When it all seemed over, my friends came to my rescue. But there was something wrong, Hana was smeared with blood on her robes while shaking with anger. Sanae and Rika also had blood on their clothes, what happened to these three?
Emília - what happened... With you?
Sanae - it doesn't matter now, are you okay? Didn't you get hurt?
Emília - I think... I think I broke some bone...
Sanae - not that... Rika, we need to get her out of here...! Aaaagrr!!
Sanae falls to her knees on the floor and begins to squirm in pain while staring at her own arm. Rika runs over to her and lifts her up while Hana looks at everything looking sideways.
Emilia - what... What happened?
Rika - I don't know if they told you. But, Sanae released her Moon Light, but her body does not support such power, so it is full of imperfections and flaws. Sanae released Moon Light again as soon as she saw that guy approaching you and with Moon Light style Thunder, she reached you at an absurd speed and hit that guy in the face, possibly she broke some bone.
Emília - I think it's better to leave her out of battle...
I feel a strong pain in my back due to that attack by Kron, but I remain standing.
Sanae - no!!!... I will not abandon you... We will do this together.
For a brief moment I was hesitating to let him continue to fight, but I couldn't stop it.
Emilia - right. Then we will do this... I protect you and you protect me. Is it good for you?
Sanae - that's great!
She smiled as she agreed with the proposal. Hana turns her face and returns to face the place where Sanae had played Kron.
Emilia - right, right... That guy defeated three high-level hunters, his levels were certainly above Gold, yet he faced them head on and won. Imagine what he would do with three bronze and one silver...
Hana - these are just numbers.
We all stared at Hana for a brief moment until Rika decided to speak.
Rika - Hana is right, they are just numbers. We need to take into account that we can use the primary techniques. Not to mention that we have two Moon Light carriers.
Emilia - "two"? What do you mean "two"?
Rika - our little friend here, Hana also owns Moon Light.
Emilia - what?!… Is that serious, Hana?
Hana - you're wrong. Only one of us owns it, and it's me. If your sister continues to struggle with this Moon Light project, she will end up killing herself.
Leaning on Rika, Sanae lowers her head and gets nervous and closes her hand.
Sanae - I don't need you to worry about me. I already said that I will fight, you need all possible help or we will all die.
Hana - we do need all possible help, but a dead weight would only get in the way.
Sanae - you don't know anything!
Hana - if you want to fight so badly, then fight. Just don't get in my way.
Emilia - stop fighting please, we can solve this in another way...
Until that very moment we could all feel a strong vibration passing through our bellies that left us with goosebumps. A vibration that came from the mountains. Without giving us time to think, Kron appears flying over the forest, he carried two trees in his hands, he spins twice and throws these trees towards us. Without thinking twice, Hana takes the lead, waits for the trees to come close and makes a double cut, light swings of the sword were able to cut the trees, making a big cut the trees that pass straight through Hana.
Sanae opens her hand, turns her face to me and says:
Sanae - Emília… Let's fight.
Emilia - we will do our best.
Meanwhile, Kron was so angry that his veins were throbbing, his teeth were chattering and as soon as he opened his eyes, a strong wind barrier passed us, implying that he was going to come with everything. Over the air above the forest, Kron advances at an extreme speed, breaking the sound barrier over us. Quickly Hana throws his sword into the ground and in just an instant, huge trees come out of the ground and start chasing Kron. He gives up to advance and begins to flee through the skies, trees that seemed to have no end pursuing him, he takes several and several routes from the sky to deviate, until he decides to go forward again. He dodges the branches of trees flying up and down until the branches stop chasing him because they were already at their limit, Kron takes advantage of this and goes forward with full force, he closes his fist and throws his arm one little back. His intention was clear, he bet Hana's death on that one attack.
He increases the speed more and more, already very close to Hana he could already see her head being broken into several pieces. However, at the last second, very close to Hana's face, several trees held him on all sides, by the legs and hands. The entire surrounding area was surrounded by trees and wild jungle vegetation. Face to face with Hana, Kron could see a slight smiling expression on her face.
