Chapter 31: The Corpse Lord
"Yami, take care of my body."
Sophia, who has taken over the body of a German, enters another body. A person known to people as Viola.
A thin, pale-skinned young man touched Anastasia's motionless body. The lifeless corpse began to move and walked into the freezing room on its own. Sophia, who was in Viola's body, also turned away.
yes His name is Yami. Not a real name. It has the same meaning as the underworld from Shinto religious stories. The one who maintains Sophia's host bodies. Mac, Larry and Moe call him the old zombie.
Being born in the Mutant era, his power is completely different from others. His power is to revive dead cells. Even scientists cannot revive dead cells. He can do it. But in an unusual way. Although the cells do not actually come back to life, he can slow done the rate of destruction caused by the bacteria and allowing them to move.
It's like being able to move corpses like zombies that people often talk about. But the corpses that move because of his power aren't like in the movies, biting everyone. His power makes the back cells move. In other words, intelligent zombies.
When he was five years old. His kitten pet was hit by a car and died. He couldn't accept that the cat was dead. So He straightened the cat's broken back and bandaged the wounds.
The next thing he remembers is patting the cat on the head and crying. A mystery happened there. The dead cat opened its eyes and screamed. Because It was hit by a car anf larynx was damaged, It shouldn't scream because of the pain, but the scream was continuous.
That day was the day his power awakened.
Yami studied the kitten he had brought back to life. A cat needs energy to survive. But they don't eat food like other cats, and they don't bite people like the zombie in the movie. The only thing zombies eat are Poisonous six month flowers.
Then his parents noticed his power.
His parents, who were in a panic, beat the kitten that he had revived. A zombie is something that the living are afraid of. A thing that moves even after death. They are described as evil creatures in every religion, right?
After that, his parents' attitude towards him changed. Warm parents have turned cold, They saw him as a false demon. He was forced to not reveal his power so that people would not know about it, and to not talk about it in public. But young Yami thought that reviving dead creatures was a form of healing, as it allowed them to live on.
one day After his father found a bird with a broken wing and a street dog that he brought to life, he beat him with a belt. Blood seeped from the whole back until the red flesh was gone. He cried all night. The pain was too intense for a 7-year-old child.
As he grew older, his power became greater. When he turned 10, he learned that he could control zombies activated by his powers. As he gained more knowledge, he realized that his power was a mutant power that could be labeled as a villain. So he stopped being reckless.
But one day something unexpected happened. His father has found a new love. she is dating with new girlfriend without her mother knowing. It turned into adultery, and then he got into serious trouble.
On Yami's 12th birthday, instead of a cake, they had a very serious fight. The father came and beat the mother with a wooden bench. Then things went too far and Yami's mother never recovered.
Yami's father was also horrified that it had come to the point of murder. Thinking of his son's power, he begged and forced him to use. Yami stared at his mother lying in a pool of blood and his father's bloody hands with emotionless eyes. Yami's answer is...
"I will revive my mother, but I don't want my unfaithful father anymore..."
The zombie dogs that Yami had activated dragged Yami's father to pieces.
After that incident, Yami became cruel. A few days later, Yami's mother filed a case at the Osaka police station. Yami's father didn't come home for a week and was reported missing.
The old station commander at Osaka Police Station still remembers that day. In the middle of the night, a woman who was pale as if there was no blood on her face came and opened the case. The middle-aged woman's limbs were cold, and the scent of the six-month flower was emanating from her body. The lips are ashen and corpse-like. The Osaka police investigated the disappearance for years, but nothing came of it.
Another remarkable event did not occur until Yami was fifteen years old. After coming home from school every day, he eat dinner prepared by his mother. They watch movies on TV together. He went out for a walk with the puppies he had. He worked part time on Saturdays and Sundays.
After turning fifteen, Yami passed the high school entrance exam with flying colors and was admitted to the best high school in the country. There, he fell in love with the second daughter of the Yamaguchi family. Despite his constant efforts, the second mistress was still only interested in someone else.
Akaigami Kaito, An S rank hero. He is the protector of Japan and the idol of all girls. handsome appearance Attractive red hair and eyes. Honest and blunt, but that's his dark side.
Takara Yamaguchi was very fond of the country guardian hero who lived in the temple. She walked everywhere Kaito went. She decided to become a hero as she wanted to be part of all of Kaito's adventures. From start to finish, Yami was not even in Takara's eyes.
"Heroes... They are too arrogant and always come too late to prevent injustice."
This is Yami's charm. He also hates injustice. But he did not become a hero. Instead, he became a villain who killed villains. Dark Demon is his villain name. He usually sends a black letter called a dark order to those he is going to kill a day in advance. The person who received the letter died within 24 hours.
"It hurts me to invite you all like this. As you all know, the dark address has reached our Sasaki family. Therefore, we ask you to arrest the murderer."
It's in a grand Victorian mansion. A bald old man invited the heroes to dinner. He wonder if he can escape from the dark demon. But it was useless. At twelve o'clock, a girl wearing a red hood and a masked man wearing a black Western dress with silver ink entered the hall.
"Who the hell are you?....." The heroes noticed and surrounded them. The bald man even dropped his wine glass from his hand when he saw that girl.
"I am the one who was killed by that man." After the girl took off her hood, everyone turned their faces away. With burns all over her body. she must have suffered a lot from these injuries.
"You...I tied you up on that boat and burned you. How did you come back?"
"I just came back from hell."
