Re;Kingdom, Starting a Life with Amnesia from Zero

Arc 3 – “Kingdom of Future” – Capital Arc

Chapter 23 – “Lust Crusade: Destroying Passion”

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Jens : “H-Ha?”

Jens looked around him, only to find Emilia looking both sad and relieved at him.

Emilia : “Is there something wrong Jens?”

Jens : “No… It’s nothing. I’m just relieved that we dealt with the biggest enemy, Regulus. I mean, I understand he’ll be back. But for the time being, this is really good.”

Emilia : “Yes… So what do you think, let’s go to the Lust Conquest?”

Jens : “That sounds like a perfect plan! If something happens, scream for me, please.”

Emilia : “I’m not that weak. I can take care of myself, but if the situation gets fatal, I will call out your name.”

Jens : “Understood. Then let’s go!”

Both Emilia and Jens stood up and rushed through the giant door.

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In the meantime at the Lust Conquest, the group was standing in front of a giant crystal door.

Weiss : “Hmm… It seems the Archbishop of Lust sealed the door, we’ve been trying to open this door for almost an hour. If we won’t open it on time. The situation will get very nasty.”

Crusch : “Weiss-sama. I received a telepathic message from Reinhard. The Greed Crusade and the Conquest against Gluttony were successful. Some of their fights will head towards us.”

Felix : “This is quite shameful. We~ aren’t even able to open the door to fight it.”

Tivey : “According my analysis. This door is made of something that won’t melt. We need another way to enter this—”

Suddenly, the group that exists of Weiss Schnee, Aldebaran, Crusch Karsten, Felix Argyle, Maria Aqua and Tivey Pearlbaton hear footsteps coming from the stairs.

It were Julius Juukulius, Nathan Harmonia, Otto Suwen and Priscilla Barielle.

Weiss : “Priscilla, Julius, where are Aestas, Haku and Felt.”

Julius : “Tsk…”

An awkward silence ruined the atmosphere.

Priscilla : “Haku got eaten. He got devoured by the Sin Archbishop of Gluttony, Louis Arneb.”

Weiss : “A-Ahh?!”

Nathan : “Felt and Aestas are heading towards the actual city. Plans got changed slightly. Another girl who we met, Krista Lenz, went to the city too.”

Weiss : “Jens and Emilia? Are they fine?”

Nathan : “We’re all safe except for Haku, who tragically lost his life. I’m not–”

Weiss : “Not sure how to tell it to Cecilus? He’ll be mad, for sure. But right now, that’s not our time. It’s time to defeat the remaining Archbishops. First of all, do any of you know how to open this door?”

Nathan : “Y-Y’all haven’t even begin to battle?!”

Weiss : “Sadly, no. The door is crystallized by something unbreakable”

Then, Jens and Emilia arrived.

Jens : “Sorry for being late, how did the battle go?”

Weiss sighed out of irritation.

Weiss : “Listen. This stupid door won’t open. It’s crystallized by some kind superior power.”

Then suddenly, a loud voice could be heard and the door opened.

??? : “Yahoo! YAHOO! YAHOOOOOOOOOO!”

The twelve of them, entered the Crystal Room. At the end of the hall, stood the woman on a pillar. She had a microphone in her hand.

Weiss : “That’s the City’s Radio Broadcast Magic!”

??? : “Hello, all you meat creatures! No matter how many times you’ve heard it, doesn’t my beauty and my lovely voice excite you? Gahaahhahhah!”

The voice rang with a childlike cruelty, like a girl who’d spurned etiquette and trampled on conventional manners of speech. Her sharp laughter seemed able to pierce right into your mind, causing an aversion both mental and physical.

Jens : “That’s Capella…”

Weiss : “Don’t do anything. Keep listening. Everyone outside hears this. The whole Capital hears this.”

Capella : “Alright, you meat creatures enthralled by a beautiful girl’s enticing voice, I have news for you: we’re all tired, so what about y’all giving what we want? The true tossing and turning of day and night starts now! I want the Artificial Spirit, and I want the King. So give me them!”

