The man sits on the edge of the gigantic chandelier with his legs hanging over the edge.
“. . .”
The Game Master looks at the man with an unbelieving look on his face.
“W-Who are----? HOW DID YOU ENTER THIS SPACE???”
“How? I just warp here normally.”
The man vanished from his spot, and his voice was heard directly near the Game master and Claire. Time had not passed, and he was already standing behind them.
*!!!!*
Both the Game Master and Claire jump back and turn around. They land 2 meters in front of the short staircase. The man turns around, and all four of them finally get a good look at his face and appearance.
The man has short black hair. Many of his hair strands stand out across the shape of his head. He has a pair of silver eyes with spiky bangs. He wears a long-sleeved white hoodie with pale pink fur around his neck; the edge of his sleeves also has pale pink fur, and there is a vertical pale pink trim on the center. He wears a waistbelt with a checkered pattern of black and pale pink. He also wears a pair of black long jeans, a pair of white socks, and a pair of pale pink running shoes. His facial expression looks cold, yet the way he speaks is very proper. He is 165cm tall and weighs around 63kg.
“Kasumi-chan, what should we do?”
“I don’t know. It seems like even the Game Master doesn’t know who that man is.”
Kasumi and Luna whisper to each other very quietly.
“You three! Are you all okay??”
*!!!!*
The man suddenly appeared behind them. There was no delay, and he just somehow magically appeared behind them. Kasumi and Luna turn around. Kasumi enters her battle stance while Luna commands ‘Hana’ to enter her battle stance.
The man quickly puts his open palms forward.
“Ah, guys, guys! Relax! I am not a terrorist or anything! I am on your side!”
*!!*
“You’re. . . on our side?” asks Kasumi.
“Yes! Calm down, alright! I will take care of everything!”
“Who are you supposed to be?”
“My name is Lucas Xein. I am someone from the Ten Commandments of God. Third Strongest Believer in the world. I am what they call the King of Space!”
*!!!!!!!*
All four of them were shocked once the man, Lucas, introduced himself.
“T-Third strongest. . .?” said Claire.
“King of Space?” said the Game Master.
“Ten Commandments of God?” said Kasumi.
“Number three?” said Luna.
*?!*
Lucas looks towards ‘Hana’.
“You can turn off your Faith power! I am not gonna hurt any of you!”
“Uum, excuse me, sir, but that is not a real person!”
Luna discards ‘Hana’, and she disappears.
“EH?”
“That was my Faith power, sir!” said Luna shyly.
“Wow, kids these days have strange Faith powers.” said Lucas with a concerning look on his face.
“But sir, I am fifteen years old! I am definitely not a kid!”
“Oh! I apologize if I offend you.”
*SNAPS*
*!!!*
The Game Master snaps his fingers and creates 20 giant futuristic cannons all around him. All of his cannons point their barrels at Kasumi, Luna, and Lucas. All of the cannons immediately shoot their premature energy beams.
Kasumi and Luna both immediately try to react. Lucas remains the only one who’s completely unbothered.
*!!*
But then all of the energy beams vanished without a trace when they almost reached the three of them.
“Can you not?” said Lucas.
“H-HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!”
“I simply warp them all out to a random room inside this maze of yours.”
“. . .”
“Hmm, I see. You have around 3,000 other people along with you, huh?”
*!!!!*
“HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?”
“Hey, hey! I am the King of Space! All manners of spatial manipulation and such belong to me, including this pocket dimension.”
Lucas vanished from his spot and appeared behind the Game Master and Claire again, instantly. They both turn around to face him.
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?”
“I just finished dealing with a bunch of terrorists on the other side of the world. During that mission, I sensed that someone had captured around 24,000 people in Australia and trapped them inside this maze of yours. I immediately warped here once I am done, but it seems like I was late.”
*SIGH*
Lucas let out a big sigh.
“Late again and again and again. Time was never my strong suit after all. . .”
*!*
Claire suddenly charges forward and thrusts her right arm at Lucas’s chest. She grows her antlers on that forearm.
*!!*
But all of her antlers suddenly disappeared when they almost touched Lucas, and they all appeared behind him.
“W-what is this??” said Claire with a confused look.
“C-CLAIRE!! DON’T BE AGGRESSIVE SO SUDDENLY!!” the Game Master shouts in panic.
*SNAPS*
He snapped his finger, and Claire was teleported from her spot and appeared to his right.
*!*
But Lucas also warps to the Game Master’s left. Again, his warp takes no time at all, and he is just instantly at the place he wants to be with zero delay.
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“So, I take it, you two are the masterminds behind this giant playground of yours, correct?”
*SNAP*
The Game Master snaps his fingers, and Claire vanishes completely from her spot.
“She has nothing to do with any of this. I am the owner of this entire maze!”
“I see. If she is that important to you, then why did you even drag her into this mess of yours in the first place?”
“Spare me your fake concern! What do you want, Third Strongest-san?”
“What do I want? Isn’t that obvious??”
Lucas vanishes and appears right in front of the Game Master in the same instance.
“I am stopping this whole killing game of yours!!”
