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Canon 37

Previously on Canon Distortion

Sora Minakaze had to fight against Hazama to protect Makoto from his vile hands. While he was able to fight back for a little bit, Hazama eventually managed to overpower him. Pushed to the brink of despair, Sora immediately activated a power that he may have not been subconscious about existing. But is this power really his or the power of something else entirely? All we know is that it is this power that allows him to keep fighting

And now, the continuation of Canon Distortion

There was one emotion that Hazama was the most accustomed to all throughout his life and that emotion is the emotion of anger. Anger fueled him, energized him. It was the one emotion he could tell immediately should a person be focused on him. Whether it was a personal anger over his actions or a massive mob like anger, Anger was what happiness is to others. In fact, one could say that anger is his happiness and if he could choose between the two he would gladly pick anger as anger is more obvious and nuanced over the subtleties of happiness.

But if there was one anger that he had to classify as unappetizing it was self anger. Self anger is just being angry at yourself. Being angry for something that was way beyond your own control. In Hazama...no Terumi's own words, self anger is being angry over the fact that you yourself are unable to do anything. So to see Sora Minakaze stand in front of him with the intent to kill him but the anger he felt was not specifically for Terumi himself but for himself was simply disappointing.

But that was not important right now. What was important was the fact that Sora Minakaze was even standing in front of him at this very moment. He had made sure that Sora was broken down to the point he couldn't even stand yet his bloody body was standing in front of him at this moment, using the Rev Blade as a support to keep him standing as Sora panted heavily. That would have been all but that wouldn't be able to explain the mysterious ghost like arm that had grown out from Sora's side.

'What do I call this? A Sudden powerup from Overdrive or just a desperation move.' Hazama thought as his eyes were staring right at the claw like ghost hand as Sora himself was struggling. He could feel his whole body screaming to him to just stay down as it was being forcibly made to stand up like the way he was doing so, like a puppet on strings as this was definitely not natural. Sora's own vision was not fully there as his gaze was focused more on Hazama, not on the fact that he had just made the world go black and white.

But Sora did not care about that. In fact in Sora's own head, he was simply focused on the simple task of ending Hazama as he noticed his foe was being wary of him. 'Not coming to me?… Fine… I'll come to you!' Sora thought as he revved the rev blade once, making what seemed to be white traces of light with azure green traces flow right out of his ghost arm and right into the Rev blade. The light then caused the rev blade to rev out white and azure green flames through the vents throughout the blade as Sora threw himself right towards Hazama, slamming his blade down as Hazama dodged, creating a small crater in the process on the roof itself as Sora's body screamed in pain when he did that.

It was at that moment Hazama could see the damage he had done was present, Sora's own body at that moment for a brief moment reverted back to the state he had previously put him in only to forcibly stitch itself back to it's prime form, the black blood briefly spilling out of his arm before getting pulled right back towards him as this told Hazama that all he needed to do was keep on damaging Sora enough to force his body to revert the overdrive as it was clear that it was the source of even allowing him to move.

But that was going to be easier said than done as Sora suddenly cleaved right at Hazama, dangerously lopping off his head as Hazama tried to use his observing powers to see what Sora was going to be doing only to be shocked when he saw absolutely nothing. Not he saw no possibility of Sora's next attack, but absolutely nothing. As if Sora himself was not actually there despite him being there. "W-What's going on?!" Hazama loudly questioned as this was clearly in violation of the rules of possibilities in this world.

Normally, there exist possibilities. These possibilities either determine if a person lives, dies or gets injured. it's this basic law that establishes the various timelines that Hazama is able to observe. The fact that the person he was observing was completely invisible, blank from any timeline was simply a contradiction of every single possibility ever established. It was not the contradiction he was confused about but the fact that this person was either unintentionally or purposely defiling the rules.

'How did I not know about something like this!? Is this the work of Amaterasu herself again!?' Hazama thought as Sora himself was not aware of what he was doing. All Sora was thinking about was the fact that he needed to end Hazama's life with his own two hands otherwise he will be a constant threat to both him and Makoto for the rest of their lives. Everything Hazama was thinking about did not matter to Sora and he knew it himself.

'Don't get distracted by stupid shit like that. I still have the advantage over him with the fact that I am just fighting a walking corpse!' Hazama thought as he raised his balisong knife, ready to fight against Sora as Sora shakily pulled the Rev Blade out of the ground as his gaze focused right towards Hazama once again. Sora couldn't help but feel annoyed by how slippery his target was being. All he wanted to do was simply cut off his legs and stop him at his tracks.

It was through this clear intent in his mind that the ghost arm react, vanishing briefly off Sora as he glared right at Hazama and gestured with his stump to point right at Hazama. At that moment, the ghost arm immediately materialized, grabbing Hazama by his wrist, further alarming him as Hazama flicked his wrist to force the ghost arm off him but it was all a distraction as Hazama immediately jumped into the air as Sora made a wide cleave that was aimed towards his ankles that would have easily sliced his legs off had he not jumped.

