“D-Divine Ascension…?”

“Hahaha! Surprised? It's sub-par compared to yours though.”

“Asagao, we are going in.”

“Okay.”

That doesn’t matter right now!

With Higan and Master by my side! We will defeat Nil!

The man, C’rthgor, transforms into a jaded dragon with shiny scales and together with the oni woman, Sistina, they charge at master and in return, master fired a dragon breath at their direction before flying to the sky, intercepting their advances.

Meanwhile, Higan and I are now facing off with Nil.

“Hahaha! Are you guys serious?! Without any prior knowledge to what your enemies can d--!”

[Purifying Flames of the God!]

“Whoa, there foxy! I am not done talking yet!”

“An enemy won’t let you speak a single word during a battle!”

“Hahahaha! This foxy gets it! Here I come!”

Nil and Higan both rushes at the same time and clashes.

Nil is trying to grab Higan with both of his hands but Higan keeps deflecting it with her umbrella by swinging it. She opens the umbrella sometimes to fire a small scale spell in which it always hits Nil.

[Lighting Crash!] [Ice Prison!] [Stone Hail!] [Ember!] [Water Snake!]

With Higan’s consecutive spells hitting Nil repeatedly, he eventually got crush sending him flying in the sky all bloodied.

“H-Higan! He… he might die…”

“Asagao, that’s the point. I am out for blood. We cannot hesitate to kill, even if it is a person. To make sure he will never do this again for good.”

“I know what you are trying to say but…”

“Sorry, Asagao… I am not playing around. I am standing here to protect both you and Alstroe while master is unavailable at the moment. So please, back me up. I won’t forgive him for bullying you and Alstroe. Unforgivable.”

“Higan…”

“Hahahaha! Look Asagao! The foxy knows what she’s doing! Unlike you who are full of hesitations. You must be worried about me because it’s your bo--!”

“No…”

He was about to say it…

After getting nailed by several magic from Higan who is in Divine Ascension form, Nil stood up from the ground like nothing happened. Is he immortal or something?

And with Higan’s spell barrage earlier, I know one’s body shouldn’t be even intact anymore.

“Fufufu. Are you really that scared for this foxy to know?”

“I…”

“Shut up you madman!”

Higan shouted bravely.

“I don’t know what you are trying to say but, Asagao, even though she is always scolding me and being a bit cold towards my advances, she is still kind and gentle. I don’t want someone like you berating her!”

“I see, what a fun game of charade you did Asagao.”

“No… I didn’t…”

“Asagao, don’t listen to him anymore.”

“Hahaha, Well then.”

Nil charges again but with an unbelievable speed.

I saw him approaches Higan with his hand stretch out to her neck.

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[Barrier!] [Thorn!] [Force!]

“What a petty trick you have here Asagao!~”

Higan tries to cast magic to ward of Nil while the barrier is up. But as the barrier approaches Nil, he didn’t even budge from his place to escape, rather, he just holds up his hand in the air to stop my barrier.

CRASH

A glass-like sound resounds. My barrier in which even Balrog needs a bit of time to breaks shatters in an instant it lands on Nil’s palm. Even Higan can’t believe it.

Nil’s hand went straight ahead slowly to grab Higan by the neck.

“Higan!”

“Ah.”

[Morning Glory Fifteen Petal Layered Barrier!]

[Pierce!] [Spin!]

The barrier that I use turns into a lance-shaped one that’s fifteen times stacked to make it harder. Then it went straight to Nil’s chest, piercing him all the way to his back. Blood scatters everywhere as the barrier lance pierce right through him while it rotates.

[Seal Pillars!] [Static Charge!]

A pillar of stones erects from the ground with a faint glow of light coming from it, surrounds Nil in a very cramped space while the lance barrier is still drilling through him…

My head spins…

Something is overcoming my mind…

A sense of guilt… I am killing someone… Even if it is Nil… my heart aches from it…

Maybe because… it was my body… I don’t think I want to go back into my own body but… seeing it gets killed in front of me is…

Higan approaches me.

“Asagao… It’s just him or us…”

“I see…”

Higan also has a look of a bit of guilt. I can’t blame her for doing it. It is just as she said, either us or him. But Nil…

“Hey, where are you two looking at?”

“”?!””

An intense pain rang throughout my body… and…

.

.

.

I open my eyes. Pain attacks my stomach. I held down my stomach that’s throbbing with pain. I seem to have blacked out for a moment.

I am lying next to Alstroe who is still in a state of having a mental breakdown.

What happened?

When I try to search the surrounding… Master… with bruises all over his body in his dragon form, is being held down by the jaded dragon while the oni woman stands beside them.

Eh…? Did master lose? What happened to him? What happened to Higan?

Higan…

“Higan! Where are you?!”

I stand up to search for her hoping she is okay. I pray that she and master are still alive…

But before I even take a step.

“GAAAHH! NNHHGG! KUH!”

“Hahaha! I already use creeping pain on your whole body but you are still sturdy as hell! Maybe because of the Divine Ascension that you are still holding out!”

I tear up at what I saw. My heart fills with rage.

