(Lian Li POV)
"So… She's rapidly catching up to us already… We're at forty five percent and she reached forty percent just a moment ago…" Elaria muttered while biting her thumb.
That little bitch…
I knew it was going way too smoothly than it should… That little stalker bitch had us running around like idiots!
When she appeared after we dealt with those tentacled bastards, she just mocked us by thanking us for taking care of them and that she would start getting serious.
I still remember the look on her face as she smiled and said that she would now go ahead to make Master hers before disappearing again.
She even had the audacity to wish us luck and told us to continue our futile struggles!
Of course, we took her threat very seriously and we changed our methods of saving Master entirely.
No longer were we holding back and taking our time to get to Master while making sure we don't stand out too much in that Universe. We were now using everything we had to find the Master in those Universes and converting Him as fast as we could, even if it meant our methods resulted in some collateral damage.
We already know that those Universes would cease to exist once we rescued Master so it doesn't even matter if we were being inconsiderate to the people in those Universes.
We even gave each other permission to deal with the alternate versions of ourselves as they saw fit, even if it meant killing them if they got in our way.
All of this was to make sure that the stalker bitch would not get what she wanted.
Yet, even though we had outpaced her so much, she was already catching up to us and we still had another six percent more to go.
"What are my next jump conditions?!" I demanded, still unwilling to give up.
Elaria pointed to the board she had prepared beforehand and I realised she had already listed multiple conditions there for each of us.
I picked one that required me to hop around the courtyard on one leg and I quickly completed it without complaint.
As soon as I was done, I found myself being transported into another Universe, this one seemingly engulfed in brimstone and hellfire.
I didn't even stop to try and find out why this was happening in this Universe and simply spread my senses to engulf the entire World to look for Master.
Finding Him tucked in one corner of the World, I teleported myself there immediately just as He was leaning over a table with several other people holding various different kinds of weapons.
Each of them were wearing different coloured armour and weird looking helmets with golden visors.
I immediately locked on to Master who was wearing the green armour and transferred my memories straight into His mind.
The others responded by trying to point their weapons at me but I paid them no mind since I had done what I needed to do, returning back to my own Universe once I knew Master had returned to His original self. We all learnt to do this after a while since waiting for Master to transport us back would waste those few precious seconds we needed to come back here.
I then went back to the board, inadvertently passing by Elaria's machine that showed our progress and I saw we were at forty six percent while that stalker bitch was already at forty two percent.
Even as fasta s we were doing this, she's still catching up to us… No, I must not lose hope now!
The next condition needed me to wrap myself in one of Master's robes and then curl myself up while making mewling noises.
Well… That was something I did without complaint.
Oh, this new Universe was the direct opposite of the other one seeing that everything around here was a frozen wasteland.
I did the same thing as I did previously and tried to locate Master and found Him deep underground.
I teleported myself there and I was just about to send my memories to His head when something blasted me back to impact the wall.
"Ara, ara? Sorry, but this Master is mine~"
I looked up to see that stalker bitch pull Master in to give Him a tap on His temple with her finger, causing this Universe's version of Master to stiffen up before disappearing into thin air.
"Ufufufu~ perhaps you should try a little bit harder for the next one~"
This damned bitch!!
I tried to rush forward to slap her but she disappeared before I could, which also caused the rest of the Universe to start collapsing as well.
I cursed and returned myself back to the original Universe, finding the rest of my sisters had also returned at the same time.
"That bitch!! How dare she!" Tsuki screeched, punching her fist on the ground.
Judging by the looks on the others' faces, I can guess that all of us experienced the same thing on our jumps simultaneously.
She really was toying with us it seems.
Everyone was quick to find our next jump conditions and we went to our own respective Universes.
When I came to, I found that I was tied up and hung upside down from the ceiling in some kind of old warehouse.
Looking around, I saw that damned bitch in the midst of pulling herself away from Master right as He disappeared from view.
"Ara? Looks like I was faster again~ That's too bad~" She snickered upon spotting me.
ARRGGHHH!!!
I didn't even try to attack her this time and simply went back to the original Universe.
But the next few Universes I went to all met with her beating me to Master before I could even do anything, forcing me to return empty handed.
"She beat all of you to it again huh?" Elaria sighed, looking at the percentage counter where both sides were now tied at forty six percent each.
We need to go faster! Even faster than her! We cannot let that bitch win!
But… But what can we do?! We were already going as fast as we could and yet she was still beating us!
Brendan suddenly spoke up, "What if… What if we created more Masters and converted them while having Master remove the other Universes?"
All of us stared at him in surprise.
Well… We're quite desperate now so anything could work…
