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Eli sighed weakly,
Sheesh, this girl…. So complicated…. I really can't choose this kind of thing… I really don't want a blood bath….
Eli said in her mind. She stare into Nozomi and Meg's eyes… they looks like they're really expecting her to say something. Eli sighed again,
I wonder what Nozomi think about these choices…I mean like, for real….
Eli said again in her mind.
"Nozomi, come closer for a bit… We need to talk…" Eli said.
Nozomi approached her closer, then Eli embraced her and cover themselves with her wings. They began to talk with sign language with each other,
"What do you think about these choices…?" Eli said with sign language,
"They sound ok for me… I mean, you know we will win either way…" Nozomi replied with sign language as well.
"I mean, which one would you prefer?"
"I'd like to have the blood and find Lilith later… because, we can do something with that blood…" Nozomi smiled mischievously. For some reason Eli could feel something a little different in her eye glance as well…though she kept quiet about it.
I don't like how her smile and eye glance looks… it feels like she is somewhat suggesting me to do something wicked…
Eli thought.
Even though the Nozomi that I knew is always kind and understanding…
Eli said again.
Should I go with her choice…..?
She said again as she stare into Nozomi's eyes.
[Yes….I should….]
Because after all, whatever she wants to have is something that can make her happy…. even if I have to sacrifice the world for her—wait….
Eli paused.
Sacrifice the world for her…. that's pretty much something that can happen… with two of us together… She embraced her power…. and we have this…we will never lose…
Eli smiled mischievously as she stares into her ring. She turned to Meg,
"Very well, Meg, you can try duel with Nozomi…." Eli said.
Meg smiled at her,
"Good…." She said.
"I'll take my leave for now…come up when one of you done, ok?" Eli said with a mischievous smile.
Meg frowned,
"Ok, I'll tell you soon, Ericchi!" Nozomi said before Eli left them.
Nozomi turned to Meg,
"You two just mocked me, didn't you?" Meg said.
"Hmm? If you want to take that as offense, sure…" Nozomi said with a mischievous smile.
Meg frown deeper,
"Witty aren't you?"
Nozomi chuckled at her. She turned to look at her ring for a moment…
"Let's just start, shall we?" she said—still with a mischievous smile.
The execution room,
Eli walks upstairs and met everyone else gathered together. The room is already clean from the dead body, Kotori brought a bag filled with a lot of soul food on her lap. Umi is standing behind her wheel chair and bringing a few books with her, Maki and Niko staring into their phone, Eve and Arisa standing next to each other, Rin is on her motorbike and Hanayo sitting behind her.
"Eli…" Maki greeted her.
"Eli-chan!" Everyone followed to greet her.
"Hey, everyone…" Eli greeted them back.
"Where's Nozomi?" Umi asked.
"She is a little busy at the moment…" Eli said.
"Detective on duty?" Kotori asked.
Eli smiled faintly,
"Pretty much…" Eli said as she approaches them. Arisa suddenly shivered slightly as Eli got closer to them.
"What's wrong, Arisa?" Eve asked.
"N…Nothing…." Arisa said.
"I saw that shiver… did I made you get that?" Eli asked teasingly.
"Yeah… it just feels like something is a little different with you, Onee-san, but maybe it just my feeling…" Arisa said.
"Ah… I see… maybe I'm getting some more muscles?" Eli giggled,
"Sheesh, you already have them long ago…" Arisa said.
"If I have to be honest, I think she doesn't mean it literally, Arisa…" Eve said.
"Huh? What do you—…" Arisa paused as Eli showed them a ring.
"What do you think?" Eli asked.
"That ring….." Eve and Arisa stare at it in awe.
"I have the same pair with Nozomi…and it comes from one crystal too…" Eli said.
"You divided the crystal into two?" Arisa asked.
"Pretty much, since it was really small when I got it, and the shape is telling me to do so anyway…" Eli said.
"You're giving that kind of thing to a werewolf… that's insane…" Eve said.
"There's nothing wrong with it, right…? I've crafted it from the magic forge and set it up on my own… the ring will fade when she is in another form…" Eli said.
"No.. that's not about it…" Eve sighed.
"To begin with, why you suddenly make it? I don't think you'll need it…" Arisa said.
"I just can't sell it, ok? It's ours…" Eli said.
"So I wasn't wrong when I saw her before… I thought it was just my sense that getting a little dull when I couldn't see any marking on her belly…" Eve said.
"Hmm.. excuse me, but we're a little lost here…" Umi said politely.
"Ah, sorry… should've explained it before…" Eli said.
"Basically, Nozomi-nee-san is no longer pregnant— and the aborted baby crystalized, someone must've gave her that specific medicine…" Arisa said.
"George did it…." Eli said.
