- One for All or All for One? -

The last clone, at the end, she agreed with Charlotte and stabbed Bam with sword to transfer the power of souls to him.

The power of the souls was the power that White had been saving up was now transferred to Bam and in the same time, Charlotte who has been saving all the hostages started to face her own problems.

Charlotte's sudden tremendous power happened because Charlotte had convinced Noah to open the Thirteen Chains for awhile. She wanted to open those chains and let her use the power of her hourglass to win this selection for everyone.

Noah refused at first, for he knew that Charlotte would die if he does that. But he can't take his words back since he had promised so he came up with a better idea.

He decided to temporary opened the thirteen chains for Charlotte. He didn't open all the chains for her, but some and until it reached a certain time, the chains will be shut naturally. The time limit was thirty minutes and thirty minutes were about to end.

And as the thirty minutes were about to end, Charlotte felt that her body was getting tired and sore, her eyes were getting heavy.

"I can't understand you" White said to Charlotte. "Why do you give that power to someone else? Do you really think that you could win against me without it?"

"Because unlike you, selfish bastard, I care for my brother more than my life" Charlotte answered. "That power is what he deserves and that is a gift from me."

White frowned, "You've been targeting for that power long ago."

"I do" Charlotte confessed. "But if you are thinking that all my words earlier was just an act to get the sympathy and to win the power from your last clone, then you are mistaken. I still despise someone like you."

When it was right 'five', Charlotte immediately descended to save Angel from White's Team who was taken as a hostage.

White who observed how she used the same trick realized something, that the more she descended to save others, the heavier her movements became. His lips curled into a smirk when he realized that.

There was still a chance for him to win.

"Your movements are getting heavier" White said. "Is there a problem?"

"I don't need your care" Charlotte said. She should end everything as soon as possible. "If you dare, then let's descend together and fight again. Thirty Dallars, that's if you dare."

White frowned when he heard that.

"How arrogant."

Charlotte did not respond to his words. It wasn't because she didn't know how to argue and bicker with someone, but because that she was getting tired. If she wasn't tired, she would have argued with White until he had gone mad and killed her right on the spot.

Instead of arguing, Charlotte choose to close her eyes and take a break for a little while.

And when she did that, she began to hear the familiar voice on her head.

"Ⲇⲟ ⲩⲟ𐌵 ⲛⲉⲉⲇ ⲙⲩ ⲏⲉ𝓵ⲣ?"

"Be quiet...." she muttered under her breath. "Let me rest a bit......"

"Ⲱⲏⲩ ⲇⲟ ⲩⲟ𐌵 ⲏⲁ𝓿ⲉ ⲧⲟ 𝛓ⲏⲟ𐌵𝓵ⲇⲉꞅ ⲁ𝓵𝓵 ⲧⲏⲉ ⲃ𐌵ꞅⲇⲉⲛ𝛓 ⲟⲛ ⲩⲟ𐌵ꞅ ⲟⲱⲛ? Ⲱⲓⲧⲏ ⲙⲩ ⲏⲉ𝓵ⲣ, ⲱⲉ ⲥⲟ𐌵𝓵ⲇ ⲇⲉ𝓯ⲉⲁⲧ ⲏⲓⲙ ⲧⲟ𝓰ⲉⲧⲏⲉꞅ ⲁⲛⲇ 𝓯ⲁ𝛓ⲧⲉꞅ."

"......You really have?"

"Ⲟ𝓯 ⲥⲟ𐌵ꞅ𝛓ⲉ Ⲓ ⲇⲟ. Ⲩⲟ𐌵 𝓳𐌵𝛓ⲧ ⲛⲉⲉⲇ ⲧⲟ 𝓵ⲓ𝛓ⲧⲉⲛ ⲧⲟ ⲙⲩ ⲱⲟꞅⲇ𝛓 ⲥⲁꞅⲉ𝓯𐌵𝓵𝓵ⲩ ⲟⲛ ⲧⲏⲉ ⲛⲉⲭⲧ ꞅⲟ𐌵ⲛⲇ."

