You don't know what you have until it's gone.

Spoiler : Listen to I'll be there by kana nishino(optional)

This is getting dangerous, the whole town is infested with monsters, and there is this huge ass humanoid that regenerates every damn time. I was still inside of the dome, fighting Azrahel. I somehow managed to take the flames off, good thing it was a weaker version of the first void spell I ever used.

“Lady Shera, do you need any help?” The king asked me while panting. Looks like the unending horde of monsters took a toll on his old body.

“Shut up, I’m busy. If you have the time to chat, then evacuate everyone so I can fight seriously.”(Shera)

“Very well, I wish you luck lady Shera.” The king continued went out the dome. All of the people in the dome have safely been evacuated, except for the ones that died of course.

Azrahel punched me, but I blocked it with my hands, and kicked it back to his body. Its hand pierced through its stomach, but it didn’t stop. It used its 3 remaining arms, to attack me. I ripped on of its hand, and used to push the other arms away. I jumped to its face, only to by grabbed by one of its arm, and crushed to the ground. While I was being held, it started piercing my body with his other tails, and punched me with its regenerated arms.

My body regenerated enough to produce the needed strength, so that I could get out of the enemy’s flurry of attacks. I pulled the tail that was grabbing me, to make the enemy lose balance. I used the opportunity to jump, and start my own flurry of attacks. I successfully ripped one of its head, and its regeneration seemed to slow down a bit. I tried to destroy the remaining head, but was grabbed by one of its tail, and was thrown away from it, to stall for time and regenerate.

That tail of his is annoying, if I could just rip both of his head, then I could finish it with a void spell to erase its body.

“You are quite strong for a mortal, and you seem to have the same regenerative ability as me.”(Azrahel)

I ignored his words, and jumped back to him. While I was in mid-air, I started releasing spells.

“Elemental spears”(Shera)

7 spears were created, and circled around my body. This is my own spell, which is a combination of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning, Light and Dark elements.

I used the spears to deflect any of his tails that hindered me, and simply focused on ripping his head of. Every time he will block with his hands, I will crush them, and this cycle continued until I ripped 2 of his head of. I jumped away before releasing the final spell.

“Void Expl...” Before I could finish casting, Azrahel grabbed my head, and slammed me to the ground.

“Celestial Flare” Azrahel released a beam of light at me, I tried to dodge, but failed to do so.

The attack vaporized half of my body. By the time I regenerated, Azrahel was on top of me, and repeatedly crushed my body with its foot. My body continuously regenerated, but was crushed every time by Azrahel. Unlike before, I couldn’t regenerate enough to get myself away from his attacks. It would take a few hours before I could get enough strength to kill Azrahel...sigh...he is just prolonging the fight.

“This is what happens when you defy lord Zaladin. But to think you can regenerate this much, I wonder how long it will take to finally kill you.”(Azrahel)

My body was scattered on the ground, and I can’t even utter a sound.

Azrahel started to raise his tails, and arms. Black flames started to form from its hand and tails...this is bad...if he releases that on the city. Just before Azrahel finished, pooch entered the dome, and pushed it away from me.

“Master, sorry I am late.” Pooch was back to his true form.

My body finally regenerated, but armor that Nero bought for me was destroyed...I have to apologize later.

“Where are the others? Are they safe?”(Shera)

“Celestial Flare”(Azrahel)

“Celestial Flare”(Pooch)

Both of them released the same spell which canceled each other. I used this opportunity to land a clean hit on Azrahel’s face, and ripped one if its head off. Pooch jumped to Azrahel and released another spell to the remaining head. The enemy fell to the ground, and since it was the second time it lost 2 of its head, it stopped moving.

“So, how are the others?”(Shera)

“They are helping the other civilians to evacuate, and Ciela is already out of the city.”(Pooch)

“Void Explosion” This was the same spell I used before, it will expand after contact, and erase it’s body so that It can never regenerate again.

Just before the flames reached the corpse, it vanished. The corpse began regenerating again, and before we could send another attack, Pooch and I were sent flying. While in mid-air, Azrahel followed us, and threw us to the ground.

“Fighting 2 gods is too much, but for lord Zaladin I will sacrifice all my remaining life force to kill you, and erase 2 threats that might block lord Zaladin’s grand plan.”(Azrahel)

The moment my legs touched the ground, I immediately jumped upwards but was sent back to the ground. When I looked up, Azrahel’s body emitted light, and his body got bigger. We tried attacking, but its body was regenerating faster compared to before. It was even moving faster, and its attack was getting heavier. We continued to fight, yet as time passed, Azrahel got stronger, and stronger.

It’s body got bigger, and suddenly got slower. It’s humanoid form turned into a sphere, but it was still regenerating no matter what we throw at it. Even void exlposion simply vanishes before hitting it. Since magic wasn’t effective, we simply continued attacking physically. While attacking, a force suddenly pushed Pooch and I away from the sphere of light. I looked back, and watched as a new entity come out of the sphere. It was a humanoid made from light.

