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Bold is for attacks


Sven's POV

"Jita's brother!" Mafuyu gasped "Wait you're that guy!"

"Yes we have met." The boy nodded "As I said I am Joshua Phrygianos."

"You still haven't answered me." I growled pointing my sword at him "Where did you get that puppet?"

"I took it." He said.

"HRAA!" I turned my body and clanged my sword off the side "I'll kill you!"

"Jita II." He waved his hand and I jumped over a tendril.

"Go." I heard Leon whistle.

"You stay out of this!" I cut the wolves before turning back and trying to slash Joshua before getting blocked by a sword of his own.

He pulled out a second one and we both slashed at each other, blocking the strikes. The girl came up to shoot at us but the puppet stopped all the bullets in the air.

How is it that this lazy looking loser is able to parry my strikes like nothing, it makes no sense.

"GAH!" I gasped as be broke my block and he gashed my chest.

"This is pathetic; I'll leave this to the puppet." Joshua said.

"You bastard." I hissed smacking the puppet's arms away and stabbing its core with my sword, making it fall apart "Did you possible think I would lose to the puppet I have rebuilt countless times?"

"Lobo Rampage."

The one wolf howled and grew larger, gaining horns like some sort of hellhound, then it stood up like a werewolf.

"Artificial evolution into bipedal beasts." I groaned "It just get's worse."

"Go."

I held my swords up but was shocked by the speed of the wolves, if you even lost focused for a microsecond you'd be killed. I tried to cut them off at the legs but my sword actually shattered in the process.

"GHHAAAA!"

I turned back when I heard Edgar start screaming, there was some sort of circuit on the floor.

"Brother what did you do?" Jita yelled.

"What I was asked to do." The boy said.

"What did you do to Edgar!" Mafuyu yelled.

"Even if it kills him you won't regret it."

"BROTHER!"

"I'll kill you!" I dashed towards him.

"I see…this body at this place." Edgar mumbled as the wind started swirling around us.

"Stay back." I put my arm on in front of Mafuyu "That is not Edgar."

"Who are you!" Mafuyu yelled.

"I'm Edgar." He said "And I'm not Edgar."

"Just answer." I glared.

"Do you not care to guess, am I that unforgettable?" he asked.

"Mr. Tanner." I blinked "You are a monster who I wished never to see again, please vacate that body at once."

"I can't do that." He smiled "Cause Edgar is gone now, he was just a personality construct used to keep this body functioning."

"You're a monster." I growled.

"RAAAH!"

I ducked to the side as a blast of gun fire rang out and Lee May started blasting at Tanner.

"Jita II!"

The puppet slid over and took the bullet, being burned to nothing in the process.

"You sacrificed something that wasn't yours." I glared at Joshua.

"It's not go." He said as the puppet swirled around and reconstructed itself.

"I'm sorry." Jita walked passed "But this is the will of the Adepts."

"So you to." I stood in front of Mafuyu "We're hemorrhaging allies here."

I looked back "Leon's tapped out and Lee May is in some sort of psychotic trance."

A plethora of guns dropped down in front of Lee May, assault rifles, machine guns and pistols of varying sizes.

"Kill…" the girl wheezed "Kill…GRRRAAAAAA!"

She picked up two of the machine guns and started blasting away, I pulled Mafuyu to the ground and rolled away so we wouldn't become targeting dummies.

I looked over and saw Tanner was taking off Edgar's shirt, prepping to fire off his circuit.

"GOLDEN NOAH!"

The lake split in two and the building hidden in the lake rose up and opened its doors to us.

"The Noah lets me enter the infinite maze of possible outcomes, choosing the one I want." Tanner explained "Right now I've lead us to the moment that should have been my triumph."

"Resetting reality, that's bullshit." Sasha walked up "You've read to many fantasy books. Seems some things have changed."

"Frederich Tanner took over Edgar's body." I explained.

"That makes sense, I'll just kill him again then!"

"Sounds good to me!" I ran forward with him.

"You're too late." Tanner said slipping into a portal with the two Adept siblings.

"HAA!" Mafuyu used her powers to pry the portal open.

"Let's go!" I ran forward.

"Right." Sasha nodded.

"HMMM." Lee May jumped in with us.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"Hmm…" she just glared "Grr…"

"That's right you don't speak very much do you." I nodded "Very well."

The world inside the sanctuary was like ruins floating in space, empty blackness beneath us and infinite space above us, the only footholds were small outcroppings of crumbling brick buildings.

"There's a wall in the way!" I yelled.

"GRRAA!" Sasha rolled his body and broke the wall with his back.

"Hmph." Lee May got up and dusted herself off.

"No thank you?" Sasha groaned sitting up.

The girl pulled out a phone and Sasha used his powers to pull it away.

"I'm progressing on without you." I groaned stepping off trying not to aggravate the cut on my chest.

I jumped to the next platform and pulled out a sword.

"Where did Tanner go?" I asked Jita and her brother.

"You're not in a position to be asking questions Chromium Knight." Joshua said taking out one of his swords.

