Thank you for all your reviews! So I am able to post this before New Years! I am glad! By the way I wrote ceiling in the last chap but what I meant was cell. Li Lonyue was being held in a cell not in a ceiling! Sorry about that guys, maybe I was just too tired! Pls enjoy this chap and review me your thoughts!

Ayano's POV

Jerk. Jerk. Jerk. He still did not call me, what an arrogant asshole! I can't stand him..but actually it was my fault that he went mad. Wait, why did I feel this way? I shouldn't feel responsible for anything like that I should just...I heard my door open and my thoughts stopped. Ren walked in with a worried look on his face.

"Nee-sama! Nii-sama went to rescue Lapis all by himself!"

"What? Didn't you say Li Lonyue was with him?"

"Yeah, but he seems to have been trapped by Bernhardt!"

"What?" Why? Why did I suddenly worry about him? I just wanted to go off and help him, I was not pleased with the following words that left my lips, but I just couldn't hold back.

"Where are Armagest's current headquarters?"

"I don't know! I only spoke to Nii-sama for about 10 seconds! He said the most important thing to him right now was to save Lapis and then he hung up..."

I felt my heart arche a bit. He ...he really loved her...huh?

"Nee-sama have you been listening!"

"Yeah. Well then we can't do anything about it, let your jerk of a brother handle this. I don't think he will have any trouble since he is so strong."

"But I am still worried about him. Armagest doesn't joke around."

I just sighed and looked in a different direction so that Ren wouldn't notice how worried I actually was.

Lapis POV

Will he really come? I want to trust him but...maybe it is because of Tsui-Ling's thoughts that I am still so unsure about trusting him..after all he couldn't keep his promise to protect her, so who knew if he would be able to keep his promise this time? For now though, I wanted to remain positive. I sat in my room and was desperately waiting for him. I blushed when I thought of him. It felt still weird to me, this feelings.

I trembled when the door to my room opened.

"What are you doing?" Bernhardt asked, sitting down on the edge of my bed.

"I...I am thinking..."

"What about?"

"Well...ummm...when will we head back to Europe?"

"Not yet. Remember we still have some things to do here. And I actually pretty like this country too. Do you miss Europe?"

Honestly I didn't but I had to make it seem that way, since I started such a silly topic only to distract him.

"I do..but Japan is nice too..." I wished after I escaped Bernhardt would just leave me be and go back already...I so hoped this wish would come true.

"We will go back soon, my precious Lapis." He said while strocking my hair.

Don't touch me you evil man! Were my thoughts, however, I lacked the confidence to say such a thing into his face.

Kazuma's POV

Fucking big mansion again. I have to find this bastard and rescue Tsui-Ling asap. Very well, he isn't hiding his presence inside here anymore, that makes it a lot easier. I concentrated and finally found myself infront of a door on the third floor. I see, so you are hiding here, prepare yourself, this will be the end of you!

"Seems like we have some visitors." Bernhardt said as he sensed Kazuma's presence, he stood up and smirked. Lapis looked at the door expectant.

I forced the door open with my wind and saw that bastard standing infront of me with a disgustin and dirty smirk. Behind him, sat Tsui-Ling. She looked relieved that I came. I gave her a quick smile and then turned my face back to look at Bernhardt.

"What did you come here for?" Bernhardt asked.

"To kill you of course, or did you think I'd come to have some tea with you?"

"Not really. Why would you want to kill me though?"

"Don't act stupid now you bastard. Let her go."

"Let her go? You mean this one?" He asked coldly, pointing his finger at the frightened Lapis.

"So you won't listen to my demands, just as I expected. Then let's end this quickly!"

I send wind blades at him but those were blocked by his single fist.

Tzz.

"Don't you think you'd better activate your contracter powers if you aim to defeat me?"

"Shut up!" I yelled as I gathered more wind spirits and attacked him again, it was too late already when I saw that he pulled Lapis up by her hair and used her as a shield. I couldn't stand the pain that went through my body when I heard her screams and cries.

"Would you please stop now? Former Kazuma Kannagi?"

