"These clothes are pretty decent, maybe I can use my first Oc I made in the other world, yeah, yeah, what was his name again." Ajax thinks to himself, trying to remember the name of his Oc, "Oh right, his name was Accelerant, he was supposed to be some guy that manipulated physics." Ajax walks along the walkway in the city thinking about what else he needs when he then realizes he should try to use what he has learned about mana so far and his knowledge on science and physics from his past life, he runs to an empty alleyway between 2 stores and attempts to try doing fire. "From what I know, mana is kind of like atoms, they aren't completely spiritual like in fiction and can be manipulated in scientific ways." Ajax thinks about the science of mana and how it can be manipulated, "I should try stacking my energy first and see how far I can go with that, with what I did before maybe if I continuously stack, I can do extremely powerful punches and stuff, heh, sounds awesome" he thinks to himself while standing in an open empty space after walking past the alleyway. "Alright, let's do this", Ajax prepares himself, getting into stance, he starts stacking the mana inside him by continuously placing mana on top of each other in huge chunks inside his body, he starts feeling light and after a while he start glowing, blue lines appearing all throughout his body and seeing the mana leak out of those lines like smoke, "Wow, this is awesome, I should go further and see where this could lead me", he continuous stacking the energy and start feeling even lighter however he realizes that the mana is extremely hot and that his body is seemingly about to blow, "Hold up, oh shi-", in that instants, he releases a massive explosion of mana from his body and the entire area get evaporated in a 600 feet diameter explosion. Ajax regains his vision after the bright flash that occurred from the explosion and the smoke around blinds Ajax's view seeing nothing but smoke around the area after the explosion. "WOW, wow...how many NPC's did I just kill, heh, probably caught a thousand bodies from that or something" Ajax smiles as he realizes just how overpowered he can become, with this new knowledge, he leaves the vicinity realizing that he doesn't want to get caught in the middle of the chaos. The perspective switches to Metsuma as he looks at the destruction in front of him, the empty space of nothing but debris in the landscape but the only thing that he can think of is his parents who were just killed in that explosion, he drops his fork on the table and begins to cry, feeling an emptiness inside himself and he starts to hyperventilate as well but that sadness is soon replaced with anger as he realizes that someone must have killed them as he doubts that this was just some random accident, "Whoever did this, I'LL FUCKING KILL THEM!", he angrily declares out loud, he runs into the vicinity, looking for the cause of the explosion but unfortunately, he finds no one present. Filled with anger, he simply stands there, clenching his fist. 4 hours after the incident, Metsuma looks at the graves of his parents, a saddened but vengeful and angry face present on his face, Metsuma goes on to his knee and places flowers at his parents' grave remaining silent, he gets up then walks away but not towards the city, but away from the city, "I'll kill whoever killed you, I swear it." Metsuma walks away from the city into the distance. 1 hour passes after Metsuma starts his journey, "Where the hell is the town" he thinks to himself as he looks at the map he carries, "It was said that the town of sages was a small town in between somewhere my city and the city to the north", he contemplates what to do as he knows he cannot make any mistakes, "I don't have much food, I have to find it in one shot." "Excuse me, are you lost?" Metsuma jolts from the sudden voice and quickly turns around, he sees a young woman, she wears a black dress and black heels, black long gloves and a black choker that has a blue gem in the center of it at the front, her hair is black, and her eyes are yellow. "Who are you?!" Metsuma replies, backing up a little from the woman's sudden appearance, "Don't be alarmed, I don't mean any ill intent if that's what you are thinking" she says while smiling innocently and having her hands in a prayer position. "Oh...uh, hi nice to meet you" Metsuma says while remaining a good enough distance from her, "Are you lost, you seem like a royal or someone of high status seeing your clothes don't look like that of a commoner" Metsuma says while eyeing down this strange woman, still suspicious of her but also somewhat infatuated by her beauty. "Oh, I was gonna ask you that, you seem so young, you seem like your 10 years old" she tells Metsuma, observing his appearance, she sees as Metsuma wears a green thin short sleeve jacket with a long sleeved white button shirt underneath, he wears black pants and sneakers, his scarf extremely big covering his nose and mouth and is tied to that a bow behind his neck and seeing how tall he is, measuring that he reaches her in chest height. "Now I'm only 5 years old", the woman looks at him shocked at his age, despite how tall he is, he wasn't that old. "Oh, wow you certainly don't look your age" the woman says while looking at him, "Yeah people say that a lot, I got a couple growth spurts, oh right what's your name, I haven't really asked for your name yet" Metsuma says to the woman while rubbing his head and smiling. "Oh right, my name is Mestra Devorah, but you can just call me Mestra, pleased to meet you" she extends her hand for a handshake, Metsuma now more laxed decided to get closer to Mestra to shake her hand, Metsuma gets close enough and shakes Mestra's hand, he feels the soft gloves and loves the touch of the gloves but he notices the strong grip that she has. With the two becoming familiar with each other, Metsuma thinks to himself about how talking with her has distracted him a little from the pain of losing his parents and makes him enjoy the company she brings. "By the way, what exactly are you doing in the middle of this empty road, there's no city for miles" Metsuma tells Mestra wondering why she would be here of all places, assuming she is royalty, "Well I got kind of lost after I was trying to find my pet that ran into the woods since I was chasing it for so long from the city over that way", Metsuma taking in this information seeing that she comes from the other city north but he is a bit confused as that city