Him 2

After Cossette's father finished his whole situation on why he decided to kidnapped Alicia and Athan when they were both a child, the two-Arthur and Cossette-ordered him to sit on the floor with his knees.

"I apologize for what I did!" The man kowtowed. He then explained, "I was too short on money that day. Because I was ordered not to contact His Majesty during the whole mission, I couldn't able to ask him for money."

While he was explaining this, Alicia just gazed at him coldly from above while remaining indifference.

"....." Alicia didn't say anything during and after his whole explanation. She only squinted her eyes and crossed her arms as she listened to him, and merely turn her head to the opposite direction once he was done.

Of course, the man remained silent while this happen. He prayed silently that the girl in front of her would spare his life, which thankfully happened after a sudden news arrival.

While the three was contemplating about what they should do to punish this man, a girl with disheveled hair, and pretty ocean-blue eyes came in to bring the news.

"Big brother is now awake!" Chloe announced as she started breathing roughly. It was obvious that she was pretty excited while bringing that news.

As for Alicia...

"Really!?" She also joins in with her little friend, and placed both of her hands between Chloe's hands in excitement. It was already clear that she was pretty occupied with Chloe, that she ignored the man's existence.

Though, the man was very thankful of this, because he knows that the possibility of his survival had just increased just because of that piece of news.

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At night.

Somewhere around an unknown location, a man appeared to be in his early twenties was drinking alone in a room, holding his glass of champagne in his hands.

"Hey, Shadow. Tell me everything that happened during my training." The man spoke, as he stood up from his seat and walked towards the window to stare at the moon outside.

While this happened, a tall dark figure, wearing a black mask, and a formal medieval black clothes came out of the shadowy shade behind the walls were lights couldn't be seen.

"As you wish, M'lord." Shadow knelt to the ground as he began to speak. "During your whole training, your sister was able to acquire an artifact given by your father. As for your brother, he was able to make a connection with the council in the Dwarven's Territory during his visit."

After saying this, Shadow briefly stopped for a few seconds before continuing. "The man you wanted me to investigate- Athan -had finally woken up from his coma today."

He was about to add something when Michael unexpectedly raised a brow and turned his head to his direction.

"Wake up from his coma? What do you mean? What happened to that boy during while I was away?" Asked Michael with a curious expression.

"This humble servant would like to apologize for being inconvenient, M'lord. This servant haven't got any information about the reason for the boy's coma. The only thing I was able to know was that it happened 26 days ago, while you were away."

"I see... I guess I'll forgive you this once. You have already proven your skill after you've joined me. This lord will accept your apology just this once." Michael exclaimed proudly, while looking down at Shadow.

Without lifting his head up, Shadow spoke, "I thank you, M'lord! Thou shall be useful for me as possible."

Michael nodded, motioning his hands to order Shadow to leave.

Shadow didn't say anything else and left. After being left alone, Michael began laughing manically with a wide grin on his face.

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*Clang!*

In amidst of the darkness above the sky, was a two people battling with their swords clashing upon each other.

*TRIIING-!*

Their swords clashed, and the sword of the young man with a long hair, slide passed through his opponent, putting a scratch on his cheeks.

After this, both of them took a step back to get away from each other.

"It's useless..." The man with a long haired spoke, "You might have caused enough damage with those techniques. But mental power..." He opened up his palm and peered at his opponent from the gap of his fingers with a smile. "Even if you were a hundred times stronger, you wouldn't even make me bat an eye."

The man felt like laughing when his opponent tried to use his abilities against him.

His opponent then pursed his lips; his crescent smile became more sharper. His jet-black hair fluttered, and a strike of light entered his body, making him more stronger.

"You lots will never be able to stop me..." The man thrust the katana in front of him. Using two of his fingers, he stroked across the length of the blade. The magic formula characters engraved in the sword began to light up from where he'd stroked them.

When the long haired man heard this, he chuckled. "If we're battling through experience. You are merely a child from my sight. You are still inexperienced upon experiencing a mere pain. You will never be able to beat me without dying."

Taking a glance at the certain girl at the distance, he quickly returned his attention to the jet-black haired young man, before he continued, "You wanted to control this world, that's fine..." He said, his lips slowly curled upward into a grin.