"George….. I bet he did it at his own will again…" Eve sighed.
"Yes…pretty much…" Eli smirked.
"You shouldn't hate him, ok? He is just trying to prevent what happen to us happen to your baby…" Eve said.
"I know… he don't want us to make a 'mistake'…" Eli sighed.
"I..I'm still lost…" Kotori said.
"W-well…the crystalized baby is actually the material of an amulet which we usually use to help us travel here and there, it's just a gem that capable of multiplying energy power that applied to either magic or physical power… so we use it for various things…" Arisa explained.
"It can also help you to share power with others but in one condition— the crystal has to be coming from the same source…" Eve said.
"Share power with others? How does it work?" Maki asked.
"Just wear it at the same time with the others and you'll share power and ability with the other…" Eve said.
"I didn't know it works like that too… never used it so I'm very beginner about this…" Eli said.
"Hehe, well, Onee-san, I guess it's still useful for you after all…" Arisa giggled.
Eli giggled before she looks around and decided to go to the broken cage.
"Eh? Eli? What are you doing?" Umi asked.
"I just wanted to try something…" Eli said as she grabs the thickest metal piece.
Everyone remained quiet as they watch her in confusion. Eli began to bend the metal piece at ease then tearing it like tearing a paper… everyone amazed to look at it…
"W-what the…?!" Niko said.
"Th…that's… that's the power of an alpha werewolf?" Eve said.
"R-right… she is wearing the same ring with Nozomi-chan after all-nya!" Rin said.
"I hope it's a special kind of gem, because the common one only shares about 30%... that can't be 30% power…." Arisa said in shock.
"Mm…wh-what about Eli-chan herself?" Honoka asked.
"She isn't that strong…no..not her physical body…" Eve said in awe.
Eli smiled mischievously, though she changed her smile to a sweet smile as she turned to them,
"Guess that's about it… an example of sharing power…." Eli said.
"N-Nice example…." Hanayo said.
Eli giggled,
"Maybe that also means that you all can return home and start examining everything you got… I and Nozomi will investigate further and tell you all about it later…" Eli said.
"E-eh? But… we're kind of found something else here and need help getting it out…." Honoka said.
"Oh? What is this something then?" Eli asked.
"Hnn… there's a woman inside, frozen in an ice cube… I can't get it out since it was heavy and there's no lock from inside our outside… it's like it require something special to get it open…" Niko said.
"I'll find that out with Nozomi later… you all should go home and rest…" Eli said.
"Uhnn? Why does it sound like you're forcing us to do so-nya? Is there anything you're hiding-nya?" Rin asked.
"Of course not…like I said, it just that Nozomi will have to investigate around further after she is done with the one in basement…she need some kind of solitude to actually analyze things around here…"
"Oh! I know where you're getting at… you two need some alone time together, yes?" Niko said.
"Huh? Well… I guess you can call it that…" Eli said.
"Chimeras… guess she just can't handle her desire as good as Umi-chan…" Kotori said.
"E-eh?" Umi blushed slightly.
"Very well then, we'll go home… I found a few things around here that I want to investigate further too…" Maki said.
"Let's gather up next week, if you want to… we can try mix and match everything…" Eli said.
"Ah, that would be enough time for me to study what we found…" Umi said.
"Yeah, we also wanted to talk about a few things too…" Hanayo said.
"Harasho… that's set, let's meet up next week…" Eli said.
Eve frowned slightly,
"Ok, Onee-san, I'll meet you at home…" Arisa said.
"Yup, bye-bye…" Honoka said cheerfully before they all decided to leave the place.
Eli waited all of them to be gone from the area, she carefully walks towards the door and started to check around— she could feel someone is still hiding somewhere,
"I know there's still someone here…" Eli said.
No response.
"But if you want to play hide and seek, sure…I'll pretend I never know…." Eli said again.
No response again.
"Just so you know, I'm telling you to leave for your sake… what you might see is what you don't want to see…" Eli said.
A gentle step…
"What do you mean with that?" Eve came out from her hiding place.
Eli smiled mischievously,
"I just had a feeling of a chaos will come any sooner…."
The underground floor,
A gun crushed into pieces on the floor, tables and chairs flattened, corpses are missing and walls are cracking. The ground dented all over the place,
"Hmmpmh, you're talking about bullshits, there is no God that will save you from a murder, if you're caught, you'll certainly die on his hand…" Meg said in her succubus form.
"God doesn't work like that, he works through the hand of other and also hand of yours. You have to struggle and do your best for every occasion you're dealing with, and other might come to give you a hand and miracle which you would call as luck. You're choosing the wrong topic, you'll never outwit me in a matter of religion and believe…" Nozomi said— she is still in her human form.
