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Chapter 35 - Back Again

"Hey Aeshma?"

"Hmm?"

Amidst the sea of ever moving sea of revolting effigies stood statues of eerie manifestations, unmoving but unnerving.

"You said this was our supposed future leader?"

"Your Angra Mainyu and our Solomon?"

"Yes"

"And that he had the mind of brilliance?"

"But no matter what I see, It's just a deranged kid killing people?"

"Yes"

"Then why?"

Echoing through the panels of voidness, one of the statue, a visage of perfection, a man carved in a golden ratio.

"Ohhh Paimon, seems like that exile of yours made you grew senile"

"I'll admit that I'm no longer the demon that I'am, so enough with this shit, and answer"

"Look for yourself"

The pupils swerved to the corners of its sockets, staring straight at a pool of moving images at midst of the nothingness.

"And?"

"What do you mean and?"

Crack~

A rebuttal due to ignorance, Paimon despite being exiled throughout the thousand of centuries had his top of the head cracking in frustration

"Doesn't he remind of ourselves"

"The pure way of ridding life"

"The method of might"

"A scenery of chaos and maddening squeals of life"

The statue of Aeshma motion his inverted wings to spread out, intimidating and an abhorring act, the effigies which had limbs glued to them started to frantically get out of their dwellings.

"Life was born to create more life"

"Then after its fulfilled its purpose, natural cause would do its job"

"And that natural cause is us"

"Not time nor weakness"

"ONLY US"

"That is chaos"

"The pure art of killing"

"The method to destroy the cycle of life"

"Is us"

"The monsters that can conquer life"

"Is us"

With that response, both the statues closed their eyes.

"If he can't even defeat that minor deity and those other world wannabe version of the greek Gods, then consider the deal with the 72 pillars cut off"

"You're saying?"

Crack~

Threw off by a mocking tone, the statue of Paimon turned to dust.

"I'll lend him a blessing and an elite member of my personal legion"

As the voice faded along the dust left, Aeshma looked to the northwest.

"Helping people really isn't my style"

"I've even gotten out of my way and learn the modern language"

"Though I've forgotten most of the archaic language so it probably sounded broken anyways"

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(Passive skill "charming (Affected)" gained)

(Trait "Possessed" changed to "Unstable")

(Conquering yourself completed, please be prepared for the exciting boss battle!)

After the grueling task of ridding himself and his hanging childish dream, Pleron's world twisted into a place filled with blinding light, completely the opposite of the solstice of darkness where Aeshma came from.

The light wasn't soothing, instead it burned him down to submission causing him to crawl on his feet, even with the thick clothing of the overcoat and the goggles, the pain didn't subside as it crawled and plastered the word pain to both his body and mind.

(Someone is watching you)

(Pokerface skill used)

"Exciting indeed!"

Due to the excruciating pain, drool and sweat began to drip from Pleron's face, but despite this, a smile persisted in his face.

"Whoo"

With the sigh of relief due to the pain being subsided, and with the blinding light gone, Pleron instinctively open his eyes.

In front of him was the only object that he could ever loathe for.

"Motherfucker"