*!!*
“How did you even know about this killing game?”
“I simply scan this entire maze, and I happen to notice a lot of people are being killed, and corpses are scattered throughout your maze!”
“Heeeeh! What are you gonna do to me?”
“Simple!”
Lucas points his open palm forward and closes it.
*!!!*
All of a sudden, the Game Master was encased inside a purple cube with a size proportionate to his height and width. The purple cube suddenly made a ‘pop’ sound, and it shrank into the size of a mini figure, about 1 cm x 1 cm.
The mini cube flies automatically and lands in Lucas’s open palm. He grabs it and puts it in his pocket. He turns around towards Kasumi and Luna.
“Alright, this killing game is over! I’ve secured the guy responsible for it!”
. . . . .
Kasumi and Luna were in utter disbelief. They were struggling with their life on the line, and this man just completely captured the Game Master with extreme ease.
“Uuhh, guys??”
Neither of them responds to him.
“Guys?!”
Lucas walks closer towards them.
“Halo? Hey! I forgot to ask this, but do you know who that is?” said Lucas as he was pointing towards the jail cell hanging above the throne.
*!!*
“T-That’s our friend! She passed out earlier during the fight!” said Kasumi.
“Ah, you guys finally respond!”
“S-Sir, can you please put our friend down from up there??” asks Luna.
“Hm? Piece of cake! But I’ll do you three something better!”
“Huh?” said Kasumi and Luna in harmony.
“This should be appropriate.”
Lucas raises his right hand and snaps his finger.
*SNAP*
*!!!!!*
Suddenly, Kasumi, Luna, and even Hana were teleported outside.
“. . .Kasumi-chan. It’s. . .outside. . .”
“. . .It is. . .We’re finally. . .outside. . .”
The three of them were sitting in an open rectangular area inside the city, surrounded by buildings and houses intended for recreational and social purposes. It is a gigantic empty space with 200,000 square kilometers in size.
The gigantic pitch black dome was no more. Every building and person that was transported into the infinite maze was returned to their rightful coordinates. The buildings were completely fine and undamaged, but as for the people, of the 24,000 people in total dragged into the infinite maze, only three people survived. All of the people who had died were also transported back to their initial places, though as corpses. This quickly creates chaos and erupts across the city.
“It’s finally. . .over. . .”
*thud*
Luna falls to her back on the floor and passes out. Hana was next to Luna, and she is still unconscious.
*Thud*
Kasumi also falls to her back on the concrete floor.
“I can. . . finally rest. . .”
Kasumi slowly closes her eyes as her consciousness also fades away.
*!!!*
But then she saw a figure that she missed so dearly.
“KASUMI!!”
“Ah. . . Master. . . Quroe. . .”
Quroe has come down next to Kasumi and sits on the floor. Kasumi subconsciously touches Quroe’s left cheek with her hand.
“Master Quroe. . . I never realized how handsome you are. . .”
“Kasumi?”
“Ah. . . Also, you’re calling me. . . by my name now. . . Yay. . .”
Kasumi’s hand falls motionlessly to the floor, and she finally passes out as well.
“HANA!!”
Kaito also comes down from above and approaches Hana as quickly as possible. He quickly does a check-up on her entire body.
“PHEW! She doesn’t have any major wounds. . . Thank GOD!!”
Kaito lets out a giant sigh of relief. But as for Quroe---
“. . .”
Quroe glances over to Kasumi’s left hand. He instinctively summons the Sword of Purification. He stabs it into Kasumi’s chest, absorbing her recent negative memories, and pulls it out. He stabs the blackened sword into his own chest, and he receives Kasumi’s memories about everything that happened inside the infinite maze.
“. . .”
He stands up and does the same to Luna, and receives Luna’s memories inside the maze as well.
“. . .”
“Quroe-san?”
“You should do it too to your girlfriend, Kaito-san.”
“R-Right.”
Kaito did as he was told and received Hana’s memories.
*!!!*
“Q-QUROE-SAN!! I APOLOGIZE!! I NEVER MEANT TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT HER!! I WAS JUST AFRAID ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD REACT GIVEN THAT THE OTHER JUDGES WERE SO HARSH TOWARDS HER ‘FORM’!!”
“It’s alright, Kaito-san. It’s not your fault. The concerning part is the number of murderers from the Underworld partaking in this entire killing game. And now they’re all outside with us.”
*!!*
Kaito and Quroe look to the front and see thousands of people walking towards them. They all look very rough, rude, harsh, and bloodlusted, varying between men and women. They were about 30 meters away from them.
“Quroe-san. . .”
“Yeah.”
A lot of the criminals from the underworld wield their weapons, and in some of those weapons, the heads of the victims are dangling. One of them even has the head of an entire family, consisting of the father’s, the mother’s, and the daughter’s heads, stabbed on a spear, stacked as if they’re barbecue. Some of them also wear those heads as necklaces around their necks. Some also wore them as backpacks, hanging from their backs.
“. . .”
“Quroe-san, there are so many of them gathered here! What should we do?”
“. . .”