"Then, what about Eli? Do you believe that she will certainly be faithful to you? You know her as a professional charmer, do you think if you get an eternity, she will never choose another at some points?" Meg said before she attempted to bash Nozomi with a metal bar, though she parried it and break it down at ease. Meg quickly releases it and tried to make a distance.
"That would be a matter of quality, right? If I could outwit, stronger, prettier and make all of her attention goes to me, she would never try another… and an eternal youth is something that I would really want to have… so that's why… I want to have that blood….I wouldn't mind about children, we can always make it before injection…" Nozomi replied.
"Clever, but this show that Eli really doesn't care about Lilith, right? All she care about is you…she shouldn't mind if I ate her, right?"
"Lilith would be our matter later, after dealing with a person like you…of course… we can always search her on our own…" Nozomi said.
"You will never know where she is…" Meg frowned as she attempted a swing of crowbar at her,
"Really? But my detective intuitions call your home to be where you hide her…" Nozomi once again parried it and break it at ease.
Meg surprised to hear it.
"Ah? I'm correct… didn't expect that." Nozomi said.
"I haven't even say yes to it…" Meg said.
"You just did, twice, I really can tell from your expression…" Nozomi smiled mischievously.
"Tch…. Now you made me thinking, perhaps I shouldn't give you a mercy at all…" Meg said before she charged a fire on her hand.
Nozomi chuckled at her,
"Did I say I need one?"
Meg frowns deeper before she casted her fire at Nozomi— though it was blocked by a magic barrier. Meg couldn't believe her eyes as it happen.
"That can't be… That's Eli's passive…. How could you have it… you're not even a succubus…and she is still alive." Meg said with frights on her face. Nozomi glanced at her ring.
"Who knows…?" Nozomi said with a soft chuckle before she began to step closer to Meg.
Meg frowned, black clouds began to surround her and she transformed into another form of hers, bigger horn, darker wings, bigger body, glowing eyes, and fully heavy armored. She attempted to swing her fist on her, yet Nozomi dodged it quickly and grabs Meg's horns, she placed her feet on her face and bending her horn until it breaks.
Meg began to stagger as it happen. Nozomi smiled faintly and she transformed into her werewolf form, grabbing her with her claws and smacking her to the wall. Meg couldn't get herself on her feet before Nozomi once again grabbing her body from the ground and threw her to the other side of the room. She ran to her and roared very loudly to intimidate her.
Meg began to cower as she transformed back to her succubus form,
"No—no! Stop! You win!" Meg said.
Nozomi chuckled as she transformed back,
"Really? Then I can have the blood?" Nozomi said.
"Yes! Please…please take it and leave me alone…" Meg said as she shoves out the blood jar to her.
Nozomi chuckled again as she grabs it.
"Are you sure you want to live with that kind of embarrassing moment in your memory? You can't grow your broken horn again, right?" she said with a mischievous smile.
Meg remained quiet.
"I think you said, you're a proud member of the Bathory family…. Are you still now?" Nozomi said again with her mischievous smile.
Meg still quiet.
Nozomi giggled at her,
"I'm joking, I know you're still the proud member… I'll keep this as a secret, don't worry…. If there's anyone that ask about this duel, I'll just say that you won but being nice to me…" Nozomi said before she walks away from her.
"Ah, you're pretty quick, Ericchi didn't lie about you being the second banana of the team… or… she just meant that you're the second strongest from the team? Who knows, my memory isn't good…" Nozomi giggled.
"I didn't get to land my true power fist on you though, you're attacking too aggressively, Ericchi lied about you being a passive lamer…" Nozomi said again.
"…or maybe she isn't wrong…you're just trying to act differently today? Who knows?" Nozomi said as she is about to get out from the room.
"Wait…" Meg said.
Nozomi stopped and turned around at her.
"I can't face this humiliation, to be losing from a human like you… I want to quit life… can you help me with it?" Meg said.
Nozomi smiled faintly,
"I kind of hope you say that, I really want to get rid of you so you can stop trying to suggest insane things to anyone…Lilith died because of your execution machine, isn't it?" Nozomi said.
"Yes, it really is my machine, but I'm not the one who operates it, Leon did… I tried my best to suggest him to not to… but he insists it because he really wants your heart so badly…" Meg said.
"Of course, because weapons don't kill, people did… they were really proud when they got me into that cage, you know… they just didn't expect me to tear it down so easily…" Nozomi said.
Meg remained quiet,
"…and….you should've told him my heart is only belongs to Ericchi… he can't have it…" Nozomi chuckled.
Meg chuckled sarcastically,
"You're a villain inside, aren't you?"
"Me? A villain inside? Hmm… Maybe? I'm just always doing what I want to do…so I'm not sure when you said it like that…"
"I can sense it from the way you laugh… from the way you see things around you… you could care nothing as long you're with her… your obsession brought you to this…and the euphoria you felt when you're close to her twist your mind… soon enough, you and her will toy around with the world…" Meg said.
