Hello guys, this is going to be a long one. As of now, the fanfic is a few more chapters away from its ending. In this part, I will introduce two OCs.
Nanoka Nobuhiko
-The top enforcer of cultists. Former Nanaya.
Personality: Bloodthirsty, and power hungry.
Also, in this chapter, Satsujinki will appear and completely unrestrained by Arashi himself.
"Satsujinki"
-Arashi's darkest self, it only surfaces when Arashi is emotionally unstable. It is Arashi's terror and he is capable of using devil.
Personality: Coldblooded, Merciless. He view life is worthless and only live to kill.
Chapter 7: Revelations Part 2
"In the world beyond our realm, there are real angels, and real devils. The forces of heaven and hell that fought for eternity. Our world was created at the border of both heaven and hell by renegade angels and demons. We, humans are offspring between renegade angels and devils. And, because of that, this has caused that everyone to have good and evil within them."
"You mean humans just came about like that? What about the evolution of species?" Kannazuki asks.
"Those are first generation of human, the precursor before us to be exact. Being a direct offspring of angels and devils, they can wield powers that are even stronger than both. The Seven Lords of Hell, or the Sin Lord, discovered this world first. Seeing that human's potential to be even stronger than them if humans were to tap into unholy powers. They first influenced a group of humans as their agent, their goal is to convert everyone through a cult to use it so that they can conquer high heavens. But the renegades who walked among humans, not only succeed in persuading, and even managed to start up a counter sect."
"Wait, cultists who worshiped devils? This is ridiculous..." Kotori exclaimed.
"Unlike those insane people, these cultists' soul are being altered to contain demon essences, which is why my clan has been killing them. In many people's eyes, would be us murdering innocents."
"So what happened to the first humans?" Reine asks.
"After the failure, the lords decided to invade our world through their demonic force. But the renegades managed to erect a magical field that prevents the demons from physically entering our world. But the remaining cultists have managed to create soulstones, a mystical gemstone that allows the lords to possess the soul and the body of soul-altered males. Seven cultists insert the soulstone into them and thus becoming the hosts of the seven lords of hell. This formed fallen spirits, the spirits that wields unholy power and under the lord of hell's control as well."
"Wait, so you mean you are..." Shido starts to realize what Arashi really is.
"Yes I am... But at least I'm still able to contain it. The fallen spirits are so powerful that they wiped out the renegades and killed all human beings alone and they manifested all their demonic forces in the form of lesser fallen spirits with their presence. The world was in chaos with human souls being enslaved by the burning hell. Later, the heaven strikes back, by sending their angels, to possess the body and the soul of human females, combat the fallen spirits.
The fallen spirits are so powerful that they wiped out the renegades and killed all human beings alone and they manifested all their demonic forces in the form of lesser fallen spirits with their presence. The world was in chaos with human souls being enslaved by the burning hell. Later, the heaven strikes back, by sending their angels, to possess the body and the soul of human females, combat the fallen spirits."
"So... you mean you are my enemy?"
"Yes, and you shouldn't be saving an enemy." Arashi replied
"But why? Why are you still trying to save us." He is now puzzled as he can't understand Arashi's action.
"At least I will die without any regrets of hurting anyone. You can't save me after all, even if you do, you will be possess by the devil. And you have the angel's essence within you, if devil can consume that, the whole forces of hell can just break into our world!"
"What..." Shido is in shock.
"However, the fallen spirits are so powerful that they can kill many spirits before going down themselves. Ultimately, the burning hell is defeated, but heaven suffered heavy losses too. Our location is eventually lost due to the battle. Not before Azrael managed to revive every human beings. But they would lost all their powers. This is the result of the first Spirit Wars."
They are all in shock as it is not the first time that the Spirits started to appear in the world.
"So you mean that the spirits are human avatar of angels? And they appear in our world because it is being rediscovered?" Kotori asks.
"Yes. 40 years ago, both heaven and hell rediscovered us. Azrael appeared before my grandfather because my clan has been in a cult of worshipping Azrael and we are templar assassins for more than 500 years. Knowing that they cannot allow the second spirit wars to be in hell's favour, my grandfather bounds a pact which made us the protectors of spirits and reapers of those who harm spirit and devil cultists. Azrael granted us his Eyes of Death.
