An explosion of stone and smoke suddenly filled the entire chamber. It didn’t take long for them to know who arrived. “AYUMI!” screamed Yumi, her shadowy figure flying through smoke.

  Immediately without dey, Yumi sent an orb of energy bsting towards Eudokia. A ripple ran out from Eudokia’s feet as she halted the attapletely in her ibsp; She pced herself between Yumi and Yuki, knowing the main reason why she came. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?! If you damage any part of this room you’ll be ning millions to death!”

  Yumi tio speed towards the two of them. “I don’t care about any of that! You should have thought about that before deg to lie to us and send Yuki to his death!” She charged up another bst, but ice suddenly pletely encased her arm, halting it. Unfazed, Yumi squeezed her hand, shattering the ice.

  “Dammit, Yumi! I don’t have time for your childishness!”

  Crashing into Ayumi, the two girls rolled over the ground before separating again. Yumi crawled up to her feet gring at Ayumi viciously. “I don’t give a DAMN about what you have time FOR!” Charging up another bst, she threw it before she built up mubsp; It was enough for Ayumi to o focus on proteg something else.

  Using the distra, she flew over quickly to Yuki. “Yuki! Don’t sit in that chair!” When she appeared in front of the Throne before Yuki, she could see that he wasn’t pletely aware of her. “Yuki?” He only seemed to be partially awake. A thick gze hung over his eyes.

  Eudokia recovered from the diversion and charged after Yumi. Extending her sword out at Yumi, she forced her way in front of the Throne as well. “Back off, Yumi. Yuki, activate your power like I told you!”

  “Ayumi, what did you do to him?!” Yumi grabbed the tip of her sword, crushing it in her hand fighting over position. “Don’t listen to her, Yuki! It’s me, Yumi! Hear me, Yuki!”

  Unhindered by the struggle, Eudokia held her position. “I did what must be done for the survival of our try!”

  “I don’t care about that! WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO YUKI?!” She tore the sword out of Ayumi’s hand. In the instant, Yumi ed her hand around Ayumi’s neck starting to squeeze. “Answer ME!” The fires in Yumi’s eyes burned even strohan before.

  Coughing weakly, Eudokia didn’t bend to the pressure. Ice expanded from her body over Yumi’s hand. It shattered quickly from Yumi’s exertion, but formed up again. The ice held as stubborn as her. “You don’t…have it in you…to kill.”

  Barieeth in rage, Yumi pulled Ayumi in closer. “Normally you might be right. But you’ve exceeded any threshold I have for morality. So just try me!”

  Chapter 272 – Desperate Emotions

  Grindieeth, Eudokia judged the look on Yumi's fabsp; She could see the resolve aermination along with all of the blind rage. There was no ving with her. Eudokia could see it. “Fine, you want to kill me?” The sword reformed in her hands and halfway through Yumi’s upper arm. “I won’t hold back!”

  Barely even affected by the wound, Yumi severed the bde with her power. Removing it with her telekinesis, she sent it back at Ayumi , embedding in her upper shoulder. “AYUMI! I’m going to kill you for what you’ve doo Yuki!”

  Eudokia broke free from Yumi’s grasp finally. She yanked out the bde from her sword. Ied up over the wound. Harsh lines formed around her eyes. Even she had limits. “My name is Eudokia Ismene! Ayumi is a lie! I don’t need lies anymore!”

  “Eudokia!”

  “Yumi!”

  Yumi danced around the room evading ice attacks and sshes from her sword. All of the injuries she sustained duri fight with Ourias disappeared from her mind. She wouldn’t let anything hold her back from dealing with Eudokia. Everything would end now.

  At the ter of the room, Yuki remaiill. He seemed locked in a position uain what to do . Even with the fighting in around him, his eyes remained glossed over. Any sense of sciousness gone. The identity known as Yuki Hayashi was missing.

  Using pieces of her barrier, she kept blog the swings from the sword. Between attacks, she threw out bsts of green energy. The progress quickly entered into a stalemate. her made any signifit headway in the fight after the first blood.

  ‘Damn, the girl’s gotteer with her powers,’ thought Eudokia. She threw around waves of ice to block several ining attacks. It easily broke on impact even though it ed the attabsp; The ice had been strengthened even and it still shattered. ‘Her prown that mu this short time?’

