"What happened?!"
Inside the Sacred Cathedral in Colorless Realm, Killingham, who had just returned from outside, looked up and saw a massive sea beast piercing through three layers of dreams, stabbing straight into the depths.
Furious, he reverted from his beast form, revealing a handsome face and dark green hair.
Trembling with rage, his voice shook.
"What kind of joke is this? Miria, Dorian, where are you?!"
A blue-haired girl, stretching lazily, walked over drowsily. Upon seeing the enormous sea beast, her jaw dropped, "Whoa, so huge?"
Moving at extreme speed, Killingham created a friction sound against the air. He turned and punched Miria on the head, creating a large bump.
"Ouch!"
Retracting her head and welling up with tears, Miria cried out in pain.
"Didn't I tell you to keep an eye on the dream realm? And where's Dorian? Where is he?"
Crossing his arms, Killingham stood tall like a centaur, scolding his junior.
"Didn't he go after those little toys?"
"Oh right, that girl seemed pretty strong with her Haki. I forgot to tell him."
Miria punched her palm and then scratched her head, sticking out her pink tongue playfully.
"You idiot..."
Killingham clenched his fist, veins bulging on the back of his hand.
"Now, now, boss, this is the dream realm! Can't you have a little more confidence in us?"
Afraid of being hit again, Miria raised her hands in surrender, trying to calm Killingham's anger.
"Besides, even if something goes wrong, isn't there still me? Is there really anyone in this world who can defeat me in a realm of souls?"
Miria placed her hands on Killingham's shoulders and guided him to sit at a nearby dessert table.
"Cough, cough... arrogant woman..."
Covered in wounds and completely turned into a blue sludge, Dorian crawled in through the door.
The flowing paint left a bright trail on the white church floor tiles, but slave creatures hidden in the darkness quickly rushed out to clean it up.
"Oh hoh~"
Miria crouched down beside the sludge and poked it with a fork covered in cake frosting.
"So pitiful~ Were you defeated by that girl? Did you cry outside before coming back?"
A small tentacle emerged from the paint, wrapping around Miria's fork and crushing it to pieces.
"It wasn't her!"
Flinging the fragments behind him, Dorian's voice carried a calmness completely different from before.
"Huh? It's the calm-mode Dorian. Not fun anymore."
The blue-haired girl puffed her cheeks and pouted.
Ignoring her antics, the paint turned its gaze toward Killingham and said, "Killingham-sama, are you sure the MMAs you created won't betray you?"
"Impossible! All MMAs are under my control. How could any of them betray me?"
Holding his halberd-like weapon, Killingham stroked his chin.
"Then, what do you call that?!"
The small puddle of sludge that was Dorian extended a tentacle forming an arrow, pointing toward the gigantic sea beast in the distance.
"Oh, right!"
The other two at the dessert table suddenly realized something was wrong, and Killingham began to ponder.
'Wait, why did I subconsciously overlook its peculiarity?'
'Does the other party also have hypnotic abilities?'
'No... that's not it. The authority over the dream realm is being hijacked!'
"It's bad, that thing is fighting us for control of the dream realm itself. We need to expel it as soon as possible!"
Spinning his halberd, Killingham transformed entirely into his Kirin form.
Surrounded by flame clouds, the Kirin charged through the void toward the gigantic sea creature.
Covering several kilometers in an instant, the halberd gleamed with a dark light as it thrust fiercely toward the colossal beast.
Clang!
A giant storm sword shot out from the depths of darkness, clashing with the halberd and emitting a piercing screech of metal grinding against metal.
At the end of the giant sword, a cherry blossom mark bloomed.
The next moment, the illusory light of Space-Time brought forth a pair of furious emerald eyes, vivid and clear.
"What do you think you're doing to my Nakama?!!"
Boom!
Pitch-black lightning radiated across the sky as violent waves of energy surged relentlessly.
Will sang aloud, and Haki roared.
The formidable Conqueror's Haki scattered the flame clouds beneath Killingham's feet, causing him to lose his footing and plummet straight to the ground.
The two who arrived shortly after stared in shock at the scene.
"Killingham-sama! You... this is the second time!"
Dorian, his body resembling a paint slime, turned crimson and roared in fury.
"Ah, it's the cute little sweetheart! Still so gorgeous!"
Flapping her pure white wings, Miria, who had flown in from afar, clasped her hands to her cheeks, her eyes sparkling with hearts.
"Don't worry about me, you two! Deal with that sea creature now!"
Killingham, still mid-air, issued the order before crashing into the ground and kicking up a massive cloud of dust.
"Yes, boss! I'd be delighted to!"
The blue-haired angel flapped her wings and charged straight toward Sakura.
"Hmph, it's you again, woman!"
Sakura clenched her fists, forming a giant ice axe at her side, and swung it fiercely at Miria.
Clang!
A giant axe made of flames collided with Sakura's, steam bursting from where the blades met.
"Mmm~ Even your abilities are so compatible with mine."
Miria's beautiful face was filled with a morbid adoration.
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Collision after collision after collision.
Sakura and Miria swung their axes like phantoms, constantly parrying each other's blows.
"Although I already know you, you still don't know me, do you~?"
Amid the flying sparks, Miria's voice reached Sakura's ears.
"My name is Manmayer Miria, 28 years old, Scorpio, single and never been in love. I live in the Holy Land Mary Geoise, and my family is super rich."
"Tell me, would you like to come to my house… to be my slave... cough... my wife?"
The angel girl, her eyes filled with nothing but Sakura, extended an invitation.
"Hah? Who wants to be your wife? Take your lovesick act somewhere else!"
Sakura's other hand also reached into the void, now wielding two axes, both coated in Haki.
An unimaginable force poured from her body into the twin axes, with the speed and power of each swing rapidly increasing.
"Was it too fast to jump straight to marriage? Then how about we start with dating first?"
Even as she struggled to keep up with Sakura's onslaught, Miria continued to chatter nonstop.
"Shut up!"
Sakura twisted her axe and swung again.
In a dark corner, a mass of crimson paint opened its eyes, glaring fiercely at Sakura as she fought.
A cluster of spikes extended from the paint, spiraling into thorn-like vines.
Seizing a momentary gap when Sakura and Miria broke apart after a clash, it launched a swift and fierce sneak attack.
"Die, you ant! Red Star: Thorn Fern!"
Dorian transformed into tiny thorn bullets, shooting forward like a streak of light.
Just as the thorn bullets accelerated to near-light speed, a rabbit's paw appeared directly in their path.
"Hole!"
A bullet-sized hole suddenly appeared on the white-furred rabbit paw.
The other end of the hole connected to the desolate terminal, causing the unprepared Dorian to plunge headfirst into a garbage pit, covered in foul, acidic slime.
"You damn-"
Before he could finish, Dorian was cut off as the white rabbit closed the hole.
"Hey, pirate! I'll handle that guy! Please take care of the citizens for me!"
Prince Hermod of Elshakh puffed out his chest and shouted, then pressed his hands against Leviathan's skin to open another hole.
Sakura grinned, making a promise the moment he disappeared:
"Alright! Leave it to me!"