The tension is overwhelming. All five are ready to clash.
A sharp voice cuts through:
"Ohh... kill each other except for me."
Sou Lisou turns. His face changes instantly—joy.
"Zanryū! You came!"
Zanryū:"Sorry I'm late. I had some business to take care of—as you know, collecting money from the casinos I own. People with debts... collected 1,596,150 JPY. But I can see you've been surrounded here—correct?"
He walks over and places his hand on his back:
"Lisou... let's finish this quickly."
Sou Lisou looks at him with curiosity:
"Why do you say it like that... like you're scared?"
Zanryū laughs—a calm, relaxed laugh:
"No, no — it's not that. It's just... you know your sister is in the hospital. We shouldn't leave her alone."
Sou Lisou—his gaze fills with sorrow.
"I'll do everything I can. I'll finish this. I promise you."
Suddenly Jane cuts them off:
"You two—I don't have time to listen to your life story. Tell me right now where Akos is. Now, I have no time to waste."
Ruka turns her head toward Jane:
"Why are you looking for Akos? The fact that you're searching must mean—"
Jane cuts her off:
"I don't need to know anything. I don't care. Listen—because you're all just little kids... I simply..."
She puts her blades back.
She leaves.
Ruka turns to Reino:
"Go find Akos. Tell him our plan has failed."
She starts running after Jane.
Keal turns his head to Reino:
"Do you know her?"
Reino:"No. I don't know who she is. Never mind... it's better we stay here."
Zanryū looks around and says:
"Alright. Now—I'll take the one with no hair. You take Reino."
All four prepare for battle.
REINO VS SOU LISOU
Zanryū VS KEAL
Reino drives a sharp, fast punch straight into Lisou's face—he goes flying back.
At the same time Keal attacks Zanryū with a kick. Zanryū raises his hands to reduce the damage and says:
"Good... good. Not so great, but not so bad either."
He looks at Keal:
"You're the second hand of the prince."
Zanryū laughs:
"Prince... that will make your leader remember the very first dream he ever had when he was born."
Keal answers:
"We'll see."
On the other side, Reino presses Lisou with rapid attacks. Lisou leaps onto a car — but Reino kicks the car and sends it back. Lisou climbs up onto a street lamp with quick speed.
Sou Lisou:"You're so powerful—correct. But do you know something you don't know? What I have. This fight hasn't even warmed up yet. That's what I don't love."
Reino:"Lisou... keep your words for yourself. You don't need to give me lessons. Besides, your clan—the Lisou—always gives useless lessons."
Sou Lisou(smiling):"You mean the irrelevant clan? FACHIRO is nothing powerful to me. I could just go kill them—I'm simply gifting them their lives. There's some truth to that."
Reino:"I don't think you can do anything to that clan—because they're under protection from the TASAKU clan."
Sou Lisou bursts out laughing:
"What clan—what irrelevant things. What can TASAKU do to me? Better look at your own situation—people who want to kill you. It's strange... that girl who came said she'd execute you, and then she left. Said she was looking for Akos. Why did she change her mind so fast? What did she see in such a short time?"
Reino stays silent. Then says:
"She didn't leave. But you fell into her trap."
Sou Lisou:"Trap?"
Suddenly the streetlamp releases a massive voltage—it strikes Lisou hard and sends him crashing to the ground. Blood from his mouth. He struggles to breathe.
He lifts his head. He sees Reino—and beside him, Jane.
And then he starts laughing—suddenly, loudly.
"I understand. I understand now—I just finally understood."
Pause.
"Nobody ever told me that the BANIZ gang had split into two sides—the allies and the devils. That means the second side of the BANIZ gang is HUNTER DEVIL... and you, my sweet girl—you're one of the devils."
Jane looks at Reino and says:
"Has he lost his mind—or am I wrong?"
Lisou laughs uncontrollably. He raises his head toward the moon. In a quiet, savage voice, he says:
"Let it be then... let this time move faster."
UNIVERSE ZONE: THE TURBO TIMELINE OF PLANET WARP
Before Jane and Reino can even process what they heard —
Something strange. A body coils into a ball and devours everything within a 100-meter radius—ground, buildings, cars, everything—leaving behind a dark, infinite void with no end.
Lisou screams at the top of his lungs:
"WELCOME TO MY PLANET!"