Charlotte's ears were concentrated on the short referee's words. She was waiting for thirty Dallars before she jumped together in the same time with White, though she was a little late.

Her first move was to pause the time. She paused the submarine that rolled around the spiral pipes by swinging her right arm towards it.

"Don't you think you are being a little obvious? Whenever you are using that same trick--"

He raised his sword and then swung it towards Charlotte.

"--It's your right hand that moves around!!"

Her right hand has been completely cut clean by White swiftly, leaving a shocked expression on her adorable- looking face.

"CHARLOTTE!!"

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Y

uri Ha Zahard, a beautiful black haired slender lady from the Ha Family with a pair of red eyes, was well-known for her violent temper. But even though she was born with violent temper, her beauty can't be denied and she had made her appearance since the first season of the manhwa.

This black haired lady was the one who met with Bam first in the tower, aside from Headon, of course. She was the one who helped Bam to pass the first test with her Black March, even though the Black March then disappeared along with Bam to the second floor which caused her to have to make another trip to the second floor to retrieve it and the Green April back along with her guide who was a Silver Dwarf, Evan.

Evan, the short Silver Dwarf with silver hair and eyes, dressed in green while carrying a huge bag on his back followed the princess whom he served for ages. Even though his princess could be violent, troublesome, hotheaded, stubborn and crazy to the point that she even dared to sneak into the Hell Train just to find the Irregular the Twenty Fifth Bam, he followed her all the way.

But of course, they were caught by Pedro, the conductor of the Hell Train and had no other idea but to have a bet with him.

If Jue Viole Grace or Bam wins this game, then the princess wins and she could stay on the train. But if White is the winner, then Pedro wins and he would be able to take the princess' life.

Yuri really disliked this Pedro. First, he made her friend Twenty Fifth Bam ended up in this situation, playing with his and his friends' lives. Second, he was trying to threaten her with his power as the conductor of the train and third, he even dared to make a bet and asked for her life. Since he desired to play with fire, then why should she restrain herself?

She agreed to play with him with an addition. If she wins, then she will be taking Pedro's life as a reward for herself.

But in the middle of the game, there was a little twist.

Yuri and Evan watched the whole game with a pair of Three D glasses which then turned out to be an important item that recorded everything that Pedro said and immediately sent it to the Zahard Family. Normally, any communication items like Pockets won't be able to work to talk with the outsiders outside the train. But these Three D glasses were connected to special lighthouses that belonged to a different Zahard Princess, Repelista Zahard, and of course, the recording that they sent to her has been delivered without a problem and they have earned the right to beat Pedro.

The two of them had left Pedro without any other choice but to fight them. Or rather, he should be fighting with Yuri right now.

Pedro didn't challenge Yuri recklessly or impulsively. The lady before her was a well-known Zahard Princess who possessed two out of the Thirteen Months. Even a three years old child knows to not underestimate her.

What he had prepared was the Purple Observer, an ancient observer that was made during the Wars and before the two of them were born. On the Purple Observer, there was a poison hidden inside it and was more than enough to put someone as dangerous as Yuri to sleep. But unfortunately, Yuri figured it out and injected shinsu inside it and destroyed it into pieces.

This had proven to everyone that no matter how ancient an observer is, as long as it was on the hand of fools, then it will have no difference than ordinary observer.

And after she defeated Pedro, she learnt about his scheme.

They were going to pour the boiling acid!

"......they'll pour in the boiling acid?" She asked.

"....That's right" answered the dying Pedro. "Although it won't happen, if Jue Viole Grace wins this game, . Then none of the regulars in the core will have the way to escape the acid. In the end, they will melt in acid and vanish."

"....That doesn't make sense" Yuri said to Pedro. "I thought your goal was to resurrect White."

"That doesn't matter. We have Yura Ha on our side, and she can use teleportation. Regardless, the only people who would die would be Jue Viole Grace and his companions."

The fourth person there heard all their conversations and responded, ".....You really are persistent. Your Lord Karaka is really persistent to the point that he prepared such a big stage to kill few regulars."

