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P.S: This chapter contains heavily sensitive content that shouldn't even be in a Rated T story but toned down to keep the rating.

Disclaimer: I don't own Cross Ange or any of its characters and original plot, excluding the original characters I created for this story. Cross Ange and all its rights belong to King Records (Japan), Sentai Filmworks (USA), and Sunrise/ Bandai Namco Entertainment (Japan). This fanfiction is meant for entertainment only and not for profit. This story contains heavy language, blood and violence, and mild sexual themes not for audiences under 16-18 years old.


CHAPTER 35: THE TUNER'S LIFE

[34 years ago…]

Embryo's mood soured for the unexpected rainstorm that erupted on such a beautiful night as tonight in the Misurugi Empire, even stopping him from wanting to read a book inside the Dawn Pillar in peace from the lightning bolts hurling from the heavens. So, the only thing he could do is brewing a teapot of Earl Grey tea by hand for himself in his office. Even a powerful man prefers to do something by hand than waste his efforts with Mana. 'What a shame.' Embryo sighed as he poured a cup of tea and reached the teacup to his lips, inspecting what could happen in the different parts of the world on this blistering raining night with multiple Mana screens in front of him above the desk as he sips. Nothing outside the ordinary in Galia, Velda, Marmeria, Enderant, and Rosenblum, Misurugi just got a Norma apprehended by that brutish Norma Majeure Force, a blood-covered woman running towards the Dawn Pillar…

Embryo froze and spat a fountain of his tea out of his mouth, hurriedly staring back at the screen showing what he presumed he was hallucinating. At the Dawn Pillar's base, a woman covered in blood and drenched from the heavy rain that luckily didn't blow her over kneeled on the entrance's ground with her blood-covered arms and hands holding something that he had to zoom to realize what she is holding, attracting both Embryo's surprise of both the woman's appearance and worry if she'll die from hypothermia at her state.

Standing off his seat, Embryo reach his hand to the screen and use his powers with a swipe of his hand for the body of the woman he spied to materialize in front of him, watching her looking around her new surroundings with gasps of shock, nearly falling backwards before she hurriedly whirls and sees face to face with her taker in fear. The sight of her immediately attracts Embryo's astonishment.

This woman… looks more like a demon than a human.

Unsure if she is in her twenties or younger, the young woman is beautiful, tall and voluptuous with glowing red eyes and black sclera, long and wavy glowing bright blue hair to her knees, bearing large strands draping at the right side of her face and past her chest, nearly hiding her right eye, dark brown skin and the blood extends from her face, her mouth where that could be the source, body inside and outside her hospital gown that reaches to her waist due to her large breasts, hands, and bare legs and feet. In her arms, which attracted Embryo in aghast, is a bundled cloth holding a newborn albino baby…also drenched and covered in blood all over him but he can sense that the child's soul has disappeared.

'What happened to them?' Embryo wondered when he walked out of his desk.

"Miss, are you all right?" Embryo asked once he went closer to the woman but she snarled in fright and anger in her red and black eyes before Embryo hurriedly leapt away from the woman wildly throwing her blood-covered hand and almost clawed his face, not giving the creator to speak when he dodge the woman he saved and DARED strike but miss hitting her opponent with one arm like an aggressive animal albeit an understanding mother animal by holding her dead baby in the other, both man and woman nearly fall or slam themselves at either the couch or the bookshelf when the latter continuously protect herself and her child from Embryo. But he sees that she will faint if she's not warmed up from the rain.

Leaping farther across the room in front of the doors before she could punch through his heart with her fist, Embryo raised his arms and hands…

"Stop! Stop! Stop!" The blood-covered mother stopped with a startled gasp from Embryo shouting her attention while holding his hands in a T sign as time out, waving his arms at both her and her baby in anger. "You're soaking wet and holding a baby! You both are hurt and will have colds if you don't warm yourselves!" Stunned by his words, a single look at her baby's lifeless body in her arms prompts her to shed tears from her hellishly illuminating eyes.

"I'm…I'm sorry." The woman softly cried, now calmed down from her initial anger but sluggishly move towards Embryo. "I didn't…mean to attack you. Please…please don't…throw us away…" Embryo quickly ran and caught her when she unconsciously fell forward, making sure not to drop the baby as Embryo hurriedly but gently lay the mother's back on the couch and tenderly grab the infant's bloodied, bundled body off her arms, carefully placing him on the table before he proceeds to check this violently strong woman.

Using his powers to conjure a clone to help cook her dinner at the Dawn Pillar's secret kitchens and clean the blood off her after removing her hospital gown, staring his dumbfounded amazement at her large breasts for her figure before he concealed her body with his green suit for decency, Embryo has cleaned his guests including the baby's corpse and checked her breathing has stabilized in time for his clone to hand him over the tray of her food before disappearing; Shepperd Pie with peas and mashed potatoes, with an additional bowl of chicken soup if she needs something simple to soothe her throat.

"Now then. What happened to you, miss?" Embryo wondered once he placed their dinner on the table and held the baby's corpse on his left arm as the child's mother did, his attention focused on the sleeping woman. A Mana human would summon a person's profile for information, but Embryo prefers to read through memories and learn the true lives of the person. Kneeling closer to her side, Embryo's eyes glowed and instantly read his guest's memories in his mind…freezing in the horror shifting to disgust and anger.

'How…how disgusting!' Embryo mentally gasped when he continues to watch her memories in his mind…

Unnamed since birth, his attacker received only disgust and contempt from her parents who beat and locked her up from the world as soon as she was born different from a normal human despite bearing the Light of Mana, only visiting to feed her endless amount of food just to silence her from complaining for sixteen years, traumatized of being alone and beaten for her differences to despise ALL humans, and, to Embryo's increasing incense, forced to conceive the child from a familiar brute. When she delivered the child two hours ago, her first son being albino infuriated both her family and husband who, in a fit of rage, instantly grab and murdered his son out of his mother's arms, traumatizing her further to exact vengeance on the people who tortured her with such animalistic methods in blind rage before escaping with her son's corpse.

Embryo quickly ceased watching the aftermath of her bloody past and backed away when he heard soft noises from the woman tiredly blinking her dimly glowing red and black eyes at Embryo's glowing green eyes staring at her in shock. "W…Where…" The woman whispered, starting to wake up in worry.

"Oh good, you're awake. I made you dinner to fill your stomach. And don't worry about your son. He's safe and I'll never hurt him, so I suggest you should eat first." Embryo assured while carefully helping lift the unfortunate woman to sit, making sure the suit doesn't fall off her body before handing her the plate of Shepperd Pie with her fork. Wanting to object when noticing her lifeless baby's body in his arms, Embryo watched as the nameless woman slowly eat her dinner although the first bite took her to shed tears while she continues to eat. Watching her cry and eat, Embryo couldn't help but notice something about her feelings…it's the same feelings he used to have when he was a child himself.

"Miss?" Embryo asked, attracting his guest after finishing her pie. "Forgive me for teleporting you in here. I was worried that you might fall ill from the rain and why you were covered in blood."

"Oh…it's all right." The woman shook her head with a sad smile after carefully placing her empty plate and fork on her side of the couch. "I was just surprised that I CAN end up out of nowhere while hiding from those who would find out I…I…" Noticing she is hesitant to finish, Embryo interrupted with anger not directed at her.

"Eat your family for your disgusting abuse and almost your captor for killing your newborn son, just because he doesn't look like that egotistical brute?" The woman stared back in horror but didn't say anything when he confessed with a sad scowl. "I can also look and hear anyone's memories and thoughts to learn their truths apart from my other powers outside a normal human's Mana…but I despise being referred to as God than the humans indirectly believed me as. I can prove my powers to you and gain your trust by bringing your son back to life…"

"You can!?" His attacker gasped, leaning forward for Embryo's suit to slip off her body and rests on her lap, her breasts gave a few bounces from the movement which Embryo noticed when he looked down for a few seconds before staring back at her red and black eyes when he nodded, reaching his free hand over the baby's body.

