Chapter 18: Rivers in a Desert

The hour of truth has come at hand. The 2 leaders with mirrored deals stood firm and menacing, narrowing at their fellow enemy. The Naniwa Tower was set on fire like an eternal torch whose fire is fuel by all the tension between Satsuki and Akira.

"Hey Prez! Why so stern all of the sudden?" Ryuko was the first person to open her mouth out of everyone in the croud. "Are you having some staring contest with Fuzzy Hair, or perhaps you're just scared?"

The Kiryuin turned at Matoi in typical disdain. "Humph… Ironic coming from you from all people, Matoi." Satsuki ignored the edgy teenager's insult before returning her attention to Akira. "Knowing that this will be our last confrontation, I'd like to ask you about what do you think about the battlefield I've prepared for us, and the resting place of your last days of your freedom." She snickered with malice, referring to the burning Osaka as the battlefield their final confrontation was about to take place.

"Heh… Must handle it to ya'. You know how to give the city the much needed overhaul for the occasion."

"Seems that this is one of the few things we can agree on." The dictatress of Honnouji smiled with confidence with Kurusu's response.

"I've never said I approved what you did to Osaka." Joker's smirk was washed away into a serious expression. "But well, I can't really blame ya'. You just love to take everything from others because you think you're a god amongst men. Typical from fascist rulers like yourself."

"Those are words only small-minded pigs like yourself say." The long-haired young adult hissed back. "Although, I'm impressed that you came all the way here with your dead weight you call "friends". This only proves my point further, you too dependant of your bonds that it forbids you from untapping your full potential. Bonds soften the hearts of the people and makes them impossible to develop independency." She then looked at Akira's squadron who followed him to the final battle, which made her raise her big and thick eyebrows. "And just who the hell do you think you are to stop me?" She narrowed her attention at Luluco and Mako, which made the 2 poor girls trembles like a flock of chickens.

Luluco gulped some saliva before gatheting her courage. "I-I am Luluco Godspeed, Special Agent of the Space Patrol!" She exclaimed while showing her Space Patrol plate. "Satsuki Kiryuin from the Kiryuin Clan, I hereby declare that you're under arrest for the-"

"Don't think about challenging me, brat!" Satsuki rose her voice, sending a wave of dread against Luluco, which made the Middle-Schooler freeze in fright. "Hmm… I've never heard about something called the Space Patrol in my life, and I doubt that this girl over there isn't affiliated with Nudist Beach in any shape or form. Maybe she's just like Akira and that hairball of his, another unwanted visit from another dimension, trying to stop my plans." She thought on who the girl beside Kurusu was. She was next to look inside Mankanshoku's soul. "Speaking of foolish girls who don't seem to value their lives, you have a lot of guts to turn your back to me, or maybe it's just part of your naïve stupidity, Mankanshoku." She snarled at the poor young coconut-head, which made the poor booble-head teen feel like she's in the verge of death. "May you be kind to explain the reason for your betrayal? Or has Joker's stupid monologues about love and friendship already intoxicated your already undeveloped mind?"

"Ahhh… AAHH!" Mako was too nervous to contest. She didn't knew what to say or explain, as she wasn't expecting that Satsuki would cast her wrath upon her this soon. "I-i-I didn't knew i-i-it would make you angry, L-l-lady Satsuki! I-I j-just wanted to-"

"ENOUGH!" The Kiryuin shouted, which made poor Mako froze in place. "I've been fed up of your foolishness for far too long, Mankanshoku. I only let it pass through my radar just because you were nothing but a foolish girl not even worth keeping at Honnouji Academy! But you decided to ally yourself with the enemy by your own free will! Do you lack a sense or pride, or are you this dumb? I sometimes wonder why I even bother keeping you around, if all you ever do is slack around and getting in the way of my ambi-"

CRLASH!

A humongous fist from nowhere then shoved Satsuki Kiryuin into the ground to finally shut her for good.

The impact of the fist left speechless all bystanders. The allies of Honnouji were left on a trance when watching her idol and overlord be caught un-guarded, while the opposition felt surprised that someone finally had the guts to put Satsuki's mouth in her place.

The cloud of the impact cleared off, revealing a pissed-off Ryuko that has finished off hitting Satsuki Kiryuin down the floor. She has waited so long to do this, and she felt a huge wave of satisfaction from doing so. "God… You just don't know where to shut the fuck up, do ya?" Ryuko growled with fury at the Kiryuin that was lying on the floor. "You always talk all big about ideals this, ambitions that, friends are stupid, do thing yourself, and so much bullshit that I can go on talking about. Are you this, Fucking delusional!?"

The power of the tomboy's fist was such, it actually left a purple bruise on Satsuki's left eye. But no matter. The Lady of War didn't waited to recover and opened her eyes, pulling her 2 swords to slash Ryuko into pieces.

CLASH!

The Kamui Wielders clashed blades against one another, until the Kiryuin pushed away Matoi from her face. "Hehehe…" Satsuki smirked as she recovered her posture, using her Bakuzan as some sort of support cane. "I have to be honest with you, Ryuko Matoi. I'm actually impressed that you've somehow managed to hurt me, moreso leaving me a mark." She smirked with a malicious grin as she got up while touching the bruise Ryuko left on her. "So, congratulations for dealing your first ever clean blow on me. Though, a long road awaits you if you wish to make me spill a single drop of blood." She narrowed at the angsty teenager with a stoic look.

"What can I say Prez, there's always the first time. Amirite?" Even Ryuko felt confident and fearless at the face of the Kiryuin. Seems that Satsuki's precense was already proven useless on her. "And by the way, I think you got 2 thingss stuck on your ass that are mine! You better give them back, or I'll have to tear them out of your skin!" She cracked her knuckles, demanding the cruel School Council President to handle back her Sekki-Tekko, her Scissor Blade and the last piece of Senketsu back for once.

"Fufufufu…" The Kiryuin snickered in malice as she rose her right arm. "So, you're looking for this?" Satsuki sneered with a oily laugh by showing the afromentioned objects. "I take back everything I said about your father, Ryuko Matoi. Dr. Isshin Matoi was indeed a genius scientist, perhaps one of the greatest researchers in Life Fiber studies." She took another glimpse at the weapons Isshin Matoi forged before his death by her hands. "The weapons he left behind are something to praise and admire. Never in my life have I encountered a weapon made from solid Life Fibers capable of cutting anything so effortlessly. I wasn't aware that a mere simpleton would be able to craft such object with Life Fiber, let alone a stable Kamui that can synchronize with its host without the need of suppressing its diabolical nature. And my mind couldn't believe all the unlimited power a single scrap of Kamui Senketsu can generate, yet even its flesh refuses to serve Honnouji Academy, unless its someone from your circle of "friends". So consider yourselves fortunate that we've still haven't managed to tap into this Spiral Energy of yours." The Kiryuin continued, remembering how Senketsu refused to be worn by Ogure back at No-Tardies day. "To think there would be a man who's genious would rival my father's, Soichirou Kiryuin."

"Wha-What? You mean the world famous Sochiriou Kiryuin!? One of the most brilliant scientists in the whole-wide world that's also married to the Director, Ragyo Kiryuin!?" Mako jumped out of surprise on to what Satsuki confessed to everyone. "Wait, who is Sochirou anyway?"

"Well Mankanshoku, sources have it that Sochiriou in Honnouji was a pretty famous scientist in both the chemical and robotics field who was married by the C.E.O. of REVOCS and director of Honnouji Academy, Ragyo Kiryuin in hopes of hydrate his thirst for more knowledge that the Kiryuins have hoarded." Mikisugi stepped in to help Mako refresh her memory. He did it by rubbing his chin between his fingers to remember well, figuratively of course since both of them were busy piloting his DTR. "Though, one night he was assassinated by hitmen hired by Ragyo herself due to treachery against their clan."

"Tch… Was about damn time you said something that makes sense." Ryuko growled back at the Kyruin, though she was still not buying her compliments to her father. "Seems that at least makes us even. But at least my dad was caring enough to visit me to leave me Senketsu. Seeing how much of a unbearable bitch you are, I can't help but think that your dad had an F minus in basic parenting."

Something inside Satsuki's subconscious tingled by Ryuko's comment. She was clenching her fist as it was known. "Though, it's such a shame that a great mind would meet its end, as he had committed ONE fatal mistake." Satsuki paused for a moment to raise her index finger. "He stayed on the wrong side of the gods' pantheon. And just so happen that thorn under my heel would return in the form of her incompetent and hopeless child." She paised to narrow at Ryuko, which made the afromentioned girl clench her fists. "Tch… And that irritating demeanor of yours… It sometimes make me reflect on to why I even bother admitting you into Honnouji Academy, considering that I wasn't aware about Kamui Senketsu and your Scissor Blade prior to that. I was looking forward into transforming you into my perfect soldier, but it appears that you're an animal impossible to tame." Satsuki snarled in frustration. Not long after that, she turned to see both Mako and Ryuko. "But, seeing as the 2 of you have been nothing more than troublemakers to my goals, might as well revoke you and Mankanshouku from your student privileges for once!"

"Wait, the hell are you talking about?" Ryuko owled on what was the mistress with the big eyebrows talking about.

HEEL CLICK!

"Ryuko Matoi and Mako Mankanshoku from Class-K! As Student Council President of Honnouji Academy, I have grown tired of your defiance against everything Honnouji Academy stands for!" Satsuki began to do her usual speech, as that clear light began to flash behind her. All while, Joker and the other shielded their eyes with their arms. "Ever since former Student Akira Kurusu's admission to Honnouji Academy, you've been proven to be nothing more than obstacles to the fulfillment of my ambitions. And even after his renunciation as a student, you still continued to support him on his radical movement against my dreams. I cannot let these actions go unpunished!" She began to rise the tone of her voice. "I hereby declare that the 2 of you are expelled from Honnouji Academy! You and your families are now stripped away from their privileges and are banished from Honno City! The 2 of you are now officially enemies to my empire!"

"WHAAAAT!? E-E-E-E-EXPELLED!" Mako's brain jumped out of her head before returning to her hollow airhead. The news surprised the hell out of the poor girl, and not In the best way possible to say the least.

HaA-Le,Lujah…

"Y-you can be really serious Lady Satsuki! You can't be serious! Honnouji Academy i-is one of the things I love the most! Well, aside from Ryuko, Senketsu, Ren, my family and cute bunnies and food that is. But I've always been a good girl! I never miss a single day of class, I always brush my teeth, I always try my best on exams, I always pray to you before going to sleep, I even recite the Honnouji Academy anthem with passion! Hey! I can sing it for you if you wish, Lady Satsuki! Oh, Honouji Academy, my faith goes to you! With your eternal light, you shall cleanse this world from the unworthy-"

"You're just testing my patience with your vain prayers, Mankanshoku… And don't bother to refer me as Lady anymore, you're no worthy to refer me as such anymore." Satsuki narrowed at desperate Mako in disgust and pity. This is one of the reasons she loathed the common scum. "Pigs who have no use on my plans have no place in my new world ord-"

"GOD FUCKING DAMMIT! Can you just shut up already and stop talking for a near second!? I'm here to kick your ass Satsuki! Not to hear your shitty insufferable villain monologues!" Ryuko barked without no one foreseeing this, that even took Satsuki by surprise.

"Ryuko…"

"Don't worry Mako. Once this is over, I'll make sure to find a solution for this." Ryuko turned promised her Bff that things will be alright once she has settled in with Satsuki before giving her a warm hug.

Mako calmed herself afterwards. She still had stains of her tears in her eyes and some emotional scars inside her, but she felt much better, nonetheless. Somehow, the warmth of Ryuko's hear gave her enough encouragement to stand brave agains the oppression of Satsuki from now. Which is something the Student Council President detested with her life!

Ryuko expressed a smile of confort for seeing Mako okay. Though, said expression would be flipped upside-down once she directed her attention back at her opponent. "Hey! No one insults over my friends when I'm here, you got that!?" She shouted at Satsuki's face while stomping her foot. "And you know what? To hell with your stupid school and your ass-wipping sisteml! I could care less if I'm no longer a student of that herd you call school. I was having my ass bored in there anyway! If I were to tell you the damn truth, I didn't knew why I still kept myself there if you and your Elite goons were going to keep secrets from me like assholes! What's next? You and your little cronies are lizard people from another dimension? Because I'm about to turn your poor body of yours into a scale-purse once I'm done shoving my sword and my Scissor Blade where the sun doesn't shine!" Ryuko shouted as swung her triple-sword to intimidate Satsuki.

"Heh… How funny for you to say." The Kiryuin lifted her head up, accompanied by a malevolent grin on her face to turn at Akira. "Because between the 3 of us, neither you and I have as many secrets to hide." She then looked directly to Joker, ready to unveil the truth behind the Phantom Thief's unexpected appearance in Honnouji Academy. "So, do you have any secrets you would like to confess, Trickster…?"

Something about the tone of voice the Kiryuin gave out unsettled both Joker and Morgana where they were standing. The other girls beside them looked at the fearless Phantom Thieves tremble in anguish, but they didn't knew why they were so frightened.

"Hey? What's gotten into you Fuzzy Hair?" Ryuko looked at the 2 thieves, wondering why they the 2 looked so stiff and liveless, standing there in fright like 2 melting ice sculptures watching their end of days.

"I-It can't be! She knows already?" Joker stammered inside his mind. Only a few selected people refer to him as the trickster. Either the residents of the Velvet Room, or that damn god that made him do this challenge in the first place. It could potentially be just a silly hunch, but that smug tone of voice Satsuki gave while saying those words can tell otherwise.

"What's the matter Joker? Did your cat bit your tongue?" Satsuki was enjoying Joker's sense of dread that she knows his little secret. "Or perhaps the fact that your clever cover has been blown out? Doesn't this sense of dread, THIS feeling of being cornered bring some nostalgic memories of you?" She grinned at the trickster, looking that the hand he was holding his dagger was shaking with anger. "Truly, it must remind you how you and your former teammates vanished from existence for trying to change a society that wasn't broken in the first place… And I'm sure you couldn't forget their delightful pleads for help as their lives faded from their eyes, without you having anything in your power to save them…"

"Shut Up…" Joker's voice was beginning to crack out an unstable tone.

Seeing that the will of his archenemy was starting to deteriorate, Satsuki Kiryuin felt pleased. All she needed to do is to toy with Akira's painful memories, and this battle will be a piece of cake, than maybe she wouldn't need to use her ascension dress and then save it until she encounters her mother. "Don't you think it's foolish of you to bring your small ball of friends here, right at the deepest circle of hell?" Satsuki asked him if it was wise of him to bring along Ryuko, Mako and co., or it's just his naïve perception of 'friendship is magic'. "I'm just technically speaking, you wouldn't wish to repeat the same mistake again, right?" The young adult's voice softens on that moment. "What would your old teammates think about? But well, I don't think that's much of a problem for you since you know… They don't exists anymore…"

"SHUT UP!" Joker exploded in pure wrath, surprising everyone aside from Satsuki. Everyone saw Joker as a pretty high-esteemed yet collected leader, But seeing him succumb to his anger so easily was something you don't expect from him.

"Joker, stop! This is clearly a trap!" Mona warned Kurusu to not fall to this obvious trap, but he just pushed the cat's advice as he sprinted himself like a mad bull charging its horns against the red cape of a matador. Though, Mona understood the teenager's anger, seeing how their enemy was toying with something extremely personal for him. Which brings the question, how did she know they're from a different dimension?

But Akira has his mind set and was already late for him to think it twice. He hurled his whole body with intentions to kill the Kiryuin for what she said.

But Fate has other plans instead.

CROFT!

Joker was caught by surprise as she made impact by a group of brown oversized rulebooks. The barricade of books then pushed him back like a pinball ball being launched to where the girls were standing.

"GYAH! Igotyouigotyouigoutyouigotyou!" Mako flailed her arms around to try and catch her friend as she was coming to her direction, unaware that the beaten body of the Wild Carrd was coming with a speed of a meteor.

"Mako! Get Down!" Morgana didn't waited for long as he and Matoi pushed the bubbly now-dropout student out of the way.

"Don't worry, I got ya!" Sanageyama leaped to the rescue to catch the Phantom Thief into her arms.

From a distance, a yellow bullet came in which released a yellow bouncy matred, cushioning the impact the 2 Phantom Thieves were gonna suffer from to none.

Afterwards, Sanageyama looked behind him to see Omiko from a distance, giving a thumbs up that shows that she has their backs.

"GYAA! Are you okay Ren!?" As the good friend that she is, Mako rushed to check if she was okay. "Did your body fluids spilled all over? Has your heart exploded into million pieces? Are you dead? Are you eating healthy?"

"H-hey! Lay off the sugar Mankanshoku!" Sanageyama tried to calm Mako from her worries while Ryuko recovered his consciousness. Afterwards, he dropped the Kamui wielder off while the mattress began to slowly deflate.

"Nhgh… I-I'm still okay Mako. I didn't knew what was I thinking on rushing right there l-like an idiot… *COUGH!*." Joker apologized with shame inside of himself for charging so recklessly while slowly getting up.

"Wait a freaking second! I know those damn rulebooks from one and one bastard only!" Matoi pointed at the barricade covering Satsuki Kiryuin, knowing that those oversized shields covered in lead and letters can come from just one guy.

Her assumptions would be proven correct as an earthquake began to cover the entire area culminating with titanic man rising from the barricade, wearing a three-star SMT-Goku Uniform, now plated with golden metal rather than the usual gray one.

"I, AM LADY SATSUKI'S SHIELD!" Gamagori shouted like an invincible fortress, announcing his grand entrance. "AND AS LONG AS I LIVE, I WILL PROTECT HER FROM HELL-SENT RATS LIKE YOU!" He shouted with all of his soul. "NOW, IT'S TIME FOR YOU CRIMINALS TO ANSWER FOR EVERY ONE OF YOUR SINS AGAINST HONNOUJI ACADEMY, ONCE AND FOR ALL!"

"Talk about bad timing…" Senketsu grunted, seeing that Gamagori has arrived to aid his master. "Never though the Elite trio would recover so quickly. Guess those fragments of yours can do a lot of miracles." The Kamui turned at Akira, which didn't help to say the least.

"Are you forgetting someone, Gamagori?" From the shoulder of the titanitc toad, Jakuzure appeared beside Ira's broad neck, showing a smug smirk which also showed a missing teeth. "You're gonna be so screwed, you Naked Apes! Sohohohohoho screwed." She smugged down right before snapped her fingers, which summoned her flying platoon of Trumpeteers and Jack-O-Lanterns to invade the skies.

"It seems that our arrival has been met with negativity from your part, which is win in my book." The voice of Houka echoed through the battlefield for everyone's surprise. Suddendly, a light-speed blue lightning passed through the fallen forces of Honnouji Academy, showering them with a blue sparkle all around their bodies.

From there, the fallen One-Stars jumped out from their places full of energy, and now without any injuries that their battle with the townspeople of Osaka has left upon them. All of them unleashed a vigorous warcry, ready to fight once again.

"Giya! Don't tell me they're back all of the sudden!" Luluco yielped in panic, seeing how the fallen students of Honnouji Academy recovered so fast.

"Well, there goes our hard work." Tsumugu clicked his tongue after seeing how all the fallen soldiers of Honnouji have arisen from their defeats.

The lightning then began to take a more humanoid form, being that of Inumuta, now having a weird light-blue polygonic body that he quickly revesed back with the constant flash of blue starts coming from his body. He revealed that he was actually de-transforming from his New Goku Uniform while standing beside the toad's left foot. "By the way, I don't want to sound like the nerd here, but I'm afraid that your chance of stopping us is only of 000000000000000000000000000000000.1%. And I'm trying to say it on a positive light, that is." He smiled in delight while arranging his glasses.

"Well, since when did you learn to bark with that much snark?" Nonon turned to Inumuta with intrigue about his sudden sassy attitude against Ren and the others.

"Where else could I learn to talk like you, Ms. Snake? With how fluid you move that tongue of yours it was a matter of time for your venom to affect me." The dog opened his collar to talk calmly.

"Touche."

"Tch! Keep barking all you want! We're still even in power, you Team Rocket Knockoffs!" Sanageyama ironically barked at his former comrades in arms, only to be proven wrong once a gigantic figure fell over to where the Elite Trio was.

"Well, Well… Someone pinch me already, because I'm seeing myself swinging vines with a bunch of naked apes." Once the cloud of the impact cleared itself, it revealed to be the Clone of Sanageyama already transformed into his Blade Regalia MK-1. "So anyways, what took you so long guys?" He turned back to see Gamagori and the rest.

"Oh right… I forgot how goddamn annoying you were back then… We should really implement a mute option to our clones." Jakuzure sweatdropped, remembering how she couldn't stand Uzu's former cocky attitude.

"Apologies for our delay, Lady Satsuki…" Gamagori turned to see his miss to bent over one knee. "But our incursions to Kobe and Kyoto were sabotaged by Joker's allies, resulting them in failure, with all of our troops both Goku Uniforms and Shadows put out of commission by the afromentioned. I regret from taking your words from granted." The human goliath lamented not taking the Shadows with him for his fear of having those things turn against him and Honnouji in general.

"Pfft… You had it easy Gamagori." Nonon pouted at Ira while crossing her fingers to hide her primal anger towards Ryuko and Tsumugu. "THOSE ASSHOLES DOWN THERE KNOCKED OUT ONE OF MY TEETH! A TEETH!" Jakuzure's fuse exploded while sprouting streams of steam like a vintage locomotive. "Ohohoho… This Tri-City School Raid is no longer about Lady Satsuki and Honnouji Academy anymore…" She slowly turned her head in order to narrow at Ryuko. "Now it's fucking personal!" She cried out while cracking her knuckles in primal rage, eager to snap's Matoi's jaw in half to return the painful favor.

"Hey! Can you 2 speak Japanese please? I don't talk Toad and Snake." Dark Sanageyama then mocked the chairs of the Disciplinary Committee and the Cultural Club Division since he had no idea what the terms of Phantom Thieves and the true motive of the Tri-City School Raid is.

"It'll be wise to keep your laments for later." Satsuki replied while looking at Ira Gamagori. "Even if neither of you were unsuccessful into capturing and subjugating the remaining schools, you've still have succeed into crushing the remaining rogue schools from our way. We can worry about the runaway students for later once we're finished with the Culture and Sports School Festival." She narrowed back her attention to Joker like an eagle targeting her prey, but it just so happen that said prey consists of an annoyingly little fox that was always one step ahead of her.

"Okay Ren! I know that the Elite Trio means top notch business, and probably want to hang your butt in their walls. But I know you can win this, because we have something they don't!" Mako then stood behind Ren to cheer him up. "The power of teamwork and friendship!"

"We always have that Mako, and much more to spare." Akira declared before summoning Raoul to his side. "Luluco, think you can take Mako somewhere safe?" Kurusu then requested the policegirl to watch over the air-headed girl from the bunch.

"Wait, M-Mankanshoku is here?" Gamagori quickly gasped after noticing that Mako was taking a V.I.P. Front Seat in between the battle, which struck him with anxiety and worry.

"Huh? What's with the weird face Gamagori?" Dark Sanageyama looked at the tanned goliath with surprise. "Pfft! Don't tell me you're now giving a damn about a No-Sta-"

"Silence!" Satsuki bellowed at her 2 giants to shut their beaks up. "None of you have the right to intervene in this figt. This is between me and Akira Kurusu." She stated while slashing her Bakuzan to intimidate her enemies.

"Yes Milady!" The soldiers of Honnouji bent over at their goddess' word. All of them took a distance to not get on the way of her lady and her battle against the Phantom Thief.

Afterwards, The Kiryuin felt more confrontable for her final showdown. She traded looks with her arch-nemesis, with eyes fit of a starving tiger. "Now, let us begin." Pulling Bakuzan and the Scissor Blade out of their hides, the deadly vixen swung herself at the Trickster with Max speed to attack first.