His speed is so explosive it shatters sound itself. Buildings — everything — move at insane velocity. Reino and Jane are trapped on his planet — they cannot move. The pressure is crushing, merciless, absolute.
Jane struggles to move her head even slightly.
Reino screams at her:
"STOP MOVING — YOUR HEAD WILL BE CUT OFF!"
Jane keeps trying to turn her head to the right — the pressure slams into her with full force. She barely manages to move. She is left in complete shock.
They are no longer on earth.
They are in The Cosmos.
Everything moves at speeds exceeding 200 Mach — surpassing light, surpassing sound. Everything spins at insane velocity. The pressure is so overwhelming that their bodies begin disappearing from below.
Reino's body starts to expand — like a balloon being inflated. He screams:
"JANE — WE NEED TO FIND THE WEAK POINT OF HIS PLANET!"
But his voice moves so fast it breaks the speed of light — Jane herself cannot even hear what he said.
"JANE! JANE!" he screams.
But his voice dissolves into the void — faster than light itself.
Jane screams:
"WHY IS EVERYTHING SPINNING SO FAST—"
The vocal cords of her throat explode from the pressure.
"I CAN'T TAKE IT... I'M GOING TO DIE!"
Her face begins to inflate like a balloon.
The UNIVERSE ZONE: THE TURBO TIMELINE OF PLANET WARP reaches 200 Mach.
Time moves so fast that every 100 milliseconds — the same time it takes a human eye to blink — takes an entire year.
The rules of the UNIVERSE ZONE:
RULE 1: Every body within the planet — the user's speed doubles.
RULE 2: The faster the planet moves, the more energy it devours from the enemy. Once the energy runs out — the UNIVERSE ZONE ends with it.
RULE 3: Every 100 milliseconds equals one year.
Reino tries to move his mouth — but everything spins so fast that everything in front of him appears frozen. Speed has exceeded 200 Mach.
He hears a voice:
"ACTIVATE YOUR UNIVERSE ZONE NOW!"
The voice was so fast that his ears explode from the sound.
At the same moment — he sees Ruka in front of him.
She has driven her blades into the ground. She is trying to force the UNIVERSE ZONE — to break it from within.
Reino screams: "I can't believe how Ruka can endure this! Her body has turned to water because of the gravity."
She lifts her head and sees Sou Lisou rushing towards her. In half a millisecond, Lisou lands a punch; Ruka didn't even have time to see a thing. She sees herself standing beside the other two.
Ruka: "I have no other choice... I have no other choice!" She lowers her head, but gravity pulls her down even further. Jane screamed so loudly:
"Get your heads down!" With immense speed, Jane launched herself so fast that she appeared right next to Lisou.
Everything moves in slow motion. Lisou sees Jane right beside him, where time has frozen. Jane declares: "I control the current." With absolute speed, she severs Lisou's arm, having surpassed him. Reaching 800,000 Mach, Jane breaks all the rules. Lisou's Universe Zone overtakes her, but the Universe "swallows" the energy. The speed has increased so excessively that it reached 800,000 Mach—matching Jane's own speed.
Lisou attacks Jane with thousands of punches. Each punch lasts $0.0000001$ yoctoseconds.
Time has been destroyed. Jane's abdomen has turned to water. Her body has become liquid. The entire planet turned liquid due to the infinite gravity. Jane has lost all stability; her body is internally dead.
Reino, Ruka, and Jane have lost all contact with their physical forms; their organs have been displaced, drifting in the sky like liquid. Time has slowed down to such an extent that every fraction of a second feels like an entire year. The planet has devoured all of Jane's and Reino's energy—they now possess zero Nature Energy.
Simultaneously, Lisou's body has begun to heat up so intensely that it exceeds 15,000,000°C, matching the core temperature of the Sun. The planet itself has begun to turn on its user, rapidly aging and weakening him.
Lisou screams: "I can't stop! The Universe Zone has lost control! Damn it, I'm going to kill myself and the other three!"
Ruka, through terrifying willpower, is still managing to hold on, though her body grows weaker with every passing moment. "I can't take any more... I am going to activate the Eye Sights!"
Lisou lunges at her, mocking: "In your dreams, my sweet girl!" But before his fist can connect with her face, everything comes to a standstill. Time stops. Life stops. Lisou's fist is frozen mere centimeters from Ruka's face—her legs have already vanished due to the sheer velocity that is consuming everything.