Hello. This is your pal, Jude Warble.
Important Note: I will not repeat the Deaths of characters on each Solo, Duo or Trio Ending because it will just consume the plotline and it would be a useless repeat. Just so you all know.
And with that out of the way, please enjoy this fanfic, and as always, stay breezy!
Unknown Location
"Rem...Sonic...?"
The second Trial came with a second astoundment.
Shadow was literally looking at something that wasn't supposed to be there.
Rem...And Sonic...Right in one place together.
"Shads? What's wrong? You're looking like as if you saw a ghost" Sonic said while waving his hand in front of Shadow's face, despite being a little above one meter in height, with Shadow being 1.8 meters, making it seems as if a kid was talking to his father.
"Shadow-kun...Are you okay?"
"?!"
Just then, Shadow flinched slightly as Rem placed her hand on his cheek. He could actually feel it. This...Warmth.
"...Yes. I'm fine, Rem. Sorry to make you worried" Shadow said with a small smile, gently hugging Rem's hand closer to his face.
"As usual, Sonic-san...You made Shadow-kun angry. You never know when to quit your idiocy, do you?" Rem asked, glaring at Sonic from the corner of her eye as she was enjoying Shadow's hand touching her hand that was on his cheek.
"The honorific and the insult don't mix, Rem..." Sonic sweatdropped at Rem's insult and honorific to him being placed in the same phrase.
"Obviously, Maurice doesn't have any tact, especially with Shads"
"?!"
Shadow blinked at yet another familiar voice, only to see Ram entering the house, leaning against the door with her hands folded underneath her small chest. A glare directed towards Sonic from her made the hedgehog feel as if he was the most wretched existence in the world.
"So harsh, Ram. Try to take it easy on him"
"?!"
Another voice came into the fray as a pink hedgehog wearing a red dress entered while holding more Christmas decorations.
"Amy...?" Shadow muttered her name, causing said hedgehog to blink.
"Oh! Shadow! You're here! We've been looking all over for you!" Amy exclaimed with a pout.
"Ehh?" Shadow raised an eyebrow at Amy's pout as she placed a hand on her hip and pointed at him.
"Nu-uh, mister. You should learn of the responsibility between a husband and his wives. No going out prodding like an edgelord when you have wives, not to mention four of them" Amy said while wagging a finger in front of Shadow's face.
"Huh? Four? Married?" Shadow asked in confusion. It was at that time when lots of people from Shadow's past Life had entered his line of vision and right inside the house.
Tails, Knuckles, Sticks, Cream, Espio, Charmy, Mighty, Vector, Rouge, Omega, Cream, Cheese, Vanilla, Silver, Blaze, Manic, Sonia, Sally and for some reason, Robotnik even arrived while holding what appeared to be an enlarged, female version of himself inside a small wagon, and he was also huffing from exhaustion, most likely due to pushing the woman in the wagon.
His eyes widened in disbelief. Why were they here? Weren't they all supposed to be-
"Oya Oya~. What's with the loooooong face, Shaaaaaaadow-kun?"
"?!"
The annoying, elongating voice rang soon afterwards inside Shadow's ears as he saw people from his current Life entering the house shortly afterwards.
Roswaal, Frederica, Petra, Natsumi, Reinhard, Ezzo, Rom, Felt, Rachins, Gaston, Camberly, Otto, Garfiel, Heinkel, Anastasia, Julius, Mimi, Tivey, Hetaro, Ricardo, Crusch, Felix, Wilhelm, Melty, Salum, Pooka, Emilia, Puck, Saki, Kaylin, Beatrice, Priscilla, Al, Schult, Halibel, Zarestia, Chloe, Olga, Luu-Luu, Celestine, Kaguya, Claudia, Maia, Lavi, Mariabel, Banny, Lapin, Connie, Daniella, Jiggle, Luce, Lang, Yoriichi, Rika, Katelyn and Cece.
Shadow's eyes twitched at this.
"What the fuck is going on?"
At the same time. Mount Cordor
"We did it! All three of us!"
"That was...The strangest adventure that I've ever been part of"
"So many deaths 'cause of tha'creatcha. Ma' amazin' self doesn't know whadda do now..."
Otto, Heinkel and Garfiel released sighs of relief upon entering into the grounds of Mount Cordor, glad that the nightmare was over. And as the three stared at the close-to-set sun, they contemplated on their current predicament.
"Don't give up! We know...This is a hidden spot!" Otto exclaimed with a confident smile.
"Yeah, of course...THIS is a hidden spot"
"?!"
And the familiar voice shattered all of their hope, as Subaru EXE appeared in a small, brief flash of light, standing in front of the three males.
"What? But how? Three of us are alive!" Heinkel said in a mixture of shock and horror, before he saw a new existence appear out of thin air.
It was what appeared to be a maid, but her blonde hair was almost brown, with her jade green eyes becoming blood red irises with black sclera, and her right eye was completely gone, being covered by a long streak of stitches that ran from her right eyebrow, traveling onto her right cheek and all down to the right side of her chin.
"I guess you forgot about the girls" Subaru EXE said.
"Frederica-san?!" Otto exclaimed the maid's name in shock.
"Nee-chan?! What da heck didya do t' Nee-chan, ya bastard?!" Garfiel yelled his question in rage.
"No, this can't be happening!" Otto yelled with his eyes wide in shock, grief and disbelief.
"Deja Vu didn't work for you this time, huh?" Subaru EXE asked in a mocking manner.
"Deja Vu? Th'heck ya talkin' 'bout?!" Garfiel yelled, his angry voice was now laced with sobs at seeing his sister's reanimated corpse in front of him.
"Oh jeez...Deja Vu helped you three to survive. Some small fragments of memory are still inside your braindead heads. I guess you can handle it..." The abomination said, before the three males saw Subaru EXE teleporting away, leaving Frederica EXE there with them, who immediately transformed her hands to large brown fur-colored claws. Garfiel, how was the one that was most devastated by his sister's Death, with Otto racing him into that position of grief, gritted his teeth, before he reached for Otto.
"Go away, Merchant Boy!"
"?!"
Otto gasped as he saw Garfiel hoisting him above his head with both hands, and before he could question what the Human-Beast Hybrid would do, Otto was thrown with herculean strength away from both of him and Heinkel. Otto landed face first on the dirt several meters away from the other two males. He then stood up and coughed out the dirt that entered his mouth, and not a few seconds later, he saw Frederica appearing in front of him, holding the heads of Garfiel and Heinkel, whose faces were fixated with an expression of absolute horror while being completely covered in blood.
