Fukushima asked Mikaru worrying for the worse.

" Hey Mikaru do you think that we'll be able to keep this up until we achieve your desired victory ? "

Hence Mikaru answered uncertain himself since he was merely giving it his all while praying for the best.

" Well I want to believe that we'll win, it won't be easy and it certainly hasn't been fair so far but I'll do whatever it takes and we'll exterminate all these demons. "

Then Fukushima pondered aloud.

" Now I see, the burden you've been carrying for so long, all the struggles you've endured... You survived it all because the fire inside you burned brighter than all the fire around you ? "

Hence Mikaru responded.

" Usually people can't change what's done, they can only move on but regardless of if they can or can't change things one thing is for sure... Time teaches us things that we can't learn on our own since if we match our pace with everyone else we'll never become number one, don't get me wrong though since I know that in this world no one is perfect. Even if we keep pursuing perfection, we'll never reach it. But along the way we'll burn like metal and become a great blade. "

Following that speech, a loud ringing noise began to echo throughout the room and everyone started to stare at Mikaru so he took out his smartphone from within his pocket and answered a call, while he was talking on the phone the excessive ramblings about winning seemed to have began getting to demon Mikado to the point that he was annoyed so he grumbled against them.

" Damn it, haven't you two ever heard about working in silence to make your success be the noise, try to confuse me with your silence and shock me with your actions foolish Preterhumans. You should really shut up and don't get carried away remember even salt looks like sugar sometimes, don't trust everything you see I'm a bit relaxed this time around but I'm certainly not losing.... Although I guess you should enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things, this is that day since I'm gonna kill you all again right now. "

Although the demon thought that this would cause them to worry it had infact made Mikaru smile and reply.

" It's easy to fool someone who's already fooling themselves, you see what you expect to see and that's why you didn't see this coming. "

Immediately after that was said Ahmya bursted through the door with both of her K blades in her hands with bags wrapped around them as she asked the demon.

" You hear, but are you listening, you exist, but are you living, you look, but do you see, couldn't you tell that they were merely stalling until my arrival ? "

Then she swung her arms making the K blades slash open the bags on the opposite K blade which subsequently revealed that inside the bags were fish liver and heart and because the building was already on fire the demon barely had the time to process what had happened before it landed into flames and started to burn.

And without a second's notice Ahmya suddenly began to sprint towards the demon with the K blades to end things once and for all but she was hindered when none other than Mikaru himself jumped into her way saying.

" This is... This is something that I need to handle... I should've done something about him 3 lives ago but I vow that I will defeat my father with my own hands, even if I have to knock him out, Ahmya, I'm going to win without killing him !!! "

Demon Mikado however wasn't pleased to hear that Mikaru still intended to spare him so he he blurted in response.

" I believe forgiveness is just an excuse by the weak who can't seek revenge because of their lack of strength, so hurry up and end this if you think that you can. I am too insane to explain why this is what I desire and you are too normal to understand why this must be done. "

So Ahmya sighed and handed Mikaru one of her K blades saying.

" Not to worry I've already read your minds and I can tell that there's no convincing you two otherwise so here, my K blade judges those who are hit based on a set of law called the Torah so let's do this we're going to destroy the demon without hurting your father since both witnesses would be required to confirm the testimony. "

After hearing this and receiving one of Ahmya's K blade, Mikaru grabbed her by the waist and grinned as they stood side by side glowing as they prepared for a final charge against the enemy.

Mikaru : " Thanks for this Ahmya I really appreciate it. I'm ending this hell right here and right now, father !!! "

Mikaru yelled readying his K blade as he holds Ahmya's hand while she held her K blade in her other hand and charges straight towards demon Mikado preparing to finish things, this situation obviously was bad news for demon Mikado so he quickly ponders a way he can do something about it.

Damn it, I won't be at full power because of that blasted fish heart and liver so having enough strength to stalemate is unlikely as well as having enough speed to dodge so my only option is to regenerate although I possibly won't have enough power for that either, but I could still assist in the process by stealing the necessary parts from my dying demon clones to mend in the place of mines.

However he then realized that he was currently unable to move because currently Fukushima was secretly using a shadow ability to restrict his movements so they could finally end this battle.

Fukushima : " That's enough, that's enough villain !!! "

Excited by the mere fact that he didn't appear to have any way out of this situation the demon conjured flames all around his body which burnt his black cloak away revealing to Mikaru that he was wearing a hero outfit which was infact his signature hero outfit that he last wore before he put on the demon cloak yielding to the darkness.

