Another chapter. Really thank you for the reviews (I didn't expect you also liked Bleach).
Chapter 11: Fearless girl
Aurélia woke up on a hospital bed. Charles was next to her, sitting on a chair.
"It was time to wake up, you lazy girl. While you were sleeping, a lot of stuff happened." Charles said, forcing an indifferent face. Aurélia just smiled at him.
"I'm sorry for worrying you."
Grayman didn't say anything.
"All right, frau Schultz. I still need you, after all. I hope you didn't forget that-"
"You still call me frau Schultz. Once in a while, I'd like to hear you calling me by my name."
"...You're acting weird. I've already told you your name is too complicated and there's no way I would remember it. I just remember important things." Grayman said.
"Right. Important things. I remember you talking about those things. You want money, power and status, right?"
"Of course, frau Schultz. It's what everybody wants."
"You're wrong."
Grayman looked to her when she said that. Aurélia was speaking in a deeply serious tone and not in her usual friendly and positive tone.
"What people want, Charles, is to accomplish things. Do something that would make some difference. Be remembered. At least, it's how people should be. The problem is that people give up too easily sometimes. Or people, simply, don't realize, or don't accept, what they truly want and search for the wrong things. That's your case."
Grayman didn't believe in that.
"You're saying that money, power and status are not what I really desire? You're so naive."
"No, Charlie. You're the naive one here. You keep lying to yourself. You keep trying to believe you don't care about anyone besides you."
"And I don't! I just care and live for myself."
"If that's true, so why are you here with me?"
Grayman didn't say a single word. Aurélia continued:
"I already told you these things. Don't you remember? And I promised I would give you what you really want."
"I don't remember hearing such nonsense. You must be hallucinating, frau Schultz. I'll let you rest a little now. You must recover quickly, the situation is not good."
Charles left the room without looking to Aurélia. He was remembering the first time they met.
He was in a library in the institution, reading about mechanic, when that girl sat next to him. She approached him and started to read his book too.
"What the hell are you doing?" he asked annoyed. She smiled and answered:
"Mechanic seems interesting."
"So go pick a book for you, I'm reading this one."
"You're mad because of little stuff like this?"
"Stop talking, I'm trying to read, you stupid girl."
"Wow, you're pretty rude. Would make some difference if I said that I'm the granddaughter of the headmaster?"
Grayman looked to her for the first time. She was beautiful, truly beautiful. Her smile was the brightest thing he ever saw. But he pretended he was indifferent about her.
"So you're Schultz's granddaughter? Now I understand why you're so annoying."
Aurélia laughed. "You're very brave! I like it!" she said. "I'm Aurélia Camargo da Silva, I'm from Brazil. My mother used to work here and she was married with Karl Schultz. After he died, she went back to Brazil, without knowing she was pregnant. She just died..." Charles looked to her discreetly, "my grandfather went to Brazil. He asked if I wanted to come with him and I accepted".
"Why did you do that?"
"I wanted to prove a thing to my mother... and to myself. I'm going to accomplish my father's dream. But, for that, I need to investigate a certain incident."
"How silly." Charles laughed, "It's waste of time to try to accomplish other people's dreams, especially if they're dead. What do you gain by doing it?"
"...I see, so what my grandfather told about you was true, Charlie."
"Don't call me 'Charlie,' frau Schultz! And don't talk all superior to me." Charles got mad at her. Aurélia seemed to have fun with his reaction. Then, she said in a more serious tone:
"I want to propose you a deal."
"Deal?"
"Yes. I want your help in my investigation."
"I don't give a damn about it."
"But you can obtain valuable information and become a rich and famous scientist. You don't want it?"
"I don't need your help to be successful. I can reach anything by myself."
"All right, so I'll give you a thing you can't obtain by yourself."
Grayman was curious now. "What would it be?" he asked. Aurélia whispered in his ear "while I live, you'll be remembered. You will be worthy for me."
Charles wasn't expecting for that. For a moment he thought that she was joking, but Aurélia was serious. He didn't answer anything and went away. He avoided her for months, until he overheard a conversation between Aurélia and Sabine in a laboratory. A conversation about a Mr. Dream, a Mr. Wisdom and monsters in other dimension. After Sabine left, he showed himself to Aurélia.
"So you were hearing hidden there. There's a while we don't see each other, Charlie."
