Re;Kingdom, Starting a Life with Amnesia from Zero

Arc 3 – “Kingdom of Future” – Capital Arc

Chapter 18 – “Witch. Greed. Jester. Star. Fall. Envy”

Regulus : “Even though I would be able to kill everyone here excluding Reinhard with one move, I still think this is quite unfair, isn’t it? It is. It really is. What about my lady sending some of you away? After all, Lust, Gluttony and the others are still attacking the city somewhere else.”

The man of Greed calmed down a bit and suggested a weird offer. He mentioned his lady while everyone wasn’t quite sure what he meant with that.

Jens : “Who may your lady be?”

He asked while being nervous. After a few seconds of silence, the whole group excluding Reinhard van Astrea, Jens and Felt we’re gone without a trace of them.

??? : “I request you to not worry. I just send them away so they wouldn’t get injured during this phenomenal fight. It would be quite a tragedy to end this story already, right? Like Regulus of Greed already told you, we try to avoid as much unnecessary sacrifices as possible, Jens…”

That voice came from nowhere, but at the same time from everywhere. It was an angelic voice. It gave off an important aura and her voice had a magic like charm that seemed to bind the bodies and souls of others.

The woman who said those words appeared out of thin air near Regulus Corneas.

She was extremely beautiful. She was beyond imagination. She is a relatively tall woman and has long, transparent platinum hair with dark blue eyes, and long eyelashes. Her beauty is extreme,just by being looked at or talked to, one can experience happiness enough to die for.

She is beautiful enough to be said to make other tremble with her beauty and that even God would hesitate to touch her. Humans have an ideal of beauty, and she is the answer to that beauty. Also, if beauty could kill, she would be that beauty.

Reinhard : “I would assume this is your lady, am I right Regulus ?”

Regulus : “Correct… This is-”

Pandora : “My name is Pandora. The Witch of Vainglory is what you mortals call me.”

Jens : “Wi-Witch..?!”

The voice of Jens trembled, he wasn’t sure if he could understand the beauty of the woman.

Felt : “Reinhard! What is going on?”

Reinhard : “Felt-sama! Please stay behind me.”

Felt walked a few steps back and stood behind Jens and Reinhard.

Pandora : “It seems you unlocked the Legendary Legacy of Leo… Beautiful.”

Pandora said that while looking at Jens.

Jens : “I’ve no idea what this power may contain. But I already tested it on one of the Gluttony Archbishops. It seems it was quite fatal.”

Pandora : “Is that so? I would assume that you’re regaining your memories faster than I could possibly imagine. You see, it was the mistake of The Jester that you’re regaining your memories. Something went wrong. However, it’s fine as how it is. I would have to take my absence right now, but please, don’t forget about me Jens. We’ll meet each other soon. Very soon.”

She snapped her fingers and disappeared, leaving beautiful white and gold feathers behind in the air.

Regulus : “As you heard, Pandora is extremely busy. So I’ll have to deal with you three. The Sword Saint, The Golden Lion and The Boy with Thousand Names.”

Reinhard : “Honestly, I have enough hearing you ranting around. I’m sorry if I am being rude. But I can’t allow you to hurt Felt-sama.”

Jens : “Reinhard, let’s do this!”

Regulus : “Fine then. I’LL SLAUGHTER YOU LIKE ANIMALS!”

Hearing this, Jens starts thinking about what Elsa Granhiert used to say…

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Emilia : “H…Huh?”

Emilia opened her eyes and found herself in the middle of a burning square. Near her, there was Priscilla Barielle creating a giant shield of light, Haku Segmunt who had a sword in his hand and was prepared to fight, Julius Euculius who had a shining blade in his hand, Meili Portroute and Nathan Harmonia who we’re both standing near Emilia.

Meili : “Lia! You’re awake!”

Emilia : “Wh… What happened?”

Nathan : “It was horrific! No- It was weird… Out of nowhere, you appeared on the ground without consciousness. What happened at where you were? What do you remember?”

Emilia : “Uhh… I was at a square where the Sin Archbishop of Greed, Regulus Corneas was, then Jens appeared and from then, I can’t remember anything.”

