Chapter 63 - Faking their deaths

When your heart breaks, your brain starts working.

Lisa who has undoubtedly lost more things than she has won started realizing what a terrible situation she and her family is in. Not to mention Marc who she knew would go through any lengths to help his friends.

She could already imagine what those detestable greedy scum is planning to say:

"She has collided with a devil spawn."

"The Heartfilia family is planning a rebellion "

"She has kept a devil's servant hidden and plans to ruin this country."

"We must remove this evil from our country."

Being in deep thought, she failed to realize the worried expression she was making.

"What's wrong?"Marc asked and squeezed her ass a little, making her jump a little in surprise before enjoying the touch. She was resigned to her fate and didn't know what to do. She sought comfort in Marc as she wasn't feeling that well. She disregarded the feeling as tiredness and answered Marc.

"…You should take your friends and run away. They won't let a Devil Slayer live." She said before hugging Marc and rubbed her cheek on Marc's.

"I will do just that. But before that, tell me about the situation you and your family will be in." Marc was already planning to run but he couldn't just leave Lisa to fare for herself with the problem he brought.

"It's fine. Just leave." The stubbornness in Lisa showed. She was unwilling to tell him that if she had her full powers, then maybe she could make them think twice making her an enemy-- losing her Celestial Keys made her lose a great deal of power.

"She will get persecuted and framed for all kinds of stuff by people who had been eying the Heartfilia family with ill intentions." The one who knows the most about the aristocratic society in Marc's party is without a doubt Rofta because of his family's special background.

When Lisa heard Rofta's words, she glared at him like she was ready to murder him at any time, but he had already looked away.

"Oh? Is that so…" Marc was pretty nonchalant about it, which surprised Rofta and the others who were listening in on the serious conversation. They all looked at Marc who was pondering about something before he hit his palm like a great idea just dawned.

"Then just kill us," Marc said. Asi and Mordrei immediately got combat-ready and stood in front of Leona to protect her. Leona herself was just standing proudly with crossed arms and looking at a certain fool.

"!? What are you saying? That's not a funny joke at all!" Lisa was frightened by his words and lovingly inspected Marc's head for any injuries. Maybe something hurt his head.

Stopping her, Marc explained "I'm not kidding. Just make it seem like you killed us, then most of your problems will be solved."

Rofta nodded to his words as it was in line with what he was thinking, but he just didn't know how to set it into practice. They were standing in the open with no cover, so how were they supposed to fake their deaths?

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Marc, Rofta, and Gina are currently surrounded by Lisa, Nina, Leona, Asi, and Mordrei. They looked like they would attack at any moment.

The first one to attack was surprisingly Marc, who attacked Lisa with flying roundhouse kicks and palm strikes without using his magic. But after a few bouts, he realized that Lisa was just countering his attacks but never attacking herself like she was supposed to. She had accepted Marc's plan, but in reality, she couldn't force herself to hit the one she loved strongly.

To deal with the problem Marc's years of experiences of pissing women off came to light. "Lisa, are you getting fat? Sigh, maybe I should find a woman with small boobs like Gina-"

"Death to all big boobs. My mortal enemy I'm going to eradicate in the future!" Crazy thoughts surged in Gina's mind when she heard the words only a few meters away. And just looking at Lisa's chest made her want to invent a type of magic that could make all big boobs shrink.

All Lisa's reservations of hitting Marc dissipated with the wind and Marc found a fist in his stomach that expelled all air in his lungs.

"Don't mention a woman's weight and don't you dare go for other women while you are away." She threatened seriously.

"Harem route denied," Marc couldn't stop himself from thinking.

*Boink**Boink*

After having punched Marc, Lisa felt the support around her chest missing and saw Marc stealthily put a light purple bra inside his Hawaii shirt. Yes, he wore that in a war together with his wooden sandals-- because it was the closest thing to his beloved Nike sandals from his previous life.

