“Dammit!”
*pant pant*
“. . .”
“The wound is shallow, but it hurts so damn much!”
The clown, Clinton, is currently hiding inside the maintenance room of the giant roller coaster, the only roller coaster in this amusement park. He’s sitting down on the metal floor inside with his back leaning against the metal wall.
“That woman was so fast! I couldn’t keep up. The only way I could have a chance against her is if I keep my distance. No surprise that she was able to reach Scar as soon as she entered this room. How annoying. I expected Believers outside the Underworld would be pushovers.”
*pant pant*
“Tch! What am I talking about? The Ten Commandments of God are the ten Strongest Believers in the entire world, and they’re not from the Underworld. I’ve underestimated these Believers. I need to stop playing too many games! This woman could’ve killed me if I let my guard down.”
The clown slowly gets up and stands up.
“I’ll need to contact the Game Master to whip me up some first aid, but then, I need to unlock the doors, and people will be able to leave, and this killing game will be over.”
“. . .”
“Dammit! I have no choice but to endure this big wound. DAMMIT!!”
*CLANG*
The clown slams open the metal door to the maintenance room in anger. He steps out of the room, but then immediately, there is a katana swinging from his left, aimed at his neck.
*!*
*SNAP*
*WUUUUUSSHHH*
“Tch! He ran again!”
It was Kasumi. She had tracked the clown and checked every nook and cranny of this entire amusement park for a while. This maintenance room was the last place she hadn’t checked. She was a bit startled when she approached the door, and it was slammed open, and the clown casually walked out of it. She swung her katana as her first reaction, but she missed as the clown snapped his fingers and teleported out of his spot.
“I’M NOT GONNA HIDE THIS TIME!”
*!*
Kasumi looks to her left and right, searching for where the voice comes from.
“I’M UP HERE, SAMURAI-WOMAN!!”
Kasumi looks towards a carousel, northeast of where she is, about 100m away from her. The clown is standing atop the carousel, with both of his hands placed behind his back.
*BWOOSHH*
Kasumi instantly activates her Vein armor and jumps high towards the clown.
“Oops! Not so fast!”
The clown raises his right hand above his head. He opens his palm, and a Ferris wheel suddenly appears out of thin air above him. He points his index finger at Kasumi, and the gondolas of the Ferris wheel, one by one, fly out of their spots and hurl themselves at Kasumi. The rest of the Ferris wheel above the clown’s head disappears into thin air.
*BWUSH BWUSH BWUSH BWUSH BWUSH BWUSH BWUSH*
*!*
There are twelve gondolas flying at high speed, approaching Kasumi in midair.
The first gondola reached her.
*BAM*
*CRASH*
*GRAHK*
She kicks the entire gondola upwards, and it crashes into the sky ceiling and breaks apart into pieces.
The next two gondolas are approaching.
*SLASH SLASH*
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
She slices the two gondolas into two pieces each, and those pieces fall and crash to the ground.
The next three gondolas are approaching.
*BAM BAM SLICE*
She punched down the first gondola, she hit the second gondola and sent it flying to the left with her katana handle, and she sliced the third gondola into four pieces.
*THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP*
And those four pieces crash into the ground below.
The seventh gondola approached her. Kasumi positions herself to slide through the door of the gondola. She was inside the gondola for a split second.
*BAM*
And she kicked open the door on the other side, and she went through the inside of the gondola, completely avoiding any collision with it. The gondola went through her and fell towards the ground, far back in the distance behind.
*TWANG TWANG TWANG TWANG*
She steps and hops on the top of the next four gondolas, approaching closer towards the clown. The last gondola is approaching her. This time, she aims her katana at the coming gondola.
*ZAP*
*ZRRRRTT*
Her katana is now engulfed by her purple lightning across its blade.
“Elegant bolt!”
*ZRRRRRRKKKKSSSS*
A purple lightning bolt came out of the tip of her katana, and it zapped the gondola entirely.
*ZZRRRRSSSSS*
The purple lightning bolt pierces through the gondola and approaches the clown, whose position was lined up with the last gondola.
“Tch!”
*SNAP*
*ZRRRRRRRR*
But the clown quickly snaps his finger, and he vanishes yet again from his spot, and Kasumi’s lightning bolt misses.
*THUD*
Kasumi lands on the ground near the carousel.
