Tomorrow has passed, tonight there is no more mission that we really have to do anywhere since the rest of the Elders who had returned to their respective countries had given up trying to persuade the world to overthrow Edward and take his place with another... Anyone but that guy.

On the other hand, the people's hatred for them, the members of the nameless organization has reached its own peak after what we did who borrowed their position in the eyes of society. While at the same time, all those Sins Takers who know the real fact about it, have absolutely no intention of telling the truth to the media if the lives of their own families really mean that much to them.

Ever since Edward, or someone above him, has put a hanger for every name those innocent people have as a threat to keep their mouth shut about this mission.

“But I still can't believe that that girl really came to ruin our plans… And don’t you guys think that she's actually smart enough to steal information as important as Edward has?”

Everyone including me, who was sitting relaxing in this super luxurious hotel room, prefers to be silent and try not to care about those words of one of our own team members.

But the guy doesn't seem too fond of being ignored, so he came back with a question.

As he said, “Evelina, isn't it? The girl’s name. With that icy magic explosion of hers killing our own target, I'm sure the whole world will assume that she's in league with that nameless organization. Damn… Too bad for her though... Because there would never again be a safe place for that girl without being labeled as a terrorist…”

“Dude. Just shut the fuck up…”

Albert came to defend the girl who had rejected his own feelings before.

“Not only that she's impossible to kill because of her teleportation abilities, but also as a great carrier of water, the opposite element to yours, you can't inflict any damage on her at all, can you? Albert?”

Oh?

This guy knows a lot about how the girl’s power works.

But Albert, who also seemed to know about it was still trying to keep his mouth shut with his expression telling the man not to talk too much in front of me who was an outsider to all of them.

So it's not just me, but in the end, Ellie will also be targeted by Edward the same as I am now. Especially if you see how Ellie has started to dare to switch sides from Edward's own.

“Edward, you're going to keep your word, right?” The man named Albert suddenly spoke to the man who had been standing there, looking out the bedroom window.

So… This man, the ruler of illusion magic really has a thousand promises to a thousand different people, huh? This time what promise does he have to Albert?

“Are you worried? But I never go back on my words, kid. So just calm down there.”

“Then… Let me just do it now! We all know that I can easily…”

“I said, calm down!” The man's suggestion was immediately refuted by Edward, as he's back talking. “I have so much work that I haven't even found a solution yet and for some reason, big problems keep coming every day! You realize how much of a nuisance Evelina has given us, but you seem blind and still force me to find a way not to sacrifice herself, so at least appreciate my efforts and be quiet for a while, Albert!”

Shit… I got a little lost in the middle of following the flow of these two people's conversation.

But as far as I know, the promise they were talking about was not to sacrifice Ellie the same way they would sacrifice me. Not literally sacrificing, but it seemed they wanted to transfer the power that the girl had to someone's body which was much easier to control.

Edward promised Albert that it wouldn't happen as long as this man was willing to do something… Something that is not for the sake of killing as much.

Because from the outset, Albert had absolutely no problem becoming an executioner. He had long since lost his humanity, so killing was just an advantage to himself. So the only problem is who he should kill specifically…

“You want Albert to kill me, don't you? Edward?”

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“See!? As I thought, behind his cowardice, this guy is actually quite clever to understand the situation!” The most talkative member of our team is again spraying a secret.

Where apart from him, everyone else in this room was silent, thinking of what to say with me still around.

“But it's not that I didn't expect it anyway… After all, it looks like you've run into some problems beyond your imagination as well, right?”

“Daniel… Be aware of your own situation, where you are standing right now, son…”

“Don't get me wrong, but I'm fully aware, Edward. I can no longer run away from this one destiny, which forced me to live halfway between heaven and hell… Because of my own decision. The reason why Ellie won't be able to find me, also the lives of Fanya and Deo that you are holding right now. I can't help but have to admit that it was all thanks to my own stupidity. But now don’t you think that it's all just a matter of who I should let die here? Myself? My family? Or… Someone else?”

“And what do you mean by all of it?”

Yes…

Don't be scared, Daniel!

This is the only option that we have right now…

As from the very beginning I had expected this to happen, like how every night I also thought about the many possibilities that I could use…

I bought time for myself by pretending to make an offer to him.

“Give me the same chance as Albert, let us fight to the death with fairness. And if I win, I will swear allegiance to be your weapon forever and ever.”

“Huh? You think with your current number of souls you can beat me, you idiot? You who now even feel afraid to kill anyone!?”