Priscilla : “I’m lowering the shield now! Prepare to fight whatever is out there!”

Priscilla released the shield and the fire was gone. All that was left we’re remains of bodies, remnants of houses, ashes and smoke.

Haku : “This is a horrible sight. Even for a Lugnician City.”

Julius : “Let’s not embrace the joy too soon. Look there! At the top of that tower!”

There we’re two silhouettes standing on the top of a clock tower. Both of them jumped down and stood right in front of the group.

??? : “Let me see… A Witch, Blood Stained Bride, A Segmunt, Spirit Knight, Demon User and a Noble… Fucking disgusting sight, isn’t it?”

A female voice was heard from the short body. She covers her whole body with bandages except for her eyes. She also wears a purple cape and a small flower shirt over the cape.

??? : “Ah, you bring the words out of my mouth Star.”

The second person is an old familiar…

Priscilla : “It seems that we’re quite famous, aren’t we? Let me guess, you’re also from the Witch Cult?”

The woman called Priscilla Barielle said that extremely ruthless and rude to the two.

Masquerade : “In fact, it seems that Nathan and Emilia already know me, don’t you two? For those that don’t know me, my name is Masquerade, The Jester and The Murderer of Faces!”

??? : “Nice introduction Jester. Julius, could you hand over the Book of Wisdom peacefully? If you do so, we won’t touch you or your family anymore. Nymphadora Euculius and Klein Euculius have suffered enough, didn’t they?”

Meili : “Lia, who is that scary girl in bandages?”

Meili asked with fear in her voice.

Sirius-A : “Right. Don’t be fooled. My name is Sirius-A, not Sirius. That name is already taken by the Witch Cult’s Sin Archbishop of Wrath! I’M THE LEADER OF THE WITCH CULT AND THE BLOOOOOOOOOOOOD CLOUD!”

—Blood Cloud

—Witch Cult

The Leader of the Witch Cult and The Blood Cloud…

The short girl rapped in bandages might be the biggest threat to the protagonists.

Nathan : “What…What did she just say?”

Meili : “Lia! I’m scared~!”

Julius : “The Head of The Witch Cult and The Blood Cloud… Even though that might be very threatening, it seems I’m not acquainted with the Blood Cloud and I’m quite unsure what that may be. Would you mind explaining me before you meet your demise?”

He pointed his sword which was shining like a rainbow at Sirius-A and Masquerade while asking her to respond to his question.

Sirius-A : “The Blood Cloud… How ruthless of you not knowing the most darkest organization existing! The Blood Cloud is an alliance of the Witch Cult which doesn’t have Witch Genes!”

Masquerade : “Star, are you sure that’s smart to explain to our enemies?”

Sirius-A : “Does it really matter? I think that they don’t even stand a chance against you. After all, neither Halibel or the Sword Saint are here.”

Masquerade : “That might be true. But they do have powerful–”

Priscilla : “Enough! Enough talking you two shitbags! This casual talking just infuriates me!”

Haku : “Priscilla-sama, calm down please–”

Sirius-A : “It seems that we didn’t pull the right string Mask. Can you deal with them while I just take a look from a far? After all, I’m not that strong in my current state.”

Masquerade : “Well of course. However–”

Sirius-A cracked a finger and immediately, everyone’s body froze.

Masquerade : “Let’s keep it fair. Me versus two of you. Priscilla and Nathan, I’m quite interested in the two of you. Please.”

Masquerade snapped his fingers and Priscilla and Nathan unfroze.

Priscilla : “How interesting. This is extremely interesting. An ability that is able to freeze someone’s od? That’s magnificent. I’m really interested in the outcome of this battle. However, don’t be fooled. The odds of fate are always on my side.”

Nathan : “P-Priscilla, Masquerade is extremely powerful.”

Priscilla : “Oh… I know who Masquerade is… I already fought against him.”

Nathan : “And so did I… So this really is a rematch, isn’t it?”

Masquerade : “I would rather call this magnificent! PLEASE, ENJOY THE SHOW EVERYONE!”