"Stay away from me!" Otto exclaimed, trying to fight the urge to throw up.
"Just make this easy for me" Frederica EXE said with a rather monotone expression, breaking Otto's heart even further as he knew that this was not the Frederica that he knew.
"Frederica-san! It's not you...I know you're not weak! Snap out of it!" Otto yelled his words at the maid, who simply clenched her clawed fists.
"I was weak and stupid when I thought that you could ever love someone like me. And now my heart is filled with anger" Frederica EXE said, causing Otto's facial expression to stiffen and harden.
"Then...We're enemies..." He muttered, before he activated his Rune Stone Skill, causing target marks to appear on Frederica's arms and head in front of his eyes.
Frederica EXE jumped into action, lunging at Otto, who narrowly dodged a horizontal right swing of her claws, before jumping backwards. He then saw as Frederica EXE jumped upwards, before descending to the ground, and the moment her foot stomped on the ground, a massive shockwave erupted towards Otto, who immediately summoned Earth Magic to cast Dona, effectively creating a slab of earth that blocked the wind attack, but it shattered the moment it blocked it, and sent Otto flying away, albeit with no injuries whatsoever.
Otto regained his standing stance, before he summoned Earth spears using El Terra, before sending them flying towards Frederica EXE, who opened her mouth and dark red energy started to charge in, condensing into a ball, before the energy ball released a dark red energy beam that travelled towards Otto.
"Dammit!" Otto cursed, before raising his arm in front of him.
"Ul Dona!" He roared, causing a massive dome of Earth to encase him, protecting him from the beam.
Once the energy beam made contact with the Earth dome, a huge explosion echoed, blasting dirt and gravel around. The dome was completely demolished, but Otto was still unharmed as a massive dust screen encased the battlefield.
"El Terra!"
"?!"
Frederica EXE jumped away as spears of Earth zoomed towards her, to which she dodged most of them. However, one spear managed to nail her left arm, causing her to hiss in pain.
"I'm not supposed to feel pain...What kind of secret power is he using? He's just using simple Earth Magic! I have to kill him...And quick!" Frederica EXE thought as she jumped several meters backwards, before channeling Mana within her body, then released it, causing a massive shockwave to resonate throughout the mountain, blowing away the dust screen, but Otto was nowhere to be found. Frederica EXE looked around, but she found nothing.
"Here!"
"?!"
She then gasped as her other arm got pierced from behind by another Earth Spear from behind. She looked behind her with gritted teeth to see Otto with Earth Spears floating around him. He then launched all of the remaining ten spears that he had at Frederica EXE, who opened her mouth and released balls of dark red energy that collided with seven of the spears, destroying them. She then saw the remaining three spears launched at her, causing her to use her now limp arms, which were not moving for some reason after Otto's Earth spears stabbed into them, to destroy two of the spears by swinging them at it, where she dodged the last of the Earth spears to her side, causing said spear to fly past her.
She grinned at Otto, who was standing still with a sad look on his face. Assuming that he already ran out of tricks due to his expression, Frederica EXE lunged at Otto, and upon reaching him, she jumped into the air, opening her fanged mouth in an attempt to chomp off Otto's head.
But then...
"I'm sorry"
SHIIK!
"?!"
The sound of flesh being stabbed, before blood burst out from the head of Frederica EXE as the Earth spear that she dodged made a U-turn back to her and stabbed her in the back of the head, protruding from her opened mouth as a shocked expression was plastered on her face, before she fell beside the grieving Otto face first on the ground, limbless and lifeless.
Otto looked at the corpse of the woman he fell in love with, grief and sadness plastered on his face.
"Sorry, Frederica-san...I didn't mean to..." Otto muttered his words to Frederica's corpse. It was then when he noticed a female figure clad in shadows floating towards him. Otto couldn't make out her face or features, but he could make out the fact that she was a female judging by her body posture.
"How does it feel...To kill your own friend...? And the girl that you loved no less...?" The shadowy figure asked Otto.
"W-What?! Who are you?!" Otto asked in shock, already on alert.
"It feels terrible...Awful...Isn't that right?" She asked, yet didn't wait for an answer for Otto, before she completed her phrase.
"You need to survive!"
And right after saying that, white light assaulted Otto's eyes, before he was teleported away from Mount Cordor, leaving Frederica's reanimated corpse on the floor of the mountain.
A few hours later. Hanumas. Nighttime
Gasping for breath after running nonstop for a couple of hours, Petra's lungs were burning and her heart was beating rapidly.
"Lucas...He...Sacrificed himself for me..." She muttered, tears falling down her eyes.
"I...I have to survive...Just like he said. My friends. I need to find them, but I went to the opposite direction of The Sanctuary" She said, before an idea hit her in the middle of her panicked state.
"I can take a detour from The Lifaus Highway, but...It will be long" Petra muttered to herself, imagining how tiring the journey can be, and what would happen if that abomination caught up with her. She then slapped both of her cheeks with both hands to snap herself out of her pessimism, despite the fact that she was in an already overly pessimistic situation.
"I don't have any other choice. I must keep moving forward" She said to herself, before she took a turn towards the Lifaus Highway.
Petra, who was leaving Hanumas city, had absolutely no idea that the population of the entire city was completely annihilated, as in her panic to find a way to survive her impending doom, she was unaware of the fact that Hanumas was hushed as Death.
Well...Emphasis on the 'as'.
A few hours later. Lifaus Highway
She kept on running and running, even though her legs felt like they were moments from falling apart. She already knew what she was running from, even though she couldn't sense anything that was following her at the moment. She just couldn't bet her time when Death could be anywhere to take her soul. Another thing was the fact that snow started to fall, riddling the road with snow and making it difficult for her to run, slightly slowing her down. Not to mention the fact that it was a completely abnormal phenomenon to happen in the Red-sun season.
Suddenly, something burst from the ground, knocking Petra off her feet when she was on the process of running. The familiar figure floated in the air, glaring at Petra with an expression filled of anger, spite, hatred, loathing and bloodlust, something that Petra never thought that she would see on the boy's face.
"I guess you forgot about me?" Lucas asked with his glare still fixated on Petra, who knew that he was extremely angry despite his calm tone. She could see that the grey rashes and the pulsating veins increased to the point that it travelled to cover the entirety of the left half of his body.
