"I'll find the person who harmed your sister," Nebula promised solemnly. "I'll help you avenge her too."
"Thank you, sister," the girl said calmly. "That person was me."
Nebula froze, her mind briefly crashing as she wondered if she had misheard.
"What?" She lowered her head and looked at the girl standing right in front of her.
What she saw was a bizarre, evil smile.
The girl's mouth split open at the corners, stretching all the way to her ears.
Rows of dense, razor-sharp teeth like a shark's were exposed between her lips.
"I said, I was the one who tricked that stupid woman into sacrificing her soul."
The girl's voice had completely changed.
It was no longer a pleasant child's voice, but a layered chorus of men, women, old people, and children, as if countless wronged souls were howling in her throat.
An intense sense of danger shot down Nebula's spine like an electric current.
"Sandevistan!"
Nebula instinctively tried to give the command.
However, it was too late.
They were too close.
In an instant, sharp Hell Mantis Blades burst from the girl's slender arm and violently pierced through Nebula's chest.
"Squelch!"
The sound of flesh tearing was exceptionally clear through the speakers.
Nebula's eyes widened as she stared in disbelief at the horrifying blade piercing through her chest armor.
"You..." Blue-purple blood spilled from Nebula's mouth.
"Goodbye, gentle sister."
The girl let out a piercing cackle and jerked her arm upward with all her strength.
Before the horrified eyes of every spectator, Nebula's body was flung straight into the air.
Then the girl opened her abyssal maw and spewed out a pillar of Hellfire of unfathomable power, swallowing Nebula whole in midair.
"V!"
"Nebula!"
Several heroes on the preparation platform cried out anxiously.
Meanwhile, Mephisto was laughing loudly