"I am Gilgamesh, the First Hero of Humanity."

  Gilgamesh expected the girl under her foot to know who she is... but judging from her expression, Mitsuki have no idea.

  "Tch, useless ignorant thing.", she clicked her tongue in disdain.

  Lifting her leg up, Mitsuki took the chance to escape.

  "What did you do to Charlotte?!", Mitsuki screamed, her heart began to pound hard. Out of fear due to the incomprehensible aura of The First Hero, and anger of him taking over her friend's body.

  Fear and Fury, those two emotions spins inside of her. They break her focus, making her unable to enter an empty state of mind.

  "You mean this girl?", Gilgamesh smiled, pointing at herself, "Heh, I just borrowed her body for a short while... and to see some disgusting creature pretending to be human... ha... it pissed this king off so much."

  She cracked her knuckles, "Let's see what this Charlotte's power entails..."

  She saw the world, numbers, and formus floating around... it was hard to understand as these things did not exist during Gilgamesh's period. So she swept them away, paying no attention to them.

  Then she generated the Euphoric Crystals, a wicked smile blooming on her face, "This could work."

  She took a step forward, electricity shot out— then pink crystals shot out from the ground, heading towards Mitsuki.

  Despite her injuries, she rolled out of the way before those crystals could impale her. Standing up, she tried to swing her spear with all her might—

  Gilgamesh unched Quirinus as a projectile at Mitsuki, making her cancel her attack to dodge the nce. It stabbed deeply into the ground.

  Before she could react, Gilgamesh was already right in front of her.

  "Try dodging this, mongrel.", she punched Mitsuki in the stomach— crystals exploded out of her back—

  All of the chemicals— rushed into her body.

  It is overwhelming and brutal. Mitsuki tried to calm herself down, using Entropy to freeze and reverse the flow in an attempt to get them all out of her system.

  But Gilgamesh did not give her the time— with a single step back, she kicked Mitsuki in the gut— sending her flying into the wall of the ravine.

  "You are doing well, you inferior creature.", her sadistic smile got even wider, "Though that is easy to expin..."

  More cracks were appearing, and she felt her senses becoming numb. As she tried to get herself out of the wall, her skin began to chip... revealing a starry sky behind it.

  "Give... Charlotte back...", she gripped her spear tightly, "You don't have the right to her body..."

  "Oh, I know.", she appeared right in front of Mitsuki, "This girl will get out soon enough, so..."

  Red fmes began to burst out of her back, like wings made of crimson fire.

  "Let us have some fun...", she tilts her head to the side, combined with that sadistic smile. It sent a shiver down Mitsuki's spine.

  "This is my Contract with The Starlight Psychopomp, the True Bringer of Death.", she csped her hands together in a prayer position.

  Mitsuki tried to swing her spear, only to be stopped by the heat radiating from Gilgamesh's wings. It took out all of the pressure from her strike.

  "By the Will of Infinity, By the Decree of the End.", crystals began to grow on her arms, forming a pair of gauntlets.

  "What are you doing—", Mitsuki stabbed her spear into the ground, it created a nullification zone. Again, she sensed death approaching her...

  "Journeying through the World, I alone had seen all.", then a huge tornado enveloped Gilgamesh, the heavy rain mixed in with the fire of her wings creating steam covering her entire body.

  And Mitsuki can see it— a looming figure wearing a bck cloak, wielding a crooked bck scythe. Ignoring the fact that it wears shades that look really swag and smoking a cigar in its mouth, the presence alone makes Mitsuki tremble in fear.

  The stress alone made her body break further— she began to cough out blood, which made her chuckle a bit, as she may have tuberculosis - the same disease her great-granduncle had...

  "I am Gilgamesh."

  The smoke cleared, and Mitsuki saw Gilgamesh now wearing a bck cloak with her mouth covered by a scarf.

  "I am the First Hero."

  Time stopped for a moment, Mitsuki felt something was coming— she tensed up her whole body, getting ready for what was to come.

  "And I am Destruction."

  Her red wings crystalized, and they grew. Combine with the light shining out of them, and the raindrops, a brilliant show of color and authority. Mitsuki was gaping, seeing something so beautiful, yet so oppressing... the Beauty of Tyranny...

  And its power...

  Like a supernova, those wings exploded in a show of color, unching shards everywhere without regard for anyone's safety.

  Mitsuki felt the zone she created break by an unknown force, something grim and ominous— she raised her left hand up, blocking the shards with it.

  "Aaargh!!", the pain she felt was unimaginable, like thousands of needles impaled her arm and kept on stabbing it. She wanted to cry, there was nothing she could do about this pain.

  Even if Entropy tries to freeze them, they get brighter until they—

  BOOM!!!

  Explosions went up around them, like bombs going off, it was deafening and her entire left arm was destroyed. Her vision was blurry, in fact, only one of her eyes was working, and her left arm was completely destroyed by the explosion.

  Even with her impaired vision, she could see the natural wonder that was once her home gone, obliterated by the power of the First Hero. Now only a crater remained.

  Despair was all she felt, how could somebody possibly beat Gilgamesh?

  No...

  She stood up once again, raising her spear with her remaining arm.

  "I've come this far... you are just borrowing Charlotte's body, her power, her looks! The Charlotte I knew was a deranged sociopathic narcissist! Not someone who would outright destroy everything!! She has pns, not only brute force!!", her bck spear began to create a swirl, an event horizon flowing around the tip.

  "That looks pretty dangerous.", Gilgamesh smirked, "But something like you would be easier to handle than a bull as tall as the sky."

  Fighting Gilgamesh head-on is simply impossible, the pressure she emits is dangerous and oppressive. With the damage she sustained, and the pain she is going through, despite the overwhelming odds against The First Hero of Humanity, she still stood.

  Seeing that, Gilgamesh cannot help but grin widely. What Mitsuki was showing is the power of human conviction and determination.

  No matter the odds, as long as she keeps fighting, she can never say she truly lost.

  She almost felt bad for beating her up.

  Almost.

  "Mongrel, I shall congratute you for merely choosing to stand against me!! Kuhahahahaha!!", she smashed her gauntlets together, creating sparks, "Do you think you would win?"

  "Nah, I'd lose!!", Mitsuki smiled, gripping her spear tightly, cracking her skin to reveal the window to the universe, "Even if I lose!! Then I would rather lose in glory!! And give back Charlotte!!"

  "You sure are interesting, mongrel.", he appeared behind her, "But unfortunately, there is no glory in a halfbreed's struggle."

  She backhanded Mitsuki, sending her flying. And again, Gilgamesh appeared right in front of Mitsuki, uppercutting her in the face.

  "This is nothing more than beating a struggling animal.", and she caught Mitsuki, holding her by her neck.

  "Don't... TOUCH ME!!"

  She regenerated her left arm, bearing the color of the universe, grabbing Gilgamesh's arm— only to feel the drugs affecting her again.

  But Mitsuki saw something, those eyes under the hood, her left eye was an oppressing purple and her right was a haunting azure. She smiled.

  Charlotte is coming back...