Another World Mall

As soon as Vina found Mara’s location, he immediately led his team to the location. Fortunately, it didn’t take too long for them to search Mara since she was constantly moving.

Clovis was quite surprised when he saw Mara’s expression. For a brief moment, Mara looked like she was nostalgic about something.

Mara glanced to the side with her usual poker face. "You have arrived."

"Yes." Clovis nodded with a smile. "I’m sorry for making you wait this long."

"I expect to wait longer." Mara shook her head. "However, I have to remind you about this. I’m going to fight all of you with the intention to kill. I know that you will hate me if any of you die, but that’s the condition.

"You have to defeat me without losing a single person. I believe that’s a good way to equalize our situation.

"I may be a Tier 9 human, but all of you are Tier 8 and not just ordinary Tier 8 humans.

"You need to use everything you have if you want to defeat me."

Clovis nodded with a serious expression. "I understand that."

"Very well." Mara jumped off and stood in front of them. "Shall we begin?"

"You should get some rest first." Clovis shook his head.

"Hmm?" Mara tilted her head in confusion. "Wouldn’t this be more favorable to you?"

"I like to play it fair, even if that means making it sound reckless. That’s the least I can do for you out of respect. After all, you are going to join us if you lose. I don’t wish to make it unfair for you."

Mara fell silent. She couldn’t help but recall something from the past. She felt like she had heard him saying something like that.

"You are strong, but I still want you to join us. However, I won’t let you say that you can’t do your best. That’s why I will wait for you to recover. Fight me at your best and I’ll defeat you."

Mara closed her eyes. The situation sounded different since it looked like Clovis was trying to fight her alone at that time, but Clovis wasn’t as strong as her yet.

They could wait a bit longer, but it didn’t seem that they had a lot of time. There were simply too many anomalies that the world was currently experiencing.

So, it was better to let Clovis fight with his group.

"Very well." Mara nodded. "Besides, you are not going to tell me you want me to restore my stamina because you want to eat, right?"

"Is it that obvious?" Clovis scratched the back of his head and chuckled.

Mara closed her eyes. "Just do whatever you want. If you win, let’s have a party."

"A party sounds good. We will definitely have a big feast, right, Rin?"

Rin chuckled. "Sure."

"Oh, before that, I’m going to tell you one thing." Mara raised one finger. "Even if I join you, I’m going to tell you that no one can stop me from not eating hamburgers and cola. Don’t you dare stop me from getting them? I will not forgive anyone, including you."

Clovis nodded furiously. "Don’t worry, I know that already."

Mara’s obsession with hamburgers and cola was simply the biggest obsession in the world. She wouldn’t mind destroying the world if she could get it.

Even when he was training under her, Clovis had to appease her with the hamburger and cola from Another World Mall, or she wouldn’t even want to do anything.

Clovis couldn’t help but remember a certain memory. Back then, he and Mara were eating in a restaurant.

Mara was eating her hamburger peacefully before a man suddenly interrupted them, trying to hit on her.

The man was trying to hit on her and grabbed her hand. Of course, Mara was skillful enough that being grabbed like that wouldn’t cause her hamburger to drop from her hand, but a small piece of lettuce actually fell at that time.

So, she killed that person and caused them to be chased by his family. In the end, Mara destroyed that family because of a small piece of lettuce.

Clovis remembered that whenever Mara ate her hamburger, she would eat it cleanly. Even when she drank her cola, she would eat the ice.

It looked childish, but cute in a way.

Of course, Clovis didn’t know how many days she used to starve. The first real food she ever remembered was the hamburger and cola that she managed to get during her free time.

That was why she wouldn’t want to waste any food, no matter how insignificant it was. It became a habit. While she didn’t tell others to finish their food cleanly, she would still maintain that habit for herself.

Rin said, "I’m quite curious how long it will take until I’m frustrated to see you eating only hamburgers and cola. However, I will research other recipes as well, so I hope you’ll like them. Also, if you like hamburgers from other places, tell me. I’ll try to make it for you."

Mara looked at Rin before saying, "Very well. That’s good enough for me."

Clovis chuckled as he took out his food so that they would receive the buff.

The others just casually ate. Although they wanted to offer the food to Mara, they were afraid that Mara would crush them because of it.

Mara also didn’t say anything. She wasn’t exactly excited about the food because there were no hamburgers to be seen.

After a few minutes, Clovis stood with his group. Mara had lowered her stance. "Are you ready?"

Clovis took out a coin. "We’ll begin as soon as this coin drops to the ground."

Mara nodded in agreement.

Clovis then tossed the coin up.

All of them raised their stances. Christina and Ragna stood in front, ready to receive Mara’s attack. The rest went to their respective positions.

*Cling!*

The moment the coin hit the ground, a burst of killing intent erupted as the sky turned red and blood covered the ground.

"Begin!"