Daytona and Nina remained staring at each other. Then Nina remembered when she was still human, and she spoke.
— Daytona…?
Daytona recognized her instantly. She hesitated slightly, her eyes widening, almost tearing up.
— Nina, it's you! — she stuttered.
Nina runs forward to hug her older sister, and something inside her awakens.
Daytona tears up as she hugs her sister back. She notices how much Nina had changed since the last time she saw her alive… but the joy doesn't last long.
Raydillon stands back up, already regenerated, and no one notices.
Martin notices before the two sisters do and tries to pull him away by getting in front of him.
Quickly, Martin charges forward, grabs Raydillon by the neck, and drags him farther away, barely allowing him to breathe.
— Le…t go of me! — Raydillon says with a strained voice.
Raydillon punches the right side of Martin's ribs, practically shattering all his bones.
Martin screams in pain and lets go, immediately jumping backward before dropping to his knees, coughing blood.
Raydillon cracks his fingers while observing Martin on the ground.
— You're a boy with dangerously high confidence. I don't know how you've stayed alive this long. — he says seriously.
Raydillon was about to land a finishing punch on Martin's head, but…
His attack gets repelled, almost like gravity or magnetism pushed it away.
He becomes confused.
— What…? What was that?
Nina suddenly appears in front of him like the wind itself.
— I control everything present in the atmosphere. Pressure, compression, air, gravity, magnetism, integration, telekinesis… everything. — she says calmly.
Raydillon thinks to himself.
— But… what does all of that have to do with the atmosphere? — He pauses. — Ah, whatever.
The moment he makes his first movement, a square forms beneath him and Nina.
The ground beneath them begins rising at absurd speed, climbing endlessly.
Nina continues.
— Let's play a little in the vacuum and test your attack precision.
— She's joking, right? — Raydillon thinks, unable to believe what she was about to do.
Nina literally starts throwing rocks at Raydillon at speeds near the speed of light, though still slightly below it.
He shatters the rocks with rapid strikes.
That was nothing to him.
So Nina decides to get serious.
— Taikiatsu, Fourth Element, Compression.
She creates a gigantic sphere of rocks around him and compresses everything inward with overwhelming force, trying to crush him and deal damage.
But…
That means very little against a god-level being.
— Kami no Chitsujo, First Element, Nuclear Atom.
Raydillon creates a controlled massive explosion, easily obliterating all the rocks.
Nina looks surprised.
— Interesting… He seems to have abilities suited for every possible circumstance. That's what I call preparation.
Raydillon teleports directly in front of Nina at light-speed levels.
He grabs her by the head and slams her violently into the ground.
— What speed! I couldn't predict it! — she thinks.
— You people are genuinely starting to irritate me now.
Seventeen light-beam tentacles emerge from Raydillon's back, functioning both as blades and extra limbs.
Nina escapes his grip, and Martin appears beside her, injured but still standing firm.
She looks at Martin.
— Are you okay?
— Yeah, I am. — he replies. — Let's try to deal as much damage as possible. We need to endure for as long as we can.
Nina nods.
— Kyūkyoku no Ningen, Second Element, Colossal!
Martin rushes Raydillon at high speed and lands a powerful punch to his face, making Raydillon step back slightly, though nothing major.
Daytona suddenly arrives, running toward them.
She shouts at Martin:
— Martin! Be careful! He copies your abilities and uses them even stronger!
Raydillon takes a deep breath.
— Kyūkyoku no Ningen…
Martin freezes, unsure what to do. He simply raises his arms defensively, hoping to protect himself somehow.
But…
When Raydillon attacks…
The strike comes out weak.
Martin instantly takes advantage of the massive opening and punches him directly in the abdomen, launching him dozens of meters away.
Raydillon becomes both confused and worried.
Something was wrong.
Something inside him wasn't functioning properly.
Daytona drops to her knees, struggling to breathe properly. She coughs blood and thinks to herself.
— Raydillon's divine cells inside me are destroying my body… I don't know if I'll survive this!
Raydillon looks at his own hands.
They're turning black from necrosis that somehow refuses to regenerate.
— I couldn't copy his attack? What's happening?
Then he remembers the antidote Ghost injected into his neck.
— That human… I should've killed all of them when I had the chance!
Raydillon clenches his fists.
Then he speaks.
— Enough.
Raydillon vanishes from everyone's sight and appears behind Martin, delivering a devastating punch straight to his face.
Martin spits blood, but remains standing.
The two begin fighting head-on for a while. Raydillon's speed was so overwhelming that Martin was dodging almost purely on instinct.
Then Raydillon catches one of Martin's punches and strikes him in the jaw, leaving him dazed.
Raydillon follows with another punch to the side of Martin's abdomen, sending him flying violently into a gigantic pillar.
Nina appears again, but she was… different.
She had become taller and thinner, with enormous goat horns, sharp teeth, an unnaturally wide mouth, an inverted pentagram on her forehead, and massive claws.
— That's not scary. — Raydillon mocks while staring at her.
He charges and tries to punch her, but once again the blow phases through her, and Nina counterattacks.
She moves above Raydillon and slashes across his back multiple times with her claws while he's still on the ground.
Then she returns to normal.
Raydillon instantly escapes the situation and uses his light-beams to cut Nina.
The beams strike parts of her body, her arm, and diagonally across her face.
— I can't let him injure me too much, or regenerating later will become impossible! — Nina thinks.
Daytona arrives just in time to defend Nina.
— Are you okay?
— Yeah, just some deep cuts… nothing serious.
Daytona nods.
Then she charges Raydillon at extreme speed.
Martin was heavily weakened.
He reflects to himself.
— Will I even make it out alive?
Then he remembers the previous battles against Lucifer and Satan.
He remembers the natural "Boost" they possessed.
The Zero Element.
Martin also thinks about the "evolutions" Saravia and Daytona applied to their weapons.
And that leads him to an idea.
Daytona and Raydillon continue fighting face-to-face. Daytona relentlessly pressures him, but Raydillon barely shows effort.
Only amusement.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Raydillon punches Daytona in the face so hard that her jaw literally shatters apart.
And worse…
She can't regenerate.
But suddenly…
A powerful white light appears in the distance.
Someone taller.
More muscular.
Older.
Completely white hair.
— Zero Element…
It was Martin.
But completely different.
Nina and Daytona stare in shock.
— Martin? — Nina asks from afar.
Martin analyzes his own body, noticing how much he physically changed, especially how much taller he became.
Saravia also arrives at the battlefield.
She sees Daytona unconscious on the ground.
— Daytona!
She quickly rushes over to check on her, seeing all the injuries covering her body.
Saravia picks Daytona up in her arms, intending to carry her farther away toward Nylon and Raphaella.
But Raydillon appears behind them and attempts to strike both of them.
Saravia can't react in time.
— Ah… no!
But in the final millisecond…
Martin grabs Raydillon's arm, stopping the punch.
That opening allows Saravia to escape.
Raydillon is visibly irritated.
— You people are only useful for getting in the way. Don't you ever get tired? What stupidity.
Martin responds calmly.
— Actually… you get stressed whenever you can't get exactly what you want. Just like a child.
Raydillon notices Martin's deeper, more threatening voice.
Without wasting time, he throws a punch directly at Martin's face.
But Martin catches the punch and squeezes Raydillon's hand as hard as possible, trying to crush it.
Yet he fails.
Raydillon's body was simply too durable.