It was in the air that Hazama saw his chance for a clean hit as Sora's neck was exposed to at that moment. Spinning his Balisong knife, Hazama tried to thrust down his knife right down on Sora's neck but immediately formed a barrier when the ghost arm came out of Sora's neck, punch Hazama's barrier and forcing him to slide as Sora himself was not aware of what had happened, completely focused on his previous attack as he heard the clang of the barrier right on the ghost fist.

"THERE YOU ARE!" Sora yelled as he slashed downwards with the Rev Blade, slashing through the barrier and breaking it as Hazama's green barrier soon managed to reactivate to help minimize the damage he took, allowing Hazama to see that his hands had cuts at the palm of his hands where he had formed the barrier as Sora looked right at Hazama once more. The ghost arm soon manifested itself once again on his stump as he used it to aim the rev blade by holding the tip of the blade as Sora arched his shoulder back, cocking it and readying it for another attack.

"Taifū" Sora muttered as he began to run where Hazama was, white and azure green lines breaking around him before he thrusted the blade right towards the sky, causing the white and azure green lines to immediately blow Hazama further back, threatening to send him flying off the roof and towards the ground had he not used Ouroboros to launch himself back towards the platform, stumbling a bit before using Ouroboros once again to try and get back in front of Sora's face.

Ouroboros soon managed to grab something but it was not the thing that Hazama was expecting as the ghost arm had managed to catch the serpent head of Ouroboros as it tried to whiz past Sora for Hazama's usual attempts at attacking people from weird angles. This prompted Sora to look at Ouroboros before turning his head towards Hazama, allowing him to hear the sound of bone cracking to do so as if it was being forced to do so.

"There!" Sora said, reacting by charging towards Hazama, his legs cracking and spurting out blood as Hazama was slowly beginning to piece together some things about this overdrive that he needed to know. It was allowing Sora to deny the possibilities that the world usually ordains to do what he wants and that same ability is also being translated to the physical plane. As Hazama formed another barrier to protect himself and further observe, he could see the ghost hand release Ouroboros before phasing completely through his barrier, grabbing his wrist and pulling him down to expose his neck as he had time to barely react to what had just happened.

'This is not normal...Not normal at all!" Hazama thought as he ducked his head before Sora could slice it off clean as Sora transformed the rev blade back to it's arm form and reattached it to his stump. As soon as he did so, the ghost arm reacted and soon began to take a form similar to the rev blade as Sora grabbed the handle of the new ghost blade with the rev arm, causing the two to react as Sora revved out the ghost blade, causing silver and azure green winds to blow out of the blade and in turn the arm.

Hazama had to react, immediately dismissing the barrier, Hazama was barely able to use Ouroboros as a makeshift snare as Sora tried to slice him with the ghost blade by catching the rev arm's wrist. This was the opening Hazama needed to slice at Sora's ankle to bring him down to the ground, exposing his neck for a fatal blow as right now was not the time for any kind of foreplay and he needed to end the threat this error was beginning to pose before it got out of hand.

"Why can't you just do your job and erase this error already Amaterasu!" Hazama yelled as he tried to drive the balisong knife right down Sora's neck but suddenly backed off when he felt the chain of Ouroboros suddenly lose tension before he jumped back, feeling his chest get cut as Sora had somehow managed to swing his sword despite his wrist being caught on the chain as the wound Hazama had inflicted on Sora's ankle began to rapidly heal, the wound resealing itself shut as Sora stood up, his bones cracking in the process.

'Where are you going?… Come back here you snake.' Sora thought as his body felt so heavy, more like lead than flesh and blood but he still had to move. He desperately wanted to rest but he refused to rest until Hazama was put down to the ground. Until he stopped him, he simply refused to rest as he took one step, bones cracking within him as he shoulder tackled Hazama back down to the ground as every move he felt he was doing was simply reactionary at this point.

He wasn't thinking about his next move, how he should be attacking next and what will be the best solution for the current situation. All he had to do was simply react to the situation that he was tossed into. The more he tried to think, the more his vision became blurry. Every attack he threw was not that one focus and precision like he had been doing for what felt for so long. Each punch he threw was more emotion than anything as Hazama weaved his head through Sora's punches as he remained on the ground, stuck by Sora's ground and pound.

"Damn brat! Don't get cocky!" Hazama yelled as he dodged Sora's next punch and grabbed Sora's hand, countering and going into an armbar, trying to snap it in half. Sora did not care as Hazama stabbed his balisong knife right into Sora's arm, causing his consciousness to spike as he looked at Hazama and grabbed Hazama by his collar and raised him high into the air. Without even hesitating, Sora slammed Hazama hard on his back, at the same time Hazama snapping Sora's arm, causing more of his consciousness to spike out as Hazama lost his grip on Sora's arm as he looked at the way Sora's arm dangled in the air.

Sora did not even look at his arm as Hazama could see his arm slowly snap itself back, the knife he had stabbed right into Sora's arm pop out as soon, it looked like he had not even broken Sora's arm at all as Hazama, unlike Sora, was thinking, was trying to figure out the bizarre series of events that were happening in front of him. Trying to use the logic he had, the knowledge he acquired over the years to find a way to subdue and put Sora down but either his logic was flawed and he had lacked certain key pieces of information, or Sora was breaking every well known logic that he ever knew.

