At the time of the explosion, the three other girls had taken their fight up into the sky completely evading the explosion that occurred earlier. They didn't even notice that Chloris had been rescued at the time which was who Luther and Reala were both holding back from foolishly attacking the dangerous man Miia and Siia were both facing off against.le Earlier it was revealed by her that he had murdered her parents, a fact that the two girls going up against him aren't aware of yet. Melianth is parallel from the two girls taking on Duress by herself. The fact Siia and Miia facing Aodeos make look like he has the disadvantage, but so far he has been able to hold his own in the fight. He has yet to display any weakness toward the two sisters who have been trying to figure him out to avoid his trickery. 

Melianth on the other hand is trying to determine a way to get close to damage Duress without having to leave herself wide open for a counter. She noticed when she tried to use Endless Massacre of Double Slashes which were lightning fast sword strikes that Duress manage to avoid them all that speed alone wasn't enough to defeat Duress. If she were to get a decisive strike she would have to find a way to get Duress to drop her guard or try to force her to get aggressive. The problem was Duress was a defensive type fighter and wouldn't attack unless you attack her first. This made it even more difficult to figure out a way to get around her defense.

Generating energy into her sword Melianth heads toward the ground which confuses Duress. Duress doesn't quite know why Melianth went toward the ground where they followed, but when she touched the ground that is when Melianth went on the offensive. Melianth took her sword and slashed out twelve earth burrowing swordwaves that moved in all directions in order to surround Duress making escape difficult. "Interesting." Duress said impressed as she noticed Melianth managed to force Duress to start getting offensive due to the change in her strategy. Duress swung her chain-link sword around striking all of the earth burrowing shockwaves, but Melianth caused them to disappear when she thrust her sword into the ground deep. Duress didn't quite know what Melianth was up to. The fact she made the waves disappear caught Duress by surprise. She didn't know if the attack was just a ruse or if she was up to something. Melianth's sword was stuck in the ground which was a golden opportunity to attack her. 

"I don't know what you're trying to pull, but now your guard is down!" Duress yelled as she made for a straight toward Melianth. Melianth didn't move at all while he was coming straight at her. She was anticipating this where she waited patiently for what she was about to do. When Duress tried to strike Melianth she immediately let huh slip out of her mouth when Melianth did a backflip backward. "I won't miss twice!" Duress yelled as she tried to wrap Melianth up with her chain-link only to have her vanish in thin air. "What kind of trickery is this?" She questioned to notice that Melianth extracted her sword and had said the words Requiem Force Reverse Parallel. Duress grinned knowing full well where the attack was coming from when she saw the swordwaves coming at her. She jumped into the air and her eyes became big when Melianth grinned the words 'got you' is when she was hit with a barrage of them. Her attack exploded which sent Duress sailing toward the ground after the explosion cleared sending her right into the house that was still standing just barely.

Miia pulled out one of her Elan bomb when Aodeos managed to knock Siia off balance throwing it right behind him. Aodeos didn't even see the attack coming where she detonated it which knocked him backward hitherto he used the energy from his aura to recover. Miia asked Siia if she was okay and she nodded at her that she was fine.