The girl lying on the ground released her last breathe as her whole body started cracking like glass. Parts of the girl's body started to dissipate into nothingness, the young boy knelt beside her body and he raised her fragile left arm. He just stared at her with no tears flowing out of his dark dead eyes. He shook as he held her thin frail arm, tension is high as he kept on healing her silently with the white flames to no avail. The boy wished nothing but for the maiden to live, but with her lifeless body beside him, despair consumed him. He could barely move an inch as he focused everything on healing her and forgot about his surroundings. The large demon king took 3 steps forward to the young boy's direction, immediately the Nemax was at the demon king's neck and it dug in a bit, blood flowed to the ground and the demon king looked at the young boy astonishingly and the boy glared at him deeply, as if he was throwing daggers at him.
"Let me see the lady over there, I might be able to help."
"Stop it with your foolish words! I don't want to hear another lie coming out of that filthy mouth of yours!"
"Getting cocky now eh?"
"SHUT THE HELL UP, YOU MURDERER!"
"NICE ATTITUDE! KEEP IT UP!"
The two shouted at each other as the young boy dug the Nemax even deeper, while the body of the young lady started to disappear, the young boy quickly noticed and ran over to her. The maiden opened her eyes for the last time and whispered something to the young boy.
"Tarus...absorb me using the...sword...please...accept my...last wish..."
Tears started creeping up the boy's eyes, he retaliated by throwing the Nemax further away from them. He started to shake even more as the Nemax just stuck to his left arm, he couldn't pull away from it. The blade moved on its own and a shadow crept from behind the two, it was the demon king.
"TARUS NEISPIRA! I TOLD YOU TO LET ME SEE HER!"
"SHUT THE HELL UP!"
With his arms raised in the air, the demon king prepared for a hard swing with all his might. Five more horns grew on his head making the total number of horns nine, the nine horns almost formed a crown, but one more horn was missing to complete it. With all the demon king's power and strength, he sliced his greatsword onto the young boy and girl. The ground rumbled and the huge explosion of debris was so strong and loud that nothing was left behind, the boy managed to evade by placing the shield of prejudice to his left side as he glided through the blade whilst it was going down. The boy left the Nemax where the young girl's body was.
"CHERRI!" the boy cried
"Hm? Did she just disappear into pieces like sand?"
The demon king questioned what just had happened and quick but strong footsteps came from his back. The boy screamed as he ran with his outstretched left arm, the Nemax suddenly appeared in the air and returned to its master swiftly.
"You sneaky little rat!"
The demon king sliced the air with his heavy greatsword and a wound opened up in the young boy's body which sent him flying into the wall. He coughed up blood and the wound won't close up and heal. The boy fell to the ground and with his battered up body, he struggled to get up. He looked at the spot where the body of the young lady was but there was no single trace of her left. With this realization, rage filled up his heart and he came running to the demon king.
"GIVE ME HALF A SECOND! I'LL MAKE SURE TO SLICE AND DICE YOU BEFORE I SEND YOU TO THE DEEPEST DARKEST DEPTH'S OF HELL!"
"Hell? That's where I belong! You're just sending me back home!"
"THEN I'LL SEND YOU SOMEWHERE IN HELL THAT WOULD MAKE YOU EVEN REGRET EXISTING AT ALL."
"SHOW ME THEN! SHOW ME TARUS NEISPIRA! THIS PLACE THAT YOU CALL COULD MAKE ME REGRET BEING BORN!"
"I'LL SHOW YOU ALRIGHT! GIVE ME HALF A SECOND!"
"LIKE HELL I'LL GIVE YOU HALF A SECOND!"
"IMPATIENT BEINGS SHOULD GET BACK IN LINE! FORCE TRANSFORMATION: BURST MODE! TWELVE HORNS I COMMAND THEE SO LEND ME YOUR POWER AND I SHALL GIVE IN RETURN MY MERE SOUL FILLED WITH REGRET!"
The whole chamber got covered in a blackish-red light, the others had to cover their eyes because of this blinding light. Twelve long dark black horns grew into the young boy's head, it faced pointing forward like the first horn of the young boy instead of forming a crown. Two of the twelve horns came from the neck area of the young boy as it was the longest and largest of all the horns. Another spiral thing similar to the one on his right arm suddenly formed on his left and both the dark spirals glowed with runes on them and both the eye's of the boy are filled with darkness except for a faint glowing white dot representing the iris. The boy was out of his mind after he finished transforming. The boy's body and soul couldn't handle the transformation and could only maintain it for half a second.
"What the hell..." Talia mumbled
"Tarus?" the three girls called out to his name out of worry and fear
"TW-TWELVE HORNS?! A PUREBRED DEMON SURPASSING A DEMON KING AND A KID AT THAT?!"
"I'm no demon, I'm Tarus Neispira, the Sin of Regret! Your judgment day has come! CORRIDOR!"
The boy yelled with a deep voice, the room was once more covered with light. The demon king screamed in pain.
"TARUS NEISPIRA! I VOW TO TAKE MY REVENGE ON YOU!"
"Revenge? It's futile now that you're spending the rest of eternity in a never-ending loop of suffering and regret...SUFFER!