“Orinda, so you’ve finally remembered me, huh? Took you long enough~” Melissa mocked at Jerry as she cut off the tentacles that had flowers on them before casually re-growing.
Even if Jerry had regained a few of his memories, he was a bounded slave under Jack and couldn’t fully recover unless Jack regained his former abilities. This was why Melissa was quite leisurely, even if her abilities were also restricted she was sure of her victory over Jerry.
Another thing worth mentioning was the World’s seal which although loosened was still giving their abilities a minor resistance, only one as powerful as Favela, who was now Jack could break the seal thoroughly in its weakened state, and if he did that Melissa knew it was game over.
Therefore she had to end this, now!
“Why would I ever forget an ATROCIOUS being like you?” Jerry said, disgust flashing in his pretty pink eyes.
He knew that he was at a pretty big disadvantage here but he had no choice, at all costs he had to stall Melissa until Jack got himself, he had to protect him with all his might.
“Ah~, still so feisty huh?” Melissa asked jokingly as she stretched her now full-grown tentacles.
“I’ll see the mouth you’d use to tease me when I’m done chopping you into small pieces,” Jerry said angrily, his chest heaving up and down with his heavy breathing in anger.
“Don’t be so mad, after all, you were the one who killed your mother yourself, why didn’t you just give yourself over to me then?” Melissa mocked brutally.
“ENOUGH!!” Jerry shouted in rage as his peacock train fanned across his back, standing at alert and his face lowered causing his hair to cover his face, his knuckles were clenched so tight that his fingernails pierced his hand and blood gushed out, yet he did not stop.
“I will show you Melissa that you messed with the wrong beast!” Jerry said as he lunged at Melissa, with his feathers, covering the distance into the air was finally possible.
“Finally getting serious? Eh?” Melissa said with a smirk as the fight had finally and OFFICIALLY started.
“Shut up,” Jerry said shortly as he suddenly appeared in front of Melissa who seemed shocked, but before she could get herself, Jerry landed a punch on her face sending her flying backward with her huge body as she crashed into the sea.
“Here’s another gift!” Jerry said as got an attack ready for Melissa again without even giving her a chance to rest.
Converging a bouquet of flowers into the shape of a long sword, he raised it at the still trying to regenerate Melissa, and slashed at her mercilessly with eyes so cold that it could freeze that air.
“AH!!!!” Melissa screamed as five of her tentacles were cut off simultaneously.
‘I have to keep on going without giving her any space because the moment she recovers Master would surely be in danger!’ Jerry thought in desperation.
“Barrage of Floral Fury!” Jerry chanted with a scream, creating a tsunami of flowers, and hurled it at the dazed Melissa who was still trying to regenerate her tentacles
“Eik!” Melissa screeched as the tsunami took her for a ride and even though Jerry knew that it probably wouldn’t last he was happy to see her in such a desperate situation.
As soon as Melissa broke free from the ride, her body covered in cuts and bruises from it, she gritted her teeth in hatred, this wretched beast! Always ruining her plans! Especially then….
“Orinda Arleen! You’re not ruining my plan once more!” Melissa said as she shrunk herself.
It was this stupid beast! It was him, just like that time, not only had he ruined her plans by somehow making her brother fall for him enough to take that attack with the world orb and ruin the entire plan she had tirelessly and meticulously planned!
In the end, she had no choice but to follow him into the world and be rendered useless for so many years! Even the World Spirit couldn’t help her as it couldn’t break the rule of its own world, all it could do was let her retain her memories at the price of losing nearly all her power and becoming formless.
She had planned to send Orinda into this world with the restriction of no memories and no powers so Favela would have no choice but to suppress his abilities and go after him since he really did care a lot for Orinda. And when he (F) was in his weak state, she had planned to go after him with the aid of the World Spirit and attack.
It would have worked if it went according to plans but shit got really fucked up and three of them all ended up in the world, the world spirit could no longer shield her as she was now recognized along with the duo as a world’s threat, making the world end up sealing her up without form!
While these jerks get reincarnated with forms and started out a little high school romance like she was no big deal.
Fucking hell, she was getting pissed the more she thought about it.
“Fuck you, bastards! Especially Favela, he always gets good luck! Father’s approval to be king even though he’s a handicapped beast….is he even a beast?! The servant I wanted, he got him for free as a slave, the people’s approval while I became the fucking villain?! Why not place me in your shoes?!
Do you have any right to criticize me?! Look at you! So obsessed with a heartless bastard like that! What do you even fight for? You know he will never love you! He literally sold his heart for the Eternal Rule! Have you not heard?!” Melissa roared in rage.
“S-shut it! SHUT IT! SHUT IT! SHUT IT! Do you think you can trick me? Master Favela was originally immortal! There was no Eternal nonsense…!”
“Then you’d rather spend your entire lifespan who you know will be with another after you died? Being nothing but another ‘one’ for him?! Open your eyes Orinda, this love is a lost cause!
You can always join me you know, if it’s to bring your mother back to life I can always do that” Melissa tried to persuade; truly, killing Jerry would be such a waste but if she managed to recruit him? Better.
“D…don’t fucking talk like you weren’t the one who killed her! Playing victim? Master Favela was chosen by the dragon king this, he is loved by the people that, he has me this, you brought all this on your fucking self!
If you had greater strength than he did, you would have won the throne instead; if you had tried to get the people’s love instead of antagonizing them and treating them as objects of threat to request a duel from Master literally every time then maybe they wouldn’t have termed you a villain!
If you had not killed my mother and instead try to gain my loyalty in a normal way than by force then maybe I would have been with you now!