"Lucas!" She called for the boy, but his bloodlust that was growing by the second made her lose the ability to take any other word out from her mouth.
"It's time for you to die!" Lucas exclaimed, before pointing his palm towards her. Petra, who realized that she couldn't run any longer due to her legs being completely fatigued, alongside the fact that the Fear plaguing her heart increased, closed her eyes, awaiting her end.
However, all that Petra heard while having her eyes closed was the sudden impact of something colliding with something. She opened her eyes to see Otto, bruised, battered and injured, with some of his outfit being tattered, but still fine nonetheless.
"Otto-sama...?" Petra muttered out the name of her savior.
Flashback. A few minutes ago. Ganaks. Nighttime
"Ack!"
Landing with a soft thud on his back, Otto rubbed his back from the pain that resulted from the collision onto the solid ground.
He then sat there, wide eyed and shocked as tears flew down his eyes without him making the faintest of a sobbing sound.
"Tinsel-san...Heinkel-san...We failed again..." He muttered, his speech completely broken from the sadness that he got plunged in just a few moments ago.
Not only did he lose his other two companions, but he was also forced to fight the woman that he fell in love with, seeing her being treated as nothing but a slave, forcibly being taken from her grave and not even give the slimmest shred of mercy from the vile creature that brainwashed and reanimated her.
So cruel...So revolting...So...So heartbreaking.
"It's useless, useless...We're all going to die again and again...What should I do? Should I just...Give up?" He muttered to himself, Despair already consuming him to the roots.
"Hey, Exebark. I think we found a dinner for ya"
"?!"
Hoping into his feet upon being alerted by the sudden malicious voice nearby, Otto shivered uncontrollably, as the voice was pretty much beside him. Looking in front of him from behind the bushes that he miraculously landed beside, He observed two of the most disturbing creatures in his life. One looked like a floating balloon with long, clawed arms and another that looked like a Wolgram. Both were pale blue in color from head to toe, had the same fanged, sharp, pointy teeth and had the same crimson, mad bloodlusted eyes as they gazed on what appeared like a child that had the same eyes that oozed blood out of them just like its predators and the same pale blue color theme.
"Look! You're pretty hungry, Barky! So let's catch this useless slave!" The balloon-like entity told the Wolgram-like beast, to which the latter extended its tongue out of its mouth, gazing hungrily at the trembling child, who despite having its eyes disgustingly oozing blood of them, it still showed genuine fear when those two leered at him with such murderous aura.
And just as they both were about to close on the child...
"What the bloody hell are you two doing here?"
"?!"
Otto had to place both hands on his mouth as tightly as he can as he was about to release an unconscious gasp, as Subaru EXE appeared in a white flash, positioning himself between the blue child and the two entities that were about to kill it.
"Oh, sorry for a rhetorical question. Who allowed you, Execun, to eat Exebi, one of my important slaves?" Subaru EXE asked the balloon entity sarcastically as Exebi, the blue child, jumped on his shoulder.
"Important?! He's useless! He's helping them survive! But we want to kill them, just like you!" Execun exclaimed.
"Kill? Don't you want to have fun with them a little longer?" Subaru EXE asked, and Otto had to hold his urge to vomit at those words.
"Fun?! What's the point in that?! I want to kill them! But this little freak was helping them!" Execun called out.
"At least it's even way better than your...hobby" Subaru EXE said with a glare towards Execun, causing the entity to gasp.
"Killing is an easy way, but manipulating them is much better. Don't ruin my plans. Go find them so that my eyes will not see you for now" Subaru EXE said, causing Execun to click its tongue, before vanishing in a small flash of light.
"Hey, Otto. Now we can talk"
"?!"
Suddenly, Otto felt his entire body get frozen, before he was pulled telekinetically from his hiding spot towards the abomination possessing his friend.
"W-What were you waiting for? Or is it just one of your tricks?" Otto asked, mustering whatever courage he had within himself.
"Let me open your eyes..." Subaru EXE said before Otto felt that he regained control of his body, and then an exact copy of Subaru EXE appeared in front of Otto.
"Remember the giant version of me? Well, it was just a clone, and so is this copy of mine. Try and kill this clone" He said to Otto, who wasted no time and sent the head of the clone flying with a punch enhanced by Mana. It was then when Otto's eyes widened in realization and horror.
"Just a clone...That giant one...Was one of your copies? So all this time, your copies were fighting with us?" Otto asked, pure shock and horror plastered on his face, before he saw Subaru EXE walking towards him, not stopping until he was just a meter away from him.
"Hehe...Now you know...Now then...Try to kill me" Subaru EXE said to Otto, who also wasted no time and delivered a Mana-infused punch to Subaru EXE. Now normally that would also cause his head to fly, but no. Subaru EXE's head was still intact, and not even a bone was broken.
Otto's eyes widened in shock and disbelief once again.
"Y-You...You're immortal?" Otto whispered his words, horror plaguing his very soul as Subaru EXE's grin widened to the point that it was close to splitting his face.
"Oh my...What a fool you are. How can you be so naive, Otto? What an intoxicating stupidity..." Subaru EXE said before backhanding Otto in the face, causing him to lose his balance and fall on his face.
"Have you lost your mind? Oh...Yes you did. I just need to push certain buttons to wreck it completely, yeah?" He said before vanishing instantly, leaving the wrecked Otto alone, who stood slowly to his feet, his face plastered with horror and anxiety.
"This is madness. I have to reach the Sanctuary as quick as possible to warn the others there. I think that the fastest way is through the Ginia Mountains and then through Elior Forest" He said as he entered through the entrance of the mountains behind of him.
Upon entering the mountain, Otto became completely confused.
Ganaks was supposed to be a mining city, and the Ginia Mountains were simply a part of it. Someone could make a fortune if it wasn't for the dangerous environment. And since Otto was the person to take with the rumors and never find through it, which was natural due to how much misfortunes he went through, he preferred to stay away from Ganaks, and as far as possible as well.
Being known as a mining city, surely you would imagine to find minerals lying here and there. However...
"It's completely barren. What happened here?" Otto asked no one in particular, as he walked ahead for a few minutes. Suddenly, he felt the mountain rumble, before a huge rubble from the ceiling fell and was about to squash Otto underneath it, only for the merchant to jump away just in time to avoid being crushed.
