The two blades met each other, the large ringblade clashing violently hard onto the small knife Terumi had been carrying but he easily managed to block her initial move…
With a sudden twist she was beside him swinging her blade again as he ducked now under it, the top of his hat getting nearly slashed as his eyes widened at her sudden speed.
A well placed kick into her stomach forced her to be further apart from him as she gave a sharp giggle as she looked like she was rather enjoying herself.
"A full minute… most of my toys break apart before I even really touch them!" she chirped happily before her face suddenly dropped.
"Tch… I guess you're not too bad." she told him with an irritated voice as she gave an uncaring shrug.
"Well, I'm happy to please the lady… or ladies perhaps in this case… I will personally be happy when I cut that head off your body and stash it in my room… probably as a nut cracker!"
The very threat seemed to have the exact opposite effect as Tira only seemed to get even giddier at that mention as she licked her lips in anticipation before jumping once more at him, wildly swinging her weapon as Terumi threw his knife up again at her.
"I bet you say that to all the girls you meet!"
"No, I usually just kill those…"
He told her with a small grin as the blades once more clashed against each other over and over again as suddenly Tira all of a sudden grinned and ducked under Terumi and tackled him onto the ground.
Falling with a thud he groaned before he saw the ringblade coming down at him again as he barely dodged it, seeing part of his suit ripped off and a small trickle… of blood…
Was that even possible? This meager woman had managed to nearly cut his arm off.
As he stood in complete disbelief Tira giggled as she pointed at his wound and tilted her head with a smile.
"Oh yeah, that's what I have been looking for! Now to paint you completely red!"
"Ho, you are the one that is going to get painted on tonight!"
Terumi seethed suddenly at her as he came at her with enormous speed before he kicked her right on her jaw as Tira's teeth bit on her tongue as she yelled in pain.
Before she even had a small time to react on it, Terumi cut her right across her arm as well as she looked at the cut in anger before turning to look at him again, now being clearly a lot more upset.
"YOU FUCKING HURT ME!"
"Hey, I only did what you did bitch… don't feel too bad about it."
He teased her playfully back as he smirked now at her with his trademark shiteating grin as Tira was ready to wail away on him, as she seemed now completely pissed off.
She would have done so had not suddenly another face appeared onto the stage of battle as the two suddenly turned their heads to look at the newcomers.
"Malfested creatures… appearing from the portal just as Lord Azwel predicted."
Terumi turned to look at Tira as she looked at him with a look that said as much as he knew… both had no idea what the hell was going on.
"There are only three of them though… we can easily take them on…"
"Heh… even only one guy… this ought to be easy."
Terumi smirked as he looked to Tira who just still stood rather befuddled at the sudden appearance of the new group of what seemed to be knights of sorts.
"I hate to break up a terrible good time but perhaps after you join me in slaughtering these idiots you might want to give a go again where we left off?"
This seemed to finally get an honest evil smirk on Tira's face as she suddenly turned to look at the newcomers as she readied herself.
"Ho, this date just got so much more interesting."
"Phantom… you too better ready yourself."
Terumi told the woman dressed in the witch outfit as she gave no response but only slightly moved to now stand between the two others as the opposing knight force still stood ready for the attack.
"In the name of Lord Azwel… we the Qualifiers will purge you malfested from this land and free humanity from its shackles!"
"So… you are the original researcher I take then?"
Izanami remained even now calm with the sudden appearance of the newcomer onto the scene. But she already had a clear idea who this Ansem was. His portrait had been hanging in the office after all.
"Yes… researcher and ruler of this world."
"A world ruler that experiments and researched the possibilities of the heart… quite fascinating."
Even now Relius seemed to be heaping praise upon praise on Ansem, but now Izanami was quite annoyed by it as he seemed like the enemy here.
"As charmed as I am… I must now be forced to remove you from this room, world and existence."
With a sudden snap of his fingers the beast on his back suddenly flew up over him and right towards Izanami as she remained still and didn't move as Tsubaki jumped in front of her and blocked the punch of the beast as she pushed him back.
