Gutaru knew that the battle was winnable; he just had to play his cards right.

  As he hung from the bannister with one hand, the two Behemoths growled at him from below. They swung their trunks back and forth like hammers, crashing into walls and stands, sending wood chips and planks flying about the place. If anyone was down there, they would be killed by the wreckage alone. Worst of all, the more wreckage they caused, the more the platform of the second floor groaned.

  Gutaru wouldn't be able to stay up there for long. His perching location would collapse soon. So, he used his feather to write a few sentences on the floating piece of paper around him. The words were unintelligible, as they contained laws that were only known and understood by him. Once the writing was finished, he stared at the Behemoths again and spoke in a low tone.

  "Prepare to be sentenced."

  The word changed immediately. The noise of the outside world was drowned out as the sky became red. Perched on the bannister alongside Gutaru was now the white cat, Pur, licking his fur clean. The creature paid no attention to the chaos around it. In fact, it only seemed interested in itself.

  "So, what do you think?" Gutaru asked casually.

  The cat continued to lick itself. "Hmm, what do you mean?" It spoke Impossibly.

  "Do you think you can take them on?"

  Pur paused for a few moments, finally looking down at the two Behemoths. They made him look like an ant.

  "Of course. As long as they are guilty. Might I ask what their crimes are?"

  "Existing."

  The cat meowed softly to itself. "Fair enough."

  Afterwards, it leapt from the second floor and gracefully landed on the floor between the two Behemoths below. The grade-four demons hadn't even noticed him, as the cat was too small to be seen. Only when his body started to contort did he draw the attention of the two demons.

  They paused their destruction momentarily, staring down at the cat before them, watching the way its body bulged and twisted in sickening ways. They seemed fascinated, and all that could be heard was the sounds of bones cracking and muscle and fat expanding. Pur's body grew outwards, larger and larger with every passing moment. Eventually, one of the Behemoths must have sensed danger. They raised their hammer like a tusk in the air and slammed it downward with enough force to flatten a house. A great thud sounded, and wood dust clouded the area of impact.

  Gutaru squinted his eyes and focused on the cloud that now faded away. Once it had, he saw that the Behemoths' strike had not seen success. Its trunk was now in the two-handed grip of a beast that resembled the mixture of a white bear and a human.

  Pur now stood upright on two thick legs, the width of tree trunks. His torso had stretched to insane proportions, easily displaying his muscles through his thickened white fur. His arms were long, and he used his dense claws to catch the trunk of the mammoth with ease. The ground beneath splintered from the weight of the blow, but Pur seemed unaffected by the attack. He blew air from the snout of his bear-like face, before squeezing down tight on the trunk and digging his claws into its flesh.

  Even in his new form, Pur was still only half the size of the Behemoth. However, Pur did not have the mind of a demon. His intelligence was equal to, if not greater than, Gutaru's own.

  "Welcome to our world," Pur said as he pulled as hard as he could on the mammoth trunk. His muscles bulged, and the demon was no longer able to maintain its footing against the 'cats' pulling strength. It slid along the floor, creating ruckage wherever it passed, before its gigantic form was thrown towards its fellow Behemoth.

  The other demon's eyes went wide as it watched its ally being thrown towards it at a speed that shouldn't have been possible for a creature that size. It attempted to brace itself, preparing for impact. That was stopped. It felt something light land on its back, followed by a very small, but sharp object piercing itself into its fur with ease.

  Screams followed. The small object expanded and suddenly felt like it was attacking the entirety of the behemoth's body. It shook its body viciously, attempting to fling the small being off of it, but before it found success, the previously thrown Behemoth crashed into it with such force that they both toppled over into the wall, causing it to crumble to pieces.

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  Gutaru leapt off the Behemoth's back before it fell over. His jump was powerful due to various movement skills amplifying his body, and carried him far enough so that he landed gracefully on Pur's giant shoulder. The animal made a pleasant sound as it was reunited with its owner, and the pair watched as the Behemoths created an opening to the academy hall by breaking the wall. The structure of the academy hall had also started to crumble. The second floor had already started to groan and collapse from the destruction.

  From the outside, Gutaru should have spotted many lesser demons being crushed by the weight of the behemoths, as well as a few students fighting against them. However, the only beings that currently resided in the Realm of Sentencing were Gutaru, Pur, and the Two Behemoths. Everyone else existed outside of it.

  Pur scratched his head nervously with a claw. "Apologies, Gutaru. I did not mean to create such destruction."

  Gutaru shrugged his shoulders. He knew that Pur was worried that if they did not win the fight, they had now shown the Behemoth's were they could escape through after exiting the realm.