"Hmm? Maybe? The only toys I play with her lately are a double head dildo plus all the belts and chains… it was amazing… she really knows how to do it… she is good at playing vibrator and strap on too…" Nozomi replied playfully.
"I don't want to hear that kind of thing in the end of my life… thank you…" Meg sighed.
"Why? It's exciting… for me and Lilith at least, I could go on forever if it's about how she dominates me…about how she treats me like a queen… and about how she gives me her love…Lilith always enjoy the story…she said, she feel like she is taking part in it….except, you're jealous because you're a virgin?" Nozomi smiled,
Meg bit her lips,
"You are? I didn't expect that… I thought all succubus acts like Lilith… one who enjoys being banged by a lot of men… she used to tell me that you're accompanying her to the brothel since Eve refuse her… it was her first night there and she got plenty of men pays her for sex…"
"You don't need to remind me, she is dead!"
"I knew that, I just want you to feel worse for creating such execution machine…and for trying to kill me too of course…" Nozomi giggled.
Meg frowned.
"I've had enough, kill me already…" Meg said.
"Nope, I still want to ask you a few things…" Nozomi said.
"What is it?"
"I wonder where Leon is…" Nozomi said.
"I can't tell you that, I promised Lilith that I'll take care of him…so even if he is chickening out from this, I'll protect him…." Meg said.
"I see…so I suppose someone want to hear about Lilith's story about when she sucks a lot of men in one meeting, one that got recorded and kept as a premium porn video…"
Meg frowned.
"You can scar my face, but you can't just speak that to me… you know how painful it is for me to hear such and to remember that she is a whore?" Meg said.
"That's the point, I know where it hurts because I wouldn't want to hear the same kind of thing too… even though Ericchi is nothing like her… but either way, I would call her a porn star instead of whore… she got good pays and decent peoples know her as a nurse in Nishikino family clinic or a model—which surprisingly still have no scandal from the porn video… She is a hard worker… I respect her….even though I wonder where her money goes to… I don't remember her to own that much luxurious stuff on her…" Nozomi replied.
"It went to Leon, she really wanted him to get off his debt…. But he used it for his research instead…" Meg said.
"So he betrays his own mother, am I correct? If I'm you, I would teach him a lesson... taking care of someone isn't just about protecting him anyway…" Nozomi said.
"Even if you try to talk me out of it, I'm still strong with my promise… because I know if I tell you where he is, you will go after him and kill him….right?"
"I'm an agent of justice, Meg… I will give him the right justice…" Nozomi said.
Meg remained quiet to think for a moment.
"I still refuse…. I don't trust you…" Meg said.
Nozomi smirked,
"Ah you caught me, but well… since you're being stubborn… play time over… I'll crush you and give your body to Ericchi, ok?" Nozomi changed her smirk to a mischievous smile.
"Be quick…" Meg said.
Nozomi started out with grabbing Meg's shoulder,
"Too bad….I want you to feel tormented….just like your victims…" Nozomi said before she crushed her from her arms and blood dripping on the floor.
The execution room,
Eve still remained in the room with Eli.
"I couldn't know what is it in your head, but I will not go away before you tell me what happen down there…." Eve said.
"I told you, it's just something and you really don't want to know…" Eli said.
"I hope you're not abusing your power for something ridiculous, you already have enough…" Eve said.
"I'm not abusing my power, besides, it was my family's passive shield that prevents your magic to read me…I can't do anything about it…" Eli said.
"You know, the fact that I hate about you is that you're powerful, smart and born in Ayase family… your perfection made me sick…" Eve said.
"You can't just hate me for that, I'm born this way…" Eli said.
"I know…and I hate that fact too…" Eve said.
Eli sighed,
"Look… Eve, this is not something you should see… besides, it's not about Lilith too, we can't locate her anywhere around this place… there's only one woman inside that freezer and I bet it's not Lilith since Niko said it's not…" Eli said.
"I don't care... I just want to know about what you're hiding…" Eve said.
"You really don't want to—…." Eli paused as she could hear someone opening the basement door. Eve turns her attention to the door— Nozomi is carrying a leather bag on her shoulder.
"Sorry, did I make you wait too long?" Nozomi asked as she walks closer, her clothes covered in blood,
Eve keep staring at the leather bag, her face shocked and she no words escaped from her mouth.
"Nozomi, you're finished in a bad time…" Eli said.
"Hmm? Does Ericchi trying to cheat on me?" Nozomi asked playfully.
"No way, it just that I can't convince her to leave yet…." Eli said.
Eve still quiet, her eyes locked on the leather bag.
"Ah—is that so? Then it just mean that it can't be helped, right?" Nozomi said.
