'Now I uand why this is a High-Mid Rank dimension...'

  The strength demonstrated by Supergirl, or even by the Fake Santa Cus, barely reached the power of a High-Css Devil.

  And, from what he could see and hear from the people shouting for Supergirl to kill the Fake Santa Cus, things were going from bad to worse for her.

  Therefore, as Zaydas saw her hesitating while the Fake Santa Cus entered what seemed to be a sed phase, he spoke while floating in the air: "Just kill him."

  ...

  "What?" Meically turning around, she was slightly surprised to see who it was.

  "Why are you here?" she yelled upon realizing it was the same boy from the restaurant earlier. "Don't you see he's entering the sed phase? I 't—"

  "But, Supergirl, if you don't kill him, many people will die, right?" Zaydas interrupted her, smiling slightly. "And if you're defeated, does running away now aplish anything?"

  "You dare to smile?" she s him.

  "If you don't do it, I will." He removed his hands from his pockets, floating a few meters away from her.

  "No! You 't!" she protested.

  "Why not?" Zaydas poio people not far away iy. "Look, do you see them? If you hesitate now, many i lives will be lost. But why? Why should the lives of vilins matter? What about those who are brutally murdered, as he himself said?"

  "I... No, no, you're wrong!" She messed up her hair, clearly fused.

  "Supergirl, with great powers es great responsibility," Zaydas warned. "If you stay on the fence, you're not being a hero, you're being a coward!"

  "I am not a coward!" she shouted.

  Meanwhile, the Fake Santa Cus was nearly pleting his transition into the sed phase.

  Sighing, Zaydas said, "You want to take him alive, right?"

  "Yes, that's right," she nodded.

  "Okay."

  As Zaydas's words dropped, a pair of bck mercury wings formed on his back. They curved in a sideways "U" shape, and downward, they split into four curved points that tapered sharply, each about oer ih.

  "What are you?" Supergirl could no longer see him as just a human. Or rather, as human at all.

  Zaydas smiled at her but didn't answer. When he moved, his expression turned serious.

  "Whoosh!"

  "Fast?!"

  That was all she could think as she saw him flying.

  It was so fast that a soni echht after he disappeared, and before she could even process it, Zaydas was already in front of the Fake Santa Cus, who began freezing at an arming speed. His distorted expressio Zaydas with hatred.

  Snapping out of her stupor, Supergirl flew toward him.

  As she approached, the cold overwhelmed her.

  'How cold is the ice he's creating?' she wondered.

  Meanwhile, the Fake Santa Cus, with one of his grotesque arms stretched out and now frozen under a thick yer of ice, was entirely encased.

  Taking her eyes off what looked like an ice sculpture, she turned around but didn't find what she was looking for: "Where did he go?"

  But she didn't have time to think, as the frozen Fake Santa Cus began to fall.

  "I'll remember this!" she shouted, flying and catg the frozen Santa Cus from below. Flying into the distance while carrying him, she thought: 'He was annoying, but he said something cool. With great powers es great responsibility… I'll remember that!'

  "We're saved!!"

  "Hooray for Supergirl!!"

  "Wait, wasn't there someone else helping?"

  "How do I not remember?"

  "What are you talking about? It was just Supergirl fighting that monster!"

  ***

  ***

  At home, Zaydas y on the bed, arms and legs spread out, staring at the ceiling.

  Freezing that Fake Santa Cus, even though it seemed easy and simple, took a lot of Demonic Power to create ice that strong and resilient at such a scale. It didn't drain him pletely, but it left him ed in case he o do something like that again iure.

  Wheuro his dimension, he had less than 50% of his Demonic Power left. Of course, about 15% of it had bee just to perform the Dimensional Leap. Not everything had been used up healing the girl and freezing the Fake Santa Cus.

  'That Supergirl… She seems young, at most 20 years old,' he thought. 'If I had stayed there, it would've been problematic.'

  Just from Supergirl's attitude, he could tell that even though she hadn't killed the Fake Santa Cus, she might have asked him a lot of questions—questions he didn't want to answer.

  This wasn't running away; it was a strategic retreat to avoid a troublesome woman...

  'I o get stronger… Not just that, I want to expand my arsenal of useful abilities,' Zaydas thought to himself. 'Great Sage, I want to opehird gate.'

