Lady Death and Doom Slayer team up for the first time against the invading Demons and have her husband leading the attack against them. She watches from above on her flying horse, noticed his thrill to kill Demons remains the same and would use two sharp swords to cleave his way through until he came across stronger ones. While his weapons could only take care of the lessor ones, he uses only his fists to try and take out a Baron of Hell, which he manage to succeed by punching the leg so hard to bring it down on one knee then rips off the horn to smack it in the face to knock it back. Lady Death was both impress and surprise, as this was the first time she saw her husband fight in battles and now understands why they fear him.
Meanwhile, Lucifer was left unhappy and furious when hearing the news that the Doom Slayer is finally awaken from his tomb. He raise his voice to Matthias, his voice echoes across the citadel that brings fear to the Demons, as they do not like it when he is angry. The one who told him was the jester, who came just a while ago to deliver the ill news.
"The Doom Slayer is free? That witch!" Lucifer hits the side of his throne arm so hard that he manage to cause serious cracks across the right side of it.
"Nothing changes, my lord." Matthias speaks up to try and calm him down "We still have a chance to –"
"Your daughter has become quite the troublesome wench." Lucifer turns to Matthias and stands up from his throne. "It has been such a long time since somebody stood up to challenge me. I knew she would be desperate, but to bring the Slayer back out of his sarcophagus."
"Well… The Doom Slayer is indeed Hope's husband."
Lucifer growls in disgusts then sits back down on his throne "Then perhaps I should finish off where I started, starting with removing the Slayer. Kill the man who is too angry to die…" Then starts laughing
"She has also claimed a new name for herself." The jester replies "She now calls herself Lady Death."
"Hmm, a perfect name for herself. I'm looking forward to seeing her again quite soon."
Meanwhile, the fight continues on the open field in Hell. While Lady Death personally takes the lead with her army, Slayer rushes forward and easily demolish most of the Demons with his bare hands. Unlimited power from his berserker power, Doom Slayer was unstoppable, despite being stuck in a sarcophagus for a long time and still remains indestructible. During the fights, he did manage to kill some of the Demons that remain ally to Lady Death, but he just ignores that and continues killing until the battle was completely over. The only way to stop him is either have Lady Death descend down to stop him or let his enemies lay dead in front of him and have nothing left in front of him to kill.
Another threat would stand in his way would be a Tyrant that shows up and attacks, forced him to focus his attention on it. Lady Death would notice an Archvile making an appearance and was beginning to spawn more Demons into the fight, but she stops it with a blast of her power. The Archvile vanishes before she could attack again, quickly made her look around from above to find it and attack the moment she found out where it was. While Doom Slayer was still busy trying to rip this giant Tyrant a part, the Archvile reappears nearby and Lady Death ends up annihilating the whole area with her destructive power just to get rid of it. Once it was dead, Slayer finishes off the Tyrant with a hard punch through the chest then climbs his way up to land a few punches across the face to bring the Tyrant down. He finishes it with one hard stomp on the head to finally smash its head off.
In the aftermath, Lady Death speaks with those who are more intelligent and can speak freely for themselves. She reminds them of where they are and who they are fighting against, as they believe that continuing fighting would lead them closer to Lucifer, but she knows the situation. Where they are right now and who they are fighting, she expects that Lucifer is plotting something that could change the tide of war and requires that they should be careful on how they press the final attack. For the time being, she leaves her army in waiting and wishes to attack the next day.
Lady Death returns to her private place for the moment and send her hounds to remain outside, while she begins removing her cape, dropping her belt to the floor and casting her sword on the table. She comes to a mirror that was made by herself to look at her reflection of herself, as well as a plate of water that she uses to wash her face that had the blood of her enemies. After washing her face, she stares at her reflection for a while, since it has been a while since she saw what she now looks like and no longer the woman she once was before coming here.
As for the Doom Slayer, he was speaking to the Wretch on regarding his second lost property during his defeat at Lucifer. The Wretch replies "Lucifer has your weapon, so if you want it back then you got to have to take it from him. He kept your Super Shotgun for a prize trophy to show all of Hell of your defeat."
"Hmmm."
