Chapter 28: Justek Phase 6: The Last Memoir

Mew was having a difficult time wrapping his mind around what was happening. As much as he hated to do so, he was agreeing with 'D.'s' sentiment that Alex Whiter shouldn't be in his mind. Was this an illusion? Another trick by 'D.'? The demon was quite adept at tricking others, so surely this Alex Whiter could just be used as one last moment of hope before the demon swiftly squashed it. But then why would this Alex Whiter take on the form of his younger self? It would make more sense to use the late one…

Squinting his eyelids a little, Mew flew up beside Alex and raised a hand up to poke his forehead, with Alex lifting his eyes to look at the finger while commenting "No you aren't hallucinating. I'm real…In a way." Mew retracted his hand and blinked a couple times before inquiring bluntly "How the hell…? Alex is dead…"

Alex chuckled a little bit and commented "Well you've noticed the cloak I'm wearing, right? Or that I'm a few inches shorter than you, actually…" Mew glanced down and noticed that with a surprised look in his eyes for a moment, followed up by him moving back a little back as this Alex commented "Look, the real Alex Whiter IS dead…I'm just a part of him that he implanted into your mind three years ago when he felt that dark presence approaching you. I'm basically the last line of defense between 'D.' and full possession of your body."

Mew left his mouth agape a bit and murmured out "Alex…Did that for me back then?" Alex was about to comment on that when all of a sudden 'D.' grabbed their attention by exclaiming "You think this makes any difference you little antibody?!" The two turned to 'D.', who summoned his tendrils out and called forth more of Mew's memories to destroy, but then Alex turned to Mew and commented "Hang on a second…" before drawing his sword and flying straight at 'D.'

Before the demon could hit a single memory, Alex slashed 'D.' as hard as he could to send him flying away, followed by him holding his sword in front of his body and using both hands to tug on all seven triggers and remarking "Come on Mew, we're ending this now!" Wreathed in burning flames, Alex's cloak is burned off as he's left in more normal clothes, and a pair of bright red and orange Phoenix wings appeared on his back. 'D.' recovered from the attack while remarking "You think your strength can make a difference? You're just a fragment!"

"A fragment that is just as strong as the Alex Whiter of the past. That's enough to make a difference whether you want to believe it or not!" Alex exclaimed, and Mew flew beside him and commented while raising his katana "It's really surreal to have you fighting beside me considering recent events Alex…" "You don't have to refer to me by my name you know, I'm not at all the real Alex Whiter." Alex commented with a chuckle.

Mew glanced at Alex and felt his heart racing a bit, but before he could say anymore 'D.' enlarged his claws and lunged them out at his two foes. Alex summons forth a barrier of fire while Mew creates a wall of light in front of him, forcing 'D.' to wrap the darkness around their defenses in the form of bulging veins, but Alex punched the front of his barrier and sent out a steel spike that pierced through the claw and ripped itself right out of the demon's right shoulder a moment later complete with a spurt of violet blood.

'D.' pulls his claw back and gives Alex an opening to slice the other claw off of Mew's defenses, which allows Mew to fly forward without hesitation and get in front of the demon, and with a subdued expression of anger Mew swings his katana up and cleaves the front of the demon's body before he's able to get away in time. A gapping, glowing scar is embedded on 'D.'s' chest at that point, burning away the darkness that composed his form while he remarked in raspy anger "H-How can you still function without your memories?!"

Mew wastes no time in stabbing 'D.' in the left of his face with the tip of his katana, burning deep into the demon's body while remarking "I told you! These memories are me…So long as I'm here, they will be there as well! They aren't something you can simply destroy!" Mew swung his sword out to slice off the left side of the demon's face, and Alex leaped over Mew and punched downward to smash 'D.' in the head with a beam of fire, which knocks him to the ground and makes it ripple. 'D.' quickly stood up and reassembled his body, remarking with a bitter look on his face "What does it take to break you then?!"

Mew and Alex dive down together and slice at the demon's bodies with their blades, ripping apart parts of his black goopy skin and spreading it across the rippling ground as Mew commented "You just don't understand how minds work then, nor do you the strength of the human spirit! We're a pretty stubborn race. A demon would never have what it takes to understand the human spirit fully!" Mew and Alex stab their swords forward at the same time, creating a unison spiral of fire and light that drills the demon through the air and rips apart even more of his body until he suddenly takes his claws to the energy and rips right through it.

