"I guess when you put it that way, she seems back to her human state."
Dr. Sneer converses with his assistant about Felia's current state.
"What should we do?"
"Let's continue our research, this might be our first sight seeing this."
Dr. Sneer somehow knew that this is connected to the last protagonist and the mask missing from his own lab, the one that Dr. Sneer worked the most.
Dr. Sneer is a researcher led by Professor Cthulhu from the ancestry of virology from another world through human experimentation from different kinds of scientific basis, turning people into a valuable asset of the SK Foundation.
He has been successful with the help of SK Virus to develop their abilities into something far beyond their imagination.
Moreover, he is a medical doctor that worked with over 4 years of experience, which is why he is assigned to take care of the successful experimentation of patients.
Rummaging his pocket sees a syringe containing SK Virus, he injects it through her skin of Felia, but the effects were detrimental to Felia's body and interesting to acknowledge a new form of virus, it has the same effect but any sign of the SK Virus is now gone.
It remains like when she was a human before.
4 hours later, as the rain continues to drop at the alleyway, the drain gushes out the water and the cold breeze claws her body.
And with that, he arrives.
A tall guy with a neutral face mask. As both of them stared, They both introduce hemselves,
"My name is Mr. Shady, one of the dominators of this world."
"My name is Claire, the last protagonist, well I was but now I'm just any other ordinary girl. I'm afraid I have to subjugate you for my survival."
"I see, so you want to be a dominator as well.
Enough introductions, let's see if you can defeat me."
As Claire uses appraisal of Mr. Shady, she sees the information like this,
Health: 100000/100000
Power: 23970
Speed: 11256
Agility: 18966
Defense: 10988
Dynamic vision: 21990
Wisdom: 700
She thought at his status,
"Quite stronger than I expected. He might have more tricks up his sleeve. I should be cautious."
"Aren't you going to attack? Then I'll make the first move."
Mr. Shady dashes in front of Claire to prepare a straight punch but she quickly dodges it as it was predicted by her skill known as 'Oracle'.
Next, he gives consecutive punches and a slide kick but luckily her ability 'Annoyingly lucky' was protecting her when something goes wrong.
With both of the skills activated, Claire can surely turn the tides of the battle.
Continuously fighting for over 5 minutes, Mr. Shady's health points are slowly dropping with Claire's every dodge and attack.
His attack patterns were easily predicted by her ability.
And finally, his health dropped in half due to the perfect firing range of her skill known as 'weapon's arms'.
He takes a long step back to avoid her further attacks.
"Now now.
You really are a fantastic strategist, even if I fight you without my powers, I would be greatly disadvantaged."
"Without your powers you say?"
Suddenly, Claire couldn't move for over a moment, it must be because of his ability.
Candy then assists her by saying,
"Blocking invasion from the source... Complete. You can move now." Her AI assistant tells Claire in her mind.
"Thank you. Now that I've known your ability, I can now assess my full plan."
"Heh?
So you've finally noticed it.
What plan are you adhering to?"
In an instant, he didn't immediately respond to the surprise attack and saw all the sick underaged children also known as the SK Defects begin charging him all at once from all around.
Even if he manages to control some of the SK Defects, he couldn't be able to counterattack.
And while he is distracted, Claire prepares to materialize a weapon that is a sniper.
To aim and immediately shoots him in the head, that bullet bursts through his mask as finally laying down along with the SK Defects ripping his limbs and munching all over his body.
Claire materializes a knife to finish what she started.
The rain stops as seeing Mr. Shady struggle to breathe from all the injuries so far, Claire asks, "What are your last words?"
"My life is a joke… Just kill me already. "
Uttering his last words, Claire seems to remember a certain person who she met before any of the horrors came across.
Upon the mask deteriorating,
He resembles him somehow...
"Tim?"
Claire guess the name of that certain person to Mr. Shady, he then immediately left unstring.
"How did you know that name?
Wait for a moment here, are you perhaps Onee-chan?"
