0.14: A promise and A Twist!

Lady drew her magic circle down on the ground from her blood before placing Konami inside it.

"I have finally done what failed many years ago. I have a pure Fushigiri down for the count at my disposal! And now, I shall attain what no other Williams could gain!"

Tentacles covered her legs, and her entire lair was filled with blood. Konami's lifeless body began floating up to the shore. Lady dived into the bottom of the blood swamp and surrounded Konami with her tentacles.

"NOW FROM ONE VESSEL TO ANOTHER; GRANT ME THE POWER THAT WILL MAKE ME BETTER!!!!"

The magic circle emerged from the floor and reached the shore, floating around Konami's body. Spiritas began to flow out of her mouth, nose, ears, and eyes.

"Ahhhh!!!"

She scrambled out of agony with the least amount of life she had.

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SLAM!!

"HHAAAAHHHHHH!!!!"

SLAM!!

"HAAAAHHH!!!!"

SLAM!!

Sanji did not stop pelting Tedashii from one wall to another. He took him from his leg and then slammed him to the roof. They broke to the outside; then he kicked him back in.

CRASH!!

Sanji was beyond exhausted, for this Immortal increased his durability. But it did the same to Tedashii, so how he survived amazes him.

"WHY...WHY WON'T YOU DIE??!!"

Tedashii tried to get back up, but he also reached his limit.

"Forget even fighting! Konami should dead by-"

"You don't have the right to say her name."

Tedashii grabbed Rotanoria and stabbed Sanji in his chest. Sanji did not even see him move, yet he was already punching him to the ground. Tedashii's Immortal seemed to have grown more powerful.

PUNCH!! 

"DIE." 

PUNCH!! 

"DIE." 

PUNCH!! 

"DIE!" 

PUNCH!! 

"DIE!! DIE!! DIE!!!!"

Thump!!

Tedashii stopped hitting Sanji and glimpsed at the door. Konami's spiritas was gone. He got up and tried his best to walk near the entrance. When he opened it, blood poured out of the room. But Tedashii kept his eyes open through it all.

"I'm sorry, Fake Fugin..." Tedashii walked in with shaking feet, all the way to see Konami...dead. "...but you are too late," Lady said, admiring how much spiritas flowed in her. Not only did she acquire so much spiritas, but she also grew more extensive, standing at twenty feet against Tedashii.

"THIS FEELING!!! MMMM, I LOVE IT!! YESS!!!"

Tedashii held Konami's head on his shoulder and squeezed it closer to him. Tears of blood ran down his face, and he began to shake. "Come on, Tedashii. Join her and help me attain more power!"

Spiritas surrounded him and Konami as his iris was gone. He pierced his hands with his nails, charging up all the spiritas he had left, and wailed out of agony.

"Aah....Ahhhh...AAAHHHH!! Konami.. Konami...Ko..ko..KO...KO..KONAMII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

BOOM!!!!!!!

He transformed into his Immortal one more time and blew away the last blood streamed into the room.

"YES, TEDASHII!!! FIGHT ME AT YOUR FULLEST!!!"

Konami's dead body flew out of the room and landed near Sanji's, leaving them both unconscious…and dead. Lady suddenly felt a scar on her face that cut open once she noticed it.

"What?"

She then saw Rotanoria in Tedashii's hands.

"N-No...that should be impossible!! HOW DO YOU HAVE THAT WEAPON!"

He just held it up and then attacked her with murderous intent.

"RAAAAHHHH!!!!"

...

Everyone was done with eliminating the ladies of the castle. Yuri saw the clouds turn blood red, then felt Konami's spiritas depart.

"Oh no! Konami!!"

Everyone looked in her direction. "Did something happen to her?" Sasha asked.

"I don't know, but Tedashii is not alone. I will help them; you guys stay here and care for any hiding!" Yuri then left for the Royal Building. 

...

"RrAAAAHHH!"

SLAM!!

The walls slammed Tedashii, then was restrained by her tentacles.

"WHY are you hesitant?! Just merge with your sister within me, and then you can-"

"RAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" Tedashii snapped the two tentacles and then vanished. He appeared at her other tentacle, then grabbed on and began to pull from his shoulder.

"Come on! How strongly do you think you aaaAAAARRREEE!!"

Lady began losing the feeling of the surface as Tedashii lifted her from the ground.

CRASH!!

He threw her to the wall and then sliced another of her tentacles. She hit him down and then crushed him with two more tentacles.

"How does that feel!" She laughed. "Huh?"

She felt Tedashii fighting against her force, and he slowly lifted it off him. She applied more pressure, but so did he. After a few seconds of repulsion, he lost his force and was overpowered by all eight of her tentacles.

"HA!! THAT SHOULD DO IT!!"

SLASH!!

Tedashii took the advantage to slice all eight of them off and escape.

"RAAAAAHHHHH!!!"

Lady now began to feel as if her plans weren't working.

"KONAMI, SANJI!!" Yuri made it to the last room. Tedashii snapped out of it for a moment, then got grabbed by Lady's tentacles.

"GAH! DAMMIT! YURI!!" He yelled out. She picked Sanji and Konami up.

"Take them out of here, FAST!"