They trained for 10 years. When the first spirit appeared, the fallen spirit as well. They fought all the fallen spirits globally. With our powers and eyes, we can kill them effortlessly. But there was too many of them. Many Nanaya have perished, but they managed to enforce the mystical rules again by forsaking their lives, preventing the forces of burning hell to manifest directly into our world and only allow 1 to manifest at a time."
"So our world was saved because what your grandfather did back there?" Kannazuki asks.
"Yes, after the war, the clan continued to hunt cultists. But after the founding of DEM and many other Anti-Spirits forces appeared worldwide. They also treated them as our enemies, they scattered all over the world and formed the 14 Blades. With our objective being to wipe out anti spirit military personnel and installations."
"What? You guys are killing people?" Shido asks in shock.
"It was the only way, both the cultists and us are aware that many people will not understand the cause, and thus killing was the only way." Arashi replied coldly.
Shido and Kotori feel very disgusted at the bloodshed of the assassin clan, Arashi continues to talk.
"We were very successful in our mission. But until 15 years ago, a group of Nanaya has fallen to the unholy ones. They wanted even more power, and the Sin Lords wants our Eyes of Death because they will be invincible. This breaks the blood oath, and they lost their eyes of death. However, this forms a curse which causing all Nanaya who are born with the eyes to lose it. Newborns will possess it at birth but will lose it eventually. Because of the privilege to use the eyes, many Nanaya are blinded by the false promise of regaining the eyes and even more power.
Slowly, our clan members are reduced, with a rising of a new cultist clan, called Nanoka. The defected and corrupted Nanaya who worshipped devils. We fought for many years, without the help of law or any other forces. We continued to protect spirits while they hunt spirits. Eventually, we are overcame, Nanoka invaded our mansion and killed everyone 8 years ago. My family managed to escape and hide for another 5 years until all of us are killed."
"What happen to Nanoka then?" Kotori asks again.
"They are all killed after I was revived by Phantom."
"Phantom?" Kotori and Shido exclaimed.
"Yes. The agent of high heavens. We don't know much about this agent. Some of the agent's actions are questionable and we are ordered to kill Phantom if the actions are against High Heavens."
"Phantom turned my sister and Miku, into avatar of both Camael and Gabriel." Shido added.
Arashi seems to be enlightened as he can see that both Kotori and Miku are human spirits.
"I see, they are not the only one. Thanks to Phantom, my sister was able to live and I can still suppress the devil within me. If not, the world is already been destroyed."
"Why are you chosen?" Reine asks in doubt.
"It's because of my eyes. And many stuffs behind it that I don't want to talk about it. Now regarding the inversion."
Without hesitation, Shido answer Arashi's question.
"Tohka got inverted because I almost got killed by the same wizard last time. DEM's CEO Wescott said that it is her natural form and he wants to use her powers."
Hearing this, the Nanaya has his plans in mind to deal with Wescott.
"I see..."
Shido senses that something is not right with him, he is also puzzled by his request on the inversion of Tohka.
"Why are you asking this?"
"Spirits are created as a human avatar of angels. As a result, they have evil part within them. Inversion is not their natural, but rather their demonic form. It will destroy the world if not managed well. I as a guardian, must kill them."
The word 'kill' agitates everyone, they know that they have to stop him from killing.
"You can't take out the whole DEM can you?" Shido asks furiously.
"I can and I already have my plans."
"Kill everyone of them? That is irrational! They don't have to die." Shido added.
"If they don't, can you guarantee that the spirits will not be harmed? Can you guarantee that you will not be harmed so that they can be protected?"
"I..."
Arashi's reason renders Shido speechless, he knows what had happened when he was at the brink of death.
"Listen... I'm born to do this, because none will have to take up this dirty job. I'm already doomed, death will only be my redemption to my sins."
"Arashi..." Kaguya muttered.
Somewhere at the forest behind the hospital
With the storm starts brewing, a group of men in black hood with a symbol of sun etched onto them, gathers in the forest.
"The hospital, the spirits are in there. I can sense Lord Amon and Nanaya there."
"It is full moon and going to be eclipse now. It is the only chance we can help Lord Amon to possess that Nanaya."
"Commence the blood moon. Force out his terror and we will be victorious."
The group encircle a circle with undecipherable wordings on it. They chants in language of unknown origin.
Back at the hospital
With the group learnt the truth and remain in silent, Arashi starts to talk again.
"So, how is it like to learn the truth? The first group of outsiders to learn it and still living?" he asks in a cold tone.
