[Uzumaki Naruto, Town]

-"Okay!"

Naruto made his Rainbow Rasengan, disappear. He began to think, if every attack would be repelled then he needed something that wouldn't be an attack.

-'That's it, I need Genjutsu, But I need Grandpa Toad and Grandma Toad...That's it I'll summon them in Sage mode.'

Naruto stood still, his eyes began to change. His eyelids became Red amd his eyes became that of a Toad.

-"Kuchiyose No Jutsu'"

Two old looking Toads appeared on Naruto's Shoulders.

-"Gramps, both of you, listen to me, I need you two to use the Singing Genjutsu on him. Do you understand?"

Both of the Old Toads nodded. They began singing a loud pitch sound that will affect Yasu and put him in a trance, no one could escape this Genjutsu(Illusion).

-"Genjutsu, Complete! He is now in a deep Trance."

"Aggron Agg" the loud voice came from as suddenly jumping over Kakia came Aggron. It stood ready to fend off any attacks that came their way. "Well you did say to cover you just give a big guy a heads up when your ready to make sure big play" Trey said to Kakia being next to her. "Now Electrode lets show them you can do hit that thing with your thunder attack" Trey said pointing at Yasu as this red and white ball with a face on it rolled up next to Kakia. "Electrode" it said glowing as a large bolt of lightning came from the sky in an attempt to hit Yasu.

Mephilia and Cruxis (How to Duel in Discode)

* = Red Truth / ° = Blue Truth

BGM: lixAxil still playing

Cruxis saw that Lerafa ignored him and decided to fully involve him into Discode. Since Lerafa was not ready, he would easily win over him. "°The victim was murdered into the corridor. The point where it got killed is exactly where he stands!°", Cruxis declared. "*If he was murdered in the corridor, a bloodstain would be visible. That is why I deny your Blue Truth!*", Mephilia countered. They kept looking over and over, not knowing where the victim was. The kitchen, the dining room, the bathroom... nothing seemed to be the right place. However, before she could open the next door, Mephilia thought. No, it would be too obvious to hide someone in a room. Then, the only point that seems to be the right one is...!, she finally deciphered the charade.

BGM: Dread of the Grave -More Fear- (remake)

"*CHARADE deciphered. Victim hidden in the BASEMENT.*", she said in red. The basement behind Lerafa shined as Mephilia ran there. When he turned, Cruxis saw where the victim was, so he decided to use his boosted speed to run and get there first. However, Mephilia's Red Truth blocked his path as he had to suddenly evade its attack. AT that time, Mephilia entered the basement. "Lerafa, hurry! The entire room will fall apart!", she said as she got down.
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Reimu Hakurei

BGM: Mystic Oriental Love Consultation still playing

Her codec signed once again. "Reimu, we finshed scanning.", Peach said. "OK, thanks a lot!", she said as she accessed the scan data. Like if she doesn't exist... huh, surely this would be nice. If I could just enter this Red Night... wait, I can do that!, she said. The Red Night was nothing than a border. But Reimu knew that if she broke it, Alius would escape. "If that's so, then I'll try this!", she said. Using her powers, she left reality and entered the Red Night. She was invisible to the eyes, so neither Alius or Amita would see her or feel her presence.

BGM: Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle

I'm going to use this Red Night in my favor as well. Border Shift: Dream!!, she declared into her mind. Shifting the border inside her, Reimu allowed that herself could leave and enter reality as she wanted. You think you're good, huh? Well, dear Alius, let's see how you're strong being yourself!!, she dashed at Alius, breaking through the border that existed between her external manifestation of existence and the true Alius that was inside that shadow figure.

Inside, Reimu found herself in a pitch black field. She was still out of reality, but her voice could be heard. "Hey, Alius! If you're going to stay n the shadows of your replicas, I'm going to blast you!", Reimu screamed, in hopes of having an answer.

Shizuru looked at her two companions. "Follow me ..." She said leading them to the path she was planning to take before running into Free and Tris. Maybe she would run into people she knew hopefully.

Hiro cursed as her power was deflected. "Why you..." She noticed Kaika preparing for a spell or attack and she decided she would pre occupy Yasu as she shifted to her half demon form and blasted more flames.

Elsa navigated around the base of the Autobots looking for a way out and was careful to avoid being spotted.