Joker took notice and pulled both of his daggers to parry his enemy's sword slash with perfection. With the unstoppable force clashing against the immovable object, a powerful shockwave busted around them that blew away all of those who were weak-willed from their area.

"I have to admit Joker. From all my foolish enemies that tried to oppose me, you have to be the one that I hold some vague sense of respect." She smirked before striking Akira's stomach with a hard knee that made the Phantom Thief cough off saliva. "You came to Honnouji Academy with no warning whatsoever, intoxicated my system and its subjects with your foul ideas of liberation with unspeakable crimes, just for my sources to find out that your powers equals mine without the need of a Kamui. But soon, your individuality and your Personas will be assimilated into my ever-growing dreams!"

"Humph… You wish." The Trickster spat back at the feme fatale while returning the punch with a combo of clean cuts at the Lady of War's exposed parts of her Kamui and a barrage of needle bullets to immobilize her for a short period. "Then again, Akechi has one for all that I care. But if a deranged psychopath is worthy of awakening one rather than yourself, there must be something wrong. Then again, I can't deny that you've proven to be more of a worthy rival than he could be."

"Do I look like I care about the issues of a mentally-ill manchild? I could care less about having worth. I'll force them to become worthy of using!" The Kiryuin didn't gave importance to whatever mumbo jumbo the messy-haired kid told her. "To think that my worst enemy would be some 16-year old society misfit that dwells on an old attic and does nothing more than shove giant burgers down his throat. La vie est drôle Indeed…" She whispered through her lips while closing her eyes. "NOW DESPAIR!" She roared before smashing the ground with her blade that tore the floor wide open for an explosion of concentrated light to rise from it.

Joker clinged his grappling hook at a nearby building to save his ass from the eruption. "Are you done with your german homework, or have you left your courage back home?" Joker smirked with bravery before calling forth Unicorn to ride its back like a noble knight. "And I do have to give you merit where it has to be given. From all the enemies I've faced, you must be the most powerful and clever one I've ever had. What can I say? A Phantom Thief vs a tyrant that rules over a fascist system of her design is a match made in heaven! But those days of taking everything from others are over!" He exclaimed as his mighty steed jumped down the building and smashed the ground with a vicious strike that hit Satsuki, leaving her in the open. "Now, Freiyadyne!" Joker continued this devastating combo with Unicorn launching a pair of nuclear orbs directly at the Kiryuin that exploded on her face.

Having some time to breathe, Joker got off from Unicorn's mark as it returned to be his mask. "Damn… All that power, and she didn't even transform her Kamui yet." He stuffed his hands inside the pockets of his tailcoat. "I've never thought that my own essence would be this strong…"

But the time for lollygagging was over. The cloud of impact vanished, showing that Satsuki Kiryuin was standing straight like if nothing happened. "Thch… Hehehehehehe…" On that moment, Satsuki Kiryuin began to sofly chortle, which it gradually began to turn into a psychotic laugh. "AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" She bursted a laugh fit for the rotten villain that she was. Though, she quickly regained her posture to keep her mind focused. "Still laughing at the face of danger like always, right Joker?" She exclaimed as she sharpened both Scissor Blade and Bakuzan while charging them with a holy energy. "Your words are as hollow as your ideals! No matter the adversities or the odds, I always get what I want! Now come! Let's dance the walts of life and death on this burning ballroom!" She declared as she pulled the level of the Sekki Tenko of her left hand, initiating the transformation sequence of her Kamui.

All while that was happening, the group of heroes felt intimidated and disturbed by how the ruler of Honnouji Academy's Godly battle-suit transformed to reach peak perfection. Yet, the most disturbed of all was Senketsu, who felt a growing darkness in Junketsu's malevolent nature, who was lately been nourishing itself from Satsuki's darkness.

"LIFE FIBER OVERRIDE! KAMUI JUNKETSU!" Satsuki cried in pride as she finished off her transformation. Having her One-Stars and Shadows cheer and applaud their leader to give her the much-needed boost of pride.

"Everyone, on your positions! The real battle's about to begin!" Mona told everyone once he finished witnessing the beautiful tyrant's transformation, as the whole team quickly summoned out their Personas and held up their weapons, ready to battle.

"This time, all of my cards are on the table Joker." Satsuki narrowed at her rival with determination. "SO I HOPE YOURS ARE TOO!" On that moment, her voice quickly distorted into her Shadow tone while moving with a speed of a lightning bolt.

"Let's dance!" Joker smirked as he was already prepared to block again with Valkirye's swords dance' blades.

CLASH!

The weapons of the 2 envoys of Law and Chaos clashed with one another with a loud shock from their blades. This in fact, created a shockwave that blew away all bystanders once again.

"It seems that your skills still remain as sharp as your misplaced mind." The Kiryuin smiled in compliment as both she and the wild card were trying to push one another with their weapons in hands.

"Thanks! And I can see you've sharpened yours. Life Fiber and Shadow diet procedures must do wonders to you and your friends." Akira showed himself firm as much as he is a Jokester. He quickly responded by pushing Satsuki with Raoul's Iron-clad wings to draw a fair distance from his enemy. "Ravage them, Raoul!" Akira shouted his strongest Persona's name to attack.

Raoul spread his wings which were starting to channelize a dark power. He quickly expelled all that incredible power in the form of a giant wave of diabolical curse darkness that was aiming for the Kiryuin.

"And yet, you're still somewhat predictable…" The Kiryuin blurted before crossing her swords and charging them with holy light, which caused them to transform into beacons of light. "Take this! Cross Judgement!" She slash both swords to launch a powerful X-shaped sword beam of pure holy light.

Once the 2 projectiles crashed with one-another, the heavens took the victory as Joker's Eiagon vanished from existence once it touched Satsuki's Cross Judgement.

Akira quickly reacted as he saw the Kiryuin's heavenly attack chasing his trail. He rolled to his left in hopes of avoiding this, but he was caught by surprised once the enlightened X exploded, which reached him, making this worse due to Raoul's weakness to bless-type attack."Damn! She even got new tricks on her sleeves." Kurusu cursed while still standing afoot. Knowing that his main Persona was not fit for the task, he quickly changed mask to Unicorn to render Satsuki's new light moves useless.

"Don't take me as a Dumb girl, Akira. I know what you're trying to plot!" Saksukit Kiryuin's voice echoed through the distance, which alarmed the Phantom Thief.

Without any prior notice, 2 Missiles in the shape of Junketsu's pointy eyes charged with cursed energy were blasted and were coming at a fast speed.

The leader of the Phantom Thieves was not quick enough to dodge, causing him to be hit by the incoming rockets which sprouted a giant blast that launched him into the air while he screamed in pain.

Once he fell on the floor, he quickly got up without his fighting spirit being shattered in absolute. "Gotta handle it to ya, I'm impressed you came prepared." Kurusu grinned with a raspy voice, even if his face and body was beginning to be covered in bruises and blood.

"You talk too much! This is a fight Kurusu, take this seriously!" Satsuki exclaimed as her high heels echoed through the battlefield. Her body began to sparkle blue stars, initiating a new transformation for he Kamui. "JUNKETSU SENJIN SHIPPU!" Satsuki shouted with power, which surprised Akira Kurusu.

Seeing no trace of the Kiryuin, Akira was sure that she was going to attack her once he lowered his guard. To fight this, he closed his eyes to activate his third eye ability to see which was was Satsuki going to strike. "Go!" he turned on his back and slid under the flying Kiryuin. "What the? Weren't those Ryuko's transformations?" Akira gasped inside his mind once he saw the flying Satsuki using a fusion between Senjin and Shippu. Though, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to him considering that she has one of Senketsu's pieces attached to her Kamui.

"No time for slacking!" Satsuki then turned her trajectory back where Joker was to attack again. "Take this!" She exclaimed as she held her 2 swords in the air as she was about to crash against toward the Wild Card.

Clash!

For the Student Council President's surprise, she found that her blades were blocked by not only 2 giant metal wings, but a set of 12 blades obstructing her way.

Joker was smiling behind his winged barrier that later pushed the rocket woman back. The owner of the steel feathers showed himself to be a colossal humanoid figure platered in lustruous metal and adorned with divine clothes.

"Satsuki, I'd like you to meet Metatron!" Joker introduced his Persona of the Justice Acana throwing a megido orb at his enemy beforehand.

Despite the impact of the almighty bomb not harming her, it did damaged Junketsu's engines which forced her to come down to land again and marvel at the beauty of the great angel.

"I am Metatron, the voice of God and the other self that rest inside the Trickster's just heart. My sole duty is to spread the good word of the Great Will and protect humans, demons and all living creatures alike who are unable to fight back from the corruption of people such as yourself." The Iron Seraphin echoed, whose divine aura even had the Kiryuin surprised. "You who proclaim to be above god is accused to use god's word in vain and distorting the hearts of countless young lambs, making them forget the value of their own lives! For that, you shall be cleansed from the face of the Earth, unclean one!" He rose his hand and called forth an almighty field of purging light beams down from the heavens against the malevolent woman.

She was struggling to avoid the rain of holy judgement, but all it took was to absorb the light with her Bakuzan before expelling that energy somewhere far her men. "I admit that your new power is pleasant to behold, but you're continuing to slack off when lives are at stake!"

"Why would I slack on a moment like this?" Kurusu sneered. "By the way, what's with you copying Ryuko's style? I though you were better than a quote-on-quote "Lousy and reckless pig" or am I wrong?"

"I'm not imitating that poor excuse of a Kamui wielder, I am improving what she failed to exploit!" Satsuki reclaimed as both she and Joker were pushing one another with their weapons.

"Yeah, taking everything, you can get your hands on for the sake of your own self-righteousness. Typical of you." Ren smirked at the Kiryuin as he still tried to push back his enemy.

"Says the so-called Phantom Thief. You and I aren't so different, Akira." Satsuki clarified while continuing to fight. "You and your band of miscreants target those you deem "evil" and "rotten" in order to snatch their ambittions out of them just to feed that sense of self-righteousness you're so obsessed with." She stopped to give Kurusu a smirk.

"Hehehe… Look who's talking!" Akira exclaimed as he broke Satsuki's positon with a rising kick.

Both envoy of law and chaos began to swing and flail their weapons at light speed. Their trading blows looked like hundred, if not thousands of swords clashing with one another, bursting out sparks and shockwaves from the power these 2 powerhouses had.

"Are you kidding me? Now that damn bitch's trying to copy my style!" Ryuko protested while she was busy disposing of any incoming One-Star students and Shadows with her triple-edged weapon and her newly-learned curse skills from her white SMT Goku Uniform. Not to mention breaking sets of teeth with her Tailor's glove and freezing her enemies with her Needle Gun.

"Is it really the time for your sarcasm? We have to endure a little more until we can get my remaining pieces back Ryuko!" Senketsu told his friend to keep her toes on the move and not let herself vulnerable.

"I'm trying my best, Okay? Why don't you tell Fuzzy Hair to hurry up them?" Matoi looked at her talking scarf for a moment. She began to charge her Tailor's Fang with dark energy to prepare her next attack. "Hey Dirtbags!" She called out the other Honnouji forces approaching her. "Choke on this!" She exclaimed before throwing her Anti-Life Fiber sword like a javelin against her victoms.

Once it reached the floor, the blade unleashed a gigantic burst of dark forces that killed off a good chunk of Shadows and shred off many of the One-Stars's Goku Uniforms, causing Life Fibers to rain over the burning skies of Osaka.

Matoi walked over where her NB blade was and janked it off from the ground like Excalibur. "Say, what do you think Senketsu? Ya' like my black bomber?" She smiled at her Kamui while spinning her red sword with confidence.

But Senketsu had another thing to say as he felt an approaching fist coming from her. "Ryuko! Behind you!" The Life Fiber being warned the spunky girl as he felt the presence of strong Life Fibers approaching at a fast pace.

CRASH!

Ryuko quickly dodged the incoming attack with a rapid back-flip. She quickly discovered that what she avoided was a giant fisted wrapped in white bondages. She quickly recognized who was the owner of such a gigantic fist. "Great… not this guy again!"

"RYUKO MATOI!" Gamagori's voice roared like a T-Rex as he shown his now transformed 3-Star Goku Uniform which was a white armor that covered all of his body and which was also covered in a few orange spikes. "YOUR FIGHT IS WITH ME, IRA GAMAGORI OF THE DISCIPLINARY COMMITTEE! BY THE POWER AND AUTHORITHY LADY SATSUKI BESTOWED ON ME, I WON'T LET YOU INTERRUPT LADY SATSUKI'S DUEL WITH AKIRA KURUSU!"

"Hey! Long time no see, big guy!" Ryuko turned to the giant sield of Satsuki with a cocky grin on her face. "Trying out your new pajamas, Gamagor… Gama… Shit, I can't think of a clever insult." The teen girl cursed, thinking about a good insult to tell the goliath in front of her.

"It's Ira Gamagori, Matoi! You've endured a whole semester in Honnouji Academy, so you must have known the names of the Elite Trio by now!" Gamagori corrected her while crossing his arms. "But no matter. I'm impressed that your willpower is as vibrant as the day you stepped your first foot into Honnouji Academy. You even managed to snatch one of Lady Satsuki's Anti-Osaka SMT Goku Uniform. So, what to you think about the overwhelming power of Honnouji Academy's main line of offense?"

"Not gonna lie, feel free to send that Iori guy of yours my compliments. This uniform is quite badass." Ryuko had to admit that wearing a Goku Uniform for the first time wasn't that bad as she though it would be. "But they still look like dollar-store ass-crap compared to what Senketsu can do!" She talked back as she prepared her Tailor's cutter with her newfound dark energy. "And I'm soon gonna throw that fourth-rate mummy costume of yours back into the garbage can you found it!"

"Ha! Poor choice of words Ryuko!" Gamagori laughed before raising his fist. "Because I'm about to do that to your uniform too!" He exclaimed while his fist were being enveloped by orange stars before transforming into pure raw electric power.

"Oh, so you wanna throw down, Pikachu? Go on! You don't have any idea how long I waited to thrash your big mouth and ass!" Ryuko looked herself prepared to attack Gamagori.

"The feeling is mutual, Matoi! I've yearned for the opportunity to correct your unpleasant personality once and for all!" Gamagori replied back. "NOW RYUKO MATOI! REJOICE AND TREMBLE BEFORE THE PERSONA-ENCHANCED SHACKLE REGALIA MK. 2! MAZIODYNE!" Gamagori shouted before smashing the ground below him with his charged-up fist to crumble it down, releasing a gigantic wave of mad lightning bolts from the earth-cracks ready to get Ryuko.

"Oh, Shit!" Matoi cursed before hopping out from the high-voltage zone. Even with all of her speed, she had a hard time following the pacing of the Disciplinary committee's storm.

"Huh! Not so tough without your Kamui." Gamagori scoffed at Matoi's inexperience. "Your over-dependance over your weapons has weaken your resolve, Matoi! It will be the harbinger of your demise!"

"Yeah, look who's talking? You assholes can't do Jack Shit without your Goku Uniforms!" Ryuko barked while still dodging the falling thunderbolts of Gamagori to approach him and attack. "And for your information, Senketsu's not a fucking weapon! He's my friend!" Ryuko roared as she charged her Triple Edged sword with dark energy to prepare her offensive. "So Shut Up!"

"All Bark and no bite, as usual." Gamagori blurted, with his back still not kissing the ground. "Come on! Attack me if you want! I'll absorb any attempts of resistance you throw at me! And the enhancements of my SMT Goku Uniform shall transform all of your rage and recklessness into an almighty thunder that shall crush you!" Gamagori bellowed as he extended his gigantic arms to receive the spunky's girl strike with open arms. But suddenly he would realize that he's been outsmarted by the rebellious teen once he saw a cocky smirk on her face.

"You think I'm that stupid?" Ryuko sneered at the giant that fell into her trap. She quickly landed back to the floor like a meteor to rip out a violent dark explosion that pushed The Toad of the Elite trio away from her sight.

"Grh…" Gamagori groaned as he recovered from the attack thanks to his Shackle regalia's regenerative capabilities. "Not bad Matoi…" He at least had to praise Ryuko for fooling him. "But you'll need to try harder if you wish to defeat me!" He remarked that he won't fall down that easily before charging himself up with electricity. GRAAAAHH!" The screams of Gamagori showed that the accumulation of electricity was intensely painful for his body. "I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT TRUE RESOLVE IS! GAAAH!" The goliath stated once he tamed the lightnings that were trying to kill him before releasing a small electric burst all around his area. His entire body was enveloped by a brownish yellow glow with electricity flowing through his bandages like phone-wires. "You are nothing but a menace to society, Ryuko Matoi! Do you have no shame?" Gamagori proceed to extend his left hand and open his knuckle to release an array of his high-voltage bondages towards Ryuko. "The only destination criminals like you head to is prison, and I just have the perfect cell to lock you up for good! AHAHAHAHAHA!" The giant student ripped a loud laugh when his white wraps were cornering Ryuko.

Around Ryuko, she could see that Gamagori's bandages weren't going for her. Instead, the thick wraps were floating above her like a flock of vultures.

"What's that dumb meatloaf doing now?" Ryuko grunted and without a clue of Gamagori's move.

"He's using the Bandages of his Goku Uniform to trap us inside!" Senketsu answered while trying to not lose sight of the flying pieces of Gamagori's Goku Uniform. "Let's find any patterns or weak spots we can use against Gamagori."

She soon realized that the electrified bandages were sticking themselves together like adhesive tape and began to tense until they began to envelop Ryuko Matoi inside an electrified pyramid made out of Gamagori's Bondages.

"Behold, Ryuko Matoi!" Gamagori ordered Ryuko to witness her newly-created prison. "This is the Disciplinary Committee's Disciplinary Measure ability! The Tombs of the Thunder Pharaoh Rai-Oh!" He boasted with brass when he said the name of his newly-named attack. He rose his fist and snapped his fingers, causing the pyramid to slowly shrink down. "Just watch as the consequences of your crimes squish you into submission! Under normal circumstances, these measure protocols would end up crushing its victim to death. Luckily for you, our director Lady Ragyo gave us the order to leave you alive alongside Kurusu. Even if this tomb won't kill you, your hopes for escaping will vanish the more you try to get out. You will be at our mercy!"

"God! Don't you Honnouji freaks know something better than yapping about your self-righteous bullshit?" Ryuko roared before bashing her body against her steadly-shrinking prison, receiving a painful high-voltage electric shock upon contact

"Don't try to push yourself too much Ryuko. Blunt attacks won't work on Gamagori's bondages, remember? We better think about something, or our friends will be on trouble!"

"Hahaha! Struggle all you might Ryuko Matoi, you're only entertaining me!" Ira laughed while crossing his arms in amusement on watching his enemy struggle to break free.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

An array of rubber bullets crashed down the shrinking pyramid to cover It on a sticky pink gum, which stopped Gamagori's jail from diminishing any further and even absorbed all the voltage like a sponge.

"What the!?" Gamagori shouted in surprise and looked around who disrupted his punishment.

"From a former Emperor to another former one, I can say Fizzy's weird bubblegum can be pretty useful." The Sniper of Nudist Beach said with glee before descending right in front of Gamagori's eyes. "Hey there Kermit, long time no se."

"You! You are Omiko Hakodate, the former Tennis Club President and Emperor of Honnouji! And now a shameless traitor now working for those naked apes of Nudist Beach and Akira and his band of troublemakers!" Gamagori pointed at the shark teeth teen in anger. "Have you no shame?"

"Tch, i'm wearing a "Uniform" that barely covers my body jackass. So what's your point?" She asked Gamagori as she loaded her trusty sniper gun ready.

"My point is… THAT I CAN'T STAND TRAITORS!" Gamagori launched his electrical fist right down the girl's face.

Clash!

For Gamagori's surprised, he saw that his attack was blocked by Hakodate's sniper rifle that morphed into a giant tennis racked before striking. And the most outstanding thing was that it didn't received a single scratch.

"WHAT!? IMPOSSIBLE!" Gammagori gasped at this. How could a feeble former Two-Star be able to perfectly block his justice-induced fists? No matter whatsoever, he launched a barrage of punches at Omiko's racket, but all it did was wasting energy he could've used against other enemies.

"You Elite mooks aren't the only ones who have perk up their toys. The Takaradas were pretty generous to fund our new upgrades to our Anti-Life Fiber weaponry." She snickered at the giant before pushing him out of her view. "Just like that awful hierarchy you pride yourselves to have in Honno, we humans are able to evolve and develop ourselves. Of couse, I couldn't be able to stand toe to toe with you if it weren't for the help of my new friends!"

"I see…" Ira sighted with crossed arms. "I do admire your resolve and willpower you've obtained through time, even if it ended up turning you into a filthy scoundrel. But my resolve will and will always outshine yours Hakodate, so be prapred!"

Both shield and racket began to struggle with one another, with Gamagori asserting dominance with his colossal strength and size, and Hakodate using his smarts and tennis skills to give herself a good distance between her and the goliath.

"Hey Monkey King, care to give me a hand?" Hakodate called Oni Mask if he could help her sweep the floor with Gamagori as she was trying to push back the member of the Elite Trio.

"I could, but this damn annoying impostor doesn't want to get down!" The Phantom Thief of the wind persona clarified while he was fighting against his cheap copy made out of Honnouji's memory database.

"Something wrong cheap cakes? Can't handle the size of my Blade Regalia?" The fake Sanageyama laughed at the real on as was flawlessly blocking any sword slash from him with his Kendo Sword-fingers "And you're not doing it that bad either. You're blocking all of my attacks, much like if you also know about the secret technique of Tengatsu!"

"Crap! That glorified mannequin is right!" Oni Mask groaned in his mind as he and his clone still continue to deliver and repel each-other's blows. "Since the both of us have Tengatzu, neither of us can assert a clear shot to his body! It's like if I'm fighting a mirror!"

TWARK!

Sanageyama saw a small creature pass by like a comet. But his deductions would quickly lead him to know the responsibles, those being Innumuta and Jakuzure.

"Hey! Watch it, you palookas! Go bite your own damn tails somewhere else! I'm having to much fun beating this poser right here!" Dark Sanageyama reclaimed at the brain and the charm of the Elite Trio for interrupting his fight.

"You know, for a Life Fiber construct, you talk even more than the real deal." Houka smuggled as he materialized his bits back into his whole body again.

"Hmm… I don't know Fido, maybe we should have modified him to make our monkey puppet less obnoxious to work with." Nonon sighted in slight annoyance once he saw that Innumuta was letting his ego go overboad like always.

Meanwhile, the creature in question being morgana stirred before striking the duo of elites with a gusty thrust from Diego to blow them back for the moment and regroup with his teammates. "Dammit! Everyone having their hands busy to help Joker." Morgana hissed while watching how his other teamembers each were fighting against one of Honnouji's soldiers. "Luluco, think you could carry me?"

Trigger-Chan quickly met with the kitten after shooting down a horde of One-Stars and Shadows with her dual police guns. "As long as you don't get motion sickness, fine by me!" The Space Patroler ripped a whistled that summoned his hiver-bike. "Hop in!" The girl told the cat as the both got over the vehicle before they would blast off.

"I see then, so it's a game of tag y'all clowns want to play?" Nonon grinned with malice when she recovered from Morgana's wind attack. "Just gotta let you know, I've been feared as the unbeatable champion of tag in Middle-School."

"Hogging all the fun again, aren't we Jakuzure?" Innumuta awakened afterwards by applying a small healing skill on to himself.

"Pfft! As if a nerd like you would know what actual fun is rather than wasting your time on a screen."

"I assure you Jakuzure, I might not be the most athlete of the 3, but I would never turn off a chance to have fun." The dog of the Elite Trio reaccommodated his glasses to reveal a sadistic smile on the genious's face.

"I call dibs on the cat. My Biology Club can't hold their thrill to dissect him." Nonon got herself a head start by jetting herself towards the runaway duo, leaving the dog to bite the dust of her musical turbines.

