Meanwhile, at the streets of Kanagawa, the Blue Knight had been sent back by a powerful punch from Seta, and barely managed to regain balance and land back onto his feet, then he had to catch Ichigo as she got blown away as well…
"He's pretty strong for a human!" the Blue Knight admitted while he looked at Seta, who was still completely undamaged, holding his battle stance as the wind blew in the area…
Meanwhile, Leon got slammed onto the ground by Haruka using her whip…
"I will never forgive you" Haruka declared grimly before she pulled the whip again and threw Leon against a nearby rock…
Back inside the tunnels below Hinata House, Mitsune opened the jar and took the Parasite Alien out…
"Are you insane? You think that one of your modified parasites will make her love me more?" Andr yelled, shocked. "Besides, I thought that Leon destroyed all the parasites in Su's lab!"
"He did. We ran out of modified Alien Parasites long ago… But this one… This one is not modified. This is the original Keitaro found in those ruins, the one all the clones came from" Mitsune replied…
Shinobu was just getting up when Mitsune crouched down and put her hand near Shinobu's chest…
"I think the technique that the aliens used to extract a human soul was more or less like this…" Mitsune said calmly. Andr saw a ball of white light get extracted from inside Shinobu's chest, and then the poor girl's body went limp …
At that moment, time seemed to go on slow motion for Andr as he witnessed in utter horror how the girl he loved dropped dead and hit the floor. There it was, the one being that Andr loved most over everything else, gone, just like that. He now had truly lost everything. An uncontrollable flood of tears filled both of his eyes as they suddenly recovered all the emotion that he had repressed…
"The hell? Didn't you guys need her alive for your stupid plans to work?" Andr cried, shocked and backing away from Shinobu's limp body…
"The unmodified parasite is not as easy to use as our version. It can't fuse with humans directly, so the aliens utilized a technique to remove the person's soul and fuse the parasite with it instead… Just like this" Mitsune said before she brought Shinobu's soul to the Alien Parasite…
The jellyfish-like parasite proceeded to invade Shinobu's soul, taking the form of a woman-shaped cat beast with blue fur, Shinobu's naked figure, hair and breasts, and the face of a kitty. Those razor-sharp claws, however, were not something to take lightly, and those fangs looked pretty painful as well…
"Have fun, you two!" Mitsune said before she and Hinata walked away, leaving Andr at the mercy of the cat-shaped Chimera Anima created from Shinobu's soul…
"N... no… th… this can't be how you are... Shi… Shinobu-chan…" Andr said, his tears raining on the cold stone floor…
When Mitsune and Hinata went to the room where Retasu was locked up, they found the room empty and the door busted. "Darn it! The hostage escaped!" Mitsune said…
"We have no time to look for her! I don't know how long Haruka-chan is going to last against that mechanical abomination!" Hinata said. "Go upstairs and get ready to hold him off!"
Meanwhile, right outside of the house, Leon was so badly battered that his synthetic skin had rips all over it, showing his mechanical body which also looked pretty damaged, not to mention the bleeding wounds on the organic half of his body. He nevertheless got up with difficulty even after receiving a beating from Haruka…
"Why don't you die already?" Haruka shouted before she threw a whiplash full-force…
Leon tried to defend himself with his left arm, getting it entangled. However, just before Haruka could pull him again, Leon took aim with his other arm cannon and shot at Haruka's right hand. The plasma shot shattered the poor woman's hand into a bloody stump, forcing her to let go of the whip. Leon then pulled with his entangled arm and threw Haruka's whip off the hill…
"I can still beat you up!" Haruka screamed as she charged towards Leon, but Leon just shot her through the chest, right as Sarah was coming out of the front door…
The poor American girl had to watch her adoptive mother drop dead in front of her eyes. Sarah's eyes filled with tears as an uncontrollable rage invaded her. "You killed my moooooom!" Sarah screamed as she attempted to attack Leon in a blind rage…
Startled, Leon turned and fired without even knowing who was about to attack him. The shot pierced cleanly through Sarah's chest. Leon stared in horror at the corpse of the 16-year-old girl he had just murdered…
"Now I just killed a mother and a daughter…" Leon said sadly as he stared at his own arm cannon. "Fuck this shit. Some 'hero' I am"
