Many thoughts went through my head at once. Some of them filled with despair, others with pain, even a few with disbelief, but the main thing I felt was a crushing blow to my chest.
'Please tell me she's lying?' I begged Curse. They just couldn't be evil! If they were Life couldn't restore their memories properly as she herself said she was unsure if they would retain their memories from this world. Just the thought of mixing the Akame and Kurome I knew with sick twisted versions of themselves made me sick.
'I'm afraid not.' He responded in a sad tone. Those words broke almost everything within me. Why was life so unfair?! I couldn't just live a happy life with Akame and Kurome! All three of us had a tragic past and now even more tragedy was filling the future. Rapid memories flashed through my mind to the point that my sanity began to lessen. It didn't help that thoughts of multiple future scenarios accompanied the memories.
I tried to regain any pockets of sanity that still existed within my mind as I barely clutched onto one of them. Regaining my senses I noticed everyone was looking at me intently, Shiro who had heard the mental exchange was just giving me a look of pity as her hand clasped my shoulder.
"Esdeath, I don't mean to impose but could you summon a huge block of ice before something worthwhile breaks?" I asked as I tried to handle the whirlwind of emotions. Surprisingly I saw a look of understanding and sympathy quickly cross her face as she gave a nod. With a flick of her hand a solid ice block appeared in front of me.
Without hesitation I began venting my frustration on it not caring what the others though. Had I not been so emotionally unstable I would have noticed the lack of harm that I should have gotten from punching ice. All I cared was venting my emotions as I punched the ice relentlessly, breaking it down into smaller and smaller chunks. Halfway through my attack on the ice block I gave up punching all together as I executed slashing motions with my hands. Once again had I been paying attention I would have noticed something abnormal.
Finally after the ice had been reduced to nothing I collapsed with my knees on the floor. Silent sobs began to rack my body as equally silent tears fell down from my eyes. I barely registered the sudden warmth of two sets of arms around me as I continued with my despair. After what seemed like forever I felt my body and mind slipping back to normal.
"T-Thank you." I had barely managed to choke out the words as my body was still feeling the effects of what just happened. Schere just gave me a sad smile as she let go of me and returned to her seat. I slowly pried Shiro off of me but not before I gave her a thankful smile as I too returned to my seat.
"I'm sorry you had to see that." I told the two Crimson Raiders.
"Everyone has demons in their past that push them over the line from time to time. While I'll admit I am curious I will not ask or judge for just happened." I gave her a nod of thanks as I knew that if I had to explain I would more than likely have another breakdown. Thankfully before any more words could be spoken the door to the room opened and Safaia stepped in. No one even had time to think of the first word to greet her when Esdeath sprung up and ran over to tackle her in a bear hug.
"Safaia you're finally up!" She exclaimed happily. Whatever Safaia said in returned came out incoherent due to the height difference and position she was put in.
Schere, who was stifling quiet laughter finally spoke up after a few more seconds, "Esdeath unless you want to put her back in bed I suggest you let her breathe." Esdeath looked down at the shorter girl and quickly let go as a sly grin crossed her face.
"You trying to kill me Death?" Safaia demanded as she crossed her arms. I grew confused momentarily at what she called her but just shrugged it off as a nickname of sorts.
"Just trying to show my adorable little sister some love," the older of the two responded. Luckily I remembered Safaia saying she had a sister so wasn't surprised at her words. As if she expected something to happen she ducked just a red bolt of energy went over her head. I could only stare at the staff in Safaia's hands that seemed to come out of nowhere. The two then proceeded to throw more taunts and attacks at each other but I could tell they didn't mean it.
"Are they always like this?" Shiro asked Schere.
"Oh no, most of the time they destroy a room when something like this happens but they're taking it easy probably due to Safaia just waking up." Schere answered serenely, as she watched the scene amused. After watching the two have argue for a few more minutes and watching stray objects in the room being destroyed the two of them came over to where we were at and sat down.
"Glad to see your awake," I told the Safaia.
"We need to talk later." Was her response leaving me confused.
"So where were we?" Esdeath asked as tilted her head back against the couch.
"Well since my question has been answered I believe it's my turn to answer you." I told her.
"Well I've already seen a little display, but for you to be of assistance to us we would like to know your abilities in combat." As she said this I saw her eyes look at my hands before returning to my face. I told her of what abilities I knew of excluding the ones that mainly involved me being from another dimension.