A harsh, harsh voice, like a mirror next to the ear being scratched with sharp claws, filled with sadistic glee. What, what, what was this voice, what was this individual?

Capella : “It seems my precious words end here. We got some people ruining my love here. Metamorphosing meat creatures and insects is what they deserve! Like we said before, we got this whole city under our control. I think it’s best to not try anything weird! Now, The Sin Archbishop of Lust, Capella Emerada Lugnica is leaving for today! Gahahahahahahaha!”

The cruel high-pitched laugher was interrupted as the sound faded.

Felix : “B-But that’s a name of royalty? Emerada is the name of the first queen of Lugnica!”

Capella jumped down and faced the giant group.

Capella : “You all want to metamorphosed? This is hilarious! And some of you aren’t even knights or warriors! Gahahahahaha! HEY CLOWN!”

Then, a black purple portal opened behind Capella. Masquerade appeared in front of the group too.

Jens : “Masquerade.”

Masquerade : “Ah hey my sweetheart. Long time no see? Well actually, that’s not true. I saw you a while ago. I was watching you the whole time in fact! But I got bad news for everyone!”

Weiss : “Tell it you damned clown!”

Masquerade : “So many nice people! I don’t think Capella deserves to ruin this many people. Let me make this easier, what about this?”

Masquerade put his palm on the ground and collapsed the floor.

Everyone, including Capella and Masquerade, fell down.

Masquerade fell perfectly on his feet and created multiple portals to teleport people away, however due to the chaos, the crystals falling, nobody was able to notice who got teleported away and who didn’t.

Jens landed on his feet, and so did Emilia.

Weiss created an icicle platform and landed there along with Crusch and Otto.

Priscilla used her yang magic on herself and Aldebaran to levitate and don’t land horribly wrong.

Priscilla Barielle, Aldebaran, Emilia, Weiss Schnee, Crusch Karsten, Otto Suwen and Jens were the ones that would battle Capella Emerada Lugnica.

They were at a similar hall as they were just few seconds ago. It was a crystal room, but this room had darker blue crystals.

The crystals contained a lot of Mana, so using magic was a must.

Jens : “Anyone got any ideas? Strategies?”

Aldebaran : “Well, I must say brother, this woman is different from the Sin Archbishop I know…”

Weiss : “A-Are you saying you’re acquainted with a Sin Archbishop?”

Al scrapped his helmet.

Aldebaran : “Yes. I know one. I met a Sin Archbishop many years ago.”

Masquerade : “Ah how lovely! The ones that aren’t here anymore are somewhere in the Capital Capella, I had no time to decide where to send them.”

Capella : “No problem you freak. Now go back to your place.”

Masquerade : “Understoood desu hey hey! Goodluck everyone hey hey!”

The man with the mask started raising his hands and clapping, often saying ‘hey’ as if he was singing and dancing.

He swung his hand and opened a portal, and disappeared.

Capella : “Welcome you flies! I think now is a right time to welcome you thrash, right? Gahahahahaha!”

Weiss : “She’s even worse than Regulus…”

Capella : “What was that? Were you speaking while your majesty was talking? Gahahahaha! How ruthless!”

Capella swung her hand and transformed into a giant black dragon. It was capable of flying, but due the hall being too small for a dragon to fly, she remained on the ground.

Capella was a shape shifter.

This woman, this individual, this- this thing… It’s dangerous.

The black dragon had golden horns, it opened its mouth which revealed golden teeth. Then, the dragon opened its jaw further open, and started breathing fire towards the group.

It was a black and purple flame which was heading towards the souls of the group.

Immediately, Otto and Aldebaran swung their arms, creating a giant dome of rock to use as a barrier from the flames.

However, the flames didn’t stop flaming, they were eternal fires. The were impossible to be distinguished.

It slowly, after only a few seconds started to get extremely warm in the dome of rock.

They were trapped in their own walls. Capella was still trying to turn them into ashes.

