Amuro was walking through the woods, looking for a certain van.
"Where might the Yamainu be right now? I'm getting bored without anyone to kill..." He made a fake sad face and kept walking.
After a while without any luck, Voracité realised what was happening.
"Of course, most of them must be at the mountain right now. Well, there should be at least a pair of grunts guarding Takano..."
He concentrated to stimulate his senses. A smell of live humans guided him through the dense forest, until...
"Bingo" He smiled at the sight of the van he had been looking for, and just like he predicted, there were two grunts in the area guarding it.
"Hello there!" He made a friendly approach just to play with his prey.
"Ah! Who in the Hell? Gah!" Amuro grabbed his weapon and broke it into pieces with his bare hand.
"That's not a very polite answer, is it? You're better off dead" He looked at him with his hollow irises and his vicious grin as the grunt started sweating in fear.
"G-Get away from me! MONSTER!" He tried to run for it, but Amuro threw the sickle at him. The tool's sharp point went through his neck and came out from his mouth.
The other guard noticed that there was trouble and went to his partner's aid.
"Hey, what the hell is happen..." He saw the corpse and instinctively got his communicator out.
"Another toy to play!" Amuro said with joy.
"T-Takano-taichou... ARGH!" Amuro ripped his guts as he called Miyo.
"Hmm? What's wrong? Hey, answer me!" Miyo's voice was heard through the device.
"I'm coming, Takano... Fufufufuahahahahahaha!" Amuro replied.
"W-Who is?!" She managed to say before he destroyed the device.
He walked towards the van and casually opened it.
"Coming in!" He playfully said as he entered the vehicle.
"Who...? No way..." She muttered as she noticed who it was. "You... You should be dead!" She screamed.
"Ho? What does that mean? You mean those flesh puppets should have killed me? You couldn't have possibly known about the plan anyway!" He was actually amazed.
"I... I noticed that there was something weird about you from the very start. I had asked my men to watch for every move, follow every step you made and even then you always seemed to be one step ahead of me! However, I managed to decipher that when Rika disappeared, she would be hiding somewhere, and what better place than the Sonozaki estate? Also, it was Irie who wasn't able to hide his discovery, so I decided to use that against you. I knew that sooner or later, you would go to the Irie Clinic, so I decided to send a whole squad after you and your friends..." She smiled as she revealed her plan. "I knew that if I threatened to take the data on the cure, someone would stay behind... And I knew that that someone would be you! But..." Her expression changed to a panic one. "But even after I sent more than 20 men... You... You survived! What are you?!"
"Fufufu... I'm actually amused. To think that someone would be able to see through my brother's plan..."
"Brother? Is Amuro your twin?! Just like those Sonozaki girls?!" Takano was thinking that her luck was the worst on Earth.
"Not exactly... We are twins indeed, but at the same time I am Tsugaru Amuro"
"Huh? Does that mean that he stole your identity...?" She was forcing herself to find a reasonable answer.
"Yes and no. We are both Tsugaru Amuro, since we both share this body..."
"That means!"
"Well, you did study medicine, right? I guess you might have seen a case like this in some class"
"Personality disorder. I had never seen someone like that with my own eyes..."
"It's a more mundane way to put it, but hey, I don't wanna get technical cause it's a pain in the ass, but long-story-short, there are two souls inside this body. You met my brother Psychan, but now I'm in charge"
"So... Who are you?"
"My true name is Voracité, but just call me Amuro-sama. After all, it's this carcass's name" He looked at his hands in a disgusted way as in despising his mortal state.
"So what did you come here for? If you're gonna kill me, just do it quick... I don't have any chance of getting out alive if you finished all those men off"
"Hahaha, you're really okay with that? As much as I love to kill, I can't help but feel a bit of sympathy for a pretty girl..." He held her chin with his fingers as he said these words. "But to be honest... All I can feel is lust, can't I? Fufufufu..." He grabbed her breast and licked her face.
"Ungh..." She felt disgusted by this, but she was helpless and in no position to attack. She even hoped that if she let him do anything he wanted with her maybe she would get out alive. "I... I can give you more if you like..."
"Oh really? Maybe I'll even let you live if you don't mind giving me a bit more of fun..." He grinned as he squeezed her breast a bit more.
"That... That would be wonderful..." Takano really was a woman who was willing to do anything to save her life and to fulfill her ambitions.
"Okay then, but at least pretend that you enjoy it... If I get bored, I think it would be only fair to take your life"
"Who said I was going to pretend?" She bent over and kissed him first. She thought that his tongue was rash and defying, but he wasn't a bad kisser. The taste of blood was in his mouth, but she somehow liked it.
"You whore..." He grabbed her ass as she stuck her tongue even further.