"You sick fuck! Just die already!" As I was just about to attack him again I stopped, fearing that he might use her as a shield again.

"Lapis is my personal servant. She will always act as my shield when she is around, you should know that so don't be so surprised."

He continued as he turned to look at Lapis whose clothes were ripped apart from the cuts of the winds, blood was running down her skin.

"I wonder though why you didn't use your sword to protect me, that way you wouldn't have to get hurt."

"You are so full of shit! I should have gotten rid off you back then!"

"Hmph. I will never forgive you for killing our great master. If you want to kill me go right ahead, but I won't bother to move until there are servants around who are there to shield me. If you defeated Lapis, come at me again. It shouldn't be a problem to you at all, right? Since you already killed her once anyway..."

My heart filled with so much anger I was just about to explode. Bernhardt turned around to walk away and I figured that he wouldn't be able to use Lapis as a shield now. I gave her a sign to move away from him a bit more, just to be sure. But when I attacked him, strangely my attacks were transfered over to Lapis while they actually should have hit Bernhardt. I aimed for him, so why the hell did the attacks got to her? What kind of dirty trick is he using? This is just disgusting! Her screams were louder than the last time, since I used much more power now. She fell to the ground and Bernhardt turned around again and smirked at her injured figure, then looked me in the eyes.

"Let us continue this fight. I am having quite a bit fun here."

"Shut up! Just shut up! You are insane!"

"I really don't understand you Lapis...why didn't you use your sword to defeat him? I would command you to attack him now, but looking at you you seem quite useless after having been hit by him so many times already."

"Fucking bastard!" I couldn't do any more than curse him right now, fuck I felt so pathetic! Li Lonyue, where the hell are you? Just come and help me out here already! I actually never longed for him that much before. He was much more experied than me, so he probably would be able to find out what technic Bernhardt was using, and hopefully also, how to get rid of it.

"I get this feeling that all this was planned from the start, could this be true, Lapis?"

She just shoock her head, talking was probably too painful. I hated myself for this. Fucking hell that bastard made me do it, he was a fucking evil bastard who needs to die. Just die and rot in hell for an eternity.

"You are proud to be a coward, right?"

"If that is how you want to take it than go ahead." Bernhardt grinned.

"Anyways, I think you should leave now."

He turned to Lapis again and pulled her body up from the ground by her hair.

"Don't you think so too, Lapis? Tell him."

I couldn't bear to look into her eyes which were tortured by pain when I was the one who was at fault for this. But something inside me just wouldn't let me take my eyes off her. After a while of silence, her quiet voice said, with begging eyes

"Please leave..."

I clenched my fists and was trapped into ultimate sorrow and ultimate pain. I looked at her once again and saw her lips moving, I had to look carefully to be able to read her lips. I finally figured out what she wanted to say

"Later."

I looked at her as she forced on a smile. I didn't smile back at all, I just regretted everything. Everything. Li Lonyue, you will help me out here right? I had to have faith in him. He was my only hope. After all leaving her alone here with that wounds and with that bastard wouldn't be a good choice. Sure her wounds would heal quickly, but it would still take at least 2 or 3 days, why would she have to go through that pain when I can heal her much quicker with my power? But even then...she is at her limit...and if Bernhardt keeps this up I won't be able to do anything...It's best for me to leave...I looked at Lapis with regretful eyes for another time and then turned around to leave.

"Thanks for your understanding. The day I am in the mood to fight you will come, so don't worry."

Just shut up, you fucking bastard.

I walked slowly, extremly slowly. Why? Because I wanted Li Lonyue to show up, he had to come now.

After I almost reached the door, I smirked. He was there. I could feel his presence and cheered inside me. I heard Bernhardt moan as he fell to the ground by an attack Li Lonyue fired at him.

"Well done mate! Listen, he has set up some spell that if whenever I attack him it goes straight to Lapis, do you know how to get rid off that?"

"Huh? Dirty as ever masked bastard, eh?" Li Lonyue said as he looked with eyes full of despise at the on the ground laying chairman of Armagest.