Otto swung his hands towards a certain spot in the dome, and a small port opened. He opened an escape route out of the dome and screamed,

Otto : “HERE! FOLLOW ME!”

After the battle against Gluttony, Otto had changed. He didn’t think about playing the hero in this scene, in fact, he does this to prove himself.

He does not want to be seen as a nobody, he wants to be someone.

An actual— Someone.

He swung his hands towards the entrance while everyone left and finally so did he.

The Dragon stopped breathing fire and started throwing needles towards the group.

Weiss and Emilia created a giant wall of Ice which allowed Priscilla and Otto collect enough Mana from the atmosphere and the crystals in the giant hall.

Otto absorbed enough Earth Mana out of the area and created a track, no a road.

A road which circled the entire hall. It was made of earth, bricks, stone, everything that could be summoned by Earth Magic.

He created a big plate of stone and surfed it. He surfed towards the road and levitated on it. He circled the hall and surrounded Capella. He summoned even more Earth Mana and started summoning stones infused with Magic and started throwing it at her.

Otto : “EVERYONE! LET’S DO THIS!”

Otto distracted the dragon and it started aiming for Otto. He was fast enough to dodge them, but not for long.

Jens, Emilia– Everyone looked at Otto and admired him. Then quickly, Weiss ran towards Otto’s created road and used it to run on it.

She grabbed her Rapier.

The name of Weiss’ rappier is 『Myrtenaster』and was created in the Schnee family. It contained every single kind of Mana Stone, which allowed her to use every kind of magic she’s compatible with, even if she’s not an Yang Mage, she’s still able to use that kind of magic.

While running on the road of Earth, she started firing Ice pinnacles through the Dragon’s throat.

Priscilla then fired a flame towards her, granting her a shining barrier surrounding her, and then, Weiss Schnee dashed right towards the throat of the Dragon and cut it’s head off.

Aldebaran : “W-Was that it? It can’t be, she’s Lus–”

Looking at the insides of the Dragon, Capella came out of it.

Capella : “That was amazing! Keep entertaining me!”

She was reborn in the dragon, completely unharmed. She was able to regenerate all parts of her body with ease. It was clearly the work of the 『Authority of Lust』or maybe even something darker.

Weiss jumped on Otto and teleported each other towards the group.

Priscilla : “Aldebaran. How do we deal with this?”

Aldebaran : “That’s the Authority of Lust indeed. 『Variation and Change』is what people call it. There are more parts. If she’s the actual first King of Lugnica, don’t allow her blood to touch you. It will do nasty stuff to most people. I don’t think I know anything against it. She’s pretty much unkillable.”

Emilia : “What about freezing her entirely?”

Aldebaran : “Not sure. She would still stay alive. So she could theoretically transform herself into Lava, so the ice would melt.”

Weiss : “Capella Emerada Lugnica… This is insane.”

Crusch : “I’m unsure what I can do against her. But I think it’s time to show the power of a Karsten. Someone who’s part of the Lugnica family!”

Jens : “W-What do you mean with p–”

Crusch ran towards the remains of the dome and stood on it.

She grabbed her sword, the『Lion Slayer』sword.

She put it behind her back and green lights started to float around the blade.

Only after a few seconds, when Capella stared at the group, Crusch swung her arm towards the place where Capella was.

Crusch : “Meet the power of a Karsten! This is the Hundred Man Sword Strike!”

She unleashed a ranged sword strike which cut Capella right through the middle. But she wasn’t done, Crusch kept swinging her sword and kept firing the strikes.

However, Capella regenerated quickly.

Capella : “Such a waste from the wife of one of my descendants! Gahahahaha! You’re just as weak as your filthy mother! Gahahaha! You know what I did to the kind of her? I transformed them all into flies! Gahahahahahahahahaha!”

Jens : “Shut the hell up already!”

Capella : “AH! The boy talks! Now for my next move, I’ll turn you all into frogs!”

Capella swung her arm and out of her finger tips, a dark liquid fell on the floor.

Aldebaran : “WATCH OUT!”