Emilia : “AAhhh!”

Emilia suddenly, fell on the ground and realized she was able to move. She ran towards Priscilla and Nathan and—

Emilia : “Guess it’s my turn too!”

Emilia summoned needles of Ice and fired them rapidly towards Masquerade.

However, for some reason, everything went through Masquerade, as if his body was water, or gas. At the very least, it wasn’t solid.

Masquerade : “I guess it’s a one versus three? That’s even more fun!”

Nathan : “Wait everyone! Masquerade…”

Masquerade : “What is it?”

Nathan : “I want to do an offer.”

Masquerade : “That sounds… boring. But I listen.”

Nathan : “If we win, you’ll tell me where Melissa is.”

Masquerade : “BAHAHAHAHAHA!”

The man laughed.

Masquerade : “Sure… Now, let the show begin!”

Priscilla : “Yang Sword!”

She summoned an ornate crimson sword from light. It was a flaming fire.

Nathan : “Hya!”

Nathan created a sword created by light, not fire, but shining light. There was a clear difference between the magical blades of Priscilla and Nathan.

Emilia : “It seems Pack is unavailable right now… Guess it’s just me.”

Emilia summoned a giant sword of Ice, it was bigger than Emilia, but for some reason it was light for her.

Masquerade : “GREAT! I LOVE THIS ALREADY!”

Priscilla ran towards Masquerade. He tried to dodge her attack of her sword, however she suddenly vanished and appeared next to him and sliced his left arm off.

Priscilla : “Still talking big?”

He was bleeding and was shivering.

Masquerade : “So this is the power that thee~ Sun Princess holds? Fascinating! I can’t describe it differently!”

He jumped into the air and kicked Priscilla right into her face and send her flying against a wall. It was an extremely powerful kick. She tried to stand up, however her Aura was dangerously low and remained on the ground. Slowly closing her eyes.

Nathan : “Priscilla-sama! Seliumin Akra!”

Nathan fired a flame towards Priscilla which shielded her and slowly restored her wounds and Aura.

Masquerade : “Nathan… Of all these people, I think you might be the most dangerous to me. The fact that you remained your memories after the fight at the Hyclara Plateau was really a pain in the ass for me.”

Nathan : “We– BLAGH!”

Suddenly, Nathan found a dagger coming out of chest right through his stomach. He fell down and started coughing blood.

Emilia : “What..!”

Emilia looked who was behind Nathan and saw Sirius-A. She looked back at the building where she was standing few seconds ago, without a doubt, that was a clone. The clone still stood on the building but slowly vanished.

Sirius-A : “I’m sorry Harmonia. Never turn your back–”

That moment, the reality froze. Time and Space separated from each other. Nobody could move except Nathan. It was clearly his Divine Protection of Motion.

In fact, manipulating Time and Space is one of the highest classes of Magic in the world. The fact that Nathan possessed a Divine Protection which could manipulate that in fatal moments was rare. It was possible that this Divine Protection was unique, only to Nathan able to be used.

Nathan : “F-Fuck… I only got… 12 more seconds… Akra Vita!”

The only individual not frozen in time, casted a very rare Yang Spell. “Akra Vita” drains Aura from minor spirits from the atmosphere. Even though time is frozen, it still continued with healing the wound and restoring his aura.

Right after the magic spell, time started moving again.

Nathan : “Fuck… You.”

Nathan pointed his hand towards Sirius-A and created a giant explosion of wind and made her go flying through multiple buildings and was gone from the battlefield for the time being.

Masquerade : “That’s clearly the Divine Protection of Motion. But healing magic outside of Water Mana is quite rare. I suppose you really are from the branch family Harmonia. The stories were indeed true. It makes me sad.”

Emilia : “Stop right there villain. Despite Nathan-san being in my royal camp, I won’t allow you hurt him. Freeze!”

Emilia started firing multiple Ice Crystals, however his feet were frozen.

Three of the crystals hit right into his mask and it started to crack.

Masquerade : “You… Filthy Bitch!”