All in a sudden, the night sky turn into red, it also started to rain. Everyone look at the sky, to their horror, the moon turned into menacing blood red. It shakes the heart of Arashi as he recognizes that it is the same illusion spell that he had used to hunt the fallen and for hunters to hunt spirits.
Without warning, Kurumi, Reine and Kannazuki collapse to the ground. Kotori remains calm and starts to contact Fraxinus.
"What is going, Mikimoto?"
"A large spirit territory is now covering the whole hospital, I'm trying to extract you all, but the territory is blocking the teleportational device. No spirits are detected in the field."
"What?" Kotori asks in shock.
"We need to get them out of here! I'll explain later once we get out of this."
The group help the unconscious Origami, Kurumi, Reine and Kyouhei up and bring them down from the rooftop. Kotori and Shido rush to the ward of Tohka and Mana. While Shido carries Tohka, Mana is helped up by Kotori. In the mean time, Arashi rushes down ahead to scout the way out.
"For them to appear at such a time, no doubt they knew it all. Their target is me..." he muttered
His eyes begin to glow as lines and points fill his vision. He sees six men rushing towards him. Their souls are red which is a sign of demonic alteration. He draws his blade while the altered draw their cursed weapons. Four of them pounces at the Nanaya, the young man does not falter but strengthens his focus, he runs past them while tracing their lines at the same time. With the two remaining foes, he bites his switchblade and turns both of his arms into dark demonic arms. His arms impales both of them and their soul being tore out from their body.
What they see is that the boy had disappeared. All in a sudden, they can't feel their limbs as they are severed. They are dead as their body being ripped into pieces by Arashi in just a single flash of a silver light. The young man then crushes the souls, consuming them to fuel his mana as he burns in a dark blue aura. When the group comes out to the ground floor, they are shocked as they see Arashi with the dismembered bodies.
"Why did you kill them?" Shido asks in surprise.
"They are the cultists. Now let's get out of here!"
"What about the others?" he asks again
"Their target is us, they won't hurt them. It is not their way."
"Can't you break this territory." Kotori asks.
"This is an illusion territory, basically we will be hypnotized so that I can never reach the field. Come on, let's go."
Arashi leads the group into the forests, he knows how to dispel it as he can sense where it is coming from. Suddenly in his way, a man armed with a sub-machine gun open fire at them.
"TA TA TA TA TA TA TA TA..."
Hail of leads pouring at the group, Arashi summons his shadow blades and sharpens his focus. Slowing the bullets down and carefully deflects them away.
"PING PING PING PING..."
He swings his swords in all direction, not letting any bullet pass his whirlwind of swords. He throws the shadow blade at the cultist, just as the blade reaches him, Arashi appears above the cultist upside down. The cultist watches in fear, Arashi's presence has stolen all of his senses. Arashi grabs the blade, with 1 blade at his teeth, his right grabs the man's hair, his left runs the blade through the line of death. With a twist on his body, Arashi lands in front of the cultist, who is being decapitated.
The group are disgusted at Arashi, his face are full of blood splatters, and he is still holding onto the cultist's head. Realizing that they are in shock, he throws the head back onto the body of the cultists and incinerates him with the dark shadow.
"This is why, you shouldn't save me..."
Shido hears it, he can tell that Arashi is now in despair. They continue to run in the forest, more and more gunmen appears. With the rain of lead constantly fly pass them, Arashi sends his shadow blades like heat seeking missiles. The blades seek the gunmen and pierces their point of death, killing them. Just as they thought they are safe from the persuit, dark chains bind all of the spirits and Shido.
"What? What are these chains?" Shido asks.
Arashi tries to trace the lines on the chains, but to his surprise, they have no death as if they are part of natural phenomena.
"So you are here, Satsujinki. The one who desired to be freed is still chained by Nanaya's mission, how interesting."
Arashi looks at the direction of the voice. A group of cultists is in his sight. He sees a man's face that is disturbingly familiar to him. His hair is black with white bangs, his eyes are in blood red, a distinct feature of a cultist.
"Who are you?" he asks.
"I am Nanoka Nobuhiko. Have you forgotten me, Arashi? You and Kyo had served all of us."
The name stirs up the memories, he remembered that one clansman had brutally murdered his parents, and that person was Nobuhiko. He becomes more alert as he faces the former Nanaya.
"Just what do you want? Betrayer… you killed your parents." Arashi asks in a cold manner.