Tears dropped as realising all this time, she is right in front of him.
"Now I remember... I see, you said you want to avoid death right? Become an ally to the SK Foundation, take my place.
It would be a wise choice if you become a dominator.
Take my life."
Claire's mind was shuffled with confusion about whether to choose between killing him or sparing him.
She throws the knife away from her left hand and decided not to kill him.
"I refuse to kill him."
Suddenly Candy and the voices whisper at Claire's mind from all around forcing her to take responsibility and take a life of her loved ones.
And somehow, it gets louder the more she resists. She tries to remove the mask but it couldn't budge.
And that moment, her body starts to move on its own, slowly grasping the knife from the ground and finally going on to Mr. Shady was preparing for the kill.
Her mind is almost controlled by the mask itself so it is no use but to let the mask decide her fate, it's for the best anyways since it was the best offer yet in order to avoid death.
Claire only cares about her survival ever since she has only one life left.
It also changed her humanity.
And with that, Mr. Shady dies.
Most of the underage children went to Claire for their reward.
A yellow glowing aura was seen at that scene, as all the underage children were physically back to normal.
But their body function wasn't the same as you might call average humans.
They have gained experience from their hellish torment of the past.
Claire is finally done using the ability known as the "Colorful Humanity."
Suddenly, someone gives an applause to Claire, She immediately turns to what he heard a clap, and sees a middle-aged man wearing a creepy mask, the same as her.
"Congratulations, Claire." Her maid also claps from behind.
"Who are you?"
Claire asks while dissing him from her tone.
"I'm Mr. Smiley, I'm known to many names such as the god of domination, host of this world, and many more.
So may I ask, what is your name?"
"My name is Claire Valentine."
"I see, well since you killed the dominator, Mr. Shady, I'm afraid you have to make a choice.
So what will it be?"
A. Ally yourself with the SK Foundation
B. Join Mr. Smiley's side
C. Destroy the whole world with it
"I see so I don't have much of a choice at this rate.
I don't like the choices that handed to me.
This world is twisted and unfair.
All I can do is to repent of my sins and save my own life."
"You know I've been watching ever since you fought Mr. Shady."
"You what? I see..."
Claire immediately rushed to Mr. Smiley, used her ability Colorful Humanity to attack him but it was all in vain since he easily dodges all her attacks at will.
"Why didn't you stopped me?!! He should have lived if it wasn't for you!!"
"Don't blame it on me. Surely it was mostly your fault. Since you don't have the strength to control your power, this won't have happened."
"I'll kill you!!"
"Try appraising me, Claire."
Mr. Smiley then restricts her two arms and then tosses her aside.
As appraising this stranger, he can only see nothing but question marks.
Health: ?/?
Power: ?
Speed: ?
Agility: ?
Defense: ?
Dynamic vision: ?
Wisdom: ?
"You have no chance to fight against me in the first place."
"What's this supposed to mean?!"
"You might not know this but it explains your situation, it means that you're appraising skills are much weaker than mine."
Claire Valentine
1 life available
Health: 1076/10302
Power: 17690
Speed: 12390
Agility: 16541
Defense: 1043
Dynamic vision: 1740
Wisdom: 32076
"You've gained enough power since you killed a dominator, fascinating. Well, what do you want to happen? Challenge me again or stop and think?"
"I want to kill you."
"I see."
"How can I kill you when I am this weak."
Claire feels the rain flowing each drop as Mr. Smiley stares right into her eyes thinking a way for her to change her fate.
"This world will be gone when your humanity lose against me. So how about joining the SK Foundation?"
"Why would I do that? They are the ones trying to kill me in the first place."
"Here you go."
A maid named Trolie gives a letter to Claire.
"Send this to the founder, he'll definitely recruit you as a new dominator."
Claire takes a look at the letter and as she began to stare back at Mr. Smiley however they suddenly vanished without a trace.
She sees the ending of two entities, Mr. Shady and Candy.