I...it was a cocoon?

“Lord Zaladin, watch me as kill these two gods that wants to stop us from creating eden.”(Azrahel)

Azrahel got smaller, and was now on the same size as me. He arms became 2, his legs became 2, his wings were no longer there, and all of his tails were gone, yet I feel a really dangerous power around him. And as I looked on his face, I could see nothing, a face without eyes, mouth, ears, and nose. I could have attacked, but I felt that I should wait, and simply watched as the entity in front of me talk to someone in thin air.

“Lord Zaladin, thank you for everything, and farewell.” As it finished talking, its body of light turned black, and eyes started popping out of its body.

Azrahel ran to me, and I couldn’t even see a thing. He punched my face, and pierced through my skull. While his arm was inside my head, he dragged his arm downwards, cutting my body in half. He grabbed my body which was now separated into two, and started crushing my body.

“Celestial Flare”(Pooch)

Before it hit the enemy, the beam disappeared.

“You can have your ally’s attack.” Azrahel pointed his finger at me, and Pooch beam came out.

“MASTER!”(Pooch)

Only small chunks of my body was left, and by the time I regenerated, pooch was about to get killed. I ran to the enemy, and pushed him away.

“Pooch go back to your cute form quickly.”(Shera)

Pooch understood what I wanted to do, and simply did as I told him. Once he was back to his cute form, I threw him away. My body suddenly got cut to tiny pieces, and lost consciousness. I wasn’t awake yet I knew that Azrahel repeatedly killed me, and my body’s regenerative ability got slower and slower. When I woke up, Azrahel was still attacking me, but it looked like he was exhausted. His attacks were a lot slower, even compared to his normal form. He was weaker now, and so was I. Both of my arms and a leg were missing, and it could no longer regenerate. I knew that the next time I died, I will no longer wake up.

I jumped away, and started running. Azrahel ran after me, and when he lowered his guard down, I turned back to kick his face. It still had its regeneration ability, but I continued to kick his body. As time passed, my body started regenerating slowly, while Azrahel’s regeneration got slower. By the time my arms regenerated, Azrahel could no longer regenerated.

“Why is a god helping the mortals? Do you not want the wars to stop?”(Azrahel)

“Yeah, and killing everyone will stop wars. I completely get it, it is so understandable.”(Shera)

“If lord Zaladin conquers the world, then everything will be peaceful.”(Azrahel)

That scenario sounds familiar...wait, sounds like what I was trying to do on earth.

Azrahel’s body was starting to turn into dust, and left a few words for me.

“You will regret defying lord Zaladin.” The was its last words before disappearing.

That guy was strong, I could have died without pooch’s help earlier. Pooch entered the dome, and looked around.

“Master finally killed a god.”His body was healed to the extent where he could walk, but he was still covered in wounds.

“...Both of you are gods yet the difference in power was high.”(Shera)

“I told you regenerating types are my weakness, and besides, You and I could defeat him alone if he didn’t use that last move. He expended his almost infinite lifespan to fight both of us, and should I tell you that none of the gods I know have ever used their life force to fight?

That somehow explain a lot, I guess? Anyways, we have to help the city.

“Pooch, do you know a way to stop the monsters? Where did they come from anyway?” I was talking to him, while casually killing every monsters near us.

“Since the entity that created it is now gone, it will stop after it runs out of mana. So I suggest that we keep killing them, until they stop spawning.” Pooch was also killing the monsters while talking to me.

“If that’s the case, let’s kill them all. I’ll go that way, and you go the other way.”(Shera)

Pooch didn’t say anything, and simply followed my instructions. Since my armor destroyed, I took clothes from one of the corpses, and started running around the city. I met different people, that were still fighting. There were some adventurers, knights, civilians that were trying to protect their home, and even the mercenary guild was helping. I wonder what the mercenary guild do...

I ran around killing monsters in sight, and everyone saw as I easily ripped the monsters into shreds. As I cleaned the city, blood from the monsters started to pile up on my body, but I didn’t have time to clean myself. It took half a day to finally quell the chaos. We saved the city, but a lot died. Now that everything was over, I tried to find the others.

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I quickly found, Ciela with the other civilians, and Feric was talking with his parents...but I couldn’t see Nero. I asked everyone yet they didn’t know where he was. I was still not sure where he was.

Where is he? I didn’t see him while fighting the monsters. Ah, he is just probably chilling somewhere in the city. I grabbed pooch to use his nose to find Nero.

The city was filled with corpses of people and monsters, so it was hard for pooch to find Nero. I already went back to the inn we stayed at, and I already searched every place near the inn, yet there was no sign of Nero.

W...where is he? For some reason, my body started to weaken, and my chest started to hurt. I ran around the city, and as time passed, the thought of him dying entered my mind. I have circled around the city, buy I couldn’t find him. T...this is unfair, we just started our relationship...