"You have aggravated me for the last time, first the puppet and now you've stepped in my way for the final time!"

"HYRAA!" I blocked his one sword but the other hit my shoulder.

I spun in hit his side, a wave of pressure shooting out and making a nearby pillar crumble. We both had two swords but his were quick rapiers but I had slower broadswords so I had trouble compensating for his speed. Still as the fight went on I was landing more hits, he was slowing down.

"Your new powers are rejecting you!" I swiped my swords down and drilled Joshua into the ground "Time's up, now you die!"

I fused both my swords into one larger sword as Joshua stumbled back to standing, ready to clash for the final time.

This is for Lady Katja

"You've forfeited your life to me." I said running forward "Accept your death!"

"I'm am the eldest brother, it's my duty to protect everyone." He said sending a wave of sharp spikes flying at me.

"That circuit rotted your brain!" I said taking a wide swing and slashing through the wall of death, only to turn my arm at the last moment and take his right arm off as well.

"This is the end!" I stabbed my sword into the ground as he fell over.

"RRAAAH!" Jita ran at me and I tapped her back with my sword.

"Why are you so angry he's not dead yet." I sighed "young Lady do relax would you, it's only a small wound, Sasha is stopping him from bleeding out, you would have seen that if you calmed down for two seconds. While I should have killed him I won't because he was trying to help you."

"Oh shit he's dead." Tanner sighed walking up with the Theotokos under his arm "Too bad, ah well, he did his job."

"How long do you plan to keep showing off that painting?" a voice sighed.

A figure stepped out from the shadow.

"It's you." I blinked "Gijou?"

"That teacher from Suirei Academy?" Jita asked.

"How did you manage to sneak in here?" Tanner asked.

"Oh no issue." The feminine looking man shrugged "Shouldn't you be looking at that painting, it's a fake you know."

"What?" Tanner looked it "How?!"

"Many years ago the real Theotokos was removed and a copy put in its place, a copy made by Yamanobe Yuudai."

"Impossible!" Tanner yelled "Without a Sword of Maria to guide you it's not possible!"

"I'd should laugh, it's all so funny." Sasha shook his head "So many people died…all for a cheap knockoff."

"It's rather sad." I frowned.

"Yuudai has a message." Gijou said "I'm sorry."

"He can keep his message." Sasha growled "I'll get it in person, now who do you work for?"

"Not your enemy…or your allies." The man sighed.

"You're just as sly as always." I sighed "I was actually kind of convinced you were a woman that was attracted to me."

"I'm very good at me job." He smiled.

"Guck." I shivered "Disgusting."

"This isn't over!" Tanner yelled "All I need to do is go to a reality where Yamanobe Yuudai never changed the paintings! Jita protect me, NOW!"

"I…I…"

"Oh did he not tell you?" Gijou asked "The people who destroyed your village when you were a girl, a terrorist group lead by the Double-Headed Crest Maker."

"What…"

"She's lying!" Tanner yelled.

"Highly unlikely." I looked at him "Seeing as you destroyed the home Lady Katja stayed in when I stopped your assassination attempt."

*BANG*

Lee May stepped up and blasted Tanner I the heart she reloaded her gun with a special bullet and aimed once more.

"…die." She wheezed.

"I'm not done yet, I still have a card to play!" Tanner yelled activating his circuit "ARK!"

A blinding golden light shone out.

"Slip into a dream…" Tanner mumbled.

What is this…


Later

"Ugh…" I groaned sitting up in bed "What…happened?"

I looked down and noticed I was shirtless in bed, rather unlike me to sleep in something like this.

"Hmm?" I heard another mumble and saw there was a woman in my bed.

She sat up, she was wearing a silk nightgown, she had such pale skin, long hair that pooled around her in the bed, if she were to stand it would reach her ankles. Her body was thin but her legs and arms long, like that of a model.

I looked at the woman and just blinked.

"Morning." She smiled fixing the straps on her nightgown.

She leaned over and laid her head on my chest.

"Let's spend the day in bed, call and cancel all my shoots would you?" she asked.

I still just stared at her.

"What's wrong?" she asked "Aren't you happy to be spending the day in bed with your loving wife, our honeymoon just ended but we can still be spontaneous."

"I…"

"Sven." She pouted "You look like you've seen a ghost. It's me, your lovely wife…Ekaterina."

Now I saw it, the face, the long blond hair, the thin body, she was older here but this was here.

"Lady…Katja." I gulped.

"Oh Lady Katja." She smiled "It's been a long time since you called me that. Back when you first became my assistant…now you've married your boss your naughty boy."

She kissed my neck "Just relax, let your wife, Katja Vasilev take care of you."

No…this isn't real…there's no way. I'm not in love with her…no…I can't.

"This is a lie." I stood up.

"Where are you going?" the adult Katja asked with worry.

I opened the door "I'm not meant to love you, its forbidden."

As truthfully as I wished for this world to be my reality, it's not. In my world, these feelings are something I must keep locked away, she cannot love me back, she is to mighty for that, to young as well…

"It was fun, while I lasted." I said stepping into the door.


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