Anna headed back inside the forest to search for Elsa once more...

Lerafa Oliver in the Discode

* = Red Truth / ° = Blue Truth
(Thoughts/Telepathy Talk)

BGM: Living to the fullest 2

"I see, the perfect place to hide a body....or for a murder to occur." said Lerafa as he listened to Mephilia's warning and run at the basement, when he arrived at the steps, he did a little jump and used a burst of wind to propel him to the Basament's floor, since it's risky to run, no matter the speed, in a ladder. "Well, that was close." he said, looking around the basement, then he gave a smile. "Okay, i understand the game now. If we want to get to the end of this, i have to counter everything Cruxis throws at me huh? Don't worry i had an awesome teacher, now, let's bring Hope to this Despair game!

BGM: Discussion HEAT UP

"First, i would like to do a recap on the mystery so far, At first it was thought that the victm was killed in the bathroom with a knife, but as Mephilia explained, the time gap between the kitchen and the bathroom would make the victim escape, that gave me a clue, correct me if i'm wrong, since this might be 100% true.

*°The Victim knew she was being pursued by a murderer.°" Lerafa finally used his first Blue Truth in the game.

"It's just a possibility, but it doesn't hurt to point it out, to continue the recap, it was thought that the victim was murdered at the corridor, however, it was stated if that was true, then bloodstain would be visible, we could use Luminol, but since we can't go back right now, i'll use my second Blue Truth...

"°The Victim was chased to this very basement.°" said Lerafa, whoever, now it was time to his own attack, now that the recap was complete.

"Now you would ask, why the victim would end up in a dead end place like this? Well, i'll give you my third blue truth on this."

"°The Victim was being chased by the Murderer, when they arrived at the basement's entrance, The Murderer tried to stab it's target, but ended up accidentaly pushing the victim, who fell at in this room, but the victim didn't die yet, but was badly injured from the fall, whithout chances to escape thanks to the trauma of the fall, the murderer dealt the killing blow.°" Lerafa finished his Reasoning/Blue Truth.

BGM: The Destructor

Vs Alius

Hayate: (Well, i was about to say Reimu was allowed to enter the Red Night, but i think she have her ways, by the way Lyna, you seem to know Reimu more than us.)
Lyna: (It's a long story, so, let's finish this fight?)
Vita: (Damn straight!)

"VULCAN RAID!" Amita spinned her guns at started to rapid Fire at Alius, they where more faster than common bullets and where made of energy.

Team 3 Vs Yasu

"Fool, explosions like that will leave your guard open..." said Midori, getting behind from Yasu at the same time his blast of darkness ended, she did an upwards strike with her cutlass, then started her assault, spinning her sword and slashing her enemy as if it was a sawblade, then changing to her iai blade to give three quick slashes and the fishing with a single, strong strike of her cutlass

BGM - Night of Fate

This genjutsu was successful, leaving Yasu in a trance and open for any attack that came his way. However...back on the topic that Yasu is technically in two places: being here in the Living World and also being present in the After World. While the Yasu everyone was fighting was left in a trance for who knows how long, the Yasu within the After World was unaffected by the genjutsu, and was still able to do any attack on his own. And since Yasu existed in the After World, which is a "higher plane of reality" than the Living World, he could still send his own attacks from the After World and into the Living World without his opponents actually seeing where he was.

As the Living World Yasu stood there in a dazed trance, several shadow-like slashes appeared out of thin air, protecting him from various attacks aimed at him. It was like a second presence was around and protecting him.

Oh great, so he's doing that whole advantage thing from the other dimensional plane, how great is that....guess I have to exert a lot more energy than I thought would be using.. Kaika thought as she was nearing the end of the charge time for the spell she was going to use. From where Yasu was standing still dazed, Kaika focused as much energy as she could, holding out her hand towards him and where the magic crest was in front of her. Dim pink wisps began to form in places near Yasu, slowly swirling around him.

