Leon was slashed by the sword of the mermaid-like Chimera Anima. Luckily for him, her sword was only about as sharp as the previous mantis-like Chimera Anima's blades, so it only cut through his clothes and artificial skin, barely damaging the surface of his metal structure…
"What?" the floating mermaid Chimera Anima said in surprise. "That's not possible! Perverts usually die in one stroke from my mighty sword of justice!"
"I did not come here to peep on you!" Leon screamed loud and clearly as he punched the mermaid Chimera Anima on the face hard, sending her against the wall…
"You…" the mermaid Chimera Anima said, shocked. "…You just hit a girl! What's wrong with you?" she yelled…
Meanwhile, outside, the cherry tree Chimera Anima was beating up Retasu…
"Cha! I'll crush you!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said as she was about to drop one of her thick roots on Retasu and kill her…
However, Retasu stepped aside at the last second and ran towards her opponent at an incredible speed, then jumped and kicked the cherry tree Chimera Anima three times on the face before jumping back…
"Well… Now that's more like it" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said with a wicked smile, and then she wiped the blood off her mouth with her arm. "A girl must be able to throw her femininity away and fight like a man!"
"Why are you doing this?" Retasu asked the Chimera Anima…
"Shut up and fight me!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said as she started launching a barrage of sharp pink petals, hurting Retasu…
Meanwhile inside, the mermaid Chimera Anima summoned big wooden wheels like those of a chariot and had them roll towards Leon, who could barely dodge them as they broke the wall into another room, essentially making the battlefield larger…
"Wooden wheels? What the fuck does that have to do with a mermaid theme? Shouldn't you be raising pillars of water or something?" Leon yelled at her…
"It's the Wheels of Fate!" the mermaid Chimera Anima replied…
"That doesn't tell me anything!" Leon said as he fired his arm cannon at her. The mermaid Chimera Anima just blocked the shots with her shield, unaffected…
"You know, because fate keeps moving ahead, with or without you!" the mermaid Chimera Anima said as she attacked with her sword…
Leon jumped back into the other room to dodge the sword swipe. "You just made that up, didn't you?"
"Ribbon: Lettuce Rush!" Retasu shouted as she launched a high-pressure water blast from her castanets, able to hurt the Chimera Anima with it despite being a tree-like monster. Retasu's body had some small bleeding cuts from her enemy's previous sharp petal attack…
"Is that all you've got?" the cherry tree Chimera Anima yelled loudly and boastfully…
"I don't want to fight you" Retasu replied…
"Why? You think I'm weak? I hate being looked down upon! Especially by feminine girls like you!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima shouted angrily as she tried to crush Retasu with several of her roots at once, but Retasu barely managed to back-flip out of the way…
"No! You've got it all wrong!" Retasu said. "You decided to become a monster because your boyfriend wronged you, right?"
"That's none of your business!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima screamed, noticeably upset. She then punched Retasu in the stomach with one of her roots, causing her to vomit some blood…
Inside the house, Leon got smacked in the face by one of the wooden wheels as he was trying to dodge them all, knocking him down onto the floor. The mermaid Chimera Anima tried to slice him in two before he could get up, but he rolled out of the way and jumped back to his feet, wiping the blood off his mouth afterwards…
"You can't escape justice, you damn pervert!" the mermaid Chimera Anima said…
"I couldn't help noticing you spout the word 'justice' a lot" Leon said, getting back into fighting stance…
"Of course! I'm a heroine of justice! It's what I fight for!" the mermaid Chimera Anima said…
The look in Leon's eyes suddenly saddened. "You idiot… There is no such thing as justice"
"Of course there is!" the mermaid Chimera Anima replied as she attacked with her sword again…
Leon barely stepped aside just in time to dodge and punched the mermaid Chimera Anima three times before she quickly floated back…
"Yeah, right! That's why you're helping an evil faction isn't it? You fucking hypocrite!" Leon said…
"What? I'm fighting on the side of women! Men are the evil force! That means you!" the mermaid Chimera Anima replied angrily as she summoned more wooden wheels and tried to crash them into Leon once again…
Leon rolled to the side to avoid the attack and shot at the Chimera Anima with his arm cannon, but she blocked the shots with her shield again. This time, however, Leon suddenly charged and pushed hard against the shield while his opponent's view was partially obscured by it, sending her against the wall…
"I'm starting to think there's some sort of extreme feminism movement going on here!" Leon said…
"Well, you can't abuse the oppressed and not expect a heroine to rise, can you?" the mermaid Chimera Anima replied as she charged back into the fight and attempted to cut Leon once again…
Retasu rolled to the side, once again avoiding getting crushed under the cherry tree Chimera Anima's roots. The Chimera Anima shot another barrage of sharp petals at her, but Retasu stopped it with yet another high-pressure water blast. Both attacks cancelled each other on collision…
"You're not fighting me full-force… And that pisses me off!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said…
"Why does that bother you so much?" Retasu asked…
"Because you dare pity me!" the Chimera Anima yelled…
"I can't help it! How could I beat you up knowing someone did something horrible to you? I think you've been punished enough!" Retasu said sadly…
"…You're right! I've been punished enough already! …I used to be in love with one of those bad boys, you know? The cold and aloof type who only cares about his own personal goal. Meanwhile another boy, the class clown, to be exact, was constantly harassing me… I can't really say the boy I loved dumped me, because he never considered me his girlfriend in the first place… but he did call me an annoying clingy fangirl and told me he hated me!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said as her suddenly sad eyes started getting teary…
"What a cruel thing to say to the girl who is in love with you!" a horrified Retasu replied…
"Wait! There's more! …When I was at my lowest point, contemplating suicide, that class clown who had been harassing me up to that point started trying to cheer me up. Maybe he always did, I don't know. The point is he promised he'd bring my beloved back to me… I fell in love with this class clown for the compassion he showed me. Truth be told, I didn't care about the previous guy anymore…" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said…
"Then why are you a Chimera Anima?" Retasu asked…
The cherry tree Chimera Anima's teary eyes became filled with rage once again. "Because I was used! The class clown was never after me in the first place! He was after the other cold and aloof boy I was in love with! The only reason he was trying to seduce me was because… get this: he thought it would make the other boy jealous! Once I confessed my love to him, he just threw me away! I was no longer useful to him!"