'D.' lands on the ground and with his tendrils lashed out he commented "Then fine…Enough of these mind games!" He then widened his mouth angrily and exclaimed at the top of his lungs "I shall simply break your pathetic human spirit through brute force! I am far beyond any of you, you cannot stop me! Elemental Overlords, Dark Kings, Aurians, Wyverns…You will all be rubbed out, I shall see the ultimate warrior of light and fight an endless battle with him! PERISH, IMPUDENT HUMAN SCUM!"

The demon swung his tendrils out and unleashed a series of black fire pillars across the ground that tore through Mew's mind and set it aflame, while Alex just commented "I'll attack from behind, get him from the front!" Alex then sped in-between the flames with precise movements while Mew surrounded himself in a heavy aura of light and thrust straight forward right through the black flames, while 'D.' suspected the two's plan and slammed his claws down to unleash a gigantic explosion of black electricity.

Mew slices forward and cuts through the electricity while Alex turns his body into steel to avoid being affected by it, and Alex punches right through 'D.' chest while Mew stabs his head. The demon swings a claw behind himself and grabs Alex by the head to pull him around and use him in order to smack Mew away. 'D.' then slams Alex against the ground rapidly ten times in a row to break the steel off of his body, but leaves himself open enough for Mew to run back up and slice the claw apart.

Alex is then able to unleash a burst of fire to destroy the remainder of the claw while shedding the steel off his body, and after Mew spins around and unleashes a cone-shaped burst of light to blow the demon away for a moment he remarks "Doesn't that Phoenix Form have some sort of protection to it?" Alex quickly says "Well I'm just a fragment. I can't use some of the stuff the real Alex Whiter can. So that also means no Gaia Temporis…"

"…Oh yeah, that was also destroyed when Alex died. Ugh, really could've used that right about now…" Mew remarked while slapping his forehead, but Alex just swung his sword out and said while staying in mid-air "No big deal, it'd be a waste to use something like that on this demon. We're definitely strong enough to expel him now that I'm here to level the playing field Mew." Mew nodded his head in agreement and chuckled a little, though he did find it odd how he could be a bit more relaxed now even when there's still so much to do. Perhaps a part of him just liked talking to an Alex Whiter that hadn't lost his way…Even if it was just a mere fragment.

Outside, 'D.' had just finished stabbing Justek through his wings with two sharp tendrils, but he immediately drops to the ground and visibly flinches in pain, the black goop around his body rippling as Justek stands in front of him with bleeding on his chest and arms and remarks "Suffering a bit of mental indigestion, are we now?" The jovial tone Justek took at 'D.'s' expense left the demon feeling quickly flustered, and after a bit of growling the demon leaps forwards with two sharp and frosty tendrils ready to impale the man through his beastly chest.

Kairi got between the two of them with some blood leaking down her face and her hair looking very frazzled from the heat of battle getting to her, and with a swing of her right arm she uses a staff made of aura to hit the demon hard enough to knock him towards the glass on the other side of the arena while just narrowly avoiding his tendrils. Justek then comments casually "It seems Mew is finally putting up a resistance against the demon's control. Now comes the hard part, Kairi…"

Kairi was surprised and relieved to hear that from Justek as she glanced back to look at him, and then she looked back on ahead as 'D.' wrenched himself from the glass and sprinted across the ground at blinding speeds, leaving trails of black fire behind him as he moved onward. "When the time comes to end this, I will make the final move. You will know when it is time…" Justek remarked before suddenly leaping back into a vortex, leaving Kairi to set up a barrier of aura around her body to tank the leaping lunge from 'D.'

'D.' slams his claws against Kairi's shields and knocks her to the ground, but she keeps her defenses up even as the demon dives down and rapidly slices around the circumference of the barrier with a great deal of brutality and speed, but he only manages to break it by the time his assault was through. With a growl of frustration, 'D.' turns around and thrusts his right claw up to attack Kairi from behind, but Justek quickly opens a large vortex up and grabs onto the claw while pulling himself through.

He was without his swords for the moment, but 'D.' neither noticed nor cared as he latched onto the innards of Justek's claws with his darkness and gave a powerful tug to try and throw Justek away, but the wyvern just stood completely still and with a grimace of it's eyes he opened two large slits in the air and dropped his swords diagonally through the air to pincer the demon to the ground between them both once they landed. Justek then pulled on the demon's arm and ripped it apart, crushing the black goop down to nothing while Kairi flies around him and takes advantage of 'D.'s' entrapment to attack him.

