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"Don't play a good father now of all time!!!!!

" Marinette gritted her teeth grabbing the duke's hands running away from those two.

nShe would be able to defeat them alone if the duke didn't get in the way, her priority was to get the duke to somewhere safe away from them.

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"Stay here.

" she hid him inside the clock tower then ran back to those two who walked arrogantly with pride.

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"Where's your beloved father?

" Kira asked jokingly glaring at Marinette with her feet stomping upon the ground making her way to Marinette.

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"First, you're annoying. And second, he's clearly not my beloved father.

" Marinette cast the roses all over the place setting the barrier immediately with the side effect overwhelming her body making her hands numb.

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"You seemed to be underestimating me too much...brat.

" Kira gave off the same vibe as the northern emperor and she was like the split image of Diana who walked behind her.

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"What's with the barrier, sister?? Isn't it useless?

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nDeath Roses Magic: Rosing Strike

nRoses showered upon the barrier scratching Marinette's face but instead of showing pain to them, she smirked with pride then slid her finger across her face.

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"Did I forget to tell you...I don't have only one magic in my body.

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"You! Go search for Jella, I'll deal with this woman.

" Kira told Diana with a nervous tone after she witnessed the light magic in front of her.

nDiana clenched her fist, she turned her back grinning from ear to ear leaving the barrier.

n'I was waiting for that...'

nShe was able to cross it, but the moment she stepped outside the barrier, an agonizing pain overflowed her entire body making her body collapse on the ground in an instant.

nMarinette poured ninety percent of the side effect of the death roses magic into the barrier.

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"One down.

" she smiled then cast one more layer of barrier, bigger than the recent one trapping unconscious Diana along with it.

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"Hm? Why did you bother trapping me when you're also trapped in here?

" Kira asked then the chain came out, she tied it with her fist tightly looking seriously and cold toward Marinette.

nMarinette didn't answer the question and jumped with the rose magic energy surrounding her fist. Marinette deal the first strike, Kira dodged it beautifully. The fight continued with no one losing to one another.

nKira used her secret technique of chain then surround the entire barrier with her chain.

nThe magic energy inside Marinette suddenly disappeared, and in the dark globe barrier of chain and death roses magic, only Kira's golden chain glowed.

nEven Kira couldn't use her magic inside the barrier she made.

nMarinette took many steps back quickly noticing Kira had the upper hand till her back hit against the barrier she made herself.

nMarinette could only defeat them if she had the magic, but if her magic was taken away again then she...was completely useless with no skill of sword or anything.

nShe didn't even have the hairpin with her, the only thing in the barrier was the rock and Diana. And on Diana's head had a hairpin.

nMarinette noticed it with one glance, she proceeded to use the poison against Kira. But the chain was the obstacle in her way, it won't allow her to get near Kira.

nMarinette walked sidestep to Diana and grabbed the hairpin then sliced her hand to drop the blood mixed with poison on it.

nKira who stood in the middle kept spinning her chain with her red lip full of arrogance.

nIt was a deadlock again. If Marinette got in closer, the chain will hit her. But if a miracle happen, she would be able to get in, then Kira would lose.

nThe chain couldn't hit the barrier, if it ever hit the barrier made of chain, it will be unstabilized, Kira knew that, so she kept spinning her chain carefully while staring at Marinette making sure it approached Marinette closer and closer.

nTo Marinette, that chain was as fast as the helicopter's spinning blade.

nBut someone broke the deadlock by showing their existence, a crow slipped inside the barrier without taking any damage.

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"Marinette!!!

" Marinette flinched with the cold sweat flowing along her back when she heard the voice of that young woman.

nThe three barriers shattered in an instant when that woman and the guy behind her walked in.

nThe guy behind her stopped Kira's chain with only one of his hands without showing any effort at all.

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"You imbecile...manipulating my memory...this day will be your last day to look at the sun.

