As soon as Allen's voice stopped the air became stagnant. He looks up at the sky and telepathically links with the Skulls controlling this space.
'Invoke! Battle Arena!' His order was swift and they changed their hand signs.
Tyki and Road watched as the area expanded and became a type of arena for battle. Allen looked at them both and they could tell how sad and angry he was at their words.
"Tyki…." Road mumbles and the taller Noah nodded.
"I'm sorry, Road. I don't know what came over me…"
"I think it's as Lulu said…." She remembers what they spoke to their recently awakened sister about.
One and half weeks ago, about three days after lulubell woke up, she asked for them to come to her room.
"Tyki, Road…I need to talk to you…"
"What's this about, Lulu~~?" Road hopped onto the chair in her room and started to eat the sweets on it.
Tyki lit a cigarette and sat down on the other chair.
"Do…you remember Vastator?" The name confused them as they let like they should have known it.
"So it's true…." Lulubell sighed sadly shocking them.
"Lulu, what's wrong? You normally don't show this much emotion." The Noah of dreams became worried.
"That's just it, Road…I should be showing this much emotion…." She pauses. "Do you remember Father and Mother?"
"…I do…" the girl nodded hesitantly.
"Don't lie, Road. You've been feeling something off too, haven't you? Right, Tyki?"
"…I'm not sure…but I feel like there is something I'm forgetting…" he scratched his head.
"What about you Road?"
"I…I don't know…..maybe if we ask Millennie, then…." Lulubell grabs her hand gently and calms the girl down.
"Road, look inside my mind. Please, if you do. You'll understand why I'm asking these things…"
"Ok…." Road stands up and places both of her hands on Lulubell's head.
In an instant, memories that dont exist inside of her are shown inside of Lulubell. Of their father, mother, and youngest brother, Vastator. The sheer amount made her frown and tears flow from her eyes at the happiness she was witnessing but couldn't remember herself.
"…That's enough, Road…" lulubell held the girl's hands. "You've seen what I've wanted to show you…do you understand why I'm doing this?"
"I don't get it…why do you have those memories when I don't….? Were they implanted?"
"Road, you should know of all people that the Noah memories can neither be falsified nor destroyed. However, they can be blocked. Only by-"
"The Earl…." The ninth apostle finished. "But why? It doesn't make sense that he would…"
"Allen Walker told me that the Millennium Earl has gone insane. Became a puppet of destruction…His insanity spread to us over the years and that is why…."
"…."
"Is there something I'm missing?" Tyki asks with slight annoyance.
"Find Allen Walker. Talk to him, or fight him. Just, do it quickly Road. I can feel my sanity slipping already…." She shivers as she might become that insane version of herself again.
"…ok….I wanted to meet Allen anyway." She grins at the taller Noah making lulubell happy.
"When you meet him, don't hurt him please. He's suffered far far too much at our hands…." She sheds a few tears after saying this. "And if you do…..I pray for you…."
Back at the sub space, Allen was in the middle getting annoyed at their pause.
"Well? You were hell bent on doing this. Are you backing out?"
"Boy, can we ta-?" Tyki doesn't finish as Allen seemed to teleport to him and kicked him square in the chest.
His body flew into the all and crashed through it like it was tofu. The smoker coughed out blood and seemed to have broken his spine.
"TYKI!" Road yelled in worry and ran to the man.
Before she could reach him, Allen was there and grabbed his neck to raise him into the air. Gone was the sad gaze, only anger remained as he stared at the man.
"Heh…you're way too strong, boy…." He lights another cigarette while dangling.
"You're the one that's too weak, Joyd…" his eyes travel to the chest and rips off his jacket and shirt with his other hand.
The scar that his sword made from the ark was there along with a seal of sorts to prevent its growth.
"Adam must have done this, he still sucks at sorcery despite the millennia…." Allen taps the seal and it breaks like glass.
"AAAAGHGHGHG!!!!!" Tyki's body begins convulsing making road cry.
"Stop it! He's hurting, can't you see that!?" She yells at Allen who didn't look back.
"Yes….I can…." Allen whistles a tune and the scars on His body seem to vanish as if time reversed.
"What…?" The Noah of Pleasure stopped screaming and looks at his chest to find no scar. He touches the area and doesn't feel that burning pain anymore.
"What did you do?"
"The same question again…." Allen has that same sad gaze upon his features.
"I'm the Noah of Destruction. I 'destroyed' your wound, Tyki. It's my fault for inflicting it without my memories, so I rectified it."
"That's…"
"Impossible?" Allen finished for road as if he could read her mind. "The same reaction….why must I be the only one who remembers? It is so….tiring…." He gazes up as if looking for an answer to an impossible question.
"You are my family and yet…you cause me the most grief…." He pauses and clamps shut his sadness. "Now fight me, Tyki….you're only able to be convinced if somebody beats you in a fight." He steps back to give the man some space.
'He talks like he knows me…'
[Doesn't he?] his inner Noah taunts. [He knows us better than we know ourselves, Tyki Mikk. Our Brother, the Destroyer is the most pitiful of us all and yet he's the strongest too.]
'How can he be both pitiful and strong?'
[You'll know soon enough. I am so happy he hasn't given up on us….] his inner Noah was crying tears of happiness for the first time.
