The loud sounds of giant ice crashing into the gigantic creatures reverberated throughout the sky and the seas below. The crash and violent collision keep happening for an entire minute.

  For every ice tower that hits the gigantic creatures, it creates a massive shockwave and an earthquake, so for the entire 60 seconds, the seas around them kept shaking and created massive waves violently, and their intensity keeps increasing by the milliseconds. Every collision also creates a thick amount of fog, and its thickness increases by the milliseconds as well that the human eye can no longer see through the fog.

  Yuki herself has flown away to the sky above and out of her ice prison with a pair of draconic wings of ice on her back.

  After a few seconds, the rumbling and utter chaos of the situation finally died down, and a loud silence quickly followed. After the fog let up, Yuki could finally see massive amounts of giant debris of ice piling up to the size of a small mountain, so it looks like there's always been a giant mountain buried by snow in the middle of the ocean.

  ". . . ."

  It was sickeningly silent for a whole minute after the complete chaos and destruction caused by Yuki.

  "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

  All of a sudden, there was a burst of magma from under all of that debris of ice shooting upwards.

  It was actually Claudia who flew upwards, leaving trails of lava. She then floats in the sky riding a chunk of magma. Upon closer look, she looks severely beaten up. There are scratches and grazes everywhere on her body, she bleeds on so many different parts of her body, there were also bruises in blue color across her entire body, her right arms, her left shoulder, her right leg, her left knee, her forehead, the left side of her neck, her waist, her right back arms and her lower back. There are also bits of ice everywhere, spread out throughout her entire body.

  She also struggles to stand. She kept holding her right hand, and she struggled to put her head up. She also breathes and pants heavily. Her clothes are torn and have holes everywhere, both big and small.

  *pant pant pant*

  "Screw this. . . SCREW YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!"

  Yuki looks towards Claudia.

  "You look awful. It's time to stop. What's the point of continuing anymore?"

  "OF COURSE THERE'S A POINT!! I AM THE 9TH STRONGEST BELIEVER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD, DAMMIT! I AM NOT ABOUT TO BE DEFEATED BY SOME RANDOM GIRL I CAME ACROSS BY CHANCE!!"

  "So, it's about pride, I wish you had met the Judge of Pride instead."

  "QUIET! QUIET! QUIET! QUIET!! I AM NOT DONE YEEEEETTT!! SCREW THE SAFETY PROTOCOLS!! I'LL DEFEAT YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!"

  Claudia raises her right hand above her head.

  *!!!*

  All of a sudden, there is a massive earthquake across the entirety of the Sea of Japan, although none of them can actually feel it since they're both in midair. And then, from every corner of the ocean, massive magma eruptions happened. There are thousands of them, and each eruption also causes a large earthquake in the surrounding area.

  "Stop it, Claudia-san. You're gonna involve innocent people in this."

  "WHO FUCKING CARES ANYMORE!! ALL I CARE ABOUT IS PROOF THAT I AM STRONGER THAN YOU!!!"

  All of the magma that erupts from the bottom of the ocean flows into the air at one single point in the sky. All of the magma gathers into a massive ball of magma, and it keeps increasing in size.

  "Claudia-san."

  "SHUT UP AND GO TO HEEEEEEEEEELLL!!"

  There is a massive magma ball high up in the sky. In such a short amount of time, Claudia has created a gigantic magma ball that is about half the size of the moon's diameter. Its sheer size completely filled up the sky of the Sea of Japan. The gigantic magma ball was also bigger than the entirety of Russia itself. Its sheer existence filled up about 10% of the entire earth's sky.

  ". . . ."

  Yuki decided to use her trump card. She cannot let Claudia launch her attack. Her attack would cause the planet to blow up. She takes a deep breath and exhales slowly. She slowly moves her right hand forward and opens her right palm.

  "Heavenly ice, Time freeze."

  And then all of a sudden, as the sky goes black, time has come to a halt, but only on the entirety of the Sea of Japan and also the entirety of Claudia's supermassive magma ball.

  This is Yuki's trump card. She summons an ice so cold it freezes the fabric of space and time itself by freezing the space of the Sea of Japan's entire width and height, and Claudia's supermassive magma ball's entire diameter, creating an isolated space where time has been frozen in place.

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  The heavenly ice is a conceptual power that doesn't exist, yet it can affect existing things. It has no form, but it can take shape. Only Yuki can perceive its existence. To Yuki, the heavenly ice looked like a very transparent and clear ice that occasionally shines and glows, flowing through its entire shape, which travels within milliseconds.

  This is what Yuki's Faith power is, it's called Absolute Ice, Elemental type. The power of complete dominance over ice and the concept of coldness itself. She can create just about any type of ice just as she pleases, but her strongest one is the one she just used, the Heavenly ice. She has the strongest ice Faith power in the entire world. Her Source is located on her left foot.

  Yuki discards her draconic ice wings and grows another pair of wings made of her Heavenly ice. Her wings are now the shape of angelic, feathery wings. She puts her right hand forward and she summons an invisible katana made of her Heavenly ice. She slowly lifts the katana and points its tip towards the half-moon-sized and supermassive magma ball in the sky.

  "Heavenly ice, Cold Salvation."

  From the tip of Yuki's invisible katana, an invisible light shoots out and strikes the supermassive magma ball in the sky instantly. And then, in matters of milliseconds, the entirety of the supermassive magma ball was frozen. Then it immediately turns into snow, and then it all crumbles and withered away into trillions of pieces smaller than a size that is visible to the human eye.

