The Woman rushed towards the Witch much quicker then she had ever seen anything move. However her muscles reacted for her and blocked the oncoming attack.

Her spear blocking the downward strike from the Woman, the Witch grunting to keep her at bay. The strawhat man reloaded his bow and fired another arrow at the Woman who saw it coming and jumped up and out of the way. She landed a few paces away. The Witch and her staring down one another.

The Witch then threw her spear st the Woman who sidestepped it, only for the Witch to place her hands on the ground. The ground began to shake, the Woman looked down before jumping up and avoiding a field of spears erupting from the ground!

The Witch thrusted her hands further into the ground casuing the spears to go flying into the air, the Woman deflected the spears coming her way. Each one grazing and nearly hitting her. The Strawhat man aimed his bow and fired it hitting the Woman in the shoulder. The Woman fell backwards and landed on a spear impaling herself. The Witch looked at her with shock before running over. The Strawhat man noticed and shouted to her.

"馬鹿野郎！やめろ 何も彼女を殺せない(WAIT! IT MAY NOT BE SAFE!)" shouted the Strawhat man. Just as the Witch got there she pulled the spear out of the Woman, but as she did the Woman would reanimate back to life and take a swing with her blade. The attack cutting the Witch's stomach, leaving a ugly long gash. The Witch backed away, her hands covered in blood. She coughed a few wads of blood as she dropped to one knee. The Woman then immediately blitzed towards her and punched her in the face before grabbing her hair, the Woman raised her blade to end the Witch, but the Strawhat man shot two arrows into the Woman's hands casuing her to back away.

The Witch struggled to get up, she wiped her bloody mouth and summoned a spear in her hand. She used it to help her get up. Her eyes and the Woman's both filled with a murderous intent.

"Is this it really?" Said the Witch. Her hand gripped her spear tightly. Thats when she thought about what she said before. That word.

"Marigold." The Witch thought. The Woman then got ready to attack again, and the Witch did too as she readied her spear. The two then sprinted towards each other at breakneck speed, both of them then attacked the other. Each stabbing the other. The Witch stabbing into the Woman and the Woman into the Witch. The Witch grunted as she coughed up blood while the Woman was still standing with no effects shown.

The Witch grabbed the blade of the Woman. Coughing and spitting as she grabbed the Woman's arm and pulled herself closer to the Woman. All the way till she was at the hilt of the blade and right infront of the Woman. She then whispered into the Woman's ear.

"M...Marigold..." the Witch said before she then collapsed. The Woman's eyes then blinked, like as if she was freed from a trance. The Woman's blade then vanished in her hands. Her face returning back to normal, a face filled with curiosity and childish intuition. She then looked down and saw the Witch on the ground.

"NO! OH NO!" The Woman said as she dropped to her knees and hovered over the Witch whoes eyes were closed, blood rushing from her body and surrounding her. The Woman's face now filled with worry and sorrow at what she had done. The spear in her dissapering slowly.

"No no no no, please...not this, anything but this..." the Woman cried as touched the Witch's face gently.

"...There is something I want...

I want...

I want to save you." The Woman said with tears in her eyes. In the nearby grave the seedling the Witch had planted before began to glow a dim and gentle light.