"Oh sweet death, oh sweet, sweet death... For so long you avoided me. Why do you let me suffer? Why do you let me... alone... I cried and cried, yet you never came, I killed and killed, yet you were nowhere to be found. Champion? Immortal? Such a fool was 'blessed' with this titles and all I got was SUFFERING! WHY! TELL ME WHY! Why did you took her and not me, please RELEASE ME!"
...
"The eternal Varneth, it seems you cry again oh lord of war. You cry again, but death... will never find you, cursed to roam this universe for eternity, you shall do this until the horsemen are called. Now cry and cry and cry again for not a single person shall hear you... demon."
𝓓𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱,𝓦𝓪𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓦𝓪𝓻
|7:00 AM | Sector F | Gaia City | Supervised by the 3rd despot|
It's a beautiful day outside, birds are singing... Ahem... People going to their jobs, kids to school and others should go to university...
At the third floor inside an old building there is an apartment, pretty tidy, for one person, and someone is sleeping like an angel. He wakes up and pulls the curtains, in front of him was a girl hanging by a rope. He decides to cover the window again.
She knocks in the window, yet he won't even try to look.
"Come on Lyall let me enter, it's chilly here!"
"WHY ARE YOU THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?"
"Pretty please!"
"Argh... Ok, come in."
He pulls again the curtains and opens the windows to let Akari enter. Then he takes a seat on the bed.
"So what were you doing?"
"Uh... I was kinda... following you..."
"You know what? For some reason I'm not even surprised. Say why do you follow me?"
"Ok, but first what happened with you?"
Lyall waits and thinks a bit, then he realizes how he looks. The moment he understood he presses his palms together and transforms back into his 'strong' form.
"Nothing, what do you mean?"
"..."
"I guess the bluff is over. Welp that much with scaring people."
He does the same thing again and removes the illusion.
"So that is bassicaly a illusion?"
"Kinda, you can actually touch me and feel that I have muscles and other stuff like that, but I have the same strenght."
"So you just deceive people?"
"Yeah.... Wait don't change the subject, why do you follow me?!"
"I thought I will find something about the first despot, or at least something about what happens in this city."
"Ah... I know some people that can explain that better, as you are new here I can understand the curiosity, now I'm going to eat, hope you won't start looking around for stuff."
Akari was already doing that, but after she heard him... She got a knock over her head.
"Bad Akari. Bad!"
"I'm not a dog!"
"Then behave like a normal girl, you can do that..."
The look she had on her face, it was sad, he said something he shouldn't have. Was there are problem? Who knows?"
"Do you want something to eat...? 'Gotta think, gotta think!' "
She was still sad, but noded in agreement."
"I'm not so good at this, so I hope you like omelet."
"Yeah..."
While Lyall was cooking in front of Akari came a graysquirrel, for her it was a gray squirrel, but in fact that was a chinchilla, she did not know that, yet she thought it was a very cute pet and very fluffy.
"Oh it seems you like Akasha."
"That is her name? You really have no inspiration do you?"
"Well, I can't argue with that."
She was laughing, indeed a pet can work miracles with ones mood.
"So while I bring the food, mind telling me what got you so upset?"
"Oh... well I usually got treated as an abnormal person, everyone asked why I can't be normal. Hearing that from you it was quite a shock."
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"HEY!"
"I'm joking, well not really, you are different and I had my hope that you would accept me like this."
"Oh come on I can change my shape and think you are abnormal, ha ha, now that is a good one. Still yeah I do accept you, I mean we weirdos need to stick together. Alright, coming!"
As he was bringing the servings Akari was looking at him and gave him quite a stare.
"Tell me Lyall... Are we friends?"
"If we were not friends, I wouldn't have cooked for ya, now eat, I have quite a long day."
"Going to university?"
"No, got some... other work to do."
"Hmmm.... Now what could that be?"
"Oh shut up and eat, maybe I will say later."
Half a hour passed and they were just lying around.
"I don't want to do ANYTHING!"
"Me neither, well I could go... but your squirrel is so fluffy."
"That's a chinchilla."
"Oh... she is still very fluffy."
"I'm going to open the window in the kitchen, it's so hot here."
"Ok."
He opens the window and looks around. Everything was still peaceful despite what happened with Sobek. He looks down and there was something rather strange, a girl with black and red hair.
"I see a girl down, there, pretty strange, black and red hair hmm... Reminds me of someone... Oh she looks at me... She is in front of me... WAIT WHAT?"
Immediately after he said that he is punched in the face, he wasn't really hurt by the punch, but was sent flying in the wall.
"That is some gorilla force you got there."
"Why aren't you dead?"
"I asked myself this everyday."
"..."
"What?"
There was total silence in the kitchen, the girl was looking like him with eyes like daggers while Lyall was... well he was staring at her, but not at her face.
"Wanna eat something?"
"Hmm?"
"Ok, I ask again. Do. You. Want. To. Eat?"
"I understood, but do you have mental issues or something?"
"Possibly."
"I just punched you with the intent to kill and you ask me if I want to eat?"
"Yes."
"Uh... Sure I guess. Do you usually cook for people that want to kill you?"
"You can go and wait in the other room."
"You are a strange one you know that?"
"Scio."
