Ruval ched his fists, summoning a wave of fire that exploded outward, filling the arena with the same blisterihat had melted the floor . The fmes roared up, twisting around him as if they were alive, coalesg in the form of a giant firebird. He shot toward Luna, his expression twisted into a focused gre, his pride and the entire Phenex name burning with every step.

  “Let’s see if you hahis! Phoenix Bst” he snarled, direg the inferno toward her in its trated form.

  Luna’s smirk widened, eyes gleaming with a kind of mischievous anticipation. With a graceful sidestep, she disappeared from his line of sight just as the fire bst reached her spot dissipating into nothing, Ruval blinked in surprise, his gaze darting around the arena.

  "Looking for me?" Luna’s voice echoed pyfully as she reappeared above him, spinning midair with a glowing magical aura surrounding her fist. She threowerful strike downward, colliding with Ruval’s fiery defenses. Sparks of energy and fme exploded outward, the csh creating a shockwave that shook the arena.

  Ruval staggered back, his fme armor flickering as he grit his teeth. "Your tricks won’t save you forever!” He shed out with a whip-like are, but Luna dodged with ease, gracefully avoiding the attack as if it were nothing more than a dance.

  “Tricks? Oh, honey, I’m just getting warmed up,” she teased, nding lightly on her feet with an exaggerated stretch. "All this fire, a you ’t even singe me. It’s almost disappointing."

  Ruval’s jaw tightened, his pride refusing to accept defeat so easily. Gritting his teeth, he gathered his energy, juring a line of bzing hat hovered in the air, eae a spear of searing fmes. With a sweeping motion, he sent them rocketing toward Luna in a relentless barrage, f a wall of fiery spears that closed in on her from all dires.

  Luna's eyes gleamed with excitement as she watched the ining attack, her smirk widening. “That’s more like it,” she murmured, her voice barely audible above the roar of the fmes. She twisted and spun, her movements fluid and agile, slipping through narros between the nces. Each time a nearly struck her, she moved with uny speed, sidestepping just in time, her every motion calcuted to avoid the fiery onsught.

  But as the nces closed in tighter, Luna’s expression shifted to one of focused tration. With a burst of magic, she raised a shimmering, translut shield around herself, letting the remaining nces crash against it harmlessly. The fmes dispersed in brilliant, fiery sparks that danced around her before fading into embers.

  Ruval growled in frustration, his eyes filled with a mixture of disbelief and frustration. “Enough of this!” he roared, his voice eg across the arena.

  “Oh, I couldn’t agree more.” Luna lowered her shield, her gaze pierg as she shot forward, closing the distaween them with a sudden burst of speed. With her fist wreathed in an otherworldly glow, she struck him square in the chest, the impact sending him flying back across the arena. He barely maain his bance, his expression stunned as he staggered to his feet, clutg his chest where her blow had ected.

  The Heir of the Penenix family hacked up a cough full of blood.

  “And that is first blood I wanna say good fight, but it really wasn't” Luna states with a smirk

  As Luna turo walk back toward the stands, a figure from the Phee leapt from the spectator area, nding with a thud on the cracked arena floor. The servant, a tall man with a sharp gre and an aura of simmering fury, gred at Luna, his hands already abze with fiery magic.

  "How dare you disgrace the Phenex name like this!" he spat, his eyes narrowing at Luna. “A mere outsider thinking she humiliate our future lord?”

  The entire arena seemed to tense as he stepped forward, fmes flickering more intensely in his palms. The urmured in shock at the breach of the duel’s rules, while Sirzechs' eyes darkened as he watched from his seat.

  But Luna, uerred, only raised an eyebrow, amusement dang in her gaze. “You’re either brave or foolish to step in after he’s already lost. I’d be careful—this could end very badly for you.”

  The servant’s eyes fshed with indignation. "You’re nothing more than—"

  An the servant was dead, it was instant. The moment they had leaned forward and showed clear io attack Luna they had died immediately their soul destroyed.

  The entire are still all the previous chaos which was about to break out had stopped as everyoared in stunned sile the attendant's dead body.

  Lucifer looked from the dead devil toward Daphne and the man sittio her then back toward teh dead devil. He felt the ceptual attack for it was and only looked back towards the man sittio the Crocell heiress with horror.

  The entire arena held its breath as Lucifer’s voice thundered across the a stone walls, the single wing out with unmistakable fear and reverence: “Death!” All eyes turo Harry, and a hush fell over the crowd as if finally realizing what was going on.

  Harry met Lucifer’s gaze with a calm, almost dismissive expression, showing ion to the title they had misuood, after all Sun zu had once said never interrupt your enemy while he was making a mistake.

  Daphne, seated beside him, leaned in, her lips twitg into a small, knowing smile as she whispered, “It appears aertaining assumption has been made.” Luckily only Harry had heard the girl and he smiled to himself.

  The Phenex family members, once filled with haughty pride and pt, were now stri with open fear. Ruval himself, who had been defiant only moments before, looked to Luna, then back at Harry, his eyes wide as the realizatioled in. His earlier arrogance was gone, repced by a dawning respect—or perhaps terror.

  The Phenex family members, once so full of haughty pride and pt, were now gripped by visible fear. Ruval himself, who had been defiant just moments bef Luna, then back at Harry, his eyes wide as realizatio in. The arrogance he'd worn like armor had crumbled, repced by dawning respect—or perhaps terror.

  Lucifer’s voice finally broke the silerembling with an unfamiliar caution. “You are Lord Death... why are you here?”

  Harry ined his head slightly, his expression unreadable, his bearing one of calm certainty. “I warhem,” he replied, voice steady. Then he smirked, a faint glint chief in his eyes. “Aunderw all get bored sometimes. Isn’t that right, Princess Luna?”

  Luna’s smirk grew as her wings spread wide, her hlowing with a fierce, otherworldly light. In a single heartbeat, the sky above shifted from daylight to a deep, velvet night, and hanging in it was a vivid, blood-red moon, casting a glow over the entire underworld.

  “Still think I ying little tricks!” Luna asks in a haughty manner grinning as the fake fire chi in front of her paled.