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Another dream? Come on, me and Furiae need to find somewhere to eat. How did I go asleep in that forest that almost looked like a dry swamp? Seriously…?

Now, my body is awake, not because I don't want to go asleep, but it's because I can't go asleep because of the rain and having to be on lookout for the police.

I remember this contract vividly because I just killed him. It's my ninth contract, Brian's contract. The eight contract the one with Sully, was the one where I was forced to learn from my mistake, where I left the blood, the humans eventually entered that place where I killed him. With that amount of blood that I left back in that school's backyard, you could easily figure out that a murder took place there.

So I was forced out of the apartment because the police eventually found my fingerprints in the wall. They wanted to know what happened there, if a murder really took place and if I saw anything.

I don't know about the way the police work, but I can't actually believe they found my fingerprints in a wall after two days of investigation. Should I wear some gloves now? Because the police are right on my ass trying to figure out what happened there and if my fingerprints appear in another scene full of blood, they will want to get me to talk about it.

Why didn't I just say that I didn't see anything? I would have tried, but I couldn't think of a lie. "I just jumped over that wall for something" Invading private property, "I actually heard some groans when I was passing by the school backyard, what was I doing near a school's backyard that is normally empty?"… I don't want to sit down.

Anyway, my body is trying to sleep by using the halberd's blade as a small umbrella, because I just discovered a spell for making it invisible for normal humans, so I can walk around with it without a problem as long I keep applying mana to the halberd.

I'm tired, hungry and irritated because of the rain constantly interrupting my sleep. At least I'm not cold because I'm wearing the heaviest brown coat that I could stuff in a small backpack that I had on my apartment.

In the trash corner of a house, there's the hero that saved the human's from their own kind between sacks of trash. But really, what kind of hero runs away from the police? Shouldn't I be rich because I saved the humankind eight times by now? Come on, at least trade my watered money for dried ones.

Suddenly, a contract appears in my hands. This contract is satisfying and not satisfying to watch again. It's satisfying to kill that scum again, but it's not satisfying because I'll feel an incredible pain like when I drank the health potion.

I hear my body talk with itself with a tired voice.

-Come on… get up [SHHHHHH]. There's work to do…

My body sluggishly stands up while using the halberd as support and begins to walk towards where my mana gave me directions by applying it to the contract in my hand. Before I could make a turn, I take out the hood Furiae gave me from the backpack and wear over my coat.

As my body walks on the sidewalk and crosses streets without glancing at the people, I watch as people walk by with umbrellas and don't question the black halberd that is being used as an umbrella too. These people are avoiding me like I'm something that will kill on touch, it's because I smell right now. I've been using trash bags as pillow and bed until now. So, nothing I could do about it.

After two hours, I arrive at the place where the mana told me to go. It's a small bridge, and I almost thought that Furiae wanted me to kill myself by throwing myself on the river that is overflowing with cold water.

But I look on the edge and see a small building below the bridge. So I cross the bridge until I could see a way down towards the building without the need from me jumping down the bridge and breaking my legs.

The river turned out to be a sewer actually, and in the wall that has the hole to that sewer was a small building of steel beside it, with the doors made of steel having chains blocking anyone from leaving or entering that place.

I walk up to the chains and use the halberd to break the chains, opening the double steel doors. The inside was dark out so I couldn't see anything. So I applied mana on the contract just to be sure. With the mana really guiding me inside the building, I used a spell and began to burn the contract. I threw it on the middle of the building and watched as the contract rolled into the building.

I enter the building, ready to attack anything that gets or I sense near me. Suddenly, someone stops the contract that was rolling with their feet.

I look at the person and see that it's a normal human, but he's with his feet on top of the blue flames that I made on the contract without a problem, something you need to have to do that is mana.

With a confused tone, I question the human that was hidden by the darkness.

-Who are you? Hey, I'm sorry if I invaded your hou-

Suddenly, I feel a heavy strike on the back of my head and get slightly knocked out. With the heavy feeling of pain and confusion, I get dragged out of the building while voices talked with each other.

-Is he the one?

-Yeah, Boss said that he would be the only one that should get attracted by his device.

-He's quite heavy..!

-Holy shit! What does this guy eat?!

Until now…? Nothing yet…

They drag me out of the building and begin to bind my hands with some kind of chain that I couldn't break and blind me with a black bandana.

While I could kick the people still, the sound of a shotgun getting loaded made me think otherwise.

