Chapter 18: live or die, it's up to you-

Waking up in the middle of the night she felt cold, she opened her eyes and she saw Kazuma who was letting her rest on his lap.

As she looked at him asleep for a few seconds her face became cherry red as she remembered what happened.

She was filled with so many mixed emotions and she wanted to punch him, but she was just so cold she needed to get to heat before she became a living popsicle.

She put her hand up and tapped him, waking him up and he was pretty slow for a moment, he looked down at her and he got flustered as he saw what was happening.

But before he could over react "it's cold out here, let's go to your place before one of us ends up with a cold" she didn't know of third colds were the same thing, but she was pretty sure it was.

After a bit they ended up going to his place where he then noticed he was covered in blood but before he could overreact, she looked at him and told him to take a shower.

He listened to her and as he did he took a quick one and then found her against his heater and she was asleep.

He looked at her slightly bloody clothing and it was quite cold so he understood she turned it on to be warm.

But as he looked at her he realized she was on the hester and he ran over to her and moved her away from it, before it burned her.

It was a close one as the heater he had took a while to heat up so it wasn't too hot yet.

He then layed her on the couch and covered her with a blanket so she wouldn't be cold, but that was his only blanket since she killed his roomate and his room was cleared out last month, meaning he was alone here.

So he went to the other side of the couch and he shared the blanket by laying up there with her, she was small so there was enough space for the both of them.

***Next Day***

She sensed something and it woke her up, she shot up and as she woke up she saw a shadowy figure in the corner of the room and her claws emerged, she then ran at it and threw a punch but as she hit the shadow it dissapeared and she left a hole in the wall.

She turned around and despite not making Amy noise she saw it was laughing at her with its golden colored eyes glaring at her like she was amusing.

"Hesti-ãpholo, nemia jafosen" she hissed before bitting her down and her blood started shifting around her hand, it backed up but she then kicked the ground and dashed at it.

She jumped on the couch landing on Kazuma "ghuaahh!" and then she jumped off him and vertically slashed her claws leaving behind five blood-red after image lines.

But as she hit the shadow it shredded and started mystifying like a monster mob in a mmo-rpg.

After using [bloody claws] she killed the shadow and she then looked at the mist which dissapeared leaving behind a black crystal shard.

Her claws shifted back into normal nails and then she picked it up "whats a shadow doing outside the underworld?" she said to herself as Kazuma was coughing as he was just used as a launch pad.

She then looked at Kazuma who sat up and she pointed to the crystal "your not a shadow user or have anything to do with shadow beings, rignt?" she was pretty sure she killed the shadow monarch of breakens fall, back when she was in her 50s and still in crimson pergetory, so he couldn't be a shadow monarch.

Plus he was human and not a shadow person, and that shadow didn't seem to have and physical form similar to their master so it couldn't be Kazuma, maybe?

" 'Cough, huh? cough, cough,' a shadow user? no i only know spark magic?" he said as he was tring to regain his compositor since she jumped on him.

She then walked over and leaned on the couch to get close to him, she smirked and put the shard close to him "wanna learn shadow magic~" she offered and he looked up st her with eagerness "you can teach me shadow magic!.

But then she chuckled and looked away "I can, but I can't teach anything, I'm no shadow user, but I can help you to develop a shadow crystal-core so you can use shadow magic" she honestly said.

But what she didn't say was there was a 50% chance it'd kill him, she was still keen on killing him since she couldn't trust him, but if he succeeded she wasn't just going to let him live, but she was going to try and make a new shadow monarch.

Which ment besides strengthening herself back to what she originally was, she was going to have a loyal companion who can rule over shadows and then she could. . .let's say return to the underworld.

"If that's the case I'm all in, I trust you 100%" he was naive for trusting a Demon who cared for no one but herself, his innocents made her smile as he made her smile.

She hoped over the couch and then she bit her palm and her blood flowed into the center where the shard was. As it did the blood started turning the crystal ends red and after a bit of time both ends were crimson while the center was black.

She had tears on the side of her eyes as that was so painful, to bite into her own flesh hard was just so ahhh!