The trees that kept Kron trapped, bend and fall, but are still attached to the ground.
Hana - Rika, now!
Rika - right!
The mantle of the Strength ability grows around Rika, she jumps towards Kron, and on top of him. He was looking at her with a little desperation.
Rika - die!!
Rika started beating Kron in the face several times for about 10 minutes. After hitting so much, she started to squirt blood and cracking bones could be heard and seen with every punch she made. Rika kept punching him in the face, even though she was already pretty worn out just from hitting him. Already very tired and with her hands already bruised, she takes her sword from its scabbard and pulls it, holds it with both hands and sticks the sword in Kron's face. However, before she sticks the sword in his face, he frees his arm from that wooden prison, he quickly holds it by the neck and completely frees himself from the prison and stands up, his face was somewhat disfigured and one of his eyes had popped out after that whole series of punches. Already standing, he was still holding Rika by the neck, hanging her.
Sanae looks at Hana desperately and yells:
Sanae - do something!!
Hana - I can't !! I used all my power trying to capture him!
Hana pulls the sword out of its scabbard, but before that happens, sanae releases her Moon Light again, electric waves spread around her and the sound of thunder could be heard as an announcement of her liberated power. Sanae advances at full strength with a punch at Kron. However, before Sanae touches him, he stops her attack using only one of his hands, making a strong sound with the impact of the punch, he shakes Sanae's hand, she screams in pain and the electric waves around her started to weaken.
Even though I still have severe back pain, I move towards Kron. When I put my eye to the side, Hana was also advancing on him with her sword in hand. He throws both of them against trees as soon as he sees us, he opens his arms and claps hands, that palm created a great sound barrier around him that expanded and threw us away.
We fall, roll and hit our heads on the floor. He lands gently on the floor, gives a brief yawn and wipes a sweat off his face. His eye broke free from the flesh that held him, he crouched down, took his eye from the floor and stuck it back in his skull.
Kron - who knew... You made me sweat, congratulations. You really gave me a job, the last one that gave me so much work was the Moon itself. That in the year of... I will take into account the year within this planet, ok? I faced it in 2012, I think this is it... Okay, I Kron the 9th son of Sol I declare you humans the most irritating in the universe. It would be good if you were grateful, there are few who have the feat of being recognized by a god.
He looks at the ground and sees Rika's sword thrown, he bends down and picks up the sword.
Kron - um... It can be interesting.
With great difficulty I get up leaning on my sword. My legs and hands were shaking, my heart was racing with fear, I could feel a chill in my belly all the time, signs that I wanted to hesitate to continue this battle. Until I feel the weight of a hand on my left shoulder, when I look to the side I see Hana, she was also afraid, her hand trembled over my shoulder, even so she was beside me with her sword in hand. I was filled with hope and decided to stay to face him beside her, I will not abandon her, my friends, or anyone else. I will stand up whenever I fall, I will never hesitate to continue.
For a brief moment Hana and I stared at Kron, when the icy wind hit our hair, it was like a signal. We move forward with fury in the eyes, Kron moves forward too and we begin the decisive confrontation.
Hana accelerates the step to make the first attack, but Kron throws himself on the floor and slides, he tries to pass the sword through my leg, but I reacted in time and did a somersault forward, deflecting the attack. As soon as I touch the floor, I notice that he made a small cut on my leg and I get a little nervous. We advanced on him again, we attack together, he repels our attack using the sword in his hand. He jumps back a little and kicks my chin quickly, then he does two somersaults backwards.
He activates his ray cannon in his free hand and starts shooting at me, I don't waste time, so I start running while the lightning he guided, chased me. Meanwhile, Hana fought with the hand that wielded the sword, she repels his attack and attacks, but he throws his face back and the blade passes before his eyes. Without him noticing, I appear right in front of him, hitting a punch in the face, a crack of bone breaking could be heard, he is thrown against a tree but barely suffers damage.
Kron - bastard…! You took advantage of my distraction.
While he wasn't looking, I did a somersault back and the beam of light passed through me, I took advantage of the fact that he was distracted by Hana, so I went ahead with that punch.
