The light subsided and we found ourselves in a black version of the environment me and my friends fought Zanza in the Killing Titan War. Rantaro descends into this space from above and unfolds his wings.

"Welcome, Sharla." He said.

"He was waiting for her?" Gita muttered to her bandmates.

"How the hell should we know?" Kiba asked.

"I planned to use this killing game to lead her into believing that the false identities given to the the first 16 students in this game were the truth." Rantaro explained as he gripped his weapon tighter and held it up. "However, I noticed that she wasn't falling for any of it and I came across a great and unexpected power."

"It's you alright, you're the one who took my fighting ability!" Shulk yelled. "Give it back!"

"I won't give it back. It let me become something beyond anything you could imagine. Now I possess all that I desire."

He swung the sword back down and light flared from it. All of us flinched, but we did not back away.

"There's no longer any need for you to keep living." The mastermind proclaimed.

I heard my friends drawing their weapons and I took out my rifle and held it at the ready. We all glared up at Rantaro.

"I truly want to thank you, Sharla." The dark green-haired boy said as he smiled. "That special hope you had broke through everything that stood in your way. Now that I have all this power, I can forgive you for killing Kokichi."

Zell, Sae, and Dora scoffed as Tenko stepped forward. "You're going to give her a reward or something?" She asked in disdain.

"Exactly." The mastermind answered simply. "I'll have her gain the powers of a goddess equal to Zanza's. Death is just an afterthought."

Beshi and Kiba growled as Miyuji spoke up and Kaede stepped forward.

"Are you so arrogant to believe that we... no... everyone in this game were nothing but your playthings?!" The vocalist demanded, pointing her staff at him.

"Playthings?" The false god repeated.

"Yeah!" Kaede yelled, glaring up at him. "You don't know how it feels to watch my friends die, even if their entire selves were lies!"

"What are you talking about?" Rantaro asked. "Most of you wished to become a completely different person and I gave you that wish. For that, you should be grateful."

Gonta scoffs and steps forward. "So this is the pride of a false god."

"As I planned, this killing game was made to entertain the people of this world." Rantaro continued. "This game is nothing more than fiction made for them."

"Even though you do this for entertainment, we were still forced to take part in this game while you hid from sight!" Kiyo shouted.

"That's how limited you are!" Zell added.

"Hid from sight?" The mastermind repeated with a laugh. "I was just... resting there for a while. I simply awaited the day when one of you would prove yourself worthy for me to watch."

"Until..." I muttered in realization. "I became worthy."

"Precisely." The false god confirmed. "I wanted to see how you would fair in a game where murder is the only way to escape. However, I had no idea you would commit murder yourself."

"Sharla..." Zell muttered as he looked at me sadly.

A blur of motion caught his attention and he gasped as Rantaro's Monado swung down swiftly, coming to rest close to my face. The others took a step back, pointing their weapons at the mastermind in alarm.

"You did a great deed giving me this power." Rantaro said, addressing me. "I'll gladly make you the new goddess of this world... Sharla."

I didn't need anyone's wordless fury to know my answer. "Never! I don't want to be your ally or the new goddess!"

I pointed my rifle directly at him before continuing. "I just want to live my life as as Homs, in this world without people like you!"

"How regrettable." The mastermind muttered. "You could've trusted me and obtained peace. But I suppose the vision of people like you could remain... limited. Using one's power to change the world. That right is possessed only by gods."

"Is that why you were watching her?" Sae asked.

"You're correct. You yourselves have proven that you're dangerous to humanity. How... unfortunate." He shook his head, seeming almost sorrowful. "I had a desire for friendship in the past. But letting you in this game together was a mistake. This game wasn't meant for friendship."

"You're wrong!" I shouted, clashing the end of my rifle with his Monado and getting it away from my face. "Tsuruzo and Tokuko chose to live alongside us! They grew to consider us their friends. You should've accepted that! But what you were hoping for was not friendship. You wanted worthless puppets. Our lives for entertainment!"

"Just as I suspected." Rantaro muttered. "It seems I was mistaken to let the game go on this long. However, all of it will soon be over. All of you will be wiped out of my sight. I will let the games continue! Just as they've been done many times before!"

He makes a grand gesture of slashing his Monado outwards in a burst of light.

"We will not allow it!" I shouted. "We can not! WE WILL STOP YOU!"

Rantaro smirked at us, and then he charged in to attack.

It's time to end this game for good! I'm gonna have to use my true power in order to defeat Rantaro! I thought to myself as we charged at him and with that, the battle to end this killing game has begun.