Sierra is bowing her head on the ground with everyone in the stadium watching. Mari was heavily confused, wondering to herself if this was still the same Sierra from before, the one who murdered all of his friends in cold blood, all for the sake of money.
“. . .”
Mari’s face looked so very distressed and confused.
“What are you apologizing to me for?” said Mari.
“. . .”
For a split second, the smiles of everyone flash through Mari’s mind.
“IF YOU WANNA APOLOGIZE, APOLOGIZE TO THEM!!!”
“. . .”
Sierra slowly lifts her head and stares at Mari’s eyes with her neutral and flat facial expression.
“HIBIKI-KUN! NOBI-KUN! SAKURA-CHAN!! SUMIRE-CHAN!! RYUJI-KUN!! HONDA-CHAAAAAANNNN!!!!”
Mari screams so loud that it’s hurting her throat, but everyone in the stadium can clearly hear her.
“IF YOU WANNA APOLOGIZE!! IF YOU SINCERELY SORRY FOR WHAT YOU DID!! THEN BRING THEM BACK TO LIFE!! BRING THEM ALL BACK TO ME!!!”
Mari starts crying as she falls to her knees on the ground.
*sobs sobs*
“Mari-chan.”
Eissen approaches her, grabs her shoulders, and helps her to stand up.
“You, okay?”
“*sobs* yeah. . .”
Mari pushes Eissen away gently, signaling that she is fine.
*BAM*
She summons her giant scythe in her right hand and slams its bottom handle towards the ground. A giant burning skull suddenly appears behind her. It opens its mouth wide, and suddenly, 6 human souls came out of it and floated next to Mari.
*!!!!*
Sierra was flabbergasted by what she saw; she even lost her neutral expression for a bit.
“Mari-chan. . . What on earth is your Faith power?”
All of the human souls are see-through in white color. Sierra recognizes all of their faces.
“Everyone. . .”
Little by little, everyone in the stadium realizes what those human souls are, and they start freaking out one by one.
“HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!”
“ARE THOSE GHOSTS?”
“DEAD PEOPLE?? THOSE ARE DEAD PEOPLE???”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
“PAPAAAAAA!!! I’M SCARREEEEEDDDD!!!”
“UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
The crowds start panicking. All the BWC fighters were also flabbergasted.
“D-Dead people?” said Revon.
“That’s her Faith power? The power to control Death or something?” said Megumi.
“That is on a completely different level than my Faith power.” said Ardina.
“Oi, oi, oi, oi! Are you serious? That’s kinda messed up!” said Arthur.
“Someone that strong has that kind of Faith power. . .” said Selam.
Lukia was also shocked learning what Mari’s Faith power truly is.
“I just fought someone who controls Death itself?”
But out of everyone, the most dumbfounded one was Eissen. His anger suddenly spikes hard as veins become visible on his face.
*THUD THUD THUD*
He approaches Mari with anger, and there is so much power in his every step.
“MARI-CHAN!!”
*!!!*
He suddenly shouted and startled everyone in the stadium. He grabs Mari’s collar in anger and pulls her closer to him.
“MARI-CHAN!! WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING? WHY ARE YOU KEEPING THEM WITH YOU INSTEAD OF GIVING THEM TO GOD?”
He shouted right in front of Mari’s face. Everyone in the stadium is quite alarmed by Eissen’s anger, considering that he has been aiding Mari with everything this whole time.
*!!!*
But as soon as he saw her face, he let go of her collar, and his anger instantly faded away.
*sobs sobs*
Mari is sobbing and panting. Tears are rolling down her face. Her face doesn’t even have any shred of hatred anymore; instead, she has a face that simply wishes all of her friends were still alive with her. Not to mention the fact that, as her Support, Eissen can directly feel what she feels.
Mari’s deep hatred towards Sierra was overwhelmed by her feelings of missing the most important people in her life. She broke down in tears and cried even harder as she fell on her knees on the ground yet again.
*sobs sobs*
Eissen approaches Mari once again slowly.
“Mari-chan, release them.”
*sobs sobs*
“Okay. . .”
The giant burning skull behind her disappears and crumbles. As soon as that happens, the 6 human souls in front of her slowly disintegrate into nothingness.
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“Everyone. . . *sobs sobs*”
Mari looks towards them for one last time. She watched them as they faded away.
“I’m sorry *sobs sobs* for keeping you all here *sobs sobs*”
And then all the human souls ceased from the physical world.
*sobs sobs*
Mari continues to cry on the ground with her hands wiping away her non-stop tears.
“Are they gone now?” asks Sierra to Eissen.
“Yeah. Now they’re with God. . .”