"Yes. I'm glad you saved his body because I can resurrect a person with and without a body or soul, but I must be quick if I need to resurrect someone with their soul.…" But before he could resurrect him, the mother instantly grabs the same hand and pull it closer to her, nearly pulling Embryo towards her and surprised by her face shaken with more tears from her red and black eyes. "No!"

"Please…. don't…" The young woman sobbed. "I…I want my child. I don't care if it's a boy or a girl, even a Norma…but…I don't want my son to know of the asshole of his father, who'll kill innocent children with Manasthma." Embryo nearly gasped his surprise but stayed silent, allowing her to cry her sorrow after pressing her hands and his free hand on her heart between her bare bosoms and her head lowered. "Sir? Even if you said of hate being called God…can I request a way to bring my son back and raise him to not learn the truth of his initial death and damned father?"

Besides almost being killed by a cannibalistic teenage mother, the wish was enough to break Embryo's usually calm composure to stare in disbelief. This woman, although allowing herself to be stained inside and out with the blood of her fellow kind even if it's mindless vengeance or chaos, is willing to raise her child regardless of being human or Norma, and her age…. she is dangerously strong in body, mind, and soul. Glancing at the baby boy, seeing the stab wound on his neck that killed him which enrages him for the innocent child's barbaric fool of an ex-father, Embryo had an idea to smile at his guest.

"Very well. As the only person who saved you, and knows of your identity since you were kept secret from the world, I propose: In exchange for resurrecting your son and omitting the truth about you two from the world… I wish to protect you both as if I'M your husband and his father." Embryo decided with a confident smile that shocked the cannibal woman gawking at him. "If you wish to hide the identity of your son's ex-father from the world who will find the truth via Mana, I can manipulate my creations in multiple ways to not let them own that knowledge. And rest assured, I'm stronger than that wild animal, but even I have standards for how precious a human's life is to not kill them…except sinners or my enemies."

"Sir…" The young mother whispered when Embryo lift and turn the baby's corpse to see his numb face as if he is alive and sleeping, a sad smile forming on his face. "I understand your silence. It is a difficult decision for you. But from someone who had a similar life as yours before being rescued as a child, I also understand the pain of living in harsh circumstances, no matter how advanced and thriving our worlds were…!?" But to his astonishment, Embryo was interrupted by the young cannibal embracing her arms around his neck and kneeling on the couch to not fall on the floor, almost squishing her baby still held in Embryo's arms.

"…Rin." Embryo blinked his eyes and nearly spoke with a subtle gasp from the young woman slowly pull herself away from Embryo but still holding his neck with her arms, smiling a delighted smile that helped reveal her true beauty to Embryo instead of her sadness for her predicament. "If you want to be my fake husband, you must know your wife's name. I never had a true name when growing up, but since my parents only see me as a demon than a human, I picked a demon-sounding full name fitting for myself. In case I'll eat my enemies to protect myself and my future babies, my husband included! My new name: is Rin Beelzebub Scatena!"

"Ah…Oh thank goodness, I'm not the only one with a demonic middle name!" Embryo loudly sighed in relief when he smiled his happiness at his now fake wife, seeing her raising an eyebrow with interest in her smile for his response. "My real name is Eric Asmodeus Zechs but as the creator of this world and everyone including you, I introduced myself as Embryo." Rin narrowed her eyes with a displeased smirk at Embryo's current name, now feeling better than before being teleported inside the Dawn Pillar.

"Do I have permission to call my fake husband by his real name?" Rin joked as Embryo closed his eyes and laugh his happiness for her, hearing her chuckling with him to be more than happy. Once the two calmed down with Rin no longer crying her anger for her past broken life, both realized they almost forgot of Rin's, and now Embryo's future yet still dead, son which caught his attention to ask the other.

"Oh, Rin? I almost forgot. Before I help resurrect him with your request, what's your son's name?" Rin initially looked away with a gloomy glower before she glances back at her fake husband with a sad smile.

"You mean OUR son, Eric? Those losers from my side think of some other names without my approval, but I like Aya."


With Rin's approval, Embryo removed all the blood and DNA from Aya's corpse and reconstructed them by transfusing both his and Rin's blood through him before resurrecting his new son as a living baby without issue, showing the fake husband and wife their child's glowing blood red eyes opening for the first time. However, Aya still bears the big knife wound on his neck from earlier and cries unlike a newborn baby should sound. Reviewing via Mana X-Ray, Aya's larynx is cured but still damaged with the inability to create complex vocal sounds that could help him speak with his voice, with Embryo proposing of teaching Rin and Aya sign language to communicate when he grows up.

The first two days of being in a fake marriage were challenging for Rin as, due to her abused life, she had little knowledge of doing housework which requires her to babysit Aya while Embryo allows himself to perform their duties which are his speciality especially without using Mana. Embryo would chuckle his contentment at Rin pouting at him for her lack of skills and assure her that he is comfortable with Rin watching Aya. But Rin's dedication to being a better housewife for Eric is larger for her to study with Mana, books, and practices, starting slow at first whenever she ordered Embryo to watch over Aya and clean and cook for a week…all in Rin's success with her growing experiences.

But to Rin, whenever she either does or not do any housework from the two taking shifts once a day, she couldn't help but find herself overjoyed of Eric taking care of Aya as if he IS the latter's father. Even if it's going to be less than two weeks of their fake marriage, Rin finds Eric to be a wonderful fake husband than the brute she was forced to bear their first child. If only she had Eric instead…, could he love her more than a demon-looking cannibal? That would be the only thing she often wondered to herself. It may be a risk, but she must know.

She thoughtfully planned to have her answer on the thirteenth day of their fake marriage.

Now, just rest peacefully (Soredewa, nemashou)

The kingdom of dreams, where we'll be. (Yume no ōkoku ni iru)

As that's the end of our story (Monogatari No Owari)

So that, we all will be set free. (Soshite jiyūdeare)

Returning to their home after a stroll through the Misurugi Empire, Rin smiled at hearing Eric finishing the beautiful lullaby that always made Aya sleeps for good reason and watching the baby sleeping on the cushion placed on the kitchen counter, like an adorable baby shark since Eric dressed Aya up in a silver shark onesie with the hood of a shark's head and teeth and flipper sleeves. "Ah, Rin. Did you go somewhere?" Eric asked, curious of Rin smiling her anticipation and her hands held behind her back. Hopefully, he won't use his powers to read her memories and thoughts to correctly guess her gift in one try.

"Eric? I know we've been – unofficially – married for thirteen days, and I couldn't help but wonder how YOU feel about being married to me and raising Aya, even if we're not really your wife and son, and a bit of having a cannibal for a wife?" Rin enquired, seeing Eric subtly widen his eyes for the question when he mused his answer.

"Well. I wouldn't think of myself married to a violent but strong and caring woman, even a cannibal who ate her abusive family…" Rin smiled a slightly annoyed smile, hating the mention of her despicable family. "But overlooking the violence, you'll willing to do anything and improve yourself to protect your family. And I love Aya as my son regardless of his appearance and disability because I always wanted to have children." Taking note of Eric's honest smile and tone when he answered her question, Rin closed her red and black eyes with a happy smile and slowly descend to kneel on one knee, startling Eric in puzzlement until she spoke.

