Are we truly sinful?
Typically it'd mean we're wicked and immoral by some astute higher observers. Wicked, bad, criminal and guilty. I don't view myself as such nor anyone else. We're all simple creatures with different views and methods of acting. It's rather crude to brand someone wicked or criminal for being lustful or filled with wrath. We're all filled with emotions and tend to act on them at times.
Even the desire to meet your own end.
"DAMN IT! I FUCKING POURED MY FAITH INTO YOU AND FUCKED IT UP DAMN IT. you know what, I blame myself Sumi. I don't know why I really thought I could just pour two years into someone and really think they could end 200 years of hell. I really thought you were gonna be different, I thought you'd be the one to release me o magi. Just goes to show how naive I've been."
She yelled with unbridled rage, even when she was calm I could clearly see and feel how angry she was. This was because she kept kicking me in the gut. I couldn't bring myself to answer her, not right now anyway.
"Another two years, maybe even 6, possibly a whole lifetime. Maybe then I can finally perish."
She put her hands to her chest before biting her lip, blood ran down but it'd soon perish. Eventually she began to walk off.
"Look..- — Zel, I'm sorry. I'll try again-— get even stronger Zel, look at me. Please."
"Thank you but..— I don't forgive you, my family will never be able to thrive so long as I'm still alive and you know this. I wanted you to kill me before the operation so I wouldn't have to murder all of them tomorrow, or at the very least see them dead."
"…—"
Zel's family has worked for the kingdom since the day it was founded as a subsidiary to us, a secret underground family of assassins who serve the crown and crown alone. They would fight any form of oppression to the crown even if it meant killing their own. Zel wouldn't have been able to convince them otherwise no matter what she said.
Hearing her hurt me a bit cause I wanted to at least help a bit. But in the end all my efforts to getting strong were futile but not entirely. Zel gripped me by the hair and dragged me slowly, she was going in to punch but immediately lost her will to do so. Instead she grabbed my arm and flew us back to the base. It hurts to know cause she blindly poured her faith in me and I genuinely didn't wanna let her down.
It hurts to know I let someone down, I really thought I could pull through but came up short.
Goku could've done it but then again he fumbled a bit with freeza.
As we got the base I eventually saw the full amount of soldiers gathered for Uriel. It had to be double the amount Astaren had to offer in total. Nearly 3 million had came just for him, I was astounded. It really became apparent that Uriel was this brilliant person who could easily gather people around him.
I floated down to the main entrance of the base after brushing Zel off. I contemplated that there was a slight change in how the day would go about but this didn't stop me in the slightest. I ended up not sleeping the entire night. But because I wanted to cause some mischief I took it upon myself to sneak into the main palace and made an audience with the king. If I could make things even a tiny bit worse for everyone, especially Uriel? I'm going to do it.
I put my hood over my head and casually strolled through the palace. It wasn't too late so the king was still awake, I'd sneak into his quarters and wait there promptly by sitting in a chair eating some of his leftover food which still happened to be fresh. I didn't care anymore as things needed to take a turn for the worse.
After a few minutes a presumptuously large man entered the room with 3 girls on him, one grabbing his crotch, another twirling his nipple while another feeds him food from a tray she has. He was repulsive and it made sense why Uriel would've wanted to take over if it was this slob that wanted to keep ruling.
Technically it wasn't a bad idea.
Regardless he was shocked when he saw a hooded figure in this room. Every one of his fat rolls dripped with sweat and jiggled.
"W—WHO ARE YOU AND WHA"
"What are you doing here you might be wondering? Well I've come here to say someone's assembled a large army right under your nose to rebel tomorrow. I'm afraid I can't say who but you'd better act now so you can ambush them.."
"Hrgfhh.. Jabba understands.. Your loyalty to the kingdom is appreciated. Actually, how do I know you're not a spy or trying to fool me. This could very well be a attempt from Bayard to exploit me, to draw away military power or to—"
"Don't take it the wrong way, I'm not loyal to anyone.. I just wanted to fuck over a lot of people.. at once."
"Hrrgghh.. I see—"
"Just know they're all hiding at the plateau under the Hansmen Quarters. Even if you don't see anything just know it's cloaking magic. Shoot from above if possible."
After that I left through the window and flew off into the night.
I watched from above and saw the entire castle light up while the war bells were sounded only a few minutes after I delivered the message. Everything was put into chaos on the assumption I was right. Of course I was right, but it's entertaining to see all of this unfold before my eyes. I smiled a bit before heading back.
While in my room I relaxed a bit and waited s couple minutes before I heard screams and crying. I smiled slowly as they got louder and louder.
Eventually a bell was rung as a result of this onslaught. The bell meant we were under attack, it hasn't been used in years as far as I knew. Eventually Luci came to my room with a distressed look on his face, I hopped up from my bed casually knowing exactly what was happening. He seemed confused at my calm composure, with that he struggled to even explain what going on.
