Shelly takes a deep breath.

Shelly: "Okay...So after we land, I’ll have you take out any Icemen trying to intervene with Saku and I.

I think I’ll be okay fighting his ’Berserk Form’, or whatever it is, alone.

And besides..."

She smiles as she closes her eyes and opens them back up to the sight of the stars as she reaches her apex, soaring like a golden pink meteor over Southern Roronora City.

She’s still smiling.

Shelly: "... We’ll finally get that 1v1 you wanted, you Jackass Emo."

She releases Madame Fryer like the goddess had asked within the Yggdrasill Mindscape and does a half backflip, mid-air.

The flaming sword flies cleanly underneath her all black high top sneakers and slows the flung, young woman’s momentum until Shelly is smoothly riding the sentient weapon with her impeccable balance.

Shelly: "Woah-oh my God, Madame Fryer, I didn’t know you could do this!

This is amazing!

Why didn’t you tell-

...

...It’s cause I didn’t ask... isn’t it?"

With a casual, mid flight, swaying motion, as a response in the Goddess’s exhibited adorably cheeky personality, Shelly gives a relaxed smile but then, determination takes over her.

Shelly: "Thank you Madame, if you can get me back close to Saku, I would truly appreciate it."

With the flames that are harmless to her allies, the gravity defying sword under Shelly’s feet carefully dips downward and on the exact path towards where she was launched.

Shelly(to herself): "I guess there’s no point in talking while that eye has control over him.

For now, I can only assume until his Anjell Eye returns to the base-kit, it’s ’on-sight’ with him.

Luckily, all humans, or their vessels I guess, have an ’off-switch’..."

She looks down at the remaining SunSword attached to her hip, then checks her trusty katana strapped to her back.

Shelly(to herself): "...but his Eye of Wisdom has already proven to have the ability to take control of it’s ’vessel’ even if he’s knocked out....shit!

What does that damn Anjell Eye want!?"

While she is "air-riding" on Madame Fryer, hovering above the city, Shelly notices a new development with the successful army’s movements.

The swarming military of smaller, blood smothered Icemen, are walking through a mixture of blood and city water, up to most of their ankles and shins. More importantly, they are all marching in conformity towards the center of Roronora.

Her eyes narrow, but she doesn’t pursue the situation any further as her altitude lowers and something shifts her focus.

Suddenly, from the distance, Saku’s disturbing growling and sobbing starts echoing beneath her.

Shelly: "Madame Fryer, he’s down below us somewhere! Let’s get a little lower, if you could, please!"

Willingly, and on command, the legendary weapon sinks deeper and brings her to 10 feet above the blood running streets.

Thanks to the busted hydrants and pipes by the encircling giant wave, blood water is flowing throughout the city, all the sewer drains clogged with fleshy remains.

Shelly cringes at the hellish sight.

Shelly: "This is just...so... awful...

Along with Saku’s sobbing, it... it’s as if Roronora City was actually transported to another version of Hell..."

The recouped ocean of marching Icemen below her give single feeble attempts to hop and grab the flying Valkyrie descendant, but proceed back on their course once she gets far enough away.

After a few corner turns, using the "cries for help" to locate the target, Shelly floats a couple blocks from where Saku had hit her and scans the area.

The sounds of destruction consumes the city’s noise pollution.

Her eyes widen once Saku comes around the corner from behind a building.

Like the Icemen, the Yin Vessel is also shifting through the red streets, up to his ankles in the horrifying liquid.

The black flame aura around him, his Anjell Eye is still in it’s problem causing form, his human eye still angry and crying. Tears streaming down his cheek, snot coming from his nostrils, and spit escaping from the corners of his mouth with exposed, grinding teeth.

The distraught, struggling Izanami captain, with his Squad 40 sweatshirt on, and it’s Izanami patch, falls forward onto his hands and knees, dunking them into the luke warm bloody flood water.

His human tears drop in as he keeps snarling and sobbing, staring at his reflection.

Saku(thinking): *It’s all pain!

It’s all loss!

Suffering is always immanent!

For happiness to exist in one place, somewhere else, there are others who have to suffer as the cost!

Why try, when humanity itself is so fragile?!

When everything hurts!?!

The bad guys always win, the good people suffer, and evil will always trick the stupid!

Where can any hope be found when nothing truly matters in the end?!?

Faaaaaaaaaa-*

Saku: "Faaaaaaaaaa-"

Shelly(from above): "Aye, Dumbass!"

Suddenly stopping him, the heartbroken human eye of the uncontrollable, hopeless Yin Vessel, widens. His head slowly turns and sees the woman sent to bring him back to Sanpaku.

Without a second thought, she hops down from her ride, and plunges her black sneakers into the shallow variable to the battle environment.

Shelly: "Was that all you got, tough guy?

Really not much of a difference from that Day 1 punch!"

On the word "...punch", with her right arm, she barely blocks an incoming attack while the after image of Saku of all fours, fades away down the street.

The blood/water that Saku’s hands where dunked in, flies off his fist and a little splatters across Shelly’s forehead, above her determined and locked in eyes.

She blocks a left hook, ducks a right, and side steps Saku’s spinning left elbow.

With mind blowing acrobatics, Shelly jumps into a half front flip, and handstands using a confused Saku’s shoulders. She slaps his face with one hand and launches herself off immediately after. Making Saku’s grasp for her miss.

