*THUD THUD THUD*
All five Believers land on a rooftop of a random building, five meters away from the headless giraffe kaiju’s body.
*pant pant pant*
They all collectively pant with heavy breaths.
“Good job, guys. . . We actually did it. . .” said the Fire elemental Believer.
*pant pant pant*
“It was amazing. . . how far hatred can boost our Faith powers. . .” said the Water elemental Believer.
*pant pant pant*
“Yeah. . . I’ve never been able to reach the level of output I just did before in my life. . .” said the wind elemental Believer.
*pant pant pant*
“At the very least. . . I’ve avenged my late wife and unborn child. . .” said the earth elemental Believer.
*pant pant pant*
“I am so beat. . . That asshole was undeniable tough. . . Thankfully, we managed to overcome it. . . Great job, folks!!” said the Lightning elemental Believer.
“Say, it’s a bit weird not knowing any of your names despite how good we all work together! My name is Yujiro Amano! I work as a cashier in a convenience store not far from here!” said the Fire elemental Believer.
“Great idea! My name is Ojiro Yumeno! I am a third year highschooler! Pleased to meet you all!” said the Water elemental Believer.
“Very well! My name is Takakura Ryu! I am but a boring office man who works in a company in the city. Pleased to meet you all!” said the earth elemental Believer.
“My name is Takane Rika! I am a rising star singer! Pleased to meet you, everyone! Hope you all like my songs!” said the Wind elemental Believer.
“My name is Rox! Nice to meet everyone!” said the Fire elemental Believer.
“Hm? Rox? You’re not Japanese?” asks Ryu.
“Oh, I am Japanese! I am sorry, I am using my band name! I am afraid of revealing my real name because of my past. . .” said Rox, looking down and sad all of a sudden.
“Ah! Don’t worry! I wasn’t trying to offend you or anything.” said Ryu as he lifted both hands toward Rox.
“Hm? You’re a rising star? But I’ve never heard of you or your songs at all?” asks Yumeno.
“*sobs sobs* That’s okay. . . I just started after all. . .” replied Rika with tears in her eyes.
*CLAP CLAP*
“Alright, guys! We shouldn’t be this relaxed! Look all around us in the distance!” said Amano, pointing to the right after clapping his hands to gain everyone’s attention.
*!!*
They saw that there was a giant pink elephant rampaging through Tokyo as well, in the distance. Amano points to a different direction, and their attentions follow his hand. This time, they saw that there was a giant humanoid rhino, destroying the city by charging headfirst with its tusk. Amano points to two different directions, and they saw an orangutan kaiju, chucking buildings against other buildings, and a squid kaiju in Tokyo harbor, destroying the port and boats.
“WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? WHY ARE THERE SO MANY KAIJUS ALL OF A SUDDEN?” said Ryu.
“And this gigantic dark purple dome that appeared earlier, what the heck is happening right now?” said Yumeno.
“Let’s immediately go to one of them together! We can definitely take the others down if we can beat this ugly kirin!” said Rika.
“True! As long as we work together!” said Rox.
“Understood! Shall we go immediately?” asked Amano.
“Yeah! I assumed other Believers are confronting them each. If we aid them and ask them all to come with us, the fights will become increasingly easier for each consecutive win!” said Ryu.
“Oooohhh! Nice observation, old man!” said Yumeno.
“There should be more of us, but this city used to ban Believers and disallow their entrance to the city. Though that law has long been lifted, Believers still refused to come here even after the fact.” said Amano.
“I see. Alright, guys! We have had enough rest already! Let’s go and assist all the others!” said Ryu, as he lifted his right fist to the air.
“YEAAAAAHHH!!!”
Everyone else also lifted their fists into the air.
But suddenly, they felt something strange happening behind them. They all collectively turned their heads around.
*!*
They all see that the headless giraffe kaiju’s body was engulfed entirely by a giant, blue, see-through sphere. There is a giant clock on the surface of the sphere, bent and following the round shape of the sphere.
*TICK TOCK TICK TOCK*
The longer hand of the clock starts rotating rapidly, counterclockwise, with loud ticking noises echoing throughout the area. The giraffe kaiju’s body rapidly goes back in time, moving through the states and positions it was in a few minutes ago. Its head, which was blasted away, also suddenly and quickly flew back to its neck and reattached itself to normal.
*TICK TOCK TICK TOCK*
*CHLAK*
The loud ticking noises stop, and the giant, blue, see-through sphere breaks apart and disappears.