If she thought about it, she did find Amuro good-looking, but there was something disgusting in his aura. Takano herself had a pretty dark soul, however, she was nowhere near Voracité's level. She also had a strange feeling about this, since it wasn't long before she was dating Tomitake, who she didn't think she loved, but she liked his company at the very least.
Voracité pinned her to a table and started undressing. She got her clothes out herself, afraid that he would tear them to pieces.
He was really enjoying her body for his part. Her boobs were a bit bigger than Mion's, and this time, it was he who would experience sexual intercourse. For him this didn't have any more value than just of enjoyment, and oh boy did he enjoy sucking her large breasts and squeezing her juicy ass, as well as tasting her tempting lips.
Psychan could see everything, and all he could do was watch. "That idiot... He... He was telling the truth when he said that he would desecrate me... This body... This body was only supposed to be shared with Mion! FUCK!" He cried as the world of the collective consciousness shook as if there was an earthquake. He had forgotten his hate for his evil half a while ago, but this event made him doubt that his contempt was truly gone.
After a couple minutes of foreplay, Voracité decided that it was time to get to the next level.
As Miyo moaned, the adrenaline made his heart beat faster and faster. The demon was really enjoying himself, and Takano didn't seem displeased now either. She would occasionally kiss him, and sometimes even bite his lip in a sexy way before sticking her tongue in his mouth again. She was starting to embrace his darkness as well as her own, like never before.
The two kept rejoicing themselves in their world of lust while the Yamainu were being personally beaten by the older club members.
Keiichi hit them with the bat, Rena had her cleaver and Mion used a wooden katana to defend herself.
"Damm, these guys seem to have no end" Keiichi commented.
"Don't give up Kei-chan! All we can do is keep fighting until they are all down or they give up" Mion replied.
The last troops were approaching to make their last stand, but they were the most numerous group and came from all directions. All of the traps had been triggered as well, so there was nothing stopping them from reachin the top of thr hill where the Club members were protecting Rika.
"Onee!" Shion shouted to her sister as she was climbing the last meters to get to the top.
"Shion, you're alright!" She ran to hug her sister until she noticed who was with her.
"Yeah, and I brought someone I found along the way!" She said with the happiest voice anyone ever heard.
"No way..." Mion stopped right there and had her mouth fully opened.
"What happened Mii-chan?" Rena got close to her, intrigued by her sudden reaction. "I-It can't be!"
"What's with you two already? Shion shows up and suddenly you're all in shock-" Keiichi was approaching the girls when he saw an unfamiliar face. "Who- Who's that? He looks kinda like-" He noticed the boy had blonde hair and fuchsia eyes.
Satoko also became curious and got to their point of view. She thought she was witnessing a mirage. Her mind couldn't make sense of what she was seeing and her heart was beating faster than it had ever done before. Then, she filled her lungs with the air of the mountains and let it all out as she shouted: "Nii-Nii!!!!!!" With tears in her eyes as she started running towards her brother.
"Satoko!" Satoshi replied as he threw the bat to the floor and ran to her, crying just like her sister.
"Nii-Nii!" She opened her arms to hug him and jumped. He caught her and gave her a warm hug.
"Satoko, I'm so sorry for being absent all this time..."
"No, it was my fault for being so dependent, but I'm not anymore, so don't leave me Nii-Nii!"
"I would never..."
Shion couldn't help but cry as well as she witnessed how her loved one met his sister once again.
"Where were you Nii-Nii?" Satoko was intrigued.
"Somewhere so dark, I got lost... But Shion found me and brought me here" He looked at the green haired girl with such a sincere expression, that he made her blush.
"Shii-chan did such thing?" Satoko stared at her for a couple seconds.
"Amuro-kun, Akasaka-san and the Manager helped me as well!" Shion replied in a modest way.
"Shii-chan! Thank you so much for bringing Nii-Nii back!" Satoko let go of his brother and unexpectedly hugged her.
"I had never thought just how lovely Satoko is... I always believed that she was just a spoiled brat, but who knows what kind of horrors she went through..." Shion thought as she hugged Satoko for the first time. "It's nothing Satoko. I should've taken care of you, but I forgot that promise... Also, I had to repay your brother for saving me that time..." She gave a look to Satoshi as she remembered how he defended her from the street punks the year before.
"I always wondered why Mion looked so helpless that time... But after you told me that you were a different person everything made sense" Satoshi remembered.
"I can't believe that Satoshi-kun is alright! Where did you find him?" Mion asked her sister.
"The Manager found him with severe symptoms of Hinamizawa syndrome, so he left him in an induced coma in the Irie Clinic. It seems that he had managed to create a cure though, so after we learned that the bad guys were coming to the clinic, Amuro-kun gave me a syringe that allowed me to bring him back. His body is not in optimal condition, but it seems that he's able to fight, at least for a bit. To be blunt, I didn't want him to come, but he insisted so much that I couldn't say no in the end"
"Where's Amuro?" She seemed anxious.
