Part 1: Fate
Marin told Leo that now he could heal himself now for some time.
And during that precious time, she is going to be fighting with Eiji.
"No, another loser," Eiji muttered.
"And you are a swordsman."
"And a female."
"You might be weak," Eiji says.
Marin firmly held her sword in her grip.
"Let me show you," Marin says.
The battle begins instantly.
Eiji started his assault with a sharp lightning strike from his weapon, Kama.
Marin smoothly sided her body to the right.
And she completely dodged it without losing balance.
She lunged straight at him.
And she charged forward with absolute speed.
"Demon swordstyle: Butterfly dance!"
She moves swiftly across the destroyed ground.
She moves her sword gradually in a rhythmic pattern.
With a sudden flick, she cut Eiji's abs cleanly.
Eiji immediately reacted and summons a bright lightning slash.
A strike that could have completely pierced her body through.
But she jumps high into the air.
And she gradually dodged it while suspended above the ground.
She swung her sword in multiple different directions rapidly.
The multiple energy slashes launched straight at Eiji.
Eiji stood his ground and destroyed all the incoming slashes using nothing but his bare fist.
Then suddenly, out of nowhere.
Marin comes much closer to his position.
And launched another direct strike.
Despite Eiji again successfully blocking the frontal attack.
She gracefully disappeared and comes into his back side.
And she delivered fast, consecutive strikes of slashes to his rear.
Eiji rapidly spun around and again blocks the blades.
But she jumped and comes right over his head.
And again launched fast, continuous slashes from above.
Eiji finally got hit by the unpredictable aerial assault.
Marin immediately steps backwards to reset her stance.
Eiji saw her incredible movements and analyzed them.
It was incredibly swift and fast.
Just like a beautiful butterfly dancing in the wind.
Marin shifted her stance and switched into her 2nd sword form, her fusion sword form.
She strikes hard with her blade.
A massive elemental slash launched straight at Eiji.
Eiji jumps high into the air.
And he dodged it just in time.
The missed slash hit deeply into the solid stones behind him.
And the stone instantly gets completely frozen by thick diamond ice.
Eiji saw the result and understood the mechanics of her fusion form.
He realized that if he gets hit by that slash, his physical body parts will freeze into solid diamonds.
Eiji instantly turned on his advanced Ritual zone.
And used a protective Earth ritual to change the environment.
And a massive wall of solid stone covers him entirely.
The wall formed in a tight, circular shape around his body.
Marin didn't hesitate, using her specialized demon swordstyle.
And she cut the thick stone wall in every single direction, breaking it into pieces.
Eiji immediately countered, attacking with high-velocity lightning chains.
But Marin swung her blade and uses her demon swordstyle.
And she gradually cut his electrical chains into harmless sparks.
The demon swordstyle is incredibly special because it is a pure, skill-based technique.
And if someone goes full in with absolute mastery.
Then only the demon swordstyle has the unique power to cut through raw ritual technique attacks.
No other known swordstyle in the world has this specific ability.
Although it is an extremely hard and painful style to learn.
And Marin knows exactly how to cut through active ritual attacks.
And Marin does not stop her relentless offensive pressure.
She performed a powerful slash directly into the open sky.
Suddenly, two massive diamonds appear hovering in the sky above.
Then, from those crystals, sharp spikes of solid diamond started to launch down on Eiji.
They rained down rapidly, like a heavy machine gun firing.
Eiji turned and immediately runs across the battlefield to escape.
But the raining spikes of diamond were incredibly fast.
Meanwhile, taking advantage of the chaos, Marin gets much closer to Eiji.
She swung her blade and slashed Eiji across his midsection.
And Eiji's stomach gets heavily injured by the cut.
And that wounded part instantly gets frozen into solid diamond.
The sharp, freezing diamond pierced deep into his raw skin from the inside.
And Eiji quickly counters the pain by launching a sudden thunderbolt.
Marin reads the trajectory and dodges the electrical blast.
