PUCHI!

THE GOLDEN PITCHFORK PIERCED THROUGH HEIN’S CROSSED ARM EASILY DESPITE HIS HIGH GRADE LEATHER ARMOR AS IF IT WERE MADE FROM BUTTER.

FEELING THE PAIN, HEIN GRITTED HIS TEETH AS THE INSTANT IT WAS ABOUT TO PENETRATE THROUGH HIS CHEST, HEIN TURNED HIS ARM, BRINGING THE FORCE OF THE GOLDEN PITCHFORK DOWNWARD, PENETRATING HIS ABDOMEN INSTEAD, NARROWLY DODGING AN INSTANT DEATH.

THE GOLDEN PITCHFORK PIERCED THROUGH HIS ABDOMEN, UNFURLING HIS SKIN AND FLESH, SPLATTERING FRESH BLOOD ON ALL DIRECTIONS.

THE TWO POINTED TIPS CAME OUT OF HIS BACK, LETTING OUT A BURNED SMELL OF FLESH AND SMOKE, LIKE BARBECUE.

HEIN BROKE OUT A COLD SWEAT, HIS INSIDES WAS HOT LIKE IT WAS BEING ROASTED AND HIS CONSCIOUSNESS WAS SLIPPING AWAY FROM HIM.

IMMEDIATELY A SCREAM EMERGED BESIDE HIM AND SOMEONE RUSHED OVER TO HIM, BUT …

“STAY AWAY!”

… HEIN SHOUTED WITH AN ANGRY VOICE AS HE GRABS THE SEARING HANDLE OF THE GOLDEN PITCHFORK, PIERCING THROUGH HIS STOMACH.

THE WOUND ON MY STOMACH WOULDN’T STOP BLEEDING AND IT WAS SLOWLY ROASTING MY INSIDE INTO A BARBECUE OF INTESTINES, BUT SO WHAT? I WOULDN’T DIE FROM THIS, NOR WOULD I COLLAPSE FROM IT!

SADLY, NO ONE CAN CORRECT HIM. AS IF SOMEONE WOULDN’T DIE FROM THAT!

BLOOD CONTINUOUSLY SEEPED OUT OF HIS MOUTH BUT HEIN STILL STUBBORNLY GRITTED HIS TEETH,

“DID NO ONE TAUGHT YOU NOT TO EAT WITH A PITCHFORK BUT A NORMAL FORK!?”

HEIN RAISED HIS INJURED RIGHT ARM, ENDURING THE REGURGITATING BLOOD FROM COMING; HE USED HIS RIGHT HAND TO HIT HADES FACE WITH ALL THE STRENGTH HE CAN MUSTER.

PUNCHING FASTER THAN THE ONE BEFORE, HE DIDN’T MIND EVEN IF HIS FIST BROKE.

GIVING A BLOW THAT WAS CERTAINLY EQUIVALENT TO A DOUBLE-EDGE SWORD, HE SELF-MUTILATED TO DELIVER A DEEP PUNCH IN TO THAT ARROGANT GOD’S BODY.

“…!?”

A SURPRISED VOICE SLIGHTLY LEAKED OUT OF HADES MOUTH.

RELEASING HIS FULL-POWERED PUNCH IN THE MOMENT, HEIN FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A SECRET BARRIER IN FRONT OF THE ARROGANT GOD, BLOCKING HIS FIST.

HARD!

HEIN’S FIST COULD ONLY GENERATE A SMALL CRACK. DROPLETS OF BLOOD SPRAYED PUT FROM HIS BROKEN FIST, SPLASHING EVERYWHERE.

THE GENERATED SEVERE PAIN WAS SUPPRESSED WITH INTENSE PASSION AND MALE BLOOD.

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!”

GENERATING MORE STRENGTH BY SCREAMING HIS HEART OUT, HE INFUSED IT ON HIS INDOMITABLE FIST.

CRACKED!

“NUU…!!!”

THE BARRIER CRACKED, HADES PLACED ITS RIGHT FOOT BACKWARDS.

