"Ellaine...? The first princess?!"
"Sorry for startling you....hehe."
I was so surprised that my body wouldn't move for a few seconds. "What is the first princess doing here?" such thoughts appeared into my head.
"What is your highness the first princess doing here?"
"Sheesh, you were the one who grabbed me!" she pouted unwillingly
"If I didn't grab you they would've hit us!" I answered back
After arguing for a couple of seconds, I looked at the surroundings, and as she mentioned it was a cellar. There were a couple of barrels of what I assume is wine and the smell of fruity wine was strong. When I touched one of the barrels with still black hands, the whole barrel cracked and fell off. I was ready for liters and liters of wine to flow to the ground....but instead, all I saw was a white sheet covering something horizontally and was maybe as long as a child's arm. I removed the sheet there was a pitch-black sword with an ominous aura coming out from it. The design was very sinister like and it was lodged into a crystal-like purple pedestal. I tried to pull it out but it was stuck there for good. The first princ- Er no.....Ellaine was looking at me with worried eyes, she was probably afraid of the sword itself.
"I think you shouldn't pull it out...."
"This might look spooky but it feels like it's calling to me or something."
I mustered up all my strength to pull it to no avail, then a sudden technique of mine popped into my mind! I could use corrosion to free this sword! So I tried to feel the power surging through my arms. I held the sword tightly by the hilt with my two hands and imagined the pitch-black thing flowing out of my arms.
"Corrosion!" I shouted with all my might which might bring attention to us.
"Shhhhh!"
"It's gonna be fine!" I reassured her.
The pitch-black thing appeared again and I pulled the sword out of the pedestal with all my strength. Then I heard a clunking sound, it was the sound of the pedestal turning over. Now that I held the sword in my hands it was very ornate with some complex designs representing something. It had a very sharp edge and the blade itself seems to have grown longer or is it just me. After lifting it up in the air and examining it, I suddenly felt an increase in weight and my arms couldn't bear to support it any longer. I stuck the sword into the smooth stone ground and it sliced through it like butter. The surrounding radius of about 3 feet from the sword became pitch black.
"kya!" She let out a quick shout out of surprisement.
She then bumped into a wine rack filled with glass bottles, I quickly slid the heavy long sword behind Ellaine to prevent the glass bottles from falling on her which would be trouble. After the sudden almost accident our faces were inches away from each other, with my natural instinct I swiftly and quietly jumped back. Her face was tomato red.
"You alright?"
"Y-y-yes!" she shouted embarrassingly.
"Well, what do we do now? Wait here? I think you should go back to your room..."
"THAT I WILL DO!"
"Nice meeting ya!"
"Hmpf!"
She just had to be mad.....Now with the sword in hand, it suddenly started disappearing into my arm, as if my arm was a sheath. With that, I started making my way back to my room to rest and tried to sneak by any person that would be suspicious of me. As I got back to my room I showered and went to sleep preparing for tomorrow's training. For the past few days since I got the sword, I have been having nightmares of people I'm not familiar with dying right in front of me and I couldn't do anything to at least try to save them even though it's a nightmare. The feeling of dread and the screaming of the people in my head stuck around making me not only feel guilty but extremely frightened. Cherri came into my room to check on me, running to my bedside with her worried teary eyes. She then decided to sleep with me and had laid a futon on the ground. I was finally feeling relieved that she was there which only reminded me of a scene from one of my nightmares which was Cherri and Ellaine getting beheaded and their cries for help. I tried to hold all the tears and pain so that I won't have to bother Cherri and she was sound asleep. I then felt the intense pain of all the people that had been tortured brutally, getting beheaded, sliced my fingers one by one, getting pierced into the stomach, receiving blows in the head with a fist as hard as steel, having my throat punctured with spikes, getting crucified, and many more painful methods as the night passed. I couldn't get any sleep with all the intense pain fading away but still there, all I could do all night was to weep in silence and bear it all. Cherri woke up and hurriedly shouted at me.
"Hey! What do you mean you're alright?! You don't look alright at all! You can always talk to me about it!"
"Sorry.....I'm sure your gonna be afraid of me once I tell you...."
"What do you mean!? Didn't we promise that we will be there for each other?!"
"I guess so...."
"Well if you don't want to talk about it now, you can always tell me anytime!"
"Thanks..."
"I'm gonna get you some breakfast first and call Zeksis to talk about your training."
She then walked away to the cafeteria, then I got out of bed and I tried to go to the bathroom but my numb crumbling legs won't move a single inch. I had no choice but to crawl on the ground and get myself to the bathroom. I washed my face trying to feel refreshed even though there was still the feeling of dread in the atmosphere of the room which would make anyone uncomfortable. Then there was a severe pain coming from my left arm in which where I stuck the sword, I pulled out the sword to see that it was emitting a red glow, still feeling ominous I laid it into the ground to see what was wrong with it. I then looked around the surroundings of the sword to see nothing with it. I checked my left and right hand to notice that there was a white dot in the center of a white oblong which resembled an eye, and they were on both the back of my still black hand. My discovery freaked me out by a bit and I accidentally not intentionally let out a quick but loud high pitch scream and I heard footsteps right away.
"Tarus! What's wrong! Hey, tell me!" Cherri shouted whilst running to my side.
"There's eyes on the back of my hands!"
She darted her eyes to examine the surroundings to spot the two white outlined eyes in my pitch-black arms, she also probably noticed the black sword laying on the ground since it let out an ominous aura. Another 2 sets of footsteps hurriedly ran to where they heard me, to my surprise it was some familiar faces. With black pointy bangs, covering his face and with cool eyes and the other one had chestnut wavy hair and had brown eyes, I would never forget those two. It was Ellaine and Zeksis! Zeksis revealed a face I couldn't even imagine. He showed signs of worry after spotting the sword and the white outlined eyes.
"Wh-what the hell!?" he shouted with a hoarse voice.
"What's wrong?" Ellaine asked worriedly
"That's one of the 8 deadly sins weapons, which is the cursed sword of Neispira! The 8th deadly sin! Regret!"
My eyes grew wide with fear and once he revealed the name "Neispira" and "8th deadly sin, Regret" the sword started humming hundreds if not thousands of cries which I assume to be from the people it had slain in the past. I don't know anything about this sword, what it was doing in the cellar, and where it came from. I still have plenty of questions about this sword.
"Th-the name "Neispira" is handed down as a last name to the holders of the title of the 8th deadly sin. That cursed sword is one of the main weapons of the 8th sin and it's called "Nemax" that's the name of the sword! I don't know what it's doing here! It's impossible for that to be here! Once it has chosen its new master its signs are usually black eyes on the back of your hand, but since you have pitch black arms it turned white.....this is unheard of. For now, you should reconstruct it to crown form, just imagine making the sword smaller and remove some of it's cursed Thyl, you will have to need to store the cursed Thyl in your body for now. Here, after shrinking it and reconstructing it, you might as well put it here."
Zeksis handed me a ring-shaped thing that has 8 vertical slots in it. I then imagined absorbing the "Thyl" of the "Nemax" sword, its ominous aura was gone and the sword has shrunk and formed into a triangular shape thing which fitted the slot in the ring thingy perfectly.
"As of now, you're an accursed crown user! You shall meet his highness the one and only Grandmaster!" Zeksis exclaimed.
"Grandmaster....?"
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Author's Note: Why am I even doing this.....
Pls comment xD