Kairi tries to punch the demon in the head with a heavy amount of aura, but as sly as he is he slinks backwards out of the grasp of the two swords. But with the use of Jupiter's drive ability, Kairi is able to extend the range of her punch to still get a good clean hit onto the demon, and Justek pulls his swords up enough so Kairi and fly between them and then after one spin rise up and uppercut the demon in the gut. Spiraling around, Kairi repeatedly grinds her aura coated knuckles against 'D.'s' body while rising towards the ceiling.

Once Kairi has the demon pinned against the ceiling, she backs off and flaps her wings to detach a series of "feathers" out that pierce into the demon's body repeatedly, holding him against the ceiling. Sensing Justek's approach, Kairi backflips out of the way as he rises up and smashes 'D.' with the broadside of one of his swords, then does the same thing with the other one before backing off with a flap of his wings and blasting the demon with a powerful energy beam straight from his mouth.

Kairi holds an arm up to protect herself from the excess of energy Justek was using to hold the demon back, surprised that even with all the attacks Justek has taken so far he was still able to keep using this much power. But the demon eventually fights back against Justek's energy with a violent slash of his claws out to send three slicing wind blades out that rip apart parts of Justek's mouth, specifically slicing his pronged tongue in two and taking out some of his teeth. 'D.' then dives down and punches Justek in the chest to send him hurtling straight to the ground in an instant, though Kairi prevents further pursuit by binding the demon in aura using Saturn's ability.

This is then followed by Kairi dropping the demon to the ground with Gravitus' drive ability, and as the aura he's surrounded with shattered Justek has managed to get back onto his feet with the help of his vortexes and quickly sweeps his left sword across the ground to send a wave of energy washing over the demon. After 'D.' tumbles a little bit, Justek remarks calmly "You are no threat to us, demon. For all your boasts, you are just a parasite who would be nothing without a body. Why should anyone in this universe ever fear a parasite?"

'D.' stands upright and Kairi is prepared to attack him, but Justek holds his right arm up to hold her back for a moment as the demon remarks "Fear me? No…I want you all to writhe in agony, feel the chill of nothingness in your very bones and flesh! Do you not remember what I've done, Justek? Do you not hate me? You cannot possibly truly be keeping calm after I devoured the souls of all your people? The women, the children, the men…! Hahahaha, all of those delicious screaming souls inside of me!"

The back of the demon's body starts bulging outward, and some abnormal cracking is heard coming from his back that sounded a lot like bones. 'D.' created a series of skeletons and infused them with his black goop in order to create a gruesome tower meant to imitate the living, though all of them let out ghastly screams of agony that echoed across the arena and quickly brought Kairi to the verge of vomiting in disgust as the voices plagued her mind. 'D.' laughed through the screams, but all of a sudden the nightmare tower was sliced apart by Justek's two swords as they were flung through the air like boomerangs.

As the black goop splattered around 'D.', the demon stood there lurched over in confusion while Justek brought the swords back to his grasp with his vortexes and calmly commented "It's not kind to treat the dead with ill intent. You may want to consider your options wisely next time if you think you can make me feel rage with such cliché'd tricks, demon." "Just like that irritating boy…What does it take to break you, Justek?!" 'D.' exclaimed with an angry rasp in his voice.

"You've made yet another impudent error if you assumed I'm a man who hasn't already been broken. Nothing you can do will even make me flinch." Justek said proudly, and as 'D.' felt his mental state being battered around by the mental forms of Mew and Alex he began panting angrily, salivating yellow blood from his teeth as his rage continued to build up. In a moment's notice though, he turned and glanced at Kairi, who was cautiously glaring at the demon, and suddenly he began to cackle a little bit.

"Of couuurse…You still love that wench Auris…I had almost forgotten that this little girl was one of her daughters…It would make you absolutely squirm if she was killed…And the rage that you would feed me would make you that much further below me. You'd be an ant under my foot, just like you were as a child!" 'D.' remarked with the utmost glee in his voice, and inside of Mew's mind the demon stopped the battle and forced an image of what was going on outside behind himself to make Mew temporarily pause.