"Thanks, Eric. I'm so happy with your answer. I've been wondering what you think of me as a wife since I look and even act like a demon to everyone. When you took care of me and Aya until now, I couldn't help but be happy that you willingly help us…that…" Rin slowly moves her arms off her back and presents Eric with the red lightning-bolt-shaped, multisegmented dagger with beautiful jewels and a golden hoop that she made earlier, lowering her head to hide her embarrassment at his possible reaction when she suddenly proposes with her courage. "…Eric Asmodeus Zechs. I want our fake marriage to be official, so will you marry Rin Beelzebub Scatena?"

Once she proposed, Rin grimaced at the silence filling the air, fearing Eric will immediately reject and assault her for the proposal, although she heard a sound of jingling in front of her that attracts her to slowly raise her head and blink her eyes…gasping her fright and worry of Eric staring at her and the dagger with such distraught from his beautiful green eyes shedding tears while his right hand pulled out a golden bracelet and ring jewellery, a slave ring, from out of nowhere. But Rin hurriedly stood on her feet and waved her arms to keep Eric from breaking down in tears. "Waaah! Don't cry, baby! I didn't mean to make you cry! I'm sorry! It was such a stupid proposal…"

"…Why do you say that? I do." Rin stopped and blink when she could've sworn, she heard Eric speak before she was immediately pulled into a hug, not crushing her but from hearing his voice laughing with happiness when he responded, Rin's worries faded to smile her tears of joy and return the gesture. "I'm overwhelmed you want to marry me, Rin! I accept being your husband and Aya's father!"


[February; 7 years later/ 27 years ago…]

"Hey, look at them!"

"Woah! That family looks hot!"

"That woman looks sexy, even with those – Argh!" "Don't you dare finish that sentence, you pervert!"

"I wish I was that handsome man's wife…" "I'm right here, woman!"

"Are they a family? That kid looks NOTHING like them!"

No matter wherever they go whenever they would go out to the Misurugi Empire from the Dawn Pillar, the citizens would often notice and stop to gawk their mixed surprise at the odd family of three strolling through the streets and sometimes remark their notice of the handsome man in blond hair and green suit, his left arm being held by his dark-skinned, glowing blue-haired, and sexy wife with glowing red and black eyes behind her black-rimmed glasses resting her head on his shoulder, and the former holding their albino son dressed in purple clothing. Mostly the men would smirk seductively and whistle at the busty woman's figure and the women either sneer jealously at her body or openly dreamed of being the man's wife instead, with a few sneering their curiosity at their son, making both sexes express their anger for their partner's true thoughts of the family they spied on.

They were a couple of times that any of the men or women tried to take a picture of them with their Mana to archive a source of their pleasure, but when they almost take a shot, their Mana screens would immediately glitch an odd sight that nearly broke their Mana that never happened before which horrifies them, without realizing that it would happen the second the said family walk past them…

"Punishment for thinking of us in their filthy minds," Embryo smirked once his eyes dimmed the heavy glow that nearly shield his pupils, making sure no one will notice their secret creator manipulating and almost breaking their Mana that almost took pictures of his family during the walk, feeling Rin's chest bobbing and hugging against his left arm as her hands held his hand, her left bears the golden slave bracelet she was given as her wedding band while Eric hid Rin's red sword-dagger against his right forearm underneath his sleeve with Aya holding the same hand, as his wedding band.

"Shame I couldn't eat your admirers right now, Eric. They would've tasted delicious with your cooking skills like the others." Rin sighed a mixture of relief and disappointment in her smile when she moved her head on his shoulder to glance at her husband's face flashing a faintly cruel smile for their displeasure at the people behind them, leaving Aya looking around in silence as always.

Rin initially wanted to end her cannibalism when she and Eric officially married, but the latter willingly allows Rin to eat ONLY the people whom he can sense and know that have malicious intent, including their potential enemies and sinners, out of interest in how a cannibal eats. That, and proposing having the first two of who knows how many of their future children including Aya also be cannibals if they wish, made Rin happy and love Eric more but accepting to only have Aya as a cannibal. There would be times Rin would playfully tease Eric to try and EAT humans too, either raw or cooked by him, to the latter's horror when he tries to object, resulting in Rin teasing his hesitance for someone having a 'Ripper' state when they secretly kill unfortunate humans...

"If they get further of wanting to take me away from you, that's when we do that." Embryo proposed as he felt Rin slowly pull his left hand and his open hand gently press on his wife's stomach, attracting him to stop the walk with Aya standing closer to their wife and mother's side when she smiled at Eric who stared at his hand pressing her stomach with delight. In nine months, they'll be ready to meet their new addition.


[2nd November 2XXX; nine months later…]

Embryo feverishly tapped his foot in his seat across the LDR room Rin was taken to deliver their second, first to Embryo who prefers calling him or her his second, child with Aya standing on his knees on one of the hospital chairs against the curtained window concealing his mother's progress, all three are in the Misurugi's Grand Hospital. Like his identity, Embryo made sure that his secret life of being a cannibal's husband and father is omitted from anyone including the world leaders. But the one thing that does concern him is how the baby will survive as he does worry about Rin having a miscarriage or other things that can affect his new son or daughter, aware he is acting more than an overprotective father. He knows he tried what he can do when Rin spent the nine months of pregnancy; doing the housework with Aya's help when he offered, making sure she won't move too much and accidentally fall, and feeding her cravings with the right food AND humans.

Wondering about Aya, Embryo faintly looks up and sees his son move from staring at the concealed window to standing in front of him with a concerned scowl on his silent face. "I…It will be all right, Aya. Your mother and your new brother or sister are strong." Embryo assured with a shaky smile and pat his hand on his son's nearly glowing white hair when a voice from the LDR room spoke.

"Mr Zechs!" The sudden joy from the nurse's voice frightened Embryo and Aya so much that the latter jumped off the floor and leapt onto his father's lap, catching him in his arms, when the two faced the opened door where the nurse's face broke in an excited smile. "Please come meet your daughter!" Realizing what she said, Embryo hurriedly held Aya and frantically ran off their seats and dashed inside the LDR to see what both immediately grew amazed inside.

On the hospital bed and accompanied by the doctor and nurses who safely monitor and delivered their baby, Rin is found crying happy tears and cradling the tiny new life sleeping or nearly buried between her mother's large bosom, sharing her dark skin and tuft of glowing blue hair… nonetheless, it's his daughter, Khalifa Scatena-Zechs.

Embryo's face broke in exhilaration when he moved and stood at Rin's right of the bed with him placing Aya on the bed beside his mother and new sister. Rin raised and smile her happiness at her husband leaning forward to kiss her forehead, a hand softly grasping the back of his daughter's head as she starts to whimper and cry her first tears. Normally, newborn girls must be tested if they're human or Norma by the doctors using the Light of Mana, but the sight of the doctor and nurses smiling their appreciation instead of worry or apprehension confirms Embryo's relief that Khalifa is human.

But he can tell that something is off.

"Congratulations, sir. Your daughter is human…" The doctor acknowledged although Embryo can guess the other wanted to speak about Rin and Khalifa's skin and hair colours and the former's inhuman-coloured eyes before he suddenly frowns with his concern which attracted Embryo. "…However, she's infected with Manasthma."

Embryo and Rin froze in horror, catching Aya's surprise at his parents' dismayed reactions when the doctor assured, raising his hands in case Embryo could even think of striking him for the information. "When human girls are born, they only used their Light of Mana for the first time at 3 to 5 years old which is the safest age to confirm if they have Manasthma or not. But when we delivered your daughter an hour ago, she somehow expertly used the Red Light of Mana for the first time, her eyes changed colour from green to red…and she nearly puked all her blood out. We've never heard of Manasthmatic children puking their blood after using it once, so we confirmed that your daughter's case is severe…to the point of death if she uses the Light of Mana longer than a few seconds."

"We are sorry, Mr and Mrs Scatena-Zechs." One of the nurses apologized in sorrow shared by her companions as Embryo couldn't turn and see Rin staring at him and both her shocked son and sleeping baby daughter in distress, too distraught that broke his composure for the revelation of his daughter's Manasthma.

