The shadowed figure of the bight and goat-like bipedal demon stood at the ready for battle as they focused their eyes on their “oppos”, Yuuji and Aika.

  As phantoms of Touch Me and Ulbert Ain Odle created by Momonga, they were adorned in their full-set equipment, just like their inal as Momonga had memorized and had ingrained in his memory.

  The phantom of Touch Me was adorned in his “pliah Laure white full pte armor, now jet-bck, that he had won from the world tour. In his left hand was “Earth Recover”, a pure white shield, now jet-bck, that was his favorite shield. And a jet-bck sword in his right hand.

  Its coloration was the plete opposite to its inal. But aside from that, its appearance was the exact same as Touch Me.

  Oher hand, Ulbert’s appearance didn’t seem to ge much, as he was already adorned in mostly b the first pce. He was adorned in a bd red ceremonial uniform akin to those worn by wester, perhaps european, generals, and a velvet cape with a rose pinned on his left shoulder. Upon his head was a beau, and the right side of his face was covered with a golden mask.

  The other side of his face, however, was shown and it wasn’t that of a gray goat. Instead, it was bck, and its pair of wickedly twisted horns were of the same coloration and no lold.

  Touch me had his sword and shield at the ready, while Ulbert had spread his hands, ready to cast buff spells to himself the moment the match started.

  Although these phantoms retaiheir personality, character, behavior, and to a certaient, memories, as Momonga would remember, they were still “Phantoms” trolled by Momonga. And Momonga had brought them ieo fight against Yuuji and Aika. As such, they were focused oask at hand, and were ready for the moment Momonga sighe start of battle.

  In trast, Yuuji and Aika were standing casually. Yuuji had nht out his on, and Aika was not preparing herself to cast any spells.

  They were truly not in a hurry, and knowing their own power, they were not ed with the “threat” these two phantoms might pose to them. If they were the inal Touch Me and Ulbert, then they would’ve taken them more seriously, out of respect for their friendship and abilities.

  But to them, these Phantoms were simply sandbags they would be testing their painst.

  While they might share appearances with their “friend” and “rade”, they were simply phantoms, in the end. And they did not hold any feelings towards them.

  Instead, they were listening in to Momonga’s versation with the twins.

  They were quite far apart, but with the keen senses of their new races, distance wasn’t an issue for them to hear their versation.

  “Yuuji, is that a good idea…? Some of the members had argued with each other in the past. And if their creations took sides, wouldn’t it cause internal dispute between the NPCs?”

  Aika silently veyed her message to Yuuji telepathically through their specially crafted “Ring of Marriage” they’ve received as part of their “special level 100 character” support item for the mission.

  The ring grants them the ability to unicate with their partners over any distahey would also be able to teleport to each other’s location for free once a day, copy 1 skill or spell, active or passive, of their other half that could be ged once every day, and inform them the moment their partered bat.

  Moreover, while within the same party, they would gain a boost to their stats, and a further boost if they were within a certain viity of each other.

  They were divine raems, due to how incredibly rare and high rahe ingredients to make them were, with some being God Items. In their “memories”, the pair s were created with the help of Amanomahitotsu, the best bcksmith within Ainz Ooal Gown.

  “I think it’ll be fine… As he said, they would all be under his trol. And I’m sure he won’t let them fight to the point that it’ll cause internal dispute between the NPCs.”

  “Hmm… I hope so.”

  Aika nodded as a smile appeared on her face, reminisg the time she had spent with some of the other members of Ainz Ooal Gown within her “memories”.

  “I would’ve liked to meet them in real life, especially Bukubukuchagama-…”

  “Memories” of her time chatting with Bukubukuchagama, their te night girls’ talk, Bukubukuchagama pining about her little brother or the annoying guys trying to get close to her, her envying Aika for having su amaziionship with such a perfect boyfriend, talking about their daily lives, even to the muuff…

  They all felt so real, yet not at the same time… No, they were ‘not’ real. But Aika still treasured them all the same.

  “Me too…”

  Yuuji gowards Touch Me’s figure and remembered the figure of his good birdman friend, Perorono.

  While he was close with all members of the guild, the two were the closest to him.

  Touch Me was a brure to him, someone he’d ask and receive advice from on how to better his retionship with Aika and life in general. And he would always be there for him, to help him no matter if it was reted to the game or in real life.

  A big brother he could always t on.

  While Perorono was that perverted, annoying friend who he simply just couldn’t e to hate nore. He was always ho, sometimes to a fault especially regarding his likes and hobbies. But being with someone so truthful and ho was something Yuuji appreciated greatly.

  He could tell him about anything he wanted and he would respond truthfully to his own beliefs without judging, even if the truth might hurt sometimes. And Perorono would also never hide anything from him. He was ho about his likes, his perverted fetishest, his desires, and the genuine friendship and kinship he felt with Yuuji.

  Recalling the “memories” he had with them, Yuuji also felt a bit somber.

  As Aika said… it would’ve been o have truly met them in real life…

  “Well, at the very least, we could still i with the Phantoms…”

  “Yes… At the very least.”

  A heavy sigh escaped their lips, before the two noticed a nod ing from the rge, skeletal overlord that was Momonga from the distanbsp;

  They nodded iurn, and looked at each other. A smile finally blooming on their faces once more.

  “Let’s stop thinking about this and have fun. It’s been a while since you’ve let loose, right?”

