[Last Episode: [The two of them stood in front of Klaus's fallen body, breathing hard, bleeding, shaking, and still refusing to move aside]
Chapter 149, Episode 149
[The Ruins of the Force Light Guild]
[Smoke. Blood. Cold wind]
[The courtyard smelled like burnt stone and hot copper. Broken pillars leaned in every direction. The old fountain lay in pieces. Rubble covered what used to be the guild hall]
[Klaus lay under a fallen beam. His chest barely moved]
[Marx knelt beside him with two glowing fingers pressed to his heart. A thin blue thread tied Klaus's soul to his body]
Marx: Stay with me.
[Klaus didn't answer]
[Marx stood up slowly]
[His smile was gone completely]
[Leon stood next to him. His hands shook. His golden eyes burned]
Leon: Marx.
Marx: Yeah.
Leon: No more holding back.
Marx: None.
[Karma watched them from the middle of the crater, brushing dust off her ruined sleeve]
Karma: Are you two going to cry now?
Marx: No...
Leon: We're going to kill you.
[They moved]
[They moved faster than the idea of speed and concepts]
[The air didn't have time to move out of their way. Stones hung where they'd been. Dust stood still in the sky]
[Leon hit first]
"Leon - Light Arrow Sword"
[A blade of pure light formed in his hand. It was thin as paper and sharp enough to cut anything he could see]
[He slashed across Karma's chest. The cut left a line of white fire in the air. The sword's edge passed through her robe, her skin, and the red threads protecting her]
[Blood sprayed across]
Karma: What— what kind of devastating light sword is he generating!
[Marx was already behind her]
"Marx - Essence Reign"
[He grabbed the core of her being and squeezed her soul, her life force, the shape of who she was. For one second, Karma's body stopped listening to her]
[Her knees buckled. Her arms went slack. The red threads on her wrist flickered like a dying candle]
[Karma hit the ground hard. Cracks spread across the stone]
[She coughed blood]
Karma: You—
[Leon kicked her in the face]
[Karma flew across the courtyard, skidded through a broken wall, and plowed into the dirt on the far side. A long trench opened behind her]
[She lay there for a second, staring at the sky]
[Her cheek was bleeding. Her lip was split. One of her eyes was swelling shut]
Karma: Shittt... this hurts
[Karma, quietly]
[She had never said that before]
[She sat up slowly. Her red thread had gone dim]
Karma: I made a mistake.
[Marx walked toward her. Slow. Calm. Terrible]
Marx: Yeah. You did.
Karma: I thought you were weak... IMPOSSIBLE
Leon: We're not.
[Karma stood up. She wiped blood off her mouth]
Karma: Fine.
[Her eyes flared red]
Karma: I'll stop playing.
[A red glow spread across Karma's body]
[It started at her wrist, ran up her arm, and filled her chest. The ground around her cracked. The air hummed. Her torn robe rippled in a wind that came from nowhere]
Karma: You two think this is a fight.
[She laughed. It wasn't a nice laugh]
Karma: It's an audit., I will five you the credit for you two...
[She raised both hands]
"Karma - Mirror Duplicate"
[Two silver mirrors opened in the air. One faced Leon. The other faced Marx. Each mirror reflected the person in front of it. Then the reflection began to move on its own]
[Karma had copied their powers on sight]
Karma: Light of the sun. Soul of the dead. Both mine now.
[She didn't just copy them. She improved them]
[Leon's light, in her hands, burned brighter, hotter, cleaner. Marx's soul magic, in her hands, cut deeper, faster, colder. She had mastered both in a single breath]
"Karma - Absolute Concept Amplification"
[She took the core of each power, light and soul, and multiplied it by infinity]
[A beam of white sun shot from her left palm. A wave of silver soul-fire shot from her right. They hit Leon and Marx at the same time]
[BOOM!]
[The courtyard exploded]
[The shockwave knocked down every wall still standing. A cloud of dust and fire rose a mile into the sky. The ground fell into a deep crater, rim glowing red]
[Leon and Marx flew backward through three buildings]
[Leon crashed into a stone pillar, cracked it in half, and fell to the ground. His chest was burned. His left arm hung limp]
[Marx hit a wall, slid down, and coughed up a mouthful of blood. His coat was in flames]
[Karma walked toward them, glowing red]
Karma: That was your own light, Leon.
[Leon pushed himself up on one knee]
Leon: I felt it.
Karma: And your own soul, Marx.