There is only one animal that he knows the cause of this and that infuriates Embryo more than he normally does when he grits his teeth and his glowing green eyes bulged in such rage that terrified the doctor's nurses who were eying their patient's husband flirtatiously.


"Eric? Are we underground?" Returning to the Dawn Pillar after two nights of Rin and Khalifa staying in the hospital to monitor their progress without issues, Embryo initially wanted to let Rin and Aya rest for the evening when he wished to head into Aura's chamber, holding Khalifa's sleeping and dressed body in his arms after a quick milk feeding, but Rin insisted on him taking them with him which prompted her question. During the silent ride, Embryo felt nothing but fury for the cause of her daughter's illness, which he initially had little care of both that and the unfortunate children also affected by Manasthma until now.

Once the platform taking them had depressed to a stop, noted Rin gasping her shock at seeing Aura in her prison, Embryo walked closer and stood in front of Aura with a Mana screen showing the usual signs of Aura's heartbeat remaining comatose. "What's that?" Rin asked once she stood behind Embryo, gently holding Aya's hand.

"This is Aura, the first of the DRAGONs that Norma sent to Arzenal fought her kind invading this world to feed their corpses to her, in exchange, giving her powers that give the people the Light of Mana for centuries." Embryo answered, too furious of Aura to not turn and see Rin blinking her red and black eyes in shock at the truth, knowing that she believed that the Light of Mana is limitless as her kind was taught. "The only ones who knew this truth are the world leaders, while I want you and our children to know of this as well. If anyone learned the truth of the Light of Mana, the Norma's purposes, and the DRAGONs, it would cause a world outbreak and I want to prevent that. But…" Embryo made sure he won't harm and kill Khalifa when he almost gripped his fingers that could pierce through her with his strength. "As I believed she used this as my punishment for stealing her from her kind, Aura gained the ability to mutate the blood of many children for years, depleting their health until they died from using Mana. And now…our daughter…"

Rin stared at Eric before the gargantuan DRAGON, unable to comprehend the truth she was given but it slowly starts to make sense. Unlike her late family and other people, she would question the origin of Mana and why people love it so much that they'll discriminate and kill against Norma and Manasthmatic children simply for not using Mana longer or at all. But the fact that Eric stole Aura as a Mana factory, and in return, punished him by killing innocent children to die by using Mana gives her mixed feelings.

After pondering on her thoughts about all this, with Aya watching her in curiosity, Rin glanced up at Aura and…

"Hey, giant lizard!" Embryo shuddered in shock at Rin aggressively shouting her anger at Aura's glass tube, alarming him to quickly use his powers to let Khalifa sleep without waking up by her mother jabbing a finger and arguing towards Aura's comatose body using words that'll offend the latter's so-called people if they heard her right now. "I know Eric's guilty of stealing you and making you give obnoxious humans Mana, and that makes him more of a dummy that I won't use what I would've called him in front of our babies! If you want those losers dead, you should've let me eat them! I'll make sure you'll pay for trying to kill our daughter! Even if it means destroying you, your DRAGONs, and this stupid world with Eric!" To Embryo, Rin's anger makes her more terrifying than any other woman.

"Rin!?" Embryo gasped as he and Aya gawked at Rin finishing her threat to pant and catch her breath, slowly turning around to grab Aya off the floor, holding her son with his arms hanging over hers like a cat held by its owner before she faced her husband with a faintly irritated smile.

"…Eric. You're a dummy." Embryo blinked his eyes in disbelief as he knew she initially swore the vulgar version of what he's called but Rin continued with her smile dimmed with sadness and confidence. "But…I'm happy that I married the dummy whom we both married and love each other just the way we are. You love me even if I look nothing like a human and I eat your people, while I love you for being willing to marry me and raising our children. If you're going to Hell for what you've done, I'll make sure to follow you, so you won't be alone, even if you hate me in the future or something." That immediately flustered Embryo's shock at her declaration.

"Rin…" Embryo glanced at Aya who first look at Rin above him before he smiled at his father, relieving him to smile his genuine happiness and lean forward for a hug from Rin, not agreeing of hating her in the future, before the three heard soft noises on Embryo's arms for the three to see Khalifa now awake, looking around the chamber and her family with wide, glowing green eyes from her black sclera by her mother, with Embryo reaching a finger for his daughter to hold onto it with her baby hand. He remembered the doctor said that Khalifa's eyes changed colour from green to red when she first used Mana, but it doesn't matter. Like Aya if he isn't albino, Khalifa is almost a spitting image of Rin…but she also has Embryo's eyes.


[10 years later/ 17 years ago…]

"Children. Your mother and I have some urgent business here for tonight. We won't be long so please wait for us here." Embryo elucidated his seventeen-year-old son and ten-year-old daughter as they and their wife and mother arrived, via Embryo's teleportation, in one of the many jungle-filled islands far from the mainland in the middle of the night, an unusual place for a family of four to be if not from Embryo locating a group of his powerless enemies that were based here like the animals they are. As Aya wore his soldier-like attire and Rin wore her favourite wide long-sleeved, ankle-length dark blue robe with an open chest and leg area revealing her indigo, sleeveless turtleneck sweater and silken black dress skirt with the slits on both sides showing her legs, and black high heels; Eric and Khalifa wore the outfits the former made with the former wearing a dark green and red-trimmed trench coat, white gloves with matching ruffled sleeves dripping out of his cuffed sleeves, dark green baggy pants stuffed through his high-heeled boots, and a black hooded cloak. As for his daughter, Khalifa wore a sleeveless blue ballgown-like dress, matching her knee-length glowing hair, with a white apron at the front.

"Aya, if anyone spots you and your sister, kill them on sight. Khalifa, stay with your brother."

"Yes, Father. / Sì, Padre." Aya signed and Khalifa nodded with a calm scowl on their faces, satisfying their parents to smile. Although surprised that Khalifa expertly speaks both English and Italian that he taught for her interest, Embryo was both perplexed and amazed by her reason: speaking differently from anyone else in language and accent.

"Shall we, Eric?" Rin goaded, cracking her knuckles aching to fight her husband's enemies that she'll eat. Eric's answer was a cold smirk and extending his dagger-sword hybrid on his right gloved hand.

It only took a few seconds for Embryo to locate the small camp base of those ancient apes and both he and Rin immediately ambush them by killing the first few of them with inhuman speed before they could notice, finding their horror of their killers' entrance pleasant even when the Ancient Humans glared their rage at Embryo before both sides start fighting each other. As much as he despises using his 'alter ego', Embryo must use his 'insanity state' and eliminate his enemies to finish the job faster. At least that and the sight of his wife eating her three opponents to death, terrifying the apes in submission and revulsion of Rin's demonic appearance and cannibalism made him slightly better before he ripped the last fighter in pieces with both his hands and dagger. This leaves the last non-combatant to order her wife to run with their infant baby in her arms, throwing some handmade bombs as a diversion with Rin conjuring her Mana shield in front of her and Embryo to explode upon contact, saving them from being blown up, before both quickly ran after the three escapees.

When the two realized that their enemies ran to the same location where their children are, Embryo was about to grab Rin and run faster to catch up when they were shaken by the woman's ear-curling scream that shrilled the air until it stops just when the two arrived at their children's location. The source was enough to break Embryo and Rin's composure into appalment.

Initially hoping the last two Ancient Humans didn't catch Aya and Khalifa, they have been sliced and disembodied into pieces littered on the ground noticeably by Aya's rapier who is stained nearly from head to toe on top of the dead male ape body down on the ground and his rear up for Aya to sit on it like a seat, nonchalantly eating the bloodied heart even when he coyly smiled at his shocked parents and silently point the same bloodied thumb at Khalifa….who busily grabbed whatever she got from the dead woman's body split open while, that their parents noticed, her eyes changed from green to red and the Ancient Human wench's discarded organs and disembodied limbs are floating with Red Mana… longer than a few seconds without Khalifa having a Manasthma attack.

