The Realm of the Abyss, Duchessborough castle.
There he was on the dimension screen. Laying his tired body on the many corpses. Smiling at his hard-earned victory. His golden hair and charming face, tainted with the blood of the many dead imps. The same imps which she sent to clear the rotting area which she declared as her jurisdiction.
{Interesting…using their own tongue against them....} said the duchess in curiosity.
Her astral form was back to her body. Forcing her to watch the interesting human form on the four-cornered screen. She had enough 'force' within her, but the human realm still lacked the sufficient force to even handle her astral form. Not after she used her little authority to hold the imps.
She was bored, too bored in her realm of the abyss, and was waiting for this chance to battle with the pesky angels. Finally, letting loose her fangs and gorge some entertainment.
And she discovered it the moment she entered the mortal realm. To their eventual battlefield known as earth. Where everyone was searching for the traitor. Even though she also had her search orders. She was busy choosing her area and, like the devil Lucifer blessing herself; she was met with him.
A single human, with unique features like no other. At first, she was only interested because of his devilishly handsome appearance. Considering making him her sex slave. But with every step he amazed her, breaking her perception of feeble humans.
She didn't know how he used the imp's tongue, but she didn't care as the nature of humans was still ambiguous to her.
{I will keep watching you boy….what was his name again?…oh right, Aiden…. keep entertaining me Aiden….}
She twirled her dark hair, her twin-tail hair regaling on her pale finger. Her purple eyes glowing with amusement. But her mood came down the moment another screen appeared.
{They finally appeared….what kept them so late…} she said, her amused tone all gone, only coldness pending from her tongue.
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Finally, taking his eyes off his status, he saw a hand hanging in his direction. He looked beyond, trying to see who it belonged to. His exciting eyes deeming down a bit.
He slapped away his hand, standing up on his own feet. The blood of the imps still dropping from his clothes.
Scarface didn't mind, only gazing around the mess that the boy before him created.
"You are a monster, you know that…" he said. A tinge of fear lingering on his words.
Aiden looked back, his golden eyes glaring at him, forcing him to flinch a step back. "You are right…I am a monster. A monster who just saved your ass.." he replied. Continuing his walk to his safe house.
What he saw from the bald man's eyes was only fear when he glared at him. Not just any fear, a fear similar to seeing a monster like his words described.
He looked at the building, Emi gazing at him and the bodies of dead monsters he stepped on. Others wouldn't see it, but with his keen eyes, he could clearly see in her eyes. It was the same. The same as the man behind him…..fear.
'Did I over did it…?' he thought. Looking around. He didn't care, the man looking at him that way but when he met with Emi's eyes looking at him in such a way. A shade of pain clenched his heart.
He clenched his fist. Walking by the stairway. He had enough energy to jump to the fifth floor, but he didn't. More accurately, he couldn't. Not when those gazes were on him. For him, it was a familiar sensation. When there were still people. Where he was stared down as some alien.
He reached the floor, where Emi and his senpai were. Normally he would speak to Emi but he didn't have any will to. Walking to the room where his senpai was.
'let's check up on Senpai…'
"Ai…Aiden…" Emi called.
Aiden heard her, his steps stopping, but what he feared was already evident. Scent of fear haunting her call. He could feel it. A call much different than before.
'Well….it's not her fault… anyone would be scared after seeing that butchering mess.' he thought gritting his teeth.
He paced forward, ignoring her call. But he felt a pull on his bloodied cloth.
"I…I am not scared…" she said, her voice still clouting her fear.
He sighed, looking back and knocked with a surprise. A red mark on her cheek. Similar to a hand print.
'Did she slap herself…?' he thought.
Knowing the meaning behind. He smiled. He brought his bloody hand near her cheeks. Where she had slapped herself.
"Are you really not?" he asked.
Feeling the cold blood on her cheeks. Her body wanted to flinch, but remembered how he had saved her on that fateful day. She knew he was a nice guy. any other guy would had rapped her many times, within the time line he was with him. Even though the half dried blood was cold, his hands were warm.
