Light gathers the fabric of space on both of his hands and legs. The girl summons a clock made out of time with the same aesthetic as all of her other attacks, that rests on the back of her forearm to act as a shield. On her other hand, is her clock hand sword. Her eyes glow in blue again. 

The girl made the first move. She charges forwards and is even faster than before. She hit Light with the flat part of her clock. Light punches the clock with his blackened fist and shatters it. The girl swings her sword and aims to pierce through Light's chest. Light pulls the sword into his arm and catches it. He crushes it with his grip and breaks it apart. He went to grab her as he also pulled the girl into his arm afterward. The girl moves away faster, however. 

The girl summons barrages of swords but this time she also summons her clocks and spins every one of them. She also spins her swords to trick Light which are her swords and which are her clocks. She shoots them out at Light and they came from different angles. Light lifts his right fist upwards. He absorbs everything that the girl throws at him into his right fist. However, during that sequence, the girl was charging an attack that Light has yet to know about. The girl clenches her right fist as hard as she can. 

Diagonally behind her, from way outside the cage of clock hand swords, a gigantic clock, that is even bigger than this city itself, appears high above the sky.

"(I'll obliterate this guy along with this entire city if that's what it takes to defeat him!)"

From the gigantic clock in the sky, a gigantic sword emerges. Its size is almost as massive as the gigantic clock itself. The gigantic clock is 80km in diameter, while the gigantic sword is 70km long and 20km wide. Aside from its sheer size, the design of the gigantic sword was a lot more intimidating than all of her other clock hand swords. 

Her fist glows blue, the big sword in the sky also glows blue and it shines brightly and intensely by the seconds. Light looks up towards the sky and saw the night sky is filled with gigantic structures floating high above in the sky and its sight was absolutely terrifying.

"Are you. . .serious? You want to involve everyone else?"

"This is only one of my trump cards. Under normal circumstances, this would have destroyed this entire country, but I'll manipulate its radius so that it only wipes out this entire city from the face of the earth along with you. Not to mention I'll also kill my target in the process. Talk about two birds with one stone. This really is the best move for my current situation."

"Do you have the courage to take on the guilt of killing this many people if you succeeded? You'll massacre an entire city!!"

"Now, that's a funny thing to say to a murderer. Sorry, I don't guilt. I have a goal and I'll do anything in order to achieve that goal!"

The gigantic sword in the sky was only half emerges out of the gigantic clock. The gigantic sword glows even brighter that it illuminates the entire city.

"This time, you'll hit your limit! CHRONOS' WRATH!"

The girl punches the air and the gigantic sword in the sky follows her motion, launches downwards diagonally towards Light and the city. The gigantic sword that is shining very brightly is moving at a speed faster than light. The gigantic sword pierces through the cage of clock hand swords. 

Light has already opened his palm and aims it towards the gigantic sword before it even launched. The tip of the gigantic sword lands on Light's palm and the entirety of the massive sword stops moving.

"(W-What?)"

The girl was astonished and could not believe what she saw. The gigantic sword was absorbed into his blackened arm. It only took 10 seconds for Light to absorb the gigantic sword in its entirety.

"(One of my strongest trump card. . . was so easily. . . by him. . .? I was speculating that he has a limit on how much objects or energy he can absorb. Is it really infinite? Does his Faith really not have a limit?)"

"(This is just like—)"

"(This is just like--!)"

A terrible nightmare suddenly came over the girl. She began to pants and her breathing gets heavier. 

The girl suddenly charges again as her right-hand glows. The girl didn't run as fast as she used to this whole time. Light also runs forward and they both clashed at the center of the clock. Light's and the girl's fists are colliding, however, there was no impact because Light absorbs the girl's punch's momentum. In such a short distance, Light began to notices the girl's terrible expression.

"What's up with that face?" asks Light.

"SHUT UP!" The girl shouted.

She shocks Light as he wasn't expecting such a high-pitched shout from the girl who looks completely cool and composed this whole time. 

The girl kicks Light away with a glowing leg. Again, her kick came out a lot slower than all of her other attacks. He successfully blocked her kick but was still sent flying as he did not absorb the momentum from her glowing leg. Light lands back on the six-roman number of the clock. 

The girl's hands are glowing. Her whole body began to glow as well as her eyes. Her hair also changed color from beautiful silk black to a vibrant light blue color.

"(This is it. She's gonna come at me with everything she has. I have to come at her with everything I have too otherwise I won't survive this.)"

*inhales* 

"(Brace yourself!)"

Light and the girl runs towards the center at the clock. Each of their steps is fueled with courage and fear, certainty and doubts, success and failure, harm and be harmed, life and death, victory and defeat. 

Light's and the girl's fists are colliding. What the girl has been doing with her glowing fist that packs a lot of force was that the girl, was running at a speed faster than light to reach this place prior to arriving at the balcony. During that time, her mass goes infinity. The girl sends the state of her hands back to during the run and allows her to wield an infinite amount of mass on both of her hands. Despite all that, the result of their clash did not have any impact or anything and it was rather underwhelming, but that was because Light absorbs the girl's punch's momentum. 

He also notices the girl doesn't run as fast as she was. Light is convinced that she is somehow within her Faith power's limitation. This way, Light can provoke a fistfight and properly react to any of her attacks. 

Light proceeds to strike the girl with his left. She counters it also with her left. Light does an uppercut with his right, the girl dodges the uppercut and immediately does a roundhouse kick. Light ducks down and follow up with a right jab towards the girl's belly. The girl counters with a knee attack with her other leg and hits Light's chin. Light's chin automatically transforms and nullifies the damage. Light spins forward, gathers air on his fist, and does a backhand bash with that same fist. The girl blocks it with her arms and was sent flying away for a short distance. 