*THUMP*
While that last gondola simply falls to the ground.
“(Even though my lightning bolts are moving at lightning speed, his teleportation by snapping his fingers is way faster. This is bad! At this rate, I can’t even get close!)”
*!*
Kasumi’s danger sense activates. She immediately jumps out of the way and lands 3 meters away from her spot.
*BAAAMM*
A horse from the carousel crashed into the spot where she stood, falling from above.
“OVER HERE, YOUNG WOMAN!!”
The clown shouts to announce his location. He’s standing atop the highest point of the roller coaster’s track. The clown lifts his right open palm above his head, and a Ferris wheel appears out of thin air above him, floating in the air.
The Ferris wheel suddenly moves, and it’s floating horizontally in midair.
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*GRATAK*
*WWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*
The Ferris wheel’s gondola starts rotating at 120km/h, chaotically flinging all of the gondolas, spinning consistently in one direction.
The clown moves his index finger down, and the spinning Ferris wheel launches itself at Kasumi.
*!!!*
“(There’s no way I can block that!)”
Kasumi crouches, activates her Vein armor, and exerts all of her physical strength on her two legs.
*BWOOSSHHH*
She jumps up really high into the air, about 15 meters away from the ground.
*GRAAHK GRAAHHK GRAAHHKKK*
The rotating Ferris wheel crashes into the ground, destroying the carousel and the log chute ride in the process.
*!*
Kasumi looks behind towards where the Ferris wheel crashed and landed. There were many blood smudges on the ground. It seems like there were people hiding somewhere near the carousel and the log chute ride, and they all got flattened by the Ferris wheel and instantly died.
*SNAP*
*!*
*THUD*
All of a sudden, Kasumi landed on something solid in midair. It was actually a floating carousel, and she’s standing on its roof.
“Let’s play a game, young woman!!”
*!*
Kasumi looks to the front and sees the clown. He appears to be standing atop a floating carousel at the same height as her.
*SNAPS*
He snaps his fingers, and the same floating carousels appear, floating in midair, at the same height as well, filling up the skies of the amusement park.
Kasumi looks to her left and right to check on all the carousels, counting their numbers and memorizing their locations in discreet.
“Don’t you want a proper killing game? Why did you kill those people with that Ferris wheel?”
“Hm? Ah! I do want a proper killing game, but you’re kind of a more prioritized threat at the moment. I had to sacrifice a few people! I was aiming at you after all, not them! I didn’t even know you could jump that high.”
“What an obvious lie! You could’ve made that Ferris wheel disappear simply if you wished to; you simply just enjoyed killing people, didn’t you?”
The clown was trying to hold his smile back, but he failed. He let out the widest grin on his face.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
He is laughing so openly that his big tummy is bouncing and shaking.
“Correct, correct! I do enjoy killing people! The whole reason why I participated in the Game Master’s plan and even made my own killing game was because I was getting so bored with killing people with my Faith power. I tried to be as creative as possible in the last few months, but it still doesn’t excite me as much as the first time.”
“. . .”
Kasumi’s face remains neutral. She has been getting used to hearing these murderers from the Underworld explaining their weird fetishes of murdering someone with a smile on their faces.
“And then I heard wind of the Game Master’s plan for this exciting and large-scale killing game! The idea of seeing people who murdered each other when they never even killed anyone in their whole life excites me to no end! I IMMEDIATELY AGREED TO JOIN HIM!! I ALSO ASKED HIM IF I CAN HOST MY OWN SMALLER-SCALE KILLING GAME INSIDE HIS MAZE AND HE GAVE ME APPROVAL!! SERIOUSLY, I FUCKING LOVE THIS WHOLE CONCEPT OF SEEING PEOPLE TAKING EACH OTHER’S LIVES WITHOUT ME EVEN LIFTING A HAND!! WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!! I FEEL LIKE I COULD DIE FROM THE EXCITEMENT!!”
The clown suddenly shouts mid-talking. He couldn’t hold back the excitement coming from his heart any longer. He was also spreading his hands wide open with a facial expression that showed extreme satisfaction.
“. . .”
Once again, Kasumi’s face remains normal. She is no longer surprised by this sudden change in demeanor from these murderers from the Underworld.
“May I know your name, young lady?”
“Kasumi Coldhart!”
She enters her battle stance right after introducing herself.