"…Aya…Khalifa…" Rin gasped. Even Embryo is as horrified as his wife. They couldn't believe it: both their children ate their first humans, and Khalifa is using Mana longer than a normal Manasthmatic child. Unaware of the family, the dead Ancient Humans' baby son managed to escape from the same fate as his late parents through the unexpected help of a giant phyton hanging on the tree above the killer family's heads.

Date of Deaths: 30 September 2XXX


[4-3 years later…/ 13-12 years ago]

"Eric." Rin softly panted once she returned from her night patrol outside the Misurugi Empire, finding Eric in the kitchen surprisingly early for breakfast, seeing both her husband in a bathrobe and a woman's disembodied right arm placed beside the stove, stripped to the bone stained with its blood and little skin which the majority is what Eric must be cooking before he finished when he heard her call him from behind. As she checked that Aya went to the Dawn Pillar's compound for a morning stroll and Khalifa is sleeping, Rin needs Eric's company to discuss what happened after she went out last night.

"Rin. Are you all right? I tried to call you to know where you've been last night, but I was… distracted." Eric enquired with concern, placing the tray holding one plate of twelve strips of beef bacon he made from the discarded, skin and meat-less arm on the table, the second plate of eight sunny-side-up eggs, and a third plate carrying a large stack of pancakes with maple syrup ready before he stood and tenderly grasps his hands on Rin's forearm. Wondering about his 'distraction', Rin glanced at the arm on the counter before smiling her amusement at him. "Some bitch tried to have you, while I was out?"

"…Yes. A wench tried to have me. Luckily, I've sent her away before waiting for you to come home." Eric answered, cocking his head with an unsure smile that prompted a playful scoff from Rin's smirk. Although irritated that despite knowing they're married, there are always women STILL wanting Eric so Rin allowed her husband to seduce them just for them to kill and eat their victims, even when they found out that the man, they want their hands on, is secretively the Ripper that plagued the world he created ever since after their official marriage. "Rin?" Eric asked.

"Sorry, baby. I had to stay the whole night from my night walk…can you read my memories?" Rin nervously exclaimed as the proposition nearly confused Eric, but his eyes glowed his beautiful aquamarine green eyes, which immediately blinked in surprise when he must've caught on of Rin's reason until his eyes dimmed their glow when Rin felt Eric's hands twitching on her forearms and her hands when she grasps on them.

"That's horrible…and you helped that scarred boy to safety with the Haven nation?" Eric asked. Sometime before the day Rin made their marriage official, Rin witnessed a Norma baby and her family being rescued by the old founder of a secretive nation outside the mainland from a human fool who would've exposed their secret if not for Rin killing them in front of the family. But instead of calling the Mana law enforcement, both Rin and the Haven founder are grateful to keep their secret and part ways with the Norma sympathizer leaving with the safe family.

Until now, Rin would often meet the Haven leader visit the mainland and help him evacuate the Norma and or their families, and other Norma sympathizers from the obnoxious humans from learning the truth, with Rin graciously given the title 'Human Killer', which is cool for her that she called herself that when she saved the Surf boy who shot his family dead for abusing him to near death for years and killed his best friend. But despite their positive friendship, Rin kept her married life with their major enemy a secret, out of her love for Eric who knew when she would tell him stories of the Haven, finding their efforts of saving Norma from being sent to Arzenal amazing and worrying to him.

"Yup." Rin nodded. "I had my extra fill from dinner, but I promise I won't eat humans for a week…" A raise of an eyebrow from her smirking husband slowly caught Rin's ruse to nervously smile her hesitance, knowing for years of their marriage that Rin would NOT stop herself from eating humans. "…Ok, maybe less than a week?"

"Heh. After breakfast. Please don't eat humans after breakfast for today." Eric chuckled, receiving a sigh of relief from Rin before both sat down just when the two notice their 20-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter entering the room, the former was dressed in his soldier-resembled attire and the latter just got herself washed and dressed in her house attire, rubbing her eyes to get the sleep out. "Morning." Aya signed and Khalifa half-yawned, once they took their seats with Aya beside their mother and Khalifa beside their father.

'Talking with your boyfriend last night, again, Sorella?' Aya teased after Eric placed four strips of beef bacon, two eggs, and some pancakes on Khalifa's plate, chortling his amusement shared by their parents at their daughter and sister shooting a tired pout at him, pleasing Eric to pull Khalifa to lie her head on his left shoulder and stroke a hand on the free side of her glowing head with his arm under her chin.

Apart from learning that Khalifa must eat humans once a day she used Mana to temporarily cure her Manasthma, hence the important reason Eric kills people as the Ripper other many reasons, the family also learnt of her positive love relationship with her best friend both her age and have Manasthma. Rin would sometimes tease Eric that he would be overprotective of Khalifa if he thinks of something negative about the boy's feelings for their daughter…and Eric felt ashamed that Rin is right. He is overprotective of his daughter, wanting to kill that sweet boy multiple times for years just for assuming he would break Khalifa's heart. Luckily that didn't happen…he better hope the boy won't.

"What about you AND your boyfriend?" Khalifa taunted after sluggishly raising her head from her father's shoulder with Aya snorting a cruel smirk when he signed back his response. "Hyu is insufferable but loyal and entertaining in his way. And HE'S the one who wants to be my boyfriend."

"Children, children. You both can talk about your boyfriends after breakfast." Eric poised as the two children and their mother glance at their father taking a bite of the pancake, unaware of Aya using his Mana to move the last of his human bacon from his plate to Eric's, noticeable to Rin and Khalifa yet the former grinned at her son with her tongue sticking out of her teeth that Eric was oblivious. "Surprised that you don't mind me and Aya having boyfriends, Padre." Khalifa wondered with a grin.

"I don't mind Aya having a lover, regardless of sex, and Hyuu is a nice boy since they were also best friends. But I DO mind you with Draud, even if he is a good boy for you…" Embryo responded with a cruel grin Khalifa also expressed, aware of her father's overprotectiveness but she, Rin, and Aya said nothing when Eric mindlessly ate the human bacon strip he grabbed from his fork although he immediately notice after chewing it a few times to gather his disbelief, looking at Rin and Aya to see the confident smiles on their faces with the latter slightly sticking his tongue out like Rin to know the culprit.

Instead of spitting the taste that hid the truth of being human meat out of his mouth, Eric swallowed it in his throat and widen his ferocious smirk at his son… "At least I cook them enough to not even taste human, Aya. Otherwise, I wouldn't even think of following this tradition." Eric's sarcastic response brought Rin, Aya, and Khalifa to laugh at their husband and father, enlightening the family of four with today's breakfast that helped Eric and Rin to forget last night's incidents.


[December; 11 years later/ 3 years ago…]

He had just finished reading the chapter of his favourite book in his office when a Mana screen popped out on Embryo's desk and Rin's audio call started when she spoke with a professional tone whenever the two worked and his wife refrain from revealing his real name out of privacy. "Master Embryo. Tae Gatai, co-leader of the Norma Majeure Force wished to request on meeting you."

'Tae Gatai…oh, that's Draud's superior.' Embryo realized, having mixed feelings of curiosity, suspicion, and a tint of anger and worry for this expected meeting. He knew that the world leaders and the Imperial Misurugi family, even before Emperor Jurai became ruler, would offer propositions of Embryo hiring the Norma Majeure Force offering their services to him but all ended up being rejected for personal reasons out of worry of the NMF knowing about Rin being their brutish leader's ex-abused victim and Aya's ex-birth father, which the mute knew when they told him at age 18 but, thankfully, prefers Embryo as his REAL father. But it appears the world leaders are persistent that they had the gall to invite the NMF to meet him on HIS behalf, infuriating him for their mindless action without his approval.

