Chapter 36: Dead or Alive
I hopped off the fox as I continues to run. I tumbled on the ground causing me to get a few scratches. I quickly stand to my feet. Hedeaki clapped his hands. I asked him, "Do you enjoy being Eiji's pet?" He chuckled lightly as walked towards me. He cracked his knuckles then replied, "Unlike all the others I used to work for. Eiji feeds me and doesn't abuse me. He gives me freedom and he taught me his ways. I find his ways absolutely perfect because the more sinners that are gone. The more people can roam free without worry." I tried my best not to look surprised at what he said. I balled one of my hands in a tight fist and the other has a tight grip on the sword. He stopped then questioned me, "If you know that we only are killing sinners, then why would you want us dead?"
Many reasons wonder my mind as I kept quiet. He gave me an intense look as he waited for an respond from me. His tail started to move back and forth as he says, "Tick tock. Tick tock. Tick Tock." I opened my mouth then closed it rapidly. His tail starts to move a little faster. I yelled at him, "Everyone sins! If you go around the world eating those who sin. Then there will be no one left in the world! No one is perfect and there is no such thing as a person who can't sin!" He stopped saying what he was saying as his tail slowed then. He nods then sprints at me. I put up the sword in a proper position in front me to guard me. He grabs the blade of the sword then yanks the sword out of my hand. He tosses it then glances at his hands.
I took a quick stepped to the side and stabbed his tail. Hedeaki squealed at a very high pitch tone, "You son of a… UGH!" He swings his arm back, hitting me and sending me back. The sword sliced his tail causing the blood to squirt out. I didn't let go of the sword. I skidded on the ground. Scarping my back up and causing it to bleed. I got up when my body stop skidding along the ground. He tore the rest of his tail off then began to change forms. With a raspy and dry voice he says, "You no longer have a choice between living or dying anymore." I snickered then announced, "It's the same for you. But for Eiji, I will let him live and he will be mines." Hedeaki became furious and dashes towards me. He was no longer in a human like form. He was now in a his Cobra form and his tail grew back immediately.
Without hesitation he attempts to grab me with his huge hands. I jumped to the side then swung at his hand. I mutter, "He is too fast. At this rate I'll die." The fox of sins that Kistune had summoned for me appeared from behind me. I grinned as I jumped up. Hedeaki wiped me with his tail and blood came out of my mouth. My whole body became like a rag doll. I manage to let go of the sword and it fell down the ground. The fox jumped into the air and made my fall a little safer. My fear slowly started to consume me as I slowly stood back up. I took a glimpse at the fox as I went to look back at Hedeaki, I noticed that he was slithering towards me. The fox whimpered as it stood up. It nudged me with its head. I looked at it as I noticed as it glowed. It changed from being a fox to a small sword. I took hold of it.
Hedeaki's tail quickly swirled around me as he reached me. The small sword turned into a broadsword with skull design on the blade. I held the handle with both hands now. He started to constrict his tail around me as he block the sun with his hand. I hear him laugh as he says, "I will crush your lungs then swallow you whole." I yelled out, "I am Sorry Hideaki. You are one brave king." I grinned as the sword begins to glow. Hideaki became confused as he continues to constricts his tail around me. I swung the sword in a upward motion causing a bright light attack to come out of the blade to cut open his tail. He screamed out loud as I huffed from using a lot of energy. He slithered away after moving his tail around me. I fall face down first onto the ground.