“I’m going to be the one who defeats you and beats you into a pulp until you lose consciousness so that your Faith power deactivates on its own.”
“BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! NICE TRASH TALK, CCOLDHART-SAN!! BRING IT!!”
The clown lifts both of his hands above his head.
*!*
And he conjures twenty bumper cars, floating in the air, above his head. He swings both of his hands to the front, and those floating bumper cars are flying towards Kasumi all at the same time.
*BWOOOOOSSHHHH*
Kasumi jumps forward towards the next carousel in front of her, and twelve of the bumper cars are flying fast at her. Kasumi lifts her katana to her left and enters a stance.
“Kasumi style!”
*SLASSSSHHHHHH*
“Heavy rotation!”
Kasumi spins herself and cuts all of the bumper cars horizontally in two, right in the middle. The twelve bumper cars lose their momentum, and they all fall towards the ground below. The rest of the bumper cars are also flying fast at Kasumi, but this time, they all fly in order, instead of at the same time.
Kasumi enters a different stance and closes her eyes.
“Kasumi style!”
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“Thunderstorm!”
Kasumi slashed each of the flying bumper cars in quick succession, and she successfully cut all of the bumper cars in two.
*BWOOOSSHHH*
She proceeded to jump towards the next floating carousel in the front, slowly approaching the clown.
The clown opens his right palm, and twenty roller coaster tracks in separate pieces appear above his head. He sends all of those tracks flying at Kasumi at high speed. She was only three carousels away from where the clown stood. The roller coaster tracks are approaching her by only under one second.
“Tch!”
Kasumi strengthens the grip of her katana and lifts the katana above her head.
“Kasumi style!”
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“Power cleaves!”
She keeps slashing down the incoming roller coaster tracks in two by repeating the same motions over and over again, until there are no longer roller coaster tracks coming after her.
*BWOOOSSHH*
She immediately jumps forward to the next carousel, and she’s now only two carousels away from the clown.
“Grrrrr!! HOW ABOUT THIS??”
The clown lifts his right hand above and creates another spinning giant Ferris wheel above his head.
“HRAAAAHHHH!!”
He throws the giant spinning Ferris wheel right at Kasumi at such a close range.
“(I can’t dodge that in time! At the very least, I should be able to slip through that spinning Ferris wheel with my heightened senses somehow!)” said Kasumi inside her own head, lifting her katana to the front to be ready to somehow block the giant Ferris wheel.
*BOOOOOOMMMMM*
*!!!*
All of a sudden, the carousel that Kasumi stood on exploded at the bottom part, and she fell downwards, avoiding the entire Ferris wheel altogether.
“W-what?”
Kasumi looks downwards and sees that there is a man below, crouching on one knee on top of a popcorn stall in the corner of the room, wielding a bazooka in his hand. He was the one who shot down the carousel where Kasumi stood.
“DON’T WORRY, YOUNG MISS!! WE’RE ON YOUR SIDE! THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE PINK HAIR TOLD ME TO HELP YOU OUT, DEFEATING THE CLOWN!!”
Hearing the man’s explanation, Kasumi smiles widely.
“UNDERSTOOD!! THANKS!!”
*GRAAHHK GRAAAHHKK GRAHHHKKK*
The giant spinning Ferris wheel hit a lot of the floating carousels in the air, causing all of them to fall towards the ground along with the Ferris wheel.
*!*
But the clown notices that everyone who’s still alive inside this room has all gathered at the center of the room. Some of the falling carousels would have crashed and flattened them, killing a bunch of them within seconds.
“TCH!!”
*SNAPS*
The clown snapped his finger, and all of the falling carousels, as well as the giant Ferris wheel, disappeared into thin air. The clown had no choice but to interfere; otherwise, a lot more people would have died in his hands than he intended, and he wouldn’t have enjoyed it.
*BWOOOSSHHHH*
*!!!*
Suddenly, Kasumi jumped onto the carousel where the clown stood from below. She lands at the edge of the carousel’s roof behind the clown. Someone else with the Faith power to summon golden boots with wings to fly in the air helped her reach the clown’s carousel.
“GO GET HIM, YOUNG LADY!!” said the Believer with the golden boots.
*BWOOSSH*
Kasumi immediately rushes forward towards the clown, with her katana ready in her right hand.
“Kasumi style!”
“TCH!! You’re here already?!”
