Mereoleona Vermillion vs. Rhya

Mereoleona Vermillion vs. Liar is a fight that occurs at a hideout of the White Night Eye.

Pre-fight
Mereoleona Vermillion leads the Royal Knights squad to the Gravito Rock Zone, where the White Night Eye have a hideout within the floating dungeon. Mereoleona divides the squad into five teams, choosing Asta and Zora Ideale for herself.

After the Royal Knights attack the floating dungeon, Liar opens his third eye in preparation for fighting.

Fight
Liar disguises himself as Asta and sneaks into Mereoleona's team. Both plead that they are the real Asta, so Mereoleona burns both of them. The real Asta survives due to his Anti Magic while Liar is greatly hurt and has to put out the flames and heal himself. He compliments her beauty but dislikes her being a royal. He then attacks with copied Dark Magic, but she burns away his spell before dashing forward and engulfing him in flames. Liar distance himself and uses two spells to put out the flames and heal himself. Liar decides to use ones of Licht spells, and launches it at Mereoleona. As the spell gets close enough, Mereoleona easily destroys the spell. As Liar wonders about Mereoleona's movements, Mereoleona closes the distance and attacks from behind. Liar uses on of Gueldre's spells to evade and counterattacks with a water spell. Mereoleona easily counters the spells and distance herself while in mid-air. Liar thinks about how Mereoleona's reaction is on par with Vetto and launches multiple of Fana's spells. Mereoleona easily overpowers all of the spells, while also closing the distance. Liar comments how Mereoleona is a pain in the ass, and wonders how she will deal with this while pulling out Asta's sword. Liar thinks back to when Licht had commented about what kind of person Liar is, and how he wants to kill all humans for harming Licht. Mereoleona easily breaks the sword, and comments about how Liar couldn't truly copy all of Asta's abilities. Liar notices that Mereoleona is capable of fully control the mana that is all around her. Mereoleona says that she will finish this and uses a spell to engulf Liar in flames. As Mereoleona mocks Liar for being overwhelmed by her, Liar thinks about how their is no time to escape or recover. Mereoleona then tells Liar that she is going to continue to pummel Liar until he is just ash, which Liar thinks how he is done for. Liar fully acknowledges Mereoleona and decides to self-destruct in order to take her down with him. Asta notices this and uses his sword to stops Liar from self-destructing. Asta says that he has seen two others who tried to self-destruct, and tells Liar to stop throwing their life away while also punching Liar.

Asta asks what they are truly doing with this revenge stuff since they are human too. Asta also asks to here their story because he will tell them his, and that they can die until that happens. Mereoleona is angry and grabs a hold of Asta for butting in on her fight. Mereoleona also tells Asta that the White Night Eye has no intent on understanding them, and that they have to be crushed. Asta asks why, since they are human too and that their even angry because someone important to them is hurt. Asta then explains that he want to create a kingdom that everyone can live happily together when he is the magic emperor. Liar thinks about how their is someone like this, but says that its too late for them to stop now. As Patry's manages to revive all the elves, Liar is transformed into his true form with a ridiculous amount of mana. Liar comments about how he could tell that Asta wish for them to understand each other was that honest truth. Liar also remembers the last human he had trusted, and says that he will never let that happen again.

Liar then fires two spells, which Mereoleona is able to counter then both. As Mereoleona tells Asta that the enemy can't be reasoned with, which Asta says that he will make a new path where they can understand each other. Mereoleona accepts Asta's answer, but also says that if Asta drags his feet then she will take them down herself. As Mereoleona launches a spell at Liar, Liar quickly escapes with Spatial Magic and Light Magic. Liar then also attacks Mereoleona and Asta using Spatial and Light magic.

Post-fight
As Zora wonders how to defeat Liar, Rill comes crashing into the room with a creature that he had created. As Liar identifies Rill as Rila, which Rila is happy to see Liar and hugs him. Asta asks Rila why he is friendly with Liar all of the sudden. Rila asks who Asta is and introduces himself as Rila. Both Zora and Mereoleona think about how Rill is similar to Langris and that their comrade has changed. Asta tells Rila that they are friends, which Rila replies that he would never be friends with a human.