Mew winced a little and gripped his katana tightly before remarking with some degree of anger "Keep away from her, demon!" 'D.' laughed a little bit before remarking "All your pathetic, adolescent lust will be your undoing, boy! You shouldn't have dragged this weak little girl to a battlefield of the gods! Now I will make you and Justek suffer for this particular folly!" From the perspective of what was happening outside, 'D.' charged right at Kairi, creating a gigantic fist of darkness to briefly punch Justek aside before moving to attack Kairi with that very same fist.

Mew just stands still and comments after taking a deep breath in "You're just really desperate to win at this point, aren't you demon?" The mental form of 'D.' looks a bit confused at first until all of a suddenly on the outside Kairi retaliates to 'D.'s' attack by just standing still and activating Pluto's drive to take the punch perfectly head-on without flinching in the slightest. Kairi then just lowers her eyebrows and remarks bluntly "Are you done with your stupid tricks now, demon?"

"W-What?!" 'D.' was absolutely confused as to what was going on, and as he's socked in the face with all of Kairi's might welled up into her right fist she exclaimed "I'm not weak anymore!" As the demon was suspended in mid-air by the punch Kairi pulled her fist out and punched with the other, hitting 'D.' so hard in the chest that it unleashed a shockwave through the air, followed by her then pulling both of her fists back and charging up so much aura that her fists glowed bright with neon light and the entire arena shook, unleashing all of that power all at once right on 'D.'s' body, which caused a cracking sound to be heard from what was more than likely Mew's own body as the demon is sent hurtling right across the battlefield.

Inside Mew's mind, Mew rubs his chest and says with an impressed whistle "Haha…I'm going to be feeling that one later. Way to go out there Kairi!" 'D.' just growls and says "H-How?!" In a completely flabbergasted tone, and Mew holds his katana out and comments "What can I say? I got a pretty amazing girlfriend. I don't know why you assumed she'd be some damsel that you could easily exploit for your fear mongering."

Mew's nonchalant attitude really annoyed 'D.', who summoned forth twenty tendrils and with a heavy roar he exclaimed "You think I cannot make you all bend to my whim?! I've been in your mind long enough to know how to make you squirm!" Mew raised his eyebrows a bit and commented "Really? You've been doing a pretty shitty job then. Can you ever say you ever manipulated me into getting angry even once? I've just been experiencing normal human anger this entire time."

"N-No! I broke you…I know I did! All of my work has not been naught…! I did not spend two-thousand years trapped in those accursed chains for a little brat to tell me I'm weak! I have made gods bow, I have made demons tremble…HOW CAN YOU STAND BEFORE ME AND NOT BE ON YOUR KNEES?!" As 'D.' just roared at the top of his lungs, Mew just glanced at Alex and the two shrugged their shoulders, and Mew just looked back at the demon once he was done and commented "Sounds to me like you are just a braggart."

Mew then laughed a little bit and said "You know now that you really get down to it, you're just one big joke 'D.'. I actually feel pretty ashamed that I was ever worried about you. But hey, you ended up making me a better person in some aspects, and Riku never would've existed if you hadn't possessed me for the first time. So what I'm saying is…Thanks for being around, but now it's time for you to go!" Mew then brightly ignited the blade of his katana, while Alex ignited the blade of his sword with fire.

'D.' panted a little bit before remarking "You shower me…With kindness…And thanks?! You fool…YOU FOOOOOLLL!" In a moment of pure rage, the demon thrusts itself forward, and Alex slipped around the demon's body and kicked his right foot up, striking the demon so hard in the rear that the beast was set on fire and launched into the air like a fireball. Mew leaped up and slashed down the demon's body with one hundred cuts all at once, reeling back on his katana and then swiping forward to unleash a powerful wave of light that knocks the monster back towards Alex.

Alex hopped and slammed his sword down on top of the demon, smashing him against the ground and unleashing a flame burst as well. Alex pulls back enough to be able to stab forward and plunge his sword into 'D.'s' body, pushing him farther away. Alex then claps and cause his sword to explode, ripping apart the demon's entire body. Mew lands on the ground behind 'D.' as he begins to reform, but before he could attack Alex commented "Hold on a second! Lets finish this the proper way!"

Mew pulls back as Alex casually swings his right arm out and ignites it with a very familiar rainbow fire. Mew blinks a couple times before Alex says "Come on Mew! You can do it too!" Mew left his mouth agape and remarked "B-But that's something only you can do, isn't it?" Alex waves his burning hand up and comments "Nah, it'll be fine. You just can't copy the spiritual aspect of the attack, but we don't need that to put down this demon for good!"