"You look like you need an upgrade." The Wretch looks back at the Praetor Suit and Slayer lowers his head down and looks at his left hand, twist his arm a bit and thinking maybe an attachment would benefit him in the future battles.
"I never expect that the man himself happens to be the husband to Lady Death." Cremator speaks out when approaching the two. Both of them look back towards him and he continues "Lucifer already knows of your release, so he will be plotting something to stop you."
Doom Slayer takes off his helmet then looks back to Cremator and asks "Where is she?"
He got his answer that Lady Death returns to one of the tents that was made just for her and left her hounds outside to be sure that nobody disturbs her. Doom Slayer easily got inside, while the hounds only growl at his presence, but they still show fear that challenging him would end up angering their master. Lady Death was busy removing the blood and dirt off her body. When she starts washing her face and hair, her eyes look to the side of the mirror to see him entering the room and looks back at her.
"I wouldn't go any closer." Lady Death replies "You're covered in blood."
Slayer takes only step closer to her and remains in the middle of the room with his helmet in his right hand. He asks "Are you alright?"
"I can ask the same about you. You killed some of my Demons."
"Is that a problem?"
"It does if you want them to help defeat Lucifer's army." Lady Death stops and turns her head towards him
"It's hard to tell the difference, while I'm busy killing the lot of them."
"Hmmm, should've known you would say that. You would kill every Demon that stands in your way."
"Not all of them. I haven't killed you."
"You almost did." Lady Death rise from her seat and looks back to him.
"I didn't know it was you. I should've taken care of your father ages ago."
"You can't change what happen in the past." She comes closer to him and touches a point on his chest that was not cover in blood "But I know you want him dead for what he did."
"I'm going to kill him for that."
"They'll all pay for what they did to us. But you need to remember that we are in Hell. This is Lucifer's world and we have to play by our own game and not his."
"That's why you should let me go. I can handl –"
"No." Lady Death touches the side of his face and replies "We'll do this together. We are better off killing him together. I am more powerful enough to challenge him and destroy him."
"Hmmm…"
Lady Death leans closer to kiss him and ends up wrapping her arms around his head, while pressing her body against his bloody suit. Doom Slayer remains kissing her back and decides not to wrap his arms around her, as he did not wish more blood over his wife. But while she remains kissing him, she soon stops for a moment and asks "Take off the suit."
". . . . ." Doom Slayer raise both eyebrows at what she just said to him and replies "I can't."
That excuse did not work out well and made Lady Death angry enough to make her eyes glow in blue. "I said, take, it, off."
Hours would go by and have nobody disturbing the two together. Cremator was planning on going inside the tent to speak to her, but he knew straight away that it was a bad idea on entering it right now and decides to pay the Wretch a visit. He was already preparing for armour for Lady Death to use against Lucifer and not wearing that skimpy outfit that Lucifer made for her. Thanks to the help of the Demons, they scavenge enough armour materials for the Wretch to put it all together to forge an armour, however, he was unable to make it as powerful as the Praetor Suit. While the hell forges was somewhere else in Hell, he had to make whatever he got and eventually succeeds on creating a suit of armour that Lady Death would fit nicely in.
Meanwhile, after the short sleep, Lady Death wakes up to see Doom Slayer sitting on the side of the bed. He looks down at his right arm and soon turn his eyes to the side when feeling someone's hand touching his back.
"You've been through so much against the Demons. How can you still don't have any scars?"
"I've went through a transformation that everytime I kill a Demon, I recover the damage I took. They'll never kill me or even scratch me. My fight with the Demons are eternal."
Lady Death sits up, pressed her chest against his back and wraps her arms around his body, while also leaning her head against his shoulder. "If I ever fall and became the weapon Lucifer desired of me… Would you consider killing me?"
". . . . ." He was left unsure how to answer that question. He was left silent like he usually does until he finally replies when facing forward "I've lost everything. You are the only thing I have left and I can't let the Demons take you from me. I won't…" He start to get tense, while closing his hands tight enough to make his hands shake.
Lady Death lowers her hands down to touch his arms to make him loosen his grip and calms him down. After that, Cremator ends up showing up to interrupt the two and calls for Lady Death to meet with the Wretch.