While it was possible to go to a different possibility if you were an observer or an all mighty god who can rewrite time, Sora was not rewriting time to the point he was reverting things nor was he altering any possibilities. He had allowed his arm to be broken hell his whole body was already broken. By that logic, Sora was supposed to be a broken wreck, easy pickings. Yet in front of his eyes, Sora managed to pick himself back up, stitching himself back to a fighting chance.

"This is wrong.. THIS IS ALL WRONG! YOU'RE JUST WRONG ERROR!" Hazama yelled as Sora looked at him, having some sort of lucidity in his train of thought but he couldn't bother looking at Hazama to speak out what was on his mind. "Yeah… I have been told that a lot… I don't care what people say at this point. I am just focused on what is ahead of me..." Sora said before he suddenly coughed out blood, spilling out the black blood through the ground as the scenery around them began to shift, the black and white fading a bit as Hazama realized that the overdrive was probably the source what was going on.

"But it doesn't matter at this point… if I tell you what I believe… You're still going to be a dead man." Sora coldly said as he gripped the rev arm's handle and revved it, causing the seithr to eject out violently "ENHANCED GEAR!" The rev arm shouted as Sora charged right for Hazama once more, raising his free hand to summon the ghost blade as Hazama tried to jump back. It was at that moment Sora jumped into the air to meet him, tossing the ghost blade in the air as Sora waited for the ghost blade to descend down.

"Kyōfū no ha!" As soon as Sora yelled it out, Sora immediately punched the blade right towards Hazama as the ghost blade flew right into Hazama's abdomen but went past completely. Hazama at first was confused by this as he had originally felt the ghost like hand tightly grip on his wrist beforehand but soon felt an immediate rushing pain coarse through his body. It was a delayed reaction but Hazama knew he had been penetrated yet there was no wound where the ghost blade had landed and this completely baffled him.

Hazama immediately scrambled to get back to his feet, shocked definitely with both the fact he got cut and felt pain yet there was no wound, as if he was really struck by a ghost. Hazama shook his head realizing that he had allowed shock to briefly take over him as Sora immediately charged, raising his left hand to summon the ghost blade towards his hand, catching it and tossing it back towards Hazama once more as Sora quickly grabbed the rev arm and changed it back to the rev blade form.

Hazama did not know what to expect, but what he did not expect was for the ghost blade to mid air transform into the ghost arm and grab him by his wrist. Hazama did not freak out at this point as he took a deep breath before focusing his gaze right towards Sora and observing his movements. What was he doing allowing Sora to do his own thing. He needed to focus on what he can guess as he tried to force the hand off him.

"No escape." Sora coldly said as he thrusted the Rev blade right at Hazama, forcing him to use more barriers to protect him before he had Ouroboros thrust itself right into Sora's chest, smashing the head right into it as his ribs broke upon contact and winding Sora in the process as Sora stabbed the rev blade on the ground to stand up before he charged right back at Hazama, seemingly ignoring the pain that was inflicted on him as Hazama used more barriers to either parry, deflect or block Sora's multiple desperate swings of his blade.

As he did so, Hazama noticed something peculiar. As Sora swung the rev blade, he could hear the sounds of bones cracking as Hazama used this as his chance to slide a barrier through Sora's slash and used the barrier to smash right into Sora's normal arm, breaking it again as the normal arm quickly began to repair itself as Sora kicked him right in the stomach to create distance, his hand tightly gripping on the rev blade just trying to make sure he was able to know that he was holding onto the blade.

"Asshole!" Sora suddenly screamed as he ran right for Hazama, dragging the rev blade on the ground and causing a few sparks in the process as he slashed dirt right into Hazama's face. Hazama, already used to the old dirt in the face trick, used Ouroboros's chain as a makeshift fan, spinning it right for Sora's eyes instead as the dirt landed right in Sora's eyes, causing him to flinch as Hazama tried to use this as his opportunity to wrap Ouroboros around Sora's neck with the intention of choking him out.

As Sora felt the chain slowly wrap around his neck, Sora immediately used the handle of the Rev Blade to try prying and loosening the chain enough to slip his neck through. Hazama determined not to let that happened made Ouroboros tighten even more, causing the rev blade handle to instead wrap around the chain as Sora began to choke. Hazama then tightened his fist, trying to strangle the life out of Sora's life as Sora's already waning consciousness began to fade even faster as he blacked out for a few moments.

As Sora struggled to get free from the chains, Relius continued to observe from a distance as Hazama and Sora were just too focused on each other to realize that he was there. Relius then saw Sora's ghost arm grab the chain physically, phasing it's fingers easily and without much effort, began to pry the chains loose enough for Sora to free himself from the stranglehold, causing him to drop on the ground and cough heavily as Relius slowly removed his mask, deciding that he needed to observe the situation in front of him much loser.

As his mask came off, if Sora and Hazama were looking at him, they could clearly see that Relius's were completely different from normal people, his eyes glowing a violet magenta hue as with the mask off, he could see the flow of Seithr that was coming out of Sora. The way that the seithr seemed to be pulled towards him, like how bees go after the nectar in flowers as there was a simple reason for such a thing. His soul

Souls are a unique case when it comes to Seithr. When a soul meets with the flow of seithr, two things tend to happen. Either the soul becomes enveloped by the flow of seithr and becomes a part of it, the soul losing it's sense of identity and self in the process as Relius had seen several times or the soul embraces the flow of Seithr, not becoming engulfed by the flow of Seithr but allowing the seithr to empower it, strengthen it. Like how Makoto Nanaya was able to leap through a whole different timeline while keeping her soul in tact.