A small part of his mask broke of and there was one small thing able to be seen.

Red Eye…

It was a beautiful color of red. Probably the color of blood. However, there was something different from his eye.

It was an abnormal eye.

Normally, the eye exists of an iris and the white sclera part.

This eye was different.

The Iris of the eye was a beautiful color of red…

However…

The Sclera… The White Color of the eye was…

Black.

Nathan : “What the fuck…”

Emilia : “You… What are you?”

Masquerade : “Hm… Hma… Hmahahaha! You foolish mortals…. Agh…”

Nathan : “His Aura is low. It’s time to end this.”

Emilia : “Got it… I’m extremely sorry for using this ability… But this has to happen… Ex Huma!”

Emilia fired an ice panicle going right through Masquerade’s heart. However, the ice panicle was connected between Emilia’s hand and Masquerade’s heart and was slowly draining the Aura, Mana and Od out of his body.

The magical incarnation of “Ex” shows the power level of the magic caster. The Incarnation Al shows most of the times the strongest basic spell of every element. However, Ex is supposed to be the forbidden technique and is only unlock able for a few individuals in every Kingdom.

Ex Huma… A forbidden Ice Magic was used by Emilia, the Half-Elf.

Masquerade : “By… This rate… I’ll freeze to death…”

Emilia started to tear up and the tears dropped from her face on the hard surface of the stone ground. This was the first time she had to use this.

Suddenly, the Icicle Line broke. It got melted.

A giant flame appeared on the square where the fight happened. Immediately, the others unfroze too.

Everybody looked at the sky and they saw a giant black dragon with golden horns appear above of them.

The Black Dragon landed on the ground, in the mean time, Masquerade ran away while nearly bleeding to death.

Dragon : “YOUU DEVILSS!”

It was extraordinary. The Dragon spoke. The Dragon suddenly collapsed and a girl came out of its mouth.

Priscilla in fact, was still lying on the ground, without consciousness.

Haku Segmunt : “What the… Who are you? You just came out of a dragon’s head!”

??? : “AH! OF COURSE! LET ME INTRODUCE Y’ALL FUTURE LOVE!”

The girl made a spin and immediately, bird wings appeared on her back, her hand changed into that of the dragon, and a serpent tail appeared out of her back.

She was a… Shape Shifter.

However, her human appearance remained the same.

She has short golden hair, blood red eyes and wears almost no clothes. She had fake snake eyes as accessoires in her hair and a long ponytail with a red rose at the very hand.

She wears a purple bikini and really short black pants. No shoes.

Her outfit could be described as a sexual outfit.

Capella : “My name is Capella Emerada Lugnica you shit bags! I am the Witch Cult’s Sin Archbishop of Lust! You all should love me! Admire me! Worship me! Adore me and ONLY ME! ALL THE LOVE IN THIS WORLD SHOULD ME MINE AND IT WILL BE MINE!”

So far, Capella is considered to be the worst personality wise within the Sin Archbishops. She speaks in a way that sounds like she spat and trampled upon courtesy, complete with a child like cruelty. She claims that all the love and respect in the world exists to be monopolized by her.

Nathan : “Capella Emerada Lugnica?! But that cannot be. That’s a name of royalty… That’s the name of the…”

Haku : “That’s the name of the Ancient Princess… The First King of Lugnica!”

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Reinhard and Regulus clashed. Regulus suddenly summoned the EXACT same sword as Jens had.

Reinhard : “You are stronger than expected.”

Regulus : “Expecting stuff is rude, Reinhard. You’ll pay for that cur.”

Without moving, Reinhard’s legs got cut off. The speed of Regulus was abnormal. There couldn’t be something comparable to that speed. He was fast. Faster than the wind. Faster than lightning. Faster than light.

He fell down down on his back and looked at Regulus aiming his sword against Reinhard’s throat.

Regulus : “Weak. You’re done Sword Saint.”

He swung his hand and sliced Reinhard in half.

Felt : “Wha…What…”

Jens : “N-NO!”

Jens dashed towards Regulus and sliced his right arm off in peaces extremely fast.