The armour that was forge in Hell suits Lady Death well, as the suit fit her quite well and he never even bother to check her appearance before making the armour. The armour was a mix of black and grey with some silver details put into the armour. The armour did cover almost all parts of her body, except for her arms and left expose except for her hands and has a shoulder protection on only the left shoulder. She would be wearing some black leather pants underneath the armour, as well as two sets of red cloth that covers the front down of her waist and the other behind her. Lastly was the headgear that was put only the front of her face and has two small horns at the front. [Just picture Lady Death wearing Fury's armour from Darksiders 3]
"What do you think?" Lady Death looks back to Doom Slayer that stands nearby with his Praetor Suit on and held onto his helmet with his right hand.
"You look great."
Lady Death looks back to the Wretch and replies "Your skills have truly impressed me."
"Just be sure you kill Lucifer, or else nobody here is going to live." He then turns his eyes to Doom Slayer "That includes you too."
"Hmmm." Doom Slayer puts on his helmet then turns around and walks away
Once they are ready, Lady Death claims her sword Nightmare, she returns to her horse and begins the march towards Lucifer's palace. Her army was ready for this, as they all begin to travel all together towards that realm and expect to face off a large resistance from Lucifer's army. However, Doom Slayer was still here and eager to tear through his army with his bare hands just to reclaim what was lost to him. Lucifer was ready and his army was eager to face her army on the open field in front of his palace. Matthias would also take part in the defence and unleashes a weapon that could help annihilate Lady Death's army.
As Lady Death arrives with her army, her eyes quickly look towards the Titan that was brought here by Matthias and control by Lucifer. He was at the walls with the Crucible Blade that he stole when bringing the Titan back to life. This belongs to the Doom Slayer and now that is another reason for him to kill him.
"That Titan could level the army if we attack." Cremator brings up the obvious and looks to Lady Death "My Lady –"
"I know." She replies and keeps her eyes on the Titan that begins moving towards them "We've fought to get here and I will not see this defeat. I shall handle this beast like before, and you make sure that my army gets out of the way when it falls."
"As you wish, my lady."
Lady Death turns her head back to Doom Slayer that stands beside her and looking back towards the Titan "Make sure my army makes it on the other side. I'll join you at the front gate."
Doom Slayer looks back to her and nods "I'll be waiting." Then looks forward and decides to go out there first, while the army remains standing where they are until she calls out the signal to charge.
And with that, Lady Death draws her sword and finally takes flight with her horse to fly straight at the Titan. The rest of her army, under the command of Cremator, charges straight against the horde and have him joining side by side with Doom Slayer. He caught up with him before he could make the first kill, but still, he makes the first punch to annihilate an Imp and the battle begins. Her army splits in two forces, as they go surrounding the Titan and leave Lady Death to deal with it. The Titan turns its full attention towards the flying horse, swings its right hand to send her plummeting down to the ground. She easily avoids it, due to the monstrosity is not as fast as her and ends up getting on top of the arm to rise across it. As she got close, she attacks the eye of the Titan with a blast of her power from her sword, only did little damage and cause the Titan to close its eye for a few seconds before opening back up to continue the fight. It swings its other arm to crush her, she continues evading and reach high to get over its head.
"All power, but no speed." Lady Death replies when looking back down at the Titan and it lifting its head up to look back at her. When she is ready, she jumps off her horse and falls all the way down to reach behind the back of the Titan.
She hopes of performing the same thing she did to the other Titan, so an attack from behind is efficient to actually bring this Titan down. She comes in from the back of the neck, stabbed her sword yet again and plunges her sword halfway through to unleash her demonic powers.
On the battlefield, Cremator was delivering serious carnage with his mighty hammer that easily crushes lower level Demons. When he fought a Baron, he broke the leg with one swing against the side of it and finishes it with a hard crush on the head. As for the Doom Slayer himself, he was a maniac and tears through the Demons with his bare hands, as well as punching bigger Demons that try to challenge him. A Marauder ends up coming out from the battle and charge straight at Doom Slayer, as these two are made to kill each other. The Marauder would surprise him at first, caught him off guard and lands a few blows against him. Doom Slayer fights back, punched his shield only a few times, which did little good and forces him to back away until the Marauder decides to charge in to swing his axe. He saw the opening and took it, as the Marauder raise his axe above his head to swing it down at him, he ends up grabbing both his arms to stop the Marauder from swinging any further with his axe. Marauder struggles to even move his hands, both are incredible strong, but neither of them could push any further until Doom Slayer moves his right hand down to punch the Marauder so hard that he lost his right arm. His fight was done, especially when Doom Slayer punches him again to remove his left arm then another one to knock him back to the floor.