Tired and wanting to get all this over with, Leon kicked down the front door of Hinata Inn. His cyber body was badly damaged from having fought both Keitaro and Haruka in the same night, even sparking at one spot, and his battery indicator was about 15%, but he needed to soldier on to rescue his lover and his best friend…
At the streets, the Blue Knight screamed as he charged against the enemy again. His sword clashed with Seta's fist, causing a shockwave that wrecked their surroundings more than it damaged the combatants. Both jumped away from each other…
"Whoops… We're too strong for this city. Mind if we take this fight to the ruins?" Seta offered…
"We've got no choice. We don't want any other people caught in the crossfire, right Ichigo?" the Blue Knight said…
The three quickly ran all the way to the ruins and stopped once far enough from the rest of the city, where they would resume their battle. Again, the two clashed fiercely. Ichigo took a blocking stance and screamed while the shockwave generated from the two men's clashing attacks swept everything else around them in a large radius. The two jumped back from each other before charging again with incredible speed. The Blue Knight's blue energy slashes proved as powerful as Motoko's, but Seta easily dodged each one and palm-thrust the air so hard he pushed it onto the Blue Knight and sent him against a rock…
Ichigo shouted as she swiftly attacked with a barrage of fast kicks with agility worthy of a cat, but Seta was able to easily parry and block it all before punching her away. However, Ichigo instantly stabilized herself in the air and landed just fine, although she had to wipe the blood from her mouth right after…
The Blue Knight charged again, trying to cut Seta. The professor dodged every slash carefully until the Blue Knight did a vertical cut. Seta stopped the sword with just his bare hands, although the sheer force of the attack sunk his feet slightly onto the ground…
"It's been a while since I faced an opponent this strong" Seta said with a smile, he then kicked the Blue Knight on the side and sent him rolling on the floor, making him let go of his sword due to the way Seta was holding the blade…
"Masaya-kun!" Ichigo screamed…
Seta examined the blade. "For an alien sword this isn't very different from what I've seen here on Earth, but it's still pretty well-crafted… Let's t do this: If I win, I get to keep your sword" he said before he threw the sword gently at the Blue Knight to allow him to recover it…
Back at the dungeon, Andr was holding Shinobu's lifeless body, not moving at all. The blue female cat monster slowly and elegantly moved towards him with killing intent. "Please wait for me… Shinobu-chan…" Andr said as he just closed his eyes and waited for the end to come at the hands of the cat monster in front of him, ready to end his life…
Suddenly, the monster hesitated. It seemed to be struggling with itself. "An… dr… -kun…" it managed to say before it inevitably swiped with its claw, knocking Andr away from Shinobu's body and leaving a bleeding scratch-shaped scar on Andr's body. The Chimera Anima moved to finish Andr off, suddenly jumping to pounce on him with its mouth open and aiming its fangs at his throat…
"Ribbon: Lettuce Rush!" Retasu shouted, blasting the cat monster in mid-air and sending it crashing against the bars of the cage…
"Ugh... no, don't bother Retasu-chan… It's best you just leave me to go… Just get out of here, please… have a life with Leon" Andr said weakly as he looked at the new scar on his chest, and then back at Retasu. All the life was gone from Andr's eyes as he lost his will to go on anymore…
"I'm not leaving you, Dr. Seto! I will save you and Maehara-san!" Retasu declared with determination…
However, the cat Chimera Anima soon counterattacked, slashing Retasu and knocking her down, tearing a scar onto her body as well. Retasu still felt the pain of the wound of her battle with Su, and was having a hard time getting up…
"Please let me accept my fate, Retasu-chan… There's nothing left for me anymore. Everything and everyone I cared about is either changed for the worst or destroyed" Andr cried…
"I am not giving up, Dr. Seto! I'm going to save you and Maehara-san so you can one day marry and have a happy life together!" Retasu said. She then dodged another slash from the Chimera Anima and counterattacked with a kick that knocked it back a few steps…
Meanwhile, Leon kicked down another door inside Hinata Inn, this one taking to the dining room. Grandma Hinata was sitting in there, expecting him, with a lit candle on the small table by her side…
"Who are you?" Leon asked, surprised…
"I am Hinata Urashima, founder of Hinata Inn… Haruka-chan and Sarah-chan were murdered by your hand, I see… Such a mechanical abomination that Dr. Seto created… monsters like you should not even exist!" the old lady said. "Mitsune-chan! Dispose of this monstrosity for me!"