Felt dashed forwards and activated the ability which she used few weeks ago. She did exact the same to Regulus like Jens, but with his left arm.

Regulus : “Blagh! N-How–”

Jens : “You really are greedy.”

Regulus : “You guys, Jens, Felt… YOU ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL! I’LL KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! EVEN IF IT TAKES THE MY LIFE AND THE LIFE OF MY LADY AND ALL THE CULT MEMBERS! I WILL FUCKING KILL EVERY SINGLE—”

Jens turned around and sliced his head off. Regulus Corneas. The Sin Archbishop of Greed, died.

Felt : “A…Reinhard!”

She ran towards him and grabbed his face with his hands and started crying. Her tears fell on his face.

Felt : “No… No… This can’t be… You we’re the strongest one… You we’re the one that saved me… Don’t die in my hands!”

Immediately, A bright light appeared on Reinhard and his limbs were reattached along with the wound that was gone.

Reinhard : “I.. I took quite a hit, didn’t I?”

Felt : “You.. YOU’RE BACK!”

Felt jumped in Reinhard’s arms and hugged him.

Reinhard : “Of course. I would never leave you or my friends alone.”

Jens : “Reinhard… You scared me there for a.. second… What kind of ability was that?”

Reinhard : “That was my Divine Protection of The Phoenix. It allows me to revive myself every now and then. I can’t use it frequently though. I would have to act less ruthless next time.”

??? : “You three are trash.”

They looked at the building in front of them and noticed Regulus standing there.

Felt : “WHAT! WE JUST KILLED YOU!”

Regulus : “Don’t be stupid. Did you actually think my lady would let me die? Did you really think she would allow Jens to get the Witch Gene of Greed? No fucking way!”

There was no scratch on Regulus. He was fully restored to his healthy state.

Regulus : “I won’t die until the Devils of Lugnica have died. Especially Jens, Emilia, Felt and Nathan…”

Felt : “What? What has Nathan to do with this?”

Regulus : “As if I need to explain that. Also, Jens… Killing me when I’m talking is extremely rude. Don’t you understand basic concepts like politeness? Anyway, I don’t want to deal with this. Hey? Are you listening Cinder? It’s your turn you bitch.”

A dark portal opened in front of Reinhard, Jens and Felt.

Regulus : “I have to deal with Emilia, Anastasia and the others. We’ll meet very soon. Sorry, but I have to take absence.”

Jens : “No problem. We just killed you and we’ll kill you again.”

Hearing this, Regulus becomes angry.