“God. . .”
And then Sierra also sheds her tears, and she cries silently. Mari slowly stops crying and lifts her head.
*!!!*
But then she saw that Sierra was also crying. She immediately stops crying and stands up. She summons her giant scythe once again, and her anger suddenly spikes.
“Mari-chan?” asks Eissen, confused.
She hastily approaches Sierra as she raises her scythe above her head.
*FWWOOOMM*
The blade of her giant scythe burns in bright green, and she swings it really fast towards Sierra’s neck.
*!!!*
Everyone in the stadium is still processing Mari’s Faith power and the six human souls, and even Lukia reacted really slowly when she saw Mari was about to swing her scythe at Sierra’s neck.
“S-SI-CHAN!! OH NO!!!”
Lukia tried to move her body and create a giant shark head made of water, but there was no way she could make it in time.
Eissen summons his pistol in a hurry and points it towards Mari’s front to interrupt her, but he is also late in his reaction, so there is no way he could make it in time.
All of the BWC fighters were also dumbfounded as they all realized that there was no way they could all interfere with her swing, given how far away they were from her. Sierra herself has no intention to defend herself. She is completely ready to be killed by Mari. Everyone was already thinking that Sierra was going to die here.
*GRAAAHHKKKK*
*CTRAAANNNGGGG*
*THUMP*
All of a sudden, a golden light came down from the sky, broke through the green fire dome, and landed directly in front of Mari. The gigantic green fire dome has a hole, but it quickly regenerated and closed in. The golden light quickly dispersed, and a person emerged from it.
*!!!!!!*
Everyone was startled and shocked that there was someone from the outside who was able to break in through Mari’s gigantic green fire dome, especially after seeing that no Believer inside the dome was able to break free. Even Sierra entered because Mari allowed her to.
Lukia, Sierra, Mari, Eissen, and all the BWC fighters were all dumbfounded after seeing someone completely new suddenly appear inside the stadium.
*drip drip*
There was a person in front of Mari, and the person stopped her giant scythe by grabbing it on the blade with their bare hands. It was actually a female’s hand, seeing how smooth and beautiful the skin was. Her palm is bleeding from directly grabbing the blade of the scythe.
“W-Who. . . are you?” asks Mari.
The person was a 20-year-old woman. She has a pair of yellow eyes and yellow hair with a flat bang. Her hair is straight, silky smooth, and long, reaching her lower back. The girl is 169cm tall and weighs 69kg. Her bust size is E-cup. She wears a yellow and black jacket that has a big black X crossing in the middle, although the X is warped due to her bust size. The jacket has a high collar with two buttons, but she leaves her jacket open, unzipped. She wears a black and white T-shirt on the inside. She also wears a black skirt that reaches slightly above her knees with a black belt. She wears a pair of long black socks as well as a pair of yellow running shoes.
*FLAPS*
There is a giant pair of golden, feathery wings coming out of her back with a span of 2 meters in length, each.
“My name’s Leonna Velynia, Judge number five, the Judge of Gluttony. I am part of Seven Layers of Judgment.”
*!!!!*
Mari and Eissen were shocked to hear the word ‘judge’ coming out of her mouth.
“Are you for real?” asks Mari to confirm.
“. . .”
Leonna silently moves one of her wings to touch the giant scythe.
*!!!*
Both her wing and Mari’s giant scythe suddenly break apart and disappear.
*!!!!!*
Everyone in the stadium was shocked and confused. They all have known about the weapons or tools of Armament type Believers being indestructible, so they cannot comprehend what they have just witnessed.
“What just? What is this? How did you break my scythe?”
“I didn’t break your scythe. This is just what happens when Judge’s Faith power touches one another.”
“So, you really are a Judge. . .”
“Why would I lie about being a Judge?”
“. . .good point.”
“Who is that woman? She was able to break through the giant green fire dome when I couldn’t.” said Lukia.
“I couldn’t either, Lu-chan.” said Sierra.
“So, what were you trying to do? As I recall, you were swinging your scythe towards this girl’s neck, what’s up with her?” said Leonna as she pointed to Sierra.
“Why are you here? What are you trying to do? This has nothing to do with you!”
“Actually, it has everything to do with me! In fact, it has everything to do with the rest of the Judges!”
“Huh?”
“We all serve the same God. I can’t just let you murder someone in front of these many people and misrepresent His character.”
*BAM*
Mari summons back her giant scythe in her hand and slams its bottom handle to the ground.
“LEAVE ME ALONE!! OR I’LL KILL YOU TOO!”
*!!*
“M-Mari-chan!”
Eissen approaches her and grabs her by the shoulders to calm her down.
