Cancellation

.....

Sarena was rushing through the halls of the school.

「Damn it, damn it, damn it!」[Sarena]

She looked at her phone to see if Nova responded, but didn't see any sign of it.

Sarena summoned a lotus flower that followed her before grabbing Zenithia out of it.

「If that stupid assassin lies a hand on my little brother, I'm going to rip him from limb to limb!」[Sarena]

After a few minutes of running, she finally found the cafeteria's doors wide open.

「...What the..?」[Sarena]

She ran into the cafeteria, expecting a fight to be taking place there, but only found traces of one.

She looked around for clues, but most of the evidence was dissolved when Nova burnt up the remnants of his sword for mana.

All she could find there were tables that were knocked over when Nova slammed into everything.

「What the hell…?」[Sarena]

Finally, she found a patch of crimson blood on the white marble floor.

「...This better not be Nova's.」[Sarena]

She put her free hand over the bloodstain.

『Hartalyne.』[Sarena]

The blood floated up in the shape of an glowing red orb and started moving.

Sarena followed it to the back of the cafeteria, leading through a door that went outside.

She found herself outside following the blood orb through a garden before she saw that the direction of blood orb went toward the Raidagem buildings.

She quickly pulled out a magical tool and shoved it onto the ground, leaving a magical circle there.

In a moment, she found herself in the Raidagem room for team Lotus.

『NOVA!』

She heard Freyana shout faintly from nearby, so she quickly opened up a window and jumped out.

After running around for a bit, she finally found the fight- Nova pointing the black and white energy straight forward, with Mune on the floor, and Zousa about to attack Nova.

She used Zenithia to wrap around Zousa's wrist before he could strike Nova.

….

『...Another one of you damn rats?』[Zousa]

Mune limply stood up, trying to circulate his mana.

『...Damn demon.』[Mune]

『A demon..?』[Sarena]

『...Go wild. Try and line the thing up in front of Nova's shot.』[Mune]

Sarena looked over to Nova, who was stuck in place.

『...I will.』[Sarena]

She raised Zenithia high into the air, causing Zousa to be sent a huge distance up.

She quickly flicked down, resulting in him being slammed into the floor.

He quickly ripped off his wrist, leaving his body freed from Zenithia.

『...Tch. You're good, but not-』[Zousa]

She quickly flicked Zenithia, dropping his wrist before she raised her hand toward him.

『Hemorrhage.』[Sarena]

Huge dark spikes of blood suddenly erupted from his body, leaving holes all over.

『Gngh… DAMN YOU!』[Zousa]

He quickly regenerated before throwing himself at Sarena again.

Sarena quickly cut off one of his arms, eliciting something he hadn't done before.

『GRAAAH?!』[Zousa]

He clutched his arm while walking backwards.

『...Ah. So Zenithia is effective on demons as well.』[Sarena]

She proceeded to riddle him with more cuts, causing more screams.

After he stopped moving due to being overwhelmed by pain, she wrapped him up with her blade and moved him directly in front of Nova.

『Here, Nova. Do your thing.』[Sarena]

Nova had a smile slowly creep onto his face.

『...Thank you.』[Nova]

Nova's voice suddenly caused Sarena to be alarmed, giving her a premonition of something bad.

『Wait, No-』[Sarena]

He softly whispered something that nobody else there could have heard.

『Etoile.』[Nova]

The black and white energy was sent flying along with a quickly rotating trailing shot that looked like a comet.

It pierced directly into the heart of Zousa, leaving a black and white constantly moving spiral on his bare chest.

He quickly regained his senses before he touched the spiral on his chest.

Everyone nearby watched without breath.

『...What is this?』[Zousa]

Nova quietly fell to his knees, not responding to him.

Everyone prepared their weapons, in the hopes that something was going to happen.

『...What? Did you kill yourself to avoid me? You should have just finished-』[Zousa]

His voice suddenly shifted to the lighter, smoother voice he used to impersonate Kikhia's brother.

『DAMN YOU! HOW DARE YOU!』[Zousa]

He suddenly stumbled backwards, as if someone had struck him in the face.

『...Brother?』[Kikhia]

His voice shifted back to the rough, deep, gravelly voice as he stared at Nova.

『...You...』[Zousa]

He had a look of hate and dread on his face.

『...Turn me back.』[Zousa]

He got closer to Nova and was about to lift him up before everyone threw their attacks at him, distracting him.

『Hemmorhage!』[Sarena]

Zousa's arm lightly exploded- nothing like earlier.

『Ah. So the mana is returning to this body.』[Zousa]

He threw his hands to the side, forming a brownish yellow barrier around him.

『Viridian Gale!』[Freyana]

The green blasts of wind bounced off of the barrier, not capable of doing anything.

Alex formed a javelin from mana and directly pointed it at him.

『Jet!』[Alex]

All around his wrist formed an intricate white shape reminiscent of a crown, before the javelin flew into the barrier, piercing through and cracking it.

『Tch! Damn you all.』[Zousa]

Mune got up to try and help, but his wounds suddenly shot out blood, forcing him to the ground.

『...Damn it, again?!』[Mune]

He raised his arm up, with a floating yellow orb floating on his palm.

『Domain: Eter-』[Mune]

Before he could finish saying what he wanted to, Zousa pointed to Mune with his finger.

『Cancellation.』[Zousa]

Black, red, and purple lights appeared around the yellow orb and stabbed into it, dissolving the orb to nothing.

『What?!』[Mune]

Mune suddenly seemed to lose consciousness, keeling over on the ground.

『Mune!』[Sarena]

Sarena kept slashing at the barrier to no avail.

Everyone else kept attacking as well, in the hopes that it may break- but the barrier got stronger over time.

Finally, Zousa lifted Nova off of the floor by his collar.

『Release the sp-』[Zousa]

His face turned into one of shock, causing everyone to pause for a moment as well.

『...He's dead?』[Zousa]