The clown immediately moves his fingers in the position to snap to teleport away.
“Circular saw!”
*SNAPS*
*SLASH*
*!*
Kasumi does a 360-degree vertical slash to wound the clown’s back, as well as cutting the carousel they’re stepping on in two. But the clown snapped his fingers in time and barely teleported out of Kasumi’s slash.
*pant pant pant*
“That was. . . way too close. . .”
The clown appears atop the furthest carousel from Kasumi, near the wall to the east.
*Tap tap tap*
Kasumi immediately hops off multiple of the roofs of the floating carousels to reach the clown as fast as she could.
“IT’S NO USE, WOMAN! I CAN JUST SNAP AWAY OUT OF YOUR RANGE, NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU TRY TO REACH ME! AT SOME POINT, YOU’LL BE TOO EXHAUSTED TO EVEN MOVE, AND THEN I CAN FINISH YOU OFF!! YOU CAN’T DEFEAT ME!!”
*Tap tap tap*
Kasumi continuously hopped off the carousels, slowly approaching him.
“(He’s right! No matter how fast I am, moving through these carousels won’t give me a proper footing to do a long jump towards him. Not to mention his finger snaps are so much faster than my speed, no matter how fast I tried to get close to him. What do I do now??)”
“Let’s do these over and over again, shall we??”
The clown opens his right palm, and twenty of his logs from the log chute ride appear above his head. He spins all of the logs above his head and sends them flying at Kasumi, approaching her at different rates.
“Kasumi style!”
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“THUNDERSTORM!!”
Kasumi successfully cut down all of the spinning logs without getting hit even once.
*BWOOSSHHH*
And as usual, she immediately bounces off atop the carousels to reach the clown. The clown kept sending various objects from all around the amusement park, and Kasumi kept cutting all of them down without fail.
*BWOOOSSHHH*
She was finally one carousel away from the clown, and she jumped forward at the clown.
“Kasumi style!”
*SNAPS*
*WUSH*
“POWER CLEAVE!!”
The clown teleported yet again out of Kasumi’s attack. He appears atop the carousel on the west, near the wall.
“(I am not making progress and I’m going to lose my stamina sooner or later!!)”
*BWOOSSHH*
Kasumi immediately hops off the floating carousels to reach the clown yet again.
“IT’S POINTLESS, COLDHART-SAAANNN!!! YOU CAN’T WIIIINNNN!!!”
“(TCH!!)”
The clown once again conjured twenty popcorn machines above his head and launched them at Kasumi.
*SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH*
“(This is starting to tire me out!)”
Kasumi keeps cutting the incoming popcorn machines without fail.
*FRROOOMMMM*
*!!!*
Suddenly, someone with a Faith power to summon a jetpack on his back rose up behind the clown’s carousel. The clown was startled and turned around, but the man with the jetpack was already high above the sky; the clown completely missed him by a few milliseconds. He could only see the smoke trails coming out of his jetpack.
“HE’S ALL YOURS, YOUNG LADY!!”
The man with the jetpack shouts something.
*GRABS*
It turns out, someone was carried by the jetpack man, and he dropped her freely right above the clown’s head.
“GOT YA!!”
“Y-YOUU?!”
It was Luna. She fell and landed on the clown, hugging him face to face, dangling on his neck.
“SAY GOODBYE, MISTER CLOWN!!”
“THE BRAT THAT WAS SHOT BY SCAR?!”
Luna activates her Faith power directly at the clown’s eyes.
“FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!”
. . . .
His screaming stops. The clown was stunned, and he just stood still atop the carousel.
*THUD*
Luna releases his hug and lands atop the carousel as well, right in front of the clown.
“KASUMI-SAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!!!”
Luna shouts as loud as possible with all of her being.
*!!*
Kasumi suddenly appeared behind the clown, with her katana already positioned above her head.
“Well done, Luna-dono! Kasumi style!”
*ZRAASSSSHHHH*
“POWER CLEAVE!!”
Kasumi cuts the clown on his back.
“UUUAAAARRRGHHHH!!!”
The intense pain snaps the clown back into reality, escaping the effect of Luna’s Faith power. Kasumi immediately discards her katana and jumps a bit into the air.
“IT’S OVER YOU UGLY CLOWN!!”
*BAAAAAAAMMMM*
Kasumi slams her elbow down on the top of his head, and he immediately loses consciousness.
