Lib ReadNumber 5 shivered when he managed to regain his composure and understood that in his current state, staying would immediately lead to his death, especially now that he had spent his reserve of Chaos energy.
'I must escape.' He decided while raining curses on Alice to distract her as he escape. He created a small black light and threw it at the ground. ๐ญ๐พ๐๐๐ฆ๐ถ๐ฅ.๐ค๐ฐ๐
The blinding flash of dark light caused people to look away instinctively.
While everyone was temporarily blinded, Number 5 started hightailing in a blur of dark light, giving his all.
''He is sure fast to escape for his life,'' Kuina said while looking at the escaping man. She wondered how Alice going to deal with this man who had already traveled up to 1 kilometer.
Meanwhile, Alice in question frowned upon seeing Number 5 running away with his tail between his legs. She was disappointed as she had fought to her heart's content but there was no way she would let him escape. She was rather pissed at the moment, something that rarely occurs.
''Do you think I'll escape?"
She teleported into the sky and trained her vision on the retreating dark light. Instead of using teleportation to catch the assailant, she breathed in deeply.
BOOM! ๐ต๐ฒ๐ซ๐ง๐ฎ๐๐.๐๐ธ๐ข
A huge amount of aura exploded from her body as she summoned her Gift and mumbled.
''Bow form!''
Immediately as if responding to her wish, the white sword turned into a bow, a beautiful bow. A beautiful black box.
''Meteor Shower."
Alice's gaze was like the arrow that locked onto the fleeing figure in the distance. She looked at the figure which was fast disappearing in her vision and she trained the bow's aim on him.
Then, she tugged at where the bowstring would be.
"Eh?"
Kuina was gasping in astonishment. She was surprised yet again by Alice, to the extent that she began to wonder if she knew this girl as she previously thought. The way she fought today was different than any of their previous fight so much so that it was shocking.
? ''Hmm?"
Number 5 who was running for his life suddenly felt very threatened. He slowed his pace down to turn his head and look in the direction where this ominous feeling was coming from. What he saw made his scales stand on their ends and his ugly face distorted with fear.
Like a pair of wings made of black crystals, the bow and its arrow started shining with beautiful astral light that looked like he was drawing power from the night. The bow and its breathtaking beauty outshone the surrounding darkness.
Starlight gathered and streamed into the arrow-like bees returning to their hives. With sounds that pleased the ears very much, the starlight energy charged up Meteor Shower, further materializing the nocked energy arrow.
That energy arrow was made with silvery starlight and sprinkled with astral light, it was placed between his tab hand and the bow.
The bow was pointed in the direction of Number 5 who continued running for his life.
Drawn in by the magnificence of the arrow and its bow, Kuina couldn't return to her senses.
Meanwhile, Alice who basked in astral light looked like the Goddess of the Night who descended from her heavenly throne to strike down her foe. Between heaven and earth, it looked like she was the only existence here. It was breathing-taking majestic.
Meanwhile, Number 5's dark energy started rampaging out of control
The dark power within him sensed the incoming danger.
His sweat fell along with his blood, his heart got covered in trepidation as he immediately threw energy conservation to the wind, without caring for his wounds or mana consumption, he used every ounce of power within him to run faster. He did this so he could get himself out of the bow's range.
"Argh!"
There were bulging veins that didn't belong on his inhuman scales, his eight eyes were darting all around frantically as he groaned under his immense exertion. He has no idea what's coming for him but he continued running as if he could outrun death. This was his only choice anyway.
His futile action only served to delay his time on this mortal plane by just a few seconds.
Back to Alice, her ruby eyes were lit up by the strong astral light of the bow and arrow. She steadied her breathing with closed eyes and then she shot her eyes wide open as she let loose the arrow of judgment day.
Swoosh!
The arrow of Starlight flew across the night like a meteor.
True to its name, the meteoric arrow sang its beautiful tune across the sky as the stars themselves seemed to support the arrow's flight. Then, under everyone's attentive eyes, the arrow caught up with Number 5.
"NOOOOO!!!"
Feeling the presence of death and danger behind him, he cried out in despair.
Then, the meteor struck him true.
Splish
An explosion and the sound of something blasting heavily came from afar. The sound echoed throughout the land.
"GARGHH!!!"
The space around Number 5 collapsed as fissures in space spread around him. At the center of this attack, he howled in pain as the arrow left a bloody and gaping hole in his already mutilated body, then, under the baptism of starlight, he was erased from existence.
Swoon!
A spatial ripple reverberated outwards, carrying bits of starlight with it. The remnant power scattered into nothingness as it disappeared from everyone's view.
After that, the world returned to its peaceful state as if nothing had happened. Number 5' 's erased life signature and Alice's bow which was still brilliantly lit told everyone what just happened.
Kuina the only spectator gasped and was unable to close her eyes for a while.
From this fight she understood that she was clearly the white-haired beauty with the red eyes opponent, she couldn't win, the current her at least. Alice was far stronger than her.
However, instead of feeling frustrated, Kuina was genuinely happy about this discovery as it mean they have a powerful ally and someone against whom she could fight to increase her strength. Alice had turned into a rival she had to surpass.
''Well done,'' Kuina said as soon as she got closer to the panting Alice.
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