[Round Two: Black Hole Combo VS Clean Cut]
"Since I can't erase you, I'll devour you completely!"
Otoma=Raga went completely berserk. She compressed her "Divine Realm"—her "stomach"—to its limit, instantly creating thousands upon thousands of "singularity black holes" capable of devouring everything around Cloud!
Each black hole represented a universe she had consumed—a universe that had died.
"Feel the digestive power of ten thousand universes!"
Countless black holes, like ravenous beasts, bit toward Cloud with dimension-rending gravitational force.
To the spectators below, Cloud seemed to have fallen into a desperate meat grinder composed of countless black vortexes.
"This... surely this will finish him off?" Ken Masters was so nervous he forgot to fix his hair.
Yet facing this "Black Hole Combo" that would make any deity despair, Cloud merely curled his lip in irritation.
"So noisy."
He released his grip on Otoma=Raga's throat, then slowly drew a blade.
The blade had no physical form.
Its edge was composed of Satsui no Hado condensed to the ultimate limit, representing the purest "Will of Destruction."
Its hilt was composed of indestructible "Heart of the Sword," representing the purest "Conviction to Sever."
"Law Blade—Asura!"
Cloud didn't even look at those black holes—he merely swung his blade casually through the void.
This slash had no blade light, no sword qi, no sound.
But this slash severed the connection between "space" and "existence."
The next second, everyone witnessed an unforgettable scene.
Those thousands upon thousands of terrifying black holes, along with the "space" they occupied, were neatly "cut away" from this "Divine Realm" like paper snipped by scissors!
As if they had never appeared.
"You... you actually... severed space?" Otoma=Raga's voice now carried a sob. It was as if she had prepared a full imperial banquet only for her opponent to simply chop up the table.
"No!" Cloud returned the invisible blade to his body and resumed his grip on her throat. "I just felt your dinner plate had too many side dishes I didn't like, so I cleaned them up."
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[Round Three: Universe Restart VS Infinite Nesting Dolls]
"I'll take you down with me!"
Otoma=Raga completely abandoned resistance and chose the most extreme option—self-destruction!
She would detonate all her essence as a higher-dimensional being, restarting this dimensional universe along with Cloud, returning everything to the "origin" before the Big Bang!
"Return... to nothingness together!"
An indescribable force representing "ending" and "rebirth"—the light of creation—erupted from within her!
The entire "Divine Realm" began to collapse. All laws fell into chaos. The birth and death of the universe were fast-forwarded and replayed in that moment!
Below, everyone didn't even have time to scream before they began disintegrating into fundamental particles in the light of creation.
"Oh? Can't take the heat, so you're trying to format the hard drive and restart the system?"
Facing this ultimate "mutual destruction," Cloud's face showed an expression of satisfaction, as if to say "you finally used this move."
He spread his arms, allowing the light of creation to engulf him.
But he wasn't disintegrated.
Because within his body, a brand-new universe with Infinite Possibility was simultaneously unfolding!
The law of Infinite Plunder was pushed to its absolute limit!
Otoma=Raga's "universe restart" was forcibly "nested" within Cloud's "new universe"!
From everyone's perspective, they were first disintegrated into particles, then reassembled into quarks, then experienced the Big Bang, nebula formation, the birth of life...
Then they found themselves in a completely new universe. The laws of this universe seemed a bit... strange?
For instance, gravity could apparently turn into buoyancy at any time.
For instance, the speed of light seemed adjustable according to mood.
For instance, the sun in the sky kind of looked like Kula's face...
And at the center of this new universe, Cloud stood like a god, holding Otoma=Raga's "self-destructing" essence in his palm.
Her self-destruction hadn't destroyed Cloud—instead, it had become the "startup energy" for the birth of Cloud's "new universe"!
"Thank you for your generosity." Cloud looked at the light sphere in his palm, continuously releasing creation energy, and nodded with satisfaction. "You not only provided startup capital for my new home but also threw in a complete universal law template as a bonus. You're truly a good person."
"You... you... devil..."
Otoma=Raga's consciousness emitted one final, weak curse from within the light sphere.
"No, I'm not a devil." Cloud raised the light sphere high, letting it become the "eternal sun" of this new universe.
"I'm just a Sovereign... who's rather good at household management."
...
When the dust settled.
Everyone found themselves back on the lawn of KOF Mansion.
The sky was azure, the sunlight brilliant. It was as if the universe-destroying battle just moments ago had been nothing but an absurd nightmare.
Kyo Kusanagi patted himself down and found not a single injury.
Iori Yagami looked at his hands and found his purple flames unchanged.
Ken touched his head and found his hairstyle still intact.
Everything was exactly as it had been before the battle.
The only difference was that everyone now had an extra bizarre memory in their minds—of being devoured in one gulp by the final boss, then being revived as background NPCs in Cloud's new universe.
And Cloud was lounging in his exclusive beach chair, drinking juice, sunbathing, as if nothing had happened.
"Is it... over?" Chun-Li asked uncertainly.
"Mm, it's over." Cloud replied lazily. "That gourmet lady has paid the most expensive bill for her freeloading—herself."
"Then... where did she go?" Ryu asked curiously.
Cloud pointed at the sun in the sky.
"Her? She became light."
"Now she's serving as backup energy for our dimensional universe, silently shining bright somewhere in the cosmos, contributing her power to universal peace and development."
Everyone: "..."
Turning a world-ending cosmic Sovereign into a solar-powered battery?
This operation had exceeded the limits of their imagination.
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