"What I want… is your eyes. Their eyes went bad as soon as they are killed… But your eyes are still locked in place. You think all of us have been wiped out? Well, I'm the last of them, and I'm going to get your eyes and let Amon to take over you. After all, weapons are supposed to obey their master."
Arashi remembers how he was being exploited by his family members.
"Master? You are no longer one when you killed them. I now serve no one, Nanaya is long gone! Even if you were one of us, I can still kill you…"
"Ooooh… That sounds more like the Satsujinki I know of. Anyway, interested to know how Kyo had fallened?" Nobuhiko asks calmly.
"...!"
Arashi eyes open wide as he had always wanted to know how his partner and dearest cousin had betrayed him.
"I marked his soul…"
The words send ripples throughout his heart. With all his rage, Arashi unsheathes his blade, just as the lighting arcs across the sky and the thunder roars. His blade reflects his eyes that are blazing in bright blue
"NOBUHIKO!" he roared.
Just as Arashi is about to pounce on top of Nobuhiko, he makes a gesture.
"Ah ah..."
"Ugh..."
The chains which also coils at their neck starts to tighten up, trying to strangle all of them to death. Arashi stops moving after he saw that.
"You move, and they die…"
Knowing the dangers and risks involved, Arashi sheaths his blade and raise his arms in the air.
"Let them go! I am your target." Arashi plead
"What? Say again."
"I SAID LET GO OF MY FRIENDS!" Arashi shouted
"Friends? Hahaha... did I hear that Satsujinki has friends? I thought that you used to hate people?"
The group is surprised to hear that Arashi hates people, as he is now trying to protect them. Nobuhiko walks close at Arashi's side. Without warning, he swings his fists at Arashi, beating him to the ground.
"Because they are held hostage, you are weak! Look at you, how strong you were just now? Killing my men just like how you killed hundreds as Satsujinki like Kyo. You are here for a purpose!"
Nobuhiko continues to beat Arashi as he lay still on the floor
"Those who enslave you must die... The strong preys upon the weak..."
The ghostly voices start to echo within his mind now. He knows the origin of this voice, and he is trying to suppress it.
"Because I have to protect them... I protect them because unlike all of you, I see them as my friend. They are weak, that is what we had sworn to protect..." Arashi replied.
"Protect? Then tell me, who saves the weak from the man who protects the weak?" Nobuhiko countered
"...Because you're the one who is exploiting them. And the two of us."
Nobuhiko beats him to the ground again, with Arashi kneeling down this time.
"Admit it Arashi, both you and Kyo enjoyed it. To the point where you two can awake each other's ripper. Without us, you two won't be even able to do that. Especially when you ripped them apart and absorb their souls for your convenience."
"The thrill... didn't you enjoy it? Their faces in horror, their cries deafened by their scream" The ghostly voices echo in his mind again
"Uhhh..."
Bloody images keep flashing through his mind violently as Nobuhiko recounts on his ruthless streaks in the past. He kneels down on the floor as heavy rain showers on them.
"You know your purpose of living, to serve our lord. If you come with us, we will let them go. Or you can gouge out your eyes, and die quietly. At least you can die with a clear conscience as you will have nothing to answer for... After all, they are no use to me, it is only your eyes that we are looking for."
The words are like bullets, hitting Arashi's head constantly. He remembers all those words when he was forced to kill wizards. Slowly, his consciousness starts to fade as the other one takes over.
"RIP HIM APART!... RIP HIM APART!..." the echo turns into screams that flood his mind with nothing in mind but telling him to destroy Nobuhiko.
Fraxinus can detect Arashi's emotional level, they know it has reached it's breaking point.
"Commander, Assailant's emotional level as reach extremely volatile."
"Got it, we'll try to calm him."
Shido can see Arashi's face in agony and pain, he doesn't need to know that he has to calm Arashi down as Nobuhiko tortures Arashi with his past. He shouts at Nobuhiko furiously.
"STOP PLAYING WITH HIS EMOTIONS! Aren't you guys cousins?"
Nobuhiko looks at Shido, his face look as if he is mocking at how naive is Shido.
"Cousins? Hahahaha… I never see him as one. Do you have any idea what he was born for? He, his sister and another cousin of his are meant to be weapons. He is just a tool for us, and a tool for our lord. Now he had lead us to the Spirits, soon, the lords of hell will conquer this world." Nobuhiko replied.
"You're right..."
