Even the red-haired Saeko was shocked, she flinched in surprise when the ape king just dropped everything and ran like hell. She's slightly angered by this creature's rude behavior.
''You must be kidding me? When did I think it was my screen time to shine? Hell! No, it gonna end with you running away.''
A red glimmer flashed in her eyes. She unleashed her bloody aura, scarily twisting her figure. It's a savage beast that came crawling out of an abyss, and an oppressive killing intent rained down in this area. Gracier who was slowly recuperating felt chills just by being close to this place. The next instant, the red-haired Saeko disappeared from her sight. She had become even more powerful.
The red-haired Saeko appeared above the ape king who is busy getting the heck out of this place. She made a fist and she swung her fist that had a bunch of dark red orbs orbiting it at the creature.
''Bullet Hell!'' She shouted while smirking, this skill was born after watching her contractor's man.
Roar!
Feeling its fur standing on its ends, it turned back only to see a literal rain of bullets in the form of a manifested Bullet Hell. Its soul almost escaped its mortal coil when it saw this ghoulish scene. It slammed its remaining fist on the ground and it tried to use the boulders that propped up to take cover.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The bullet curtain fell on the boulders and they immediately disintegrated anything that stood in its path. This simplistic strategy was enough to let the ape king escape unscathed. The red-haired Saeko stared down at the ape king from a distance.
Taking this chance, the ape king sped up and shot into the distance like an arrow. This place got leveled by Gracier and Saeko as well as the ape king before the red-haired Saeko arrived. This place had little cover and it was not ideal for the ape king to fight.
Adept at using trees to its advantage, once it entered the lush forest, nobody can hope to match its ability and agility to escape using trees and the terrain.
Running on the ground and flying in the air, it's not hard to imagine who had the easier time in this game of cat-and-mouse.
The ape king didn't even get the chance to run far before the red-haired Saeko caught up once more. She rained down another round of Bullet Hell. Creeper-vine-Esque bullet formation rained down from above, whipping at the ape king.
If it had pants on, that pants would be wet with urine by now. The scene where she deleted her arm is already shocking enough. Now this little demoness pulled out another heavy-hitter on it, the ape king was so frustrated it struck back at the aggressor.
Anyone meeting a Bullet Hell for the first time would find themselves in a precarious situation, shocked out of their wits. Ignoring the damage for now, the density of the attack itself meant that evasion is all but impossible. In the first place, how is one supposed to dodge an all-encompassing rain of bullets?
Besides while in this state her Eye-destruction (A/N: Doom's eyes) ability would give a human a run for his own money, it might even give the guy a one-way trip to a psychologist if they even managed to escape, what's more, to say of monster who had lesser intelligence.
The Brutal ape king had to focus completely on running away. It ran while smashing the ground to gather boulders to use as shields, dodging and hiding whenever the situation allowed.
Somehow or the other, the ape king got out of this by relying on guile and luck.
Certainly, its luck, tons of boulders, and the bullet hell's explosion-on-contract characteristic helped this poor ape king to evade.
Meanwhile, the red-haired Saeko was very pleased with the ape king's performance.
"Ahaha, big monkey, you better run run run, don't let me catch you now!"
She turned this into a twisted game of hide-and-seek.
Her red fleshy wings didn't even flap once and yet she can easily catch up to the ape king. She happily launched wave after wave of Bullet Curtain at the running ape. She's as happy as can be with this amusing toy of hers.
It's a puzzling scene to say the least, if anyone stumbled upon them, they would see a little kid chasing after a monster as if they are playing tag or something. Ignoring what the expedition members had to say, Gracier didn't know where to start her retorts.
"This girl…"
She felt a sense of dread when they looked at the red-haired Saeko.
''In this state, she is really uncontrollable and extremely dangerous. Gotta stop her.'' Gracier silently mumbled. She never thought a battle between two Demigods' levels of existence would be reduced to such a comedic display. If she told anyone about what happened here, they would probably be treated as jesters and laughed at her for being extremely funny.
Finally, after taking a deep breath, Gracier took a look at the red-haired Saeko who was still busy tossing rounds after round of Bullet Hell at the ape king and he yelled at her after thinking about it for a bit.
''Saeko! Playtime is over, get rid of that thing!"
This is the deep region of the Forest, there are probably other high-tier monster beasts roaming around, if they wasted time here, other monsters would probably show up pretty soon.
Gracier's shout stopped the red-haired Saeko's gleeful appearance. She donned a serious look as Gracier's words seemed to be working.
She extended an arm and she grasped the neck of the Brutal ape king, with its life in her own hands, she clenched down and destroyed his body using his blood.
Boom!
The ape's king's wretched body was tossed to the side and his life flashed before his eyes along his regret and last world.
'So this is my end? What a joke. lying on the floor in a puddle of filth and my blood. Pathetic. Fine, whatever. Let it be over with then, let this be the end.
My body feels heavier and heavier. I can't move my legs, I can't move my arms, I can't even move my head. Surely this'll be over any second now.
Is there no way out of this mess? No way for me to live? I'm not ready to die, I'm not ready for it all to end. Somebody, please find me, I need help. Somebody, please save me. I don't want to die.
I'm so exhausted, I'm so weak. I can't lift my arms, I can't even move my feet. I just want to sleep and wake up in my bed, leaving all of this behind as a mere nightmare. But I can't. I can't escape and I can't sleep, if I sleep I die. Somebody find me please, I can't sleep, but I can still escape.
I'm going to die. Shame it's not like in the movies, I have yet to see flashes of my life as I slowly pass away. Maybe they're yet to come. It should be soon though, I know I have little time left. Best get ready for the show.
I can't feel my legs or my arms, in fact, I can't feel anything anymore. Nothing at all. It's somewhat comforting, at least I feel no pain. I feel nothing at all.
Goodbye world.'
As if not satisfied with this outcome, the red-haired Saeko lifted the ape'sking'sg wretched body with her finger before making it explode into a gory blood mess.
The once mighty ape king was now gone from view, reduced to atoms, the only thing remaining would be fleshy bits and blood, fertilizer for plants that would later grow at this spot where a king fell.
The Brutal ape king exploded into a bloody entrail show. The scene kept replaying in slow motion in Gracier's mind. The remaining blood of the ape king rained down and sipped into the earth. Her heart started beating loudly after the sound of flesh being obliterated entered her ears. It's like somebody was pounding the ground with an oversized hammer. It's not going to be easy to forget this scene for the rest of their lives.
The red-haired Saeko looked like she just did something normal. She slapped her palms together as her bright smile spread across her face the moment she saw Gracier standing up.
Streaking across the sky like a dainty fairy, she landed in front of Gracier but she didn't reduce her speed as she immediately charged into the latter embrace, clinging to her like an octopus. She also kept rubbing her face all over her chest.
''I thought you'd die.'' It seemed that at the moment it was the real Saeko, the one speaking.
Saeko was practically brimming with joy right now.
"That was so fun, but I'm not satisfied yet. Can you play with me next until I'm satisfied?"
Gracier's body shuddered under the immense pressure following this declaration, the red-haired Saeko seemed to be back.
'Shit! I knew it.'
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