"I'm going to Japan with you two." He said abruptly, Aurélia was caught in surprise. Grayman didn't give her time to say anything:
"I heard the entire story. It sounds interesting and I may gain something with it. Let's make a deal!"
"...deal? But..."
"I'll help you accomplishing your father's dream, or whatever, and you help me to satisfy my desires."
Aurélia was serious for a while, then she smiled:
"I already have told you I would give you what you truly want."
Grayman didn't say anything, she smiled again:
"Let's do it! We're not going to give up until reach our objectives!"
Grayman remembered all that. Aurélia changed something in him, something he didn't understand. He hated that, but he couldn't stop thinking about the deal she proposed a long time ago. Why do you do this to me, Aurélia? he thought. Suddenly he heard a big commotion, some people were going toward Auréila's room. There were a couple, three teenagers and... a giant ladybug? Dr. Kido was coming with them, trying to explain something.
"You don't understand, Mrs. Izumi, Mr. Izumi. Your son is not here."
"But I heard you saying he had come back and you said something about blood!" Mrs. Izumi was almost screaming. Grayman approached them.
"Excuse me." he said in Japanese, "Are you the adoptive parents of Koushiro Izumi?"
"Adoptive?" Matt, Sora and Joe whispered to each other. The couple didn't care about the whispers.
"You know our son? Are you his friend?" Mr. Izumi asked.
"Friend? No, we're just in the same association."
"Association? What do you mean?" Mrs. Izumi asked, "Wait! What am I saying? The most important right now is to know if my son is fine!"
"Izumi is not here right now." Grayman said. Dr. Kido confirmed:
"That's what I was trying to say to you."
"Yes. Izumi went after something dangerous which was able to kill every single person in the hospital, or something like that." Grayman said in an indifferent tone. The people needed some time to process the information. Mrs. Izumi was the first one to speak:
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WHERE DID HE GO? HOW COULD YOU JUST LET HIM DO SUCH A CRAZY-"
"Hey, take it easy, woman!" Charles said rudely, "First of all: I'm not his nanny to take care of him! Second: It was not him who went after danger, it was the Heart."
"The Heart?" Mr. Izumi, and everybody, was speechless, "You mean, the Digital World's heart?"
"What are you talking about? I'm not understanding a single word!" Joe said, Matt and Sora were in the same situation. Suddenly, Aurélia yelled from her room:
"Charlie, what's all that noise?"
"It's nothing!" Grayman replied.
"What do you mean? I'm hearing people yelling."
"I said it's nothing, frau Schultz, damn it!"
"Don't lie to me, Charlie!"
"Stop calling me-"
"Did you say Schultz?" Mr. Izumi went pale. He walked straight to Aurélia's room, Mrs. Izumi went with him. In fact, everybody went to Auri's room.
"Do you have something to do with Albert Schultz?" Mr. Izumi asked her, in English.
"He's my grandfather, why?"
"Are you from that institution?" Mrs. Izumi asked, "Why are you here? How do you know Koushiro? What's going on? We want an explanation!"
"Yeah, so do we!" Matt said, "Izzy is our friend and it seems that he's in danger. We need to know the situation in order to help him."
Grayman and Aurélia exchanged some looks. Then, she said:
"I think it's better to tell you the entire story. Please take a sit, it's a long one."
While this was happening, Kari went back to her home. Tai was worried about her.
"Where did you go? Don't disappear like that, without saying a word! I was concerned."
"I'm sorry." she said sadly, that made Tai even more worried.
"What happened?"
"I don't know. I remember watching television, then everything went white and, when I realized, I was on a desert street alone... and crying. I looked for someone, but all I found was a piece of cloth."
Kari showed the small green tissue to her brother. Tai recognized it.
"Looks like the T-shirt Izzy was wearing this morning."
Kari fell to her knees. She was shaking.
"I'm feeling kind of weak, Tai, and sad. I'm scared. What's happening to me?" she asked, Tai hugged her.
"I don't know, but I'm here for you. I'll always be."
Izzy..., Tai was thinking, did you do something bad to Kari? If you did..., the anger didn't let him finish the thought.
Meanwhile, Izzy reached the little park near his home. It seemed desert, but he knew it wasn't.
"I know you're here, Traum! I know you're with Sabine! Show yourself!"
"Very good, Koushiro." a voice whispered in his ear. Izzy turned his body and saw Traum standing behind him. He had that creepy smile on the face.