Marx: Shut up.
Karma: Do you see now? Everything you have, I have. Only better.
[Marx stood up shakily. He flexed his fingers]
Marx: Not everything.
[He raised both hands]
"Marx - Mind Voyage"
[Thin threads of pale blue light shot toward Karma's head]
[They entered her mind, hunting for memories, for weak points, for something to twist. He found her history in an instant. He grabbed it. He pulled hard]
[Karma froze]
[Her eyes went blank. She swayed on her feet]
[For two seconds, Karma forgot who she was]
[Leon didn't waste them]
"Leon - Radiance Reign"
[He controlled all the radiant energy around him]
[The air filled with heat and light. Every ray of sun in the Chaos Universe bent toward his palm. He fired it in a single golden beam]
[The beam crossed the courtyard faster than thought. It hit Karma directly in the chest, spun her through the air like a rag doll, and drove her through a mountain]
[The mountain split]
[Karma landed in the rock on the far side. Blood ran from her mouth. Her robe burned]
[She struggled out of the rubble]
[Karma laughed]
[It was a wet, ugly laugh]
Karma: You're stronger than I expected.
Leon: Don't talk.
Karma: But it won't matter.
[Her red glow flared brighter]
"Karma - Reflective Paradox Mirror"
[A tall silver mirror rose in front of her. A figure stepped out of it. It looked exactly like Leon. Same golden hair. Same golden eyes. Same stance. It carried every stat Leon had, and it knew every move he would make before he made it]
[The clone raised a light sword]
Clone Leon: I know you... let see how you fight yourself
Leon: That's creepy.
[The clone charged]
[Leon blocked the clone's sword cut his shoulder]
[Leon swung. The clone dodged. Every counter Leon threw, the clone had already prepared]
[They traded a hundred blows in a single second. Light sparked off light. The sound was like a thousand windows breaking at once]
[Leon was losing]
Leon: It's matching me... my clone is even stronger than me.. why am I this weak
Marx: I'll handle it.
"Marx - Spirit Sculpt"
[He shaped the spiritual energy of the clone. He reached into its core and twisted it. The clone's form shuddered. Its hands slowed. Its sword lost its glow]
Marx: Now!
[Leon drove his blade through its chest]
[The clone cracked like glass and broke into silver dust]
[Karma clapped slowly]
Karma: That's cute from yall two
[She walked toward them, red glow burning around her like fire. Her wounds began to close. Skin knit over skin. The burns on her robe faded. Even the swelling around her eye shrank]
Karma: Do you know what Hyper beings are?
Marx: Don't care.
Karma: You should.
[She spread her arms]
Karma: We are indestructible. Our bodies don't break. Our defenses don't crack. You can pile layers of conceptual attacks onto us and nothing happens. We shrug them off.
Leon: That's a lie.
Karma: Let's see you try!
[Marx narrowed his eyes. He raised both hands and spoke quietly]
"Marx - Existence Erasure"
[The air around Karma went blank. A circle of pure nothing opened around her, ready to delete her from the universe]
[The blank circle touched her skin]
[It stopped]
[It didn't break. It didn't fade. It just didn't work, like water refusing to wet a stone]
Karma: Existence erasure? We're largely immune.
[Karma smirked]
Marx: That's not possible.
Karma: Conceptual erasure? Immune. Law manipulation, Time, Fate and even Space-time.. we Hyper Beings are immune to those powers as we were granted this body by our Majesty Ivarak...and gave us immense power
[Leon's stomach turned]
Leon: Then how do you beat a Hyper?
Karma: You surpass their power. Raw power. Nothing else.
[She tilted her head]
Karma: And nobody in your guild is strong enough to do that. Only the Army of Chaos
[Neither of them answered]
[Leon looked at Marx. Marx looked at Leon]
[They both understood what that meant]
Marx: Then we just have to hit harder.
Leon: Yeah.
Karma: How cute. You think you can.
[She raised her hand]
"Karma - Theft Assimilation"
[A silver mist drifted out from her palm. It floated across the courtyard like fog. When it touched Leon, he felt something slip away. A little warmth. A little brightness. The edge of his sun]
[The mist touched Marx. His soul threads thinned. His blue glow flickered]
[Karma was stealing their privileges within reality]
[Their powers started to weaken]
Leon: My light's fading.
Marx: Mine too.
Karma: It's mine now.