Arashi spoke suddenly, breaking the silence between him and Nobuhiko.
"Huh?"
"About me I mean..." he continued.
"Nanaya-san..." Kotori muttered.
"I knew something was… off… After all that happened, I thought sealing and unsealing my memories will make me walk off from the bloody night, from my dark past… and into a normal life… But here I am, surrounded by death, arguing allegiance with a betrayer. I told myself this was all to protect the world, and all because of what my mother was. I always told myself that I could make friends, and they could accept me as one. But I was wrong…"
"Then you admit it?" Nobuhiko taunts
Arashi looks at the puddle of water as his dark reflection slowly takes over him.
"My friends right here, my family, are helping me to suppress both the devil and the ripper inside me... But who am I kidding? I WAS BORN TO KILL! To kill because of what you guys have threatened, to kill because of what I believe in..."
"Arashi..." Kaguya muttered.
"You and I learnt at young that killing your enemies feels good. You guys forced me to listen to their tormented soul, and consume them for power... I have to say, I like it... Also, thanks to all of you, the taste of Amon's power feels good... Really good in fact."
Arashi's revelation shocks Shido and the spirits.
"And about protecting the world, the spirits and my friends stuff... I guess I need something to keep the ripper in check when I'm knee deep in bodies... But you, this is a wake up call to what I truly believe, what I truly am..."
Nobuhiko knows something is off when he can't sense Amon's aura from Arashi anymore.
"What are you saying?" he asks.
"I'm saying, Satsujinki is back..."
Arashi stands up in the mean time Nobuhiko summons his cursed sword retreating.
"KILL HIM!"
One of his men rushes up and impaling the cursed blade into Arashi's stomach.
"Nanaya!"
"Arashi!"
Both Shido and Kaguya shouted in worry as the blade impales through him.
"Hehehe...hahahahaha..."
But to everyone surprise, Arashi let out a maniacal laughter while the blade is still sticking out of his stomach. Not showing any kind of pain as if they are being numbed. His laughter and demeanor have a 180 degree turn, frostbiting everyone's spine. The man who impaled him is shocked as he moves back. Arashi's attire is changed to his astral suit. The leathery suit has the markings of the fiend, streaked in blue that are glowing along with the fiend's head on his chest, shoulders and gloves. He is intimidating everyone with the transformation.
"Nevermore!"
The chains binding Shido and the spirits are immediately shattered as Nevermore appears. The fiend of shadow blasts them with a bluish dark fireball that turns them into ethereal beings and disappears. Shido and the group can now longer be hurt by physical objects.
"Nevermore!? Impossible, Azrael still exists in you?" Nobuhiko asks in fear.
Arashi ignores his question, instead he bends his body and grabs the blade sticking out.
"Kill or be killed… The very words that had driven Kyo and me… Pain... Vengeance... Rage... This is why I fight... YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH!"
Arashi pulls the blade out with his blood flows out with it. Nobuhiko can't believe his eyes as the young man emits a terrifying aura that suppresses even the aura from Amon. The wound is set ablaze by a dark flame, rejuvenates by itself.
"This is my normal... My nature..."
Arashi declares as his blues eyes are glowing to the point of blazing and he is shrouded by a crimson aura.
"You have lost your mind..."
Nobuhiko orders his men to kill Arashi with a gesture. With the blade now on the floor, the man who impaled him dives in front trying to grab his blade. But Arashi impales the man's hand with a shadow blade. Just as another 2 man rushes up to kill Arashi, he flings the cursed blade with his leg and kicks it hard enough that it impales one of the man's body through the point of death, killing the man immediately.
"Nevermore-Abyssal Requiem!"
It is not over as another man trying to cleave him in half, with just focusing his mind, everything slows down in his vision even the raindrops. Arashi bends backwards as his adversary's blade swinging at him from his front. The blade nearly hit him at the nose, he retaliates and traces the line on the man's body with his dark blade. The man is killed as he is cleaved in half.
With the man on the ground still pinned, Arashi dissipates the shadow blade. Before he can recover, Arashi kicks him up and covers his face with his palm. A hellish blast of shadow from the ground, burning the man.
"No… NO… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…"
"It's too late… hahahahahaha…"
Another blast of shadow consumes the man
"ARRGH… Please... STOP!"
Without any mercy, he blasts another shadow, consuming the man and burning his soul to death. The group couldn't even believe what they are seeing as the young man that is protecting them is not the same person they always knew.
