The sky of Heaven was beautiful, for now. A few hours later, Martin and Nylon had already woken up after losing consciousness in the battle against Lucifer, both were covered in bandages, trying to recover from the marks of the fight.
Ghost, who had stayed a bit far away, had also already collected the blood of the 7 Sins, including Belzebub and Leviathan. He was doing some experiments before actually making that potion work.
He analyzed how each cell of each blood type of the Sins reacted to divine blood; first, he placed Lucifer's blood with angelic blood and mixed it, but… he noticed that it resulted in nothing on the angelic side, neither defense nor attack, nothing.
He analyzed that the angelic cells "rotted", they lost the angelic essence they truly have, thus becoming an invisible weapon that consumed their cells. He combined Satan's cells with Lucifer's, the effect was the same, but most of the cells were neutralized by the angelic ones.
He decided to test by mixing 90% of Lucifer's cells with 10% of Satan's cells, result? Cellular destruction of angelic cells, but not on a massive scale.
Ghost thinks to himself. — Interesting… apparently I will have to make an antidote with at least 99% of Lucifer's cells as a form of "Trojan Horse" to trick Raydillon's organism and make this thing work on him. Now I just need to see what different reactions each blood of each Capital Sin will have in contact with Raydillon's cells.
Ghost now tries to use Mammon's blood to see the effect, the result was somewhat different; Mammon's cells did nothing to the angelic cells, the only thing that occurred was a type of mass contamination.
Ghost looked at the effects through a microscope and decided to try making a mixture of Lucifer, Satan and Mammon's cells. When the three combined cells touched an angelic cell, the angelic cell began to rot, self-destruct and contaminate the others.
He decided to mix Belzebub's cells with Asmodeus and apply them to angelic cells, the result caused accelerated aging at almost 300 million times faster in the angelic cells.
He mixes Leviathan's cells with Belphegor's, the reaction of both cells caused the angelic ones to literally deactivate, but it was not mass contaminating.
Ghost thinks to himself. — And if… I mix everything at once? — Ghost performs the test, mixes all the cells of the Capital Sins, when it touched an angelic cell, it literally converted into a demonic cell WITHOUT BEING IDENTIFIED.
Ghost is shocked. — I understand, so I will have to build a sequential order of these cells…
Ghost continued studying the cells while the others prepared for what was coming next, it was not that far away, but there was still time to do something well done.
— Kōken Akakagami, First Element, Tail of Wrath! — Daytona cuts a gigantic piece of trunk with her Kōken, with ease.
Daytona had bandages covering her body to recover from some injuries and was wearing pants, Saravia appears beside her, also training.
— Are you already recovering, Daytona? — asks Saravia, she was also covered in bandages and wearing pants while resting her Shinkai on her shoulder.
Daytona puts her Kōken back in the sheath. — Yes, I'm recovering well but I'm also training, the battle against Raydillon will not be easy… so we have to prepare, but I'm worried and nervous about where this might lead. — says Daytona, a bit distressed
— Ah! It's no problem. — Saravia gets closer to Daytona.
Saravia places her hand on Daytona's face. — Everything will be fine, ok? Good luck with your training. — Saravia smiles and returns to where she was training.
Belzebub then speaks in an ironic tone inside Daytona's mind. — Hmm… I don't know, looks like she might be into you, Day.
Daytona is surprised by Belzebub's comment and responds a bit nervous. — What? Ha! No, definitely not, I hope… — she says worried, more to herself while collecting wood from the trunk to build a campfire.
She glances at Saravia, who was walking back to her training area, then she remembers something she wanted to ask for a while, so Daytona goes to her.
— Hey! Saravia!
— Ah, yes?
— I really wanted to ask you about your anchors… how did you manage to change them like that? To get full control of the weapon and things like that?
Saravia takes a deep breath and tries to remember everything that led her to that state. — Well… Leviathan told me I needed to evolve, but I couldn't evolve in a literal and sudden way, so I changed and improved my Shinkai Jakusari, now I can control its weight and size, and I even gained more than double the Elements. I made it part of me, you know?
— I see… Thank you! — Daytona replies, she goes back to where she was training.
Daytona tries to absorb all that information and then thinks to herself. — So… can I do that too with my Kōken?
She takes it out of the sheath and analyzes her Crimson Katana in her hands, then she decides… to improvise, improve, evolve!
— Belzebub… let's tune this Katana. — she says, confident.