“HEEEEYYYY!!! ARE YOU THE ONE THEY CALLED SERIAL KILLER JUDGE?”
*?!*
Kaito was confused, but Quroe was unbothered.
“WHEN WE WERE JUST INSIDE THE MAZE, WE ALL HEARD THE SAME VOICE TELLING US TO GO DEFEAT THE FAMOUS SERIAL KILLER JUDGE IF WE CAN!!!”
“YEAH! YEAH!! IS THAT A CHALLENGE?? A THIN MAN LIKE YOU IS SOMEONE FAMOUS? BAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!”
“IF YOU’RE NOT HIM, PLEASE STEP ASIDE AND LEAVE THOSE THREE GIRLS WITH US!! WE WANNA PLAY WITH THEM!!”
“. . .”
“Quroe-san! Don’t get heated by their words! They’re throwing empty words to make us lose our cool!”
“I understand, Kaito-san, but still—”
Quroe slowly walks forward, approaching all of them.
“I’LL BE THE FIRST TO CLAIM YOUR HEAD!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
One of the criminals charged forward and swung a pair of handsaws at him.
*ZRAAASSHH ZRAASSSH ZRAAASSHH*
All of a sudden, his body was cut into tiny pieces, and he died instantly.
*!!!*
“Q-Quroe-san. . .”
Kaito was shocked to see Quroe kill someone so easily.
“GRRR!! THAT IS NOT GOING TO SCARE US!! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
Three other people charge towards him.
*ZRAAASSHH ZRAASSHH ZRAASSHH ZRAASSHH ZRAASSHH ZRAASSHH*
And they all end up meeting the same fate and die immediately. Quroe keeps walking forward.
*!!*
And that makes a lot of criminals standing in the front row subconsciously take a step back.
“D-DON’T BE AFRAID, GUYS!!! IF WE GANG UP ON HIM, HE CAN’T POSSIBLY TAKE ON ALL OF US!!!”
*!*
“YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
Most of the criminals shout and cheer to ramp themselves up. And they all charge together towards Quroe. They all prepared their Faith power to hit Quroe with them.
However. . .
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH *
“AAAAAAAARRRGGHHH!!!”
“UUAAAARRGGHH!!!”
“NOOOOOOOO!!! OHOORRRGGHH!”
Quroe continuously uses his invisible slash to cut down anyone who comes after him, no matter how many there are.
“(Dear God. Truthfully, I was committed to stop killing anyone ever again. . .)”
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH*
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGH!!!”
“AAAAAAAAAAKKKHHH!!!”
“GGGAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHH!!”
Quroe continues to walk forward as more of the criminals are charging towards their death. It’s only been 60 seconds, and 600 criminals have been killed already.
“HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!”
More of the criminals are charging towards Quroe despite the number of corpses he left behind as he keeps moving forward.
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH *
They are all screaming as they die.
“(But when I see those people that they killed--)”
“HRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!”
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH*
Yet the sight of their ‘comrades’ dying didn’t scare them.
“(--It’s just unfair to let these sick people live--)”
“BOMBARD HIM!!!”
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH *
They all went mad. Instead of scared, they all felt thrilled, so they kept charging towards their deaths.
“(--they took the lives of people who just wanna live their lives in peace, not bothering anyone--)”
“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!”
“GOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH*
But all of their attempts are meaningless. Everyone simply died as soon as they got close to him.
“(I certainly cannot overlook that. . . I apologize. . .)”
Quroe stops walking, and he has already killed 2,000 people in just five minutes. He switches his ability, and he grows three pairs of his aura wings. He generated countless aura blades, each with the same length of 1 meter, crowding the air around him. All of his blades fly towards the rest of the 1,000 criminals.
*ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH ZRAASSH*
It only took 20 seconds, but Quroe has killed a total of 925 people in that short amount of time. The entire gigantic open space’s concrete floor was soaked in deep blood red. It quickly filled with an awful stench, but Quroe has gotten used to it and shows no reaction. Yet Quroe himself is completely clean without a single drop of blood anywhere on his entire body.
“. . .”
Out of the 3,000 criminals inside the infinite maze, only 75 were left alive.
*CTRANG CTRANG CTRANG*
All 75 of those criminals either dropped their Armaments or deactivated their Faith power.
“. . .”
Suddenly, the First Judge’s face, Light Lunehart, came into his mind.
“(I see. Is this how he feels as the Nightmare and a Judge at the same time?)”
Quroe also sends his swords towards all of the earlier criminals that he and Kaito apprehended and tied up, to cut all of their bindings and free them. All of the freed criminals stand up, looking at Quroe’s back, including the twins, Celia and Celio, who were freed earlier.
“I’m giving the rest of you a second chance. Repent for your sins and quit your Underworld jobs or whatever it is you call them. Never return to that lifestyle, or I’ll hunt all of you down!!”
All 75 criminals, plus the ones that Quroe just freed, who heard his words, felt like their hearts skipped a few beats. The only words that came to their minds when they all saw the way Quroe looked with his deep red wings spreading wide to the side were ‘Angel with wings bathed in blood’.
