Red blood drops onto the white snow, which is covering the clearing. Both Lucian and Samantha look at each other with both of them having a face full of pain.

The reason being is that Lucians katana is through her right shoulder and quarter of the blade is sticking out from the other side. As for Samanthas spear, it went through Lucians left lung and the tip of the spear is sticking out of his back.

Lucian coughs out blood, before letting go of his sword and disappearing into the darkness. He reappears ten meters away from her. He barely is still standing on his feet and with strength he has left, he pulls out the spear from his chest. It hurt like hell, but it healed quickly after pulling out the spear. Now that his wound was healed, he could fight at full strength.

As for Yami, she pulled out the sword from her shoulder without even flinching. Blood was slowly flowing out of her wound and dropping onto the snow. Unlike Lucian, she doesn't heal so quickly. Just like other non-humans.

"Hey Lucian...Is your unique power quick healing that allows to return from dead?"she asks him and he replies"I only heal quickly. Immortality is my curse. So tell me...What is your unique power?"

"Ten times stronger in any way. But it doesn't seem to apply to toughness, as you could."she says and shows her wound.

They don't say anything and just stare at each other. If Lucian wanted, he could use his seconds unique power to kill her, but he won't. This fight isn't going to end with death. First time in his life, he doesn't want to kill a person, who killed him. Maybe it has something to do how they can understand each other on a certain level. It doesn't have nothing to do with them being fighters, but something else. He can feel that she isn't aiming to kill him either, even If he can revive. She could have easily pierced his heart with the spear, but she didn't.

He lets out a deep sigh and says"Lets continue."

"Sure."she replies.

They both throw the others weapons to their owner and cath them.

Now that both of them are armed again, they take in a different stance and dash at each other. But before their weapons could collide, her spear drops from her hand and she falls onto her knees, while holding her shoulder.

"Damn."she mutters.

Lucian stops his blade only few centimeters from her head and looks at her.

"What are you waiting for? Strike me down!"she yells out."I want to be killed by a great warrior. So finish me and grant my wish."

He looks at her and says"No."

With a puzzled face, she yells"What do you mean "no"?! I want to die, so I could join my family."

There are tears in her eyes now. The thing she has wished for the past ten years is to join her family in afterlife, but she doesn't want to go there, unless killed by a warrior who could beat her. For the past ten years she has acted like everything was fine, but in reality she wants to die and join her family.

"I want to die!"she cries out.

"Why?"he continues"There is no afterlife. You won't meet you family ever again. This is the harsh truth. Persons soul goes into a reincarnation cycle immediately after its body has died."

"I don't care anymore. I just want for the pain to stop. So fucking kill me already, so the pain would stop!"she yells at him

"The pain of losing a family member. I know the pain."he says.

"I didn't lose one member. I lost my entire family. Father, mother, my sisters and brothers. All of them were gone in an instant. My family clan was destroyed and only I was left to live. Left to live with the pain... Forever."

"I lost my twin sister."he says."She was killed while I was forced to watch it. I had to see and hear her pain, while I couldn't do anything. My body was broken and my wings were torn off. I am a broken demon now."he continues"I know very well about the pain you feel. The pain that never seems to go away."

He sticks his sword into the ground and kneels down onto the ground, facing her.

"The pain will never go away, but you can lessen it."he says and puts his right hand onto her left shoulder.

"How?"she asks, with tears in her eyes.

"I was thought about it by my first love, who I still love. She thought me to share it with a person you love."he says. Even though the girl left him, she stills holds a place in his heart.

"Who will ever love me? My bloodline doesn't let me love just anybody."she says and he replies"I know."

The bloodline she is talking about is her Warrior bloodline. This bloodline makes it so that the females of this bloodline can only love a person who defeats her and whos strength she acknowledges. Because of this bloodline and her unique power, she obviously would have a hard time to find love.

"That is why I shall share the pain with you."he says and pulls her head into a kiss. Her eyes grow big and at first she resists, but she gives in and closes her eyes. He now knows how they could understand each other: they both feel the same pain. The pain of losing a family.

When they depart their lips, she puts her head onto his shoulder and cries. She finally found something that was missing in her life: a person who truly cares about her. She now doesn't want to die to reunite with her family, but now on she will make a new one. She will move on.

It may not be a love that the two have between each other currently, but it is a bond, that can't be broken. Unlike Lucian, who has had people to share his pain with, she had no one except now.

'It's gonna be a pain to explain to Yami.'he thinks to himself.'But I'm sure she will understand. She is a kind and an understanding person.'

While they are both kneeling, he says"We have company."

He says and gets up to look around him. He sees at least fifty Hunters surrounding them.

He looks at Samantha and reaches her hand towards her. She looks at his hands, until she holds it and Lucian pulls her up. He gives her a small tube filled with black liquid.

"Drink it and fight."he says and draws his sword.

"Fine."she says and drinks it all and her wound is almost instantly healed. She moves her hand a little, until she calls her spear to his hand and says"From enemies to allies."

"To lovers."Lucian correct her.

"Huh. I guess you can take responsibility."she says jokingly.

"Jokes later. Now fight."he says and both of them dash at opposite side.

While Lucian is running, red markings spread onto his face and his speed increases with it. Before a Hunter could react, Lucian was already behind him and decapitated him.

"How?!"yelled one of them out.

"Time to die."said Lucian and behind him dozens of swords appeared out of thin air. The swords were just floating in the air.

[Track and kill]he chanted and the sword started to move fast. In a ten seconds, his half was finished with about two dozen or so Hunters laying on the bloody snow, pierced by swords. Most of the Hunters had a limb or two cut off and were near them.

As for Samantha, she had finished her half too. With multiple small craters in the ground and corpses near them.

The both start to walk towards each other. Once they are about ten meters apart, she says"We never did finish our fight."

"So...Wanna finish it?"he asks him and she immediately replies"Obviously."

Both of them make their weapons disappear and now its unarmed combat.

""Lets go.""