"NO, DON'T YOU THINK YOU NEED SOME HELP??!!"

Tedashii looked at her with rage, then was taken over by the Immortal again. Yuri feared his current state, so she chose to leave with them.

"WHY WON'T YOU JUST SUBMIT AND DIE??!!" Lady asked

Tedashii did not answer her and broke out of her grip. He then took a few steps back and held Rotanoria on his side. He spun it as fast as possible, then shredded the ground with its velocity.

"T-That stance...IT CAN'T BE!"

Lady summoned all her tentacles before her, making them as sharp as a blade. She then charged at him at full speed.

"TAKE THIS!!!!" Tedashii then ran along the way until he was five meters away from her.

FUSHIGIRI PROWESS: GALATASARAI!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOM!!

Yuri turned back at the building and saw it diagonally sliced off. She then kept on running up to Haruki.

"Yuri. How is she?!" He asked.

"I don't know...What happened to her?"

Haruki felt her pulse, and then he gasped. Immediately, he turned her around and then pressed the forfeit button.

"WAIT NO!!" Yuri tried to stop him, but her body began to dissolve back into the real world.

"If we wasted another second, she would have been consciously dead." He said.

"Oh...Thank you so much, Mr. Haruki. I don't know what I would have done without your help."

He smiled at her and then went down to help Sasha and the others inside the castle. Yuri picked Sanji up and kept walking to Punk Knock.

"Well, Sanji, don't worry. I'll press your button once we reach there; it's better that you forgot everything that happened today." Yuri said.

Suddenly, she felt her body dissolving as well.

"What?!"

"I'm sorry, Yuri, but...my job here is not done yet."

"SANJI, HOW COULD Y-"

WHOOSH!!

She disappeared back to the real world, and all her efforts were erased with that. He then tried to walk back to the building, hoping Lady and Mikoto would still be okay.

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CLANG!!

Tedashii had finally reached his limit. He stayed on his knees, catching his breath as much as possible. Lady tried to crawl away with just her head left off after Tedashii's ferocious attack.

"Ahhhh...it hurts..." She said and kept slithering away with a tentacle for a neck. 

She then bumped into Sanji's leg and saw that he arrived. Tedashii looked at him and noticed that he finally turned back to normal.

"Oh...lord Cheyzar Monk-Wu! Please help me! LOOK WHAT HE DID TO ME!!"

But regardless of how much she complained, Sanji was staring at Tedashii. Between them laid Rotanoria, and Sanji had more energy left to approach it. He picked it up and regained some spiritas again.

"Yes! Use the power and finish-"

SLASH!!

Sanji split Lady in two without any hesitation. And she vanished away from the dream world.

"Sanji... you're back," Tedashii said with a smile.

"Tedashii. What happened to me? I don't feel like myself...at all.."

"Don't worry. It's alright, let's go and get the others and escape the dream-"

"No." Tedashii looked back at him.

"What?"

Sanji lifted Rotanoria at Tedashii and retook the form of Cheyzar's Immortal. "My pride has been hurt by all of you guys so many times. But in this world, I finally understood what it felt like to be strong, to have an Immortal, to be loved-"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN LOVED?! YURI ALWAYS LOVED YOU AND RESPECTED YOU!"

"You remember what you guys were saying before the fight. That she wore the pants...heh heh, is that really WHAT YOU CALL RESPECT?!"

Tedashii then remembered and looked away from him. "So you do remember! Do you see what I mean?! I AM NOTHING IN THE REAL WORLD!! I'M A JOKE TO ALL OF YOU GUYS!!!! AND YET... yet, you still want to take me with you? WHY WASTE ALL YOUR TIME DOING THAT??!!!"

"Because you're my friend. And also...because I learned something in this world that..made me see things differently."

"......"

Tedashii then explained everything that Haruki told him about his past.

"..." Sanji could not believe what Tedashii had just told him.

"He also said that if I kill him with Rotanoria, everything will return to normal, and we will return. So come on, Sanji, let's go back home." Tedashii asked.

Sanji looked at the blade, glared at the reflection of the real him, and then came up with a choice. "A duel."

He held it back at Tedashii. "A one-hit battle. If you can beat me, I will accept my reality."

Tedashii was furious.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS?! AFTER ALL I JUST TOLD YOU, YOUR HEART CAN'T GET OVER ALL THIS?! LOOK AROUND YOU! ALL OF THIS IS FAKE!! YOUR POWER HERE IS A LIE!! This is living a whole lie, Sanji...why are you holding on to all of this?!"

Sanji began to charge up spiritas, and Tedashii felt he was not holding back anything.

"TCH! FINE!!"

Tedashii summoned Hiragana and built up the last amount of spiritas he had. They both flew in opposite directions, Tedashii at the end of Punk Knock and Sanji at the end of the castle. They pierced their swords on the ground and began cutting them until they reached each other again. Lava burst from the floor behind them, turning the world into nothing.

"SANJI!!!!!!"

"TEDASHII!!!!!!!"

SLASH!!

Tedashii successfully hit Sanji right through his chest, and the lava caught up to them on both sides. But then, one second was all it took to transpire, one move Sanji had long forgotten he had.

"...gnintseretni"