We don't waste time and keep going, he gets up and runs over us. Our swords clash and for a moment we both have our guard open and for that brief moment we exchange looks, their teeth chatter. Hana realizes that he was distracted with me and makes a slight cut on his spleen, he feels the pain but did not lose his posture, while holding his attack, prevented him from hitting the sword in it. Hana steps up behind him, he pushes me, turns to her, bends down and tries to punch her in the stomach, but Hana dodges the attack at the last second, letting his hand pass over her. However, before she can try against him, Kron uses his other arm and grabs her by the collar of the uniform, he jumps, making her take her foot off the floor and throws it against the floor. At that time, Hana could feel something inside her breaking.
I jump in after him and try to hit a kick in the air, but he defends. I try to take another kick but he defends again, I kick his hand with the sole of my foot and throw myself back. I take the sword out of its scabbard again and advance, I passed the sword across his face, but he always deflected, throwing his face to the side or back, always on a string the sword passed before his eyes. He kicks, I defend with the sword but I end up being thrown back with the kick, he takes advantage of that opening and jumps in my direction, I lower myself and narrowly my head is not severed, this attack ended up costing some wires of my hair.
I turn around and see an opening because he, at that moment, let his guard down while his feet still did not touch the ground. I kick his shin, he falls to the ground, I try to jump on him but he uses both his legs and kicks me against a tree that was considerably close to us. Without him noticing, Hana appears beside him and kicks him in the face, making him roll across the floor. He stops rolling, nailing his sword and his hand to the ground, so as soon as he looks ahead, Hana had already advanced, going all in a direct attack. He throws his face aside and sees her sword pass before his eyes, before she tries anything to stand in front of him, he holds it by the head and raises it in the air with one hand and hurls it against a huge tree. Hana feels the attack with her contact with the tree, she starts spitting blood, that attack was so extreme that the pupils of her eyes were gone, she passed out right there, a step away from death. Using all that Moon Light power must have weakened her a lot, and yet she kept on fighting, she is really strong.
I get up quickly, put the sword in its scabbard and jump on its back and start hanging it. It starts to scratch my face, but I wouldn't let go. Until, Sanae with Moon Light active appears and hits him in the face, the punch was so intense that even the leaves of the trees can feel the weight of the punch that threw him and me away.
Emilia - I need to think about something...
At that moment I was very thoughtful about what to do, if I didn't think about something, I would be crushed. I looked back and saw a big rock that we would hit if I didn't do anything. I thought about creating the Resistance cloak and concluded that I didn't need to spend it for a while, so I concentrated a little bit of the cloak on my feet, lifted them up and hit the stone absorbing all the impact. I hold Kron by the head in the air, make him pass over me and make him hit the ground and the rock making a strong impact sound echoing around me.
Faster than thunder, Sanae appears making a little dust rise. Kron opens his eyes and teleports 4 meters away from us.
Emilia - sanae.
Sanae - Emília.
We nod, Sanae and I pull our swords from our scabbards, Kron looks at the floor and sees my sword which has broken, he gathers it and keeps it in his hands.
Kron - there is no doubt that persistence can even come face to face with a god, I have always misjudged humans by saying that not even coming together in one place to defeat me, you would never even be able to even get me dirty.
He looked deep into our eyes and kept talking.
Kron - you proved that I was wrong. It only took 7 of you to make me sweat, there were moments that I was even worried about. But unfortunately I can't leave you alive, the deal was for you to give me Sanada Haruo, you refused to contribute to it, with that I will bring the end of all of you.
I grip the handle of my sword tightly so I move forward, Sanae and I move forward together with everything and Kron too. Sanae with her Moon Light activated, she is at an absurd speed, it looked like she had teleported closer to Kron. He tries to hit her but she bends down, I take advantage of it and speed up the step, I jump on his back, I get a boost and I jump over Kron.
Sanae - you stepped on me!
Emilia - sorry!