But Sora was different from those two. His soul was clearly attracting the flow of seithr and by that very logic, his very soul should have been long devoured and returned back to the abyss where Seithr comes form. Yet here he was, Sora Minakaze standing clearly with his sense of self despite the seithr flowing into him. "Most Intriguing, The resilience of the soul is truly something to behold." Relius said as he walked over to the unconscious Makoto, deciding to use this time to inspect the girl he had plans for.

While Sora was starting to become an even more interesting person than he had originally thought, with his status as an Error and the way his soul embraced the flow of seithr by literally becoming one with it. Relius's attention was still at the end of the day was his prime test subject, Makoto Nanaya. The moment he heard that Makoto Nanaya had apparently died due to his colleague's hasty actions, Relius was truthfully very disappointed. To think, he had lost his only chance of a soul truly strong enough to handle becoming the most powerful detonator, something to surpass even the great sage Nine and her Nox Nyctoreses and usurp the master unit with. He was never a holy man, a true man of science but the gods for this one time truly have blessed him.

His hand gently touched on her bare chest, where her heart was as he could still feel her heart beating, much to his delight. "To think you can survive such a harrowing experience, you manage to find ways to continuously pique my interests every single time we meet Makoto Nanaya." Relius said as he could have taken Makoto away from here and experimented on her to his every whim but he decided that maybe, he should try a different approach for once from his normal way of developing souls as he held out his hand and began to cast a healing ars magus on her.

"Show me more Miss Nanaya. Show me how much more your soul can grow." Relius said as soon he hid in the shadows once more to continue observing, leaving Makoto on the ground as most of her wounds had been healed at this point and while her arm was still gone, the bleeding that had been ongoing non stop was now over as Makoto herself winced in pain, the agonizing feeling she felt all around her body still present but Relius had managed to heal her enough to the point her consciousness will return.

As Makoto's consciousness stirred, the first thing her ears could hear was a sense of ringing as her head was simply in pain. Her whole body felt like it was in agonizing pain and her lower body was simply wet, as if someone had slipped their hands right into her while she was unaware. Her body felt like lead, any attempts from her to try and stand up from the pain she was currently feeling were useless as all she could do was simply stare into the air as her vision slowly returned to her.

"H-Huh?.. Where...Am...I?" Makoto muttered as her body was simply lead as she couldn't even lift up her hand to touch her head. "God….if I am dead...then please stop playing this prank on me. Because this sucks..." Makoto said as her ear's ringing slowly started to die down as she could start to hear the clashing of steel, prompting her head to slowly tilt towards the direction she was hearing these sounds.

"That's….That's not the sound of heaven mom told me." Makoto said to herself as she turned and soon, adrenaline kicked in as she soon realized she was in reality. Her vision was soon finally becoming much clearer as she tried to stand up, her first instinct being to use both of her hands only to slip back down to the ground as she finally got a good glimpse of her right stump of an arm as she felt a wringing pain when she fell, looking down to see a knife was embedded into her stomach.

"Looks like I am not in heaven yet…." Makoto said as while she could speak and have some train of thought, her body was not the same as she decided to remain lying on the ground and look at her surroundings. She needed to know where she had ended up and that would tell her where she needed to go. Her eyes soon landed to a sight she never thought she would see as Sora flew right past her, crashing to the ground behind him and was dangerously about to fall off the building.

By both reflex and instinct, Sora immediately stabbed the rev blade right into the ground, using it as more of an anchor to stop himself from falling as he pulled himself up. As he did so, Sora winced in pain as Hazama walked past Makoto, Makoto feigning unconsciousness as Hazama could see the color return back to the black and white world as Hazama simply smirked. "looks like your little overdrive is nothing but smoke and mirrors Mr Minakaze." Hazama said as despite the advantage Sora had with shock and awe, Hazama was quick to adapt as the ghost arm that had been supporting Sora this whole time was beginning to fade.

As this was happening, Sora's consciousness was returning to him as he dragged himself back to the top of the roof, the pain and agony he felt when he was on the ground quickly returning to him as he forced himself to stand up, gripping his hands tightly on the rev blade as Hazama's words were not reaching him. "Feeling tired...almost winded… arm is in pain...body is painful all around..." Sora muttered as he panted heavily, his body taxed by the amount of stress he had managed to place himself in as he knew he needed to end this.

"Can't move anymore. Need to finish this now." Sora muttered as he changed the Rev Blade back to the rev arm form as he reattached it to his stump, panting heavily as he looked right at Hazama, determined to finish the fight as quickly as possible as he tried to rev the rev arm only to drop down to his knees as his body continued to shut down, having been overtaxed against it's will as Sora felt like he was simply lead at this point.