"Everyone, get out of the way!!! Fluctuate et spiritus sint in libero sit, spiritus chorum ducite!" Kaika exclaimed and then said in Latin, the pink wisps suddenly multiplying greatly in numbers and also becoming much more brighter than anything else that it was actually blinding. In that instant, the many pink wisps began to roughly spin around Yasu, trapping the demon in a large and dangerous tornado of spiritual energy, not to mention that the wisps were actually the positive energy of the souls in the Spiritual World. The presence of Yasu in the After World tried to fight back against the sudden burst of spiritual energy, but was then forced away from attacking anymore in the Living World, leaving the Yasu of the Living World open to every single hit and burst of energy this "spiritual tornado." As this was a literal clash between the powers of life and death, Kaika's spell was that much that Yasu began to show signs of pain, and that the darkness around him began to weaken. Nearing the final moments of the attack, Kaika reached out and clutched her own hand, immediately having the spiritual tornado come to a stop, and all of the present spiritual wisps locked onto Yasu and all of those wisps rammed into him. This caused a large burst of spiritual energy at the last second, and there wasn't anything that the demon could do about it.

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BGM - Solaris (Phase 1)

"Y҉̧͘͘͏ǫ͟u͏͘'̶̨͞r̵҉͜ȩ̷̵̀ ̵͟͏̀q̡̛̛͘ư̢̛i̸̛͜͠t̛͢e͜͢ ̸̵̕é͢a͝ģ̷̛̕e̕͏r̀͘ ̧͞t̸̴̶ớ̡̀ ̢̢͞d̡̨̕e̸̷̡͢s̛̀͘ţ͡͏̨̨r̸͏͡o͏͠y̶͜ ̴͘m͢͞ę̧̡̕,͏̛͘͟ ̨̀͟͡͡i̡͡҉s͠ ̧̛́͘͜t͡h̨͞à͠t͞ ̢́͜͏i͏͏t̷̢̕?̕ ͡͏̷̧́W͜͝h̛́͘͢͡a͘͡҉̧t̵͟͏ ̶̸̛à͜͠͞ ̸̨͠s̛͟h̷̀̕͡a̵҉̢̛m̵͏̵e̷̴͟,̵͟͡͏ ̡͜͝i̸͜t̸̨̛͢ ̴͟͝r҉̨̀͢e͟͜͝a͝͠l̶̷̨̧͞l͡y͏͠ ͝i̷̕͜͠s̷̢̛̕͞.͏͡͠ ̡́T̀͡o̵̡͘ ́͘͟͝҉e̵͡͠v̶̨͞͠͞è̴̷̛͡ń ́͢ç̴͜͜h͏̕͏̧̡a̢̡̢͞l̷̛̀͟͠l̶̷é̴͡͝͞n̴̢̧ģ̷́͝e̴̸̡͟ ͘͜m̀͜é̷ ͏҉̵̨͜į̸̸́n̶̷̨ ̴̢̨͘͟m̨̛y̢̢͘͝ ̶̢͘͘͝o͏̛ẁ̸̸̸̶n̢̨͟ ҉̀́̀͞d͘͟͡͞o̵͘͝m̵̨̨a̢͞i҉̡͏ņ̸̀͘͞," Alius's voice echoed in the pitch black field, the voice of the original Shadow Replica was almost indecipherable. Even if Reimu wasn't able to be seen by Alius's essence, many glowing red "eyes" began to open up all over in the pitch black field.

Back in the Red Night, Alius held his plasma enhanced sword and swung the weapon at the fired projectiles, applying the energy of Alius's Shadow Essence to give some ground for the sword to at least block the bullets shot at him. Taking the advantage of the replicated body of EMBR, Alius had the headset he wore scan an analysis on his opponents, wondering if anything useful to get out of the analysis would come up.

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As Tris followed with Shizuru and Free, she felt something around her neck, and just noticed that she had been wearing a necklace with a locket. She wasn't sure where she got the locket, but remembered seeing the strange necklace locket back in the Rokkenjima Island mansion, seeing it on display within a certain study in the forsaken mansion.

Hiro moved out of the way of Kaika ' s attack just in time. Seeing how it affected Yasu she hoped it would be enough. If not Heavens Cutter would be a last resort if it became the only way to save Sota...it would kill him but also kill the demon within as both souls would be cut..

Shizuru continued to lead her two companions along the path trying not to get lost.

"That's the Que Aggron move" Trey said with Aggron getting out of Kaika's way. Trey stood holding out a pokeball and returning Aggron. He let out Swampert while returning Aggron's pokeball to his belt. "You think that attack is going to be enough? Cause if it isn't I got a plan in mind" Trey said to Kaika preparing to put his plan in motion should he need to.