" it was clearly night at the moment, there were stars and moon on top of the sky.

nIt was clearly none other than Valencia and Lucas who interfered in the battle.

nThe battle took place at the leg of the mountain Marinette first arrived in the northern empire. Marinette was standing there gulping her saliva seeing all three of them wanting to kill her.

nShe swore that day...she would never make a plan ahead again. Clearly every time, she was never able to execute her plan properly.

nIf Valencia and her underling weren't even the worst part yet. Just when Valencia almost cast her magic to kill Marinette, the ground started shaking horribly. Everyone looked up, their eyeballs had the snow in them. It was the avalanche.

nMarinette almost lost her mind at that point. But she put herself together and ran toward the avalanche to grab the woman with pink hair who rolled down along with the avalanche.

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"Aurora!!!

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nAurora smiled in relief when she saw Marinette like that, she grabbed Marinette's hands and got herself up panting. The avalanche hit the red barrier of the empire till it shattered completely.

nThe pitiful citizen who thought they would be able to sleep for an hour before dawn got up again coming out of their houses to know what sh*t going on just for one night.

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"Igneel, kill both of them!!!

" the emperor popped out of the snow with one end of the chain attached to his hand and the other attached to the woman in a red dress, the one he called Igneel.

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"Marinette...listen...

" they ran from all of those people, Marinette and Aurora, or should we call Sun-hee and Eun-Kyung, those two didn't earn the trophy of the running contest for nothing. They ran quickly as the wind.

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"Yes??

" Marinette replied, she didn't even get to breathe properly as the whole group of people chased after the two of them.

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"We're dead.

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"Yeah...

" Marinette looked expressionlessly, she used all her death roses magic energy to mimick Herod's magic creating a floating rose petal. Aurora was delighted seeing that as her legs were almost on the verge of collapse.

nBut Marinette sent it the other way instead to her father. Aurora was sulking while dodging the projectile of those people or more like demons and beasts with some of them running on the roof.

nOnly two stayed behind without chasing Marinette and Aurora. Valencia was standing still in one place using the crow as her eyes watched unconscious Diana sleeping on the ground.

nHer head hurt so much till point she fell down on her knees, it was like someone kicked her brain around.

nUnnie...Marinette Unnie...

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"What is this memory??!!!

" she screamed with the memory flashing in her brain.

nShe caressed Diana's soft face turning it to check if Diana was really the person in her memory.

nMarinette Unnie!

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"This isn't real memories...it...it...

" Valencia shook her head denying that, but all the feeling of happiness she spent with Marinette didn't stop coming back.

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"This is...the face in my memory...

" Valencia felt her heart aching when she saw a half of Diana's face was burnt like that.

nMarinette insert the image of Diana in Valencia's memories when she manipulated the demon's memories, so there's no doubt why Valencia had attached feelings with Diana.

nHer hands which were put on Diana's neck were shaking as she couldn't make up a choice whether to kill the human who is her weakness or not.

nBut after many minutes passed, after the bucket of tears coming from her eyes, even Valencia couldn't believe she would cry like that for another human.

nShe got up and carried Diana's body to somewhere safe and warm instead of the place near the snow. Then she left to hunt Marinette for revenge for what Marinette had done for a powerful demon like her.

nWhen noticing Valencia left, Diana took a deep breath in relief getting up from the trashbin Valencia put her into.

nDiana came out of the big trash bin with her chest felt less tight after she faced such a powerful demon, she didn't even dare to breathe out loud in that demon's presence. Diana woke up only a minute before Valencia came to check on her.

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"Haa...I couldn't care less about this face.

" Diana rolled her eyes touching the burnt face then grinned walking to where those people were.

nMost of her preys were there, Diana, Aurora, the emperor, and Kira. She walked slowly making sure she would arrive on time when one of the winners stood alive and weak, thus she will stab them to finish them off.

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"The empire will be mine...and soon, the whole world will be mine!!!

" she laughed out loud attracting the attention of a little kid who lost its mother.

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"Miss...can you...

" the thorn strangled that kid and threw that kid away without a second thought.

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"Don't touch me...

" Diana glared at that pitiful kid and then laughed it off like a psycho walking with the rose monsters coming out of the ground one by one following her.

nTo be continued....!

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