I'll kill you after I finish this game!

"Waaah! Let me go!"

Suddenly, Elune sighed in disgust and reached out to grab Mary's shoulder, causing her to struggle.

She was afraid to hold this person's hand and even more reluctant to let him touch her.

Blood. The clothes she borrowed from Xiangchun were stained with blood and had been dirtied by her.

He did it himself; it was too much.

The so-called battle is simply killing people.

Mary's heart was pounding, her teeth were chattering, and she couldn't speak.

My hands and feet started to get cold, it felt like they were freezing to the bone.

This was a feeling bestowed upon her by Eluneore, but Mary did not want to know about it.

bang——

"what!"

Elunere used the blessing from Heydrich and kicked Mary straight into the wall, creating a spiderweb-like, cracked hole.

This is absolutely painful. Only God can hurt God, and given Heydrich's impending exposure, he is naturally qualified to harm the God of Seeking the Way.

"So you're going to abandon your ferocity just to make further contact? That's a ridiculous statement."

Picking up the divine bow from the ground and examining it, Elunere walked expressionlessly to Mary, who was lying on the ground, and said contemptuously:

"In that case, let's go back to using ordinary tools. The one the deputy leader gave her was a flower that was vicious inside but beautiful on the outside. Perhaps that would make her even stronger."

"I... am the best like this..."

It hurts so much, it's so scary, Mary has never experienced anything like this before.

Mary supported herself with her hands, struggling to get up, she said in a trembling voice.

I don't want to have the hole in my chest plugged, to go back to the naive and oblivious person I used to be.

She wholeheartedly resisted Eluneore's proposal.

No, absolutely not, I don't want to go back to the past. I don't want to give up the person I've become because of my interactions with everyone.

Mary was terrified and wanted to run away, but she gritted her teeth and foolishly rejoiced in how great she was.

"It seems you're quite fortunate. Regardless of your upbringing, you don't even know the taste of your own blood. Are you an ignorant princess in every sense? The deputy leader's taste is also quite perverse."

Elunere scoffed at Mary's happiness—a happiness she herself felt utterly unattainable, a happiness born of excessive protection, a happiness she couldn't escape—and looked down at Mary with a smile:

"Never mind. Anyway, if you want to take this step further and become a 'human,' I can tell you some facts: contact means mutual harm!"

boom--!

"Ugh..."

He stomped hard on Mary's head again, causing her to scream in agony.

The immense force cracked the roof of the entire hospital building, but its actual mass was hundreds of times greater than that of a neutron star.

The monstrous strength that struck Mary did not leak out; the surrounding phenomena were not even considered an aftershock.

He stomped on her repeatedly, then kicked her hard in the stomach, sending her flying like a ball.

It's very painful, really painful, I feel like I'm going to throw up.

Titi...and Lian, have you been enduring such terrible pain all this time?

“How amazing…”

Mary thought this frankly, from the bottom of her heart, because she herself was almost in tears.

How could they endure contact that was even more painful than this?

They swallowed so much pain and were still so kind to me; they are truly amazing.

I was indeed just a hindrance; it was because of me that such a terrible thing happened.

Hey, why didn't either of you blame me at all?

Because I felt that even if I explained it, I wouldn't understand?

Or is it because you think it doesn't look good?

I'm sorry, I don't understand complicated things very well, this is all I can sense.

They're probably completely different. Titi and Ren are very capable people, so they must have answers they couldn't come up with themselves.

So, tell me...

Lying in a pool of her own blood, Mary murmured something. Opening her eyes, she saw Fujii Ren lying on the ground again. Enduring the pain coursing through her body, she struggled to her feet:

"I will listen carefully. This time I will definitely take your words and your feelings to heart. I also want to become like Lian and Titi..."

This was the first time Mary had ever been slapped in the face, and it was also the first time she had ever experienced such severe bleeding from her nose and mouth.

Although it was painful, spicy, and scary, I was still a little happy because I could get closer to Lian and the others.

She was afraid and repulsed by the fight; killing was terrifying, but she had a feeling she had to overcome.

This is what they call enlightenment, isn't it?

"Having always been loved, I want to love you all too..."

Mary's face was covered in bruises and wounds, but she was still smiling.

So please don't leave me behind. Can you leave a place for me, this good-for-nothing, standing shoulder to shoulder with you? I'm afraid of pain, but it seems like I'm not afraid of anything when I'm with you...

