Section 16: ■■■ War of ■■ Dragons (2/2)

This is even worse than I'd imagined. The entire first imitation Singularity's completely collapsed.

It can't even maintain its Singularity structure anymore. Whatever this place is, it's not Orleans anymore.

Take a look at that.

Mud is falling from the sky...

That mud used to be the energy from this entire Spiral Proof World.

It's been transformed into a kind of sustenance Sodom's Beast can use to birth its true form...

Hey, there's something out in the middle of that sea of mud. Check it out.

Geez, you've got some killer eyesight! I can't see a thing all the way out there!

That's...

...Beast VI!

Lady Nerooo!?

The mud's swallowing her up... That's not good.

If we don't do something, Sodom's Beast will reclaim its true form...and it'll be using the incarnadines' souls as its core.

Which means the Draco we know will be dissolved and disappear.

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Yeah... This is where it all ends. We're gonna stop Sodom's Beast right here!

This time, Lady Nero... This time, I'm gonna save you!

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Something wrong, Tiamat?

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...It's too late for her.

What are you talking about!?

But she's defenseless right now. If we're fast, we can kill her before she becomes the real Sodom's Beast.

C'mon, you can't just

Well, no, you're not wrong... That probably IS what we should do, but...

What!? You can't be serious!

I know Sodom's Beast isn't a bad Beast anymore.

But once she regains her true Beast form, she'll cease to be who she is now.

If she is going to disappear no matter what, then we should take this chance to

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...Please.

Mushroom lady.

Please, Lady Tiamat. Please, save Lady Nero.

Ulp... But...I...

There's nothing more I can do for her. Nothing more I can offer her.

All I can do is pray. All I can do is cling to hope.

But even so, please...

Please! Please save Lady Nerooo!

I...I don't want her to die!

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Well, Tiamat? What's your answer?

...I don't know. Mother isn't sure what's right here.

I know Beasts are humankind's mortal enemy... But...

Tiamat. If you mean to kill her, I'll stop you myself.

Sétanta...

Of course you're planning to save her. Right, Master?

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I knew it.

I'm sure the other Master would say the same thing.

And that's exactly why my sword is yours to command.

Sétantaaa! Waaaaaah!

Hey, knock it off! Shut the waterworks down!

Well, Tiamat?

...Gnn.

...If I feel like there's nothing more we can do, I will kill her, no matter what any of you say.

But, until it reaches that point, I guess...

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Everyone ready? Let's go!!!

There, I made a path! Watch your step, though! One wrong move, and you'll be dead in no time!

Outta our way!

We're through!

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Lady Nerooo!

Cease this insolence, filthy poison wench.

Huh!?

Mushroom lady!

Who are you!?

I am Incarnadine Demonic Beast Luxuria, and I shall overwhelm you with lust.

Hmm!? This scent... This aura...!

Yup, there's no mistaking it. Those are the incarnadines!

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We are the horns of the Beast no longer. We are the heads of the dragon no longer. Now, we ARE Sodom's Beast.

Fujimaru, our contracted Master, well done for making it all the way here.

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Yeah! Give Lady Nero back, dammit!

It is too late, poison wench. Your concoction did to our original bodyto Nero, exactly what it was supposed to.

She will never again wake.

Khh!

Surely you know that better than anyone.

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Yeah, sorry, this Master's not sensible enough to just be all, "Oh, really? Well, guess I'll just be on my way then."

If he was, he never would've saved humanity.

Ah, yes. I understand.

That is exactly why Draco

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It will not be long now. Soon, the poison chalice will be filled with mud.

It will eat through Draco and we will emerge from her, like a nymph from a chrysalis, in our true Beast form.

Not on my watch!

Avaritia. Invidia.

Rejoice. Revel. For Sodom's Beast is about to be born anew.

RAAAH!

You have fought well, contracted Master. But, it ends here.

Behold. This is what lies at the end of your journey.

This is the endpoint of your spiral, the heavens' final destination.

Crap, crap, crap! My path won't last much longer if this keeps up!

Oh no! Draco...

...Sodom's Beast is about to awaken!

I have to kill her now!

Lady Nero! Lady Neroooooo!

Khh!

Please, don't leave us alone.

Please, warm us.

We're so cold.

We don't want to die.

...I see. So that was...

...Draco herself, crying as a child.

It's...no use... I can't...maintain the path...any longer!

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Ha... HAHAha... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Ahh, let Rome and all the world burn! Let human history buuuurn!

Let the applause for this new vision of hell echo across all the world in the final, ultimate ovation!