"And just when I had plans to make Morgana my new guinea pig. But oh well… finders keepers, losers weepers." The blue-haired young adult shrugged before de-materializing into digital cubes to give chase to the good guys.

Morgana was not planning to make the 2 palookas ge them, all while Mako shouted in adrenaline over the hi-speed chase she was experiencing over Luluco's ride.

"Damn! Those 2 won't give up!" The cat snapped his paws in distress seeing how persistent Inumuta and Jakuzure were becoming. "Luluco, any ideas on how to cut those 2 out of our faces?"

Feeling like her brain has been cornered by the narrow choice of options, she had but unleashed her ultimate form, although being very embarassing. "Hngh! AGH FINE! J-just don't say anything please, Phantom Thief! Now hold still!" She tasked the small cat before getting up from her seat and strike a heroic pose. "Elite Space Patrol Special Transformation! Begin!"

AWAKE! TRUE JUSTICE MORPHING!

Once she shouted with her true spirit of Justice, her gun-bike and her own body began to detatch from one another in separate parts to fuse into a exoskeleton suit that attached itself to Mako's arms and legs.

"FINAL JUSTICE ULTIMA WEAPON! AWAKEN!" Luluco exclaimed with alot her soul for Morgana's confused dismay, having no idea what just happened.

"Well, that just happened!" Morgana was left kinda speechless after witnessing the Space Patrol's transformation, which the same could be said for the 2 Elites chasing their arses and their followers, reacting either in cringe or amusement.

"Wowsers! This is so cool!" Mako was left in pure amusement once she saw that she was one with Luluco. Aside from how bizarre this is, the airheaded girl didn't care a slight pickle for it.

"Well, that was surprising." Houka commented before rematerializing his digital body to take a rest. "Wonder what those 2 fools are up to."

"Gah! Stop praising those dumb-nuts, you stupid dog!" Jakuzure called Inumuta's Bs before looking down at her army. "And what do you all think of staying stif like a pack of hillibillies? Get her!" Jakuzure commanded her men to strike the cat, and the remaining Shadows and the students presents had no other choice but to obey and surround the Mechanized Mankanshoku.

"Gyah! They're coming for us!" Mako yiepled in horror that she accidentally pressed a trigger from the mecha-suit that deployed an explosive missile that exploded into the faces of Honnouji's footsoldiers.

"Well shit…" Nonon was left speechless once she saw that the underachiever of Mankanshoku basically dispose most of her army with one powerful swoop. "Anyway, got any plans Innumuta?" She looked at the genius on her side to ask him if he had some countermeasures ready.

"Well, not so cocky after all, huh?"

"Holy bananas! That was totally wicked!" Mako's eyes beamed in wonder and amusement once she saw how powerful that blast was. She felt so happy to see that missile in action. "I gotta try that again!"

"Alright!" Mona hopped over Mako's head and brought out his slingshot to load it. "You 2 deal with whathever is in front of you. I'll deal with these 2 clowns that are ahead of us!" Mona informed the other 2 girls while Trigger-Chan activated her thrusters to rocket the 3 of them from the duo of pink and blue. "Come, Diego!" Mona invoked his macho Persona who stood proud against the snake and the dog.

"This is for all the times you picked on me, you big bullies! HIYA!" Mako did a mighty battlecry before clouding the skies above her enemies in missiles and spades! No one was spared, Honnouji Students and Shadows were punished as equal, covering the entire battlefield of Osaka in craters all the while Morgana held both Elite members at bay with mighty wind twisters and elegant strikes from Diego's part.

"No! No! No! NO!" Nonon was already freaking over seeing how her soldiers were being cleaved by Mankanshoku from all people. "You won't get away with this, UNDERACHIEVER!" Nonon launched herself with all of her max speed as she tried to follow her adversaries.

"Oh well, here we go again." Inumuta only shrugged his shoulders before following Jakuzure.

Back with the envoys of Law and Chaos, they continued their scuffle by trading blows with one another, all of which shared an even streght while the 2 blocked or dodged the other's blows like reflections.

"I'm growing tired of your futile resistance, Kurusu!" Satsuki groaned at the Trickster before launching 2 rockets from Junketsu's shoulder pads. Luckily for the hero, he hopped over the incoming projectiles before using Jack Frost's icy breath to freeze the 2 rockets into ice cubes. "You're just as aware as I that continuing to oppose me will just make you repeat that same mistake you did with your team! Now, Submit!" The Kiryuin proceed to lash both off her swords into the ground for it to burst a huge explosion of holy light that blasted Akira into the skies.

Joker snapped once he reached the skies as he quickly changed masks into Mettatron. "Ravage them!" Akira shouted once his angelic Persona was shown, making the lawful machine release a devastating set of laser beams out of its chest to attack the Kiryuin.

Satsuki shown herself too quick by evading every single ray of light that decimated the ground of Osaka into craters with a match speed of a mad locomotive.

Once concluded, The Kiryuin took her time to recover her breath. How could she be so careless? Her consorts have warned her to be wary to not overuse her newfound powers as they drained her energy more that she has anticipated. Nevertheless, she quickly felt something was coming her way and blocked that something perfectly with her Bakuzan and Scissor Blade. "Heh! Not so tough without your friends, aren't you?" The Kiryuin teased at the something who was Akira, as both were pushing with their respective weapons. But the Trickster's angered expression showed that he wasn't playing games anymore.

"Who told you I was from another world!?" Joker demanded answers in desesperation as to how Satsuki Kiryuin managed to know his origins.

"Your life and pride are at game, and that's the thing that worries you the most? People like you only give me pity." The Kiryuin was enjoying the Wild Card's sudden loss of control. "To think that even gods beyond my comprehension sent a person like you to foil my plans!" Satsuki was about to strike Ren with a straight heel kick, but Kurusu quickly blocked the attack by covering himself with Metatron's steel wings. It still hurt though as any damage his Persona would receive, so does he. "Are you this desperate to recover those pigs that are only balls and chains strapped on your ankles? That dumb delinquent, that stupid slut, that annoying artist, that pathetic excuse for a School Council President, that disguisting shut-in, that helpless young woman, even that pathetic detective fraud? Are they that important to you than your own life-goals? ANSWER ME!" Satsuki's voice distorted into her shadow-one as he unleashed a blue laser from her hand that pierced through Metatron's wings, forcing Akira to take cover behind his arms.

"GNH! You, want an answer…?" Akira grunted as he grabbed his mask to do another quick change. "HERE IT IS! MEGIDOLA!" Akira called for Beelzebud to throw a gigantic orb of almighty energy that hit Satsuki without her having time to react.

The Afromentioned attack resulted into a huge explosion which made all present look at the blast in amusement. Which gave enough time for Ryuko to think about something inside her prison.

"I got it Senketsu!" In a very rare moment, Ryuko's lightbulb turned on once she managed to create a solution based on the electricity stored in the gum that Hakodate launched to stop her prison from shrinking any further. "Remember what Mikisugi taugh us in class about electricity? That it can be stored into metallic objects? And how he told us that Life Fibers can work like those electric cables to flow electricity?" Ryuko then pulled out her tailor's blade, which could work for her cheeky little scheme.

"I don't think that's what he said, but I'm starting to get the jig of your plan." Senketsu replied with trust.

"Right! We'll use the Life Fibers of my Goku Uniform to transfer all that electricity to us, and then it's payback time!" Ryuko smirked with confidence to her talking scarf. "Senketsu! Think you can wrap yourself into my hand?"

The Kamui nodded before slithering down through the spunky girl's arm and wrap himself until taking a very sharp shape. "Ready when you are, Ryuko!"

Ryuko stabbed her triple-edged sword into the electrified bondages without hesitation. At first, she screamed when feeling her body being electrocuted, but she quickly began to feel the discharges stimulating her senses by proof of her determined expression once her body enveloped itself in electricity.

"HERE WE GO!" Ryuko wailed with all of her power, bursing in Spiral Energy coming from Senketsu's eye. Gamagori and Hakodate paused their duel once they glimpsed at the greenish energy coming from the pyramid of bandages.

The afromentioned bondages weren't destroyed in the process. Rather, they were assimilating themselves into Senketsu, to the point that he even absorbed the Tailor's saber. The form the Kamui took was one where he fused with both the sword and Ryuko's hand, turning him into a living electric blade with a malicious face on it.

"What the hell!?" Gamagori was left in shock, seeing that Ryuko was performing that similar thing she did back at the Sudden Death Run-offs. Just, what was that girl planning to do now…?

"SENKETSU SANDASODO!" Both wearer and Kamui shouted in Unison towards the chair of the disciplinary committee.

"You little… AAAGH!" Gamagori didn't even had time to finish his sentence as he was painfully slashed by Ryuko's hand-swords with an electrocution worth 400000000 volts. "You won't get away with this, Ryuko Matoi… When I recover, you'll pay for this…" Gamagori cursed Matoi's name, still recuperating from that quick attack.

"Man…" Hakodate didn't had words to describe what happened. She just showed a Poker face to the event.

Matoi regroup herself with the shark-teethed sniper to recover her breath. "Holy shit! I didn't expect this plant to fucking work!" Even she was surprised that her spontaneous idea didn't failed, which turned Omiko's expression from amusement into annoyance.

"YOU'RE TELLING ME THAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WOULD WORK!? THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?" Hakodate bellowed at the edgelord girl's face for her annoyance, but she quickly calmed her nerves down.

"Yeah, yeah… Keep your yapping for later! Go help the others! Gamagori's butt is mine!" Ryuko then pushed aside the NB operative from her way to fight Gamagori, but Omiko pushed her aside as well. "Hey! What gives!"

"I can take this giant brick wall by myself, thank you! You're better off helping Joker!" She then pointed at the recurring battle between Akira and Satsuki, which showed he was beginning to struggle to hold the ruthless woman at bay for the reinforcements to arrive.

"I agree with Hakodate. The more help Akira can get, the better." Senketsu then persuaded his friend to go out and help Fuzzy Hair, which Ryuko immediately accepted.

"Alright, but you better show that rule-obsessed freak hell! I'm outta here!" Ryuko sent her farewells to the twin-tailed teen before sprinting her way to the main conflict as fast as she could.

CLASH!

SLASH!

BOOM!

KABLAM!

Neither the Black Fox nor the White Eagle have soften their attacks. But it was clear that Akira was growing a clear disadvantage against Satsuki Kiryuin. Despite being able to hold back the approaching woman with the burning flames of Lucifer, he was beginning to be gradually pushed against a cliff, forcing him to take more defensive measures.

"Ngh… Dammit!" The black-haired thief cursed seeing that he had nowhere to run, and his means to escape were too narrow for him, and too risky for even himself.

"Out of ways to escape my grasp?" Satsuki softly spoken as she walked towards the cornered fox. "It is ironic that the weapons your closest accomplice once possessed shall be the seeds of your undeniable defeat."

"At least both agree that black and red suits us." Even after losing his trickster attitude, Akira's willpower continued to be impenetrable no matter how hard his nemesis tried to shatter it down. "You almost look like a bastardized version of Ryuko…" Though, this insult was only received with both of Satsuki's blades on both sides of his throats.

"For a miscreant that goes by the alias of Joker, none of your jokes are worth a chuckle. So better watch your words if you know what's better for you…"

"Pfft… Please! We both know you won't kill me…"

"And what is that?" The Lady of war raised an eyebrow to question.

"You said it time and time again. I'm too valuable of an asset to be left to waste, aren't i?" Joker then began to express a smug face. "You want my Personas, right? And don't even think about going for Mona… by the look of your eyes, I can see that you have more sinister motives which you need me for, right?"

"How did you…?" Satsuki snapped for a moment, seeing how Ren was able to see through her schemes. It was true. Akira was too valuable to just kill off. even if he is her number 1 enemy, she knew if she wished to assure victory over her mother, she had to convince the Phantom Thief to support her motives one way or another.

"By the way, now that we're on the topic of my artistic name, after I thought it for some time, you do kinda remind me of Batman, an evil batman that is." Joker smirked hopping to stall Satsuki enough with his flirting once he witnessed Ryuko coming to his rescue. He would be against her joining the fight, but he really needs a helping hand right now.

"Still laughing at the face of death… You never change." Satsuki just let Kurusu continue with his tall tale, just to give him one last wish for his sake.

"Think about it. Heir to an ultra-powerful conglomerate, a loyal butler on your side and tons of kick-ass gadgets. Hell, even you have your own Justice League for Pete's sake!" Joker chuckle for a moment before expressing again a stern face. "But, there's one important thing that I share with Batman."

"And what's that?" Satsuki Kiryuin pondered, only for her demise to notice that her opponent was showing a smug smirk on his face. He let Akira use her own pride against her.

"GUESS WHO'S BACK, STUPID BITCH!" Ryuko roared as she thrusted herself with her electrified Senketsu sword against the Student Council President's back.

CLASH!

As expected, Satsuki managed to block the sudden ambush on time with her pair of swords, pushing her new contender out of her face.

On that right moment, Joker hurled himself into Satsuki without her being aware, giving the Kiryuin no options, but to throw the Phantom Thief away from her sight, making him land on foot beside Matoi's side.

"He always outsmarts his enemies and always has friends to count on!" Joker grinned while sweeping away stains of his blood from his face.

Satsuki couldn't believe that she got tricked by Joker again in her face, but no matter. "So the reckless bull decides to stuck her horns upon my nest." Satsuki wasn't happy to see that Ryuko was here to join the fight, but still delighted to entertain herself in one of Matoi's fruitless revenges.

"Watch that big mouth of yours, Satsuki Kiryuin, you hear me!?" Ryuko response was aggressive as expected, to the point she let out streams of rage. "I came to reclaim my stuff you took from me! So give it back, or I'll take it from your hands by chopping them off!" She reclaimed for her properties to be given back, or the blood of the Kiryuin shall paint the streets.

"Hehehe… still stubborn to turn back from enemies that clearly outmatch you?" Satsuki snickered at the black-haired girl's demands, finding them pretty entertaining to hear. "All you did with the Scissor Blade was flailing it around like a feeble toy. But when it fell to my hands, it managed to achieve its true potential!"

"Yeah! Cut the yapping already! You're gonna put me to sleep!" Ryuko cut short the villainess' monologue. She could swear that Satsuki's speeches were becoming the more unbearable to hear. It was always the same shit but with a new coat of paint. "Can we skip to the part when I kick your stupid butt already?"

"Is that a death wish I hear, Matoi? Then be careful what you wish for." Satsuki then took her usual battle posture to fulfill her nemesis' wish. "You're fortunate that my mother Ragyo Kiryuin has shown mercy upon your existence. She has tasked us to capture you and Akira back to Honnouji Academy for our purposes. But nevertheless, watching you fall before your own weapon will be a cathartic experience nonetheless. Now, kneel before your new god!" She was about to pull out her 2 swords to fight off her 2 adversaries. But as soon as she was about to unleash her strike, she discovered not only that the Scissor Blade was no longer in her hand, but the Sekki-Tekko too.

"Fuhuhuhu… Looking for this?" Joker repeated the same words Satsuki used to insult Matoi earlier while carrying the retrieved Scissor Blade and red glove. It was incredible how easy it was for him to snatch what Nui have gifted his enemy for the school raid with just a short span of time. But well, he didn't gain that infamy as a Phantom Thief back at his dimension, to the point that the personification of the good of humanity entrusted him with stopping her machinations.

The Kiryuin clicked her tongue in frustration upon seeing this. "How clever of you… Always trying to make a fool out of me, but no matter." In a matter of time, the lady of war snapped her fingers, calling forth a flock of angelic shadows that cornered the rebels like a gang of angry birds. "Nevertheless, I won't allow Ryuko Matoi to interfere on our current battle." She snarled at the former wielder of Senketsu behind her back. "As for you Ryuko Matoi, I hope my divine army of Shadows result to be somewhat entertaining for you for the moment, seeing how much you adore to fight." Satsuki smugged as she rose her sword, making the Archangels raise their weapons in unison with her master. All she needed now was to lower Bakuzan and order the attack. But something was keeping her from doing this action. He felt some sort of small lump attached to one of her knees, constantly humping her heel.

"H-hey! Why all these Shadows are stiff in place?" Ryuko had no idea why the heavenly demons just paused for the moment, with her question going to her trusty friend Senketsu.

"H-how should I know? I'm just a Kamui! I'm n-not the expert on Shadow psychology! Why don't you ask Akira?" The Kamui shouted, but without intentions of antagonizing his wearer. After all, they were inseparable despite their disputes.

But back with the alpha female of Honno City. She looked down to spot the source of this odd feeling inside of her. She must be seeing things! Perhaps side-effects of her Kamui overuse. No, it cannot be! She had Junketsu practically kissing her feet, so it must be disciplined enough to not devour her mind. But her 2 soul-piercing eyes could see what it appeared to be a small stuffed dog covered in multiple zippers humping her foot.

"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!" Chuck the dog continued to bark without a care on the world or if Lady Satsuki had her attention on him. He continued to stamp his crotch with the woman's ankles like a pump inflating a balloon.

"W-what, is that thing…?" The Kiryuin cringed at the creature's bizarre form, gently shaking her knees to shoo Chuck off, unaware that she just lowered her guard.

"It's a diversion, Satsu-Dick!"

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Satsuki spotted the noise of triggered guns coming at her direction. As expected, she parried every single bullet that was coming her way with inhuman speeds. The same couldn't be said for the army of angels who ended up literally exploding when the bullets pierced their hollow hearts. Once the array of unknown proyectiles was over, she picked one of the bullets on the floor to take a closer look. "What the? These aren't Needle Bullets…" She muttered, seeing that the bullets shot at looked like regular bullets. No! She swore that they've vanquished all other resistance groups that tried to oppose her and her mother. Did she forgot to tie some loose ends?

SNAP!

"GYAH! WHAT THE!?" The Kiryuin was caught off-guard once again by a group of holy chains that wrapped her limbs, forcing her to drop her main weapon to the floor.

The perpetrator of that skill showed himself to be Tsumusgu "Punk" Kinagase and his Persona Van Helsing holding the young woman's extremities for her to not use. "No shit, Sherlock!" He sneered at the tyrant of Honnouji while puffing a cloud of smoke from his cigar. He then lifted the chain with the Kiryuin bound to it before slamming the young dictator down the floor to incapacitate her.

One of the few Angelic Shadows that wasn't killed by the fallen angel's bullets shook its head before flying over Panty's direction. Once its soulless eyes made concats with the blond slut of the heavens', his face was twisted into one of pure disguist. "As expected from a fallen angel… Your pure soul has been tainted by the sin of lust thanks to the unclean ones' disgusting culture. Have you no pride as an angel?" The Winged monster looked at Panty Anarchy in disappointment before drawing out its divine sword. But Panty could care less, as her attention was towards digging up her goldmine of boogers rather than giving a damn to some random angel squabble. This became worse for the agent of god once the blonde slut threw her nasal discovery right at his armor. "You truly are beyond redemption! By the divine blessing Lady Satsuki has blessed me upon, I as her ever-loyal tool shall dis-"

YATATATATATATA!

The remaining Archangels had their brains blasted to smithereens by a rain of bullets, ironically coming from the holy father of Daten City Garterbelt. "Shut yo' ass up! Yo' have no right to talk bout' the lord with yo' emo-rated bullshit!" He then bellowed at the falling feathers of the angel imposters while the smoke of his trusty machine gun dissipated.

"Oh crud… I-I know that voice…" Akira was quick to remember the tone of who said that, for his discomfort… The 3 heroes looked what was behind them, only to witness not one, but a whole army of Nudist Beach operatives mounting their weird-looking DTRs, all lead by Panty, Garterbelt, Tsumugu and Ogure who all had their weapons at hand, ready to battle the megalomaniac Honnouji Teenagers and their Shadow Pets.

On a nearby distant, Maiko Ogure was riding on a motorbike carrying a briefcase that had all of Senketsu's crumbs back together. She spotted Ryuko and used a fallen road signal as a ramp to leap a great distance from the ocean of One-Stars and Shadows until She reached her destination. "Special delivery from the tailor's shop! One put-together Kamui coming right up!" She called Senketsu's wielder attention dropping the package that automatically opened and released the fixed Kamui.

"About a damn time! Thanks Maiko!" Matoi threw a high-five at the evil genius of Nudist Beach before grasping her Kamui and then picked one of the needle bullets on the ground and a loosen thread of Life Fibers to stitch back together the last pieces of Senketsu Akira snatched from Satsuki, returning his talking sailor uniform back to its former glory. "There! Hope those were all the scraps you were missing Senektsu." Ryuko held Senketsu with both arms, not helping herself but to feel an overbearing senation of joy seeing that her closest friend was back to normal.

"You can count on it. I feel like a shirt straight out of a laundry!" Senketsu was also infected by Ryuko's happy bug and smiled at his wearer.

"Man! I had no idea you're all planned a surprise party this big!" The Trickster cheered on seeing that the cavalry has arrive for their fortune.

"Save the jokes for later Joker. We've got a Kiryuin to defeat." Tsumugu stated before reving the motor of his infernal bike, driving his way toward the duo with Maiko, who was laughing like a maniac in the process. All the while, the fallen angel and the bishop followed their trail in order to gather with the rebel group.

"Right behind ya', Punk." Joker said back with a smirk before seeing dozens of Shadows coming their way to attack. "But it seems that her followers ain't going to let us lay a finger on their leader." He then turned at his fellow Phantom Thief. "Care to do the honors?"

"There's 2 things you need to know. 1: You really need to work in your material. Your comments are getting stale." Tsumugu blurted at Akira before summoning Van Helsing. "2: Don't talk, ACT! Hunt then down, Van Helsing!" He shouted as his Persona unleashed an ocean of flames against the dozens of demons.

All Kurusu had to say was a sarcastic shrug. Afterwards, it was time to kick Shadow behind and not let Kinagase take all credits. "Alice, come out to play!" He called forth the titular Persona of a little girl, with the afromention other part of Kurusu maliciously snickering at surviving Shadows with the desire to drop a Megidolah down their heads.

Ryuko then grabbed Joker's shoulder as she step forward alongside Senketsu on her left, making the stealer of heart cancel his almighty move. She turned back at Akira with a snarky expression and with a thumb in the air and said. "Don't be dumb and waste your effort with those clowns Fuzzy Hair! You take Satsuki, I'll take care of these losers!" She told Akira for his delight before looking at Senketsu. "Time to do what we do best, Senketsu!"

The black Kamui widened his eyes and nodded at his friend. "And what we do best is hack and slash till' the end! Time to Synchronize!" Senketsu cried before hopping at the angsty girl while she pulled the trigger of her Sekki-Tenko to begin transforming.

As Senketsu shifted into his awakened state, he also absorbed the SMT Goku Uniform Ryuko was wearing prior to the Tri-City School Raid, absorbing all of its powers into himself, now giving the 2 the much needed edge against the rest of Persona-Fragment enhanced troops.

"LIFE FIBER SYNCHRONIZE! KAMUI SENKETSU!"


"Alright men, move out! Our mission is to rescue Kaeo Takarada and Ryuko Matoi! Akira Kurusu needs out support against Satsuki Kiryuin's forces! Go! Go! Go!" Back at the Underground Nudist Beach's Headquarters, Mikisugi ordered his men to enter their DTRs and bring war to Honnouji Academy. The Red Alert was being heard all over the secret base. It was clear that Maiko Ogure was able to de-cipher's Innumuta's program and free the gates for the rebel organization.

All the brave Nudists were deploying to their vehicles at great speeds. Each of them sliding straight through their DTRs before rushing at the launch zone that lead them all where this decisive battle was taking place.

