Recap: Matsumi, Akihito and Wendy fight off against Vanessa in her halloween-themed dark floral territorial.

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Matsumi and Vanessa are going toe-to-toe with each other, using their fantasy blade and pumpkin staff respectively.
Matsumi: "I simply asked you what that phrase meant. Do you have to be such an enigmatic bitch that you can't even give a simple 'I don't know'? It's like you're not even trying."
Vanessa: "I don't have to explain anything to you scumbags anyways."
Their movements become faster and faster, however the one facing difficulty is Matsumi as he is nearly exhausted. He is now on the defensive.
Meanwhile Wendy (Mare Therianthrope form) and Akihito (Dragon Manifestation form) are fighting off the Kincrabs - the dragon by flinging them away using it's tail and the mare by kicking and stomping on them.
Kincrabs: *together* "ALL HAIL EMPRESS VANESSA!!!"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Simply flinging them back into the sea isn't working."
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "I thought they were no match for my strength, but turns out I'm no match for their numbers and stubbornness."
Matsumi and Vanessa's melee battle is almost over, as in a final exchange of blows - Vanessa bludgeons Matsumi's torso while he chops off her arm.
Wendy & Akihito: *together* "MATSUMI!!!!"
Matsumi: *huffs, pants, coughs blood* "That staff.....it really packs a big beating!"
Vanessa: *huffs, pants* "Your blade.....you made me lose the ability to cook efficiently."
Matsumi falls to the ground, choking and coughing blood as it was evident that the impact from the pumpkin staff took a toll on his ribcage. Wendy and Akihito rush towards him while Kincrabs surround Vanessa.
Matsumi: *coughs and wheezes* "Ahh....oww....glack...."
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "Matsumi! Hang in there, okay?"
Vanessa is in rage and her staff now catches fire.
Vanessa: "YOU......YOU STOLE MY IDENTITY! MY PASSION! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO COOK PROFICIENTLY WITHOUT MY ARM?"
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "You're the one who trapped us here!"
Kincrabs: *together* "VANESSA FIRE GODDESS MODE! VANESSA FIRE GODDESS MODE! VANESSA FIRE GODDESS MODE!"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Fire goddess mode? Shit! Don't tell me she still had a few tricks up her sleeve."
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "She doesn't have a sleeve now though."
Vanessa levitates in mid air like a witch, the staff in her arm completely coated in fire.
Vanessa: "TIME TO COOK SOME HORSE STEW WITH DRAGON INNARDS IN SHARK BROTH!!!"
A huge blazing infernal sphere encloses all of them.
Vanessa: "HAHAHAHAHA! WHAT DO YOU EXPECT TO DO HERE NOW?"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Hey! Hey buddy get up! You don't wanna die here, do you?"
Matsumi: *hoarse, murmuring voice* "Dragons.....breathe......fire!!!!"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "I can.....I can do that?"
The shark therianthrope is now unconscious.
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "MATSUMI NO!!!"
Vanessa: "BYE BYE, SCUMBAGS!!!!"
Akihito and Wendy prepare as she aims the blazing staff right at them.
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "No way! She.....she's gonna do it, and I need time to fix Matsumi."
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Huh? You can fix him?"
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "In all ways! But......I mean.....I'm not sure if this'll really work."
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Do what you can, okay?"

Vanessa fires a beam of blazing inferno from her staff at the three of them.
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "I'm counting on you!"
Akihito closes his eyes and gathers courage. Thoughts from back during their NEX takedown plans fill his mind, as he builds up tension and energy.
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Come on! I can do it!"
He thinks further, and opens his eyes.
Vanessa: "YOU'RE ALL TOAST!!!!"
The dragon flies in full glory towards her, and speeds up.
Vanessa: "Is that dragon crazy? I mean......OH NO! DON'T TELL ME....."
Akihito opens his mouth, a ball of energy forming slowly and being released in an unbelievably horrifying form - BLUE FLAMES. The blue flames completely overpower her orange ones, breaking her staff as well as shattering open the fire sphere.
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "BLUE FLAMES!!!! HELL YEAH BLUE FLAMES!!!!"
Meanwhile, Wendy in her mare therianthrope form gathers a bright pink aura around her hoof and stomps devastatingly on the unconscious Matsumi's torso.
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "REVERSE FRACTURE!!!"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING, HORSE GIRL?"
Wendy: *high pitched raspy voice* "I really really hope this works!"