"Sumire—.. we're under a-attack, we've gotta rush the operation and do it tonight."
"You go on without me, I've got things to handle real quick.."
"Don't give me that shit Sumire… THINGS TO HANDLE? WHAT THE HELL? OUR FRIENDS ARE IN DANGER!.."
"Your friends Luci. I don't know what you mean by our. You weren't ostracized from day one, I'm gonna keep it to a buck with you. I detested the large majority of you and continued to do so up until today. Now I've gotta go handle something, I'll see you around.."
"I— but—.. all that time..—"
He looked at me almost disgusted but with that he slowly backed out the room a bit too shocked to retort properly. I simply looked away from him and walked outside the window. I'd activate the divergent eyes to get a lock on everyone's locations, I'd take it out of my intuition to avoid Zel for the time being as she was on a murder spree currently. I saw that her family and all of the royal army had assembled in response. I didn't see the main guards anywhere nearby so it was only right to assume Uriel and his mains were fighting them.
With this I took it upon myself to lower my competitors one by one.
I floated down and noticed a Hansmen who was being ganged up by several royal troops while trying to keep her footing. I realized who it was, Felicia she was a powerful Hansmen who had a bit of arrogance issue. She often reminded me of a anime protagonist from how blindly confident she was but that was about to change.
I tapped the surface of the building taking a large amount of resources while channeling magic through them. Ultimately I'd create my flintlocks but there was a special factor I put into each of the shots. Chordatta altered the effect of each shot causing something to happen whenever they reach a certain vicinity. Since I still had my divergent eyes activated and planned on doing so the entire time, I watched each and every reality to factor down the most common responses and the true future available to me with my divergence.
I shot towards them and with this a black hole type of suction came from the bullets as they made contact with the assailants, and Felicia. They began to suck everything in at a rapid rate for the total of 2 seconds before spitting it out with a explosive power. Felicia would've been left only a crescent of their former selves. They looked at me with a shocked look as this was the case for the people attacking her. She tried to utter why before all of her entrails fell out her body and blood spattered from out her mouth.
"One down, 12 left to go."
I put my hand on her face which was still left in contact, I transmuted down and reconstructed everything pertaining to information and power within her body into my own. That consist of general power and sacred arts which came to my possession. Her ability controlled vectors and the direction things went, it naturally locked on locations which made her chordatta that much stronger. But now, I'm gonna handle each of the Hansmen one by one.
"Tonight…. I'm gonna have myself a real good time. I feel Ali-i-i-veeee.. AND THE WORLD… I'll turn it inside out, yeahhhh.."
I floated off locking onto the next onto the next Hansmen. I gripped the gun before chanting something and landing towards the next Hansmen.
"This gun is like Excalibur in all of its prominence."
The Hansmen who I had my eyes on next was Odric, his sacred art technique: Vanitas typically allowed him to nullify most attacks that he could perceive at the moment. But if I caught him off guard.
"Floating around in ecstasy…"
I aimed my Excaligun towards him but tilted it slightly to the where it wouldn't really hit him entirely. When I fired it a massive wave came surging from it but with my initial adjustment it just barely missed a portion of his body leaving enough for me to deconstruct his corpse and take it in.
"So don't stop me now… Don't! Stop me…"
All sorts of troops would've swarmed me at this sight, I jumped before slicing them down with the Excalibur. Some of them flew up and happened to be vidiels and Vados they got divided up from the main forces. I shot out a rapid fire only for them to dodge it. I smiled before using the Sacred Arts ability: Vainglory which let me change the direction of my attacks to go directly to their backs and warp their bodies beyond proportion and send them flying out over their comrades.
I smiled profoundly before dropping to the ground, I put the excaligun on my back before cracking my neck. With the divergent eyes I could see each and everyone of their moves before they even started to attack me.
"Cause I'm having a good time, having a good time!"
One started their assault first and the rest followed suit, he came in wide right hook but I dived down to the ground before he could even make contact. I swept his legs causing him to fall down, I'd prop myself up again in that same instant and stomp his throat while he was still down. While everyone else charged in at me, I dived within the crowd of angry fans and proceeded to beat the living shit out of each one I came I contact with. I kept it in me to punch one of them in the gut so hard they got sent flying along with everyone else nearby them.
While they were flying I whipped out the Excaligun once more and shot them down. The blast was so large scale all of their bodies ended up disintegrating a mere moments later. This continued for a minute before they all were either out of commission or simply dead.
I saw myself covered in blood splatter before going to to the palace. I continued to sing "Don't stop me now" on my way to the palace in order to finish the rest of the Hansmen. If I wanted to handle Selene I would've needed to copy Uriel's sacred arts technique in order to completely nullify his starlight. Or I could've just used the Sacred Art I just acquired to nullify it by perceiving it.
