After Notokawi picked his location, which was a dry mountain with the sky green and gloomy. Moto and Nate immediately ran to him but Notokawi easily dodged and broke the Zenith sword. With the fusion guardian killed with the sword, Moto defused with Marco.
Without nutrients, Marco lay on the ground skinny, bald, and a shadow of his former self. He was dead.
Permanently.
Moto sat over Marco and slowly unbuttoned his shirt took it off and dropped it on Marco's head. "Rest well," Marco said before rushing to Notokawi.
He tried to grab him but it didn't work. He looked at his hand and saw bruises everywhere.
"You dumbass, you really thought you'd get your powers back after just defusing? I don't know anything about it but it should be common sense!"
Notokawi looked at Rin and Nate, frozen in place, waiting for his next move.
Then they ran, both of them. Not out of strategy, but as a way to distract him because they knew they were finished. They were facing the gates of hell and it was ready to swallow them whole.
It felt light, like running on light. They got farther and farther away. Rin looked at Nate with a smile. "We might make it! We're losing him!"
"I can't believe it; I feel like I'm running on feathers, like running up stairs to heaven." Nate said, grinning. He already had started to unbuckle his shirt and take it off."
"What'd you do that for?" Rin asked, laughing.
"It felt heavy, of course! It was probably cursed because I felt like I was going to fall!"
"Yeah! Because they are, we've been laughing so much I haven't noticed my ankle is broken." Nate didn't look at Rin's injuries but instead ran faster, continuing to last. "Well, it's been fun seeing you! Guess I'm living!"
Nate ran ahead of Rin while a hand slapped Rin and it fell to the ground, leaving his decapitated body to stand there until it fell.
[finishing]
Notokawi looked at Nate and smiled, knowing he had won. he held one hand out, ready to put him down but he couldn't; it came clean off before he could even blink…
There was nobody around him; he felt no presence, nothing that could've possibly cut his hand clean off like this.
"Show your face. " Notokawi said quietly, "Weird." He thought he would be freaking out; he had only one hand now, but he was calm like it didn't matter at all.
Multiple more cuts were all over his body all instant and random and unpredictable. Still, Notokawi stood still, looking at his missing hand. He heard a huff, like a wolf or something human but inhumane. He looked to his side, pretending he wasn't aware it was Moto but he didn't look like Moto at all; he looked normal but his arms were covered in a black substance with claw hands. A bit more beefy and buff.
"Foolish dumbass," Notokawi thought. He would slice his head off, and then it'd be the end of this. He turned around to kill him and grabbed his head. Notokawi smirked and looked back at the corpse, which wasn't a corpse; it was still standing.
The head was replaced with a black ball, which formed into a head. It looked like a wolves head but it was completely black with glowing white eyes of flame.
"Who the hell are you?" Notokawi yelled, backing up. He had never felt this terrified in his life. "I'll keep hitting you; I'm strong, you know! And how did you even get those powers? I know I added a sauce that made you angrier to everything you ate and drank, but I didn't know it could do this!"
Notokawi smirked; anger made you sloppy and this was a perfect opportunity to make Moto sloppy.
"You know, the reason why you abused Marco is actually very simple. I sneaked sauce into everything you consumed that made you angrier by the day. And also I killed basically all of your friends."
Notokawi was so confident he had the audacity to smirk smugly and cross his arms which he hated and which was why he did it.
Then Moto, with all his might, shoved it into the tip of a finger and in an instant shoved it into Notokawi's head. This would drain all his power but it was worth a shot. All the force went throughout his body, and unable to hold it all in, he exploded.
Nate was on the ground a few seconds after Rin died and was one of the few people to survive this event known as the Great Expansion. When Notokawi exploded, all the force that was in him released out into the world, splitting it.
One moment he was on rock-solid ground; the next he was holding onto a rock that was traveling throughout reality seeing other universes and memories being created before his very eyes and a big flash of light blinded him.
The theory is that when the universe got broken from the explosion, it tried to fix itself and doing that, it expanded from one infinite world to an infinitely growing amount of universes and realities forever and ever.