Otto created a wall, but the liquid was some kind of acid, and went right through the wall, resulting into it landing on Otto’s shoulder, burning, flaming, igniting.

Otto : “AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH! HEELP!”

Immediately, Emilia ran towards Otto and started healing his shoulder.

Jens : “OTTO!”

Jens looked at Otto and was afraid that he was fatally injured, he had no idea what this liquid could be.

Priscilla : “Jens, watch and learn. Aldebaran! It’s fucking hyper time!”

Resulting in Aldebaran responding with

Aldebaran : “Ah, it’s that time of the day. I’m on it!”

Aldebaran, the man in the helmet, cracked one of his fingers. Nothing happened except that.

Aldebaran : “Everyone! Stay behind me until I say something different. I’ve seen enough people suffer already.”

Priscilla : “You little cry baby. Do it!”

Aldebaran took a step in the small pool of the black liquid, and immediately, his feet burned off. It started to bleed and his whole body turned darker and darker until he changed into a fro ■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ ■■■■■■ 『Aha. Just what I thought it was. Testing is every time so painful.』■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■『Let’s not do that again, shall we?』■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■

Aldebaran : “I’ve seen enough people— Ah. It’s indeed what it is. Everyone! That liquid is Dragon Blood! Don’t let it touch you!”

He dashed towards Capella and grabbed his sword. He cut off one of her arms with his sword, but got turned into a small fly■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ ■■■■■■ 『Hmm, it seems it works quite well from close range too. Just as I thought.』■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■『Let’s Redo that.』■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■ ■■■■ ■ ■■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■ ■■■■■■

Aldebaran : “Don’t let it touch you! Oh! Don’t come too near her. It seems it’s way easier for her to use Variation and Change from close range! That’s it Priscilla!”

Priscilla : “Wonderful. Very interesting.”

Jens : “What do you mean? Nothing happened.”

Priscilla : “Don’t you see? He’s the same like you. He’s able to fix from his mistakes and learn from them.”

Jens : “I don’t get it… Oh my god. Wait. Do you mean he just–”

Priscilla : “Died? Hmh.”

She nodded. Priscilla and Jens were talked not loud enough to people hear about it.

Weiss : “Understood Al! I’ve got a plan to try! Let’s go and try to freeze or burn her to death. Priscilla!”

Weiss turned towards Priscilla and asked,

Weiss : “Use your powers to turn her to ashes!”

Priscilla, immediately summoned her Yang Sword, a sword made of light and flames, and swung it, sending a orange flame towards Capella and setting her on fire.

Then,

Weiss : “Time for a demonstration! Capella! Meet the power of a Schnee, meet the Semblance of Glyphs!”

The girl, Weiss Schnee created a slippery platform to skate on it. She then jumped into the air and created floating mirros with one glyph on it. She used that as a platform and screamed

Weiss : “TIME DILATION GLYPH!”

Suddenly, the Time started to continue, but extremely slow, but not for Weiss Schnee. She set her Myrtenaster into fire and jumped through Capella multiple times, each time using the floating Glyphs as a platform.

Then, she stopped the stop dilation and summoned a black and red Glyph, which she used as a canon and fired spears of Ice through to Capella, even hitting her through the heart.

Emilia ran towards Capella to come closer in range and created a giant spear of Ice and send it through Capella’s body.

Capella : “G-Gaha-Ghaghagha!”

Just like that, she was pierced into pieces and turned to ashes. But she regenerated again, but then she transformed into a giant creature. It was unsure what it was.

It was a giant creature, with a tail of a snake, claws of a tiger, the head of a dragon, the body of a lion but scales that of a serpent.

Aldebaran : “It seems none of our attacks have actual effect on her. Anyone got other ideas?”

Otto : “This is… Impossible. How are we supposed to stop this creature?”

Weiss : “I-I’ve got an idea!”

Jens : “Hm? What is it Weiss? Be quick! I don’t think this hall will survive much more.”

Weiss : “I’m able to use Yin Magic. I can possible send her away to another dimension. But I’ve never tried that high tier magic.”

