The Chairman vs the Nine Circles, Part 4

"Lycan can probably make it past the demon horde himself, but are his claws strong enough to kill Lucifer?" Ralph asks as he uses his Morale Arrow to shoot down a few more demons.

"Maybe not, but Jamie's fists sure are!" Ivy replies as she uses her flute to make Lycan shred through a few more demons.

"What are you getting at?" Jamie asks as she uses her Iron Gauntlet to smash through another demon.

"You'll ride on Lycan's back, and I'll send him towards Lucifer!" Ivy explains, causing Jamie to pause.

"Are…are you sure?" Jamie stammers.

"Yeah, hop on!" Ivy answers as Lycan leaps over to Jamie, then crouches down beside her.

"Um…okay," Jamie awkwardly replies as she hops on Lycan's back. Jamie leans forwards and holds onto Lycan's fluffy neck tightly. "This feels…awkward…" Jamie blushes. Lycan then stands back up, causing Jamie to let out a small "Woah!"

Ivy then brings her flute up to her lips, causing Lycan to let out a howl then leap forwards, jumping over the hordes of demons.

"Ralph, let's go!" Austin orders as he aums the barrel of his assault rifle towards the approaching hordes of demons.

"Right!" Ralph replies as he knocks back a glowing golden Cursed Power arrow.

"Gunsmith: Assault Rifle!"

"Morale Arrow: Single Shot!"

But using their Cursed Power bullets and arrows, Austin and Ralph mow down the demon horde that stands in Jamie and Lycan's way.

"O-oh shit, they're gaining on me!" Lucifer cries.

Lycan's impressive leap then ends, causing Lycan to land on top of a mighty demon, which Lycan uses as a springboard; pushing off the demon into another mighty leap, causing Jamie to let out another small yelp.

At one point, one of the demons leaps towards Jamie and Lycan, but before it can slash them with its claws, a bullet shoots straight through the demon's forehead, blood and brains exploding out the back of the demon's skull.

"Thanks, Austin!" Jamie exclaims as she turns over her shoulder to face the man.

"No problem, just go!" Austin shoots back as he mows down a few more demons using his assault rifle.

Eventually, Lycan makes it past the demon horde and lands behind Lucifer, with Jamie still on his back.

"Oh crap!" Lucifer cries as he spins around and attempts to run away, but Lucifer finds himself cornered, with Jamie and the snarling Lycan on one side, and the demon horde on the other.

"Adaptability…" Jamie shouts as she leaps off of Lycan's back, and launches a Cursed Power reinforced iron punch towards Lucifer, who cowers in fear, having no place to run to and no demons to save him, with Ausin and Ralph busy mowing the demons down.

"IRON GAUNTLET!"

***

The Chairman's body begins to glow with a bright golden flash of Cursed Power, as he stares down Limbo, Gluttony, and Lust's Love Slave army, which all charge him with an echo of feral roars.

Lust's Love Slave army then comes upon the Chairman, the Pro Slayers attempting to use their Cursed Power Barrier reinforced attacks, and the demons and genetically-engineered half-demons attempting to use their claws to maim the Chairman.

But just when all hope seems lost…a spiraling light green wormhole opens up before the Chairman, as Grover hops out of it.

"M-Midori…?" The Chairman weakly asks.

"Wormhole: Green Roundhouse!" Grover shouts as he kicks a Cursed Power Barrier reinforced leg forwards, slamming it into the approaching Love Slave army, and sending them flying backwards.

"WHAT?!" Lust cries. "Who is this brat?!"

"Mr. Chairman, are you alright?!" Grover asks as he spins around to face the Chairman. But when Grover sees the Chairman's state; writhing on the ground in pain with one leg and one arm, and glowing with golden Cursed Power, Grover's eyes widen. "Woah, you've sure seen better days!" Grover exclaims as he kneels down besides the Chairman. "Want me to teleport ya' outta here? I can bring you to Ella's friend outside, she can heal you!"

"Tell me, Midori, what is the status outside?" The Chairman asks, ignoring Grover's question.

"Um…well the entire Headquarters is overrun by demons and half-demons!" Grover answers. "But my friends are outside, and they'll stop the demons, so don't you worry! I'll just teleport you out of here and get you healed!"

"But then…who will defeat Limbo, Lust, and Gluttony?" The Chairman weakly asks as he extends a finger towards the three demons at the opposite end of the room.

"I'll take care of 'em, 'cause I'll be the next Chairman of the Slayer Organization!" Grover proudly answers as he peers towards the first three Circles of Hell standing at the opposite end of the room.

"No…" the Chairman weakly croaks out.

"Why not?!" Grover snaps as he peers back down towards the Chairman.

"I have…a way to defeat you all," the Chairman answers, causing Grover to perk up.

"Then why haven't you already used it?!" Grover asks.