Mikisugi didn't wait a single second. He snapped his fingers to call forth his metallic steed, the nudist star before hopping in and take the wheel. "Dr. Matoi, I promised I would watch over your Daughter and protect her from the evils of Ragyo Kiryuin and her underlings. I may have failed in keeping her safe from the eagle's nest, but I won't let her lose her life, even if it costs mine!" He swore to himself before stepping on the accelerator with all of his heart and rocket his iron horse out to the gates of HQ. "Now my Naked Star, strip yourself from your disguise and show the wicked your true splendor!" He proceed to press a secret button under the wheel of his car, causing said vehicle to begin a transformation while still driving. "There has been no better time to strip it all off! Here we go!"

Once he was out of the base, the automobile known as the Naked Star completely transformed into Mikisugi's precious DTR.


"You may have taken down our comrades from Kobe and Kyoto, but my name would't be Hajime, Club President of the Sumo Club and Emperor of Honnouji if me and my sumo club would let you reach Lady Satsuki!" Before Kurusu, stood the humongous Club President of Sumo with his sililarly-gigantic Sumo One-Star classmated cornering the spending pillager. "Have you no shame, Akira Kurusu, former Club President of the Fight Club and also Former Honnouji Emperor? How could you abandon your social status and privileges as Club President to side with those pigs in human clothing?"

Joker looked up at the juggernauts with crossed arms and sighted before saying. "I can't deny that it was great to be surrounded by luxuries and praises, but I couldn't bring myself to tolerate your god-awful system! Honno's City system was created to brainwash teens like me to blindly obey the Life Fibers with their meritocracy!" He bellowed at the Sumo Wrestlers, with each of them feeling the burning rebellion inside Akira's words, that even the Life Fibers in their Mawashi Goku Uniforms quaked in fear. "But seeing that our dear Student Council President sent over a bunch of bags of lards, I can tell that she's so desperate that she's resorting into using the least sharp tools in her shed." After that storm, the Phantom Thieve ony shrugged his arms to relax his tension. "I would like to stay and give you some health advises and maybe a much needed diet, but I have bigger fish to fry! So move it, or bust!" He exclaimed as he hurled himself against Hajime with his sharp dagger in hand to aim at his Yokozuna Goku Uniform.

"Don't dare underestimate our physiques, traitor!" Hajime bellowed with full fury before watching Joker make impact with his humongous belly. The black-haired hero was launched from Hajime's stomach like a pinball before clashing with the other Sumo Club member's fat bodies, making him bounce left and right like a pinball marble before being thrown down the ground.

"Ngh… guess y'all are going to be pretty hard to stomach…" Akira grunted before recovering from that unexpected result on his 2 feet.

"Ha! Try using any cheap trick in your deck! We won't even feel a tickle and we'll just return them back at ya!" Hajime laughed off while giving him a hard slap on the stomach. "Our Sumo Club Goku Uniforms transform the fat on our bodies into pure elastic might and hard-as-diamonds muscles, transforming that is considered a useless shape into a powerful wrecking ball! And thanks to the S.M.T. upgrades given to our armors by Sewing Club President Iori, our stomachs are now able to bounce back even the most devastating of nukes with the power of both Tetrakahm and Makrakahm! But enough talk, have at ya! Sumo Club, roll out!" Hajime commanded his minions as he and his Sumo wrestlers started to spin and spin like a certain blue hedgehog.

"Oh crap! I think I know what they're doing!" Joker already knew what was going to happen next, so he moved out of the way before the army of rolling men would be blasted through all directions.

"Tremble before our ultimate Technique! The Sumo Club's roadkill meteor barrage!" Hajime's voice bellowed with arrogance while he and his Club were bouncing all around like soccer balls and destroying everything their huge forms touched.

Joker was dancing with death as he was showing an exhibition of all of his acrobatic skills Kasumi has taught him. No matter how fast or hard the fleshy boulders were, Akira fooled each one of them with style and precision. But he knew this couldn't go up forever! He had to get past these morbidly obese villains before Satsuki could get a chance to act, but the Sumo Club were coming from all directions, giving him no time to think for a safe route.

"Honnouji former teacher, coming through!" Mikisugi came to the rescue as he smashed the ground beneath him with a magnificent show of streght, whose impact threw away all of the Sumo Club from the rebel's sight.

"Curse you Nudist Beach!" Hajime shook his fist in defeat as he and his whole club were embarrassed in the most fitting way possible. Literally bouncing out of control to the boundaries of Osaka where they could not hurt anyone anymore.

"Ha! Just in the nick of time!" Kurusu looked behind his back to express his happiness for the leader of Nudist Beach to join in. "Without your opportune entrance, I swear I would have turned into a hot cake."

"Couldn't say it better Joker. Those guys could use this to burn out some of that flab." Mikisugi replied with same energy. "Feast your eyes on Nudist Beach's main Anti-Life Fiber weapon and humanity's mechanized hope! The DTR!" Mikisugi proceed to shout with all of his pride. The heroes present didn't received the look of the DTR with positivity, if their expressions of cringe didn't expressed that.

"Uhh… Sometimes I'll prefer to be impaled by Satsuki's sword rather than looking at your awful eyesore… Ugh!" Ryuko couldn't contain her distaste over Aikuro's secret ace as it was hard to see it, moreso resist the urge to barf up her breakfast. "That reminds me. What was the hold up? Too busy reciting your cheesy one-liners? Because me and Senketsu had to work our ass into dicing up all of Honnouji's freaky pets."

"Ryuko! Thank god you're safe and sound. Much more with Senketsu all alive and kickin'." Aikuro turned to look at Matoi since he felt happy to see her again. "I see that you've already met Ms. Panty and Mr. Garterbelt over here, our newest recruits into our cause."

"You mean the weird guy with the afro and the annoying angel cosplayer? I've saw from a mile away that those 2 cloud cuckoo landers were your friends. Like seriously! What kind of pub do you hang out to meet all these clowns?"

"Could you shut your tits up? You're the one with the slutty battle bikini here. But hey! You could use that stick of yours to shove it down your ass or something, like helping me kill all these annoying extras!" Panty teased off Ryuko in retaliation, which logically awakened her inner bull in her while making shadows and One-Stars literally explode with her weapons simultaneously.

Fortunately, the black-haired girl knew better and calmed her nerves, for she had more important shoelaces to tie off. "You're lucky that you're friends with Fuzzy Hair and that we're both want to kick the ass of Satsuki Kiryuin. Otherwise I would have rip those wings out of your back!"

"Excuse me, these wings right here are expensive to heal, Ow la Edge! So you better not lay even a finger on them!"

Once Satsuki got back up, she could only watch the thousands of DTR Riders cornering each and every possible escape route. Some of the resisting One-Stars launched their Elemental Skills their SMT Goku Uniforms could provide them, but they all took the Nudist Rebels for granted. For the soldiers' vehicles proved themselves to be too swift and nimble that any magic trick the Honnouji goons had in their sleeves were reduced to cheap parlor tricks as they all missed their targets. Waves of One-Stars, Two-Stars and even Shadows were quickly neutralized thanks to the new upgrades and perks of NB's DTR with all the info Akira was able to provide to them, showed by a rain of Needle Bullets and Angelic-Fueled laser beams annihilating both Goku Uniforms and Shadows alike.

Satsuki's eyebrows lowered deep before looking down at her main enemy. "Let me guess… More of your friends, am I right? Are you this pathetic that you have to constantly rely on others?"

Joker just chuckled at Satsuki's foolish question. "To the contrary! I can take care of myself just fine. But I think your followers could use a hand or two, don't you think?" He clarified while pointing his thub behind him to emphazise at the defeated One-Stars and the puddles of goo of the neutralized Shadows.

"Are you done with your dumb power of friendship bullshit, hot stud?" Panty interrupted Joker's moment while waving her pistol. "Because I have some questions for miss bossy-bitch right here!" She quickly changed her attention towards the female empress of Honnouji Academy with killing intents on her dirty mind. "Satsuki Kiryuin if I'm not mistaken! Hey, where the fuck are you hiding geek boy? I don't know if you're this desperate to lose your virginity to the point you're stealing the good stuff out of girls from other dimensions, but I have you known that I have already claimed his ass for myself!"

"Now Panty, dat's not how we talk with folks from otha worlds." Garterbelt who was wearing a very provative bdsm outfit pushed the fallen angel aside before she could antagonize the devil in white even further. "WHAT I CANNOT LEFT UNCHECKED IS FOR DAT' SKANKY WHORE TO DISS GOD!" The priest's mood did a 180 degree turn as he looked downright pissed at the Kiryuin, yet Satsuki could care less about Garterbelt's words. "OPEN UP! NOW BETTER TELL US WHERE YO' HIDDING THE HELL'S MONKEY'S DESCENDANT, THE NUTHINLIN' AND THE HIDEOUT OF DA' SPIRAL NEMESIS! IF YO' VALUE YO' LIFE, THEN SPILL DA BEANS, OR I'LL HANG YO' ASS ON MY WALL!"

Meanwhile with the Cold-Hearted tyrant, she only narrowed at the freakshow before her, and she couldn't help herself but to feel teased off. "Hmm… I somehow can feel an angelic, yet depraved aura coming from that blonde girl… And neither she or that weird guy's clothes resemble any piece of clothes REVOCS has produced… They must be more visitors from other dimensions. And they seem interested by Hell's Monkey's Descendant." She though inside her mind, being sure that Garter and Panty were here to foil her plans. Just perfect… "Cling yourself with as many allies as you want, Trickster! My Elite Trio shall dispose of them with no problem!" The Kiryuin pointed at Akira before turning her attention towards the blue-haired adult. "And as for your, Aikuro Mikisugi. I am not sure to either call you brave or stupid for showing your face before me. I already knew your secret identity under that ragged up hair and sunglasses of yours, so I'll advise you to save the reveals once you're buried down the pits of hell."

"Well, what can I say? All ladies can't resist this face, am I right? They say that my charisma lightens up any party." Aikuro flirted at the Kiryuin while biting the bottom of his lip to tick her off. "A shame that your 3 dogs won't be with us to this party."

"Where are you coming from?" The Kiryuin narrowed at the rebel. She would get her answers once she looked what was behind her. "No… It can't be." The tyrant cursed in disbelief of what her eyes were witnessing. Her precious Eites, the pinnacle of military might among Honnouji Academy… Defeated!

All of Akira's friends stood victorious over the beaten bodies of their designated opponents, showing off a good number of scars and bruises that they gained for battling the lady of war's best men, among over a hill of battened up One-Stars and Two-Stars.

"Not so funny when you're on the other side of the fence, huh?" Omiko looked down at the Student Council President of Honnouji, overwhelming her with her own aura. "Sharks can smell the fear of their prey, so it was easy to exploit the insecurities of Gamagori."

"Lady Satsuki… We've underestimated her strength… A shame upon me…" Gamagori used his remaining strength to lament his defeat at the hands of the former Two-Star. He and his men were pacified and weakened as their bodies were covered in needles that froze them in place.

"Gotta give it to ya' Satsuki. You did a good job on making a copy of my annoying former self. But no matter how many Life Fibers you use, your knockoffs will never be able to out best the real deal!" Oni Mask declared, standing over the now destroyed bodies of Dark Sanageyama and Dark Omiko and some other Shadows he killed along the way. "As people tend to say, a Goku Uniform doesn't make the man! The man makes the Goku Uniform!"

"There's no way for you to run or hide anyone! Better surrender and accept the consequences of your actions if you know what's best for you!" Morgana was next to talk as he, Luluco and Mako showed themselves while having both Nonon and Innumuta bitting off the ground.

"So better turn yourself in quietly b-before I call reinforcements from the Space Patrol!" Trigger-Chan exclaimed down at the Kiryuin. "As your sentence shall be life imprisonment inside the Alca-Traz system built to contain all threats to the multiverse!"

"That's it… This is the worst day of my life…" Nonon gritted her teeth in rendition before collapsing down on the floor. She was just tired for all the shit and humiliation those stupid Naked Apes forced her to bear.

"Grh… You're quite the persistent, guiena pigs… the win is yours…" Houka followed the Snake's trail as his Goku Uniform was in no shape to continue fighting, much like Jakuzure's which was shown with his digital body glitching out. But while no one noticed, Innumuta's mouth widened forming a malicious grin on his face. "But not for long… hehehehehe…"

"No…" Satsuki's stern expression was slowly twisting into one of a desperate woman. Her troops, her Devas, her plans, all stomped into the ground. Deep in her chest, she was feeling a sensation that she hasn't experienced for a long time: Fear. This can't be the end; this can't end like this! All of her machinations and schemes she built behind her mother's back, her objective to become humanity's new savior god, they can't whirl away for naught. But her delusions were already showing by forcing herself to be on her knees in defeat and disbelief.

"It's over Satsuki." Ren Glowered down at the overwhelmed Kiryuin while pointing his gun at her, all while DTRs cornered and blocked any possible exit she could use. "You, lost..."

Seemingly seeing herself cornered for good without ways to get away, something inside Satsuki Kiryuin broke...

Junketsu felt its host's command and quickly de-transformed back into its dormant form. Despite the tyrannical beauty looking harmless, All of Nudist Beach and their allies refused to back down their guards. Knowing the girl for so long, they could easily expect a surprise if they thought it was over.

"Uhh.. S-should I walk in and well…" Luluco turned to Tsumugu with a pair of inter-stellar hand-cuffs on hand.

"There's 2 things you need to know." Punk was quick to halt the Space Patroller's way with his arm before she could do something reckless. "1: Satsuki Kiryuin is no prone to throw in the towel so easily, so this might be a trap. 2: If we're going to approach Satsuki Kiryuin from all people, we have to be extremely careful."

The red-haired space patroller nodded before tiptoeing her was towards the suppousely defenseless Kiryuin to carefully approach her.

"Hehehehehehe…" The whole world stopped when they head the deranged woman chuckle for some bits.

The defenders of humanity grasped their weapons tighter by the signal of the Kiryuin. They all knew something was wrong with her. Very, very, very, very wrong…

BRUST!

An unexpected burst of darkness pushed out all bystanders out of their confort zones, which scatter them like the wild wind on the air.

"BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Satsuki's voice distorted into that of her Shadow Self with a twisted fit of laughter while being covered in evil darkness sprouting out of her own heart.

"Grh! Didn't she experienced something similar when you first fought her!?" Mikisugi turned to see Joker who was shielding himself from the gusts with a wall of demonic flies he summoned with Beelzebub to protect his allies.

"Grr! Seems like it!" Akira groaned as he was trying his best to protect his friends from the malevolent winds. "But its clear that her Shadow has only gained more power ever since! Just how messed up is Satsuki's heart!?"

With some time, the dark burst disappeared. But Satsuki was visibly clear that she reached her now-fragile breaking point of sanity by proof of her yellow glowing eyes and how she sustained a psychotic grin all across her face that even made the remainin Shadows present quiver in fear of their mistress. "I lost, you say!? GYAHAHAHAHAHA! BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! AHAHAHAHA!" She once again let out another session of psychopathic laughs all while Junketsu began to pulsate like the parasite that it was.

"Lady Satsuki…" Gamagori could only watch as his master was having a psychotic episode of insanity, without having the streght enough to do something about it. "Damn it! This is what I feared about her when she started using those blasted shadows!" He slammed his fist down in rage afterwards. But what could he do in respect? His Goku Uniform may have received a boost in power, but it still weak compared to Kamui Junketsu.

"Uhh… Is this normal for Lady Satsuki to do Innumuta?" Nonon quickly looked at the mind of the trio in worry and asked what he knew about the situation.

"It's even worst that that or what have I anticipated!" Houka answered in worry before projecting a chart from his Goku Uniform. "After being cornered by Nudist Beach and claiming this to be her downfall, the influence of her Shadow has grown to critical levels! Right now, she's most likely experiencing something like a psychotic breakdown! The odds state that there's a high chance for Lady Satsuki to die if this continues!"

"What!? Y-you mean that Lady Satsuki will d-die!?" Even Mako showed concern over the false goddess, despite being expelled from Honnouj. She was pure of heart after all.

"Wait a minute! She isn't just going insane! Look Joker!" Morgana who managed to regroup with the Wild Card pointed his paw over Satsuki who held her head in agony followed by a horrific grin that extended almost to the edges of her face.

Mona was right! This wasn't just your everyday mental breakdown. It was something the Phantom Thieves were familiarized with from an old nemesis of them. "Holy Shit… She's having a Psychotic Breakdown!" Joker reaffirmed in shock. She was acting just like all those victims under Akechi's Persona powers. But how? So far as they knew, Goro Akechi A.K.A. the infamous Black Mask was pretty much dead after scarifying himself for the Phantom Thieves at Shido's Palace. And as much as he remembered, Yaldabaoth the god of control only gifted Akechi with this power. Did that arrogant cup found its way to this world, or perhaps…?

"Fufufufufufufu…"

Everyone shivered by the malevolent and ominous chuckl. They all looked at the sky in unison to discover that the heavens were being invaded by gigantic demonic eye painted in red, whose wicked sight was directly gleaming at the Kiryuin.

"N-no way! It already awakened this e-e-early!?" Luluco pointed her weapons at the gigantic eye, questioning how did the Primordial Life Fiber managed to regain some of its sealed power so quickly to alter reality.

"Great mother Maria! How did da' Spiral Nemesis got so jacked up?" Garterbelt asked the same question, while Panty pretty much could care shit about. The priest quickly gave the angel a slap in her face to redirect her attention. "Yo' can shove yo' ass for latter! Dat' sunovabitch is the one who dragged poor defensless Briefs down here!"

"What!? That giant floating testicle?" As much as Panty was worried for Briefs, she wasn't really breath taken by the Spiral Nemesis' look. She has fought weirder ghosts back at her homeworld.

"S-so that means he also has Nova-Kun H-hostage!?" Luluco added for her not deligt. She was trying her hardest to not have a panic attack, but the look of the giant eye only made this task the harder.

"General of the Life Fibers… Give in to your wrath, to your pride, to your blissful sins…" The malevolent god above everyone began to whisper things into the Kiryuin's mind, and her mind alone. "How does it feel to always be on second place? Outshined? Overshadowed by the Trickster…? It is truly a disgrace that someone so feeble and insignificant like him is more special than you… But worry not my child… Envelop yourself in your Shadow of resentment and let loose the demon within you… open your hearts to my Life Fibers, and rest well under the clothes of captivity…"

"What? Even t-that thing is here!?" Mikisugi jumped in shock, seeing a familiar enemy watching the fight like a mere spectator in the comfort of his box seat. "Damnit… Why does every time that thing appears, it makes it look like its more impossible to kill it!?"

"Quick question! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING!?" Ryuko screamed at Aikuro, deanding answers from the teachers. But her efforts were null as he was too tense to answer anything. "Grr! Figures!" She snapped her fingers in frustration. "Any idea, Senketsu? S-s-senketsu?" Once Matoi turned to ask her living scarf, she only found that her friend Senketsu was shaking in pure fright by the look of that thing. Like if he saw his worst nightmare right before his eyes.

"W-w-w-what is t-t-this feeling!?"Senektsu frightened as he wondered why he felt so powerless, like if he were just an insignificant pawn for that eldrich's monster master plan. "W-why do I feel like if i-i-I know that monster!?"The Kamui's head began to be flodded with thousands of questions, one more complicated than the last.

"Hmm…" Not even the apparition of the Primordial Life Fiber had to look directly to Senketsu, and yet he felt like eye was straight right into his soul. "So, we finally meet, my lost child…" The source of all Life Fibers began to talk directly into Senketsu's soul. Its voice was deep, godlike and hypnotic, someone could describe it as a voice as smooth as a brick of butter way past its expiration date.

"W-who are you?"

"Seems that the human influence has contaminated your mind, up to the point of forgetting what am i…" The voice of the wicked god proceeds to communicate to the poor Kamui. "Deep inside your Ban-Shi, you know exactly what I am… I, am GOD! Father to all Life Fibers, and the almighty creator of this pathetic and worthless world you call home…" The Spiral Nemesis continued with its villain monologue. "You, are nothing… Nothing but a weapon stitched with the corpses of my fallen children, for the Naked Pigs to barbarize as a mere tool to "Change fate"… But worry not, my traitor offspring… My will has caught the attention of the Trickster and your host, the Reckless Boar you call by Ryuko Matoi… I shall offer them mercy, if you give your wills to me, in eternal servitude to pursue my ambition, to overthrow the Tyrant of the Heavens the collective consciousness dare to call "God"… The false creator god, YHVH!"

What was it talking about? Senkentsu couldn't comprehend these concepts, yet for some reason, they seem to be familiar with them for some reason. A fact that made him uncomfortable to a grand extent. Even his soul was experiencing a huge sense of dreab by just looking at the Primordial Life Fiber. "N-No! Ryuko isn't a Host! S-she is much than that! She's my friend, and I don't know what you want, but if you dare to hurt any of those I love, I will…"

"GhAhagjhsHJJSGHAKhjahaaaaaah!" Their conversation was cut short once they heard the Roar of Satsuki Kiryuin as she regained control of herself, expelling all of the influences the Original Life Fiber wanted to take her over with.

All saw an awe how even the malevolent creature was surprised by the sheer willpower Satsuki possessed, a will strong enough to back off its devious temptations.

"NGHdhnandAhghsth!" The fater to all Life Fibers unleashed an unholy screech no creature has heard which forced all bystanders to cover their ears. Even still, they could still hear remnants of that demonic wail. "I see… My General is still not ready to receive my gift… Humans tend to say that patience is virtue… I have all the time in the world for her mind to change… But rest assured, she will hear the call of the Life Fibers…" The Original Life Fiber turned its all-seing eye directly toward Ryuko and Joker, and to that extend, Senketsu. "Same thing to you, foolish pigs… It'll be a moment of fate for you to realize the truth… Until we meet again! Ehahahahahahaha!" With one last laugh, the god of Life Fibers reverted the sky back to its previous state, all while leaving quite the traumatic experience for everyone to see.

The most impacted of the witnesses was none other than the ruthless dictator of Honnouji Academy herself. She was taking deep breaths and was holding up her head to give herself time to digest everything that happened. "Was that… What my mother is so obsessed about…? Was that really, the Original Life Fiber…?" Satsuki asked herself in disbelief. To think she was about to lose herself to her shadow and to her main objective to destroy. Yet somehow, her willpower was barely powerful to push that giant yarnball's influence away from her brain, but still… Those whisper in her mind, she swore as if her sanity was being devoured by the words of the elder entity. All the stories of the Original Life Fibers her mother used to tell her didn't compared to the horror she just witnessed. She really overestimated what the progenitor of all Life Fibers was able to do, with her closest answer being of a ambitionless hivemind bug only dedicated to consume destroy and repeat. But she would never imagine that such a inhumane creature could act so, human… Only upscaling the terror of the malevolent god. the Original Life Fiber wasn't stupid, yet her mind wasn't even able to comprehend what it tried to achieve… All this concepts, all those vast worlds that made her feel like a pointless particle in space waiting to die off…

Although, she found something outstanding about this encounter. It revealed to her the infinite multiverse, different worlds and different civilizations waiting to be conquered. Thinking this made her smile, happy to know that the door for her eternal fascist empire has opened.

So what if an almighty god tried to take her over? Satsuki Kiryuin is above everyone, even above all those false idols called "Gods" humanity deluded themselves to believe in just to have a false sense of purpose. These twisted thoughts filled her with the determination of the worst kind, which was enough to recover her posture once more.

"Wowzers! Lady Satsuki's will knows no bounds!" One of the Pixie Shadows said in surprise on how their almighty ruler was able to expel a god out of her head.

"Damn it! She got herself up!" Sanageyama cursed when his hopes of getting the perfect open blow were crushed.

"Then don't guard your weapons everyone! This battle isn't over yet! If we combine our forces, she will be overwhelmed by our teammwork!" Akira commanded all members of Nudist Beach to keep their guards intact. How naively stupide were… If they could only knew what the tyrant of Honno Town had them in store…

"Foolish…" Satsuki echoed with her lips. "How foolish of you to think you won, Joker. There's one truth you must know and one truth alone… I never lose!"

