Dude, can you not see what's happening here?!
This is a final boss fight!
What's with that "chatting with the neighbor's grandpa" tone of yours?!
"An interesting ant."
Goenitz finally spoke, his gaze falling upon this "mortal" called Cloud.
"Your body carries both the Sun Flame of Kusanagi and the Moon Flame of Yagami. What... exactly are you?"
"Me?" Cloud grinned, showing a row of white teeth. "I'm someone you can't afford to mess with."
With that, he wasted no more words.
An overwhelming aura erupted—far more terrifying, far more domineering than anything the Kagura sisters had displayed. It felt as if it could crush heaven and earth beneath its heel!
HUMMMMM——!!!!
The golden Battle God Flames merged with the purple Azure Flames of the Yagami—two completely opposite powers fusing perfectly within his body!
Absolute Domain... 88%!!
In that instant, the entire Wind Barrier groaned and creaked as if about to shatter at any moment!
"Wha... What?!"
The face of Goenitz—which had maintained its "divine composure"—twisted with disbelief and shock!
88%?!
How could this mortal...?!
His power... had already come so close to the absolute boundary between "god" and "man"?!
"This... this power..." Maki and Chizuru were equally stunned by this world-destroying aura.
In that moment, Cloud seemed like a Battle God descended to the mortal realm!
"Hmph, merely the dying struggles of an insect."
Goenitz forced down his shock, his expression returning to that of lofty superiority.
"Without reaching 90%, you're still nothing but an ant."
"Before a true god, all your attacks are meaningless!"
"Now let despair usher you into death!"
"Dark Cry!"
He swept both hands through the air, and countless black energy tornadoes—formed from pure "wind"—swept toward the three of them like apocalyptic demons from every direction!
"Sister! Let's seal him together!" Chizuru cried out in alarm.
"There's no time!" Despair flashed through Maki's eyes.
But at that moment of certain death—
Cloud smiled.
"Who told you... that without 90%, I can't hurt you?"
His voice was filled with confidence and a hint of cunning.
"And who told you... that I'm just an ant?"
He slowly raised his right hand.
His five fingers spread wide, and what ignited in his palm was not the golden Battle God Flames, but...
A purple azure flame—eerie, cold, as if it could freeze the very soul!
"Ura Style 108: Ya Sakazuki!"
HUMMMMM——!!!
A mysterious, mighty power carrying the essence of "stasis" and "sealing" expanded instantly from Cloud's position!
Those all-consuming black tornadoes, the moment they touched this power, froze bizarrely in mid-air as if someone had pressed the pause button!
And Goenitz—this self-proclaimed "Apostle of God"—his body too was locked firmly in place by this mysterious force!
His face still wore that expression of "divine mercy."
But his eyes were filled with shock and a trace of fear!
I... I can't move?!
My body... my power... even... my thoughts... have slowed?!
What... what technique is this?!
"Surprised?"
Cloud's voice drifted over, filled with the composure of a tactical mastermind.
"Ya Sakazuki is a sealing technique specifically designed by the Yagami clan to counter Orochi's power. It doesn't seal your body—it seals... the time around you."
"Though with my current strength, I can only freeze you for... less than a few seconds."
"But... that's enough!"
Cloud's eyes blazed with an unprecedented, brilliant golden light that could outshine the sun and moon!
His other hand rose high!
In his palm, a golden fireball condensed—blazing like the sun itself, capable of destroying heaven and earth!
"Final Battle Art: Mu Shiki!!!"
BOOOOOOOM——!!!!!!
A pure golden pillar of fire—thick enough to pierce the heavens—erupted in this frozen "space-time." Under the stunned gazes of the Kagura sisters, and in Goenitz's eyes filled with fear and unwillingness...
It struck first!
Rising precisely from beneath Goenitz's feet, the celestial flames pierced straight through his skull!
His entire being was utterly consumed by that purest "pillar of solar fire," capable of incinerating all things!
PFFFFT——!!!
A shrill scream, inhuman in its agony, tore across the sky!
Goenitz's sacred priest robes disintegrated into ash instantly!
His body was blasted straight through from bottom to top by that violent flame, leaving a terrifyingly transparent hole!
"Time... has resumed."
When Cloud's voice sounded again, everything frozen in place instantly resumed its flow!
The blasted-through Goenitz, like a kite with its string cut, plummeted from the sky while violently coughing up a mouthful of purple divine blood!
"Go!"
Cloud didn't hesitate for even a second!
He grabbed the completely stunned Kagura sisters, and his body transformed into a flaming meteor, vanishing at the edge of the horizon.
All that remained was the ruins that looked as if they'd been plowed by a nuclear bomb—and the "Apostle of God" whose eyes were filled with disbelief and endless venom.
Goenitz's body was regenerating at an astonishing, terrifying rate.
Within moments, he was completely restored!
Only the weakened aura and pained expression betrayed how much damage Cloud's attack had inflicted.
He...
A "god" who walked among mortals...
Had actually...
Been wounded... by a "mortal"?!
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