I mean... come on!
Again... with that damn attack...
Zeus using it, Joro using it. Is this some sort of sick joke?
I wasn't even annoyed anymore. I was beyond that. It made me so mad to see everybody frozen... and I couldn't even react properly.
Ken, who I thought to be dead, came out and saved my life before being frozen. I don't even know if Lolo died from this, so after believing my friends died, just to see one come back, and die again... was that a joke?
I mean, honestly!
Yggdrasil has a twisted fucking sense of humor.
Is this a joke?
You can't be serious...
I feel myself going insane.
I can't think straight.
My head is flying.
I don't want to be here anymore.
But I don't feel bad about it.
I don't feel bad about myself.
I kind of want to ditch the staff and rip apart Zeus's body limb for limb. I don't want him alive anymore. But I don't want to instantly end his life.
"What, cat got your tongue?" Zeus asked me.
I sat in silence, refusing to respond to him.
Should I use it? I'm going to use it...
I can't even take this anymore. I don't care about my surroundings... and I shouldn't. I can't even use my Limit Breaker anymore.
I can't use it.
I can't do anything...
Yggdrasil, if you can hear me... can you reverse time... just this once?
Who am I kidding, begging a God who doesn't care about me... that's right, Zeus just killed everybody who cares about me. Shima and I would live alone for the rest of our lives now... but I just can't forgive him for that.
I set Shima down on the ground and pat her on the head.
"Go far away from here... okay? I will come to find you... but don't wait for me if I don't show up by the end of the day. Find Dex and stick with him." I told her.
"No! No die!" Shima said to me.
"Shima... I'm just worried about you getting hurt." I told her while looking down at her.
She latched to my leg and climbed up to my shoulder again.
"No worry! Die together!" She told me.
I nodded with a slight smile and focused on Zeus.
I don't care anymore.
I took the top off of a potion and pointed it toward my mouth while simultaneously pointing my blood-primed staff at Zeus.
"[CANNON]!!!" I shouted out.
A big, blazing inferno of mana shot out at high speeds after being enhanced with my blood and sped up with [Dismanip]. The inferno connected with Zeus and a bright blaze of light shot all over the battlefield... but the most interesting thing about the hit was the melting ice underneath us.
And my mana and health were the same.
I looked all around, wondering why the Limit Breaker I stole from Joro didn't damage me at all...
I looked worried at Shima to see her, but she was fine as well.
Then... that wasn't a Limit Breaker?!
"[CANNON] [CANNON] [CANNON]!!!" I shouted out three times, enhancing them all with my surplus of mana and effectively melting the ice underneath Zeus's position.
I used the [Ember], [Ashes], and [Ignite] combo in tandem with the [Cannon] ability and they all struck Zeus at the same time, but when I used the [Dismanip] skill on [Cannon], the skill was enhanced into a flaming tornado.
I had a terrible idea.
"I ran right underneath Zeus and held up [Titan's Wand], spewing the name of random skills toward him.
"[SCRAMBLE]!" Was the first one I used. He tried to speak, but his words came out slurred.
"[FREEZE]!" Was the first random skill I tried to use. If there was any skill named Freeze and it worked, I could defeat Zeus like that... but nothing was working.
Think Anima! What are some names of skills you would know?! I played a ton of video games... why can't I think of any?! What is that basic skill all games have...
Zeus launched an [Bullet] at me and I smiled as I remembered.
"[PARRY]!" I shouted out.
The [Bullet] hit the tip of my staff, turned orange, and is enhanced with the blood and [Dismanip] that I had activated. The skill hit Zeus and a weird, glass-like shield broke around him.
The ice was nearly melted all around me, meaning the Fuki started to move again. That's all I needed! Just him!
"[CANNON]!" I shouted out again, shooting the skill right at Zeus. He dodged it, but the [Bullet] and [Beam] skill I launched connected with him and hit him. Instead of floating like he normally did, Zeus hit the ground violently, landing while holding his side.
Fuki stood by my side once more and smiled.
"Not a bad idea... so, what are we going to do with him?" Fuki asked me.
I threw my staffs to the ground and walked over to Zeus.
"What are you doing, Anima?!" Fuki asked me. He tried to reach out for me, but I dodged his hand as I continued.
"I grabbed Zeus by his collar and pulled his face close to mine.
"Ono. I know you're in there. You tell me right now, you give me a reason to save you, and I will." I told him.
"Ono isn't here... it's just me, you bastard." Zeus told me.
Zeus stabbed me in the stomach with a knife and launched me back toward Fuki again.
I pulled out the knife and used [Blessing] on myself to heal the wound, on top of drinking a potion.
"What the hell was that?!" Fuki asked me in surprise.
"Doesn't matter. We're killing him. Do not hold back anymore. That isn't Ono, and he didn't make himself known." I told Fuki. I held up my staffs and readied them with more of my blood while looking at Zeus.
"Can we end this annoying ass fight already?" Zeus asked me.
"I was thinking the same thing." I told him.
"Fuki, I'm going to use my Limit Breaker. Get him close to the water and get the hell out of here." I told him.
This is it!
This is the final strike!