"That... He..." She tried to find words that wouldn't worry her much. "He stayed behind to fight the reinforcements on his own"
"But why? He could've escaped with you!" She became upset regardless of Shion's efforts.
"It seems that the data on the cure was left at the clinic. He didn't want to risk anyone else's life. He said he wouldn't die though, and he said that he loves you..."
"Damn it... Even if he says that, he knows that I will worry anyway! That Amuro..." She made a fist as if holding all her rage inside her hand.
"Also... He... He said that he would probably lose to his other self, Mion... Is that? Is that too bad?" Shion asked insecure.
"No way... That is terrible news! That Demon... That Demon is much worse than Takano! Why did he do such a foolish thing?" She became even more worried.
"I don't know Onee, but he must have thought of something. Amuro-kun is not the careless type" She tried to console her.
"It's our only chance... If that Demon is our enemy, everything we've done so far will come to nothing..."
~~~~X~~~~
"Fufufu... I gotta admit that it was worth letting you live longer. That was much fun" Amuro said as he put his T-shirt back on.
"I can give you anything you want, but don't kill me. Think of all we could do together. I always wished of becoming a Goddess, and by your side, I'll be able to accomplish that" Takano clinged to him like a dog to his master.
"I am the only God this world needs sweetheart, don't get the wrong idea. However, I do enjoy your company. You are an interesting human and pretty beautiful as well. I actually want to give you a little gift, as a plus to sparing your life" He gently caressed her face with his claws.
"Oh, and what would that be?"
"Your revenge. You see, the Yamainu will fail. The last group is making their last stand right now, but they will be ultimately defeated. It is very likely that Okonogi is going to the place to submit their rendition to those kids..."
"No way! Those pesky brats... They defeated a counter-intelligence unit?!" She couldn't believe what he was saying.
"They haven't yet, but by looking at the time, they will certainly lose in a little while. I advise you that you go there right now. Don't worry, I'll appear to you when you need me the most" He kissed her just to enjoy her lips and tongue a while longer.
"I love you..." Takano blushed as she confessed her feelings to Voracité.
"Don't say that, girl. You are just a tool for my enjoyment, fufufufufu..." He looked at her with his empty eyes and his emotionless smile.
"How foolish of me..." She looked a bit down, but she seemed to understand her position, and left the van as she thought: "Do I even deserve love at this point?"
After she left, he sat in a chair to rest for a bit.
"So, what did you think? I got myself a pretty useful slave didn't I? Fufufufu..."
"Why won't you leave me alone?"
"C'mon, it was your own self-control that failed"
"I fell so low trusting in you... Just when I thought I'd believe in you..."
"You wanted me to kill those Yamainu didn't you? It was obvious that you had to pay a price for that..."
" And you... You defiled this body..." Psychan was at his limit.
"I told you Psychan. Now the only thing left in my schedule is devouring all that's left of your self, but I'm gonna leave that for later. There are a couple more things I want to show you before erasing your existence"
"You will never become a true God without me. You'll never obtain the fragment of Apothéose if I don't exist!"
"I couldn't care less about such a thing. All I want is to watch this world burn, all while I sit in a throne of bones and skulls with Takano adoring me"
"Your twisted desires prove that you are not the real Voracité either. You are just a hollow Demon created by the syndrome and our own darkness"
"Like it or not, I am Tsugaru Amuro now. You are just a ghost" As he said this, Psychan was encased in a glass prison.
"One day, I'll break through this prison wall"
"Good luck with that. That prison is unbreakable now that you are in that weakened state. Have fun though, fufufufufu... Bwahahahahahahaha!" The Demon disappeared from the collective consciousness.
Psychan punched the glass with all his might, but he couldn't get out.
"I did this... Because I know that there must be a way out!" He said to himself.
"So you don't think that you can't win is a reality anymore?" The good Voracité smiled at him from the other side of the glass.
"Hello mirror..." He smiled. "So glad to see you my friend, it's been a while"
"Mion seems to have changed your perception of the world, hasn't her?"
"Yeah. I owe it all to her..." He bitterly smiled as he thought about the position he was in. "Hey, can you help me? I can't break out of this prison all alone..."
"Sorry, but I'm as weak as you are. I guess we're just dying souls..."
"I had never been so hopeless on my own... But there must be something you can do. Maybe there is a way we can somehow restore our sanity" He still had hope.
"Who knows? Hey, can you already see your life flashing before your eyes?" His other half was doing a question that seemed out of place.