Hiding nearby, Mitsune took out her own Mew Pendant and kissed it. She then did a whole transformation sequence of her own, a darkness-elemental one. Her body became naked and shrouded in darkness that transformed into the various pieces of her Mew Mew clothes, which were black, making her look a little like a dominatrix. She then sprouted fox ears and one fox tail, which then opened in a fan formation until it became nine tails. Finally, she opened her fox-like eyes. In Mitsune's hand materialized a magical-looking black writing pen, and then she came out of her hiding spot, showing herself to a shocked Leon…
"What? Never saw such a sexy girl before?" Mitsune joked, looking at him smugly with her open fox-like eyes…
Without a word, Leon attacked Mitsune. Meanwhile, back outside at the ruins, Ichigo and the Blue Knight attacked in tandem, giving Seta a difficult time blocking and parrying it all, yet Seta managed to find an opening and repel them both…
"Phew! You guys synchronize way too well for my liking! I guess even in battle you're still a couple" Seta praised his opponents. He was soaked in sweat from the effort, and had to take his shirt off, showing a strong, hardened and muscular body. Ichigo had a slight nosebleed seeing that. As a final touch, Seta took off his glasses and stored them in his pocket so he didn't get them broken in his face…
"He looks like he came out of a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga" the Blue Knight commented…
"I'm going seriously now. Be proud, for nobody has pushed me this far in many years" Seta declared while going onto battle stance once more…
"Ichigo-chan… Run away" the Blue Knight said…
"Never! Either we win this together or we die together!" Ichigo replied…
"I see…" the Blue Knight said. "In that case, wait for my signal"
The Blue Knight and Professor Seta shouted loudly as they charged at each other full-force, their powerful attacks devastating the area even further, even changing the landscape. One attack from Seta pushed the Blue Knight back…
"Now, Ichigo-chan!" the Blue Knight yelled…
"Ribbon: Strawberry Surprise!" Ichigo shouted, shining her intensely bright light at Seta, blinding him. This gave Masaya an opening to run towards Seta and slash him diagonally with all his might…
The Blue Knight was breathing hard from the effort, his sword drenched in Seta's blood. However, once the light died down, he and Ichigo confirmed with horror that the cut inflicted on Seta's strong body was not as deep as they had calculated, at least not deep enough to mortally wound him…
"His body is too strong! Just what is this guy?" the Blue Knight said…
And things were only bound to get even more nightmarish from here. Seta went into a stance resembling a samurai about to unsheathe his sword. Of course, he wasn't carrying a sword, but his ki was starting to gather into an energy ball between the palms of both of his hands. It was by this point that the Blue Knight realized he and Ichigo were going to die…
"Ichigo-chan! Run!" he screamed at her…
But Seta would not give them time for that. With a very quick movement he pointed both palms at them and projected a big and powerful energy beam of ki, which looked more powerful even than Leon's Charged Buster Cannon. The attack hit both the Blue Knight and Ichigo, making them scream from the intense pain. And if that didn't kill them, the subsequent explosion with a radius of about 10 meters would…
Seta was breathing hard, covered in sweat. Apparently it took a lot of physical effort for him to fire that technique. The smoke from the explosion cleared. The Blue Knight and Ichigo were lying on the center of a crater, not moving…
The Blue Knight slowly opened his eyes, barely conscious. "Ichigo-chan…"
But Ichigo did not wake up. She did not move at all, and didn't seem to be even breathing…
"Ichigo-chan… No… Please don't die on me…" the Blue Knight said, starting to cry…
"It's been so long since the last time I had to resort to that technique… You're the strongest opponent I've faced in a long while… This fight was very fun" Seta said…
The Blue Knight crawled towards Ichigo's limp body and hugged it tightly, silent for a while…
"…Fun? …People die in this kind of thing, and you call it fun?" the Blue Knight said calmly before he gave Seta a death glare…
The Blue Knight then put Ichigo's body in a more comfortable position, using a nearby flat stone to serve as a pillow before he got up. The Blue Knight couldn't even walk properly from how badly wounded he was, but he nevertheless walked towards Seta, an aura of blue ki getting increasingly more intense around his body…
"You really want to kill me so bad you're going to overload yourself? That's suicide" Seta said…
"I was born to protect Ichigo-chan" the Blue Knight said. "Without her, I have no reason to be alive…"
The Blue Knight and Seta prepared for a final clash, and charged at each other while screaming and attacking with all their might. Their clash resulted in a powerful shockwave that shattered the earth around them and stirred the wind. It seemed as if a natural disaster were occurring in the area…
Seta had successfully buried his hand into the Blue Knight's chest, killing him. The transformation wore off as the corpse went back to Masaya Aoyama's form and dropped dead…
"You really were a worthy opponent… I'm happy that my last fight was such a tough one… Congratulations" Seta said. The Blue Knight's sword had pierced through his heart and was still buried into his chest. Seta started to fall backwards as he exhaled his last breath, his dead body hitting the barren ground with a thud…
Leon and Mitsune were fighting inside Hinata House, their powerful punches and kicks breaking the walls and making the area bigger, all while old Hinata watched serenely…
"That's all? You're so badly damaged you can't even fight properly!" Mitsune mocked Leon while tracing lines of darkness with her pen-shaped weapon, which instantly moved forward and hit Leon, further damaging him. "I'm going to write the scene of your death!"
Meanwhile, Retasu got sent rolling against the bars of the cage by another slash from the blue cat Chimera Anima. She tried to get up, but the pain was too much and she collapsed…
"It's useless, Retasu-chan… My Shinobu-chan is gone forever. Just run away and let me die…" Andr cried…
"That's not true, Dr. Seto!" Retasu said as she started slowly getting back up again. "Maehara-san is still alive!"
Andr's eyes opened wide in surprise…