"Best defence vs my life force fueled attack. Let's see who wins," shouted Diego as he finally finished forming the black hole.
The thorns were now close enough to pierce through his skin.
He looked at Arashi for the last time before throwing the huge black orb at him. Arashi stood there calmly as he had full confidence in his eternal prison.
Black Hole and eternal prison clashed.
"Trrrrhh,"
"Krrrhhh,"
The chains made noise as they got pushed back by the black orb that was sucking everything around it.
Soon, the gravity around the orb increased manifold, and everything around it got sucked into it.
The ground disappeared and the trees vanished. The chains perished leaving a defenceless Arashi behind.
'Impossible. How did he do this?' Arashi thought while looking at the incoming orb.
He felt as if he was seeing death itself. His whole body shook as he felt the power behind the orb.
"I'll kill you. I'll make you pay for this," Arashi said while clenching his teeth as the orb was about to hit him.
"This is the end. And you won't get the chance to kill me. I am already dead," Diego said while falling on the ground. His skin started to rot away as he saw Arashi get enveloped by the black hole.
'Looks like I am gonna die as well. All my life force is gone. Hina, at least I took your revenge,' Diego thought as sat on the ground.
Tears started to trickle down his eyes. His life turned upside down in a day. His fiancee, his lover, got killed by his best friend.
The only people he loved were gone and he was the one to kill his best friend.
He closed his eyes as his left hand touched the surface of the book that Arashi wanted. Blood started to fall on the book until it became completely red.
On the touch of the blood, the book started to shine. The light was so bright that it blinded Diego for a second.
'What's happening?' he thought while looking at the book. The book soon started to float in the air.
It's pages started to flip. At first, it was slow but the speed increased gradually before it stopped at the middle page of the book.
A demonic energy started to come out of it.
'What is this evil and wicked energy?' Diego thought while looking at the book.
He had never felt an energy so cursed in his life.
The energy started to cover the whole area turning everything dark. Nothing was visible anymore. The world itself seemed to be in pain.
"I can't even see my hands," Diego muttered while trying to lift his hands.
The density of the energy increased as the pages of the book started to flip once again. Every page had a symbol imprinted on it.
Diego noticed this and looked at the book with all the concentration he had.
All the pages of the book were now almost flipped and only the last remained.
'This seems like a seal that's holding back some cursed evil from coming out. But it's incomplete. The pattern is incomplete,' Diego thought while looking with a lifeless expression.
He was going to die anytime so this book didn't matter to him anymore. This world and its problems were not his anymore.
The book flipped once more. The last page of the book was visible which had markings all over it made of blood. Suddenly black fog erupted from it and entered Diego's body.
His body started to shake. His legs, hands, and his whole body were being corroded even faster.
'What's happening to me?' Diego thought.
He wasn't able to see anything. Everything around him was dark. It was as if he was gazing into the abyss itself.
After a few minutes, the fog cleared. Diego saw a battlefield when he opened his eyes.
'Where am I?' he thought.
He was floating in the air right now. Below him was a huge battlefield which was full of dead bodies. In the middle of the battlefield, a pile of dead bodies were stacked on top of each other.
Above them stood a yokai that sent shivers down Diego's spine.
'What is this monstrosity? I have never seen a yokai as strong as this. Is he one of the legendary mystic-rank yokais?' he thought while looking at him.
The yokai had seven eyes. Three on the forehead while four in the sockets. Two horns were present on top of his skull.
His greyish-black body was shining in the moonlight making him look like a menace to society.
He lifted his head and looked at Diego as their eyes met. A small smile formed on the yokai's face as he examined Diego from top to bottom.
"You want my power? I think you are too weak for that," the yokai said.
Diego's expression froze as he heard those words.
'What is he talking about? Is he able to see me?' Diego thought while trying to run away but his body didn't move.
The black fog started to appear once again as the yokai looked at Diego for the last time.
"We'll meet again,"
Those were the yokai's last words. Diego closed his eyes and drifted into sleep.
(In the real world)
The book vanished into thin air while Diego was sleeping comfortably on the ground. His rotten skin started to regenerate once again.
The regeneration was so fast that it could be seen with naked eyes. In no time, Diego's skin was as good as new.
"Seems like our plan didn't go as planned. I wish we could take that Diego guy but we don't need him now," said a short yokai.
He was as tall as a fourteen-year-old kid. He had grey skin with black eyes. He was holding a cane.
"Yes and we even lost two Zenin rank yokais. At least we got a vessel. We will come to retrieve him when it's time," said a bulky yokai who was standing beside the short one.
"We should get going now,"
Said the short one as they both seeped through the ground and vanished leaving a half-destroyed Amazon forest and Diego who will never be able to live a proper life again.
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[Edited by OtakuSumit]