"You bastard! What did you do to Zero?!" Guren roared at the Final Angel.
The other three warriors stared in utter shock at Zero, who was bound to the Final Angel's body.
They knew a little about how the Ultra Brothers, from Zoffy to Jack, had fallen victim to Alien Yapool's scheme on Planet Gogoda and been bound to crosses, but they had never imagined that much the same thing would happen to Zero.
Jean-nine was the first to roar, "Wake up, Zero! Don't lose to this bastard!"
Zero's body showed no response.
The Final Angel's terrifying, fathomless voice echoed in their minds:
"It's no use. He's already dead."
"I killed him myself. His light has vanished completely, too."
"I can assure you that he and that insect truly gave it everything they had. But so what? Before me, he was still nothing."
"If you leave this planet now, you still have time to deliver the news of his death. Wait any longer, and there won't be anyone left to recover his body."
At those words, raging flames blazed atop Glenfire's head.
"You bastard..."
"Zero would never die at your hands!"
"Everyone, attack! Let's get Zero out of there!"
"Oh? Instead of slinking away, you've chosen to throw yourselves against an unstoppable force?"
"Heh. I don't even need to deal with you myself."
The tentacles on the Final Angel's back that were not clamped onto Zero began to move.
"Roar..." The heads at the ends of four tentacles opened their enormous mouths, gathering four masses of energy that flickered with purple light.
"Watch out! It's about to attack!"
The members of the Zero Guard immediately began taking evasive action, while Mirror Knight launched an attack on the tentacles.
"Fatal Horizontal Slash!" Mirror Knight spun rapidly high in the air, golden