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Chapter 10 - Traitor Among

Year: 377,813,221 O.B.

The calendar of orbit.....

Bright light wakes Ninomiya up.

The world beyond -

A long time had passed since the beginning of the countdown of Orbit's history.

377 million years the time, the demon race used to evolve,

Kage sent scouts, which sent him vital information even if they died.

The vital information they sent by sacrificing themselves was enough to give them a clue.

A paper with wrapped green long hair.

The only person with long green hair on that entire planet was Shomei.

The information was accurate,

Ninomiya's mother was still alive,

She was held captive at the most secure facility of the gods. On the now destroyed moons, both races are almost on the brink of extinction.

In a prison cell,

There lay a woman with green hair and six horns.

Machines are connected to her arms that neutralize her blood, not allowing her to escape.

Even if the atmosphere was almost identical to Orbit, she had a rough time breathing.

The gods, technologically advanced, were enough to take down a race that focused more on getting stronger, not smarter.

Shomei, the last of her kind.

The last royal blood, she thought as she looked to the planet that once was hers.

An empress, a queen.

Strong beyond everyday demons, now captivated inside this little prison cell.

The torture of giving her food every ten days, barely keeping her alive.

But Shomei had played her game of brain.

Little by little, she collected energy in the blood.

Denying the neutralizers that make her blood powerless, she managed to collect that energy.

She had become old due to the energy not reaching her cells but instead being stored for later use.

A demon's life span is 1 million years, and the rate of aging accelerates if the blood is normal.

The same went with Ninomiya, but he was human.

It meant that he could grow and improve as much as time passed.

Eventually, he would die faster than the average demon.

The empress of time, she used to be.

In prison, footsteps are heard by the prisoners.

A disciplinary officer looks at her with anger.

He goes inside her prison cell and beats her till she coughs her blood, "Filthy horned scum!"

She looks at her home planet from the bars.

Without her powers, she can't even reach out to anyone.

She thinks it's the end of her race.

[On Orbit]

Twenty thousand demons are left around the planet.

Half of them are not able to fight.

Ninomiya takes a bold decision.

' If they want this planet, let them have it."

He looks at the crowd,

"There!"

Pointing out in the crowd, there was a man.

A one-horned demon,

Ninomiya looks at him as the crowd moves away from the one-horned demon.

Ninomiya,

"You-, you, traitor.",

" I felt the shock in everyone with tears of losing. But you had smiled. I see everything-"

He coughs, wounded from the battle with Akame.

He walks, fading his vision,

After finally reaching near him.

The one-horned demon asks for mercy, saying he was promised land with a beautiful life.

"Is selfishness truly your motive?"

As Ninomiya looked at him with the intent to kill.

He tried to walk away,

"I have become reawakened; the king has returned from this eternal slumber. I couldn't return because I was stuck in that abyss while a new personality developed outside me. You lost hope and caused the downfall of the demons."

Ninomiya raised his hand and acted as if he had grabbed him.

As the one-horned demon ran, he soon faded into glowing particles.

Matter manipulation could now be done on organic matter.

"It was all a lie to lure you out."

"Was that all your scouts could do, dear enemies, slide some information?"

Akari smirked, looking at her father's cleverness.

A wise king.

He fell to his feet; the battle had him still exhausted.

As the bones beneath his skin cracked, the perfect being was yet to be born—a gift yet already dead before he reached his full potential.