“Morning Ryuga.”

Mayumi greets Ryuga a morning while the sun is setting outside. Ryuga wakes up from his desk and finds Kirio standing in front of him.

“Dude, you gotta like stop sleeping at school at stuff.”

Kirio who is standing in front of Ryuga, says to Ryuga.

“I am sorry, it’s just, I felt like I was really tired.”

Ryuga says to Kirio.

“Why is it?

Why do I feel like I have been here?

Why do I feel like I have done this already?”

“Yo, my sister’s boyfriend is coming to my place and she’s making some extra food for us, so, wanna come to my place you two?”

Kirio asked Ryuga and Mayumi.

“Yeah, I don’t mind it.”

Mayumi says with a smile.

Ryuga felt groggy as he got up.

“I am not feeling up to it. I feel a little tired. You two go ahead and enjoy the food.”

Ryuga says as he gets up holding his head.

“Ryuga? Is everything alright?”

Mayumi asks Ryuga out of concern.

“It’s nothing, I just feel a little…Tired.”

Ryuga says as he walks out.

“I will leave you home.”

Mayumi says to Ryuga.

“No, no, I will be fine.”

Ryuga says as he walks out of the classroom alone.

“Will he be alright?”

Mayumi looked worried.

“He’s tough, he should pull off.”

Kirio says with a smile.

Ryuga walks down the stairs as he grazes a girl’s shoulder.

“Peasant! You dare to touch me!”

A familiar female’s voice with a familiar noble tone says to Ryuga.

“That voice…That line…

“Peasant!”

Why are all those so familiar?”

“You got something to say, peasant! You dirtied by clothes by touching it with your shoulder!”

“Why does she feel so familiar?”

“Who are you?”

Ryuga asked as he didn’t make eye contact with that girl’s face.

“You dare to ask me who I am in my presence?!”

The familiar voice asked Ryuga angrily.

“I…”

Before Ryuga could say anything the girl speaks in an arrogant tone,

“I am Ellie Norvich, the daughter of the one and only Lord Alucard. In other words, The Princess of The Vampiric Land!”

“Now, I want you to apologize to you, peasant!”

Ellie says to Ryuga as she folds her arms.

“Why should I apologize to you? Just because our shoulders touched, it doesn’t mean that I should apologize to you for no reason.”

Ryuga says without making any eye contact.

“Why you-“

“Ellie!”

Before could scold Ryuga. Another familiar voice calls for Ellie.

“Come! We have to leave. Today is your last day here, anyways.”

Suddenly, there was a sad,

“Yes, brother Dust…”

“Last day…? I need to stop her…

She’s going to die if I don’t…”

“Ellie! That’s right! You’re Ellie Norvich!”

Ryuga runs after Ellie after she turns around.

“The more I run towards her,

The more away she goes from me.”

“You can’t save her as you are. Aragi Ryuga.

She is doomed to die.

You are doomed to fail.

Just like how you failed to save Alicia.

Just like how you failed to save Akuma Jin from doing things the way he did.

You are doomed to fail to save the people you love and care about.

You will only realize it when you suffer true pain.”

“Pain? Suffering?

Have I not had enough of it?

I wasn’t born with those limiters.

Alicia was killed right in front of me and I couldn’t save her.

I was humiliated by Ryan Arkwet.

I was almost killed twice.

In fact, twice, someone else came to save my ass.”

“Exactly, you are exactly that, a failure.”

“If that was the case,

Why show me the first dream?”

“Ryuga, Ryuga, Ryuga, you don’t understand, do you?”

“What do I not understand?”

“This an alternate version of you. In fact, you would even call him almost an opposite version of you. Of course, you being you, you retain some qualities, but there are many opposite qualities that make this Ryuga much happier than you are. Either way, the point of showing that vision is that even if you live a happy normal life, you will still be a failure and this next sequence will show you exactly what kind of failure you are.”

“What?!”

“Ryuga!”

“Ryuga!”

“Ryuga! Wake up!”