Higan lying on her belly holding it like it is in an intense pain. Her left hand is still holding her soul weapon but her right hand is lying limply on the ground like its bone was fractured. Her breathing is ragged and clothes are tattered. She coughs blood as Nil continues to kick her in the flank.

“GAH! YOU—ACK! I WON’T LET YOU…KUH… HURT ASAGAO AGAIN!"

“Oh? You can still talk? Maybe I am a little soft on you.”

“HIGAN!”

I run towards Higan and protect her with my barrier while immediately I cast heal on her.

“Oh, you are back Asagao. That was fast. I feel like I could beat up this foxy a little longer!”

“Bastard… damn it…”

“That’s a bit sad. You are not paying attention to me.”

“Shut up! Why the in the world are you doing this?! I… I… suffered enough… why…”

“Suffered enough? Asagao… don’t make me laugh. You don’t know what suffering is. You call this suffering when you are only using these people for your comfort.”

“SHUT UP!”

“… It seems you need a little more beating.”

“I won’t yield to you or I won’t let you break me.”

I can only glare at him as he approaches.

He easily shatters my barrier. I can’t move because I am healing Higan. I won’t let him hurt Higan any further too. I can only grit my teeth.

“Stop right there.”

A hand comes out from thin air, no, from one of those dark portals. It grabs Nil in the back of his head and pulls him and then…

BAM

His face got planted deep in the ground. His comrades rush over to him but said nothing at the sight of their Lord being planted in the ground. More like they expected this.

From the dark portal, a woman with gradient transparent blue pixie wings, matching with her deep blue wavy hair that touches the ground, with a height just a head taller than Higan, and clear gray eyes, came out. Her dress consisted of long strapless one-piece white dress complimented by detached sleeves. Her breasts are small.

“How many times have you done this already you scumbag”

“You’re already here Hy. I was at the climax of my fun.”

“C’rthgor, Sistina, what was Lord Nil doing?”

“”Playing around.””

“…...”

“Hy look! It’s Asagao that I am talking about! She is my most favorite creature in the world before you! Come on… don’t look at me like that!”

BAM

Nil was able to pull his head off from the ground only to be pushed deeper by the girl who appears.

She made an eye contact to me and approaches me.

The other two feels so dangerous, but this girl… she has the silent demure on her. With the clear gray eyes staring at me, she speaks.

“You must be the girl Lord Nil has been going crazy over with. I apologize for the trouble he caused. My name is Hydrangea, a fairy kin. In the order of the Arcana Sins, I am the current Arcana of Wrath.”

“A-Arcana of wrath?”

“It’s okay if it is unbelievable. But really now, you really look like that wuss of a guy that my temper rises from remembering that I had once a relationship with him.”

“Him?... You mean –“

“Enough. You… should treat your friends properly. I am going to take this troublesome Lord of mine away now.”

She left us and proceeds in grabbing Nil’s collar, digging his head out of the ground.

“Wait a moment Hy, I forgot something!”

“Make it quick.”

“OKAY!~”

Nil leaps toward me, landing exactly in front of me. He got on his knee to look at me eye to eye. I don’t what he is planning to do but I still can’t move from healing Higan.

“Hey, Asagao, did you know? We have fragments of personality on each other in the corner of our minds. In amidst your gentle, relaxed nature with your brimming kindness and shyness, there’s a twisted part where my piece of my mind clings to. The same goes for me. With your fragile heart, we can trigger that fragment easily. But you have grown strong. I don’t hate that, but it is still lacking.”

What is he talking about?

Nil then bit the tip of his index finger until it bleeds and grabs my jaw.

“Fwat arf fyuu dyuing?”

“Just a little gift.”

He tries to put his fingers in my mouth, which I resist by forcefully closing it. He pulls me making me stumble. I support my body weight with my hands so I won’t fall on Higan who is under me.

Finally, with my feeble body, he was able to forcefully open my mouth and his fingers penetrate it.

“ACK! AHH! AH-Ahh..”

“Fufufu. How erotic.”

He mercilessly explores the inside of my mouth with his fingers. He will sometimes try to reach my throat which I gag.

I can taste something… blood?

Even though it is my previous body… I feel like he is violating me…

I feel powerless as he does it. A tear starts rolling down from my eyes.

After several seconds more, he let go of me.

I cough again and again because of the sensation my mouth and my throat felt. I look up to him with blurry sight while clenching my fist in frustration.

He only smiles at me as he licks my saliva in his fingers. I never felt so disgusted in my whole life as he does this in front of me.

“Asagao… is so tasty.”

“Kill…”

“Oh…?”

“The next time we meet… I’ll be sure… to kill you… without hesitation! I swear I will!”

“I… will be waiting for that day.”

He walks back to his comrades and once again, makes a smug face at me, looking down on us.

They vanish into thin air as they enter the dark portal.

......

I look at master. He is walking towards us. Albeit he is walking limply, he is overall fine as he has a vitality of a dragon.

Alstroe is still hugging her knees from Nil’s curse from earlier.

Higan, who is unconscious, turns back into normal, but it is still visible that pain is still punishing her body.

What in the world is that...?

That’s not even a battle…

That was just a one-sided trampling…

Everyone except me is experiencing so much pain right now…

What did I do?

“Damn it…”