We landed in the middle of town where we encountered Luka, Bayonetta slowing time to stop a bunch of debris from crashing down on us. We then looked up to see the dragon angel we were fighting earlier as it flew lower, just above some buildings, looking at Bayonetta. "Are you the one to awaken me from my heavenly slumber, my world of light and summoned me into this world of chaos?" He demanded in Enochian, but she merely leaned up against a floating boulder, ignoring the question.
I moved back and forth to see if it was paying any attention to me, only to find that he wasn't. "Well, I've got nothing to do with this. You want me to take the LP's and bring them to Rodin?" I asked, gesturing to the Gates of Hell portal behind us. She indeed handed hers over and I headed down. (Remember, I can't speak or understand Enochian, so I can't understand the angels and wouldn't contribute much to these conversations)
"The taint of the dark world is upon you, yet you have made a pact with the darkness in exchange for the powers of a witch. It was said such a pitiful creature survived the annihilation. Tell me, my child, what is your name?" He asked.
She chuckled a bit at this, pushing another boulder out of the way with one of her guns. "If I was your child, I'd be an awfully ugly witch, wouldn't I?" She asked. "Yours is a face only a mother could love and one I could never forget... If only I could remember where from." She wondered.
"Well then, my apologies. If you are not my awakener, then you and I have no quarrel." He said, only for her to respond by kicking the fragment into his upside-down stomach human face, Witch Time ending and all the fragments falling to the ground around her.
"No quarrel? You're in no position to decide that. You see, my infernal partners LOVE my ability to eliminate your kind. I figure your sacrifice would shut them up for a little while." She said, shooting at him, but he flew up high and ascended through a portal back to Paradiso, avoiding the bullets.
Suddenly, the ground began bursting in spits of lava all around her, leaving the town on fire with giant openings in the streets full of lava, angels appearing shortly after, covered in flames as well, making it impossible for Bayonetta to physically attack them. She could only shoot them. An Affinity attempted to attack her, but I rushed in and decapitated it from behind with a silver white katana with a red streak along the blade. "I'm gone for like two minutes and things get this bad?" I asked, tossing her the katana.
She caught it and smirked. "I'm sure this would've happened even faster with you around. So, what souvenir did you get from Rodin this time, little one?" She asked.
I smirked before pulling out a pair of steel fans with blades that looked like they were made from metallic black peacock feathers with red eyes spots common on said feathers. I crossed my arms in front of me, then swung them outwards, creating a huge gust of wind that blew out the fire on the angels, allowing me to rush in and slice two of them in half. "Oh, it came with a cologne, too: Utsukushī arashi." I said, spraying it on (translation: beautiful windstorm). Suddenly, my trench coat became adorned with hundreds of feathers just like the ones that made my fans. I looked towards an angel and once again crossed my arms while spinning towards him, disorienting him with the patterns of the feathers, before stopping in front of him and cross slashing his chest, the guts of wind blowing him away in 4 different pieces, at which point I stopped and posed in a crane stance, right fan out in front with the left one held at the ready.
Kamaitachi: An evil god is said to release wind yokai to cut unsuspecting humans with their sickle-like nails while riding dust demons through the winds they create. But karma finally caught up to one of these demons... and so did Rodin, who received a deep slash on the leg by one of these demons and took revenge by turning the demon into these very fans, which draw from the demon's power to create winds strong enough to rip the skin off of anything unfortunate enough to be in their path.
"Impressive. Rodin certainly put quality work into these weapons." Bayonetta said, rushing through and slicing several angels in half, before striking at another and filling it with holes from where she stabbed it. With these two new weapons, we easily and masterfully laid waste to the remaining angels and Bayonetta destroyed the barrier, allowing us to continue onward.
We proceeded through the pathway into the street where the street car almost ran us over, proceeding down and preparing to fight a couple of Beloveds in our way, but suddenly, we heard a massive breaking noise and turned around to see the once blocked-off road behind us had been broken outward by a tidal wave of lava behind us. "Yeah, that's worse than a street car!" I said, the two of us hurrying to outpace the lava wave while the Beloveds were too stupid trying to grab and kill us instead of escape the tidal wave and were instead engulfed by it as we eventually jumped to safety. We reached the middle of the next square, only for a Fairness to jump out of a portal on the ground, on fire, shooting a fireball at us. We dove out of the way and looked at each other "Second verse, same as the first?" I asked.
"Sounds like a plan." She said. I let out another powerful swing from my fans, creating category 1 hurricane winds to easily put out the flames on the angel, allowing Bayonetta to rush in, landing a few quick slashes to stun the beastly angel, before pulling back and drawing power for one more devastating slash that cleaved it in half. And speaking of halves, a half of two different records appeared.
"Aww, what the hell?! Who broke the record in half? Have you ever played a half a record? Whatever plays is half shitty." I said.
"Come now, Sai. I'm sure we'll be lucky enough to find the other halves. Things do seem to happen in our favor." She said, destroying the next barrier and continuing onward.