"So kid what's your backstory" Free said to Tris while they were walking.

BGM: Soukyuu Tsuranuite

Vs Alius

Lyna: (Amita, can you graze through shots?) ((Hayate teached her the telephaty from her world.))
Amita: (Well, i had to learn it, if i want to beat my sis.)
Hayate: (Then, A Photon Lancer Genocide Shift is coming at you, make sure to slash her while dodging the shots.)
Amita: (Got it.)

Vita summoned many steel balls and put them in front of her, then changed her hammer to Gigantform, then did a swing that hit all of the spheres at the same time, they traveled even more faster than the common Schwalbefliegen, meanwhile, Lyna had many Star shaped projectiles at ready, and Hayate had conjured another Photon Lancer Genocide Shift.

Lyna: These Stars are the Light of this Red Night, Stardust Shower!
Vita: Graf Eisen, show her why you're the Iron Count, Giganthammer!
Hayate: Fate, i'll use your magic once more, Photon Lancer!
The Three: Continuous shot!

The three girls launched an enourmous wave of projectiles at Alius, Amita flinched a little, but then, put up a detemined expression on her face. "I CAN DO THIS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" she screamed as she seemely warped behing Alius using the Accelerator ability, slashing at high speeds while, in Touhou terms, grazing through Danmaku, the dodging wasn't perfect, but Amita wasn't exactly going to give up because of some friendly fire shots

Amita: My body might be made of Metal, but i was born with a kind heart.

BGM: Fate

Team 3 Vs Yasu

"I see...so he's like a puppet...in that case..." Midori sheathed her sword, not really bothering with Kaika's warning, unting both Iai and Cutlass, into the Giant Iai, a versatile sword that combines it's monstruous speed and it's tremendous power, and incrasing both of them with the fusion. "Releasing Limiter!" said Midori, a powerful burst of green energy blowing anything close to her, but it was continuous, diferent from an explosion, it was a continuous burst, Saya had to stay away to not get smashed by the two enourmous strenght of Kaika and Midori. "W-what's happening in there?!" Kaguya asked, she and Sanger had to back off even more, Signum was watching from above. "What do you plan on doing?" she asked. "I am a World Traveler, walking through dimensions is my speciality! No matter where you stay, i'll go after you! Kokujin Ougi: Yukikaze!" Midori boasted as she did a slashed that teared reality, had Yasu not blocked her previous attack, she would have never discovered about the After World. "Found you... and you're going to regret for making me serious...Ougi: Kojisen!" since she already did the Yukikaze move, her sword was out of the scabbard, she could skip the 'Full Drive' part. Holding her sword with two hands, she started to give lightining fast strong slashes from all sides with the giant Iai, ending with a slashed that would engulf the target in a tower of energy that would reach the skies and making even a bigger hole in the reality planes. It was at this moment that Team 1 and 2 arrived.

[Uzumaki Naruto, Town]

Naruto fell on the ground, he had used way too much chakra, he was depleted. It was because he used the Rikudou Sennin (Sage of Six Paths). He tried to summon The Kyubi (Kurama) but was too deepleted in chakra.

" Yes little one, all of your dreams can become true~! If you can't make it a reality, you could contact another Witch who can~! Once you enter the magical world, all of your worries and woes will be no more! "

Virgilla might be making the life of a Witch seem greater than Ruby could imagine, but she wasn't lying. Once you're a Witch, you should have no problem fulfilling all of your desires. While that is great, it is also a bit of a curse. . .

Ah well, time to deal with the rude individual who dared be snarky to a Witch.

" Oh? I never said anything in Red. I said I COULD say something in red, but you guys didn't make me, such a shame. Now, nothing is stopping me from putting you in an eternal torture far worse than death. I, of course, won't do this, I have no reason as of yet. However, if you continue acting like such a hoodlum, I will be forced to do so, or at least something similar.

Do you understand~?"

Virgillia finished her speech with a smile, and as she finished her speech, the boat docked. Well, by dock, it landed right next to the Chocolate Bunny Mort, with the ramp leading right to the door.

