Chapter 28,
Devilish Angel, Angelic Devil
Third Person's POV
Right at his spot, Hiruki was extremely nervous, and his hands were shaking like crazy. He knows that he's next in the list, and he's the only one left who's not yet winning. If he loses, it'll leave a bad impression on their party, or in the worst case scenario, he'll be kicked out. Probably, that won't happen since he knows them well, but I'll give a strong blow on their future image. For Hiruki, he has to and will win, no matter what happens.
"Hiruki, calm down, it's about to start," Koshiro said from behind.
Hiruki replied with a faint smile, "I'll do my best," he said, then walked out of the room to go to the battle.
"Next battle! Will this be exciting than the others? I want to hear it from everyone!" Deshy shouts on the top of her lungs, and the people came shouting as well, "Participants: Hiruki and Kimmi!"
In front of Hiruki was a girl who was also on fear of losing the fight. Her hair was black and the same goes for her dress. The dress was coupled with a pair black earrings and bracelets, and a necklace with an hexagram inside a hollow circle. Her appearance in physical can be considered beautiful, but Hiruki felt it oddly creepy for some reason.
"Now, begin!" Deshy signalled.
After the signal, Kimmi began chanting, "Darkness, give me your power, Third Spirit, Gemilyn."
Slowly, her shadow expanded and a lady in pure white bridal dress with a big bow tied in the back came out. Her hair is long, and it's covering her face. In her chest was a stain of blood that slowly pours down infinitely, staining her clothes in the process, and letting the blood fall on the ground.
In a moment, the time stopped and everyone did, except for the two who's in the battle, "Answer me," Gemilyn slowly tilts her head twenty degrees to the left, "D-Do you l-like m-me?" Along with her shaky voice, her bones came cracking that even Hiruki can hear it.
Hiruki wasn't able to move, on the other side. He wasn't, but he's sure that he's able to talk from the feeling that he gets. And one more thing is certain, his answer plays a big role in this fight.
"To be certain and blunt with you, I have no interest in you, but it doesn't mean I hate you. I like someone else, sorry," Hiruki looked at the girl with no lies clouding his eyes.
"W-What does that su-supposed to m-mean?" Her voice starts to sound creepy.
"The answer is simple, he doesn't like you," Kimmi answered in place of Hiruki.
Because of the misunderstanding, Gemilyn started to get angry that he tilts her head more and more until it reached one-eighty degrees, "W-Why?! Am I not pretty? Who? Who is this person that you chose over me?!"
With that, Gemilyn held her head with both of her hands and tilted and tilted it until it was torn apart, separating her head from her body. Next to it was more creepy. Blood splattered everywhere, and the blood on the ground began to form something.
Shocked by what he saw, Hiruki was shaking in fear in seeing the name written made our of blood, "Koshiro". Without a warning, while he was distracted by what's in front, a large scissors with a shape of two sickle. It was directly attacking him with no hesitation at a rapid rate
"Dark mirages," with his chant, he became a mist and mirages of him appeared out of nowhere, just standing there while a black, thick fog covers the place.
Koshiro, on the other hand, was bewildered by what's in there. He can feel his body a little hot, and he's emitting a red aura around himself. That's not all to it. He can't see anyone there except for the three on the ring.
"You're quite something, aren't you?" Athena spoke from behind, making Koshiro jolt back from his deep thoughts, "I can't say for sure, but something in you prevents you from being left out when a Spirit Dimension is casted in a certain area you're in," she added.
"Spirit Dimension? If I'm not mistaken, it's a place where a spirit lives. More like their unconscious. If that's activated, they're able to go inside their own unconscious and lock anyone there until they die. Since the Spirit went to its own unconscious, it will no longer be an unconscious, but with the master's power, they can defy that law," Koshiro spoke with what he knows.
"That's right. If you're wondering about why I'm here, it's a secret. I can't reveal such information to you, but one thing to say, it's something my kind can do," she smiled back at Koshiro.