Whirling in the air, I throw my sword at Kron, Sanae had the same idea and jumped back and flung the knife at Kron. He looked thousands of times at the two swords coming towards him in just under a second, he made a creepy look, his eyes looked like they were going to jump out of so much strength that he did to look at both swords at the same time, implying that he was still reasoning his and our next step. He releases the rest of my broken sword and holds our swords still in the air, at the same time he took the swords, Sanae and I were already moving forward again, I concentrated my resistance technique on my arm and Sanae concentrated all the power of Moon Light on your good arm. A double punch, that is what we will kill Kron with, crushing his head.
He tries to stop our attack defending himself with our weapons, but I use my other arm and elbow my sword, Sanae does the same, but with a little more difficulty and pain, as he would be doing the act with his broken arm. We get rid of swords, we take victory one step. When I looked at Kron, he was slightly desperate, lost in thought.
Kron's thoughts:
Kron - what do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What I…
His legs were shaking, his eyes were not fixed in one place and his teeth were gnashing. Until in the blink of an eye, he just disappeared. Neither Sanae nor I managed to stop our attack, our punches clash, as a result the ground around us breaks, a magic shock wave spread through the place and the sound of the impact made all the birds come out of their nests in their trees fly away.
As soon as my fist touched Sanae's, I felt a strong vibration echoing throughout my body, my vision became blurred and for a brief moment I was able to have a kind of vision that showed me and Sanae with the sword in hand, placing the swords in front of him. Neck of each one. Before I could think what it would be, in the next instant I found myself on my knees on the floor, looking in front of me and there was Sanae who was also on her knees on the floor, as if she was unconscious.
I hear laughter in the distance, when I look to the side, Kron was in the distance scratching himself until he bled while he laughed non-stop with a disturbing smile.
Kron - it was you! Ahahahaha..! You did it! Ahahahaha!!! Please keep entertaining me!!!
The third arm grows again on his back, he throws the sword on the ground and makes the three hands become a single cannon with a super powerful beam of light.
Even in fear of that, an idea occurs to me. I run over to Sanae and start rocking her to wake her up.
Emília - Sanae, I need your help, please wake up!
She wakes up a little confused.
Sanae - Emília…? what are you thinking of doing?!
Emilia - it may sound crazy, but I think I had a brilliant idea to stop him and I will need you to do me a favor.
I have been thinking about this for a while now, seeing Mr. Aoba use so many defense techniques at once, my field of vision on what I was thinking has expanded. I came thinking about making my resistance cloak something more resistant than it already is, a way to combine all the magic I have to combine all the cloaks that I can make together into one.
Emilia - I'll do it!
I create my mantle of resistance that covers my entire body. This may end up killing me or ending up with all the magic I have inside my sword that I suck for myself, but I will do it, it is this or the death of all of us will be inevitable.
Emília - sanae, transfer all the Moon Light power you have for me!
She gets up without thinking twice, even if she staggeres a little she reaches me and touches my hand firmly. After that, I could feel an immense amount of power flowing inside me.
Emilia - increase by 5 times!!
The cloak leaves my body and becomes a sphere that surrounds me, and in an instant it explodes and quickly returns to me, forming a cloak of resistance with a very dark purple color, that cloak sucked a lot of power, I don't feel any magic in my sword or flow over my body, I will hold on to everything Kron can give me, I will do it, no matter what it takes.
Sanae retreats far to my rear, as she felt that a damage would end between Kron and me.
Sanae - Emília… You can do it.
I look at my hand and see the resistance magic combined with Sanae's Moon Light, flowing over it, I close my fist and face Kron.
Emilia - come on.
Kron's eyes started to shine, a magic triangle with an eye inside appears right in front of him, that is certainly his most powerful attack. I will do that, even if I end up dying in the process. If he survives, Sanae can take advantage of the fact that Kron will be very exhausted and will end him, that is the plan.
I start running non-stop towards Kron, a strong buzz could be heard from him, after that the powerful shot.
Sanae - Emiliaaaaa…!!!
For a brief moment everything went slow, I started to see my whole life pass before my eyes, from the best moments to the worst I have ever lived, tears flow from my eyes, I fill myself with courage and bravery and keep running towards the lightning. The ray of light passes through me, I could feel vibrations running from outside hitting the mantle, even so I kept running towards the kron, I will make it our hope and our victory.
