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Chapter 26 - Pact with the Devil [2]

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"Agh…Hagh…." I was gasping for air. That place, it was new but the feeling I got was familiarity.

"What's wrong? Blanking out of your real world?" Hollow threw me to the rubbles, stones dropped towards me, like rain.

"All you could do was to watch your Captain die. You couldn't even remove the stones on your foot." Hollow grabbed my face and gripped it as hard as he could, I could feel the tension on my face.

He threw me again—up in the air. I was falling to the ground now, Hollow jumped up towards me and punched me down to the ground, a massive impact.

Without my spell; my face would be unrecognizable now.

In a split second, Hollow punched me on the face again, and again, again, and again.

Blood spilled out my mouth, same goes for my nose. My eyes, I could hardly see anything by now.

Why can't I fight back?—

Another punch, another, and another. Blow after blow.

"Where's the other one? The one I had enjoyed spending my time with?!" Hollow punched me like a bag, left, right, left, right—

And another one. I was blown away by the immense strength he put in that punch.

I hit my back with sharp edged stones. Agh fuck, it hurts.

Before I could even lift my head, Hollow kicked me on the face, my neck stretched as he kicked me again, again, again, again!

"Ghagh…kh…" I couldn't imagine the face I'm making right now, I look like a bag being abused to death.

"Hah damnit." Hollow squat down to look at my pathetic face. He then grabbed my hair and asked another silly question.

"I fucking told you; where is the other one?" He forced me to stand up as he pulled my hair really hard.

"I don't know what the hell you're talking about!—" I immediately took out my hidden daggers in my boots and slashed his eye. Enough damage to let go of me.

"…" He didn't react whatsoever, but he held his face, as if he was checking if he was hurt at all.

"It fucking tickles." He dashed towards me and pushed my head to the crumbled walls

BAM BAM BAM BAM

"How is it? Good?!" I could tell that he was smiling after he said that. He threw me towards the rubble again. I hit my back, resulting on me coughing out blood.

Shit, am I dying?

"I told you. Where is the other one?!" He pressed his thumb hard towards my eye, "AGHHH—"

"Where is he?! Get out!" His thumb successfully pierced through my eyes, through the eye sockets and to the nerves.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHH!"

"Goddamnit, just let him out!" He kicked my stomach, again, and again—

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*drip*

Glitching out of reality again, ah, I blacked out…

What…are these images flashing in my mind?

Bzzt!

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I'm glitching again…

Ah…a happy family…eating…a delicious meal…on a warm season…

What…is this? Memories? If so, why show them to me?

Suddenly, a strong headache jumbled my thoughts—

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"Hagh—" I held my head and gripped it hard. It hurts!! The ringing sound lingers through my ears—

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Painful headache! What are these images flashing through my head?! Whose memories are these?!!

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"Huh?"

A figure was standing in front of me. A white figure, white and bright like a clean paper. He was standing on top of the water, floating like he was some god.

"Who…are you?" I furrowed my eyebrows

I narrowed my eyes, then I walked up to him.

"The one Hollow was looking for?!" I glared at him with angry eyes. How can this entity appear when the battle has already ended?

<…That's right…>

"Then why?! Why didn"t you appear much earlier?!" I shouted at him

"Huh?!" I grit my teeth.

"The fuck are you talking about?!"

The entity walked up towards me

"Huh?"

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"Agh damnit." Hollow threw Eve to the rubble and decided to head to the next step of his plan.

He took a step and immediately stopped when he felt the rumbling ground and strong aura coming from behind.

He looked back, seeing the now lifeless corpse of Eve has dark energy wrapping around him, moving fingers, one by one.

"Agh…kh…" Eve's head was twitching, his mouth barely moving.

Hollow could hear that he was gasping for air.

Eve's head tilted down, his legs was slowly standing up. The corpse was now alive once again, standing up and looking at Hollow.

"It's you." Hollow smiled, "Welcome back, Adam."

"Agh….ghk…"

Smoke came out of Adam's mouth.

"How was it? The realm of souls?" Hollow slowly walked towards him.

"Cold." Adam spoke rather, coldly.

Adam looked at his hands with dead eyes. "Never felt like this for so long." Adam clenched his hands and dark aura whirled around it.

"Let's do this shall we?" Adam raised his hand, pointing at Hollow. In just a second, the dark aura, like shadows, dashed towards Hollow like a bullet.

Hollow smiled, scoffed like an idiot. He raised his arms in return; portals opened behind him, thousands of swords floated behind him, pointing at Adam.

"Fuck off."

The swords swished through the dark shadows, through and through, towards Adam. Adam dodged like he saw it coming.

Hollow casted a spell and dashed towards Adam himself. With a sword at hand.

He slashed down but Adam immediately dodged, again, Hollow swung his sword and Adam did the latter.

"Close. But too bad." Adam elbowed Hollow to the ground. Baam.

"You sure?" Hollow smiled and slid aback.

"You're holding up for too long." Hollow shrugged.

"…" Adam looked at his hands. Glitching out of reality.

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"No matter what you do, you have no choice but to lose." Hollow smiled at him and punched him away.

"Agh—" The dark aura retracted to his body.

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"Too bad." Hollow kicked him away, blasting through the ruins.

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Adam coughed blood, even his blood was glitching. He glanced up towards Hollow and stood.