Stood up from where he was sitting, Albert walked right in front of my face.

“Great. Then it's no problem at all for you, is it?”

“Stop. This is not a question of loyalty. Even if you're honest with your words, Daniel... which I know you are not, but this is not an order to find a great carrier who will swear allegiance with them…”

As I thought…

“Them, huh? Who specifically?” I asked, because finally his own mouth had dared to admit it…

Closing the window blinds, exhaling a sigh of surrender to something, Edward then poured out a confession that sounded less surprising at the moment…

“Daniel… Sorry. But at that time, you were right. I did this all for myself… For the sake of someone important to me who is being threatened just because of my very existence. We're in the same position, son. We both have to do something to protect something. I know you will understand and I hope you'll also understand that you've lost now. At least, I swear with my own life after you die, no one I will ever allow to hurt them. Deo and Fanya… So…”

“No…”

“What?”

“No, I haven't lost yet.”

Just in time after I said that, a telephone ringing came to Edward's cell phone. He picked it up still looking at my face, his expression changed to surprise in an instant. He is angry… But he's still trying to hide it.

If it wasn't a call from Ellie, then someone he had ordered to keep an eye on Fanya and Deo was currently reporting to him that they were having problems from the same girl.

I'm sure of that…

I believe in her, I know she will always do something for every problem that comes…

I know that my wish from last night really reached her.

So with confidence, I took out the sword from my back. Seeing Edward's face that looked like he was trying to make up a story, he then shouted… “We could still kill them, Daniel! I'm warning you!”

“Have them face Ellie first…”

As I was intending to run to grab Edward on the neck, this man suddenly shouted a name. Then by the echo of that voice, the person he just called managed to hit me first with a full psychic blast instead, until this room itself exploded and threw me far, freefalling from the fortieth floor of this hotel building under the moonlight at night.

I was unconscious for a fraction of a second…

When I woke up, my back had smashed into the asphalt of the road between the cars I nearly fell over to…

But the luck these people had ended up in vain when Albert landed with that stomping of his foot, on purpose creating a psychic pressure that was three or even four times stronger when he hit me earlier.

All the cars and pedestrians in the vicinity were smashed and pressed to the ground hard enough to make some of them immobile from losing consciousness.

~~~~~

“You don't have even the slightest chance…” While I was still dragging myself away, Albert bent his hand as if intending to let out a rage…

“... Of defeating me!” His screams then exploded with enough heat to melt the asphalt right under his feet.

The last thing I remember before I lost consciousness for the second time was Albert who suddenly was in front of me punching this stomach with all the strength he had.

Opening the eyes again, this body is lying stiff on a pile of rubble with many ribs which I feel are cracked and still trying to heal itself, while Albert walked slowly towards me as each beat of his feet never failed to burn every car around and create a puff of smoke on all sides of the road.

More than two hundred souls in one body… Even if I use that soul strength ability, my total strength won't even touch one hundred and fifty.

Meaning I won't be able to beat him, I just need to find a way to escape then…

But without the help of that ability, there's no way I could keep up with him in terms of speed. I'll just die first before I can even turn this body around.

So I decided…

Soul Strength skill that is…

Standing on my own, I felt the stinging screams of this body of mine as it was gnawed at by the curse. Jumping as high as I can, grabbing the surface of a building's wall to accelerate for the second time…

That just briefly I meant to look down, but Albert had already arrived with a torrent of flames in his lower half as if like a fireball that flew at its own will.

Detonating his power right at my cheek, almost half of this building in front of us shattered along with me being flung and pierced through it.

Scraping and bouncing from one concrete surface to another, this time I landed not too hard on the narrow ground at the sides of some two buildings. Where then without waiting for my own mind to stand in complete balance, I ran looking for an even narrower path and a place to hide from Albert.

After I found this suitable place, I sat down to take deep breaths to calm myself down. But one of his personnel, currently around eighty souls in strength actually came from above, the ground where I was currently sitting suddenly trembled from his own two feet.

“There you are!” He said.

Just as he was about to slash my head with his sword, I kicked his stomach as fast as I could… What they all know right now, is that my soul count is only at sixty-four and not doubled, thanks to my soul strength abilities.

So back on my feet, I decided to run away…

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Yet after only two or three steps, I said to myself, "Wouldn't it be better if we killed this weak man now?" Then I turned around to face his body which was still lying shaking violently from my previous kick.

But then I just stopped, indecisive about something I should have been used to doing…

That poison again affects my mind to feel pity…

“I don't really think that we should kill him though…”

Took a few steps back, was silent for a while, walked slowly forward, and turned around again intending to run away.

Because of my own stupidity, too much time was wasted in this place.

After Albert managed to find us, again he detonated some kind of fire magic which was even bigger than before, falling concrete from above, raining down on me and the man who was still crawling on the ground.

I used the mist form to pierce through all of the rubble while flying through the building on the other side…

In and out of many rooms, passing through two or maybe three dark hallways of some kind of office…

But Albert didn't seem to care, as he rained down a hail of blazing arrows, strong enough to pierce the concrete and roof of this building, intent on surrendering my life and death to this kind of random attacks, blindly regardless of whether the hundreds of arrows made entirely of embers had been kill me or not.

I'm starting to doubt if I can really escape from this monster…

It turns out that all this time I was fighting ordinary carriers who were far stronger than myself, is nothing compared to fighting fellow great carriers who could rule a specific law of this world itself…