"Lisa has the biggest natural boobs I have ever seen besides her mother. I thought they were J cups when I first saw her, but they are actually O cups. Damn, I have to improve my hawk eyes. But it's not really my fault. Life taught me a lot of lessons, but I bunked those classes too. I'm going to use this bra as a measurement from now on." Marc thought a lot of unnecessary thoughts that he wouldn't think if he was using [One Goal] to remove them.

"What are you doing?" Asked Lisa bewildered.

"I don't know what you mean? You must have taken a few kilos on, or your bra wouldn't have just suddenly clipped off. Are you going for bigger than O cups-- whatever that is?" Marc played innocent. It wasn't him who used his quick fingers to take it off. Definitely not. After finally stuffing the bra completely in his shirt he looked at her with a face born to be hit.

Hearing Marc mentioning her weight again, she gave him a few more punches before he decided to drop his sandals.

That was the signal the others were waiting for.

Marc backed off in the direction of where Rofta was fighting Leona. When their backs touched each other, Mordrei attacked them too. Leona had just sent a big red heatwave forward that set everything on fire, making it hard for the spectators in the distance that were still on guard against dragons and the Celestial Spirit King.

To the onlookers, Marc took hold of Rofta and used him as a shield to protect himself against the heat attack. The poor Rofta just burned up and turned to ashes.

Rofta died.

"Roftaaaaa!!! WHY? WHY? I thought we were friends? " Screamed Gina with a bad talent in acting before making multiple black sand spears fly in Marc's direction.

In response, Marc just jumped around nimbly and dodged them while slowly backing off. But he was stopped as Lisa stood ready to punch him in the back with a reluctant look again. To encourage her, Marc told her "Love you!" and she threw her fist forward covered in a yellow aura.

Before it could hit, Marc rebelled himself forward to Gina and touched her chest. He couldn't help say "You really don't have much. You should drink more milk." Before much to the onlookers' shock, she just disappeared.

They were terrified that Marc could just seemingly remove her from existence as it looked to them.

Gina died too.

It left only Marc as the only opponent alive.

But before he 'knew' it, gold sand drowned and almost fully covered him, leaving only his head and arms uncovered. He was trapped by Asi's Sand God Slayer Magic spell, [God Sand Coffin].

Marc showed a terrified expression that only a man that was about to die showed when he looked at Asi.

Having Marc trapped, Asi lifted his palm in the sky to make Marc float up, before squeezing his hand.

*Boom*

Marc was squeezed to death, letting it rain with gold sand covered in blood and no corpse left intact.

Some blood landed on Lisa's face, making her dazed before she attacked Asi and punched him.

*Baam*

He didn't expect it and thought they were working together, so the punch hit him right on his chin. It made him see stars and fly like a canon ball away.

With total madness, Lisa slowly approached Asi to punch his face again. But Leona and Mordei went in front of her to hinder Lisa.

The next five minutes were used by Lisa to pummel the three mercilessly before letting them escape to their country, though the onlookers didn't know that. Although the Celestial Spirit King took her Celestial Keys, Lisa was still very strong. Just not one of the strongest anymore.

"Sigh, I already miss you, Marc," Lisa whispered to herself before approaching her sister so they could assemble and leave the battlefield. All she wanted at this moment was to go home and get drunk, alone.

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In the sky over Fiore, three paw bubbles with humans inside were flying in the direction of the west coast.

The three people were none other than the supposed dead Marc, Rofta, and Gina that had just faked their death with the same iconic ability Bartholomew Kuma used on the Straw Hats to send them flying around the world.

Though Marc was in much worse condition than Rofta and Gina with blood all over his body. He had to let Asi do this to leave some evidence of their supposed death behind, or it wouldn't be totally convincing.

While the trio was flying, Marc used [Paw Refresher] on himself to heal his injuries. It would take some time to heal as his body was pretty mangled, but still intact with no missing limbs.

The only person that knew their destination was Marc, that planned to introduce Rofta and Gina to a friend he made when he was training alone to use his Paw Magic with his feet at the coast.

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(A/N: This arc is nearly done and a new one will start. I have to remind you that in this timeline, dragons, gods, etc… is way more common than it's showed in canon.)

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