The academy is on fire, almost completely burnt up and collapsed at this point as rooms crumble and the surviving students cry out hoping they won't be destroyed along with it, all the while the inferno grows larger and larger burning up the very island itself.

Mikado : " Everything I'm about to tell you is a crazy person rambling, I'm the one who burnt down your home village and this island, nobody could stop me from doing this, not the Elites, the students, nor the invincible blonde hero, the heavens haven't stopped me and Izanagi haven't either. I'm the one who brought the flames of demise that drove so many to destruction and nobody can stop me, except for you sonny, I have become the ultimate villain so if you guys do manage to defeat me then that would make you the ultimate hero that saved the world, remember none of the other candidates could ever achieve anything to top this, everything I've done is to make my very own flesh and blood into the world's greatest hero !!! "

Hearing this caused Mikaru to feel a shock in his chest and a tear fell down his cheek causing Mikado to grieve, seeing Mikaru cry after hearing his whole plan made Mikado feel guilty but he knew it would happen from the very beginning and he did it anyway, and he even began to laugh like a maniac as he added.

" Watch me sonny, see me, detest me and remember me forever because my name is the nameless hero Mikado Hyroyuki, the deadly sin of Lust !!!! "

It then all came to and end because Mikaru and Ahmya finally reached him and sliced across his chest with both their blades causing a 'X' to be formed and blood immediately shot out covering them all as Mikado fell to the ground, seeing that it appeared to be over Mikaru whispered to his father.

" Why ? "

Thus Mikado answered.

" I love you. "

Then he rose his head and said aloud so everyone else could hear.

" Well done kids, your real superheroes now. Oh, by the way Mikaru how's school, are your grades alright, did you do your homework ? "

Hence Mikaru answered jokingly.

" School's okay I guess if I ignore all the times I've died, my grades are great but it's your fault that I didn't do my homework. "

As he says this a mysterious figure with curly demon horns then approaches them wearing a black cloak and says announcing to everyone that they were there.

" Hey son ? "

Chills immediately enveloped everyone in the room and Fukushima musters a desperate shout to Ahmya and Mikaru to quickly cut them down.

" I think there's another clone, to the right !? "

Mikaru then dashed towards the right and swings the K blade from the person's head to toe ripping the black cloak open, but...

Ahmya : " Wait that's not a...!!! "

The mysterious person had some odd characteristics such as their abnormally large chest that bounced when the cloak was split open, it was immediately made clear to Mikaru that this individual was infact a woman.

Mikaru : " Wait a minute something's wrong here... Uh, a woman, No way, Mom !!!??? "

Crossing her arms to prevent her breast from falling out the woman who Mikaru recognized as his mother asked.

" Uh, wait a minute, where am I ? "

Even though they had undoubtedly defeated all of Lust's vessels the mere fact that his soul was narrowly able to escape being punished by Ahmya's K blade by switching at the very last minute to another body could only possibly mean that...

Mikaru then turned around to face his friends to verify if his worries had any solid basis or if he could actually start celebrating, he knew full well that Lust was probably still at large because of the lack of any dramatic screaming or last words.

Ahmya realized that Mikaru was panicking and so she used her mind reading ability to scope out the entire academy so she could give him words of assurance, but after she was done she started to stare at Fukushima backing away towards Mikaru as she tightly gripped her K blade.

Fukushima : " Uh, there's no mistake. Ahmya confirmed it, and I can feel it myself. Inside me, there's something extraneous that doesn't belong to me. It feels, soooo disgusting. "

Fukushima asserted thus, a despairing hint that announced the present reality. The effect that [Lust's Soul] had been able to perfectly move from Mikaru's mother's body to Fukushima's before the blade could've punished his soul.

In other words, the only way to stop Lust now would be to cut down Fukushima as well since he surely wouldn't be as weak and easy to deal with as the others were just now. Realizing the current predicament Mikaru began to ponder.

" Why is Lust's Soul within Fukushima, could it be that we made a mistake ? The demon's soul, no matter who, even if they're soaked and surrounded by the vapor of fish liver and heart, as long as he wants to... "

If it were that kind of flawless ability, there existed in Lust's ability no loopholes. If he could give his soul to even hostile opponents and strangers who weren't guilty of the sin of lust, that would mean that as long as mankind lived on, a way to completely kill Lust did not exist.

Rather, if it could be that his soul could replace that of any living creature's for a short time then all hope would be...