However, Psychan concentrated for a second. There were still blank spaces in his memory, but he could remember a lot of blood from his previous life. From Higurashi's world, he could see all his sins though. The times he lied to Mion, the people he hurt and the people who died by his hands, even if most of them were killed by Voracité.
"Yeah, I can see it more or less" He replied.
"Now that you can see all you have done, it's time to take that step, into the kingdom. All your sins will only make you strong and help you break right through that prison wall"
"I understand" He recalled everything he had been through. Every hardship, every joy. Every tear, every smile. Every time he looked at her...
"Take all of me, those desires that keep burning deep inside. Cast it all away, and help to give me strength to face another day" The good half started giving his essence to Psychan.
"I am ready. Help me be, all I can be..." He received the essence and as he did, a red shine with the shape of the Dingir rune appeared in his right eye. He became half a God.
After this, he braced himself and inhaled. A second later, he exhaled and threw a rotating punch at the glass prison. The glass cracked, but seemed to withstand the damage at first. A couple seconds later, however, the cube of glass started filling with cracks, until the whole structure shattered. The glass shards fell to the void and disappeared into nothingness.
"I did it!" He rejoiced.
"I can feel my body breaking... I can feel my body breaking... I'm ready, to let it all go... I can feel my body shaking... Right down to the foundation... The root of all..." The half that gave him the power started disappearing.
"I understand. Don't worry, I'll get down to the heart of it. The root of all evil inside our soul"
"I once thought it better... To be right... But now I have finally... Seen the light... Sometimes you've got to be wrong... And learn the hard way... And just when you're through hanging on... You're saved" He said with a smile as he became some kind of ash and disappeared into the void of the collective consciousness.
"I won't forget you buddy. Now, to find the other Voracité" Amuro said to the air as he remembered his other half.
~~~~X~~~~
"Behind you, Satoshi!" Keiichi told him as a grunt was approaching the blonde.
"Take that!" Satoshi swinged the bat and knocked the guy out. "Thanks... What was your name again?"
"I'm Maebara Keiichi, but you can call me K if you like" He tried to act cool.
"Stop fooling around and concentrate Kei-chan! These guys aren't done yet" Mion made him snap.
"I know, I know..."
"Satoshi-kun, are you all right? You're not exhausted or feeling ill, are you?" Shion asked him.
"I'm alright Shion. Thanks for your concern" He would've felt annoyed by her attitude before, but now he couldn't feel happier of having someone that cared so much about him, so he gave her a smile.
"To your left Shii-chan!" Satoko warned her.
"On it!" Shion electrified the pair of Yamainu that were approaching her. "These guys are hopeless..."
One came from behind her though and grabbed her by the neck.
"Ngh!" She managed to get a dull sound as the guy was choking her.
"Get away from her!" Satoshi jumped and smashed his bat on the grunt's head with a strength he couldn't believe was his own.
"Satoshi-kun, you saved me..." Shion stared at him just like a princess that was rescued by her prince.
"Shion..." They got close to each other, but the battle wasn't over.
"A large group is coming from the side!" Mion indicated.
"Rena will finish them ~Hau!~" She went into take-it-home mode and slashed her way through the enemies. She used the side of the cleaver that didn't have the sharp edge to not inflict fatal wounds though.
"Waahhh!" The men flew through the air without a chance to react.
"Go! Go! Go!" One lead more men into the battlefield.
"Let's go Mion!" Keiichi told her.
"Yeah" She agreed.
Keiichi attacked them with his bat, while Mion used her wooden sword to knock them out.
The men left were now doubting their mission, as it seemed impossible for them to get closer without being defeated by the group of youngsters.
"Stop! Retreat, now!" Okonogi ordered them.
"Y-Yes sir!" The grunts were glad to hear those words, but they tried to hide their inner wishes.
"No! What are you doing Okonogi?!" Takano appeared at the scene.
"What must be done, we were defeated"
"What are you saying? You can't stop fighting until we get Furude Rika, and she's right there! Seize her, Okonogi!"
"Oh, shut up..." Okonogi seemed tired of Takano ordering him around.
"Tsk..." Takano made a sound of disapproval but she didn't say anything else.
"Hello, I am Okonogi of the Yamainu and I wanted to show my appreciation for your leader. May I know your name?" He seemed interested to know who could lead some kids to defeat a counter-intelligence unit in no time.
"I am the club leader, Sonozaki Mion!" Mion took a step further from the rest.
"You have won this fight. We surrender"
"Okonogi?!" Takano couldn't believe what she was hearing.
"Tomitake has breached our barricade and exited Hinamizawa. A military unit will come to suppress us in no time"
"Okonogi!" She insisted but he made a sign for her to shut up.
"I'm really impressed. I believe that with proper training you could make it big in the SAS, Delta Force or you name it..." Okonogi praised Mion.