I jumped into the sky before skipping along towards it. I saw chaos ensuing not only in the sky but on the ground as well. It was rather entertaining to see but in comparison to my old life in my room I'd much prefer the latter where I could watch what I want and eat what I want. It is what it is though, what happened happened and I'm here now. Actually, now that I think about it, I've more or less forgotten how I died and the things that really transpired to get me to this point where I'm just in a different world.
I pondered that slightly before going heading towards the palace. I'd get requested to support everyone at the palace by other Uriel support troops but the moment I left from their field of vision I ended up lighting them on fire.
No witnesses under any circumstances.
As I proceeded through the capital I saw bodies and blood scattered about. Some resided in our own forces while others in the kingdoms. As far as anyone knows right now I'm still "with" the Hansmen but I work under my own principles. Once again I'd proceed to track down whoever my next target, the closest to me as of right now would've been Selene's brother. His ability revolves more around wrapping a field around his body which gradually had a set distance. The trick was that the closer you got the more it repelled you and whatever attack you had.
If I can muster up enough force to cancel it out or overpower it, along with overworking it I'll begin to do some damage. The troublesome part of his ability revolves in its offensive use, it's basically just him pushing you at a extremely volatile rate. That's the main thing that made him stronger than Selene. Contradictions are made within them fighting. Since he became a starlight which is in a sense better than whatever he gets near, then he'll just continue to press forward. But the more he's able to press forward the more Gawain can send him flying. Only because of this gradual build up in contradiction is Gawain able to keep his ground. The main problem is when he's overwhelmed in a single instant. I kept this in mind as I proceeded further.
Once I came with my approach I'd jump into the sky and began dashing towards him. I'd take the Excaligun from off my back before charging it up and realizing. By using deconstruction as a primary factor in the bullet from my sacred art, I could eat away at his subjective field and penetrate him immediately. Deconstruction was an overwhelming force or act of nature which bypassed conventional rules or things which might be in place.
Once I was in range I fired condensed shots like a sniper to maximize the amount of penetration and deconstruction into one point where it would hit him from the inside out. In fact, had I thought of this a year earlier I could best Selene without having to steal Uriel's technique.
I aimed towards his head and fired my shot but the moment I fired I was knocked into the ground by somebody. It didn't make sense as to who did it or how they got behind me. I then realized my eyes had just started to wear off. Usually I'd be able to foresee anything that came towards me but this person bypassed me right when I was started to wear out.
I looked to the side and Mary had been flying in the sky prior. Behind her was a number of magic circles with the hands of beast drooping from out of them. I figured this was my last chance so I looked towards Gawain who just barely dodged my shot. He just realized what was going on and didn't know how to respond entirely. But started to catch on slowly as his thoughts collected.
I just aimed towards him again and took the shot leaving a hole in his gut. Had Mary not intervened it would've been painful and instant. I saw that hole slowly growing as blood poured from his body. Mary had a angered look on her face before I switched how my shot would react to her body, it was switched to its second initial command where anything that came into a specific vicinity got sucked in and spewed out violently.
It was then I noticed from under me around 3 magic circles which summoned arms of demonic and unholy nature. I shot at them and tried to tear away at them but they rebuilt themselves and regenerated continuing to attack me.
"Sumire, I can't say I didn't expect this but for you to do it today of all days is quite.. underhanded and conniving. And judging from your appearance you've already dealt with a lot of our men and possibly the other side. I'm not sure who you affiliate with but…— if it's not with Uriel or the Hansmen then I'll sever your existence and association right here and now."
I stared at her with reprise knowing she'd put up a decent fight but I've grown significantly since we first met. I shot at the arms again after hopping away slightly in the air, but using the newest arts technique that allowed me to completely repel and nullify abilities I'd infuse this with my guns which would consequently cause each shot to eradicate and erase whatever ability that it came in contact with.
"Mary, to be perfectly honest I'm not quite sure how you guys didn't see it coming but it's whatever cause I'm gonna end things here."
I sent a electric signal towards the ground before multiple guns began spawning slowly surrounding the entire area. Mary at the moment tried to catch me off guard by attacking me at the side with the head of a demonic beast, it swiftly encompassed my entire body but not a moment sooner I sliced it open completely using the blade of Excalibur.
A gale of wind came thrusting out as I stood and looked at Mary. She had a look of disdain on her face evoking a presence of despair for anyone who decided to get involved with this battle. My wrath for her and everyone else knew no end. I couldn't simply let her have her way and interrupt things. My actions.. they're justified right? Am I the bad one for simply having my get back. Should I really have just let things be and proceeded about my life in this world knowing the things the did to me for just trying to make my way. For just trying to pave my own path in this world.
My eyes flickered briefly while staring at her, the scenery, looking over the capital of yventia. I'd continue to think to myself, what's really the point of any of this.