Li Lonyue closed his eyes and set Lapis free from the spell that was cast upon her.

"It's done Kazuma!"

"Thanks mate!"

"Now Bernhardt, prepare to die!" I yelled, gathering plenty of wind spirts to fire them at him. I was surprised when I saw that he could still use a barrier to protect himself.

"Two on one isn't really fair you know, if you want to play that way, here you go! Come forth, Kanako! Kouta! Kakeru!"

Three strong looking servants of Armagest appeared before us.

"Let me introduce, three of my strongest servants, the triple K's!" Bernhardt proudly braged.

"Hmph. Worthless scum. Let's take care of them real quick Li Lonyue, so that we can have fun with the main dish."

"I hear you."

"You won't defeat us!" Kanako said cocky as she started off with an attack. It was pretty strong and would have knocked out any magic user who was as skilled as Ayano.

Why did I think of her now?

"If a certain someone would be here, she would have been knocked out by this. However, an attack like that, doesn't do anything to us!" I said as I aimed to cut through her skin with my wind blades. I was stopped by Kakeru who protected her with two swords. The swords easily absorded my attacks.

Lapis POV

Kazuma, I just hope you don't blame yourself again for what just happened. Please don't, it wasn't your fault at all. This certain someone who you just mentoined, it was Ayano, right? I giggled slightly and imagined how they would have argued about whether she would have been knocked out by this or not if she was here. I missed her. Kazuma looked a bit distressed when he realized that his wind blades were useless against Kakeru's swords. Li Lonyue quickly got Kakeru from behind and send him flying against the wall. He send a huge fist of wind knocking Kanako down. Li Lonyue destroyed the two swords with his wind and stepped on Kakeru's head then. The third guy was trying to rush over, but was stopped by Kazuma who punched him in the face. As even Kouta was on the ground, Kazuma pulled him up by his head with his hands and pressed as long as he was dead.

"Hmph." He let out as he walked over to Kanako who now was on her feet again.

"Are you sure you want to continue fighting me?" Kazuma asked.

"Of course, it is my duty as Master Bernhardt's servant."

I looked at the fight expectant and hoped everything would end well. Just why the hell didn't those three realize until now that they shouldn't be working for some heartless man like Bernhardt? He didn't treat them well, so why were they so blinded? I couldn't understand it.

Kazuma's POV

"Then, die!" I gathered wind spirits and tried to cut off her head, but as if sensing what I was about to do she dodged it. She then tried to kick me in my stomach but I grabbed her by her back and pressed her down on the floor.

"Now this is good-bye."

"Not really."

Without me noticing, she teleported herself away and was on her feet again, now standing behind me. She tried to cut me with a sword, but the wind was protecting me.

Li Lonyue's POV

In the meanwhile I fist-battled with Kakeru. He was awfully strong and I feared that this would be going nowhere. When I looked away for a second he materialized two swords again, one of them made it's way to my stomach, but just like Kazuma the wind protected me. When he draw his blades at me again I dodged as he leaned forward where Kanako was facing him with his back. He couldn't stop anymore since he used to much speed and his sword ended up piercing through Kanako's back.

'"Ah, thank you." Kazuma lazily said. He then kicked Kakeru's face to make him loose even more power while I attacked him from behind. This was the final blow. We were finally done.

We were really sweaty and I heard someone clapping his hands.

"Congratulations on defeating three of the strongest magicans in history." Bernhardt smriked.

"Very well, now it's your turn." Kazuma said as he ran towards Bernhardt to finish him off with his fists that were engulfed in his wind power. Bernhardt barely dodged him and send a hidden rod flying towards Kazuma from behind. It was just about to pierce through his back, it probaly was even able to destroy his barrier, since I regnorized this item from somewhere. It was something overly strong. Luckily we could warn Kazuma in the last minute, with Lapis screaming

"Watch out behind you Kazuma!"

and me

"Kazuma! Behind you!"

Kazuma turned around and quickly destroyed the rod.

"That is it then." Bernhardt said as he flipped his hands and flew off in the air.