"You were able to rescue those two and even deciphered my message. Not bad, not bad at all!"
"Where is Sabine, you psycho?" Izzy shouted. Traum just laughed.
"What a furious look! You're pretty confident you can save her, huh? You're not thinking it's going to be as easy as it was with the others, are you?"
Izzy didn't say a word. Traum pointed to something lying on the ground some meters away. Izzy recognized it was Sabine there.
"Why don't you go to see her? Weren't you all worried some seconds ago?"
Is this a trap? Is it really Sabine who's there? What is he going to do if I go toward her?, Izzy was thinking. Don't worry, everything is going to be fine!, Izzy heard the Heart's voice.
All right, I'm going to trust you, Koushiro ran toward Sabine, Traum smiled evilly. When Izzy reached Sabine, he realized she was pale like paper. He approached her and touched her forehead, it was cold. She seemed to be dead, Izzy began to feel desperate. He relaxed a little after noticing she was still breathing. Heart, help me to go to her mind, Izzy asked, but the Heart didn't answer him. Why don't you answer me? I need your help, otherwise Sabine is going to... Izzy saw something in one of the girl's fingers. It was a small silver ring. This ring, could it be? Koushiro touched the ring and felt his entire body went cold. He was being pulled, he felt he was being pulled. He collapsed. Traum laughed and approached him.
"I wonder with who he was trying to talk, maybe he just had gone insane. This will be interesting. I did what you wanted, Koushiro. I sent you to where my doll is. You two will be trapped forever in one of my inner worlds, isn't it nice?"
Suddenly, a strange light wrapped Izzy's body and he stood up. That frightened Traum. What's this? I sent his conscience to out of his body, how can he move? And this light, this feeling... I'm sure I've felt this before... but it can't be...
"Viele danke, Traum." (translating: thank you very much, Traum) Izzy's voice said, "Now Koushiro will not be in my way."
"Who are you? What are you?" Traum was in panic. He couldn't read the other's mind. There was a massive and terrifying energy coming from him, and his eyes... his eyes were cold and terrible. There was only one creature who had ever made Traum feel so much terror.
"You're... don't tell me you're..."
"Ich bin das Herz." (translating: I'm the Heart).
"I didn't expect you had some sort of conscience." Traum laughed nervous, "What are you going to do?"
"I'm going to take your code for me."
Traum was speechless.
"You mean you want to kill me? No matter if you're the Heart, you're still just a human brat, there's no way in hell you would be able to hurt me. I'm the fourth! I'm Traum! I'll make you beg for mercy! Albtraum Reich!"
A wave of fog went toward the Heart. It reached him.
"That's right! Sink into your deepest fears! Know true despair! That will teach you a lesson!" Traum shouted.
The fog was dissolved by a strong white light. The Heart was free again, Traum went pale.
"No way... how could he...?"
"You call that an 'attack,' Traum?" the Heart asked, he began to walk toward the other. What is that thing? I can't let it reach me! I have to run and make a plan, Traum thought.
"I'll show you, Traum, what an attack is." the Heart said.
The light began to become stronger and it spread. Traum ran from there. He didn't want to be reached by that light.
Meanwhile, in the hospital, Aurélia and Charles, and even Mr. And Mrs. Izumi, had explained the situation to the others.
"Ok." Joe said, "So, Izzy is the heart of the Digital World, but the Heart itself can talk to him and even control his body while his conscience is out. There was an incident in a German institution and, after that, Unschuld ordered the scientists' deaths. Izzy's biological parents were murdered by Glaube, but Izzy was saved by Weisheit. So Weisheit asked Dr. Weiss to take care of Izzy, but the doctor gave him to Mr. And Mrs. Izumi. So, when Izzy touched the wall of that mountain, he was sent to the central code. There, he talked to the Heart, who explained Unschuld was after him because she wanted to unite the Heart and the central code and control the Digital World. That would kill Izzy. Weisheit rescued Izzy, broke his digivice and then went fight Glaube. Meanwhile, Izzy was found by Traum and was put under a trance by him. But Traum and Glaube made us believe they were the good ones and Weisheit was the bad one, what was a lie. After that, Weisheit went to the institution and explained the entire situation to the girl named Sabine Weiss. So Sabine talked to you two and you came to Japan to find Izzy. After finding him, you proposed him to join the association, and he agreed. But Traum put you under some kind of trance and Izzy saved you. The last time you saw him, it was the Heart who was controlling the body and he was going after something dangerous. But, if Auri is fine now, it means Izzy went back to his body, but his present location is unknown. And there is still one person under Traum's power. Did I understand everything right?"
