disappeared from Quroe's vision this time.

  "What?!"

  *BAM*

  “UARGH!”

  Suddenly, Quroe was launched 10 meters away. He lands standing as he slides with his feet a bit on the ground.

  "(What was that? It felt like I was punched in the face.)"

  "Now, I'm even faster than your invisible slashes!"

  Light talks to Quroe from behind. Quroe was surprised as he turned around, and Light disappeared once again from his vision.

  "Tsk!"

  Quroe activates his invisible slashes constantly around himself.

  "Didn't you hear me?"

  "UARGH!"

  Quroe was punched yet again without he can even react.

  "Tsk! Annoying!"

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  Quroe engulfs himself with his aura blade. He ascends towards the sky and stops, and floats in midair about 1km above the ground.

  "Running away? What a surprise, seeing how you act like a tough guy the whole time!" said Light, mocking Quroe.

  Quroe turns around and sees that Light was already floating at the same height as him.

  "What is that speed? And why didn't you use it from the start?"

  "This isn't something that I am always capable of. To make it short, this is a feat that I gained because of my encounter with my Support. And I'm so grateful to her right now." said Light with a smile.

  Light disappears from Quroe's vision yet again. Light has been gathering the fabric of time on his transformed hands and legs. He's moving at a speed that cannot be measured by human means. Just like how he used the power of space, he is now using the power of time. He has been warping through spatial coordinates by manipulating the fabric of space, and now he's riding the flow of time itself by manipulating the fabric of time. Although, notably, he’s actually not as fast as Lily. He’s moving at a speed only slightly faster than light.

  Light flies towards Quroe, but Quroe cannot see him coming. He punches Quroe, but his fist and parts of Quroe's aura break apart.

  "(Oh right, I almost forgot about this cancelling thing. I can improvise!)"

  Light increases the mass of his blackened hands, on top of the fabric of time. He flies towards Quroe, who's been slithering away in random directions. He punches Quroe without even touching him, using his Rejection technique.

  "TSK! GODDAMN ANNOYING!!" said Quroe with anger.

  Quroe flies upwards. He flies as he changes his trajectory randomly to avoid Light's unreactable attacks. Light chases after him as he keeps delivering punch after punch as Quroe tries to dodge him.

  "URGH!"

  One strange thing about his attack is that the mass of his punch never increased. Because the moment he punches Quroe, he leaves his hand out of the flow of time, therefore negating any increased mass gained during his fast movement. Every punch from Light was purely done by the increased mass of his own Faith power and the Rejection technique. But Light himself is unaware of this fact; this is his first time manipulating the fabric of time after all.

  Light punches Quroe from five different angles at almost the exact same time. Quroe keeps trying to avoid his attacks, but to no avail.

  “This will finish it!”

  Light hits Quroe constantly as he moves away and comes back from different directions and angles every time he lands a hit. In just about 5 seconds, Light has punched and kicked Quroe about 27 times. 6 hits were on his arms, 7 hits were on his legs, 8 hits were on his stomach and chest, and the last 4 hits were on his back.

  "GUAARGGHH!!!"

  Quroe falls downwards towards the sky from Light's flurry of attacks. However, Quroe disappeared from Light's vision before he crashed into the ground.

  "He teleports again, and I didn't see where he went."

  "HEY! YOU'RE NOT JUST GONNA RUN AWAY, RIGHT? DIDN'T YOU SAY YOU WERE GOING TO TEST ME WHETHER I AM FIT TO BE THE LEADER OF THE JUDGES OR NOT, RIGHT?" shouts Light, provoking Quroe.

  ". . . ."

  "(I can still his presence as a Judge so at the very least he didn’t run away. He is hiding somewhere.)"

  "What the hell was that shouting? HEY! Are you nuts? People are resting after work around here, dumbass!"

  Suddenly, one of the residents of the area comes out and scolds Light's shouts, even though they didn't even know who was shouting.

  "(Dang it, now the residents are coming out!)"

  Light moves away from his spot and descends towards one of the houses, and decides to hide for a bit in the backyard.

  "(This counts as illegal trespassing. Although I currently can just waltz out of here when someone spotted me and they still won't see me.)"

  One by one, the residents of the area come outside their houses.

  "Hey, what's going on?"

  "Don't know. I've been hearing noises for a while now, but there's nobody when I go outside."

  "Huh? What's going on?"

  "What is this? What is this?"

  "EH, WAIT? WHY ARE MY WALLS FULL OF CRACKS?"

  "Huh? WOW, YOU'RE RIGHT!!"

  "AND MINE TOO!!"

  "AAAAAARGH!! WHO DID THIS??"

  "This is clearly the actions of Believers!"

  "Is it possible that Believers were fighting here?"

  "Eh? Believers? Oh, God. Those awful people."

  "Wow, can no longer enjoy even one day without those guys with their destructive supernatural powers these days!"

  The residents of the area come outside and speak about their concerns about the noises and damages made by Light and Quroe.

  "(They hate Believers that much, although this one really is my fault. I'll have to ask Lily to fix this area later. . . but now, I can't even search for him. He might run away during this ruckus, but I still feel his presence, though.”)

  “(Speaking of which, what becomes of the girl with the corpse I saw at the house earlier?)"

  Suddenly, the girl who cried over her boyfriend's corpse from before comes outside the house.

  "MURDER!!"

  She shouts as she runs towards the residents who are gathering on the street.

  "What did you just say, miss?" asks one of the residents.

  "MURDER! MURDER! A BELIEVER MURDERED MY BOYFRIEND! HELP!"

