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Laying on my bed, my thoughts piled over, creating chaos. It drained me mentally with fatigue and only urged me to sleep faster with aching at my temples. I can... Finally rest.. No more... Stress... No more... Fighting.
At a hair's breadth before eyelids closed, a thought flashed through my mind. Fighting?... Fighting. Fighting?... What was I... Fighting... And what was I doing it for... At that point, the image... No... Memory of someone appeared in my mind. My eyes opened widely once more, tears streamed down and obscured my vision. A warm liquid causing my skin to get sticky and uncomfortable. Tch... Fez... Even now... You're still supporting me...
I see now... You... Were always so cute and radiant... I wanted to free you from that caged lifestyle... But I only brought harm and added more responsibilities, I even made you the queen for fear of rebellion because I couldn't govern well. And now... I can't even repay you. Ughhh... Uuuuuuu~ I can't save you... If I did, I wouldn't get the [witch] class and my existence will become a paradox. I'm selfish, I don't want to die as well... All of this is horrible!
This whole journey, the Adventurer's guild, the Adventurers, the monsters, this magic, Zet, the enemies, everything was cruel and terrible! For heaven's sake, my father got kidnapped and killed because his brother was paranoid? To hell with it! To hell with everything in this world...
To hell with it all for taking away the one thing I loved... It was you I suppose, who I cared the most. Even now that I regained my. Memories, my time with you as Lilith, they were so wonderful. Despite how scary everything was, and how dull I was being, you supported me... Even if you weren't there, I'm sure you were helping me in the shadows....
Ughh... I just want her back so badly. Even if she came back artificially, just like how mother did just now, our interactions would never be the same. Flawed, fake, dull, creepy, weird, abnormal, anomalous, strange, odd, unnatural, inorganic, colourless, monotone and most important of all, different. I have definitely changed, even if I didn't our interactions would turn out different with how I've met her before. And I couldn't bare the thought of it,and realised even if everything in this new world was the same... I would be the only thing different...
My mother has regained some of her old vigour and is being taken care of by Kurisu. Sakase, Valern and Kurime are working hard for their future. James is busy attending to the academy as its principal and taking care to educate those children. I had never noticed James, but it seemed he had always been there as the particularly handsome and young principal that never shows up. Kido, Iroha, Kogami, Yuuki, those 4 that used to be my bodyguards as well, they seemed to have moved on to adventuring while visiting the mansion every now and then. I could tell from how Kurisu was so used to serving tea, that visitor's were a common sight to her now, I'm glad she kept some company. A lonely life would be too painful.
In any case! Now was no longer the time for moping! I had come to terms with all of this a long time ago, and being forced to do it again was annoying! What was it... Mental corruption? I'll make him pay dearly for it.
"Amelia! Bring the others here and come to me! [Externalis Amelia]!!!"
"Yes, master!" (Amelia)
As a being born from my skill and magic circle, I simply had to pour mana into the magic circle to secure our connection. With [Famine], I easily editted back my original stats before getting ready for the final battle. He sure was sick in the head to keep tempting me to indulge in a peaceful life... What he didn't know... Was that I was simply too much of a meat head. It was why I had sought after revenge immediately, knowing I was in another world, the existence of magic, skills and stats. It had all let adrenaline and hormones rush into my brain.
A steady and dense blood lust consumed the whole area as Amelia returned with the other 2 in tow. It was so incredibly dense, even a level 1000 would faint from the aura alone. Having such a high intelligence stat did that. Usually bathing in such a dense field of mana would do virtually nothing, unless a magic circle randomly forms and explodes, which couldn't happen due to how magic behaves.
Bloodlust was mainly supported by the aggressor's intent to kill, riling up the natural survival instinct of self-preservation for the prey. This was why even individuals with low mana-count can emit strong killing intent to intimadate their foes. It was otherwise harmless. A way to psyche up one's mind right before battle. It was what I was exercising right now, so I could get into the mood.
The rest emitted their own auras and activated passive skills or magic that boosted concentration.
"Amelia, please remove this illusion."
"Got it. (Amelia)
Springing forth chains that materialised from thin air, the linked structures of gold flew at maximum velocity, shimmering brightly in a display of God-like power. They pierce through the fabrics of space, reaching beyond into a realm of darkness.
"!...!??" (Amelia)
She gave a quizzical expression, as if something bad was about to happen.
"There's an... Infinite amount of such dimensions. I could surely pierce all of them... But I cannot bring us out of them... (Amelia)
" haa~... How tiring can this one person be. Disappear, [Death]. "
With that, a world of white surrounded us once more.
"[Demonic energy]
Tethering [Demonic energy] to space itself, a labyrinth of death rose from the ground before exploding constantly at Zet's position. Over and over again, the sound of booming drowned out everything else.
With our absurd speeds, Amelia shot millions of glimmering golden chains rusted with blood from thin air and restrained his divine power, while a scythe twirled around and sliced with precision from my grasps. Houzo teleported his punches from his past and future into one spot to make one powerful attack, before adding that one to his next attack, gradually building up insane amounts of force into his barrage. Iyori began whitling away at his resistances, allowing for my [Demon lord] and [Death] attacks to hit.
"[One above all
"Your weird illusion attacks always give me quite a bit of trouble. However I've realised something. I can now throw away my regrets, throw away everything. I can't thank you for something as sickly as that, but now, I can fully concentrate. On killing you. With that, I've build up my resolve, maximum resolve. In the end, I'll save Fez after I thoroughly erase you!
[Externals Amelia]! Divine armament form! "
A bright flash of light swallowed her beautiful figure before she completely vanished. A grip like no other fit my palm as if an extension of my body, the tiny pen-sized hilt looked surprisingly large compared to the thread like blade that bent and quivered like a whip. It was so thin that you had to concentrate to see the path that the blade took, otherwise you could only observe the nearest 5 cm to the hilt.
A silver pillar of light swallowed my petite stature, extending not that far of a radius. My white hair with black roots extended a few inches as they bobbed in the air. Large plates of curved metal affixed onto my hips, covering my signature skirt like large protective shields. On each side, left and right, these 2 large plates were similar in shape to halved cones, waving about in the air with a metallic gleam.
The skirt barely flutters above my knees, not restricting any movement. A glowing pastel purple jacket wrapped around my back like a cloak, my arms actually residing outside the sleeves in a plain white shirt that wrapped comfortably around my torso. The jacket became more like a Cape with 2 empty sleeves and a single button affixing it to my neck.
Without a pause, seemingly invisible threads struck the ground around Zet as he carefully dodged. Amelia obliterating the place he was previously at, formed cracks in the fabric of the universe. For the first time, a colour other than white, black had formed.