"Yes, you summed it up well." Auréila said.
"Do you have any idea how crazy all this sound?" Matt asked.
"Only someone mentally disturbed would believe in such story." Sora commented.
"So you don't believe?" Charles asked.
"No, I do. I think I've already seen strange things enough in my life to be able to believe in your story." Sora said. Matt and Joe agreed.
"It must have been so hard for Izzy." Joe said, "How could I think he was a traitor?"
"It's not the time to worry about it. Izzy needs our help now. He's alone and Traum is after him." Matt said angrily. Thinking about Traum and the things he did made him sick. Mrs. Izumi approached the teenagers and hugged them tightly.
"Thank you." she said almost in tears, "Thank you for taking his side. You have no idea how meaningful this is."
Meanwhile, Traum was running from the light. He felt his right arm burning, it had been touched by the light. He cut his arm off and it disappeared. Traum kept running until he found a big garbage can. He jumped into it and sealed it the best way he could. That protected him. After he felt the light was gone, he took a discreet look to outside and saw the boy gasping some meters away. He seemed to be in pain and had bleeding wounds on his body.
I see, Traum thought, even being the Heart, he's stuck in a fragile human body. He can't use a lot of his power, otherwise he's going to die. If I could kill the kid without letting that thing see me, I'm saved. That's it! Time to finish the game.
Inside the ring, Izzy was walking alone in the most disturbing place he had ever seen. There were human skeletons covering the entire path, and there was a red river near it. Izzy realized that was blood. The sky was white, with a red sun and black clouds. There were hills made with bones around the place. Izzy was feeling sick and terrified in that place, he wanted to leave, he wanted to go back. But he knew he couldn't leave that place without Sabine.
"SABINE! ANSWER ME, SABINE!" he yelled, but nobody answered him. What was that place, after all? Sabine's inner world? No, I don't think so, he thought. Sabine couldn't have a place like that as an inner world. That place couldn't belong to a human being, couldn't belong to any being who had a soul. I'm tired. I can't walk any longer. I can't stand anymore this smell of blood. I can't stand anymore... where is she? he was becoming desperate.
"SABINE! WHERE ARE YOU?"
Izzy fell to his knees near the river. He couldn't keep going. He felt something grabbing his leg. When he turned his head, he saw a skeleton trying to take him toward the blood river. He struggled.
"LET ME GO!" he yelled, kicking the skeleton violently, but other skeletons started to move and grabbed his other leg and his arms. Izzy fought desperately, but he couldn't escape. The skeletons were taking him into the river. "I'm going to sink in the blood!", he thought when he reached the river.
"LET ME GO! SOMEONE! ANYONE! SOMEBODY HELP ME!"
He was already under the level of the river and gasping when he heard shots. Someone was firing a gun against the skeletons. He felt being pulled back to the surface. It was Sabine who had rescued him. She was carrying a shotgun.
"Are you OK, Koushiro? Are you able to stand up?"
Standing up was hard for Izzy. He was shaking so violently Sabine had to grab his arms and help him. She took something that was under her coat and made Izzy grab it. It was a gun.
"I found the guns among the bones. The skeletons near the river try to drag anything that moves, you must be alert. Let's get out of here." she said.
Izzy followed Sabine still in shock. He didn't want to think in what had just happened, he didn't want to think he was walking on a path made with human skeletons. This is not real. It's a nightmare, he said to himself. A part of him was happy because he had found Sabine. They could get out of that place now, right?
"S-Sabine... this place... Traum put you under..."
"This is not my inner world." she said as if it was a trivial information.
"W-what?"
"My inner world was more like an empty white building. He made me see my mother dying a lot of times. Then, he got bored because I was not scared, so Mr. Dream put one of his rings in my finger and said he was sending me to one of his inner worlds."
Izzy went even more pale that he already was.
"One of T-Traum's inner worlds?"
"Yes. I think each one of those rings leads to one of his inner worlds. He must have multiple consciences or something like that, so he could torture ten people at the same time. Maybe more, he must have an independent conscience from the rings too." Sabine was talking as if she was giving random information.