"Interesting… you were able to deal with my Guardian… but even so, you can't defend two targets at once."
He told them as he snapped his fingers again as now black creatures, looking like the ones from before only now larger in size, rose up from the ground and circled around Relius.
"Your mistake is to believe I am but a researcher alone myself. Ignis."
Out of nothing a pink clad human doll appeared as it suddenly barreled straight into the Heartless in front of it as Relius merely turned around as from underneath his cape a giant buzzsaw materialized cutting at least three more to pieces.
To say that Ansem was impressed with these intruders was putting it mildly as he suddenly held up his hand as his guardian who had kept clashing with Tsubaki flew back behind him as he smiled slightly.
"Perhaps we seem to have gotten on the wrong foot here. I mistook you as mere thieves." he said as he bowed in front of Izanami as she suddenly seemed rather pleased and held up her hand for Tsubaki to relax.
"It is true, whilst we came here in search for information, we aren't truly looking for anything of mortal value."
"Ah, those who see the true value of information. That is rather hard to come by."
Izanami knew now beyond a doubt that this Ansem was probably going to be enjoying talking to Relius without a shadow of a doubt.
Indeed Relius stepped towards Ansem after he gave Ignis a nod to vanish once more as the doll obediently disappeared from where she came from.
"Indeed, I am rather thrilled by your research, the darkness in one's heart, these shadow creatures, the very existence of multiple worlds outside those we know…"
"Yes, but I would still like to know what it is you seek here."
Ansem finally came to the point again, probably also not being too charmed of being this questioned as Izanami gave only a small smile at that.
"We seek the end of everything. I once sought only the destruction of one world, but now I wish to see every world reduced to nothing."
This very thing finally seemed to spark something in Ansem as he smirked at that.
"Now that… is something I'm keen to aid with."
His hand flew into the air as he watched it land a few meters away as he was next kicked in the face, before he landed on the ground and was repeatedly kicked till his face was only a bloody mess of what had once been a human skull.
Terumi laughed as he had the time of his life again, sure it didn't go that well at the start but now, he was just picking them off one by one.
A giant burly man with a large axe attempted to swing at him but he managed to easily managed to sidestep the swing and kicked the man in his jaw as he saw several teeth leave his mouth.
Next to him, Tira had just chopped a woman her foot off as she struggled to get away before the mad woman pounced on her and grabbed her as she kissed her on her lips and began to drain her very life out of her.
The remaining Qualifiers that were left were soon swept up in a fire tornado created by Phantom as she stood completely immobile at they had attempted to rush at her.
All that was left was a single one as he held up his sword in defence cowering at the three slowly advanced on him as a wolf would slowly stalk upon its meal.
Hazama slowly twirled his knife in his hand as he smirked as next to him Tira twirled her ringblade in anticipation, both ready to cut him apart.
As he stood sweating, both maniacal killers suddenly turned to each other as they had forgotten about each other for a moment but remembered now the other was still there.
"So… you're actually rather skilled with killing…" Tira slowly began to admit as she was in awe at the carnage Terumi had created with just a pocket knife.
"Heh, well, you're not that bad yourself. I just felt such a good sense of bloodlust and need to murder…"
It seemed that now he was finally talking Tira's language as she smiled happily at him before frowning right away.
"Yeah, I think you're alright…" she spoke in a sour voice before turning to her giddy and happy self again.
"Don't mind Gloomy, she has problems admitting someone is better at killing than us."
She told him with a giggle as Hazama just shrugged and grinned. It was clearly his luck to run into this cuckoo for cuckoopuffs girl but all the same… she would make a good asset.
She was skilled, dangerous and had a knack for killing. Sure, she was unhinged and a loose cannon but hey, something is better than nothing right?
"Hey, he's getting away!"
Those words snapped Terumi out of his thoughts as the lone Qualifiers attempted to run away as he watched Phantom prepare another spell before he took off his hat, revealing his spiky green hair.
"Wait Phantom, I think I like to give our esteemed guest a little show before we return home."
He told her as she showed no motion but stopped her spell all the same.