As the ray of light passed through me, decimating everything he went through, he reached Sanae. She was terrified because she felt that she was going to die while she cried without stopping, but at the last second Mr. Aoba appears with his shield and puts himself in front of her and all that magic ray passed through them, freeing her from death.
Meanwhile, I kept running even with difficulties, even with a broken bone, I kept moving forward. The closer I got to him, the more intense the ray of light got, even so, I was not afraid to die, at least not before I killed him. He himself noticed my persistence and soon despaired.
Kron - you... You are crazy!! Why don't you just give up and die?!!!
The lightning got even more intense trying to throw me away, even so I kept going. I put my hands over my face and continue.
Emilia - I...
I reached a point where I could barely stand, I could barely feel my legs, I reached a point in my persistence that they were moving on their own, I felt I could be evaporated at any time. I dig my hands into the ground to keep from flying away.
Emília - I understand that I still have no experience. I am just an incapacitated teammate who failed to get through with my comrades. However, the loyalty that has been etched into my heart, at least that I can guarantee is genuine. It's my truth after all...
He lowers his head and wipes the smile off his face.
Kron - you... You reminded me of a dear person to me... Your courage and persistence captivated me, girl. In consideration of this, I will give you a quick and honorable death.
The mantle of improved resistance was already breaking, but in the last second Kron canceled the attack and the beam of light disappeared and I fell to my knees on the floor. He starts to approach me vaguely towards me, halfway through he sees my other sword on the ground, the same one that hadn't broken. He joins her and keeps coming to me.
Kron - I haven't seen anyone with as much courage as you did in years. I will give you two options, die here or come with me, you will have wealth and power, you will even rule your own planet if you try hard. What do you say?
Emilia - it's a tempting offer... But all I want now is to kill you.
I said that, but I put so much strength through that beam of light that I can't even stand up now.
Kron - it was an honor to fight with all of you, especially with you.
He comes closer to me and sticks the sword in my chest and crosses me. Blood dripped from his hand and my sword, a lot of blood was spilled from the chest over my body and stained my clothes. His attack was so penetrating that it not only pierced me leaving a hole in my chest, but also my hunter's uniform. In that same moment, I could see everything being illuminated, I close my eyes and everything goes dark.
When I open my eyes again, I find myself in the middle of a huge flowery field, I was sitting on a chair and a wooden table in front of me, there was also another chair in front of me and very close to the horizon of the vast flowery field a person was approaching .
I thought I was delusional, because I should be dead. What would that be? The sky? Or hell? When I realized, that person far away on the horizon had disappeared without a trace. The sky in that place started to shine, I closed my eyes to that, as soon as I open my eyes, that person on the horizon was in front of me, looking at me deep in my eyes.
(Unknown) - seriously, I leave you alone for a few days and the first thing you do is die?
It was she, that being who helped me on those occasions against <
Emília - so I... died?
A pitcher and two cups of tea appear on the table. This being fills the cups and offers me a cup with the tea inside.
(Unknown) - apparently yes, you died.
She looked very calm while sipping her iced tea.
Emília - so... So what am I doing here? I shouldn't have gone anywhere, like heaven or ...
(Unknown) - hell? I already know about these human customs applied to religions both in the old and new generation.
Emilia - ok, ok! Now tell me why I'm still alive.
(Unknown) - humans... Well, when you die, and when I say "you" I mean you humans, when you die, your brain remains active, your consciousness remains alive for a few minutes. Thinking about it, I took advantage of it and decided to have one last conversation with you, Emília.
Emilia - makes sense. And what do you want to talk about?
She starts playing with the tea using a spoon while looking at me with a smile on her face.
(Unknown) - Emília Baldric, I wanted you to know that I have enough power to bring you back to life.
Emilia - this... This is incredible! Do it.
(Unknown) - however... we will need to make a contract.
Emilia - what kind of contract?
(Unknown) - you, Emília. It will make me familiar.
Emilia - heh? But... First of all, I want you to answer a question.