"Until today." Joker stepped forward before unleashing Thor for the world to see. "Try to despair us as much as you can, you won't be able to extinguish our fighting spirits. If one of us were to fall, another of us shall be there to help that one to get back up!"

"The power of friendship… What a sickening delusional idea it is…" Satsuki pondered in pure repagination over Joker's friendship speech. "But perhaps, I've been overlooking your teamwork abilities. You and I share a divine charisma to make anyone into loyal servants for your cause. Sometimes, it makes me think we were both cut from the same cloth, but ended up as polarizing dresses in the end." She took her time to close her eyes. Now realizing that she and Akira made her wonder if in another time, the 2 could have been sworn siblings. These were feeble dreams, but her sole reason that she's been machinating her plot for so long is to avenge her baby sister that her mother Ragyo took from her all those years ago.

"I don't see my teammates as minions! I treat everyone with my utter most love and respect! Not like you with your blind followers you've corrupted to die for you!" The Trickster countered the Envoy of Law's point of view while pointing his dagger towards her.

"And so what? Morality and compassion are for the naïve and weak." Satsuki reaffirmed with a bracing voice. "I use anything and everyone at my disposal to secure and reach all of my goals and ambitions! You may have thwarted my plans to claim control over the remaining resistant schools, but a good leader always has a back-up plan under its sleeve. After all, all of you must be aware that the Tri-City School Raid's true objective was to locate and pull you off from the burrow you're hiding. And now that Honnouji Academy knows where you little lair is… I can finally deploy something I've been saving until the raid trip…" Satsuki explained to her enemies surrounding her as she rose her right fist up the sky, placing her fingers like she was about to snap.

*SNAP!*

The whole arena was left tense over the Student Council President's action. They didn't knew what did she do, or summoned. Yet Joker was about to recognize what his foil summoned upon them… Something he though she wouldn't be able to tame, yet he could sense that bone-chilling aura from his trembling soul that it was…

Rattle… Rattle…

"Are those, rattling chains?" Ryuko said as everyone began to hear the noise of rattling chains from below their feet. Ryuko quickly noticed that her friend Akira and Morgana were paralyzed like statues, having sweat dropping down their faces out of anxiety. "Uhh.. Uhh.. F-fuzzy Hair?" Ryuko prod Kurusu to see if she could react, but he was too frightened to even react. "Oh no…" Matoi could predict that whatehever was creeping out Joker and his cat could mean that it would be bad news… very, very, very bad news…

Rattle… Rattle… Rattle…

"Ghgh… What is she planning?" Mikisugi still restless about what their enemy schemed. His question would be answered as he received an emergency transmission from his communicator. "HQ to Mikisugi. What's the situation?" Aikuro picked up the call-to-call Headquarters from his DTR.

"M..gi! Honouji A.-Demy is Att…ing!" One of the Agents tasked on watching over communications responded in primal panick alone. The line sounded distorted and fragile as if it could fall down at any moment. "We Can't Hol…more Don't Re…rn to HQ… Don't …turn to…"

BANG!

The line cut down after the blue-haired adult heard a gun sound from his transmitter. He was horrified… He could hear the screams and pleas of the Nudist Beach Agents thar were being massacred by what sounded to be thousand if not hundreds of gun-shootings, alongside the echoes of the wimpering agents that prayed to god to protect their hides.

"Y-you mean that…" Tsumugu turned to see his Leader Mikisugi, only for him to receive that same horrified expression of realization. "I-it can't be… It' can't really be!"

"Fufufufufufu…" The Honnouji Goddess snickered in the same sense her mother does it as she enjoyed seeing the expressions of insecurity and despair on her enemies' face. "Did you really though I wouldn't resort to this? Originally, I was planning for Jakuzure to wipe out your secret base from the face of the planet, but ever since I domesticated my special Shadow, I've decided to use him instead for you to realize that you were bellow my heel all this time."

"D-don't tell me you, you really…" Joker stammered in disbelief, still not being able to believe that a heartless abomination as Satsuki Kiryuin could be able to control "that" Shadow. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW DANGEROUS THAT SHADOW IS!?"

"I am Satsuki Kiryuin! No matter the enemy, they all fall in line before me!" She stated in malice. "Your futile resistance will be crushed and turned into how you remember this Shadow, Akira… NOTHING BUT A BAD MEMORY!" Satsuki bellowed like a mighty lion, causing the earth in front of her to open and reveal her secret weapon, bursting out from the ground surrounded by the mutilated and deceased corpses of all the Nudist Beach agents that were hiding under HQ.

In front of Nudist Beach and the Phantom Thieves stood a towering ghoul that carried 2 comically long twin barrel guns in each hand. His head was covered in a blood-stained block sack with only one eye visible, he had 2 chains on his shoulders that orbited through his entire body which formed a cross whose color resembles those of Life Fibers, he was wearing a black suit that was also a cloth with a giant scar on his chest revealing a Life Fiber pattern that confirmed that Satsuki infused him with Life Fibers like her rest of her Shadows in order to empower them and keep them obedient to her distorted ideals. As most Shadows that served under Honnouji Academy's flag, he had a SCC wrapped on his neck that forced him to obey Satsuki until his death, which was fitting since death is very well known to be associated with…

"The Reaper…" Morgana softly spoken in terror at the gunslinging monster that dwells on Mementos. Neither he or Joker were able to believe that Satsuki Kiryuin was able to chain up the unchainable one.

"Do you all see? My mere presence frightens death itself." Satsuki snapped her fingers once again to call forth her Reaper. The brainwashed Reaper did a militaristic bow proving that there's not a single drop of consciousness on the Shadow left. Reducing this monster into a mere Life Fiber puppet was childs play for the Sewing Club. "Dispose of all of Akira's allies, but leave Ryuko alive." She commanded her ace soldier to put her downed troops and some of her lower minions to get back into the fight.

The Reaper rapidly flew toward Joker's teammates. Akira won't let that blasted demon hurt his friends and quickly chased the Shadow to stop his tracks. But all it took the Reaper to do was a hard swing from his twin barrels to throw the Phantom Thief bellow Satsuki's heels

If things couldn't get any worse, a barricade of thousand One-Stars materialized in front of its eyes to cut him from his friends. They weren't planning to move from their spot, even if it costs their lives. But that's how all students and shadow in Honnouji Acaademy were. Heartless soldiers prepared to die for their supreme leader in search for an empty sense of heroism.

"Ngh! Why you…" Akira snarled while turning back to see a grinning Satsuki. Those One-Stars won't move anytime sooner, so all he has left is to pray that his allies could at least hold long enough until he could think something to trespass that barricade.

"Those dead weights of yours won't be interrupting us anytime soon. So I hope this means that you can finally fight like you mean it." Satsuki glared at the righteous thief while emphathizing the shining of her sword.

She was right. The Reaper was fully controlled by Satsuki Kiryuin and taking his eye out of her could potentially cause him to lose something important to him. Well, time to get serious once again! The Wild Card closed his eyes before taking a deep breath in order to clear his mind from his insecurities before muttering. "Then I'll be quick."

The 2 commanders resumed their battle with a loud and powerful clash from their weapons.

Meanwhile with the rest of Nudist Beach, their lives were at the blink of annihilation as struggled to find a way to destroy the Life-Fiber Infused Reaper.

"Let's go Van Helsing! Holy Bullet!" Punk summoned his Persona as the monster hunter blasted another one of his god-blessed bullets on flames from his shotgun against the demonic Shadow.

The ghoul quickly took noticed of the foolish mortal's action. In response, he quickly conjured a Life Fiber wall in front of him that bounced the holy bullet back to its owner.

"What the?" Tsumugu had no time to react when he was hit with his own attack, causing a huge explosion that made the barely-sustaining building of Osaka to fall down and perish. It was a miracle that his Persona had a resistance against both fire and bless attributes, yet he felt that his holy bullet became twice as strong when it was reflected by the Reaper to the point that he couldn't fight anymore and fell to the ground face-down.

"Tsumugu!" Ryuko quickly came to the rescue and lifted the weakened Nudist behind her back. "Goddat! You can't die this soon! What about your vengeance for your sis'? Answer, you Mohawk pervert!"

"COUGH! COUGH! R-relax Matoi… I'm not dead… I just don't feel like fighting anymore…" Kinagase answered the tomboy as his Phantom Thief getup banished in a veil of blue flames, transforming back into his former militaristic uniform. Even his motorbike disappeared in those blue flames. "why did y-you even bother saving me i-in the first place? I'm just a dead weight both metaphorically and literally."

"That's what friends are for, right?" Ryuko smiled at the adult on her back before turning her attention back at the Shadow. "But the big elephant in the room here is, what the fuck did Satsuki fed that thing?" She cursed at the imposing monster before her, but she then felt a sense of dread running through her veins as the gunslinging ghost just teleported behind her, holding his 2 long revolvers by the barrels as he lift them up into the air, ready to smash Ryuko without remorse the ol' fashioned way.

"Care to give us some time!?" Tsumugu bellowed at the Reaper while pulling a secret string from his uniform that inflated to a ridiculous degree until exploding in a giant cloud of liquid bleach that blinded the Reaper, allowing the Nudist and Kamui wielder to escape his grasp.

"Of course that you creeps have something like this hidden down your asses! Care to at least put something decent?" Ryuko looked at Tsumugu in diguist as she and he took their distance from the megalomaniac monster.

"The fate of our futures are at risk, and for some reason that's the one thing you're worried about the most?" Kinagase frowned at Matoi for her point. But she did had a valid one. Tsumugu clothes were blown to smitherines, now leaving him wearing the same nudist uniform all Nudist Beach members use. "I have more uniforms to spare back at base. Believe me, I'm still hoping to wear pants again without the worry of the Life fibers consuming me."

"Hey! Your fight's with me!" Oni Mask's voice managed to reach the Reaper's ears as the green-haired thunder lunged himself against the Shadow with Belerophon behind him. "Secret Technique: Twister of the Champion!" Sanageyama then lashed his katana with all of his strength, summoning a barrage of cutting winds that disarmed the Reaper from his 2 titular weapons.

"And this time, you'll have your toys confiscated!" Omiko exclaimed before lifting a thousand holographic tennis balls up in the air just to hit them with her giant racket-riffle that instantly destroyed the Shadow's revolvers.

"Ha! Not so tough without those pistols of yours, huh?" Sanageyama snarked at the Shadow's face once his feet landed on ground.

The Reaper turned at Oni Mask with a killer gleam of hatred. Uzu's tengatsu activated, warning him of his enemy extending the chains on his body to bind them. The Phantom Thief in white quickly pushed Hakodate aside to avoid the incoming strike, and even he was surprised that he barely managed to dodge it.

With the Reaper's guard down, the foot-soldiers of Nudist Beach released the flamethrowers from their DTRs, enveloping the Life-Fiber infused monstrosity in flames. "Burn in hell, freak of nature!" One of the agents hissed at the Reaper, watching how his Life Fibers were slowly burning.

Yet, the Shadow remained intact and effortlessly turned off the flames of his body by using Bufudyne on himself, showing himself unharmed with his burnt Life Fibers slowly regenerating themselves for everyone's horror. In retaliation, the Reaper pointed his index finger at the group of Nudist, unleashing a sea of hellish flames by releasing Agidyne from his fingertyps.

"GUAAAHH! IT BURNS! HYAAA!" A melody of howls from the Nudist Beach operatives was taking full action for the Honnouji Shadow's delight, with the Reaper watching the foot soldiers burn alive for his entertainment.

Mikisugi watched in horror as how his troop suffered in such slow and demented ways, but he could grief their losses for later. He has duty to do right now! "YOU BASTARD!" He wailed at the malevolent shadow as his DTR launched 2 rockets against the monstrosity in retaliation that made it flinch.

"Jesus christ! That thing just doesn't want to give up!" Ogure wailed as her COVERS-Crusher sucked any Life Fiber bullets that were coming to her way alongside the Goku Uniforms of any Honnouji Student that came in their way.

"NGh! Worst of all, I can't seem to find any weak spots!" Hakodate added as her sight wasn't able to locate the Reaper's banshi and tried her best to slow his tracks by shooting the living Goku Uniform in any vital parts of its crimson body.

"Hold on a stinkin' second! Ain't Life Fibers weak against Fire? So why it didn't work jackshit when we turn it on? Just what the hell is that thing!?" Ryuko exclaimed as she and Luluco were confronting the Reaper close.

"That thing before us is the Reaper!" Morgana stepped in as he commanded Diego to use his Miracle Rush attack against the Shadow to see if it could make it flinch. "It's a extremely strong Shadow that me and Joker once fought long ago, and we even struggle a lot even when we all hunted it down during flu season! B-but still! To think Satsuki would be this strong to overpower the Reaper, moreso controlling her at her full will!?" He wondered to himself before dodging a set of icy shirkers coming from the Shadow, but he could swore that his whiskers were almost about to be cut down to size by those icy sawblade.

"Well, you're the only one here who got experience fighting him Mona, so do you have any countermeasures in mind?" Mikisugi turned at the cat as he shot thousand bullets at the lesser shadows coming their way.

"I… Don't much about the Reaper, except that he doesn't have any elemental weakness we can exploit! Our only hope is to weaken him by confusing him." Mona informed everyone, hoping that the only 2 other Persona users on this team know any debuffing skills they could use against their enemy.

"Hey cat-piss, here's another idea! Stuff that deformed abortion until it fucking explodes!" Panty wailed at the feline Phantom Thief, growing desperate to kill the Reaper as fast as possible, but her guns were shown to be useless against the Shadow by the many times she blew its head, only to regenerate back thanks to its Life Fibers.

"Wait! Hold on a second!" Morgana exclaimed as he noticed something particular about how the Reaper's Life Fibers reacted against Panty's bullets. "Panty! Your bullets! Can you shoot the Reaper again?"

"What? Like this?" Panty asked as she blasted the fuck out of the Shadow's brains again with one pull of the trigger of her guns.

Garterbelt deciphered what Mona discovered. How could something so obvious pass over his big plumpy afro? "Oh snap! Panty's angelic guns make that crazy mofo's Life Fibers regenerate slowly! Considerin' that Shadows are the hidden ugly sides of people and that Life Fibers feed off the negative emotions of it's host, that Reaper fucka' ain't that different from a ghost!"

The Reaper took this opportunity to blast everyone with a gigantic explosion of darkness from his 2 long revolvers. With all of them biting the dust, the Shadow narrowed at each one of them with a murderer's look, blasting his revolvers right into the air, causing an almighty orb of pure energy to orbit above his head.

"He's gonna use Megidola on us! We're doomed!" Luluco shrieked as she was forced to turn back to normal, all of them with their energies drained and such, without any way to prevent this bloodthistry demon to annihilate them, but the Great Will would soon send an angel to save them, even if that angel has her own way to resolve conflict!

HALLELUJAH!

Mako blocked the Reaper's way with both arms stretched in the air, ready with her spotlight pointing at her. This bizarre turn of events was weird enough to halt the Reaper and cancel his Megidolah. And boy! Does Mako has packed a scolding for the Reaper this time!

"You! How dare you to just go kill anyone without any reason or sense! If you're gonna kill someone, then at least do it with a target or an objective in mind like how Lady Satsuki does it! Like she says! No matter thee women, children or elderly I have to slaughter, for its known that my objectives are utterly pure! You should be ashamed of yourself, you're not a true villain if you lack any objectives like getting ton of money, take over the world or the most evil plan, to eradicate weekends forever!" Mako squarked and squarked without having plans to stop. Someone as heartless as the Reaper would just murder Mako right on the spot. But due to the fact on how freaking weird and eccentric the coconut-haired airhead was, it made Satsuki's puppet develop a feeling of uncomfortably, which even took Mona by surprise.

"Uhh… Quick question. How can your friend be able to carry balls that big? Or she's just plain ol' stupid?" Panty looked at Mona and Ryuko as she was also surprised by Mankanshoku's naivety that gave her such nerves of steel.

"That's the million-dollar question." Hakodate sighted as Mako continued to talk.

"Just what would your parent think of you If they saw you like this? Imagine how heartbroken they would feel if they found out that their son that raised with love and care and with hopes that it could become a big-time villain would end up as a big fat meanie like you? If I were you I would, I would take a look at myself and think about a change of caree-"

"Special Delivery, Sucka'!"

A gourd-shaped missile crashed straight at the Reaper's stomach which blasted the darn Life Fiber Shadow into smithereens upon exploding. Luckily, Mako's sense of danger reacted quickly for her to escape the impact zone.

"Hot damn! What In god's name was that?" Garterbelt bulged out in surprised seeing that they were all saved from imminent doom.

Mikisugi was the first to recognize that gourd. After all, he was the one who designed the DTR that was able to launch those unorthodox anti-Life Fiber rockets. "Well, seems that one of my babies won't go to waste."

"The hell are you talking about, you creep?" Ryuko turned to her former teacher before standing.

"Oh! That must be my new friend! HEY! UP HERE!" Mako waved her arm rapidly as a crab-like object was coming down their way.

"BAHAHAHA!" The laughs of Takarada invaded the area as he was riding his cringeworthy-but-practical Crab DTR bathed in solid and legit gold and with more perks to overcompensate lots of things. "Yo homies! Did yo' though y'all could throw down a kick-Satsuki-in-da'-ass party and not invite yo' main man Takarada in? Dayum! No party ain't legit if I'm ain't in it, yo!"

"Great… This guy…" Tsumugu growled in discomfort as he was the few members of Nudist Beach to feel discomforted being near the heir of the Takarada syndicate. "What do you want now Takarada? Here to boast about your wealth for the millionth time?"

"don't need to get all dat' frowned up homie. Couldn't let Satsuki Kiryuin's bruhs diss Osaka, ya' get it?" He smugged at Punk to cheer his stoic mood, but there wasn't a chance that he would smile while he's annoying him with his detestable demeanor.

"Hey! I-is the reaper finally dead?" Luluco asked everyone as she looked at the dismembered parts of the Shadow, but Morgana fully knew well that he will regenerate completely thanks to the Life Fibers in its body.

"At least that "thing" won't distract us for the time being." Mikisugi reaffirmed as everyone got somewhere safer to discuss matters before going to the aid of Akira.

"Hey! Wasn't your DTR sabotaged? How did you got it back working?" Oni Mask was next to ask, whose questions answered Takarada with a boasting aura.

"Funny story! I've met this guy while you were busy fighting Lad-I-I mean Satsuki Kiryuin! Jeez, it sound pretty weird to say Satsuki without saying lady Satsuki. It's like a tongue twister, and I'm a stinker for those! D'oh!"

"To put it y'all in check, this chick here helped me reunite me with my sweet beloved and I've just had sum' of my technitials repair it in exchange of a bangin' fee! And yo' know what homies? I'm starting to like this chick right here!" Takarada pointed at Mako, which made her feel pretty happy. "Yo' check it! Prepare to get yo' shit all crakin' wild at my own personal Anti-Kiryuin golden DTR packed with the lasts and kick-ass anti-Life Fiber weaponry mah' homies at Nudist Beach gave me! Or as I like to call dis' beauty, Mr. Krabs!"

"Sorry, but no one asked an encore bozo. exit stage left!"

"Huh? Wazzat?" Takarada looked around before shrieking noticing that he was surrounded by psychic eyes. The psycic orbs then morphed into musical tubas that blasted a literal explosive brass strong enough to blast him sky high.

"GYAAH! BUT I AIN'T FINISHED, YO!" Takarada cried as he left a trail of tear while taking the skies a la team rocket. A minute has barely passed since he showed off his secret trump card and now he was out of the game for the time being.

As much as the Nudists were taken by surprise, Ryuko's ears were able to recognize that damn annoying bratty voice, and just hearing it made her blood boil like a volcano about to erupt. "Goddaamit all to hell! Don't tell me the 3 douchebags are…"

"Back in action? Then you'll be correct, Ryuko Matoi." The voice of Innumuta interrupted the girl as the titular lupine teleported himself in front of the Phantom Thieves with a widely-annoying grin on his face before being followed by Nonon who landed on his left shoulder and with Gamagori on his right. And behind the Student Council, a legion of No-Stars and Club Presidents surrounded the agents of Nudist Beach. Honnouji Academy's numbers seem to have no end, and it didn't help for a fact that the number of NB foot-soldiers was drastically small compared to the white ocean of stars.

"You gotta be fucking kidding me! Y-you're suppouse to be defeated!" Hakodate snarled in protest seeing this unfortunate turn of events.

"You're correct, Omiko Hakodate. We were defeated by your forces." Gamagori nodded and affirmed while his size towered his adversaries. "Our past selves would have given up at the moment and leave everything in charge to Lady Satsuki. But through the encouragement your leader bestowed on us, it did nothing but sharp and strengthen our willpowers and resolve. The Elite Trio pledged to Lady Satsuki that we shall protect her and assist her from any rebels who dare stand against her ideal world, no matter if they possessed the clothes of hope or that unorthodox Spiral Power of Matoi's. WE'RE LADY SATSUKI'S SWORD, SHIELD AND COMPASS!"

Of course! All came down Morgana's mind. It appeared that the bonds Joker created with the 3 high-powers of Honnouji Academy helped the aforementioned party to set their hearts free from the restrains their inner demons, regrets and the Kiryuin's toxic ideals placed on their minds.

"We're askin yo' mofos how y'all got up! Not bout' yo' bitch-ass shit!" Garterbelt exclaimed at Gamagori, only for the goliath to look at the priest in discomfort by his… peculiar choice in fashion. But the giant's mind stood strong and collected. He could think about that disguisting bondage getup once he and his teammates annihilate the hopes of Nudist Beach.

"About that. You could go and thank Innumuta's nerd magic for giving us the chance to do an encore." Jakuzure turned her eyes at the tech-genious of the villainous trio for him to explain.

"Seeing how unpredictable and adaptable your fighting capabilities are, I foresaw the chance that we could be defeated by any of you. So before the night of the Tri-City School Raid, I worked with my lab partner Iori to implement a safe-guard to our Goku Uniforms by using our supply of Persona Fragments and the essence of our support-based Shadows. If our vital signs were to hit a critical state, the Life Fibers in our Goku Uniforms would instantly use Diarahan on us. Quite ingenouis isn't it? Of course, me and Lady Satsuki were the only ones aware of this one-shot trick. I couldn't let you guess that we have an ace up our sleeves. No secret is better guarded than the ones your closest allies don't know about."

"I eat my own shoe. For a dog who loves to bark all day long, you sure know how to play dirty. Maybe you aren't as much of a loser after all Innumuta." Nonon pondered at Innumuta by this. Perhaps her perception on the 4-eye prodigy was all wrong.

"As much as I appreciate your back up plan, I cannot stand seeing you resort to such a dishonest move Innumuta. Where is your honor?"

"Don't get your panties all twisted Gamagori. You know the ol' saying, all is love and games during war times. If it is In the name of Lady Satsuki's vision, why should we care?" The blue-haired teen lifted his shoulders by this critique. He learned to play dirty tricks from his fight against Joker after all. "So… Ready for Round 2, gentlemen?"

"Heh! Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, you'll get penetrated by our forces again." Mikisugi showed himself ready for action as he leashed off his fabulous blue hair.

Houka laughed at this, seeing the irony that was about to appear from Mikisugi's words. "Really? Same thing for him." He turned to look at the dismembered parts of the Reaper that began to rattle.

For everyone's horror, the brave heroes watched in horror how the Shadow regenerated from scratch like new, and still with his SCC attached on his neck. Worst of all, the Reaper was on a mad state, stopping at nothing until he finishes what Satsuki tasked him to do.

"Don't let those Naked Apes reach Lady Satsuki! Show no mercy and lend none survive!" Gamagori rallied everyone against these horrible odds in the eyes of Nudist Beach.

Meanwhile with the Kiryuin, she did her signature posture with her sword, standing tall with her sword impaled into the ground. "Seems that we're back to square 1. But we both know that there will be only 1 justice left." She exclaimed as she stepped forward to attack Akira with her Bakuzan, which he parried by using Raoul's impenetrable wings and his daggers.

