*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! THE GREEN REAPER HAS SPLIT OPEN IRINA’S SAND PYRAMID!!!”
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”
“IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
“GOOOOOOOOOO GREEN REAPER-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!”
“That woman is insane! I was having trouble with her sand clones, even with my Liquid Iron!! She just kicked 20 of them like it wasn’t a big deal!” said Revon.
“Her Vein Armor is that strong? Are you saying that. . . she was even holding back when she fought me?” said Sylvianna.
“Are we sure she’s even qualified to enter this tournament? Her Vein Armor is this strong, I’m not even gonna be surprised if she somehow ends up being someone from the Ten Commandments of God.” said Jeremiah.
“Eh? Isn’t it the rumor that everyone in the Ten Commandments of God has Elemental type Faith power? Hers is Armament type.” said Army-Man.
“Rumors are rumors after all; there’s no validity surrounding them.” said Gabrielle.
From the inside of the upside-down Pyramid, Irina was revealed to be hiding inside. She survives the kick as she covers her entire body with a thick amount of sand, though even her cover is split open by the Green Reaper’s kick.
“Your Vein Armor is insane! Anyone ever told you that?”
“No.”
The Green Reaper rushes towards Irina with a punch. Irina flows all of her sand to engulf the Green Reaper’s entire right hand inside. She tightens all of her sand to limit the Green Reaper’s movement. The Green Reaper keeps charging at Irina without a care in the world. When she is finally in front of Irina, she moves her hand, and all the sand crumbles from her hand.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM*
“UUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
The Green Reaper punches Irina right in her stomach, but as per usual, she covers her stomach with a thick amount of sand very quickly before the punch connects, yet Irina still feels a significant amount of impact and pain. Irina was sent flying down towards the arena.
*ZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH*
She creates a thick pile of sand underneath her body, and she crashes into it, significantly nullifying any fall damage that would otherwise happen on the hard floor of the arena.
“Dammit. . .”
*!*
Irina was still recovering from the fall, but she immediately saw that the Green Reaper was already after her again, coming down from above. She falls down doing a spinning axe kick again towards her.
“You really love that technique, don’t you?”
Irina controls the sand underneath her to slide her out of the way. The Green Reaper misses her axe kick and hits the sand instead. The impact clears the sand in a large radius from the arena.
The Green Reaper immediately bounces off the floor and rushes towards Irina again. She approaches Irina in no time and punches her in her face. She covers her entire body with sand quickly.
*!*
But, on contact, Irina crumbles into sand. Turns out it was a sand clone, and she swapped places with it secretly.
“. . . How slippery. I am impressed.”
The Green Reaper then dodges to the right, and a giant human hand made of sand chops down from above. She narrowly dodges it due to her danger sense. She jumps away from her spot, and another giant human sand hand chops down again and misses. She looks above, and it turns out Irina was hiding inside the split part of her pyramid.
Irina creates a large amount of sand in the sky. She focuses all of them into one single point, in front of her hand, and it creates a ball of sand the size of a bowling ball. She compresses it even further, and it is now the size of a marble.
“SAND BOMB!!”
Irina sends her sand ball down by flicking it with her finger towards the Green Reaper, and it flies at the same speed as her sand stream attacks. It reaches the arena within one second, and it hits the floor.
*BOOOOOOMMMMMM*
*GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
*BWOOOOOOOOSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH*
*ZZZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS*
The compressed marble of sand explodes and sends grains of sand in all directions. All the grains of sand travel at the same speed as the marble of sand itself.
“. . . .”
Normally, the grains of sand would’ve at least hurt a normal person’s skin, but the Green Reaper is completely unaffected under the effect of her Vein Armor. She ponders to herself about what Irina is trying to achieve with such a pointless attack. She looks above and sees that Irina has come down with four giant human hands made of sand growing from her back. Two left hands and two right hands. Irina also covers both of her actual hands with a thick amount of sand, and she shapes them into a pair of claws with each blade measuring 1 meter.
“Is this your final struggle?” asked the Green Reaper.
“Depends.” said Irina with a smile.
“Where does this confidence come from?”
“Let’s find out!”
Irina rushes forward. She swings her right claw at the Green Reaper’s head. The Green Reaper takes the hit, and Irina’s claw crumbles. Irina swings her other claw towards the Green Reaper’s stomach, and her claw crumbles yet again. The Green Reaper takes a step forward, and she thrusts her palm forward at Irina’s stomach.
*BAAAAAAMMMM*
Irina quickly blocks the Green Reaper’s palm strike with her two giant sand hands, and they crumble on contact. Irina immediately claps the other two giant sand hands against the Green Reaper.
*CLAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPP*
As usual, her two giant sand hands crumble back into sand, and the Green Reaper simply tanked the hit, receiving zero damage. The Green Reaper takes another step forward and punches Irina right in her stomach.
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*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM*
“OOOORRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!”
Although Irina quickly created sand in front of her stomach, and the punch was blocked by the sand, she still felt so much pain and the impact of it. Irina was sent flying towards the edge of the arena.
“URRGGHHH!!”
She quickly creates a pair of sand tornadoes behind her back to act as a pair of wings and recovers herself in midair.
*pant pant pant*
Irina is sweating as she takes a few seconds to breathe. Blood flows out of both sides of her mouth.
“Dammit. . .”
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! IRINA IS ALMOST RINGED OUT YET AGAIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!!! HOW MANY TIMES HAS IT HAPPENED BY NOW?”
“THE GREEN REAPER IS SOO STROOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!! NONE OF IRINA’S ATTACKS IS EVEN AFFECTING HER!!! THIS FEELS SO UNFAIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRR!!!!!”
“(What are your tricks Green Reaper?)” said Lukia to herself.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”
“FAAAIIIIIIITTTTTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! GREEN REAPER-CHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!”
“Do you have any more tricks, Irina-san? I am getting impatient by the second.”
“You’re surprisingly talkative today. What happened?”
“I just wanna get all of these over with.”
“This is the grandest tournament in the world, and you just wanna. . . get it over with? You’re not making sense. What’s your motivation for coming here again?”
“I have no obligation to tell you. . . but as a spoiler, it is a personal grudge!”
*!*
Irina felt something new coming from the Green Reaper. It was anger. Hard-boiled genuine wrath. But it feels off to her. It’s like her wrath is not being directed at her at all, even though she was the one who was having the conversation with her. At the same time, she felt an immense threat coming out of her as well. It’s like she’s a completely different person now.
*?*
But all of that completely vanished within the blink of an eye. The Green Reaper has subdued her anger. The contrast between her wrath and her normal self was such a wide gap that it’s almost like what Irina just felt feels like it was a mere hallucination.
“What’s up with you?”
Irina asked the Green Reaper with great fear, with her face sweating a lot.
“. . . . what?”
“What was that feeling just now? I know I felt it!! It came from you!”
“. . . I don’t know what you’re on about. But let’s end this quickly, shall we?”
The Green Reaper activates her Vein Armor and enters her battle stance again.
*!*
She is suddenly next to Irina, swinging her right leg at the right side of Irina’s head.
*BWWOOOSSSSHHHH*
*!*
Irina creates a sand wall next to her, and the sand wall explodes from the Green Reaper’s kick. Her kick also creates a shockwave that sends Irina flying away, though she receives minimal damage. She recovers in mid-air and immediately sees that the Green Reaper is approaching her with a forward kick at a really high speed.
Irina maneuvers herself upwards, and the Green Reaper completely misses her kick. Irina flies high up and stops when she’s 15 meters above the sky. She creates a large amount of sand in the sky, and she immediately creates 20 of her upside-down pyramids in the air, scattered evenly throughout the sky.
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!! IRINA CREATED SO MANY PYRAMIDS NOOWWWWW!!!! WHAT ON EARTH IS SHE TRYING TO DO, FOOOLLLKKSSSS???”
“IS THIS IRINA’S FINAL PLAN TO FINALLY TAKE DOWN THE GREEN REAPER???”
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
“GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! IRINA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!”
Irina also creates a thick sandstorm in the entire arena, and it also reaches past her elevation in the sky.
“. . .”
The Green Reaper jumps up high to reach Irina in the sky. Irina immediately sends Jetstream sand attacks towards her from the eyes of her 20 floating upside-down pyramids, and they all come from all directions.
*GGRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHKKKKKKKKK*
The Green Reaper spins herself, swinging her fist backhandedly and deflecting all of Irina’s sand stream attacks. Irina immediately sends out her next attacks. From the same eyes of her pyramids, she sends out multiple sand slash attacks at the Green Reaper coming from all directions and angles as well. Her sand slashes are all coming at different timings, not all at the same time. She has conditioned so that her sand slashes will reach the Green Reaper with a ratio of one sand slash attack per 0.3 seconds.
The Green Reaper notices this and she smirks.
*DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH DEESH*
She challenges Irina directly by deflecting every single one of Irina’s sand slashes with her punches or kicks, and they all crumble into sand.
But Irina keeps launching her attacks nonstop at the Green Reaper. After deflecting for over 10 seconds, the Green Reaper realizes that the momentum of her high jump has come to an end, and she is now descending towards the arena below.