We searched everywhere, I already roamed the whole city twice. Yet I couldn’t see him, the person that I started to like, the person I started to love, suddenly gone in a flash. It doesn’t feel true, maybe all of it is a dream. Pooch stayed quiet as tears flowed from my cheeks as I ran around the city for a third time. Maybe we just forgot to look somewhere, maybe Nero was somewhere hidden.

I finished running around, yet there was no signs of Nero. I suddenly lost all of my strength, I felt like I wanted to rest...rest for eternity. I sat somewhere in the city filled with corpses, and pooch reverted to his true form and let me use his body as a pillow. I slowly close my eyes, and started thinking of things that I wanted to do in this new world I was sent to.

I wanted to live a new life, I wanted to have fun, I wanted to love someone...and right now, I just can’t see it coming true. The smell of rotting flesh was starting to get spread around, but I didn’t care. I simply wanted to sleep for a while, and maybe I would hear Nero’s voice to wake me up, maybe I will see him again. I covered my eyes with my left hand, as my tears continued to flow out of my eyes.

As I was about to fall asleep, i felt something move. I thought it would be Nero, I thought somehow he heard me, and come back for me. But when I opened my eyes, what I saw wasn’t Nero, but a monster. I didn’t feel like moving anymore, so I just let Pooch handle it.

The monster suddenly start expanding, and exploded. My body suddenly jumped, my hands curved around a figure, and my mouth uttered a name.

“Nero”(Shera)

The one in front of me right now was the person I love. I don’t care what others say, I don’t care if I become the enemy of the world again, I only care about being with the person I love, Nero Ventus.

“N...no, I’m, covered in monster blood. You’ll get dirty.”(Nero)

“I don’t care, I’ll never let go of you.”(Shera)

I don’t want to feel like that again, I don’t want anything to happen to you, I don’t want to lose you.

“...”(Nero)

I hugged him tightly so that he could never go away again. He simply stayed silent, as I hugged him for hours.

___

We went back outside the city, and camps were set for the civilians. It wasn’t hard to find Ciela & Feric, and reunited with them. Just like before, the day ended, with all of us sleeping on the same tent. This is how it should be, this is how I want to live my life, a life with everyone. My body slowly relaxed, and after observing Nero’s face for a bit, I finally slept.

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(Mirael’s POV)

I just felt my brother die, how could this happen? Only animal gods were supposed to rival us, but Azrahel was sent far from mirage desert, so how? I was walking to the great blood hall, and entered the void room. I knelt down, and started talking.

“Lord Zaladin, Azrahel has died.”(Mirael)

“That stupid good for nothing, to die without even destroying half of the continent.”(Zaladin)

I hate it when lord Zaladin is like this, we are doing everything for him, yet all he sees are the things we couldn’t accomplish. We can’t talk back though, he is our creator after all.

“Damn it, for him to be this useless. Mirael, take a humanoid form, and spread your legs.”(Zaladin)

Sigh...as always, whenever he gets angry he uses my body to relieve stress. I can’t fight back though, he is our creator after all. By the way, I am Mirael, the leader of the 11 artificial gods, and the right hand man of lord Zaladin.

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When I woke up, I stared at Nero’s body. Yup, he is alive, and he is here with us. I was the first one to wake up, so I wanted to do something different for a change. I poked Nero’s face, and tried to wake him up.

“Nero, wake up.”(Shera)

After hearing my voice, he opened his eyes, and stared at my face. He smiled at me all of a sudden, so I quickly turned my head to the side with a red face.

“D...don’t suddenly smile like that.”(Shera)

“Do you not want me to smile?”(Nero)

“I...it’s not that.”(Shera)

“Then look directly to my eyes, and tell me you love me.”(Nero)

How did it get to this? We were just talking about your smile you know?

“If you don’t, then I’ll start to think that you have me.”(Nero)

E...EH? I quickly turned my face towards him, and started at his eyes. He was still smiling, and was also staring at my eyes. My head started to heat up, and my face started to get redder. I...It’s hard to look at his face for too long so I turned my head downwards.

“So you hate me after all.”(Nero)

It’s not that...I just can’t look at you directly for some reason, it’s too embarrassing. Since, I couldn’t utter a word, I simply shook my head. Nero suddenly hugged me, and my heart started beating faster.

“Just kidding, I told you that no matter what happens, I will always love you.”(Nero)

My mind went blank, and my body hugged Nero on its own.

“I love you shera.”(Nero)

“I...I love you too, Nero.” My hands let go of his body, and grabbed his head. My face moved closer to his, as I pulled his head towards mine. I closed my eyes, and felt something touch my lips...when I opened my eyes, I was kissing nero. Our face matched, and was dyed in red.

E...Eh? WHAT AM I DOING!!!!!