Anti-climatic

If not for Azrael controlling it, we would have died for sure. Still it was not something to be proud of, even with all that power. Its size was just comparable to Tride's head only.

All of these just showcased Tride's massive body and ability.

When the black hole finally formed, Azrael immediately slammed it towards Tride, it voraciously consumed Tride's body part, touching its event horizon.

Tride screeched in agony, finally showing some semblance of movement since the beginning, yet it was still not enough. Tride's tyrannical strength dissipated the black hole but not without cost, its shell was broken, each and every body part was battered.

It looked like a walking corpse considerably more now. Yet its trembling body proved that it was alive and raring to turn us into mince meat.

I heard a strange amused laugh. "So…we are going to die. Life was pretty interesting, such a pity it ended."

"Why are you laughing then?"

I was genuinely surprised, why was this guy smiling. Kaltain showing genuine emotion was pretty rare but I guess at life's ending moment this much was pretty true.

Yet, I was not scared or worried, I had already foresighted our victory outside. Even now I could faintly feel our pyrrhic victory.

As if confirming my feeling, I heard Azrael's peculiar confident voice. "Tride is genuinely damaged a lot."

*Snap*

Proving my hunch, Azrael snapped his fingers. Summoning another black hole this one much bigger around 4-5 metres.

From it came, humanity's strongest Astra… Arceid!

...

The battle ended fairly quickly right after Arceid arrived, he just slashed Tride as if it was a corpse. A single slashing motion, it was all it took. A dark violet light encompassed the slash tearing the dimension all together with Tride.

We all went back completely drained, Kaltain and Azrael were significantly bruised too. Blood was seeping from their body, clothes were torn. Overall their condition was bad.

"These wounds aren't healing, when I blew my fingers while using my powers for the first time, they healed pretty fast."

Wait! He blew himself up??

Arceid replied to his question, "Because it was done by your powers, powers have the same properties as fingerprints. So, when you're damaged by some external power source. It would take some duration of time to heal"

Azrael opened his mouth clearly surprised, "That's pretty neat. Nice stuff".

He later on moved toward me and Kaltain, "I didn't make a mistake choosing you guys as teammates, we made a pretty good team."

Kaltain surprisingly shared the sentiment, "You are right about it, it will be fun if we continue our charade."

Coughing, I joined the convo, "I think we should introduce ourselves more responsibly this time."

Azrael came up pushing his fist forward, "Name is Azrael…Azrael Salisia. 19 years old, single as fuck."

Kaltain bumped his fist, "Name is Kaltain…Kaltain Verge. 19 years old, single as fuck."

I joined them bumping fists, "Name is Vesna…Vesna Bealdhild. 19 years old, single."

We all shared a synchronised chuckle.

"Hah, all of us are the same age. It was nice meeting you all, we will keep in touch but for the time being, bye!!"

Azrael vigorously waved his hands while going, quite the cheerful guy.

Immediately after Kaltain also took his leave, leaving me alone mending my minor wounds.

"I should probably meet with Edith."

I haven't had any sort of conversation with her, actually with anyone. Still I wanted to know about her condition.

I visited Edith, she was put in a nearby health camp. Like the rest of the students.

"They make the camps absurdly quickly, experience makes you do wonders for sure."

Edith was sitting crossed legged on the bed, humming around. She had her personal tent, she was making good use of it.

At Least she is happy, but too happy. I'm not some sadistic fellow, she was never this happy in the previous timeline. Azrael it's probably because of that guy. Even Mr.Arceid was surprisingly answering his question quite fondly, he probably knew him.

She noticed me barging in. Immediately returned to her previous poker face. Still her happiness couldn't be contained that easily.

"Ahm…hello, are you okay? I just wanted to check on you after that incident."

"Oo…thanks for your concern but I'm fine. Before that incident, I was beaten pretty thoroughly."

You didn't care about me previously. Why are you here now? That's probably what she meant. I should just change the subject.

"Actually, I wanted to talk about the guy who saved you."

"You mean Azrael…Ahh..figures. What did you wanna talk about?"

She isn't hostile, definitely not her boyfriend. I mean he said he was single, they even look similar.

"What's your relationship with him? Is he your brother? Or…"

Interrupting me she replied, "I can't talk about him, I don't have the authority to do so. Just so you know, he is single and we are related nothing more"

She doesn't have the authority? Azrael is getting more mysterious, I need to keep an eye on him maybe he arrived because of butterfly effect or something.

"So they are related…why did she phrase it like that? I was not trying to flirt for sure, but it seemed that way."