"I suppose so…" Eli smiled wryly.
"Why….?" Eve said.
"Hmm….?" Nozomi tilts her head,
"Why did you kill her?" Eve asked as her face gloomed.
"Ah… is this your special ability…? To know who this is?" Nozomi said.
"Hmm...Nozomi, remember what I told you before, every of us has a special mark…we all can feel it, but Eve is the only one who can see it… so…. Even if a succubus transformed or…. Forced to deform…." Eli sighed.
"Oh…? is that so? Then I guess Eve shouldn't see this, right?" Nozomi said.
"Yes… pretty much…" Eli sighed again.
"Eve, you should leave, I don't want to show you how she looks right now…" Nozomi smiled mischievously.
"Eli… how could you be so relaxed…. Your lover just killed your cousin… she is part of your family…" Eve cried,
"Meg is kind of asking for it… I can't stop her…" Eli said with a wry smile.
"Yup, she is requesting it…" Nozomi said.
"That's what you said about Alizee too, right? She was killed by the wild, but you're the one who caused it... it is all your faults because you're so prideful… everyone jealous of you and yet you have no will to be humble and instead keep on crushing everyone with your pride…. you're sick… you know that?" Eve yelled.
"Ericchi, prideful? Of course she is, but she could be humble if she wants to… it just a matter of how you look at her… and how you look at herself…. To begin with , it's always be wrong to compare yourself with someone like Ericchi… except you're as good as her…" Nozomi replied,
"There… I can't comment on this, why don't you just tell her something to make her leave early…?" Eli said.
"Ah, then, maybe that should be about Lilith, right? Meg kept her in her home….I think the last thing Meg say about her is that she is still waiting for someone who could grant her last wish…." Nozomi said.
"You better hurry and meet her, Eve, I know you should be the one who can do it…" Eli said.
Eve frowned,
"Except you want Ericchi to do it…" Nozomi said.
"I'll go… but remember this, you two… One day, I'll find someone who could defeat you…no… maybe not someone…. A group…. Or anything… then I'll crush that pride of yours…" Eve said before she stormed out of the room.
Nozomi giggled,
"Then I'll be waiting for that…." Nozomi said.
"There…. Let's not take that seriously… Eve is just angry…" Eli said.
Nozomi giggled again,
"Let's put that aside then, I want to show Ericchi what I did…" Nozomi showed her what inside her leather bag, it's just a big chunk of grinded meat with a few crushed bones inside it. Eli looks somewhat a little shocked, but as she turn her eyes to Nozomi who already demand to be praised, she just sighed and transforming the meat and bones into a soul food.
"Nozomi…. that's pretty extreme, you know… I really didn't expect you to crush her literally…" she said.
"I just wanted to do it… Ericchi… but either way, I won… that's all that matter, right? Plus, you can inherit Meg's ability now…I think she got this one magic that made her getting fully armored or something— though she still couldn't stand a chance…" Nozomi said.
"That's her family special ability called Vengeance form… it duplicates her power and putting her defense to a form of heavy armors…"
"So if Ericchi have it, it will make Ericchi stronger? That's nice isn't it…?" Nozomi smiled as she lean herself on Eli.
"I'm sure… but to be honest, I don't really need it…"
"What are you saying, Ericchi… you do need it… to keep your title as the most powerful one… so you better eat it…" Nozomi said as she grabs the soul food and place it in Eli's mouth.
Eli chews her meal and swallowed it.
"Tasty?" Nozomi asked playfully.
"Yes…"
"Now lick me? I still have a few of her blood on me…"
"That's just an excuse to have sex, isn't it?"
Nozomi giggled,
"You know me, Ericchi…" Nozomi said before they began to kiss each other.
On the way home, dusk;
Arisa, Umi, and Kotori walks slowly through the quiet places, Arisa seems to be very troubled though she is been very quiet along the way. Kotori and Umi concerned about her,
"Arisa-chan… are you ok?" Kotori—on her wheel chair asked.
"E-eh?! I…I am…" Arisa said.
"You looks troubled though, is there anything we can help with?" Umi asked.
"M….no…not quite… maybe it just my own feeling…" Arisa said.
"You can always talk to us, we might have a solution…" Kotori said.
Arisa sighed,
"Well…. It just that, somehow… the last time I see Onee-san and Nozomi-nee-san…. The connection between them feels.. I don't know… a little darker… even though they've done nothing yet… but it just feel like it… then when Onee-san walks out of the basement, I can sense something is growing darker inside her…" Arisa said.
"Ah…I thought it just me, but I do agreed that...somehow, Eli-chan is giving some kind of a cold feeling… I'm getting a little scared when she gets closer… but I tried to ignore it before…" Kotori said.