HEIN DIDN’T LET GO OF THIS OPPORTUNITY AS HE INCREASED THE STRENGTH OF HIS FIST, GETTING POWER FROM AN UNKNOWN SOURCE. HE STRENGTHENED HIS FIST, BREAKING THE BARRIER IN FRONT OF HIM.

HADES SEEMED SURPRISED FROM THE POWER-UP AS HE TRIED TO EVADE THE INCOMING PUNCH BUT HE WAS ONE STEP TOO LATE.

LETTING GO OF THE GOLDEN PITCHFORK ON HIS HANDS, HE RAISED HIS TWO ARMS AND CROSSED IT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE.

“AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!”

HEIN’S FIST CONTAINED ENOUGH POWER TO SHATTER HIS OWN BONES AND CAUSING HIS LIMBS TO SWELL AS HE FORCED HIS BLEEDING BODY TO PASS ITS OWN LIMITS.

UNDER THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE INTENSE PAIN FROM HIS STOMACH, HIS FIGHTING SPIRIT DIDN’T SEEM TO DECREASE. ON THE CONTRARY, IT WAS INCREASING.

THIS WASN’T BECAUSE OF HIS POWER SUDDENLY INCREASING OR RECEIVING A POWER UP FROM NOWHERE BUT BECAUSE OF THE PRIDE HE WAS FEELING AND THE HEAVY BURDEN HE WAS CARRYING, LEADING HIM TO FORGET ABOUT THE PAIN OF HIS BATTERED AND PUNCTURED BODY.

BANG!

HEIN CRUSHED THE GROUND UNDER HIS FOOT AS HIS FIST BURROWED DEEPLY TO HADES ARMS, SENDING HIM FLYING A METER AWAY FROM HEIN.

SEEING HADES LYING ON THE GROUND, HEIN LET OUT A SATISFIED SMILE.

“… MASTER …”

—A SMALL VOICE ECHOED.

WHEN HEIN TURNED AROUND, IONA WAS LOOKING AT HEIN WITH TEARY FACE.

SHE SEEMED TO NOT KNOW HOW TO REACT AT THIS MOMENT, BUT UPON SEEING HIS STOMACH, IONA COULDN’T HELP BUT CRIED LARGE BEADS OF TEARS AS SHE IMMEDIATELY RUSHED OVER TOWARDS HEIN.

SEEING HER OKAY, HEIN’S TENSION BROKE AND HE FELL ON HIS KNEES. IONA WHO WAS STANDING NOT FAR AWAY FROM HIM IMMEDIATELY RUSHED AND SUPPORTED HIM.

AT THIS MOMENT, WHEN HEIN SLOWLY CLOSED HIS EYES, A CHANGE SUDDENLY OCCURRED.

THE ATMOSPHERE ROSE UP AND HEIN’S EYES THAT WERE CLOSED A WHILE AGO OPENED ONCE AGAIN, HIS ORIGINALLY BLACK EYES WERE ALREADY DYED WITH RED.

FLAMES FLICKERED ON HIS BODY.

THE FLAMES THEN SPOUTED HIGH TO THE SKY WITH THE TREMBLING SOUND THAT SHOOK THE GROUND AND BECAME A PILLAR OF FLAMES THAT ROSE TOWARDS THE HEAVENS.

HOLDING HEIN’S MOTIONLESS BODY, IONA’S EXPRESSION SUDDENLY BECAME MORE INTENSE AND HER EYES OPENING WIDELY.

“PEI … PEI … SHA ?!”

“HE SHOULD BE DEAD BY NOW … SO WHAT IS THIS ?”

BOTH IONA AND HADES, WHO HAD FINALLY MANAGED TO GET UP WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY, WERE UNABLE TO TAKE THEIR EYES OF THE SPECTACLE TAKING PLACE IN FRONT OF THEM.

A STREAK OF BLOOD LEAKED FROM HADES LIPS AND HIS TWO ARMS WERE RATHER RAGGED.

HIS BLACK ROBE WAS NOW TORN AND HIS HAIR MESSY BUT HE STILL IGNORED IT AND FOCUSED HIS GAZE AT HEIN’S BODY.

EVEN IONA IGNORED THE SCORCHING HOT FLAMES BURNING HER HANDS AS SHE MUMBLED SOMETHING UNDER HER BREATH.

