>>5247338Golden sparks and black flames fly as her blade strikes your Stand's wing, and to your surprise actually feel that attack in your own shoulder. But you don't let it distract you, quickly reciting the words to one of the restorative miracles to heal your grievous injury. As you finish speaking again you ring your chime, the familiar warmth of the golden magic flows into your body, fixing the injury in seconds.
“That's better.” you say, and now fully-healed rise back up to your feet to face the furious woman, this time with Triumph hovering close behind you to protect against that assassin doing it again. She looks equal parts furious and afraid, taking a step back and holding her sword up between the two of you almost like a shield.
“N-No way. That's impossible!” she says, voice sounding on the verge of tears. “All these years I spent planning, and gathering these tools, for THIS?!”
“You can't win.” you reply, again taking your ready stance with the golden spear. This time you focus on it, and begin charging the blade with electricity. She takes an unsteady step back, and then another.
“No, not like this. This, this ISN'T how this ends!” she roars, again gathering Abyssal flames in her left hand and raising it overhead. “I REFUSE!”
She then swings her left fist down, striking the ground, and it immediately begins rumbling beneath your feet. Then pillars of Abyssal fire begin sprouting up out of the ground, you leaping back and taking to the air to avoid the dark firestorm. Pillars of dark fire explode up out of the ground, one after another for several seconds before the attack ends, the woman remaining on her knees on the ground. Perhaps that attack took everything she had left? Either way you refuse to get close again, instead focusing on your spear and once more summoning it's dragon-slaying lighting along the blade.
You don't say anything, and thrusting your weapon down at her fire that dragon-slaying burst of lighting. She doesn't move or even react, your lightning lance slamming down directly into her back and piercing through the woman. She groans in pain as the sparks arc throughout her body, causing her to spasm for a second, but then it's over and she begins dissolving into white mist as her ki vanishes. Now, where'd that assassin go? You look around but can't see or sense him, then feel the familiar tug of your Darkmoon Pendant drawing you home. You may have 'won', but as everything goes dark this doesn't feel much like a victory. And as you return back home, you look down at your left hand where that dark energy resides, watching it swirl and writhe idly, and a dark thought springs up in your mind: could you have SAVED her? Or did you just let her die too, just like...
Tatsu.
-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 173 Epilogue End-