  "It's fine. All we have to do is win." He responded, watching the demons push themselves to their feet.

  "Of course, Gutaru."

  Gutaru grabbed hold of Purs fur, as the giant white beast charged again, trying to catch the demons off guard. He galloped on all fours, so fast that a blue overshield began to shroud its frontal section. Before one of the demons could get up, Pur crashed into it headfirst, creating a great impact and sending it tumbling to the ground once again. Meanwhile, Gutaru had already leapt off his shoulder and landed on the other Behemoth's back. The one who had already been pierced by one of his Needles of Sentencing.

  The behemoth went wild as he felt the man climbing along his body. It remembered the previous pain it had felt before, and tried to do whatever it could to throw the man off of him. Eventually, it settled on the idea of crashing its back into the wall of the academy, trying to flatten Gutaru. It was a smart move, but the Judge expected it. Before he was flattened against the wall, he clicked his fingers. The next thing he knew, he was in a completely different location.

  Gutaru now stood on the floor, and in his place, Pur was slammed into the wall by the behemoth instead. He had activated a fusion skill of the two classes, Judge and Beast Tamer: Territorial Transposition. It allowed him to physically swap locations with one of his beasts when within his domains.

  Forgive me, Pur. Only you could survive that.

  He had used the skill many times in the past, but that didn't stop him from feeling bad for his greatest ally. Yet Pur didn't care. The academy building crumbled atop both him and the Behemoth, but amidst it, Pur was able to sink his claw and teeth into its skin and wrestle with it amidst the chaos. That left Gutaru to face off against the Behemoth that was dazed from the battle that it was having with Pur. As he stared it down, he noticed golden blood flowing through its black fur. It also seemed out of breath, and one of its legs had a slight limp to it.

  Pur got him good. I'll finish the job.

  Gutaru summoned two items in his hand. A small round hammer and a long black needle. Afterwards, he crouched and dashed forward between the behemoth's legs. It was too slow to combat his speed due to its wound, and soon felt a sharp object pierce it underneath its belly. In an attempt to flatten Gutaru, it dropped onto its belly, but Gutaru was already out of the way. Instead, all the Behemoth did was manage to push the pierced needle deeper into its flesh, allowing the pain of the Sentencing Needle to spread throughout its entire body.

  It convulsed from the pain, and before it could recover, another needle pierced its forehead, followed by a final nail hammered into its back.

  The Three Nails were in place. The Triune Verdict.

  Gutaru smiled as he flipped off the demon's back and landed on the grass before it. The Behemoth had no idea what was going on, but the Judge was certain that the battle was now over.

  Law. Evidence. Verdict.

  He pointed at the Behemoth, and suddenly, its entire body exploded from within. Blood, gore, and organs erupted into the air and rained down on the field of the Academy. It took five seconds for the contents to all drop to the floor, staining the grass red, and leaving demon bits lying around the place. The last object to fall was the giant, golden heart that landed with a thud that created a crater in the earth.

  Gutaru let out a sigh. "I guess I've still got it."

  Right afterwards, he heard a great cry coming from behind him, followed by a wet squelch. When he turned, he found Pur sitting by the corpse of the other behemoth. Pur was much, much larger now. This was due to Gutaru's Beast Tamer skill, Predatory Expansion, which allowed his beasts to feed on other creatures and gain strength in their True Form, as long as they feasted frequently. Pur had long since feasted, as Gutaru had been so focused on educating the students of the academy, so he was much smaller than he once was. Now, he had gained that size back. He was as large as the Behemoth.

  Pur used his claws to pull a chunk of flesh from the Behemoth's side and shoved it into its mouth. Golden blood dripped down his chin, making the once small cat look like something much more sinister and dangerous. One might even mistake it for a demon.

  Gutaru and his ally smiled at each other from across the field. Their jobs were done, and once they returned to the real world, the Sentencing would be complete, and the Demons would immediately meet their deaths through a heart attack. However, before he could collapse his realm, Gutaru felt a sudden breach. Three beings had forced their way into his domain, and for the first time in years, he felt true fear.

  Gutaru looked to the roof of the collapsing academy and found three figures standing there. Each had white hair, wore white lab coats that blew in the wind, and had great similarities to the others. It was the man in the centre who looked most menacing. He was older with an eye patch over one eye. Gutaru noticed him immediately. He had met him long ago.

  "Doctor Frost." He shouted so that the newcomers could hear him. "Why are you here?"

  "You know why, Judge." Doctor Frost shouted. "To fix the problem I created. To bring the immortal back to hell!"