THE TWO CONTINUED TO STAND AND BLANKLY STARE AT THE RAGING FLAMES.

THE FLAMES GREW STRONGER AS THE GROUND AND AIR STARTED TREMBLING ALONGSIDE A ROARING SOUND. AND WITH THAT, THE RAGING FLAMES THAT HAD JUST SWELLED UP SHRANK IN AN INSTANT, AND A LONE GIRL APPEARED.

IT WAS A GIRL FORMED BY FLAMES. HER BODY WAS MADE UP FROM FLICKERING FLAMES. IT WAS A GIRL VERY FAMILIAR TO IONA.

“…WHAT WAS I… EH WHERE AM I…?”

BUT THE GIRL THAT HAD APPEARED WAS PUZZLED AS WELL. HER MEMORIES WERE CLOUDED. SHE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE SHE WAS OR WHAT WAS EVEN HAPPENING.

BUT IN THE NEXT MOMENT, HER WONDERING EYES SUDDENLY FOUND IONA WHO STANDING IN FRONT OF HER WHILE HOLDING SOMEONE.

“…A, AMY ?… UGH, WHERE ARE WE ? AND WHO’S THA—”

WHEN THE FLAMING GIRL SAW HEIN’S FACE, SHE SUDDENLY FELT THE WORLD GROUND TO A HALT.

“M-MASTER …”

THE GIRL WAS INSTANTLY CRUSHED.

SHE REMAINED MOTIONLESS WITH HER HAND REACHING TOWARDS HIM. HOWEVER, HER HAND SUDDENLY CAME TO A HALT IN MID AIR WHEN SHE SAW THE BLOOD GUSHING OUT FROM HIS BODY.

ALTHOUGH SHE WAS WONDERING WHAT WAS GOING ON, SHE SOMEHOW FELT THAT THE MAN IN FRONT OF HER WAS …

— ALREADY DYING.

“M, MASTER… I, IS THAT YOU ? W, WHAT HAPPENED … MASTER ?…”

SHE TRIED TO SMILE, BUT SHE COULDN’T.

SHE TRIED TO TALK, BUT HER THROAT GOT HOARSE.

THE ONLY THING SHE COULD DO WAS SHED TEARS.

“AH … AH … AH … “

INSTANTLY, A SLIGHTLY IDIOTIC VOICE OF A GIRL RESOUNDED IN THE BATTLEFIELD.

THAT VOICE WAS UNMISTAKABLY, THE VOICE OF THE GIRL WHICH WAS LOOKING AT HEIN’S MOTIONLESS BODY.

BUT THAT WAS ONLY NATURAL. THE GIRL WAS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND.

WHY――

[ MA, MASTERRR――――–!?!? ]

LOVER’S REVENGE WAS ACTIVATED!

THE FLAMING GIRL’S FIGURE TURNED INTO A MASSIVE PILLAR OF FLAMES AND RUSHED TOWARDS HADES WHO WAS LOOKING AT THEM WITH INDIFFERENCE.

THE GIRL DIDN’T KNOW WHY SHE WANTED TO KILL HIM BUT SHE HAD A FEELING THAT SHE NEED TO KILL THE BLACK YOUTH IN FRONT OF HER.

SHE NEED TO ATTACK HIM AND BURNED HIM INTO DUSTS.

SEEING THE APPROACHING FLAMES THAT LOOKED LIKE A SPEAR OF REDEMPTION, THE BLACK YOUTH ONLY SNEERED AS HE INSTANTLY WAVED HIS HAND.

DARK COLORED SHADOWS GUSHED OUT FROM HIS BODY.

WHEN THE GIRL’S FRONTAL ATTACK WHICH WAS ACCOMPANIED BY SORROWFUL CRIES FILLED WITH DESPAIR HIT THE BLACK YOUTH WHO WAS SURROUNDED WITH DARK SHADOWS, THE GROUND IMMEDIATELY SHOOK AND TREMBLED.

CRACKS FORMED AND A HUGE SHOCK WAVE BLASTED THE THINGS AROUND THEM.

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