"Enough is enough Satsuki! You're taking this too far!" Joker barked in anger as the 2 continued to fight to the bitter end. "Using your Clubs to take over any schools that oppose you is one thing! But a full-scale terrorist attack!? You hold no right to coat your crimes as justice! One must know when to stop!"

"Hmph! Someone who wastes the powers to alter the mindscape of "Rotten Adults" to play superhero with his fellow society outcasts has no right to judge my visions!" The Lady of War grimaced in anger before blasting the Trickster with a pair of laser beams that came from Junketsu's eyes. "This was Osaka's fate for getting in the way of my wishes and the bright utopia I promise to the world! As you insolent brats would say, you cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs. In order to implore absolute order upon the world, one must build its empire by purging the weak and use their remains to build your throne!" She waved her Bakuzan at Joker with some snark, but the Phantom Thief has some points he'll like to strike with. "The only thing you're fixated with is your childish sense of justice and moral from using god's gift at is fullest! Have you forgotten what happened to those you loved and cared so much when they still persisted to play as the Good Guys? Have you forgotten your desire to reform the putrid society you live with?"

"No, I haven't! me and my friends made ourselves an oath to never exploit the Metaverse for our own needs! We aren't gods to dictate how others should live. Unlike you and your Kiryuin clan bastards!" Akira swung his arm in response, Making Raoul strike the feme fatale with a foot dive.

Thanks to Junketsu's regenerative capabilities now boosted by Akira's fragments, Satsuki quickly recovered from that attack and continued her assault. "Your naivity and sentimentality robs you from any true ambitions, Kurusu!" Satsuki reclaimed at Joker's behavior of that of a morally goody-two-shoes heroes rather than giving 2 damns about what's right and wrong and use every dirty trick in the book to achieve his goals.

"I don't need ambittion! I'm already happy of who I am!" Joker shouted back. "At least my lack of ambition prevents me from falling into the same degenerate pit you fell into! You, Shido and all those I've faced are all the same! Have you ever stopped yourself and look around what your ambition is causing!?" Akira then pointed his finger at all the destruction and ruin she has caused to Osaka. "Is this what your utopia and your ambition going to end up like? Is it really worth a world of peace built over the ashes of the innocent? Do you even feel some sort of regret by using the Life Fibers to destroy everything just to fulfil your childish fits? Are you this insane to trust Shadows into your army, despite proving themselves time and time again to get out of control!? If this is how you're planning to use my powers, then I'll rather kill myself!" Ren's will to rebel was burning so brightly, it was starting to envelop him on blue flames to the point it was rivaling Satsuki's ominous light behind her. It was clear that Akira awaken his own version of the Kiryuin's light, drawing more constrasts between the 2. "But what the hell am I even saying!? I don't think you'll understand anything! By the looks on how much of a disdainful bitch you are, I'm sure that NO ONE HAS EVER LOVED YOU IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE!"

This shout made something inside Satsuki's heart itch, like an arrow piercing through her body. This stopped her from fighting as she stood straight on where she was.

Joker took some steps back and used this to give himself a moment to breathe. He knew that something big was coming up his way.

"No one… Loved me…?" Satsuki whispered, but her silence were quickly mutated into a series of chuckles. "So… Is that what you think of me? Do you think that just because I didn't waste my time in making connection with people makes me weak?"

Joker stood straight and said. "There's no complex answer to this one Satsuki. Yes, you are." He responded with confidence and seriousness. "Your lack of empathy for others forbids you from connecting with those important to you. You've crossed the line long ago, but now you're about to face the limits of my power."

"Limits huh?" The voice of the Kiryuin. "Funny… It seems that I was right all along. Friendships and connections with others only end up restraining you from achieving godhood." She smirked at Akira with disdain. "And I'm about to show you now how worthless bonds are when you have everything and everyone dance between my fingertips…" The Kiryuin then turned on her communicator to contact the chopper. "Iori, Hoomaru, drop the ansention dress…"

"The Ansencion Dress…?" Akira didn't knew what his enemy was talking about, yet his sixth sense clearly told that this will be a new type of bad news for him.

Inside the Chopper, Iori and Hoomaru receive this order from their transmitter. Soroi though, was overwhelmed by the anxiety of using this last resort, but her mistress' will is absolute, and he has no power to make her change her mind.

As Hoomaru opened the dust chute of the helicopter, Iori pushed the closet that contained the ascension dress to drop it for Satsuki Kiryuin to use.

The Kiryuin looked up and saw a white closet falling from the heavens. Unlike the other Closet Containers that she uses to contain Two to Three-Star Goku Uniforms, this one was bigger than the average one and even more glamorous.

The container opened itself, revealing a gigantic wedding dress as white as pure snow. All while decorated with 100 Stars.

Joker also took notice. Did Satsuki sank this low to risk her own life in order to use a 100-Star Goku Uniform against him? But then, the jigsaw puzzles put themselves together, revealing a horrible realization. As far as this world knows, The average human is only able to resist a 3-star Goku Uniform with a 5-Star making a normal wearer be controlled by their dark instincts. He, Satsuki and Ryuko are the only people able to resist Goku Uniforms that exceed the 5 Stars, with The Kiryuin's case being by the massive distortions inside her heart, his reason being because of his strong willpower of rebellion, and with Ryuko's could be that Senketsu is sentient enough to act more human. "Oh crap…"

"Now behold Trickster! Marvel and Tremble before the next evolution of a Kamui, which exceeds the meaning of power! Witness the birth…" As the Lady of War extended her arms up, Kamui Junketsu began to take another form of a hideous monstrosity with a huge mouth, slurping up the humongous Goku Uniform as if it were pasta. Once done, Satsuki rose from the ground, floating on the ground as a humongous pillar of light enveloped her being to achieve her ultimate form. He could feel how her power skyrocketed, up to the point that Satsuki was even overpassing the might of even Yaldabaoth…

This immense burst of energy was noticed by all bystanders to the point both parties halted their battle to watch as one of the most powerful women that has set foot on this word makes the meaning of streght look meaningless. The Honnouji forces watched in awe and wonder, while Nudist Beach froze in horror.

"Okay, hold the phone y'all! What the hell is Satsuki trying to do by eating that giant-ass dress!?" Ryuko blurted in concerning confusion and waited for anybody to answer.

The tyran't appearance of divinity was that of a human lifeform that has outclassed even the gods. Her long hair as black as her soul brightened up to now turn into a light blue color that emitted a sinister light trying to impressionate righteousness. Parts of her skin were even more exposed than the likes of Junketsu before achieving this form. The Kamui's white color was changed into a navy blue one, colors that think off Satsuki Kiryuin and pointing that the young woman was the one in control. Junketsu's pointy shoulder pads grew exponentially as light blue fangs sprouted bellow them. Even a pair of energy swords appeared on each side of the Kiryuin's hips.

Akira Kurusu felt powerless among his arch-rival, trembling in fear before the divine light of Satsuki Kiryuin as she stood before him, floating in the air like some sort of divine figure. The name of this god-slaying woman was…

JUNKETSU SHISUI!

Without second thoughts, Satsuki grabbed Jober by the face with a speed that makes the speed of light look like a turtle and violently dragged him off the ground as she thrusted herself with a jet-like speed, causing the Phantom Thief to wail in agony.

"This is the power of a Kamui who has assimilated enough Life Fibers to evolve! This is Junketsu Shisui!" Satsuki stopped for a moment to talk, having her voice be a fusion between her shadow-self and a god-like echo. "But my evolution wouldn't be possible if it wasn't for your constant sacriledges against my system. Thanks to you, I've forced myself into sharping my resolve to a level a mere pig in human clothing could never imagine!"

"Ngh… T-then you c-can take you resolve and s-shuve it down your ugly ass, m-monster…" Joker cursed at the ascended Kiryuin as he tried her best to render his neck free from her hand. But no matter how hard he tried, her fingers didn't seem to come loose anytime soon, as if her hand was nailed to his body.

"So this is what you turned into… Just a misdirected dog who's loud bark compensate by his lackluster bite. I was expecting more of you, Trickster."Satsuki narrowed at the Phantom Thief before slamming him into the floor with such magnitude it caused a massive impact that made the nearby skyscrapers collapse into dust.

Struggling to stand straight, The Wild Card stood persistent against the goddess with twisted desires. "Oh believe me, they don't call me trickster for nothing…" He then ripped off his mask to summon Raoul and cover the area with a crimson cape as he used Phantom Show.

Knowing that this trick won't work this time, Satsuki stood still not feeling sleepy in the slightest. Though, she quickly noticed that Akira was nowhere to be seen. "You dirty rat…" She snarled after falling over one of Joker's tricks once again. Her might was high, but so is her pride and arrogance. Which Joker knew how to use on his favor.

"Lucifer! Now!" Akira cried as the image of the fallen angel appeared behind the Lady of War, quickly summoning a literal ocean of flames from the deepest circles of hell.

"GRYAAAH!"The femme fatale screamed as the divine Life Fibers on Junketsu began to burn. She may have achieved a power equal or that surprasses the gods, but she was nothing agains the small fraction of one of many incarnations of the Morning Star of Chaos.

Or that what he thought…

"ENOUGH!" All it took was one order for the flames to turn off. She was taking deep breaths to recover her energies. But the same thing couldn't be said for Junketsu Shinzui who's Life Fibers weren't able to regenerate against the flames of rebellion. But the damages were minimal to miniscule. Satsuki then summoned Bakuzan who also was transformed like its wielder. Bathed by a holy light and now taking the form of a Christian cross. "That willpower of yours dies today! Feel the judgement of my pure hand, trickster!"She screamed before doing a diagonal slash with her sword. Everything its light touched was sliced in half, including many of Osaka's historical monuments.

KRBLASH!

Both parties in the conflict were caught off-guard by the humongous light-blast that disintegrated all structures that were absorbed by the impact.

Kurusu's reflexes weren't this sharp to change to Metattron on time, having to taste the ground in consequence for this. And yet, his willpower hasn't been subjugated by this demonstration of power as he got up from his back to resume fighting the omnipresent woman of Honnouji Academy.

"The red thread of fate has your future kraylded into a road to ruin, and you still trying to fight this fact? You never learn, don't you…"Satsuki narrowed down in pity and disappointment at her rival's stubborn guts. From all opponents she met on her life and undoubtedly were squashed beneath her heels of domination, none have possessed such an untamable spirit than Kurusu. The mere fact that he exists soured her soul on the worst way possible. Who would expect that a mere simpleton that slithered his ass inside her pristine palace could be the cause of so many headaches? And so, what? As much as Joker has proved himself time and time again to be her ultimate roadblock to accomplish her just end-goals, he's nothing more than an arrogant teenager who copes his grief with baffing speeches and lectures about the power of "bonds". Without the use of his Personas and the blessings bestowed by Philemon and his creations, he would just be another stray lamb waiting in line to be sent to the slaughterhouse!

A simple task as breathing was becoming a task to do for the Wild Card. 2 of his ribs have broken by the impact of the lady of war's strike and his feet were doing their best effort to not tumble down. His blurry sight could only see Satsuki Kiryuin's heels gently kissing the ground of Osaka, and now he had to bake something fast. He has lost all those he loves at the hands of a self-centered divine figure, and he promised himself to not let something happen again.

"What's the matter? Out of clever one lines?" Meanwhile with the Kiryuin, her mouth formed a light smirk as she was feeling a lot of joy watching the black-haired rebell struggle with everything he has. But she had a mission, and she isn't planning to distract herself right now. "Then let's resume where we left in!" She roared to follow. Her slender hand grasped Ren's face before jetting herself on top of the unstable tower of Osaka, dragging her dreadful enemy in the process.

Akira has to think something, or it will be Game Over for him. "Come on Kurusu! You can't let this bitch win!" He gritted between his teeth due to the huge pressure of his rival's fingers had on his face. He then remembered something… All good thieves know how to improvise!

Kurusu quickly brought the snow-globe souvenir Make gave him as a cute gift feeling that this could be his savior.

"Merry Christmas!" He cursed before slamming the crystal globe at the face of the feme fatale.

With this move being so unexpected, it made it impossible for the Student Council President to foresee, even with her nearly untouchable powers. "GYRAAAH!" The Heir to the Kiryuin clan clenched her teeth by this having her whole face being splashed by the liquids and small particles from the cheap souvenir. Despite this desperate move did little-to-not damage to her, it made her vision blurry and didn't helped the fact that her eyes felt irritated by the particles touching them. The only logical thing to do now is use both of her hands to rub off all that filth from her face. Wait… Use both of her hands…? "Ngh… That sissy fox!" Satsuki's blood pressure rose to a great degree once she discovered the true intentions over this attack.

Now unshackled from his overpowered enemy, Akira fell over the Naniwa Tower's metal limbs with an elegant barrel roll and dashed instantly to stay away from Satsuki's radius. This was one of the few times that he wan't able to figure out a strategy to defeat his enemy, much less feeling cornered. Normally he and his former team always had a plan before raiding a palace, but judging at the Kiryuin's descent to madness and the nightmarish eyes of Junketsu, he could bet that nothing will pierce her willpower until she fully submits him to her mercy.

"Come on Joker! You can't run forever! But all of my Personas can't even hurt her! Tch! There has to be a way to beat her, but what?" Even he wasn't able to put together his thoughts like normal. No matter how much he climbed the blazing mountain of Osaka with his hook and with his ever-growing collection of injuries, we wasn't able to come to a good conclusion. Damn! He now realized he couldn't take on Satsuki Kiryuin alone, and she knew that very well!

Crap! That's why she had the Reaper ordered to dispatch all of her allies, Moreso her endless army! She planned to separate them from the start and prevent him from having the upper hand in this desicive battle!

"I'm beginning to grow tired of your trickery Akira!" The voice of the black-haired vixen grew louder and madder. She uplifted her hand up, creating a gigantic spere of almighty power who's size was enough to disintegrate a full city.

"What!? S-she knows Megidolaon!?" Akira turned back and almost experienced a heart attack when he recognized that lethal skill he used so many times. It was a blast to use it against on enemies. But the times it was used on himself? All the contrary! And this will just get worse once he remembered the power inside Ragyo's child as it was being enforced by his fragments and the large-ammounts of Life Fibers absorbed. There was now way he could dodge that. It was over…

"And now face the consequences, with the life of everyone in this pathetic city! EVERYONE HERE WILL CEASE TO EXIST!" Wait! She didn't mean it! But her intentions were as clear as water! Her inner demons were already to infect her ministate as proof of her eyes glowing brighter and with Junketsu making hellish noises that were incomprehensible. "N-No! I-I GRAAAH!" Looking like a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde, Satsuki screamed to fight for control. She wasn't going to let her inner-desires and Junketsu's influence be the one in control! "Ghah! J-just have to r-resist!"

"Then Resist this!"

An awfully familiar voice called the Kiryuin's attention to look down and plea she wasn't who she thought it would be. But this would prove to be a foolish mistake.

"Eat this, Bitch!" Ryuko managed to land a critical hit at Satsuki's ching with a lightspeed and strong uppercut that exploded into a greenish light that made the villainess fall to her back and eliminate the Megidola orb for good.

Even Kurusu wasn't able to predict this. How was Ryuko able to damage Junketsu Shizui? Wait, maybe it had to do with that green energy. What was it? That's right! Something about Spiral Energy! But why?

"Damn! You look like if death walked all over ya' face. Need help to get your ass up, Fuzzy Hair?" Ryuko stretched her hand to offer Akira some help which he gladly accepted before wrapping his right arm on Matoi's shoulder.

"T-thanks Ryuko… Huff.. Huff… And you too Senketsu…" Akira had to owe his life at the Kamui and his wearer. They were a Lifesaver.

"A-are you alright Akira? Your breath has grown heavy." Senketsu was worried about the Phantom Thief's state. A good chunk of his outfit was torn and his face was stained with bruises and cuts.

"Y-yeah… I'm already reaching my limit, and I don't have the enough capacity to h-heal myself…" Ren had to admit that he was getting winded and tired. It was too risky to use a Dia Skill and let himself open, and he already ran out of items and croquettes. "Still, how did you even got here? A-andm how did you managed to hurt her fiendness over there?"

"To put in on simple term, that Luluco and Panty chick and that weird Garter guy gave a push." Ryuko didn't knew how to put this on a digestible way. Seeing that Satsuki Kiryuin was kicking his ass, Ryuko wanted to help in some way, but Honnouji Academy's brutes were beginning to overwhelm her and her comrades. So in a attempt to send some backup to Kurusu, Luluco and Panty fused their weapons and used Ryuko as a bullet to blast her high up to Osaka's tower. "Still, I'm as clueless as you on to where did that Spiral Energy mumbo jumbo came from…" She muttered while looking down at her fist.

"We can hold that question for later." Senketsu stated as his sight made the othe 2 teens look at his direction. "There are matters we should take care first." He referred to Satsuki Kiryuin who recovered from that beatdown, although the glow on the streams of the Kamui were twitching on and off like a defective lightbulb.

Once back on her two feet, her eyes were on disbelief. "I-impossible. W-why did Matoi's punch managed to hit me…?" She held that question on mind. The power of a Fashion's Week Kamui had no equal even if it's literally devouring her sanity as warned by the Ancient Kiryuin manuscripts. Kamui Senketsu may have absorbed a great amount of her strongest Goku Uniforms, but it was no rival to Junketsu's streght. So why…? "The Spiral Energy…" She blurted as she wiped out the blood in her mouth. Her personal branches may have no data on this mysterious element that her mother was font about, but she theorized that whatever that stuff was, it was the perfect counter to Life Fibers by some reason.

"Hey Satsuki! Nice dress upgrade you got there, it makes you look more like a clown that you already are." Ryuko pointed her Scissor Blade right at the woman's throat, but Satsuki Kiryuin still stood tall and fearless before Isshin Matoi's daughter.

"Having the nerves to challenge my powers even at this rate, Ryuko Matoi? I've thought that you valued both your life and of your Kamui's." Satsuki sneered at the spunky rebel girl with a light smirk on her face.

"I do, but I also value the lives of my friends, idiot!" Ryuko talked back as she swung her sword. "I don't want you to start another one of your stupidly boring monologues, so make yourself quick! Just what the hell did you do with your Kamui!?" Ryuko demanded answers for Kamui Junketsu's new appearance, which was received by a loud laugh by Satsuki's part.

"This?" The thick-eyebrowed woman spread her arms in arrogance to show off her new form in all of her glory. "This is the form a Kamui takes when its Banshi has absorbed a legion worth of Life Fibers! A form which its wearer proves superiority over the Kamui's demonic temptations, taming its incomprehensible nature until submitting into the role its wearer saw it as nothing more. A mere set of clothing!" Once she bellowed, not only it attacked the eyes of the 2 teens in black with her famous white light behind her, but it also summoned a row of giant red letters in front of Joker. "This is a power that knows no bounds that you'll never hope to achieve with your over-lack of discipline and motivation! This is a Kamui's Fashion's Week!" She did it again, causing another line of giant letters that pronounced what she recently said. For Akira, this was strange as anyone BUT him were able to see these strange signs.

"That bitch won't learn to shut her trap for good, huh?" Ryuko turned at Akira with sarcasm with her arms shrugged. She had to upstand all of Satsuki Kiryuin's overly-borning speeches for a whole scholar semester. "I don't think she can hear us from the distance of her ego. Hey Fuzzy hair! Wanna put that noisy ass on her place once and for all…" Ryuko paused there before doing a gesture, being that of stretching her hand to him. "Together?"

Joker gasped at this response. It was just… It was hard for him to describe it. It wasn't some sort of romantic feeling towards Matoi since he just sees her as a really close friend but seeing how much the girl with the Scissor Blade has changed and matured for the better, it was a good signal that his seed he planted on this world was already blooming spectacularly. What began as a bicker relationship when they first met at Honnouji Academy now was a friendship strong enough to even put the Kiryuins and their followers trembling on their boots. With this in man, Joker nodded and gave his ally a strong handshake. "Yeah. Let's end this nightmare for good!" Akira declared when he and Ryuko turned at the demi-god Satsuki with signs of not backing down anytime soon.

"You 2 agreed to challenge fate? Your persistence has made me so mad, I can only feel pity for you." The ruthless Kiryuin lifted and eyebrow in interest while picking up her Bakuzan. "Although my mother tasked me and Honnouji Academy to capture you 2 alive, it won't change for a fact that your spirits shall be crushed by my divine blade!" She bellowed with a godly voice before sprinting with all of her streght against her enemies. "PREPARE TO MEET YOUR ENDS!"

It was finally time to act and settle things right. Ryuko was sharpening her 2 swords like a pair of oversized kitchen knives while Akira brought out Raoul, his Strongest Persona in his deck of cards. Although Joker wasn't aware of it, Jose's flower was glowing inside his pocket, knowing that it was time for a fantastic…

Showtime!

"You handle Satsuki's blows Akira to distract her! Me and Ryuko will try to hit her with our powers!" Senketsu said to Kurusu as both teens were getting themselves ready to receive the tyrant in white.

"Sounds like a plan Senketsu!" The Trickster smiled at the Kamui before putting his attention back at the battle. "It's Showtime!" He pronounced his battlecry while at the same time his Persona spread his wings with a menacing stance.

"AKIRA KURUSU!" Satsuki roared as she approached Joker with her weapon risen in the air to slash his willpower in half.

"SATSUKI KIRYUIN!" Akira bellowed the same level as his enemy as both clashed their weapons once again.

SLASH!

Raoul's ironclad wings blocked the divine Bakuzan without suffering a single scratch right before pushing the Kiryuin woman out of his sight. Joker followed this with a quick Persona change into Valkirye to launch a God Hand missile at his enemy.

The woman clenched her teeth at this foolery. To think sucg a foul technique would be enough to lower her morale. All she had to do was literally catch the rocket with just one hand and without any difficult whatsoever. "Is that the best you can do, Joker?" Satsuki looked at Akira before grabbing the God hand and LITERALLY throwing it back at the Phantom Thief as if it was a baseball! And Damn! She possessed a star pitcher arm by the strength she launched it!

"As a matter of fact, no." That what Kurusu answered with a confident smirk as he saw his own attack coming at him. Yet, the rogue in black felt indifferent and unintimidated. He was watching as his own rocket was now coming at him at full speed, but all good thieves know how to improvise. Joker performed a majestic backflip right when the missile was about to hit him, just for his feet to land over his own attack to transform it into his own hoverboard to give him the much-needed edge in the air.

"You used your own attack as a means of transportation? Why you…" Satsuki clenched her teeth with a good amount of strength at this unexpected turn of events.

"You should worry less about my skateboard and more about the battle!" Joker exclaimed as he rammed himself at his enemy with sound-breaking speeds while delivering elegant slashes at the exposed parts of Junketsu Shinzui, yet the lady of war's reflexes were sufficient to parry all strikes with a row of light-born blades born from her hips.

"And you should worry more about being so predictable… Wait…" She paused to have a quick realization. Akira always had a trick un his sleeve and would rarely use the same attack 2 times in a row. No! it was all a setup, and she didn't realize it!

"Eat this!" Ryuko roared just when she pushed the Student Council President with a boulder-crushing shoulder bash on her Senjin form while also being boosted by a trail of red and lime-green sparks from her thrusters. This proved to be so viciously potent, it basically broke Junketsu's wings by the overwhelming Spiral Power of the spunky girl, but the strong-willed woman quickly anchored her sharp heels down the metal of the tower to prevent herself from being kicked out from the arena on free fall.

"You'll never learn that I never lose, don't you!? Let me enlighten you!" Satsuki bellowed as she crushed her own weapon Bakuzan, only for it to multiply into thousands if not millions of exact copies pointing at the 2 rogues in black.

