The Ending
Taking a leap from tree to tree, Nami continues to look down. Though dark, she knows the distance is high enough from the ground. Apparently, she doesn't want to take the initiative to break away and be landed there. She also could feel Absalom's running speed while carrying her. She estimated it's been about five minutes he crossed the forest. How far, she thought. But that's not what she's worried about right now, suddenly her head is full of questions because she also saw the mysterious shadow in the church before she was taken out.
What was that shadow actually?
"GYAAAAAAA!" Nami suddenly screams as she wasn't ready yet to fall down. Reflect, she spontaneously protects her head to hit the ground hard. Fortunately, she passes through the twigs so that the fall slightly slowed down. Many leaves are also spread on the ground and it becomes her kind of pillow.
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Something bumped them from behind.
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"Ugh." Her chest hurt from hitting the ground but she could feel no serious internal injuries. The crack is precisely from one of her arms. Having felt enough to control her pain, Nami then looks up to see what happens.
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Srrrrrttttt ...
There is a sound heard of dragged objects.
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Then there is a sound of Absalom's roar with the sound of a broken bone like a rip of paper as if it were separate and uprooted from the body. And the sound is not just heard once. Was it..., Nami tries to guess, one leg, one arm?
Nami tries to see it more clearly, then sits behind a tree. There's a strange winged and horned creature that is crushing somebody-most likely Absalom. A third of the creature's hand was immersed in Absalom's chest as if squeezing something inside. Then he takes something out and it looks like a round object.
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POPS!
Absalom's body suddenly shrinks like a mummy and vanishes into the gray-ash from the vampire's body.
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CRUNCH CRUNCH...
Next came the sound of the creature was eating something. That round object.
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It was a heart.
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Nami's eyes barely flicker at the horror scene. She knew very well that vampires did not kill their victim into that brutal stage. Vampires do not eat human flesh, just sucking out the blood. So what monster she saw? It even eats vampire.
Diable...
Nami remembers that word was mentioned by Absalom.
Is that the creature in question? But that's just a myth, right?
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"Nami-san, this time you have to run..."
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HAH!
Being conscious from a reverie, Sanji has been in front of her while hissing so close.
As close to their breath.
Nami feels like she was dreaming for a moment because it seems she's hearing Sanji's voice guiding her. In fact, what already in front of her is not Sanji's figure who is usually gentle and friendly to her. Aside from a pair of large horns and wings that she has seen before from afar, Nami clearly sees Sanji's red iris glowing in the dark-it's dark blue previously. The veins of his neck are seen sticking up to the cheek area. His whole black uniform is wet and warm by blood, his own blood and the blood of his victims, emitting a rancid odor that pierced Nami's nose. Nevertheless, he can still smile at her.
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A very different smile.
By showing his sharp fangs which aren't just a pair in the upper jaw, but two sides; up and bottom. All teeth are fangs now.
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And, he seems very hungry. Yeah, hungry... That the heart he just ate before was a very small portion to satisfy his stomach. He's just awakened.
Nami's tears then were dripping. Not because she was afraid. She had been trained hard for it and she was well aware that she's living a profession with full of the risk of death. That's her heart which is crying, she remembers...
"Nami-san, you know? It's only you who I'd never wanna hurt," Sanji said one day as the two of them were making out.
"Oh shut up," Nami replied in flirty tone. Of course it's rag, she thought at that moment. You will eat me in the end, right?
...she's crying for the irony.
She didn't believe him. She had doubted himself. She didn't follow his orders to run. SHE WANTED TO KILL HIM! But, Sanji proved it all that she's wrong. And now it's too late. She made him hurt. She made him dying. And even if he turned into a berserk form, it's all for her sake to be saved! Indirectly, she is the one who evokes the cursed genes of vampires!
Nami stretches out her hand while she's still able to, touching Sanji's cheek even though she did not expect anything.
"Sanji-kun... I'm sorry ..," she whispers, this time with sincerity and all of her feelings.
It was all she could say for the first and the last time before she finally saw the moon getting brighter reddened in her eyes as blood splashed out.
Red Moonlight: THE END
Bright Fullmoon Teaser:
"Are you sure, Robin? You said he can not remember anything or anyone else but why is he still carrying the skull?" Zoro asks, looking at the demon. Tsk, so his feelings are still there subconsciously, huh, he thought. "You look so damn pathetic. Be ready, I'll set you free from pain, heh leech."
And, the full moon also transforms his form into a monster. Yes, he is the Devil Slasher, Oni Giri.