Crusch : “There is enough Mana in the atmosphere, even after our attacks. You should be able to use it. After all, if what you say is true, I would assume that you’re our final hope to defeat this thing.”

Weiss : “Wait! Look!”

Everyone turned towards the creature, but its eyes were closed. As if… the creature was exhausted. Maybe Capella Emerada Lugnica required some time to move after metamorphosing herself?

Otto : “It seems we got time. We cannot leave this place without dealing with her. So what’s our plan Weiss?”

Weiss : “Before we continue with the plan. Crusch Karsten.”

Weiss looked at Crusch and started a conversation that went back many years.

Weiss : “What happened to your husband? You had a man that was related to the Lugnician family?”

Crusch blinked her eyes twice, and after the second time, her eyes were filled with sorrow and nostalgia.

Crusch : “His name was Fourier Lugnica. He died because of the disease that killed everyone. He was my best friend, and the best friend of Felix Argyle. One day, we wanted to marry and become one together. But then, he got sick. No symptoms, no marks of any curse, he just died.”

Emilia : “Oh my… I’m so sorry for you Crusch.”

Crusch : “But if I may ask, for what reason do you require that information?”

Weiss : “I’ve a theory. A pretty shitty one, but I believe that Capella is behind the deaths of the Lugnicians. The Dragon Blood… I think she gave it to the Lugnician family, just somehow.”

Priscilla : “That’s a stupid theory.”

Priscilla swung her fan and started collecting Mana again.

Weiss : “It’s not as stupid as you think. If we could possibly, turn her blood to normal blood, we could possible stop her from using Variation and Change. The Dragon Blood inside of her body does weird stuff to the organism.”

Jens : “How would we be able to change her blood?”

Weiss : “No clue. But that’s for later. For now, lets focus on our goal. Deal with this devil. I’ll send her away to another dimension. B-B…”

Then suddenly, Weiss shivered. She was scared. She stood paralyzed near Aldebaran.

Suddenly, she feels a clap on her back. It didn’t hurt, it was a friendly clap. She turned towards her left and there stood Jens.

Jens : “Don’t worry Weiss! You got this! You once believed in me, and so did I in you. Of course, I don’t remember those events, but I know you can do it!”

Weiss : “But what if I fail?”

Jens : “Then what? You tried. It could mean our lives, but that’s not something to blame you for. Trying to rescue everyone here, the capital, the whole world, is something way more heroic then standing here, all alone, frozen.”

Weiss looked at Jens, jumped in his arms and embraced him with a hug.

Weiss : “I knew it! Jens remains the same! Even though his memories are gone. Jens remains Jens! You’re the best!”

Then, Emilia walked towards Jens and kicked him.

Jens : “OOOUUUCHH! What was that good for Emilia!!!”

Emilia : “I don’t know. But I felt really angry there for a second!”

The jealous Emilia turned around to the creature after it made a horrible loud noise.

Capella Beast : “GAAAAAAAAAAGGHHH!”

Weiss : “It’s time to do this. But I cannot send her away with that size. We must kill her many times until she’s back into her human form.”

Priscilla : “Do not worry. Stand behind me you foolish little girl!”

Priscilla, who still had her Yang Sword in her hands, swung with it, firing a giant blade of lava towards Capella and slicing the at least thirty meter tall creature, into pieces.

Then, a voice from inside the creature was able to be heard.

Capella : “NOT BAD, BUT WHAT ABOUT THISSSSSSSSSSS GHAGHAGHAGAHGAHGAHGAHGHA!”

Capella changed into a serpent, and with a fast speed, rushed towards the group.

Weiss : “THAT’S THE BLACK SNAKE TRANSFORMATION! DON’T LET IT TOUCH YOU!”

Otto : “DONA!”

Otto created a wall of stone and tried to block the snake, but the serpent was at least five meters thick and thirty meters long. It broke the wall and opened its jaw wide open.

Then, a sudden silence occurred when everyone noticed that Otto was inside the mouth of the serpent.

Otto : “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Otto tried to run out of the mouth, but it quickly started to shut closed.

