Servant: "L-Lord White… Fruxiya is almost out of the Holy Craptle Tower."
White (eyes widen, sharp exhale): "…Already? Which floor?"
Servant (trembling): "N-Ninety-eighth, my Lord."
White (a grin breaks, voice shaking with excitement): "Ninety-eighth… heh… Hah! I don't care who's coming anymore. I want to see how far she can go… with my own eyes!"
Hidori (clenching fists): What the hell… she's just like Flux… another monster. Just how many of them exist in this cursed era?!
Hidori (out loud, voice breaking): "B-But… Pearl, are you sure?!"
Pearl: "Yes. And… don't you dare accuse me of lying to my Lord."
Hidori: "I know… but in just one hundred years—!?"
Pearl: "Heh. Yeah. Meanwhile, it took you five hundred, remember?"
Hidori: "Tch—don't remind me!" (grits teeth, aura flaring) 💢
Pearl (smirking, skipping away): "Hehe~ then I'll get back to work. Byeee 🤭."
White (thinking, breath trembling with excitement): A four-hundred year gap… What will the one with the most potential achieve? The speed… the power… Heheh. This will be… delicious.
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Zygord (snapping fingers, appearing with static crack): "Oi White. This… Holy Craptle Tower… is it what I think it is?"
White (glare sharp, voice cutting): "Yeah, bastard. Unfortunately, you're right."
1 (from the void, growling): "Oi, Zygord. Did you forget about me… or are you ignoring me?"
Zygord (snorting, rolling eyes): "Yeah, I'm ignoring you, BITCH."
1 (aura bursts, ground cracking): "You cocky son of a—You're going too far 💢💢!"
Zygord (mock yawning): "Yeah, yeah… whatever."
1: "Do you forget your RANK, huh?!"
Zygord (shrugs, then smirks with venom): "Ugh, whatever. Just tell me why you dragged me here… Mr. Virginia Ventorio."
1 (veins popping): "Hah?! You little—"
Zygord (grins wickedly): "Nothing? Then I'll just teleport your sorry ass."
KRRRRSSH!!!
Space twists violently as Zygord disappears, reappears behind 1, and shoves him forward.
FLASH!
Both materialize before White.
1 (landing with a thud, brushing dust off, fake grin): "Yo, Pooki~"
White (face dark, voice cold): "Shut up. I'm serious right now."
Zygord & 1 (together, smirking): "You think we're not?"
Zygord (tilting head, serious for once): "But White… if you won't fight them… why? They're coming at your HOME."
White (eyes narrow, voice rumbling with disgust): "You know why. I can sense corruption."
Zygord & 1 (exchange looks): "…Corruption?"
White (gritting teeth, aura trembling violently): "Yes. I know Hiko and Piko… they're nothing. But if Hikari comes here… tch… I won't move. Not because I'm weak—"
(He glares, face twisted in disgust)
"—but because his soul is so corrupted I feel like vomiting just sensing it."
Zygord (clicks tongue): "…Tch. After that Mineko torture scene… no wonder. He's a full-blown lunatic."
1 (crossing arms, sharp nod): "Agreed. Mentally broken beyond repair."
White (turning, pointing at Hidori): "That's why. Hidori—this battle is yours. Show me your limit."
Hidori (kneels, voice trembling but firm): "Yes, my Lord! I'll slaughter him with the weight of your name!"
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Pearl (bursting in, gasping, shaking): "L-Lord White!!!"
White (turns instantly): "What happened?!"
Mike (snaps up): "Pearl, what about Flux?!"
Pearl (breath stuttering): "H-He's… he's… awake."
SILENCE.
White & Mike (in unison, eyes wide): "W-WHAT?!"
Hidori (jaw dropping, aura flickering): "Impossible…"
1 & Zygord (grinning wide, voices overlapping): "…Heh. Interesting. Perfect timing."
DOOOOOOOOM!!!!
The ground splits open as a crimson tremor surges from the depths. The air quakes, every heartbeat of Flux echoing like a cannon blast through the realm.