“Tch. . . so that’s your game.”
The Green Reaper descends and disappears into the thick sandstorm, but Irina can sense the Green Reaper’s whereabouts. All of the sand inside the sandstorm that touches the Green Reaper gives away her location to Irina.
The Green Reaper lands in the arena, and Irina immediately creates two giant horizontal buzzsaws made of sand below, trapping her in the center. The giant buzzsaws spin at a really high speed and crash into the Green Reaper.
*ZZZZZZZZZZZZRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH*
The two giant buzzsaws spin against the Green Reaper’s Vein Armor and tear the sides of her hooded cape. The blades of the buzzsaws break apart, hitting against her skin and crumble one by one, but Irina keeps restoring their blades every time they are destroyed.
“Do you think you can keep me in place like this?”
The Green Reaper pulls back both of her arms in a crossing fashion.
*BRRRSSSSSHHH*
She pushes both of them out, and she breaks apart the two giant buzzsaws instantly in their entirety. Irina sends down a giant sand tornado from above. The sand tornado is entirely indistinguishable from the Green Reaper’s perspective, given the raging sandstorm inside the entire arena. She has no idea that it was coming, and she simply jumps high above towards the incoming sandstorm.
*!*
The Green Reaper felt the incoming sandstorm brushing against her skin violently, though it was still not affecting her due to her Vein Armor. She simply punches the sand tornado, and it fades away quickly, but because of that, she loses her momentum, and she falls back down again towards the arena.
“. . . . Now I see what you’re trying to do.”
The Green Reaper crouches and takes a position to jump upwards. She exerts muscles in her legs, and she jumps up high. She rises in elevation really fast within milliseconds. Irina sends down another giant sand tornado, and the Green Reaper easily dispels it with a punch, combined with her momentum.
She reaches past the height of the sandstorm. At the peak of the momentum of her jump, she looks downwards and prepares a punch.
*?*
“(What on earth is she trying to do?)” asked Irina inside her head from under the cover of the sandstorm.
The veins on the Green Reaper’s right arm became very visible.
*ZRRT ZRRT*
She clenches her fist really hard, her Vein armor glows brighter, and green sparks spark across her entire forearm.
“HHRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
*BWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHH*
The Green Reaper screams loudly for the first time in this entire tournament. Her punch sends a gigantic shockwave that sends all of the sand and the sandstorm in the entire arena away. It also destroys Irina’s 20 pyramids in the sky. In just one second, there are no more sands on the entire arena. Irina was also revealed floating in the sky, riding a sand platform that was also destroyed by the shockwave just now.
*!*
Irina starts losing altitude. She immediately tries to create another sand platform under her feet to float. But the Green Reaper was in front of her, slightly above her in elevation, with her right hand swung towards Irina’s head.
*WHAAAAAMMMMMM*
The Green Reaper punches Irina down towards the arena.
*GRRRAAAAAAHHHHKKKKKK*
Irina crashes into the arena, and the impact creates a small crater, and her body is planted quite deep into the floor.
*GRRRAAAAAHHHHHKKKKKK*
The Green Reaper lands on the arena, and the impact of her landing cracks the entire arena.
*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
Everyone in the stadium was shocked at how fast everything happened. They haven’t quite processed how on earth the Green Reaper was able to send such a massive shockwave with just a simple punch, but now they all see that Irina is lying unconscious, as well as the sight of the entire arena cracked horribly by her.
. . . . . . . . .
The Green Reaper stands firm atop the cracked arena floor. The hosts take a few seconds to process everything, but then finally. . .
“I-I-I-IIIIITTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OOVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!”
*!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
“THE FINAL MATCH OF THE BRAWLIEVER WORLD CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!”
“THE BEAUTIFUL PRINCESS, IRINA AGAPOV!! VERSUS! THE COOL AND MYSTERIOUSLY STRONG GREEN REAPER!!!!”
“THE WINNNNNNNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!”
“THEEEEEEEEEEEEE GREEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN REAPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!”
. . . . . .
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
“GREEN REAPER-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!”
“WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
“SHE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!”
“YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
*PPPSSSSSSHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWW*
*BAAAANNNGGGG BANG BANG BANG BANG BAAAAANNNNGGGGG*
A set of fireworks was shot into the sky by the BWC staff to commemorate the end of the Final round of the BWC.
“THE WINNER OF THE BRAWLIEVER WORLD CUP OF THE YEAR 2018 IS THE GREEEEEEEEENNNNNNN REAAAAAPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“HHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
The audience was cheering with their maximum capability to celebrate the joy of this moment.
“. . . Just one more step.” said the Green Reaper as she clenched her fist silently in the cracked arena.
