I feel like an awful person right now! I left this story in a horrible cliffhanger for over a month after I promised I would be updating every other day... Please don't hate me, I had my reasons that I won't discuss here 'cause there's really no point on doing that.

When I finally sat in front of the computer with all the intention of writing this chapter I actually had to go back and re-read through the entire story (finding many mistakes that I will be correcting in the future), because I frankly forgot what I was doing the moment my eyes were set on the blank screen.

That made me take a little longer than expected to update, but I did manage to update "Guess we still had some fights to come" in the meantime, which brings me to my question: have you had problems with updating lately? it took over twelve hours for the new chapter to actually show up on the site so I was worried cyberspace had eaten my work...

Sorry, that's enough rambling... on with the story!

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Chapter 29: Yuuri's POV

"Who... are you?"

He looks at me and tears start running down his cheeks... I don't know what to do, what to think, somehow all the pieces of the puzzle are coming together at a much faster pace than my heart is able to stand. Somewhere deep inside of me I know, I knew something wasn't right, but I'm not ready to face this yet.

"Yuuri I..." he stands up and walks closer to me and I unconsciously take a step back. I don't know why I'm running away, but I can immediately see how much this simple action hurt him, as he redraws the hand he was holding up in my direction. For some reason an overwhelming sadness casts a shadow over my heart, I feel his suffering and my heart shrinks.

"I'm so sorry Yuuri, I don't know... I just don't know" he answers me and I try to process this information. He sits back down and covers his face with his hands.

I walk next to him and place a hand on his shuddering shoulder. Even though every cell in my body now knows, this person is not who I want him to be, I still...

I need to think, and I need to think not as Shibuya Yuuri, but as the Maou. Those eyes that I saw looking back at me...I think they're not actually there, how can I explain this?... somehow it feels much like the aura that was emitted from my body when I used to go on Maou mode, and started to be able to keep my consciousness through it.

Like a power that does not belong to body that holds it...

So I was right, huh? I can't escape this truth anymore, can I? The one time I wished to be wrong... This person in front of me... no, this soul in front of me... is not Wolfram.

"You knew this? for how long?" I ask trying to keep a monotone tone of voice, but I can feel the anger and despair taking control of me, even though I feel for this person in front of me, he's not Wolfram.

"I don't know Yuuri.. I wasn't sure... I never meant to..." he stutters in every word. A hundred question go through my head at the same time, and the idea of Wolfram actually being dead makes me take a step back, and if that's the case then, is he the killer?

I can feel the marioku actually leaking through my pores. My anger is rising with nowhere to be directed at, and I can't hold it back anymore.

He stands up and faces me, his tears still coming down uncontrollably.

"Yuuri please listen to me. I don't know who I am, I don't know where Wolfram is or why I have this body, but the feelings I have... of those I'm sure." I try my best to listen to his every word clouded by sobs, but something inside of me just cracked, I can't stop this anger.

"Yuuri I love you! Not as Wolfram, but as myself. The time we've shared together, you know that's not a lie! The person who's been beside you, the person you have held in your sleep, that person is me!"

And then I hear it, I can actually hear something breaking inside of me.

My head is spinning. A thousand images go through my mind at the same time while my body gets surrounded by a blue aura that I can't control. I lost control, I can feel it taking over me.

Images of Wolfram fly in front of my eyes. My bratty prince and his fierce attitude. Every fight and every laugh, I remember them all. He has been with me, making sure I'm the best person I can be, ever since the beginning. How long did it take me to realize how much he means to me? How much did I made him wait? He doesn't even know that I love him, that I get lost in his emerald eyes and wish to never come back to reality, that I can't live without him. And he has been taken away!? I can't forgive this, I can't move on from this...

But...

This person that I've lived with, albeit for such a short while, every smile, every gesture, every touch. I know it wasn't a lie, I know his feeling are true. His foolishness and childishness, this cute and adorable stray puppy that held onto me with everything he had. This gentle soul that lost everything and saw only me, the one I wished to protect so much...

This person that stands before me, surrendered, ready to give his life to me, and whom my body is ready to kill.

Kill... kill... I'm going to kill him, I can't hold back my marioku, it's not listening to me, my body is lifting itself from the ground... I need to stop this!

I can't stop!

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Really short chapter, but I'll update soon ;)

Now we're at the moment of truth, if Wolfram body dies, so will his soul, although Yuuri doesn't know this, will he be able to stop before it's too late? Will Murata and Shinou make it in time? Will the author really keep her word and update soon!?

(I feel like the narrator after a really old detectives TV series's chapter that is cut in half. All I'm missing is the "Find out in the next chapter of... [pause for dramatic effects] The two of me!)