  The resistance she expected from the girl was greater than she forecasted. ‘Out of all of them I saw Saki as the greatest threat, which was why I made sure she was separated. Yumi’s made signifitly more advas than I calcuted for. She’s not the timid girl I wrote her off being.’ Evehey were in Atntis, she never actually disappeared from the fights. She watched them all secretly.

  All of her pnning would fall apart if she lost. ‘Judging by the look in her eye, she might actually want to kill me… Gd I added an Addendum to e her telekinesis on my body.’ Her Law was far more plex and yered than any of them realized. She had to pn for any of them attag her.

  Spreading out ice over the ground, Eudokia drew out multiple paths for her. She jumped onto the first taking off to out fnk Yumi. Unfortunately, the agility of Yumi made it difficult for her to actually out maneuver her. She slid around the whole area moving with Yumi as they fought higher into the air.

  Amidst their fighting, Eudokia materialized her attached to her sword. It appeared all around Yumi immediately tightening to restrict her movements. She charged in with her sword ready to pierce her. However, multiple ses of barriers popped up. The sword mao cut through a few, but hit resistance suddenly.

  Yumi shattered the s arouhrough mere strength. She then materialized several of her pieces of barriers, throwing them at Eudokia. The first few missed, but Yumi rapidly increased the speed until she was uo keep up. Oruck the upper sleeve of her kimono. Several more followed up sending her flying back to the dome’s wall.

  Pio the wall, Eudokia had little range of movement. While she tried to release herself, Yumi threw more at her, but no longer aimed for her clothing. She had to use ice to keep it from a lethal injury and it still only deflected it.

  Eudokia altered her clothes quickly to free herself from the shackles. She threw out ice shards to keep Yumi off her, while she recovered. ‘Tch…she’s getting more lethal with her attacks.’ Catg the ice, she rode the wave around taking shots at Yumi from a distance.

  Fueled e even more so than before, Yumi released more of her shield barriers. Spinning quickly, the pieces of the barrier flew off after Eudokia. Dodging and out running them with her ice, kept Yumi from sg any hits. However, she raised her hand towards the path Eudokia took. She crushed both the front and rear of her ice wave.

  Forced to recover quickly with new paths, Eudokia came back around. However, she found that Yumi had already set up her attabsp; ‘Damn…she’s much smarter in bat than I expected…’ A focused beam shot out. Ice covered up in a wall to protect her. She made it even thicker, disc hile it was against Yumi. It mao hold.

  Yet she saw cracks already starting to form. She repaired it quickly to keep the defense. ‘She’s able to focus her power through the barrier as well… It’s much more versatile…’ The iy of the beam increased. Her wall wouldn’t hold for long without more strengthening, however it was a losing fight.

  ‘I need a distra…’ Eudokia materialized several ice shards from different dires. However, they couldn’t even make it more than a few timeters before they disappeared. pletely crushed by Yumi without even a slight alteration of her stanbsp; ‘…damn…this is getting more annoying… I shouldn’t be taking this long with her! She should already be exhausted from fighting the Titans, why does she still have so much power?!’

  Worse for Eudokia, she realized too te that Yumi had something else pletely different pnned. She just pyed her with a distra. The frontal attack wasn’t the real attabsp; Multiple beams came in from different angles. ‘How did she…?!’ Eudokia didn’t have time to react.

  A weak defense was the only thing she could offer. The beams easily pierced through the ibsp; At the st moment, she colpsed on the ice supp her. It dropped her, but not soon enough to escape all of the beams. She took several hits to her arm and shoulders. Fortunately, they weren’t deep since she fell before it became too bad.

  Eudokia nded oone floor kneeling. Blood dripped off her wounds. ‘Damn…Yumi…I’m going to have actually get serious with her…’ She slowly stood up, wiping off the blood as ice sealed up the wounds. “I hope you’re pleased with yourself.”

  “You’re still moving,” Yumi replied in disagreement.

  “You won’t be very soon.”

  “Big talk for someohat’s been barely able to keep up.”

  Narrowing her eyes, she fixed her gaze on Yumi. “You’ll see how long that sts for.”

  All of the ice suddenly disappeared. The sword faded away from her hand. Ice gathered around her hands, pletely eng them. Her feet grew ice cws as well as she k back down. “I’m ending things now!”

