Angel Beats! REBORN!
Episode 18: Level Twelve
"You can't defeat me boy, I am a level eleven. I am far stronger than Mayu and Suginami" said Cardinal as he moved left and right to dodge Yuzuru's slashes with Excalibur. After another dodge, Cardinal materialised his right arm into a blade and prepared to slash the defenceless Yuzuru. Miraculously Yuzuru managed to slide Excalibur in to block the attack, but unfortunately the blow was too much for Excalibur which now shattered into pieces.
"Onii chan!" shouted a voice that came with gunshots that were fired heavily, Yuzuru could tell it was a Desert Eagle which meant one thing… Katsura.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Cardinal leaped back to distance himself from the shooter who sprinted up to the Yuzuru.
Yuzuru kneeled down, huffing and puffing as he tried to regain his stamina that he used up on the slashes. Mayu, Kanade, Yuri and Kuroha rushed up to Yuzuru as well.
Katsura placed her hand onto Yuzuru's shoulder, "Onii chan, are you alright?"
"Y-Yeah, Katsura, but what are you doing? It's dangerous"
"I know what I'm doing, just sit back and watch" said Katsura, the eyes Yuzuru once knew were gone, the cute, adorable eyes were gone, it is replaced with determined eyes.
"Alright, I trust you, don't die okay?"
"Don't die, got it", Katsura turned to face Cardinal, "Bastard!"
Katsura fired her Desert Eagle while she closed in on Cardinal. She watched as the bullets she fired stopped just in front of him. She stopped her attacks and began to process what had just happened. This is… Distortion? That's impossible isn't it?
"How?"
"So you figured it out huh?", the demonic Shadow smiled, "That I'm using Distortion"
"How do you have NEO Skill? Only Onii chan and Mayu would have it now"
"You see, I don't use NEO Skill…"
"What?"
"NEO Skill is only a prototype of what I now use… Advance Skill"
"Advance Skill?!"
"That's right"
"I'll still beat you!" Katsura continued her shooting at Cardinal even when it does nothing. Her Desert Eagle soon ran out of ammo. She threw the now useless Deagle away and equipped the two Five-Sevens.
"Die! Die! Die!"
It was a never ending bullet storm. Katsura consumed her ammo faster and faster. When the Five-Sevens were too out of ammo, she unsheathed her blade and charged right up to Cardinal.
With one slash, her sword broke. Cardinal, not wasting the chance to eliminate an enemy, held Katsura by the throat with his left hand.
"Nice try, now… be consumed"
Katsura was being surrounded by a dark murky mist.
"Ahh!" Katsura screamed in a painful voice.
"Katsura!" Yuzuru yelled as he tried to stand but immediately kneeled back down, his strength has not been recovered yet.
Mayu looked at the girl that sat Yuzuru back down, "Kuroha"
Kuroha nodded and stood up with Mayu, "Let's go! Kanade, Yuri… take care of Yuzuru"
"Gotcha" replied Yuri.
Mayu readied herself, "NEO Skill: Angel Purge"
They both sprinted up at extremely high speeds. Kuroha spammed her FAMAS with the goal of distracting Cardinal while Mayu attacked him from behind.
"Fools" Cardinal vanished with Katsura and appeared behind Kuroha and kicked her towards Yuzuru's direction. Kuroha stopped before Yuzuru after a several rolls.
Cardinal then appeared behind Mayu and swung his right arm downwards. At that moment an unknown figure appeared to take the slash and pushed Mayu away. Mayu recovered from the push and swung Angel Purge backwards to just slip in a small cut onto Cardinal's left arm before she rolled back to distance herself.
Katsura was released but was only separated from Cardinal by a few metres. Yuzuru immediately stood up with the support of Kanade and Yuri, with their support he slowly walked towards Katsura.
"Not bad, you managed to damage me"
Mayu recognised the figure that now lay on the floor.
"W-Why?" she whispered.
As though the figure could read her lips, he replied back, "I'm sorry… you are pretty cute after all… now live on" with that was his last words before he died.
"Taichi!" a familiar voice reached Mayu's ears. She looked at the source to see Hinata and the others standing at the entrance.
"Hinata?"
"Bastard!" Hinata and his team rushed in to surround Cardinal.
"Fire everyone!" the room filled up with smoke from the gunfire. They soon found out that it was useless.
"Just how can you kill this guy?" asked Hinata in frustration.
"This just sucks man, not cool" TK added.
Yuzuru managed to reach Katsura who was on the ground with her condition unknown. Yuri tapped Kanade by the shoulder to give her the 'let's leave them for now, we'll join the fight' look. Kanade understood and left with Yuri to join the battlefield.
"Wake up! Wake up Katsura!" Yuzuru shook her by the shoulders over and over again, "Didn't you want to marry me? Are you going to give up on that?!"
After a few more shakes she eventually woke up, "Of course not…"
"Are you-"
"Onii chan, I just remembered about my past…"
"Wha?"
Kanade continuously slashed at the 'Distortion' field with her 'Hand Sonic: version 1' while Yuri and Mayu brought Kuroha who slowly regained her consciousness to safety to discuss their next move. Kanade moved away from Cardinal to regain her strength.
When suddenly, a gunshot was fired and Cardinal staggered backwards.
"H-How did you get me? My Distortion field should be the strongest" asked Cardinal in a frustrated and annoyed tone.
"Not a chance, with my God Slayer" said a female voice.
Everyone looked at the girl that fired the shot. Katsura was holding a Barret 50 cal. model sniper.
Just a few minutes ago, I regained all my missing memory. I was actually a Shadow long ago, but I ran away from the Master when I regained my human consciousness. According to the human records, I would've been a level twelve…
Katsura took another shot at Cardinal that staggered him once again, rage and fury now filled his eyes.
"Onii chan, leave this to me you take Mayu, Kanade and Kuroha to Satan!"
"V-Very well, don't die Katsura"
"I won't, but you too"
"Of course, I'm your Onii chan after all. Everyone fight with her! Mayu, Kanade, Kuroha!"
Yuzuru gave Katsura the thumbs up and went on ahead with Mayu, Kanade and Kuroha to floor: 50, Satan's floor.
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