"No-"
Kagura Chizuru, who had been busy helping Sakazaki Ryo and Terry deal with Shermie, was so frightened her face lost its flowery beauty.
'Without Kusanagi Kyo, how could we seal Orochi?!'
"Rooooaaaarrrr-"
A roar erupted as a swift figure closed in on Cell at high speed, grabbing his neck.
Yagami Iori!
"Oh~"
Lott's eyes lit up.
'Wasn't this what Yagami Iori did to Orochi in the original story's battle?'
'It was actually being reenacted on Cell now.'
Cell's eyes widened.
He turned his head to look at the redhead who was choking him.
God-slaying deep blue flames exploded across his body, and the entire ground began to collapse.
Dream Moon Baptism!
Cell was forced to release Kyo.
"Iori!"
The narrowly escaped Kyo looked at the other in disbelief.
"I didn't do it to save you! I just find this ugly freak disgusting!"
Yagami Iori shouted.
"This doesn't make sense, Lott-san."
Ishigami was a bit confused. "That bug monster's Ki... how could that red spiky-head save someone from him..."
Lott remained calm.
When Tien got fired up, he could hold back second-form Cell for five minutes with a few Tri-Beams…
If Yagami Iori powered up for love and snatched his beloved from Cell's grasp with one Dream Moon Baptism, what was the big deal?
Suddenly, a gale rose around the altar on-site.
Dark Orochi power ran rampant, converging into a spiral vortex in the center of the sky.
Kyo, who had just escaped Cell's grasp, now realized.
His girlfriend was gone!
"Yuki... Yuki, where are you!?"
Kyo kept searching for that figure.
"Th-There..."
Shiranui Mai raised her fan, pointing with a trembling voice towards the divine gate directly above the altar.
Faintly, a tall, curvaceous silhouette gradually emerged from within.
In an instant, everyone on the Planet King of Fighters couldn't help but feel an urge to prostrate themselves, begging the god for forgiveness.
"The human world... has become defiled again..."
The silhouette became clearer. As the Four Heavenly Kings bowed down in worship, a majestic divine voice was conveyed.
"This isn't right, is it?"
Lott's expression was quite vivid.
Because the King of Fighters' god that had descended was completely different from the image in his memory.
The same silver-white hair, but it was long and flowed without wind.
Compared to the originally naked, muscular physique, she now wore a thin robe, but it still couldn't hide a figure as fiery as Shermie's.
But that faint, illusory body, and the sun-like blue tattoo on her chest, all told Lott.
This woman, radiating an aura of 'don't mess with me', was indeed Orochi!
Or rather... Orochime! (T/N: Orochi Hime, which means Orochi Princess.)
'That's right, the sacrifice used this time is a woman.'
Lott remembered now.
Unlike the original, the sacrifice wasn't Chris, but Kyo's rather forgettable girlfriend.
Well, her presence was even lower than that of Todoh Kasumi's.
Semi-Perfect Cell also lost interest in Kyo and Yagami Iori, turning to walk towards Orochime, saying with an excited laugh:
"According to the original history, using Chris's body as the sacrifice summoned a useless Orochi with a battle power barely reaching 100,000. But using the reincarnation of the Kushiinada-hime as the sacrifice summons Orochi in a perfect, prime state."
"Absorbing her will further enhance my power."
The Four Heavenly Kings, who were bowing to Orochime, had their expressions changed drastically upon hearing this.
'So that was why he helped them.'
'To absorb Orochi?'
'C-Can such a thing be done?'
Kagura Chizuru, Shiranui Mai, and the others were also greatly alarmed.
'He helped the Four Heavenly Kings revive Orochi just for this?'
'A m-madman!'
"Although even a perfect Orochi only has a battle power of a few million, his abilities are still worth absorbing."
Cell said with a light laugh.
Orochime's indifferent gaze fixed on Cell.
As the collective will of this planet, she originally shouldn't possess any emotions.
