A devil... would have been... fine?' The words echoed in Ferrin's muddled mind, ringing like the echo of a bell.
'A devil... would have been fine?' Ferrin's consciousness began to burn out all light, only darkness traced his sight no matter where he gazed.
'A Devil... would have been fine.'
As Ferrin called out to him, he replied back to him. 'Of course! It would've been fine. If you had been a devil, than you wouldn't have had to cry for anybody. If you were a devil, you would've been able to protect everybody and most importantly, you wouldn't have even the need to protect anyone! Is that just like a dream come true?'
'Dream... why even do that? It's pointless, whatever happens in dreams only lives in dreams. Life fades when it fades... dreams can't bring it back.' Ferrin replied.
'No! Life may fade when it fades. But Death still comes true even in dreams! When you kill somebody in dreams, it feels real, and it gives you the courage to bring death even in reality!'
'So what do I do? My life has ended. My heart... has stopped beating.'
'No, that's where you are wrong. Your life... has just began. If you don't believe me, open your eyes and see for yourself. Hahahaha! After all, I know you best. You are finally free from everything. If you kill somebody, you don't need to feel remorse. If you cripple somebody, you don't need to feel hurt. If you spit at somebody... you are just showing them their true worth! Open your eyes... and know, you aren't a devil!'
'...Then what am I?'
'You know that. Just like I know. Don't worry, I am with you for eternity. I am you and you are me. So you know... just what I am.'
Ferrin's pupils rolled back to the front, the darkness from in front of him faded, replaced by a wretched sight of his own mess.
His eyes had dried out- his eyeballs had shriveled like that of a dead person. His vocals had ruptured, his throat had been sucked dry, his tongue like a coarse rock. And as his own vomit and tears blocked his sight, the words automatically jumped to his tongue, but due to the dryness, he failed to say them aloud.
His heart had stopped throbbing, it beat calmly- even slower than an average person. Despite his blood running rampantly for a while, his body had gone cold. His strength slowly returned- at least enough to allow him to stand.
Slowly, from the six-feet plus monkey form, he turned into a larger monkey- his large tail retracted to half its size.
The Genius kept sipping his drink in utmost elegance glancing at all this. His eyes burning in delight. How he wished time could just freeze right here.
Seeing Ferrin get up, the Genius looked over- no intention of killing him while he was weak.
Right now, Ferrin's eyes pierced through the glass and fall onto a particular person, his eyes slowly lit up and the next second, the glass below his feet exploded as his figure rushed down.
"Hoo!?" The Genius raised a brow, wondering what would come next.
Hinomi's eyes darted towards Ferrin, Aria doing the same. She couldn't hear... but her heart just managed to throb once more for him.
Ferrin scratched his head and stared at the petrified girl on the ground, her eyes slowly quivered and rose up from Aira to Ferrin.
Ferrin opened his mouth- only to realize he couldn't speak. He shrugged nonchalantly and pushed forward his hand and impaled his claws inside her heart.
Instantly a warm feeling gushed into him- healing his tattered body.
He grabbed the girl and bit into her flesh- sucking down every ounce of blood he could find in her. Moistening his throat. After he felt he could speak again, he pushed her back and patted her on the head, "There! There! I just needed a life you see, since I have to fight the big bad villain!" He smiled and flung her away like a broken kitty.
His body whirled back, and he calmly began to eye the Genius- striding towards him in utmost calmness.
Not looking down at his mother, who even in her current state, used everything she could just to move her hand just one more inch closer to him. She, whose mouth trembled as she gazed at her son walking past her- her lips begging God to just say allow her to say his name one more time. She who kept crying at her last moments... not for herself... but for son. "Fer-rin!"
Hinomi's eyes welled up, she shifted her face from Ferrin and glanced down at Aria. She squeezed her hand tight and gazed into her warm eyes that still throbbed just to gaze one last time at her son, her hand that kept trembling to just carrasee her son's face. She- who just wanted her son to hug her and tell her he would take care of himself.
She... who wanted her son's innocent and big wide eyes... just one last time.