"Gyah! Don't tell me she can also do that too! Next thing you're telling me is that she can pull out a nuke down her ass!" Ryuko snarled as she avoided the dangerous raindown of swords in companionship of Joker. "Hey Fuzzy Hair, I could use a hand down here!" She turned up, only to find that even Joker was also struggling to manouver his hoverboard during this sharp storm. "Okay, Fuzzy hair's out of the equation! Please tell me you have something we could use to save our butts Senketsu!"

"I have something in mind Ryuko, but you better not feel embarrassed or anything! We're going to need Akira's help for this!"

"Hey! We're fighting for the fate of the world on a skimpy outfit. At this point, I couldn't give a shit if I were to strip myself." She shrugged while also slicing away all the falling Bakuzans. "SENKETSU SENJIN SHIPPU!" She proceed to take her combined form of Senkin and Shippu to blast herself in order to reach Akira.

"Got your message loud and clear Ryuko! Let's do this!" Ren smirked already knowing the Kamui and his wielder's plot. He hopped off from his flying board not before aiming it at Satsuki who would just shoo away by slapping the rocket away like a mere fly.

"Then let's go for a spin!" Ryuko was next to express her enthusiasm as she and Akira held hands together. Just like she stated, the began to spin around like a carrousel building an absurd momentum until both transformed into a devastating twister of darkness and Spiral Energy that destroyed the incoming swords and began to overwhelm Satsuki.

"N-No! I won't let everything I work be for naught!" Satsuki's mood was worsening by the second as she had no other choice but to protect herself with her own wings, yet she could feel the divine fabric of her Fashion Week Kamui beginning to burn like rubber by the overwhelming friction of this buzzaw. "G-GRAAAH!" She screamed as her wings broke and gave up, having no choice but to resort to her sword Bakuzan in hand.

"Get Ready Ryuko!" Kurusu exclaimed as she grabbed Ryuko by the Skirt still on Senjin form. "Here we come!" The Phantom Thief Exclaimed with all of his streght when he hurled his friend like a frizzbee with both Scissor Blade and Tailor's Saber in hand.

"SASTUKI KIRYUIN!" Ryuko roared at the woman responsible for her father's death. "THIS IS FOR KILLING MY FATHER, YOU BIIIITCH!" She now commences to spin with her weapons before turning herself into a Spiral-Fueled Drill that was giving the awakened Kiryuin the fight of her life.

"ENOUGH!" Satsuki has grown fed up from being humiliated with a booming war cry.

SNAP!

For Ryuko's dismay, she discovered that her finishing move was stopped by her enemy with relative ease. All it took Satsuki Kiryuin to put a brake to this was to just perfectly grasp the Tailor's Saber by its edge. Yet, all it took was her almighty willpower and her unholy dark desires to prevent her battered Kamui to receive any further damages from the triple edges of her Anti-Life Fiber weapon.

"To tell you the truth Ryuko Matoi, I've hoped to never resort on using Junketus's Fashion week form, much less to fight a pitiful girl like you… And yet, here we are… La vie est drôle, that phrase will never fail to amuse me." She snarled directly at the girl, having every cold word that came out of her mouth make her fist press harder at her triple-edged sword that it was starting to sprout cracks. "This form is a double-edged sword. On one side, the Kamui wearer obtains powers not even their imaginations could think off, yet this power also extends to the Kamui and its savant intentions. This could be the one and only time I would use this form, as even I'm running the risk of being mutated into a monster by Junketsu." The more she continued to monologue, the more pressure she applied to the blade, right before reaching a breaking point.

CRACK!

Ryuko's Tailor's Saber was turned into useless rust with just the streght stored in Satsuki Kiryuin's palms, reducing her arsenal to only her Scissor Blade she has used all this time, and yet the reckless girl wasn't able to feel herself surprised by her secondary sword being gone.

And she wasn't given time to react. The Student Council President grappled Ryuko by the throat while pointing her throat with both Bakuzan and one of her shoulders while topping this by being cornered by thousands if not millions of the White Kamui's teeth.

"Quite nostalgic and cathartic, isn't it? This is the same position you were when you first battled against me. No matter how long it has been since that day, the results were the same." Satsuki sneered toward the helpless Ryuko enjoying the struggles of Senketsu's bearer to render herself free from her hand, or so she thought… "Still trying to avenge your father after he pushed you away from his life? Maybe you weren't that worth it to begin with."

"Ngh… Tough talk to someone who's mom is a giant asshole…" Ryuko groaned at her enemy with her teeth slowly forming a grin on her face. "And don't ya' think that your empty words will intimidate me. Don't ya' mommy task you and your lemmings to capture me alive or something in between those lines? And I know for sure you don't have balls big enough to disobey that old hag."

At this, it only brought a soft smile on Satsuki's expression. "Indeed… it doesn't mean that i can brutalize you until you give up." Satsuki held her fingers together, making the sharp light spikes starting to become brighter. "So if I were you, I would turn off my Kamui's battle mode and hold my hands into the air."

These words were enough to make Ryuko think about this. She did what she was told to do without questions and turned Senketsu back to normal. With this The Kiryuin dropped Matoi back on land seeing that she was no longer a minor nuisance.

"Alright Satsuki, ya' got me this time. Are ya happy?" Ryuko said as she held her arms in the air and without signs of fighting back.

"Oh… Feeling happy is a fatal understatement about how I feel. wait…" She stopped as she finally noticed the nail that stick out. Ryuko was always crass and rebellious and would just ignore any order if given, even if her life depends on it. So why would she just give in so easily? She figured it out already!

And the mince took the cheese…

"Hehehe! Took you that long to realize, you eyebrow bitch?" Ryuko snickered at the Kiryuin's horrified expression before lifting her keychain-size Scissor Blade into the air. "Fuzzy Hair! Finish her!" She exclaimed as the heroic Phantom Thief leaped behind Matoi's back and picked up the Scissor Blade before it morphed into Decapitation Mode.

Seeing that Satsuki was defensless and with only one hit left to give up, there could only be one thing Joker had to say before delivering the final blow with a victorius smile. "Checkmate."

"Indeed…" That's all Satsuki said since she finally has caught her mortal enemy right where she wanted…

Uppon seeing that twisted expression in the Kiryuin's face, Joker was git with a horrible truth this time. Satsuki Kiryuin was only acting and wanted this just to happen! She knew that he would be the most vulnerable when about to give the final blow. Joker always was like that when giving the desicive blow to the Palace Ruler of turn, he couldn't help himself but to act too cocky when victory was assures, something that his nemesis used at her favor to turn the tables.

SKRAAATCH!

"GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" Akira wailed a cry of pure primal agony when the thousands of Junketsu's teeth impaled themselves into his body, forcing him to cough a huge amount of blood while the sharp teeth had him suspended in the air while not having the enough streght to keep the Scissor Blade on his grasp, having no choice but to drop the weapon until it fell from Osaka's tower down the battleground.

"Your little movement has gone for far too long, Akira! I'll put it now to an end and finish this pointless masquerade, once and for all!" Satsuki started to chant an ancient language that only the most divines of wills were able to comprehend while at the same time doing a mystical hand sight until drawing a Christian cross with a line of light from her elegant fingers.

With this, Satsuki launched the cross sign right at Joker, which then transformed into a bigger cross that had the Trickster bind with in it, with his hand and feet impaled down the sign by Junketsu's teeth as if they were nails, making the Wild Card resembling the messiah on his last days on the human world. But even with these adversities and with himself being bathed in his own blood, the flame of Akira's willpower was continuing to fight to stay lit and not snuffle out.

Near Mako, she quickly noticed a rapid object falling down like a meteor right next to her, freaking her out in the process. But she would instantly notice the identity of the mysterious object that fell off the Osaka tower.

"GYAH! T-that's Ryuko's Scissor Blade!" Mako jumped before quickly junking the sword from the ground and later look up, thinking that her 2 friends were on a humongous pickle. "Don't worry guys, I'm coming to help you!"

Yet the strings of destiny would not allow for even Mako to help the rebels. Another giant object crashed down the ground, flipping Mako like a ragdoll before the bobble-head could fall on her 2 feet safe and sound with Scissor Blade at hand.

"W-WHAT!? G-GAMAGORI!?" Mankanshoku widened in fear and surprise to see that the goliath of a man Ira Gamagori was standing on her way with intentions of stopping her by transforming himself into an invincible wall.

"No Mankanshoku. You shall give that weapon to me right now." Gamagori looked down at the small girl bellow his towering size. "I may no longer have any jurisdiction to give you orders since you're no longer a student in Honnouji Academy. However, as Lady Satsuki's shield and agent of Ragyo Kiryuin, it is still my duty to stop anyone that threatens the Kiryuin's vision." He stated as he wasn't thinking of moving from his spot.

"How could you say those ugly things? D-didn't you said you hated all those bad people in the world?" Mako exclaimed to remind Ira about what he said about his reason of joining the Kiryuin during their road trip on the sudden-death runoffs.

This put the giant tense for a moment, but no matter. He shook it off from his thought mind to resume his duties as President of the Disciplinaty committee. "I do, and we both know that on your current status you can't hope to get through my Shackle Regalia. So I'm saying this for your own safety, Mako Mankanshoku. Hand over the Scissor Blade, or I shall be forced to used lethal force. Even if it is you…" He warned Mako to stop her charade. Yet it was clear from his voice that he couldn't bring himself to take the life of an innocent bystander as Mako. Perhaps it had to do with the contract he forged with Akira that soften his rock-solid heart.

And yet, Mako refused to give the Scissor Blade even by those demands. She wrapped the weapon between her arms before looking at Gamagori with a frowning pout.

Not that far away, Mikisugi spotted the crossed Joker sustained in the air. "Crap! This is bad! I have to get up there! Come on my Naked Star DTR! Initimate Jet mode!" Aikoro then pressed a hidden button on his metallic steed that transformed it into an aerial vehicle. The engines of the boosters were reving themselves up before they could take off, hoping to arrive soon before their star player falls on to his knees.

"Nuh, uh, uh… We still aren't done with our playtime, teach!" The voice of Innumuta echoed through Mikisugi's area before being intercepted by 2 digital grappling hooks similar to Joker's that strapped themselves onto the wings of the DTR, preventing it from functioning correctly.

"I have to time for you brats! There are millions of lives in game, and all you care is to please your leader?" Mikisugi barked at the digital menace as he was being pulled by not one, but thousands of Innumuta clones that all were cackling maniacly to lower the Nudist Beach head-leader's morale.

"As if Honnouji Academy could care about worthless specs in this world." Innumuta shrugged his arms before putting his foot on the now defeated Mikisugi's head. "Oh my! It appears the the good guys have lost for once! Then again, I don't think that the meanings of good and evil exists either way."

2 down, and the number of allies were slowly decreasing.

"TURN THAT SHIT OFF YOU BITCH! IT'S BREAKING MY EARS!" Panty yelled at Nonon who was bombarding her and Garterbelt with horrendous music with her Psychic Goku Uniform and also by her Music Club members and music-themed Shadows.

"That's the point, you stupid slut! But if you think that's bad, then you're NOT gonna love my special torture mixtape!" Nonon bellowed like a psychopath when she amped up the volume of her speakers that only amplified the pain of the priest and fallen angel.

Morgana wasn't having it easier either. He was beginning to feel winded alongside Punk and Oni Mask. Despite them and their Personas giving them all they could, there was no end to the endless legions of Honnouji Academy. This didn't help for a fact that due to the Life Fibers on the Shadow's bodies and students, It made their stamina straight up infinite, not unlike even the likes of an experienced Phantom Thief like Mona, a former Member of the Student Council like Sanageyama or a veteran soldier like Tsumugu. They were still mortal nonetheless…

All there was left was the half-beaten Ryuko to save Akira from the clutches of Satsuki. And that's exactly what she's going to do! With all of her wits and rage, she used the force of her knees to stand up with a clenched-up fist with intentions to disfigure that pompus woman's face, despite clearly not having a chance of even tickle her. But that didn't matter to her! She has grown so fed up with Satsuki's bullshit she didn't cared anymore if she was leagues behind her. She only wanted to see that self-righteous ass get what she deserved for a long time.

As Satsuki hovered herself near the crucified Joker, she quickly noticed the precense of a hostile being omming from her behind on great speed. She turned her head backwards only to see Ryuko charging straight where she was with a fist in the air enveloped in green Spiral Power.

"SATSUKI KIRYUIIIIN!" Ryuko roared like an enraged beast before using a bended metal bar as a pedestal for she to jump up and reach the Kiryuin's height and most importantly, to punch her in the face in hopes of seeing teeth fall over her face. But yet, the Kiryuin was shown with her expression unchanged, since she already thought about this…

SNAP!

Suddenly, thousands of chains wrapped all over Ryuko from her legs right up to her throat, which began to choke her since she was finding it difficult to breath. It wasn't long until the perpetrator would make itself known with it being the Reaper who was using his own chains to neutralize Matoi.

"Tch… Don't even bother to fight me Ryuko. If it wasn't the Reaper suspending your limbs, then my sword would have just shattered your Kamui into pieces, or worse case scenario, I may have butched your limbs for once. But as I said earlier, rest easy that none of my forces will kill you. There's still too much use I can make of you." Satsuki floated to see Ryuko before turning her attention to the Reaper on her control. "Keep Ryuko Matoi busy for the time being while I deal with the Trickster once." She tasked the Shadow who saluted like a good little soldier before he could descend back into the battlefield alongside the unutilized Ryuko. "Now… Where were we?" She turned back at Kurusu who was still showing himself disobedient. He was hopelessly shaking his body and hope that the impaled shackles all around him could break. "On the verge of death, you continue to oppose my ideals. Not that it's unexpected or anything. Just so pitiful…. But I guess coming from someone that lost everything in a blink of an eye, your resolve prevents you from throwing off the towel… amüsant entfernen…" The Lady of War sighted to herself before turning back at Akira. "So, do you have any last words? Another one of your tasteless one-liners?"

"A-All… I-I can say i-is t-that y-you w-won't get a-a-away w-with t-this…" Kurusu snarled at his enemy with full spite. Because how weak and tired he was, he was struggling to even say words correctly.

Uppon hearing this, it only brought a malevolent smile on the Kiryuin's face. "Hehehehe… You still don't get it do ya…" She whispered on the Phantom Thief's ear like a diabolical gast while a rotten aura of darkness created by the selfish wishes covered her being. "I already have!" She exclaimed as she raised her sword Bakuzan.

To finally put an end to this charade, Satsuki Kiryuin was storing every if not all her energy in her blade, not only causing it to glow a light that even shadows the lord, but it also grew in size until it thrusted the grimm crimson clouds of Osaka. It was a light as pure as the heavens, carried by a monster of a woman that disguises her intentions behind a noble dress.

"Fall…"

SLASH!

Satsuki used all of her power in her hand to unbown an unstoppable horizontal sword slash big enough that cut Osaka's tower to pieces, all at the same time trowing the finishing blow at Kurusu.

"GRAAAAAAAAAH!"

The boy wailed to the heavens with a primal cry of pure agony and torture. This attack cut opened a huge scar on his chest that expelled a giant burst of blood. As his vision was turning blurry and blurrier as his energy vanished, he was also falling down alongside the giant monument of this ruined city. He had nothing on his disposal to use, it was all over for him.

Was it over? Has everything he has accomplished was for naught? He could wish that this wasn't the case, yet it was impossible to hide from the horrible truth. Perhaps this was his fate from the start, to fail everyone from the cruel clutches of fate.

Bellow ground, Mona was still thrusting his way through the endless waves of enemies that were being thrown at him, but he quickly noticed the falling Phantom Thief from atop his view.

"Joker!" Mona cried in distress at this situation, but this would be prove to be fatal as this left an open window for all of the Club Presidents to piled up on the cat.

"Don't worry, I'll get him!" Luluco passed by with her hoverbike to the rescue in hopes of picking the Wild Card from his demise.

"Oh no you don't!" Nonon's voice interrupted the cosmic cop before destroying her vehicle with a psychic wave of music notes, now resting the girl useless with her signs of defeat being shown by turning back into her normal self once she bit the dust alongside her fellowmen.

Just as he continues to fall down with no one else to save him, he could swear that he heard a voice in his mind trying to reach him. It was pretty unclear, but he swore that he has heard it from someone, yet his defeated mind was so weakened it made him unable to remember. Some of these shouts were something like. "You cannot give up like this! Not after everything we've faced!" "Wake the eff up, dude! You can't let that pompous bitch get away!" "Joker! Don't fall into despair!" "We've come so far, so keep on fighting leader!" "Joker! You still have more extra lives to spare, so get up!" "You cannot let this wicked woman win!" "Already done for after everything you've endured. I've thought you were better than this." and finally "AKIRA!"

CRASH!


What happened?

Was he dead? No. he couldn't be. But yet his mind felt so, numb to even think straight. His eyelids felt so heavy that it was a chore to lift them, and he isn't sure how long has been since Satsuki Kiryuin destroyed him in battle. Days? Week? Months? He wasn't really sure, and he couldn't find out with his lack of energy to even move a single finger. But for all that he noticed from his limited vision, he could see the frightful while heel of Satsuki before him.

Wait! White? Does that mean she finally stop being on her fashion's week form? Perhaps this could be the perfect time to finally attack and hopefully turn the tides of battle. Who is he trying to fool? He couldn't do anything after all.

But she wouldn't even let him have a hope of getting back up. She forcefully lifted the teenager from the collar of his shirt and proceed to look at the defenseless young adult with a malevolent smirk.

"I finally got you where I wanted you." Satsuki grinned in delight at this. "Now with that fighting spirit extinct, you have nothing left but to be subdue. And don't even trouble yourself with calling for help." She pointed her Bakuzan to make Akira turn and see the sorry states of his teammates, all been bested by the forces of Honnouji Academy.

Mako still refused to deliver the Scissor Blade to Gamagori, and the only thing that stopped the goliath from stomping the innocent girl flat was the empathy he had for her. He couldn't bring himself to kill Mako, even for the sake of the Kiryuin clan.

Morgana, Sanageyama and Tsumugu were tied down on Life Fiber-made filming rolls courtesy of Honnouji Emperor Walter Warner, with the aforementioned 2 thieves forced back to their normal attires as they didn't have more energy to continue fighting.

Luluco, Panty and Garter were face-down on the ground with their ears bleeding all while Nonon sat on top of the defeated fighters with a arrogant smirk with a bratty snicker to follow.

The fewer Nudist Beach foot-soldiers that were still on foot were still trying to push back the legions of Shadows coming from all directions, yet their DTRs were already expelling steams of overheat. It wouldn't take long until their mechs would stop working.

And their leader wasn't having it easier either, or neither Ogure and Hakodate. The 3 nudists were completely cornered by Innumuta's digital clones with all possible exits blocked from usage. None of them had any saving gadget and all they could do is to have their guard up and wait until the blue-haired computer freak could do a move.

And finally with Ryuko and Senketsu… Both girl and Kamui were trying their best to free themselves from the wrapping shackles of the Reaper, but all efforts made them walk in circles. With the Reaper pointing his long revolver straight up Ryuko's head and with his finger just right over the trigger, it didn't make anything better.

And Joker couldn't do something about this. It appeared that he also his Phantom Thief attire has vanished and replaced by his casual gettup, still with that big scar on his chest and with blood coming from it like a jelly-filled pastry, without forgetting for a fact that his titular pair of glasses were destroyed to the point of no-repair. Not that if matters since he didn't need them anyway.

"My men have all of your friends on the ropes. All it takes is a snap of my fingers and your followers will be forgotten from history." The villainess warned him to not do something defiant if she really valued his friends.

Joker couldn't do anything about this. This breath has grown too heavy for his own good, his powers were diminished, and all of his allies were about to die in front of his eyes. No! He can't let that terrible fate happen again! He didn't accept Philemon's challenge if it wasn't for saving his friends and confidants from the malice of the Holy Grail, and yet he wished to protect those new bonds he made on this world too.

But what was left for him to do in respect? His whole body was weakened to uselessness to the point he couldn't event look at Satsuki directly. Knowing that the Kiryuin would just slaughter his friends one by one to psychologically torture him into submission, he now realized that all paths lead to the same end.

"Still reductant, or perhaps you've grown too weak to even speak? Maybe what you need is motivation to make you talk for once." The Kiryuin looked at the beaten thief in wonder before turning at Ira, which made the colossal youth gulp in fright knowing that she was going to task him to do. "Gamagori, eliminate Mankanshoku in the slowest and most painful way you could think off."

"What!?" The chair of the Disciplinary committee exclaimed. "Lady Satsuki, by all due respect. Mankanshoku may have allied herself with our enemies, but she hasn't been shown to be a threat to-"

"I made myself clear, Gamagori! You hold no power to question my goals!" Satsuki shut Ira's words out of him. "You said it yourself. Mankanshoku is an enemy to my dreams! That's enough reason to kill her off for me. Those who do not fall in line behind my crusade to the perfect goal are destined to perish."

"You have to be be bluffing! Mako is just a child caught in the crossfire! Have you lost your mind!?" Aikuro barked at this despite his DTR being completely trashed, but he soon would know his place in the food chain by a kick in the face by Houka.

"Ignore him, milady. He's just a Naked Ape too ignorant to know the true intention of your exploits after all." The blue-haired villain looked at his leader with arrogance to make her continue.

"W-Wait… You're going t-to kill off M-a-MAAAAAUGH!" Ryuko wanted to show the arrogant woman a piece of her mind, but was quickly silenced by the Reaper's chains pressing themselves harder to make the girl almost unable to breathe.

"Silence pig." Satsuki scoffed at the shutted Matoi before putting her attention at the hesitant elite. "So? What are you waiting for? Kill her for once Gamagori. I'm ordering you to do so. Or what? Are your emotions getting the best out of your resolve? Are you going to disappoint me just like you did to your previous school?" She attacked her shield with something personal with him, and she showed no signs of remorse by the malevolent oily grin she crafted on her face while doing so.

Ira found himself conflicted by this. Mako carried no crimes against Honnouji Academy on her back, yet being an ally with Nudist Beach was enough for his mistress to deem impure. He looked at the weak Kurusu and wished he could ask him something about this dilemma. But doing so would be treason against the values and rules of the Kiryuin conglomerate.

"W-wait… Y-you r-really aren't g-g-going to k-kill me, r-right Gamagori!?" Mako stammered with difficult as she was also scared for this fact. "B-but what about all t-those g-good times we s-s-spent together? I-I know they weren't as m-m-much, b-but they were p-p-pretty good! P-please re-re-consider this!" She started to beg for mercy since she hoped to have a long and healthy life, but all living creatures knew that whenever Satsuki Kiryuin does an order, it MUST be fulfilled.

Trying his best to hold his tears of regret, Gamagori lifted his fist while the bandages of his Goku Uniform morphed into thousands of lethal weapons and lit up a voltage no human being could survive. "Mankanshoku…" He turned his face down to look at the ray of hope for one last time. "I hope you could forgive me once you are in heaven. But don't hope to see me there as there is no forgiving for my sins… Farewell…" He told Mako with a soft tone before preparing himself to exterminate the girl for the sake of Satsuki's twisted desires. "GRAAAAAH!" He bellowed like a beast as he unleashed his mighty fist to destroy the No-Star from history, making her freak out like never before.

"MAKO! NOOOOOO!" Ryuko used all of her energy to wail a shout to the seven winds. "Satsuki Kiryuin… I won't… let you…" What it looked like Ryuko being fueled by her own anger and hatred for the Kiryuin's tyranny, she started to slowly tear off the thought-to-be unbreakable chains of the Reapers before accelerating with everything her legs could afford toward the main stage. "TAKE MORE PEOPLE I LOOOOOOVE!" Once again armed with her fist and with her Kamui off, Ryuko charged against the foil of Akira with killing intentions this time. Of course, Satsuki sensed this and quickly was about to bring out her Bakuzan to put this ungrateful girl in her place.

"STOP!"

The voice of the Phantom Thief made every fighter come to a halt.