"Just as often as things go horribly wrong for us." I added before following her. We hurried back through the next part of town and the door that was previously sealed behind the statue of the sage and witch burst open, with a spurt of lava repeatedly bursting upwards. "There's no way you can get through like that." I said worriedly.
"Well, lucky there are some statues around." She said, lifting them and making a lightning bolt come down for her to dodge. We now had a brief opening where there was no lava so we could jump through, which we did. We landed safely on the other side where a trio of angels tried to stop us, but then that tidal wave of lava burst through behind us, forcing the angels to flee. But Bayonetta suddenly got an idea and each of us jumped on one of the angel's backs to safely surf on it. "Dancing a go-go, baby!" She called out as we launched ourselves into the air.
"Mahalo, mothafuckas!" I cheered as well. We landed on a nearby wall above the lava and started to make our way towards a path to get us to the other side of the road. But before we even took 3 steps, 3 angels appeared in front of us. Bayonetta quickly sliced through the first two while I beat down the last one and sent him into the lava below with another small burst of wind. With that, we made our way across the make-shift bridge to the other side and made it to another path crossing us back over to the other side. We prepared to jump across a small gap in the buildings before the building we would've jumped to exploded, making the gap larger, but still easy enough for us to clear, which we did. "So much for the angels not wanting to interfere with the human world." I said.
"Yes, for being god's messengers, they certainly are devilishly mischievous." She said. Another building in front of us exploded and before we jumped, we looked back to see the tidal wave of lava renewed and bigger than ever, making its way towards us. "Hurry now, little one. I have a hot ass, but I certainly don't want it THAT hot." She said, jumping across the gap and hurrying for a very tall tower to reach higher ground.
"I know, I certainly see it often enough." I said, following her. (And no, that is not a dirty or sexual joke. A: Bayonetta usually leads the group, so Sai stays behind her where he gets a good view. B: her clothes come off or get much skimpier almost all the time in the game for her attacks, so it's hard not to see it)
We reached the tower and got to the top floor before it suddenly broke off, heading for a dive into the lava. Fortunately, with only a second to spare, we jumped onto a nearby street, landing safely out of the lava and jumping further away to avoid the splash from when the tower hit the lava. We reached the next open area of town, before stopping as two more Fairness jumped out of portals in front of the fountain. "Ugh. More of these guys?" I said, annoyed, putting them out and nearly sending them flying with category 2 winds from the fans.
"You have to give them credit for persistence." She said, heading towards the one on the left, leaving me to deal with the one on the right. She made a wicked weave pick up a nearby car and fling it at her Fairness, stunning it and allowing her to rush in, land a harsh combo of slashes, changing into a devastating barrage of stabs, creating a wicked kick to crash down on the beast, then charged up the sword and sliced it in half. Meanwhile, mine lunged at me, but I knocked its head aside with a parry from my left fan, then slashed its neck with my right fan, staggering it a bit and allowing me to land a few jabs to its left side with both fans, swinging them upward to create a small tornado and launch the Fairness into the air, struggling to control itself until I dived down on it and slashed it in half, landing in a kneeling position with the fans out to my sides as the tornado subsided and the two halves of the angels crashed to the ground before vanishing.
"They're big and fast, but I've fought bigger and faster." I said.
"Indeed. It is getting a bit too easy. All the more reason to give that dragon a good thrashing." She said, the two of us starting to walk off, before the ground began exploding, sending two street cars flying, one getting trapped in an archway while the other went flying. We jumped to a small rotunda, before rushing and jumping across several pieces of debris and jumping into the train car, which began to fall from its place.
"Shit! That's our only way out! And it's blocked by lava!" I said.
"Not for long!" Bayonetta said, rushing ahead, jumping and spinning in the air while firing her guns at the lava wall in front of her. This put a hole in the wall of lava and allowed us to jump through into the cave the arch led to just before the car fell and a waterfall of lava cascaded down to block the path, preventing us from going back. "It looks like we won't be going that way again." She said, walking deeper into the cave.
"Yeah. We better hurry, though. We maybe have 10 minutes before the lava reaches this place and floods it, too." I said, following her. We dispatched another trio of angels and navigated our way around more lava pits to reach a giant open area in the cave. "Whoa... This place is huge. And luckily, it looks like its got a path leading out of here." I said, gesturing to a bridge a small distance away. We made our way over to it, but just as we started to cross, a pair of giant stone pillars broke and fell on the bridge, destroying it. "Shit! Now what?!" I asked.
"Now, we have company." Bayonetta said as 3 more angels appeared and attacked us.
"Threes again? They should know by now that doesn't work." I said, landing between two of them and spinning with my fans out, decapitating them while Bayonetta dash-slashed the next one, killing it instantly. Suddenly, a strange portal beside us, which previously had nothing in it, suddenly opened, revealing a lovely world behind it. But something about that lovely world felt very wrong to me. "Is that?" I asked.
"A portal to Paradiso, yes. There, we might find something to get out of our little predicament. Although, for you, it will be quite... uncomfortable." She said.
