S.I.M. Belle VS Illya

[Ice Lotus Engaged]

From the depths of my heart, strands came out of my body and tightened themselves all around me. They were thick and blue. They were so cold that in contrast to the room-temperature environment we were in, they were emitting fog.

And there were roses on them.

My hair instantaneously shifted into the pure-white color, just like Illya used to have, and my eyes started to shift as well. The green color was fading in the reflection of the ice shooting out underneath me and my eyes turned blue, almost identical to Shike's.

My emotions were heightened, and I could sense more around me. My hair wasn't touching my back anymore, as it was tied up... in the shape of a Lotus Flower.

"Good to know you're closer to death," Illya said with the distortion.

I was powerful now... I could fight her.

I summoned the sabers in my hands, but instead of the classic purple color I was used to seeing, they transformed into that blue color.

Illya wasted no time and once she clashed with my sabers, they shot out spears of ice that impaled her body all over, then replicated, and impaled her in even more places. It was a cluster detonation of spears that I used to summon before.

And I didn't even feel cold...

I took advantage of the situation to put a block of ice underneath her, and melt it in the same second, freezing it once more to trap her inside of a giant ice cube.

Summoning those spears again left holes in her body that froze her in place, but knowing Illya, she broke out of it, and returned an attack to me.

It connected to my head, and her saber immediately turned into ice and shattered, with the pieces shooting over to her almost immediately. I have control over all of the ice around me... and it was so easy...

[4:36 Remaining...]

My timer...?

I refocused my eyes and ran at Illya again, slashing upwards and letting the ice shoot from my saber again, extending my range and cutting off her arm.

This is it... this is enough!

With a newfound motivation in my eyes, they lit up again and I started to summon ice out of nowhere.

Illya was making an attempt to catch my ice and move it, but it was too much, and it overwhelmed her easily.

Wings sprouted and her third arm appeared, which caused a match in the air to take place... but as I explained, I can put ice anywhere.

And I did.

A block of ice almost as big as the entire arena appeared above Illya and she was crushed under the impact, sent flying into the floor in front of me.

This led to me impaling her with my saber and letting it explode into a cluster that overwhelmed her again. With that attack being down, I summoned another boulder of ice to crush her.

Illya caught the boulder with her bare hands and looked up at me. Her eyes were glistening again... but I wasn't affected by that attack anymore.

In fact... I even stopped it by shooting ice spikes into her eyes, blinding her, and running at her to finish the job.

I needed to decapitate her...

I swung widely and almost instantly, all strands around her ceased to exist, and I was grabbed by my throat.

The same conditions still applied, and once she made contact with my body, her hand froze and blew up in more ice spears, but she had a strategy against that now?!

Her saber cut into my body, almost cutting me in half, but it luckily couldn't go all the way through.

Yet, it still did.

[3:29 Remaining]

Shit... I'm running out of time here!

Illya jumped into the air, flipping with her saber, and threw one at me. I had to dodge it and put more ice between us to disrupt her. She slipped on the ice, bounced with the force she put on the ground, and used the saber to make a spiral that cut both of my arms off.

When she landed, she continued her momentum by running widely and circling back to my position. She flipped over a spear of ice, caught it, and tried throwing it back at me.

It dispersed into water and then into chunks of ice like a broken ice cube. Afterward, it blasted into her chest and expanded into spears of ice that got her stuck into the ground.

I was holding her back... I was almost too happy for my own good!

Illya closed the distance again and as I tried to slash at her, she used her golden strands to catch my wrists, pull them apart, and separate my arms apart. She landed a punch directly in the middle of my chest that shook my entire body and broke all of my ribs.

I coughed up blood onto the floor as I bounced off of it, using my ice to save my body from taking any more damage.

Illya started running over to me and I pushed my body up, raising my hand up, getting ready for my next ability.

The heightened emotions struck me and I realized that Illya was still finding a way to damage me, after fighting so hard this entire time... and I hated it.

This effort would be for nothing, if I didn't hit her again... and I planned to kill her with this next strike.

I rose my hand up and pushed it forward, then, it came out.

A glacier-sized block of ice with spikes on the end shot from my hand and covered Illya's body entirely, almost shooting out of the arena and piercing the fake walls of our world.

The shining ice that claimed her body sat for about ten seconds... then... an explosion of blood came out of the middle as everything was destroyed.

Illya was panting in the middle and holding up her weakened body from the ground while looking up at me with those eyes that planted fear into my body.

[Using This Ability Will Decrease SIM Time]

[Proceed?]

[YES NO]

This is my most powerful attack...