[She smiled. Her power grew. Her wounds closed. The red glow on her body turned white-hot]
"Karma - Genesis-Trace Absolute"
[She stored every power she had witnessed in her internal database. Light. Soul. Gravity. Every attack the Force Light Guild had thrown at her. All of it stacked together inside her, ready to be used at once]
Karma: I can stack unlimited abilities. At the same time.
[She exhaled]
Karma: You can't win.
[Leon dropped to one knee]
[His light was dim. His breathing was ragged. His left arm was useless]
[Marx stumbled and caught himself on a broken pillar. His coat was torn. His eyes were red]
[But neither of them gave up]
Leon: Marx.
Marx: Yeah.
Leon: We're not stopping.
Marx: Never planned to.
[They stood up together]
[Karma sighed]
Karma: Fine. Let's end this!
[She raised both hands above her head]
[A ball of pale white-gold light formed between her palms. It was small at first. A marble. Then a coin. Then a sphere. The light bent the air around it. Birds fell out of the sky. The ground trembled]
"Karma - Creation Beam"
[The beam didn't just destroy. It unmade the idea of the thing it hit. Rock, sky, and distance. Even the concept of existing. If used carelessly, it could erase creation itself]
[She aimed it at Leon and Marx]
Karma: Goodbye!
[The beam fired]
[It crossed the courtyard faster than sound. The ground it passed over turned blank]
[The air it touched stopped existing. The mountain beyond them lit up with white fire]
[Leon and Marx held up their arms. They had nothing left to block it with]
Leon: Marx.
Marx: Yeah.
Leon: It was a good run.
Marx: Yeah.
[CRASH!]
[A bolt of lightning struck the beam from above]
[It was gold and white, thick as a tower, with a roar that split the sky. The lightning hit the beam head on]
[The two forces met in midair]
[A ring of blue-white light spread outward]
[The shockwave flattened the remaining walls of the courtyard. The ground bucked like an angry animal. In the distance, a mountain cracked clean down the middle and fell apart in two halves]
[When the blast faded, the beam was gone]
[A woman stood in the middle of the crater, hands on her hip]
[Short white hair, braided at the back. Red eyes. Two red-black dragon horns curling from her forehead. A long red-scaled tail swishing behind her. A white oversized shirt, a black skirt, bare feet]
[Her name was Tiamat, a surbordinate of Leo's Federation]
[She looked at the destroyed courtyard. Then at Marx and Leon. Then at Klaus lying under the beam]
[Her smile slowly faded]
Tiamat: Oh no.!
[She walked over to Leon, gently touched his shoulder, and looked at his burned arm]
Tiamat: Who did this?
Leon: Tiamat? What are you doing here?
Tiamat: Sagris asked the Eastern World for backup. I was the nearest dragon. My lord told us one rule. The Eastern Federation never leaves anyone behind.
[She glanced at Klaus]
[She turned toward Karma. Her voice dropped]
Tiamat: Was it you?
[Karma stared at her]
Karma: Who are you?
Tiamat: My name is Tiamat Nava.
Karma: Never heard of you.
Tiamat: I rose from the dead. Long story.
Karma: A dead thing??
Tiamat: That's rude.
[Karma laughed]
Karma: You blocked my beam with a little spark.
Tiamat: It wasn't little.
Karma: I'll copy it.
[She raised her hand]
"Karma - Mirror Duplicate"
[She locked her eyes on Tiamat and tried to copy her lightning. A silver mirror opened in the air. Gold and white lightning crackled inside the glass]
[But the lightning in the mirror didn't match]
[Karma frowned]
Karma: What?
Tiamat: Oh, you can't copy it.
Karma: Why not?
Tiamat: Because my lightning doesn't stay the same. It changes every time I use it.
[She yawned]
Tiamat: You'd need a pattern. I'm a storm.
[Karma's eye twitched]
Karma: Then I'll kill you... with my own powers!!
[Tiamat sighed. All the playfulness drained from her face. She cracked her neck. A single spark of lightning ran along her horns]
Tiamat: Leon. Marx. Stand behind me!
Leon: Be careful, she is resistant to any conceptual power
Tiamat: Then I'll hit her harder.. Thanks for the update though!
Karma: You're a joke...
Tiamat: I'm sorry. Did you say something?
[She vanished]
"Tiamat - Thunder Step"
[Gold lightning wrapped around her legs. She pushed off the ground]
[The earth cracked in a ring around her heel. Her body crossed the courtyard faster than any eye could track faster than light itself]
[The air screamed as she tore through it. The lightning in her wake lit the sky like a second sun]
[She hit Karma in the stomach]
[BOOM!]
