(Welcome to Chapter Three.
Sorry for the long wait for this chapter. I had some things to do, so this chapter will probably not be as good as the two other chapters before it. However, I hope you can enjoy this chapter just as much you did the other two.)
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CHAPTER THREE:
Envy
Theme for the chapter:
The night in this forest had turned into a great storm of snow, and as far as the eye could see a blanket of snow covered the ground and treetops. There was an eerie silence that flooded the vast land beneath the clouds; nothing besides the soft sounds of ice cracking and the battering gusts of wind were heard in this blizzard. The place looked dead and malnourished to the brink of its demise and no sign of life could be found anywhere; perhaps the feeling of death still lingered in the ground that laid the skeletons of the thousands of people adorned in purple cloaks who all died here four years ago. If you were to look around, the snow would almost completely cover their eroding bones and torn black, red striped cloaks, making them almost impossible to see unless you got close enough. These former men belonged to none other than the witch cult and the former assassination organization who became victims of the sword saint two years ago; although their deaths had been swift, the battle aftermath caused the extinction of the assassination headquarters and its building had almost been wiped off the face of the earth.
However, even in this ruin, a pink-haired woman and a shorter platinum-haired woman could be seen walking in the snow flurries of cold air in the distance. They wore long black coats and furry black boots; they covered the majority of their body, but just by the minor skin shown on their faces any man or woman would be memorized and believe they were beautiful. The two of them walked throughout this razing snowstorm with little to no trouble at all, almost like they couldn't feel the frigid, numbing cold from the wintery weather.
"Onee-sama, you don't think the seat of envy could be out here, do you? we've been walking for at least two days now, I don't want our time to be wasted in a place like this."
"Patience Ram, you trust your big sister right?"
"...yes," Ram said begrudgingly as she continued to follow her sister.
Trudging through the mountains of snow and corpses, they neared their objective, the ruined Assassination Headquarters. As they approached the building, it almost seemed like the air became more sinister with every step, like they needed to run away from this place immediately.
'Why does it feel so… strange here?' ram thought as she and her sister approached the large mansion-like ruined building. Although Ram's cold and arrogant exterior kept her walking, she still couldn't get the thought out of her head that this place isn't safe...
"Now… let us retrieve The Archbishop of Envy…" Ram's sister said in an ecstatic tone while letting her platinum-like hair fly in the wind.
In Subaru's mind…
It was cold, dreary, and pitch-black… Subaru woke up in a room filled with darkness that wasn't the familiar torture room he was accustomed to. The bloody stains on the wall, the assorted tray of bloody knives on a table, the disgusting smell of rotting flesh coming from outside his room… they were all gone.
"Where am I..." "What is this place..." Subaru said in an exhausted voice
"Did I finally die for good?"
His question was "answered" by the sound of a demonic whisper in his ear.
"L̶̛̬͎͙̩̙̝̱̞̱͋̈́̉͌̿̄̔̿̚͜͝͝õ̷͓͖̗̮̪͈̣͇̓͗̅̐̈́́̎̍̔͌͌̽ṽ̶̗͖͚̜̣͇̼͍̘̔͗̀̒̆̔͑̆̚͘͝e̵̩̼̜͚̹̍̉̏͂̈́́̃̅̀̈́̽͊̚͝ ̶̹̟̿͗m̴̧͇͈̑̑̐̔̆͛̋̆͒͝è̶̡̯̥̤̗̒͛̐̑̿̋͘͜͜ͅ ̸̩̩͚̹̲̮̙̀̌̃̒́͆̿̂̑̾͌̓̈́̕ͅ"
Subaru's body was hugged by thousands of familiar shadowy arms that embraced his entire body head to toe. He couldn't see the face of his attacker, all he could hear was...
"Aishiteru…
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru,
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru"Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru
Aishiteru, Aishiteru, Aishiteru"
"GAHHHGAAAH" Subaru screamed out loud
Subaru continued to be enveloped by the eerie shadows and the sound of pure envy. As much as he wished for the noise to stop it just kept playing over and over like a wicked broken record.
"This must be her…" Subaru thought "SHUT UP, GAHHGG!"
"Satellas' form of pure envy… " Subaru thought slightly angered. 'If I don't find a way to tame her then… the actual Satella's sacrifice would have been for nothing…' he clenched his fist just at the thought of that.
But Subaru then realized something. What can he do? The shadows had swallowed him whole and his body couldn't move at all. He was trapped within the shadows like a doll for Satella's envy, nothing he did would reach the witch at all.
"NO…. IM TRAPPED AGAIN…" Subaru said at his sudden realization.
He started to sweat intensely and started breathing heavily all at the same time. Subarus thoughts that were previously noble had turned into this upheaval of jumbled words and past experiences in his torture room. He had started to pull away from the witch; struggling uselessly just to get even an inch of space in between them.
"NO… NO… NO… LET ME GO… LET ME GO WITCH" he struggled more against the witches' power, but the result was all the same...
"Subaru-Kun?"
"DONT YOU DARE CALL ME THAT…" Subaru screamed at the witch with an insane expression "THE FIRST 'I love you' THAT THE REAL SATELLA GAVE ME, MADE A DISGRACEFUL BUM LIKE ME ACTUALLY THINK THAT I COULD BECOME SOMEONE SHE COULD BE PROUD OF…. but you… YOUR JUST A DEVIL CREATED BY HER FEELINGS I COULD NEVER LOVE YO-"
Satella's shadows grabbed Subarus' throat and began to choke him before he could utter another word.
"Love me… Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me. Love me."
