Chapter 29
"Look! It's that boy!"
"Shh! Don't let him hear you."
"Have you heard that he doesn't have a name?"
"Did you hear the nickname people gave him?"
"The one he got for killing all those people?"
"The one where he shows his true colors?"
"Yes, that nickname."
"I haven't heard of it before. What is it?"
"Lucifer: The Devil's Blood Boy..."
The boy stood before the many Spawns who were surrounding him. They longed for his blood, but also for his strength. But the boy also sought their blood.
The boy's skin had changed to a burnt red, he wore half of a white mask on the left side of his face, his clothes remained the same and he now carried two blades, one made of a dark matter and the other made of a red and orange matter. The mask he wears is made up of a white liquid that clings to his skin, there are red stripes tracing from his bangs to the middle of his face, and has white shark-like teeth on the mask that cover his own. His left eye has turned into a complete piercing moon yellow color while his right eye's iris has changed to a moon yellow and his sclera has inverted to a pitch black color. He also has red tattoos that cover both of his arms and his hair, which has changed to silver, has grown out long enough to touch his shoulders.
The boy looked around and thought about how many Spawns there were. "HAHAHAHAHA! All of you really think you can kill me?!" The boy opened his arms as if to welcome the mob. "Well then, give me Hell!"
*BANG!* *CRASH!* *SK!* *SHK!* *SLASH!*
All the Spawns charged at the boy at his command. All of them clawing at his skin, stabbing at his organs, slicing up his clothes and tearing off limbs, leaving blood everywhere. When they had finished, what remained of the boy was his torn-apart abdomen, everything else had been torn to shreds. The Spawns approached the boy, ready to destroy the last part of his body. Suddenly, a golden flame engulfed the body part and slowly began to regenerate the boy's body. When the flame disappeared, the boy was perfectly back to normal, as if he hadn't been touched at all. The boy rolled his neck before looking back at the Spawns.
"Man, and I thought this would actually be a challenge," the boy formed his two blades. "Well, hopefully you can at least bring me with pleasure with your cries."
*SHK!* *SLASH!* *BANG!* *BOOM!* CRASH!* *SHWING!*
"GAH!"
"ARGH!"
"RAHH!"
"GRAGH!"
As the boy continued to dismember the many bodies, he was filled with a feeling of pleasure. "CRY OUT MORE FOR ME!"
The boy approached another wave, quickly formed a ball of 'red' and 'orange' energy, and rammed it into the wave, dematerializing all in the energy ball's area. He turned around to see only one wave left, except instead of feeling excited to kill them, he frowned. The last group was surrounding a girl with long pinkish lilac hair, each of them holding a blade against her body. "You really do want me to kill you, don't you?"
The Spawns glared at him with their bloodshot eyes. "You take another step forward, and the girl dies!'
"…"
"Tolise, please..."
"What's it going to be?!"
The boy dropped his blades and held up his hands. "You win, do your worst to me."
Five Spawns nearby grabbed him from behind and stabbed his limbs to the floor, immobilizing him. They sneered. "You guys really are gullible, you know that?"
"What are you—Gh!"
Before the Spawns could wonder what the boy was thinking, the CPUs snuck up from behind them and chopped all of them into pieces in a matter of seconds. "Good job girlies..." the boy complimented before passing out.
When I woke up, I was in my room, covered in bandages and sitting on my bed. I moved my body around but found nothing that seemed badly injured. I looked over at my desk to see a note laying on the surface. I pulled myself off the bed and picked up the note.
It read: Tolise, thank you for saving me today. I really don't know what I would have done without you, but if you hadn't saved me, I would have been really disappointed in myself. Even though I owe you enough favors, I have one more favor to ask of you. Can you meet me in the designated point tomorrow at night? I'll be waiting.
At the bottom of the paper was Nepgear's signature scrawled on it and on the back was a location to a place we had gone to together once before. "Wonder what she wants to talk about…"
And like that, I spent the rest of the day in bed, wondering what she wanted to talk about, even though I probably already knew what she wanted to talk about.
A/N:
Sorry this chapter was so short, but the next chapter will be much longer because it's the end of the arc. Anyway, most of Tolise's backstory is wrapped up in this chapter and his actual self will be focused on in the next arc. Anyway, arc one will end tomorrow. But, thanks for reading once again and I hope to see you in the next chapter!
