>>5677959“Grasp Heart!” you call, a phantasmal heart appearing in your hand. Which you immediately crush, the clock on your back beginning to tick down. And the self-proclaimed god before you simply smirks.
“Really? Do you think crushing my heart will kill me?” he asks, sounding rather smug. So you decide to let him in on a little secret.
“It's over. In less than ten seconds now, regardless of time being stopped thanks to my immunity, my Instant Death magic will kill you.” you say with a grin, then add your favorite quote from an ancient show you'd discovered back in your first life. “<span class="mu-i">Omae wa mou, shindeiru</span>.”
Kars's eyes widen in shock, the clock ticking down another second in the silence before he takes off at full speed, blitzing towards the back of the room.
“Run all you want, you cannot flee far enough! My Temporal Lock spell keeps you from teleporting from this place.” you call out to the being as he flees. “You will die in this vault, a victim of your own greed, Kars.”
And you stay there between Kars and the only(presumably) door of this place, casting a few defensive measures just in case he decides to try and break past you. The time ticks down, but still you don't see the man. Ten seconds, eleven seconds, twelve.
<span class="mu-i">BONG</span>
The clock on your back strikes 12, your Grasp Heart spell going into effect. You can feel it take hold, the magic not fizzling out and feel that the arrogant, self-proclaimed god must have succumbed. So you start heading deeper into the vault, only for an alarm to suddenly ring out.
“Time must have resumed.” you mutter to yourself, walking in deeper into the vault. But before you can even take two steps, suddenly an alarm rings out and some sort of gas starts getting pumped into the vault. “Hrmm. Seems he broke into a case to get his prize before dying, setting off the alarms once time resumed. Well, better retrieve the body. Just to be sure.”
And as you walk deeper in, sure enough after a few moments you find the body of Kars laying on the ground. But, to your complete and utter shock, standing above Kars's dead body and holding an odd-looking staff with the gemstone Kars described earlier atop it is <span class="mu-i">ANOTHER</span> Kars, identical to the first! What in the hell is going on here?
-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 197 Intermission End-