"But... we can get out of here, right?" Izzy didn't want to let his hope disappear, "I was able to save Grayman and Auri, I'm sure we..."
"We're trapped inside one of Mr. Dream's inner worlds. It's a completely different situation. I don't think we can just get out."
"N-no." Izzy was becoming more desperate, "There must be a way out of here. I came here to rescue you... there must be..."
"There isn't, unless Mr. Dream decides to let us go or dies, what I don't really think is going to happen. He probably will torture us until we 'break.'" Sabine said without any alteration in her voice. Izzy grabbed her by the arms and looked at her indifferent face.
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU! YOU'RE SAYING WE'RE TRAPPED HERE FOREVER, WE'RE GOING TO BE TORTURED UNTIL WE BREAK AND THERE'S NO HOPE ON ESCAPING AND DON'T SHOW ANY REACTION? DOESN'T THE SITUATION BOTHER YOU? AREN'T YOU SCARED?"
"No, I'm not." she said simply. Izzy let go of her arms. He was astonished.
"Why not? You can't be so brave when you're saying there's no hope."
"I'm not being brave, Koushiro. Being fearless does not have anything to do with being brave. I'm not scared because I don't care."
"...you...don't...?" Izzy felt that he wasn't able to understand what Sabine was saying.
"I never cared about anything in my entire life, actually. I never had something important to me. Since I can remember, I was just an unwanted thing. My father took care of me until after my mother died. But he never showed any consideration about me. He avoided any conversation, he avoided to see me, even when I got hurt or when my teachers called him, he was never concerned. He was always annoyed at me. We were strangers to each other and he always made it clear that he was with me because he was obliged to. People used to pity me because my mother went insane. People used to say how wonderful my mother was. I used to go see her by my own. When she was not staring at the wall in silence, she was yelling and begging to Mr. Dream to leave her alone. When that happened, the nurses took me away from her. I remember they saying 'your mother is sick, it's not her fault, but she loves you.' I never believed in that, maybe because I never knew what that word, love, meant.
Izzy was just hearing her, without saying anything.
"People used to say a lot of stuff to me. They used to act nicely, but I always could tell they didn't like to be around me. I bother people. This never changed. Nobody ever came close to me. Everybody was always distant. Everybody was a complete stranger to me. I have nobody and nothing. Why should I care about what happens to me?"
Izzy was staring at the ground. Sabine didn't seem to care about it. Suddenly, he talked to her:
"Why did you save me?" he asked.
"You were calling for help."
"But if you don't care about anything, why risk your life for me?"
"I don't care about my life. I don't have any problem-"
"You didn't answer me! Why did you save me?"
"I would have done that for anyone."
Izzy went pale when he heard that. Didn't he say something similar to Grayman? He was understanding something now.
"Sabine... I understand you."
"...you understand me?"
"I think we're similar, Sabine."
A light surprise appeared on the girl's face.
"You try to not worry people and act in order to not be left alone. You care about people enough to sacrifice your true self. In what it resembles me?" she asked.
"You said that everybody was distant. People were strangers to you. I have people who cares about me and that I care about... but nobody ever saw my true self. You were the first one. I got mad at you because I didn't want to accept you were saying the truth about me. And I didn't want to accept you were able to see beyond the 'me' I had built and showed to people almost my entire life. You saw me, Sabine. And now, I'm seeing you and I realize we're not as different as I had thought. Our essences are similar. I feel we're close.
Sabine felt a strange thing. A thing she didn't know how to describe, a thing she never had felt before. Suddenly, they heard someone laughing. They turned their heads to the left and saw Traum sitting on a mount of bones.
"What a touching moment." he mocked.
Izzy, automatically, put himself between Traum and Sabine, in order to protect her.
"What a gentleman. You think you can protect her?"
"I'm not going to let you harm her!" Izzy said firmly, "Sabine... is important to me."
"Really? It's convenient that you put yourself in sacrifice so easily. I'll do what the first conscience told me without problem." Traum took a bone sword from the mount.
"The first conscience?" Sabine asked, "I see, so my theory was right. What did the first conscience tell you to do?"
"Das Herz ermorden." Traum said and vanished. Sabine went pale, all she could do was yell:
"KOUSHIRO, RUN!"
