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Chapter 36: Believing and Moving Forward
Krory stands in front of Allen and Alice as he breathes heavily from Jasdevi's last attack.
"I am not a vampire...!" Krory exclaims. "I am Arystar... Arystar Krory...! Don't call me a vampire...!"
"Eh, that's just how we see it, you know..." Jasdevi says. "You can still move even though you lost so much blood. Are you really a monster?"
Krory then falls over before Lavi and Allen catch him.
"Krory!" Allen yells.
"Are you all right!?" Alice asks.
"Weren't you badly injured m—..." Lavi stops when he sees the wound and Alice covers her mouth.
"I am all right." Krory assures.
After touching Krory, Allen looks at his hand that is cover in blood.
"Krory..." Allen calls. "This... This wound..."
"...How many bottles of Chomesuke's blood do you have left...?" Lavi asks.
"...Three..." Krory answers.
Lavi looks at the door behind them. 'The door is still open.' He thought. 'We can't wait any longer…'
"You won't get away." Jasdevi says. "Because I will kill every single one of you!"
Jasdevi put his hand out and a wave of air shoots at Allen, forcing him to fly.
"UWAH!" Allen shouts.
"ALLEN!" Lavi yells and Jasdevi steps on his head. "YOU... HIBAN!"
The fire seal appears below of Jasdevi and fire shoots up, engulfing Jasdevi.
"HO—T! HO—T!" Jasdevi exclaims.
"What... I won...!?" Lavi says.
Suddenly Jasdevi reaches to Lavi face, startling him. "It's hot...~" Jasdevi says as he smiles. "It's very hot~~" He then punches Lavi and glares at Krory. His hair turns into spears and stabs Krory.
"GGH...!" He grunts as he grabs on one of the spears. Jasdevi then punches Krory. "GAAH!"
"Right now, our attacks, our toughness, aren't so child-like as thought anymore, right?" Jasdevi says and shoots a beam at Krory. "Now! 'Jasdevi' is the imaginary 'strongest body' we materialized!"
Krory falls to the ground and he tries to get up. "GH...!"
Allen uses Cross Grave and Lavi slams Iron Hammer on Jasdevi, but he blocks both attacks.
"...Damn!" Allen curses and Jasdevi kicks him.
Lavi continues his attack and slams Iron Hammer. "YAAH!"
"Your way too slow!" Lavi looks up and sees Jasdevi sitting on Iron Hammer, playing with his hair. "Instead of depending on this kind of Anti-Akuma Weapon, shouldn't you train your body, Exorcist?" Jasdevi gets off Iron Hammer and sends a wave of air at Lavi.
"GUH!" Lavi grunts as blood comes out from his mouth.
Alice stabs Silver (Twin swords form) and several stakes coming out of the floor, coming toward Jasdevi. He jumps up and uses one of the stakes to make his to fly toward Alice.
"You will never defeat us!" Jasdevi says and kicks Alice where Allen is.
"A—H!" Alice screams and crashes on Allen.
Krory then grabs Jasdevi's hair and pulls him.
"Eh?"
"Allen! Alice! Lavi!" Krory calls and holds Jasdevi. "Take Lenalee and the others out though the door!"
"Eh..." Chaozi mutters.
"Krory...?" Lenalee callls.
"Let me go, pervert!" Jasdevi demands and pierces through Krory, causing him to cough up blood.
"GO...!"
Then the floor starts to crack and the room starts to rumble.
"An earthquake...!" Allen says.
"This room begins to collapse-lero!" Lero exclaims.
"Allen! Alice! Lavi!" Krory calls. "Hurry up! This room has reached its limits! We can't... let anyone to stay in this room any longer!"
"LET... ME... GO...!" Jasdevi exclaims.
"I'll stay too...!" Allen suggests.
"HURRY UP AND GO!" Krory shouts.
"But you're wounded!"
"That's why! I won't... be able to fight anymore with that wound! If there is an enemy... in the next room... who will protect Lenalee and Chaozi...! Allen... Alice... Lavi... there is no one else I can believe in... I'm telling you to go...! I BELIEVE IN YOU! GO!"
The air releases from the broken floor, blocking the rest of the Exorcists' view.
"Krory..." Lenalee calls.
"Exorcist-sama!" Chaozi yells.
"KRORY!"
Allen begins to remember Kanda's and Krory's words.
"You go ahead." Kanda says.
"GO!" Krory shouts.
'Ah... I see... to us... Even believing is important…' Allen thought.
"Let's go, Allen." Alice says and he nods.