A familiar voice wakes Ryuga up from the desk.

“You know, you aren’t supposed to sleep in the classroom.”

Ryuga wakes up rubbing his eyes to see a familiar figure.

“Alicia…Good morning.”

Ryuga greets Alicia.

“Jeez, you are such an unruly student.”

Alicia pouts.

Alicia's phone starts ringing.

“It seems an emergency call.”

Alicia puts the phone speaker.

“Alicia! We need your help! There is a member of the Illuminati on loose! He is killing everyone in the way! We need your help! The attack is on the human world near the station.”

The person on the phone says.

“You heard him, Ryuga!”

Ryuga nods.

“Helps on the way! Just hold on Sir!”

Alicia says and then she and Ryuga run out.

They reach the site of the call in the human world to find a hooded figure who is attacking the civilians.

“Ryuga, let’s take her down!”

Alicia says to Ryuga.

Ryuga nods.

“Limiter ability! Mighty Mace!”

Alicia’s hands turn into maces.

“Limiter Ability! Shield!”

Ryuga’s right-hand turns into a shield.

A spike of blood attacks Ryuga but Ryuga blocks the attacks Ryuga but Ryuga parries it and runs towards the person who has a hood on.

Alicia too rushes the hooded figure.

Both Ryuga and Alicia attack the hooded figure but it looked like the hooded figure was good at hand-to-hand combat. Ryuga was having a hard time keeping up with the hooded figure's combat style but Alicia fought like it was no problem to him.

“Help! I am stuck!”

Ryuga looks at a kid stuck under rubble.

“Ryuga, go save that kid! I will keep her busy.”

Alicia says to Ryuga.

Ryuga nods.

Ryuga runs to the kid and tries to lift the rubble up.

“Gyaaaaaah!!!!!”

Ryuga uses a massive amount of strength and lifts the rock the kid was under.

“Get out of here kid!”

Ryuga says.

The kid nods and runs away.

“RYUGA!”

That’s when suddenly, a bloody spike goes past Alicia’s heart and Alicia falls on Ryuga’s shoulder.

“Alicia…?”

“NO! NO! NO! NOT AGAIN! NOT AGAIN!”

“Alica! Wake up!”

“WHY IS IT HER?! WHY IS IT HER AGAIN?!”

“Isn’t it something?

Even this life, you are a failure.”

The hooded figure says to Ryuga.

“Even after I gave you a limiter ability,

You are just the same trash that you were back in the real world.”

“And yet…You just can’t save her.”

The hooded figure unhoods themselves.

“Why?! Why is it that she had to die?! Why is it that I have to be a person with no limiters when the world is filled with people with limiters?!”

The figure was none other than Ryuga who had red eyes instead of his usual black.

Everything blackens out and both the Ryuga’s sit in front of each other.

“Why is it that I have to be humiliated over and over and over again? Why is it that I can’t do anything about it?!”

The red-eyed Ryuga asked the black-eyed Ryuga who isn’t saying anything.

“Why is it that every time, it is I who needs saving?”

The red-eyed Ryuga asks.

“Talk to me, would you? Why are you so quiet?”

The red-eyed Ryuga asks the black-eyed Ryuga.

“I…I couldn’t do anything…Once again…I couldn’t do anything.”

The black-eyed Ryuga says.

“WHY THE FUCK AM I SO WEAK?!!!!”

Black-eyed Ryuga hits the ground with both his fists in agony as tears gushed down his cheeks.

“It’s alright Ryuga…”

The red-eyed Ryuga says to the Black-Eyed Ryuga.

“It’s alright…Now that, I am here. You won’t need to worry. I will give you all the power in the world necessary. You don’t need to get stronger. All you need to do is, stay with me. Forever. You will get Jau, Alicia, Mayumi, Ellie, or any other women you like. You will not need to worry about your strength since you will overpower everyone. You will never need to worry about anyone’s safety since you will protect everything in my world. This will be your ideal world. Your world and I can give it to you. A world, where you will face no problems whatsoever. A happy world, where you and everyone around you are happy. Do you, want that world where your cycle of Unending pain ends?”

