Slady was on the computer, looking for information about some scientific organizations, looking for the one that killed her friend
"..."
Shaphira and Elisa were preparing for the first invasion they were going to make on an Inférius.
"Slady, are we ready like this?"
Shaphira asks, standing next to Elisa.
"Yes."
Slady starts to stand up.
"Will you girls need help?"
"No, Slady."
Elisa says, waving her hands.
"We can handle it on our own, thanks."
Slady frowns, sitting down on the chair and letting out a sigh.
"Be careful."
He says, without emotion. The girls nod, leaving together to look for any Inferius that had appeared nearby.
Slady puts her hands on her head, letting out a deep sigh.
'They are very talented girls, but they are too proud for someone who has only trained for a while.'
Despite trusting in the abilities that Shaphira and Elisa had, he was still afraid that something would happen to them.
***
Shaphira was in her Renkai Creature form, walking beside Elisa, who held her sword firmly. Both of their hearts were beating nervously, despite having become stronger with the training that Slady had given them, they still didn't have much confidence in themselves.
Upon finding an Inferius near Libretãnhya, the two girls enter the dimension...
Their vision is blurry for a few seconds, when they open their eyes, they recognize that it is an Infernal Inferius.
"My god, I didn't know it was so hot."
Elisa runs her hand over her face, feeling the sweat running through her hair and accumulating a little on her breasts. Shaphira just rocks, removing the sweat from her fur.
As they walk, the two encounter several other Renkai Creatures walking through the dimension. Elisa holds her blade tightly, causing her blood manipulation to begin to merge with the sword, making it more powerful.
Shaphira stretches, letting out a roar, her claws and teeth become sharper and her muscles become more rigid and resistant.
"Let's go!"
Elisa says in a commanding tone, the pair advances towards the Renkai Creatures with speed. Elisa cuts the demons with her blade, using her blood magic to create a kind of thorn that pierces all the demons around.
Shaphira uses her claws to pierce, her teeth to crush and consume and her tail to stun them.
Minutes later after the battle, the two had already become exhausted and were sweating due to the heat. They meet with the Inférius Core, preparing to end the mission.
But suddenly, the dimension begins to shake. Shaphira and Elisa stand next to each other. Then, below the ground, a huge demonic centipede appears, making both women widen their eyes.
"Shaphira!"
Elisa extends her hand to Shaphira, but when she returns to the ground, the demonic centipede ends up devastating the place, throwing both of them away from each other.
Under the smoke, Elisa is thrown meters and meters away from Shaphira, struggling on the ground and losing her consciousness in the process.
Then she ends up falling into a hole that leads to a huge pool of lava. In the air, Elisa's body begins to get closer and closer to the liquid...
Then her body is held by something, which ended up saving her by a few thousandths, it was a red-haired woman with cold, red eyes.
She was wearing a kinomo that gave her a cold and warrior air. Her sword, which was on fire, she held tightly, making the blade enter the rocks. Then she began to climb back to the surface.
"That's not the one I should kill."
The woman murmured, and when she managed to return to the ground, she simply placed Elisa in a safe place.
"..."
Her vision fell on all the damage she had suffered from the demonic centipede. Then, holding her flaming sword so firmly, she began to run towards a large silhouette in the background.
Shaphira was still in her Renkai Creature form, where she was running away from the demonic centipede, which was crawling along the rocks at great speed.
'Where is Elisa?! I can't leave her alone!"
She thought to herself, trying to change her path to try to go towards the last place she had seen her
But then, the demonic centipede takes a big leap and opens its mouth with several teeth, ready to eat Shaphira.
'Sister...'
Suddenly, that same centipede was cut in half and fell next to Shaphira. Due to the fall of the Renkai Creature, she was thrown away.
When she opened her eyes, footsteps could be heard in her direction, and the red-haired woman appeared, staring at Shaphira with a cold look.
"It's you."
She prepared to kill her.
But when she was about to hit Shaphira with her flaming blade, the same sword was thrown away in a shot. The woman managed to catch the sword before it flew away, then when she faced a small mountain...
"You were the one sent, weren't you?"
It was Slady, who stared at the woman with the same cold look, slowly descending towards the woman.
"Shaphira, go away and get your sister, now."
Slady said in a cold and firm tone, Shaphira, in her Renkai Creature form, nodded, running away. The woman doesn't go after the girl, her attention completely focused on Slady.
"So it's you, the one I was told to kill."