As the girl took a step forward, the boss's bald head instinctively retreated. The masked youth took one look at the heroes and revealed his power. The purple flames gathered into claws, and it was as if a giant ghostly shadow was haunting them all.
"I'm a dark demon, and I don't want to kill those who don't belong. Let them figure it out on their own."
The dead villager girl held a dagger in her hand and slashed the neck of the bald boss. After that, the bald boss began to stretch and die like a big goat being fleeced.
Within a few years, the news of the dark demon became famous in Japan. The famous millionaire has been killed by a dark demon again. The dark demon has hit heroes who is out of proportion.
Anti heroes are not considered heroes. The justice they are doing is not in a position that everyone can accept. Soon the government took notice of the dark demon. They have spoken of arresting the dark demon and punishing him by law.
One day, heroes raid Yami and his mother's apartment. The dead people he revived did their best to protect his mother, but they were all destroyed. Of course, His mother also included. Yami couldn't do anything because they destroyed the zombie's head.
After that, there was animosity between the government and Yami. "The law determines the good and bad of us human beings. But what if the law itself is impure?" Yami's desire to destroy became huge. He's long been fed up with hypocritical pretend heroes and governments that can't get past the elites. "What justice, your elite families are afraid of me killing them."
In the year 2025, the zombie apocalypse took place. The entire Japanese city of Osaka has been overrun by human and animal zombies. But it didn't harm living things. They only attacked the Hero Association and the Japanese coalition government. But the Japanese government called it a zombie apocalypse. Internationally, they sent their respective S-ranks to name the world disaster. It was the operation that involved the most S ranks in the entire history of Mutants.
It's called Operation Osaka Umbrella.
But Yami had already breached the S-rank limit a long time ago. Another ability of his power is receiving the mutant power of the dead people he activates. If it's the same type, it evolves into something better. Now, he can use 60 different powers and can face ten S-ranks, the world's most powerful rank, at the same time. According to the ranking logic, he has already reached the SS level. But the government still lied about him being S rank. Because if there is a villain higher than S rank, people will be shocked.
Finally, Japan's defender S rank Akaigami Kaito is out. Kaito is S level in name, but it is obvious that he is beyond that. It's just that people don't know the limits of his power. He accepted the government assignment and left Tokyo for Osaka. At the same time, Yami found out that Takara, who had always been following Kaito, was also riding a bullet train to Osaka.
After taking over a quarter of the country, some villains rose up who wanted to take the opportunity of chaos. Yami is not a hero, so they are running rampant, considering him to be a villain like them. They rob the trains; set up bombs and detonated it just for fun. JSDF and Heroes couldn't care about them because they were facing Yami.
So Takara's unfortunate incident happened. The entire train explodes due to a bomb planted by the villains for fun while she trying to stop them. As a result, the B-rank hero Takara is killed while protecting the people.
Yami didn't end up blaming himself. If he doesn't do this big rebellion, these things will happen. But he blames Kaito more. Why didn't he care a little about a hero who was chasing after him? When Kaito heard the news of Takara's death, I just said "Aw...". It was like someone he don't knew had died. Takara loved him so much that Yami gave up to apporch her. Takara had always been kind to Kaito. She even helped in dangerous operations. But Kaito was treating Takara as if she had never existed.
"Are you... a dark demon?"
One day, Kaito arrived, standing in the air with his feet on a lotus flame, in the sky of Osaka Castle, occupied by Yami.
The first thing Yami asked him was...
"Do you know Takara..."
"The one who died trying to protect the public in the train bombing?"
"She has been following you around all the time, why are you treating her like a stranger? She is the one who's always asking you for advice, she even asked you for her costume design. She even told you that she wants to be an intern under you. Don't you know this... why are you treating her like someone you've never met her?"
Kaito replied with a cold face.
"I....don't think I've ever seen her before. I...don't remember her."
"You..." Black wings emerged from behind Yami's back. His whole body was covered in purple flames, and his eyes were glowing purple. Behind him was an entire army of corpses.
"You even said that you ate the lunch boxes she made for you before. Bastard... are you pretending not to remember?"
"I...I don't know..."
After that, the battle that shook the whole world began. The entire historic Osaka Castle was destroyed by the power of the mutants beyond the S level. The sea was boiling, and the whole city was in ruins. But...Red God Kaito's power was stronger than he thought, and no one could match it.
"You...you're the one who should die..." Finally, Yami was able to gather his inner strength into the palm of his hand and hit Kaito's chest. Kaito was injured, but Yami was also badly affected and became indistinguishable from the dead. Yami can bring the dead back to life, but he can't bring himself back to life. So Kaito thought he was dead and left him.
The zombie rebellion is over. As luck would have it, the green-eyed girl picked him up as he fell on the battlefield. After that, he was appointed as a servant. That's why he became the bodyguard that he is today. The news is not good.
It's a case of Kaito's power being destroyed and retiring from the life of a hero. As far as he knew, the injury he had inflicted would only disturb Kaito for a moment. It's not enough to be disabled.
Later, he learned that the government was afraid of the danger of mutants above the S level, and attacked Kaito on the way back. The young S rank Usaki of the Yamaguchi family was missioned to assassinate him . At that time, Usaki was only eleven years old, but she could already use the demon slaying sword. In addition to being injured, Kaito, who was unable to use his power due to the demon slaying sword, seemed to have been destroyed under Usaki.
"Haha..." Yami, who was in deep thought, just sighed and stopped thinking about the former rival in the past. He has to do his job. There is still a person that Sofia has been asked to protect. For now, he is a humble servant. So he must obey Goddess's command.