CHAPTER 162:
The battlefield was frozen with dread. The monster they all struggled to even touch that even Akari with all rage boosted power could not even kill was with a single slash dead but thats not all for Meiyo what Celestia revealed had her frozen. The Broodmother's corpse, still warm, lay in two halves, golden venom pooling beneath it like the blood of a slain god or angel killing everything it sight poisoning all of nature nearby.. The Phoenix Vanguard barely had time to process its death before their new nightmare arrived.
Celestia.
The knight of the disowned disgrace
The knight of Noboru.
Most likely one of the inhuman species that are not monsters or demon alive.
The last of the species thier parents either ordered, agreed to or helped carry out the genocide off.
She stood tall, golden armor gleaming under the twisted sky, her blade resting casually at her side, as if she had all the time in the world to savor the moment. She looked at them not as enemies—not even as warriors.
But as insects.
A smirk curled on her lips.
"You all look so… pathetic."
Her voice was smooth, casual, even bored. But beneath it, there was something razor-sharp, something hateful.
Meiyo barely heard her. She was still frozen in place, Celestia's words playing on repeat in her mind.
"You don't just have the power of the Sky Hawk… you are the Sky Hawk."
No. It wasn't true. It couldn't be true. The beast souls and was sealed away in her beast possessed ex-brother Noboru the dusgrace not in her. Her parents had told her. They wouldn't have ever lie to her.
Right?
But Celestia wasn't even paying attention to Meiyo anymore. Her golden eyes flicked toward Akari, who was still trembling from the Omni Energy surge that had nearly consumed her.
And then Celestia laughed.
Laughed as if this was all one big joke.
"You're still mad about that little pet of yours?" she teased, stepping lightly onto the Broodmother's corpse, her boot sinking slightly into its still-warm flesh. "What was it you were screaming earlier to this weak monster? 'I'll kill you'? Oh, please. I saved you the trouble. You should be thanking me. Plus it's not like you could have beaten it with your power."
Akari's entire body twitched at those words.
The anger—the burning rage—came back in full force.
"You bitch." Her voice was raw, hoarse, her hands curling into fists. "That was my kill. He killed Kaito!"
Celestia's grin widened. "Oh, I like that. Say it again. It's cute when humans try to act tough. But it's funy how you care about lives being lost when it's someone close to you but don't care when your king commits genocide on a type of beings. That's why Noboru-Sama is better than you all"
"Shut the fuck up!" Akari lunged.
Celestia sighed.
And then—Akari was gone.
One second, she was surging forward, her golden soul bonding magic blazing like a dying star. The next—Celestia had moved.
No magic circles. No flash of light. Just pure, raw speed.
Before anyone could even process it, Celestia was behind Akari, her blade dripping red.
Akari staggered.
Her golden eyes widened.
She turned slowly, looking down—her stomach had been sliced open. Not deep enough to kill. Just enough to hurt.
After all watching this bitch in pain was entertaining for Celestia.
The pain exploded from with in Akari.
A choked scream tore from her throat as blood spilled onto the dirt, her legs nearly giving out beneath her.
Celestia tilted her head. "Wow. That was fast. I was hoping you'd last at least, what—five seconds? Weren't you gonna avenge that vampire boy? The power i used was not even a percentage of the power i used in slice that killed the broodmother."
Akari fell to her knees, gasping, trembling, barely holding herself together.
But Celestia wasn't finished.
"Don't look at me like that," she cooed mockingly, stepping closer. "I did you a favor. Nampire boy died for you, didn't he? You both can be reunited in hell."
Akari froze.
"You should be grateful," Celestia continued, voice dripping with condescension. "Poor thing bled out in your arms, and you're wasting his sacrifice still playing soldier despite being so weak and pathetic. Have you stopped to think you are the reason people die maybe your the common denominator a cruse that kills everyone wo loves her? Tsk. Humans really have no shame."
A single tear slipped down Akari's cheek.
Then—BOOM.
Celestia moved bit then.
A blood-red explosion erupted from the ground.
Kaito's blood magic his blood wanting to protecting Akari even in death. Blood which was still spilled across the battlefield—reacted.
Celestia moved, but her smirk widened.
As the blood moved Akari out of the way from death.
Akari was frozen even in death Kaito protected her.
Her guilt building up even more.
But the world did not stop for her.
Celestia moved
And then Duck moved.
His hands twitched.
The air collapsed.
BOOM.
A sonic shockwave erupted from his palms, blasting toward Celestia with enough force to level Millions of 4th dimensions.
However Celestia yawned.
And then she blinked.
The sound wave—vanished.
Duck's eyes widened.
She was already behind him.
"Nice trick," Celestia murmured. "Too bad sound doesn't work when I decide it doesn't."
Then she moved.
Her blade slashed through his back.
Duck cried out, falling forward, his body convulsing from the sheer force of the cut.
"I am sorry guys guess i am gonna join Kaito now." Duck said.
"DUCK!" Akame yelled rushing to him but was sent flying back the impact killing her instantly.
Celestia's smirk grew sharper.
"That's two down. Who's next?"
Hakashi gritted his teeth.
"Fuck you!" he roared, golden energy surging through his veins. He charged, his Lifewalker magic exploding around him.
He barely got close.
Celestia sidestepped effortlessly, her blade flicking forward like an afterthought.
Hakashi felt it before he even saw it.
The cut was instantaneous.
A deep, cruel slash across his chest.
Hakashi's breath hitched.
He stumbled.
And for the first time—he looked scared.
Celestia leaned in, voice mocking, soft, intimate.
"Did you really think you'd be her hero?" She cast a lazy glance toward Meiyo. "Let me guess. You thought that if you fought hard enough, she'd finally look at you the way Akari looked at Kouki and maybe she does but is does not matter now does it?"
Hakashi's hands trembled.
Celestia's lips curled. "Pathetic."
Then—she plunged her sword through his stomach.
A choked gasp.
Hakashi's body jerked. His golden blood spilled across the dirt, mixing with the others.
He turned—slowly, painfully—toward Meiyo.
His vision blurred. His lips parted.
"Meiyo… I lov..."
The words never finished.
Celestia twisted the blade.
Hakashi's eyes widened.
Then he collapsed.
Dead.
Silence.
For a moment, everything—everything—was still.
Then
A single, broken breath.
A single crack in reality.
Celestia lifted her blade, sighing dramatically. "Oh no. Did I break her?"
Meiyo's breath hitched.
Her hands clenched.
Her entire body trembled.
And then—she snapped.
A scream ripped through the battlefield.
Not human.
Not normal.
A monstrous, soul-rending shriek.
Celestia's eyes widened just slightly.
Meiyo's eyes changed.
Golden-blue burned away.
And in its place
Primal, untamed fire.
The Sky Hawk had awakened.
The air itself fractured.
A storm erupted ripping the ground apart, hurling debris into the sky, the very wind screaming in response.
Meiyo's body flickered once, twice, a thousand times in a single breath.
Then she vanished.
And Celestia?
For the first time—
She looked interested.
Meiyo reappeared.
A blade of wind—sharper than reality itself—descended upon Celestia's throat.
And for the first time—Celestia had to move.
Clang
Her sword blocked the Meiyo Omni Energy made claw.