Hana swings down her long knife at Kasumi.
*CTANG*
Kasumi blocks Hana’s knife horizontally with her katana.
“Kasumi-san, what happened to your hand?”
*TSSSRRRRR*
Hana is pressing down her knife against Kasumi’s katana.
“(H-HEAVY!!)”
“I cut it off when I fought one of the officers! I inhaled his deadly venom into my body, so I had no choice.”
“Is that so? Then shouldn’t you hate the officers for taking away your precious left arm??”
Hana continues to push down Kasumi’s katana.
“(UURRGGHHH!! I have no idea Hana-san is this strong! She is way stronger than any officers that I’ve faced so far!)”
“A woman’s body is precious, Kasumi-san! We’ll eventually offer it up to a man that we’ll fall in love with in the future! That man will take care of us, love us, caress us, be gentle to us, and protect us! The least we can do as women is to keep our bodies safe and pure. Am I wrong?”
*CTANG*
“UUURRGGHH!!!”
Hana pushes Kasumi to the right and sends her flying with her knife through sheer power alone.
*THUD THUD*
Kasumi bounces off the floor two times, and then she recovers quickly and stands up again on the floor full of kids’ toys.
“(This is bad! Her parameters are far above mine! I need to take advantage of the fact that she hasn’t seen Luna-dono yet. Her Faith power might be useful to stun her, and then I will. . . And then I will. . . I will. . .)”
Kasumi couldn’t finish the sentence in her head.
“(W-What should I do then? I have no idea how to resolve this. Crap!)”
“Eh? What are you doing, just standing still like that?”
*!!!*
Hana was suddenly next to Kasumi on her right.
*BAAMMM*
“UUUUURRRRGGHHH!!!”
She kicks Kasumi right in her waist, and she is sent flying, about 5 meters away.
*DAHK DAHK*
She lands on the floor with her back facing the ceiling.
“UUUUUUURRGGHHH!!!”
“(A direct hit to my waist. Even with my Vein Armor, it’s still this painful?)”
Kasumi tried to get up with one hand, but she suddenly felt pain in her waist.
“GRRGGHH!!”
“(It hurts this bad!)”
Kasumi uses her katana as a cane to help her stand. She turns around to face Hana.
“(How fast did she move? I didn’t even see her coming.)”
*!*
“(W-What are those?? Black feathers? Huh? What is going on now? Is that what her Faith power is? Some kinda bird Transformation?? Is that why she’s so strong and so fast??)”
*!*
Hana suddenly turns around and walks towards Dane behind.
*BWOOOOSSHHH*
Kasumi lunges herself as fast as she possibly can. She reaches Hana and swings her katana to her right, aimed at her left shoulder.
*!*
*WUUUSSHHH*
*BAAAAMMMM*
But Hana suddenly does a backflip, completely avoiding Kasumi’s swing, and then kicks her in her face at the same time, all within one smooth motion.
“AAAAAAARRGGGHH!!!”
Kasumi was launched 6 meters away. She quickly recovers in mid-air and lands safely on the floor, and crouches.
“Kasumi-san. Why on earth are you trying to protect a piece of shit like this guy?” said Hana, pointing to Dane.
*BAAAAMM*
*!*
*THUMP THUMP THUMP*
She suddenly kicks Dane right in the face, and he was launched to the left 10 meters away. He quickly passed out on the floor, no longer moving.
“Hmmm. . . I’m in a bind.” said Hana as she put her left hand on the side of her head.
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“On one hand, I am SO DESPERATELY wanting to go back to Kaito-senpai’s side as soon as possible. But on the other hand. . . TCH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!”
Hana screams as she rubs the side of her hair back and forth really fast, messing up her hair.
“I REALLY DON’T WANNA KILL YOU, KASUMI-SAN!! YOU’RE ONE OF US!! IF I KILL YOU AND I GET OUT OF HERE, THEN KAITO-SENPAI WOULD FIND THAT OUT AND HATE ME FOR IT!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! I DON’T WANT THAAAAAATTTT!!! DEFINITELY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTT!!!”
Hana suddenly enters her battle stance.
“CHANGE OF PLAN!! KASUMI-SAN!! I AM GOING TO BEAT YOU UP ONLY UNTIL YOU CAN NO LONGER MOVE!! AND THEN I’M GONNA KILL THAT GUY AND I’LL GRAB YOU AND LUNA-SAN AS WELL!! I’LL BEAT UP THE GAME MASTER AFTERWARDS!! THAT WAY, EVERYBODY IS HAPPY!! DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS KASUMI-SAN?”
