Chapter 69: Sanity of the Five Pillars

Seeing the mysterious person in front of them Tazer immediately charged towards him without a second thought,

"Wait!."

Arthur yelled out but Tazer couldn't hear him because of the moment, Tazer's left prosthetic fell on the ground and his black electric arm replaced it, forming a fist he yells,

"You're dead now scum!."

"Tazer?."

"Did you just say Tazer?."

Annie saw Tazer plunging towards the enemy just now, while Dorothy heard what she said, was now shocked to see a villain who they beaten some time ago, maybe he has a some sort of connection to this girl, Dorothy thought, as she sees Arthur as well she clenches her fists unable to do anything from the inside.

Moments after the impact, everyone in the room was astonished, Tazer was floating in the air while his fist made contact with the person's face it seems as it didn't even put a scratch on him.

"Tsk Tsk I would've appreciated if you were to calm down."

He simply pushed him back towards the door, Merlin casts a bed of petals to catch Tazer, Arthur notices Dorothy and a blondish girl behind the person in a cell, He clenches his fists, takes a step forward and says,

"Who the hell are you!?."

"Ohh? energetic today are we? don't worry I won't harm these two adorable women in the cell, you have my word."

"I don't want your word, I want you to let them go now."

"I will but prove to me why I would listen to you."

Tazer charged in again this time his right prosthetic fell off and his electric claw replaced it, The person closes his eyes, takes a deep breath and says,

"You never learn do you?."

From left to right Tazer's attacks keeps on missing as he dodges every single one with his eyes closed, Tazer was slowly getting pissed at this guy's arrogance and for underestimating him.

"You're starting to piss me off scum!."

Both eyes still closed and dodging Tazer's attacks, from behind Arthur was ready to swing his sword at him, he opens his eyes and sees Arthur's pupils gone, and the huge intent to kill was right there, he chuckles and says,

"You two work together often?."

Because of what he said Tazer's attacks became more aggressive by every swing and Arthur seemed to back off, now it's a one on one fight!

Tazer's attacks still keep on missing until he kicked a small part of the dust into the person's eyes, with both eyes closed the person rubbed his eyes like someone who just cried would look, Tazer took his chance and tried to plunge his claws into the person's chest.

"N-Not bad..."

Until Tazer stopped right at his tracks and decided to pull away from him

"What's this? you're done?."

The person heard a beeping sound twice as he sighs and still rubs his eyes, he knew what was going on with the situation, Arthur attacking from behind once was just a decoy for him to go to the cell and free Dorothy and the girl.

[Hmm by appearing behind me while in combat I concluded you would attack me once Tazer blinded my sight but I guess I underestimated you to think that you would just attack me once and while Tazer would continue his useless tantrums you would go behind and free the girls, pretty impressive... but]

"I'm Impressed by the two of you, but what difference does it make with the girls fr--!."

He immediately dodged a spell, he looked around and it wasn't Merlin's, but Dorothy's, it was emitting smoke from the tip of her staff like how a gun would after it's shot.

"We won't know if we don't try right?."

A second later the person was in chains, he followed where the chain would lead and there a blondish girl with her red fringe covering a part of her left eye was smiling and threw him towards Tazer.

He stared into Tazer's dead cold eyes as he punched the person into the wall and backed away and went towards Annie.

"Are you alright?."

"I'm fin--!."

"It's not over!."

as the smoke cleared and the person was still standing as if he withstood all of that, Tazer was very pissed and shock at the same time that he immediately charged towards him with all he's got.

"Wait! Don't!."

As Tazer was plunging towards him the person merely sighed and punched Tazer towards the left side of the room, he was unconscious as the dust cleared and Annie went directly towards him while Arthur and Dorothy were on the defensive.

"Now that all disturbances are gone, I would very much like to see for myself."

"Huh?."

"Show me! the power you two have!."

He disappeared and appeared right behind Arthur, he dodged the punch and backed away Dorothy froze the person's legs in ice, she thought it was over but the person was laughing out loudly as he continues to walk towards Arthur while breaking the ice, as each step he takes the ice keeps on getting broken, Dorothy was shocked to see her spells to be broken by just walking.

[W-Who is this guy!?]

"I need to see it for myself.. the true power of the Ruler's Servant."

[What did he say!?.]

He ran towards Arthur with a huge smile on his face as a gust of winds went in front of him and Dorothy was blocking his way while Arthur was readying his stance.

"Oh? did the girl wanted to play too?."

Behind him was Arthur and at a blink of an eye he managed to land a hit, he sliced off the person's arm and threw him at the other side of the room.