  Yuki disposes of her Heavenly ice katana and pair of wings, and she re-summons her draconic ice wings on her back again.

  Yuki takes a glance at Claudia. She flies towards her quickly. She creates a dragon head on her right hand, and a katana slides out of it. Yuki stabs Claudia right at the center of her chest. And then she undoes her Time Freeze by discarding all of her Heavenly ice from the entirety of the Sea of Japan. Time has started to move again in the Sea of Japan.

  Claudia was shocked that Yuki was suddenly in front of her and that she also already stabbed her. It all happens instantly from her perspective.

  "W-What. . .? How. . .did you? W-When. . .?"

  Claudia also looked upwards and realized the gigantic magma balls she created had entirely disappeared in the blink of an eye.

  "Game over, Claudia-san. Your chest is where your Source is. I've noticed how severely wounded you are all over the body, yet your chest was completely clean and unharmed. You got wounded in the chest by my ice towers, didn't you? That's why you purposely stay quiet under the debris for a minute to wait until your Source fully heals."

  "Y. . .You. . .!"

  In a battle between Elemental-type Believer, the winner is decided by whoever finds out where the other's Source is located on their body. Once the Source is located, it becomes a glaring weak spot for Elemental Believers cause if their Source was harmed, it won't hurt them at all, but they lose access to their Faith power. Their body part will regenerate and heal itself in 30 seconds, but then they cannot use their Faith power for another 30 seconds. But the important part is that the Source must get away from any harm first before it can even begin to regenerate. That's why Yuki kept her katana in Claudia's chest to completely lock her Faith power.

  "It's over, Claudia-san. I win."

  ". . .Damn. . .it. . ."

  "Go to sleep, Claudia-san."

  Yuki puts her left hand on Claudia's face, and she freezes her entire body. Before Claudia's frozen body falls, Yuki creates a giant bird of ice, and she puts Claudia on its back. Yuki and the ice bird descend towards the massive debris of ice below. They landed safely below, and the ice bird crumbled into pieces.

  "*Sigh* It's finally over. . ."

  Yuki falls on her back on the ice without a care in the world. She was obviously exhausted from the intense fight against the 9th Strongest Believer in the world. Her body ached all over, plus all the burnt wounds she suffered from the fight. She has overextended her physical body's capability.

  . . . . .

  Yuki opens her eyes and looks towards the sky. Another giant bird of ice descends to her location as per her will.

  "KOUHAAAAAAAAAAAIIIII!!"

  Neo was screaming at the top of his lungs. When the giant ice bird reaches a certain height, Neo jumps off of it and dives down towards the debris of ice below.

  "KOUHAAAAAAAAAAAAIII!!"

  *THUMP*

  Neo landed safely by transforming his feet into silver. He quickly runs towards where Yuki is lying. Neo immediately crouches next to her.

  "Kouhai! Are you okay?"

  "Of course I am, senpai. I told you, didn't I? That I am going to win."

  "*Sigh* I was so worried when that woman created that gigantic magma in the sky. That thing covered up the entire sky, but then it just suddenly vanished without a trace. What happened then?"

  "All I can say is that I used my trump card, heheheh." laughs Yuki monotonously.

  Yuki raises her fist, and Neo smiles and responds immediately. They both fist-bump each other.

  ". . .Senpai, please put my head to rest on your lap."

  "Huh? Um. . .alright."

  Neo pulls Yuki's head gently and places it on his lap.

  "Like this?"

  "Yes, senpai. It's really comfy."

  "*sigh* okay okay. Is there anything else you want me to do ?"

  "Please pat my hair and tell me I did a good job."

  "W-what?"

  Neo gently and slowly pats and rubs Yuki's hair.

  "You did outstandingly, my dear kouhai!"

  Hearing what Neo said, Yuki's face got a bit red, but she didn't even try to cover her face from the embarrassment this time due to the extreme exhaustion. She was so touched that she couldn't even come up with anything to respond.

  .

  .

  .

  About 15 minutes of silence and hair rubbing later.

  "Senpai, I think I can move a bit now."

  Yuki gets up and sits on the ice. Neo looks towards Claudia's frozen body.

  "What are we gonna do with her?"

  ". . . ."

  Yuki stands up, but she struggles a bit. Her body is shaking and trembling. Neo immediately stands up as well and helps her to stand stably.

  "Thanks, senpai."

  "Don't mention it."

  Yuki then opens her right hand, and the Sword of Purification appears.

  "Say, senpai, aren't you interested in that woman's memories towards Karin-senpai?"

  *!!*

  "Are you gonna--?"

  "Yes, she seems to know a bit more about what happened to Karin-senpai. There seems to be some stuff missing about Karin-senpai from your memories, senpai."

  ". . . .Alright. Do it, kouhai!"

  "Okay."

  Yuki and Neo walk slowly towards Claudia's frozen body, as Neo helps her walk.

  Yuki stabs Claudia in the chest, and after a few seconds, the Sword turns black. Yuki pulls out the Sword and looks at it.

  ". . .You ready, senpai?"

  ". . .yes. . ."

  Yuki pointed the tip of the Sword towards her chest and stabbed herself with it.

  "Ukh. . ."

  And then, as if a bunch of videos appeared in both Yuki and Neo's heads, they received a precious memory of certain events in Claudia's life.

  *!!!*

  However, instead of Claudia, they receive memories of Karin, and even everything that happened was from her perspective instead.