Matsumi coughs more blood, only to touch his torso and realize that his ribs have been restored, alongside his pain being gone. He gets back up.
Matsumi: "No way! I feel way better. What....did you do the kick thing again?"
Wendy smiles and gets misty eyes. Vanessa drops to the ground, hopeless without an arm.
Vanessa: "I can't believe it! I......I failed?"
The dragon approaches her.
Vanessa: "If you're going to kill me, do it right now! I don't even know if I'll be able to cook for the master anymore."
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "That's not the case! I can completely relate to your pain right now. After all, I too lost my arm as a human - and he was the culprit then too you know."
Vanessa: "Huh?"
Akihito: *monstrous growling voice* "Listen up! Just tell us what that phrase means. We'll simply let you go!"
Vanessa: "No! I....."
Matsumi: "Things have gone too far! There's no keeping secrets anymore."
Vanessa: "BUT YOU'LL KILL MY MASTER! YOU'LL......"
The dragon disappears while Wendy reverts back to her undressed human form.
Wendy: "We'll spare your master's life if you tell us the details and get us out of this mess. I don't intend to transform and hurt you further, there must be something to the entire story we can understand you know?"
Vanessa: "Alright then!"
After hearing the meaning of the phrase, they all warp out of the dark halloween land back into the blazing kitchen. Wendy puts her clothes back on after coming out of the kitchen, taking a sigh of relief.
Vanessa: "Say! You don't like clothes?"
Wendy: "How do you even cook in this furnace without feeling the need to be comfy in your undies? Ohh sorry, you're the Goddess Of Fire! Too bad I can't be that way."
Matsumi: "Wendy! Let's go, shall we? We can't stay here forever!"
Vanessa: *sniffles, sobs* "I can't.....I can't cook efficiently for my master anymore now can I?"
Wendy: "Well....."
Matsumi: *whispers to Wendy* "Let's not get too emotionally attached to her!"
Wendy: "You're right I guess but uh....."
Matsumi: *whispers to Wendy* "Does your kick restore body parts?"
Wendy: "Um....."
She suddenly transforms back into her horse therianthrope form, and stomps on the remnant of Vanessa's chopped arm. The scene however, became more horrific that it already was.
Matsumi: "WHA......WHAT THE...."
Wendy: "Oh no! What.....have I done?"
They see that Vanessa's chopped off arm was actually replaced with a skeletal arm.
Wendy: "I guess only the bones get restored.....eh!!!"
Matsumi: "I told you not to get too attached to her! How is she going to manage the skeletal arm?"
The chef however is managing to use her skeletal arm.
Vanessa: "THANK YOU! I COULDN'T BE MORE GRATEFUL! YOUR KICK.....IT'S A SAVIOR!"
They're both astonished and simply walk away awkwardly, as they feel weirded out by her reaction to the scary result.
Meanwhile, outside in the forest - Izumi is struggling in pain and Asagi is doing nothing but laugh.
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA I'M SORRY IT HURTS HAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
Izumi: "Damn that dagger! Those pink flames, there's no way that was normal."
Suddenly Izumi gets a call from Hikaru.
Izumi: "What would it be, sir Hikaru?"
Hikaru: "Our targets have been lured into the mansion after all, 1 target is still underground."
Izumi: "Should I check on him?"
Hikaru: "Hahahaha! He's actually facing a big threat, even her older sister is quite afraid of her. Let him be! Anyways has the silent bitch destroyed the coin?"
Izumi: "Yes she did! She stabbed me in the throat and......"
Hikaru: "Great! Your work here is done. Do whatever you want with the laughing girl. But if you get in our way, you'll suffer much worse!"
The phone hangs up.
Izumi: "I knew it! Obviously the Saints cannot be trusted."
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA I'VE BEEN DISPOSED OF AGAIN?"
Suddenly Izumi removes the silicone mask with a wig attached and gets rid of the voice changing chip for good. Revealing her true form, Izumi looks at Asagi alongside revealing her true name - Nanase Kuro.
Nanase: "My name is Nanase Kuro! And just like you, I've been dumped by and have betrayed not one but ten different organizations."
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA WHAT IS THIS MAGIC? IS THIS YOUR ABILITY?"
Nanase: "My question is - what will you do next? Now that the organization has thrown out both of us - what's your plan of action?"
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA I DON'T KNOW HAHAHAHAHA!!!!"