Izzy didn't have time to react. When he realized, Traum was in front of him. He made the sword stab the boy's chest. The sword tore his left lung and Traum moved it in order to tear his Aorta artery too. Traum took the sword out through Izzy's shoulder. The blood spurted from the wound and Izzy fell. Sabine ran to him.
"KOUSHIRO!" she cried when she reached him. Izzy was losing too much blood.
"I-t h-hurts... i-it hurts s-so m-much." he muttered in pain.
"You know what is interesting about being hurt in one of Traum's inner worlds, my dear doll?" Traum asked with a large smile, "It has an absolute rule, whatever happens to your body here, your real body will suffer the consequences too. In other words, this boy will die here and out here."
Sabine was pale. Die?, that idea made she feel strange, it was like her heart had become heavier. I don't want him to die. She took her shotgun and pointed to Traum.
"Oh yeah, a while ago I went to the human world to have some fun. I found some hunters in a forest in the United States and brought them to this world. The interesting was that they came with the things they were carrying. I remember they tried to shoot me a lot of times, but they couldn't reach me. They ended up breaking, just like my other dolls, as you can see. But even if you could kill me someway, the first conscience wouldn't suffer anything."
"S-Sabine." Izzy called her, "R-run. D-don't let he k-kill you, please."
Sabine approached him and whispered in his ear, "Don't talk. We're getting out of here in a minute."
Meanwhile, the Heart felt a terrible pain and realized that Izzy's body had a deep wound. His left lung and the Aorta artery had been torn. The blood was spurting from the wound, the situation was even worse because of the other wounds he already had.
This is not good. A few minutes ago I couldn't breath, now this. What did Traum do to Koushiro? If this stays like this, his body will die and I will be thrown out. My conscience will not last more than few minutes, I'll be an "it" again. I need Traum's code, I need the code for stabilize and make my conscience last longer. Even after Koushiro's death, I'll continue to exist. I have no choice now. It's all or nothing!
Back to the world of the ring. Sabine ran toward a hill of bones. Up there, she turned to the direction she had come and pointed the shotgun to her front. The red sun was behind her, it was projecting shadows on the ground.
Traum appeared behind her and was going to beat Sabine. She's looking to the other side. She'll not even know what beat her. In the mental worlds, I can move faster than anything, he thought. When Traum was going to attack, Sabine turned to him and hit him with the shotgun. Traum lost his balance and fell. He rolled toward the blood river.
"I saw your shadow on the ground." Sabine informed, "I knew you wouldn't lose an opportunity to attack my back."
"Huh, you're proud of your silly plan? I rolled down the hill, so what? I'm not defeated yet." Traum was going to stand up, when he was grabbed by lots of skeletons.
"WHAT? What's this? Let go of me, you worms!" he shouted, trying to get rid of them, but there were a lot of skeletons pulling him to underneath the river.
"You... you killed us." the skeletons were saying, while they were dragging Traum.
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? LET ME GO!" Traum was struggling, but there was nothing he could do against so many skeletons.
"Those skeletons are desperate and full of hatred. I realized that if I let you go toward the ones near the river, they wouldn't let you go." Sabine said indifferent. "I think it was a good plan, after all."
"DAMN YOU! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" Traum yelled before he was completely dragged to underneath the river. Sabine ran back to Izzy. He was getting cold and was deeply pale. Suddenly, the place around them started to fade away. Sabine grabbed Izzy tightly. "We're getting out now." she whispered.
While this was happening, the Heart fell to the ground. Traum was satisfied with that. The boy was losing too much blood, he was going to die in a few minutes. Traum left the garbage can and walked toward the human. He was lying, with the eyes closed, on a blood puddle.
"Looks like I won." he said, smiling. Traum kicked Izzy's body. When he did that, the Heart opened his eyes and grabbed Traum's leg. The white light started to involve both of them.
"Now, you'll not escape." the Heart whispered.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING? THIS IS SUICIDE! YOU'RE GOING TO DIE FASTER IF YOU DO THIS."
"That's fine. All I need is to absorb your code, it doesn't matter if this body dies after that."
Traum felt his body burning, he couldn't move. No! I'm not going to die. I will survive this! I swear I will, he thought.
The lines on Traum's body started to glow. An immense energy was coming from them.
"I'll release my full power. In your condition, you'll never be able to beat me." he said. "Even the Heart's mind is not strong enough against my full power!"
"We'll see." the Heart whispered, almost powerless.
This was a big chapter. What do you think is going to happen? Please, review me.