Regulus : “Impossibleimpossibleimpossible. What does this mean, I don’t know what this means. Why must I be looked at like this. You actually think you can make a chance against me? Who do you think I am. I am the Sin Archbishop “Greed” Regulus Corneas. The most satisfied in the world! It was established as the utmost! There exists nothing that can shake both my mind and body! But still, why must I be in such a shape! Playing around with me. It’s not a joke. No matter who, why do they accept such nonsensical absurdities as if it was obvious. Jens, Felt and that Reinhard too, just because I showed a little mercy are getting too ahead of yourselves, if I was serious from the beginning then I could have had tore you three apart in bits and pieces, but aren’t you misunderstanding your own power? I refuse to face such embarrassment due to such a humorous misunderstanding, I’d hate that. It’s annoying, bothersome, irritating, infuriating, abominable, hateful, nasty and just shallow stupidity. I have till now and always been doing well. Over the years, decades, and centuries, I have been faithfully serving as a Sin Archbishop more than anyone. I first laid my hands on this Authority when I was chosen by the Witch Gene which Pandora gave me, my father who was always busy with being who he was, my mother who passed away few days after I was born and my irritating brothers who used to divide my part when my food got spilled, were all killed by me, and the citizens of the forgotten Kingdom who looked at me as if I was an idiot, the people of the town who pushed me to live in that useless village and house, and all the remaining uninjured people of the country too, I tore them all apart into bits and pieces, and when everything was gone I finally noticed my way of living! I don’t need anything. Everything is just annoying. I am satisfied. It is not because I don’t have it. I didn’t need it. Unlike the intrusive scum, I don’t need anything. Even so, if something is given, you would say that I wasn’t looking out for it and would be pitied by you ultimately. Only a satisfied person like me who eradicates the need to have or say something should be in this world. No matter who, they’re just talking about their selfish nonsense, you shit. Does anyone have the right to mercy on me? Does anyone have the right to despair while pitying on me? Is it a secret that anyone can do those. I do not need anything and neither did I ask for anything. My father who used to buy anything is goddamn dead. My shitty mother is also goddamn dead. Although I looked closely about the extent of the breaking of our relationship, my irritating brothers who used to divide my part of their bun when my food got spilled are goddamn dead. Stop you shits, being arbitrarily kind towards me. Whether you’re gentle you’re looking at me as someone low, you must be looking down on me. Someone who looks the goddamn down on others, especially someone who is from the same family would obviously be hated. It’s obvious he’d die. I am not bad. Nothing is bad at all. You all are bad. You all are, you all are the devils, you all are, makingmemakingmemakingme, singled out as someone pitiful. You can taste the feeling that you think is that of seeing the most embarrassing existence in the world. The reason for pitying me should disappear from the world. I heard a sigh. You’re looking at me. I think you smiled at me. What’s so strange about me. What did you see in me that made you laugh. Even though you had no power, you weren’t sluggish at all while using your tongue, that grudgeful kid. Why did such a scumbag have to break my heart so much. Don’t stand in my way don’t obstruct me don’t disturb me I’m not pitiful you guys are you are all helpless and ignorant but still with “Greed”! You have to crawl throughout your entire life just to satisfy your incomplete selves, you are the greed that should be pitied! I am different I am not like that I am not asking for anything. I do not want anything I am better than your incomplete self. Do not pity on me. The truth is that you are just jealous of me and envy me as I am in a position you can never reach and henceforth you spill out such words out of your mouth. Isn’t that correct I guess it is correct it is obvious that that’s correct. I cannot comprehend. Both you and I are different people. Even thinking of getting a return by taking risks, no matter how you think about it, it would be a mistake to say it is reasonable. How crazy. You should be able to understand it by being calm. All humans except me are just floating in a fever. The very fact that it is understandable is meaningless, useless and irresponsible. It is all a fantasy of yours which you call it love love is friendship and trust what foolish idiocy reproductive activities themselves are the utmost bothersome acts. I don’t understand what it means. What do to it for. Whether it’s for being a mother or a child, although it makes a family, even if it is decorated with such words, it will be different from myself, whether that thing dies out or not, it would have no effect. If they continue to live when I die, I’ll be over. If they are dead while I live would only mean my continuation. People in love and affection don’t become one. A person is only one in the first place. Because it is foolish to be compromised for other people and arrange companionship while considering the person’s fantasy, and it is stupid to other people, to gather well-looking women, but it is not stupid to betray the chosen party just to tailor to their own virginity, should I accept even that. Don’t skip such a selfish act. Just leave me alone, but you still ask whether you can infringe upon me even more? Just do that! Let me fit just that thought into your head! Are you still requesting me. No matter how much you do it I still pity you. The entire world is pitiful! Fuck… You all. I will return and reach out my hands on your throat and kill you Jens.”

Regulus kept ranting and ranting until he was done with it. He kept smashing his feet on the ground and swinging with his hands. He was pissed.

The fact that they killed Regulus once, was beyond his imagination and it made him extremely angry.

Regulus left and there came few people out of the portal.

A short girl, around 145 cm, has a trio of colors in her hair and on her outfit. Her hair color is half pink and half brown, with white streaks on the pink side. She wears a white jacket with a pink interior, brown pants, black gloves, and black and white boots with very high heels. Under her jacket is a brown corset, curved in the middle and at the bottom, exposing her hips.

The second girl was more mature. She is a young woman with medium-brown skin and dark-red eyes. Her hair is a light, mint-green cut with a straight fringe and bangs, as well as two long locks on each side, in the back. She wears two bronze-colored rings on her middle fingers as well as a pair of high-heeled shoes.

