Kim's body rose amid the vortex of darkness, the hellish wings behind him flapping as if to shatter the cosmos. Rasiel the Cosmic stood tall, his body radiating pure white light, as if every beat of it restored life to the universe.
Kim stretched out his hand, and a new page tore open in the Book of Sin:
— "Spell of Eternal Banishment!"
A wave of shadows poured forth in the shape of thousands of black arms trying to drag Rasiel into an abyss of no return.
But Rasiel drove his spear into the ground, and from beneath it a forest of light surged — trees of life-energy sprouted in an instant, their roots ripping apart every dark hand that reached toward him.
Kim lunged with insane speed, shadows cloaking his body like armor. He struck with his blazing black fist. Rasiel met it with his spear.
The explosion was like lightning; the sky split in two, half dark and half light.
— Rasiel: "All your power is the screams of the dead… my power is the very pulse of life!"
— Kim (shouting): "Then I will make death devour life!"
Behind Kim the shadows split… and the gigantic black clock emerged. Its hands spun counter to time. Each rotation slowed reality. raindrops hung frozen in the air. Even Rasiel's heartbeats seemed to slow.
Kim smiled as he launched a hundredfold flurry of strikes, as if time had become his to command. But Rasiel raised his hand, and a blossom of life burst from his body; its petals turned the clock's hands the proper way, partially shattering the black clock's effect.
— "Even time itself… will not obey you before purity."
Kim felt his blood burning. Using the Death Hands beyond the permitted duration began to steal his life. He felt his bones crack, his spirit bleed.
Amon screamed inside him:
— "Let me take control! I'll turn you into a complete monster, a walking curse!"
But Kim bit his lip until it bled:
— "I won't let you… this is my vengeance, my fight!"
In a moment, he remembered his mother's face, her voice singing to him as a child. He remembered Mari, her smile, his vow to her… His tears turned into black flame.
He roared and leapt toward Rasiel:
— "I forgot my purpose… but I will never forget their faces again! This strike… in their names!"
Kim gathered the power of the Book of Sin + the Death Hands + Amon's curse. He forged a dark spear from the souls of the dead themselves.
At the same time Rasiel summoned the cosmic spear of life at full strength. Light and darkness, death and life, collided in the center.
This explosion did not only tear the sky… it erased an entire city from existence. The place became a white-and-black void, everything fading away within it.