Mew steps back and looks to his right hand, clenching it tightly to a fist and concentrating on all of the elements that he controlled within his mind. "If this Alex has faith that I can do it…Then I can!" The seven basic elements manifest into a fire-like form around Mew's right hand, and he widens his eyes in surprise while Alex affirmatively nods his head. When 'D.' has reformed all the way, Alex bends down a little bit and comments "Lets finish this Mew! Together!"

Mew takes the same stance, and 'D.' angrily roars before attempting to slice through the two Overlords. But they sped forward and smashed him with their burning fists at the same time, creating a green sparkling shockwave that echoes across the mindscape and knocks the demon upward. Mew and Alex then zip back and forth through the air and smash 'D.' multiple time with their blazing fists, releasing the full power of a different element six more times while the demon could only scream in pain.

Finally, with Mew and Alex on opposite sides of the demon, they both went in for one final charge, lining up their fists while their eyes burned with determination. Mew welled up with excitement in his heart as he was ready to say what deep down he had always wanted to. And Alex shared Mew's sentiments as well as they both thrust their fists out and exclaimed with all of their heart "BLAZING OVERLORD FIST!" 'D.' was smashed between the power of two of these fists, the mindscape immediately being filled with a neon radiance as his mental form was torn apart by the power of all seven elements striking him twice over. His roar continued to echo throughout the mindscape as he was slowly being burned up.

Outside, after recovering from a couple more attacks from his foes, 'D.' suddenly stops moving and lurches forward, the black goop pulling away from the body as a demonic face at the top of the goop screams out. Mew's body was at the bottom of the demon's strands of goop, barely able to stand and left a bit of a broken mess thanks to the damage Justek and Kairi had to inflict onto him. Kairi widened her eyes in shock, while Justek suddenly took initiative and sped forward, swinging both of his swords out in front of him to cut the black goop away from Mew's body.

As Mew fell gently onto his back before Justek's feet, the lumpy mass of darkness that composed 'D.'s' being was stuck to the tips of Justek's swords as he held them at a reasonable length away from his body. The blue and black flames burned at the demon's body as it moved around trying to get off, and with a gargling voice 'D.' said "I-If I cannot have the body of the Elemental Overlord! I shall settle for yours, Justek!" The demon tried to lunge off the swords at Justek, but it only budged a little bit.

Justek chuckled deeply as the demon said in a tone of utter confusion "W-What have you done to me?!" Justek glares fiercely into the frightened face of the demon, and the intensity around him could not be denied. With legitimate cockiness in his voice, Justek explained "An old friend of mine taught me a few tricks that had been lost to time…These blue and black flames are meant to trap spirits, and long ago they were used to purge the likes of youkai, demons and spirits alike…"

"For such knowledge to be given to you…WHOOOOO?! WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?!" 'D.' exclaimed bitterly, but Justek just gave him the utmost coldest stare and commented "You will never know. It's finally time to put this matter to a rest, demon…" "You…You cannot kill me! I am eternal!" 'D.' proclaimed out of absolute desperation, but Justek didn't care in the slightest.

"You are eternal…That is true. So a hell eternal is the perfect punishment for one such as yourself…" All of a sudden, a flush of white light appears behind 'D.', and he glances his head back only to be completely blinded as Justek has opened up a gaping hole into a void filled entirely with light. 'D.' understandably panicked, but Justek raised his swords above his head ready to throw him into the void, and for the first time Justek expressed genuine rage as he proclaimed "And now demon, for all the lives you have slain, the nightmares you have tried to feast on, and all the hell you've attempted to unleash on this universe…I cast you away forever!"

Without a moment's hesitation as the demon damns his defeat by screaming his name, Justek swings his sword and flings 'D.' into the realm of light, where he would slowly burn into nothingness until the end of time. The way to this realm is sealed off, and Justek triumphantly raised his head up and commented "At last…Mother…Father…You have all been truly avenged…" There was a sense of relief and joy in Justek's voice despite how quiet it was, and he held his swords loosely beside himself.