"Well, neither was nearly being obliterated by a Demon God. This can't be... TOO bad..." I said unsurely. This place was only close to Paradiso, but it made my skin crawl and made me feel uncomfortable. So the real thing could only be worse. We headed through and it immediately felt like a billion tiny needles were poking me all over my body. Not enough to hurt, but I certainly didn't like it. "Let's find what we need to fast. I don't like it here." I said.
"Very well. You look around down here and I shall search the higher ground." She said.
"You got it." I said, taking off and looking all around the area while she used the statues and witch time to slow water spouts to the point of being solid platforms allowing her to reach the higher ground. I followed the rocky paths and found two different platforms above the water, each with half a record on it. When I approached either record half, it flew to me like a magnet and joined with its respective half we already had. "That was lucky." I said, before flying back to join Bayonetta as she pulled a lever that made a wall holding an hourglass shatter. "I'm guessing this is important." I said, touching the hourglass. This made it float into the air and shatter, warping space and time, fixing the wall and putting it back where it was before.
"Hm... I wonder if this works in other worlds." Bayonetta said, pulling the lever and shattering the wall, attaching the hourglass to her back and heading back to the portal.
"Well, before we test that out, we should head to Rodin to get the new weapons from these first." I said.
"A little extra firepower never hurt anyone." She agreed, the two of us heading into a nearby portal to the Gates of Hell.
We entered the bar and walked up to Rodin, handing him the records we had. "Damn, two more LP's? Working me down to the bone. It's alright. I was bored, anyway." He said, playing them and heading down to Inferno. Shortly after, he reappeared, once again beaten and bloody, but victorious. "Damn. Those bastards were a handful. Even you two might have trouble controlling them. Here ya go." He said, handing Bayonetta a cobra-headed whip while he handed me a pair of long kamas, although they were big enough to be more like single-handed scythes than the smaller sickle weapon. The handle and shaft of the weapons were like red and black spines, heading up into the skulls of roaring beasts' mouths with a ball of darkness floating in the monsters' mouths while the menacing blades came from the backs of the monsters' heads, as well as two spear-like points coming from the tops of the monsters' heads.
Ryuk: A foolish and mischievous shinigami who created chaos in the human world by giving a book of death to a human teenager, leading to hundreds of deaths of both good and evil humans. This caused chaos through the human world to Purgatorio and Paradiso alike. Rodin took it upon himself to punish the demon and sealed him into these weapons. Even if not fatally wounded, those who have been cut by these blades as many times as they have letters in their name shall find themselves joining those with their names written in the Death Note.
"Awesome. Now it will be more fun next time Mom and I go demon hunting, since both of us have scythes now." I said, admiring them.
"And I should have no trouble punishing those naughty angels now." Bayonetta said, cracking the whip.
"Happy to be of service." Rodin said as we headed for the portal and returned to the cave.
From there, we headed towards the broken bridge and Bayonetta activated the hourglass, restoring the pillars and the bridge alike. "Alright! Now, let's hurry." I said, the two of us quickly heading across, before we ran into angels about halfway, mostly the small flying heads, but there were a pair of Applauds much farther behind.
"Now it's time you really teach you angels some discipline." Bayonetta said, cracking her whip once again before swinging it in front of her in a crossing motion, easily knocking a few of the heads out of the air and into the lava below, simply destroying a few more and grabbing the last small one and throwing it into the larger head of the leader, killing both. She prepared to face the Applauds, but two beams of darkness flew past her and put holes in the angel's chests, killing them instantly.
She looked back in surprise to see me holding the scythes with the blades facing back towards me with the monster mouths pointed towards where the angels have been. "Oh, I am gonna have some fun with these." I said with a smirk. She giggled as well before the two of us continued onto another bridge, but just like the first one, it began to crumble. "Oh, shit! Run!" I said, the two of us hurrying ahead, repeatedly jumping from breaking and falling pieces of the bridge onto the next one, attempting to reach the pillar it connected to, but before we could reach the end, it broke off as well, forcing us to jump onto another narrow pathway down below, surrounded by lava. "Man, I'm glad this path was here. I didn't see it when we first jumped." I said.
"Yes, we do seem to have Lady Luck on our side." She agreed as we headed down the path, doing our best to dodge LAVA DRAGONS bursting from the lava and trying to land on and crush us. We finally made it into the cave ahead and the moon shined down, allowing Bayonetta to run up the wall. From there, we ran as fast as we could up the wall to the opening above us, doing our best to avoid the falling rocks, having to slice through them or in my case even blast them with ki blasts to clear the way, but we managed to reach the top and get to safety just before lava completely flooded the catacombs below and the moon went back behind the clouds, robbing Bayonetta of the ability once again. "My... even for us that was cutting it a bit close." She said, although she wasn't particularly worried.
"Yeah. I'm just happy to be in one piece... Sort of..." I said, looking down at my left foot, which had almost been completely melted to the bone by the lava. "Meh. It'll heal." I said with a shrug.