" Look at there, here we are! Now everyone, when you greet the consuls, be on your best behavior! Make sure you flatter them, they love it! Don't do a thing out of line or. . .well. . .anything I could do to you would be child's play when compared to their "creative" minds. "

Virgilla descended down the ramp, hoping everyone, especially Ruby, was going to be on their best behavior.

"Don't worry I won't do anything drastic" Chu said coming down the ramp as well. "Unless of course they hurt either of these two girls at that point I don't care what they do to me" Chu said to Virgilla in a very low tone and almost quiet voice when he was next to her. He let her know of his intention to pretty much be on his best behavior unless Suzaku or Ruby were to be injured by the consul.

Ruby was even more interested in having the power now. She could erase her past by having .....yes she would probably like that. Smiling she let Virgillia know she intended to be on her best behavior.

BGM - Little Ships (my re-intro for Quote!)

"Whoa!....that sounds....awesome!!!!" Quote says with gleaming eyes of amazement. Sure, his magic paintbrush could do a lot already, but this sounds that it could do even more than the paintbrush itself. Without much warning at all, Quote changed from his usual orange cap to a black top hat and a monocle. Even if he was now in a "formal" attire, it still didn't mean that Quote would actually try to be civil once they get to see the consuls that Virgilia mentions about. Did he actually care if he did something out of line or not?...well...Quote didn't really care on anything rather than making sure he was entertained all of the time. Despite his "formal" get-up, Quote only frolicked on the ramp, having the derpiest face he could actually make.

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BGM - Solaris (phase 1) *still playing*

Being overwhelmed by the attacks, Alius saw that some parts of his replicated parts of EMBR's body was starting to fall apart, slightly revealing the weakspots which was Alius's shadowy Essence. Quickly, Alius activated the shield mode of the hybrid weapon, holding it out to the air as it started to generate a plasma force field around him. As if waiting for the others to do something, Alius waited for the right time to attack using this force field generated from his shield mode weapon.

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In a sudden attempt to guard himself, Yasu summoned several Shadow Replicas to take his place from those attacks, but as they didn't last that long, he was soon caught in the finisher from Midori. Yet, he was still conscious, as this was taking place in the place of his own origins. Somewhat like a coward, Yasu summoned many Shadow Primes around her, and then disappeared form sight somewhere in the depths of the After World that he would only know.

BGM - DYE (2012 remaster)

"He's mine!!!!" Kaika exclaimed as she took the opportunity to dash towards Yasu, her sword charged to the brim with spiritual energy as she began a deadly omnislash towards him. At this point, it seemed like she was that close to forcing Yasu out of Sota's body at this rate, from the sheer amount of pure energy she was using in each attack. The final slash of energy was that much of energy, that it actually exploded upon contact with Yasu's body, the Shadow Essence of Yasu actually depleting from the hit and causing him to collapse to the ground like a ragdoll. From the large exertion of energy, Kaika fell to her knees in exhaustion, stabbing her sword into the ground to keep herself balance from falling to the ground herself. "I...I...I did it..." she mumbled with tired breaths, thinking that she really done it against the demon Yasu.

Just when she could feel the energy of Sota returning to the surface of his external body, Kaika cringed in pain as a shadowy blade impaled her right through her heart, the shadowy blade coming from an open wound on Yasu's/Sota's arm. Apparently, she felt the pain of her heart being infected or influenced by the darkness energy, as if she were really going to die. Maybe...maybe this was her fated death, to be killed by the unconscious body of her boyfriend...

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"I was supposed to be on an island called Rokkenjima, with my family...we were interested to figure out what happened on that island on October of 1986. What happened there is called the "Witch's Legend Serial Murders Incident," where the entirety of 18 people were all slaughtered in two days. Still to this day, no one really knows what happened, but my family was given the opportunity to check the island for anything, since many of my relatives are investigators. And here I am, I'm not sure how I got here, I just fell asleep after the first day on the island..." Tris said to Free, explaining what happened before she even got here. If she even explained what else before that, there wouldn't be anything to talk about as she had a very "boring" life.

Hiro saw Kaika get stabbed. Anger rushed through her as she allowed her demon side to take over her eyes flashing red. "You will pay for that!" She growled as she chanted and a ring of fire formed around her cutter in a shape of some sort. She lept into the air and when the ring turned into a few a heavy stream of fire rushed at Yasu. She did not want to lose another friend having lost so many ....