“Listen, I never agreed to actually help you kill someone, only to set up a condition for her to show up! I’m not gonna change my mind now!”
“Ei-chan. . .”
“By the way of your wording, you’ve helped her infiltrate this tournament and take people hostage to set up this whole thing?” said Leonna.
“I just want the two of them to meet again and have a talk. They haven’t met with each other for a while.”
“Involving this number of people because of personal matters? Are you two nuts?”
Eissen was stunted by Leonna’s words.
“Who are you, by the way?” asks Leonna.
“My name is Eissen Divalo. I am the 6th Judge’s Support.”
“Oh, nice to meet you, I’m Leonna Velynia!”
“UUhh, you already introduced yourself. . . So, what’s gonna happen now?”
“Hmm, let me think. . .”
Leonna pulls out her smartphone and she videocalls someone.
*BEEP*
“Eh?? I have no signal?”
“Ah! It's because of my jamming device up there!” said Eissen, pointing upwards.
“Eh? Can you do something about it? I wanna call someone!”
“Depends on who you are trying to call.”
“Our leader, the First Judge!”
*!*
“The First Judge?”
Eissen thinks to himself for a few seconds. He raises his arm, and the jamming device in the sky descends rapidly into his hand.
*Beep beep beep*
He did something to it, and then he threw the jamming device upwards, and it floated back to its original position in the air.
“Alright, I’ve allowed your phone to be specifically not affected.”
“Eh? And you don’t even need my phone for that? What kind of Faith power do you have?”
“That's besides the point! Go on!”
“Right. . .”
*BEEP*
“Hm? Videocall? What’s wrong, Leonna-san?”
Someone else’s voice came out of her phone.
“LEADER-KUN! LONG TIME NO SEE!! YOUR FACE IS AS CUTE AS EVER!!”
Leonna video calls Light, and his face appears on the screen. But then, Lily’s face suddenly appeared on the screen.
“WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY BOYFRIEND AGAIN, LEONNA-SAN?!”
“AW! HELLO, LILY-SAN!! LONG TIME NO SEE AS WELL!!! CHILL WITH THE MURDEROUS THREAT, OKAY?”
. . . . .
Everyone in the stadium felt awkward watching Leonna on her call. She suddenly points her phone’s camera towards Mari and Eissen.
“So, anyway! Guys! I found the 6th Judge pair!!!”
*!!!*
“W-WHAT?”
Light and Lily are panicking from the other side of the screen.
“By the way, where are you two right now?”
“We’re flying above the skies of Sydney, Australia.”
“Hmm, that’s quite far! How long can you reach this place?”
“This place? Where are you right now, Leonna-san?”
“Jakarta!”
“EEEEEHHHH?? THE 6TH JUDGE PAIR ARE OVER THERE RIGHT NOW?”
“EEEEHHHHH?? THAT’S SO CLOSE TO MY HOUSE!!!”
“So, wanna come, 1st Judge Pair?” said Leonna.
“WE’LL BE THERE!!!”
“Eh, wait. We can’t just ignore lust cases that we might come across on our way there. . .”
“Hmmm. . . Then can’t you just stop time until you get here?”
“I mean I can. . . Sure, why not!”
Lily was about to stop time, but Leonna shouted in panic.
“W-WAIT!! LILY-SAANN!!!”
*?*
“W-What’s wrong?”
“The moment you stop time, this video call will be shut off. I haven’t even exactly told you where I am specifically.”
“Oops! You, right!”
“Oh, right, also, is it possible for you to choose a few individuals so they aren’t affected by your time stop?”
“Yeah, that’s possible. Show me their faces!”
“Alright!”
Leonna flips her phone towards Mari and Eissen.
“W-What are you doing, Velynia-san?” asks Eissen.
“Eeeehhhh?? It’s fine to call me by my given name!”
“A-Alright, what are you trying to do, Leonna-san?”
“Right now, I have no idea what drives her to even accomplish something like this, so I would like to have a neutral stance after I find out what happens between her and her. And I need help from the First Judge pair!” said Leonna.
“W-what?”
*INHALES*
Leonna takes a long and deep breath before she shouts to everyone in the stadium.
“EVERYONEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! AS A JUDGE AND ONE OF THE SEVEN LAYERS OF JUDGMENT!! I PROMISE ALL OF YOU THAT WE WILL RESOLVE THIS ISSUE AS PEACEFULLY AS POSSIBLE!!
*!!!*
Everyone was surprised at what Leonna said. They suddenly have hopes regarding their situation. She suddenly turns around towards both Mari and Sierra.
“And as for you two! We're going to have a very long talk!” said Leonna as she smiled.