He now thought he could make it, warn Lord Azwel about what had happened here. Surely he knew how to deal with these monsters. He had to know, it was impossible for him not to know.
He ran as quickly as his legs allowed him to drag him as he was letting a small laugh as the two assassins clearly had let him go. Perhaps they had grown cocky… or perhaps…
He didn't get to finish that thought as he was bit into two, a giant metal snake head crushing his spine and separating his legs from his upper body. Both fell onto the floor as his final thoughts raced in his head before his head was bitten off too and thrown away.
Terumi laughed as his Oroboros had made short work of the man as he turned to look at Tira who stood dumbfounded but giddy as possible.
"That was amazing! Can you show me more like that?! More killing?! More blood?!"
Impressing her had clearly worked as he smirked slightly before putting his hat back on and smiled at her.
"Sure, if you're willing to come along with me, I'll teach you why you can't spell slaughter without laughter."
It was a pretty painful pun but both still shared a good laugh at it as he turned to Phantom and smiled now.
"Phantom, be so kind and take us both home. I can't wait for the look of her face when she sees what we brought back home."
Ansem stood for a complete mystery as he was still busy trying to type in the password on the old computer.
He had agreed to share his knowledge with both Relius and Izanami but now… he felt rather embarrassed to admit he had forgotten the password of the old computer or rather that someone managed to change it.
Not that it was that important but it could have been useful in searching up new worlds and data on them as well as that infiltrating the data scape could potentially yield interesting results.
As it was though, something was blocking him from entering as he sighed and hung his head in frustration.
"Having trouble?"
"No, the old password was the right one, it just seems someone has changed it recently." he told Relius as he turned around as Izanami just hung her head as she closed her eyes.
"So we can't access the information you have stored on the computer?"
"Not necessarily. We need to find someone that can bypass the information on this computer… and as it is… I might have an idea of someone who could potentially help us."
He told her as he smirked as he threw his arms over each other in front of his chest and continued his explanation.
"This world doesn't have many skilled people in computers. Perhaps one or two, but those will be of no use to us, but I know of a world that is drenched in technology and perhaps has the one we need to access the information stored on this computer."
He told her as Izanami kept her eyes closed before she slowly mulled over the information she had been given as she turned to look at Relius.
"Relius, it seems our ally will need someone to keep an eye on him… in case he attempts to betray us."
The very idea seemed to get a slight smirk on Ansem's face as he suppressed a chuckle and continued his usually demeanor.
"I have no qualms with that. It is only wise to not trust anyone you just met." he told her as he Izanami gave no reaction and instead stared at Relius instead.
"Very well, I will accompany you to this new world. Perhaps it will yield some new fascinating results or perhaps we could find some more like minded ones."
He suggested as Izanami gave a nod at that as she next looked at Tsubaki who quickly joined her mistress by her side as the two disappeared into a corridor of darkness returning back to their own world.
Ansem smiled at Relius who just stared back at him for a moment before he smiled back.
"So… whilst we are travelling… can you perhaps share some secrets with me?"
"It will be my pleasure."
He had come to inspect where his men had gone off to as he watched the carnage that had been committed onto the plain.
He didn't crack his usual smile or his extreme extravagant behaviour as he remained calm. He had insisted on coming here alone but his followers remained dedicated to protect him. Even more so with one whole squad having gone missing.
Some had lost the strength in their stomach and were vomiting at the sight and tried not to step into any body part or look at any of the blood that had been spilled.
But what he thought was most interesting was the fact that one of his men had been cleanly bitten in two… it might not have appeared to anyone that was because the marks weren't that of a normal weapon.
Surveying where the missing head had gone to he found it quickly as he held it up as he had a somber expression on his face before he started to smile.
"Such carnage wrought on my beloved humans! How dare they do this? There is no punishment to hellish for them to experience after what they have committed." he spoke finally outloud as he tossed the human head away before he turned to one of his followers and smiled to him.
"Give a note to Lord Artorius… it seems more players are beginning their little game and we should probably step up ours." Azwel told him.
