Skin smiles and launches herself at Midori. She attacks her with Dicky but it isn't Midori again. The body's mirroring is removed and totally another Chosen puppet attack Skin.
Skin dodges the attacks and observes her surroundings. What she sees just ruins her mood.
Everywhere she looks there is Midori everywhere. Every puppet's body is transformed into Midori. The worst thing is that every Mirrored Midori has one arm missing.
Skin fails to understand how does that even work? Can she just make other arms of the puppets disappear? Or it is now invisible? She needs to do some of her own testing to find that out.
She moves and attacks whatever comes her way. Each opponent looks like Midori so it is easy to crush their skulls. It is quite satisfying too. However, Skin is noticing oddity.
The weapons of these fake Midori's are not what it seen. Every one of them are using different set of weapons. But Skin can only see Midori's Mace. This miscommunication is causing her attacks to be blocked and having hard to blocking attacks of others.
It is like trying to dodge what cannot be seen.
Skin isn't aware of what are frozen blessing so her only guess is that Midori has two blessing or something. One to make other her puppet and another to change their appearance.
She continues her attacks but gets interrupted by the Knight. it throws its spear right at her. She manages to dodge getting pierced by it. But the spear is a frozen blessing so it still hits her the way back.
Skin stumbles but manages to not fall down. She is in quite the predicament. She is surrounded by Midori's puppets and a terrifyingly strong sinned soul, the knight.
Both of them are fighting her specifically. Puppets are keeping her distance from the Knight and the Knight is attacking anything that is coming its way. Currently, Skin is always in its way. But not just that, the ground is shaking even more violently now.
Skin is between all and she can't focus on all. She needs to do everything one by one. So, she ignores the shaking and the knight. Her only focus is to kill Midori. She is the most annoying enemy and she needs to die if Skin wants any kind of satisfaction.
She moves like a wild animal on all four. Her attacks have changed and combat style too. She might not be able to fight one on one but she doesn't want to kill them. She just has to damage them enough so they can't move anymore.
Her four limbs running is faster and much better than running on her damaged feet. She moves through her enemies and only attacks their legs and low parts of her body. If she can reduce their moment. Then the knight might be able to take care of the one who can't move.
But this strategy has left her back in the open. Because she low than everyone else. They get to have a more easy target as they don't have to worry about getting blocked or attacked in return.
But it doesn't matter. She will take the hurt and hurt them back. Her favorite technique indeed.
Midori watches her and Skin's attacks barbaric. She is so disgusted cause her barbaric strategy is working. A lot of her puppet's legs are damaged. Reducing their moment and most have even lost their legs.
Skin has no real plan and she is just attacking anyone with the face of Midori. That sure is a nuisance for Midori. She had thought that it would've been fun playing with her before the mountainous emerges. But it looks like a waste of time.
"Some vermin are just too stubborn to die."
She observes her puppets whose legs are severely damaged. They're trying to run away from the knight.
She has never seen a sinned soul like that. It is quite unique. But she is starting to think that it isn't a sinned soul. It is a frozen memory that has its own mind… a damaged mind. It also possesses another memory that it is using as its weapon.
It does seem to have a limitation though. It needs to devour constantly. More it consumes, the stronger it gets.
She is bored of playing with her. Maybe she would pass the turn to someone else now. So, she instructs her damaged puppets to let themselves be consumed by the knight and let other to retreat.
The knight consumes puppets and they turned into a sinned soul inside of the knight and gets devoured. The knight gain strength and that surge of strength radiating from it forces Skin to get distracted.
In that moment of distraction, each and every puppet disappear and when Skin looks back at the puppets with Midori's face. There is no one to be seen anywhere.
"That bitch can definitely go invisible."
Skin doesn't really have time to get angry at that though. That's because the knight is on her tail now.
Without giving her any time to stand up, the Knight reaches her and swings its spear on her. She dodges but the shock sends her flying far away.
She falls on the ground with a thump. She manages to stand up and sees the knight running towards her. She can't win can't it. Her attacks don't do much damage and now it has eaten enough that she can't use her previous tactic. Even if it gets hungry again, because of her injuries she can't run as fast as before.
Only a miracle can save her now.
Then she smells it.
"Blood…"
Skin runs towards the knight with all the strength she can manage. She is ready for one last swing on the knight.
The knight watches her and gets ready to swing its large spear at her. They both reaches each other and then both of them swing at each other.
Skin however doesn't attack the knight. Instead, she hits the large spear. She is incapable of block that attack but she lifts herself up and uses the knights attack as a lift up. If it can work last two times and why not now?
She gets hit and take severe damage on her body. Then her body goes flying away like a ragdoll into the sky. Few of her bones breaks and even her teeth but not a big deal. She can't even feel it. She has gone numb.
Knight sees her flying and starting walking towards her. But before that can happen. The flood of boiling blood crushes into it and sweeps it away.
She falls away from the flood of blood and watches the knight. She can't imagine it dying in there though. Its armor is way too think for that to happen. She grinds her teeth as she couldn't kill it. But at least she survives.
There is another thing though.
'Where did this blood even come from?'
She looks through her surrounding and spots someone. It is Man-man. So, Skin forgets about her broken and pained body and run towards him.
She tackles him and then kisses him out of nowhere. Man-man shows no expressions on his face. But he does seem to react, a little, to her kissing.
There are blood and teeth that Skin shares with Man-man. He even swallows a lot of her blood and teeth. It is quite gross but not surprising. She would kiss him even if her body is fully burnt again.
"You bring that blood to save me, didn't you? I knew you love me too. Aww…give me more kiss and even more kiss. My love and my life."
Her kissing continues.
Man-man doesn't care what she has to say. But he does notices, few of her fingers missing and she is hurt all over the body. It is hard to see if she even has any normal flesh left on her body.
All her body is burnt and what is left is littered with wounds. She is a walking mess of a Chosen. How is she even alive? Man-man can't even tell.
He does wonder if this is what beautiful is about or cuteness. He still remembers her first question to him. He think about it a lot. He wants to find rationality or logic in it. But he fails in find it again and again. So, for now, He'll just put that in the back of his mind.
This moment of love only last for few minutes. The ground shake for last time and then explodes. Man-man knows what that means.
'Mountainous soul is here…'
The ground erupts from the ground and to the sky. Dark appendages crawls from inside the ground as a whole new mountain takes a shape.
The mountain itself moves away from the boiling blood. The amalgamation of souls that it is made of screams in an artificial manner. There is no life to be seen in this creature. Its very existence is a sin. 5000 of souls shapes itself together to be the Mountainous soul.
Each Chosen watches the mountainous soul emerges and they all salivate at the thought of killing it. They've lost interest in killing each other. Now they want to kill what they're born to kill.
The sinned soul.