The controlled lion mech moved around the room looking for anyone or anything that could possibly welcome them. Cirven did not plan on the headquarters to be empty the way they were. It all seemed way too easy to get in. Almost like they were expected to get into it and were walking right into some sort of trap. "I think we should worry about the things in the lab and worry more about ourselves..." Cirven spoke out not caring if he was figured out. He knew who they were dealing with and knew that he would not be stupid enough to have both of them just waltz right in the way they did. Suddenly one of the capsules holding someone or something let out a beeping noise followed by the sound of water being let out of it. The lion mech turned its head quickly to the capsule that opened and Cirven used his magic to throw a metal spear at the capsule. The spear pierced through the capsule and the door stopped opening.

"Oh? I thought you would want to see that capsule open, mister failed son." A man came out from the shadows dressed in a lab coat. He had black hair and a beard and smiled at the duo. He stood next to the capsule that was opening and pulled out the spear Cirven had threw. He then opened the capsule's door to reveal the person inside of it or what was left of the person. Cirven's eyes opened wide with a mix of fear and anger as he stared at the body of a blue haired girl in the capsule. "A...Ay..AAYLAA!" The lion mech rushed towards Drume but was quickly impaled by the spear Drume had and causing it to be stuck to a nearby capsule. "Too bad that wasn't the real you. I do want you in one piece like how that mech is. I want to pick up where we left off and experiment on you until my hearts content and until yours is ripped out a few times over." The man let out a chuckle and then lifted up his hand and pointed it at the mech. The lion mech suddenly exploded into pieces causing Cirven to lose his puppet and be drawn out of its shadow. "I watched you while you were entering my humble abode here. Gave me time to figure out what you were doing and figure out what your friend there was capable of. All the mechs I sent after you all also gave me valuable info on what you could do. Thank you so much for being faithfully observed." He chuckled again which caused Cirven to grow angrier.

"Drume...I'll.. Kill.. You.." A black and purple aura erupted over Cirven's body. "You were one of the people who watched and laughed as she was killed! That makes you on my list of targets!" Cirven yelled out and only received a chuckle back from Drume. "I'd love to see you try, failure." Drume lifted his hand out and pointed it towards Cirven. "By the way, I have a friend of mine that really wants to meet your friend. I think they will have fun together..." Drume laughed as a figure came out from the shadows from the duo's side to stand a short distance from them. "ELISE.. Drume is mine. You deal with who ever that is." Without waiting for a reply Cirven moved towards Drume in order to start their duel.

"You...!" Cirven locked his eyes on the man dressed in a white lab coat. Drume simply pushed up his glasses and grinned as Cirven continued to move closer to him. "You should have died just like your sister did with how both of you were failures, you know?" Cirven stopped in his tracks after Drume's words reached him. "Oh? Did you not know? We experimented on your sister the entire time you were out playing big brother. What good we got from her turned out to be as fruitful as what we got from you." Drume grinned after speaking which when mixed with all he was saying threw Cirven into a rage that caused him to charge at the man.

The black metal that Cirven had control over, formed over his arms as he swung two metal claws down towards Drume. Drume quickly moved both of his hands up and grabbed Cirven's wrists stopping the attack from connecting at all. "Boy. Did you forget who I am?" Light magical energy built up in both of Drume's hands as he held Cirven's wrists and then exploded before Cirven could get away. The combined explosions caused Cirven to be sent flying back and crashing into one of the capsule doors. "I am Albert Drume, the head of research and development of Cor Torva. A man who has learned all there is to know about magic. You can't beat me." Drume kept his fox-like grin on his face and moved closer to Cirven who pulled himself from out of the capsule he had just destroyed. Cirven fell to one knee but then started to laugh causing Drume to stop in his tracks. Cirven almost fell to the ground as he lifted himself up from his knee due to the damage on his arms.

"Let me guess. My laughing is causing the great Drume to think about where he went wrong?" Cirven pushed himself up from the ground and showed his own grin.
"I didn't forget anything about you. I know you like to use that explosion type magic to toy with your enemies until you blow them into pieces. That is your fault and I took advantage of it this early." Drume suddenly looked down at his right hand and saw that there was some of Cirven's metal on his palm.
"Hope you are as great with only one arm." The metal quickly expanded into spikes and stuck through Drume's right arm and skewered it. Drume quickly used his explosion magic and blew his own arm off. The blue haired ace thought he had gained the upper hand but Drume did not seem to be that bothered by what had just happened and instead dusted himself off casually. "Kekehahahaahahahahaha!" Drume let out a roar of laughter suddenly causing Cirven to feel more confused.

