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Chapter 2 - Liberate + Bonus: Koev Halev

"Beansprout..." Allen's eyes teared up hearing Kanda's dying whisper. As he glanced at Kanda's - both mentally and physically - broken form, Kanda's memories rushed trough him once again.

All that misery, crushed hope and betrayal. Allen always knew that Kanda hid painful things, and now it came crushing down on him. Suddenly everything about Kanda made sense. His distance, his anger, his loathing and that cold feeling of resignation.

It hurt. Not just because he really lived through those memories, but the knowledge that Kanda was suffering all this time. Cruelly manipulated into a war he wanted to escape from. Forced into hurting Alma and then carry the weight of it. All of this on his own.

Just what kind of comrade was he that he couldn't even express properly that he's always by his side?

But today that would change. He would break the chains of fate that held him down. He will save both of them.

Kanda's eyes widened when Allen picked up his torn off foot and squeezed it back to his femur. Even though the seal was quite worn off it still attached the limb back. Growing another leg would have taken more energy. "What are you-?"

Allen grabbed Kanda's arm and laid out on his shoulder, while his Innocence arm closed itself around Mugen. The Second Exorcist let out a pained groan as he was pulled up. Allen shot out his Clown Belt and wrapped it around the too cheerful Millennium Earl and yanked him hard enough to pull him off that ridiculous statue. The rest of the Noah Clan provided a comical sight as they attempted to rival Allen's strength as he hoisted Kanda and himself into the air.

Kanda attempted to question his intentions again. "Hey-"

"I'm sorry." His onyx eyes widened seeing the agony in Allen's eyes. "I'm sorry that I couldn't help you. That I couldn't be support. That you had to go through all of that alone."

An incredulous expression spread on Kanda's face. Here he was weakened down to barely regenerating at all in front of the same person he hurt so much... and that person was still trying to help him. "You..."

"At least, I want to give you a closure."

Kanda was still in disbelief as he looked into Allen's eyes. The next second he let his head rest against Allen's cellarbone. "Do you remember the place of our first mission?"

"Yes!" Allen replied, mentally reciting the lyrics of the Ark.

"No one should be able to find us there." With that, Kanda gathered the last of his remaining strength and jumped to Alma.

"Kanda!" he turned back hearing Allen's voice call out to him. "Lenny told me that if anyone would be able to save Alma, that's you! I feel the same."

He smiled at Kanda's sad frown, trying to reassure him. In turn, Kanda's scowl melted into a beautiful smile. "Thank you, Allen Walker. I'm alive thanks to you." Allen couldn't really explain why his chest and cheeks felt so warm at that, his exhaustion has dissipated. Allen felt that he could watch Kanda's usually angry facial expression serene at once, but the magic was over when Kanda turned back to face his old friend. "Alma!" His hands that attempted to destroy his childhood friend again now embraced him.

"Yuu?" Alma breathed out, seemingly unable to believe that Kanda hugged him.

"Let's run away from this place." Allen heard Kanda whisper. "To a place where Noah, Akuma, the Order and Innocence don't exist. This time we'll be together."

Fresh tears broke out from Alma's eyes and his lower half collapsed. Both he and Kanda were falling down.

Allen landed on top of the Noah's sculpture, not minding that there were five Noah in a 10 metres vicinity. He raised his hand up to open a gate as he pictured the soft sand where they buried Lala and Guzol.

His eyes met Kanda's questioning and a bit confused ones. For once he knew what Kanda was thinking. What a pity they only got this close at the very end... 'What are you doing? You can't stay here.'

In response Allen gave him a sad, but reassuring smile, that caused a tint of fear glint in Kanda's onyx eyes. Allen wasn't coming with them. With this decision he betrayed the Church, yet he was willing to stay and face his hopeless future. He was staying with the Noah who wanted to sacrifice him to revive their kin and the Order that would surely want to execute him for granting his only wish. Kanda would be finally free from fighting, he would be free from that unspoken promise.

I'm going to need a new Grim Reaper. Allen thought. But it was alright. He was going to die anyway. There was no escape for him.

But right now, even with his stomach cut open, Allen felt a freedom he never felt before. He was the one in control, he decided the fate of people, he would see Alma and Kanda off. Not as the next 14th, not as an Exorcist, but as Allen Walker, who finally managed to save someone. He waved at Kanda still smiling and mouthed him farewell.

His heart squelched in his chest seeing tears well up in Kanda's eyes, his chapped lips curled around his name."Alle-" but Allen didn't get to hear him call him by his name again as Alma and Karma fell through the gate. But that was alright. Their long nightmare was over. Allen's would never end. But at least he could lull himself into this delicate dream. "Goodbye, Alma." Finally those two could have their well deserved rest. "Ark Gate, Adara." His fist closed, causing the gate to shatter like broken mirror.

As he glanced back at the stunned faces of the Noah and the Order his face was wiped clean from the smile, his eyes were only filled with determination. He would protect those two until the very end, even if it was the last thing he did.

As you wish. It will be.

His eyes darkened, but he showed no other indications of hearing the 14th's voice. "I won't allow the Noah or the Church to meddle around again."

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