"Hahahahahaha!" She laughed as if she had heard the most hilarious joke ever. "SAS? Delta Force? I couldn't care less about any of that... All I wanna do is to keep being the Club leader of the Hinamizawa branch school! Magician of words... Maebara Keiichi! Ryuugu Rena and her Take-it-home mode! Houjou Satoko, the Trap Master! Sly fox Rika, and our recent additions: Deadbolt, Sonozaki Shion! Baseball Star, Houjou Satoshi! and..." She saved him for last. "...Even though he couldn't be here with us... The mastermind behind this whole plan: God of Death, Tsugaru Amuro!" She decided to use his true title. "With such an awesome bunch, how would we ever get bored?"
"Hehehe... HAHAHAHAHAHA! I see..." Okonogi couldn't help but laugh at the fact that a group of kids had completely defeated them.
"Okonogi! What are you doing? That woman is the enemy leader, bring her down!" Takano ordered him.
"Well, it's a pity... Even though this battle is over, it is the princess's orders..." He pointed a gun at Mion.
An helicopter came flying above the forest and a voice was heard from it:
"Attention members of the Irie Institution. As of today at 1230 hours, the activities of the Institution are suspended. Disarm yourselves and surrender immediately. In case of resistance, we will not hesitate to use force!"
Okonogi had stopped pointing the gun and started walking away.
"No! No! It's not over yet!" Takano was shouting desperately as she ran behind Okonogi.
Militars were starting to fill the area and apprehend the Yamainu.
"Is it over? Did we really do it?" Satoko asked.
"I don't really know. This... had never happened before" Rika confessed.
"Rika-chan!" Akasaka called her attention.
"Akasaka... Akasaka!" She shouted and ran to his arms. "Akasaka! Akasaka! You're alright!" She cried of happiness.
"Yes, it seems that I fulfilled my promise..."
"What happened?" Keiichi asked him.
"It seems that the Banken have frozen the activities of the Yamainu. They have taken control of the Irie Institution as well..."
"I-Is Amuro alright?!" Mion was expecting good news.
"That... Is uncertain" Akasaka replied with a bitter look.
"Huh? What does that mean?" Shion asked.
"The Banken found dead bodies of the Yamainu all over the place, but no trace of Amuro-kun. I heard that the bodies showed signs of suffering horrible deaths as well, and there were a bunch of corpses that had been eaten"
"E-Eaten?!" Keiichi's blue eyes were struck with fear.
"Yeah... It is very gruesome" Akasaka replied as he imagined the state of the bodies.
"No... Amuro..." Mion became terribly worried.
"What is it Mii-chan? Do you have an idea of what happened?" Rena asked her.
"Did Amuro tell you about his personality disorder?" She asked everyone.
"Yeah" Everyone replied except for Satoshi, who was still trying to tune in to the events.
"Did he give you details about his evil half?" Mion asked again.
"Not really" Rika answered.
"The thing is... His other half is not human, or at least that's what he told me. We could assume it is the same as a Demon. Heartless, fearless and evil. He and his half have special magical abilities that only one of them can use. I don't know what kind of special ability he has, but maybe it has something to do with those corpses" Mion finally revealed.
"What do we do? Shall I ask the Banken to look for him?" Akasaka asked.
"No! No... That would just make it worse. He'd probably end up killing them" She knew what would happen.
"But Mii-chan... What happened to our Amuro-kun?" Rena asked her in case she knew something else.
"For what I've come to understand, he must be trapped inside his own body. That was the way the Demon was until he escaped, at least. I can guess that the roles are now inverted. The Demon is in control, while Amuro should be sealed"
"Is there a way to free him?" Satoko inquired.
"I..." She looked at her friends. "I..." She looked at her surroundings trying to find an answer. But...
THERE WAS NO ANSWER
"I don't know!" Her voice broke and her eyes lost their shine. She just couldn't hold it anymore. Tears started falling from her cheeks as she crumbled to the ground.
"Onee!" Shion went straight to comfort her sister. She gave her a big hug and caressed her hair, trying to somehow fix her.
Keiichi felt devastated as well. He had never seen his best friend, Mion, like that before. She always seemed to be calm, or at least she seemed to withstand everything and keep living. This time however, the thought of losing her loved one could more.
The rest of the crew felt really sad as they witnessed their leader in that state. These news didn't make this feel like a victory at all, in fact, it made them feel like all hope was gone.
It seemed that no one could highten their spirits, but there was someone who decided that something had to be done.
"W-Wait Mion!"
Everyone looked at the source of the voice. It was Satoshi.
