Claire has donned her Second State appearance. Her skin turned pure white. She now has long, white, smooth hair that reaches her upper butt. There is a floating white tiara above her head. Her ears are transformed into the white elk’s long ears. She wears a white cape that covers her neck and shoulders, with its backside reaching her upper butt as well. The cape features white elk fur around its top edges, which surrounds her neck. She has beautiful antlers growing from each side of her head. Their branching patterns are more complex and busier than they looked before Second State. She wears a sleeveless dress with see-through white frills that hang in two layers across her chest. Her dress also reaches and covers her upper thighs. Her legs, from her knees all the way to the bottom, are transformed into her white elk legs, with hooves as her feet. Her forearms also transformed from her elbows to her wrists, though her fingers remained in her human form. On both of her sides, there are two adult white elk standing at 2 meters tall, not counting their antlers, and 3 meters in length.
“Second State?!”
“Of Beast transformation at that! I have zero ideas about what happens to beast transformation Believers when they enter Second State! Be careful, Kasumi-san!”
“I’ll defeat you both, so that Nacht-kun will never have to fear you anymore, especially you, Hana-san!!”
“Heeee? You know my name? You’re a better stalker than me, huh?”
“Eh? What are you saying, Hana-san?”
Claire points her palm forward, and the two white elks charge forward at Hana and Kasumi at close range.
*CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP*
They are galloping in harmony towards both of them.
“Kasumi style!”
Kasumi enters her stance.
“GET OFF!!”
*BAAAAAMMM*
*ZRAAASSSHHH*
“SWEEPING EDGE!!”
Hana punches the elk on its face, and it is sent flying to the left. Kasumi cuts the elk in half horizontally by swinging her katana 360 degrees. It dies, and its cut body drops to the floor.
*!*
But there was no blood splashing out of the elk’s cut body.
“(I guess it’s because it’s not an actual living being?)”
*BWOOOSSHH*
*!!!*
Claire suddenly charges forward at Hana and Kasumi. She transforms her hands into hooves and swings them both at Hana and Kasumi, at their chest.
*DAHK*
*TRANG*
Hana blocks with her left forearm, and Kasumi blocks with her katana.
*!!!*
“(HEAVY!!)” thinks Kasumi.
“HOOOOO!!!! YOU’RE STRONG, HUH?”
“No comment!” said Claire.
*BWOOOSSHHH*
“URGGHH!!”
“HHEEEEEEHH!!”
Claire sent both Kasumi and Hana flying away with her sheer power. They land on the floor 5 meters away on their two feet.
*!*
Claire clenches her fist, and her entire hand transforms into her white elk’s head. She swings her fist forward, and then the elk’s head pops out of her hands and turns into a full-body white elk. The elk immediately charges forward, thrusting its antlers.
*BAM*
Hana intercepts the elk mid-run. She punches down the elk on its head, and it crashes against the floor.
“HAHAHAHAHA!!”
*BLARSH*
Hana stomps the elk’s head with her right foot as hard as possible, and its head pops open. It immediately dies and disintegrates.
*BWOOSSHHH*
Claire jumps forward towards Hana and reaches her quickly. She thrusts her right elk leg forward at her belly.
*DAHK*
But Hana punches away her kick to the side with her right hand. She moves forward and raises her left fist, and swings it at Claire’s face.
*DAHK*
Claire swings her antlers down at Hana’s fist, and they clash against her punch. Both Hana’s left fist and Claire’s antlers were pushed back from the impact.
*DAHK*
“OOHHH?!”
But from Claire’s belly, a white elk’s head comes out, and it fully manifests into an adult white elk. It immediately charges at Hana and hits her belly with its antlers.
*CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP*
*SSSSSRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTT*
The adult white elk drags Hana forward with her feet still sliding on the floor.
*GRABS*
“GET OOOOFFFFFF!!!!”
Hana grabs the elk’s antlers with both of her hands, and she lifts the white elk over her head and throws it away behind her.
*DAHK DAHK*
The white elk hits the floor 10 meters behind Hana, and it immediately disintegrates.