  “Just try!” Yumi immediately shot out beams from multiple dires to verge on Eudokia. However, she was already gone from the position. She nearly became a blur shing out at Yumi with her new cws. They sliced her barrier into pieces with no effort.

  The close call pushed Yumi back as she watched Eudokia fly further into the air. She had pieces of her barrier io redirect the beams that previously missed her. Eudokia had nowhere else to go. The beams chased after her.

  However, just as the beams moved within reach, Eudokia bounced off the air to ge her course. Her speed increased ing back around for Yumi. ‘Dammit, she was never like this before,’ cursed Yumi. She threw up barriers to push back Eudokia, but they didn’t stop her. Her cws sliced straight through ing for Yumi.

  “I told you, this is over!” Eudokia shouted, as a fsh of light arced over Yumi. Blood sprayed up from her cws sinking into flesh. Stubbornness in Yumi’s eyes made it clear to Eudokia that she wouldn’t be done in by just oabsp; She bounced around taking Yumi from multiple angles breaking her barriers and cutting deep with her cws until she fell.

  Yumi colpsed to her knees. Blood dripped over all of her body. Old wounds pined loudly along with the fresh. Her body shook, uo keep going forward despite her will it to move. “…damn…I ’t…lose…” She stretched out her hand towards Eudokia gathering energy. “I won’t…”

  Standing in midair, Eudokia stared down at Yumi’s tiruggle. “You’re done.” The ess in Eudokia's eyes returned. She dropped down quickly, ndio Yumi. A new spray of blood coated the right side of her face.

  “Damn…you!” Yumi clutched her severed arm. She couldn’t stop the bleeding. However, she didn’t pn to go down without Eudokia. She grabbed Eudokia’s shoulder with her blood soaked hand. “Eudok—“ Yumi coughed up blood suddenly.

  Eudokia jerked her hand free from Yumi’s stomabsp; “I ’t stop me.”

  Blood poured out from her stomabsp; The pain had bee s that she stopped feeling anything. Yumi colpsed backwards. Her blood fell into the carvings along the floor spreading out almost like a pair of skeletal wings. “…Yuki…”

  He was close to her. She could barely see him. Just in reach, she grabbed at him. “…Yuki…wake…” Yumi pulled with her arm trying to reach him.

  “He’s never going to hear you. He’s pletely under my trol.”

  “Yuki…” Her fingers could feel his boots. She dragged herself closer. ‘…closer…I just o get…’ Yumi reached up to his leg pulling on him. She could feel his warmth. He was in reabsp; ‘Just…a little…’ Each pained pull brought her a little further.

  More upright, she k o him leaning against him. “Yuki…please hear me…”

  “Just die already!” Eudokia charged in for the finishing blow, but Yumi suddenly mao lift her hand up and unleashed a powerful bst of energy. Uo dodge in time, she flew back crashing into the wall.

  Yumi coughed up more blood. “Damn…I…” She tilted her head up towards Yuki, still pletely lost to the world. F her legs to move, she stood up a little wobbly. “I…don’t know…how much time…I’ve got…but there’s…something I want to say…”

  Some of her st bit of strength fell out from under her. She leaned forward, forced to support herself with her only hand against the Throne.

  Blood soaked, Yumi smiled at him. “Ever sihat day… I’ve watched you… I…looked up to you…admired you… At first…” Her hand started to give out. She leaned a little closer to Yuki. “…but something else…grew inside me…in my heart… I could feel it every time…I saw you… It’d beat so hard…I thought I’d die…”

  Her legs buckled a little more, knog her down a little more level with him. “…I’m shy…introverted…anti-social…self scious…but you… Yuki you made me…want to ge…not be like that anymore. I wao…stand at your…side…”

  She could feel all of her strength disappearing. She couldn’t hold out much longer. “Yuki…” Yumi leaned in further only timeters away from his fabsp; She paused a little in wo his face, even bnk as it was. “…I finally say this to you…I love you…Yuki…” Yumi pressed in kissing him deeply until she had nth left.

  Yumi fell backwards slowly. “…so please…awake up…Yuki!” Her body colpsed on the floor uo move anymore. Blood pooled around her again.

  “…Yu…mi…”