Chapter 381: 381 -The words her heart whispered 8
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Spinning her scythe, entirely composed of end world environment, she throws an infinite number of swings in a single moment. With her left hand gripping the handle and her right hand spread wide over the back of her left palm, Ari wields her blade of light with a miraculous touch. Each individual movement, each intricate and subtle flexing of her finger muscles worked to delicately deflect a hit or two. Every tiny action she took had served a purpose.
In the same instant that Huo Li launched infinite scythe attacks, Ari deflected the same amount of attacks. Their weapons continued to collide violently and vigorously, rather than the slamming of metal, their weapons made a continuous and jarringly deep burst of chaos, synthesising a rhythm similar to the repeated splashing of metallic rain. Ari's blade shakes out of the cacophony, thrusting up into the air. Huo Li's body bursts into white flames, but her body was rapidly consumed by black.
Ironically, there was no need for her worry. The light of rebellion was consuming her end world environment and vice versa. If that was so, no need to channel it specifically intoa scythe.
"If quantity is infinite, let there be no world. World. End. Rondo." (Huo Li)
The scythe dissolves into the air, from there her body begins to emit the world end environment without limit. Spherical waves of black eject out of her body, consuming the dimension in waves. There was no quantity limit from the start, she could produce as much of it as she wanted. Naturally, there is enough to dissolve the universe into nothingness. Black waves continue to emit from her body, dimming the light from Ari, dimming everything in existence into a pitch black. But she saw it, a boundary. It was being contained, Himei had kept to her word of protecting the world from Huo Li. Then, she can emit as much as she wanted!
The waves grew denser, space no longer existed, time was shredded apart. The area around her vicinity was uninhabitable for any living being. The light completely shuts off at once, any trace of Ari's existence was now gone... The a small ember lit up. The ember only grew to the size of a torch, then a car. In the centre of it all was clear skin, resolute eyes, swaying mint hair, intricate chain mail and armour plates made of light. A simple medieval two edged blade. Her head was left exposed, but it must have been protected by magic as well. She walked forward, her light protecting her against the darkness.
She wouldn't let herself be swallowed by the darkness, she wouldn't let it all end here. As long as the enemy exists, she can rebel. The end world environment was not as absolute as destruction, it was an environment, something to be spread for its effects to affect the reality around it. Simply being a distance away and using another substance to counter it was possible.
Destruction on the other hand was an unavoidable conceptual attack. Another concept is required to interact and redirect it, the redirecting factor must also carry the necessary amount of strength to redirect it. Anything short of Kaori's final skill wouldn't have sufficient strength. The entire world's darkness gathers into a scythe that eternally exuded malice, its handle dropped gently into Huo Li's right palm. Her right arm allowed itself to be carried by gravity, swinging the scythe a little downwards as she caught it from mid air.
Her black and gold engraved jacket seemed to be emitting a little of the end world environment, a remnant from ejecting so much of it just now. But now, she had condensed most of it into a scythe. Her long grey skirt hiding her modest legs and her white button shirt underneath paled under the beauty of her jackets embroidery, shining in the pitch black void she created. Her white hair also shone purely like a glowing lamp in the dark. 2 sharp bangs shaped her well sculpted face, despite her age her jawline and cheek was supple with no wrinkles, she would have been an unmatched beauty if not for all magical girls being magically enhanced beauties.
"This scythe will end the world, let it seep in, eternal rest." (Huo Li)
"As long as the idea of me exists, I will persist. When nobody is fighting, I am fighting." (Ari)
Their figures vanished before intertwining in a spectacle of black and white lights clashing without end. Grow stronger, faster, more magical... Reached your very limits and then even more. Their spirits were fired up more than ever before, as if soaring into the high heavens. Raise yourself to your highest points, and then break past the vulnerable glass ceiling.
Their hands rise to the surface, shattering the invisible wall with a flick of their wrist. Their weapons clash with fervour unlike any other, with Huo Li's scythe being large there was an inevitable distance between them. If Ari gets inside her range, it might end badly. But there was no need to worry, she can vary the length of the scythe's lance body. Her scythe is swung from the left, smashing against the light blade. Ari steps on the blade and closes the distance, the scythe caught under her foot becomes useless at this distance... "NOT!!!" (Huo Li)
She pulls the scythe up with all of her strength, slicing Ari's body in half from the foot to her torso, Ari's blade slips past and decapitates Huo Li. Abandoning their weapons, their bodies regenerate and engage in a fist fight. Huo Li swings first with her right, it misses giving Ari a clear shot with her right fist. Huo Li smashes against it head on with her forehead. Her skull fractures and her brain flattens with blood shooting out of her ears, nose, mouth and eyes. The white of her eyes were dyed pink as they focused on her enemy, her leg shoots up, fracturing Ari's jaw and pushing it off her spine.
With her view forcefully taken off of Huo Li, she takes advantage and launches another attack. Her right fist flies past the air, puncturing her target like a missile. Her knuckles press into the surface of her combat dress, tearing through it, then penetrating her dermal layers. Her wrist pushes into her innards, the force blasted a hole into Ari's torso, leaving her organs rupturing and flying out the other side in organic fragments.