"But I'm going to destroy it first, so you... can't."

Almost immediately, the world around them were drowned in immense mass of darkness. Whispers emitted from the black mass, and the air around the two grew denser.

"Let's dance until the end of this world, Athan." The long-haired man spoke.

"You've become quite talkative today, Lucius?" The man who's named was Athan replied.

Waves of horrifying mental power were visibly swept out, even causing ripples and twisting the air around them the moment their swords clashed upon each other.

*-Tang!*

"You've become quite soft these years, Lucius." Athan grinned, staring straight at Lucius in the eyes.

Pushing Athan back a couple of meters away from him, Lucius took a quick glance at the girl, who were pounding her hands at the glass as she looked at the battle in tears, before returning his attention to Athan.

"That's thanks to a certain someone." He smiled.

The girl, who was inside the machine, saw him smiled as she gritted her teeth. A strong surge of emotions went to her heart, causing her to breathe roughly as she screamed his name.

"LUCIUS!!"

At this moment, the circular machine she, and the other people, was in suddenly light up, and flew up in the air before disappearing.

Her scream was heard no more, as it disappeared after the machine she was in disappeared into thin air.

Athan, who saw this scene, unexpectedly became surprised. "So this is your plan, huh... You are sacrificing yourself to save some random people. How heroic can you be?" He chuckled.

*-Clank!*

"Heroic? I have no rights to be called as 'hero', nor would I want to be called as one. I have lived long enough to realize this fact. There's only one person who I can deemed as the real hero... But unfortunately, that person is not here to save you." Lucius squinted his eyes, pressing himself through Athan.

When Athan heard his words, he asked, "Is he perhaps dead?"

To which, Lucius replied with a smile. "Dead? He was simply never born."

"Hoh... What a joke." Athan chuckled. He said, "How funny that was... for a dead man. You should go talk to clowns and ask for their tricks when telling jokes to other people."

Lucius shook his shoulder when he heard this. "Oh, Athan. You're not broken that needs to be fixed, just like me, you are someone who needs to be saved. But unfortunately, that's not my job. Go and learn how to save yourself, you broken fuck!"

Athan's lips twitched when he heard this. "You really have a habit to piss someone else off." He said, preparing his stance.

"Why thanks for the compliment. You should also learn from me, so that you can understand how shitty you are with those attitude. It's definitely not likeable, you asshole!"

Hearing this, Athan couldn't hide his fury no more. He roared, "You bastard! You deserve to die this instance!"

Their swords clashed as the ground trembles.

"Yeah, right... I do deserve to die. You are also included." Lucius replied with a smile, as he peered though the gap of their swords. His eyes were reflected through the blade, making him look more intimidating.

At the same time, the ground shook as small mountains formed from the ground began to release a smoke and magma.

The buildings fell because of the impact whenever their swords clashes into each other.

They continued striking each other until it was almost midnight...

Right when Athan was about to reach Lucius, Lucius crouched down and avoided his attack before attacking him from below.

[Time Left : 00H : 00M : 18S]

"I'll make sure that this is the last time I'll regress..."

He took his katana out from Athan's chest as he pushed him away.

[Time Left : 00H : 00M : 11S]

"By next time, I'll definitely save everyone in this place." Lucius spoke, as he gripped onto his sword tightly using both of his hands.

[Time Left : 00H : 00M : 05S]

"You will never be able to kill them."

[Time Left : 00H : 00M : 00S]

[Ding-!]

[⬛]

Hearing the notification from his head, Lucius raised his sword for the last time, and dashed towards Athan to cut him down.

[Time is moving backwards...]

*Shiiiiii-!*

His blade immediately reached Athan in the neck.

Blood splurted down like fountain, as Athan's head fell off the ground, while his body got down on it's knees.

"The next time will be our final showdown!" Lucius announced. His body slowly began to light up brightly, before beginning to disappear.

When his body fully dispatched into fragments of light, Lucius suddenly disappeared, leaving only silence in the surroundings.

Before the world was about to explode in a few seconds, an unknown voice suddenly echoed through the whole world.

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