"Woah, corpse puppets? How creepy!" Slayer Yajiri -the blonde haired boy wielding the golden bow- gags.
"These two are my favorite corpses!" Queen cackles. "Two powerful Pro Slayers said to have been killed by War of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Slayer Renzu -the squad captain of this team- gasps.
"What's wrong, captain?" Shizen -a girl with a flute and a leaf-made reef in her hair- asks.
"Those two corpses are the bodies Slayer Iwa and Slayer Rēzā! Slayer Iwa's Cursed Ability; Geomancy, can control the earth and harden his body into stone, while Slayer Renzu is a master at Cursed Power Emissions with her Laser Beam!" Renzu answers, causing the wolf to wine.
Queen then wiggles her fingers, sending Iwa charging towards her opponents. "Puppeteer: Slayer Iwa, Geomancy!" Queen shouts.
"Shizen!" Renzu shouts as she hops backwards, brandishing her camera, and floods her Cursed Power into it.
"Right!" Shizen replies as she brings her flute up to her lips and begins playing. This causes the wolf to perk up, and as if following commands from Shizen's flute, leaps towards Iwa, fangs bared.
"I'm sorry to desecrate your corpse but we have no other choice!" Renzu cries. Renzu then peers down to her camera, analyzing the picture that it had just printed out. "Yajiri, look out! My Cameraman shows a ranged blast coming from Rēzā!" Renzu shouts.
"On it!" Yajiri replies as he creates a bow out of his glowing golden Cursed Power then knocks back an arrow, also constructed out of his glowing golden Cursed Power.
Meanwhile, Queen wiggles her fingers again, causing Rēzā to bring their hand together, charging up a Cursed Power Emission. "Puppeteer: Slayer Rēzā: Laser Beam!" Queen shouts as Rēzā thrusts her hands forwards, sending a beam of Cursed Power flying Yajiri's way.
"Morale Arrow!" Yajiri shouts, and in turn, fires a glowing golden arrow Rēzā's way, the two attacks canceling each other out. Yajiri scoffs at his performance. "You could have a little more faith in me, you know!" He snaps.
"Sorry, I'm a little preoccupied right now!" Shizen repelis before bringing her flute back up to her lips and resuming her song, causing the wolf to pounce upon Iwa, who counters by hardening his fist into rock. The wolf yelps in pain as its fangs chomp down on stone, before getting sent flying backwards from a rocky punch from Iwa.
"Ōkami!" Shizen cries.
As Queen wiggles her fingers, Iaw lets out a grunt before slamming his fist into the ground, sending jagged spikes of stone flying towards the four Slayers.
In response, Yajiri angles his bow towards the sky and shouts: "Morale Arrow: Valley Shot!" Yajiri lets a golden arrow fly, which streaks through the air into the sky, before exploding, sending dozens of mini golden arrows falling towards the ground below.
"You're just going to hurt your own allies with that, you know," Queen grunts, causing Yajiri to smirk.
"Not as long as they have faith in my Morale Arrow!" He replies.
As Yajiri's arrows fall to the ground, Queen wiggles her fingers, retracting both Iwa and Rēzā to her to defend. Rēzā looks up and fires off another Cursed Power Emission into the sky, knocking away Yajiri's arrows. Meanwhile, Iwa turns his body into stone then huddles around Queen, using his rocky rack to shield Queen from the arrows. The rest of Yajiri's squad don't bother dodging or blocking his arrows. And when the arrows do make contact with their skin, it doesn't seem to affect them at all.
When Queen undo's her defenses, she's met face-to-face with the wolf, who pounces on top of Queen, before she has the chance to manipulate her puppets. Queen yelps in pain as the wolf's fangs dig into her shoulder.
"Aim for the arms!" Renzu orders. "My Cameraman tells me that if the Queen's arms and hands incapacitated, then she won't be able to use her Puppeteer!"
"Right!" Shizen replies, as the wolf begins clawing at Queen's hands.
Eventually, Queen is able to wiggle a hand free, which she uses to send Iwa over to Shizen. "That girl's flute playing must be controlling that mutt!" Queen shouts.
But with Shizen keeping the wolf on Queen, she's unable to defend herself. That's when Yajiri swoops in, and aims his bow at Queen, knocking back a golden arrow. "Morale Arrow!" Yajiri shouts as he fires off an arrow at Iwa, who hardens his fist into stone to knock away Yajiri's attack. Iwa then slams his fist into the ground, sending a wave of stoney pillars flying towards Shizen
"Yajiri, we cannot afford to let Shizen lose control of Ōkami!" Renzu orders.
"Right!" Yajiri replies as he jumps in front of Shizen, who's still busy controlling the wolf. "I'm not the best at melee combat, but here we go!" Yajiri says as he brings his arms up in a cross to block, reinforcing his defenses with Cursed Power. Iwa's stone pillars then slam into Yajiri, which forces the Slayer to stumble backwards a few steps, but remains on his feet. Queen then severs her Cursed Power threads connecting her right hand to Iwa, who's corpse limply falls to the ground, and reconnects them to Rēzā.
"Look, we've taken out one of Queen's hands!" Renzu cries. "She can only control one corpse puppet at a time now!"