is extremely far and running from there to here on foot would take 1 day and a half meaning she would have been gone for a day, "Weird, if she was gone for a day, wouldn't they have already sent a search party for her" he thinks to himself but dismisses it shortly after. "Well if you need help, I could help you find your pet if you want", "Really, that would be wonderful, thank you", Mestra says while smiling. The two walk into the woods in an attempt to search for Mestra's lost pet, "So what does your pet look like", Mestuma saying while turned to Mestra, "Well it's basically a white rabbit and there are no other white rabbits in this forest so he should be easy to find, at least I hope", she says while walking with him side to side. As Metsuma walks, he jolts from a sudden touch and the sound of sniffing, he turns to see Mestra smelling his neck and holding his shoulder, he looks at her weird out but frozen. "Oh sorry, it's just a habit I have since I like smelling cologne and I assumed you had some on you", she says while awkwardly smiling, "Um okay, I mean people have their unusually hobbies or kinks" he says awkwardly, even if he did feel a little uncomfortable from the interaction, nevertheless they continue searching the rabbit. Metsuma looks into the distance and sees a white ball on stone near a pit, "Oh Mestra, the seems like your rabbit", Mestra looks in the same direction and sees the same white fur ball he saw, "Maybe it is, can you go grab him quickly, I'm worried he may fall into that pit and my heels won't allow me to run" she says while crouching looking at her rabbit while holding on to a tree. "Yeah, sure I can do that" Metsuma replies, getting ready to run towards the rabbit, he preps himself into a running position, he starts running towards the rabbit and jumps towards it, grabbing it successfully. "GOT IT!", he says smirking but he notices something in the pit that the rabbit was in front of, and he stares in disbelief at that sight, he sees corpses, many corpses, some look like their rotting and some missing limbs like arms and legs, some with their skin torn off, eyes plucked and more, he becomes horrified at the sight and backs up after being frozen for a while but he looks at the rabbit and sees that it's not actually a rabbit at all but a human head with white hair, he throws the head to the side while scream, "WHAT THE FUCK!?!, MESTRA THE–." Metsuma looks at Mestra and sees that she's not reaching but just standing there not at the tree anymore but a far distance away from him but then he sees that she starts smiling and laughing as she presses the gem on her choker, revealing a horrifying sight, no longer the beautiful girl that he first saw but seeing she has a lot of open cuts around her body, her facial features are somewhat removed, having no lips and only teeth of hers showing, her mouth slit from side to side, her eyes sockets are black and glow with a red color, snitches across her face and worst of all her neck seemingly completely different from her body, looking like skinned flesh and pulsing. He stares in horror at the sight of her, frozen and incapable of speaking, "Thank.You.For.Helping.Me.Find.My.Head.His.Name.Was.Rabbit.And.He.Taste.Good", tendrils start coming out from her back and she wraps one of her tendrils around Metsuma's legs and drags him towards her, Metsuma attempting to protect himself tries putting his hand in front of him but in second Mestra lunges towards him a bits his hand off, "AHHHHHHHHH!!", Metsuma screams while looking at his missing hand, hyperventilating at the pain, Metsuma attempts to escape but Mestra pulls him back on the ground still having his leg wrapped, she then lifts him in the air and slams him to the ground repeatedly while standing in place looking at him and smiling at his suffering, enjoying his screams of pain. Metsuma feels his bones cracking, his organs shifting from each impact, his nose breaking, his shortness of breath, it was painful and tortuous. Mestra stops slamming him and slam him to the rock that the head was at, effectively breaking his back, Metsuma unable to speak can only freeze in pain, Mestra walks towards him and stops on top of him on all fours while smiling, she rips his shirt off and listens for his heart, Metsuma trying to move, attempts unsuccessful due to being paralyzed from his back getting slammed to the rock. Mestra starts licking where his heart is at, Metsuma feels agony from her lick as her saliva feels like acid, stinging him over and over, like needles being stabbed in the specific area, Mestra stops licking and places her hand on top the area she licked, tapping that area, Metsuma can only stare at what she intends to do but also thinks about how thing could be his end, Mestra start clawing at that area, ripping the skin and flesh on that area, Metsuma can only scream in pain but those screams being muffled by blood coming out his mouth, he feels his skin then fleshed ripped and even sees his rib cage bones being forcefully broken and removed he hates that he is feeling all of this and fears for his life, crying at the fact that he's about to die so soon, he just started his journey to avenge his parents and it already ended, he carries with regret, sadness and despair. Mestra forcefully moves his lungs to the side inside him, Metsuma feeling a lack of air feeling his lungs being touched and moved, Mestra stares at the heart and starts to violently lick it while digging her head inside the hole she made, Mestuma feels her licking his heart as it beats and he feels her saliva on his heart, feeling that same needle pain, Metsuma just barely conscious feels hopeless near his death, in his last moment he feels as Mestra bites down on his heart, devouring it. Metsuma drifts into darkness then nothingness but as he feels light from his death, he opens his eyes and sees himself standing in front of his parent's graves, he takes a deep breath, jolting from the experience and falls to the ground, holding his chest, remembering the pain that he had just felt not that long ago, he begins crying and screaming, "WHAT.THE.FUCK?!" he says, taking a breath after each word. Metsuma ponders to himself, "Was I hallucinating or something, the hell was that" Metsuma lifts his shirt to looks at his stomach and to his surprise he sees a marks exactly where he was clawed at, "Why, why is this mark here, isn't this where she clawed at me, was that actually an illusion or something or did that actually happen, how, how am I alive?"