Tesra and Sally were walking on a land filled with grass and earth crevices. The sky was blue with some white clouds flying by. The two were walking towards a giant crevice.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” asked Sally.

“Yes,” Tesra replied.

“It’s not going to be an easy fight,” said Sally.

“If I fail, I can always try again,” said Tesra.

Sally nodded and set her gaze on a giant earth crevice. The crevice was deep and dark, but inside the crevice were hundreds of dragons. Tesra had told her of her wish to conquer the world and usher in peace for at least a thousand years.

“Do you think it’s selfish,” Tesra turned and asked Sally.

The wind blew through Tesra hair and her silver armor with blue cloth glistened under the sun. Sally held onto her witch hat as the wind slightly raised it, she held onto her staff tightly and dug it into the ground. The land seem to tremble a little.

"It is selfish," said Sally with solemn, "but I don't believe it's a wrong or right cause.

"I'll believe in you," said Sally with a smile.

A hint of warmth and calm filled Tesra's sky blue eyes. She had somewhat expected Sally's answer, but it still touched her. The land started trembling more and it soon became shaking. Green dragons from crevices all around flew out and soar towards the sky.

"Go far and keep your distance," said Tesra, "I wish to test my might."

Sally nodded and disappeared. The crevice far in front of Tesra widened and the aura of a peak rank 5 appeared from within. five giant black sharp claws rose into the air. A green dragon arm slammed onto the land and pushed down. A long black sharp horn on a green brutish dragon head rose from the crevice, its red eyes landed on Tesra and there was no fear in them.

With great force, the dragon pulled its entire body out of the crevice. The dragon was three hundred meters long with six limbs and six wings. At the end of its tail was a round green ball of extreme mass.

"Human, why have you come to this place," said low grumbling ancient voice.

"To subdue you and conquer the world," Tesra replied with calm.

The dragon detected no lies from Tesra, it also detected absolute confidence from her voice. Some people had to experience something before believing in it. The dragon knew Tesra most likely came prepared and was ready to take him down. The dragon dropped its head and bowed toward Tesra.

“I am Eamorth, I am willing to surrender and service,” said the dragon.

The was no change in Tesra's face as she calmly stared at the dragon. Eamorth glanced at her and saw that she didn't fall for his trick. A rumbling laugh came from him and he brought his head up.

“Very well,” said Eamorth.

Eamorth opened his mouth and volcanic flame rushed out towards Tesra. Tesra jumped over the fire and brought her sword up. The sword shined under the sun like a star and Eamorth saw magnificent danger from it. Eamorth gave a roar filled with mana and the surrounding land shattered and flew away. Tesra's sword collided with the roar and a sharp sound whistled throughout the land that shredded the landscape.

From afar, Jay and the others watched everything. Jelly and Eszero were not with them, the two of them were somewhere else. In a lab with many glass, Jelly was mixing different types of liquid with each other. Eszero appeared in the lab and Jelly smiled at her.

"Why did you call me?" asked Eszero.

Jelly calmly smiled at her, "Were you the one who made that money crazy?" asked Jelly.

"You still remember," Eszero said with a dead tone.

"I'd say my memory is pretty good," said Jelly.

The monkey the two of them were talking about was the monkey that gave Tesra her first bloodlust. The scene was still fresh in Jelly's mind, he had always found that monkey suspicious. When he was studying the monkey, he found that it should have had no attraction to humans, yet it did. From then on, Jelly had always felt something suspicious. He called Eszero to confirm one of his suspicion.

"What about it?" asked Eszero.

"Why did you make it lustful?" asked Jelly.

"It was a small experiment," replied Eszero.

Her words made Jelly fell into thought. Perhaps Eszero was trying to obtain something by studying and experimenting on other.

"Is that kid going to be your next experiment?" asked Jelly.

"Yes," replied Eszero.

"I see then, that's all I have to ask," said Jelly.

Eszero disappeared and Jelly got back to mixing liquids. In a white room, Eszero appeared in front of ten blond boys who all looked the same. They were all in a big white room and they looked at her fearfully and huddled together. All of them had memories of living in U.C and they knew they were in a dangerous situation.

"All of you are me, and I am you," Eszero said with a dead tone.

Unknown knowledge flooded their minds and they found that they were indeed Eszero.

"Why did you make us?" one of them asked.

"I wish to make a new me," said Eszero.

"Why make ten then?" one of them asked.

"This new me will be different, they will be cruel and indifferent," said Eszero.

"Do you wish for us to kill each other till only one of us is left?" asked one of them.

"No," said Eszero, "I wish for you to inflict cruelty.

"What kind of cruelty?" one of them asked with nervousness.