"Can't stop… Won't stop… I refuse to stop." Sora said as Hazama saw Sora defiantly stand up to his feet, raising the rev arm high up in the air ready to rev it as Hazama sent Ouroboros to smash itself right into Sora's ribs once again, causing him to cough out black blood as it struggled to return to him, his body clearly being taxed to it's limits at this point. "Looks like this is going to be game over for you." Hazama commented as he decided to not waste time trying to delay this any further, immediately turning the world pitch black as a red aura began to surround him.

Makoto slowly raised her head to see what was going on only to see Hazama clearly creating an astral heat. Sora himself was not making any attempt to try and either dodge the Astral, his vision clearly narrow as Sora himself was unaware of the Astral heat Hazama was planning on unleashing to him. "Come on little boy! Come over here and let the snake devour you!" Hazama yelled as he continued to gather energy in his hands, the green aura he was exuding mirroring the state of his hands as Sora slowly stood up, hand on the Rev arm for one last time.

"One...Last...Push!" Sora muttered before he revved the Rev arm, causing it to hum as Sora thought about what he was fighting for, what it meant to him to keep his promise as the black and white world offered one last bout of strength to him, giving him more seithr as he focused not on the pain he was feeling but the feeling on his hand as he revved the Rev arm for a second time, using it as a focusing point as soon all sensation of pain had left him as he revved the Rev arm for one final time, causing the Rev arm to howl.

"ASTRAL GEAR!" The rev arm shouted as Sora began to charge, his final bout of strength coming to him as he simply focused on the image of victory placed in front of him. Like the fool he was to Hazama's head, he charged at him blindly, the sounds of bones crunching and blood spurting echoing throughout the roof as Hazama did not even need to use his observing power to see that this was simply a kamikaze move from Sora's part. A last ditch effort that will be fruitless as he was going to do the job that Amaterasu was not going to do and erase this error before he could be used for anything potentially damaging to his plans.

"It's time for a little punishment boy!" Hazama yelled, his hand glowing green, ready to slam them down to the ground in order to invoke his Astral heat to rend Sora asunder as Sora began to charge right for him, blood spilling out of him as wounds began to reopen. It was at that moment Sora began to focus on the image of punching Hazama in the gut and delivering his astral right into his smug ass as his eyes shone with life, his blind eye glowing azure green and having azure green lines emerge from it.

As Sora let out a battle cry, Hazama knew it was going to be all for naught the moment his hands meet the ground. But before they could touch the ground, he felt a sharp pain suddenly enter his back, forcing his concentration to disappear as he looked at where he had been stabbed. His eyes grew wide in shock as he saw it was Makoto Nanaya, who he had thought was unconscious and he could play with, suddenly standing in front of him, having stabbed him with the knife that he had stabbed her with as she looked at him weakly.

"Karma….Is bitch...Isn't it!" Makoto said defiantly, her near naked body dropping to the ground safely away from Sora's attack as that was the brief moment Makoto created that allowed Sora to finish the fight, not that he was aware of it as he tightly gripped the rev handle and activated it. "ASTRAL FINISH!" The rev arm shouted as this time Sora was not holding back, unlike what he had done with Tager as he allowed the excess seithr both in him and around him to begin shaping the wind to the rev arm itself.

The result was what seemed to be a mini hurricane forming on his arm, the winds swooshing and blowing wildly as Hazama soon realized he was in the danger zone. Having no time to create the energy needed for the Astral heat, Hazama could feasibly use the remaining Seithr within him to do a distortion finish instead and luckily he had the perfect distortion drive needed to get Sora off his back as Hazama began to charge up his right leg instead.

"SERPENT'S INFERNAL RAPTURE!" Hazama screamed as his right leg struck Sora right in the chin. Instead of Sora being launched into the air, his head recoiled as Hazama thought he had managed to stop Sora's astral heat. At first Sora was unresponsive but Hazama felt the soles of his oxfords slip as he realized that Sora's bloody face caused his attack to slip as he saw the life that was still very present on his face as Sora bit down on Hazama's exposed ankle, causing Hazama to scream as he felt his shoulder get tightly gripped by Sora's human hand, prompting Sora to release his bite as he allowed Hazama's leg to land on Sora's other shoulder.

"KAZE!..." Sora yelled as Sora threw the rev arm right at Hazama's resting leg, the winds ripping apart the pants covering that leg as the rippling winds from the rev arm began to rip and tear onto Hazama's flesh, causing him to scream as Makoto looked at the scene unfolding in front of her as Sora bit down on his lips. This soon results in Sora being able to start piercing through Hazama's leg as a last burst of strength from Sora was enough for him to bring what he was doing to a close.

"NO GOON!" Sora screamed as without even stopping, and like a raging torrent, Sora's punch ripped through Hazama's leg, shredding it to pieces as Sora landed a clean punch right at Hazama's stomach, the raging winds ripping and tearing through Hazama's chest as he felt a slashing pain rip and tear into him not only in body but in soul as Sora slid his fist up right into Hazama's jaw, destroying the top portion of Hazama's suit and blowing away his hat in the process as his arms were violently ripped apart from him when he made a desperate attempt to defend himself.

