(Denzel's POV):
I suddenly woke up in a dark room and saw noticed some black aura circling around me. I remembered that I was stabbed by Rika with a black knife and passed out. Why did she do that?
While pondering why Rika did such a thing, the miasma formed a screen and started showing a scene in front of me. !!!
It's Malech! And he's hurt! I... I did this... Stop... Stop!!
I have! I have to control! Kh! I have to control it! Before anyone else gets hurt!
I then noticed that I was about to kill William...
Stop!!!
My body seems to have stopped by an equal amount of force.
Seymour...
I saw Seymour through the screen with his bleeding hand.
Please... Stop me...
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(Seymour's POV)
I arrived here after Bella suddenly opened the meditation room with a bang. She was sweating and panicking from running around. When I heard the details I had her, Ashley, and Lilith come with me to treat the injured.
Now, I'm here stopping a Denzel with black colored eyes. Did he get infused by miasma? Then it's definitely because of them right?
The miasma seems to amplify his overall power which made me unexpectedly bleed out.
"Aight, I forgot the drill of stopping a snapping Denzel but..."
I took out a long wooden staff and formed a stance.
"Come at me!"
Denzel charged in and closed our positions in an instant. It was beyond what he was last time, but it's still within my margin.
I maneuvered my staff and swung it upwards to strike him in the chin. He stepped back so I followed up with another strike to the chin as his head lowers down.
His head gets knocked up once again and steps back.
After rotating the staff, I swung it down this time to Denzel while moving my hands around to get the staff angle properly.
Denzel slouched down as I struck him with the staff. I then poked his shoulder to knock him back for a bit. After making him distance by landing a back kick to the face, I then discarded my weapon to the magic storage.
"Fighting without using fists here feels a bit bad. I'll get you back to reality!"
I charged towards the snapping Denzel who seems to be very eager.
He launched a right hook which I blocked with my left arm. I countered him by launching a right jab to his face.
"Void Drain!"
I imbued my fists with the ability to suck out mana from the targets I hit.
After striking Denzel in the face I sucked out a huge amount of his mana which was tainted with black miasma.
"Disgusting is it, I can't use this either."
I discarded the sucked out mana to the atmosphere. I then activated void drain once again to suck out more mana from him.
He blinked to my position once again and tried to attack me with twin swords this time.
"Khh!" - Denzel
I avoided the swift strikes and twisted my body around to hit Denzel with a chop to his right armpit. I sucked out more mana from that which made him flinch and tumble down. I discarded the mana once again to the atmosphere.
"Denz?! Respond!"
He stood up while gritting his teeth. He seems to be wanting to say something.
"W-w- khaaaa!" - Denzel
He instead feels more suffering as I charge void drain once more.
"I swear, I have to make sure you wake up from that miserable dream of yours!"
Denzel changed his left sword into a blasting cannon and charged it. That seems dangerous, let's try to stop him from doing that.
He changed his sword on the right into a revolver and started shooting.
"Whoa there!"
I started dodging around the area and try to close in the gap with Denzel. I received a few bullets and took minor damage while closing in. Just when I was about to strike. He fired his blaster cannon with me as a target.
"Void barrier."
The entire round was absorbed into the void effortlessly. I still took a bit of damage from absorbing something very dangerous.
When I closed my distance on him, I landed a powerful punch to his gut which sucked out more miasma infused mana. I then charged up my void drain once more...
Denzel starts panting from exhaustion and yells out a very loudly.
"Khrraaaa!" - Denzel
When he stood up once more, his eyes started dripping some tears on his eyes. I'm getting closer to shutting him up huh...
I rushed in to him to land another powerful strike. He changed both of his weapons into a coffin-sized shield to prevent me from advancing further. I ended up striking the shield and dealt no damage whatsoever. I moved around quickly to the right and launched a left hook which landed on Denzel's left shoulder. After sucking out more miasma infused mana, he changed half of his shield into a sword and swiped it. I received a cut in the arm and received excruciating pain despite it being a cut only.
Damn, is that also miasma infused?
