4.21

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[Aya's POV]

Cracking my joints, I eyed Starlight with a pair of malevolent eyes, "Fine, I'll kill you first."

I rushed at her, and this time she did not take any risks as she blasted a beam of light at my upper body. I blocked it with my forearms, but felt a coldness spread from my lower sections.

I could feel through my Haki that it was that bitch blasting cold at me. It didn't really hurt much, but I could feel my stamina being drained.

Breaking through Starlight's attack, I punched her in the face, and followed with a feint to the lower stomach. Little did she know that no matter what I said, that bitch from Western Europe still was my main target.

Having bought myself a little time, I arrived in front of her and this time managed to hit her in the kidneys. But as I punched her, I felt like I was punching stone.

With my strength, stone wasn't enough to hurt me, but it did mitigate enough of my punch's power to only rupture her organ, and not one shot her.

And just like before, I was blasted away from her by Starlight.

This time she did not have to play the victim however for Starlight to run after me, blasting several beams of light at me.

I managed to protect myself from them just fine, but they kept me grounded, stopping me from attacking the other bitch.

Step by step, I reached Starlight, and this time decided to be heavier on her as I grabbed her collar with one hand, and clocked her in the jaw with the other.

I felt her bones crunch under my punch, but I did not let go as I planned on continuing until her jaw fell off.

Unfortunately, I heard a loud sound I had never heard before, and felt a strange sensation of danger through my Observation Haki.

This made me momentarily stop as I glanced in the direction of the disturbance, and saw the mage girl's still working hand glowing purple.

And in front of her, a rip in space suddenly appeared, which I guessed was what had made me feel danger.

Preparing myself mentally for facing a tough opponent, I was shocked when I saw what appeared from the portal.

A fucking wolf.

No, not even a wolf. A translucent one that felt even weaker than the girl.

My anger peaked, and I decided to ignore it as I turned back towards Starlight.

But with my anger, my Observation Haki was once again blinded, and so were my eyes as I turned to only find what felt like the light of the sun.

Crying out in pain, my vision suddenly turned completely white, before turning to black.

Although I knew my eyes could be healed in God's Dimension, I couldn't help the anger that only kept rising within me. Here I was, struggling against a weakling and a slightly stronger weakling.

My Observation Haki may have been blinded by my anger, and my eyes burned by Starlight, I was still holding onto her, and unlike my Observation Haki, my Armament Haki only grew stronger with my rage as I repeatedly slammed my fist into Starlight's jaw.

Even as I felt fangs dig into my thigh, I ignored the pain and continued hitting until I felt Starlight's jaw come off, and half her face get smashed apart.

Finally managing to somewhat rein in my anger thanks to the beat down, I crushed the wolf's skull with a simple punch, before turning towards the mage girl.

I could feel that she was watching us from a corner of the room, healing herself. The bitch had managed to stabilize her situation while I went at it with Starlight.

Fucking. Unbelievable.

As I turned to her, she stopped her healing and used her ice spell, but I ignored it, no longer willing to waste any time as Oni was certainly getting closer.

Walking through the frost, I arrived in front of her, and kicked at her head. Her arm had recovered enough to allow her to block with it however.

Her arm was completely broken by the blow, but she managed to keep her head safe as she was sent flying across the room.

I was about to go for her, but found Starlight to be standing between us. She couldn't speak anymore, her lower jaw destroyed and her tongue with it probably, but she still managed to stand on her feet to attack me.

Moreover, the spatial rip once again appeared next to her, a similar wolf to the last one appearing next to Starlight.

Calming down my nerves, I prepared myself to attack, only for something unexpected to happen. Well, something unexpected, and something I did not want to hear.

'Oni will arrive any minute. Everyone, get out of here if you don't want to die.'

Naseem's voice in my head annoyed me, but compared to what I felt through my Observation Haki, it was nothing.

The wolf, which I had assumed would jump at me, actually bit Starlight's arm. Although she was strong, she still had her attention taken by the wolf, taken by both surprise and pain.

And in this moment of confusion, the mage girl appeared on Starlight's other side, and stabbed her through the jaw with a dagger that felt as ethereal as the wolf.

It was dumbfounded that I felt Starlight's last thoughts of injustice and betrayal, before her light went out.

What the fuck!

She wasn't done however as she looked at me, and started laughing, her dagger still inside Starlight's skull.

That girl, she wasn't normal. She… She was a fucking monster.

And for a moment, I hesitated.

I wanted to kill her, not only because of what she had done, but also because leaving such a psycho alive would only bring chaos and bloodbaths.

However, I could also feel that she had broken her Genetic Constraint, and despite her injuries that only worsened with every second she spent fighting, I didn't know for sure whether I would be able to kill her before Oni would show up.

After all, having experienced the change myself, I knew the change one would undergo once they opened their Genetic Constraint. She had already proven herself to be a fucking cockroach, so even though Starlight was dead, she might hold on long enough for Oni to arrive.

I-

Just as I was in the middle of my thoughts, I felt my Observation Haki scream warnings at me like I never felt before. Even Homelander, in comparison, felt meek.

I did not hesitate to run straight through the wall to jump out of the building.

And before I could even reach the ground, I felt the building behind me get dismantled. By the time I reached the ground, the only the foundations remained of the building as the building itself had been crushed into a giant ball of rubble, flying in the air.

Even scarier was that this wasn't just wanton destruction, but precise work as I felt every life signal in the building had been carefully placed on the ground.

But more importantly, I felt like a giant eye was watching me from the sky, and its wrath was upon me.

I only managed to run a few meters before the crushed building was fired at me.

Knowing I wasn't dodging this one, I covered my entire body in Armament Haki, and hoped for the best as it slammed into me.