The moment before the Courage Pwuanch seemed long in Vodkana's heart.
Vodkana mewed, seen 23 collecting her bravery.
Vodkana has realized another thing, that she and her Senpai. Their TRUE power, were more than a Pl with a lot of fat zeros, or some smartail techniques. It was about their deeper emotions, and what they represented.
It didn't even mattered, that Vodkana at 444,000 pl were stronger than she ever were in her life.
What could beat up courage? Well, by mythes of many worlds...
Lust. An order of noble unbeatable graceful warriors, torn apart by one naughty queen.
Heroes exposing their secrets of power to someone who has seduced them.
To get into ARTistic results in battle, warrior had to have lust for that.

Lust raised and lowered warriors from all levels of power. Vodkana blushed, thinking of all the lust she had in her.
"NYALUST-
on parallel to 23, Vodkana gathered ki around one paw, making it grow and quiver with power- the air around it filled with tiny pink lightnings. Her paw clashed with 23's punch.
"PAW!!!"

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Jalo's sudden movement scouter has saved him.
Well... not all of him. Jalo keep suffering from the same problem- his body couldn't react fast enough. He tried to dive but the King's Lance penerated and tore his leg off. He fell on his face, his camouflage suit failing and exposing him, but he still held tight to the Ki-Null pistol.

"You should have remained, in the background, Jalo." Snap glared angerly at Jalo. This misstep made the victory... less perfect.
Of course without Jalo's careful planning and the support which provided the conditions to make this victory possible. Actually it was a bit scary. Snap didn't believed that Jalo alone could be the greatesr assasian, but anyone who will recruit Jalo as ally, would be.
Even if Jalo's shriek of pain didn't made him look impressive at all.
He also was quite disapointed. Their plot still had so much tricks to uncover! At some point, whole Cirra would have been held hostage! Maybe he has understimated Jalo- keep asking for plan B, Plan C and etc.
Apfel's reaction made him smile with hope, he floated just a bit, stepping above clerks and mines. "Kill me?" he smirked, as he again has snapped new ki strings just in case.
"You sound much more humble than before. Now, aren't you?" he said while creating a web.
"Your compassion is nothing but a selfish cruelty.' He stepped forward, hiding his right hand behind his back. Damn. Snap was angry at himself- he let his emotions and childish excitment to cloud his judgement. It's still not the time for THIS technique.
But whenever the time will come? Apfel dieing here and now, and who would hire him to kill someone stronger?
"It does make you feel moraly superior. Doesn't it? But by letting yourself die, you leave the rest of your preciouse people defensless. And actually... your compassion will kill those useless pieces of trash." Snap gotten... strangely emotional. Something in Apfel annoyed him to the depth of his soul, maybe intimadting some beliefs of his own.
He his spreading his arms, hands and fingers- sending two ki strings at Apfel's arm, and with his little finger pulling the web- so dozens of strings were sent at Apfel.
(If not even single string getting Apfel's arm ignore the rest of the reply)
Apfel feel strange. He feel another pulse in his body, he feeling new strentgh- but alien. Not his. As if.. he has turned into a limb of Snap- the ki string connected Apfel's nerves to Snap's brain, avoiding the nerves of Apfel's brain itself.
Snap smiled, with expression, there weren't there before- pleasure.
Pleasure of spreading terror and pain.
Anothet strong hint, that something was wrong (as much as assisnation could get more wrong than murder) were Jalo- he yelled.
"You idiot! Stop playing around and just kill him! We might never have a chance like that again!"
Snap ignored Jalo, and stared at Apfel. "Remember the massacare on Planet Oinko?" he has asked with a grim smile.
He was reffering to one of the most painful mysteries Apfel has encountered.
Planet Oinko with the encourgment of Apfel hosted a meeting for some of biggest galactic tycoons, to discuss and trade- Apfel expected to improve even more the ecenomical movement.
But they were all murdered, by an Incirian guard captain, who were barely alive himself, and invalid, as if he over used his body to the extremes.
He tried to say he was controled but...
Video fotages showed him killing with ease, even an arcosian guard. The best Apfel could do for him, was to jail him instead of exucate him as many demanded. This massacare also created an economical crisis, which took Apfel about a year to fix.
Apfel's hand summon the World Blade, prepared to slash the very clerk he has just saved. Unless, Apfel will find a way to regain control- he will kill the clerk.