Belzebub then responds. — Up to you, Daytona.
Daytona focuses and then…
Her Kōken Akakagami begins to transform, the "Tsuba" of her katana creates an extra blade (making it a double blade), and now the blades have mouths with sharp teeth. Around the handle there is something like blood vessels and the blade is partially covered with eyes and flesh, but still a "blade".
Daytona is impressed and intrigued by the change. — Wow! That's awesome! It's so different now! — she says, analyzing the new appearance.
Suddenly Raphaella arrives, already quite recovered and calm. — Daytona, are you okay? Want to train? — she asks calmly.
Daytona looks at her Kōken and then at Raphaella. — Yes, sure! I have new things to test.
— Then let's go. — says Raphaella.
They walk a bit until reaching a more distant area from the others, then Raphaella says. — Come at me with everything, I want to test both you and myself, so come!
Daytona makes a unique and… different decision. — Kōken Akakagami, Ninth Element, Root of Wrath. — Daytona quickly draws her Katana and uses her ability, a gigantic "X" slash emerges, she performs a horizontal cut, but strangely the attack is reproduced vertically.
Raphaella is confused but manages to dodge and uses her ability. — Kaminari no Megami, First Element, God's Air. — Raphaella approaches and tries to split Daytona, but Daytona reacts in time and uses another ability.
— Kōken Akakagami, Twelfth Element, Gold and Plasma! — she creates a perfect spiral around herself, extremely sharp with blades surrounding it.
Raphaella jumps back quickly but receives some cuts. — She gained more forms… and her sword changed appearance, the same thing that happened with Saravia? — she thinks to herself.
While they were fighting, Martin appears, also bandaged, walking calmly toward them. — Can I train with you too? — he asks, smiling.
Raphaella nods and he stands beside her, then Daytona says. — Two against one seems unfair to me, right? But I'll manage. — she says, preparing her Kōken.
— I feel stronger than ever… — Daytona activates her Beast Mark, her irises turn red and she walks toward them.
Martin acts first. His speed was absurd, he appears behind Daytona and tries to punch her but she blocks using her sword.
Martin then says. — What a weird sword…
Daytona sharpens her focus, then one of the mouths on the Kōken bites Martin's arm, making him pull away quickly, injured.
Raphaella takes advantage and attacks with her ability, summoning two energy daggers, but Daytona blocks.
Raphaella uses her other hand. — Kaminari no Megami, Second Element, Thunder. — she advances at light speed aiming for Daytona's neck.
The attack is an extremely powerful electrical discharge, very hard to defend. She hits Daytona's neck, and both are thrown hundreds of meters away.
Martin arrives in time, he and Raphaella—
Daytona breathes deeply. — Kōken Akakagami, Fourteenth Element, Solar Storm: Apocalypse. — with a simple gesture, she creates an explosion of hundreds of cutting blood vessels.
They tear through Raphaella and Martin, causing deep cuts. Martin says. — What is this? She's way more dangerous than before!
Raphaella focuses and fights seriously now. They engage in close combat.
Martin joins in.
— Kyūkyoku no Ningen!
— Kaminari no Megami!
Daytona breathes deeply. — Kōken Akakagami, Eleventh Element, Mirrors of Misery: Reflection.
Seven vertical fang-like slashes appear, with cutting blood vessels between them.
Raphaella loses her forearm but cuts through the attack, Martin is heavily injured.
Raphaella regenerates. — She has many area attacks… This power is equivalent to Lucifer's, dangerous, but useful against Raydillon.
— Alright, that's enough, maybe tomorrow we train more.
Raphaella looks at Daytona. — You evolved a lot, Daytona, truly impressive.
Daytona smiles. — Thank you!
Raphaella smiles back, but feels pain in her chest.
— I'll go take care of something, I'll be back later.
She teleports away.
Daytona stays with Martin, they walk back to camp.
Martin says. — Daytona, you evolved a lot! You're much stronger.
Daytona smiles in relief. — Yeah, it will be important against Raydillon, I followed what Saravia said and created more forms.
Martin replies. — Interesting… it really helped you.
They reach camp and rest.
Meanwhile, Raphaella was in a wooden cabin.
— Damn… what the hell…
She reveals her wings and notices her feathers falling apart.
— I am… losing my feathers? No… it can't be like this…
Raphaella silently panics.
She cannot end like this.
She cannot fall like Lucifer.
She was not made to end this way.
She knew this was her creator's mistake.
Not hers.