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“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I AM BACK BABY!! WAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
The giraffe kaiju suddenly talks like normal. The condition of its neck and head is normal, as if nothing had happened to them. All five Believers witnessed everything that happened. The giraffe kaiju that they thought they killed suddenly came back to life.
“W-What. . .?” said Amano.
“Did. . . Did he just. . .?” said Yumeno.
“Are you. . . serious?” said Ryu.
“. . .”
Rox and Rika were too shocked to say anything. All five of them are immediately terrified at the fact that the giraffe kaiju is now moving and talking again like normal.
“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!! I LOVE ALL OF YOUR EXPRESSIONS!! VERY EXQUISITES!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!!”
The giraffe kaiju is openly laughing in a mocking tone so loudly towards all five Believers. It leans its head upwards, laughing so freely with no restraint.
The five Believers quickly fell into despair. They killed it the first time using strength and output beyond their normal capability, and now it just came back to life, diminishing all of their combined efforts back to zero.
“MY FAITH POWER STILL WORKS EVEN IN THIS FORM!! THAT GUY WAS NOT BLUFFING!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! HOW AMAZING AND DELIGHTFUL TODAY IS!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!”
This giraffe kaiju’s real identity is Kung, the 36-year-old Chinese escaped convict. He was already a Believer before he transformed. His Faith power is called Second Chance, a special type. This is a very limited Faith power that only activates upon his death and can only be used once every twenty-four hours. His Faith power will activate after a certain amount of time has passed, according to his own will, which can be set freely. He can either come back to life as soon as he died, or at most, an entire day has passed since he died. This Faith power isn’t really useful in combat at first glance, but Kung himself is a great street fighter. He has used this power to his advantage in the past, like how he purposely ate an attack and died, convincing his opponent that he is finished. But ten minutes later, he came back alive and sneak attacked his opponent, killing them instead. Because of this, Kung doesn’t fear death as much as everyone else on this planet does.
He let himself get killed earlier solely so that he could see the five believers’ faces, drowned in despair, for his own entertainment.
“Hm? Oh, by the way, where is that one guy who attacked me earlier than you five?”
The giraffe kaiju stops laughing and starts scanning the streets below, left and right.
*!*
He sees that the office worker who shot at him with a flamethrower is currently running away from it, far in the distance, about 100m away.
“HAHAHAHAHAHA!! YOU ATTACKED ME FIRST!! NOW I AM GONNA RETURN THE FAVOR!! DON’T GO AND COMPLAIN LATER, ALRIGHT?”
*ZRAAAAAAAARRRR*
Massive blue lightning suddenly sparks on its ossicones atop its head.
“DIE MOROOONNNN!!!”
The giraffe kaiju swings its head forward, and a massive lightning bolt strikes the running man on the street from above.
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR*
*BLAAAAAAAAAAAARRRR*
A crater was created on impact, the moment the massive lightning strike hits the broken street. It is 3 meters deep and 10 meters in diameter. The running office worker Believer was nowhere to be seen in the aftermath. There is zero trace of his physical existence. He was completely disintegrated by the massive lightning bolt.
*Thud thud*
Rox and Rika fall to their knees from shock. The five Believers could only see the giraffe kaiju attacked without even trying to interrupt it. Their faces look dejected, and their spirits are crushed to even try to move their bodies.
*BAM*
“FUCK THIS!!”
Amano suddenly punches the floor below as he screams in frustration.
“EVERYONE!! DON’T FEEL DOWN!! IT WILL AFFECT OUR FAITH POWER’S OUTPUT!! LET’S FIGHT BACK AND KILL THIS UGLY KIRIN ONCE AGAIN!! I BET HIS TIME FAITH POWER HAS A COOLDOWN OR A CERTAIN RULESET HE HAS TO FOLLOW!!” screams Amano, trying to lift everyone’s spirit up.
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAARRRR*
He engulfs his entire body with his lightning.
“FUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!”
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR*
He launched himself up towards the giraffe kaiju’s face.
“HAHAHAHAHHA!! WANNA GO AGAIN? ALL ALONE, YOUR LIGHTNING IS USELESS BRAAATT!!”
“SHUT THE FUCK UUUUUUUUPPPP!!”
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR*
Amano hypes himself up to counter his own fear. He clenches his right fist, and he emits a giant lightning bolt from it, letting out small lightning discharges in random directions.
“LIGHTNING FIST!!”