But at this moment, she felt what 'anger' was.
Her brows furrowed slightly, and white divine light suddenly erupted from the ground.
[Light of Heaven!]
Caught off guard, those closer like Sakazaki Ryo, Robert, and Kim Kaphwan were directly pierced through!
Ishigami immediately stepped in front of Lott, a crimson skeletal silhouette abruptly materializing.
"Since when have you become strong enough to protect me, Ishigami?"
Lott said with a smile.
As soon as he finished speaking, a massive, pale green spherical barrier expanded on its own, enveloping Ishigami and the not-yet-fully-formed Susano'o.
"Robert! Nii-san!"
Seeing her senior brother and brother's bodies pierced, Sakazaki Yuri instinctively tried to rush out.
But Shiranui Mai beside her grabbed Sakazaki Yuri's small hand and pulled her headlong into the barrier.
"Chizuru! King! Get in here quickly!"
Shiranui Mai shouted to her other two teammates.
Lott glanced sideways at Shiranui Mai.
"S-Sorry! Please let us take shelter!"
Shiranui Mai clasped her hands together, pleading Lott like a puppy begging for food.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
The sound of bodies hitting the ground echoed continuously.
Just as the Light of Heaven were about to reach Cell-
"Haa-"
Cell let out a fierce shout.
The golden aura igniting around his body forcefully blocked the Light of Heaven.
"What is that!?"
Ishigami, the women like Kagura Chizuru who had just hid inside the barrier, and countless viewers in front of the live stream screens were all dumbfounded.
That was the aura of a Super Saiyan!
This might have been the first time Orochime showed a shocked expression.
The next instant, she slightly raised her right hand.
An elliptical silhouette, composed of countless tiny black holes, shot forth.
[Black Particle!]
"Your abilities are quite good, but unfortunately, your own strength is too lacking."
Semi-Perfect Cell's lips stretched into an exaggerated grin. A milky white, semi-transparent spherical shield condensed in his right hand.
He slammed it into the air.
Creak~
A grating sound of shattering air rang out.
The fissures cracking through the air forcibly shattered the Black Particles to pieces!
"Is that old man's!?"
Ace, Marco, and others on the Planet Pirate had their expressions changed dramatically.
"Ha~ Saw something interesting."
Lott couldn't help but laugh.
The power of the Gura Gura no Mi, of course, couldn't compare to Black Particles.
But the gap in their raw power was simply too vast.
It was like how Yamamoto could kill Roronoa Zoro in one move with just a tree branch, even without using his Ryujin Jakka.
It's the same principle.
Watching the cracks spreading towards her, Orochime showed a 'panicked' expression for the first time.
She crossed her arms and raised them high.
"Let Everything Return to Nothingness!"
The entire planet became a vast expanse of pure white. Nothing remained except the most primal blazing white power.
It was as if a sun had detonated in the sky above this planet.
However-
"Kamehameha!"
A similarly pure blue-white energy wave pulverized the [Everything to Nothingness] the moment they made contact!
Kagura Chizuru and the other survivors, the Four Heavenly Kings behind Orochime, even Orochime herself, stared in disbelief at the bloody hole in her chest.
"H-How... is this... possible..."
Everyone else was also stunned.
The will of this planet, summoned in its most perfect state, was defeated so easily...
"Isn't that obvious? How could the mere will of a single planet possibly resist monsters who can destroy stars with a wave of their hand."
In the Hero Association, Prime Minister Fujiwara commented, while thinking to himself, 'These people from other planets were really making a fuss over nothing.'
"Orochi's power, I'll be taking it."
Cell arrogantly extended his 'wasp's sting' towards Orochi.
But at that moment, a crimson skeletal giant grabbed both Cell and the severely wounded Orochime, one in each hand.
"Lott-san didn't give you permission to eat!"
Ishigami's left eye socket and the Mangekyo in his right palm spun wildly as he reprimanded coldly.