"The primary limitation of my Puppeteer, is that it requires a great understanding of Cursed Power to use, as I need to learn how to use my puppets' Cursed Abilities," Queen begins to say, as Rēzā begins charging up another Cursed Power Emission between her two hands. "LUCKILY I HAVE THAT!" Queen then cackles. "Puppeteer: Slayer Rēzā, Laser Beam!" Rēzā then thrusts her hands forwards, sending Cursed Power Emission flying towards Shizen. In defense, Yajiri readies his bow and fires off an arrow Rēzā's way, but before the two attacks can collide, Rēzā's Emission splits off into three different paths, evading Yajir's arrow and flying towards Shizen.
"Shizen, Yajiri's arrow is about to hit Ōkami!" Renzu warns.
"Right!" Shizen replies, before resuming her flute playing, causing the wolf to leap out of the way of Yajiri's arrow. Queen then finally pushes herself off of the ground and brings Rēzā back to her to tank the arrow. Rēzā's Emissions then fly towards Shizen, one striking Shizen in the gut, and another blasting Shzien in the hand, knocking her flute out of her hands, which clangs to the ground.
"No!" Renzu cries.
The second that Shizen stops playing her flute, the wolf pauses, doing nothing for a brief moment.
"This is my chance to take out that wolf!" Queen cackles, as she uses Rēzā to fire off another Emission towards the wolf.
The hairs across the wolf's body instantly stand up in alert, before crouching down low, baring its fangs and snarling at Queen. Without another warning, the wolf then takes off, chagrin towards Queen. The wolf acrobatically flips through the air, manipulating its own athletic body far better than Shizen was. The wolf then dodges Rēzā's Emission, without so much as a scratch or a blade of fur out of place.
"Ōkami is out of control!" Shizen cries.
The wolf then leaps on top of Queen who quickly severs her connection between her and Rēzā, before reconnecting her Cursed Power threads to Iwa, who stands upright again.
"My, oh my, how I'd love to kill you and take your corpse for my own!" Queen cackles as she wiggles her fingers, sending a stoney punch -courtesy of Iwa- slamming into the wolf's snout, which sends the wolf flying backwards as it yelps in pain, blood squirting from its nose and mouth.
"Ōkami!" Shizen cries as she rushes towards the wolf, kneeling down beside it and pulling it into her lap, gently stroking its fur.
"Status update?" Yajiri asks.
"Ōkami is down! And without Ōkami, Shizen is out too!" Renzu answers.
"Shit!" Yajiri grunts.
"I figured that the girl was controlling the wolf. A two in one deal? How perfect for me!" Queen cackles, before wiggling her fingers and sending Iwa charging towards Renzu. "You seem to be analyzing my attacks, which is annoying, I'll take you out next!"
"Renzu!" Yajiri cries.
"Focus on protecting yourself, Yajiri! You're our last fighter!" Renzu cries. "But you aid me too, I'm a valuable asset!"
"Right!" Yajiri replies as he leaps in front of Renzu.
Iwa slams his fist into the ground, sending columns of stone pillars flying Renzu's way. In defense, Yajiri aims his bow at Iwa and knocks back a golden arrow. "Morale Arrow!" Yajirir shouts as he sends a golden arrow flying towards Iwa, which shoots through stone pillar after stone pillar constructed from Iwa's Cursed Ability, before finally flying towards Iwa.
In defense, Iwa punches his fists together, and then, his entire chest and arms turn to stone.
"Iwa's Cursed Power can mimic the properties of stone, like that Hachi's lightning!" Queen explains. "So while Iwa can't turn into stone, by activating Cursed Power Barrier and reinforcing his body with Cursed Power, then turning that Cursed Power into stone, Iwa can create a rocky shield around his entire body! One that negates not just physical attacks, but Cursed Power attacks as well!"
And so, when Yajiri's arrow makes contact with Iwa's rocky armor, Yajiri's arrow uselessly bounces off of Iwa's stone flesh, before dissipating back into Yajiri's glowing golden Cursed Power, after not making so much as a dent in Iwa's rocky armor.
Iwa then lets his Cursed Power dissipate, turning his stone armor back into flesh for increased mobility, before charging towards Yajiri yet again. Iwa then activates his Cursed Power Barrier in his fist, turning it into stone, before launching a stone punch Yajiri's way.
"Left!" Renzu cries, and Yajiri ducks to the left.
"Right!" Renzu then shouts, and Yajiri dodges to the right this time.
"Uppercut!" Yajirir limbos backwards, dodging Iwa's stone uppercut, before popping back to his feet.
This pattern keeps up for a little while longer, Iwa throwing stone punches Yajiri's way, as Yajiri dodges to whichever side Renzu tells him, as if Renzu is able to read Queen's mind.
Iwa then brings both hands into the air, interlocking his fingers, and coating his arms and wrists in his rocky armor.
"Uhh…Renzu, which way do I dodge?!" Yajiri cries.
No answer.
"Renzu?!" Yajiri snaps as he turns and looks over his shoulder at Renzu, who's on the ground, furiously slapping her camera, who is no longer printing any images.
"Work, damnit, work!" Renzu begs.
Yajiri then turns back to face Iwa, and is met with a rocky lariat to the top of the side, causing Yajiri to buckle then crash to the ground on his knees, seeing stars, as blood squirts out from the top of his head.
"Now, you're finished!" Queen cackles as Iwa turns his hands into flesh then reaches down, grabbing Yajiri by the next and hoisting him into the air, who kicks and flails in pretest.
"No!" Renzu cries.