Marin doesn't stop her close-quarters momentum.
She strikes with full power.
And another clean slash landed directly on Eiji.
Marin hit his form multiple times in rapid succession.
Some of the blades hit Eiji squarely.
Eiji's various body parts get heavily injured by Marin's diamond-infused edge.
And at the same time, the falling diamond spikes from the sky hit Eiji.
Piercing deeply into his flesh.
Eiji got hit by multiple, simultaneous diamond attacks from all angles.
Then, the two sky diamonds finally shattered and disappeared.
Eiji quickly focused his Eco and completely heals himself back up.
Marin again comes closer to Eiji to maintain her pressure.
Eiji thrusts his hand forward and summons multiple lightning snakes.
They slithered through the air and goes rapidly around Marin to bind her.
Marin calmly moves her sword.
She moves her sword effortlessly, like playing with a toy.
Whenever a lightning snake attacks directly at Marin.
Marin swings her sword so swiftly that her blade becomes completely invisible to the eye.
And her defensive moves simply can't be predicted by the opponent.
She moves her sword like she is casually playing with a butterfly.
And to anyone watching, it looks exactly like a beautiful dance.
That is the true, absolute art of the demon swordstyle.
It can cut anyone from anywhere from any way possible.
Eiji releases his massive lightning cannon type strike.
Marin smoothly dodges the giant column of energy.
She swung her invisible blade and cut Eiji's lightning cannon directly in half.
And she did some powerful air slashes from a distance.
And the flying energy cuts many parts of Eiji's body.
That is also the unparalleled art of the demon swordstyle.
Marin rushes forward and goes right on Eiji, standing directly in front of him.
She moves in full, maximum high-speed, performing a sword swing in a complete 360° circle.
And the execution was so fast that Eiji got damaged heavily all over his body.
But Eiji doesn't stop his movements here.
He aggressively counters with his own heavy lightning strikes.
And throws a powerful punch forward.
He and Marin have an intense, clashing fight of bare fist and sharp sword.
Then, after some time of continuous clashing.
Eiji suddenly found an opening and touched Marin's hand directly.
Then, he instantly stepped backwards to create distance.
Then, he raised his fingers and snaps.
The moment the snap echoed, Marin suddenly became super slow.
It was like a graceful butterfly that suddenly forgot how to dance.
Then, Eiji increased his own movement speed to a super fast level.
And threw a devastating punch straight at Marin.
The impact sent Marin flying backward until she fell into a mountain stone wall.
Then, Eiji goes on, closing the distance instantly.
And landed a devastating storm of machine gun-like fists infused with lightning directly at Marin.
It was a completely non-stop fist attack.
His speed becomes super fast all out of a sudden.
After some time of this brutal pounding.
Marin got beaten so badly that she is bleeding heavily from her mouth and wounds.
Eiji stood over her and finally revealed his unique Authority called "Sloth."
So, an Authority is a very special kind of absolute ability that comes strictly from wearing a special item.
And every single sin in the world has a corresponding Authority.
It is completely different from the traditional blessing system.
A blessing can't be obtained by force or by stealing.
It can only be gained by the explicit, voluntary wish of the divine giver.
But authorities are something entirely different that can be easily obtained by just wearing a specific item.
And you instantly get the full ability.
And absolutely anyone could have it and wield it, whoever wears that specific item.
And the unique sloth authority has the absolute ability to control the change of speed.
That means sloth authority users can freely change anyone or anything's speed, even adjusting themselves too.
That's exactly how Eiji was able to defeat Leo and Marin so easily.
By making direct physical contact and touching them, he gets the absolute access to change their speed.
Eiji makes himself incredibly fast, but makes Leo and Marin painfully slow.
Although, if Eiji wants to, he could increase their speed or decrease it, it is entirely his choice.
The scene suddenly shifted away from the chaotic battlefield.
To Ryuk, who was sitting silently at the dark corner of the room.
While his head was down completely, lost in the shadows.