Nobuhiko is stunned as he has awakened the demon that they have imparted in Arashi's psyche.
"I guess I wronged you, you are indeed very rebellious..."
Facing the seemingly insane young man, Nobuhiko is rather calm, he has the same abilities as Arashi, just without the eyes and not as powerful as he is with shadows.
"Hehehehahahaha... you're just being nasty... Look around you, who's next?"
Knowing that it will be inevitable to fight against his cousin, Nobuhiko starts to taunt his foe.
"Hmph, I'll kill you little rebellious tool. I'll get the eyes after I rip out your soulstone." he declared in a defensive stance.
Not being intimidated, Arashi looks at the group. His smile has frostbitten everyone's spine with a temperature so cold that even Yoshino is not capable of doing so, it is the smile that spells only death.
"Hahaha... I think it is time for them to get acquainted with Satsujinki... Also, that nickname you love so much..."
Arashi rubs his fingers along the burning dark blade coated with blood.
"Want to know how I got it?... Actually, why don't I give you a demonstration?..." he points his sword at Nobuhiko.
"Let's kill!" Nobuhiko declared.
Nanaya and Nanoka sprints towards each other, their blade clashes in such a force where strong energy pulsates from the clash. The two of them swing their swords like whirlwinds. As Arashi aiming his sword at the line of death on Nobuhiko's sword, Nobuhiko suddenly shifts his weapon and resulting in a parry. Parry after parry, the clash of their sword is so sonorous that it almost deafen everyone's ears. The storm gets even stronger with thunder and lightning echo throughout the parries, as if they are reflecting the killing intent of both clans.
Their adrenaline flood their body as the two's physical prowess are on par with each other. Being Nanaya, they can read each other's moves, both of them are trying to keep their body low as they try to dive into each other's blind spot. They fight with such a speed that the group barely able to catch on what is going on. Eventually, their swords lock into place.
"So... this is Arashi's terrifying true form eh? I never know he is this powerful..." Nobuhiko spoke.
"...I am the demon that you have created, I'm merely doing a favor for him!"
Arashi smiled as he finishes his sentence, clearly not even serious in this fight. It is clear to Nobuhiko that he can't sustain for much longer, and he starts to tap into his unholy powers. The two push each other away.
"Take this!"
Nobuhiko's left arm combusts in dark flame and he swings it horizontally, creating an arc of shadow that is trying to consume Arashi. Seeing this, Arashi is not even intimidated. Being in control of darkness for so long, he doesn't fear it. With a snap of finger, the shadow gathers and burst out from the ground in front of Arashi. The burst defends Arashi as the arc of shadow is being consumed by the burst, leaving Arashi unharmed.
"Using darkness against me? I can finish you in just one strike you know?" Arashi taunt.
Believing the unholy powers are stronger than Arashi's, Nobuhiko is now enraged by Arashi's taunt.
"Don't underestimate me! Don't underestimate the power of our lords, you tool!" he roared
Nobuhiko swings his left arm again, this time a vertical arc. He also charges at Arashi with his insane speed.
"Tool... I'm a tool for your lord not without their reasons..."
Just as the arc about to reach Arashi, seemingly splitting him in half. He disappears and reappear again with the arc only misses at his right shoulder. At the same time, at the snap of his fingers, a big hellish blasts of shadow burst through the ground in front of Nobuhiko.
"Ugh..."
The blasts is so strong that it knocks him into the air. To his surprise, as the blast clears, a burning dark sword enters his vision. Follow by the young man who threw the blade. Things start to become slow in both of their vision. He can't move in mid air, he tries to swing his cursed blade to block the sword. But he can't feel his arms anymore. He look at the dark blade Arashi is wielding, it is stained with blood. He looks back his arms, to his horror, they are being reduced to bloody stumps. He look around again and his arms are severed in mid air as well.
"Impossible... Just what the hell you believe in?" Nobuhiko starts to mutter
"You can possess infinite powers, it doesn't matter to me. They are pale against mine and they are all dead in my eyes... Also, the weak who enslaves the strong, must die!"
Realizing his death is imminent, he cries to plead the ripper.
"No..."
"This is for Kyo... and all you have killed..." Arashi muttered
The plea is deafened by Satsujinki's will to kill, he grabs the dark blade in mid air.
