"Wow, was I really this annoying just now? Yeah, her scream is gonna get annoying after a while. I apologize, little girl, I didn't know I was being this infuriating!"

  Evelyne mockingly apologized to Rena, winking one of her eyes, even though she kept firing her red lightning towards Rena's left shoulder wound.

  *ZZZZTTT*

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "Hmm. . .what to do now. . . OH! I KNOW! While I kept zapping you with my thunder, do you want to hear me explain what just happened to you? Including to the point of you being so willing to unbind me, which was just simply fatal that anyone with common sense wouldn't even dare to think of!"

  *ZZZTTT*

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "You see, I just joined this group of people calling themselves the Seven Deadly Sins."

  *ZZZZZZTTTTT*

  "UUUUUAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "And they all have a similar goal to mine, so I joined them!"

  *ZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTT*

  "KKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  "But then each of the members was given similar capabilities!"

  *ZZZZZZTTTTT*

  "UUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "Hmm, I'd better not spill too much, but basically I have this thing called Sin Power! We are able to inflict someone with the willingness to sin to the point that they will act out a specific sin!"

  *ZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTT*

  "KKKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "And in my case, I AM PRIDE!! SO, WHAT I DID WAS INJECT YOU WITH THE PRIDE SIN! IT MADE YOU FEEL SO FULL OF YOURSELF TO THE POINT YOU THINK YOU CAN HANDLE ME NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"

  *ZZZZZZZZZZTTTTTTTTTT*

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  Evelyne finally stops shooting red lightning towards Rena's left shoulder wound. Rena's head immediately dropped and hung downwards from her neck.

  *pant pant pant pant*

  She is so exhausted that her breathing was so chaotic, she felt like she had almost died from the pain alone.

  "*pant pant pant* Onii. . . chan. . ."

  Rena's voice was so weak that Evelyne barely heard anything she said. All of that screaming and the intense pain inflicted directly on her left shoulder wound was beyond anything she had ever experienced in her life. Plus, the fact that a sword is penetrating her stomach, which keeps zapping her insides. She felt like drifting between a state of life and death.

  *pant pant pant*

  "(Onii. . .chan. . .please. . .help. . .me. . .)"

  *pant pant pant*

  "(God. . .please. . .send. . .Onii-chan. . .to me. . .)"

  "Hm. . . I wonder what shall be done with you. . ."

  Evelyne lets go of her hold on her purple sword on Rena's stomach. She walks back and forth as she thinks to herself.

  "AH!"

  Evelyne quickly walks back towards Rena and grabs the purple sword on her stomach.

  "ARGH!!"

  Evelyne pulls the sword from Rena's stomach violently without a care in the world. Rena falls to her knees as she tries to hold on to her consciousness.

  *pant pant pant*

  She's heavily breathing on the stage floor.

  *ZRRRTTT*

  *ZAP*

  Evelyne raises her right arm, and green colored lightning sparks on it. And then from her hands, multiple green lightning bolts came out, and they flew in different directions.

  As Rena was still trying to hold on to her consciousness, she noticed that the green lightning bolts that shot out of Evelyne's hand were striking all of the corpses in the audience seats.

  *!!!*

  And then all of the corpses that have turned black and crisp stand up one by one.

  *pant pant pant*

  "(What. . .is her power. . .even?)"

  "Little girl, I'm gonna direct a film for you!! REJOICE!! YOU'RE GONNA BE A STAR!!"

  Evelyne shoots her green lightning again, but towards Rena this time.

  *!*

  This lightning, however, doesn't hurt Rena at all.

  "(Huh? What. . .is this?)"

  But then Rena completely loses control over her own body. Her body starts moving and walking towards the center of the stage on its own.

  "Ukh! What. . .is this. . .? *pant pant*"

  And then all of the corpses have climbed over towards the stage, and they all gather in a circle around Rena, who's standing in the center. About 20 corpses are standing up, even though they're corpses.