While the battle was bloody on both sides, Lady Death's forces was delivering much more damage the moment the Titan would fall backwards onto the army. She succeeds yet again to impress Lucifer, forced the Titan to fall backwards and have its head crashing against the citadel. Matthias, frustrated that after all this time of retrieving the Crucible and freeing the Titan, brought down easily by his former daughter. Once it was down, Matthias was out of here, decided to flee inside the citadel and have Lady Death reach the entrance first. Doom Slayer was still busy ripping the Demons apart and even manage to rip the head off a Tyrant, then threw the head towards a nearby Tyrant to get its attention.
Lady Death sighs and looks away "This will be a while." She then looks at the entrance to find Demons crawling out of the open gate and forces her to annihilate her with her power.
The fight rages on for a while, her hounds reunite with her on the steps of the citadel, joined her on the fight against the Demons and still wait for Doom Slayer to come through. Cremator would be the one to stop his rapid punches against a fallen Baron and asks him to return to his wife, before she decides to attack the interior.
Inside the large palace of Lucifer, Lady Death, accompanied by her two hounds and Doom Slayer himself, stormed the interior and rush through to engage incoming Demons that began spawning inside to stop them. Matthias, who was closest and notices the arrival, summoned a powerful blue Summoner and places it inside a Hell Knight to rush straight at them at incredible speed. During the fight, Slayer notices the incoming Hell Knight, and while he tries to punch through, the Hell Knight shown to be powerful enough to block his berserker power. The Hell Knight knocks him to the floor then turn towards Lady Death that was busy cutting a Hell Knight in two. Her two hounds would notice the attack and charges in to take a bite of the Hell Knight, only to delay it enough for her to fire her power to push it back. Her hounds got out of the way before the collision with her power, caused an explosion and waits for the smoke to clears to see if she got it. However, the Hell Knight returns yet again and leaps into the air to crush her. As she tries firing again with her powers, the Hell Knight brought her to the floor and ready to crush her, but the hellhounds intervene, by attacking the Hell Knight. As for Doom Slayer, he rushes in and performs one last punch from behind to punch straight through its body, while Lady Death got back up to quickly finish this with her sword swinging down the middle of the head.
After the death, the blue Summoner that saw no use of a dead body would quickly escape the scene, since there was no sign of anymore Demons for it to control. With it gone, the two looks back to one another and Doom Slayer asks. "Where is Lucifer?"
She turns to the left at the hallway and tries to remember the layout of this place. She replies "I know where he is. You should consider searching for Matthias."
"Can you handle him by yourself?"
Lady Death leans close to kiss his visor and replies "If you're worried, kill my father first then return to me. I know what I'm doing."
Doom Slayer nods then turns around and goes the other doorway that could lead him into more fighting with the Demons, as well as searching for that Summoner again. Lady Death looks back to the other way and proceeds through with her hounds beside her. Of course, Doom Slayer rips and tears all the way through the Demons that stood in his way, but while he found no sign of the Summoner, he did an interesting room that the Demons have been trying to stop him from going inside. Inside was the gun he seeks the most, Lucifer's Bane, the steel barrel sword of vengeance and is basically a Super Shotgun with a meat hook attachment to it. The weapon remains floating on this pedestal and easily claims the Super Shotgun.
After reclaiming the Super Shotgun, he turns his head slightly to the side and sense the presence of the one he was searching for. Matthias, who is actually stupid right now to face Doom Slayer, activates the Crucible Blade and ready to charge in to slice him two. But none could challenge his Super Shotgun and gets shot in the chest to stop his attack then takes a hard punch across the face to send him collapsing back. After reloading his gun, he stops to find the Summoner returns again and quickly latches itself inside of Matthias to make him much powerful than before. His body regenerates the damage that was taken and rises back up with a blue glow around his body, as well as glowing blue eyes. Doom Slayer fires again and did little damage to him, which made Matthias smile at this new development.