Then, a spear was thrown into the mouth of the serpent by Jens.

Immediatelly, he teleported towards the spear and used a giant sword as a barricade against Capella closing her mouth.

Jens : “OTTO! QUICK!”

Otto jumped out of the jaw and landed on his knees, breaking one of his feet.

Otto : “AAAAGHH!!”

This wasn’t just bad luck, this was the work of Otto’s Semblance, Bad Luck.

Then, Aldebaran ran towards Otto and grabbed him with the arm he had left and dragged him with him towards a light barrier that Priscilla and Weiss were summoning.

After seeing that Otto was somewhat save, Jens released the sword and summoned the Katana, successfully cutting off the upper part of the serpents head.

Jens then threw a spear towards the group, not hitting anyone, and blinked towards the spear.

From a safe distance, they looked at the serpent transforming into Capella’s human form.

Capella : “Is that all you got? How hilarious! Gahahahaha! You’re all disgusting! Instead of fighting, y’all should love me! Adore me! Admire me! All love should be mine! You all should worship me and kiss my love! Gahahahahahaha!”

Capella transformed her right arm into a giant, two meter tall, sharp blade.

Capella : “How about we fucking finish this?”

Then, Emilia ran towards Capella and created a blade of Ice.

The two of them clashed.

Emilia : “Weiss! Go for it!”

After her screaming that, Capella cut her left arm open and threw Dragon Blood towards Emilia, but she dodged it by creating a wall of Ice and jumping in the air, from mid air, Emilia threw needles of Ice and pierced it through Capella.

Then, Weiss, Otto and Priscilla ran towards Capella.

Otto : “GAIA DONA!”

The man, Otto, created a prison of Earth and made her unable to move.

Then, Priscilla cut off her blade arm with her Yang Sword.

Capella : “NOT SO QUICK GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Then, Capella released a shockwave of dark energy and transformed Emilia, Priscilla and Otto into something weird.

Then, immediately after them, Aldebaran got transformed too.

Jens : “What the fuck is that?”

A pinkish hunk of meat―― would just about describe it.

Its shape was kind of like a lopsided ball of mud a child might have made, but out of meat.

Then, Weiss teleported the hunks of meats and herself towards Jens and Crusch to keep them safe.

Weiss : “They’re safe. They’re just imprisoned in it. No need to worry. Crusch, Jens, we need to do this. We can’t save them now!”

Jens : “A-Ah…”

Crusch : “So that’s the case… Understood. So what will we do now?”

Jens : “E-Emilia… She’s inside this thing?”

Weiss : “Jens! Don’t let the Sorrow strangle you! We must continue our mission! R-Remember our promise?”

Jens : “What promise?”

Weiss : “When all of this is over. I want you to meet Ruby Rose again. She’s the one that will help us save this world. And—”

She took a breath and continued.

Weiss : “I want us to be the way we were in the past. We were best friends. You promised me that we would see flowers again.”

Jens : “F-Flowers?”

Jens wanted to continue the battle against Lust, but when he heard the tone of Weiss’ voice, he was trembling. He felt bad for her.

She talks as if they went through a lot.

Jens : “Alright. Yes. I remember that promise. Let’s finish this Conquest and go see the flowers!”

Weiss : “Thank you, Thank you Jens.”

Crusch : “Guys. I’m very sorry to interrupt this, but we need to continue. What will we do next?”

Capella : “Do next? What about embracing my love that I offer you and start worshiping me! Gahahahaha!”

Weiss : “Shut up already! Crusch-san, Jens-san, let’s do this! We’ll go for it, even if it’s a huge gamble, this is our final bet. We must try this, or else…”

Crusch : “Or else our Capital will be destroyed and our friends will be dead.”

Weiss : “Which won’t happen! Let’s go!”

Jens summoned his giant great sword and dashed towards Capella.

Crusch, from afar, started firing her Hundred Man Sword Strike ability towards Capella.

Weiss, started collecting enough Yin Mana.

