"I think we might be celebrating a little too early," Gray Mist said weakly. "Never mind the others—how are we supposed to deal with a Superman with Batman's brain?"
"...You've really stumped me." Greed's smile suddenly stiffened. "More precisely, he isn't a Superman with Batman's brain. He's Batman with a Super Brain and a superpowered body."
"And he can make suns himself," Gray Mist added. "There obviously isn't any Kryptonite in this game either."
"You're Nameless Mist. You figure it out."
Gray Mist grumbled, then said, "It's fine. We're relying on skills anyway. Good thing this game isn't free combat, or it would be impossible to play."
"Is that so? But none of us are in the control room right now. We're all controlling bodies, so who's going to activate the cards?"
Gray Mist fell silent. He suddenly realized that the game mode change might have been more thorough than he had imagined. "Don't tell me it really has become free combat???"
Fortunately, after the initial confusion, everyone noticed the wreckage of the spaceship nearby. Then they saw the familiar blue walls, except this time the battle zone was much larger, extending hundreds of meters around the wreckage.
At that moment, a figure approached from another direction. It was Natasha and Bucky. Bucky's body was currently active, but Natasha had clearly merged with him as well.
Among all the contestants on the field, aside from Schiller and Gray Mist, the two of them had the least separation between them. Of course, it wasn't because they had once gotten intimately acquainted, but because the bodily modifications they had undergone came from the same lineage and used the same technology, so the results were naturally similar.
Still, Natasha had complaints. "They should've given you more serum back then. When you said you