'Better get this over with.' Embryo decided in annoyance before he respond to the Mana call. "Yes, please let them in, Rin."

Once the Mana screen disappeared and seated for a few minutes, the doors opened by Rin's Light of Mana and she walked in alongside the group of five people she led inside, all wearing the NMF uniform with three of the older men eying their disgustingly crude smirks at Rin who strode closer to Embryo's desk, the fourth who is younger and dressed unlike his comrades is the one Embryo and Rin knew too well, and the lone woman, brown hair tied in a small bun and matching eyes, looks composed but Embryo can see the tint of surprise flashing on her eyes when she first notices Embryo and flashed a few seconds of resentment towards Rin before composing herself to salute before him.

"Commander Tae Gatai of the Norma Majeure Force, serving under our leader XXXX…" Embryo and Rin silently glare at each other in fury for the NMF's leader's name being mentioned towards THEM. "On behalf of our organisation, the Imperial Misurugi Empire, and the other nations, we would like to offer our assistance…"

"Thank you for your UNEXPECTED visit, Commander." Embryo kindly interrupted without showing his wrath, stopping the woman from speaking which startled her and three of the four men while the youngest man tensed in terror in his smile at Embryo smirking hopefully not ANGER at him. The young man, with back-length golden blonde hair, parted from his face and tied in a low ponytail with two side-bangs draping on his chest, greenish-looking blue eyes, and dressed in a simple white dress shirt with a grey vest and dark green cloak over his shoulders to his knees that nearly shield his arms and hands, light grey or white pants, and black loafers is someone who Embryo must be WARY about especially regarding his daughter. "Apologies. I remembered numerous times by the rulers informing me of your organisation's excellent performances of saving our people from the Norma and insisting that I should give you all the privileges of serving under me…" Embryo knows that Rin wants to scoff at his hiddenly brutal sarcasm. "But I'm afraid that I can't see myself having bodyguards with soldiers who should be doing their job than accidentally create a Norma outbreak for poor management."

"B-But, Master Embryo! Surely with our men, under my command, we can give you the best protection as we are highly recommended by the world leaders and our Imperial Emperor!" Tai Gatai assured, nearly raising her voice to argue if not reminded of the man before him, while Rin noted the hesitance and curiosity on the four soldiers' faces before she glanced at her husband.

But before Embryo could give his response, he sensed a presence materializing beside them and turned to his right just when everyone witnessed a flash of a familiar man appearing in a blink of an eye, immediately startling almost everyone only to go horrified of seeing Aya smiling casually before realizing the NMF's presences, wearing a sleeveless tank top and shorts but he is heavily stained with blood from his hair that shows no white to his bare feet.

"Aya! What happened to you?" Rin asked her son when Embryo almost asks as well when he glared back at Tai Gatai's group sneering their appalment at his son's bloodied condition and unexpected arrival out of nowhere before they hastily turned towards Embryo when he immediately ordered with an angry scowl at them. "I'll think about your proposal. You're dismissed but leave Draud Glenwood Mink here. I need to discuss something important to him."

Tai Gatai and her men glared their surprise and anger at the blonde man whose future leader somehow know his full name when the latter hastily walk away and stood closer to Embryo with his frightened smile still twitching. But no objections were given when Tae Gatai reluctantly saluted with her men following suit before Embryo, Rin, Aya, and Draud watch the latter's squad leave and close the door with Mana, relaxing the bloody man from sneering his anger for the NMF's arrival before glaring his surprise at his parent's worry for him.

"Aya! What happened to you?!" Embryo demanded in horror as Aya waved his hands to assure his panicking father, relieved that he didn't reveal his family's cannibalism despite the family being aware they told their future son-in-law behind them the truth of his and his fiancé's illness and the cure, initially horrifying but willingly to keep the secret cure from the others including his organisation out of his love for Khalifa and her family before Embryo and Rin translate Aya giving his answer via sign language.

"Father, Mother. I know you both are worried. But Hyu and I infiltrated a Misurugi science organisation that illegally experiments on animals AND the son of the Ancient Human couple Khalifa and I ate that night 14 years ago."

Embryo and Rin froze in surprise at the revelation, the former never heard of this Misurugi science organisation but it does sound dangerous to illegally torture animals and humans, even a primitive one, as Aya peeked towards Draud from his mother's smile and waved his silent greeting at the terrified blond with a cold smirk, attracting his parents to turn at the almost forgotten future relative behind them when he spoke with a nervous smile. "H-Hello, Aya. I am sorry for what happened. You did tell me you don't want them as bodyguards because of what happened to Lady Rin and Aya years ago…but you know them…"

"Those barbarians never listen to Manathmatic children, whom they see as insects needed to be squashed than live," Embryo confirmed with anger and repulsion in his sneer, hardened when Draud bit his lip in sadness and anger and silently nod his answer. "Why are you even working with those abusive fools, if you could've done something more useful such as being in my service? I would gladly have you be our bodyguard than the NMF, since you're loyal to us and Khalifa."

"I…I joined the NMF because I want to protect our home from those who hurt them, just like how I saved a boy whose family was killed at Galia nineteen years ago for protecting their Norma daughter and sister." Draud admitted, remembering when he was twelve years old and nearly died from Manasthma from trying to save that little boy who lost his family and almost his left eye when he was travelling the Galia Empire with his only father. Hearing his reason, Embryo's anger dimmed to bear sadness for this soul. As much as he would feel wariness for Khalifa and Draud's relationship and engagement, he is still a sweet and understanding boy focusing on protecting those he loves that brought Embryo to give Draud his blessing to marry Khalifa. Better someone who loves his daughter and loves him back instead of taking advantage.

"Now, now. I think we should stop talking about the NMF and what they want with Eric." Rin exclaimed with Embryo, Draud, and Aya still covered in blood turning their attention towards the woman now resting her hands on her stomach which may have a slight bulge shaping her clothed body. "Draud. Eric and I have been thinking and told our children and your dad some time ago; as you, Jason, and Hyu will join our family when Khalifa and Aya will marry you two boys, we want you three to meet our new baby daughter next year as your new sister-in-law."

The happy smile on Rin's face with her, Embryo, and Aya facing Draud when she proposed collected the blonde's disbelief that shifted into excitement and gladness when he happily nodded his acceptance. "Yes! I would love to meet Misha! Thank you, Master Eric, Lady Rin!"


[18th August 2XXX; Two years ago]

Embryo regret not joining Rin, Aya, Khalifa, and Draud's widowed father Jason at the hospital when the latter three took the former before Misha's birth could start, with the secret creator running inside with Draud and Aya's male lover Hyu, a young man his son's age with short and spiky-like black hair, pale blue eyes behind his shades, and dressed similar clothing as Aya's but blue-coloured, following him as Embryo's request last year; To Embryo's incense, the wench of Draud's superior Tae Gatai somehow learned of him and her servant being in the hospital and uninvitedly intrude to join them, still wondering about her proposal despite being confirmed that it's unnecessary. The moment the supposed-to-be three men and the unneeded intruder ran out of the elevator on the floor they were told where Rin's room would be, luckily there was only a few of the staff present; the group can hear Rin screaming her agony from one of the corridors, alarming the people inside the floor while Embryo called out for Rin in horror for her condition and the baby's. "RIN!?"

