In the end, no matter how much Ben's physical and mental state deteriorated, the moment he heard that pair of footsteps in the hallway, he immediately knew who they belonged to.
Merely a few moments later, the door to Ben's cell was suddenly opened, causing the wounded man to raise his head and stare at the person in front of him.
Sadly though, right now, Ben had only one eye, furthermore, that eye itself was not in a very good shape, making him unable to clearly see the person that had walked into his cell.
But even so, Ben still recognized her, as he always would.
Step by step, Kiara, who was seemingly carrying something in her arms, approached Ben, who was unable to see what she was carrying.
Suddenly, though, when Kiara was around 3 meters away from him, Ben completely froze.
Ben's eye, which had become completely lifeless in the past, thanks to the extreme deterioration of his mental state, was suddenly filled with anger.
Merely a moment later, Ben's body, which was ridden with wounds and illnesses, began suddenly struggling as his anger brought his dead mind back to life.
The moment Ben caught sight of the little boy lying in Kiara's arms, whose face was clearly morbidly deformed, an unspeakable rage couldn't help but appear to emerge from his very soul.
Seeing this, a faint smile appeared on Kiara's face as she further approached Ben, allowing him to get a better look at the child.
"Why?!" asked Ben as he looked at Kiara with a completely exasperated look on his face, feeling completely bewildered at the moment, as the rage filling his mind began slowly but surely boiling.
"I just wanted you to have a better look at your blood before I put it out of its misery," said Kiara as she looked at the completely deformed child in her arms, who was clearly in constant pain, with a smile on her face.
This uncharacteristically gentle smile present on his sister's face did not make Ben feel any sort of relief.
The only thing this smile achieved was confusing Ben for a brief moment before Kiara suddenly took out a pocketknife and showed it right into the skull of the at most, a month-old baby.
At this very moment, Ben suddenly realized why Kiara had done all of this, why she had gone to these lengths to do what she did.
To simply bring him pain.
Before Kiara could do anything, the mana resistant shackled that restrained Ben's fragile body suddenly snapped, as the extremely thin, nearly skeleton like Ben suddenly leapt towards his sister, only a single thought filling his mind.
Revenge
In a scene that defied all reason, Ben's extremely thin and weak hand suddenly smashed through the Dark Barrier protecting Kiara, before suddenly piercing right through the left side of her chest.
Even though Dark Bolt after Dark Bolt pierced through Ben's body, his heart, his brain, everything, this did not stop him from continuing to attack Kiara.
By then, Ben was already long dead, but even so, Ben's soul, so hungry for revenge, began controlling his dead body like a lifeless puppet, using it to completely tore the body of his sister apart, trying his best to kill her.
Not even the occasional moan that Kiara let out as Ben smashed her skull apart could break Ben out of his frenzy.
In the end, it would seem as though nothing would be able to stop Ben from achieving his goals.
...
As she stared at the three small, nearly pitch black clouds floating in front of her, two of which had red hickeys on them, a faint smile couldn't help but appear on Beatrice's face, causing her to stretch out her hand and grab one of them.
Although Beatrice had given her a small push at the beginning, Kiara had then proceeded to go beyond even Beatrice's expectations, sinking to levels that Beatrice had not thought possible from the seemingly innocent girl.
Even in the end, as her brother killed her, and her teacher abandoned her to die, Kiara was still able to feel a sense of twisted and dark happiness from all of this.
Rather interestingly, the way Kiara died was rather similar to how she had killed her parents, which may have played a part into her twisting her brother's actions as his 'love' for her, as she did to her own actions towards her parents.
After thinking for a few more moments, Beatrice no longer dwelled on for much longer, and quickly placed Kiara's soul into her mouth, destroyed the red hickey that represented the Dark Kiss Spell, and devoured Kiara's soul.
The moment Beatrice devoured the soul of the still young girl, all of her memories, feelings and thoughts were absorbed by Beatrice, causing Beatrice to fall silent for a few moments.
"As expected, she was delicious," mumbled Beatrice as she licked her lips.
In the end, Kiara also brought Beatrice a new perspective on darkness, one which only a Dark Mage that had sunk to such depths could have.
Unlike Beatrice's own darkness, which was cold, silent, and calculating, Kiara's darkness was filled with a twisted sense of passion, emotion and feeling.
Interestingly though, in the end, this darkness was also filled with a twinge of regret, which made Beatrice's eyes slightly twitch.
After a few moments, Beatrice then took out two boxes, where she placed the two others souls that she had obtained.
It was only after making sure that the two souls were perfectly sealed that Beatrice finally began to fall into thought, and began understanding Kiara's darkness, hoping to use it to further her own understanding of the topic, as well as her power.
As in the end, this was the reason why she would do something like this, as unlike Kiara, she had no desire to bring pain onto others without any sort of reason.
Beatrice would only continue with her meal after she fully digested the previous serving, not wanting to waste even a tiny bit of the fruit that she had been carefully raising for the past eleven years.