  "M-Murder?"

  "EEEK!! MURDER?"

  "First, collateral damage. And now this!?"

  "These Believers are out of control."

  The residents have started panicking. They started sweating, and their expressions changed.

  "Call the police and an ambulance! Quick!" commands one of the residents.

  "Please help! *sobs sobs* Please capture that killer! My beloved died! Please! *sobs*" said the girl.

  Hearing that, Light's anger spikes again.

  "YOU HEAR THAT SEVENTH JUDGE? YOU KILLED ANYBODY AS YOU PLEASE AND THIS IS THE RESULT! YOU HURT THE GIRL! ARE YOU SATISFIED NOW?"

  "Who was that?"

  "The voice came from nearby."

  "Judge? Seventh? What?"

  "People! Let us search for this voice. And judging by what they said, there are two of them here. And one of them was even the murderer himself. Let's apprehend both of them!"

  "Yeah! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

  The residents are now fired up to apprehend Light and Quroe, though they still don't know that it was them or even their whereabouts. The residents are scattering into smaller groups. They also asked other residents who were still inside the houses to come out and help them investigate as a community.

  "GET OUT, SEVENTH JUDGE! WE'LL FINISH THIS NOW!"

  "That voice came from a different direction than earlier?"

  "What is going on?"

  "Are there multiple people?"

  "But, those voices sound like they belong to the same person."

  "People! Let's keep searching!"

  The residents keep searching and head towards Light's voice. Light himself moved to a different spot after he shouted by riding the flow of time, and no one could even see him.

  "HEY! LOOK! SOMEONE IS ON THE ROOF OVER THERE!"

  One of the civilians shouts and points towards a roof.

  It was Quroe. He has come out of his hiding spot. All of the residents who are currently outside have their eyes focused on him.

  "HEY! What are you doing up there?"

  "That's a teenager?"

  "HEY! I said, What are you doing up there?!"

  Quroe has small bruises across his entire body and looks beaten up. He also has light bruises on his face that are barely visible.

  *pant pant pant*

  His breathing is also heavy.

  "(As I thought, I hate long fights!)"

  "HEY! Come down here!"

  "Are you a Believer youngster?"

  Quroe stares towards the crowds on the street.

  "Hey, First! If I recall, you were the Judge of Lust, right?"

  *!?*

  "(Interesting, what is he getting at now?)"

  "I don't know if this is true for everyone, but all of us became judges of specific sins each because we suffer greatly because of that certain sin, correct? If you're the Judge of Lust, then you must suffer because of some lust-based incidents, huh?"

  "What is he rambling about?"

  "Beats me!"

  "HEY! I SAID COME DOWN HERE OR WE'LL CALL THE AUTHORITIES!"

  The residents were getting impatient with Quroe ignoring them.

  "Let me guess, one of your close relatives or friends died from being raped?"

  *!*

  "Or is it one of your family members? Did your mother die while serving a customer? Or was your older sister a prostitute?"

  ". . . ."

  "Ah, I get it, it was your slutty little sister, isn't it?!" said Quroe with a threatening expression and mocking tone.

  ". . . ."

  Light's facial expression froze.

  ". . . ."

  "(He isn't showing himself. . . I was for sure thought that he would've gone ape shit if I hit the mark. Either I was wrong or he is mentally stronger than I initially thought.)"

  "HEY BOY! COME DOWN RIGHT NOW! WE'RE CALLING THE POLICE!"

  "(Tch! He isn't showing up and this crowd is getting on my nerve.)"

  . . . . .

  "(It hurts.)" said Light to himself.

  Light puts his right hand over where his heart is.

  "(It hurts!)"

  Light grips his chest so hard that it hurts him.

  "(My chest is hot!)"

  Light clenches his other hand into a fist.

  "(This emotion. . . It's familiar.)"

  Light slowly stands up.

  "(I haven't felt like this since two years ago.)"

  Light is suddenly engulfed in a black sphere.

  "(For now, I only want one thing. . .)"

  From one of the houses, a black light shoots upwards towards the sky.

  *!!!*

  "Isn't that. . .?" said Quroe as he saw the black light shooting upwards.

  The crowds turned around, and they also saw the black light.

  "W-What is that?"

  "What is happening now?"

  "M-Mom! I'm scared!"

  "Don't worry, dear! Cling to me! It will be alright!"

  The black light disappeared, and someone flew upwards.

  "WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY SISTER?"

  Quroe looks up and finds Light floating in the sky.

  From under the shine of a full moon, Light's appearance was revealed in front of many eyes. Light has entered Second State. His skin color changes to pure white. The sclera of his eyes turned black. He is topless, showing his slightly muscular, pure white body. His entire forearms are pitch-black. From her chest on the left, where his heart is located, there is a black swirling mimicking the shape of a blackhole. From that black swirling, black lines spread across his entire body, even to his face. He wears long black skirt-pants that reach above his ankles. The bottom edge of the skirt-pants is all torn and burned on all the edges, leaving his pure white feet bare. He also wears a black waist cape that reaches past his knees, which flows in the wind freely, and its edges also look torn and burned. He has a floating black halo on the top of his head. There is also a floating vertical black halo with a diameter of 2.5 meters behind his back. The black vertical halo has four long and slim ‘capes’ on the bottom half spreading across evenly, and they all flow in the wind freely.

  "I'M GOING TO TEAR YOU APART!"

  Light has completely succumbed to his emotion. His anger was even greater than it was two years ago.