  Evelyne engulfs herself with her yellow lightning, and she suddenly disappears and reappears above the audience seats. She sits on a metal framework that supports the lighting equipment that is meant to light up the stage.

  Evelyne dismisses her green lightning on Rena, and she regains control over her body.

  "What. . .is your game here? *pant pant pant*"

  "Ohhh?! Still trying to catch your breath even though the torture was over for quite a while, huh? Sounds like the same predicament that you put under me just a while ago!! FEELS NOSTALGIC, ISN'T IT, LITTLE GIRL?!"

  *pant pant pant*

  "Oh, well, here's the game! Let's see how you handle a horde of corpses attacking you all at the same time!! Let's see you survive this!!"

  And then Evelyne controls all of her corpse puppets to march towards the center, where Rena is at the same time.

  *pant pant pant*

  Even under her current condition, she has to survive this, or otherwise, she's dead.

  *FWWOOOOMM*

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  She toughens up and shoots out jet scarlet flames on the bottom of both of her feet to jump above all of the corpses, dodging all of them.

  "O! Nice move, lil bitch!" comments Evelyne.

  "Now do something more exciting!!"

  All of a sudden, all of the corpses jump up high, chasing after Rena. Rena planned to burn them all with her scarlet flame, but she quickly realized that the special properties of her flame would not affect mere corpses.

  Rena improvises in midair. She shoots out jet scarlet flames and spins herself quickly.

  *BAAAMM*

  She kicks all of the corpses while spinning, taking advantage of the momentum and kicking them all on their faces away from the stage, sending them flying towards the audience's seats.

  "UKH!"

  But Rena's maneuver backfires immediately as spinning herself that fast hurts her bleeding stomach and her left shoulder. She quickly falls towards the stage floor below with her back facing downwards.

  *THUMP*

  "AAAAAARRGGGHHH!!!"

  Rena lets out another scream as soon as she hits the stage floor.

  "O little girl! There's no time for rest!!"

  Evelyne has controlled all of her corpse puppets, and they all climbed back up towards the stage. All of the corpses open their hands and purple weaponry of various types appeared in their hands, varying from sword, katana, great sword, axe, hammer, baseball bat, spiked bat, crowbar, sickle, shovel, mace, spear, whip, and many more.

  Rena tried to raise her head to look at her surroundings. She is now aware of the danger of just any one of those purple weapons hitting her, given the wound on her stomach. It might make her numb, and she would succumb and fall on the floor while she tries to dodge them, leaving herself open to more of those weapons hitting her. She is thinking of harmful things happening to her instead of coming up with a plan to counter them. She's currently in an unhealthy, pessimistic state of mind.

  "(Onii-chan. . .I. . . shouldn't have tried to. . . fight her alone. . .)"

  All of the corpses charge forward towards Rena at the same time, wielding their purple weapons. They all raise their hands and are ready to swing their weapons.

  Rena struggles to stand up, but eventually she stands up in time. She swings her right arm upwards, and a wall of scarlet flame emerges. The wall was about as wide as the stage floor was.

  Rena pushes her palm forward, and the wall of the scarlet flame moves forward against the 20 moving corpses. The wall of scarlet flame hits the 20 moving corpses and burns them, but nothing seems to be happening to them. The 20 moving corpses march forward, ignoring the burning scarlet flame on their bodies.

  "(Ah. . .right. . . Didn’t I already deduce that these puppets are the perfect counter for my flame. . . Did she come up with this. . .in such a short amount of time. . .?)"

  "(. . .Alright, I have. . . a plan on my own. . . then. . .)"

  Rena opens her palm, and she emits scarlet flame in a very minuscule amount. She then raises her right arm high, showing it to Evelyne, who's sitting on the metal frame above the stage.

  *?*

  "(Huh? What is she doing? Why is she deliberately showing me her hand? She looks like she's planning something. . .)"

  And then Rena closes her palm fast and puffs out her tiny amount of scarlet flame, and they disperse.

  "(. . .Huh? What the heck?)"