"LAVI!" He calls and they run toward Lenalee and Chaozi. Allen grabs Lenalee and Lavi grabs Chaozi and they rush toward the door with Alice following them. They jump through the door as Lenalee struggles to get off Allen.
"KRORY!" Lenalee shouts. "Stop... He's been injured so much. If we don't go back..."
"Lenalee..." Allen calls.
"Let me go! At this rate, we'll be separated. I don't want that!"
"LENALEE!" Allen shouts and she becomes silent. Allen then pats both of her cheeks. "I'll be all right. All of us definitely return home together. Krory and Kanda too. I haven't given up either! We'll keep struggling and I'll protect everyone, that's what I believe."
"You're not like the usual strong Lenalee." Alice points out as she goes to Allen and Lenalee. "After all, aren't you like a big sister, Lenalee...?"
Lavi then moves Allen's head. "Your big brothers won't give up either!"
"OUCH!" Allen exclaims.
"On top of that, Kuro-chan is still carrying the three bottles of Akuma blood he got from Chomesuke." Lavi continues. "That Kuro-chan. he can do it! So have faith, Lenalee. You have no choice but to have faith and fight."
~Later~
Allen, Alice, Lenalee, Lavi, and Chaozi are climbing upstairs and Lenalee starts to breathe heavily.
"Are you okay, Lenalee?" Alice asks.
"Are your legs in pain?" Allen asks.
"I'm fine, I can walk." Lenalee tells them and looks at the boy who is holding her hand. "But that's not saying much, since you're pulling me along, Allen-kun. I can't exactly be high and mighty about it."
"No, no. I don't mind at all." Allen reassures.
"If Komui finds out, you'll get into big trouble." Lavi says. "Isn't good that Timcanpy's gone off somewhere, Allen~?"
"Haha... I wonder where Timcanpy went." Allen says.
"I wanna be at the front too~~ let's switch."
"You're real motive's so obvious, Lavi."
'We'll definitely go back home together.' Lenalee remembers Allen's words.
"I haven't given up either! We'll keep struggling and I'll protect everyone, that's what I believe."
Lenalee squeezes Allen's hand.
'Allen-kun. Ever since you came back with Alice, you've become a little stronger, huh... I... I didn't think I was this weak. I can't deal with my Innocence, and I'm uneasy... and scared.' She continues. 'A while ago, I thought of a terrible thing.'
"Lenalee?" Allen calls.
'Earlier, I... thought of... a terrible thing... a terrible 'future'…' Lenalee imagines everyone lying around her, dead. 'Don't...! Don't think about it! You can't! Not until your heart can't fight anymore! If you don't... the darkness will take advantage of you. You have to believe. More... More…'
"I have to keep trying." She says out loud causing everyone looks at Lenalee. 'Ah! I said it out loud!'
"'Keep trying'?" Allen repeats. "So you really are straining your legs, Lenalee!?"
"I-it's not what you're thinking! It's just that as soon as we return to the Order, I'll have to do some basic training..."
"Urgh! What serious things are you thinking about, Lenalee!?" Lavi exclaims. "I'm going to sleep! You gotta sleep on these kinds of things!"
"I-I'll be fine. Even if I don't sleep, really."
"Someone put a blanket over me!"
'Ah, it's exactly how Komui-san said it'd be.' Allen thought.
"This is bad, Lenalee. You have to think more sexy thoughts or else you'll never find a lover!"
Allen then kicks Lavi and Lenalee grabs Lavi's collar.
"It's none of your business, Lavi!" Lenalee yells.
"That's impolite, Lavi!" Allen also yells.
"OW!" Lavi touches where Allen kicked him. "It's... It's none... of my business, but..." He trails off. "W-when we get back, what're you gonna do, Allen, Alice?"
"I'll eat." Allen answers. "I'll eat every possible dish Jerry-san can make. ALL OF THEM!"
'Aah, as I thought…' Lavi thought.
'Th-this is bad…' Lenalee thought.
"As for me, maybe I'll remember more about my past." Alice says.
"Could it be that you remember!" Lenalee exclaims.
"Just a little bit." Alice scratches her cheek. "Apparently, I have a little sister."
"EH!?" Lenalee and Lavi shout.
"Really, Alice!" Lavi says and she nods. "Then can you tell us what she's like!"
"Well, she kind of looks a lot like me."
"Then you and your sister are twins!" Lavi exclaims and Alice nervously laughs.