Light chases after the girl. The girl recovers quickly and charges towards Light as well. Light does a forward jab with his right but the girl sweeps Light's foot and trips him over. The weights of the girl's attacks are heavy and she hit him a bit above his transformed feet. The girl then kicks Light with full force. Light gathers the fabric of space and hits the girl's kick as a way to block while still flinging from her previous attack. Their attack clashes and explodes. The explosion sent them flying away from each other. The girl instantly recovers and rushes towards Light again. Light recovers quickly and immediately charge towards her as well. Both of them do a forward jab with their right. The girl's right hand is unbelievably brighter than before while Light's hand is surrounded by incredibly distorted space, unlike the level he has been using in this fight.

"FALL!" both of them shouted towards each other as their fists clashed.

The clash of their fists creates an unusual explosion. The giant clock in the sky shatters as well as the wall of the clock hand swords surrounding it.

Light and the girl fall towards the highway below them at high speed. They both crashed on the highway. Light and the girl get up and sit on the ground. 

Light is stabbed by 5 swords, 4 on each limb and one on his back, some parts of his body transformed. The girl lost her entire right arm and she has a lot of bruises all over her body.

The shattering of the giant clock and the wall of clock hand swords cause tiny glass-like fragments to rain down on the city. It creates strangely beautiful scenery that rivals even the 7 wonders of the world. 

The final act of the fight is here. Whoever gets up first will be the winner.

Light transformed his wounds and absorbs the five swords that rest on his body. Light stands up. He braces himself to endure the pains and walks over towards the girl slowly. 

During the slow walk, Light transforms all of his limbs and hits the 40% limit. He starts gathering all of the tiny glass-like fragments that are raining down on the city on his left hand. His left hand was engulfed in dense blue light energy. 

The girl strangely did not heal her injury. She gets up while summoning a sword with her left hand. She uses the sword as a lever to assist her to stand.

"I. . .can't lose. . ."

The girl's expression got worse.

"I. . .can't. . .lose. . ."

The girl began to shed tears without herself realizing it. Light arrives and stands in front of the girl.

"Fall!"

He delivers the final blow. Or so he thought. 

The girl decided not to give up at the very last second. She grazes Light's left shoulder with her sword that she summoned within milliseconds and causes him to flinch while her other hand began to 'regenerate'. 

She summons another sword with her newly healed arm. She plans to stab Light with both of her swords. Her left sword aims towards his right hand while her right sword aims towards Light's left hand, purposely. 

The girl already anticipated his reaction, so she has already begun to move on with her next attack, however. . .

*!!*

. . .while her left sword was absorbed into his transformed right hand, her right sword pierced through Light's left palm. 

At the very last second, Light un-transforms his left hand. All of the blue energy he gathered were scattered and they were pulled towards his blackened right hand instead. The girl's sword went through so deep that Light is able to grab the girl's hand who's still holding the sword. The girl did not expect her distraction attack was the one to actually landed. Light immediately transformed his left hand again as soon as he grabs the girl's hand.

"When a person has their back against the wall, their actions become simplistic. I guess the Queen of Time is still a normal human after all. I saw your plan coming and reacted immediately." said Light with an intimidating tone.

Light readies his fist to punch the girl with his blackened right hand. Fear began to overcome the girl. The girl tries to summons all of her swords surrounding them to free herself by cutting her hand again, but the swords she summoned didn't even shape into her usual clock hand swords. Her fear messes with her Faith power. The incomplete swords that she created were also absorbed into Light's right hand who's already glowing in dense blue light for a while.

"You have a time-based Faith power. Mine is a black hole. How unfortunate that I am your natural enemy." said Light with a very intimidating smile.

As soon as Light reveals his Faith power, the girl was convinced that she is already lost. She no longer tries to control time to protect herself no matter what. Light delivers the final blow.

"Fall, Queen of Time!"

The girl's free hand raises itself slowly to block the upcoming attack instinctively to protect herself. Light's fist comes faster than her slow-moving hand. He hit her with every ounce of his strength. 

When the punch landed, a burst of blue light energy occurred from his right hand and for one last time, creates a rainfall of the glass-like fragments in a small area only around the two of them. 

Light hits her temple bone and her head crashes towards the highway. The blue light burst did not harm the girl as all of that energy was time itself which was her own Faith power so that punch was purely Light's physical strength and the hardness of his Solid black hole. It was strong enough to make her passed out. 

The moment the girl's head crashed into the highway, the time stop was canceled. Time has begun to move again. Everything has gone back to normal. The entire world has begun to flow normally again. 

Their fight has ended. The aftermath of the battle was most visible on the highway where Light is standing on as well as the buildings around it that are full of giant slash marks. The highway is full of cuts and cracks here and there as well as a giant tear that if it was slightly bigger, would have caused a big chunk of the highway to collapse.

"*pant pant* It's over."

For no reason, that last hit also hurts Light, but not physically, only emotionally.

"I won. . . I won but, why do I feel like I just did something I should not have."

Light holds his right fist with his left hand and felt guilt coursing through his body. 

The human body usually produces adrenaline to help ease the pain or damages done to the body during extreme situations. The adrenaline that is fueling Light's body during the fight has resided and now he felt a wave of extraordinary pain throughout his body.

"ARGH!"

Light falls to the ground, but he still holds on to his consciousness.

*pant pant*

Light's breathing gets heavy. He slowly gets up and eventually stands up. He walks over towards the girl slowly.

"(I'm not done with this girl.)"

He picks up the girl's unconscious body. Light flies away from the city and heads towards home with the girl in his arms.

Chapter 2 ~ The Queen of Time

~END~

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