Part 1: Shibuya Burns in hell
The winds of ruin howled through the streets of Shinjuku.
Where once stood skyscrapers and stores, only smoldering rubble remained in Shinjuku. Craters, fire, and the remnants of battle stretched in all directions of this beautifull city. The earth itself had cracked beneath the pressure of war on this battlefield. But even that destruction paled compared to what loomed ahead.
The near-Level 1 abomination hovered above the cracked highway leading into the Shibuya district. Its wings, jagged and obsidian, unfurled across the sky like a death shroud. Eyes—if they could even be called—burned with violet fire. A heartbeat echoed through the air, but it wasn't human. A deliberate, slow pulse that shook the concrete under their feet.
Karu Arakizawa didn't hesitate one bit.
He stood at the front line, Titan-0 Apex glinting with the residual energy that he had. The armor hissed and restructured, glowing deep crimson at the seams. Wind spun around Karu. Flame licked from the plasma vents at his shoulders. Without a word, Karu blurred towards the monster. One instant, he was standing. The next, he was a red comet slamming into the monster's stomach.
The shockwave flattened several half-destroyed buildings and skyscrapers.
Lucien was next in line. No hesitation, no fear—just rage and pure instincts. His body blazed with Purgeflame as he launched himself skyward, then crashed down like a meteor on the monster. His fists connected with the monster's leg, then its side, then its neck—each strike was an inferno of divine punishment. His knuckles cracked open, but he kept going. Punch after punch. His muscles roared. The air screamed.
"Focus its right flank!" shouted the Captain of Division Two, already calculating the trajectory of the creature's attacks.
Rylen shot forward. A blur of teal light. His dual blades shimmered in the sky, buzzing with vibration energy. He zipped across the battlefield, slicing at the monster's joints, knees, tendons—anything to limit its movement. It roared as one leg buckled on the ground.
Jason followed the roar with one of his own.
His body had become a juggernaut, charged with tectonic energy. He slammed both fists into the ground, sending a network of deep cracks through the entire battlefield. Chunks of the road flipped and shattered. Spikes of rock impaled the creature's back leg.
Kagetsu and Ayumu moved as one, like dancers in a storm.
Ayumu summoned a geyser of compressed water beneath the monster's head, while Kagetsu launched a tornado lance directly into both of its eyes. The impact sent the monster's head flailing backwards, bile spraying from its mouth, sizzling into the ground like acid.
Behind them all, Emiluna worked furiously. Her hands glowed with silver light as she healed Jason's wounds, reconnected Lucien's dislocated jaw, and patched Rylen's bleeding side mid-run. Her aura expanded over the battlefield—a constant, vital pulse of life helping them out.
The monster howled in pain. Its wings flared, creating a shockwave of wind and darkness. Everyone was thrown back atleast 200 feet, rolling across the ruined concrete of Shibuya.
It stood taller now.
It had adapted again.
Its limbs twisted unnaturally. Its tendrils writhed like serpents. The violet glow in its chest pulsed faster then before. As they watched the monster, it bent space around itself, warping the light and air. Its Dimensional Claw cracked into the road, carving a rift in reality. Shibuya trembled.
The Captain of Division Two barked new orders. "Kagetsu—circle right! Jason—anchor it! Rylen, with me on the left!"
The fight continued.
Jason grabbed one of the monster's flailing arms and lifted it. With a roar, he dragged the beast partially downwards with him, smashing it into the side of a destroyed skyscraper.
Rylen shot toward its neck again, his blades faster and more accurate now, boosted by a mid-air grafity burst from Ayumu.
Lucien didn't stop punching it.
He climbed the monster's torso with brute force, punching with everything that he had. Flames seared into its flesh. He screamed with effort and fury, his body alight with Purgeflame.
"Burn!" he shouted. "BURN YOU MONSTER!"
Ayumu summoned a vortex to trap the creature's upper limbs, while Kagetsu channeled a cross-shaped burst of air that sliced straight through the monster's arm like paper. It fell, but began to regenerate instantly.
They had fought for nearly twenty minutes straight now against that thing. The battlefield had shifted from Shinjuku to Shibuya. The line between Shinjuku and Shibuya no longer existed—both were craters of destruction.
Still the monster lived and fought.
Still it adapted.
Still it grew stronger and stronger.
The team was beginning to feel it.
Lucien dropped to one knee, coughing up blood and using regenaration. Rylen's left blade had shattered completly. Jason's arms trembled with overuse of his suit. Kagetsu and Ayumu were breathing hard, their reserves waning. Emiluna had healed them over and over again, but even she looked pale now, sweat running down her face as she forced light into a shattered bone in Jason's ribcage.
The Captain of Division Two gritted her teeth. "We're not giving up. It's learning… evolving."
Karu stood still, observing the monster.
His armor's core pulsed once. Twice.
Then he spoke, voice like thunder.
"Enough!!."
He stepped forward. And activated Chrono Breaker.
