It's darkness, I can't see anything, everything is cold, where am I? I can't move at all and all I can feel in this dark place is dread and the regrets of countless people. I opened my eyelids to only see a behemoth so large looming over me, I was like an ant compared to it. The face of the behemoth was that of a human skull with some grey hair and its muscles can be seen because of it's burnt skin. Its eyes are black except for a glowing white dot similar to what Creevus Neispira looked like. Ten horns forming at the top of its head like a crown but made of horns and it seems that the horns fused with its head itself. I'm at a loss for words, I can't move, I don't want to be here, the manifestation of death itself is right in front of me, do I have to endure what it did to me during the time we went spelunking and found its tomb. The thing didn't speak at all as it just stood there staring dead straight into my eyes as if it was observing or guarding me. Resistance is futile, is what I thought because there is no way I'm winning against a monster of that size, and the killing intent its releasing is the strongest I felt so far. A throbbing pain came from my bandaged right arm and the hilt of the Nemax was coming out with a faint red glow emitting from the blade and it produced a low humming sound that felt heavy on my body. I moved my heavy left arm with all my might and remaining strength, I grabbed the hilt of the Nemax with my left hand with an excruciating pain feeling that could make my left arm explode. I gritted my teeth because of the sheer pressure the monster in front of me is pulling the Nemax, I retaliated and I tried to push it back. My skin couldn't handle the pressure and several parts of my arm ripped and black blood spurted everywhere and I could see my muscles under the rips in my skin. I held the Nemax making sure that the behemoth won't get the blade and several veins in my arms are popping. I turned my gaze to the behemoth and it let out a wicked smile with its bony face, I turned back to the blade in hand as I accidentally let go of it because my arm suffered from fatigue.
{It's futile to fight back....}
"What the hell are you?! Bring me back to where the others are!"
{I'm doing this for you, so relax.}
"Then what's the point of harming me!?"
{If I didn't pull you out from that world and into my sector, you could have died.}
"Then why are you taking the Nemax?!"
{No need to be so mad at me, it's originally my sword so I have the rights to take it.}
"T-then at least please stop with this pain, I can't bear it anymore...."
{Bear with it, you might be the youngest holder of the sin of regret but your suffering is nothing compared to us...}
"I didn't even do anything to deserve this, I just wanted to live peacefully in the village..."
{It's very unfortunate that you got in contact with the meteorite.....and let me take back what I said....your sufferings are too heavy for a child your age...I beg thee to forgive this senile old man.}
"I-it's fine, it's not like I can do anything to my fate because someone already determined it..."
The behe- Creevus's heavy menacing voice toned down as he asked for forgiveness, he might be immoral but there are moments where he's just a kind-hearted being or entity. He seemed to be tampering with the blade as it floated above his hands and the blade itself dissipated into thin air only leaving a ball-like thing floating atop Creevus's outstretched hands. The ball-like this or....let's call it the core, the core began to glow and it absorbed some of the black energy floating around Creevus's sector. The core seemed to stop glowing as it finished absorbing the dark energy around us and it glowed once more this time a bloody red was the light that shone and it illuminated the surroundings even more. Then a panel-like-thing used for covering formed around the core enveloping it inside. This black fluid or liquid or whatever formed into a shield with zagged edges so sharp that It looked like it could cut through air or space. In the middle of the pitch-black shield, there laid a vertical line that looked like a slot for something.
{Kid, do you remember what that witch told you?}
"What do you mean?"
{'Curses turn into blessings'}
"That's something Big sister Agnes mentioned to me back then..."
{This is all I can do, for now, accept it.....}
The pitch-black ragged shield floating atop Creevus's hands floated its way to my bandaged body and surprisingly I could move my arms as I welcomed the new weapon with outstretched hands.
{The shield of prejudice....}
The surroundings disappeared and as I opened my eyes where sparks flew and the loud sound of metal screeching because of something. I checked my surroundings and the metal spikes that pierced me previously were being bent by a white forcefield of some sort that was protecting me. I held the heavy shield in hand and the slot in the center was gone instead there I found the hilt of a familiar blade. I pulled out the heavy dull sword which made a nice "Shwing" sound. The shield of prejudice has some similar skills to the code of Hammurabi which deflects any attack sent to me but even stronger! As usual, what I did with the Nemax is that I used corrosion on it to corrode away anything, I broke through the spikes with 2 slashes. I'm not lying but holding the Nemax on one arm with a shield on another is kind of pushing me to my limits. I got out of the platform as I landed on the white floor the surprised face of Sandra and the frightened face of Belgis welcomed me back.
"Y-your breaking the law of life and death itself! Y-you were dead and full of holes just a split second ago!"
"T-Tarus! I'm overjoyed that you're alive!" she shouted with a cheerful voice as she ran to me at full speed
"Thanks for the warm welcome back Sandra, now then, shall we settle this once and for all...Belgis?"
"Y-you b-bastard! Crewmen kill him! No one shall be left alive!"
"Oh, so you mean yourself to Belgis?"
"W-w...CREWMEN KILL THEM ALREADY!!"
"Fighting back is useless...HEHEHEHE"
I swayed my hands to make sure that Sandra gets behind me. I smiled out of pure joy and after going through all that remorse I shall kill this bald bastard once and for all! I held the shield to my left arm while thrusting the Nemax on the ground as I needed my right arm to use that transformation that I happen to discover during the fight with the grandmaster. I placed my bloodied, cold right palm on my right eye and the whole room got covered in a black smoke only visible to other people but not me. I'm enjoying seeing the startled face of Belgis as it makes me excited for ending his life once and for all. I felt a sudden surge of strength and cursed ethyl enter my body as I completed the transformation. My whole right eye turned black with only a glowing white dot that represents the iris left. Then there was this black spiral forming on my right arm for some reason when I touch it, it behaves like some sort of smoke because I can see it physically but I can't touch it, my hand passes through when I touch it. My whiteish brown hair or a mix of white and brown hair turned into pitch black.
"Y-your a-a DEMON!"
"Me? A demon? Maybe I am, maybe I'm not...HEHEHE... it's time for the prey to be preyed! B-E-L-G-I-S!!"
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Author's Note: Oooh Tarus is having an exciting battle on the next chapter! Cheer him on! Author out!
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