“(. . .Something’s wrong.)” thinks Kasumi as she observes.
*FLAP FLAP*
Hana flaps her two pitch black wings and flies quickly towards Claire. She clenches her right fist and prepares to punch. Claire transforms her entire forearm into the white elk’s head once again, complete with its antlers.
“DROP DEAD, ANIMAL LOVER!!”
“HRAAAAH!!” shouts Claire.
*BAAAMM*
*BWOOOSSHHH*
Their attack clashes and sends a shockwave 15 meters in radius.
Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
“HRRRGGGHHH!!!”
“GIVE IT UP, QUEEN OF MOOSES!! YOU CAN’T PREVENT ME FROM GETTING YOUR BOYFRIEND LATER!!”
“Elks are not mooses! And you shall not touch my Young Master as well!!”
“YOUNG MASTER??? WHAT IS HE TO YOU? YOU’RE HIS PET OR SOMETHING?”
“That is none of your concern!”
“HEEE? LET ME GUESS, YOU TWO ARE JUST ROLEPLAYING AS SERVANT AND MASTER, RIGHT?? HOW NAUGHTY!! I’M GONNA HAVE TO COPY YOU TWO WITH MY KAITO-SENPAI AS WELL SOMETIMES!! THAT WOULD BE WONDERFUL!”
*BWWWOOOSSSHHH*
They both jump away from each other after neither of them is able to win the power struggle. They both land on the floor 3 meters away.
*BWOOOOSSSHHH*
Kasumi immediately runs forward towards Claire.
“Kasumi style!!”
*!!!*
“LIGHTNING FANG!!”
Kasumi reaches Claire and thrusts her katana right at her chest.
*CTANG*
Claire grows antlers in a hurry from her chest. She spins her body and deflects Kasumi’s katana away to the right.
*DAHK*
And she thrusts her right kick at Kasumi’s belly after the spin. Kasumi blocks the kick with her right forearm. She deflects the kick and takes a step forward.
“HRAAAHH!!”
*DAHK*
Kasumi thrusts her palm at Claire’s belly. She takes the hit, but her tummy transforms into the white elk’s furry belly on contact. She was pushed back merely by 1 meter.
*!*
Claire regains her stance and puts her palm forward. Another white elk sprouts out from it, and it charges at Kasumi. Kasumi simply resummons her katana and lifts it above her head.
“Kasumi style! POWER CLEAVE!”
Kasumi cuts the charging white elk in two. Claire quickly sprouts another white elk beside her.
*!!!*
But then the white elk next to her quickly changes her entire shape into that of Claire herself, in her Second State appearance.
“W-What is this?”
“My best guess is that that is the special ability of the Beast transformation type during Second State. Not only can they produce what they transform into, but their beasts can transform into the human appearance of the user. At least that’s what I’ve gathered from seeing her fight.” said Hana, who suddenly flies next to Kasumi.
“Hana-san!”
*!*
Kasumi looks to Hana on her left and notices that her pitch black wings are a little bit smaller than they were.
“(My hunch is right. . .)”
“Kasumi-san! Eyes forward!”
*!*
Claire and her ‘clone’ charge forward. Claire raises her right hand, and the clone raises her left hand. They prepare their hands, and antlers grow out of them. Hana and Kasumi also run forward. Hana clenches her right hand, and Kasumi swings her katana from the right.
*CTANG*
*BAM*
Hana’s punch collided with the clone’s antlers, and Kasumi’s katana clashed against Claire’s. They all retract their hands. Claire and the clone spin and thrust their kicks forward. Hana jumps to the left while Kasumi jumps to the right.
*BAAAM*
Hana punches the clone on her face, and it disintegrates on contact.
“EH?”
Kasumi slashes Claire on her torso, but she jumps back, narrowly dodging it.
*!*
Claire lands 3 meters away from them. She puts her hands together in front of her.
“I’ll finish you both with this!”
Claire sprouts adult white elk constantly from every part of her body.
“10, 15, 23, 36, 45, 76, 102, 124, 145, 200, 234, 278, 300!! KASUMI-SAN!! SHE JUST CREATED MORE THAN 300 WHITE ELKS WITHIN SECONDS!!”