"Marco!" Embryo heard Hyu shouting beside him something ridiculous in a serious situation, baffling the former to almost punch a fist at the terrified man's face in anger, if not for being reminded of him being Aya's best friend and lover and how Draud tried to stop him before the three with Tae Gatai ran further through the hallway with a turn to the left and almost bumped into Aya, Khalifa and Jason emerged from the other side. As his son resembled him, his father is a seven-foot-tall handsome man with blonde hair longer than his son's, steeled, azure blue eyes, dressed in rich, white clothing, and likes to seductively tease Embryo whenever they would meet up due to their son and daughter's engagement, making Embryo both terrified of Jason and reminded him of the man he knew and missed dearly in his past before creating this world.

"Aya, Khalifa! Where's she!?" Embryo demanded in worry after Draud ran to both his father's and fiance's side while Hyu ran to his boyfriend's, both pointing at where their mother would be before Embryo whirled around. "RIN!" The moment he did, everyone watched in horror at Embryo crashing and falling over a hospital bed a male nurse pushed from the flight of stairs before they including the nurse cringed in shock and pain at their father and secret creator recklessly rolling and gasping his agony from tumbling down the long, cement stairs…

"Meet your new daughter." A different doctor than the one who delivered Khalifa handed Embryo and Rin the bundle holding their new daughter, and Aya and Khalifa's sister, with everyone noticing in their happiness that, as Khalifa resembles almost like Rin, Misha resembles Embryo with little pale blonde hair and her tired eyes subtly open to show a dim glow of green before closing them shut when she whines her first tears. Due to what happened, and too worried about Rin's delivery to not heal himself from his embarrassing fall, Embryo sat on Rin's bed at her right with his face showing some slight bruises, blemish, and a tint of blood but he can fight the pain and be happy of meeting his second daughter.

As everyone is aware but ignores her presence for the future growing family, Tae Gatai silently stood at the door without any signs of weakness or tire in her posture, but her face hardened in fury directed by the couple on the hospital bed, receiving congratulations and a back pat by the tallest man in blonde hair and white, who is her stupid punching bag's father, for their daughter's birth. It was when everyone heard the doctor confessing the one sentence to Master Embryo and his demon wife that immediately strike Tae's nerves about this deplorable celebration.

"Mr and Mrs Scatena-Zechs? Although she didn't do the same that I was told of how your eldest daughter did when she was born 25 years ago, Little Misha might have Manasthma, but on a normal level than your other daughter's severe level."


[31st August 2XXX]

"Master Embryo…what do I do to make sure Angelise will not be exposed before and after her baptism in two years' time?"

Embryo pondered what Jurai asked him after he pulled his master aside for a two-person meeting once the other rulers have left from the meeting of their nations' affairs. He knew that his eldest daughter is a Norma and if she was exposed and sent to Arzenal; the Commander, he knew who it is will have a chance to use the princess to pilot Vilkiss and repeat the failed rebellion thirteen-twelve years ago. It would be a bit entertaining to see how the princess will pilot his stolen machine, but Embryo must make sure no chaos will be ensured if that happened, so he gave Jurai the best answer he thought of, quick enough for both to leave the Escarpment and Embryo return to the Dawn Pillar, wanting to prepare the dinner he thought of making for not just his family, but also Jason, his son, and Hyu who are visiting.

But when he teleported to a part of the Dawn Pillar's hallways, Embryo immediately detected something awry when his nose caught a strong but familiar scent that alarmed him further in front of him.

'Blood?' Embryo pondered, starting to worry or assume that maybe Rin, Aya, or Khalifa must've eaten an intruder when he ran and used his smell to search for the source until he stopped running when the smell got closer til it's under him, looking down and shield his mouth gawking his horror with his hands from the sight he saw. Jason, Draud, and Hyu are found lying on the carpeted floor, eyes glued wide until they almost popped out of their sockets in frozen fear and stained in blood from the heavy wounds that punctured large holes or nearly busted their limbs off their joints, different by how he and Rin kill their enemies but still gruesome.

"Jason…Draud…Hyu…" Embryo choked, almost shaken to fall on his knees closer to Hyu. They're such good men…they loved Embryo's family more than friends even with their ways of entertainment would often surprise Embryo, and they even finalized their marriage dates with Aya, and Khalifa as happily agreed.

"Rin!" Embryo realized and hurriedly stood and ran past the three bodies to sprint to where he hoped he knows where Rin and their children are at the Dawn Pillar's secret accommodation that only they know. Without stopping, Embryo reached the door leading to their living room and broke it open by pushing it with his strength, noticing how the entire room is destroyed by broken furniture, glasses, and heavy blood stains over the carpets and tile floors. This, Embryo knows as he dreads, is NOT Rin, Aya, and Khalifa's doing before he quickly ran to his and Rin's bedroom and again broke the door down in desperation.

"Rin!" When he cried, Embryo's glowing eyes froze wide in aghast at what he sees.

Everything has been destroyed other than the bed now stained in blood, Embryo's attention is on the two familiar blood-covered bodies laid on their backs on the floor and beside the fireplace but, again making the man want to choke screams, Aya's neck has been impaled numerous times with his opened mouth flows blood out of his lips and chin, while Khalifa's beautiful eyes were stabbed out of their sockets to be black holes. But instead of looking around for Rin and Misha, who were mysteriously gone, Embryo immediately face-to-face with the back of the person standing next to the curtained window and the possible killer by the blood all over her who slowly twirls around and reveals her face with a sickeningly happy smile, and her face reveal was enough to snap Embryo's mind into bafflement.

"Ah, Master Embryo!" Tae Gatai happily greeted, acting as if she did something proud despite the gruesome evidence under their feet, even when she strode towards him and kicked Khalifa and Aya's bodies away from her path, stopping Embryo from shouting his horror and rage for their mistreatments before the abrasive woman immediately throw her arms and wrap them around his body in a gently tight embrace, frozen in repulsion by the embrace and seductive smile on her face. "I was doing my job, taking out the trash by that garbage and his father, your disgusting children, and the demon whore with her spawn who I graciously send to hell where they filthy kind belong. Punishment by yours' truly to your dirty Manasthmatic daughters and a disgusting albino. ~"

The cruelly happy chuckle when she explained shocked Embryo to hastily look up at the fireplace that is strangely burning brighter than normal. 'No…. NOOOO!' Embryo wanted to scream and kill his family's murderer when she dared grab his face with her filthy hands to make him look at her disgusting seductive smile.

"Don't worry, my Master. I can save you than that skank you're forced to marry…that's my wish when I first see your handsome face."

After what he hoped was over, Embryo sat at the end of his bed and stared dull eyes at nothing but the fireplace and his children's unfair deaths under his feet, his naked back facing his ravage laid on the bed behind him, stretching and sighing her bliss on the blood-stained sheets for the pleasure she forced him to do with her. "Ah! I am right, Master Embryo! You are handsome AND stronger than my so-called husband of the NMF! He told me that he knocked that bitch you were forced to marry and give her that filthy boy you called your son. But since I got rid of MY competition and those obstacles, I would like you to marry me, mighty God! I can be by your side!"

"…I think you're right. I should get rid of some lowly competition and obstacles, like the trash it is." Tae Gatai smiled happily at Master Embryo's agreement, rising her naked body off the bed and crawling on her knees to kneel against her potential husband's back, wrapping her arms around his neck and pressing her bosom and body against his back.

"Ah! I knew you'll agree with me! Forget your demon bitch and hell spawns and you should be my new husband! I'm younger, prettier, and stronger to not be those who think as competition for your love and rule the world."

"…I was referring to you, you tramp." Startled by what he just said, Tae Gatai immediately felt something invisible instantly gripping her throat and heart, loudly choking her horror and agony while spotting Master Embryo's left hand, his right still has that red dagger he kept underneath his sleeve when she forcefully undressed him earlier, slowly raised and he is found holding a large Mana orb that appeared right after she is quickly losing her breath from the mysteriously excruciating force until Master Embryo's hand closed into a fist that breaks the Mana orb and every particle of green light rapidly flew and seeped through his hand, his every vein surprisingly glow and illuminate all over his skin until the last sight of the orb is gone.