Weiss : “Keep this up! I need just a little bit more!”

Capella : “Oh nononononononono! That will not happen! How dare you even think about something cruel like that? Are you serious? Are you kidding me? Are you thinking that you’ll summon me away? Don’t you want my love and passion? Don’t you want to be embraced by my loving love? Don’t you want to melt with me and become one? Why are you resisting? Why don’t you want to accept this love? Are you joking? Why can’t you see this? JENS! WEISS!”

Then suddenly, they looked at Capella, who transformed into a girl with red hair and beautiful red eyes. She wore a black and red outfit. Jens did not recognize her, but she did look familiar.

Weiss : “Oh my god… That’s Ruby Rose.”

Ruby (Capella) : “GAHAHAHAHA! WHY DON’T YOU WANT TO BE WITH ME? DON’T YOU MISS ME? I WANT TO BE WITH YOU, YOU TWO, TOGETHER, FOREVER! YOU TWO WILL SPEND YOUR LIFE FOR LOVING ME—”

Then, Crusch fired a Hundred Man Sword Strike and cut Capella’s right arm off.

Capella : “Y-YOU DEVIL! DON’T YOU DARE TO INTERRUPT ME!”

Crusch : “JENS! WEISS! LET’S DO THIS!”

Then, Weiss snapped out of the illusion of her being Ruby Rose and dashed towards Capella, she teleported behind Capella but then—

Capella : “BLUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!”

Capella exploded into Dragon Blood and just like that, everyone in the hall lost their consciousness.

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Jens : “What the fuck is going on?”

Slowly being able to see his surroundings, Jens questions what just happened and looks around himself.

He found himself in another territory of the Royal Castle. He looked towards the sky and noticed that he was the top most layer of the Castle.

He looked around him more carefully and noticed Weiss Schnee laying on the floor, most likely unconscious.

He looked at his left and saw Otto Suwen, not in a bag of meat anymore. However, just looking a little bit further, he noticed the other bags of meats where everyone else was in.

In the middle of the room, was Crusch Karsten, without consciousness, maybe even dead.

Jens : “Ottoooo… Weisss… Wakee up…”

His head felt dizzy, he must’ve received quite a hard hit on his head. Then, he heard footsteps.

Looking towards the place where the sound comes from, he notices Capella entering the hall.

Capella : “Well well my dear children. You must’ve had a hard day, right? What about us finishing this?”

Jens : “You… fucking demon…”

Capella : “Oh? What was that? Did I hear something? I think I heard a lonely piece of thrash screaming for mercy, am I right? I think I am. Because you’re thrash. Gahahahahahaha!”

Then, Capella slowly walked towards Crusch body and looked at it.

Jens : “What the fuck are you going to do? Don’t you dare to touch any of them! Go for me instead of them! They don’t deserve that!”

Capella : “Is that so? I think I’ve a fun idea, in fact, I think what I’m about to do is fucking hilarious–”

Crusch : “W-What’s going on?”

Capella : “AAAAAAAH! YOU’RE AWAKE! THIS WILL BE EVEN BETTER! NOW I GET TO HEAR YOUR AMAZING SCREAM TOO!”

She transformed her arm into a blade and sliced Crusch’ right arm slightly open.

Crusch : “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

Capella : “Come now come now! Don’t worry, this will hurt even more!”

She transformed her other arm into a blade and cut her arm off.

Then, she poured her Dragon Blood into Crusch Karsten’s body.

Crusch : “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH—”

Jens : “CAPELLA STOP! I’M SORRY!”

Capella : “TOO LATE! YOU’RE 1000 YEARS TOO LATE FOR APOLOGIZING!”

Crusch : “KRUAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

The eyes of Crusch rolled back.

The pain she went through was insane, and slowly, her eyes started to close.

The Sin Archbishop of Lust slowly regenerated her arms and Crusch lost her consciousness.

Cruel. This woman was cruel. Whatever this thing was, it was dangerous.

She took a step on Crusch and then her other foot too.

Capella : “ISN’T THIS BEAUTIFUL?