Tokure used his paper puppet and put up a fight against Baal.
Although every attack Tokure can dodge by Baal, he still put up a fight.
"Hahahaha, now look at you the celestial Shikigami helplessly standing in front of me" Baal laughed.
"But I don't intend to kill you, you are a fugitive highly sought after by my master, I must bring you before my master" continued Baal.
"If that happens, then I will kill your master myself." Tokure was furious.
Baal's time remaining was now only 20 minutes.
Suddenly several needles flew towards the dying councils, luckily they were restrained with Tokure's paper puppets.
The attack came from Key escaping the Robin's Barrier.
"You, my lord already told me about you" Baal spoke to Key.
Apparently Key is a subordinate of Damballa the demon lord. He became a subordinate to pursue power and power, he became a spy in the Astechic kingdom.
Tokure has had a hard time battling Baal, and now has to face Key as well.
Key who feels that he will not be able to touch the council before Tokure dies decides to help Baal to face Tokure.
Baal brutally attacked Tokure, Tokure was blown away, But that didn't lessen Tokure's anger.
Realizing that Tokure is no longer within reach of protecting the councils, Key takes advantage of it and attacks the councils.
But suddenly Arthur stood up and resisted Key's attack.
The level between the two of them was still far away, thus overwhelming Arthur.
Meanwhile Tokure threw a paper doll that was different from before at Baal.
Baal dodged it, however Tokure suddenly got behind Baal and attacked him.
Baal was made to take a few steps back by the surprise attack.
The attack inflicted a small wound on the numbness.
"Tch" Baal got angry and threw his ax at Tokure.
Tokure just stood there, unable to dodge because of his wound and starting to run out of mana.
Tokure felt resigned to seeing the numb ax approaching.
But the Ax of numbness seemed to slow down, and stopped in mid-air.
"What!?" Baal was confused.
Tokure was very surprised by what happened, and suddenly a spear was thrown at Baal. The spear moved so fast that it was hard to see. However the power of the spear was not strong enough to injure Baal.
Tokure looked at the direction of the spear, Chrono stood holding one of his injured arm.
Tokure smiled seeing that.
"Bring old memories" Tokure stood up.
Even if he was already very difficult to move he still tried.
"Hey kid, you won't be able to hurt Baal if you still have the power to help your friend" Tokure looked at Arthur who was cornered by Key.
Tokure realized that he was the only one who could hurt Baal.
"The sky-destroying insect technique is indeed Damballa's very powerful technique, but it also has a fatal weakness, I just need to hold it in for as long as possible until the effect wears off" Tokure muttered and went back to making paper puppets.
Chrono turned his gaze and looked at Arthur, at the same time Baal's ax moved again and aimed at Tokure.
Tokure dodged it.
"Argh, my body feels like it's going to break" Tokure was in pain.
Meanwhile, Chrono takes the Spear belonging to the senses and uses it to attack Key who is busy fighting Arthur.
Although Chrono struggled because he only used one hand, he managed to hurt Key.
Arthur looked at Chrono.
"We will fight it together" Arthur stepped forward and threw his sword at Key. However, because Key is very agile, he can easily dodge his attacks.
Chrono also attacked and made Key quite a hassle.
"Tch damn boy" Key was irritated.
Key took some needles and made them into claws.
Key attacked them both in turn.
Because the difference in strength between them was so great it kept them in a corner.
Chrono swung his spear horizontally at Key, but Key ducked and dodged it then kicked Chrono to the ground.
He also managed to injure Arthur's hand with his claws.
"Damn it's poisonous" the wound slowly blackened.
Seeing Arthur who had been hit by a very deadly poison, Key then jumped at Chrono.
And from the air he threw one of his needles towards Chrono who was trying to stand up.
Seconds before the needle hit Chrono, an arrow bounced off the needle.
Ranmaru stood up and continued to shoot Key who was in the air.
Key managed to dodge because of his agility and landed on the ground.
And from behind Key was stabbed by a sword.
Key then slowly looked at his chest that had a sword embedded in it, and looked back it was Arthur. Arthur drew his sword.
"Ho.. How are you still alive..?" Key fell to the ground, and looked at Arthur's hand.
Turns out Arthur cut off his own arm to avoid spreading the deadly Poison.
Arthur also fell and began to lose consciousness due to the bleeding he had suffered after cutting his own arm.
Chrono stood up and aimed his spear at Key's stomach.
"This brat!! I have to activate my butterfly body technique" Key concentrated his mana in his head.
However, the technique was not active.
"Why!? Why won't it activate!?"
"No, I see, this kid slows down time in my stomach!?" Key resigned.
The spear thrust ended Key's life.
Meanwhile Tokure was completely cornered by Baal.
"Damn it how much longer until the effect wears off!?" Tokure had a hard time dodging Baal's attacks.
Now only Tokure, Chrono, and Ranmaru can still move.