With a single finger striking his chest, Ezra's lifeless body hits the floor with an echoing "thud".

"You dissapoint me, Ezra, all of that anger just to die a pitiful death like this? But at least you were intertaining for a while, your rampage made me sweat a bit." Lucifer says with a smile on his face.

Ezra opens his sore eyes and sees a bright blue sky, he can feel flowers on touching his body and a feeling of absolute peace until he is brought back into reality by a voice.

"A young child like you should have never a had to experience a fate so terrible." A voice of an old man with a saddened tone reaches Ezra's ears.

As he lifts himself up and looks in the direction of the voice he sees nothing but an endless flower field with a single tree in the corner of his eye.

He gets up, brushing off the flowers and some dirt from his attire.

"What the hell is this place?!?" He asks in fear and confusion.

"I believe you humans call it... The afterlife?" A voice of an old man can be heard, although he cannot see the man he still hears the voice clearly, as if the man is right next to him.

"I'm... Dead?" Ezra says with utter shock resonating from his body as it tenses up.

"Yes, you don't remember? Most people tend to remember their death, let me clear your head." The old man's voice can be heard again as Ezra's memories of that fateful moment start rushing in.

He sees, in his head, the moment where the finger touched his chest and the moment where the hole apeared.

Ezra falls to his knees holding his head with both arms, tears flood into his eyes but he starts running again to see the tree up close.

It is an apple tree, with an apple growing on it each second, and with its branches extending to create room for more apples, then he sees an old man leaned on the tree.

The man gets up and takes an apple from the tree and bites into it, "You died, Ezra, at least it was quick death but still." He takes another bite of the apple.

Ezra goes in to touch an apple but gets his arm slapped away by the old man.

"Don't be so quick, only i can eat these apple" The man says with a casual expression.

"Sounds like you're being greedy." Ezra says, attempting to get his mind off of his own death.

"No, i'm not."

"Then let me eat the apples."

"No."

"Why?"

"Allow me to explain, all of these apples are souls of the people who touched these trees."

"So... If i touch it, i will turn into an apple?" Ezra asks, cleaning his tears.

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"Yes, technically, when i eat an apple they get reincarnated. There are five hundred apples, most people that die instantly reincarnate while those that die tragic deaths go here." The old man says after eating the apple, he immediately picks out another one and eats it.

"So... Do i touch the tree or not?" Ezra ask while sniffling a bit.

"It is up to you."

"I think... I will not touch it... Cuz i believe in Johan... I know what type of person he is, he will try and revive me for sure. I knew that even before facing Yuta in that room and before i got killed by Lucifer. That is why i placed a bond on him!" The old man raises an eyebrow to Ezra's words, as if he didn't expect what he would say.

Johan rests impatiently in his cells until a golden shackle and chain apears on his wrist and then dissapears in the form of light particles.

Johan immediately creates his red swords and slashes the bars in the cell open, with a calm face he exits with only a single thought in his mind: 'Is that why you did this Ezra? So be it.'

He cleaves through the doors to the room he was kept in, many guards begins an assault against him but he dodges the bullets masterfully and dices them up without a moment of resistance.

Yuta wakes up in the rubble to see Lucifer in front of him with a troubled expression.

"Ezra's friend escaped, go kill him."

Yuta nods and barges through the wall, he follows quietly behind Johan that has already left the walls of the city.

As they both find themselves in the forest Yuta announces his presence.

"In the name of lord Lucifer, i will part your head from your torso!" Yuta says with a wide grin.

"I don't have time to fuck around with you, shithead." Johan cuts his arms off and kicks him away, taking off running in the next moment.

Yuta regenerates, 'miasmic technique: miasmic strike!'

Johan hears a whip-like sound behind him and dodges.

"Now that i'm in the open i no longer need to hold back!" Yuta looks with a stern look in his eyes, 'i have to end this battle quickly, i sense a rainstorm coming.'

Johan doesn't reply, instead, he looks forward and gets into a battle stance with a hateful expression.

"Are you the brat that killed Ezra?" Johan breaks the silence.

"No, it was Lucifer."

"Seems about right, i can't see Ezra losi-" Yuta tries to attack Johan with a strong whip attack, Johan dodges flawlessly and getting chills upon hearing many trees break behind him.

"I don't have time for idle talk, i'm in a hurry." He spins his arm in circles releasing a powerful sircular slash attack that destroys everything in front of it, a mere moment later Johan apears in the air to escape the attack but an attack strikes him down.

"Sircular system, whiplash."

Johan gets up, his clothes torn and dirty with many cuts all across his body, no time is wasted as he lunges forward cutting Yuta's body into multiple pieces.

Johan knows it might not enough to kill him so he stays close, not letting his guard down.

Suddenly, slashes come out of Yuta's body that swipe in all distances, Johan uses a spell and the slashes phase through him breaking his swords.

Once the smoke of the attack clears Johan realises that Yuta fully regenerated.

Johan looks in fear as his left arm falls away from his body, but he still gets himself moving and touches a tree with his right arm.

"Magnetism!" Sparks come from his fingers and he lifts up the tree easily, trying to hit Yuta with it.

Yuta flails his arms in shock gravely injuring Johan and destroying the tree.

With both his arms, a leg and his throat slit Johan could do nothing but lay on the ground watching Yuta try to absorb him.

"You are so pitiful, if only i could cry." Yuta speaks in a sad tone with some sincerity in his voice.

"Sorry." Yuta's head falls of his shoulders.

"I made you suffer." Johan apears behind Yuta as his head and body both fall, "i really hope clones can't feel pain, then again, you could have used a bit less manna."

Johan used a clone spell to make a clone of himself and while the clone was fighting, Johan hid himself among trees and bushes.

When a clone fights, they can use spells but if a spell is used by a clone then the manna of the real body is spent.

"I'm so tired, did you really have to attack with a tree? Who gave you that idea?!" Johan turns his head to Yuta, "oh, right, i almost forgot about you."

"Don't you dare! I will raise hell over you if you kill me!" Yuta's head says.

"Too bad." Johan stabs Yuta in the chest, making him turn to ash, "Ezra, you really outdid yourself this time... I mean, sacrificing yourself for me to escape and then transfering your memories and mind to me with the bond? You really trust me too much... you naive baffoon."