The pain Hazama felt was simply unimaginable, the agony, suffering all rolled up into one attack would have been enough to cause any normal person to blank out but he was forced to keep on enduring as Sora continued to tightly grip on Hazama's shoulder, ensuring that Hazama was not going to get away with what he did as like a shark that had smelt blood, Sora was hell bent on murdering Hazama whole as the wind that had formed around the rev arm soon formed a massive vortex behind his arm as he smashed Hazama's chin as hard as he could.

This caused Hazama to be flung right into the cauldron which Noel had emerged from, forcing him to endure the violent flaying winds as the city skylight could see what looked to be a hurricane forming out of the NOL building. If it wasn't clear to people that there was something wrong going on at the NOL building when the sky was separated by blue and red lights, the abnormal formed hurricane was now getting everyone's attention as soon the winds disappeared, Hazama dropping down to the ground as the cauldron his body was resting on it completely shattered as the Rev arm vented out heat greatly as he dropped down to his knees.

"I….I...Did it." Sora said as the overdrive ended at that moment, Sora's wounds that he had suffered before returning as Sora suddenly coughed out blood as Makoto immediately rushed to him and caught him, unable to hold him up due to her own loss of her arm and weakened form as Sora's head landed right into Makoto's breasts, her breasts acting as a pillow of sorts to help ease his pain as he slowly looked up to see Makoto was awake and well as his own vision was hazy but he fought to stay awake.

"Sora! Sora!" Makoto said, trying to check if he was still alive as he breathed heavily right onto her naked bosom. Sora himself heard her but it sounded like echoes in his head as he slowly lifted it to look at her as his vision looked very blurry. "Makoto…. Is that...You?" Sora questioned as he thought he was hallucinating Makoto was alive, unsure of what was reality and a figment of his imagination at this point as Makoto nodded her head furiously, using her remaining arm to push him closer to her.

"Yes...yes it's me Sora! I really am…." Makoto said as she suddenly felt every emotion that was welled up inside her suddenly catch up to her as she began to sniff greatly, unsure why her emotions were coming out so suddenly like the way they did. Was it because she was greatly saddened to see Sora like this? Or was it because this was actually reality and maybe being dead would have been better for her to not suffer the pain that was in her.

"Ahhh… It's...Good to hear you...Makoto… Sorry. Can't really focus right now. Barely can think straight right now." Sora said, his vision of her blurry as Makoto felt Sora's pulse weaken on her hand as she tried to use healing ars magus to help heal his wounds but simply winced in pain as she failed to do so. "Dammit! Don't die on me Sora!" Makoto said as she shook him, trying to keep him awake as Sora could feel her trying to move him as he himself struggled to stay awake.

"Damn… Why…. Why can't I see you right now?… After… coming this far." Sora mumbled as he bit down his lips, tasting blood in his mouth in the process. Finally, after beating the snake that hurt his lover and tried to rape her, he finally defeated him. So why was he being denied the comfort of victory he was supposed to be feeling at that moment. Just what was wrong with him right now. He wanted to beat himself in the face for ruining what was supposed to be a sweet moment.

"Just...Just don't speak right now Sora. I...I'm so sorry… I caused you this much pain." Makoto muttered, cursing the weakness she felt she had. She was weak when it came to protecting Noel and lost an arm in the process. Her weakness nearly resulted in her death and it caused her lover to push himself so hard just to get to this point. He didn't need to risk himself, he could have made the logical decision. Even if it was his decision at the end of the day to come here with her in tow, she still cannot help but still feel guilty for even allowing this scenario to happen in the first place for being so weak.

"No...I refuse...I feel...if I stop talking...I...Won't be able...to hear you." Sora said as he reached out towards her hand with his human hand, prompting her to hold it as he smiled weakly. "So...Please… Don't...Don't stop speaking. As long...as I can hear you...I'll...I'll be..." before Sora could finish his sentence, Sora began to cough hard, spewing more blood, prompting terror from Makoto as she was unaware that Hazama was still alive, somehow surviving the astral despite having had his limbs ripped right off him as blood spewed right out of him.

"Cocky...Little...Assholes..." Hazama muttered as while he couldn't stand up due to the missing leg, he still had access to Ouroboros as he was simply a bad loser. He could have played possum and just waited for Makoto and Sora to leave but he hated what he was seeing… what he was experiencing. The futile way of Sora thinking he was able to finish him off with a simple Astral heat as the portal that Ouroboros emerges from loomed, ready to lunge right for the lovers as he couldn't help but laugh a bit, coughing out blood himself.

"I...Am...Going to enjoy hearing you..." Then suddenly, a loud smash could be hear, prompting Makoto to turn around quickly to suddenly freeze in fear as she had seen something that Makoto did not want to see right now. The magenta metal doll that was in front of her had lunged it's massive claws right into Hazama's neck, pulling out and spilling his blood all over the floor as Hazama laid down on the floor dead. But Hazama being dead was not the point that she wanted to focus on.

"N-No..." Makoto muttered as she quickly looked around, fear crippling her as she hastily looked around left and right, wondering when the masked freak was going to show up. "My...Such fear in your soul." Relius said as she immediately turned around only to feel her cheeks get grabbed as she was made to look right at his eyes, unable to escape from how weak she had become as she couldn't even resist as Ignis slowly moved herself to where Relius was.