[A shockwave ripped across the courtyard. Karma folded around the punch. Her feet left the ground]
[She flew backward through a collapsing wall and smashed into a mountain]
[The mountain shattered]
[Tiamat appeared above her. She swung her tail like a whip]
"Tiamat - Storm Tail"
[The red-scaled tail wrapped in thunder. It crashed down on Karma's back like a falling tower.The ground sank into a deep trench as karma bounced off the rock and rolled across the dirt]
[She screamed]
Karma: AAAGH!, her power keeps increasing exponentially
[Tiamat landed on her feet. Her expression was cold]
Tiamat: That's for the guild!
[Karma staggered up. Her robe was torn to ribbons. Blood ran down her face]
Karma: I'll kill you!
[She raised her hand]
"Karma - Flawless Counter-Replication"
[She watched the lightning in Tiamat's hand, copied it, and fired back a stronger version before Tiamat's attack could land. A thick gold bolt shot from her palm and it lit the sky. The ground between them melted]
[Tiamat didn't move]
[The bolt struck her in the chest]
[When the light faded, she was still standing. A tiny scorch mark marked her shirt]
Tiamat: Ooh. That one tickled.
Karma: Impossible!
Tiamat: It's a nice trick. Your lightning doesn't have a heart.
[She stepped forward]
"Tiamat - Thunder Creation: Local Space-Time"
[She snapped her fingers. A bubble of lightning opened around Karma, a pocket of space-time that belonged to Tiamat alone. Inside it, distance twisted. Up became down. Seconds stretched like taffy]
[Karma tried to run. Every step brought her back to the center]
Karma: Huh??, what is this a pocket space-time
Tiamat: I control reality in this pocket space!
[She punched into the bubble]
[Her fist crossed three thousand miles of folded space and hit Karma in the jaw. Karma's head snapped back. Teeth flew. The bubble cracked like glass, and Karma flew out of it, tumbling across the sky]
[Leon and Marx stared]
Leon: Her lightning pushed us back... just what monster did Leo summon
Marx: We're standing fifty feet away and it's even pushing us back
Leon: Her strength...is extremely powerful than I taught.. her power exceeds on a level above all the rulers in all the six universes
Marx: It's more than we have.
[They didn't say anything else. They just watched]
[Karma recovered in mid-air and spread her arms with silver mirrors opened all around her]
[ A thousand weapons floated out of them. Swords, spears, hammers, bows. Every legendary asset in existence]
Karma: Let's see you survive this weapons that even rips through law and time and even the world itself!! Farewell Dragon!!!
"Karma - Infinite Arsenal Duplication"
[The weapons hung in the air like a forest of metal with each one glowed with its own power. Some burned. Some froze. Some tore holes in reality. Together, they could have destroyed a planet]
Karma: Die!!!!
[She flung her arm forward]
[The weapons shot toward Tiamat]
[Tiamat opened her mouth]
"Tiamat - Storm Breath"
[Gold and white lightning poured from her throat. It was a wall of thunder, a hundred miles wide]
[The breath hit the flying weapons head-on. They shattered, melted, and vaporized in a single instant. The sky lit up as bright as noon. The sound was like a mountain collapsing]
[The breath didn't stop at the weapons]
[It hit Karma]
[She screamed, thrown back through the air, her robe burning]
Karma: What!!, not only did she vaporized all my weapons but she instantly attacked me... who is this animal.. she is not even a human
[She hit the ground hard]
[Karma climbed out of the crater. Her skin was cracked. Her hair was singed]
Karma: I can't find a weakness...
[She said it quietly. Almost to herself]
Karma: Every attack I copy gets ahead of me.
Tiamat: That's because I don't repeat myself.. copying my attacks is useless
[She walked toward Karma slowly. Lightning crawled up her tail]
Tiamat: You hurt people who didn't hurt you. You broke their home. You almost killed my friends.
Karma: They were in the way.
[Tiamat's eyes narrowed]
Tiamat: I'm still angry!
[Tiamat disappeared]
[Karma disappeared]
[First, they moved at many times the speed of light. Lightning trailed behind them in long streaks, each one miles long]
[The air tore open in their wake. Shockwaves cracked mountains behind them. The explosions arrived after they had already moved on]
[Then they accelerated faster than a photon could leave a star, they crossed the planet's sky. They hit each other over the Chaos Universe's capital, then over its oceans, then over its poles]
OThey crossed the entire planet in less time than a blink]
Leon: What the.. are they traversing everything even surpassed the Chaos Universe itself.