"Merlin, I don't know what's your deal with that criminal over there but I suggest to get them out of here!."

"Arthur?."

"You have my gratitude Sir. Ackerman."

Merlin immediately casted a circular of petals as Tazer and Annie were immediately transferred to another room.

"What about yo two?."

"We'll hold him off somehow, just get him to a hospital!."

"We owe you one."

He took a look at Dorothy and gave her a smirk as he talked to her via telepathy,

[So this is the boy huh?]

[Heh?]

[Either way good luck to the both of you and thank you]

[Merlin you have a lot of explaining to do]

[I know, I know some other time not now.]

[I'm sorry if I can't rely on the other heroes this time, they're basically all busy right now investigating something outside the kingdom that's why I can't call for them right now, I'm wishing you my luck]

Merlin dispersed into rose petals and the person stood back up while cracking his neck, out of thin air he summons his spear and twirls it around.

"I hope you both entertain me."

He charges directly at them not giving them a time to react, he stared Arthur face to face with the tip of his spear prepared to stab him by the next second.

Arthur ducked and dodged the spear right at the last second with strands of hair flying off, Dorothy casts fireballs to give Arthur space between him and their enemy.

But..

"Mind If I..."

He immediately grabbed Arthur and immobilized him and used him as a shield against the fireballs, because of this Dorothy snapped her finger and the spells dispersed.

"Now, Now I thought you were going to shoot me? I'm right here you know."

"Pathetic tricks!."

Dorothy blasted the ground with the dust giving her cover, the person was still holding Arthur somewhat hostage, but a few seconds past and multiple Dorothy's came out of the dust and charged at them.

He couldn't tell who was the real Dorothy but since all of them were charging at him, he pushed Arthur away and used his spear to take out the copies one by one, all ending at the tip of his spear.

Arthur who figured out where the real Dorothy is by seeing footprints being made he slowly walked towards her while the person was busy fighting her copies.

Dorothy chanted herself with the stealth skill and while her copies our out there she would sneak from behind and try to get Arthur away from him and the two of them would escape while he was busy.

He slammed the copies from left to right until one was left charging towards him.

"It's finally come to this huh."

He rushes in towards the last copy in which he believed to be the original Dorothy, but he smiles, the two cross each other out but the copy was the one who dispersed he then aimed his spear at the entrance,

"Blazing Howl!."

There was red gusts of winds covering the entire spear from a far it would look like a shooting star from an outside person's perspective, He threw the spear and it landed on the side of the door as the dust cleared Dorothy and Arthur were on the floor but they weren't injured they were just thrown off from the impact of the spear hitting the door.

"It's time to end this!."

The person grabs two knives in his pockets and throws them at Dorothy, Arthur stood up and blocked the knives.

"Who are you!?."

"Fine. I'll let you in a secret since we know about you and your little girlfriend's secret."

"What are you talking about!?."

"I'm one of the five pillars of the Darkness Organization, Sanity nice to meet'cha."

Sanity was slowly walking towards them while Arthur was still keeping his guard up.

"What do you mean, Me and Dorothy's secret?."

Sanity stopped at his tracks and lets out a loud laugh that would echo around in the room.

"You mean Hahahahahaha you haven't even realized it? pheww I guess lemme tell you."

Arthur blocked yet again three knives that were thrown, "You two are related to the Ruler and Servant Class that are born every generation.", he said and was slowly walking towards them.

"Dorothy ...?"

She was being silent, like that time when she was guilty of Arthur getting hurt because of her.. She was starring at the ground as the tears fell on the ground and dried up seconds later.

"Now, Now we need to see for ourselves if it's really true.. so don't be shy to take me down with everything you both go--!."

Sanity backed away as he felt thousands of weapons hiding from the shadows, the fear he's experiencing right now, the thrill he's enjoying.

He summoned his spear back and was preparing to face the weapons, Arthur felt the same thing but he wasn't scared, It was like he knew this feeling from sometime, somewhere but couldn't think from where or when.

Dorothy gave Sanity a cold stare as the weapons from the shadows came out and all were heading towards his position.

"What awesome situation!!."

He parred some of the weapons with his spear and decided to dodge them, while some missed their mark some were following him.

Arthur was shocked but calm to see all the weapons after Sanity, he grabbed Dorothy and they both went outside the building, they managed to successfully escape.

He parred another sword with his spear and threw multiple knives at the horde's of weapons heading towards him, It's only a matter of time until he runs out of tricks and gets impaled.

but.. all the weapons that were after him suddenly disappeared out of thin air.

"They run away huh? Nicely played Ackerman... Now it's your turn for show and tell."