"See you soon!"

"You bastard! Wait damnit!" Kazuma flew off in an attempt to follow him but he lost sight of Bernhardt because he teleported himself away already.

"Shit!" Kazuma cursed, but was brought back to reality when he realized that the building was about to get completely destroyed.

He flew down again and carried Lapis bridal style. The three of us flew off into the air, but when seeing the two, especially Lapis blush on her face, I decided to leave them alone.

Kazuma's POV

I landed with her on a nearby rooftop. First off, we had to close her wounds now. I laid her down softly and moved the hair out of her face gently. She still looked very weak and her blood didn't stop running either. She weakly moaned and I held her left hand to calm her down.

"Don't worry, just hold on for a bit more. We will close your wounds." I smiled at her to make her feel more comfortable and just as I was about to activate my contracter powers, she said something.

"Kazuma, I can feel Tsui-Ling's feelings inside of me. They are flowing through my body. It is a beautiful feeling Kazuma. I love you, I love you so much!" She weakly smiled and pressed my hand as hard as she was able to with her injured body. I looked her into the eyes, these were the words I have been longing to hear from her again for so long now. I pressed my lips on hers and kissed her for a long long time. When I pulled off I hugged her lightly, not to cause her any more pain due to the injuries, and whispered.

"I love you too. So much that I couldn't even bear not seeing you for a day anymore."

She smiled at me and weakly ran her soft hands through my hair.

I closed my eyes and finally activated my contract. After half an hour we were done. All of her wounds were closed. I felt quite dizzy since I used up a lot of power, that is why I thought that we should rest a bit before flying off.

"Thank you Kazuma, you saved all this power up just to save me, when you could have defeated those guys back there with a single blow would you have activated your contract then."

"It's ok, I love you after all."

She smiled the most beautiful smile at me and I smiled back gently, poking her cheeck.

"What was that for Kazuma?" She asked innocently.

"Just teasing you." I answered.

"Huh?"

"I did that very often to you in the past..."

"You mean...Tsui-Ling's past?"

"Tsui-Ling's past equals your past, doesn't it?"

"I am not too sure about that...but I guess yes.."

"I wonder how much of Tsui-Ling's soul actually is within you."

"..."

"By Li Lonyue's theory, Tsui Ling's whole soul resides inside you. According to him, the sould can't die, and while Bernhardt used Tsui-Ling's body to insert a demon soul into it, her soul probably continued living inside this body too. What do you think about this?"

"I am not really sure...but it can be true..."

"I think it is, after all you always get these flashbacks and so on..."

"Hmmm..."

"What I want to ask you is, can I call you Tsui-Ling from now on?"

"...I don't like this..."

"Why?"

"I don't want to make you sad, but since I am not actually sure myself whether Tsui-Ling is me or not I would like for you to continue to call me Lapis. It would seem strange to me if you start calling me Tsui-Ling now. Let's do that after we are certain that her soul is inside me, in other words...that I am her."

"Alright. That makes sense."

"Thank you, for your understanding Kazuma."

"It's alright..." I replied and gave her a few kisses on her soft cheeck. She smiled at me and gave me a quick kiss on the cheeck back. She was overly cute. It reminded me of everything, everything back then.

"Well then, I think we should go home. It is getting cold."

"Are you fine now?"

"Yeah I am." I was very touched by her being worried about me. She was just like her.

"Will we go to the Kannagi mansion now?"

"No. We will stay together at my apartment for now. Just the two of us, how is that?"

"It seems great. But can we visit the Kannagi's once in a while?"

"Of course, we will."

"After all, I have a little something for Ayumi-chan." Lapis said with a blush as she played with something inside her pocket.

We flew off to my apartment.

Happy days would start from now on again.

Just like back then.

Thank you for forgiving me Tsui-Ling, I can feel that your soul is inside this body.

It's done! I hope you enjoyed! I am not that good at writing fighting scenes so sorry if you were disappointed! The next chapters will focus on Kazuma's and Lapis relationship! There will be a lot of fluff!

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