She extends a hand to the laughing girl.
Nanase: "If your powers can be of some use to me, maybe we can figure something out."
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA BUT YOU'RE ALREADY POWERFUL! YOU'RE GOING TO USE ME AND THROW ME RIGHT? HAHAHAHAHA!"
Nanase: "No! We need to carefully observe and find out the real truth. I don't know what the complete picture really looks like, but the Guardian Angel is definitely upto something. Something terrible!"
Asagi: "HAHAHAHAHA IN THAT CASE I WANT CHISAKI WORKING WITH US TOO!!!"
Nanase: "That kid? No way, he's such a menacing threat. He'll kill both of us in ways we don't realize."
Asagi: "NO CHISAKI SAVED MY LIFE! HAHAHAHAHA!!! CHISAKI IS A NICE KID! HE'S NOT BAD HAHAHAHAHA!!"
Asagi recalls the time he not only saved her from drowning but also defended her against Kuino's abuse.
Nanase: "I see! Sadly I can't let feelings get in the way, we need to run away and see further what we can do."
Nanase grabs Asagi's hand and runs away with her.
Meanwhile underground, Koshiro is occupied with the blood spitting short horned lizard therianthrope - Mikita. A huge spurt of blood is fired at the snow leopard therianthrope, however he dodges it and sees that the liquid blood sizzles upon contact.
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "No way! The blood is like acid?"
Mikita: *deep feminine monstrous voice* "Your dodging is good! However, can you really fight me without avoiding one critical hit?"
He keeps using his icy ability to freeze her blood shots time to time. He runs around, going so far as to leaping and skating on top of the frozen sewer water.
Mikita: *deep feminine monstrous voice* "Tch! You'll go that far just to avoid me?"
She fires the blood at the frozen sewer water, resulting it in cracking open and creating floating icebergs. As soon as Koshiro blinks for a second, Mikita leaps on him and drops him into the chilled sewer water.
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "Ohh shit! She plans to ambush me here, huh?"
Mikita jumps into the water, and advances towards him.
Koshiro: *thinks* "I don't know how long I can hold my breath here, but I guess I'll only have to bet my instincts."
Mikita: *thinks* "I can't breathe underwater either, I should finish him off as soon as I can. But his strength is too great for me to counter, maybe I should use the opportunity."
Koshiro and Mikita keep their hands interlocked, it is now a competition of both strength as well as underwater survival. Both are nearly losing their oxygen and are still not giving up in their battle of strength.
Mikita: *thinks* "Big-sis! You did your best, now it's my turn to handle our enemies."
A bubble comes out of Koshiro's mouth. The moment she sees this, she gets closer and spits blood into his face. However, she is met with what feels like a wall which cracks with her blood coming in contact with it.
Mikita: *deep feminine monstrous voice* "WHAT?"
Turns out, Koshiro was using an ice based barrier which caused refraction and made her unable to perceive his true position.
Koshiro: *thinks* "GOTCHA!"
He then freezes her lower limbs as well as tail, and swims back upwards quickly. He goes to the side path, throws up and coughs out excessive water.
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "That was really close!"
Mikita is stuck underwater, struggling to breathe. However with resolve in an extremely gorey display, she manages to break off her hind limbs and tail, creating a trail of blood in the sewer water and comes out to the bank, coughing water.
Mikita: *deep feminine monstrous voice* "I didn't expect such an interesting trap. You certainly are formidable!"
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
Her limbs and tail however regenerate. She then starts shooting blood once again, and Koshiro has nothing to do but dodge over and over.
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "Do you really think this'll faze me?"
Mikita: *deep feminine monstrous voice* "I think it's time we get serious!"
Koshiro: *monstrous growling voice* "Finally!"
He then closes his eyes, and undergroes a destructive split - summoning Pantheras as well as his own frost gauntlets.
Koshiro: "Ready Pantheras?"
Pantheras: *monstrous growling voice* "Doesn't seem good to me! Look!"
Koshiro: "Huh? WHAT THE....."
In front of them, a girl with short pink hair in a black dress is standing alongside - a dinosaur. Mikita has what looks like two handguns.
Koshiro: "What the heck? A dinosaur?"
Mikita: "I hope you're ready for this! Also do you like my Draconization? His name is Darkos!!!"
Darkos: *monstrous growling voice* "At your command, mistress!"
Koshiro: "This isn't going to end pretty!"

TO BE CONTINUED.....