A hundred babies appeared in front of the ten boy, all of the babies looked like them.

"All these babies are me, and you are them," said Eszero.

"Do you want us to torture them?" one of them asked with a cold voice.

"Yes," Eszero replied with a dead tone.

The ten boys looked at each other and mumbled amongst themselves.

"Is there really a need for cruelty," one of them asked.

"For my goal, yes," replied Eszero.

"What if we refuse?" one of them asked.

"Then I'll remove you and make new you'," Eszero replied.

"What if you fail over and over?" asked one of them.

"I'll keep trying till I succeed," said Eszero.

"Till the end of time?" one of them asked.

"Yes," replied Eszero.

"How many times have you made new us," asked one of them.

"So far 1,385,632,770 times," said Eszero.

All of them became silent, they couldn't tell if Eszero was lying or telling the truth.

"Why keep trying trying?" one of them asked.

"Every time I fail, I grow stronger," replied Eszero.

One of the boys came out from the crowd and kicked a baby. The baby cried and made screams of pain. The boy's face became horrified while the others looked at him with shock.

"Are you crazy?" one of them screamed.

They moved towards him to stop him but they suddenly stopped and couldn't move. The cries of the baby woke up the other babies and they started crying along.

"All of this is just an illusion," said the boy.

"It's not," said Eszero.

Fear and horror filled the boy's face, "What do you mean?" he asked.

"Everything in here is made of existence, so it is real," said Eszero.

The boy suddenly regretted his actions, he wished he could stop the pain of the baby he kicked and care for them. He rushed towards the baby he kicked and hugged them, he held them gently and swayed them, hoping to ease their pain and make them feel safe.

The baby kept crying but its cries got softer along with the other babies. Soon, everything became silent. Eszero sighed a little in her heart, it seemed she had failed again. She was about to remove everything in the room when a dagger flew and severed the head of the baby the boy was cuddling.

Blood splattered on the boy’s face and he became shocked and horrified. Eszero and the boy looked where the dagger came from. The two of them saw Jack coldly looking at them.

“Why?” asked the boy and Eszero. Shocked filled their faces as they did not understand why Jack did that.

“That dagger can kill anything painlessly,” said Jack.

Jack took out a glass vial with white liquid and splattered it into the air. The white liquid turned into smoke and engulfed every baby. The smoke went inside the babies and soon disappeared.

“All of them have smokes that will inflict great pain on them in ten minutes, let's see if you can give them all a painless death before time runs out,” said Jack.

Jack left and disappeared, the boy looked at Eszero hoping for her to remove the smoke from the babies. Eszero looked at the boy in front of her, she wondered what he'll do. Seeing that she won't remove the smoke, the boy picked up the dagger Jack left and proceeded to kill the closest babies. When he stabbed the babies, they did not scream in pain and only died peacefully.

Every time he killed, his heart was filled with pain and his mind felt like it was going to break. In order to stay sane, he decided to pretend his killing was like an abortion. Time passed and ten minutes was almost up, but there was still many babies left.

The boy tried to kill the remaining babies quickly but time was soon up. He was horrified expected screams of pain from the babies but they did not scream and only slept peacefully. Happiness filled his heart that they did not suffer, then horror filled his heart as he realized the babies he had killed didn't need to be killed, then anger and hatred as he realized Jack had tricked him.

"Who was that fucker," he screamed at Eszero with rage.

"He is one of me," said Eszero.

"He's already a cruel fucking bastard, don't you already have him, why the fuck do you need me!?" the boy screamed with rage and hatred. He felt he had been played with, toyed with, and tricked, everything felt wrong.

Eszero looked at the boy with a dead gaze and showed no emotions, "Out of all of me, he is third kindest," said Eszero.

"You call that kindness," the boy seethed.

The other boys watched everything with shock as they tried to process everything.

"That was indeed kindness," said Eszero, "he gave you an option to kill the babies painlessly and you took it, whether or not you took it, someone was bound to do it as long as I persisted," said Eszero.

The boy fell to the ground with tears in his eyes, he felt like his heart was torn. He looked at his hand and only saw blood.

"Finish it," said Eszero.

The boys looked at the remaining babies and realized they were still alive, this gave him a small amount of happiness. He looked towards Eszero with hatred.

"Fuck you bitch, go fuck yourself," he screamed.

Eszero gave a small smile and a laugh.

"Very well," she said with a cold dead gaze.

Everything around the boy disappeared and only he was left. He became surprised and looked at Eszero with hatred.

"Your name shall be Joy, when I see you again, I hope you will be able to fulfill my requirement,” Eszero said with a cruel smile.

Everything turned to darkness and Joy's consciousness faded.