"Probably, that girl is likely to defeat him unless he has a card up his sleeves. Well, only if he has," she added.
Back to the battle, Hiruki was able to dodge in time and recover his stance. He casted Dark Mirages in time to hide himself while deceiving his enemy.
"Darkness, give me your power, Second Spirit, Ronald," once again, his shadow expanded and this time, a guy came out of it.
The guy was wearing a pair of black pants, coupled with his tuxedo and a black mask in his face. He has a locket tied in his right hand and also holds a cane on the same hand. Gemilyn on the other hand, went behind Kimmi to protect her from any sudden attacks, while Ronald with be on offence.
Ronald tapped his cane on the ground, and chains came out of the ground, restraining Hiruki's movements. The chains glowed darkish purple and it came surging into Hiruki's body making him scream in agony.
Slowly, an image formed from behind him playing at a rapid speed. It was his childhood and pasts.
"You're just a useless kid, go away, I don't want to befriend you!" A voice of a young girl, and a sound of a slap from batting away someone's hand came ringing.
"His family is just too kind to make him feel special, despite being the useless one. Poor family he has," An old woman talking to a group of mothers whispered.
"Go away, we don't need someone as useless as you! Move!" another voice of a kid was heard. This time around, it was a boy.
"Shut up." Hiruki muttered as the dark aura enveloping him started to abruptly swirl around forming a shape of a wing made out of the cloud he consumed.
After that, real wings cane out of his back, the other is black, while the other half was clean as white in color. Some of its feathers came off as he walks slowly, approaching the enemy while he changes his form.
His clothes was still the same, but his look is different. The right side of his hair is fallen down was his left part is following the flow of dark aura on his body. Magical Powers were seeping out from his body in two forms, dark and light magic. Those leaking Magical Powers formed a lot of spheres in color of light and dark and slowly surrounded him, orbiting around his body.
He whispered faintly in a weak voice before looking at Ronald with a scary face, "Darkness, give me your power, Crawl from Hell, Invisible Hands,"
Another layer of thick black mist appeared and the ground seemed to be off. Little did the others knew, purple transparent hands came out of the ground and slowly creeped into Ronald's body. No one can see it except for Hiruki, who casted it. The hands slowly binded his body from head to toe by entangling itself on him. Another hand came creeping, and this time around, it was creeping into the direction of Ronald's chest.
The hand entered his chest and Ronald tried his best to struggle from the bad feeling he gets. He tried to move, but he couldn't. He cant even create a little sound from the restraining. Not long, he was not struggling anymore, and lifelessly falls into the ground.
From the fear of being defeated, Kimmi screamed, "Darkness, give me your power, First Spirit, Dark General, Elegy," she added, "I can't be defeated here, or they'll dispose me!" Her last sentence shocked Hiruki for a bit.
But before Hiruki could return to his original state, his power overpowered him once more.
Elegy came reciting a poem, "Black misty place, a death of three, You killed us, who is thee!"
Without a word, he turned into ashes and the two other spirits did the same. Kimmi was blinded by the strong light that he doesn't know what happened. Elegy just recited an Elegy for them three since he saw them dieing there. This was a terrifying power, indeed.
Not long, everything went to normal, and Deshy announced after talking with someone, "Winner: Hiruki!"
Looking closely, the light was no ordinary light. That light can erase one's existence. That was the Light of Life. It's a kind of light that can return and remove an existence of one person.
Before Hiruki could realize it, he was teleported right in front of Koshiro, and was also hit by him in the neck, making him fall down, unconscious.
"What happened?" Goro asked.
Koshiro just smiled, "Nothing, in particular."
"I can't really describe this kid. . ." Athena was speechless.
"That's easy. He's a Devilish Angel, Angelic Devil," Koshiro chuckled.
"What was that supposed to mean?" Athena was baffled.
"You'll see it," he answered.
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