“. . .”
“REMEMBER THAT I ONLY WANNA HURT YOU BECAUSE YOU KEPT TRYING TO PROTECT THAT MURDERER, ALRIGHT!! A FEW CRACKS IN YOUR BONE SHOULD BE FINE, RIGHT? THEY’LL HEAL, RIGHT? PLUS, YOU’RE AN ARMAMENT TYPE!! YOU CAN TAKE A LOT OF HITS WITH YOUR VEIN ARMOR, RIGHT? OKAY, THAT’S IT!! I’VE FINALLY FOUND THE BEST POSSIBLE SOLUTION FOR OUR DILEMMA!! PLEASE EXCUSE ME, KASUMI-SAN!! I AM GOING TO BE A LITTLE ROUGHER!!”
*BWOOOSSHHH*
*!!!*
From Kasumi’s vision, Hana was standing a few meters away from her, but all of a sudden, she vanished, and now she sees her left lower leg, swinging right at her face.
*DAHK*
“UUURRGGHH!!!”
*SSSSSSSRRRRRRRRRRR*
Kasumi quickly blocks the kick by raising her forearms. Her Danger sense fails to sense Hana’s incoming attack. Kasumi was sliding backwards for 30cm on the floor. Hana immediately lunges forward again. She jumps a bit into the air and does a spinning axe kick with her left leg towards the top of Kasumi’s head.
*BAAAMM*
Hana hits the toys and the floor below, missing Kasumi’s head entirely. Kasumi moved to the left and prepared her sheathed katana. She swings it right at Hana’s stomach.
*DAHK*
*!*
Hana takes the hit on her belly nonchalantly, and it does not even budge her. She grabs the sheathed katana with her left and raises her right elbow at the same time. She pulls Kasumi to herself and swings her right elbow at her face.
*DAHK*
“UUURRRGGGHHHH!!!”
Kasumi braces herself and moves to receive the hit on her forehead, but it still hurts her tremendously. At the same time, Kasumi swings her right leg forward to kick Hana on the leg.
*WUUSSHH*
Hana jumps and lifts both of her legs high into the air. She’s still holding Kasumi’s sheathed katana and pulls it upwards to pull Kasumi up. Hana also swings a punch down with her right at Kasumi’s head.
*GRABS*
Kasumi lets go of her own katana and grabs Hana’s punch on the wrist.
“HRAAAAHHH!!!”
She pulls Hana down from the air and slams her to the floor.
*thud*
*!*
But Kasumi only heard such a minuscule sound of impact despite the slam. Turns out Hana lands on one leg on the floor and keeps the rest of her body away from touching the floor.
“HRRRAAAAAAAAHHH!!!”
*!!!*
Hana lifts her body and lifts Kasumi upwards as well.
*BWUUUSHH*
She throws Kasumi away towards a door to the south of the room.
*THUD THUD*
“AAKHH!!”
Kasumi lands on her back against the floor right near the door. She immediately jumps off the ground to quickly stand up.
*!*
She sees that Hana is already jumping in the air towards her, with both of her feet aimed at her face.
“PLEASE BLOCK THIS!! OR ELSE I’M GOING TO REALLY KILL YOU, KASUMI-SAN!!”
*DAHK*
“HRRRGGHHH!!!”
“(SO HEAVY!!)”
*BWOOSSHH*
*BLAM*
Hana dropkicks Kasumi right in her face, but she blocks the kick with her right forearm. She was sent flying backwards from the impact, and her back hits the door behind, opens it by force, and lands in the next room.
“AAAAKKKHH!!!”
*THUD THUD*
Kasumi’s back hits the floor and bounces off once, and she immediately recovers and lands on her two feet on the floor.
*pant pant pant*
She’s now crouching on the floor and is trying to catch her breath.
“(Not good. I haven’t fully recovered from all of my previous battles. Hana-san is too strong for me! What should I do?”)
Kasumi is now inside a large rectangular room, 40x40 meters in size. The entire floor seems to be a square rooftop of a really tall building. The ceilings and the walls were all just a clear blue sky. It doesn’t even look like there are walls and ceilings at all inside this room, from how convincing the sky visuals are. The multiple doors located on four sides of the room are still present, all on the edge of the rooftops.