"Oh great. The entrance is closed" Otto sighed at his rotten luck upon realizing that he couldn't now get out from the entrance even if he wanted to. The rumbling even increased.
"Alright. No use staying here. I have to keep moving" Otto said before dashing towards the inside of the mountain.
As he was running, he barely dodged to his side as a crack on the ground appeared underneath him, and whatever spurted from the ground did a good job on burning the left sleeve of his pants.
"Lava?!" Otto yelled out. It was then when he gasped in shock and horror.
He was in a dormant volcano, which was activated right now. Something that shouldn't be possible considering the fact that it required too much power on the level of a town-spanning earthquake to activate. Unless...
"This bastard!" Otto cursed from behind his teeth, spitting his words like venom at what the abomination that was using his friend's body had done.
It was his vision of 'fun', after all.
Otto then dashed towards the inside of the mountain, his heart was already beating so hard, as panic rose inside of him from the possibility that there was no way out from the mountain now that the entrance was sealed off.
"Natsuki-san...Would never give up...Even in this kind of situation..." He said from behind his gritted teeth, only to scream in pain in the next second when something burst from the ground, stabbing him into his left thigh from behind and piercing through the front of his leg.
"Spikes?!" He yelled out in pain and anger, before he gritted his teeth as he yanked his leg free from the spike that impaled it, yelling in pain as tears built in the corners of his eyes.
His instincts suddenly kicked in, causing him to jump to the ground, landing on his stomach and kissing the dirt underneath him as something circular swung like a pendulum behind him.
"Oh come on! Now there are saw blades?!" He yelled in frustration, before he willed himself to stand up and started to make a mad dash to the other side of the mountain, hissing in pain as his leg pulsated with the unbearable pain that the spike gave to him.
He then jumped to his side, avoiding a pendulum scythe that suddenly appeared from the ceiling of the cave in the mountain that threatened to cut him in half, only to miss the giant pendulum morningstar that slammed into him from his left side, causing him to slam into the wall to his right, which seemed to be a trigger reaction that caused a hook blade to swing vertically at him from the wall, piercing his right eye.
"GAAAGH!" Otto screamed in pain, before he felt the hook blade trying to dig itself deeper inside his eye socket. Fearing that the blade would pierce through his skull, Otto gritted his teeth, before yanking the blade out of his eye, causing blood to burst from his eye socket.
He didn't have time to recover as suddenly, he felt multiple objects slam into his back, and judging by their weight and the size of the stabbed area, Otto mentally concluded that those were iron darts. The kind of weapons that Gusteko assassins use like the deceased Bowel Hunter use.
He couldn't take his breath yet as dozens of arrows soared towards him from the front, to which he pushed himself away from the wall and to his left side, albeit he was barely able to dodge as three arrows found their mark on him. One at his right calf, one at his right shoulder and the last one pierced through his right waist, just missing his kidney.
Just as he dodged that, however, a log came swinging towards him, slamming straight into his chin and causing a few of his frontal teeth to be sent flying out from his mouth and knocking the merchant off his feet and onto the ground on his back.
Sadly, he didn't have time to rest from all of that, as suddenly, a loud clang rang in the cave and Otto screamed in pain as an iron bear trap found itself slamming shut on his left hind leg.
Otto clenched his teeth so hard that a tooth chipped, before he jumped up to his feet, wincing in pain as all of those traps literally ate at his stamina and he was yet to find an exit from the mountain.
"Bastard...He really is toying with me..." Otto muttered under his breath, his rage growing even more as he swore that he heard the mad cackle of Subaru EXE in the back of his head.
He then sprinted forward, desperately trying to move himself from the hellhole that his enemy placed him in. And then, he felt the rumbles increase, which caused him to squeeze his brain and force himself to endure the pain in his body, before he found himself outside the hallway of the cave that he was in, and a pitfall found itself separating him from the next entrance, and the pitfall itself contained lava, which was rising right now.
Otto gasped in horror. It seems that the earthquake from earlier caused the mountain to awaken. Otto remembered how Subaru told him once that mountains were originally volcanoes that became dormant due to the lava within seeping and hardening, closing the volcano from the inside and from its top opening, effectively turning it into a mountain. And with enough tectonic force, a.k.a earthquakes, it would cause the hardened lava to shatter and for the lava to reawaken within the mountain, returning its status as an active volcano.
And was what exactly was happening.
"Tch. No time and Mana to use Earth Magic to create a bridge..." Otto clicked his tongue at his rotten luck, before he braced himself and jumped to the other end, barely making it to the cliff as his hands latched onto the rocky platform of the other side, desperately trying to save himself from falling to the pitfall that held the rising lava.
Otto gritted his teeth. His body was already in pain, and his nails were gruesomely peeled off and drawing blood due to how much force he was exerting at clutching the rocky cliff that his nails and fingers drew blood.
"I'm not gonna die...Not here...Not now.."
He wanted to live. Something that was completely normal in every kind of living being in All Creation.
But Otto Suwen was different.
There were lots of misfortunes that happened to him. Being a liability to his parents who almost gave up on him due to his Divine Protection placing him into a constant cradle of Hell, his entire hometown ridiculing and calling him despicable names due to his Divine Protection, a daughter from a wealthy family, who accused him of having an affair with her after Olso Suwen, his elder brother, rejected her, started spreading bad rumors about him, and in order to show that he was innocent, Otto used his Divine Protection and quickly knew that she was having an affair with eight different men, with him not being included of them. This spiraled down as Otto was now hated by everyone due to the fact that this girl, Diadora Regundra, was from the Regundra wealthy family in Picoutatte, Otto's hometown, and not to mention that Diadora sent an assassin to kill Otto to hide her embarrassment. This led to Otto being exiled from his hometown, where his father, who desperately tried to protect his son, hooked Otto up with a merchant friend of his, causing him to become a traveling merchant.
But even then, Otto's bad luck really came forth; if he was transporting fruits, bad weather would come forth; if he took a shortcut, random bandits would attack him; and so forth. Luckily, Otto was born with a mercantile talent as great as his luck was poor. He rarely lost bets and deals, no matter the odds and, of course, he never went bankrupt. One day, Otto misread the market trends and got into a lot of debt after the price of the oil he was transporting plummeted.