"What?"
"Nothing, wait in the other room until I make the omelet."
|7:56 AM |
"So, tell me what do you think it keeps him so much?"
"I don't know, let's check on him."
Akari and the girl went to see what was Lyall doing in the kitchen. The moment they reached there they saw him on the ground in a pool of blood, the frying pan there as well and the eggs spread on the floor.
"WHAT HAPPENED HERE?"
"Check if he is still alive."
Akari went to check on him, he was till breathing, she was glad.
"He is still alive."
"..."
"Lyall can you hear me? Say something, what happened?"
"Mors vultus pro me... ego superesse."
"What...? This can wait, let get you to a doctor, help me get him up Keira."
"Sure..."
|8:36| Sector H | Gaia City | Supervised by the 4th Despot |
"Didn't know you were a rich girl Akari."
"Believe me, it's not worth it."
"Thought rich people are happy."
"You know everyone has a problem or two..."
"So why aren't we going to a hospital?"
"Well our family doctor is better than what we could find, also it was much closer."
"Fair enough."
As they get out from the car two people wearing black suits got Lyall and went fast to the doctor.
"Until they see what is wrong with him, do you have anything to do or can you stay with me for a while?"
"I'm not in any hurry so, yeah... Why do you want to stay with me though?"
"I don't have so many friends, Lyall might be the only one and you know..."
"Ok, ok, sooo... Anything you want to do in particular?"
"Not really, oh I got some things if you want to see them, also there is the garden or we can play with the dogs."
"Well let's see then."
"Alright let's go."
While the two of them go and spend some time together, the doctor takes a look at Lyall to get a better understanding of what happened to him.
"It looks like... Alright this makes no sense... After losing so much blood he shouldn't be alive, gotta take a radiography."
A few minutes pass and he looks to check what is wrong with his body.
"This is plain impossible, five fractured vertebrae, a totally smashed femur, multiple skull fractures, he should be dead."
As the doctor is looking amazed over the files, Lyall comes to him.
"Doc. What you saw here, will stay between us. Tell the girls it was an internal hemorrhage."
"I can't do that, they are very worried about you and this is just amazing I can't just keep this from them."
Suddenly his voice became ghostly and harsh with a look that would make even the toughest man shiver.
"NON VERBA!"
The doctor was shocked for a moment after the sudden lash out, but he understood the message.
"I will tell them it was just a internal hemorrhage."
"Good we can see eye to eye."
What Lyall didn't know was that everything was recorded and so it happened that Akari and Keira saw what happened.
"Who is exactly Lyall?"
"He saved me once, the people that abducted me wanted a rather strange ransom and well... Lyall kinda brutally killed them."
"So he is strong and mysterious, sure you won't fall for him?"
"What!? Oh the first time you make a joke and you make this one."
Keira starts to laugh for a bit.
"So you do like him!"
"NO!"
"Auch, well whatever, I wanna see who is this Lyall in the end."
A sudden revelation came to her.
"You know, the next week is the tournament, if he participates maybe we can get to see what can he do at least."
"I don't think he can do much in his condition, but is worth a shot."
"Then we have a plan."
Three days later...
|10:00 AM | Sector F | Gaia City | Supervised by the 3rd despot|
It was another peaceful day, or so Lyall was hoping. He oredered a Pizza to start the day happy. After a few minutes someone rang and he went to open the door.
"YEAH, PIZZA TIME!"
"Hey Lyall!"
"Oh... it's you."
After that he closes the door.
"Hey don't leave us here! OPEN THE DOOR!"
"Akari, keep your cool I got this."
Immediatley after Keira said those things she punched the door to the ground.
"See."
"This is not what I had in mind..."
"It's alright."
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU!"
"Oh shut up, you closed the door in fron of us."
"Here goes my happy day..."
"We got some good news for you though."
"Surprise me."
Akari got from her pocket a piece of paper and gave it to Lyall. He took it and started to unfold the paper and read. The very next eleven seconds he sighted and looked at the girls.
"Get out of my house."
"Hey what do you mean, do you know how hard is it to get someone in there, especially when he is not even there to sign up!"
"My point exactly!"
"Well we did our part, if you want to go it's alright if not that is alright as well, but me and Akari are going to participate."
He was sad when she said that, but there wasn't anything he could do.
"I'm sorry, but you should leave for now."
"Alright, but tell me before we go, thirteen years ago, there was an incident do you know something about it."
For Keira this wasn't news, she was in the city to gather information about that specific event, she did not expect to find any leads. At that moment Lyalls face went pale, you could see the guilt on his face, but he did not say a thing.
"Please... leave now."
"N-05?"
"LEAVE... I know nothing, I am just a nobody, so just leave this piece of trash rot here and move on... just, move on..."
"... We shall talk again..."
After his harsh words Keira left and he went to take a nap, as for Akari, she didn't know what to do now, she just wanted to get along with them and now things were like this.
"Lyall...?"
"Leave me be..."
"Come on Lyall..."
"I won't come to the tournament."
"At least can you watch me and Keira, I know you are mad now, but I think she would be glad to see you there too."
"I... Maybe... Look, I will be there, even if you don't see me, I will watch both of you."
Akari smiled warmly.
"Thanks."