Look, as much I trained my whole life, I am still part human, so I'm never going to be indestructible. I could still die by a bullet to the head.

I feel someone lifting me into somewhere, probably a car trunk. The surroundings begin to shake as the motor starts up.

By the way, I dropped the halberd on the ground when I almost got knocked out, so I probably need to summon it again, but I can't summon it now because I might just cut myself in half with the blade because the car is shaking too much.

I don't know how they didn't see the halberd on the ground or didn't hear its metal hitting the hard concrete.

Three hours pass, and the dream doesn't end. Even though the entire dream I was just staring a black bandana, hoping the car would stop already and let me out of this trunk.

This dream is so strange to me, how can I stay in this one dream when so much time has passed in it? Doesn't a dream stop after a certain amount of time? Why am I reliving these moments? Is it like what Furiae said? That the contract is settling in again?

ARGHH! So many questions! This is getting me actually mad! I want answers! And I want them right the fuck now!

… As expected, nobody can answer me about it, and the answers won't come without me hunting for them. So, I need to create some patience because maybe now with understanding the humans, I might get to know the current world that I'm living.

Finally, the car stopped and I could hear the people getting off and even feeling it.

Did they really complain about me being heavy? They should look at themselves first, the car almost jumped.

I hear the shotgun load again and the trunk begins to open up. Someone pokes my back with some kind of stick, and I stay quiet, so they think I'm asleep.

One of the men gives a deep sigh and asks the other with a tired voice.

-Can you help me lift this guy?

-Sure.

One of the men grabs my feet and the other grabs my hands. Then the after pulling me out of the car trunk, they put me on someone's shoulder and begin to walk. But as much people learn about the souls, they won't really know each soul's powers until they see themselves.

My body begins to whisper the words needed for the spell. Of course normal humans can't hear it. Even whispering the spell takes a lot of mana to hear.

-Vlodt Soitr Alksxi Maoqlt etqenrk. Contract intervention

-What is happening!?

One of the men begins to panic as something happens. But before they could even access the situation, I made the shotgun in one of the men shoot the four men there.

That's right. Furiae's power is of magnetism and soul's flame. And for me to use her power, I just need to envision the object in my head. And I was right with the first attempt. A 12 gauge shotgun is what they had with them. …Is that what is called?

Oh well, my body fell down on the ground because the human that was carrying me died. I summon the halberd transform it into the cape and pull out a small dagger out of it. With the small dagger, I cut the bandana that was blocking my vision and by using the hardened cape as support, I stand up.

The daggers of the cape are all squares, their black sheaths and holsters are black while having silver blades.

I look around the corpses of four men armed to the teeth with guns. And half of them have their stomach blown up, and their blood is painting the snow that was underneath them. I look around and find myself in a side road to a small mountain with a forest buried in snow.

Ah… this I kind of nostalgic. I wonder how the Wild wolves are doing.

I turn around and see a building that they half walked towards, the building is the same as the one I found underneath that bridge, but it's almost buried in snow.

I open a latch on the circular part of the cape and put it around my neck and close the latch. And while messing with the lock that isn't affect by Furiae's magic, I walk towards the building.

After having trouble walking on the snow for the first time, I enter the building. The doors close behind me like some kind of movie, leaving me in the dark.

Suddenly, the ground wraps my feet down and a calm voice begins to speak with me.

-I suppose they didn't handle you carefully, Blue moon underling.

I look around the darkness, trying to see if I could find an outline or something moving in the dark. But the lights get turned on, almost blinding me. While trying to protect my eyes from the light, I question whoever talked just now.

-Who are you?

I force my eyes to see even when the light is almost hurting them, so I could see the person in front of me.

-Names are not something that matter. Do they?

I answer the voice with a calm tone as I could finally almost see without a problem.

-Your name is Brian squire.

I look at the man that is surrounded by people with weapons. He has two guns himself while wearing a lab coat with a black shirt and jeans. His hair is black as the darkness itself, with brown eyes. He's a thirty old man.

While he continues to talk, I undo the latch of the cape around my neck with Furiae's magic.

-Oh? So they somehow let you have my name? Your job is something really… interesting.

-What did you do with the humans? I should have broken my contract back there. But they had your mana in them.

As much as I want to move and fight him, the ground is concrete and my hands are tied by the strange chains. So I'm almost unable to do anything against him.

With a happy voice, he continues to expose everything to me like a movie villain.