"Sorry, but Bam isn't going to die, mustache" Yuri said with a confident grin. "I know better than anyone. . He'll make his way and survive and come see me. Because that's how it was meant to be since a long time ago. ."

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Bam really wanted to go up there and beat White into pulp.

"Let go of me!" he insisted as he struggled to be released from Aka's big arms. "I have to save her before it's too late!!!"

If Aka wasn't holding him back, then he would have done that and all of them would be disqualified and killed. But holding him back wasn't an easy thing to do, for Aka should be using most of his power.

"If we don't do something, she will die!" Estelle said.

Celeste also wanted to go and interfere with the match if Altaira didn't stop her.

"Don't!" he said.

"Why can't I go?" Celeste asked him. "She is in danger!"

"But we are also in danger! If we interfere, all of us will die!"

"But we can't let her there on her own right?"

"I believe that Charlotte has prepared something to win this game" Altaira said to Celeste. "I'm also worried just as you, but she is the one who decides to step forward. Give her the chance to finish her part and if she can't make it.....

Celeste did not say a word when she heard that. She knew that Altaira was serious and hiswords were not wrong, but she just can't watch it any longer. She was in the middle of her emotions and rationality.

Noah heard what he said clearly. Most of the people there were worried of Charlotte which he found kind of strange.

'When I climbed the tower, none of my teammates seem to be this caring' he thought. He remembered that when he first climbed the tower, his teammates only cared for the fact that he had the power to protect them and has been pretending to be loyal.

But when he was defeated and sealed inside the train, none of them did something for it.

He let out a sigh and chose to forget about that horrible memories.

'I would rather focus on the present time. What are you going to do now, Charlotte?'

Charlotte looked at her right arm. Her right arm and her fan had fell and melted on the boiling acid. She was lost in words.

In her whole life, she had suffered from physical pains again and again. The most painful ones that she had ever experienced were the pain from the car crash and being slowly burned to ashes. This was actually nothing, compared to the feeling of being burned slowly by fire to ashes.

But just because she never talked about it, didn't show it or remained quiet with a shocked but solemn expression didn't mean that her wound was not painful. Just because she had suffered something worse than this doesn't mean this one wasn't hurt.

".....You thought that without my right hand, I won't be able to use the petty tricks that you said?" Charlotte asked him.

Charlotte had never realized that she was using her right hand to wield her power all this time. She knew that she was using her right hand to wield her fan but not her power.

And because of that, White thought that without her right hand, she won't be able to use her power anymore.

Charlotte looked at White solemnly calmly and apologized, "Sorry to disappoint you then but my power doesn't lie just on my right hand. The petty little trick that I had is way more dangerous than you think that you can't get rid of it just by simply cutting my right hand."

[Time Reverse]

Within a blink of an eye, to everyone's surprise, her arm was restored.

Her right hand that was holding her fan was restored back and looked like it was never hurt from the beginning. It looked like as if White didn't try to cut it before.

White was sure that he had cut her hand before. The other prove was that the sleeve of her black jacket was nowhere to be found since he had cut it. He frowned and wondered how the young girl did that.

"You....what are you actually?"

"Just like what you thought, I'm a mutant, a dangerous subject or living thing that has entered this tower to bring chaos and problems" Charlotte answered. She was actually giving a clue about her identity but she couldn't care less about it. "Even if you attack me three thousand times, I will still survive."

'Didn't you say that you are going to help me? Where are you now?'

"IMPOSSIBLE!" White shouted as he swung his sword again and this time, his attack was even stronger than before. "You won't be able to win against me! Never!"

Charlotte had a hard time facing all his attacks, trying to defend herself and finding the right moment to fight back. White who lost his temper already didn't give Charlotte a chance to retaliate, not even once.

She could only shield herself with her small fan that can't be compared to his one white sword.

Charlotte stopped to calm her breath down, to take a little break. She huffed and huffed.

[Time Reverse]

She healed herself again. But White wasn't going to let that happen.

"THIS IS THE END!!!"

[White Style- Spirit Sword- The Flame of Dead]