*!*
When Kasumi looks down, there is a giant letter H painted almost as big as the entire rooftop itself, with a giant yellow circle circling it. It seems that this is a giant flat helipad on top of a really tall skyscraper. The clear blue sky and the sun above were really convincing, though Kasumi had long accepted and couldn’t care less anymore about the beautiful aesthetic inside this infinite maze.
“Hoooooo!! WHAT A BEAUTIFUL ROOM!!”
Hana enters the room through the same door. She walks towards Kasumi really fast.
*Step step step*
But after she had only taken five steps into the room, she suddenly stopped.
. . . .
Her crazy and disturbing expression is suddenly gone.
“. . .”
And she leans her head downward.
“*Sigh* I’ve always wanted to see beautiful places like this with Kaito-senpai. . .”
*!*
Kasumi sees her chance to knock Hana out. She immediately turns on her Vein Armor once again and lunges at Hana. She also summons her sheathed katana in her right hand.
“Kasumi style! POWER CLEAVE!!”
When Kasumi reaches Hana, she lifts her katana upward and swings it down vertically at her, while it was still sheathed.
*GRAB*
*!!!*
Hana catches Kasumi’s katana with her left hand with ease, despite the rest of her body not even moving an inch.
“Kasumi-san, isn’t that cruel?”
*!*
Kasumi immediately senses intense bloodlust from Hana, and she starts sweating a little bit.
“I’m here just thinking about how lovely it would be to spend some time here with my beloved man. I completely let my guard down, don’t you see?? Yet you think that’s a signal for you to attack me? ISN’T THAT CRUEL, KASUMI-SAN? I THOUGHT WE’RE ON THE SAME TEAM??”
*BAAAAAMMMMMM*
“OOOOOORRRGGGHHHH!!!!”
Hana pulls away Kasumi’s own katana from her hold and kicks her right in the stomach.
*THUD*
She lands on her side on the floor, three meters from Hana.
*THUD*
Hana throws away Kasumi’s katana to the side. She holds her long knife to the side.
“Kasumi-san, tell me! Do I have to cut off one more of your limbs before you stop? I am this close to reuniting with Kaito-senpai, AND YOU DECIDED TO BE IN MY WAY?? I DON’T GET IT!! WHY ARE YOU SO AGAINST ME KILLING THAT GUY?? THAT MAN IS A MURDERER!! HE’S KILLED MORE PEOPLE THAN WE COULD EVER THINK OF PRIOR TO THIS STUPID GAME! IF WE LET HIM BE, HE’LL JUST MURDER SOMEONE ELSE LATER DOWN IN HIS LIFE!! HE WILL NEVER CHANGE!! HE LIVES IN THE UNDERWORLD!! EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM IS THE SAME PIECE OF SHIT, NO MATTER HOW THEY LOOK!! IF I KILL THAT MAN RIGHT NOW, NOT ONLY AM I SERVING THIS WORLD A SWEET SERVICE OF GETTING RID OF A TRASH, BUT I ALSO GET TO BEAT UP THE GAME MASTER AND FREE EVERYONE ELSE FROM THIS MAZE!! WHY DO YOU SO INSIST ON ME NOT TO KILL ANYONE?!”
“. . .”
Kasumi tries to stand as she keeps holding her tummy with her right hand. She’s starting to doubt herself over her resolve. What Hana said makes sense to her. How can anyone compare the lives of mere murderers to the lives of 24,000 innocent people?
She has even started to think that all the people that she riled up to stop this killing game would’ve already been killed without them ever accomplishing their goals, which means she was directly sending them to their deaths.
*Thud*
When she was trying to stand up, she lost her will to do so and fell on her butt to the floor.
“. . .”
“(She is right. . . Why am I so stubborn??)”
. . . .
“(If I let Hana-san handle everything, a lot of people would’ve been saved already before they were killed inside this maze. . . She’s far stronger than me anyway. She can do it. . .)”
*Thud*
Hana is suddenly right in front of Kasumi while she is lost in thought.
“So, which one should I cut? Your leg or your other hand? Choose one?” said Hana as she pointed her long knife at Kasumi.
. . . .
“Well then, if you’re not gonna choose, I will! I choose your other hand!”
*WUUUSSHH*
Hana swings her long knife down at Kasumi’s right shoulder.