"You can't stop me now." Matthias replies "Just like you couldn't stop me from torturing your wife."
And it was at that moment that Matthias would not realise it until after he charges in to swing his Crucible Blade at him. Doom Slayer places his gun away and quickly grabs onto Matthias' hand before his blade could pierce his body. He unleashes true strength against Matthias, and despite having a Summoner inside of him, he still struggles to move forward with his sword and unable to move his sword to strike his chest.
"Such power…" Matthias left astonish then turns his eyes to see through his visor, noticed him getting real angry right now when he stares back at him.
"You killed my rabbit…" Doom Slayer replies and a few seconds later, Matthias was left blasting straight through a few walls until he finally stops. He was left on the ground with his armour completely broken to pieces from that serious punch he took from the Slayer himself.
Meanwhile, as Lady Death reaches to the throne of where it all began, Lucifer remains the same as the last time, sitting back on his throne and carrying a strange object in his hand that she does not know yet. He rises from his throne, takes his walk down the steps and smiles to Lady Death's return.
"Welcome home. I knew you would return, Hope."
"I am no longer Hope. I am Lady Death."
"I've noticed. You've impressed me with the powers you gained."
"You told me long ago that Hell can be beautiful." Lady Death raise her golden sword in front of her face and continues "Living here will make me a powerful weapon that will show no bounds. Desire equals power, and there is nothing I desire more than ending your pathetic existence." And by saying that, caused her rage to increase her power and bring out her blue energy from her eyes, as well as consuming her blade with it.
"Is that so?" Lucifer laughs and takes two steps towards her "Releasing the Doom Slayer has angered me deeply, my child. However, I may still have use of you, after all, you are made to destroy him."
"Enough!" Lady Death aims the tip of the blade towards Lucifer, held it with both hands and fires a blast of blue energy straight at him. The shot impacts Lucifer and forces him back, while also groaning from the immense power that she unleash upon him.
While the blast consumes the area in flames, Lucifer appears out of the flames and left laughing at this display of power she gave him. With a look of confidence on his face, he beckons her or a call-over with both his hands towards her, as he desires for Lady Death to come and get him. This angers her and decides to charge in to strike him with her sharp blade. She leaps first through the air, missed her swings in hoping to strike his body, but he avoids them easily when stepping backwards and saw an opening for him to strike her across the face to knock her to the floor.
"Hatred has made you strong." Lucifer replies and finally activates the item he still holds in his right hand. The weapon itself happens to be the Demonic Crucible and was much bigger than the Crucible Blade. He continues "But you will pay for my forgiveness." Then laughs and swings the blade down to create a long cut through the ground that comes straight at Lady Death.
She was force to move out of the way and begin moving around to evade the incoming swings from that Demonic Crucible. After what she saw with the other blade, she knew the Demonic Crucible could do much damage to her if it was to strike her. However, while she decides to take a gamble and challenge his blade with her own, she uses as much power as she can into her own sword and force to block the incoming swing from Lucifer. As the two blades make contact with one another, a flash of light that came from Lady Death's sword, caused the energy to implode around the area, as well as causing the sword Darkness to be cut in two. Thanks to the shockwave of that implosion, Lady Death flew back and avoid the sword that was close of striking her down with just one swing.
"You are now defeated." Lucifer replies and ignites his left hand in flames "I like to see you squirm." He then threw the fireball at her and consumes the whole area in flames. As they die out, she rises back up and shown that her armour protects her from most of the damage.
"It'll take more than that to kill me!" Lady Death tries to fire a blast of her energy at him, but this only did little damage to Lucifer and just flinches for a moment before pressing forward to attack.
Back with Matthias, he was not in a good shape right now and was still struggling to even strike the Doom Slayer. When he came crashing through the wall, Doom Slayer kicks the Crucible Blade away from his reach and shoots Matthias in the leg to rip off parts of his skin, while the armour only help protect most of the damage. Despite having a Summoner inside him to make him incredible strong, he still struggles to even land a blow against him and when he does, Doom Slayer had greater endurance to withstand any damage done by any Demon in Hell. While Matthias tries, he finally lands a few blows against Doom Slayer and pushes him back. He took all those blows until he stops him here by grabbing onto his arm, then grabs his other arm and manage to overpower him. Matthias, struggled to push forward and would be soon push back to collapse on both knees.