Luckily, his saving grace came in the form of one Subaru Natsuki, who wanted to have a transportation to Lugunica, and will pay him handsomely. And he was of his word, as he paid him so great that Otto himself couldn't believe that he was now free of his streak of bad luck, as with the money that Subaru gave to him, he was able to take care of his debt with a portion of it, while the rest of the money he used in the investments on Mayonnaise and Pina Colada, which throughout the last few months, made a huge profit for Otto on top of his new job as the Emilia Camp's Head of Internal Affairs. He even got to meet a girl that he fell in love with.
He thought that his bad luck streak is over. That he finally found peace from his troubled life.
But even then, this happiness of his didn't last long, as his bad luck came biting him down...And not in his ass, but in the place where the sun doesn't shine, which, I kid you not, hurts a lot, if not outright causing instant Death.
In just a single day, he lost everything. His friends. His lover. His business. His world. Everything.
And that's all because of that abomination that was wearing the body of his best friend, prying on his friends and humiliating them just for 'fun'.
So the least that he could do was...
"Survive..." He muttered before forcing himself to climb up, ignoring the pain in his hands and legs, before he shot up and jumped to his feet, completely ignoring the pain and forcing himself to run through sheer willpower, even though his body was weighted by both his grave injuries and the bear trap lodged into his leg.
"I WILL SURVIVE!" He yelled from the top of his lungs as he ran as fast as his near-crippled legs could muster, the adrenaline pumping straight to his heart, giving him the power to run despite the pain plaguing and crippling him even further.
The lava then started to rise up as Otto entered the second cave. The lava then followed him at an astounding rate, but Otto didn't look back. Even if he had the time to do so, a sane man wouldn't even dare to look Death in the eyes.
Unless you're Subaru Natsuki or Shadow Terios that is...
"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
He screamed so hard his throat hurt and his lungs threatened to burst. He could swear that he heard the bones of his legs crack, his tendons tear apart and his foot give away as blood came out from his wounds, as his vigorous and desperate running for his life was not giving time for his wounds to even begin closing.
But he didn't care. He just ignored it. His will to survive and see another day was way greater than the pain plaguing him. Even if it was for an additional day, hour, minute, or even an additional second in life, Otto Swuen would never give up.
After all, his two strong friends taught him that through their actions.
"I'll not die! I WILL NOT DIE!" He yelled, even as blood came out of his throat due to him screaming, with the lava behind him, chasing him like an extremely hungry predator ready at anytime to lunge at its prey to tear it limb from limb.
The rumbling increased. The quantity of the lava. The intensity of the heat behind Otto increased. The threat of Death increased.
But alongside those, the desire to survive and see the sun increased within Otto, which in turn forced him to the end of the tunnel where he saw a sliver of light at the end, the light that was illuminating the night sky, the light of the stars.
He let the stars guide him to the safety. To the end of this hellhole. Even if he knew that he will get sent to another hellhole, and even if it was worse than what he is experiencing right now, he already saw a lot within yesterday, and he will live to see tomorrow.
That's the man Otto Suwen was. A relentless man who will find the Top within the Bottom.
"I'LL DIE ON MY OWN TERMS! NOT BY YOU!"
Yelling this out, Otto jumped to the end of the tunnel, where the light of the stars illuminated the outside world, falling outside the exit of the cave and out to the outside world. The rumbling actually served Otto a lot, as just as the lava was about to get outside the cave and give Otto a free ticket to Od Laguna, rubble fell off the ceiling of the exit of the cave, blocking the other side of the cave and preventing the lava from devouring Otto and melting his flesh and bones.
But even then, he felt that he couldn't even sigh in relief, not even having the time to rest. He willed himself to stand up once again, before dashing away to the direction of Elior Forest.
"I'm almost here...I just need to be...Faster" He muttered from his blood-filled throat, before he increased his speed towards the frozen forest.
A few more minutes later, and he managed to pass through the forest, having also used potions that he had on him to close the wounds he sustained while escaping the Ginia Mountains. Otto then narrowed his eyes, having seen a familiar figure on the ground in the Lifaus Highway. His eyes widened as he saw a strange figure float and was about to attack the fallen person
"Petra-chan!" He exclaimed the name in worry, before dashing towards Petra, entering the scene to her rescue.
Flashback End
"Don't you dare touch Petra-chan!"
"You...Ah...That's why I didn't have enough power...Tch. I swear I'll get you next time" Lucas said, before flying away. It was then that Petra stood up with tears filling her eyes.
"Otto-sama...*hic*...You're alive...Thank you for saving me..." Petra said, her voice laced with sobs. The scene of her face made Otto's stiff face soften and a small smile appeared on his face, before he hugged the little girl, gently rubbing her back.
"It's okay, Petra-chan. You're gonna be fine now...This was Lucas-kun, right? Why was he trying to kill you?" Otto asked, still hugging Petra.
"Lucas saved me...Well, I left him and he...He..." Petra couldn't even finish her words or even utter them properly. The pain and Sadness were consuming her to high degrees.
"It's okay. I'm sure that you had your own reasons. Anyway, we can't stay here. We need to move out. Follow me" Otto said as he and Petra marched away from the Lifaus Highway, and straight towards the direction of the Capital city.
A few hours later. Fleur
"Otto-sama, the road is filled with water. What are we going to do?"
Upon leaving the Lifaus Highway, both Otto and Petra made their way to the Capital city of Lugunica to call for help from there against that freakish monster that was trying to kill them.
However, much to their surprise, upon reaching Fleur from Costuul, they were stopped in their journey due to a huge body of water that stretched from the exit of Fleur and all the way to the entrance of the Capital city of Lugunica.
We're going to freeze to Death if we touch this water...Actually, I have an idea" Otto said before lifting Petra up in his arms, causing the little girl to yelp from the sudden action.
"Otto-sama!" She called out in surprise.
"A trick Terios-san taught me. By concentrating mana into certain body parts, I can erect some sort of a body shield around it. I engulfed my legs with mana and will use it to cross the water, but I have to do that while sprinting as fast as I can. That will probably empty my Gate dry out of mana, but we can make it there with that method. Anyways, hold on tight!" Otto exclaimed, before he sprinted at full speed. The enchantment of mana in his legs protected him from the cold water, as well as increased his speed, allowing him to adopt some form of water walking, dashing right towards the Capital city.
A few minutes later. The front borders of Lugunica
"Stay where you are!"
"Please, Sir Knight! We're not the imposters!"
Right upon reaching the gates of the Capital city, a guard from the guard towers shouted at both Otto and Petra to stop, which in turn caused Petra to plead with him to believe that they were real.