"I don't understand most of what's happening here... And I'm not sure if what I'm going to say makes any sense... But, Amuro-kun is the one that sacrificed himself for me! I'm indebted to him, and because of that, I'm going to go look for him, even if I have to look everywhere in this mountain!"
"Satoshi-kun..." Mion and Shion were impressed by his sudden resolve.
"While I was in a coma, I felt so lonely... I even thought that I was in Hell for a moment. Amuro-kun... He must be feeling the same, trapped inside his own body. I know that feeling, and I don't want him or anyone to experience such thing!"
"Satoshi-kun is right. If it wasn't for Amuro, maybe we wouldn't be alive now. We have to save him!" Keiichi added.
Shion remembered everything Amuro had done for her. "Amuro-kun saved me from doing terrible things and he saved Satoshi-kun as well. I think that I've never been more in debt with someone, so I'm gonna go look for him too!"
Mion remembered every moment he spent with him. How he comforted her, how he played with her ponytail, how he caressed her face, how he cuddled with her, how he kissed her and how he made love to her. "I don't want to let you go Amuro!" She thought. With this thought in mind, her eyes recovered their shine. "Satoshi-kun is right. We can't leave him on his own. We must help him! And we will save Amuro!" Mion shouted.
"Akasaka, leave this to us. You've done enough already" Rika told him.
"Are you sure you don't want help from me or the police department?" He was worried.
"Remember that he's not the Amuro-kun we know..." Rena added.
"It doesn't matter. We are gonna find a way for Amuro to beat that Demon and return him to us!" Mion said with decision.
"What are we gonna do to keep ourselves safe?" Satoko asked.
"We will look for him as we are. If everyone is together, no one will risk getting attacked alone. We'll go through the different routes of the mountain and search for any traces of him" Mion ordered.
"Alright! It's decided then, let's go!" Keiichi raised their spirits.
"Yeah!" Everyone agreed.
"Good luck, everyone" Akasaka told them.
They started roaming around the thick woods. They didn't scream his name, cause that would give their location to him, and they knew that right now, it wasn't Amuro who controlled that body, or at least not their Amuro.
They came across a couple dead bodies of Yamainu in the way. Three had their throats slashed and one had his guts out and showed signs of cannibalism.
"Satoko, don't look!" Shion covered her eyes as they saw the scenery.
Keiichi felt like puking. "I can't bear to look at it"
"So this is what Voracité wanted to do to those punks that time..." Mion thought as she looked at the corpses.
"~Hauauau!~ This is awful Rika!" Hanyuu could see it as well.
"I know, this is very dangerous" Rika replied.
"Hey, there seem to be bullets on the floor" Satoshi indicated.
In fact, there were three mid-caliber bullets stained with blood on the ground.
"No way... This can only mean..." Keiichi was terrified.
"Just like I predicted. It seems that bullets or any other conventional means will not kill him, or at least not as long as he consumes human flesh..." Mion's hipothesis was right, but she wasn't entirely sure about this.
"What can we do then? I wonder... I wonder..." Rena asked.
"Hanyuu, is there some way you can communicate with Amuro's soul?" Rika asked her without the others listening.
"I believe that's possible, but I would need some time. If you could knock him out, I'd probably be able to, but even then, I don't know if I could restore his control..." Hanyuu sadly replied.
"Damn it" Rika seemed frustrated by that answer.
"I don't really know, but there were a couple times he appeared before. When that happened, I used to call his name as loud as I could and that way Amuro seemed to recover some strength and overcome the Demon" Mion told them.
"I hate to say it Onee, but there's not much we can work with..." Shion told her shaking a little.
"But it's all we have" Satoshi replied and held her hand.
Shion blushed and looked at him. She didn't expect this sudden approach, but she loved how his warm hand strongly held her trembling hand.
~~~~X~~~~
"Okonogi! You can't do this! This research is not done! We haven't proved it!" Miyo was scolding him with the book Doctor Takano had written in her hand.
"Nobody cares about that crap!"
"Huh?!" She didn't expect that reply.
"That's the truth. If what's written there is true or false is irrelevant. All Tokyo cares about is if they can reap political power out of it, nothing more" He bluntly replied.
"No way" She couldn't believe any of what she was hearing.
"Still, a client in Tokyo has yet got another role for you to fulfill..." He gave her his gun.
"What is this...?"
"There is one bullet loaded there, just pull the trigger and everything will be over" He grinned.
"Idiot! How can you think that I could possibly do this?!" She started crying as her knees fell to the ground.
"Oh... That's too bad. After all... Takano Miyo resisted to surrender, and had a quarrell that escalated to a gun fight and I had to kill you out of necessity. That's how the scenario turns up"
"Scenario...? What is that?! Who wrote that?!"
"The person you've been leaning on all this time. Nomura-san from Tokyo, that is"
"I-It can't... It can't be..." She started scratching her neck.