Retasu started crying at the tragic monster's story…
"What are you doing, idiot? Stop crying for me!" the cherry tree Chimera Anima yelled furiously…
"How can I not cry at such a heart-wrenching story?" Retasu said…
"Simple: by throwing away your feelings like I did! Be cold and ruthless like a man! …Speaking of men, you came here accompanying that boyfriend of yours…" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said…
"B-Boyfriend?" Retasu said, blushing intensely. "I'm not sure I can call Leon-san my boyfriend, but…"
"Don't count on him to give you your happy ending. He's a man, and as such he has the same weaknesses as all others" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said…
"What do you mean?" a worried Retasu asked…
"Sooner or later he will cheat on you with another girl" the cherry tree Chimera Anima replied seriously…
"Leon-san? But… No way! He's not the sort of person who would do that!" Retasu said, already scared…
Meanwhile, Leon managed to knock the shield off the mermaid Chimera Anima's hand, and then proceeded to repeatedly blast her with his arm cannon, stunning her from the sheer pain and causing her to drop her sword. Leon then grabbed her by the neck and cornered her against the wall…
"Game over" Leon told her…
"I see… So this is how it ends… Fine! Kill me! The boy I loved got engaged to my former best friend anyway! He didn't care at all! I did everything in my power to help him heal his broken hand, so he could play music again! He just didn't care!" the mermaid Chimera Anima cried…
Leon clenched his free fist as if preparing to crush the mermaid Chimera Anima's head against the wall, but he thought of Retasu at the last second. "…No"
Leon let go of the mermaid Chimera Anima's neck. She fell to the floor as she tried to catch her breath…
"Why did you spare me?" the mermaid Chimera Anima asked…
"The girl I came here with. She wouldn't approve of me killing the victim of a bastard boyfriend's abuse… And frankly, I'm more on your side than that of the boy you used to love" Leon said seriously, deeply surprising the mermaid Chimera Anima. "What pisses me off about you Japanese girls is that you're unable to move on with your life and instead continue to love the very first guy you fall for, no matter how many times he shits all over your life! You're pretty enough to just get yourself another guy anyway! Why waste your life on the first one?"
The mermaid Chimera Anima, unable to fight any longer, reverted back to her human form, though still with the Parasite Alien inside her, and as such still able to transform back…
Things didn't look so good on Retasu's side, as she was getting pummeled by the cherry tree Chimera Anima…
"What happened? The mere thought of your darling boyfriend cheating on you has drained all of your fighting spirit?" the cherry tree Chimera Anima said…
"Ribbon: Zakuro Spear!" Zakuro's voice shouted from off-screen, enveloping the cherry tree Chimera Anima in a spiral of purple fire. The monster let out a horrible scream of pain and reverted to her human form after the attack ended, but refused to let go of her Parasite Alien just yet…
"Zakuro-san! Minto-san! You're alive!" Retasu said as her two friends suddenly appeared to rescue her, though both of them had cuts in their bodies and some improvised first-aid on their wounds to stop them from bleeding.
"Yeah, we survived somehow" Minto said. The back of Hinata House was littered with the scrap metal of the destroyed Mecha-Tamas…
"Grrrr… You! Girly bitch!" the pink-haired tomboy who could change into the cherry tree Chimera Anima said while pointing at Retasu. "My name is Sakura! Remember it, because I'm going to soon finish what I started!" she threatened before running away from the inn…
Ichigo and Bu-Ling, meanwhile, were on the run from more Mecha-Tamas themselves. Both girls wounded just as much as Zakuro and Minto…
"Ribbon: Pudding Inferno!" Bu-Ling shouted as she threw her tambourine rolling towards the Mecha Tamas. On contact, the tambourine trapped a number of the little robotic turtles into inescapable jelly-like yellow puddings. However, many more of them still fired their weapons at the two poor girls…
Just when it seemed Ichigo and Bu-Ling would die, Masaya suddenly showed up with the strange sword he took from Andr's bunker, and with a loud scream he swung it with his full strength. The weapon emitted a strong sonic wave as a result. Luckily enough, the sound interfered with the Mecha-Tamas' systems, causing them to malfunction and explode…
"Wow… Pretty powerful for an unfinished weapon" Masaya commented, looking at the sword…