This was intended to be accompanied by white shorts, decorated with what appears to be a gold coin-plated belt, with four gold chains draping around her back from two of the coins and what seems to be a green loincloth.

The third woman came out of the portal and gave an disgusting aura to Felt, Jens and Reinhard. They immediately grabbed their weapons, with Felt grabbed a small dagger, Reinhard the Dragon Sword Reid and Jens his new weapon.

She has ashen-black hair and bright amber eyes, while her fingernails are painted dark red. She wears lipstick and violet eyeshadow. She wears a dark-red, off-the-shoulders, v-neck minidress with yellow designs. There is a blue feather-like accessory on her right hip, at the top of an open portion of her dress.

??? : “Such a boring sight, isn’t it Cinder?”

The girl with an umbrella in her hands and different colored eyes nodded.

Cinder : “Don’t be fooled. This is quite interesting.”

Felt : “Why the hell is everybody attacking this Capital all of the sudden?”

Reinhard : “Stay calm Felt-sama. Stay behind me. You three. Please introduce yourselves.”

Emerald : My name is Emerald Sustrai. Cinder’s right hand. The other girl is Neo.”

Cinder : “My name is Cinder Fall… The Current Fall Maiden.”

Fall Maiden.

That was a new term which nobody was familiar with except Reinhard.

Reinhard : “Oh my god… So it was you who murdered Amber?”

Cinder : “It seems my name is popular in this Demon Kingdom. You see, I want to be strong. I want to be feared. I want to be powerful.”

Felt : “Reinhard… What’s a Maiden?”

Reinhard : “The Four Maidens are the host of the Magical natural power that has existed in the world for thousands of years. They are the physical embodiment of the four seasons. Fall seems to be the most dangerous so far. This woman has done way too much corruption in the Sacred Empire of Volakia when I was there six months ago. However, you’ll pay for your deeds.”

Cinder : “Neo, go for the boy. Em, go for Felt. I’ll deal with the Saint.”

Neo ran towards Jens and jumped on him and created a small portal behind him which she pushed him in and jumped in herself.

Jens blinked his eyes and noticed that he was falling from the sky, at least one kilometer in the sky.

He looked around him and found himself on the whole other side of the Capital. However, he wasn’t afraid to fall to death for some reason.

He saw Neo flying towards him with the umbrella pointing towards him. At the end of the umbrella, was a sharp, steel needle.

However, while falling, he kicked the umbrella out of her hands and created the spear from the Gluttony Battle and threw it against the Clock Tower which he saw, warping towards that.

Neo, created a new portal and was gone.

He sat down on the roof of the tower and looked at the spear.

There was a name on the spear.

“The Spear of Vengeance”

That was the name Jens read. However, it was written in a language he could read.

He made the spear vanish with his mind and summoned the other weapons. He put them on the roof while calming down. He grabbed the bow first.

“Thas’Dorah, The Legacy of The Windrunners”

The Windrunners. That was a name which felt really familiar to Jens. He took a breathe and put the bow down and grabbed a katana. It was a red blade which had a white line in the middle.

“The Katana of Summer”

That name didn’t say anything to Jens and put it down.

He grabbed a necklace which he also summoned. However, first thought Jens had was like :

“Why… Is this necklace a ‘weapon’?”

He tried to find the name but could not find it. He opened the medallion and saw a name in it and a small paper.

“The Medallion of Summer”

He grabbed the paper and read what it said.

“I didn’t have a choice, I did what I had to do; I made a sacrifice, but forced a bigger sacrifice on you”

Jens felt a chill going through Jens spine and kept reading. He had no idea what this could possibly mean. He kept reading and noticed that the letters were also written in a language he could understand.

However, the characters were really small. So it was quite a big letter.

