12 June 2018

  Light's house, a few minutes earlier. . .

  "Hmm, a little bit of salt. Make sure it's only a pinch."

  "Okay, now for the taste."

  *Slurp*

  "BLERGH! TOO SALTY!! *sigh* This one is a failure too. . ."

  "Ugh, cooking is so hard and takes so much practice. . ."

  Lily is alone and is currently practicing cooking a new recipe.

  "I'm tired. . ."

  Lily rests her hands on the edge of the kitchen cabinet. She closes her eyes as she starts daydreaming.

  Light grabs Lily from behind and gives her a surprise hug.

  "I'm home, sweetheart! <3"

  "D-Darling? Please don't do that! It's dangerous. I'm cooking!"

  Light leans his head forward towards her ear, and he starts whispering very gently from behind.

  "Don't worry, the only danger here is how much I'm gonna play with you all night long! <3"

  "Kyaaaah! <3"

  "W-W-W-W-WHAT AM I THINKING?!"

  Lily shouts alone as her face turns deep red. She drops to her knees as she crouches on the floor with her head down.

  "Seriously, what am I doing. . ."

  *!!!*

  "L-Light-kun. . .?"

  Lily quickly stands up and puts her left hand on her chest.

  "(What is this pain?)"

  Lily grips her chest hard.

  "(What is this emotion?)"

  Lily grips her chest harder.

  "(Light-kun, why are you this angry?)"

  "Urgh!"

  "(This anger is not normal. Light-kun, are you. . . okay? What happened to you?)"

  "(Huh? It fades away little by little.)"

  *sigh*

  "(I guess, he just encountered a rapist and has calmed down? Anyway, Thank God. . .)"

  Lily lets out a sigh of relief.

  "Well, I guess I have to restart this dish now. . ."

  Lily rewinds every single ingredient of what she has worked on to a time before she started cooking.

  "Sometimes, I'm really grateful to have this kind of Faith power."

  She continues to practice her cooking.

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  Housing area in the neighboring city. . .

  Light has entered Second State. His eyes are furious. His anger is off the charts. His common sense is slowly fading away by the second. He has completely succumbed to his wrath. Quroe witnessed Light's Second State's appearance and facial expression.

  "(This is his Second State! I already know how his Faith power works. Since he's a transformation type, I have to watch out for a new ability he gained during this state.)"

  Light is floating and currently staring down at Quroe, who's standing on top of a roof. He moves his right hand backward and generates a black sphere on his grip. The size of the sphere is way bigger than Light's intention due to his overwhelming emotion. He only intended to create a black sphere the size of a basketball, but now, it has the size of a five-story building instead.

  "GO TO HELL!"

  Light shouts as he throws the black sphere down towards Quroe. Seeing the giant black sphere heading down, the crowd goes into panic.

  "RUN!!!"

  At the signal of one person's shout, the entire crowd goes awry and scatters in random directions to avoid the giant black sphere.

  Quroe quickly thrusts his hand upwards towards the black sphere. His entire body becomes shrouded in his black and red aura. The aura on his hand stretches outwards towards the incoming black sphere, and it pierces through the entirety of the black sphere.

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  "(WHAT? It didn't get canceled?!)"

  "(Though, I can still cut it. . . I see, it is not exactly his Faith power. It is something he creates using his Faith. It's basically the same concept as his whirlwind attacks that he's been using. His Faith power is Transformation type and not Elemental type after all. TCH! This is gonna be a pain in the ass. I also have a feeling that I can't let that thing touch the ground.)"

  Quroe then swings his hand sideways, and the aura cuts the black sphere in two. The black sphere splits, and Light appeared from the inside the moment it was cut in two. Quroe immediately flies forward towards him in the sky.

  "DIE SEVENTH!"

  Light puts both of his hands backward. He controls the split black sphere and launches each half of the cut black sphere towards Quroe in succession.

  Quroe switches his ability, and the aura on his body disappears. He uses his invisible slashes and completely cuts the two split black spheres to a size that is no longer visible to human eyes. He switches back to his aura blade and flies closer towards Light.

  "FALL BACK!!" Light shouts as he's ready to punch Quroe with his right.

  Quroe pulled his fist backward to ready his punch as well. Their first clashes in the sky under the shine of a full moon. Light's transformation on his fist was canceled as Quroe's aura on his fist disappears.

  *!!*

  "(His transformation was undone?! I see, I was taken aback by the fact that it was Second State, but the rules still apply. Our Faith power still negates one another.)"

  Light and Quroe pulled back their punches and immediately threw another with their left. Their fists clash as their Faith powers cancel each other.

  Light creates another black sphere on his right hand, but this time, it's only as big as his palm. He thrusts it towards Quroe. Quroe stabs the black sphere with his aura blade in his right hand, and it branches out of the black sphere, destroying it into pieces.

  Light warps out of Quroe's vision and reappears right in front of him. He punched Quroe in his right eye that has the X-scar on it with his left hand. Light's transformation was canceled, as well as Quroe's aura around the eye, so the damage was purely Light's physical strength.