  And then Rena charges forward towards the 20 moving corpses. She then slides on the stage floor and goes through the gaps in the legs of one of the corpses. She immediately gets up and turns around, and swings her right hand as she straightens her palm, and a crescent-shaped scarlet flame comes out of it.

  *FWOOOOMMM*

  The crescent-shaped scarlet flame cuts through all of the moving corpses right in the center of their torso.

  *THUD THUD THUD*

  The upper half of their bodies fall over on the stage floor, rendering them completely harmless as they can no longer wield Evelyne's purple weapons.

  *pant pant pant*

  "(. . .I think. . .I'm starting to get used to. . .to this insane amount of pain. . .either that or. . . I'm just currently full of adrenalines. . .that I can move this well. . .)"

  *pant pant pant*

  "(Well then. . .)"

  Rena looks towards Evelyne.

  *CLAP CLAP CLAP*

  "NICE ONE, LITTLE GIRL!! I seriously thought you were gonna die just now! Didn't expect that kinda movement from you given your current condition, to be honest! Well, then time to torture you again!" said Evelyne as she smirked towards Rena.

  When Evelyne was about to jump off the metal framework above the audience's seats, she noticed Rena doing something. Rena flicks her fingers as she smiles towards Evelyne.

  *!*

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  All of a sudden, on Evelyne's back, a scarlet fireball bursts and burns Evelyne directly. Evelyne immediately falls and crashes down towards the audience's seats below.

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

  She felt both the pain from the scarlet flame and the impact of crashing into the audience's seats. She felt like her left forearm bones were cracked from the fall.

  "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!"

  "Looks like *pant pant* the situation got reversed again *pant pant*"

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHH!!!"

  Again, Evelyne screams her lungs out as a signal of how painful the sharp burning pain on her back felt.

  "Curious about what. . .just happened?"

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "So, see. . .When I showed you my flame. . .I puffed it out but. . .I didn't extinguish it. . . I reduced its size. . .small enough that. . . it was invisible. . .to the human eye that. . .you couldn't even notice it. . .floating directly towards your back. . ."

  "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

  "And then when I'm ready. . .Poof! I rapidly increase its size and it immediately burned you. . ."

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  "I guess. . .I won in the end. . ."

  "AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHH!!!"

  "Now, let's finish you off!!"

  Rena raises her hand and opens her palm. She points her palm towards Evelyne from where she stands on the stage floor.

  *FWOOOOMM*

  Above Rena, a large amount of scarlet flame appears from thin air. The scarlet flame begins to change its shape into a giant bow. The bow is about 7 meters long. And then there's a thin string of scarlet flame stretching from one of its ends to another, acting as the bow string.

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!"

  Rena puts her pointing and middle fingers together, and scarlet flame burns on the tips. She moves her finger as if she's drawing a bow. She pulls her hand backwards, and the bowstring on the scarlet flame bow above her is pulled backwards, following her hand motion.

  *FWOOOOOM*

  A giant arrow made of scarlet flame also appears on the bow above her. The arrow immediately went into the position where its rear edge looked like it had been pulled by the bowstring.

  "Goodbye, Evelyne-san! This time, my scarlet arrow will send you directly towards the most terrifying and agonizing torture chamber, second only to Hell! Enjoy!"

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!"

  Rena stretches her right hand backward to the absolute limit. And when she was just about to release and launch the arrow above.

  ". . . ."

  Rena dismisses her giant bow and arrow from above her head, and it all disappears. Rena shakes her head.

  "No. . . there's no need for that. . ."

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKKHHHHH!!!"

  Rena smirks and changes her mind.

  "I'M GONNA TORTURE HER DIRECTLY INSTEAD!!!"

  Rena starts walking towards the edge of the stage. She jumps off and lands on the audience's seat below.

  "AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  She walks towards Evelyne.

  "Time to make you scream louder for everything you did to me!"

  Rena opens her palm and points towards Evelyne, who's struggling to control her screams.

  "GO TO HELL, TERRORIST-SAN!!!"