"Good to know your abilities can back up the stories Shiro told us." Esdeath said with a chuckle. I eyed Shiro to see she was giving me a nervous look.
"And what stories were those?" I asked as I began to wonder just what stories the girl had told.
"Oh just making you seem like a war god in combat. Although your powers could back that up I myself would like to test the skill." She responded as a feral grin crossed her face. I couldn't help but think of all the times we fought in my previous life and how chaotic they had been. We continued to discuss for a while before Esdeath suddenly excused herself saying she had something to do with Schere apparently needing to come as well. So that just left Shiro, Safaia, and I alone in the room.
As the door shut Safaia immediately started talking, "Tatsumi we need to talk!" She said in a demanding tone.
"About?" I let the question trail off not really sure what she wanted.
"About what I saw when I woke up! I was asleep dreaming when it suddenly shifted. Instead of murky dream-like images, these were realistic and most of them had you in it. It was you along with two girls both of them with black hair, one had red eyes and the other had black." I stared at her flabbergasted. How had she seen those images?
"Was it them?" Shiro asked as she put her hand on my shoulder for reassurance. I looked at her surprised, but quickly realized that if Safaia had noticed it then she would have as well.
"Yes it was them," I muttered grimly. I began to wonder how these two were seeing what was going on inside my mind.
'It could be the bond of your mind link.' Curse suggested, speaking for the first time in a while.
"Oh now you speak?" I asked wondering why he had been silent for so long.
'Don't blame him Tatsumi we ran into an unwelcome complication with Judgement.' Life said clearly exhausted.
"What complication?" I asked. Was that Teigu going to make me pass out again or worse?
'We'll tell you when your olde-' Toripuru stopped speaking as he mentally passed out.
'As Tori was saying.' Life began clearly happy to be able to say Tori due to him being knocked out cold. 'We'll tell you later tonight.' She said the last part uncertain. Although I didn't like it I agreed due to how exhausted they sounded.
"Hello, unanswered question here." Said Safaia reminded me, bringing me out of my thoughts. I looked at her as I debated on what to tell her. I could tell her everything like I had with Shiro, but could cause multiple problems. The main one being Esdeath. How would she react to me fighting her sister albeit one from another dimension but still. It would only become more complicated if she told this Esdeath. I could just lie to her but that could easily come back later to bite me. So I just took the easy way out and decided to answer her question by telling the truth but not the whole truth.
"Those were the girls I fell in love with." A look of pity formed on her face as she noticed my bitter-sweet tone.
"What happened?" She asked softly.
"They died." I murmured, my voice cracking in the end. No matter how much I thought about this I still couldn't handle that one fact. Thankfully Safaia didn't push on the issue further.
After a few minutes of silence she asked another question, "So why can I hear all of these voices inside my head? I can hear both of yours and others!" Great I had no idea how I would explain this without letting the truth slip. Thankfully Curse had was a master a coming up with stuff on the spot.
'Girl have you heard of the Legendary Twelve?' He asked her. I wondered what he meant by those words but decided to put it off until my discussion with him later tonight.
"Yea my staff is one of them. You don't mean-" she stopped talking as her eyes widened at realization.
'Aye, I am one of them as is the blade the little one wields." He said indicating the last part to Shiro.
"I thought you were just a pair of enchanted chains." She said as she looked at Curse who was wrapped around my neck with the ends leading wrapping around my wrists.
"Enchanted?" I asked confused not familiar with the term.
"Magic abilities applied to items. They were supposed to mimic the Legendary Twelve and surpass them but the idea was a failed concept. It's now a rarely used art but the items themselves are almost impossible to acquire due to their worth." I nodded in understanding.
Before more words could be said a sudden stinging sensation began to start at my hands. That stinging increased, from barely noticeable, regular, to absolutely agonizing pain as I bit down on my lip trying not to scream. Shiro and Safaia just looked at me with with horror in their eyes as they watched the obvious pain in my eyes.
'Shiro knock him out!' I barely heard Life say. I could only feel the pain and the very fain sensation of Curse's chains wrapping around my fingers. Luckily that all stopped as I felt a hard surface slam into my head knocking me out.
Thanks for reading hoped you enjoyed the chapter. Thanks for all the reviews for the last chapter hopefully this one will get a decent amount. Once again I thank my betas Lovesick Fangirl and SilverStarWolfGoddessAmarantha for all of their hard work on this chapter due to me being a genius and writing this at 4 in the morning. Anyways until next time!