The Devil that Atsuku called Eve looked at him before turning to the thug in front of its eyes. It raised its hand, pointing at the unconscious thug as if asking Atsuku if he was sure it should enter that body.
"Yeah, I get that for you. Enter it. You can't say a word in your shadow form, can't you?"
Eve nodded its head but was still reluctant to enter the thug's body. It poked around his head, checking whether he was alive or not before slumping its shoulder.
It surrendered to fate because no other people were there and decided to enter the thug's body, following Atsuku's words.
Its shadow body moved inside the thug's body, possessing it.
The thug's body moved uncontrollably, forcefully reconstructed. The waistline became thinner. The butt became plumper. The chest area bulged, creating two large mounds, and the face became more feminine.
He was reformed entirely and turned into a her by Eve. Even the clothes changed into something like a sexy dress, exposing her cleavage and showing her side boob. Then she stood up while using her arms as support.
"A… Aaa…" She opened her mouth, rolling her tongue, and tried to speak. "Ah, the language is different. Can you understand me? I looked at this body's memories to learn the language. It is a bit strange."
"I can understand you just fine," Atsuku replied. "Now, before I seal you, do you have something to say?"
"What a barbaric thing to say, John." Eve smiled. Her smile was so captivating. Her long black hair and deep pink eyes invited every man's desire. "Shouldn't we fight on the bed first? Like what we did on Fantasia."
"I refuse, you fucking whore. I won't allow you to roam in this world and create a mess as you did back in Fantasia. That guy isn't here, so you've become my responsibility to take care of."
"Ah, what a shame. You're right. My beloved man isn't here, but my beloved John is still alive and kicking. You've become more handsome and younger too. A perfect man for me to sleep with." Eve licked her lips seductively, but her charm didn't work on Atsuku.
Eve, the Queen of Succubus. She got that name after destroying 2 countries back in Fantasia. Securing her position with her charm, she made two countries wage war against each other with her as a prize.
Her existence itself was dangerous. And dangerous things must be erased as soon as possible, so they wouldn't create any problems in the future.
"You do know that seduction won't work on me," Atsuku said, getting into a stance as he held his sword tight. "Because we were friends before, I will seal you without pain."
"So horrible! But it can't be helped! Come, John! Let's play a little!"
From Eve's body, a pink fog appeared and condensed beside her. It slowly morphed into another Eve. Both were identical and had the same power. It was Eve's ability, a real illusion. It had a mass and could use the real Eve's ability too.
Normally, she could create more than 10 of them at the same time. But due to her just being invading a body and hadn't fully assimilated with it yet, her strength was still limited.
Atsuku calculated that she had an equivalent power to that First Stage Core human. So he was confident of beating her using his experience and items inside his space storage. It was also the reason why Eve called it a play instead of a battle.
'Our previous battle turned a lush forest into a scorched wasteland, so calling this a play is not wrong.'
"Yeah, let's dance for the first and last time on Earth, Eve."
Without a signal, both Atsuku and Eve moved at the same time. A whip appeared in Eve's and her real illusion's hands, attacking Atsuku simultaneously, while Atsuku kicked the ground and approached them quickly.
With his sword, he deflected the first whip and dodged the second whip by jumping away. Still, he couldn't fully avoid it and ended up having his left upper arm hit, ripping his sleeve and turning his skin red.
"You're slow, John. Where is the speed that you are proud of?!" Eve tried to taunt Atsuku.
"Unfortunately, I am not that strong yet."
The taunt didn't work. Atsuku himself knew that he was weak currently. Extending his free hand, he conjured a torrent of flame that could easily engulf both Eve and her real illusion.
Swoosh!
The flame was hot, scorching the street, and flew toward Eve.
It was Flame Control!
The Succubus managed to dodge it and was only burned slightly, but the real illusion had no time to move and got burned. Its body melted and disappeared into a pink smoke inside the flame.
Because they were on the main street, there were many abandoned cars on the side of the street with their tanks open. Atsuku's fire hit one of them, engulfing it in fire. And as the fire touched the gas that leaked from the open tanks… It exploded.
Boom!
"Wha?!" Eve was surprised. The car behind her suddenly exploded one after another and sent her in Atsuku's direction.
Waiting for her was Atsuku standing while ready to swing his sword. The blade was covered in a hot flame.
"That's called a car. And it can explode as it uses gasoline instead of Arcane to move." He said as he swung his sword at Eve, aiming at her body.
"Tsk!" Eve clicked her tongue and swung her whip. She hadn't conjured wings behind her back yet, so she couldn't fly away—a mistake for being overconfident after knowing that Atsuku was still weak.
The whip's metal grid and the sword met in the air, creating a spark.
However, the flame surrounding the sword easily flew toward Eve. It burned her body, forcing her to abandon her whip and jump back to safety. The left side of her clothes was burned, showing her scorched skin. It became red, not the pure white from earlier.
Her legs were also burned, leaving a nasty mark on her skin.
The Devil called Eve was indeed strong. She had 10 horns as proof of her strength.
But her real strength lay in seduction and charm, not in battle. Even Atsuku fell for her once before realizing that she was a Devil. Though he quickly got over it and killed her in Fantasia. No mercy for those who fooled him.
"I am indeed becoming weaker, but…" Swinging his sword, Atsuku threw the whip away, and it disappeared into a thousand pink lights. "You're way weaker than me. I am the Depraved Hero. And I didn't get my Hero title by chance."
"That was a bit concerning. Fufufu." Eve let out a nervous laugh as she held her scorched body and winched in pain. "I guess I need to get serious too."
A pair of bat wings appeared behind Eve's back. She flapped them, creating a gust of wind in the area that blew away the dust into the air.
Atsuku noticed immediately that Eve tried to run away.
"No chance."
He quickly opened his space storage and took out a red gem the size of his index finger. He threw it into the air and slashed in two with his sword. The flame around his sword died down; he erased it so as not to burn the gem.
As soon as he did that, a half-transparent purple dome appeared in a radius of 10 meters, with Atsuku as the center.
At that moment, Eve's wings disappeared, and she dropped to the ground, surprised. However, she managed to land on her feet while grunting in pain, looking at Atsuku wide-eyed.
"Grade 2 Arcane sealing barrier?! How did you have that in this world?" She raised her voice, clearly surprised by the situation.
"A certain voice salvaged my space storage from Fantasia, you see?" Atsuku replied calmly as he walked toward Eve. He stopped in front of the powerless succubus and put his sword near her neck. "Any last word before I kill and seal you?"
"Haha, so you still can't kill me completely. Well, I love you, John. See you again."
"Me too, Eve." He swung his sword and cleanly separated Eve's head from her body. "But not anymore. Farewell."
A gust of shadow escaped the severed head. Quickly, Atsuku took a small bottle with various runes engraved into it from his space storage.
This was the only Grade 4 Sealing Item managed to get salvaged by Gaia. It made sealing Eve easier and would last longer than he planned it to be.
Opening the bottle, it sucked all the shadow inside.
Killing a Devil wasn't as easy as it sounded. With his strength, he couldn't completely kill Eve yet. So he erased her from this world by sealing her and would only kill her when he had enough strength.
After all the shadow got sucked inside the bottle completely, Atsuku closed it, threw it back into his space storage with his sword, and closed the void.
"Haa…" He sighed tiredly as he put his hands inside his coat pocket. His body was drenched in sweat just by moving around a little bit. "How weak have I turned out now? To think I would get tired just by that…" He complained and looked up at the countdown.
The countdown showed '00:00:00' and stayed in the sky just like a floating white balloon.
"But that was done. I should return before Rio wakes up, or it will be troublesome."