Death's eyes widen. "Not bad…" he says. "But let's see you deal with this one!"
Hundreds of skeletons then push themselves out of the ground and charge Daniel, who responds by reinforcing his entire body with black and blood-red Cursed Power and getting into a running stance. Daniel then takes off, zooming past Death's skeletons as he slashes them in half with the long blades attached to Daniel's knuckles, as if the skeletons were made of butter. In the blink of an eye, Daniel reappears before Death, causing the Demon King's eyes to widen even further.
"Shadow Sickles-" Daniel begins to say as he raises both arms into the air, crossing the blades attached to his knuckles and reinforcing them with blood-red Cursed Power.
"SAMURAI DREAD!"
Death finches as Daniel swings both arms downwards, but rather than cutting Death, Daniel uses the shadow blades attached to his knuckles to slash through Death's Slumbering White Giant, forcing it to dissipate back into Death's white and purple Cursed Power.
"NOOO!" Death cries as he turns and peers over his shoulder, watching his giant skeleton dissipate.
Death then turns back around to face Daniel, watching as Daniel retracts his shadow blades, before stabbing them towards Death. "Shadow Sickles: Samurai Dread!"
But before Death can be punctured by Daniel's attack, he brings his bone-scythe out to block and uses it to knock Daniel's blades away, before swinging his bone-scythe towards Daniel and slamming its Cursed Power reinforced blade into the half-demon, sending Daniel flying backwards.
But as Daniel flies away from Death, he recovers mid air and places a hand to the ground, flying backwards as he shouts; "Shadow Beasts: Murder!" Hundreds of crows then fly out of Daniel's shadow and towards Death, circling around the demon and pecking him relentlessly as Death attempts to swat the crows away,
"Dammit, get off of me!" Death cries. "Insolent birds!"
But Death is too busy swatting away Daniel's birds to notice his next attack, and before Death has a chance to defend, Daniel, as well as a shadow wolf and shadow panther reappear before the Demon King.
"Shadow Beasts: Samurai Dread!" Daniel shouts as he slices Death diagonally across the chest with both shadow blades, as Daniel's Shadow Beasts tear and Death with their claws and sink their fangs deep into his flesh, causing the Demon King to howl in pain.
"Dammit…" Death grunts as he stares at the sky above him, blood clouding his vision. "I'm…going to die here. I'm going to die here, I'm…"
"NOT GOING TO DIE HERE!"
With a roar, Death weakly strains his right hand out to Daniel, purple and white Cursed Power exploding out of Death's arm, which then wraps around it and solidifies, forming the giant arm of a skeleton, which Death use to forcefully grab Daniel by the neck and hoist him off the ground, who kicks and flails in protest, but to no avail.
"Shit…" Daniel grunts as his Shadow Beasts retreat back into his shadow.
"We have to help Daniel!" Grover cries as he pushes himself off of the ground.
"YOU'LL STAY RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!" Death roars as he turns to face Grover and aims a hand at him. And before Grover can get to his feat, hundreds of Cursed Power draining skeleton arms fly out of the ground and latch onto Daniel's dozens of allies, keeping them pinned to the floor.
Death then turns back to face Daniel and smirks. "THIS IS AS FAR AS YOU GO, BOY!" The Demon King cackles, but Daniel doesn't respond. He's too busy getting strangled to do so, unable to breath due to Death's grip.
"I can't…breathe…" Daniel weakly croaks out. "I'm going…to die…"
And then…Daniel's vision goes black.
***
"Oh…hey…Ella…" I weakly croak as my eyes slowly flutter open, seeing Ella's face directly above mine. Ella has a hand placed to either side of my cheek, her mint- green Cursed Power flowing into me. Just like our first ever mission, our final mission ends with my head resting on Ella's lap as she heals me, as well.
"Is the war…over…?" I nervously ask."
"No," Ella sadly answers, causing my eyes to widen.
"NO?!" I cry. "WHO'S LEFT?!"
"Death," Ella answers, causing my eyes to widen even further. "Grover…Jamie …Austin…Daniel…as we speak…everybody is busy fighting Death."
"Everyone except for us…" I grunt as I struggle to push myself off of the ground.
"Luis, what are you doing, you'll die of blood loss if you move?!" Ella cries.
"And you'll die of blood loss if you keep healing me," I answer as I motion to the trails of blood leaking out of Ella's ears and nose, both dry and fresh. Ella gingerly touches a hand to her nose.
"Air Control…" I weakly grunt as I emit my Cursed Power hundreds of feet in every direction, until my Air Control catches wind of a horrifying, ominous Cursed Power, one with more bloodlust than I've ever felt in my entire life. More than King's, more than War's, more than anyone's.
"Woah…" I stammer as my eyes widen as I stumble backwards a step. "That must be Death," I say as I turn to face that direction, bringing my katana high into the air above my head.
On top of that, I can also feel an extra-powerful yet ominous Cursed POwer slowly fading, one that I can tell to be a juiced up version of Daniel's Cursed Power.
Death is slowly killing him.
"What…are you doing, Luis…?" Mikey grunts as his eyes slowly flutter open as well.
"I promised Daniel…that I'd help him kill Death…" I weakly answer. "AND I DON'T GO BACK ON MY WORD!"
"HIT ME, MIKEY! WE'RE USING THAT AGAIN!"
Mikey's expression of agony then curls up into a weak smirk. "You got it!" Mikey answers as he aims a hand at me. Mikey then shoots a small black fireball my way, which collides with my body, wrapping around me and forming a coat of black flames. I then enter my Blue Demon mode as well, as my veins begin to glow purple and my eyes glow bright red.
And then, Mikey and I shout in unison…
"BLACK FIRE DEMON!"