BGM: Planning to get the treasure

Suzaku in the boat

"Don't say such strong words, it makes you look weak!" said Suzaku with the brightest smile she got, she didn't knew witches could be easily angered, to the point of getting threatned by the slightest snark, actually, since they are always full of themselfes, she thought they wouldn't even bother, and to take things way too serious, but then again, boredom is their weak point, and that Suzaku can be annoying as hell. "Well, i want to see this until the very end, so i'll behave." she said jumping from the boat, she was lazy to walk down the ramp, now donning a simple white dress and holding a bouquet ((The same one from before Spartan)) . "You lead the way Giilia!" said Suzaku finally nicknaming Virgillia.

BGM: Sadness

Vs Yasu

"Don't worry about me, someone is in a condition worse than mine." said Midori as she went to fight the Shadow Primes by herself. "K-KAIKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Hibiki screamed, and rushed to where her friend was, Kaguya had it with waiting and rushed alongside Alfimi to heal Kaika the best they could.

Vs Alius

"Gasp!" Lyna had a bad feeling, it was the feeling of a life passing away. "L-Lyna?" Hayate asked puzzled. "There's someplace i have to go, permission to leave the Red Night." said Lyna. "O-okay, we'll meet you later." said Hayate as she granted permission for Lyna to leave the Dimension. "Her face...it seemed like something really bad happened." said Vita. "I know..." Hayate closed her eyes, she wanted to cry right now, but, more tragedies would happen if Alius isn't stopped. "Ditzy! Let's finish this and go after Lyna!" Vita declared as she changed her hammer to Raketenform again, it was the weapon she usually used to break barriers. "Understood." said Amita as she backed off, letting Vita do the attacking. "Raketenhammer....PIECE THROUGH!" Vita said as the rocket powered hammer made her flew even faster than the last time she used it, as well as getting stronger power, Vita swinged her hammer at Alius barrier, making pressure on it in order to break it.

Mephilia and Cruxis (How to Duel in Discode)

* = Red Truth / ° = Blue Truth

"... *That leads for the death by brain injury.* *However, it has been stated before that it was murder, which eliminates this possibility.* Unless you give me something that will make me believe that it wasn't a murder, *my absoltue Red Truth will deny your arguments!*", Cruxis said, trying to attack Lerafa.

BGM: Death (from stupefaction)

"*Denied! No Blue Truth in Lerafa's Reasoning mentioned any means of accidental death. Therefore, your Red Truth is INVALID!*", Mephilia countered his Red with her Red. "Oh, so this is now a 2x1? You know full well, Mephile, *that there is no 2x1 in a Discode game!*", Cruxis attacked. A two versus one was impossible in a Discode game, yet Stella had already broken that rule when she fought him with Charr at another Discode game. That would made the rule invalid, but there were two things considered. First, Mephilia is an Inquisitor, she had to follow the rules of Discode full. Second, Lerafa was stating facts about that battle between he and his sister. It had to be her or Lerafa. "... *Red Truth was ACKNOWLEDGED. Moving player position. Mephilia Divinae, from PLAYER becomes the game's JUDGE. Intermedio. Phase: CULPRIT comprovation. PLAYERS: Cruxis Divinae vs. Lerafa Oliver. JUDGE: Inquisitor Mephilia Divinae. BLITZ!", Mephilia pronounced the rules with her authority. She was now a judge, not anymore a player. But as such, she could change the facts in the murder, as such deny and Blue/Red Truth shot by both of them.

"INFORMATION and DESCRIPTION:

Murder LOCATION: Basement
DEATH by: Stab in the neck, medulla oblongata DESTROYED.
Present PEOPLE at the TIME: Butler, 2nd Butler, Waitress, Head Chef, Brother, Sister
CULPRIT: to be SENTENCED."