"Really? I couldn't actually feel it, but I do sense something weird… and that ring… does it really glow red?"
"From the crystal, yes, I believe it was glowing…" Kotori said.
"I can't really see it, I share the same ability with Eve and we always see that kind of magical crystal glowing… but since you two said it, it confirms that it's a special kind of crystal…" Arisa said.
"Does it not glow brighter or anything on you?" Kotori asked,
"No… it's more like giving some kind of dark fogs around it… but I wasn't so sure… maybe I should check it again later…" Arisa said.
The clinic, dusk;
Maki, Niko, Rin, and Hanayo hangs out around the café as the other workers are still working to recover the clinic. Maki is busy with arranging documents with Hanayo's help, Niko and Rin drinking the juices that Maki bought for them.
"Aahhh! I'm still very curious! What is that woman doing inside that ice cube, damn it!" Niko said.
"Relax, its Nozomi-chan and Eli-chan after all, they will really tell us what she is doing later-nya!" Rin said.
"Speaking of them, did you all can feel it too?" Hanayo asked.
"Feel what?" Maki asked.
"Like…something make them looks…somehow… scary…." Hanayo said.
"Nah, no…. there's nothing like that… but I do feel a little weird when Eli was closer…" Maki said.
"Didn't they always have that kind of feeling? Like...just look at Nozomi, she is a rapist since high school…" Niko said.
"No…it wasn't that kind of feeling…it just different…" Hanayo said.
"I can't actually feel it nya, but I just feel that Eli-chan is a little weird… like, she is soon becoming a villain or something…." Rin said.
"Huh? Eli? Villain? That can't be…" Niko said.
"Ehhhh? But I see her that way nya…" Rin said.
"No-no-no… that's impossible… she is kind, Nozomi too… even though she do have a mischievous side.." Maki said.
"That's what I want to believe too, Maki-chan…" Hanayo said.
"Then just believe that…" Maki said.
"Hmmmnn…I thought it would be fun to think that way nya…. So we can pretend that we're the hero that will save the day!" Rin said.
"Heh— if we will ever play that kind of game, Nozomi and Eli are two people that I don't want to face… they're too clever…and too powerful too…especially after they have that ring…" Niko said.
"Yeah… it just made them twice powerful nya…." Rin said.
"Either way, let's just keep on being on their side, ok? I'm sure they're doing everything for the sake of everyone… even though it's a little annoying at times…" Maki said.
"Yeah…" Hanayo replied with a weak sigh.
Bathory's estate, dusk;
Eve arrived in the area, she broke down all the doors, killing all the guards and going around the room until she finally found a bedroom with a scent of flowers from inside. She kicked the door and enters at her will.
"Sister…." Eve said weakly as she looks into the dead body on the bed. Eve approached her and kneeled next to her, placing both of her hands on Lilith's hand.
"Sister…. I'm here…." Eve said softly.
Her eyes slowly opened,
"Eve…." Lilith replied weakly.
"Yes, it's me…sister…. Sorry I'm late…. I shouldn't have left you alone that time…" Eve said sadly.
Lilith giggled weakly.
"What are you saying… it was my own will… but…. more importantly, why are you all serious and calm right now? Is there something that bothers you….?" Lilith asked.
"Yes… it's about Eli and Nozomi…." Eve said.
"Ah, right, where are they? Did they look for me?" Lilith asked.
"Everyone does… everyone is worried about you…not only them." Eve said.
"I see…. but why there's only you here right now?" Lilith asked.
"That's because….." Eve struggled…
"I…it's a long story, I don't believe you'll have time… I don't want you to suffer inside that dead body any longer…" Eve continued.
"Is that so? Then I just believe everyone has their own reason… but either way, I'm happy someone worthy coming all the way here to grant my last wish…. I don't want Meg to inherit my power… she is too twisted for it…" Lilith said.
"Meg is dead… Nozomi killed her…" Eve said.
"Oh…? That's…. that's sad… for you at least, I believe you'll mourn for her, right?" Lilith said.
"The only one I want to mourn right now is you, sister…." Eve said.
"Why? I'm just a whore… a gold digger and a nuisance for you, right? I'll always be a trouble for you and I like to be… but it has to be over right now…." Lilith said.
"Don't say that, you idiot….you know how much I love you…." Eve began to cry…
"Eve….Don't cry, stay happy… I can't see you cry…no… I don't want to see anyone crying… please be happy…" Lilith said.
"Why would I be happy to see you dead, goof head…" Eve said.
"Because… no matter how much you cry, this kind of thing will have to happen… even for us… so that's why, you have to move on…. You have to do your best for the sake of yourself… you've made a good step as an apothecary, maybe soon enough the world will know you as an alchemist too?" Lilith replied.
