“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!! PLEASE LOOK AT ERIKA-CHAN!! SHE HAS SPLIT HERSELF INTO NINE DIFFERENT COLORS!! WHAT IS HER FAITH POWER? I’VE NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN MY LIFE!!!”
“EVEN THOUGH HER FAITH POWER IS ARMAMENT TYPE, THE ABILITY ITSELF IS SO VERY UNIQUE!!!”
“Hooooooo!! You’re right, I’ve never seen anything like that! And this is coming from someone from the Ten Commandments of God!”
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
“SAVE US ERIKA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!”
“BEAT THAT TERRORIST TO A PULP!!!!”
“PLEASE WIN FOR OUR SAKEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!”
Mari suddenly appears behind the Pink Erika. She clenches her fist and punches Pink Erika on the back of her head.
*WHAM*
*SPLAT*
The Pink Erika crashes into the floor, and her head splatters into pink paint. The rest of the Erikas only realized that Mari was between all of them afterwards.
“PINK ERIKAAAA!!!” shouts the Black Erika.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! PINK-CHAN!!” shouts the Blue and Green Erika.
“AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! PINK IS DEAD!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!” laughs the Yellow Erika.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!” screams Brown Erika.
“YOU FUCKHEAD!!” said Black Erika.
Black and Gray Erika rushes to Mari with their weapons ready. At the same time, from a distance, Purple Erika is mounting up her Gatling guns and aiming them towards Mari. Black Erika swings her claws at her neck while Gray Erika swings her giant sword vertically to cut Mari in two.
Mari grabs Black Erika’s claws and snaps them apart by forcefully bending them.
*BAAAAM*
She kicked Black Erika in her stomach, and she was sent flying away.
*GRABS*
Mari catches the giant gray sword between her hands. She pulled the giant sword, and the Gray Erika was pulled forcefully to her as well. Mari lets go of the giant sword and punches Gray Erika in her face.
*BAM*
*BWOOSH*
The punch creates a shockwave, and her head splatters into gray paint.
“GGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! SIT DOWN, YOU CLOWN!!!” shouts Purple Erika.
*RATATATATATATATATATATA*
She hurled hundreds of bullets at Mari with both of her Gatling guns. Even though the bullets are made of paint, they act and have similar properties to actual bullets.
Mari catches all of Purple Erika’s bullets with her bare hands. For every bullet she caught, she immediately cast them aside, emptying her hands, and then caught a new bullet, and then she rinsed and repeated.
“GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! DROP DDDEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDD!!!”
“RATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA*
Purple Erika increases her rate of fire while Mari fastens her pace. She also runs forward as she keeps catching all of the bullets without fail.
*Wrrrrrrrrrr*
“I’M EMPTY?”
The Purple Erika has exhausted all of the bullets inside her Gatling. She realizes that Mari is already in front of her, with her fist already swung towards her face.
“DAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTT!!!!”
*BAM*
*!!!!*
Suddenly, Red Erika appeared in front of Purple Erika and sent her flying away from her spot with her hammer. She also swings her other hammer towards Mari’s punch.
*BAAAAAAM*
*SPLAT*
Her red hammer was broken and splattered with red paint.
“HEY YOUU!!!! THAT HAMMER IS HARD TO DRAW!!! I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU YOU LOW LIFE TERRORIST!!!”
Red Erika swings her other hammer at Mari’s head horizontally. At the same time, Blue and Yellow Erika appear behind her.
“*sobs sobs* I’m sorry *sobs* but you have to die *sobs* even though I don’t wanna kill anyone *sobs sobs* But you killed Pink-chan *sobs*”
“WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I GET TO KILL SOMEONE!! FINALLY!!! I CAN’T WAIT TO SEE HOW IT WILL FEEL!!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Blue Erika thrusts both of her pitchforks while Yellow Erika shoots five yellow arrows at the same time, at close range.
Mari steps back and narrowly dodges Red Erika’s hammer swing. She immediately does a backflip and lands on both of her hands. Blue Erika’s pitchfork and Yellow Erika’s arrows land on Mari’s stomach, and they all break apart and turn back into blue and yellow paint, respectively.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM*
“ORRGGHH!!!”
“AAARGGHHH!!”
She immediately bounces off her hands and kicks both Blue and Yellow Erika on their stomach. They were sent flying away outside the arena and landed on the water barrier in the audience’s seats. The water barrier once again grows a pair of hands and catches both of them, reducing any damage upon impact to zero. Mari lands back with both of her feet on the floor.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH NOOOOOOO!!! I’M MELTING AWAY!!! *SOBS* PLEASE HEEEEEELLLLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!”
“WAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I’M DYING!! I’M MELTING!!! SO, THIS IS HOW IT FEELS!!! BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
Both Blue and Yellow Erika start melting and turning back into blue and yellow paint, respectively, upon coming into contact with water.
The audience was slightly terrified, but then they realized those were probably just clones, just like Irina’s sand clones.
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH!!! BLUE AND YELLOW ERIKA IS MELTING!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!” said Daniel.
“Oopss! I forgot that they’re just paint. Teehee!” said Lukia.
Lukia puts her tongue out to the side as she tilts her head slightly and taps the side of her head with her right fist.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! LUKIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!”
“TOO CUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
“E-EVERYONE!!! PLEASE DON’T FORGET THAT WE ARE ALL CURRENTLY BEING HELD HOSTAGE!!” said Radomin.
Mari rushes forward towards Red Erika. Red Erika quickly draws another hammer and dual-wields them in both hands.
“COME GET ME YOU SMALL BREAST LITTLE GIRL!!”
*!*
Mari was ticked hearing what Red Erika just said.
“I am going to splatter all of your body parts! Given that it’s going to be in red, this is going to look very gruesome to some!”
Red Erika raises both of her hammers upwards. She is ready to swing them downwards as soon as Mari gets close.
*THUMP THUMP*
*!!*
But before Mari was even halfway to reaching her, both Green and Brown Erika had come to Red Erika’s aid. Green Erika’s giant humanoid and Brown Erika’s giant cat have stepped in front of Red Erika to cover and protect her.
“L-L-Leave it to us, red-chan. We’ll protect you.” Said Green Erika.
“I-I-I don’t think even our drawings can handle her. She’s way too powerful for us! And I’m not sure even our white version can defeat her either! SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE UUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSS!!!!”
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“YOU TWO GET OUT OF MY WAY!! YOU’RE RUINING MY PLAN!!”
The giant humanoid raises its right fist while the giant cat raises its right paw. They both swing their hand down at Mari, who’s running towards them.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMM*
The giant humanoid and the giant cat hit the arena, and they created a small crater on impact; however, Mari was nowhere to be seen.
*BAAAAAAMM*
*BAAAAAAMM*
Mari has jumped above the height of the giant humanoid’s head. She does multiple front flips, and when she stops, she kicks both the giant humanoid and the giant cat. Their head splattered on impact into paint. The giant humanoid and the giant cat topple over and turn back into paint.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! MY KITTYYYY!!!!!”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! MY GIANT FRIEND!!”
“GRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
Red Erika jumps and reaches Mari from below. She spins herself and swings both of her hammers towards Mari’s back from below.
Mari spins herself immediately and bashes both of Red Erika’s hammers away with her back hand, and they both turn back into paint. Mari grabs Red Erika on the neck, but before she even gets the chance to strangle her, both Arthur and Kenichi approach her.
Kenichi appeared above Mari while Arthur appeared next to her. Kenichi thrusts his right hand, which was engulfed by his blue aura, and whirled by a flowing and floating water. Arthur swings his right fist at Mari from the side.
Mari lets go of her hold on Red Erika’s neck. She spins herself again to face Kenichi. Mari grabs Kenichi’s hand with her right while she stops Arthur’s attack from the left using her left hand. She grips both of them on contact and spins herself to throw Kenichi downwards while throwing Arthur’s giant body high into the sky.
“AAARRRGGHHH!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Kenichi crashes into the arena, but without giving him the chance to react, Mari drops on his chest with her right knee and hits him hard.
*WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM*
“AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!”
His body was planted deep into the concrete arena on impact, and Mari stood up afterwards.
She moves her right hand to the side and clenches it hard into a fist.
“WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Arthur’s giant body is falling down towards the arena, and when his giant head almost hits the floor, next to Mari, she swings her right hand right at his cheek.
“Time to sleep, old man!”
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*
She punches Arthur and sends his giant body flying towards the audience.
“KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
The audience is panicking, seeing such a giant object flying towards them at high speed. The water wall grows a gigantic hand made of water, and it catches Arthur. It also puts Arthur down to lie on the grass. The gigantic water hand returns to the water wall.
“Geez, guys, how many times do I have to tell you that you are all in no harm! Doesn’t matter how strong that girl is, I am the 7th Strongest Believer in the world! Like I’ve said, you guys are in the right hands!”
“REMEMBER THAT FOLKS!! LUKIA-CHAN IS ENSURING ALL OF OUR SAFETY!!!”
“YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
“WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
“THANK YOU, LUKIA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!”
“*sigh* They all say that, and then something happens next time and they’ll go into panic again! And they said they trusted me.”