She extends the blade towards Slady's head, who remains impassive, staring at the woman with no expression. He notices a certain hesitation in the red-haired woman, as if she doesn't want to attack Slady or Shaphira, as if she's being forced to do so.
"..."
"..."
The two remain silent, staring at each other...
The two advance towards each other, the woman attacks Slady, who defends with her bionic arm, causing a great impact that makes the two separate.
"..."
"..."
Slady pulls out her pistols, starting to shoot at the woman, who manages to cut the ammunition calmly. She runs towards him, preparing a horizontal cut towards his head. Slady leans back, dodging the blow. Seeing in his peripheral vision, he managed to dodge an attack that devastated the horizon behind him.
'This woman... is not normal at all.'
The woman didn't give Slady a chance to think, jumping above him and trying to kick him in the head. Slady's claws emerged from behind, wrapping around the woman's leg, throwing her away.
She prevented the impact by sticking her sword into the ground. When she raised her head, she saw several shots heading towards her, with their ammunition catching fire and emanating an electric aura.
She dodged the blades with a little difficulty. But the woman ended up hearing a footstep behind her. When she turned around, she found Slady, who prepared a horizontal strike towards the woman's neck.
She jumped back and kicked the mechanical arm, causing her foot to hurt a lot and Slady's arm to lose some parts.
Slady quickly fixed his arm, but when he paid attention, the woman was already preparing a kick to his face. Luckily, he dodged it, but it ended up hitting his eyepatch, sending him flying into the air and ending up being burned by the Inferius' flame.
'Son of a bitch.'
Slady places her hand over the ocular prototype, despite the small advantage, the woman did not advance, almost hesitant.
"..."
Seeing Slady's bionic eyes, the woman had a small shock, seeing everything that man had to put into his body to become stronger and recover the body parts he lost.
"This..."
She shakes her head, returning to her coldness, in silence, she just prepares to advance. Slady affirms his posture again, now with the bionic eye exposed, the five claws on his back positioned in a defensive and aggressive way, holding the double pistol in his normal hand and his mechanical arm prepared to fight hand to hand, if necessary.
"Were you sent by scientists?"
Slady asks.
The woman was surprised by that question, but let out a sigh.
"They told me to kill you, because you are a bad man and a 'disposable creation'."
Like the woman, Slady was also surprised, almost thoughtful.
'Disposable creation... I've heard that somewhere...'
Slady decides to forget about it, he was focused on trying to understand that woman, why she wanted to kill him and why behind that cold facade, there was vulnerability.
But before he could think, the red-haired woman created flames in her hand and shot at Slady, creating a huge flame of fire in his direction.
The explosion caused massively, Slady managed to jump to the side with his claws, now using them as a way to move.
His bionic gaze captured everything in sight, from the simplest to the most complex details, which gave him a headache. The woman didn't wait this time, emerging from the smoke to strike him with a kick in the chest. The claws managed to defend the blow, but due to the impact, Slady was thrown away.
The woman ran as fast as when she threw Slady into the air, who grabbed his double pistol to shoot at the woman, who managed to cut the ammunition.
The two begin a series of blows against each other, destroying everything around them, be it the Inferius mountains or the Renkais Creatures themselves.
With the two separated by an impact, Slady's claws hit the ground near the woman, pulling himself towards the woman, who, due to her speed, had no time to react and received a blow from the bionic arm right in her breasts, making her spit blood.
But without wasting time, she grabbed Slady's shirt and spun in the air, throwing Slady against the ground with great force.
Boom!!!
The entire ground is destroyed, although Slady manages to cushion the fall with his claws, he ends up feeling a lot of pain and losing sight of his pistol.
"Slady!!!"
Truth appears in Slady's mind, floating next to him
"We can't die like this, be strong!"
Despite his closed eyes, his tears of despair were noticeable. The red-haired woman appears before the wreckage and the fire that had spread around them with the impact.
"You... are the most insane person I've had the honor of facing."
But instead of a cold place, there were now tears, as if she didn't want to kill Slady.
"..."
Slady lets out a sigh, trying to extend her bionic arm, but not having the strength to fight.
"Please, Slady, don't die, we still have so much to live!!"
Truth says, hugging Slady tightly and crying, not wanting to see him die.
The red-haired woman looks at Slady, her arm that was holding the blade rises, she lets out a sad sigh.
"Goodbye..."
***
Beep... beep...
Slady feels an absurd pain in her body, but she can't open her eyes, she can't scream, nothing. It was a familiar feeling...
Then, a malicious voice echoed right in his ear.
"After more than a century since your creation... you have finally returned to your home."