"You're so helpless..." Okonogi aimed for the head.
"This is the way... It ends? With me dead, not able to even able to prove what my grandfather researched for so long..." She sobbed and closed her eyes.
Okonogi shot. After the gun shot was heard, she thoought the blackness she was seeing was now eternal. However, she was able to open her eyes again.
"No way..." Okonogi muttered.
"Damn it. You insects do quite a lot of damage with those tools you invented..." Voracité told Okonogi after he received the gun shot.
"Amuro-sama!" She smiled as she saw him again. "He saved me! Even though I'm nothing but a mere mortal... I... I don't care if I'm a slave, a pet, or a mere tool... I love you Amuro-sama" She thought as her tears turned to tears of joy.
"You threatened to destroy my furniture and even made me spill my divine blood in the process... Your punishment will be... Eaten to death"
"What the-?! AARRGHHH!" Amuro started tearing him apart and eating his flesh. The Yamainu screamed like never before and the sight of guts coming out of his body gave him the feeling of experiencing a nightmare. Amuro finished him by letting his beating heart out of his body and eating it in front of him. Okonogi died a couple seconds after.
"Amuro-sama! You saved me!" She couldn't help but hug him from the floor.
"I told you that I would join you when you needed me the most" He smiled at her genuinely. "Now, stand up. My furniture is still higher than the average human. It shouldn't be crawling on the floor like any other maggot"
"Yes, master, I understand" She couldn't have felt happier to be her slave.
"Are you hurt? I want to make sure that you're in perfect condition" He felt that it would be a shame if an object of his got a scratch or another kind of mark.
"No, master. I don't deserve your concern" She was legitimately adopting the role he had given her.
"Well said. Now, do you want to go for your little gift?"
"If it's not a bother for you..." She remembered what he had promised her and smiled with an evil look.
"It's my pleasure" He kissed her and squeezed her breasts as he did.
"Oh master..."
The rain started, and with it, they started walking towards the Club members. Voracité's senses were sharper since he had just eaten a human, so their footsteps were heard by him from far away.
After being a couple meters away from them, he decided to stop for a moment.
"Miyo, I'll stay behind for a little bit. Don't shoot or do anything rash. When the time comes, I'll help you with that" He caressed her blonde hair.
"I understand, Amuro-sama"
"Now go" He felt that there was something going on inside of him.
She met with them face to face once again.
"That's Takano!" Mion recognised her.
"What is she doing here?!" Satoko added.
"Oh... You thought that I had been caught? Or maybe that I was dead? Either way, you are all wrong... ahaha... Ahahahaha... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"She's gone crazy!" Keiichi noted.
"How rude... I'm happy, that's all. Happy that I'll be able to get my revenge on all of you" She pointed the gun.
"You lost! There's no reason to go any futher!" Satoshi told her.
"Look who we have here... The little guinea pig of the Irie Institution!" She immediately recognised the boy.
"That..." Her words hurt him.
"Shut up! That's not true, Satoshi-kun is anything but a guinea pig!" Shion got tremendously angry, but Takano pointed the gun at her.
"No, if someone will take a bullet, that will be me" Mion said with decision and took a step further, extending her arms as to protect her friends in the back.
"So you want to die first? Fine by me... Ahahahahahaha!" Takano laughed.
"You miserable..." Rika muttered.
"I should be miserable! After everything you did to me, it will come as a surprise, but someone saved me from that misery..."
~~~~X~~~~
"So you shattered that glass prison..." Voracité said to Psychan.
"I won't lie, I couldn't do it on my own..." He remembered the other half of Voracité.
"I see. You actually helped me by doing that. Now all I have to do is devour you, and all the powers of Apothéose will be mine!" He noticed the red Dingir rune in his mirror's right eye.
"And who said I would let you do that so easily? I've come this far because I want to defeat you!"
"Is that so? Well, I'm sorry to say that you are in no position of doing that. Even if you are half a God, you are still relinquished to that helpless state. This body is mine!"
"I once thought it better... To be right... But now I have finally... Seen the light... Sometimes you've got to be wrong... And learn from mistakes... I live with serenity now... Not self-righteous hate!"
"Shut up! I'll show you how useless everything is. You can't win Psychan! That's the only truth in this world!"
He came back to the real world, just as Takano mentioned him, so he decided that it was the perfect time to appear.
"A-Amuro!" Mion smiled.
"Mii-chan no! Remember, he's not your Amuro" Rena told her.
"What are you saying Rena-chan? It's me" He smiled the same way their friend did.
"No, Rena is right! Those hollow eyes are from Voracité, not from Amuro!"
"We are both Amuro, Mion. The difference is that only one of us loves you, fufufufufu..."