"I took the orders from Margrave Mathers-sama's maid! She gave me the orders given to us by Mathers-sama, warning us from the undead people, and telling us not to let anyone in!" The guard exclaimed.
"But I last saw Frederica-neesama heading to Hakchuri city. Then you mean Ram-neesama, right? But Ram-neesama would never do something like that..." Petra said.
"Because it's not Ram-san! Mister guard! Please listen! My name is Otto Suwen, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Emilia Camp! This Ram that you have is an imposter! You all feel it too, right?! If we wanted to kill you, we would have done that in the first place!" Otto exclaimed his words to the guard.
"Otto Suwen? How can I know that you're real?" The guard asked, which in turn caused Otto to take out a small knife that he had on his belt, holding it with his right hand, before placing its blade on the palm of his left hand.
"Imposters can't die because they're undead, and their wounds regenerated instantly. Look!" Otto said, before tracing the blade of the knife on his hand, causing Petra to gasp as she saw blood falling from Otto's palm, with tears starting to fall down from his eyes as he raised his bloodied hand for the guard to look at.
"S-See?" Otto asked, his voice slightly laced in sobs as the combination of the frigid weather and the wound in his palm gave him an extremely stinging pain.
"O-Okay...You better be telling the truth" The guard said, and right afterwards, the gates opened slowly, allowing both Otto and Petra inside. Once they entered through the gates of the Capital city, they were met with a Knight and 'Ram' waiting for them.
"Are you alright? Do you need medical help?" The Knight asked.
"I guess I need some help..." Otto muttered, holding his injured hand. He didn't see Petra's eyes widen in shock as she looked at 'Ram'.
"No...Wait, Otto-sama...Look at Ram-neesama's eyes!" Petra exclaimed quietly in Otto's ear, having seen that the eyes of 'Ram' were brown instead of pink and her pupils were shrunken. This made Otto nod and directed his gaze at 'Ram'.
"Hey, 'Ram-san'. Maybe you can show us that you're not an imposter. Cut your hand" Otto said to 'Ram', who sighed.
"Pfft...Fine..." 'Ram' said, before raising her hand...
"UGHK!"
"?!"
And released a shockwave that sent the Knight accompanying her flying away.
"Hahahahaha! Idiots! Should've killed you when I first laid my eyes on you, little brat!" 'Ram' exclaimed while fixating her eyes on Petra. However, before 'Ram' could do anything else, a red energy ball collided with her from behind, instantly erasing her form from existence, before Otto and Petra witnessed Lucas flying towards them, his entire body was covered in gray scales and his arms were now as long as that of an adult, despite it being physically impossible for the age of his body, and the fingers were having sharp nails.
"I found you!" He exclaimed, glaring at both Otto and Petra.
"Petra-chan! Run!" Otto exclaimed, before both he and Petra dashed towards the streets of the Capital city, causing Lucas to give chase. He flew in the air and saw both of them already dashing through the oddly empty streets of the city, with Petra having a head start on Otto, with Otto following behind her.
Suddenly, Otto almost tripped in his dash as several energy beams descend at impossible speeds towards him, prompting him to dodge by jumping forward, before rolling on the ground, jumping up to his feet and resume running.
Lucas then raised his hand as Otto was closing in on Petra, before a red energy beam was fired from his palm towards them. This caused Otto to silently invoke Earth Magic to create a slab of Earth to protect both him and Petra, but the slab of Earth immediately disintegrated upon the beam's contact with it. It served its purpose in protecting both of them, though.
Otto then glanced backwards, seeing Lucas raised his hand once again. This time, however, an energy ball formed in his hands, before he launched it towards Otto, who reacted on instinct and jumped upwards. However, this left Petra open for the attack.
"Shit!" He cursed as he was still in midair. However, he sighed in relief shortly afterwards as he saw Petra performing a beautiful somersault in the air, before landing gracefully on her feet and resumed on running. Otto himself landed on the ground as well and kept on running too.
Lucas then floated just above them, before he started sending a rain of crimson red energy balls. Otto saw the rain of destruction closing in, and this forced him to activate his Rune Stone Skill, causing target marks to appear on every single one of the energy balls. Once he made sure that each incoming attack was marked, Otto invoked his Earth Magic.
"El Terra!"
"?!"
And instantly upon calling out the spell, fifty spears of Earth got conjured around Otto, before firing themselves on each energy ball. With each impact of the spears with the energy balls, a thunderous explosion came following soon afterwards as the attacks cancelled each other by colliding together.
A large smokescreen enveloped the area, before Otto was forced to jump backwards, nearly tripping once again as yet another energy beam descended from the Heavens onto the spot where he previously stood, disintegrating it and turning it into a large crater. However, Otto was able to resume running, having enhanced his legs with mana to make sure that he keeps up with Lucas to prevent him from trying to harm, or worse, kill Petra.
Otto then saw Lucas raising his arm above his head and opening his palm, before three green spearhead-shaped energy balls were fired into the sky, before it came raining down on both of them. Otto managed to dodge the first one, before blocking the second one with a Dona. However, no matter how fast he ran, he still saw that he was too late to prevent the third shot from colliding with Petra, exploding into the little girl.
"PETRA-CHAN!" Otto yelled in horror. However, he saw Lucas grunt in pain as he had Petra in midair delivering a dropkick to his face, which in turn caused Otto to sigh in relief.
"Thank goodness..." He muttered, having been glad that Petra was alright as she landed on the ground and resumed running. However...
"Otto-sama! No!"
"?!"
Otto was so distracted by Petra's safety that he failed to react to Lucas closing the distance between them after recovering from Petra's attack, before he slashed with his claw at Otto's face, causing him to get knocked out cold into the ground, toppling in the hard cold dirt due to the amount of speed he was on, before going to a halt as he got slammed into a pavement.
"Now you will suffer like I did!" Lucas called out to Petra, floating towards her with Otto lying unconscious behind him.
"Why are you doing this? I left you because you told me to do so. I didn't want to leave you, but just like you said, what could I have done against those monsters?" Petra asked with Fear in her eyes as Lucas gave her a Death glare.