~~~~~

Trying to get out of this place, I pierced the window’s glass of the building and jumped down onto the asphalt surface which was still filled with many people who were confused about where to flee from this destruction, the battle between the two great carriers.

Landed myself perfectly, as a sword strike came from the side…

So I created a non-elemental shield that floats solidly, until it bounces the sword back due to both of our force powers.

Where the man looked confused, he retreated, approaching his herd. Then I drew back the shield as it turned into a black mist.

The rest of them… Albert's personnel.

Four in number, surrounded me from all directions, while Albert himself came from above with his fiery red light that shattered all the windows of the building intending to pin me down with his feet.

“He’s mine!” His scream just now actually became the trigger for myself to dodge, jumping away which was immediately surrounded by the rest of them… Again.

The four people who paid no heed to the words of the great carrier of fire jumped up, intending to have a bet over who could actually kill me first and claim all of the souls inside of my body.

So I blocked all of their movements with these black chains that floated and slithered around their arms and legs hanging in the air, while all that was left was Albert who had now turned into a fireball, charging straight on this way.

~~~~~

I decided to dash through Albert's magical form with my own black mist form…

But what happened next was…

The mist that I thought could penetrate any kind of attack, turned out to be sparking fire and turning into dust from something scorched.

I struggled enough just to restore my original form which is currently lying helplessly on the asphalt surface, with many burns on my outer skin that are clearly visible to the naked eye.

As all the non-elemental chains I created also disappeared due to the breakdown in my concentration, everyone came rushing at me like animals fighting for their last food.

I'm just here crawling away, before then I feel the feeling… Of disgust…

This tiredness… Makes me feel even more awake every second…

~~~~~

The first attack came right at my skull from behind, I tilted my head just a little to avoid it.

Didn't get my life, his sword was actually embedded into the ground instead…

The wrist that was still firmly holding the only weapon he currently had, was actually shaking right next to my ear.

Where I was still on all fours, there I grabbed this hand of the man who was the bravest of all, who came as the first to attack me, I put this cursed palm of mine on his skin.

As the black marks scorched and smoked from the surface of his right arm, he backed away spontaneously, screaming in pain as he fell to the ground.

The second customer came, he kicked my left rib until I shifted and turned around not too far from him. Even precisely because of the swing, I managed to squat down with my legs starting to be firm enough for me to stand up.

Looking into his eyes with my blank stare, then I created a non-elemental arm that formed as if it was gripping the man’s left leg tightly.

I pulled so hard until he fell and was dragged towards me, as I held his neck while the black form of the floating magic hand was still trying as hard as possible to pull his legs out of this man's own body.

He screamed as the tear appeared slowly, but did not completely separate his waist from the full form of his leg. There's still a little bit of tendon or flesh hanging off before I let go of him who's currently lying in pain under my feet.

The third and the last person came simultaneously, from left and right, I crossed my arms in front of my own face, stretched then quickly, while releasing a kind of non-elemental thorns that shot fast, pierced through the stomach to the legs of the two people who then fell with a thud. Both of the swords never even reached my own body…

But I'm still hesitant to kill them though…

I still don't know the reason why…

Like why this self actually has pity for these types of people, while my former self would never even hesitate to torture anyone more horribly than what I just did to them…

Whatever it was, but now their helpless gazes fixed on me showed feelings of remorse and did not expect all of this to come from me, a self they thought was even afraid to kill before.

Ugh…

I felt dissatisfied, but something inside of me trembled to go further…

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