"Because…I need everyone in a three mile radius to evacuate before I can do so…" the Chairman answers. "So promise me, Midori, that you'll evacuate everyone. If you don't do so within five minutes; you all will die."

"Huh, why?" Grover asks.

"JUST LISTEN TO ME!" The Chairman snaps, causing him to cough out a glob of blood. "Evacuate everyone within the Slayer Organization Headquarters within five minutes, please, Slayer Midori. That is my final order to you as the current Chairman of the International Professional Slayer Organization."

Grover gulps as he shakily stands up, and opens a spiraling light green wormhole next to him. "Y-yes, s-sir," Grover sadly replies, before teleporting away.

"Tch," the Chairman lets out a small chuckle. "Midori is no fool. He knows what's about to happen…"

The glowing golden flash emanating from the Chairman's body grows even brighter, causing the first three Circles of Hell to sweat.

"W-we should get out of there!" Lust stammers. "I don't like the look of this."

"Yes, let's go," Limbo replies as he moves to exit the lobby of the Slayer Organization Headquarters, but fails when the Chairman weakly slides his bookmark into the current page that his notebook is opened to, before flipping through the pages of his notebook, and stopping on a specific page.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" The Chairman booms. "The Notebook: Stone Eyes!"

The first three Circles of Hell cry in shock as their feet petrify into stone, which creeps its way up their bodies, before stopping at the base of the necks of the first three Circles of Hell.

"Good thing Slayer Sekka didn't quit or I wouldn't have been able to use her Cursed Ability," the Chairman says to himself.

"What are you doing, release us!" Gluttony snaps as he struggles to break free, but the Chairman's stone renders him unable to move.

"Come, my Love Slaves, help me out!" Lust orders as her Love Slaves rush to her side and attempt to break the stone encrusting her.

"I wouldn't do that if I were youm" the Chairman says as he shakes his head. "Your bodies aren't trapped in stone, they're turned into stone. So if you break the stone …you break your body…"

Lust gups. "Alright, my Love Slaves; stop!" Lust orders as her Love Slaves cease their actions.

"What…should we do?!" Gluttony cries.

"What can we do?!" Limbo replies.

The golden flash emitting from the Chairman then intensifies, as his body grows a bright golden light from within.

"What…is he even doing?!" Lust cries.

"This Cursed Ability…is one where the user sacrifices his body in order to defeat their enemies at all cost," the Chairman explains. "Death…War…Treachery…this Cursed Ability is stronger than any of theirs."

"HAH!" Gluttony spits. "Like that can kill us!" Limbo and Lust are silent. "R- right…?!" Gluttony nervously asks as he turns to face his comrades.

"TO KILL YOU DEMONS…I'LL SACRIFICE EVERY INCH OF MY BODY, EVERY OUNCE OF MY CURSED POWER!" The Chairman booms. "I'LL SEE YOU DEMONS IN HELL!"

"The Notebook: Suicide Bomber!"

***

"Dammit…" I growl, as Ella, my dad, and myself find us surrounded by a crowd of demons, snarling and growling at us, and bearing their vicious claws and fangs. "We don't have time for this!"

"Don't worry, we can blow through this lot with ease," my dad replies.

"Want me to boost you two up?" Ella asks. In response, I turn to my dad and smirk, who peers back at me and nods.

"Nah," I answer as I peer over my shoulder at Ella, before turning back to my dad with a smirk. "We;ve got this."

My dad and I then take a step forward tow

ards the demon horde. "My dad reaches across his back as I reach towards the back of my hip, and slowly…we both draw our katanas.

"Extend-o-Blade…" I begin to say as I wrap my wind around the blade of my katana.

"Extend-o-Sword…" my dad growls as his katana begins bubbling with his lime- green Cursed Power.

"WIND BLADE!"

 "SKYSCRAPER SHREDDER!"

In the blink of an eye, both my dad and I draw our dual katanas and slash them outwards, swiftly extending the blades of our katanas and decapitating dozens of demons at once, before retracing our blades back to their usual length.

"Wow…" Ella quietly squeaks out.

"HAH! A dozen at once!" I proudly laugh, before turning to face my dad. "And you?"

"Fifteen," my dad smirks, causing me to sulk.

"Dammit…" I growl.

But my sulking is interrupted when Ella cries: "Look out," and I peer up to see another swarm of demons charging me.

"Duck!" My dad orders and I swiftly duck to the ground, just as my dad's extended katana blade -bubbling with lime green Cursed Power- flies over head, before retracting back to my dad.

"Thanks!" I say as I jump back up to my feet, and turn to face my dad, only to see a swarm of demons charging him as well. "To your left!" I order, and my dad leans ever-so-slightly to his left, just as I aim my palm at the swarm of demons charging my dad from behind, firing off a powerful blast of wind and killing them instantly.

My dad turns around, stares at the demon corpses, then turns back around to face me. "Thanks," he says.

"I suppose we're even," I reply, and with that; the three of us take off after our destination once more.