"Sayo-nara… Rest in… Whatever, you don't need them because you can't move on…"
Nobuhiko knows that the ripper is going to kill his existence, and screams.
"NO! STOP! NOOOOOOO…!"
"YEEEEEEEEEEEARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHH!"
With a roar, the ripper grabs the sword in mid air, piercing 1 sword through Nobuhiko's point of death. He died instantly as not only his soul is killed, also his existence. Afterward, Arashi traces the lines on Nobuhiko's body so fast that it is being separated. The ripper doesn't stop here, Nobuhiko's body seems to be suspended in mid air as he is not moving in his vision. Arashi continues to hack and slash him, ripping chunks after chunks into pieces. Shido and the spirits watch in horror as Satsujinki swings his blade like a blender, blending his foe. When it is over, their adversary is now reduced to merely a bloody pulp.
"Hah… Hah… Hah…"
Arashi is panting heavily as he starts to get a grip on himself again, he looked at his bloody hands and the blood coated blades.
"Kyo…"
He feel a bitter triumph of avenging his cousin as he knows that was his false strength, the strength that both his cousin and family condemned. He can see that Shido and the rest are shivering in fear, the sighting only causes him to condemn himself even further.
"Just when am I going to lose control like that again? I don't want that side of me to appear in front of them... Guide me please... Kyo... Mum... Dad... Yuki..."
He clenches the ring that he is wearing as he lamented. He swings his blades on to the floor, splashing off the blood that coats his swords. He is aware that the danger is not yet over, Arashi dispels the ethereal form of the group. The group is now horrified to stay near to him. He knows that as well, he doesn't blame them.
"Let's go... There will be more of them. Avatar of Camael, order your crew to extract all of you as soon as the field dispels."
"Yes." she replied.
Arashi takes the lead and the group follows, Shido catches a glimpse of him crying. He couldn't help but to think.
"Yuki and him… The past must have been very hard for them. There must be even more that he is hiding."
Arashi leads the group into the forest, with his sense to spirit's powers, he can sense where are the summoners of this field.
"Nanaya-san, what is your plan now? We certainly would not want to be in a bloody situation again." Kotori asks
"I'm bringing you guys to the center, where they summon the field. The field will only dispel when they are killed."
"WHAT?" The group exclaimed.
"Wait... There must be other way." Shido tries to stop Arashi
"Don't stop me, Itsuka... I know what they are, they are worse than DEM's wizards. It is now a kill or be killed situation, they want to kill us!"
"Kill or be killed? That is just another reason for you to murder people?" Shido counters Arashi.
Arashi and Shido glares at each other, completely disagree with each other's way.
"Stop it, you two! It is not the time to fight. Shido, he has his point, we've never encounter people who can use powers like that." Kotori tries to loose the tension.
"Tsch..."
The group starts to walk again with Arashi in lead. Shido glares at Arashi, to him, he is almost indifferent to Ellen, albeit that he is on the Spirits' side. Arashi knows that, his impression towards everyone is even worse than being rock bottom, being extremely negative on the scale. He suddenly spoke
"Itsuka... If there is an alternate way... I'll no doubt choose that..."
His words surprised Shido as to him, Arashi is never a pacifist.
"What? But why?"
Arashi confessed.
"Can't you see I'm just tired? I have been doing this non-stop for years. While the clan would have want me to absorb wizards' soul to punish them for hurting Spirits, I now choose to let them live as Nanaya is now long gone, I now only answer to my own action. And also, I trust you..."
The word 'trust' is a big surprise to everyone, as it comes from a paranoid man himself.
"But how?"
"Phantom told me that you are our salvation, and Yuki did looked for you. I trust her judgement, also, seeing you sealing the Spirits. I know you will understand a Spirit's difficulties. And so you are someone I can trust. Should Yuki reappear again, you should save her, not me, I have too many things to answer for and too many sins to atone that I don't deserve to be saved."
Shido is now puzzled by Arashi's words.
"Yuki to reappear?"
"I don't think she's dead yet. She always pull tricks off me... It is full moon after all, if there is a lunar eclipse later, don't be surprised to see her knocking at your door..."
"...!"
Both Shido and Kotori gasped as they did preserve Yuki's body. It gives Shido a little bit of hope as he won't feel so guilty about Yuki's death, and he can in turn, seal her. The spirits, especially Yamai twins who were shocked to learn Yuki's death.
"What's the matter?" Arashi asks as he senses an awkward silence.