So I don't want to be afraid. I want to swallow my fear and touch you with that feeling.

Mary looked at Eluneore in front of her; yes, she knew.

The opponent is immortal.

【Perfect Realm - Skadi X Margaret】: Because there is a physical body.

It's not that they can't be killed, but that they are people who can be killed and then come back to life.

So what should we do? Although I can't express it very well in words, there's still something I can understand...

If it were Titi, what would you do? You experienced a war that was far larger, more devastating, and more painful than Lian's.

This time, I don't want Mary to be the one being protected behind you, so please, help me, help Lian...

With the awareness of being a "human being" that comes with being newborn, Mary slowly reached out her hand to resist the beating from Eluneore in front of her.

moment--

That's fucking amazing, the Imperial Giant Whale Killing Hadouken!!!

Boom!

"Varied---!"

Without sensing any outside interference, Elunere inexplicably saw a brutal and domineering aura erupt from the frail goddess before her, a power that was not hers to possess!

A killer whale, shrouded in the aura and domineering presence of a demon and a raven, roared and charged towards her.

She tried to dodge, but in the direction she should have avoided, an attack appeared as if from the depths of hell itself. Countless skeletal ghosts crackled and snapped at her, their trembling jaws gaping open as they grinned and lunged to bite at her neck.

Before she could react, two vicious attacks, which sealed off any possibility of her escape, struck her face and neck directly.

"Pfft-!"

It wasn't a scream, because Elunere couldn't scream. It was a sound that couldn't even describe the disfigurement of her entire face; it was a sound that was about to be crushed, with bones mixed with flesh and blood about to explode and spray out.

Because the opponent tilted their head back in time, this powerful punch only caused the opponent's cheek to be smashed open and their skull to be blown off.

As for the other attack, even though it was launched in a fit of rage, it failed to completely sever the opponent's head.

The same jet of blood that had been sprayed from his neck as it had when he was beheaded earlier.

Sizzle—

Elunere's combat boots plowed two jagged tracks into the hospital rooftop. Had it not been for her exceptional physical abilities, she would have already flown out of Earth's orbit.

The eyeballs in both eyes had completely fallen out and been blown out, but since the soul was still there, it didn't matter much.

Their gazes met those of Lisa and Hotaru Sakurai, and what shocked them was right before their eyes.

"Ugh—!"

Mary's lips trembled, and she felt an urge to cry. Even without turning her head to look at what was happening around her, she understood the joyful truth.

Fujii Ren, who had already woken up, wrapped his arms around Mary from behind with one hand, his face full of fierce violence. The hand that had attacked Elunere earlier slowly fell to his side.

On the other side, standing silently and with a powerful, reliable presence in front of Mary, was Skadi.

But it is not the real Skadi.

Fujii Ren thought that was Skadi, but seeing that the other person's body was not made of flesh and blood, but rather had a very deep connection with Mary, that could be described as being of one mind and body, or being born from the same lotus.

If we were to directly identify Skadi based on the complete realm she inherited, then she would be Mary's "God of War".

Mary had never used, or was unable to use, this divine technique from Skadi, after all, it was a move that required a mature and strong person to confront their true self and their bonds.

Mary is strong in terms of foundation, but she is definitely not a mature seeker of the Dao. Without the awareness of a strong person, she cannot be considered a strong person.

But when she truly matured, her thinking entered a new level, and she understood the true meaning of the existence of the people around her.

Using this move was almost a natural progression.

Even though Skadi never showed up, Mary still trusted that feeling.

She naturally assumed that Skadi would come to her aid, since she and Ren had never left her side and had always been there.

........

"Was this also part of your plan?"

Nanami, who was watching from the shadows in the distance, raised an eyebrow at this scene, then turned to look at Skadi, who was leaning against the wall behind her, with her eyes closed and arms crossed, saying nothing.

Honestly, even though this scene felt familiar, Nanami really didn't expect Mary to use Skadi's War God.

After all, the design of this move is very clear; it's definitely not something a princess could use.

Nanami wasn't surprised that Fujii Ren woke up in time; she never expected that the princess, who was so well protected, could reach such a level of 'enlightenment'.

As expected of the God of Seeking the Way, no matter how gentle and cute her personality is, it can't hide the fact that Mary is a born transcendent being and a pure-blooded god.