“W-Well, you can’t really blame them, Lukia-chan! Most of these people have probably never been taken hostage their whole lives.”
“And we seriously can’t contact anyone on the outside! We’re genuinely isolated.”
“Hm. . . By the way, guys, who’s the one coming to this place again? The one person from the Ten Commandments of God?”
“EH? Lukia-chan, you don’t even know that?”
“That’s in the contract, Lukia-chan!”
“. . . Wow, I seriously need to read the contract in full before signing them up next time.”
“You really should! It will be dangerous in the future, otherwise.”
“Suddenly, I’m worried about your future, Lukia-chan. . .”
Back in the arena, both Arthur and Kenichi have lost their Second State appearance. They were knocked out and have returned to their normal state. Arthur’s body also shrank back to his normal size.
“I guess there’s no one else to fight. Welp, a little warm-up for the real deal is not bad, actually.” said Mari as she stretched her body without a care in the world.
“What do you mean, there’s no one to fight? I’M STILL HERE ASSHOLE!!”
*?*
Mari looks to the side, mid-stretching, and sees Red Erika running towards her with another two giant hammers in her hands.
“Oh, wait a minute, I never finished you off! Wow, you’re so forgettable. . .”
*!*
Mari’s words ticked off Red Erika so much that her hands grew bigger and became muscular.
“WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU BIIIITTTTTTCCCCCCCCHHHHHH????”
“EEEHHH?? Mari-chan, please don’t insult someone, alright! We’re not here for that.”
“Tck, alright, alright. I apologize, Ei-chan, but you don’t have to lecture me now of all times. . .” said Mari while puffing her cheeks.
“DON’T FLIRT IN FRONT OF ME, YOU PERVERT!! FUCKING DIEEEEEEE!!!”
*!!!*
Mari suddenly appears in front of Red Erika. She leans her head far backwards, and she headbutts Red Erika right on her forehead.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMM*
*SPLAT*
Her head explodes into red paint, and her headless body also falls to the floor.
*THUMP THUMP*
“. . .”
Mari heard giant footsteps behind her. She turns around and sees that the same giant humanoid and the giant cat are behind her again. Brown and Green Erika have redrawn them. They did the same attack as before to crush Mari onto the floor.
*BAAAAAAAMMMM*
But Mari runs away from her spot, approaching Brown and Green Erika.
“Time to go to sleep as well, you two! Or I guess, it’s more appropriate to say, go back into drawing!”
Mari jumps a bit into the air and spins herself sideways. She then swings her right leg and kicks both of their heads away, and they turn back into brown and green paint. Both Erikas couldn’t even react to her speed and died immediately. Mari lands properly on the floor, and both the giant cat and the giant humanoid melt away and splatter into paint.
“Now, no one is left to stand against me.”
But right after Mari said that, all of the versions of Erika’s colorful division turned back into paint, and they all floated and flowed towards the center of the arena. The flowing and floating paint merge into one, and their colors merge into the color white.
The original Erika, whose Second State appearance was in all white, has reformed.
“You sure were very rough towards all of my selves. How rude!”
*!!!*
Mari immediately rushes towards her. She jumps a bit into the air and spins herself vertically while putting herself into a cannonball position. When she reaches Erika, she swings her right leg, performing her usual spinning axe kick.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMM*
Erika blocks the kick by crossing her arms, but then she is sent flying a bit. When she was about to go past the border of the arena, she stopped herself in the air using her pair of wings.
“You are. . . certainly a very rude lady.”
“And you sure talk differently! What’s with this puny womanly manner you’re speaking as?”
“I have no obligation to answer a terrorist.”
“Yeah, then get out of the game! You’re washed!”
Erika quickly draws a giant white dove 5 meters in height with a wingspan of 7 meters from one end to the other.
“DOVE OF ELEGANCE!!”
She punches forward, and the giant dove follows her motion and flies at high speed at Mari. Mari leans her upper body slightly downwards while clenching her right fist and putting it behind her. She swings her right hand and punches the incoming giant white dove right in its head. Upon impact, her punch creates a shockwave that reverberates through the entire arena. It also destroys the dove’s giant body in its entirety, and it turns back into white paint.
*!*
Mari immediately appears behind Erika, and she grabs her by the neck.
*BAM*
Mari slams Erika towards the floor, and her back crashes onto it.
“AAARGGGHH!!”
Mari strangles Erika, and she starts grunting in pain.
“AAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
“Go to sleep!”
“AAAAAAAAAAKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!”
And then slowly and surely, Erika’s voice can no longer be heard. Her entire appearance has returned to normal, and she has lost her Second State.
Mari lets go of her neck and stands up. She jumps back towards the center of the arena, and Eissen follows after. She looks towards all the fighters that have been knocked out and scattered all around the arena and outside.