"Tiamat - Heaven Strike"
"Karma - Mirror Slash"
[Their attacks met in the middle of the sky. A ring of white light spread outward, and the clouds turned inside out]
[Then they accelerated again faster than the whole solar system could measure and crossed the star system in a flicker]
[They fought on the surface of a gas giant, then on the edge of a dying sun, then in the empty dark between worlds. Every hit sent a wave of lightning across the stars]
[Then they went faster still]
[They began crossing the universe from one end to the other before the first thunderclap finished sounding. They struck each other in a hundred different galaxies at the same time. They stopped being in one place]
Marx: What... this isn't a fight anymore... they are just destroying the galaxies itself...
[Then something broke time stopped itself In the space of a single word, they fought for ten thousand years]
[In the time it took Leon to blink, a whole age of the universe passed between them and returned. Past and future fought each other. Neither one remembered who struck first]
[The clock stopped counting]
[On the ground, Leon and Marx stood with their mouths open]
Leon: I can't see anything.
Marx: Just flashes... they are just stopping time and surpassing space itself with just speed
Leon: Lightning. Explosions.
Marx: The sky's turning colors.
[Every few seconds, a new crack of thunder rolled across the ground. A mountain on the horizon fell over. A long, shining line cut across the clouds. A flash lit up the stars]
Leon: That's Tiamat.
Marx:"And that's Karma.
Leon: They're still fighting.
Marx: Somewhere very far away.
[Karma crashed through the clouds like a falling comet. Tiamat followed her down, hand outstretched]
"Tiamat - Thunder Palm"
[Her palm slammed into Karma's face. A pillar of lightning drove her into the ground. Soil flew a mile into the air with a crater a hundred miles wide opened. Fire and smoke rolled from the center]
[Karma climbed out. Her left arm was broken. Her robe was gone. Half her face was burned]
Karma: No. No, no, no.!!
[She screamed]
Karma: I'm a Hyper, no specie or deities can kill us that's impossible!!
[Tiamat landed in front of her, breathing hard]
Tiamat: Then you should be able to take one more.
[Karma's eyes went wild]
Karma: You want to see everything?
[She raised both hands]
"Karma - Aura-Mirror Reversal"
[A silver aura spread around her. Every attack that hit it reflected right back at the sender. Damage, curses, even distortions in space]
[Tiamat's next lightning bolt hit the aura and bounced straight back at her]
[Tiamat took the hit. Her sleeve burned. A drop of blood ran down her arm]
Tiamat: Ow.
Karma: Now you feel it!
[She raised her second hand]
"Karma - Genesis-Trace Absolute"
[Every power she had ever stored flared at once. Light. Soul. Gravity. Reflection. Creation with a thousand abilities stacked together like a tower of lightning]
[Her aura grew a hundred times bigger. The whole courtyard disappeared. The remains of the Force Light Guild turned to glass and the ground cracked]
Karma: I'm going all out!
[She flew straight into Tiamat]
[The fight exploded]
[Karma's attacks tore through the guild's last walls as shockwaves leveled whole districts. She drove Tiamat through a mountain range]
[She hurled her across a valley. Rivers jumped out of their beds. Entire forests burned.
[Tiamat flew backward through the air, then planted her feet and slammed back. The two of them crashed through the horizon, leaving a trail of fire across the sky]
[They hit the coast]
[The ocean opened like a mouth, salt wind, the roar of waves. The smell of burnt seaweed]
[The two of them landed in the middle of a vast sea]
[Karma raised her arm and fired a beam straight down]
[The ocean split. A deep trench opened in the water. The seabed cracked. Steam shot into the clouds. Fish, sharks, and whales were swept out of the deep, flashing silver in the air]
[Tiamat's face hardened]
Tiamat: The animals.
Karma: They're in the way.
Tiamat: They're innocent.
Karma: They're collateral.
[Another beam. The sea boiled. Waves two hundred feet tall rolled outward. Seabirds fell from the sky. A pod of whales screamed in the distance]
[Tiamat's eyes turned from red to bright gold]
Tiamat: That's enough.