Part 2: Apex Collapse
Time twisted.
Karu's armor erupted in blinding crimson light as his Chrono Breaker activated.
Around him, the world slowed to a crawl—raindrops hung in midair, cracks in the earth froze mid-quake, even the monster's shifting tendrils paused like a statue carved from the void.
But Karu moved fast.
One step became ten.
Ten became a thousand.
In that distorted moment, he became an one man army. His Titan Lance flashed in and out of view as he delivered hundreds to thousands of precision strikes across the monster's form—core, eyes, tendrils, joints, wings, tail, neck, jaw. Every blow erupted with sonic shock and plasma flare. Buildings behind the monster shattered from the aftershock alone.
When time snapped back to normal, it sounded like the world was collapsing.
BOOM—BOOM—BOOM—BOOM—
The monster fell back, howling in a dozen voices. Cracks formed across its obsidian armor. A visible dent ruptured its chestplate. It had been hurt. Truly hurt for the first time in this battle.
Karu hovered above it, panting slightly.
"Now!" he roared. "Everyone—finish this NOW!"
Lucien didn't wait one second.
His fists ignited brighter than ever before. Purgeflame surged through his body, burning away fatigue and pain. He launched himself into the air, then dropped down with a roar, fists blurring.
Inferno Barrage.
A rapid, relentless storm of flaming blue punches, each stronger than the last he threw. Each hit detonated against the monster's hide like artillery. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty. One hundred strikes. A supernova of righteous fury, all from Lucien alone. He destroyed building after building with his punches
Rylen was next.
He blurred into motion, faster than sound for the first time, faster than the eye could see. His body split into afterimages of himself, each delivering a fatal cut across the monster's surface.
Phantom Dance.
He moved in a web of deadly precision, blades reforming from energy mid-air. By the time he stopped moving, the creature had been carved into a lattice of burning, sparking wounds.
Jason smashed his fists together and roared. The ground answered and broke.
Earthshatter.
Pillars of jagged rock surged upward from beneath the monster, smashing its limbs, cracking its knees and thighs, launching it skyward.
Ayumu and Kagetsu raised their hands in unison.
"Now, Kagetsu!"
"Twin Tempest!"
Lightning crackled across the sky. Cyclonic wind spun into a tunnel. Ayumu's grafity field opened, merging with Kagetsu's daggers, thread wire and Silent Launcher. The result: The monster cut cut completely open becaue it couldn´t move and it got cut open with the twin daggers, thread wire and Silent launcher of Kagetsu.
From the ground, Emiluna raised her arms, eyes glowing silver.
Sanctuary's Embrace.
Waves of light burst from her heart, washing across the battlefield. Wounds sealed and healed. Bones snapped back into place. Energy flowed back into limbs that had gone numb. But more than healing—her magic drained the monster itself, sapping its strength away from it, slowing its regeneration process.
The Captain of Division Two acted last—but not least.
She pressed a button on her armplate. Her pupils glowed green.
Strategic Overdrive.
She linked with everyone's minds in an instant—six simultaneous minds. Everyone saw what she saw. Every weak point the monster had. Every prediction. Every timing.
It was perfect coordination.
They all struck at once.
Lucien to the heart. Rylen to the spine. Jason to the skull and jaw. Ayumu and Kagetsu to the wings. Karu plunged the Titan Lance into the monster's left eye, then tore downward with a seismic burst of plasma.
The abomination collapsed for the first time.
Its body slammed into the center of Shibuya Station, creating a massive crater that engulfed four city blocks.
Smoke billowed. The purple glow in its chest dimmed slowly. Its wings flickered, then drooped.
Everyone froze.
Could it be—?
"Did we—" Ayumu began.
Then the glow returned.
Brighter.
Vicious.
Sudden.
The monster howled. Its core pulsed. Regeneration exploded outward.
Karu saw it first.
"NOOO—!"
The monster's hand shot up. A rift opened.
Dimensional Claw.
A tendril of pure spatial distortion pierced through Karu's chest, straight through the Titan-0 Apex's armor like it was nothing. Right through the core of his body.
Through his heart.
Silence fell in Shibuya.
The battlefield froze. Karu floated midair, impaled with the claw.
Blood and circuitry exploded from his back. The red glow of the Titan armor died, piece by piece. His spear dropped from his hand.
Then, he fell on the ground.
Emiluna screamed. "NO!!"
She ran to him, eyes wide with horror. Her hands already glowed with healing light, but the damage—it was too deep to heal. This was beyond wounds. This was annihilation. Space-time had torn his heart apart like it never existed. His chest had no center left. Just a hole into nothing.
"No no no no—stay with me please, please, please!" she sobbed, pressing her hands to his chest. Her light flared. "I can fix it—I can—don't die, please i beg you—!"
Karu gasped, blood running from his mouth. "Keep… fighting guys."
Then his eyes closed.
Part 3: Ashes and Silence
Emiluna didn't move one bit.