"…" Adam dashed towards him and released his shadows.

Dark shadows emitted out of his body, towards Hollow, each one of them. Probably a hundred thousand shadows.

"Woah shit—" Hollow was blasted away by the strength the shadows held. He was flown up because of the brute force the shadows have.

"Aghk." Hollow blocked the attacks with his arms. "My turn now." Hollow plopped down the ground and threw a knife at Adam, the speed was like the speed of light.

Adam dodged it like a monster. Both dashed towards each other with tricks up on their sleeves.

"Look at me." Hollow grabbed Adam by the head.

"Kh…" Adam glared at him.

"Look behind."

Adam widened his eyes---

The memories flashed through his mind like a wild train of thought. Painful and happy memories continue to play within his mind.

The headache began to hurt badly, his head wasn't able to hold up too much information or memories to live.

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The moment he was born and the moment before he was born, all of it continued to flash through his head.

"The severe shock of your brain after handling that much information can kill you, you know?" Hollow continued to let him see more of the memories Adam once had, gripping his head like he was about to squeeze a ball.

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The images flashed like he was falling in an endless loop. Fuck it hurts—

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As soon as Adam heard that, he was pushed behind, even though he knew that he was pushed, he could see his body standing there, struggling on Hollow's hand?

Did someone take over my body again?

That was the first trail of thought that Adam knew.

His soul was now falling to the ground, and through the ground, to the soul society. The dark shallow waters beneath him. That same old dark and cold place he hated.

He knew; Eve took over again.

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"Another one. Why can't you just settle down? The body's all worn ut." Hollow smiled and stabbed Eve through the chest.

"KHG!!—"

Eve slid back and casted a fire spell—

"That shit don't work on me." Hollow blasted swords towards Eve and it brutally injured his stomach.

"Gagh—"

"You're no fun." Hollow walked away and saw a mother carrying a child, silently fleeing the scene.

"Hey." As soon as the mother heard that, she flinched and looked at him.

"Running away cowardly is the one thing I always do but I hate." Hollow swung his sword to the child's hand, it was perfectly cut, like an apple sliced in half.

"HAAAAAAAAghh---" The mother immediately fell down to her knees and wrapped the child with dirty cloth. The child wasn't able to react, he just froze.

"Leech." Hollow brought down the thousand swords from the portal above the mother, and stabbed the lady to death.

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The swords flew away like someone had blocked it.

"Fellow companions. You've come to save the day I guess?" Hollow saw hatred within Scarlet's eyes.

"Cliché my dear." Hollow blasted the three away with some kind of magnetic force.

"Tch." Scarlet managed to snatch away the child and mother from Hollow's area. "Take them away."

On the other side of the coin, Frisk was there, wielding a knife, but due to his injuries, he can't fight well either.

"Keep them safe." Scarlet walked towards Hollow while saying those words to Frisk, to which he just nodded and took them away.

"It's always gonna be the girl who saves the hero when they are in the downfall of their life, isn't it?" Hollow tilted his head and took out a sword from a portal behind.

"Ready for another session of battle class?"

"I gave up on learning things a few years ago."

They both dashed at the same time, clashing to one another, blocking with each other's swords.

"Giving up on learning. Ha" Hollow swung his sword up; unlocking Scarlet's defence.

"Which explains why you need a few more classes." Hollow summoned another sword for his left hand. Now, he's wielding two swords, a dual user.

"Yah!" Hollow grunted as he swung his swords left and right, up and down. To his surprise, Scarlet seems to have dodged all his attacks very neatly.

"Good enough—" Hollow suddenly felt a cold touch from his back. Something sharp and pointy.

"You…" Hollow looked behind, in complete and utter realization that he hasn't finished Eve yet.

"TCHH…" Eve pierced the sword up Hollow's chest. "Really?" Hollow scoffed and jumped down really hard, it caused the ground to shake.

"Aghh---" because of the ground's shaking and Eve's worn out body, he let go of the sword and staggered down.

"Can't do it can you?" Hollow impaled Scarlet through the shoulders. "AAGHH" Scarlet wriggled like a worm on a bait.

"Khh…" Eve immediately took the sword and dashed towards Hollow.

A close combat was all he could come up of, since Eve was drained of soul energy.

"Look at you, desperate to save your companions. Isn't that pitiful?" Hollow again stabbed Scarlet to her legs.

"AAAGHHH!" Fast, so fast that all can Hollow do was to stand in shock. It was probably because of a strange rush of adrenaline that pushed this boy's body towards his limits.

Eve punched Hollow to the face and he came flying towards the ruined buildings. "Woah, look at that." Hollow smiled.

Eve again rushed towards him and attempted to punch him in the face again, but Hollow dodged and he ended up punching the crumbled wall

"Aghhh!!"

Hollow immediately grabbed the boy by its neck and smashed his head to the wall for four times.

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"KGHH…" Eve grabbed Hollow by his collar and brought him down the ground. The sword nearby, it was his chance to finally kill this man.

Eve stretched out his arms to reach for the sword while holding Hollow down.

The clanking sound of the sword being dragged was heard through the peoples' ear.

It was the time to kill Hollow, once and for all.

Eve held the sword up high, aiming for Hollow's head.

And down it goes…

TO BE CONTINUED…