Cirven could not understand why Drume was laughing but looked over to see that his partner was in trouble and being held up by her opponent by some type of dark tendrils. He started to move to help her but was quickly stopped by Drume's voice. "You think I'm laughing because of that fight? You must not understand me as much as you think!" Drume cackled before continuing speaking. He also moved the bloody stub that was his arm out to point at Cirven. "You have shown me that there is a bit more to you than just being a failure. Something more that makes me want to not hold anything back on you and rip you to shreds! Kekekehahaha! Yes! I don't care at all about experimenting on such a failure anymore! I just want to take you apart piece by piece!" Drume's stub suddenly had a mass of flash rip out from it and quickly regenerated into an arm. "You experimented on yourself!?" Cirven looked on in awe at the sight at first but then quickly remembered the man he was dealing with.

"I have made myself immortal with all of my research! You can call me God Drume now, failure!" Drume's newly regenerated hand then shot out a ball of white light towards Cirven. The ball was not all that fast to Cirven so he attempted to jump to the side in order to dodge it but something had snagged his arm and stopped him from moving too far. "Finally noticed my light whip, hmm? Guess it was unavoidable seeing as I masked it by using light so that it could not be seen regularly. Now please try not to be blown into too many pieces so quickly." Cirven attempted to quickly use his clawed hands to cut through the light whip around his arm but could not do it because of his strong it was. The ball made contact and quickly exploded causing Cirven to yell out in agony. The explosion left a dust cloud from how it had destroyed the area where Cirven was causing it to be hard to see exactly what happened.

"I wonder how many pieces you had become separated into..? Maybe if I'm lucky you are still in a good chunk so that I can savor this more.." Drume spoke out while keeping his sly composure about himself and grinned after. Drume's grin changed into a frown as he saw two red orbs glowing in the center of the dust cloud. "How!? You should not be able to stand at all after that!" Almost like to answer Drume's question a sudden quick crescent-like shockwave shot out from the dust cloud. Drume dodged it while keeping his focus on the dust cloud to see that the slash itself had cut through the dust cloud and separated it to show Cirven standing calmly holding a black, red and purple katana blade in his right hand and its black, red and purple scabbard in the other. The slash caused the dust cloud to disperse and revealed scorch marks across the sides of Cirven. "Recognize this blade with your extensive knowledge Drume?" Drume looked at the blade more closely. His eyes twitched at the sight. "Take your silence as a yes but I'll explain anyways just in case you don't know. This is the 'Date' katana. It is a katana that is known to be a cursed blade for those who wield it but has the ability to cut through anything as long as the user is strong enough to wield the blade. A powerful warlord in the past used this blade to gain the power to take over multiple countries before being defeated."

Drume started to chuckle and pointed his finger and Cirven calmly. "Do you think some history lesson will save you!? Shut up and die idiot!" Drume put out both of his hands in front of him and released a bigger version of the light ball he fired earlier at Cirven. Cirven simply stood still as the ball of magical energy traveled to him. Before the ball could make contact though multiple quick slashes ripped through it similar to the attack that dust cloud had taken before. The ball was cut into multiple different pieces that flew around Cirven and exploded around him. "Sort of impolite to not listen to what someone is saying. 'Date' can cut through anything, mister God." Drume gulped slightly in fear but in an attempt to hide it through out a question to his enemy. "How did you get that? That blade had disappeared from history centuries ago." Cirven grinned. "Something the great and strong God Drume cannot figure out? Never thought I's hear that." Cirven chuckled a bit. "I have some friends who just had it lying around and gave it to me to eat. My metal slayer abilities combined with my absorption abilities now allows me to recreate metal weapons that I eat with their abilities as long as I choose to keep them. Wonder if that is still something a failure would do..?" Drume grit his teeth at Cirven. "It doesn't matter! I am now immortal! Cut at me all you want!" Drume using his light whip to pull Cirven across the ground to him and produced a mass of light magical energy in his hand. Once Cirven was only a few feet away from him, Drume threw his hand forward and shot out a massive beam of light energy that then exploded multiple times.