"I-I give up… Y-you win, Satsuki K-kiryuin…" No one saw this coming, but Akira for once in his life admitted defeat with his arms up in the air as sign. "J-just please… S-stop this for once… Y-you did all of this just to make me j-join you, right? Y-you can finally stop devastating cities…"

Not that far, the eyes of Morgana twitched at that news. "What? Y-you're really going to give yourself in Joker. There must be another way!" Mona didn't want Joker to bear the sins of Honnouji Academy like all of those other teens.

But Tsumugu grunt was enough to convince the cat that there was no other way. He too couldn't accept this, but it was clear that Akira valued his friendships more than himself. If he were to continue resisting, everyone else would have died.

"A-are you ripping my nuts off…?" Ryuko was the most affected by this. Akira was giving his freedom to save their lives, but Ryuko didn't want him to be brainwashed into one of Satsuki's lackeys. "You can't let this pompous bitch get away right now! W-what about that rebellious spirit you always love to brag about? Were all those times we made Satsuki mad for naught then?"

"Don't even try to fight it Ryuko." Senketsu looked at his friend in melanchony. "It isn't easy for me to see Akira fall over Satsuki Kiryuin. But we have lost too many casualties for now. There was no other way…"

Satsuki grinned at this seeing that this was the only thing she could express. "You made the right choice." She said with glee, knowing fully-well that the Trickster wasn't trying to trick her by his despairful eyes. Afterwards, she de-transformed from her Fashion's Week form back into Kamui Junketsu knowing that she no longer had need to use it.

"I'm only giving myself in, if you call off the Tri-City School Raid Trip… Otherwise we'll continue to chase our tails in circles…"

"Giving your life for the worms of this city who don't even know you exist? Typical of you… But as you wish. We've finished destroying Nudist Beach's main base of operations and all of the remaining rogue schools have been vanquished or submitted to our system. Honnouji Academy has no business with Kansai no more." She answered to the Thief before dropping Akira into the ground to look at her remaining troops.

HEEL CLICK!

"Students of Honnouji Academy, and all Shadows who are loyal to my cause!" she called her troops to look at her and her white light of triumph, as she was ready to give her men a triumphant speech. "The objectives of the Tri-City School Raid have been a success! The opposing schools have been squashed like the bugs they are! The Naked apes who call themselves Nudist Beach have been broken to no repair! And Akira Kurusu, the dimensional trespassed known by his allias Joker is finally ours!"

All Students and Shadows rose their voices in celebration for this outstanding victory. All the while, Satsuki tasked his elites and men to unhand the remaining rebels as they no longer pose a threat with their moral leader on their side.

"Furthermore, this is only a sign that we're one step closer for our plans to flourish! Once the foolish pigs in Honno City have been sacrificed to the Life Fibers on our Sports and Cultural Festival and please Honnouji Academy's direction and true ruler of our school Ragyo Kiryuin, we shall embark ourselves to take our empire to further bounds! Be prepared, for once we achieve word domination on this wretched rock, all dimensions shall fear and kneel before the Honnouji Empire, starting by subjugating Joker's home-world personally!"

"WAIT WHAT!? W-we've never agreed to-AGH!" Joker was cut from his words by Satsuki stomping his head into the ground. He wasn't aware that Satsuki's greed and lust for power would lead her to wish to conquer all dimensions.

"Silence welp." That's everything the Kiryuis has to say to Kurusu by now. It was clear that the overuse of Junketsu and her rejection of her other-self were beginning to take a toll on her sanity. "Besides… You're fully aware that my ambitions know no bounds. Fufufufufu…" She snickered in a same way as her mother. Before the teenager with the black hair would have something to protest, Satsuki quickly brought out her special collar and quickly strapped it around Joker's neck. "Don't even bother to take it off. This special S.C.C. was specially crafted to keep you in check. Bear in mind that it won't kill you, but the consequences of showing signs of opposition will be worse than death."

"W-what? Were you this, this… GRAAAAAAAAAH!" Joker shrieked like a agonizing banshee as he was holding his head like a man going insane. Nightmarish memories were weaking around his mind, torturing him in the worst way possible. He wan't able to control his thoughts, yet the memories of Shido suing him, Kamoshida's Shadow having Ann and Ryuji on his mercy, Yusuke wallowing on his sorrow before Madarame's Shadow with Sayuri, Akechi revealing his true psychopathic nature and Yaldabaoth erasing his teammates from existence showed no signs of going away. Luckily, this came to an end with just a thought of Satsuki. To think that she would already know how to use cognitive science on such a high level it makes Wakaba's notes look like a bad joke.

"This collar is bound to my desires. So if you wish to not be tortured again, you better behave." The Kiryuin picked her phone to make a call. "Iori, Hoomaru, Joker has been captured. Prepare the chopper. We're getting out of this filthy place for once." Once done, Satsuki finally gave herself time to finally turn off Junketsu's battle mode. She lifted her hand to announce her troops to prepare to retire, as the tri-City school raid has finally come to a close.

And just in the nick of time. Satsuki's helicopter came to pick her and her new prisoner up and transport them back to her castle. Having no choice left, Akira walked alongside his evil reflection of another dimension into her vehicle ready to face his grim fate.

But Ryuko wouldn't let herself be left with both hands behind her ass. As much as she understood Joker's decision to offer himself to save everyone else, she will not allow Satsuki to take away another dear person to her. But it was already too late for her.

The chopper was already taking flight and all the students have already retreated inside the thousand trucks to go home and prepared themselves for the climax of their schemes they have semented for 3 years.

"You stupid whore! Get down here right now!" Ryuko threw a small rock at the distant Kiryuin for her to catch and crush with her bare hands. She continued to repeat that, but she only achieved to let out a small chuckle between Satsuki's lips out of pitty.

"Heh… Don't even bother anymore Matoi. I've already won, and none of you don't possess the power to topple down my plans anymore. I don't hold any interests on your Kamui nor your Scissor Blade, as I have finally acquired an even more powerful source!" She assured to the remaining members of the broken resistance that there wasn't anything on their powers to save everyone from her eternal tyranny. "But this is no time to drown yourselves in sorrow. I invite you all to witness a new dawn of humanity. My dawn! Ehehehehe… MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Her desires couldn't be bottled anymore, Satsuki Kiryuin bursed a diabolical fit of evil laughs fit for a despicable and rotten villain like herself while she and her forces and herself retreat back to initiate their plans for total world control.

And yet, Ryuko could only flip the middle finger at the moving vehicles and then shake her fist up in the air back and forth. "Dawn my ass! I swear I'm going to- Going to…" Ryuko's rage was easing off as she realized she couldn't do anything, but rest her knees into the ground and have her head look down…

"Ryuko...? You forgot your sword." Mako came nearby to handle the scissor blade back, but even that didn't prove to be enough to light up Ryuko's mood.

With silence restored to the devastated city, the surviving foot-soldiers of Nudist Beach rode off from their DTRs to help any injured agents from the war and take them to first aids. Even in defeat, the organization's sense of family was unbreakable.

"Goddammit… Look at this place!" Maiko still felt shocked by how devastated Osaka was left in the process of this battle. This invasion took the lives of so many innocents it was pretty hard to count.

"We lost… Dammit!" Mikisugi snarled slamming his fist at his DTR. All the hopes of Dr. Matoi, all for naught.

"Take it easy boss… At least we've made it out alive for once." Tsumugu approached the blue-haired adult while also carrying an injured Sanageyama on his back. "Though, I don't know what to do next…"

"Wait! It's already over? Thank god! Can I go home now?" Panty asked everyone in the worst possible moment and was quickly punished by a smack in the head by Garterbelt.

"It ain't ovah till the fat lady sings! That's what my mama always told me." The priest corrected the fallen angel since he still clinged himself to hope.

"How so? Our base has been demolished to kingdom come, most of our troops have been killed and now they took Akira for themselves! How the hell do you suppose to somehow make a miracle out of this?" Omiko was outright pissed at this. Was everything they've done so far for naught?

"I-it can't be the end! This can't the end, r-right?" Luluco was too on denial. Things took a turn for the worst once Satsuki announced that she will now spread her ambittions further by starting to invade other dimensions once they're done with this one.

While the survivors were arguing with one another about what to do or still in disbelief that it was over and there was nothing they could do now to stop the Kiryuin, Ryuko continue to stand still despite the despairful voices swarming her ears.

And deep inside her subconsiousness, she could hear a distant voice calling for her. It was welcoming, majestic and smooth as butter.

"This is truly an unjust game… The Spiral Nemesis has placed all the odds against you, and the world's future may look grim and beyond salvation with the Trickster under the control of the Lady of Law. But, this game is still far from over…"

Ryuko could swear that she could hear the voice of Lavenza conforting her mind. Perhaps it had to do with the blank card Igor gave her in the Velvet Room.

"What the Lady of Law wants is to sink the hopes of humanity into despair, allowing her to move every string of destiny with no fear of opposition. But, she still is unaware that you too have the power of the Wild Card. Become the beacon of light on this dark world and change the wheels of destiny if you wish to finish your journey…"

The same sahpire butterfly she encountered at the Sudden Run-Off passed by her view. It was telling her that there is still hope for the world. Akira may have fallen, but his inspiration still burns inside each and everyone of their she needs to do is to remind everyone about this.

"ALL OF YOU! SHUT UP!"

Matoi's shout was enough to stop the remaining rebells from groveling into further panic and despair. She had something to say and everyone was all ears to hear what it is-

"Are you gonna talk about something in-between the lines of 'friendship is magic'? Cuz' if so, I'll be covering my ears then." Panty squabbled with her arms crossed.

"Yeah, if so?" Ryuko snarled. "Listen everyone, I'm no moral leader like Fuzzy Hair, and god help me when I have to make a motivational speech! But are y'all going to give up like this!?"

"What else can we do? Without Akira, we're practically useless against Honnouji Academy! All that we're left is with fire-weapons! Oh, what's that? The SMT enhancements of all Goku Uniforms made them invincible against them!? And don't even get me started that all of our remaining gear is now gone alongside our base!" Hakodate fumed back.

"For pete's sake! You still have like 3 other Persona users here! And you Ogure can just fix everything back how it was, don't you?"

The tech genius was left questionful by this. Now that she thought about it, it wouldn't be too hard for her to build all of their shattered gadgets back to normal.

"Look! What I wanna say is that y'all throwing the towel is just not you! Literally, each and one of you are the most stubborn, persistent and determinate people I have met! Think about it! Do you think Fuzzy… No, right now it's no time to call people by nicknames. Do y'all think that Akira give himself to Honnouji Academy just for us to sit on our asses all day while we watch the world fucking burn!? Of course not!" Ryuko exclaimed before pointing at the almost unseeable chopper of the Kiryuin. "Our friend is in danger! Forget what I say! He, Mako's family and who knows the shit-ton of No-Stars are in danger and we're the only people in this goddam planet that can save them and the entire world! Because who on their right mind would want a pretentious shit-mouth to be their ruler? So you all better get up, or I'll force those legs of you with these fists of mine!"

Even despite how aggressive Ryuko sounded, it caught Morgana as he walked to approach the girl. "You're right. Joker wouldn't scarified his life for us to chicken down when the world is on grave danger." He emphasized followed by a serious expression. "We may have lost this battle, but we've still haven't lost the war. After all, we still have one chance left if we wish to finally put an end to the Life Fiber's machinations. And I think y'all know what I'm talking about."

They all heard what the cat talked about and quickly all came to the same conclusion. Most of all, Mikisugi. "The Culture and Sports Festival! Of couse!" The former Honnouji Teacher slammed his fist over the palm of his hand. "Moreso, this will be the only event where Ragyo Kiryuin will make herself present in public."

"Hmm… Killing two birds with one shot. Not bad, not bad at all…." Punk smirked while lighting up one of his ciggars to improve his mood. "Although, we all know for a fact that whenever the matriarch of the Kiryuin conglomerate goes, her Secretary and the Grand Corturier as sure to follow."

"So you're planning to head on to the Cultural and Sports Festival like that despite having to fight that weird Life Fiber freak of nature and the rest of Honnouji Academy? You're all crazy!" Sanageyama wasn't convinced to go full commando straight down to Honno City, yet the entire Nudist Beach organization showed themselves to not care.

"Really? From all the stuff you've seen by now THAT is where you draw the line on sanity?" Mona sneered at Oni Mask with his furry tail waving left and right. "But speaking seriously, it's our last shot we have left. So either that or die trying."

"Yeah! I'm all up on saving the world! Wohoo! Go team Nakedness!" Mako showed herself to be all in by displaying a poster starring childishly cute doodles of herself and the other members of NB. But she quickly remembered something once she came near Ryuko. "That reminds me Ryuko! I found your Scissor Blade, have it back." She gave the shrunken blade to her owner while bearing a heart-warming smile of friendship.

"Thanks, Mako. You're always being like the little sister I've never had." Ryuko returned the favor by giving her BFF some gentle head pats that caused Mankanshoku to turn red by the weird feeling she was experiencing. Wait… Sister… Family… "SHIT! That reminds me! W-what's going to happen to your family n-now that you're expelled? I swear if Satsuki Kiryuin lays a fing-"

"Take it easy Matoi. Save that anger for Satsuki once we encounter her again." Mikisugi interrupted Ryuko in the nick of time as he stood in front of everyone, watching as the sun rises from the coast of the devastated city. "As far as teachers know, the penalty of a family of an expelled students is the banishment from Honno City, but I can assure you that Honnouji Academy won't be applying that marshal law anytime soon. All of their troop are most likely winded, and their Goku Uniforms must be in need for repairments. So we got plenty of time to regroup and think about a strategy."

"Speakin' of regroupnent." Takarada came nearby, surprisingly with his clothes of hopes intact.

"Woah! Kaneo Takarada! I-I'm so-"

"Nah', don't sweat it yo'! Like you' man said earlier, we're just gonna build Osaka back. So yo' homies can chillax and show dat' Kiryuin what happens when yo' get on Osaka's bad side!" Takarada game Mikisugi a friendly shoulder pad before looking back at the citizens of Osaka with enthusiasm. "Alright Homies! Grab yo' mallets and yo' screwdrivers! We're putting Osaka back together!" Takarada came in to help his homies in the rebuilding of Osaka, leaving the Nudist team alone.

Mikisugi then jumped off the edge of the coast to give himself a big dip into the water. He was then followed by Tsumugu, then Sanageyama, Morgana, Panty and the others, only leaving Mako and Ryuko left.

"Come on girl, nothing to be afraid off. This is the fastest route to our base." Mikisugi's head peaked out from the level of the ocean which freaked out the girl with the Kamui. "And Ryuko, apologies for making you wait for too long. I promised you this, but now there's no better time to tell you everything… About your father…"

"And bout' yo' friend Akira." Garter was next to appear to follow the leader of the resistance.

Both of them resumed their path, leaving again the 2 girls on their own.

"No way! Their secret base is the lost city of atlantis!? Yay! I've always wanted to meet spongebob in real life!" Mako beamed in excitement while carrying her gigantic bag of souvenirs. Before she could take a dive into the coast, she saw that Ryuko was feeling a bit nervous. "Hmmm… Something bothering you Ryuko?" Mako asked her friend and see if there could be something she could help her with.

There was nothing wrong with the girl of the Scissor Blade. All she was doing was pondering into her blank Tarot card Igor gave her. "I don't know Mako. It just feels so weird that now it's my turn to save Fuzzy Hair's ass." She finished before putting back her blank Tarot card on its plays. "Other than that, I'm ready to bring war back to Honnouji Academy!" She looked at the air-headed girl now feeling confident and brave.

Both girls agreed to dive at the same time. They took eachother's hand which made them could describe. It felt pleasing, warm and quite exiting. Nevertheless, the both yelled Jeronimo to catch up with their comrades who were only diving deeper into these dark waters.

But no matter what fate now throws at her, Ryuko will show it the middle finger and then fight it with all she got. Her journey was no longer fueled by the resentment of her assassinated father. It was now powered by a powerful sensation of justice and to protect those she loved from the strings of the Life Fibers and the Kiryuin. She knew that they stood little to no chance against the Kiryuin, but if there's something that Joker taught her is to no be afraid to take big gambles.


Satsuki Kiryuin was always a woman who never doubted her goals. But ever since Akira's intrusion in her life, it was beginning to make her question if she would ever accomplish her ambitions without the elusive Phantom Thief foiling them. And yet, destiny proved to be on her side with Joker now being her personal inmate.

But alas, both teens watched as the back-gates of the helicopter shut closed from their view to Osaka for one last time. But, Akira could begin to notice that something in Satsuki was not right.

Her legs were softly shaking like a building about to collapse on itself and the sweat in her face was starting to take her over. This would follow by the Lady of war falling on to her knees fully drained of her combat spirit.

Iori, Hoomaru and Soroi quickly came to their mistress' side to help, with the Emperor of Honnouji holding a fire extinguisher full of cloudified bleach in case Kamui Junketsu would show size to devour her mind. But somehow, the battle uniform show no signs of aggressiveness despite the fact it was its Golden Opportunity to snatch its wearer's free will.

"That's odd. I thought that Lady Satsuki's Kamui would try to contaminate her soul right there." Iori said in amusement. "Truly I still have much yet to learnhow Kamuis behave."

"You can do that once we're back at Honnouji Academy. Help me get Lady Satsuki somewhere comfortable." Rei then carried the weak woman on her shoulders to a nearby seat where she could relax and finally relief herself from her stress.

After Soroi prepared a freshly-hot teapot to please his master, he quickly took notice of Akira who was still to tired to even walk properly. "I know it's not my right to help any enemies of the Kiryuin, but allow me to help you get on a seat, Master Kurusu."

The Trickster didn't said anything at all while still retaining that angered, yet unmotivated expression. It was fine for him to sit on the floor of the chopper during his flight. After all, does it really matter now that he has lost?

The 2 other servants of Satsuki agreed to neither approach or speak to Akira in the meantime. Even with the S.C.C. strapped on his neck, they weren't sure what kind of sleezy trick he could pull out with his arms tied on his back.

Sometime after, The Kiryuin undressed herself to put back her former uniform she had before donning Junketsu. Speaking of which, they made sure to contain the wild Kamui by nailing its limbs and body to the same frame he was imprisoned it. The butler and the secretary made sure to place the frame on a nearby wall to put some needed charm to the cold ambience. But still, Akira could swear that the eyes of the Kamui were looking straight at his soul. Something was not right about that Life Fiber monster.

"Iori, Soroi, Hoomaru… You all have my gratitude." Satsuki thanked her servants for all their hard work they have done so far. "I'm truly sorry if my actions may all have you restless about my well-being, but I assured you that they were for the sake of my family's legacy as you see right here. As you can see, all of my hard work has finally paid off." He turned her eyes for the 3 to look at the captured rogue to illustrate her point.

"We're fully aware Lady Satsuki. You have nothing to apologize for. You can blame us forever doubting your resolve. Although, you may be aware how dangerous it is to use Kamui Junketsu on long periods of time, and much more if it's on a Fashion Week's state." Soroi only wanted the best for his master, all while serving her a warm cup of tea to warm her nerves.

"I know, which is why I hold no regrets for signing this devil's contract." The Kiryuin affirmed before picking up the beverage. "Kamui Junketsu was a gift from the Life Fibers to the Kiryuin, whose full origin I'm still not aware off. It could be considered the first ever Kamui to ever be crafted. Despite its wild and malevolent attitude, it helped my family gain control over the masses since the Dark Ages, implanting the idea to all men and women of clothing… But yet, Junketsu was but a prototype for something even bigger… That's what my mother and father used to say to me…" But as much as she wanted to let her feeling out, Satsuki had much more important issues to attend first. "Hoomaru, what's the estimated time for us to reach my family's mansion?"

"For about 4 hours if we don't encounter any inconveniences m'am." The Secretary of the Kiryuin affirmed by checking on her electronic tablet.

"Excellent. That means I can report Akira Kurusu's capture to my mother before Honnouji Academy can begin the preparations for the Sports and Culture Festival. And enough time to extort him until he reveals his secret for awakening Personas." The Lady of war exclaimed, already foreseeing the horizon where she has harvested the full power of her Persona. "Iori, contact your Club and Innumuta and inform them to initiate repairment protocols for any Goku Uniforms or Shadows that have been severely damaged. Also, tell them to begin production of my new servant's Goku Uniform."

"Right away milady."

"Soroi, contact the maidens and butlers of the mansion to prepare a warm and comfortable room for our prisoner Akira Kurusu. And remind Kuroido to not get near him. You know how he gets when we bring guests."

"Of course, milady."

"Hoomaru, inform my mother to prepare her welcome once we're there. She's going to feel the most pleased soon enough."

"Already on it."

Everyone got to work on their given tasks. Soroi and Iori picked the nearby phonelines to contact Honnouji Academy and the Kiryuin's manor while Rei texted Ragyo via her ever-trusty tablet. Everything was looking to go Satsuki's way, yet as her mother sometimes say, life can be full of unexpected surprises.

Ding Dong!

"This is your captain speaking. Thank you for flying with Kiryuin Airlines tonight. Unfortunately, your former captain had to fly, leaving moi in charge. Hihihihihi!"

"T-that voice!" Soroi gasped at the sound of that familiar annoying tone as everyone looked nervous at the announcement.

"But how could she!?" Rei clicked her tongue.

"Nui Harime…" Akira finally opened his mouth to talk. He was well familiarized with the psychotic blondie, and how much of a force of nature she is. Just what does she want now?

"The Grand Corturier? What is she doing here?" Iori was next to speak.

All the Student Council President could respond with is with a snarl of anger. "What do you have in hands now, Nui harime?" She asked from the back of the helicopter, all while the Life-Fiber anomaly could hear her talk from the captain's cabin.

"Oh! Is it a crime for your dear brother to drop by and give a helping hand? My, my… That's ungrateful of you, Lady Satsuki." Shinjiro Nagita snickered deviously while sitting on the main pilot's seat with a Nui clone of his serving as co-pilot while the former drivers were seen dead on the floor with his head decapitated by Nagita's Scissor Blade while the other was seen devoured alive by Jorogumo.

"Under Honno city's marshal law, messing with the Student Council President's plans can be punished by public execution." The Kiryuin replied to try make herself short. "Now tell us for once, what is what you're planning?"

"Nothing really. You know that an artist like me is a free spirit. So I do whatever I want whenever I want. Tee Hee!" Nui exclaimed cheerfully, while unconsciously causing the chopper to lose balance. They all could agree that was on purpose. "Also, I wanted to ask you how It felt to be the first person in history to feel the power of Fashion's Week! It must be super-duper-mega fun, amirite? Oh! And let's not forget for a fact that you have finally trapped that pesky rat of Aki-Poo! Congratulations for your victory Lady Satsuki! I've never doubted you for a second! But I did! Ahahahaha!"

While Harime/Nagita was laughing like a total maniac, the passengers inside the chopper showed themselves indifferent by the situation. Rei was the first to take a step.

"Want me to deal with this problem, Lady Satsuki?" Rei asked her master all while the right sleeve of her Goku uniform morpher into a sharp knife.

"Let her be Hoomaru." Satsuki denied her. "It's clear that Nui Harime shows herself unharmful. Fine, feel free to take us to my home Harime. But do anything reckless or stupid and I'll hang your head on my throphy room. Understand?"

Hearing this, it send shivers down the Grand Corturier spy. "Sheesh! Such a party pooper, but I can't say no to my dear sister. Hold on to your undies, this is gonna be fun!" She shrugged annoyed at this. She already had plans to make this ride the more exiting, but she was aware that she was outmatched by her eyebrowness. So she had to stick to the designated route and take the party to Ragyo's manor.

All the while, Akira didn't know what to do. He was defeated and now he must obey every whim of the fascist woman word by word, thing getting worse knowing that his home dimension would be invaded by this maniac. But this didn't meant that his sacrifice was in vain. He hoped that sooner or later, his teammates would be inspired by his work and come back for a rematch and save his ass.

From this point forward, the game between the Phantom Thief and the Student Council President were about to become the crazier…