We stood face-to-face with the master in the stone plaza.
No one else was around. Jeff was laid-out and unconscious. The deadly battle between Mugi and Yaksha had spread to the rocky mountain.
So that just left the three of us.
“So you waited until the end to show up,” said the master. “Is there something you’d like to say to me?”
“Nope, not especially,” I replied. “But it sounds like you have something to bark about.”
“Look at you,” laughed the master. “Even without a decent weapon, you still talk like you can actually hurt me.”
“You don’t think we can, do you?” asked Yuri.
“If you think you are the only almighty here, you have made a huge mistake.”
“Wha-what?”
“How do you like this?”
Yuri and I joined hands. Then I stuck out my left hand as Yuri stuck out her right. We brought our hands around and both pointed our index fingers at the master.
Two white beams shot out from the tips of our fingers.
“Uwaa!”
The master’s chest plate burned as he was thrown backward.
The strap holding the hand jet burned through. This important piece of equipment slid off the master’s back.
Lucky for him, the cut was superficial. However, the psychological damage was more than a little deep.
“You-you evil…”
His voice was shaking.
“We told you. We said there is more than one almighty,” I said smugly.
“You-you were chosen? Chosen by Boralura…”
“This power is nice and all, but it kinda stinks that it only works when you are near the egg,” said Yuri. “You were just trying to compromise the mayor, right? If you could use the power anywhere there would be no need to share the rule of Chakra with him.”
“And yet, you had your sights set on world domination. I can tell by your personality,” I picked up where Yuri left off to sum it up.
“…”
The master had nothing to say in response. His entire body vibrated in anger as he stood in place.
“You used Yaksha because you couldn’t act on your own, right?” I added. “You waited for it to grow up, then used it as a hitman. And you had it using Jeff’s amazing body for transport, so you could make it appear and disappear as you pleased.”
“…”
“Master, you are a piece of human trash.”
“Rrrrr,” he growled.
“If you leave this place, you go back to being just a normal person. If you will let us, we’ll arrest you quietly and with no pain.”
“Shut up!” the master screamed. “Do you think this is over? Are you truly that insane?”
“Are you resisting arrest?”
Our fingers were still pointed at the master.
“Me? I still haven’t played my trump card,” said the master. “So here comes the time to show it.”
As he spoke he broke into a run.
We blasted another pair of beams.
One hit his shoulder and the other his back.
But he didn’t seem to be affected. He had put a barrier around his body to counter the beams.
And he was fast. He was moving at an amazing speed. Using his energy like rocket fuel, he streaked across the plaza.
He reached the Angel of Chakra.
Spinning on one heel, he scooped up the elephant figure onto his back. The Angel of Chakra radiated a pale blue glow. It was a faint, phosphorescent light. The glow spread to include the master.
We shot our finger beams at the master again. Hidden within the bright glow, the master became one with the figure.
“Gods of Destruction!”
I could hear the master’s voice.
“You two were on good terms with the empty-headed sheriff, I believe.”
What was this freak getting at?
“So what would you say if I did this?”
This? What is this?! I was about to ask. I never got a chance.
It was because Mugi and Yaksha returned to the plaza.
More accurately, Yaksha was coming this way, and Mugi was chasing after it.
I felt a tremendous pressure blow over my body.
Mugi zipped like a black shadow, and followed it.
The path of Yaksha.
Toward Jeff.
So it was going to escape by entering Jeff again.
Then Jeff would return to normal, and wake up, right?
What was the this the master was blabbering about?
And that is when.
My prediction was a little optimistic.
The master was in complete control of the full-grown Yaksha.
I had forgotten about the strong power the egg gave off in this place.
If only we had prepared for this situation.
The Yaksha materialized.
The dimension beast Yaksha entered Jeff’s body. At the same time, Jeff’s body mutated. He immediately swelled up. His clothes were ripping, and soon he would be naked.
Naked Jeff!
But he wouldn’t be shaped like a human. It would be just a giant meat blob. I wasn’t sure how big he would get, or how far he could stretch.
Suddenly he expanded to over ten meters.
His body shifted to a shiny slimy pink flush. His arms and legs disappeared, and where the head ended and the body began wasn’t very clear. Enormously big and round, it had mutated into a very unattractive creature. On its pink skin were black speckles scattered about, which made the creature even uglier.
But this wasn’t the first time I had seen this beast. Where was it before?
Oh yeah.
In the clairvoyant vision.
When we were hanging off the crosses we’d had a vision, and that’s when this creature had appeared to us before.
So the vision was of Yaksha’s true form.
Now, before our eyes, the rolling Yaksha’s mouth opened wide.
Half of Yaksha’s body opened up.
It revealed the fangs that had left those unique bite marks.
It was repulsive. I couldn’t remember seeing something so repugnant. But this ugly beast was our handsome Jeff.
“Kei!” Yuri screamed. “Get your finger ready. We can take this down. This monster.”
Take it down? That meant taking down Jeff.
“It isn’t Jeff,” said Yuri. “That thing is Yaksha!”
Well, but, I know, but…
Prodded by Yuri, I pointed my index finger at Yaksha. With drool splattering around, Yaksha bared its teeth and dashed toward us. Its body was large and misshapen, but it still moved as fast and nimbly as it had when it was invisible.
“Pull it together! Now!” shouted Yuri, as she looked at me. I had no other choice.
The revolting Yaksha.
But overlapping it was Jeff’s smiling face.
“No!”
I pointed my finger away.
“I can’t! I can’t shoot Jeff!”
I screamed at the top of my lungs.