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Chapter 15 - Chapter 15

Soon after, a blinding light came from not too far from where they are right now. When the light disappeared, it revealed that it was Wyatt, Mirin, and another Transporter. This Transporter has short yellow hair with black eyes. His face shows that he is around mid-twenties with a few little scars on his face. Wyatt and Mirin quickly ran towards Axel, Fulario, and Sophie in a rushed manner.

"What the hell happened here? How did the building collapse? Where is that damn Tara?" Mirin throws multiple questions at Fulario who is standing next to Axel.

"Calm down, young Mirin. Let me explain the whole situation to you," Fulario said calmly as he looks at Mirin. He then begins to explain how it all started, how Tara had died, how the kids were killed in a massacre, how Sophie became an Abnormal, how the building collapsed in on itself.

When Fulario finished his explanation, Mirin was in shock. Her face was in disbelief and confusion as she falls to her knees and looked at the ground. She then slowly looks towards the collapsed building, remembering what it used to be. A safe haven. A place where kids can live their life happily, away from the influence of the City and its people. A place, where everyone can grow up without fear of danger and can grow healthy and safe. She remembered every single word that he said about his dream of building a safe haven.

She clenched her fist and teeth as she hits the ground repeatedly, causing it to crack. Fulario and the others can only look at her with a sense of pity and grief. Wyatt then gently touched her shoulder. As she looks at him, he shook his head as he also seemed to grieve by the loss of an acquaintance. Although it was a short meeting, he knew that Tara was not a bad person.

Suddenly, right at that moment, a heavy thump can be felt coming from below the ground. Everyone around the area was caught off guard and lose their balance, making them fall to the ground. The thumping continued for a solid minute before the building that is destroyed right in front of them, shakes even more violently. Then, from within the ruins of the building, rises a massive monstrosity made out of flesh, metal, concrete, and many other materials. The monstrosity seems to have engulfed everything within the building which makes most of its body.

If one were to look at it carefully, they can see the faces of children, melted and stacked together creating a huge lump of flesh. Most of its flesh parts came from body parts and organic compounds. While its other parts are made out of their respective material, like the metals that cane from the machines and the concrete that came from the material of the building itself.

When they looked at each part of the amalgamation's body Wyatt notices something around its top part. He points at it while he exclaimed, "Guys, look," he said in a doubtful tone, and his face is also filled with disbelief as he stares at the point.

The others instantly followed along as they saw the top part of it. There, Tara's face appeared. All of them were shocked but Mirin felt a sense of anger and wrath as she clenches her fist and teeth.

"Should we kill it?" Axel asked as he looks at the others, waiting for their suggestions and inputs.

"Of course we do! We need to kill that thing, right now!" Mirin said as she holds her sword with both arms and points her blade at it.

"Wait, calm down. We still need to know from where and how that thing can exist," Wyatt stopped Mirin by grabbing one of her hands.

"But it seems like we don't have much choice now do we? That looked hostile to me," Axel said as he already drew his sword, preparing for combat.

"Indeed, although I'm also curious as to how that thing came to be, we've got no choice but to take it down," Fulario follows along, taking out his pocket watch as he shouted, "Overcharge!!" before everyone is covered in a transparent aura.

"Sophie dear, we need you to get sweaty from this one. We'll handle it while you protect the kids. Alright?" Axel asked as he looks back at Sophie who already did what to do even before Axel told her. She covered every kid inside her dome shield before slowly walking away from the monstrosity.

"Well then, I know we just fought and in need of some rest, why don't we start this quickly to end it quickly?" Axel exclaimed with an excited look on his face as his tone carries a certain feeling that can be felt as mocking with his face covered in a wide grin.

"Sounds good to me. I could desperately use some sleep," Wyatt followed, drawing his twin blades and even though it's little, there is a faint sign of excitement in his eyes. As if he is excited and can't wait to fight it.

"I'll make sure it dies a gruesome death," Mirin said as she looks at the amalgamation with an eye filled with wrath and a thirst for blood.

"This is indeed interesting, let us begin the show, shall we?" Fulario said as he puts his pocket watch back inside his pocket before assuming a battle stance. The amalgamation roared as multiple sets of hands can be seen coming from all around its body.

"Let's do this, everyone. Eni, Dos, Trois!" Axel said as everyone seemed to move in different directions.

Axel charges straight at it with his violet blade and stabs it deep. The amalgamation seemed confused as a few seconds later, the blade emits a luminous violet color as the surrounding area of the stab point exploded, causing massive damage to the amalgamation.

Fulario quickly ran behind the amalgamation with Mirin as he holds his hands down, giving Mirin a huge boost to jump as high as she can. Then, she does a roll before coming down while she continuously made a giant cut with her sword behind the amalgamation.

Wyatt runs around the amalgamation as he cuts any sort of hands that are sticking out that are preparing to attack the others or are just in his way. Just as he was doing this, Mirin had reached the ground with her sword still cutting through the amalgamation, causing a massive impact to the ground behind it which caused the amalgamation to tilts backward.

Soon after that, Axel quickly ran up its falling body as does multiple cuts along the way which obliterates everything that it cuts, as well as the surrounding area. He then jumps and stabs deep into the amalgamation. This time the stab was so deep that it almost reached the handle part of his sword.

Just after that, Axel spins his sword slightly in place and shouted, "Release!!" which causes his sword to glow so bright that everything that he sees is covered in a violet light before suddenly, the amalgamation explodes from within the part where it got stabbed. Pieces of the amalgamation are scattered all around the place as they finally killed the amalgamation.

"Good work everyone. We've successfully killed the amalgamation," Axel said as he puts his sword back in its sheath and the others do so as well. They gave a quick nod towards each other before walking back towards Sophie and the other kids.