  *!!!*

  Rena was about to shoot her scarlet flamethrower at point-blank range towards Evelyne. But Evelyne suddenly stands up and creates a big purple flat rectangle between Rena and herself. Evelyne pushes the rectangle forward, and it launches Rena away towards the center of the stage.

  *BAAM*

  *ZAP*

  "ARGH!!"

  But as Rena was flying in midair above the center of the stage, Evelyne created another purple rectangle vertically that acted as a wall, and Rena crashed into it.

  *THUMP*

  *ZAP*

  "AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKHHH!!"

  Rena's whole body was zapped by the purple rectangle in midair.

  *THUD*

  Soon after, the purple rectangle vanishes, and Rena's body falls into the center of the stage.

  *pant pant pant*

  Rena almost passed out when she crashed onto the stage floor. She tried her hardest to hold on to her consciousness.

  "Onii. . .chan. . ."

  Evelyne stands up in the audience's seat.

  "*pant pant pant* YOUR FAITH POWER *pant pant* IS REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING *pant pant* IT BARELY DID ANY ACTUAL DAMAGE TO ME *pant pant* BUT I FUCKING HATE HOW PAINFUL IT IS *pant pant*"

  Evelyne slowly walks towards the stage.

  "THE SITUATION *pant pant* JUST GOT REVERSED AGAIN *pant pant* LITTLE BITCH!!"

  Evelyne reaches the edge of the stage. She struggles to climb up on it because of the intense pain she feels in her entire body.

  "I *pant pant* INJECTED YOU *pant pant* WITH PRIDE AGAIN!! *pant pant* YOU'RE DEAD *pant pant* THIS TIME!!"

  *pant pant pant*

  Rena is lying on the stage floor with her face facing downwards as she heavily breathes. She realized that a small pool of blood had now formed, flowing out from her stomach and her left shoulder.

  ". . . .I lost. . .too much blood. . .I'm blacking out. . .Onii. . .chan. . ."

  Rena passes out on the floor as more of her blood pours out, little by little, from her wounds.

  Evelyne has finally climbed to the stage. She stands up in front of Rena, near her head.

  "What *pant pant* the?"

  Evelyne taps Rena's head with the bottom of her heels.

  ". . .ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? SHE LOST HER CONSCIOUSNESS? MAN, IT'S NO FUN TORTURING SOMEONE IF THEY'RE NOT WIDE AWAKE!! WHAT A FUCKING LET DOWN!!"

  ". . . . ."

  Evelyne thinks to herself for a bit.

  "Ah, well, I'll just cut her legs off this time *pant pant* I wanna see her reactions when she wakes up later! I'd better bring her to the HQ as well!! HAHAHAHAHAH!! THAT SHOULD BE FUN!!"

  Evelyne raises her right arm. She opens her palm and is about to create a purple sword on it.

  *GRAB*

  *!!!!!!*

  But then someone grabbed her hand from behind. Evelyne was shocked and surprised because she didn't even feel someone's presence sneaking up to her from behind. She slowly turns his head around.

  *!!!*

  Evelyne saw a man taller than him grabbing her right hand with his. The man has spiky brown hair that waves from behind to the front. He wears a black and grey short-sleeved collared shirt with dark blue long jeans and a dark blue pair of shoes. He is 170cm tall and weighs 70kg. He has slightly visible muscles throughout his body. He wears a silver necklace with a square object as its pendant hanging on the inside of his clothes. He seems to be 18 years old.

  It was Runelt. Rena's stepbrother has finally arrived.

  He takes a glance over towards Rena, who's lying on the stage floor on her own puddle of blood, missing her entire left arm as well as the hole on the stomach, that is also visible from the back.

  *!!!*

  "AARGGHH!!"

  Runelt hardened his grip on Evelyne's hand, she felt like her bones were breaking.

  "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY SISTER?"

  Runelt's tone was his angriest he's ever been. His anger skyrocketed, and he is clearly not happy.