(Unknown) - you can ask, I told you that next time I would tell you everything I wanted.
Emilia - why are you inside me?
(Unknown) - this question can be smart and stupid at the same time.
Emilia - What?!!
(Unknown) - the truth is that I need a body to survive. Since I was expelled from my home, I can only live inside people's subconscious, going from person to person, unintentionally I entered a newborn baby, inside that baby I could see how beautiful and powerful this baby could be in the future if so if I tried, then I decided to stay. That baby was you, dear.
Emilia - I see... You say "body to body", Like a demon?
She stopped playing with the cup, turned her face sideways against the sky and put another suspicious smile on her face.
(Unknown) - maybe.
Emilia - but, it's an angel... Right?
She continued with a smile on her face as I spoke openly.
(Unknown) - exactly.
For a moment I was thoughtful, thinking if I accepted her as my relative or not, even because a relative is that magical being who will serve you as a slave or friend, you will share your powers between the two of you. There is a rule that if you die your family member also dies. The same goes for family members, if he dies, you would also die. She is not entirely reliable, but if it is really true that she can resurrect me, then I would have another chance to kill Kron.
Emilia - right, we will do that.
A dagger comes out of the middle of the flowering field and flies into the hands of the being in front of me. Glasses of wine appear on the table and cups of tea disappear.
(Unknown) - we will make a cut on our hands, let the blood drain in the wine glass, when we have blood in half the glass, we take each other's blood.
Emilia - right. And with that you become my family member?
(Unknown) - that was the deal from the beginning, dear Emilia.
She makes the cut on her arm and lets the blood drain from her cup, pick up the knife and repeat the act.
Emilia - it really made me dizzy.
(Unknown) - soon you will be much better. Now let's drink the cup with the blood of each one.
We took the bowls already half-blooded and looked at each other.
Emilia - if this is going to bring me back to life, fine.
(Unknown) - yes it will.
Still smiling, she starts to drink. I take courage and I take too. I take everything, I feel a little dizzy, I could barely stand, so I fall and look at her who was standing looking at me with that uncomfortable smile on her face. I look at my tingling feet and notice that they are disappearing, as if I'm becoming invisible. I look back at that being, I understand her hand with the hope that she would help me.
Emilia - what's your name?
(Unknown) - my name...? Ah, um...
She said something, but I couldn't hear it, I could only see her making some gestures as if she were saying goodbye.
I wake up and a huge force awakens within me, a kind of evil power overflowing over my being. Two wings made of pure dark power appear on my back, a horn had grown on the right side of my head, a dark tail made of dark power had also grown on my rear and my eyes were completely black. I look at the floor and see my entire sword, on the other side was my broken sword, I take both of them and look ahead and I see Kron who was looking scared when he saw me. I get up and leave on him leaving a trail of destruction wherever I went. Face to face with him, I could see his expression of someone desperate. He raises his hand to hit me, but I pass the sword over his arm, cutting him off. With the broken sword I pass it through his belly making a big cut, but it finishes breaking then I throw it away.
He spits out a lot of blood and puts his hand on his belly. I punch him in the chin, making him get off the ground, kick him in the chin, throwing him even more into the sky. I crouch, my tail sways twice, I take an impulse and I jump against Kron, breaking the whole floor with the jump. Flying at an absurd speed to him, I pass the sword over his neck, but it ends up locking there.
Kron - but ... But I killed you, how are you still alive with that hole in your chest?!!
Looking deep into my eyes he could see all that dark void.
Kron - you are not her!!... Who are you?!
A disturbing smile grows on my face when I hear your question and I finally look into your eyes again.
Emília - you can call me…
The sword goes through his neck, cutting off his head. I keep going up with the flapping of my black wings.
Emilia -…Lilith.
An explosion occurs in response to Kron's death, that explosion covered the skies and broke several barriers that thousands of people could feel even from afar. The explosion also engulfed me, killing what was left of me. This was what I expected: to die after facing a large enemy. But as I am "lucky", I survived, coming out of the explosion, unconscious falling towards Lake Ikeda. From that moment on I would be called 'The Demon Of The Lake'.
End