The blood from the hand he impaled begins to swirl and rise creating a dark house with blood seeping through the walls. He stood there with a hideous skeletal grin. Standing there, smiling without a mouth observing our every move, soon his face started to pour blood. He dropped to the ground holding his face and just leaked there laughing in pain. A pool of blood emerges from his head and bubbles begin to seethe. Blood-covered hands emerge from the pool surfacing were zombies completely made of blood. One of the faces was Sterling, he was using the faces he plastered on his as catalysts for his Domain Expansion.
They flush into the pool once more and erupt from them at lightning speed. They scathe and knick our skin quickly and retreat back to their portal of blood.
"We need to stop the source of his domain!" Bobu yells. Haru jumps onto the ceiling and takes a humongous breath.
"DISINTEGRATE!" The blood zombies are set aflame and begin screaming in a gurgling disgusting wail. More hands protrude from the ceiling and grab Haru forcing her above into the slaughterhouse. We hear a heart-wrenching scream come from above the minute she's pulled. Our hearts drop. Bobu summons his tonfas and jumps through the opening but as soon as he disappears the opening repairs itself and is sealed. Naofumi and I exchange a look and run down a hallway of blood and endless darkness. We see a crowd of zombies and I imbue my sword with cursed energy and drive my sword through the mob. They regenerate almost instantly, Naofumi and I dash away and find stairs leading to the upstairs. Then suddenly we hear Bobu's screaming coming from above; we became on edge now, we've become unaware of the team's status. Naofumi and I run up the stairs but Naofumi falls suddenly. I look back and see him getting swallowed by the floor. He digs his nails into the floor but it's no use. It was all blood.
"NAOFUMI!" I scream out, but by the time the words escape my mouth he'd already been excavated. I rush through hall after hall hoping, praying to see a familiar face. I reach the heart of the house and I see The Zodiac Killer on the floor surrounded by a veil of his blood. There was no cursed energy from his body, just around him. His domain could only be achieved through death.
I feel a wet grasp around my neck and I'm slammed into a beam of the house and it topples over smashing the floor below me. I regain my footing and dash at the zombie but I'm grabbed once more but this time my leg was constricted. The zombie spun me around and around smashing the house that just regenerated itself more and more. My head begins to bleed and I feel my sanity degenerating by the minute. Then the zombies begin using cursed techniques and cursed energy shooting energy blasts at me. The barrage of cursed energy blasts sends me through 3 walls of the house. I rise up in a dark room and more zombies erupt from the ground and pummel me through the house. I can't make sense of what's happening. How can he know where I am at all times? And why can they use cursed energy?
"Wait... Your cursed technique isn't ANY of this... Is it?" I tell myself silently. The Banshee appears from the portal and sends a concussive supersonic blast through the walls of the house. The zombies crowd around him.
"There you are!" A voice shouts from above.
"Elliot!" A voice shouts from below.
"We thought you were dead!" A voice cries from the side of me.
It was Alan, Kingsley, and Jason running up to me with tears and smiles in their eyes. They embrace me and I immediately fall to the ground.
"You..." I stutter. And return to sobbing.
"Us too..." Alan reassures me.
"What are you guys-" A tsunami of rage overcomes me as they melt into a puddle of blood as the house morphs into a face and laughs hysterically. Another zombie emerges from the puddle in which they disappeared and the killer jumps at me and connects a Black Flash to my face. I'm sent through another set of various walls. I rise barely conscious.
I surround my blade with cursed energy and command the Banshee to send a Cursed Wail at the killer destroying the walls of the house. I dash toward him and so do the zombies. I slide through their attacks and sever their bodies just for them to regenerate not even a minute after I slashed them. I disregard it and imbue my blade with cursed energy and concentrate it into sound waves.
"SUPER SONIC PIERCE!" I say as I thrust my blade into the lifeless corpse. Nothing changes but the house continue to mock me with its squeaky demonic laugh. My cursed energy distribution is thrown off because of the paranoia and I send a blast of cursed energy into the lifeless corpse by accident and I dash away. My mind is swirling round and round. His domain is paranoia, that's what it was all along. A figure destroys the ground and appears in front of me. It was Shinzo; he looked at me with a disgusted look and made a very similar stance to Naofumi and concentrated a massive amount of cursed energy into a ball.
"DOMAIN EXPANSION: EVENT HORIZON!" Shinzo yells. But slowly his image alters and I see Naofumi standing right in front of me with a black hole consuming the domain.
"SINGULARITY!" black blink occurs and in an instant, the domain had disappeared and we're left in the middle of a demolished street. I look around and see Naofumi staring at his hand. I spot Bobu and Haru in the distance running toward me. So most of the things we heard were just the paranoia of the Domain Expansion. Haru holds me upright, most of what I experienced pain-wise was true, my head was bleeding from the relentless attacks from the blood zombies.
"Damn! Why did we let that lunatic fight by himself?!" Two blurs drop from the rooftops and cursed energy practically pours from them. Both figures were dark-skinned young men with buzz cuts. One of the left had a yin symbol on his face and the other had the yang symbol on his face. The one with the yin symbol wields a large scythe and the yang-symboled boy had bandages around his hands.
"Those trifling traitors decided to show their disgusting faces again. How was hiding behind your daddy Shinzo's shadow?" Bobu says angrily.
"We told you what would happen if you showed your faces to us again. Seems like we're gonna have to show you better than we can tell you?" Naofumi backs up Bobu.
"Dried Bonito!" Haru says adding to their threats. A growing animosity grows throughout each side but Naofumi and Haru had little Cursed Energy left. Bobu creates his knuckle dusters and infuses them with Cursed Energy. The bandaged fighter's hands go up into a red flame as he sets his sights on Bobu. The scythe user looks at me with a cold expression and twirls his scythe until all that appears is an icy-blue circle emitting mist. I prepare to stand up until another blur drops from above and places his hand near my face.
"Geyser Burst." A hot wave of water splashes on my face and sends me flying. I scream holding my face, I can't find the strength to get up. I open my eyes to find him standing over me preparing another blast of scalding water. But in the distance, I hear laughing and rapid footsteps coming down the street. Shortly after his hand is slashed off by a source of great speed and power. I'm picked up and taken to the laughing crowd. They place me down and I hear a voice.
"Hey, we got it from here, my students will make sure your burn isn't permanent." I look at where the voice is coming from and it is a man walking only with a scabbard and no cursed energy. In fact, none of the people surrounding me had cursed energy.