  “Yes~ I’m suuuper looking forward to this~! I ’t wait to test out some of my spells~”

  “Well, just don’t cast [True Armageddon Evil], any super destructive spell, or the Super Tiers, okay?”

  Aika pouted.

  “Geez, I know that already~ I won’t do that kind of thing!”

  “Mm.”

  Yuuji smiled softly at his pouting girlfriend before closing his eyes.

  Then, a beautiful one-handed longsword, adorned with two sky blue diamonds embedded on each side of the bde, and hilt ed with an azure-colored silk with a sparkling, cerulean-colored crystal at its pommel appeared within his right hand.

  ‘Est, let’s do our best and have fun.’

  He spoke to the spirit sword sn within his mind, and a soft, gentle, beautiful voice of a young girl resounded in his mind in respoo his words.

  ‘Uh will do her best.’

  The diamonds at the base of the bde and the length of the bde glowed with a radiant, divine light as magic began to emanate subtly, yet powerfully, causing the air in its viity to subtly shake and tremble.

  Then, with his left hand, he touched the obsidian gem and white gold neckce around his nebsp;

  ‘Alice, Aria. The two of you feel free to join in and have fun, okay?’

  Without words, but iions aions were veyed through their bonds with Yuuji.

  Sihey unfortunately do not have bodies that could move as freely as they wahey would simply like to help him and have him use their abilities while cheering him on.

  ‘I see… Thank you. And I hope the two of you will evolve soon and perhaps, gain a body.’

  The obsidian gem and white gold neckce glowed and vibrated in respoo his words, as a mixed feeling of excitement, happiness, and anticipation were veyed to him.

  “Well the’s have some fun, shall we?”

  “Uhn~!”

  The golden staff of Ainz Ooal Gown was raised into the air as all seven jewels within the mouths of the seven snakes shone from the lights that filled the grand amphitheater.

  Then, the low, bassy voiomonga resouhroughout the arena.

  “Begin!”

  “[Bless of the Magic Caster], [Greater Full Potential], [Magic Boost], [Freedom], [Fly], Maximized Magic [Hell Fire Wall]!!!”

  A myriad of colored auras swirled around Ulbert’s demonic goat form as one by one, numerous buff spells were casted and empowered him.

  Ideally, Ulbert would’ve casted many more buffs to himself. However, having casted five buffing spells and a single offensive spell in a few seds was a feat few high ranking magic casters could boast.

  There was only a very few number of magic caster who could equal Ulbert in terms of casting speed, and even less who could surpass him. Aika being one of them.

  However, Aika simply stood in pce. She spread her jet-bck feathered wings which seemed to enpass the world into darkness, and elongated her nails, sharper and tougher than even legendary css bded ons, as a tall, wall of fmes rose with a fiery bze from the grouween herself and Ulbert.

  An impressed look appeared oherworldly beautiful visage.

  Creating a wall of fmes that would cause immense amounts of fire damage upon crossing, in addition to cealing his figure and location from Aika, was indeed an amazing idea.

  After all, while Aika rimarily a magic caster, she knew from her “memories” that she would often go against that notion and charge forward, using her naturally gifted athleticism and martial art skills to gain the upper hand against ic caster.

  Ulbert, Shizyuutensuzaku, and Momonga had bee victims to this strategy multiple times as, even if they knew she was ing, stopping her was another matter entirely.

  Despite being a Phantom, Ulber seemed to remember this fad thus used Hell Fire Wall to prevent her from charging blindly.

  The tall wall of bzing fmes burned with blinding light and intense heat, scorg the grounds. Its heat could be felt clearly even from where Momonga and the others were standing.

  “Amazing…! As expected of Ulbert-sama!”

  “U-Uhn…! Even though it’s a phantom and not the real Ulbert-sama, it’s still incredible!”

  A sense of pride filled Momonga’s e, at least in this form, as he straightened up and looked at the fming wall with nostalgia and pride.

  “This isn’t even parable to his true prowess… But it’s certainly still impressive.”

  Due to the effects of the stro magic caster css, “World Disaster”, which boasted incredible firepower aructive magic, even if the “Phantom” could only ma a pertage of the true Ulbert’s capabilities, his spells were still parable to a level 90 character’s most powerful spells.

  “I agree… But, this shouldn’t be enough to stop Aika. The damage she’d receive from this spell if she passed through it would’ve been negligible.”

  Momonga quickly turned his attention towards, surprised by his words.

  Although the spell wasn’t parable to what the true Ulbert could do, it was still a powerful spell which had been further empowered to increase the spell’s attack power to its maximum damage potential with the Maximized Magic metamagihas. Even him, when equipped with an equipment which gave him fire resistance, would still suffer quite the substantial amount of damage.

  Lelouch’s words were hard to believe, to say the least. However… there was still a lingering feeling in the er of his mind that might think they were true.

  After all, Lelouch had received “memories” of the three of them having spent years within Yggdrasil and Ainz Ooal Gown. He must’ve known Aika’s true capabilities, as he had “seen” them in his “memories”.

  “E-Eh? Is that true, Lelouch-sama?!”

  Lelouodded at Aura’s question.

  “Yes. She had charged through Hell Fire Walls cast by Ulbert at an even higher tier before with only a few burns, before throwing him with an Aikido throw.”

  “T-Then why…?”

  Lelouch smiled, turning his head towards the twin fluardians and looked slightly downwards to meet their gazes.

  “Because she won’t be satisfied with this little exercise if it ends so soon.”

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