“This is bad! Her elk are not that strong on their own, but with these numbers?”
“WELCOME TO THE FOREST OF ELKS, EKLESIA!!”
“HEH!! IS THAT THE NAME OF YOUR TECHNIQUE? SO, YOU’RE THE TYPE TO THINK OF A PRETTY NAME FOR A TECHNIQUE THAT YOU’LL BARELY USE PROBABLY MORE THAN 10 TIMES ACROSS YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!!”
Claire unleashes her final technique. Her Second State is going to end in two and a half minutes. She created 350 white adult elk in total, all around her. She puts her palm forward, signalling her entire elk to charge forward.
*CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP CLOP*
The entire room is now filled with Claire’s white elk, and they are all charging towards Kasumi and Hana at the same time.
“Kasumi-san! Doesn’t this look bad to you?”
“Yeah! None of the officers so far is even capable of something like this! No wonder she’s the Game Master's direct assistant.”
Both Hana and Kasumi enter their fighting stance.
*!*
Kasumi notices that Hana is breathing slightly heavily. Hana doesn’t say anything to keep a strong front in front of Kasumi so as not to make her unnecessarily worry about her in the midst of a battle.
“(It’s as I’ve feared. Hana-san isn’t exactly in a condition to fight right now. She’s probably acting like her possessed self to scare the Game Master and weaken his Faith power output. Her pitch black wings seemed like something she did for the first time, and it's taking a toll on her body. Those wings of hers are different from Faith power after all. She must’ve been able to take it over purely with her willpower, I assumed.)”
*ZRAASSSHH*
Kasumi cuts the first elk in two in front of her.
“(I have to be the one to cover for her! Dealing with this many annoying elk would exhaust her to no end.)”
*ZRAAASSSHH ZRAASSSHHH*
Kasumi cuts another two who charged towards her.
*BAAAM BAAAM BAAAM*
Hana punches three elk and sends them flying in three different directions consecutively. 10 more are charging towards her.
*BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM*
And she punches all ten of them consecutively nonstop. 15 are coming towards Kasumi.
*ZRAASH ZRAASH ZRAASH ZRAASH ZRAASH*
Kasumi cuts them all in two consecutively.
“Hana-san! Let’s take them out with big attacks!”
“Understood!”
*FLAP*
*BWOOSSHH*
Both Hana and Kasumi jump high into the sky. A lot of the elk charge forward and miss their targets.
*ZAP ZRRRTTT*
“Kasumi style!”
*FLAP*
Hana points both of her wings downwards. Kasumi points down her electrocuted katana.
“FEATHER STORM!!!”
“ELEGANT THUNDERFALL!!”
*BWWWUUURRRRSSSSHHHH*
*ZRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR*
Hana shoots countless feathers from both of her wings, while Kasumi shoots out a giant purple thunderbolt with a 10-meter diameter.
*ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH ZRASH*
*BLAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR*
Hana takes out about 100 white elk on the floor with her feather storms, piercing them all. Kasumi takes out about 100 white elk with a single lightning bolt, and they all were burnt to a crisp and disintegrated. Both of them have defeated 200 elk in total in such a short amount of time.
“You guys really jumped into the air? Wrong decision!” declares Claire.
The remaining 150 white elk transform into Claire. They all jumped high towards Kasumi and Hana. Every single clone swings its right hand above with elk antlers growing from them.
“KASUMI-SAN!!”
*GRABS*
“HANA-SAN!”
Hana grabs Kasumi by the hand, and they fly away higher, avoiding all of the clones.
“I hope you two don’t think that I can’t chase you just because I myself cannot fly!”
All of the clones reach the maximum height of their jumps, 3 meters above the floor. They all point all of their antlers above, and all of the antlers launch off their hands upwards consecutively.
*PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW*
*!!*
Hana keeps flying upwards while Kasumi looks downwards.
“HANA-SAN!! INCOMING PROJECTILES!! ALL OF THE CLONES ARE SHOOTING THEIR ANTLERS AT US!!”