He swings his giant, lightning-charged fist forward towards the giraffe kaiju’s right cheek. But Amano was too focused on looking at its giant face. He didn’t see that the giraffe kaiju was swinging its left hoof sideways towards him.
*BRAAAAAAAAKKKK*
*ZRAAAAASSSSHHHH*
The giraffe kaiju hits Amano with its left hoof, and his body immediately explodes into pieces. Some blood splattered onto the underside of its hoof, while the rest of Amano’s body was sent flying towards the sky.
*BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM*
His body, in pieces, hits the dark purple gigantic dome above and explodes, disintegrating everything instantly, though he had already died when he got hit with the hoof. At the very least, his death was instant.
“A-Amano-kun. . .” said Yumeno.
Seeing how easily Amano died, the remaining four Believers were extremely demotivated to fight back.
“N-no. . . We can’t win. . .” said Rox.
“That was a fluke. . . We can’t recreate that lucky incident. . .” said Rika.
“. . .”
But Ryu was silent. His mind went back to the moment when he saw his wife was crushed by a building while giving birth.
“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
Ryu screams loudly in a feral fashion, that veins are becoming visible across his face. He resurfaced the pain and hatred of losing his wife to this ugly giraffe. He purposefully succumbs to his own anger to boost his Faith power past his limit. He lifts his right hand above his head.
*GRATAK GRATAK GRATAK GRATAK*
He creates a giant boulder above his head. He shapes his boulder into the shape of a giant human fist, 15 meters in diameter.
“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!”
He swings his right hand forward and sends the giant boulder fist towards the giraffe kaiju’s face.
*!!!*
But as he was too focused on his own anger, he didn’t realize that the giraffe kaiju was swinging down its right hoof towards the rooftop where they stood.
*BRAAAAAAAKK*
*GRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHKKKKKK*
He destroys Ryu’s giant boulder fist, along with the entire building, with its hoof to the ground.
“. . .”
The giraffe kaiju stays silent for a few seconds before lifting up its hoof from the ground. It sees that there is some blood splattered on the rubble under its hoof.
“PFFT!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! DOESN’T MATTER HOW COOL YOU’RE TRYING TO ACT!! YOU CAN NEVER WIN AGAINST ME!! HAHAHAHAHHA!!”
“. . .”
But nobody responds to his mocking taunt, only the deafening silence.
“Guess I’ve killed all of them at once. . . Maybe I shouldn’t be so hasty. Now I’m bored. . .”
The giraffe kaiju stays silent for a little while before it finally looks up and realizes something.
“Oh, well! Time to find another entertainment! There are hundreds of people running away from me in the distance. TIME TO KILL THEM ALL!!”
But the giraffe kaiju notices something to his left. There is someone who’s trying to fly away and escapes from his vision.
“OOOHH!! YOU’RE STILL ALIVE, LITTLE GIRL?”
It sees that Yumeno, the high school Water elemental Believer, was the one who was flying in the air at its head level. She has her floaties made of water around her waist. She seems to have lost her left lower leg, from her knees. Her clothes are torn here and there, and she’s covered in blood. She may still be alive, but her condition is critical. Right now, the only thing on her mind is to escape and get out of here alive as fast as possible.
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR*
*!!!*
Yumeno looks back and sees that the giraffe kaiju prepares a massive lightning attack from its two ossicones.
“No. . . No. . . no. . . NOOOOOOOOOOO!!! PLEASE DON’T KILL MEEEEEEEEE!!! I DON’T WANNA DIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Yumeno suddenly screams, cries, and pleads for mercy. But the giraffe kaiju has no intention of granting her wish.
“OH, COME ON NOW!! REMEMBER HOW FIERCE AND SERIOUS YOU LOOKED WHEN YOU DROWNED MY NOSE? THIS IS PAYBACK, YOU LITTLE BITCH!! DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!” screams Yumeno loudly in despair.
The giraffe kaiju swings its head forward, and a massive lightning strike, 20 meters in diameter, strikes Yumeno from above. As a final attempt to survive, Yumeno traps herself inside a ball of water five meters in diameter.
*ZRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR8
*ZRRKS ZRRKS ZRRKS ZRRKS ZRRKS*
Though her action was in vain, as it simply made the massive lightning bolt hit a lot worse than it should have. But at the same time, it would’ve still killed her nonetheless.
After the massive lightning bolt dissipates, the giant water ball vanishes, and Yumeno’s entire body is disintegrated without a trace.
