8. FADE AWAY

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You need my power and I need your existence.

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It all changed, when he come back after a month.

A women in her 50s with white hair and knife in her hand started explaining.

The village central church was already destroyed by the DARK INCIDENT and the child of pope and his family was brutally murdered.

The inspector Paul was also disbanded and was removed from the town, though he pleaded the western church to let his family live there.

With the conflict between western church and the eastern caveliary, that who will take the central region and no interference from northern empire and southern church.

Solam town remained freed from anyone’s rule. Though the central region divided equally between them. (Solam town is a part of central).

His eyes were clouded in shadows and whenever she asked him where he was this past month.

He only replied,

“IT WAS DARK.”

He shut himself for 11th month. With No way to relieve his anger it turned into hatred.

And his love turned into lust. All his emotion turned into negative.

As if he was someone else.

He took over the inspector office with brute force and when the town chief and all the men opposed him, he slaughtered them all and that’s when rumors started spreading though it took a while. The town is a part of central region and is the strong hold of central church but it is naturally isolated from the central region by the forest of rage.

She was interrupted.

“it is not like that, you liar that is the monster,” Paul said angrily.

He sat on the chair, sweating heavily, covering his face with his hand, “I got a letter from my wife stating that she want to leave the town immediately and asked me to come as soon as possible, I rod the horse on that day and reached the town, it was not changed that much though few veins can be seen, I knocked the door of my house and my sister opened it. I found out that my wife is dead and my daughter is been kidnapped. I ran towards the inspector office with my sword and what I saw was, my daughter was hanged with the veins, though she was alive but the veins are coming out from inside her waist, hips and hand, which were hanging her.

It was then when I met zeal, with the rage in my eyes I stabbed him right through his heart, cut the veins from my daughter. At that time he said something which I understood now,

“very well, you have something precious which I have long lost, but you will not be able to take her with you,”

I know with the confidence of his voice that he is a monster, I have to run I took my daughter and ran towards the forest but soon realize the veins started to grow from her using her life force making her weaker from time to time that why I left her in my house and moved to the nearest village to ask for help and found racheal.

“but I would never thought, one refusal will caused it so much,” as Paul was on the verge of crying he further added, “ after all I was only following order from church for my family to live peacefully.”

“isn’t inspectors comes under caveliary” bell asked.

“they were threatening my family to keep my mouth shut and let it passed as an attack of a blob,

please forgive me” as he moved towards the zeal mother with both of his hands joint together.

“You can’t change what is done but you can change what isn’t,” she said while handing out the knife towards the bell.

“please hurry, your friend is in danger.”

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“come on say it,” with deep desperate voice.

As no path was there to choose in the darkness he utters

I WANT TO K….

He was interrupted as the sudden warmth felt into his hand, it was the hand of a girl though it was Dark, but it has the softness of a marshmallow, she dragged him to light.

She left his hand

Moved her palm and hold her other hand from backside.

As she moved further away.

“stop” he said while reaching out his hand.

She turned.

Smiled.

As she disappear like a fading glitter in the air.

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'I may have forgotten her voice but I remember her smile' Nick thought with a faint smile.

“You sure took your time,” as zeal smiled waving his tentacles.

Nick saw Racheal in front panting as she vomited blood, she was casting the light barrier in cost of his life energy while holding her staff. It was soon going to be broken.

She moved towards him and put her hands on left chest to listen to his heartbeat. She was surprised.

As soon as tentacle broke through nick pushed her aside.

Tentacle slammed through nick breaking the behind wall, it grabbed him from his waist and pulled near him.

“You know you are quite fascinating, are you a hero, saving a girl and sacrificing yourself,” he said in a crazy way.

“Shut up, you dimwit you have a honor of dying with my own hands,” nick said while spitting on his face.

“Hahahaha, and how you are going to do that,”

As tentacles were grabbed him on his waist and his hands were free, he had carried the claymore in his right arm.

As the claymore turned blue.

He pierced through the grabbing tentacles

Sliced through in 90 degree gouging his brains out.

From tentacle till his head were split into half.

He was freed.

“Rejoice because I am back,” as Zeal said while he started to regenerate everything which was sliced

“how the heck you are alive,”

“Hehehe, do you believed me when I said my heart is in my head, then you are naïve,”

“now it’s your time to die,” with scary voice Zeal said.

Nick was standing there with his claymore, when suddenly a large vein from behind, pierced right through his left chest from his backside

“Ah,” Nick in pain

“How it’s feel to stab right through your heart,”. Zeal moved him towards him as he was hanging through the vein pierced in his chest.

He sliced the vein from backside freeing himself

“Not as amazing as it’s going to feel, when I will butchered your face.” With a smirk.

Zeal smile faded as he realized.

“No way, those grey hair, you are half-breed of a beast,”(In this world beast-man have their hearts on right side.)

“I am a human you monster,” Nick said angrily.

“you dare to defy me, now you will die more gruesome way, what about stake piercing through each body parts while you falling, it keep on expanding it size untill you become full of holesszzzzzzzzzzz.”

He threw him into the air, made his tentacles in the form of pointed conical needles , to making it more fun he started moving needles towards him at different time.

Nick grabbed his claymore with both hands.

Needle flashes towards his head

He doge in the air by sliding it from his claymore.

He fall down

Needle pierced through his hands and leg, he avoided any vital injury.

He sliced though all his veins and carved through his head cutting his body into half as nick landed.

Zeal, started to regenerate

“You can’t kill me, hahahahaha,”

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“why don’t you kill him,” bell asked the old lady.

“my mind always wanted to do that, but this body which have seen the same world as he is, it always stopped,” moving on the verge of tears she handed out the knife.

“Save my son for me”

It was time, the heart was pounding crazily as she stab.

Her mother broke into tears

She stabbed and swopped through, blood started pouring out with the dark color smoke.

“Why why why, I have only done what he asked”, the dark smoke said and vanished.

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Tears swopped through zeal cheeks as the sparkling particle surrounded him.

Nick forcefully standing there watched as the veins started glittering away in air and the tentacles form of zeal faded away

By saying a single word

“THANKS”