The final moments of the battle were a blur of desperate motion and flashing steel. Jaune, battered and bloody, stood defiant, his breath coming in ragged gasps. The ground around them was a graveyard of knives, a testament to Sakuya's relentless assault. She loomed over him, a silhouette of victory against the fading light.
"It's over," she said, her voice a cold whisper. "Your girls won't save you now."
But Jaune's resolve was unbreakable. "It's never over," he spat, his voice laced with a fierce determination. "Not while I have my girls with me. We will defeat you."
Sakuya simply smirked, her silence more menacing than any threat. She raised her hand, and more knives materialized, shimmering with deadly intent. This was it the end.
But then, a new voice, a new presence, shattered the tense silence.
"WWWRRRRYYYYYYY!"
Sakuya's head snapped around. A figure stood on a nearby rooftop, striking a theatrical pose. The girl no, the woman had short, blond hair, a dark jacket, and an unmistakable aura of sheer, unadulterated arrogance. Sakuya's eyes widened in recognition.
"You!" she hissed. A surge of both annoyance and dread washed over her. It was a "Female Dio."
"It is I, Dio!" the woman declared, her stand, a ghostly, muscular figure, appearing behind her.
"I can see her stand. Good, Sakuya" thought, her mind racing.
"Too bad for you, I'm a vampire hunter."
She pulled out a pocket watch. "Killing Doll," she muttered, and the storm of knives that had been poised to strike Jaune now arced through the air, their trajectory shifted to the new target.
"Useless! Useless! Useless!" Dio's stand screamed, a flurry of rapid-fire punches turning the knives into harmless shrapnel.
Then, they locked eyes, a silent agreement passing between them. Two titans, two manipulators of time.
"Za Warudo!" they both roared in unison.
Time fractured, then stopped. The world froze in place.
"Light Speed - C. Ricochet," Sakuya said, a single knife leaving her hand. It bounced off a lamppost, a fire hydrant, and a brick wall, each ricochet altering its course before it finally embedded itself in Dio's shoulder.
"Lucky shot," Dio grumbled, pulling the blade out without a hint of pain. She charged, her stand ready to deliver a blow, but was stopped by an invisible barrier that shimmered into existence just before the punch connected.
"Now you see me, now you don't. Vanishing Everything," Sakuya said, her voice echoing in the still world. She vanished, reappearing behind Dio, a blur of motion. With a single, impossibly fast cut, Dio's left arm was severed. As the limb fell, time resumed for Dio alone, freezing her in a moment of excruciating, isolated pain.
"Your five seconds are up, I suppose," Sakuya said, walking slowly towards the now-helpless Dio. "It's over. Eternal Meek."
The world blinked.
Time resumed.
A thousand cuts, a thousand slices Dio was no longer a person but a cloud of mist and blood, a gory mosaic on the pavement.
"No! Dio!" Jaune's heartbroken scream filled the air.
"It's your turn now," Sakuya said, her gaze shifting to the one remaining target. She teleported above him, her blade glinting in the faint moonlight "Eternal Meek!"
He was sliced, just like Dio, but somehow, he clung to life.
"Oh, you live through that? Well then, let's end this."
A dozen muskets materialized around Jaune, their barrels aimed directly at him.
"Feuer!"
Jaune's desperate cry was a final act of defiance. "Eve, activate shield!"
A blue bubble of energy flared into existence, protecting him from the volley of lead.
[Jaune, the shield will only hold for a minute! We need to escape now!]
"I know, but with her time powers, I can't," he groaned, his voice weak. "She even killed Dio... my most powerful summon."
[I know! But the rest of the girls are either dead or heavily injured. We must escape now!]
"I can't just leave them behind, you know that, Eve."
[We have no other choice, Jaune!] the system pleaded.
He hesitated, his mind a maelstrom of indecision. That moment was all Sakuya needed. She charged, shattering the weakening shield with a single kick that sent him flying.
"That bubble was weak," she mused.
"Perhaps I should test out that other skill..."
Jaune staggered to his feet, his body screaming in agony, blood dripping from his head and chest. He instinctually readied his shield, preparing to block the next blow. But Sakuya didn't attack. Instead, she summoned a clone of herself. This one wore a cowboy outfit, a long brown coat, black pants, and a dark hat. She held a flintlock pistol and a golden coin.
"I am in your walls!" the clone declared, her voice a sinister echo.
She tossed the coin into the air and shot it. The bullet ricocheted, a blur of motion, hitting the wall and then Jaune's back. As he stumbled, the main Sakuya was there.
"Eternal Meek."
The final blow landed. Jaune's vision went black.
[Jaune, no! Don't die on me! Please!] the system pleaded in his mind, but it was already too late.
A transparent window, visible only to Sakuya, appeared in the air.
[Name: Jaune Arc
Race: Human
HP: 0 / 900,000]
The numbers flickered and died. A final, excruciating wave of agony washed over Jaune before his consciousness faded completely.
[System Update
Reincarnator 1
Reincarnator 2 has been eliminated.
Continue to eliminate the last Reincarnator.]
A smirk crept onto Sakuya's face. "Good. One more target. And he's in Beacon."
But a sudden, familiar voice shattered her triumph. She turned, her eyes widening in disbelief. It was the cowboy clone, still holding her pistol, now standing a few feet away.
"Now then," the clone said, "what now?"
"Eh?!" Sakuya uttered, her confident facade cracking as a wave of confusion washed over her.
The bodies of the dead and injured anime girls, their forms shimmering with ethereal light, began to dissolve into vibrant motes of energy. Just as quickly, the golden orb that was once Jaune Arc's body joined the swirling mass. All of the energy flowed towards Sakuya, who stood in the center of the clearing, her own body bathed in a soft glow. The combined energies swirled around her before being absorbed, one by one.
"Wow, I feel stronger," Sakuya said, a satisfied grin spreading across her face.
A system notification flashed in her mind, visible only to her.
A system window, invisible to all but her, shimmered into view
[Power Increased: 45.3%. New Power Unlocked.]
Sakuya hummed in thought. "Nice. But wait, does this mean I get stronger when I kill people?" A new line of thought formed. She hadn't received any experience points from the monsters she had killed earlier. "Wait, I almost forgot. The monsters didn't have souls. So, if I kill a being with a soul, I get stronger."
"Hey! Are you listening?" The voice, sharp and with a distinct Texan drawl, cut through her thoughts. A clone of Sakuya, wearing a cowboy hat and a worn duster, stood before her with a hand on her hip.
Ah, sorry. Wait... you're still here?" Sakuya asked, genuine surprise in her voice.
"Clones were supposed to vanish after a short time." she thought then the clone spoke
"Yeah, I am. So what?" the cowboy clone said, her expression bored.
Sakuya's grin returned. "You know what? I'm sending you back."
"Eh, I don't care," the clone replied with a shrug.
The cowboy clone's form began to shimmer, turning transparent before fading completely.
"So my clones can stay as long as they want. Neat." Sakuya mused, a new plan forming in her mind. "I guess I can summon an infinite number of clones."
Her thoughts were interrupted by the wail of sirens, growing louder and closer. Multiple police cars skidded to a stop, their lights flashing and illuminating the dark forest.
"Hands in the air, now!" a cop shouted, his weapon pointed directly at her.
"noise complain? " Sakuya said with a sigh, raising her hands into the air.
A/n: as you can with sakuya new clone i took inspiration from ultrakill