“OH GREAT!! WHAT GOOD NEWS!!”
Hana spins herself to the left and then to the right as she dodges the incoming antlers ‘bullets’. She keeps flying upwards as she keeps spinning to the left and right for a long time. For every antler that comes towards Hana’s blind spot, Kasumi deflects them away with her katana.
*TRANG TRANG TRANG TRANG*
After dodging for two minutes entirely, all of the antlers' bullets finally stop. Hana floats 20 meters above the floor, holding Kasumi by the hand in her right hand.
*Pant pant pant pant*
“Hana-san, are you okay??”
“Yeah. . . I’m fine. . .”
Kasumi looks at Hana’s wings, and they are significantly smaller than before. Kasumi looks downwards and sees that all of the clones are pointing all of their antlers above once again.
*PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW PSHEW*
“HANA-SAN!! MORE INCOMING!!”
“DAMMIT!!”
Hana flies away once again and dodges all of the antlers. Just like before, every single antler that approaches her blind spot gets deflected by Kasumi’s katana. But when they were dodging for only 10 seconds, all of the antlers were suddenly gone.
“. . .Kasumi-san. What happened?”
Kasumi looked downwards towards the floor, and all of Claire’s clones were nowhere to be seen.
“They’re all gone.”
“What???”
Kasumi looked towards Claire and saw that Luna was standing in front of her.
“L-LUNA-CHAN!!”
Claire is just standing still while Hana suddenly looks above and waves her hand with a smile at Kasumi and Hana.
“Hana-san!!”
“Alright!!”
Hana rapidly descends towards the floor with Kasumi. After a few seconds, they land safely on the floor near Luna and Claire.
“HANA-SAN, KASUMI-CHAN!! I GOT HER!! HEHEHEHE!!”
Luna announces her successful attempt by making the peace sign with her fingers and shoving it at them.
“L-Luna-chan! We’re saved!”
“Wow, nice job, Luna-san!!”
“Ahahahaha!! She was so focused on you guys, she genuinely didn’t even hear me approaching her. Though I did tiptoe towards her from behind.”
*HUGS*
“THANK YOU, LUNA-CHAN!!”
Kasumi suddenly hugs Luna in great joy, and she is startled a bit.
“Y-You’re welcome, Kasumi-chan. . .”
*THUD*
*!*
Hana collapses to the floor with her back facing upwards next to Kasumi and Luna. Her wings are entirely gone from her back.
“H-HANA-SAN!!”
“HANA-SAN!!”
Both Kasumi and Luna let go of their hugs and crouched towards Hana.
“I’m sorry, Kasumi-san! Luna-san! I’m on my limit. . .”
*!*
Hana closes her eyes, and she doesn’t move anymore. Kasumi quickly checks her wrist for her pulse.
*SIGH*
She let out a giant sigh of relief the moment she felt her pulse.
“K-KASUMI-CAN!! IS SHE OKAY?”
“Yeah. . . She just passed out again.”
“PHEW!!”
*thud*
Luna falls on her butt to the floor.
“Thank God!”
Kasumi smiles at Luna.
“Indeed, Luna-chan. Thank God!”
“Hm??”
Luna doesn’t understand what Kasumi just said.
*SNAP*
*!!!*
But Luna suddenly vanished when Kasumi heard a finger snap coming from behind.
“LUNA-CHAN??!”
She looks behind and sees that the Game Master is standing 10 meters away. She’s holding Luna hostage, grabbing her tightly on her left wrist with his right hand. Claire also vanishes from her spot and is now standing silently next to him.
“Kh kh kh kh! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!!”
The Game Master laughs loudly and hysterically as well.
*SNAPS*
He lets go of Luna’s hand and snaps his finger. A metallic blue cage, just like before, suddenly appears and traps Luna inside.
“LUNA-CHAN!!”
“I’M SORRY, KASUMI-CHAN!! HE CAUGHT ME!!”
“CLAIRE, MY BELOVED!! THANKS TO YOUR HARD WORK, I CAN FINISH THEM OFF NOW!!” declares the Game Master confidently.