  "URGH!"

  Quroe was flinched by the punch.

  Light pursues Quroe and kicks him in the stomach. Just like before, since his Faith power got canceled, it was purely his physical strength plus the momentum carried when he flew forward. Quroe was sent flying and flung around in the air, but he regained his balance after a few seconds. Quroe covers his right eye with his right hand.

  "You--!!"

  Quroe's tone got deeper.

  "DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH THIS EYE!!" Quroe's anger skyrockets out of nowhere.

  As Quroe's anger rises, he uses the third ability on his Faith power.

  The aura on his body disappears. From Quroe's back, 3 pairs of wing-like black and red auras grow out of it. The wing-like auras are flapping as if they're actual wings, which made him look like an angel with wings bathed in blood.

  The crowd down on the ground has long gone from the area, but most of them are still able to look behind as they keep running. Most of them saw Quroe's and Light's appearances floating high above the sky, facing against each other. The moment they witness them, more and more fear is planted in their mind. The pacing of their running increase as they hope to get out of the area as soon as possible.

  "I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU, FIRST!!"

  "I'M GONNA TEAR YOU APART, SEVENTH!!"

  Light emits a strong gravitational pull and gathers the civilians' houses from down below as they float and merge, forming a giant ball of houses in his hand.

  Quroe's "wings" enable him to summon an unlimited number of aura blades, with each blade exactly 1 meter long all around him as he pleases, though he cannot extend the length of the blades summoned using this ability.

  Quroe summons a horde of his blades and hurls them towards Light. Light throws the ball of houses towards the incoming horde of Quroe's blades. The blades that Quroe hurled divided into different smaller groups of swords, with each group moving differently and approaching the thrown ball of houses from different angles. After all of them pierce and fly through it once, they all come back and pierce the ball of houses one more time. And then the same thing happens until the ball of houses turns into mere dust. All of this sequence finished in just two seconds since Quroe's blades still move at the speed of sound.

  Quroe then hurls all of his blades towards Light, and they surround him from all directions. Quroe moved his blades without even lifting a finger; the aura wings on his back did all the work.

  "What are you gonna do now, FIRST? I can destroy everything you throw at me! I can shut down your black sphere! And now, your entire Transformation and Second State are at the mercy of my blades! Once I hurled all of these blades at you, you're done for! You may re-transform your body parts immediately after my blades strike you, but how long can you keep that up? My blades will keep coming at you, mercilessly! You, on the other hand, make a little mistake at transforming, and my blades will put holes all over your body! WHAT'S YOUR NEXT MOVE, FIRST?!"

  "I WILL MAKE SURE YOU DIE A SLOW AND PAINFUL DEATH, SEVENTH!!"

  "Tch! You are too deep into your wrath that you can't even form proper sentences? Well then, drop-dead you overly-sensitive Judge!!"

  Quroe's aura wings start moving again as they signal the blades to hurl towards Light. The blades travel at the speed of sound at the same time from all directions, but Light disappeared amidst the hundreds of Quroe's blades.

  "Tch! I forgot about that unfair speed he used on me before."

  Quroe looks to the right, to the left, and below to search for him. Suddenly, everything got slightly darker. He decided to look up.

  "You've gotta be fucking kidding. . ."

  Above the sky, Light was floating a lot higher. He is 5km above the ground and he has his right hand to his right side with its palm open facing upwards. Above him, a gigantic black sphere was blocking the moonlight. The size of the sphere was bigger than the entire city they are currently in. A black sphere of this size can potentially expand and consume the entire planet.

  "You would go this far? All because you got consumed by your emotions? You would destroy the entire world and involve every single living being on this planet? I see. Now I understand. . . You really live up to all the rumors, Nightmare!"

  Quroe quickly ascends to the sky, approaching Light. During his flight, he realizes that there is an airplane very far away from them in a distance. The airplane just freezes in place in the sky.

  "What is going on now? Is this also his doing?"

  Quroe stops midway, when he is half the height of where Light is. He switches his ability from his aura wings to his aura blade. The aura wing breaks apart, and the aura blade engulfs and covers his entire body.

  "(Something doesn't add up. The crowds have called the police for a while now. Why aren't any of them showing up? They should've at least sent a chopper to at least survey the situation. Also, I expected to hear people's screams everywhere in panic and chaos because of the gigantic black sphere in the sky. What the hell is going on here?)"

  Quroe realizes something odd. He doesn't feel the breeze of wind even for a bit. Considering how high he is in the sky, the breeze of the wind should be a lot more noticeable than they are back at ground level. He looks down below the city, and he notices two figures that he recognizes.

  "Why are they. . . here? Those two pains in the asses. . ."

  He saw Luna and the woman who wanted to be Quroe's disciple, Kasumi. However, in his eyes, the two of them seem to be standing completely still.

  "(Why are they just standing there? Didn't they realize the situation here? *sigh*)"

  The aura on Quroe's body goes awry, and it expands widely. The size of his aura is now 50 meters in diameter.