Before she could plead for Master Embryo of this sudden torture…the last thing she sees was Master Embryo whirling on the bed, his face widened in such rage from his vein-glowing face and suddenly sharp shark-like teeth gritting harder, and the same left hand curled into a fist that slammed his knuckles against her face with one punch, seeing nothing but red before black in seconds.

"THIS IS FOR JASON! THIS IS FOR DRAUD! THIS IS FOR HYU! THIS IS FOR MISHA, AYA, AND KHALIFA!" Embryo roared with furious tears and each punch and stab of his hands and his sword-dagger wedding band, as the last thing he has of Rin, bursting the insolent wench's head and chest inside and out for the deaths of those who see him as friends and family than their creator, soaking the already bloodied bed with more blood as he rips his attacker just like his victims in his insanity-minded alter ego, more than furious to not control his mind and escape from his Ripper's state increasingly depleting his sanity the longer he uses this 'mental illness'.

Seeing that all she has is her disgusting heart no longer beating, Embryo raised his bloodied hands and weapon over his head and swiftly swung it with strength that exploded the heart upon contact. "THIS IS FOR RIN, YOU BRUTISH PIG!"


[Present]

"Holy shit…Em…" Rush whispered once Em finished explaining his past with his meeting with his wife Rin to her death, finding himself more than horrified and numb, especially when seeing how Em looks like he was going to break down again, still hugging his arms around his legs on the floor and showing nothing but sorrow. From the story, Rush learned the answers to what he wondered everything: who was the original Human Killer that saved him when he was a kid, how Alektra lost her arm, how Moon lost his family and who saved him and Ammo before Rush did, and how Em and his kids lost Rin. But he also has some more questions but allows Em to continue.

"After I took all the Norma Majeure Force wench's Light of Mana back to me, making her a Norma like my victims, I spent days exacting torturous punishment for her sins with resurrections and repeat, even publicly revealing her as a Norma to the world before killing her at the Death Forest at the same night. Sometime during my punishment, I resurrected Aya and Khalifa but Jason, Draud, and Hyu's bodies were caught and already disposed of before I could bring them back."

'Those two incidents happened at the end of that September.' Rush noticed, remembering rumours that the ex-co-leader of the NMF was revealed to be a grown Norma when she was found in the Marmeria nation before she was teleported to her death place at the Death Forest. That raised questions until now for the entire world.

"Rush…" Rush looked back at Embryo staring at him with grief-stricken tears that surprisingly brightened his eyes more than usual by the lighting. "…When I first met you, you reminded me of both my childhood saviour and Jason, and you helped me remember Rin whenever we see each other with your open feelings for me. That's why even if you aggravate everyone who sees you as a monster, I'm always open to you. I'm not admitting that I see you as Rin, Jason, or even Thanos, but even though we both are enemies, you act as if you see me more as a friend than an opponent that you must kill!" Startled by both the explanation and Em almost screaming his melancholy, Rush slowly calmed down with a sad sneer.

"Em. You're more of a cute rival than an enemy to me." Embryo blinked his watery eyes in surprise, nearly offended but suddenly scared of Rush slowly reaching his arm towards him and pulling him closer by the gap of Embryo's shirt, releasing a choked gasp from the real Ripper staring his fright at Rush's cruel smirk inches closer to his face.

"I know, I'm crazy to you. At first, I want to kill you for what you've done for years. But I also want to thank you and Rin; for torturing my life with your rules and making me the Human Killer. I would be a stuck-up, boring-ass bigot wanting to kill Manasthmatic children and you would've killed me if I killed Khalifa before we met. So, Em. Here's what I want to say to you: Fuck you for what you did, thanks for giving me hells of fun for years, you're a lucky motherfucker with your family, and I have a request for you!"


"Master Embryo…" Salia whispered her distraught for listening to Master Embryo's story towards Rush through the keyhole of his office's doors, kneeling outside as soon as she snuck out of the broken mirror room and reach the office while Ange, Momoka, and the Diamond Rose Knights have retired in their chambers. During the story, she had mixed feelings: worry and sadness for Master Embryo's life, fear and jealousy for his cannibal wife Rin and that Aya and Khalifa also being cannibals and fury for what that awful ex-human did to Master Embryo and his late family and friends.

So that's why even if he shows himself as the polite man he is, something is upsetting him by the signs Salia would pick up before and after Alektra's betrayal. And now that she knows the truth, she immediately thought of a plan she's confident about.

'I'll cure Master Embryo from the pain of his past!' Salia nodded to herself. 'Then he'll see me as the most loyal servant he needs…even making him his new wife!' The idea of marrying her master would've made Salia squeal her happiness and anticipation, but she made sure not to let Master Embryo and Rush hear her outside when the thought of those two hurriedly move Salia to again peek an eye through the keyhole, ready to storm inside if Rush still intends to kill or seduce Master Embryo…

…Only to realize she was too late when she gasped her dismay at what she saw. 'M-MASTER EMBRYO!'


"Commander. I've received word of the traitors." Hilda reached and knocked on the Commander's room from her walk through the Aurora, prepared to report to her the distress call Aurora received from Tusk and Vivian who escaped with Ange and Momoka. But instead of an immediate response, the sound of muffled but heavy panting from inside prompted Hilda to press her ear against the door in surprise.

Slowly opening the door into a tiny gap and peeking inside, out of curiosity and worry for her leader, Hilda's eye sees the Commander asleep but twisting and turning her sweaty body on the bed from having a bad just as Hilda heard what made her mind click in surprise from the Commander mumbling aloud in her sleep, dread and sadness fill her voice.

"Ah-Ahh! …Master Embryo."


Character Info: Rin Beelzebub Scatena

Age: 16 (when having Aya and meeting Embryo), 50 (pre-death; Embryo used his powers to make Rin stay younger)

Height: 175 cm/ 5'9 ft

Weight & Build: 58 kg, Slender, slightly athletic (For everyone; her appearance and figure are based on Yuko Sagiri from Triage X, Shizuka Marikawa from Highschool and the Dead, Marisa Hyōdō from Welcome to the Ballroom, and Sariel from the Seven Heavenly Virtues (anime))

Hair Color: Glowing Blue

Glowing Eyes: Red with Black Sclera

Voice actors: Nicole Sullivan (ENG; I like her voice from Kim Possible; Shego), Yūko Kaida (JPN)

Profile: Embryo's cannibalistic wife and mother of their three children Aya (from her abusive ex-torturer under her parents' orders), and Khalifa and Misha from Embryo, with the former two planned thoroughly by their parents to be cannibals especially since Khalifa needs to eat humans to cure her Manasthma. Initially in an abusive life, Rin got her revenge by eating her parents and almost Aya's murderous father but gave him the three scars on his face, before she ran away with Aya's dead body and was rescued by Embryo who resurrected Aya out of rare concern for them. Although trying to improve herself and quit her cannibalism when she married Embryo (which even surprised but amazed HIM), Rin was astonished but happy that Eric accepts and loves her for who she is and her love for him and their children, different from how he manipulates women they killed as Ripper victims or extra meat for their family's dishes.

Unlike his canon self (fuck him); Embryo's personality, actions, and relationship with the characters, mostly Rin, their children, Rush, and some/ few of their friends (Embryo and Rush's sides) in this story are inspired by his route in the Cross Ange Tr game.

(Except for the Ripper, showing more emotions, and being semi-cannibal (eating cooked humans by him than raw) by Rin; that's all my accidental ideas on trying to make an out-of-character Embryo who's hopefully better and more dangerous than canon…I hope it's okay for everyone.)

I hope people will also find a Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reference and some hints of a popular real-life incident in this chapter.