Victory….?

The people around me were all shocked into silence. They looked towards me in reverence, yet their looks meant nothing when I no longer had sight. Dante peeked his head slowly from my shadow.

"The terror of the lord is…unbearable.." He muttered with widened eyes. Nerva didn't come out but I could feel him shaking in terror through my soul-link.

[Your bond Nero is dead.]

A notification appeared. The only thing I could see was the system panel, even in blindness it would cut through the darkness/nothingness and appear clearly in my mind. Yet this light had brought dark news.

"Nero…" I lamented as a strange pain filled my soul.

In the desolate aftermath of the Devil's game, I sat alone, my heart heavy with grief as I reached out into my shadow, searching for any sign of Nero, my bond. But all I found was a heavy body—a lifeless corpse where he once was.