-Did you like it? I simply applied my mana unto them and they could learn about the souls! But everything has a limit right? So they can't use magic. But I didn't bait you into having them bring you here for some conversation. I just want to test this machine that I made and see if my soul is happy with it.

-…?

I look around and see two blocks of iron that could be classified as machines on my right and left sides. Beside each one, there are a group of five people with lab coats.

-Turn it on.

One of the groups nods and they begin to mess with the machines. And I could clearly see mana gathering around the machine.

Suddenly, the mana wraps around me and the machines begin to make loud noises of a motor. I question the man while a small headache began to settle in.

-Could you undo this lock? It's really hurting my hands.

-Tsc!

Brian makes a pained expression and makes a lifting signal with his right hand. The people with lab coats nod and continue to mess with the machines, and the sound of a motor gets louder.

The headache gets to a normal level and I feel a small pain in my arms like a small child is pinching them.

I look around and stare the man in silence since the headache is getting annoying. He makes the lifting signal again and the headache gets worse and the pain in my arms transfer to my body.

With an annoyed voice, I speak.

-Okay, that's where we stop playing.

By using all of my mana, I make my coat float in the sky above me and make the dagger's sheath out and make them form a small shell for me and protect me from what I'm about to do with the people in this place.

I make the daggers fly out of the cape in random directions and after a minute of the daggers flying and death grunts are given by the people I hit with them. I make a small opening in the shell and look around.

All of the daggers that made the cape are either stuck to the ground or to some people. But the lab coat wearing people were fine as well Brian.

The people in lab coats that were cowering, look around the room and find themselves fine. Brian makes a smirk and makes the lifting signal again. But before the lab coat people could even get back to themselves, I make the sheaths fly at them.

It's not something that would normally kill them, but the force that put in them can do so easily.

But when the sheaths were about to hit the people, a barrier appears and protects them. I look at them looking scared at the sheaths that should have killed them in the ground. With a mocking tone Brian begins to speak with me.

-What's wrong Blue moon underling? You seriously didn't expect me to be careful around you? Besides…

I look at him with my eyes wide open and pained expression. And see the enormous amount of mana he has. With a proud voice, he continued to speak.

-A god is with me.

The lab coat wearing people continue to mess with the machines and the motor gets louder. Making the pain start to be of a stab and the headache is getting to the point where I couldn't think.

-AAAAAA!

Brian makes the lifting signal again and the motors didn't get louder but the pain got stronger, now it was like someone was twisting me in half and hammering my head. I begin to scream in pain.

Suddenly, Furiae begins to scream too through my voice. I couldn't even hear what Brian was saying because of the constant sound of screaming and loud motors. And when I thought that I it couldn't get worse, I see him lifting his hand, and the pain turns into a pain that could only be felt by breaking one's bone over and over again.

I twist my body in place while screaming in pain with Furiae. Brian walks up to me and lifts me by the chin while I scream.

-Argh! Dammit!

And suddenly, Furiae's magic begins to go crazy, hitting him in the head with a sheath. And after a minute of flying daggers and sheaths, one of the machines stops because a dagger went inside of it.

With a desperate voice, Brian begins to shout orders at the people in lab coats.

-Repair it! You need to repair it! If you don't, then we can't extract the contract from him!

I quickly catch on what Furiae did and make the sheaths and daggers go at the machine and the people operating it.

I successfully make him create a giant barrier around it. Freeing me from the concrete that was holding me down in place and opening the lock that was holding the strange chains.

While having an extreme headache, I kick him away from me and free myself from the chains that were still tying my hands together.

I grab the circular part of my weapon and use the rest of my mana to gather the blades and sheaths back in place. When I do so, Brian pulls out one his gun that he had on his waist and shoots at me, but I use the cape to protect me from the bullets.

While he back off and shoots at me at the same time, he begins to speak in an angry voice.

-You don't know what you are doing! You aren't saving the humans like this! If we show the knowledge of the souls to the humans, we will save them from various things! Sickness, Greed, and their never ending search for a god! Can't you understand it?!

The gun finally runs out of ammo, giving me a chance to close the distance between us. When he tries to grab ammo from his coat, I punch his arm, almost breaking it in half.

-ARGH!

I'm neither the villain here nor the hero. Could the humans gain a lot from knowing about the souls? Yes, they would. Sickness and so on would be over and the souls would gain a lot from it too. But what about the power they gain from that knowledge? If they already kill and destroy themselves without the knowledge of the souls, imagine if they had it.