Arthur and Dorothy were already 10 blocks away from the building, both exhausted but had to keep going or they might get caught again, they arrived at the park.

"Dorothy.. Inside the park we'll have more cover then."

They both entered the park in the middle of the night, Sanity went outside of the building and stared upon the rooftop and said,

"You got them? Sight!."

"Shut up Sanity! I told you no one can escape my eyes."

"You can have this.."

"Are you sure she won't notice this coming?."

"Don't worry she still doesn't know how to use the full power of the Ruler Class.. oh don't kill her alright, where are they now?."

"Right, Right I won't kill her.. at the park."

"Alright, I'll be off then."

Sanity gave Sight a knife, what Sanity wants him to do is throw the knife and hit Dorothy in order to give Arthur a little push, Sight aimed towards the sky and said,

"Please don't kill her... Please don't kill her... Please don't kill her."

Over and over again until he finally threw it, meanwhile at the park Arthur and Dorothy were still running, after they get to the other side of the park they could return home directly but the thought had crossed their minds that they might drag others into this especially for Anna, Saya, Carla and the rest of their classmates.

from the distance the knife split into two and were still heading towards Dorothy at maximum speed.

"Dorothy!!!."

Noticing the knives too late, both knives hit Dorothy's legs as she fell to the ground she hit her head and was unconscious, a stream of blood coming down from her head Arthur clenched his fists and he could hear slow clapping coming from the distance.

Sanity arrived at the park and he noticed some of the lights were turning on and off around Arthur.. the cold breeze of the winds passing by him as if Arthur himself is drawing everything towards him.

"Mwuhahahahaha this is what I wanted, to know the truth if you are indeed.. The Catastrophic Servant."

As the lights were still continuing to turn on and off, Sanity was starting to see one by one Arthur's black wings.

"The prince of darkness serving the all for one class."

Arthur turned around and gave Sanity a demonic smile, as his teeth were as sharp as a sharks, his eyes were dead cold, his pupils were gone, as Sanity was watching he noticed..

"Wha?? I can't move.."

He was frozen in his tracks.

"Mystic eyes of petrification!? Impossible .."

Arthur was slowly walking towards him.. while breathing heavily and holding a tight firm grip on his sword.. Sanity threw one knife to end Arthur's life by sheer fear for survival..

[Crap! I'm going to kill him!!!]

Arthur's arm turned into from flesh to hard scales and took the hit from the knife, he placed his arm down as the knife fell to the ground, the scales that protected him from the knife turned back into his flesh.

Couldn't move Sanity was prepared to die, here and now until a ghost punched the hell out of him away from Arthur's range, The Raging Arthur turned around and saw the Vice president tending to Dorothy's wounds.

Filled with rage Arthur misunderstood and thought she was doing something to Dorothy and tried to attack the Vice pres. until a ghost samurai appeared in front of him and sliced open his arm.

"Do...Doro..."

"That's enough Ackerman."

Alex Richard, the President of the Student Council in WordBagon Academy just arrived on time.

"You're kidding me right?."

"Stop this at once brother!."

Sanity can finally move but for him he still felt like he didn't want to move as he was facing his younger brother.

"I know what you, Mom and Dad are doing It won't work!."

"Shut up will ya!."

He summoned his spear but seconds later he lets out a sigh and falls back..

"Running away?."

"You're free to follow me if you want to.. but if you do I'll make sure to kill you and that girlfriend of yours!."

Sanity disappeared and Alex lets out a sigh and says,

"Now what are we going to do with you."

Arthur sliced up the ghost and was heading towards Abigail with the intent to kill, Arthur couldn't know who was friend or foe at this time, in which every person who tried to get close to Dorothy, he'd consider them foe.

"You really shouldn't underestimate the Pres. and myself the Vice president."

Moments later Arthur was dangling by ribbons in the air, Abigail managed to caught him and since Arthur was starting to loose his other power he couldn't try to escape the ribbons himself as he was starting to feel conscious again.

"President, he's out cold what do we do now?."

"We bring him back.. but I guess we let him go back to normal first."

"Yes sir."

"I'm sure the others are still looking for him, tell the other members if you see them, that Ackerman and Ritsu have been found."

"Yes sir."

"You don't have to be so formal when it's just us you know."

"Yes si-- I mean yes Alex."

"Are you hurt?."

"No.. I'm fine, I treated her wounds for now but she'll really need a few days of rest."

"Same goes to him as well."

Arthur's wings slowly disappeared and he was back to normal, but was unconscious after the transformation.

End of Chapter 69: Sanity of the Five Pillars.