"Bastard! Give me back my Amuro! Give him back goddammit!" She shouted with an unprecedented rage.
"To be honest, I would have enjoyed having you as a slave too, Mion... However, it seems that to break your lover's will, I have no choice but to end your life. But wait a second, why am I lamenting myself? After all, I have a perfect replacement! Shion will be my slave then, and it's even better cause she doesn't have that disgusting Demon tattoo..." He grinned as he said these words.
"My Amuro... My Amuro would have never said that..." She started crying and crumbled to the ground.
"Fufufu... Bwahahahahahaha! I just love how easy it is to break humans. Physically or emotionally, it's so fucking easy and funny at the same time!"
"You bastard! How dare you do that to my sister!" Shion shouted at him.
"Damn it, I made my future furniture angry. Well, no matter. Once I devour my little brother, I will have the power of Apothéose: both Voracité and Psychan will be mine! As well as the essence of a complete God!"
"No... I won't allow it" Mion stood up. "I won't allow you to devour him... And I won't allow you to break me, never again!" As she rose, her right eye had the same red Dingir shine Psychan had.
"How can you... A mere mortal! Bear the eye of the Gods!" Voracité was astonished and furious at the same time.
"Huh?" Mion didn't seem to understand. She didn't notice it, but the rest could see it as well.
"Onee, your right eye, it shines with the same mark that's engraved in that stone" Shion told her as she showed her the necklace Amuro had given her.
"Could it be... Psychan!" She remembered the spell. "I order you to give control of that body to the real Tsugaru Amuro!" After using the spell, the shine disappeared.
"No!" He muttered. Time passed though, and it seemed that nothing changed. "Huh? I'm still here... Fufu... Fufufufufu! You fool! The real Tsugaru Amuro is formed by all of the fragments! Your order cannot be accomplished and hence I'm still here!"
"No..." She muttered in defeat. "I failed you Amuro..."
"Now Takano, aim there and you won't miss. Pull the trigger whenever you are ready. I'm gonna sit back and relax in the meantime, fufufufu..." He pointed the gun for her and took a bit of distance.
"Thank you Amuro-sama!" She kept pointing it. She didn't plan to shoot right there, she wanted to savor that moment for a while longer. The hopeless look in Mion's eyes only made her happier.
"Now Psychan, enjoy how your loved one loses her life!" As he said these words, he noticed he travelled to the collective consciousness unwillingly. "W-What?!"
"My dear Mion, she thought she failed and blamed herself so much... She didn't realise that she did well enough"
"What do you mean?!" Voracité couldn't comprehend what her order had done.
"It is true that the real Tsugaru Amuro can't appear because there are missing fragments. However, there is one thing we can do to fulfill that order as good as possible, and that is by completing ourselves"
"What do you?"
"Now that you can see all you have done... It's time to take that step into the kingdom... All your sins will help to make you strong... And help you break right through the prison wall" He recalled once again the words of his other half.
"I don't understand..."
"Voracité and Psychan were always supposed to be one after all..."
"I don't understand!"
"So don't worry brother, I'll fulfill your dream"
"My... Dream?" For the first time, the evil Demon seemed to have a glimpse of emotion.
"We will become Gods and we will perish by obsession" These words came out of his mouth, but he knew he had heard them before, somewhere.
"Those words! I know them but I don't know from where! Psychan..." He wasn't angry anymore.
"Keep all of me... The desires... That once burned me deep inside... Help me live today... And help to give me grace... To carry out your way..." Psychan hugged his brother.
"I... Am... Ready" Voracité replied as he hugged his other half. The order Mion gave was absolute. He couldn't resist, so he decided to go along with it. "Help me be... All I can be... I am ready... Help guide me... And keep me free..."
The two entities became a pure essence and started merging with each other, forming the definitive First Fragment: Apothéose.
As he went back to the real world, he saw the scenery. Takano was pulling the trigger. There was no time left, and Mion would be fataly wounded in less than a second. Neither Psychan or Voracité would've been able to stop this from happening, but Amuro was neither of them, and both of his eyes shined with the red rune of the Gods: Dingir.
~~~~X~~~~
Man, I was hoping so long to write this chapter! (since I started the story) and I must admit, that even though I had the main idea, writing it was crazy. There's just so much happening!
If you felt disturbed by the protagonist corrupting himself and doing things with Takano, well... That's basically the idea! ははは…
Anyway, I don't know if I'll be able to bring the next one so soon, cause I have two weeks before my final exams that are for University admission, so they are VERY important, and I've got to study a lot of Math.
Also, I've left my other stories a bit abandoned recently, so I should write each one another chapter at least, so I'm gonna leave you with this cliffhanger for a while, sorry!
Evhron out for a while... Maybe