"Yeah, you're right about one thing…" Tyki stands up and summons up a lot of his tease. "You won't convince me until I'm beaten!" Tyki was ready and Allen smiled at him.
'He's finally acting like himself…' he sees the original Joyd interpose over Tyki from so long ago. "Just remember one thing, Tyki."
"What's that?"
"You agreed to this!" He once again was right in front of him without any sign of movement.
'Oh sh-!' His body rocketed to another wall with a backhanded slap.
[Thats our brother alright!] Joyd laughed at his host's misfortune. [Always able to raise our spirits only to break them down again…]
Road watched Tyki get thrashed without even able to touch Allen once. Whenever he used his ability, Allen would just destroy it. Whenever he would try to get away, Allen would destroy the distance between them.
Every time there was a hit, it was Allen hitting Tyki, or Tyki hitting a surface. She was worried for him until she saw the look of happiness of his face that she doesn't remember seeing since he reincarnated.
'He looks happy again..' Allen grinned when he noticed this change too. 'I'm glad…. So so glad…'
An hour later, The Noah of Pleasure was gasping for breath with his clothes being absolutely destroyed. Only his underwear remained intact, making the two fighters chuckle.
"Haha, it's funny how fate brings us back to this, right Tyki?" Allen laughs.
"Now, there's the boy I met on the train. I was worried your memories took over." Tyki lit a cigarette.
"No, my memories don't do that….he doesn't let it…."
"…."
"I promise, this won't hurt this time Tyki." Allen activated Crown Clown and his left arm's black and white sleeve disappears only for a sword to replace it.
"Allen! no! You'll-!" Road screamed in fear and hatred as she watched Allen cut Tyki down the middle.
Her eyes lit with flame and used her ability at max power. Allen noticed this but he didn't dodge in time.
"W-wait, Roa-!" She didn't hear the rest as they went into his dreamland.
Road entering another Noah's dream world is different than how it is for a Subhuman. When she does this, she can only be an observer rather than the controller.
The first thing she saw was an old memory. One of a dinner with all 14 siblings and their parents. The table was filled with happiness and laughter like a normal family should have. Something stirred inside of her as she witnessed this sight.
Road instinctively knew who each figure was, except three. The two at the ends of the table and the youngest of the siblings in the middle. She could tell though, that the other 12 people loved them just as she loved her family.
In almost an instant, this happy scene shattered only to be replaced by flames and blood. Everybody except the youngest were skeletons clawing at him with pleads to stop them.
"I…I can't…why!?!" The Noah shouts into the sky as tears of grief fall down his cheeks. "Why did this happen to us!!!!!????"
"Are you enjoying your time in my head?" A voice appears next to her and she finds Allen smiling gently at her.
"Allen?"
"The very same, milady." He takes her hand and kisses the back of it like a gentleman.
"What is this…?"
"That's….Our first Incarnation…Vastator…" he tears up as he feels the emotion the young man is feeling even 7000 years later.
"…." Road doesn't say anything back.
"Do you know how it feels to watch your family go insane throughout centuries? To watch Adam go from somebody who extols us to not use our abilities for personal gain. To a man that kills on a whim and uses souls to create weapons?" She watches the gentle Adam turn into a crazed killer in front of her eyes.
"To watch Tryde judge people for just their sins, when he used to judge them for their virtues? To watch him torture the humans with their past?" Watches Tryde killing people gruesomely.
"To watch Joyd who used to find pleasure in challenges, find pleasure in killing?"
"To witness Desires becoming a sadistic monster who enjoyed controlling people against their whims when he used to desire nothing but peace and freedom?"
"To see Wisely using his ability to read minds as a way to ultimately break humans when he used to fix them?"
"To see Feedler using his passion and love of animals as a way to kill instead of protect?"
"To watch Mercym able to forgive anyone become somebody who is merciless to eveyone?"
"To watch Wrathra go from Mild mannered sweet tooth to somebody who is constantly furious at everything and everyone?"
"To see you go from giving happy dreams to endless nightmares all for fun.
"To watch Bondom spread happiness to spreading hate and disdain."
"To see Lustol go from somebody who loves everyone to the cold person she became.
"To see Mightra make games and medicine to making weapons and diseases."
Road was already sobbing even before he got to Joyd. The feelings this man had for her family were too real and too sad to be fake.
"I…wasn't able to do what was necessary. I couldn't….even with the changes, you're my family…." He cries and holds his body with both arms.
"At some point, Adam's insanity noticed my non changing ways and decided to…."
"…to…?"
Allen didn't continue and looked down at her with the saddest grin she has ever seen. It broke her heart seeing somebody who is so filled with love to have a look like that. He patted her head so softly like he was afraid she would recoil at his touch.
"That is something I don't wish to relive Road. It still hurts too much…." This sentence became warped and she was sent out of his mind. She opens her eyes to find Allen stabbing her with the sword he wields.
If she wasn't in too much shock at what she witnessed she would have fought back before realizing how this blade didn't hurt.
"Road, I don't know how you did it. But you saw me Before I knew myself. I will alway love you for that, even if you don't love me back." He kisses her forehead. "This is goodbye for now, Somnia…." He whispers and slices upward to let the blade go through her head.