As she lands, while in the zone with her SoulSeiõrShield active, the bottom of Shelly’s sneakers stay on the surface of the surrounding liquid. It catches the still learning Valkyrie off guard and she stumbles as her sneakers plunge back into the shallow flood.

Unfortunately, with Saku’s new speed, she doesn’t get enough time to recover and he catches her ribs with a right side kick. Shelly skips across the red street a few times, but before she can recover, Saku keeps appearing in her skipping path to volley her into a continuous combo.

Finally finishing the melee with Shelly flying through an unbroken display window.

Shelly smoothly steps out from the destroyed store, the same way she flew in.

Her SoulSeiõrShield still shining bright, she spits and immediately ducks an incoming side kick attack.

While hunched low, Shelly lands two quick right jabs to Saku’s ribs, blocks an attempted knee strike, and uses the momentum to push herself away.

As she is actively lunging backwards and up, her warrior senses tingle once again.

She uses her incredible core to twist her body, making Saku, coming in to attack her from behind, whiff.

With perfect timing, while now above him, in the same 360° spin she used to dodge at first, Shelly lands a spinning downward kick that catches the back of Saku’s black-void SeiõrShield covered head.

The force of the kick blows away the SeiõrSnow for a moment and creates waves in the blood water flood below.

The blow sends berserk Saku rocketing down with a huge *SPLASH* landing, into the shallow flood.

SeiõrSnow restarts falling with the "blood-rain" from Saku’s splash impact.

As Shelly lands back down, before her soaked shoes touch the surface of the red liquid, Saku’s hand pops up and snatches her ankle.

It pulls her under the shallow blood water, through one of the Absorption Eye’s created portals from where Saku landed and the berserk vessel, completely drenched in blood, tosses her upwards.

Shelly, ascending, now also drenched in blood, opens her eyes.

The blind spot of a drop from her hair, passing her vision, allows her opponent a clean grasp at her neck.

Saku’s left hand squeezes down on Shelly’s throat.

While both are rapidly descending, it’s looking like the Yin Vessel is not only trying to throat slam her to the concrete on their landing, but drown her for good measure.

However, in a scene of grace and immaculate fighting awareness, with a split second decision, Shelly swings her lower body upwards, and gets her legs around her attacker’s appendage in a successful arm bar.

Now in full control, just before their *CRASH* and *SPLASH* below, Shelly twists both their bodies, so Saku lands first underneath her and with a nauseating *SNAP* and a repulsive *CRACK*.

Saku’s shouts vibrate the city along with the quakes of the impeding giants.

Just like the way the rubble from the destroyed hotel and the two giant Icemen were launched, the blood water, as well as a gold/pink glowing Shelly, goes flying towards the surrounding buildings and shops.

Repositioning her body mid-air, Shelly’s SoulSeiõrShield covered feet land on a building, and for a moment, once again, to her surprise, she sticks to the vertical surface.

Losing her "footing", she free falls but Madame Fryer soon catches her and floats her back to the fight.

Shelly: "Thank you Madame Fryer.

That’s the second time my landing was, different.

While I was in the zone, it felt like I was standing on the surface of that ’blood water’ down there and just then, on that vertical surface..."

She shakes her head and focuses back on the fight at hand.

Shelly: "I shouldn’t have let go of him after we landed, but hopefully, now..."

As she peers down to check on her challenger, Shelly get shocked and reaches for her remaining sheathed SunSword, but it’s no long there.

Berserk Mode Saku, with his left arm grotesquely bent backwards at the elbow, his right hand is grasping Shelly’s red hot advanced SunSword.

He has the point of the blade dipped in the red flood, making it slightly boil.

Looking up at his unrelenting challenger, with his crying and snarling Below Sanpaku stare, Saku is completely covered and soaked in red.

Drops of crimson drip from his face and hair back to the collective mass around him.

From above, Shelly is also drenched, with matching drops also falling from her gorgeous face and her once glimmering golden hair is slightly dyed red.

While she is riding her trusty legendary sword, and while she’s smiling, Shelly reaches back and grips the handle of her respectfully earned katana blade.

Shelly: "Phheww, okay Madame, now I’m more confident.

If he wants to-"

She cuts herself off while being reminded of the symbiote’s core abilities, except...

*Side Note- The healing properties of the IceEye/Eyelien has already been observed from Itsuka’s recovery after her fight against Don Laban.

Broken bones, torn muscles/ligaments, and other once considered serious injuries, can be healed completely within 24-48 hours.

However, in Saku’s case...*

In a sped up pace, Saku’s broken arm can be heard and seen, snapping itself, reconfiguring it’s placement back to it’s normal position.

Shelly(thinking): *That’s what I was worried about...*

Madame Fryer floats her owner back down and Shelly looks at her landing spot.

The Valkyrie prodigy steps off her sword-board and with her SoulSeiõrShield, she lands on the red surface that her opponent’s feet are submerged in.

Successfully keeping her balance on top of the liquid.

Shelly(thinking): *I’m walking on the surface!

Just like-!*

She raises her cold steel katana to her cocky smile and bites down on the grip.

Shelly(blushing & thinking): *If only Katsu were here to see this. He would be so excited!

That’s what my life is dedicated to, towards making him happy.

And I’ll continue making him happy until the day I die!*

With a Below Sanpaku glare, the same eye position as Saku’s, and her defensive weapon in her teeth, Shelly squares up with the Berserk Saku.

*DARKNESS*

*CLASH!!!*