Don’t play a fucking victim on me Melissa Dragoneel, you are nothing but a walking disaster whose decision-making skills are shit!” Jerry scolded her boldly while getting more than ready to defend himself in case she got extremely violent, which she was known for.
Throughout his cautioning, she had switched through so many phases that it was kinda nerve-wracking, from bewilderment to rage to guilt to rage again and then to blankness.
Jerry was kinda getting scared, maybe he shouldn’t have provoked her?
Suddenly though, Melissa shrunk herself taking the form of Carlene except her hands were still in form of tentacles whilst her eyes were pure gold with red pupils. This was proof that she was now activating her true dragon abilities- golden eyes, whenever a dragon showed those, no matter how weak they were, it was a dire sign to be extremely careful. Because you are about to be finished.
‘Oh shit… I really messed up, I couldn’t have just shut my trap, could I? But wait…she looks a bit familiar?’ Jerry thought and then it finally dawned on him.
“Possession….you possessed a Pure, that girl in our school that specializes in spirits,” Jerry said solemnly.
“At least you know THAT memory” Melissa mocked as she approached Jerry whose eyes widened in shock.
“W-What?” Jerry asked in stun.
“Do you think that I don’t know that not only are your powers not fully unlocked but your memories are also jumbled up too, NO?”
“You…how?”
“Uh….I don’t know~” Melissa said with an innocent gaze as she flailed her tentacles playfully as if to tease Jerry who felt only anxiety.
“So you really did collude with a World spirit….” Jerry muttered in stun.
“You’re as smart as ever Orinda, unfortunately, you have to die here,” Melissa said with a smirk that sent goose bumps through Jerry’s body.
Before he could make a run for it, Melissa appeared right in front of him and she sent him flying with a punch although Jerry saw it coming, the force was so much that he couldn’t even dodge it.
“Let the trashing begin” Melissa proclaimed.
***
“Shut off?! What do you mean shut off?! MY CHILDREN ARE IN THERE!” Elen screeched at the petrified guard who stopped her from going further to the beach.
After the entire distractions, she had finally arrived here, only to meet another bold bastard.
“I swear Danison, am gonna murder somebody,” Elen said with annoyance.
“M-ma’am, this is an official order from the Originals, a-am so sorry” The man who was visibly shivering in fear manage to mutter and Danison couldn’t help but find him a bit pitiful.
Under a sea monster attack, guarding the entrance the monster might escape from as an ancient, not like he was anything tough even as an ancient, he was literally a lamb tossed in for slaughter.
‘I wonder who he provoked, civil work really isn’t easy’ Danison thought, remembering all the times Helen made a hell-like path for him just because he pissed her off.
*Helen is actually his system (202) but he prefers to refer to it as Helen.
“I'LL KILL YOU RIGHT NOW,” Elen said not giving a shit about pity, she was plenty pissed as it was and if someone deserved pity it was her.
After all, it was she who just got back her beloved only for him to be almost killed again, was set up into an accident and has her kids at death’s door. If someone needed pity more, it was her.
She spoke in such a deathly tone and had released a bit of her aura that the poor man lost all decorum and fell on his butt.
Before anything could escalate, a Man dressed in a pure white suit emerged, he was one of the members of the originals, and he was known as The Third Original.
“Hello Mrs. Johnson,” He said, calmly ignoring the deathly aura Elen was emitting.
“That’s Miss. Elen for you now” Danison said finally stepping in, he had been told to stay by the side by Elen who wanted to handle things alone but he couldn’t hold his jealousy when someone called his Elenny another’s own, especially not that bastard, it was good that they had divorced and although he was inquisitive about a lot of things he had to handle things placed down first.
Another thing that was heavily provoking him was how calmly they were taking Elen’s plight, they were literally bullying her with power yet could remain so calm and fucking assholic enough to appear in her face.
“Who might this be?” The Third said releasing a bit of his aura.
“Oh, just a partner of Elly’s,” Danison said not even the least phased, he might be a Normal but after traveling a series of worlds with Helen, with a soul as strong as his, this guy was basically a chicken even he was ranked the third most powerful in American now.
“You see….” The Third was seemingly ready to start a quarrel but was caught off by Elen’s next action.
Trapped her kids, nearly killed her assistant and beloved, and still annoying her! Oh, she was mad!
Elen’s cat-like eyes appeared including her tails and ears pecked up in what seemed frustration, the guard stopping her had been thrown miles away and as for her, she flew upwards in readiness to move forward, she would rather not waste time with this bastard when her kids were off nearly dying.
The Third saw this and a small curve stretched on his face, he stared at Elen’s figure as his eyes turned violet and all of a sudden she paused, hanging in the air like a frozen statue.
“W-Wha…?” Elen managed to say, all her body muscles were frozen in place and movement was impossible, it seemed like some force had locked all her body movement up.
“YOU!” Elen screamed at the Third and even with her back turned at him, he knew he was being talked to.
“Interesting, you can still talk,” The Third said in mock surprise angering Elen.
“Sorry MRS. JOHNSON, but…ugh!” The Third was cut off when Danison’s boots kissed his face, sending him flying.
“How dare you…HARM HER?” Danison asked in a deathly tone with a hauntingly ‘beautiful’ smile, the temperature around him dropped by several degrees, since The Third was sent flying, he had lost control of his power and due to this, Elen was freed and managed to steady herself to not fall.
The Third stood up while shaking off his dizziness, looking up, he saw a glaring Danison and a dazed Elen that was staring at Danison with a flush, probably from shock and admiration.
“So its like that….then, I’ll have the courtesy of fighting Miss. Elen and her new Fiancée~”