The red-eyed Ryuga asks the Black-Eyed Ryuga.

“I…”

The Black-eyed Ryuga looks at the red-eyed Ryuga as the red-eyed Ryuga shows his hand to the Blacked-eyed Ryuga.

“I want…”

Just when Ryuga was about to hold the Red-eyed Ryuga’s hand…

“Don’t lose yourself, Ryuga!”

“Don’t…Lose myself…”

Ryuga gets back up.

“That’s what she meant.”

Ryuga smiles.

“Hmm?”

The Red-eyed Ryuga looks confused.

Ryuga rubs the tears off his cheeks and eyes and takes a deep breath.

“No thank you, I would love that offer but, you know, I have promises to keep. So, I gotta return.”

Ryuga says with a smile.

“What promises?!”

The red-eyed Ryuga looked annoyed.

“I promised Tachibana that I will be back after training. I need to attend the tournament after all. I am sure they are waiting for me. So, I can’t stay in this dreamland forever.”

Ryuga says with a smile.

“SO, YOU WOULD GO OUT THERE IN A WORLD OF NEVER-ENDING PAIN INSTEAD OF BEING HERE IN THIS WORLD OF HAPPINESS?! WHY?!”

The red-eyed Ryuga screamed.

“Yes, it’s because my real world is more important to me than my dream world. It’s because people are waiting for me to come back.”

Black-eyed Ryuga says with a smile.

“Give me one good reason to let you go out there in a world of unending pain?”

Red-eyed Ryuga asks Ryuga.

“One good reason? I can give you a million! Take revenge on Ryan Arkwet! Bring back, Alicia! Hug my mother daily to let her know I am safe! Watch my father get balder than he already is! Keep the smile on and Ellie and Jau’s face! Bring back a smile on Maria’s face! Re-match Alucard and defeat him! But more importantly, I want to wipe that smug look off of that Nasty Devil Loli Lucifer’s face.”

Ryuga looked determined.

“HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The red-eyed Ryuga started laughing.

“Eh?”

“I am sorry, that last one got me! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The red-eyed Ryuga couldn’t stop laughing.

“I haven’t a Queen Lucifer joke in a while.”

The red-eyed Ryuga said as he chuckled.

“Queen Lucifer? Who are you?”

Ryuga asked the red-eyed Ryuga.

“A demon, of course, the demon who lets people suffer than give them happiness. I go by the name, Paimon.”

Ryuga sits down next to the demon.

“So…This wasn’t Miss Myra’s second key?”

Ryuga asks Paimon.

“Well, I am Myra’s second key.”

Paimon says to Ryuga.

“Eh?”

Ryuga looks confused.

“You don’t know about the second keys?”

Paimon asks Ryuga.

Ryuga shakes his head.

Paimon sighs.

“Whenever any species feel weak, they create a contract with a species that belongs to the godly races. This contract gives them incredible power that makes them ten folds stronger.”

Paimon says.

“I see…What would those species be?”

Ryuga asks.

“Angels, Demons, Nekos, and the rare Tiger Clan.”

Paimon says.

“Only four?”

Ryuga asks.

Paimon nods.

“I see…”

Ryuga starts thinking.

“So, if you want to get stronger Ryuga, you have to create a contract with one of the people of those Clans.”

Paimon says.

“But for now, I think the way you are, you should be fine kid. Let Queen Lucifer know that we should meet up again.”

Paimon says with a smile.

“Wait! There are other things that I want to as-“

Ryuga suddenly teleports and lands right into someone’s chest.

“Shit! That fucking demon-“

Ryuga gets a feel of someone’s naked flat chest.

“Hello Ryuga, how have things been?”

That someone was none other than Miya who was bathing in her bathroom.

“I didn’t mean to touch your naked chest.”

“You’re so fucking dead.”

Miya says with a deadly smile.

“I AM GOING TO KILL THAT FUCKING LOOK-ALIKE PAIMON!”