The one I felt most complex facing was Albedo. When I looked at her, she had her gaze fiercely fixed on me as she clutched her dress, cracking her teeth so hard that I could hear them almost tearing off.
"How have you been, Albedo?"
"B-Bastard… you ask me… how I have been…?"
"Are you deaf?"
"H-He…hehehe~"
We all looked at her, it was as if she went insane.
"I have been miserable. What about you, Osiris…? How have you been?"
"I have been very busy. So? Will you all tell me how you know Kurumi?"
"This woman is our enemy. She invaded our headquarters and slaughtered more than half of the knight army. Why is she with you?" Solution's voice told me there was something personal going on here.
'What is wrong?'
'This woman cracked my core, master!'
!!!
I gasped, Kurumi is actually able to injure solution?
'Don't tell me… you have just made her into your pet…'
'I did'.
'Master… I have grievances with her!'
'You will have to let go of those grievances, Solution. She came to this world because of me and I didn't know… if she did something to you, I'll assume responsibility for it'
Solution clenched her fists and looked at the giggly Kurumi who seemingly caught onto something.
"What are you doing here, Osiris…? With nightmare on top of that?" Albedo questioned, her behaviour was… weird.
She was being very friendly, I thought when we saw each other, she'd attack me right away.
"Aren't you going to fight me?"
"… what would be the point of that?" She turned sideways and sent me sidelong smiling glance. This woman, she not being angry actually scares me a bit.
"Even if that golden fox is not here… you're still not someone the three of us can defeat. The real question here is… after you discovered our concealment, do you plan to let us go?"
I smirked, "That's actually a good question".
"…" the trio remained silent but I could tell with a glance than rather than fight me, they wanted to fight Kurumi. Even Solution, after what I told her, seemed like she still wanted to have a go at Kurumi.
"Do you want to do it, slime-chan?~"
"Nightmare!"
"Does it hurt still?~"
Solution got ready to fight even while forsaking my glare… this woman, I haven't disciplined her enough.
I waved my hand and a gust of moonlight mist wrapped around Albedo and Shaltear.
"Wait, Osiris!" Shaltear screamed first, both of them didn't know what I was doing.
"It is not time yet for you to meet me".
The next second they both disappeared, I sent them to the capital of the Sloane theocracy, they may become a more interesting variable there.
I remained with just solution and Kurumi.
"What did you do to her, Kurumi?"
"Oh? We were only playing around. I don't know why this maid is so upset at me master".
"She attacked us multiple times. We had dozens of duels to the death. I slaughtered her and her clones countless times until she eventually managed to deal a killing blow on me. If I hadn't been careful she would have shattered my core, master!"
Seeing solution call me master, Kurumi understood.
"I see, I apologise, master… I didn't know".
"I am not blaming you for being a troublemaker. Solution, you can drop this matter now".
"But master!"
Even now she still wanted to continue.
"Well, I do have my bit of enmity against her. She wiped out a third of all the time I had managed to collect. So… should we resolve this now? It will also give me the chance to properly discipline you".
!!!
"What did you say…?"
"Master clearly told you to drop the matter and you still seek to continue? Little slime, you need discipline. I'll discipline you on master's stead—"
*BOOOMMM!!*
Forget about impalling, Kurumi's body shattered in front of my very eyes. I noticed that Solution wrapped me in slime to protect me from even dust falling on me.
"I am sorry, master… but she and I are irreconciliable".
*WHOOSH!*
A copy of Kurumi appeared out of nowhere in the sky with gigantic clock behind her back. I tried to gauge what she just did… but it was hard.
She teleported using laws of time? And that's a clone…?
There was technically no difference between the clone that was just shattered and the one that manifested. At least it was completely different to Tsunade's substitution clones or shadow clones.
Kurumi had a musket and she didn't show up in her own. Solution skipped out of the grasp of dozens of hands and evaded one bullet that was shot towards her. I thought she didn't need to evade those bullets but when the bullet impacted the ground I saw space around the impact constrict as time dilated.
"Wow".
Kurumi is a lot more diverse than I thought.
Clones of Kurumi fought clones of Solution in what looked like a campal war rather than a duel. More amazing was that Kurumi knew exactly where Solution's core was at all times while Solution had a great grasp of the gothic girl's abilities.
These two had fought a lot.
*BAANG!*
"You're just an annoying pest. Why won't you just die!"
"You will have to kill me another million times~"
'Although it is conveniently stated that space and time are equally superior laws to the rest. That is a wrong assumption. The truth is that everything that exists, exists first in a temporal or atemporal plane before it exists physically in space. As such, time is the most superior law that ties to fate. This Kurumi… unless her opponent has spatial or temporal capabilities, she won't ever be defeated. You can see Solution is superior and stronger, but she's unable to defeat someone who exists in a higher plane than her own. The girl seems to store time that she can use to come back every time, and Solution can't physically attack that time, hence, she's unable to win" Elysir said.
At a particular junction though, solution was more clever… but at what cost?
Kurumi fired her weapon, but she failed to notice that I was behind Solution, in her line of fire.
Solution knew this, no, she planned it and she even discarded the protection she had put around me before.
Then her main body disappeared and the bullet was en-route to impact with me.
!!!
Kurumi realised this and that's when she faltered, an opportunity that solution took to wrap two of her bodies in her goo mid-air.
*BANG!*
The bullet impacted my body and rather than do damage this time barrier manifested around me. I was shocked that it didn't stop my time as it would to anything else. But I felt slow…
It was already amazing that anything Kurumi could do would affect me.
"Fufufu~" Solution laughed as both of Kurumi's codes constricted in what I believed now was asidic goo that was peeling off her skin little by little.
She couldn't kill Kurumi, but she could torture her.
"Run now. Bitch–"
*WHOOSH!*
A shadow blurred and impalled Solution's body with ease. The latter gasped and coughed, seeing the hand that had just yanked her core out of her body.
Haku sliced her hand out of the goo and shattered it. Holding onto the core and wrapping it in darkness.
Solution's body naturally dissolved and both of Kurumi's bodies fell of the sky coughing before they disappeared inside her darkness and another a Kurumi came out.
She was looking at Solution's core with dead hatred.
Haku walked up to me who was still wrapped in that time sphere. I waved my hand and shattered it.
"Master, I know you are benevolent… but she deserves to be punished".
Haku said and handed me over the core of my pet who had shown today nothing but an unruly behaviour, even willing to put my safety on the line to defeat Kurumi.
"It doesn't matter if she believes you are almight… if she wasn't your pet I would have already shattered this core".
"I understand…"