"Air Control…" I begin to say as I thin my Air Control's reach. Rather than emitting small bits of Cursed Power in every direction, I emit a highly concentrated amount of Cursed Power in one singular direction, allowing me to feel everything of what's happening, and to locate my target perfectly, Death. Black flames from my fire coat then spread to the tip of my hand then into the blade of my katana, wrapping around it and merging with the wind I coated my blade in, forming a spinning, flaming tornado wrapped around the blade of my katana.
I take a deep breath in…then out.
I only have one shot at this…" I softly say to myself as I close my eyes, forming a mental picture of Death strangling the life out of Daniel. Swiftly, I then shoot my eyes open, fixing my intense gaze at Death.
And then, with all my might…I swing my katana downwards.
"DEMON GOD'S FLAME KATANA!"
***
"I can't…breathe…" Daniel weakly croaks out as Death continues to strangle the life out of him with his skeleton arm. "I'm going…to die…"
And then…Daniel's vision goes black.
But before Daniel can take his final breath, he hears Death let out a howl of pain, and opens his eyes to see a crescent-moon shaped flaming emission of Cursed Power fly from out of nowhere and blast into Death with an explosion of fire and purple Cursed Power, and cutting the Demon King in half in the process, forcing Death's skeleton arm to dissipate back into purple and white Cursed Power and letting go of Daniel, who drops to the ground, clutching his neck in pain and desperately gasping for breath.
"This…Cursed Power…" Daniel softly says to himself. "Luis!"
"I'll leave town, I'll go train. I'm going to go around, slaying demons. And when I get stronger, I'll come see you again, Luis Tramonatana," Daniel says.
"And together…I'll help you slay your dad!" I smirk.
Daniel nods as a small smile spreads across his lips.
"Right…"
"DAMNNNNIIIIITTT!!!!!" Death roars as he focuses all of his Cursed Power into healing his wounds.
But not even the Demon King himself can survive getting cut in half.
"Now's your chance, you dumbass, are you going to take it or what?!"
A small smile spreads across Daniel's lips.
"Right, Luis…I'm sorry for hesitating…"
"EVERYONE!" Daniel booms. "GIVE ME YOUR CURSED POWER! TOGETHER…WE'LL KILL DEATH, THE DEMON KING ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
"RIGHT!" Daniel's allies reply as they all hold their hands up and activate their Cursed Power Burst, knocking Death's skeletons off of them.
Lime green Cursed Power from Grover, yellow Cursed Power form Jamie, glowing orange Cursed Power from Austin, golden Cursed Power from Ralph, maroon- red Cursed Power from Lycan, dull-purple Cursed Power from Slayer Renzu, sunrise- orange Cursed Power from Slayer Kaze, silver Cursed Power from Slayer Mezame, earth-brown Cursed Power from Clover, clear Cursed Power from Diamond, tan-flesh Cursed Power from Spade, pink Cursed Power from Heart, and ice-blue Cursed Power from Winter. All of these shades of Cursed Powers burst out of the bodies of Daniel's allies and fly towards Daniel mergeign together into a dazzling rainbow Cursed Power.
Five Shadow Sickles sprout out of Daniel's shadow, then begin spinning and wrapping around each other, until the five sickles wrapped into one single point, forming a giant spinning drill. The Cursed Power of Daniel's allies merge with Daniel's own black and blood-red Cursed Power, wrapping and coiling around Daniel's drill. Daniel then yanks his drill off of its chain base and holds it high in the air above his head, forming a humongous, spinning drill of rainbow Cursed Power, standing hundreds of feet tall.
Death's eyes widen.
"Sing your prayers, father!" Daniel booms. "This is an attack that holds the strength of the wills of everyone you've hurt. Luis…my mother…and everyone standing behind me today, and many, many more people and demons!"
"N-no…" Death stammers.
"Shadow Sickles…"
"HEAVEN-PIERCING, HELL-DRILLING, EARTH-SPLITTING CHAIN COIL!"
With a roar, Daniel slams his extra powerful Primal Chain Coil into Death with all of hi smight, wielding the strongest attack ever seen to date, and causing a giant explosion of rainbow Cursed Power, one so large and so dazzling that it can be seen from space. And once that engulfs the entirety of NEw York City, despite not harming anything caught up inside of it.
Anyone except for Death, that is.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Death cries. "I'VE WORKED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS DAY, I'M THE DEMON KING! I CAN'T LOSE TO MY FAILURE OF A SON!"
"WELL THIS FAILURE SHALL STRIKE YOU DOWN AT LAST, FATHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Daniel roars back.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Death cries.
"RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" Daniel roars.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"
"RAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
"NOOOOOOOOOO-"
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
Death puts each and every last droplet of his Cursed Power into defenses, reinforcing his body with layer upon layer of Cursed Power and skeletal armor in a frantic hope to defend against Daniel's attack, but Daniel's Prial Chain Coil drills through it all. Death's eyes widen as blood explodes from his eyes, ears, and nose, signifying to the Demon King that, for the first time in his life…he's out of Cursed Power.
There's no hope for Death.
With one last roar and one final push, Daniel's Primal Chain Coil begins drilling into Death in a second grand explosion of dazzling rainbow Cursed Power.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I'll kill you here…FATHERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
And then…Daniel's Primal Chain Coil dissipates.
Daniel closes his eyes and smiles. "So this is how I die…" he softly says to himself. "A fitting end for my wretched life. At least now…I was hopefully able to atone for my sins…"
"Mom…you can be at peace…"
And then…Daniel falls to the ground in a pool of blood, his body covered in so many wounds that Daniel appears recognizable.
Daniel Reaper…has died.
But he killed Death, the Demon King along with him.
And thus…the final member of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse has been defeated.
The war has ended.
Humanity has won.