The multiple explosions caused by the beam attack looked to hit Cirven but then kept going even further through the lab. It only stopped when it hit a few capsules holding bodies inside and completely destroyed them only leaving rubble and gore behind. After the attack Drume smiled and laughed at seeing only two legs of Cirven being left from the attack. "I told you! I am God Drume now! I am almighty!" He yelled out and then laughed as he thought he had achieved victory. Something caught his eye though suddenly. The two legs that were left did not have any sort of blood on them at all. He thought that maybe his attack had so much heat that it burnt away Cirven and prevented his legs from bleeding from the heat but it wasn't sitting right with him. "I left that for you to figure out.." Cirven's voice spoke out from behind Drume as Cirven appeared from out of his own shadow. "That was pretty close so I had to move quickly."

Drume quickly jumped forward, dodging a slash at his body and turned around to see that his light whip had been severed from Cirven but also noticed that some of Cirven's body was scorched. "So you managed to get free of my light whip but still were hurt some? I can call that a win." Drume shrugged while maintaining his cocky grin. "It is fine because you will not survive my next atta-" Drume stopped speaking as he felt his left arm fall off from his body. "Thats to show that you were a bit too slow to move earlier." Drume reached his right hand to his missing limb in confusion. He then folded it into a fist and went back to grinning. "It doesn't matter you idiot! I can just regenerate my body!" Drume attempted to regenerate his limb but nothing happened. Sweat built up on his face as he was trying to think of why. "This 'Date' has the unique ability to sever anything from anything. Just cutting something wasn't enough though so the creator of this cursed blade made sure to make it so that anything it cut stayed removed from what it was connected to and nothing could replace it through a strong magic spell."

Drume's eyes widened at how careless he had become. "Its time for you to meet the reaper, Drume." Cirven moved quickly towards Drume and slashed his katan blade around multiple times but Drume somehow was fast enough to react and dodged the attacks. Drume then found an opening and enveloped his hands in the light magical energy he used and used his fingers as if they were claws and slashed around multiple times towards Cirven, each slash causing a small explosion. The speed Drume moved was just as fast if not faster than Cirven so this forced Cirven to have to block most of the attacks. Drume suddenly stopped attacking and chuckled causing Cirven to be caught off guard. Drume then quickly moved his hand to attack again and Cirven raised the Date up to block the attack but small explosions formed through all over the blade causing it to be destroyed into multiple pieces leaving only the hilt in Cirven's hands. Drume's attack simply went through and he used the points of each of his fingers to poke holes into Cirven's chest multiple times. The holes he poked into Cirven then all exploded causing Cirven to become a bloody mess and cough out some blood as he was sent flying back and slamming into a capsule next to the one where his 'sister' was in.

"Have to admit, boy. For a failure, you really caused me some trouble but you will die here." Drume built up light into his palm again like earlier and held his hand out towards Cirven. Cirven only laughed at the sight though. "What are you laughing at?! Finally accepting death, failure!?!" Cirven coughed and spit out more blood from the injuries he had sustained but showed that he had placed some of his metal over his skin to take some of the damage from the attack. "I predicted you would aim to destroy my sword after being attacked by it once and I explained it to you." It suddenly hit Drume what was going on and he looked around him to see the multiple shards of the Date were around him. "Be killed by a failure." Cirven spoke out as all of the blade shards moved up from the ground controlled by him. Drume desperately tried to fire off his magical energy but was stopped as his hand was cut off by a piece of the blade and then he became swarmed by the multiple other pieces as they cut him into multiple pieces over and over until only his head was left.

Cirven managed to move his injured body to the head of Drume and stared down at it. Drume coughed but then smiled at Cirven. "It hurts the most to be beaten by the likes of you but at least I will go out with a surpr-" Before Drume could finish Cirven had multiple pieces of the Date cut the head into four pieces. "Shut up already! I hated that voice you had.." Cirven dropped to one knee as he took him heavy breaths of air from all of the damage he had sustained from all of his fighting but it didn't seem like things were over because right then multiple sounds echoed throughout the lab. The sounds of doors opening. Cirven looked around but none of the capsules had opened. He took a closer look at one of the capsules to see that they didn't open into the lab but had back doors that took them to another place. "Shit! That crazy piece of shit!"