Mikaru : " How truly shameless. "

Lust : " The worthless howls of a retreating mortal are pleasant to hear. Hahaha, no matter what I have to say. Just keep running with your strategies, searching for some ridiculous excuse only to end in your failures is the right of your loser races. And enjoying superiority while hearing them is my right as the winner... Aah, this isn't bad ! Not bad at all !!! "

Fukushima : " I didn't meet your standards for a vessel, you yourself were appalled by me earlier because of my stench in fish heart and liver, so how. "

This however amused the demon so his voice rang out from Fukushima's direction in laughter although Fukushima's mouth wasn't moving they could indeed hear the voice saying.

" So annoying, so stinky. Going on and on as if the smell is still strong enough to retain you of your own rights to this body. More importantly, how are you all planning to take responsibility for killing my previous vessels, and utterly wasting their leader, My ideal body, perhaps I should just unleash it ? "

That's when the realization hit everyone that the demon had indeed not have been able to possess Fukushima's body since that'd contradict his supposed weakness so instead the demon had hopped into the box that Fukushima was holding open to absorb it's power so he could've fought along side with Mikaru and Ahmya.

The tell that caused them to realize this was Lust's two blinking eyeballs within the box so it became clear that Fukushima only felt the discomfort because the demon was now with his power that Fukushima was borrowing from the box.

Immediately the eyes vanished from within the box as Fukushima was trying to slam it shut and in a moment's notice Fukushima had realized that Lust was standing right behind him holding his arm with the box in it, Fukushima's hand was ripped clean off and the box was now in the demon Asmodeus's possession.

Lust was now clearly filled with displeasure almost as if he was now intending on murdering every last one of them as he explained.

" How long do you think it took to create such a group of powerful clones ? How many years do you think it took while being hunted by Yuuto ? Obviously lacking anything like a body or vessel is bad news for me, did you want me to return to being sealed away in this garbage box ? Before I find a new mortal vessel, you have the obligation to join my original body with me so don't get mad about your missing arm you hear ! "

Using stern words to smack at Fukushima, full of spirit as he voiced his rhetoric Asmodeus stood behind him in the spiritual flesh since he had retained his very own physical form, his original body.

The violent murderer's reasoning reassured the belief since he was completely convinced that his Soul could indeed be sealed within the box again.

If so, the possibility of entrapping Asmodeus's soul inside the box was a very good possibility to have although he knew that they were all thinking it, hence he voiced their thoughts.

" Would you like to try ? To see if there's a way you can seal my body again ? "

Mikaru wasn't confident that they could survive these odds especially since this was his fourth time being pushed into a desperate position like this, all in a row aswell, and he was right since the demon had at last attained his final goal so he was bound to have something new up his sleeves.

Mikaru : " It's a... difficult hand. There's the chance it could turn into a repeat of my previous loops. But...... if we could have at least one more card then ? "

Fukushima : " That conspicuous remark you just made...... mind telling me what it meant ? "

Mikaru : " The Joker, right ? It's a simple story. If I let him come in right away, my victory and survival would've been pretty much overlooked, so I cleverly asked him to make a delivery so he would be stalled for a bit. "

Lust didn't care much about anything they were planning at this point since he had regained his original body so he was certain he could handle what he deemed to be fragile creature with feeble minds, so he sprouted black tentacles from his body that stretched towards them so he could end their suffering once and for all.

But his sensitive ears picked up on something odd something fast, he had heard the hasty footsteps of someone approaching and squinting his eyes he halted his tentacles right before it reached them and he redirected them towards the sound of the footsteps thus everything in that path exploded all the way to the edge of the academy island.

Seizing the opportunity Fukushima quickly prodded Mikaru with his remaining hand before giving him a signal to grab his mother so everyone could run while they still could, but...

But someone who had been on the direction of the explosion, was simply standing in the smoke as if nothing had happened, and explosion that had spread from the destroyed room that they were at in the academy to the very edge of the island that the academy was on didn't even seem to faze them even though Lust had vaporized every building in that direction and yet...

Preceded by the sound of footsteps, a new character walked into the room from out of the smoke. And,

???? : " ...Sorry I'm late. "

One sentence. And that utterance alone charged its listeners with the feeling of being reinforced by ten thousand Preterhumen. Alongside the sensation of a gust of wind sweeping by that cleared the smoke as the person spoke, was the illusion of a towering man appearing before their eyes, compelling their hearts to shudder.

And in reality, this reunion did indeed hold the kind of power Mikaru had hope for... The strength that they have been dying to obtain, the final card that Mikaru had referred to as the joker had just arrived.

Yuuto : " Mikaru... It's a bit late since there was a bit of distraction before I could had returned a fan of mine to his mother, but I've come to join you all in battle. "

Saying this, the blonde haired golden costumed hero announced his intention to join the fight and the tone of the room all changed.

END OF CHAPTER.

A/N :

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