The words coming from her floated into the air between Cruxis and Lerafa. Cruxis seemed ready to crush his opponent on the ground. By his actual time, Mephilia had to be the jude, Lerafa had the authority as an Inquisitor given by her, but he didn't knew what he should do. "You know the basics. In a Discode game, everything spins about mystery, a False Shadow's favorite genre. Point out all that you can.", she said to him, instructing the system adopted by False Shadows, lovers of the mystery genre. "Blue Truth! °The one who killed the victim was the Head Chef! He was the only one that could have killed it, the knives were in his possession!°", Cruxis spoke. It was the most obvious to happen, so he decided to eliminate it first.
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Reimu Hakurei (VS Alius' Essence)

BGM: Maiden's Capriccio ~ Dream Battle still playing

Reimu felt that Lyna left. She was worried, just like the others, but she knew that something must be done. "I'm sorry, but I'll deal with you quickly.", her voice echoed. Knowing the price, Reimu returned to reality, summoned eight Yin-Yang orbs and shot her amulets at the eyes. She knew that Alius would call more, so she left those orbs there and continued alternate between dream and reality, leaving more orbs and shooting amulets.
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Magio Toadstool (The Battle against Yasu)

Magio passed by the battler. He was going to ignore it, but his senses as a Core led him to something. That demon... he's possessing that girl's boyfriend!, he said. As soon as he thought that, Kaika was killed by Yasu. Without even thinking, Magio removed his staff and walked towards the battle.

BGM: Worldend_dominator

"... Healing Spirit "Moonlit Moderation".", he used a Spell Card. Kaika was bathed in a bright blue light, her body and heart being fixed. Magio knew that darkness continue to spread over into Kaika, but that is something he wouldn't control. He didn't had the permission to do so. Without any fear, bathed by an inconsequential sense of "justice", Magio took the front, pointing the staff at Yasu. "... Come on.", he said. A magic circle formed behind Magio as light drawed towards him. The flying orbs became blades. Many, almost innumerable blades appeared, all near Magio. Without moving an inch, he ordered the blades to fly at Yasu. "... Don't involve others in your own schemes. If you want to fight, then leave him alone and come here by yourself!", Magio said.

BGM - Xion's Theme

Kaika's body was starting to lose the energy that gave her life, but she slowly pulled out the Spirit Shard hidden in the white bandaging around her leg. From what she could see, her Spirit Shard's soul flame was starting to dim, the flame losing it's beautiful brightness that made Kaika's soul stand out from the rest. This is it?...I'm...I'm going to die now? Kaika thought as she heard the others come and try to save her life, but she knew that fate wasn't going to allow that to happen. When Kaika made the Spiritual Pact with Miki, she was tied to one fate only, and this was her fate, and she couldn't bypass her fate or else she would had been dead 2 years ago when the pact was made. Shedding a single tear, Kaika regretfully closed her eyes, holding the dying Spirit Shard to her chest. This was going to be the end of her story, and the regret began to wash over her as she never really did much to protect the ones she's lost already or that she'll fail to protect the ones she still has since she's going to die now. Slowly opening her eyes again, just before she would inevitably lose her sight, she saw that her sight was already dimming, she could barely make out who was nearest to her, and that was soon to be her hearing. It was time that she will finally suddenly succumb to her fate.

As everyone was rather distracted by Kaika's sudden fatal injury and her eventual upcoming death, Yasu was ready to end this petty fight once and for all, taking flight into the sky with the help of his bony wings. Raising his scythe into the sky, the weapon was being powered up by the many essences of the Shadow Replicas and corrupted souls. It would only be a few minutes before Yasu would ensure that Kaika and possibly the others nearest to her will be dead.

Why can't I do anything else now?...as much as fate wants me dead....there's so much I could do to help.... Kaika thought, and then remembered something. Her Lifestream, she still had at least one more use of that power, but then that would also end with her dead. No, she didn't want to be a coward and live, but die with at least the memory that everything is settled.

"No....I don't want to die....not now...." Kaika spoke with a raspy voice, tightening her grip on her Spirit Shard as she struggled to at least sit up from where she laid, blood dripping from her open chest wound. "....I.....want to at least....die with....the final say....." Kaika said with a lot more force in her voice, and then her eyes widened with sudden persistence to live for a bit more,"Lifestream!!!"