If the deal is too good, then the bad part is just as much. If you win, someone has to lose. Nothing can be gained without someone losing anything that's how a good part of life works.

I transform my cape into a halberd and kill the people wearing lab coats that were about to attack me from behind.

I look at Brian and see him standing while holding his arm. His image is hazy because Hephaestus began to focus on giving him strength over knowledge. When my body faces Brian, he disappears and with a mocking voice while he runs around me, he speaks with me.

-As much you can hurt me Furiae's slave, I can hurt you too!

When my body sees him grabbing a sawed off shotgun from a body, I transform the halberd into a great sword, I hold it the way I hold the halberd but I place the blade under my arm and hold the circular part with my left hand.

I use the great sword to block all of the bullets that he's shooting at me while running around in an impossible speed by spinning the great sword around my body. While I block the bullets from different guns, I use some of my mana and make one of the loaded pistols near me get in front of me.

When he goes for it, I quickly react and grab his head with my left hand. I begin to drag it on the ground towards the machine, since I need to stop it. When we get near the machine, I smash his head into it, burning his cheek and breaking the machine.

He frees himself from my hold by almost shooting at me but I dodge it by doing a side jump.

He stands up and tries to touch his right cheek, but it's so burned that I could almost see his teeth through the leftovers of what could be called a cheek.

While he tries to realize how he's still alive, I deal the final blow to the machine, stopping it completely. When the machine finally stops making noise, I turn around and quickly close the distance between us.

But he does a backflip and makes a barrier around him. I try to break the barrier with the great sword, but I couldn't. I stop in front of it and speak with him in a serious voice.

-I leave me no choice. It was fun, but this is where it ends.

I transform the great sword back into a halberd and point the blade towards him. The black material that is protecting the halberd begins to shred like a snake and attach itself on my right arm, revealing the true material that the halberd is made of.

Pure and blessed by the Blue moon mistress, platinum.

The black material completely wraps my arm, making it look like I was wearing a black vambrace, a black gauntlet and black shoulder pads in my right arm. This gives me extra strength and agility on my arm.

This form of the halberd is easily the strongest form it could have, because not only the halberd draws mana from me and automatically covering itself in blue flames. It can cut any type of magic and material in this world.

I lift the halberd into the air and with both of my hands I make it go down on him. The halberd cuts him and the barrier in half without any effort whatsoever and when the halberd touches the ground below him, it creates a crate on the ground, almost making a grave for him.

I pull the halberd out of the ground and lift it in the air as the black material goes back to protecting it.

My body sits down on the ground and begins to recover its breath. While he does this, I watch my contract have a small line of mana connecting me to it while it floats behind me.


I, _, Accept to work under the deity of vengeance of earth and the gods. With this contract, I _, will hunt down the people that break their contracts for the rest of my life or existence. I, _ do understand that I cannot use my powers for my own benefit nor for the benefit of the others. I shall keep this contract and the knowledge about the souls a secret from any normal human. If I ever find a breach in this contract, I_ shall report the breach to the Deity of vengeance of earth, Furiae.

My soul belongs only to the gods and shall forever be so.


The parts with my name are in blank, but I'm sure I had to write my name with my blood in it.

But really, this contract has nothing to win with. Forever having to hunt down those that break their contracts and nothing else. I don't get any money, my health doesn't get any better from what I can take care of and I can't even use the power for myself.

So why do I do this? For a purpose, I didn't find it myself until now. For what purpose do we live? For what end does that purpose serve? These questions haunted my mind in the beginning were answered because of this contract.

I watch as the contract enters my back without a problem. My body looks around because I felt a small cold air in my back.

Suddenly, I hear Furiae's voice in my head while my body stands up.

{-…Hey, are you okay?}

Furiae is still feeling guilty from having me kill my own father, so her voice clearly has a careful tone in it.

With a calm voice, I answer Furiae while walking towards the exit after cleaning the place of the blood and corpses.

{-Yeah…}

{-Is that so…}

{-…}

It pains me to imagine Furiae having a pained expression when talking to me. She shouldn't be this way when talking with someone that she will be bound to until that person dies.

I feel Furiae go away and after a minute staying outside in the snow, I put my hand in my coat and pull it out with blood in it.

My vision darkens as I walk towards the car that is parked ahead.

I don't want to be like that again with Furiae. It was not her fault that my father broke his contract.