When I looked around me I noticed that Lilith has been crying since earlier. The others seemed to have recovered and simply watched, and there are more faces than I remember. I guess they were worried...
I gained an idea that I might snap him out.
"Void Drain!"
I amplified the void drain this time by threefold and charged in towards Denzel. He seemed to change his weapon into a large warhammer. He swung it once while I was closing in, I activated my wings and jumped up to hover quickly behind him. I then turned around and struck him directly to the chest.
"Ghhh!" - Denzel
"Void Drain!"
I charged void drain once more fivefold this time. I struck his back with a spinning kick to the spine, making him crash down to the ground. When his head faced forward, he seemed to notice Lilith crying which made him start raising up his body to a kneeling position while reaching out his hand to Lilith.
Welp, let's shut him up now...
I started channeling a power surge to a small area within Denzel. With the power surge, it will scatter the mana everywhere that it will create a temporary deadspace.
"Mana Break!"
Infusing the ability with lightning and thunder magic. I generated a barrier around Denzel and purged all forms of mana within it. I heard agonizing screams from Denzel from inside the barrier as I electrocuted his entire body to remove mana.
After making him suffer for a bit, he lies down flat with a twitching body. I came closer and rolled him over.
"This should make you unconscious for a while.��
I started charging void drain around tenfold which made me flinch from mana deficiency.
"Void Drain."
I socked him in the face with a powerful punch that I used around nearly everything.
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(Denzel's POV):
I was able to see during the fight, but I had no control over my own body. I feel ultimately disgusted by my own self after knowing that I have harmed so many acquaintances and just got saved by Seymour.
I didn't bother waking up for the day and just went to sleep completely.
I then saw my own past self once more...
Hey, do you feel miserable?
"What do you mean?"
Y'know, like a traitor has gotten your heart again... You got tricked and destroyed just like that...
"So what?"
And you're so shameless to let yourself be saved from your own nightmares.
"Fuck off..."
I hope you won't end up like this again...
"Like you care..."
You don't forgive her right?
"What do you mean no?"
She lied and used you after all... Of course you won't-
"How can you say that!"
Aren't you being an idiot? I thought you learned your mistakes already.
"Yes, I learned it but I forgive he-"
You really are retarded. Just kill her, it's not like she'd die in real life.
I became completely speechless. Do I forgive Rika? I don't know anymore.
The next thing I knew is that I'm assigned to kill her in the execution ground in front of everyone.
After a day passed, Seymour passed me the blue coin and a thin sword.
"As I hereby declare treasonous traitors shall be punished by death, I shall leave their execution towards their victim. Does anybody have objections?" - Seymour
We're currently in the main room with Seymour where he placed Miguel, Leo and Rika in a guillotine styled punishment.
Nobody seemed to have the will to talk against Seymour specially because they have witnessed Rika's betrayal and action of stabbing me with a miasma infused knife.
The miasma that's inside my body is there permanently which will make me snap anytime. It made me shiver out of the painful drive it brings to myself whenever it courses around my body.
"Alright, go ahead Denz..." - Seymour
I first went to Miguel and to stabbed him multiple times in the back. I heard agonizing screams and started to enjoy stabbing him down to death while showing a sinister smile.
Bella, May, Ashley, and Lilith looked away from my behavior as it made others feel uncomfortable.
After that I sliced off his head which made his entire body disappear into particles.
I moved to Leo and did the same, making him scream from endless pain as I purposely add short stabs. Rika's face starts turning scared and starts begging for her to be released.
I killed off Leo and moved to Rika. When I raised my sword high I started to tear up and tremble for noticing my inability to notice. The people acquainted to her except Malech's camp turned away as they didn't want to see it.
If only I did it better...
Rika continued to move twitch around and make out disgusting conditions for herself to live in this world.
"I...I love you Rika... but..."
Rika noticed that the sword started shining and lost her desperate face.
"Betrayal... is unforgivable..."
Just like that, I cut off Rika's head quickly...
I instantly dashed towards the stairs without looking back and moved to the sky floor.
"Denz!" - Lilith
The last thing I heard was Lilith's shout.