She knelt beside Karu's motionless body, hands pressed to his chest, eyes flooding with tears. Her light pulsed over and over again, desperate to find something—anything—to restore. She tried to turn back time to restore the nothingness in Karu´s chest
But there was nothing left for her to do.
The Dimensional Claw had erased more than flesh. It had carved through existence itself.
Karu Arakizawa—the Apex Titan, the legend of Division One—was dying slowly in her arms.
"No…" she whispered, silver light flickering at her fingertips. "Please, no."
The battlefield had stilled for only a moment.
But that moment was enough.
The monster rose up.
Not slowly.
Not wounded.
Empowered.
Its obsidian wings flared like the sun, and its violet core blazed. The wounds from their combined special assault closed in a burst of dark flame. Its new form shimmered with something beyond matter—its muscles now pulsed like liquid space, its claws hummed with gravitational distortion.
It had not only healed.
It had evolved again.
A tendril slammed into Jason first. He could barely react before it wrapped around his chest and hurled him through five buildings. Dust exploded in all directions.
"Jason!" Rylen shouted.
He dashed to intercept the attack, but another tendril struck from above—Rylen deflected with the one blade that he had, but the second tendril cracked across his jaw. Blood flew everywhere. He spiraled midair before crashing into a shattered busstation.
Ayumu tried to hold the monster back with a storm wall of gravitational force, but it simply bent the air around it. Her hurricane crumpled in an instant. A second later, a gravity pulse counter attack knocked pinned her to the ground. She screamed as debris collapsed on top of her legs and core.
Kagetsu fired with his twin daggers.
Missed.
The monster warped behind him.
Too fast even tho it was that big.
It struck with the Dimensional Claw again, grazing Kagetsu's shoulder—just a graze, but space itself rippled and twisted. His entire arm imploded in on itself.
He fell, screaming. His arm missing
The Captain of Division Two activated emergency shielding—too late to pull that one out. The monster's tail whipped across her body, shattering her ribs and liver through her armor. She skidded across the battlefield, coughing up blood.
One by one, they fell and crumbled.
Lucien stood alone now.
His fists clenched. Flames danced over his skin, but his body trembled in pain. Blood ran down the side of his face. His knuckles were broken. His breathing ragged. But his will burned bright. He regenerated again.
"You won't—" he growled.
The monster's core lit with violet flame.
Lucien didn't wait.
He charged.
No backup.
No strategy.
Just fists and pure will.
He slammed one punch into the monster's jaw. Then another. Then again and again. But each strike did less and less. His flame faded. His strength decreasing with every strike he threw.
The monster raised one arm—then drove it through Lucien's side.
Pain exploded through him. He coughed up blood, eyes wide open. The creature flung him like a ragdoll. He hit the ground, skidding until he crashed into the edge of the crater.
Silence followed on the battlefield.
Dust choked the air. Fires crackled in the distance. All seven warriors lay defeated across the ruins of Shibuya.
Rylen lay face-down, his breathing shallow and slow. Kagetsu clutched the remains of his arm, teeth clenched against the scream. Ayumu's legs and core were pinned. Jason was unconscious laying on the ground. The Captain of Division Two struggled to crawl. Emiluna didn't move—still over Karu trying to heal him, lost to the world.
Lucien couldn't feel his legs anymore.
Couldn't move his arms.
Only breathe. Barely tho. He used all of his Regeneration.
The monster hovered above them all, looking like a god of death, shadows dancing across its wings. It opened its jaws—and fire began to gather around it. A massive orb of violet flame, swirling with dimensional energy, formed between its fangs.
A planet-killer of a fireball.
It aimed down towards them.
To end them once and for all.
Lucien blinked up at the sky, pupils dilated. The world blurred in his vision.
"I… failed didn´t I?" he whispered.
The monster's fire grew brighter.
And then—Something cracked open.
Inside of him.
A whisper echoed.
"Do you want vengeance, Lucien?"
His heart stilled.
"Then stand up and fight."
The fireball began to fall.
And Lucien's body lit up.
Purple.
Not flame. Not blood.
But aura around him—brilliant and godlike. It burst from his core, spreading like wildfire. The crater cracked beneath him. His eyes snapped open, glowing like twin amethysts.
Time stopped.
Even the monster froze.
Jason's eyes fluttered open. "What happened…?"
Ayumu lifted her head. "Is that really… Lucien?"
Emiluna turned, her expression lost in shock.
Lucien stood.
No longer bleeding.
No longer shaking.
He was floating in divine aura.
Veins of violet light ran across his skin, his hair glowing, his form pulsing with something divine and godlike. The very air trembled with power. Space around him distorted—like gravity had shifted to orbit him.
And for the first time since Karu fell—
The monster took a step back.
Lucien looked up, fists clenched, eyes burning with rage.
"You tried to erase us all."
His voice echoed like thunder.
"You're going to regret that buddy."
The purple light grew brighter and brighter—