She then wiped away her tears and then she handed it to Kazuma who she started instructing him to feel the mana in the crystal.

But before he could find the shadow mana, he needed to be able to detect hers and siphon her mana into his body.

That's his best chance of succeeding.

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It took an hour but he got the hand of it quicker than she thought and when he was able to since it, he slowly siphoned the her mana into his body.

It was too violent, her mane was that of a rampaging catastrophuty, but at the same time it was soft and warm, her and her power was violent, but her nature was that if a gentle flower.

He could tell as it was like it was split in half, he didn't like how much hatred and death flowed in there, but he was able to handle it as the soft warmth was also their, it was like yin and yang, her power was that of balance of her own light and darkness, or so that's what he'd like to think of it as.

He then started moving a string of mana form out of his mana pool and as it flowed to his palm he touched her mana and did as she instructed and started slowly, absorbing it. She didn't know how his body was going to react to a Demon's mana, but he was willing to try it.

It took a very long time and his body was rejecting her mana at first touch but then it allowed her mana to see into his body.

But he felt something new, it was as of he knew she could corrupt him at any time she wanted and just eat away at his mana and hurt him physically and innerly.

But she was his friend and he trusted her more than anyone, after all she gave him the courage too fight back when he gave up all hope, right?

He managed to get all her mana and as he did it was like there was a black mana string attached to the red and he took it in as well.

He immediately got it and as he did the shadow magic touched his mana pool just slightly, but them his mana started rampaging inside of him.

The shadow mana tried attack him and forcefully entering his body but his kept resisting, he felt pain all over his body and he felt his life flash before his eyes.

Meanwhile her mana was just chiling as the two clashed and she was just there to help develope the core so she left the fighting to them.

It wasn't no DBZ type fight, it was that of a single string with half a merky black and a sparky golden.

Meanwhile the crimson was just sitting on the side already sitting in the mana pool with a bag of fucking popcorn!

This battle went on for minutes and on the outside he groaned and scrunched up, as it felt like he was getting teared apart from the inside.

She thoght he was going to die, she saw no signs of merging and she just yawned as another human was going to be on the list

But then put of nowhere the shard suddenly cracked and then exploded, shattering to dust and it was gone.

She got confused as it wasnt supposed to do that, he was supposed to absorb it and then it'd merge into a fragment of the core which he was supposed to develop, or it'd kill him and he'd be possed by the shadow she killed and turned into a crystal shard.

She then looked at him to see if he died but he looked in pain but was still breathing.

"So...You alive?" she casually said but she got no response so she couldn't tell if he was possed or it worked.

He sat up and as he looked at her he was panting "yeah... but I don't... think it was... successful" his words made her eye twitch.

"Your still alive and it was unsuccessful" she got aggregated but then she looked at him and bit her lip outa frustration.

She then grabbed her chin and then though about how impossible this was, but then something hit her, he was alive and it was unsuccessful.

He was fucking alive and it was unsuccessful, something like this could kill anyone since they were going to try and devour a shadow being, but he simply spat out the shadow and destroyed it.

This was so impossible it was possible.

She then looked at him completely diffrent, she saw something new and profound, it was like a scientist discovering a new element, she was just so intreaged.

But then she stoped herself before she got too excited "your a human right?" he was calming himself but he nodded his head and she couldn't stop smiling.

She then leaned over to him and she grabbed his face, looking into his dark green eyes and they were that of soft and gentle, his skin was pale like a stupid vampire, he had decent skin for a boy and his hair was a healthy blackish brown. Also he had lots of brushes and a few scars on him.

He got flustered as she was so close and he could feel her breath against his skin, she was examining him but then as she couldn't find anything new, so she let go and fell backwards.

"Kazuma, do you have anything to do with the darkness's, light bringer's whome you all call the elder gods, or anything ancient?" she asked "no" he responded "good" she liked his answer.

She then layed her feet on his lap "I don't hate you, so I might as well as train you, you might be useful in the future so I guess it's fine" she said and then her eyes moved to look at him.

"Unless you got a problem with it, that is" she said in a cold and threatening tone

"No ma'am!" she was going to have fun with this one.