Chapter 25- the cause of chaos

Moments passed, and Yuji remained beside Elizabeth.

Not knowing how long he's been in the same position, he looked at her.

"What should I... do now..." Yuji said with a lifeless voice.

Suddenly, loud noises from a distance emerged from the silence.

SHAKE* RATTLE*

The area around was faintly shaking moment after moment. As if something large is moving, causing the ground to shake.

CRASH*

A building near Yuji suddenly collapsed.

With an emotionless face, Yuji thought

" how... long has it been...".

Yuji stood up and walked forward to look outside.

Shortly, after taking a few steps, Yuji realizes that it was chaos.

"I... better get out of here..." he said with an emotionless voice.

Yuji picked up Elizabeth, placing her in his arms.

Yuji looked at Elizabeth.

"...."

Yuji seemed tired, not knowing what to do.

He stepped outside of the building.

Raagghh!

Just as he got outside, a number of Akumas blocked his path.

"How... annoying..." with almost no effort, he ranted.

Yuji gently placed Elizabeth's body on the ground as he went forward to face the Akumas

.

Not long after, all that seems to be a low-class Akumas fell to the ground.

Glancing back at Elizabeth Yuji saw an Akuma on top of her.

Yuji's eyes enlarged as he suddenly dashed close to the Akuma, with an open palm aiming for the Akumas head, violently smashing its head onto the ground.

He looked at the Akumas face. With an enraged expression, he once again smashed the motionless Akumas head into the ground.

He smashed, smashed, and smashed the Akumas head repeatedly onto the ground.

Filled with rage, he repeated.

In a short moment, he took one glance at Elizabeth's face, noticing her with a peaceful expression, he suddenly stopped.

"..."

"What am I doing..." he said in a disappointed tone.

He looked at his arm and noticed that there was no bite mark from the previous encounter he had.

"So, you healed this too..."

Yuji suddenly regains a bit of composure, as he stood up, reverting to a lifeless expression.

"I... have to get out of here..."

He once again Carried Elizabeth and started walking.

"I should go... to the center of the city..."

"And... I have to fulfill my promise too..."

With little to no idea of where to go, Yuji decided to make his way to the center of the city which was the original plan.

Shaking, buildings falling, Akumas running around from a distance. In simple words, absolute chaos.

Yet Yuji was walking casually, not having a care in the world.

While walking he encounters low-class Akumas on the way, which was inevitable in his situation.

Yuji casually dodge them, as he ran quickly to a corner, losing the Akumas.

"It's troublesome to get rid of them... I should try to hurry..."

Not expecting anything, Yuji ran faster, on the way to the center of the city.

"They... probably left by now..."

"In that case..."

"What am I doing...?"

Despite the reasoning in his head, Yuji continued to make his way to the center.

After a few moments of running and avoiding Akumas, he finally arrived closer to his goal.

And from a distance, he saw something that left him in shock.

"No way..."

Yuji was forced back to reality, after seeing an unfavorable situation right in front of him.

Yuji's body trembled at the sight of a massive dark red skull moving from a distance, behind a short building in front of him.

"Isn't this place... close to the center..."

Suddenly, Yuji hears numerous engines from vehicles from a distance.

"Vehicles!" Yuji said.

"Then that means they haven't left yet!" Yuji then looked at the massive creature and saw it looking in the direction where the sound of vehicles came from.

"..."

"SH*T!"

With no hesitation, Yuji jumped over the small building and started shouting.

"HEY!" he shouted, trying to grab the attention of the massive creature.

"I have to distract it... if that massive thing gets to them... they're..." Yuji thought.

Erina, as well as the faces of the others, flashed from his memory.

"I don't know if I'm thinking straight..."

"No... right now... I'm definitely thinking straight!"

"If I let go of this situation... Who knows how many more will die..."

"All of you... better be safe!"

Yuji then jumped down the building, still carrying Elizabeth, with determination to distract the massive creature.

"Now that I think about it, I've been relying on my instinct this entire time..."

"And if there's one thing I noticed... is that I'm stronger..."

"A lot stronger than before!"

While running towards the direction of the massive creature he encounters numerous Akumas blocking his path.

"Dang it... from this much, I can't tell where the high class and the low classes are," Yuji thought as he continues to run closer to the Akumas.

"I don't have much time..."

Yuji dashed quickly to the side of the grouped Akumas

.

DASH*

Suddenly three Akumas were able to match his speed and blocked his path.

"So there's 3 high class..."

"High classes are definitely faster and stronger than the others... so it's natural for them to catch up to this much speed..."

Yuji stops and looks at the Akumas that halted right in front of him.

"Three Akumas, two unusual legged and one with two large arms..."

"How troublesome..."

Yuji looks at the massive creature, blocks away from him, starting to make its way towards the sound of the vehicles.

Yuji was alarmed, he needed to get past the possibly high-class Akumas in front of him, in order to get near the massive creature.