"Why would I be an alchemist… this world doesn't need that kind of thing…not anymore…" Eve said.
Lilith chuckled,
"I'm joking…. I know they don't…. but Eve…. Look, you're the most reliable person I ever know, to be on your side made me feel comfortable…." Lilith said,
"I knew that, sis… you're telling me that many times already…." Eve replied.
"Take care of everyone, ok? Promise me you will…" Lilith said.
"You don't need to make me promise with you… I'll do it as long as I live…"
"Good…. Now for my last wish…." Lilith took a deep breath.
"I want to see you smile…as sweet and as happy as you can…" she continued.
Eve sighed heavily as her tears keep flowing on her cheek,
"You're a retard…. I told you I can't do it…" Eve said.
"You can… come on, give me your smile… so I can return to God… you don't want me to be stuck here forever, right?" Lilith giggled,
"You're a trouble! You know that?!" Eve yelled as she keeps crying.
"You said that over and over…" Lilith chuckled,
"Fine… but don't laugh!" Eve said.
Lilith smiled as she waits Eve to do it. Eve tried her best to stop crying, then she tried to make a smile for over and over, yet her tears just won't stop already.
Lilith giggled again,
"I said don't laugh!" Eve yelled.
"You know what Eve? That's enough for me… I'm glad to see you trying so hard…" Lilith said.
Eve pouts at her,
"Now…for the last thing…." Lilith took a deep breath again.
"Dear lord, I've witness my wish to come true— let all my powers be inherited to my dearest twin sister, Eve, and to her who gave me happiness in my entire life time, Elichika…"
Eve surprised to hear it, she was about to say something, but…
"…hear my voice, hear my prayer, take me back to You… M'lord.. I'm Yours..." Lilith continued before her body started to turn into ashes and gone to the air.
Eve froze in her place as she watches her twin sister disappears from her sight. She knows, it wasn't how she watch her disappear that struck her heart most… it was the person who she inherited her power to…
"….Sis….." Eve said weakly.
"Even at the end…. You're giving me more trouble…." She continued as she clenched her fist…
"Now….with her getting stronger…. what kind of hero that will be able to stop them?" Eve said weakly.
A week passed,
Everyone gathered in the clinic's café to talk about what they found,
"So… what is that woman doing inside the freezer?" Niko asked.
"We checked her, it seems that she is only a victim of an experiment or something… we tried to crack open the ice cube and…well… there's nothing special about her except for her neck… I think it was my fault for accidentally crooked her neck…" Nozomi said.
"We decided to banish her since we don't know what kind of thing that injected inside her…it might be very dangerous so… yeah…" Eli said.
"An experiment, huh? I saw here in Lilith's note that Leon did some kind of researches, could he be having a lot more experiment somewhere else?" Umi asked.
"That would probably the information that only Lilith knows, but she isn't here anymore…" Kotori said.
"Yeah…and we didn't get to see her before she disappear nya…" Rin said sadly.
"Eve, do you have any idea about it?" Maki asked.
"No…sadly no…" Eve replied a little coldly.
"Arisa, what about you?" Umi asked.
"Hmm… I only know the abandoned factory as his only home, so I don't know where he would gone to if he isn't there…." Arisa said.
"I wonder where Meg gone to… we still don't hear anything from her…" Hanayo said.
"Yeah, it's still kind of sad…. She isn't a bad woman and Lilith-chan is claiming her as a villain at the last time we meet her…" Kotori said.
Nozomi smiled faintly,
"I don't know… maybe she is taking vacation somewhere? This kind of thing is stressful…you know…" she said.
Eve glanced at her—though she isn't dare enough to say anything about it.
"I admit it is…" Umi sighed.
"Then, we should take a short break…" Honoka said.
"That's a good idea…" Eli said with a faint smile.
"I don't think so.. the chain murder still happening, at this rate, human population will decrease greatly… we need to make this over soon…" Umi said.
"If we're stressed out, we won't be able to solve this case, right? We all should take a break… beside, Nozomi already put up a wanted poster… she got an official permission for that…hopefully everyone will cooperate with us…." Eli said.
"Instead of worrying about where he is though, Umi-chan, why don't you try to look again at all the documents? Maybe you'll need them to give him guilty verdict…" Nozomi said.
"True…" Umi said.
"I think I can help you with that, I collected all the report about his debt from a few sources…" Hanayo said.
"Harasho… and then maybe the others should just focus on restoring the peaceful state… leave the search to us…" Eli said.
"That would be nice, I'm counting on you, Eli…" Maki said.
"Ah, speaking of which, Eli-chan… you got an invitation for saying your greeting in the Valentine's day, right?" Kotori said.
"Oh, yeah… I got it a few days ago…" Eli replied.
"That's cool, I heard it will be shown to the entire world… you shouldn't forget to promote my fashion center, ok?" Kotori said.