[She flew straight at Karma. Her tail whipped through the air. Her lightning cracked like a whip]
"Tiamat - Thunder Crown"
[A crown of white lightning formed above her horns. The air filled with the smell of ozone. The sea beneath her flattened out in a perfect ring. Every wave in the ocean stopped moving]
[She slammed into Karma]
[Karma fired back with everything she had. Her aura, mirrors, weapons, stolen abilities. Everything was thrown at once]
[The ocean evaporated in a wide circle. The seabed was exposed to the sky. Mud and sand flew like rain]
[Neither of them gave an inch]
Karma: DIE!
Tiamat: No.
[They hit each other so hard the sea floor sank a mile]
[For a moment, they hung in the air, face to face]
[Karma's body shook. Her mouth was bleeding. Her arm hung at her side]
[Tiamat's hair was wild. Her shirt was torn. A thin cut ran along her cheek]
[But her eyes were steady]
Karma: I'm a Hyper!
Tiamat: I heard.
Karma: You can't kill me.
Tiamat: I can try.
[She lifted her hand]
"Tiamat - Last Storm of the Ancients"
[The sky answered her]
[Every storm cloud on the planet rushed toward her palm. Rain, wind, and thunder poured from the clouds and gathered into a single point]
[The air turned white. The sea trembled. The temperature in the sky dropped, then rose, then exploded upward]
[A spear of lightning formed in her hand. It was a mile long. It hummed with a sound like the heart of a mountain]
Karma: No...
Tiamat: You hurt my friends.
[She threw it]
[The spear crossed the sky in an instant. It hit Karma's chest and went straight through. A white ring of thunder spread outward]
[The ocean split in two. The clouds blew away. A blinding column of light shot up into space]
[Karma's mouth opened. She tried to scream]
[Nothing came out]
[Her body glowed from within. Silver cracks ran across her skin. Her eyes turned white. The red thread on her wrist snapped]
Karma: Ivarak... will...
Tiamat: Not today...!!
[The light swallowed her whole]
[When it faded, the sky was empty]
[Karma was gone]
[The sea slowly closed itself. Water rushed back into the trench. Waves rolled across the horizon. The sun came out from behind the clouds]
[Tiamat floated in the air for a few seconds, breathing hard]
[Then she smiled]
[Her whole body relaxed. Her wings, which she hadn't even used, folded back into her shoulders]
[The lightning on her horns faded. The cold gold in her eyes warmed back to red]
Tiamat: Whew.
[She wiped her forehead]
Tiamat: That was a lot.
[She turned toward the coast]
Tiamat: Hey! Everybody alive?
[She flew back across the Chaos Universe. The ruins of the Force Light Guild looked small beneath her. When she landed, Leon and Marx were still standing in the crater]
[Leon limped forward]
Leon: You won.
Tiamat: Of course I did. I'm an ancient dragon. It's in the job description.
Marx: Thank you.
Tiamat: Don't mention it.
Marx: We were done.
Tiamat: Not yet. You still had a little left.
[She looked around]
Tiamat: Where's the tall guy?
[Marx pointed]
[She knelt beside Klaus. His coat was torn. His chest was barely moving. His skin was pale]
Tiamat: Oh.
[She put her hand on his heart]
Tiamat: Hold on. Let me try something.
"Tiamat - Spark Heart"
[A single, tiny spark of gold lightning formed at her fingertip. She pressed it gently against Klaus's chest. The spark sank beneath his skin and flickered once, twice, three times]
[Thump]
[His heart started beating. Slow, then steady]
[Color returned to his face. The bleeding stopped. A slow breath rattled in his chest]
Klaus: Ugh.!!
[His eyes fluttered open]
Klaus: What happened?
Marx: You got hit.
Klaus: By what?
Leon: A planet.
[Klaus tried to sit up and groaned]
Klaus: Where's Karma?
Tiamat: Dead.
[Klaus blinked]
Klaus: Who killed her?
Tiamat: Me!
[Klaus looked at her for a long time]
Klaus: You're one of Leo's.
Tiamat: Grand Marshal.
Klaus: Thank you.
Tiamat: Hey. Eastern Federation. We don't leave people behind.
[She stood up and stretched her arms over her head]
Tiamat: Okay! Who wants snacks?
[Leon and Marx looked at each other]
Leon: She just killed a Hyper.
Marx: And now she wants snacks.
Tiamat: Everyone needs snacks after a fight.
[She helped Klaus to his feet. Leon and Marx steadied him on either side]
[Behind them, the ruins of the Force Light Guild stood quiet in the afternoon light]
[The war wasn't over. But for now, three friends were alive]
To be continued....