"Pff, ahahahahaha." Chaozi laughs and everyone looks at him. "AH! I-I'm sorry. Just seeing you Exorcists right now, it's as if you're similar to us, the ordinary people... Because they say things like you're the Apostle of God, I thought that the way you all thought was much more different from ordinary people. Like how you say jokes, and laughs and like you fear..."Chaozi clutches his chest. "I didn't think you have something like that...!"
Allen puts his hand on Chaozi's hand and squeezes it.
"Just one more... If we climb over what awaits us beyond this, we can definitely get back home." Allen says and Alice looks at Chaozi.
"When you feel uneasy, think about fun things. You'll feel better." Alice says. "It's all right."
"A—rgh! Don't be so carefree at a time like this-lero!" Lero says. "You have such wishful thinking. Don't you understand that there's no hope yet-lero!"
"It's not like that, Lero." Allen says.
'He used my name...!' Lero thought.
"The things I want to do with everyone most when I get home is to say 'I'm back' to Komui-san and the others. No matter what how faint out hopes are, even if we don't have anything that we can rely on. I will never give us." Allen then smiles at Lero.
'How comes he can say that, even now...?' Lero thought and Lavi looks at Allen.
'Your feelings are so strong, you're almost dazzling.' Lavi thought. 'What are you carrying upon your shoulders, together with that clownish Innocence...? It is as if like that light, you are going to fade away…'
As they all go through the light, Road run towards Allen.
"A-LLE—N!" Road calls and she hugs Allen.
"Road...!" Allen calls.
"Kyoho~" Road then kisses Allen on the lips, shocking to the Exorcists and Lero. Once she separates the kiss, Allen is in a shock.
"WHAT...!?" Everyone shouts and Lero charges at Road.
"Road-tama! You can't kiss an Exorcists-lero!" Lero exclaims immediately gets in front of her.
"Ah, Lero~" Road calls.
"Allen?" Lavi calls at the shocked boy as he shakes him. "Hey, Allen!"
"Road, what are you...?" Tyki asks as he sits at the table with food on it. "Did you like the boy that much?"
"Al~len Walk~er~~" The Cell Roron calls.
"It's the first time I've seen you give something like a kiss to someone other than the Millennium Count." Tyki points out.
"I won't give you one, Tyki~" Road says.
The Exorcists stay silent as Allen wipes his mouth.
"What are you doing, sit down." Tyki tells them. "While I was waiting for you, I got hungry, so how about dining together? I wanted to talk to you before fighting."
"I have to refuse." Allen declines. "I take my time to eat when I have it."
"That time? Don't you want to know how much of it you have left?"
"Outside. It's a superb view." Road states and Allen rushes toward the window with his Exorcists companions behind him.
"Allen!" Lavi yells.
Once they look out the window, they see the town is gone.
"The town is... gone..." Alice trails off.
"I don't think you even have an hour." Tyki states. "All that's left is where we are, nothing but this tower. Apart from here, everything else has collapsed and been destroyed."
Alice remembers both Kanda and Krory. "No way..."
Road then kicks the door close, causing the Exorcists to look at her.
"What are you...!" Alice stops when Road chains the door.
"Sit down." She tells them.
"Take a seat, Exorcists." Tyki suggests as he drinks the wine from the cup. "Or are you too scared?"
Allen approaches the table and slams his hand on it. Tyki then notices Alice, causing her to flinch and move closer to Allen.
"Oh, I almost forgot." Tyki takes out a small crystal ball from his pocket. "The Millennium Count said that this is for the girl's memories."
The Allen, Alice, Lenalee and Lavi widen their eyes from Tyki's words.
"Why does the Earl knows that?" Lenalee questions.
"Who knows? All I heard was that the girl lost her memories and has some kind of power."
"Power?" Allen repeats.
"What do you-" Alice cuts off when she sees the crystal ball floats up and flies toward her. She takes a step back from it as the ball gets near her, then a ripple effect appears above her chest and goes in her body as Alice's eyes become dull. She then collapses when Allen catches her.
"Alice!" Allen calls and checks her pulse.
"Hey, Alice!" Lavi calls.
"It's fine. She's just asleep." Allen states.
"Thank goodness." Lenalee says in relief.
"But why did Alice suddenly collapse like that?" Lavi asks.
"She's probably recalling her memories." Road says and the Exorcists look at her.
"Anyways, take a seat." Tyki says and Allen glares at him.
So far this is it for the rewrite of this story. When I reread this one so many times, I kept thinking that I should fix and change it up. As for the next chapter, I haven't got ready for it so I can't update soon as I can like I did with the rewrite chapters. Anyways, that's all for me and I'm looking forward to see the reviews you guys give me for the new version of Cross' Second Pupil (REWRITE).