Meanwhile, within Mew's mind, the darkness that rippled across began to subside very quickly, as both Mew and Alex stood on the ground and shook out the flames on their fists. Mew paused for a moment and looked around, and while he couldn't quite describe the feeling welling up inside of his heart he watched as all of his memories were able to slow descend into a floor made out of the purest light…They would never be harmed again. Mew let out a sigh of relief and then looked at Alex, commenting to him as he laid his hand against his chest "Thanks for the help…Err, I mean…"

Mew awkwardly looks around and says "Ummm, well, I mean to say I should thank your past self for doing this for me ahead of time…" Alex chuckles a tiny bit and brushed the top of his right hand, remarking calmly "Don't worry about it, seriously." Mew blinked a couple times and then said "Ummm…So what am I supposed to say to you now exactly? I mean, you aren't exactly the real deal…"

Alex raised his right hand up and with a wag of his pointer finger he said "Well it's not like I don't have any memories. I remember everything Alex Whiter did before he put me in your mind. And I saw what happened to him today…" Mew awkwardly glanced aside, followed by Alex remarking to him and said in a serious tone "Hey…I really do want to apologize for my future self." Shaking his head a little, Alex let out a couple of 'tsks' and awkwardly rubbed the back of his head before commenting "I guess it's a little hypocritical though considering nothing's really gone from my memories that would stop me from taking that path…"

"Alex…Is it possible this version of you would be able to tell me what could've happened to stop you from becoming this way?" Mew inquired firmly, but at this point Alex was starting to dissolve into spiritual sparkles, and as Mew widened his eyes Alex quickly explained "I'll try and say my peace before I have to go, since my use has come to an end…" With a bit of a curious look in his eyes, Alex tilted his head a bit and said "I guess when it comes down to it, the one thing that could've stopped me from becoming the 'Phoenix of Destruction'…"

Alex then points at Mew and smiles, and Mew points towards himself and says "M-Me?" Alex remarked "Yeah, you. Perhaps, just perhaps…I would've ended up a better person if someone like you was around. You would've been an inspiration to me with all of your optimism and happiness…It would've given me something to strive for. That's probably why I rejected you so much and wiped your memories…Because I struggled with wanting to be saved or accepting my desire to destroy."

Alex clenched a hand against his chest and with some tears in his eyes he forced a smile and said "I guess what I'm saying is…I really regret that the late me didn't have it in him to acknowledge you as a brother like he should have…Watching from afar, I'm really jealous of what you and Riku have…So from the bottom of my heart, I'm really sorry that things ended up this way…" Halfway through Alex's disappearance, Mew felt his heart feel heavy from what Alex just said, but a sense of urgency overtook those emotions as he swung his right hand out and exclaimed "Wait Alex! Justek is still standing out there! Is there any part of your memories that could help us stop him?!"

Alex folded his arms together and said "You know, there is ONE thing…But I'll leave the memory of that behind before I go, alright?" Alex gives Mew a thumbs up before his body vanished all the way, leaving behind the echo of his voice saying "You can finish this Me-…No…Brother. I believe in you…" The spiritual sparkles of Alex enter Mew's body, making him glow a little as the information that Alex had was now flowing inside of his mind. But there was still the matter of what was happening outside Mew's body.

With his current condition, Mew wasn't exactly in any state to get up and fight…And now that 'D.' was out of the way Justek was looming over him while still in his Wyvern form. And he looked no worse for the wear even with the scars across his body. With his swords held beside him, Justek looked down at Mew and remarked "So ends the demon that plagued your mind…But unfortunately, that was the last solace you shall receive on this day…Farewell Mew, your life was short but necessary…"

Justek raised his right sword into the air and swiftly swung it down, but all of a sudden someone zipped right in front of him and stopped his sword with a blade of their own. It was Kairi, who had a blade of aura extending out from the length of her left arm. "N-No! You've done your part Justek!" Kairi then repelled Justek's sword with all of her strength while letting out a roar of determination. Kairi stood in front of Mew's body and extended the span of her wings out quite a bit, aura surrounding her vibrantly, and with her expression laced with fury she exclaimed "I'm not going to let you end Mew's life! This battle…I'm going to end it myself! So throw your worst at me, I can take it all on!"

In the face of Kairi's stern defiance, Justek could only look at her and let out a melancholic sigh, flapping his wings a couple of times before he gripped his swords tightly and said "So you shall make me do this…What a cruel fate this has turned out to be. In the end, the price for throwing that demon away is to face you, the daughter of the one I loved so very much…Forgive me, Lady Auris, but at this junction I have no choice…" Justek lurched forward slightly ready to confront Kairi, whose heart was pounding so heavily against her chest that it was a wonder she wasn't on the verge of fainting…

Next Time: Absolute Determination