BGM - Light of the Worlds

Like an eruption, Kaika's body was surrounded in the purest of energy, given at least some time left on her remaining lifespan from the many spirits of the past Pact Bearers before her. Even if there was some people around her as the energy burst out of her, the energy was that controlled that the energy did not harm any of Kaika's allies, and even felt like it was refilling them with energy that originated from Kaika herself. Yasu only gave an interested smile at this, as if he was finally getting a challenge out of the Pact Bearer, but swung his scythe at them below and an arc of dark energy was sent down from sky and towards them. The moment they would be struck by the fatal attack, Kaika's golden broadsword appeared from the developing pure energy and easily broke through Yasu's attack.

"Not even close Yasu...I'll tell you this...I will save Sota from your possession, even if it means that I'll die in the process..." Kaika's voice could be heard as the energy around her disappears, revealing that she had a new outfit* and that she wielded a second sword besides her golden one, and this second sword appeared like a rapier made out of light energy. This was Kaika's Lifestream form, the strongest form that a Pact Bearer can achieve, and since her affinity was Life Energy, this was the strongest Lifestream form out of the many other variations of it. The remaining energy around Kaika morphed into the form of angelic wings. Knowing how much time I have with the Lifestream, I have only 15 minutes to force Yasu out of Sota's body, and then after that...I'm dead... Kaika thought as she waited for Yasu to make his move.

"That's what I like to hear from you, I've been waiting for this for a long time Kaika!" Yasu said as he charged up his scythe with the most deadly kinds of darkness he could conjure up together, diving down from the sky and towards Kaika.
(*the outfit is pink instead of black)

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Alius's eyes widened as the barrier that he made from the replicated weapon was broken that easily. Desperate, Alius puts together a last ditch effort, but knew he couldn't die since every time he's killed, he would be sent back into the After World in dormancy for thousands of years. Exiting out of the replicated body of EMBR, Alius was once again that formless mass of shadows.

"S҉̷͝҉a͏҉̸̸̕y̷̵͟͢͜ ̛́ỳ͟͟ò̶͘͟u̡̡͝͡͝r͢͟ ҉͜͞͞͞p̷͝r͝͝a̸͞͝y̡͡e͏̷̛̕r͘͜s̨̀͘!͟͏͢ ̢͢S̴̴h̛̛͢͜à͟͡͏t͘͢͏t̷̶͢e̛̕ŗ̴̡́͜ ̸̨̧̡̨u̡̕͟͠ṕ͘ón̕͟͟͜҉ ̴̀͜͏t҉̵̡͡ḩ̴é̛̛ ͟p̵̨̀͘͜r̀͠͞͡o͞͏̸҉͟w̴͘͜e͏͢͝͡s̴͘͢͠ś͘ ̴͢ó͞f̷͡ ̴̛̀̕t̷͠h̡̛͠e̷͜͝ ҉҉̢̧o͟r̷̀͟͠i̵̡͟͞ģ̨́į͘n̛͡a̢͝͝l̷͟ ̷̸̢̨S̶̵̡̡̀h̨͢a̢͘͘d̡͢͟͠ó̴̧͘͝w̷̧͜ ̸͘͝R̨e̢̛p̵̷̡͜l̛͠i̸͠͡c̴̨ą̀͡!͢͜҉̵" Alius's voice was quite distorted in shadow form as she began to expand her shadows everywhere there was in the Red Night, red eyes appearing everywhere with a glowing and piercing effect. Just like that, the red eyes began to emit many blasts, beams, and even explosions of Shadow Essence energy.

Back with Reimu, the red eyes would only multiply back once a single one was destroyed. The same kind of attacks came from the red eyes, releasing as many kinds of blasts, beams, and explosions from Shadow Essence energy.

Hiro smirked when Kaika seemed to have one last ditch effort. Her attack was useless it seemed. She could only watch now but the moment Yasu got the upper hand she would end it with Cutter.

Anna sighed."I'm lost again.." She had walked into the forest unprepared once more driven by the want to find her sister.

The mere mention of the word 'witch' from Tris causes Free's left hand to ball up.in a fist though it dissipates quickly. "Witches causing you trouble two" Free said to Tris implying that he has had trouble with witches.

When Kaika got stabbed in the heart it was traumatizing for Trey who was only seventeen. He didn't even know her but he felt like he had just let a friend die without doing anything to help. He had fallen to his knees unable to process anything that was happening. He didn't even know that Kaika was technically still alive. Trey's Swampert and Electrode were still with him awaiting orders but due to the shock from the event he was unable to give them orders.