"Everyone needs to die in order to protect you?! Well, this man over here will die because of you!" Lucas exclaimed in anger. However, he gasped as Otto, having feigned unconsciousness, instantly woke up, conjured an Earth spear in his hand, before stabbing it through Lucas' head, who stared in shock as the spear pierced through his skull, before Otto proceeded to yank the spear to the side, slicing the top of Lucas' head in half, causing the portion of his head that had his eyes, hair, brain and upper jaw and teeth to be sent flying, rolling violently in the air, before falling on the hard ground with a gruesome splatter sound, followed by Lucas' body falling to the ground face-first.
"Good riddance..." Otto said, having got his right eye being completely closed shut by Lucas' attack, with blood covering his closed eyelid.
"Otto-sama! Y-Your eye!" Petra exclaimed in worry, seeing the blood flowing from Otto's closed eyelid.
"This is fine. Anyway, if Ram-san was an imposter, then that means that Exeller might be here" Otto said.
"So...What should we do?" Petra asked.
"We should reach the Sanctuary. The Master Emerald is there. I guess I can sense it because I used it before" Otto said, internally surprised from the fact that he remembered such events.
"I guess we can find it in front of the borders of the barrier of the Sanctuary. So let's take a Dragon Carriage. Shall we?" Otto asked, causing Petra's face to opt a firm expression.
"Yes. Let's do this" She said to Otto, before both ran towards the nearest shop that sold Dragon Carriages. They didn't care about how the streets were completely deserted since the people refused to get out from their homes. Otto theorized that this was due to the orders of the Sage Council. Such a thing was probably due to the fact that this abomination did indeed attack the Capital city, so Otto could understand this.
...
...
...
Wait.
Exeller's targets were Otto, Garfiel, Heinkel, Frederica, Petra and Ram. Otto knew that much, and the proof to that was that Exeller didn't attack the population of any city or town within Lugunica if none of the previously mentioned six individuals were there in the first place. Even if it happened instantly, Otto somehow remembered that Exeller can use some form of Arcane Magic that allows him to manipulate time to his liking. So that would mean that there was the possibility that Exeller stopped time around them, before proceeding to slaughter the population of every city or town any of the survivors had arrived to in the past loops.
For example, Otto passed through Ganacks in several ones of his time loops, and noticed that the city was hushed as Death, despite it being supposed to be a city filled with celebrations, not to mention that the stench of blood that filled the place each time he looped back in time was still lingering in Otto's mouth and nose even up until now, even when the timeline got reset several times. He could never forget that scene.
However, something remarkable that Otto noticed was the fact that people in Ganacks were all killed when there was only him or him and someone else that survived, implying that the Death of people around him is heavily tied to the survival of himself and his friends, which would mean that should Otto and the others survive all of this, then no one would die in the timeline where they all make it out alive.
And there came the question.
If the sequence of the Death of population was in the order that Otto understood, then the population of the Capital city should be dead by the time both Otto and Petra had arrived. So why isn't anyone dead? Why is the rancid scent of blood is not in the air?
Something is definitely wrong. Very, VERY wrong.
"Otto-sama. I found a Carriage"
"?!"
Otto was then snapped out of his thoughts when Petra went outside the carriage store and called out for him. This made Otto dismiss all of his doubts for now, as they were now focusing on escaping the Capital city and reach the Sanctuary.
A few minutes after locating the carriage, Otto fastened an Earth Dragon to the carriage, before both he and Petra entered the carriage. Otto then took the driver's seat, leading the carriage out of the city's gates.
Half an hour in the journey, Otto felt fatigue kicking in, as he struggled to keep his eyelids open. Petra immediately noticed this, and pulled the reins from his hands, causing his eyes to open wide immediately.
"Huh? What's wrong, Petra-chan?" Otto asked.
"You look really tired, Otto-sama. Why don't we rest? We're already in the Lifaus Highway, and it will take us a few more hours to reach the Sanctuary" Petra suggested, and despite being against the idea as they were literally in a race against time, Otto sighed in defeat, realizing that he kept on running for his Life for two straight days and didn't have any kind of rest, not even a temporary one. This made him leave the driver's seat and enter the carriage with Petra, having parked the Earth Dragon and the carriage away from the main road and on the grassy road.
"Okay then. Why don't we talk for a little?" Otto suggested, causing a grim expression to appear on Petra's face.
"Actually, I don't want to talk...It's all my fault to begin with..." Petra muttered, which in turn made Otto smile gently at her, staring at her warmly with his one good left eye.
"Hey now...It's not your fault. You didn't know that this could happen" He said to her.
"But...Now Lucas is dead and you're hurt...And I can't help but feel like I'm to blame" Petra said back, which in turn caused Otto to shake his head gently at Petra.
"Before I met Natsuki-san and Terios-san, I made lots of mistakes with terrible consequences, and even fell in lots of trouble due to my rotten luck...There was that one time where my little brother Regin found out about my Divine Protection that allowed me to talk to animals. Several kids didn't believe him, so he wanted to prove them wrong. And despite being told by my older brother Oslo to hide my Divine Protection, I didn't want to bear the witness of Regin being called a liar, so I called for lots of Zodda bugs, and they annoyed the people there, causing them to nickname me the Zodda Bug Bastard. Kids that were my age at that time, and even adults hated me for this..."
Otto took a deep breath, lifting his head up to stare at the ceiling of the carriage, a sad smile appearing on his face as he remembered those grim, yet at the same time, delightful memories, before he lowered his head to look at Petra, and resumed speaking.
"But no matter what the situation the befell me, even before meeting Natsuki-san and Terios-san, I never gave up and learned from my mistakes" He finished, causing Petra to sigh as she sadly looked on the wooden floor of the carriage that she and Otto were sitting on.
"I guess you're right...It's just...If only Frederica-neesama was here...We have separated and now she's lost..." Petra muttered, causing Otto to struggle maintaining his smile. He knows that by now, there's a high chance that Frederica is already dead, and a part of him was deeply wounded by that and wanted to shed tears at this, but he knows that he shouldn't show that side of his to Petra, because this would discourage her and make her lose all hope, so he decided to maintain the facade, even for a little while longer, at least, until they reach the Master Emerald and find a way to fix things back to where they were once before.
"Maybe she's still out there. I know it. She's really strong, but I hope she's not alone. Because if so, then she has lows chances of survival...But don't worry. Frederica-san is not weak. She is powerful and I trust her that she can survive" Otto said, internally cursing himself for spouting such lies in front of a child.
It was then when he saw Petra's eyelids slowly starting to close.