"All for a fucking rabbit?"
And with that, Doom Slayer punches him to the chest, stomps on his chest, grabs onto his arm to rip it off and smacks him in the face with it twice. He then rips off his other arm, throws it away and finally stands up to take out his Super Shotgun to finish this off by blowing his head off.
After reloading his weapon, he returns to pick up the Crucible Blade and runs off to see if his loving wife is alright against Lucifer. Lady Death was still struggling and not doing so well when losing her sword Darkness to the strength of the Demonic Crucible. The two hounds did try to support Lady Death, only to be thrown away by Lucifer and give her only a few seconds for her to do little damage to Lucifer again. She uses her powers to make him blind for a short moment, but he still swings his arm to knock Lady Death to the floor and was close of cutting her in two with the blade.
"You are a disappointment." Lucifer replies when approaching her "If you don't do as I say, I'll be sure to show your husband your head." He then grabs her by the hair and pulls her up in the air to make her cry out in pain from this. He aims the blade so close to her neck, but he took his time like every villain does and takes his time to watch his victim squirm, as the blade was so close of cleaving through her neck.
However, something caught his attention when something touches his shoulder and it was coming from the meat hook. When Lucifer turns to the side to look up, he finds the Doom Slayer coming to swing down with his Crucible Blade. Lucifer, furious the moment his eyes look straight at his ultimate enemy and shouts out when swinging his blade to clash against his. Unfortunately, Slayer was clever and uses the meat hook as a boost to jump over him to avoid the incoming sword and get behind Lucifer to fire a shot with his Super Shotgun at his face the moment he looks back at him. Angered Lucifer by the blast of a weapon that is not meant to even hurt him, but still it makes him angry to see this weapon in his hands once again. Together, both clash Crucible weapons against one another, but with Lucifer having the bigger weapon, forced Doom Slayer back and almost took a strike across front of his helmet during the clash.
"So you've returned from your sleep. I guess I'll throw you back in that coffin and spend the rest of your miserable life there."
Doom Slayer held the Crucible with both hands and leaves the end of it facing Lucifer's head. When he was ready, Lucifer swings down and Slayer swings up to clash both weapons against each other. Doom Slayer steps to the side and allow Lucifer to send his blade hit the floor next to him, as he knew that clashing his Crucible against Lucifer would end with Lucifer cutting through. After that, Doom Slayer hopes of swinging his blade to strike both his hands off, but Lucifer was one step ahead and swings his left hand to knock him back, while also taking a short cut from touching the Crucible. As the two back away, Lucifer stabs the ground with his Demonic Crucible and unleashes a ring of fire that spreads out across the room. Lady Death took flight to avoid the flames, while Doom Slayer just took the flames like a boss, as these flames only push him back and did little damage to his Praetor Suit. Doom Slayer changes tactics by turning off his Crucible Blade and throw it across the room to reach his wife. While she caught the blade and activates it, Doom Slayer switches to the Super Shotgun then ready himself when Lucifer comes charging towards him. Lucifer looks to Lady Death, swung his sword through the air to send a hellish wave towards her, but she blocks it with the Crucible and forces her to go sliding back from the force of its power. Lucifer looks back to Doom Slayer when he got hit on the left arm with two shells from the Super Shotgun and finds him running across the side of him to continue firing his gun. Irritated, Lucifer creates a large fireball with his left hand to throw it at him, consumed him in the flames for a brief moment until he comes jumping out of it and meat hook Lucifer on the leg. He uses this to pull his body along the side of Lucifer, while also not getting too close for Lucifer to strike him and have Lady Death rush in with her blade to strike him.
"Your fight is with me, Lucifer!" Lady Death cries out when holding onto the Crucible Blade with both hands. The red energy blade was consume with her bluish powers and made it strong enough for her to stand her ground when both swords clash against one another.