"L-LET ME GO!" Makoto demanded as she tried to resist only to get her only arm grabbed as she felt herself be restrained with ease as her strength had yet to return to her. "N-NO! LET ME GO!" Makoto screamed, the fear she was experiencing as the painful memories of what he did came swimming right back to her. No matter how much she tries to block them out, the memories felt like they were so heavily engrained into her, as if they had been etched to her very soul as she couldn't move her head, being kept still by Relius's cold hand.

"Indeed… Your soul is capable of such raw emotions… it fuels you very nicely indeed." Relius said as he could have easily toppled her, made her submit and take her to be experimented on. But like he had promised himself, a different approach would be needed as he immediately released her from his grip the moment he felt a hand grab his wrist. "L….Let go of her..." Sora demanded, his hand weakly trying to tighten to restrain Relius as Relius himself was amused by what was happening.

"Still alive I see? Most normal people would have died by now… I wonder if it is because of the important role you are about to play Error… or something else indeed." Relius mused as Sora himself did not understand half of what Relius was speaking at that moment, his focus was on trying to force his hands off his lover as Relius released his grip on Makoto to hover his hand in front of Sora's face.

This immediately terrified Makoto when she saw what looked to be an ars magus seal appear right in front of said hand as she had thought it was going to be something to kill Sora. "S-Stop...D-Don't!" Makoto begged as she tried to grab the wrist to stop Relius from what he was doing. Shock then came over her as she saw the green healing light of healing ars magus begin to swim over Sora. This was especially strong as she could see recently opened scars heal up almost immediately as Sora's vision slowly came back to him, allowing him to at least be able to see that Relius Clover of all people was healing him.

The two of them were just stunned by what had happened as Relius stood up. "Noel Vermillion is currently at the cauldron. If you two are still keen in making sure your friend is alright, I would recommend making haste right away to the basement." Relius said as he turned his back, ready to leave the two lovers alone as Sora shook his head, standing up in shock only to drop down to his butt trying to register the shock in his mind.

"W-Why did you heal me? What's your game?" Sora questioned as his eyes soon noticed the dead body of Hazama lying on the ground as even more questions grew. "And aren't you working with the NOL? You just killed an NOL officer?!" Sora questioned further as Relius remained quiet, considering not answering Sora's questions but decided to oblige him, seeing it as a reward for giving him the greatest display of a soul yet.

"I may be working with the NOL but it is only to further my own goals. I will not stop until I finish the detonator." Relius said as Makoto was immediately reminded of the words he had said before, of her being his perfect detonator as she placed her hand on her chest, feeling her heart pound with fear as Relius's eyes went to her. "As for why I killed my colleague, I was angry for what he did to my project and needed to vent some much needed stress before it interfered with my work. Do not think I did it to be your friend." Relius continued, both Sora and Makoto feeling the cold calculating tone Relius had as he reached into his coat.

"I must apologize for what my colleague did to you Miss Nanaya. Please take this as a consolation for your lost arm." as soon as Relius said those words, he tossed right into Makoto's feet a metal arm that caused her to shiver. It was a bluish silver tint of metal that felt very light the moment she held it on her hand, it felt very cold to the touch, as if it was being kept cold underneath Relius's cape as his eyes gazed upon her.

"I still have plans for you Miss Nanaya. But I require your soul to become even stronger than what it is right now. Please, accept my gift as an olive branch to show our trust to each other." Relius said as Makoto's hand shook hearing his words. She didn't know what to say as her feelings were so conflicted at that moment. She then felt the hand get pulled away from her before it was tossed right into Relius's chest as it was Sora who did that, using up some of his reserved strength as despite being healed, he shouldn't be moving as much as he was right now.

"Don't you dare try to poison her with your words you monster." Sora said, placing himself between Makoto and Relius as Relius himself was not bothered by this as he simply smiled. "I am doing no such thing. There is no worth in trying to persuade Miss Nanaya with the tactics of my former colleague." Relius said as this was enough to cause Makoto to shiver as Relius took the metallic hand and gave it to Sora. "And besides… Don't you think we are wasting our time discussing such matters like this?" Relius said as Sora gritted his teeth, wanting to rebuke his words but Relius was right, he and Makoto needed to go and see if Noel was alright, even if they were as injured as they were.

"I must ask you this Error… Are you ready for the truth of your existence?" Relius questioned as Sora looked at him even more confused by the cryptic words Relius had left him as he stood up and turned his back to the two. "If you ever wish to become stronger or learn the truth of this world. I will allow you both to see the truth of this world." Relius said as he began to walk off, not sparing any more words for the two lovers as Ignis disappeared from their view, leaving just Makoto and Sora by themselves as Makoto suddenly collapsed due to the tension she felt all over her body, Sora catching her by reflex.

"Makoto!? Are you..." Then without warning, Makoto couldn't help but cry as she felt very overwhelmed by the information that was given to her, the confusion she felt and everything that was happening to her as she tightly clung to Sora. "Sora...Why...Why is all of this happening right now… Nothing...Nothing's making any sense right now!.." Makoto said, clearly overwhelmed by what Relius had done, by what she had seen as Sora winced in pain as he felt a deep pain for what Makoto was currently experiencing right now, able to understand the confusion she was feeling at that moment.