"You...You don't mind if I sleep for a while, do you?" She asked, yawning cutely. She didn't wait for a reply from Otto, though, as she rested her back at one of the walls of the carriage and closed her eyes, immediately snoring upon doing so, causing Otto to chuckle at this.
"Heh...You didn't wait for a response from me, Petra-chan...Harsh as always..." Otto said, before he himself yawned, and his eyes started to close.
"Yeah...I will sleep too...Oh, I haven't eaten anything for two days...Zzzzzzzzzz..." Soon, Otto's eyes closed and he also drifted to a deep slumber.
An hour later
"Huh? I guess I slept pretty long"
Otto blinked his one good eye open, yawning as sat up from his sleep.
Suddenly, he noticed something inside of his mouth, something awfully and horrifyingly familiar.
"W-What is this in my mouth? I-Is that...Blood? Is it mine?" He asked himself, feeling the taste of said red iron-filled liquid in his mouth. He then turned his head around to look at Petra...
"...Huh?"
And he regretted doing so immediately.
He may or may not have recognized her a few seconds after looking at her, but Otto confirmed the mangled corpse in front of him to be Petra. Her eyes were wide open, completely lifeless and staring into oblivion, her mouth was half-opened with blood coming out of it, her limbs were mangled and torn apart, so much that the bones could be seen clearly, and even so, those bones were broken in a fashion that made it seem as if some animal had bitten into them to break them apart, and finally, her entire torso was open, from the neck down to the place where her vagina should have been, revealing a pulverized heart, a ruptured liver, a pair of skewered lungs, a torn apart womb and the mangled, horrifying, gory display of intestines and several other internal organs, where the only things that remained completely intact were the face, the head, the brain, the eyes, the ears, the nose and the hair.
Those were the things that made Otto recognize the corpse as Petra.
"Petra-chan?! PETRA-CHAN! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Otto immediately screamed in horror, before from the corner of his good eye he saw the left side of his body, seeing that it was all now painted dark gray in color, and was slowly morphing into the black color, with veins pulsating from each and every corner of said body side.
"No...How...How did this happen?!" He screamed in horror, coming close to the remains of Petra's corpse.
"There are bite marks...I...I have done this, haven't I...?" Realization soon struck Otto like a thunderbolt.
He had just eaten Petra alive.
"Heh...Hehehe...Hehehehehehehehehe..."
A realization...That made his already crippled sanity crumble apart, turning to pure, unadulterated Madness.
"I...I haven't eaten anything in two days...Hahahahahaha...AND I'M STARVING!"
Immediately upon exclaiming his justification for eating the poor little girl, Otto, face twisted in an insane laughing expression, lunged at what remained of Petra, biting and gnawing at her bones and her flesh like the madman he became as sickening cracking sounds echoed throughout the Lifaus Highway.
He didn't know how long he remained there, but as insanity completely ate his mind, Otto Suwen realized that with the Earth Dragon being also eaten alive by him and with him being focused on cannibalizing on Petra's mangled body, he was stuck there forever, and after he lost his mind completely...He kept on eating Petra's body down to the very bones.
This also made him unable to hear the words that brightened the world and enveloped it in a bright, white light.
"I want them to live..."
Memory Fragment File #15
"Otto-sama, are you sure about this? It's pretty high"
"Don't worry, Petra-chan. You told me you want to know how to concentrate your Yang Magic, right? Then what's better than basking in the sunlight up on the mountains? It will help you concentrate. Terios-san told me that it's necessary to associate yourself with your element that corresponds to the nature around you"
Otto and Petra were up on the mountains behind Irlam Village. This was due to the fact that Petra wanted to train her magic, but both Subaru and Shadow were busy with their own training. So Petra decided to go to the least busy person: Otto.
Or at least, that was from her own perspective, as Otto was buried underneath a massive pile of paper when she entered his office.
"But there are strong winds. Mom and dad will be angry if they knew that I was in a place like this" Petra said.
"Well...This is the curriculum that I came up with. I thought that being directly exposed to the morning sunlight would benefit you. Besides, you've come this far already. we all will encounter lots of dangers in the future, but it's okay to be scared" Otto said with a gentle smile towards Petra.
"I think that Otto-sama will be fine though. There's no need to be scared about you" Petra said, causing Otto to opt a comical hurt expression, gripping the area in his chest where his heart is located.
"Ugh! Petra-chan's words sting more than Ram-san's sometimes!" He exclaimed, before staring back at Petra with the same gentle smile he had a few seconds ago.
"But if you don't want to continue, we can go back. Sorry, it was a dumb idea. I get it now" Otto said, causing Petra to grip her left arm with her free right hand.
"Y-Yes...We should go back. Sorry for wasting your time, Otto-sama. I can help you with cleaning the mess in your office if you want" Petra said.
"Oh...Okay. Thanks, Petra-chan" Otto said before he and Petra started descending the mountain, but as Otto got a head start at Petra, the little maid girl stood for a second, solemnly looking at the ground before muttering a few words.
"I'm just not ready yet..."
And right afterwards, Petra followed Otto down the mountain.
And Done!
Alright! We're getting even closer to the end! Six more endings and we will reach the Best Ending! I'm quite satisfied!
Now for the comments.
As usual, Thank you, Reaper 10398 for your support. And about the video you sent...I thank you from the bottom of my heart! You saved on me a lot of trouble! I had a work worth of three days on how the EXEs will enter the world, and it all got solved with the video. I'm also planning on putting Fleetway in the story, but he will eventually become a protagonist shortly afterwards as we progress in the story.
And yes, Shadow WILL save Maria, or at least, her reincarnation. I'm sure that you already know who Maria's reincarnation is. I've already thrown a hint or two about who she is, and I shall reveal who she is in Arc 4.
As for the Aftermath of Arc 3...I had something really special and emotional for it. Stay tuned.
And on a side note, I would heavily recommend watching the "Shadow, Are you crying?" comic dub. It will be important for Arc 4, as well as reading Ibitsu no Kankei because Miyuki and Kotaro are also important characters, just like how you read Metamorphosis and knew about Saki Yoshida. So I heavily suggest you read those before entering to Arc 4.
And that's all! As always, I hope from the bottom of my heart that more reviews rain down on me, and if you have any ideas or questions, please leave it in the reviews. Your support is what makes me move forward with this story.
Next Chapter: Round 2. Ending 12: A Tiger and A Cougar, smelling the scent of Death
Until Next Time And Next Chapter!
Jude Warble, Out.