Bringing her arms close, Ari launches a kick from the side, slicing Huo Li in half down her waist to her hip. They both side step, opening up a metre each while healing their wounds with their regeneration. Ari strikes first, her left punch was deflected upwards with Huo Li's right, followed by a strike with her left, destroying Ari's bicep and blowing her back a small bit of distance. Huo Li jumps in swiftly and ducks under a kick before throwing her left, smashing into Ari's jaw. Ari used the momentum to send out her right leg, busting a large hole into Huo Li's neck where her spine should be with her foot.
Huo Li uses the leg as a form of support, pushing her ruptured neck and body against it to slide further into Ari's personal space, a single foot leaps and propels her entire body weight and more, her right fist drags past the opponent's arm and slams into Ari's face. The end world environment gathers on her knuckles, disintegrating a hole through Ari's head. Her nose evaporates, then her cheek, eyes, mouth and skull. Without pause, her fist flashes past those areas and go through Ari's head, annihilating her entire skull and brain.
Ari's body began to regenerate from her neck up, bursting into white flickering light like holy embers of a hallowed nature. Before her head regenerated, Huo Li swung her right arm down. Before anyone noticed, there was a scythe in her grip and Ari had been split in half vertically down the middle. As long as her end world environment erased the existence of her 'hero' fast enough, she wouldn't be able to recover. It was like a battle between a body's regenerative power and poison. As long as the poison was enhanced to deal more damage then the body could recover in a set amount of time, victory will be achieved.
The torso was gone, but her limbs persisted. Her arms flew toward Huo Li instantly and gripped at her neck, choking her out. No, there was absolutely no point to choking out a magical girl, they didn't need oxygen to live. Her aim... Was to decapitate her once more and to spread her white light inside her to erase her faster. But her arms burst into black flames, the end world environment was always radiating from Huo Li's body. It wasn't something that could be contained by anything other than her will power. Meaning that she was always using her mind to keep it in all her life, in her passive and relaxed state... It would be leaking out on its own.
It was something she was used to, so she wouldn't call it mentally taxing, she might have gotten strong enough to take it all with a smile in her younger days. Ari's body regenerates entirely in an instant, a portion of her cells split off and completely revived her further away from the end world environment. Huo Li throws a high kick with her left, Ari blocks with her right arm and sweeps Huo Li's remaining foot over. Huo Li falls willingly and drops onto her left arm, swinging her legs over like weapons.
Their legs clashed twice in rapid succession, releasing shock waves into the grey space. Flipping herself over, Huo Li receives a couple punches blow her left arm off and a hole into her torso, then aims her right fist at Ari's face. Her right arm misses, but a scythe had appeared in her grip, slicing past Ari's cheek, leaving a gap of air between the top half of her eyes and her chin. The rest had been cleaved off. Ari throws a high punch, to which Huo Li drops her body and ducks under, her regenerated left arm grabs and rips off Ari's arm while her right leg smashes through Ari's torso.
Ari's head had regenerated, but lost a limb and bore a hole in her heart in the same amount of time. Huo Li's leg then explodes into black light that shot everywhere, causing Ari's chest to similarly burst and spread its remnants everywhere. Both of Huo Li's arms wielded scythe's and striked in the same area, in the center. As Ari's chest regenerated and attempted to launch her fist, her chest and arms disintegrated once more along with her pelvis, neck and front half of her face.
Ari's remaining body burst into white flames and punched at the same time, Huo Li catches the fist and throws her own... Multiple times. Her neck, chest and face exploded to form gouged out holes, presenting a view of the other side of Ari's body. Then her left arm that caught the punch crushed Ari's knuckles and penetrates the flesh of her entire arm, scrambling it into bits of burnt meat and bone. Her blade of light materialises first and swings at Huo Li, to which she parries with her scythe, colliding loud enough for the entire universe to hear.
The collision gave enough time for Ari to once more recover her entire body. Huo Li spun her scythe to strike from the opposite side, parried by the blade. Then once more, parried again. Her leg slips past the blade and smashes into Ari's face, her blade severs Huo Li's leg at the pelvis, but her foot retained momentum and blew her head away, once more nothing was left above her neck. The blade swings back without a head to command it, evaporating Huo Li's head. But her scythe had already moved to crash and bust through Ari's flesh from the side, cleanly splitting Ari in half from cleaving her ears, shoulders, arms, limbs, torso, pelvis in half.
Huo Li activates her attack priority, but it was rendered moot by Ari's value manipulation. Ari couldn't steal any abilities with the end world environment plaguing her at all times. Huo Li shifts her neck away and regenerates normally. The concept of movement had been ended by her world end environment, causing Ari to be immobile... And now the concept of her heroic resistance had also disintegrated into null. The scythe evaporated, leaving Arivs body unharmed... But her final skill and transformation had been undone.
"... Fufufu... HAHAHAH?! Did you see that?! You can't kill me! My world has already ended, I am an individual who persists after her world ends, your finally skill has no effect on my mortal body, only my magic is gone! ." (Ari)
"Goodbye." (Huo Li)
"...? No, wait... I don't want to die! It- " (Ari)
Her body bursts into a crimson cloud of gas. In this environment at the edge of the world... It wasn't suitable for a normal human to exist in... To be moving at infinite speed, her body would dissolve without a trace here. Only individuals with infinite durability could arrive and withstand this place... The edge of the world. The subworld of grey, a realm where gods fought. There was also no oxygen here, she was only allowed to give her last words out of Huo Li's mercy.
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