“I know you’re broken down by anger and by sadness. You feel I left you in a world that’s full of madness. I wish I could talk to you, if only for a few minutes. So you could finally understand the reasons why I did it. I wanna tell you that you’re all that ever mattered. I want you to know that, for eternity, I’m shattered. I tried so hard just to protect you, but I failed. I never planned that I would leave you there alone. I was sure that I would see you when I made it back home. All those times I swore what it would be okay. But in the end, now I’m nothing but a liar, and you’re thrown into the fray. Please, baby don’t do what I did, I don’t want you to waste your life in vain.”

Jens started crying, without being sad. He didn’t control his tears and suddenly, the tears dropped on the letter.

He wiped his tears without understanding why he was actually crying.

The letter was sad, in fact, it was the saddest thing Jens has read so far.

What could this mean though? It’s clearly talking about someone abandoning someone else. But why and who? Is this even meant for Jens? If it is… It could be…

“My parents…”

Right then…

Something weird happened. Jens felt the despair possess his body.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

“What the fuck is this feeling?!”

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair. Despair.

He blinked and found himself in a different place. It felt like a dream, but it felt so real. He found himself in a cave. This time, it was colorful. He walked down the path that led to a small lake where he saw a beautiful girl.

Jens : “Ah…?”

Satella : “I’m Satella, Jens…”

Jens couldn’t describe how he felt. When nurtured, those emotions grew several times more, his love, soon became sins.

Sloth, for being unable to grab her hands show her the light of the world.

Lust, for wanting to hug her, kiss her, and become one with her.

Greed, for willing her love, doing anything to take it all.

Gluttony, for wanting to consume the love and possess everything together with her.

Pride, for hating, destroying and erasing anything and everyone except for her.

Wrath, for willing to fight and conquer for her.

Envy, simply envying the world that surrounds the beautiful girl.

Jens : “Satella… why do you look so sad. What’s wrong? Who did this?”

Jens didn’t feel like himself, however he did not mind it. He liked being in love with Satella.

Satella : “Jens… The Blood Cloud… The Witch Cult… They want me to destroy.”

Jens : “I won’t let them Satella. Tell me what to do.”

Satella : “…”

Jens jumped into the water and grabbed her hands with one hand and touched her beautiful face with the other.

Jens : “Just tell me. I’ll do anything for you.”

Satella : “You must kill me.”

Jens : “I won’t! I’ll save you. I’ll show you the light of the world and we’ll live forever!”

Satella : “You already showed me the light. You already love me. We already lived forever. But we can’t do it anymore. You must defeat them, and then kill me, Jens.”

Jens : “There must be a different way… Satella… You are… a Witch, Right?”

Satella : “I… I’m Satella. But I’m also the Witch of Envy… I can’t explain it correctly…”

Jens : “Could you… Tell me about the Witch of… Vainglory? I met her today, but I know of the seven Deadly sins, and Vainglory isn’t one of them.”

Satella : “Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… Pandora… ”

Pandora…

Satella kept saying the name of the Witch of Vainglory and started to cry even more, more, more and even more.

The cave started to collapse and rocks fell down and blocked the entrance of the area of the lake.

Suddenly, Satella was covered with shadows and was immediately someone else. Her silhouette remained the same, but she was different. Jens just knew it was someone different.

??? : “PANDORA!PANDORA!PANDORA! PANDORA IS THE WOMAN THAT BROUGHT EVIL TO THIS WORLD. SHE WAS CREATED. SHE WAS CREATED. THAT FILTHY DEMON IS THE REASON HOW IT IS NOW! HER NAME! HER FILTHY DIVINE NAME. PANDORAPANDORAPANDORAPANDORAPANDORAPANDORA! SHE KILLED THE FORMER SWORD SAINT. SHE MADE REGULUS. SHE CREATED THE EARTH DEVIL. SHE CREATED THE DEMONS. SHE ERASED THE KINGDOM. SHE IS THE DEVIL OF THE WORLD. YOU MUST KILL HER!”

That… individual started screaming, but the words she yelled remained in Jens head for always.

He looked up and found a giant boulder fall on his face. Right then, he regained his consciousness and found himself again, on the roof of the clock tower.

He looked around him and saw in the distance…

“Emilia. Priscilla. Haku. Julius. Meili. Nathan… Fighting… A Serpent with Wings?!”