Eli giggled,
"Of course… I'll make sure the entire world buy your fashion…" Eli smiled faintly.
"Maybe you can just charm the world and make them obey you?" Nozomi said with a slight mischievous smile.
Eli chuckled,
"That's a good idea…"
"Isn't going a little creepy though, to walk around with hypnotized people everywhere…" Umi said as she giggled,
"Yeah, that's going to be creepy nya!" Rin said.
"Boo—I'm hypnotized!" Honoka said as she acts like a zombie.
"That's a zombie, Honoka-chan!" Kotori said.
The others followed with laughter except for Eve who smirked wryly.
It's seriously a good idea though….and no one will know if they're being manipulated anyway…plus… I feel like Lilith is giving me her power too… I really can use them for that…even though TV shows to the entire world will do enough… but, nah, I don't mind with extra effectiveness…
Eli said in her mind.
"Now-now, let's call it a day for now, you all should go home and take a nice break… if you're lucky, we will find Leon tomorrow…" Nozomi said.
"We'll work it all night…" Eli said.
"Alright, thank you, Eli, Nozomi… we owe you a lot…" Umi said.
"Make sure you keep your guards up, ok? The battle isn't over yet…." Nozomi said.
"Yup! Thanks for the heads up!" Honoka said.
"Ah—speaking of that! I really need to practice my magic some more! I haven't get to heal Kotori-chan's leg!" Hanayo said.
"Relax-Kayo-chan… I'm happy to be walking around with Umi-chan and Honoka-chan like this…" Kotori said.
"It's still not good though! I'll do my best!" Hanayo said.
"Go-go! Kayochin!" Rin said cheerfully.
They all began to chat around playfully.
As the night comes,
Each of them began to leave the café to return to their home.
"I'll go back to clinic, thanks for the nice hang out today, everyone…" Maki said, she is the last person that still hangs out with Eli, Nozomi, Arisa and Eve.
"Why don't you go play with Nikochi or Rin-chan in Hanayo-chan's house too?" Nozomi asked.
"I'm having fun here… besides, my workers need me…so… yeah…" Maki replied.
"Alright then, good luck…" Eli said.
Maki gestured before she left them.
"Onee-san, Nozomi-nee-san, I'll go on first… I have to go to a friend home to help her out with a few assignments…also going to stop by Honoka-nee-san house to take the bag she left there…" Arisa said.
"Have fun… Arisa…" Eli said.
Arisa waved and left them as well.
Eve still sitting right in front of them, staring at them with a frown on her face,
"What about you, Eve? You should return to apothecary, right?" Nozomi said.
Eve still quiet,
"Or you want to say something?" Nozomi smiled at her,
"I don't know what's up with you two…. But… to see you could act all nice and still being well respected… it really bothers me…" Eve said.
"It has been this way, why are you protesting now?" Eli said.
Eve smirked,
"I know you didn't joke about the thing you will do in valentine day…." Eve said.
"Well… it's not a joke if Nozomi actually wants it…." Eli said.
Nozomi smiled mischievously at her,
"The world is going to be less painful if Ericchi rules it, don't you think?"
"What the hell you mean?" Eve frowned.
"If Ericchi could control the entire world, I believe this world will be a lot peaceful…and everyone will get through a happy life… You would agree with me, right Ericchi?" Nozomi said.
"I couldn't say no, since that is your wish…" Eli said.
Eve rolled her eyes,
"Fine, do all you want with this world!" Eve yelled before she walks away from the place angrily.
Nozomi smiled mischievously, Eli sighed weakly.
"I wonder what's up with her… but I hope she is not putting herself in danger…" Eli said.
"Why would you care about her, Ericchi? You shouldn't care about her… I'm the only one you need to care about…" Nozomi said.
"She lost two of her most precious person…." Eli said.
"I know, but you don't…. you still have me here, and that tells you to keep me in your embrace and protection, right?" Nozomi said.
"You're right…" Eli smiled faintly.
"There's also the µ's, and Arisa… you can care about them, but you have to remember that my needs comes first… because I'm your lady… and you have to treat me well or I'll be jealous…" Nozomi leaned herself on her again.
Eli giggled,
"Then what will you do if you're jealous?" Eli asked playfully.
"I'll get all your attention back, whatever it takes…" Nozomi said.
"That's scary… but I promise I won't cheat… I really want you all for myself too… so I know how you feel…" Eli replied.
"Then we are just the same?"
"We are…"
They giggled together,
"Let's just start work on searching for Leon, shall we?" Eli said.
"True… we can't disappoint everyone….about that one" Nozomi replied with a mischievous smile.
There will be part 2, stay tuned with the dark ending lol
and I know this is twisted. Don't take it too seriously, ok?