  [Affirmative!]

  [- 4,000 AP]

  In the moment, locked information was unlocked as the gate opened.

  'Telepathy and Hypnosis…'

  They weren't bad abilities, but he could already use them—though now they had beore powerful. Believe it, they were at least 200% stronger pared to before, so the cost had been worth it. But again, they werely what he wanted right now.

  Thinking for a moment, he anded: 'Great Sage, open the fate.'

  [Affirmative!]

  [- 8,000 AP]

  In his mind, records locked behind the "gate" were ied into his brain: information about Flight and Aerokinesis.

  Two abilities that practically plemented each other.

  He was tempted to open the gate, but befaining some trol over his new powers, he didn't io tinue unlog mates.

  'This should be enough for now.' Zaydas then got up. 'It's still early m here… First, I'll head to the INN dimension to rest and recover my Demonic Power. After that, I'll return to the DC AU Dimension.'

  ***

  ***

  Zaydas appeared right above the Great Tree.

  Zabuton, who usually didn't e out, became alert, but upon seeing him, returo its burrow.

  Flying, Zaydas wao test his new abilities, starting with Flight and Aerokinesis.

  He had already been capable of flying, but the hidden knowledge from the flight ability turned him into a master of the skies, basically. It was as if he had lived his whole life as a bird, and flying was like walking for people: as natural as it was swift.

  And when he used Aerokinesis, his speed doubled.

  By using the wind, he essentially became part of it... To simplify, it was like a ghost, where not even a thick wall could stop him from passing through. In Zaydas's case, the wind simply moved around him without the slightest resistance. Because of this, it didn't produy sound.

  'This is incredible!' Zaydas mentally excimed.

  He mao go from 0 to a thousand miles per hour in the blink of an eye.

  This speed was far beyond his previous capability.

  Zaydas wao test something. He stopped mid-air, but he wasn't truly still. His entire body was moving at an incredibly high speed while he remained in pce. However, while he himself was moving rapidly yet stationary, everything around him seemed to be in slow motion.

  The falling snow, the running animals... In short, it was as if he could slow down time when, iy, he was moving at aremely high frequency—even his eyes—which made everything appear slow to him now.

  'This is cool, but incredibly tiring to maintain…'

  While this could be very useful in bat, it overwhelmed his body and mind. Even his eyes started to ache a bit.

  Stopping, he began flying normally again until he nded on a tree, sitting on one of its branches.

  Several hours ter…

  'Great Sage, mark the coordinates of the DC AU Dimension.'

  [Done!]

  ***

  ***

  [Beauty Salon – Elegant]

  A typical pyboy was watg two beautiful girls: oh bck hair in twin ponytails with red streaks, and the other with straight blonde hair featuring red ombré tips, a side fringe, and strands falling to her chest.

  The pyboy, who had short, light-brown hair styled casually, expressive brown eyes, wore a discreet earring in his left ear, and dispyed a calm, fident smile, saw that the two girls were about to leave and fidently walked toward them.

  The bck-haired girl, holding a lollipop between her fingers, imagined what he might say.

  However, trary to her expectations, he poi the accessory on the blonde girl's bag, holding back a ugh.

  "Hey, hey, isn't that thing from an anime?" He ughed with his eyes closed, speaking mogly: "Wow, you're su otaku!"

  His voice became shrill with his mog ugh: "What garbage~!"

  "The garbage here is you."

  A cold voice echoed from behind the pyboy, aurned around angrily but froze immediately after.

  "Move aside."

  Bumping his shoulder against the pyboy's, making him stumble into the ter, Zaydas, who had said that, began walking away.

  "Wow…" The girl holding the lollipop between her fingers let it fall to the ground without even notig.

  Whether because of his attitude or his looks, he was ten times... No, a thousand times better than that guy!

  "Did you see that, Marin? Ahh, so cool~"

  "Yes, I saw. Calm down, Nowa."

  "But, but…"

  "By the way, he's already gone."

  "That's such a shame…"

  "Who was he…?"

  "Did you say something, Marin?"

  "Nothing at all."

  Meanwhile, the pyboy from before looked as if his soul had left his body. He stood there petrified, leaning against the ter, uo react. Soon, a yellow bodily fluid began trig down his legs...

  "Ew, he wet himself!"

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