Ferrin pasued- the voice was audible enough to be heard in the silence. So he paused and looked back, seeing Aira gazing at him, reaching her hand out for him, he tilted his head. His claws dug out and he began to scratch his head, "Aww... Yea, mom! You're mom!" Ferrin nodded, "I'm a bit busy right now. What the heck are you doing crying like that? Wash up, last I remembered I thought you were strong." Ferrin shrugged, "Anyway, I will come back in a bit."
"Fer-gah!" Blood gushed out of her mouth, her fingers trembling while inching closer to him.
"Yea!" Ferrin gazed at the Genius. Suddenly, the glass shattered again under a loud boom like a grenade had just exploded.
As he stood in front of the Genius, his body began to fall. He frowned and muttered, "This body is useless right now." Instantly, his body shifted and grew to seven feet tall monkey. His large tail whooshed behind him like it had a brain of its own, seeing the Genius raise his brows. Ferrin smiled from the depth of his heart.
"Yea! So... like, don't know why but I am getting pissed off. Hahaha! By the way, do you know who I am?"
The Genius raised his brow, "A devil?" Calmly, he sipped the last of his drink and placed the cup down on the glass table.
"Hahaha! So you wanted a devil?" Ferrin tilted his head, his eyes slowly turned dull- losing all their color. A corrupted dark red aura slowly ignited from the place where his heart throbbed at a speed of a mere 10 per minute.
The Genius suddenly frowned. He felt something abnormally wretched and yet... familiar from that bloody aura.
The aura slowly spread out and engulfed Ferrin, wherever it traced too, Ferrin seemed to turn into a black and white picture.
"Too bad... I am a Fiend! Kekeke! KEKEKEKEKEKE!"
The Geniu's eyes trembled, "YOU!" Ferrin's tail blasted at him, forcing him to jump away. Ferrin's eyes turned blood-shot, his fur stood up on end, his heart race shot slowly started beating faster and faster. His blood began to gush to his head, his adrenaline pumped like even adrenaline had been injected by adrenaline.
"GGAHHH!" Ferrin's heart that had been beating a mere ten per minute suddenly turned to a... thousand per minute!
"KEKKK!" The Genius screamed in fright, he felt all his body tremble from fright and horror. "YOU! YOU!!!" His body trembled as he hissed like a cat getting its tail stepped on. "THAT WRETCHED AURA BELONGS TO THAT SON OF A BITCH! HOW IS HE ALIVE!? HOW ARE YOU ALIVE!? YOU TRAITORR!??"
"GAHAHAHAHA!" Ferrin's claws dug out from within his skin- they pushed out so rapidly that his flesh got dragged out along the claws.
"DIEEE!!" Ferrin lunged at the Genius, the floor beneath him exploded from the madness rushing to his head. He wasn't Ferrin right now... he was a fiend! A fiend whose brain had shut down- a fiend whose mind had jammed up and a single thing kept echoing in his mind, "KILL THE GENIUS!!!"
Splitting the air in his charge, Ferrin appeared in front of the horrified Genius. His hair stood on end- each as sharp and hard as an iron needle.
"TRAITORR!!" The Genius tried jumping back but Ferrin's tail turned into a slithering snake that coiled around him and smashed him into the ground with a boom that sent cracks down the glass.
"GAHAHAHA!" Ferrin laughed, even his soul felt euphoric at the sound of the Geniuses bones shattering like a sledgehammer had smashed into him.
"DIEEE!!" Ferrin jumped atop the Genius and smashed his fist shut before blasting it at the Genius's face- ruining it instantly.
"DIEEE!" Ferrin's fingers twitched like a drug had been injected inside him. He grabbed the Geniuses fingers and grinned sadistically.
"TRAITORR!!! YOU WILL PAYY!!! GAHHH!" The Genius's eyes boiled up; his screams resounded in the casino's walls.
Ferrin's teeth gritted together, snaping some of them from the force he was collapsing amongst them.
"GAHAHAHAHA! DIE! DIE!! DIE!!!"
"DIE YOU WRETCHED GENIUS!!!"