“You didn’t kill her, right, Mari-chan?”
“Of course, Ei-chan! As soon as she passes out, I let go of my choke. I didn’t destroy her throat or anything.”
“Phew! Wow, you really dealt with all of them, huh? Good job!”
“Anyone else?” said Mari with an intimidating tone.
There were actually many Believers in the audience, but since they saw everything that happened, there’s no way that anyone on their level can even hope to achieve anything than the Believers who actually compete in this tournament.
*BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMM*
All of a sudden, everyone heard a very loud noise of an impact coming from above. Everyone immediately looks upwards and sees something in the sky.
“HRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
It was Ardina. She regained her consciousness and is floating on top of her invisible being. She turned her hand invisible and punched the roof of the green fire dome above.
“HHHHRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!! IT’S NOT BUDGING EVEN FOR A BIT!!! HHHHHHRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!”
*!!!!!!!!!*
“LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!! ARDINA IS TRYING TO BREAK THAT GIANT GREEN DOME IN THE SKY!! SHE IS TRYING TO BREAK US FREEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
“WHAT A GOOD-HEARTED LADY!! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! ARDINA-CHAAAAAAAAANNNN!!!”
“ARDINA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN!!!”
“DO YOUR BEST, ARDINA-CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!”
After a few seconds trying to push her invisible fist against the green fire dome, she pulls back her fist purely from exhaustion.
*pant pant pant*
“Did that. . . do anything. . .”
*!*
Ardina takes a glance towards the roof, and what she does amounts to nothing. This realization frustrates her so much.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! HOW MUCH STRONGER ARE YOU, GREEN REAPER-SAN??? TO THINK THERE’S SOMEONE THIS STRONG AND THEY’RE NOT EVEN SOMEONE FROM THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF GOD!!!”
But, separately down on the grass, someone else has already recovered as well.
“God’s Wrath!”
The floating device in the sky was struck by someone’s attack.
“OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!!! THE PHARAOH HAS ALSO REGAINED HIS CONSCIOUSNESS!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”
“YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! PHARAOH-SAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNN!!!”
Pharaoh threw his most powerful attack, God’s Wrath, at the floating device. His attack explodes, and it creates a thick amount of smoke. After a few seconds, the floating device is still rotating properly in the air stably. It doesn’t receive any damage whatsoever.
“Tch! I thought we could call for help if I were to destroy that jammer.”
“I apologize, Pharaoh-san, but as per the rules of Faith power, the Armament that belongs to Armament type Believers is completely indestructible. The only way to disable that jammer is by knocking its user out, but—”
Eissen activates his Vein Armor across his entire body. He smirks towards the Pharaoh.
“---I don’t think that is going to be easy either!”
“Plus—”
Mari suddenly steps forward in front of Eissen as she also activates her Vein Armor across her entire body.
“---I won’t let anyone touch Ei-chan after all!”
“Khhh! Tell me, Army-Man-san! What is your goal? Why are you two doing this?”
Ardina falls down and lands next to the Pharaoh.
“YEAH!! Why on earth are you doing this? TELL US YOUR GOAL, GREEN RE--, I MEANT, MARI-SAN!!”
“. . . Very well.”
Mari closes her eyes for a bit before she answers them.
“We deliberately infiltrated this tournament, all for one purpose.”
Everyone in the stadium focuses all of their attention on Mari as she is about to spill her purpose for doing this. She opens her eyes, and anger is the only word that can describe her glare.
“I CAME HERE TO KILL THE 8TH STRONGEST BELIEVER, SIERRA PENDRAGO, FOR THE THINGS SHE HAS DONE ALMOST A YEAR AGO!!”
*!!!!!!*
Everyone was shocked to hear the name of someone from the Ten Commandments of God. But before anyone could say anything, someone had acted very quickly in response to hearing that name.
*PSHEW*
*!*
Mari narrowly dodges something that came directly towards her head. That thing hits the arena floor and pierces deep into the ground.
“Now hold on a second. . .”
*!*
Someone has finally come out of their seat inside the special viewing room. It was Lukia. She descends towards the arena with a pair of draconic wings made of water growing from her back. She points her index finger as she was the one who shot something at Mari.
Her facial expression also says anger. But given how cheerful she has been, her face right now scares everyone in the stadium; it sends chills down the spine of everyone except the two ‘Terrorists’.
Mari looks towards Lukia in anger. Lukia also looks at Mari in anger.
“HUUUUUUUUUUH?”
“WHY ON EARTH WAS MY BEST FRIEND’S NAME UTTERED BY A MERE TERRORIST?”
