In a deep ocean, both women sink. Fraizen emerges from the sea, using her hands to freeze the ground and gain support. Then, trying to keep Ferinish in the ocean, she tries to freeze the entire plain around her.
Below the ocean, Ferinish causes his crimson sword to give birth to flames, melting the ice and enhancing the water.
"Damn..."
Fraizen muttered to himself. Then, like a jet to the sky, Ferinish emerges from the ocean and falls in front of the queen. Pointing his blade towards her head.
"How cowardly of you, your majesty."
She said with a cold and mocking tone. Without hesitation, she advances. Fraizen raises his frozen arm, directing a blow of his claws towards her face.
Ferinish modulates the position of the blade to defend himself, protecting his face. Fraizen uses his wings to fly towards the warrior, striking her with a kick in the belly.
Managing to stay on his feet, Ferinish tries to engrave his flaming sword on Fraizen's leg, who used his wings to retreat.
The queen touched the ground with her hand, creating a wall of ice and forcing her movement towards the warrior, who ran to the wall and kicked it hard, turning the material into frozen fragments.
Quickly, Ferinish kicked the fragments towards Fraizen, who used his wings to protect himself, absorbing them.
"Idiot. Do you think you can attack a Glacial Destroyer with your own power?"
As he lowered his wings, he was surprised not to find Ferinish in front of him. Quickly turning around, his gaze fell directly into Ferinish's eyes, who prepared to strike his head.
By a stroke of bad luck, the ground shook, causing a sort of Renkai shark to emerge from the ocean and fall towards the warrior. She had to block her own blow to dodge the Renkai Creature.
Taking advantage of her distraction, Fraizen used his ice hand to strike her in the ribs, causing Ferinish to spit blood and fall to her knees.
"Hahaha! How dare you think you could beat me? You must be a very pathetic human."
Fraizen summoned the large ice sword from his hands and prepared to cut Ferinish in half.
"Don't even think about it..."
"Fraizen Rosenmary."
Carolina and Carlos suddenly appeared. The woman had her spear aimed at the queen's chest and the man had his ice bow and arrow aimed at her head.
Ferinish looked at the pair, confused and still feeling the pain. Fraizen was... furious, looking at them with unparalleled coldness.
"I already suspected your actions, you disappeared at night not because you were tired... but because you were training to kill me..."
"Fraizen, understand, we don't want that. We just want you to be a good queen, who doesn't harm the people you're supposed to protect."
"Duty? You're ridiculous... this cursed kingdom abandoned me when I needed your help and warmth the most. And now, you want me to do good to this place? You're so... ignorant."
Fraizen stomps hard on the ground, causing several ice spikes to appear that prevent the pair from moving. The queen begins to walk towards Ferinish, who leans on her blade, still coughing up blood after the blow.
"I wanted to make IceStorm a place I could call home, no matter how much people might suffer. But I would preserve a place for you..."
Fraizen looked at Carolina and Carlos, tears of ice forming in his eyes.
"But you stabbed me in the back, betrayed those you should obey... Serving me... is a divine privilege... whoever refuses..."
She turned her body from Ferinish's direction to Carlos, grabbing her greatsword of ice and raising it toward the man.
"You are not worthy to live."
Faster than the naked eye could follow, the sword advanced towards Carlos. Upon hitting him, the vision of the other women blurred. Ferinish was brutally thrown under the sea, as was Carolina, who did not have time to react for her friend and was thrown into the ocean along with Ferinish.
Carlos... is dead...
The death was quick, painless.
The impact destroyed the layer of ice on the surface of the Aquatic Inferius, in the water, the impact creates a tsunami that swallows everything nearby.
Fraizen flew in the air, his wings swinging gently, almost like a mixture of something mystical, but also diabolical.
"Die in this hell, as I should have died."
The tear of ice flows from his eyes, causing a brief agonizing pain. Fraizen flies towards the entrance portal...
"I wanted to have you by my side, Carolina and Carlos. In a new kingdom, only ours... but that is no longer possible. Thanks to that man and woman."
"Goodbye..."
Those were her last murmurs. Upon returning to the human world, Fraizen looks at that cabin, where she could kill the one who was unaware of her actions. But... did that seem... wrong?
She walked to the cabin door, her hand reaching for the doorknob, but hesitated, as if something was preventing her from doing such an act.
"That thing... damn!"
She punched the door hard, causing the wood to be thrown against the wall. Now she could do whatever she wanted...
Arriving at the room, her gaze fell on the sleeping Slady. His naked body was covered by a heating pad, his arm, where the mechanic should have been, was missing. Where she remembered there being a mechanical eye, there was only an empty eye socket. His face, there was only a beard, highlighting a certain... masculinity, even in such a delicate, but also well-built body.
"..."
Her icy hand was extended towards the man's face, feeling an uncontrollable desire to crush his skull, jaws, kill him in the most brutal way possible for having caused her so much pain.
But her body hesitated. She felt an uncomfortable sensation, as if something horrible would happen if she killed him.
"Hell!"
She muttered to herself, frustrated. Now turning around and leaving that cabin. Not before taking that door, putting it where it was and creating a layer of ice to keep him trapped, but accessible to visitors.
"Die, damned man."
She walked away from the cabin, heading towards IceStorm.
***
Upon opening her eyes, Ferinish woke up, hearing a scream of rage nearby. She crawled, the smell of that dark place was disgusting. When she finally found its source, she found Carolina, who was screaming in frustration and crying, messing up her hair.
"What did I do?! I couldn't protect him!! Carlos..."
Her sadness was palpable. Ferinish looked at the soldier, not knowing how to comfort her.
"He died... didn't he?"
Ferinish asked, without any malicious intent. Carolina walked towards Ferinish, inconsolable.
"Yes, he was my best friend!"
Instinctively, Carolina hugged Ferinish, crying into his chest, desperately seeking comfort.
"I failed... as a friend... as a woman..."
Ferinish felt uncomfortable being hugged. But she recognized that Carolina was just a woman, a soldier who was going through one of the worst moments of her life.
"... We'll get through this... together."
Ferinish gathered her courage and hugged her back. This wasn't just a hug she was giving to a friend...
At that moment, where she had lost so much, Ferinish also needed comfort. She needed to trust other people, even if it was uncomfortable.