"Nothing... Anyway, what did you do back there?"
Shido diverts Arashi's attention and asks something he is curious of.
"I put back Yatogami and that blue haired girl's soul. I was able to assume some control back there, to ensure Amon did not consume them, if not, it will be impossible to do this."
"You mean they'll be awaken soon?"
"Yes, they'll need to rest. That blue hair girl's soul is pretty damaged. That is the result of forcing capabilities of Spirits into human."
"She used to be in DEM. They performed experiment on her to the point where she only has 10 years to live."
"I see..."
At the center
"There it is, the terror of his heart."
"Commence the summoning, Lord Amon will be freed tonight."
The group of cultists keep chanting with the circle now opens up a dark portal. A young man appears from the portal. He is wearing a hood, with his face completely covered. One of them approaches the hooded man.
"You, kill your other self. We will grant you immense power after that."
"Power? From you guys who serve? Don't you think it is rude to keep someone awake when he just want to sleep?" the hooded man says
"You exist to kill your other half. Now we allow you to do so without hindrance. Serve us and proof to us that our sacrifice is worth it."
Without warning, the man in hood decapitates the cultist who is in front of him with just a quick swing of his dark blade.
"What?" they gasped.
"I serve no one... I'll be taking the blood moon myself."
The cultists realized their mistake and try to run. But before they can, the hooded man already summoned his blades to surround them.
"AHHHHHHH...!"
They cry as their limbs are separated by the blades that ran through them effortlessly. What is left is the carnage of brutally dismembered bodies.
"He'll be here… I'll show him how his efforts are not even worth it... Let's settle the feud here, after all... it feels good to have a lord contained..."
The hooded man smile coldly, seeming unfazed by the carnage.
Focus on the group
"Are we there yet?"
"Almost."
Arashi leads the group and stays on high alert. He draws his switchblade to conserve his mana, preparing to strike down the summoners.
"There!"
They arrive to the ritual spot, but to their surprise, the summoners are all dead. The scene of carnage is a pile of brutally dismembered body.
"They are all dead, what now Nanaya?" Shido asks.
"Impossible, they are the summoners alright…" Arashi is deeply puzzled.
Without warning, shadows imprison Shido and the spirits. Leaving Arashi free once more.
"Wha... What's going on?" Yoshino asks through her puppet.
Arashi ignores their question, he keeps looking for the adversary with his eyes activated. He sees something approaching him, invisible to everyone but the person's death is visible to him. Realizing that person is his adversary, he demands with his blade drawn.
"Dispel your cloak! They can't see you, but I can!"
He points his switchblade at the invisible man. Without warning, the man instantaneously sprints at him at a blinding speed.
Arashi focuses as he slows down his adversary's speed in his vision, he parries the man's switchblade which is aimed at his chests. He realizes that the person is armed with the same switchblade as his as well.
"WHO ARE YOU?"
"..."
The man ignores him and dispels his invisibility, continues to swing his blade at Arashi with blinding speed. His abnormal precision with his blade is disturbing as all of his strikes are aimed at Arashi's lines. In the midst of the skirmishes, Arashi catch a glimpse of the man's eyes, it is bright blue just like his Eyes of Death.
"Eyes of Death?" he gasped.
Arashi fights back as he parries his enemy's blade, he aims his strikes at his enemy's lines also. However, as if the enemy can see them as well, he blocks Arashi's blade before it can even reach him. The two are locked in place with their blades.
"It seems that we can see what they can't see..." the hooded man says with a chilling voice.
"...!"
Knowing it is a stalemate, the two young man stands back. Arashi looks at his enemy's dressing. His black jacket with grey streaks that is exactly the same as his.
"JUST WHO ARE YOU?" Arashi asks again.
"I am your sin…" the hooded man reply.
"What?..." Arashi gasped
The group is puzzled by what the hooded man says.
"The sin of you, unable to protect Nanaya, Kyo, Mum, Dad, and Yuki."
Arashi's eyes are wide open as the hooded man reveals his past.
"I am also your terror…"
The hooded man pulls down his hood, revealing his face which shocks everyone.
"The part of you, which can use powers without limits."
Arashi's pupils shrink to the size of a pinhole as the man has the same looks as his. He realizes the man's meaning and immediately be on guard.
"SATSUJINKI!"
Well, that's all for part 2. Chapter 8 is already in progress. I hope I can get more reviews in order to improve on my fanfic. Thank you.