"So this is how I die huh? Trapped forever in darkness with the only woman who ever told me she loved me… I'm sorry Satella… I couldn't be the person you wanted me to be…"
Subaru felt the familiar urge to give up as he did many times before in that cold, hopeless room. He would "die" in contempt but Subaru was fine with that, he had suffered for years in that place with little food to eat, experimentation, Imprisonment, and enduring all of that for so long, Subaru thought he could finally rest in the arms of the devil herself for all eternity.
*******an unknown amount of time passes in Subaru's mind...****
"Natsuki, Subaru do you still have the desire to live?" a voice that called Subaru from his mind said.
"-huh… who are you?" Subaru said surprisingly, curious how someone was talking to him from within his mind.
"I am the divine spirit of Od Laguna; I go by the name Yasilence… I grant divine blessings to those I love in this world."
"So… what does that have to do with a pathetic loser like me?" Subaru asked the great spirit in an uninterested voice.
"I'm here to offer you a deal Natsuki, Subaru. No, more of a gamble in exchange for a small favor."
Subaru opened his eyes for the first time in a while and looked up at a bright vibrant blue crystal that shined throughout the shadows of the darkroom.
"Are you saying you can get me out of these shadows?" Subaru asked Yasilence.
"Precisely Subaru. I have chosen you to take on my will, mortal. Should you win the gamble you will take on my will and will be gifted a divine blessing."
"So a divine being is trying to save me now? I really am hopeless huh?" Subaru said in an uninterested voice at yasilence
"I see you've lost all hope here…" Yasilence said as he looked at Subaru who was being hugged and held tightly by the witch of envy. "It seems I'm left with little to no choice…"
The spirit's crystal grew brighter and Subaru could barely see the shadows satella had created. All of Subarus' vision went white, and when he could finally see color the whole area had changed… he opened his eyes and found himself in a field of grass looking up at a blue sky. It was the first time in many, many years Subaru had seen so many colors at once…
"What the hell? How?" Subaru said as he stood up and looked at the area around him confused and afraid of what the spirit did.
"It seems it worked…" the great crystal that called out to Subaru said.
"...what did you do to me? I feel weird…" Subaru said as clenched his hands around his heart.
"I gave you a divine blessing… since your gate has already developed it took some time to complete a version I could give to you, but it seems it actually worked"
"-a divine blessing? What is that?" Subaru said very confusedly.
"A divine blessing gives you the ability to use a skill that gives a boost to your current abilities and is usually given at birth, however, I made an exception for you as you will be the inheritor of my will"
"Wouldn't that make you some kind of god of this world?" Subaru asked Yasilence, looking at the crystal sweating.
"I guess you could say that… but getting back to the point I want you to inherit my will, or rather you don't have a choice."
"Why don't I have a choice…" Subaru asked the god, Yasilence as he suddenly got a lot more serious.
"The contract I made with you when you received the divine blessing is already sealed; you'll die if you don't finish my will"
The crystal began glowing brightly and it made a strange sound, almost like it was preparing to do something…
"-huh?"
"Kill Reinhard Van Astrea"
The crystal vanished and the vibrant, green grass beneath Subaru began to fall apart like glass. He struggled to grab pieces that hadn't fallen yet but eventually, he fell through the ground as well. As he sunk further into the darkness his consciousness started to feel like it was slipping away then he woke up.
"Onee-sama this place is disturbing me… maybe we should leave…" ram said slightly angered at her sister
"Don't worry Ram If you feel unsafe you can stay outside if you want…" rams sister said in a teasing tone
"I don't think that will be necessary…" Ram said slightly angered
they continued searching through the old, rusty rubble for an entrance to the basement. Ram lifted up pieces of the building and tossed them aside for her sister to look for wouldn't entrances and each time they found nothing
"Where's the entrance to this place…" Ram said as she pulled a wooden wand off her waist.
"Onee-sama, allow me to remove these ruins for you," she said as two large pink horns grew on her head, one of them being a bit shorter than the other.
"As effective as that might be, I'm afraid we can't risk the archbishop being killed in the process…" the platinum-haired woman said in her usual casual tone.
"Onee-Sama… I sense a great source of yin mana below us…" ram said with a slightly shocked expression.
"...do it now Ram"
Ram gathered all the mana in the air around her horns then her magic spell began swirling all around her, causing the snow and her long beautiful pink hair to be lifted into the air, then finally "AI FURA!" Her wind magic spread throughout the entirety of this castle-wide mansion and in an instant, she destroyed it all. The magic spell she cast was so powerful it began causing massive shockwaves on the ground; even after all this destruction her sister and herself both still stood where there were without so much as a pebble ever touching their clothes.
"Onee-sama, there's the entrance," Ram said arrogantly.
Ram lifted the steel entrance to the Basement of the now completely destroyed Assassination Headquarters and walked down the stairs with her platinum-haired sister.
"Disgusting. What is that horrible smell?" Ram said putting her hand on her nose. As she walked towards the room where the strong presence of mana was coming from
"Goa," Ram said in a whisper, as she created a small flame in her hand in the form of a light so she and her sister could see in this dark place.
The hallway was filled with the smell of dead rats and rotting corpses; If dirt was a place this would most likely be it. abandoned food racks with food way past the due date, assorted knives, and axes specialized for torturing people, and bloodstains that covered the walls like paint were some of the things that could be found inside this prison hall.
"Let us greet the Archbishop of Envy!" The short platinum-haired woman said ecstatically as ram bent the door to the cell open
There he was, a tall long silver-haired boy with red eyes. He stood there in a black cloak that seemed to have a shadow-like effect, he had on ragged vagrant-like pants and stood there in the middle of the room barefooted. he looked upon the two strangers that had entered his room unannounced with a confused expression.
"Who… are you?" The young man asked with a questioning look
"Pardon the intrusion, my name is Pandora, the witch of vainglory…"
-END-
Ending theme of the chapter:
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