Sora wanted to say something but suddenly felt the fatigue of the battle and the confrontation he had just had with his nemesis take over him, causing him to drop to the ground as Makoto reflexively dropped on top of him. The two groaned in pain as Makoto couldn't help but pressed her crying face on Sora's chest. "I just don't understand… When did everything get so fucking complicated like they have right now!.." Makoto cried out as Sora looked at her for a moment before slowly lifting her head to make sure she looked him at the eyes..

It was then that Sora decided to give Makoto a kiss at that moment. Was that an appropriate time to do so? Maybe not but Makoto did not care as she accepted the kiss and closed her eyes, allowing her emotions to calm down as the two allowed their tongues to touch as they held in the kiss as long as they could. When they felt their breath of air leave them, they parted only to kiss each other again a few more times as Sora placed his hands behind Makoto's back, hugging her and rubbing her back to give her comfort as Makoto used her squirrel tail to act as a makeshift pillow for Sora.

"I...I know we need to go and save Noel...But...I feel drained right now." Makoto said as Sora nodded his head. "Me too.. I think we both need a few minutes break before we go after her." Sora added as Makoto nodded her head at that in agreement. "So...While we rest...and try to collect our thoughts… Can...Can you keep holding onto me...Just like this?" Makoto asked, making Sora look at her as he paused for a moment before simply responding to her question with a simple kiss, giving Makoto the much needed relief she needed as she allowed herself to be vulnerable for this very moment.

...Just glad that she was able to experience this brief moment of peace in what felt like a torrent of chaos…

As Relius walked down to the cauldron, his mind was preoccupied with various thoughts. These ranged from the growth and relief that his pet project did not meet her demise thanks to his colleague to the Error Sora Minakaze proving to be much more of an interesting subject than what he had originally thought. 'So many experiments happening at the same time and I can still find some excitement over the results. With the way things are progressing, my goals may not be that difficult to reach.' Relius thought as he soon stopped walking, snapping his finger to summon Ignis behind him.

"You know, I can sense your foul stench from where I am standing Terumi." Relius said as he was not fazed by the presence that was clearly around him. Soon, without warning, a greenish black ghost manifested itself right in front of him, his left eye massive and just plain white as a permanent smile was present on his face. The final important feature to note is the massive red hole on the ghost's chest as it floated towards relius. While he looked happy, the ghost known as Terumi was not happy as it couldn't help but lash out towards his colleague.

Terumi: What the hell was that for!? I could have actually died if it wasn't for my life link with Kusanagi!

Relius: Oh? Then you had no worries then. You would have still been alive regardless if I killed you or not

Terumi: Maybe but you know it still fucking hurts to die you know! A life link doesn't magically make me immortal to pain! I still need to die at the end of the day!

Relius: I see… Regardless, I do not care of the pain you are currently feeling, only that you are able to fulfill our goals in your current state.

Terumi: Cold ass bastard. Do you even think about my feelings? Being killed so suddenly before I could kill the bitch responsible for making my life a living hell!?

"And thus exactly why I needed to eliminate you before you ruined my own plans for her. Now stop wasting my time and go do your duty already." Relius said, allowing Terumi to feel his gaze on him as Terumi took a deep breath that you wouldn't be able to see through his expression but it didn't matter as soon he relaxed. "My… Don't be so angry with me Relius. I know I ruined your little pet project by ripping her arm off…. But to think that you can even be angry in the first place."

Terumi's words weaved their way into Relius's mind. However Relius was able to tell that Terumi was trying to influence him, get him to show more emotion other than cold calculation and he was not going to have any of it. "And to think your own soul is capable of feeling other emotions other than being an annoying snake" Relius commented as Relius soon walked away, Ignis moving with him as Terumi simply chuckled before vanishing like the ghost he was as Relius himself was eager to see what happens next.

...For both his detonator and the Error…

Taifū : Typhoon

Kyōfū no ha: Gale Blade

Kaze no gōon: The Wind's Roar

GREETIINGS LOST SHEEP OF FANFICTION!? HOW IS EVERYONE DOING IN THIS CRAZY WORLD THAT WE CURRENTLY LIVE IN!? I am doing well myself and I know what you are thinking. This is definitely becoming the Blazblue of Fanfiction with lore and thoughts being dropped on your lap by the characters that you feel is going to make your mind explode. I can assure you, things will make sense eventually and things will be explained soon. I know it can feel frustrating to read a story and be given no explanation to things you want answered. All I can say without spoiling any part of the story is that you can be assured that there will be answers given to you all and your patience will soon be rewarded for your persistence in reading this story. So once again, Thank you for being patient and reading this story. SO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT TO OUR HEROES!? JUST WHAT IS GOING TO BE WAITING FOR THEM IN THE CAULDRON WHERE NOEL SUPPOSEDLY IS!? WILL THE QUESTIONS THEY WANT ANSWERED BE ANSWERED OR WILL EVEN MORE QUESTIONS BE CREATED IN THE PROCESS?! AND WILL THEY BE ABLE TO BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH OR WILL THEY BE BURNED OUT AS A RESULT!? Well… Read on if you want to find out.