'He is the same….' she thought.
"No!...." she now said with confidence.
Aiden's smile etched even further, his heavy heart turning light. "Thank you Emi….thank you soo much. I promise, I will properly handle stuff like this and think about you."
Emi's cheeks turned red, taking his words literally into her heart. But in hindsight. He was talking about how he handled the imps. Without the help of that demon, her, his senpai would had been death by now as his arrogance to be like a mc took over him.
He had power, more power than he thought. His weak will easy to be drunk on power, but he also had people he cared around him. So no more. He enjoyed leveling like in games and getting stronger each time, but this was life, not a game. Where dead were imminent. The former earth was no more. Only leaving a few humans and demons all over the place.
'I thought that demon would come again…..well, can't trust demons…'
...anybody there!
He heard a familiar voice, his eyes widening in surprise.
"Senpai..?"
He came running to the room, with Emi in tow, who was surprised, Aiden calling her senpai out of nowhere.
Both of them entered. The girl who was on the death door now on her toes. Like the wounds on her back weren't much to begin with.
"senpai..?!" he called out. His word shouting his emotions. Saying finally, someone he knew.
The girl in bandages gazed back at the golden hair boy and the girl with cold eyes. She would say thanks but for many days. She had learned to live cautiously. But the voice of the golden-haired boy caught her off guard.
The only person who called her senpai with that voice was only him.
"Aiden…..?" she asked.
Aiden nodded his head vigorously. Sweeping his long golden hair and blood off his face. His face now clear to her as her eyes opened wide. The golden hair boy whose whole body was covered with blood was her junior.
"…it's really you.." she said, her voice cackling from disbelief. If she had tears, she would have cried from the bubbling warm sensation she was feeling. But she had run out of those tears long ago. But she still had her feet to run to him and her hands to hug him.
Not carrying a dime about the blood latched all around his clothes.
"Thank god you are alive…" she said, her heavy tone losing up a bit.
"You too…." he replied, hugging her back. "….did you get smaller senpai..?" he asked.
After so many hellish days and night, a smile came out of her lips. Feeling the warmness she was craving from within for so many dark days. "…no, you just got taller…baka." she replied. Pinching his waist.
"ouu…ouu..senpai.."
Emi could only look, not interrupting their happy reunion. She would also be happy that there were survivors, but she didn't feel right. Gazing at them with such closure.
"oh…didn't know she could smile.." said the Scarface.
Emi looked to her side. She didn't know who the man was before, but upon looking closer. She backed away in fright. His scars waking her trauma.
"yo…you.."
"Don't be sacred….I won't do anything more necessarily. I can't do anything.." he said, looking at the boy, who was bathed in blood from the 100s of monsters he killed.
Knowing Aiden was there. Emi calmed down. Taking a step away from the scary bald man.
"ummm…."
"what..?" Emi asked.
The man looked down, and her gaze followed, to her own hand gripping a long knife, pointing at the scar face like she would finish him in moment's notice.
"oh..sorry….it became a habit.." she said, putting her hand down. Her eyes still cautious of him.
With all the four were now conscious and present. They all sat down, discussing about their near dead adventures. Aiden told Akia everything and so did she. About her parents dead. About her trying to fulfill her mother's wish to survive in this hellish world.
As he listened. He wanted to punch the Scarface out of existence but, he still brought her to this place. And thank god she was saved before she could lose any blood.
"Don't worry senpai….i will keep you safe.." he confidently said.
Aki kindly smiled. " who will save who…?" she said, showing her hand, with a certain white glow.
Both Emi's and Aiden's eyes turned wide in surprise, with different reasons gapping their mind. For Emi. It looked like magic, feeling a warm energy from that glow. But for Aiden. It wasn't her glowing hands but from the notification which just popped before him.
[Holy Force Detected….]
'….what in the actual fuck..?'