Lucifer was left surprise and ends up stepping backwards to avoid her incoming swings. Just as he was ready to swing back at her, Doom Slayer comes in on the side and blast his arm with the Super Shotgun, a moment that distracts him long enough for Lady Death to deliver the blow. She took the shot and succeeds on laying the first strike across his gut, then swings again to make a cross on his chest. Lucifer was left in pain, he cries out and then lets off a terrible roar that shook the entire place, but Doom Slayer shuts him up by blasting his face with the Super Shotgun and have Lady Death use her levitation to send the Crucible Blade straight through Lucifer's chest to finally bring him down.
At long last, defeated and left to suffer in the throne room, Lucifer was finally done. He was left to watch the two stand together, as they had hope of defeating him together as one. Lady Death would be the one who desire to claim his head, while Doom Slayer moves along the side of Lucifer, readying his Super Shotgun in case Lucifer tries something to her. When she pulls the blade out of his body, she raise it above her head and replies "It's over!"
Angered and defenceless at this defeat, Lucifer would remain where he was and suddenly gets the last laugh out of all of this. He says to Lady Death "Your soul… Will never go free. I curse you… My daughter. As long as there are humans on Earth, you will forever remain here in Hell… You will never walk Earth again…" And with that he closes his eyes and Lady Death swings the blade to send his head rolling across the floor. With his head on the floor, Doom Slayer goes ahead and blasts his head once more with a point blank shot of the Super Shotgun to remove his ugly face from his sight.
With Lucifer death, the two look to one another and Doom Slayer asks her "What's next?"
He got his answer when a serious earthquake shows up after Lucifer's death at the hands of the two. This causes the palace to feel serious tremors and large cracks that appear on the floor near the two. Both of them had to get out of here, as neither of them do not want to deal with a building falling on top of them and find themselves stuck inside a sarcophagus. Both got out of there before things got out of hand, with only parts of the palace collapse and left the rest still intact. As for the layout of the land, things did change deeply when the cracks expand across the entire place for all to see from the sky. Lucifer is dead, but it is possible that he could still be alive out there.
Now with that settle, Lady Death steps out to greet with her army of Demons that have been waiting for this moment to happen. They got to finally hear it from their leader, who came out of the palace and still alive.
"Lucifer is no more!" Lady Death replies "For now on, Hell is my domain. Those who wish to stand against me, or remain loyal to Lucifer, know this, because those who would seek to claim his power of domination over this world will have to go through me!"
With the speech done, Lady Death looks back at her love and offers him his Crucible Blade. She says to him "I cannot leave this world. Lucifer has cursed me to forever remain here in Hell. What will you do?"
He looks down to the Crucible and uses one hand to slowly push the Crucible close to her to let her keep it. He replies "I cannot stay here, my fight against the Demons are eternal. But if you ever need me to be with you Hope, I'll come for you. I still have unfinished business that needs to be done."
Lady Death smiles and replies "You said my name… Hope… You still think of me as your wife."
"No matter what form you take, you'll always be my wife."
"Then I hope you come back to me." She steps closer to him, lifts up his helmet so she could kiss him for a while.
The Doom Slayer must depart, but will promise to return to her, as soon as his mission to return to Sentinel Prime and Earth is complete. Without Lucifer in power, the Demons remain alive in other worlds, so it is up to him to return as the Unchained Predator who stalks the Demons and slay those that try to fight him. With his Super Shotgun in one hand and the Demonic Crucible he stole from Lucifer in the other, he is eager to fight once more against the armies of Hell by himself.
As for Lady Death, as soon as the palace was rebuild into her image, thanks to Imps and Hell Knights that she controls, she makes her way to throne, where she is met with Cremator and also the Wretch, who decides to remain by her side after Lucifer is dead. He is eager to return to the forge, as well as meeting Doom Slayer again, hoped to get a look at his Praetor Suit and make a few changes to the suit. Lady Death comes up the small steps, stops in front of the throne then turns around to look back at her army of Demons that have been waiting for this moment. The hordes of Hell, under her command, they all stand together in this throne room to witness the new ruler of Hell. She sits back on her throne, looks back at her armies and ignites her eyes in bluish flames. All hail the new queen of the underworld. Lady Death's time as the ruler of Hell has come.