"Normally, running away won't do any good..."

"But there's no other way!"

Yuji quickly ran inside what seemed to be an office building, followed by the three-high class Akumas.

He ran in circles inside the building to lose the Akumas, using multiple methods just to get out of the Akuma's sight, such as throwing tables, and papers.

When he reached a certain corner, he kicked a medium-sized rock to the left of the building, shattering a window, making a loud noise.

He then quickly turned right, out of vision from the Akumas.

The Akumas followed the rock and jumped outside the 3rd-floor window.

"Phew... that got them..."

Yuji then stops by the third-floor window of the opposite direction.

His heart started pounding hard, with his knees slightly shivering, as he looked down the building.

Yuji notices the massive creature moving further from him, destroying more buildings on its way.

"There's no time to hesitate!"

Yuji jumped off the building, holding Elizabeth's body tightly.

CRASH*

Smoke filled his vision as he felt a little numb.

"I'm... fine!" Yuji thought as he stood up from the fall with both feet

.

"Ok, now I have to..."

Suddenly more Akumas blocked his path, "There's so many Akumas in the area... And that creature is definitely way different than the others..."

"there's no doubt about it..."

Yuji scowled, looking at the massive creature, "That's... an archdemon..."

Yuji was stunned, surrounded by more Akumas.

"I have to get past these things..."

"But when I do... what am I..."

Suddenly an Akuma dashed forward to Yuji.

Yuji dodges the Akuma and started running.

"There's no time to think... I just have to do it!".

Yuji got through the multiple Akumas by running away.

And so, Yuji got closer to the archdemon.

Yuji stopped above a small building to Cath his breath, as he manages to get the whole picture of the archdemon.

It was a massive creature about 50 feet tall, it had overgrown veins all over its body, and massive lumps of flesh, had a large yet skinny skull and a large dark eye, with half of its face being covered with veins and overgrown flesh.

"The name arch demon really fits this one..." Yuji said as he catches his breath, after running continuously.

"Now that I'm this near... how will I even distract it..."

"More importantly... how will I survive after..."

The Archdemon kept on moving, getting closer to where the sound came from.

"The sound of the vehicles is starting to fade..."

"I guess they're leaving... I can't let this thing catch up..."

Yuji held Elizabeth's body tightly.

"..."

Yuji placed Elizabeth on his back, "I can use one of my arms in this position... alright"

"Now then..."

Yuji had his sight locked on a building near the Archdemon.

"I guess that's the goal for now..."

Yuji then began to run towards the said building.

"That Archdemon seems to be walking casually... I can do this..."

Yuji managed to get close to the Archdemon, as he continues to run.

As he was running, he sees large debris that came from a destroyed building, lying beside the road.

"Wait... can I..."

Yuji stops by the large debris the size of an average house wall and gently drops Elizabeth.

Rattle* rattle*

Yuji managed to lift the debris from the ground.

"With this weight, I can..."

Yuji locked his vision at the Arch demon's head, right on top of its large fleshy back.

"I've always been a great shot..." Yuji said, "hopefully this works..."

Yuji used his whole body, spun the debris 360 degrees, and threw it in the direction of the Archdemon.

Yuji completely focused and stared at the debris.

CRASH*

"YES!" Yuji said, after hitting the top of the Arch demon's head with the debris.

The Archdemon halted.

"..."

"..."

The arch demon's head slowly turned around.

"..."

"..."

The Archdemon stared directly at Yuji.

Yuji was suddenly struck with fear, as the Archdemons stare felt like it pierced through his soul, making his whole-body shiver.

Yuji began to sweat, his knees and hands started to shake, as he stared at the dark void of the Arch Demons' eyes, a sudden red light flashed from the depths of darkness in its eyes.

Yuji was stunned for a moment as the demon started to turn its massive body around to face his direction.

Run.

"SH*T!!" Yuji shouted, as he quickly turns around, picking up Elizabeth, he ran as fast as he could, as his thoughts kept repeating the same word over and over.

RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN, RUN.

STOMP* STOPM*

The ground began to shake shortly one after another.

Yuji did not turn around, as he only thought of getting away as fast as possible.

SHAKE* SHAKE*

"This pressure... it feels like it's just behind me!" Yuji thought as he ran faster.

He kept running as fast as he could, as the shaking from the ground did not seem to fade away.

"SERIOUSLY! HOW AM I GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS!?" Yuji shouted.

Meanwhile.

"..."

"Huh...? am I seeing things?" Yukina said as she walked closer.

"That thing... IS RUNNING AWAY?" She said looking at the Arch Demons' head from a far distance.

"Activate!" Yukina said, activating her mechanical backpack, as it transformed into a wing-like jet pack on her waist, with what seemed to be metal pipes coming out from it.

"No way it's running!"

"This might be crazy but... I'm going to have to get closer to be sure,".