Narrator POV.
"Daddy swords they, they are shinnying!!!"(Noir)
Noir pointed at the sword that followed them. Then they realied that there was a giant light pillar on the place where Forvish was fighting.
The swords suddenly turned back and went fly to its rightful owner. Felling a strange premonition Lune and Noir were extremely worried about Forvish and could not even imagine what would happen in the case he lost.
"Noir!! We must go faster!! We must inform grandpa!!!!"(Lune)
"Ye-yes!!"(Noir)
They restarted to run and in the middle of this crazy dash they didn't noticed someone run past them.
In the broken orphanage, Forvish stood up once again. Before anyone realized all of his wounds were closed, even his breath normalized and his eyes regained the luster from before. As Leon saw this he felt something weird deep inside, something he didn’t fell since the war, DEATH. It was something he never thought he would feel again. What was displayed in front of his eyes is not something that should exist in this world, mana is something connected directly with the soul of anyone transferring is a concept that should not exist. Even before when Shiroyuki gave her mana for Forvish it was first transferred for the crystal inside him, but now there was no such thing. Not only that but he felt it clearly, Forvish power was suppressing his previous limits. He was getting stronger by the second.
Inside the barrier once the kiss ended Sakura was so tired that she passed out, even her mana reached zero as she gave all of herself to him. She know that this barrier won't last long. She never thought that her last line of defense would be used for another person. Forvish feeling his strength rapidly rise hugs her tightly. The last thing she thought was that it truly was nostalgic feeling, the warmth of another person and the feeling of being safe beside someone that she could fully trust.
"Sakura wait for me. I will be back."(Forvish)[1]
Forvish gently put her on the ground and then stood up.
"Yume!!"(Forvish)
Forvish dragon appeared inside the barrier. Even through his powers keep hising Forvish still was not fully confident as he did not know if it was enough, after all the hero still did not manaficated.
"The dragon of dream born from the wishes of the people
Crystalization of hopes
Going to the path beyond destruction!!GO throught the endless path of destruction!!
To destroy the fate set up by god!!!
To rebel against the unfair god!!
LED US TO THE FATE!!!LED US TO THE NEW FATE WITH ENDLESS POSSIBILITY!
REALIZE YOURSELF!!! FATE DESTRUCTION, DREAM DRAGON!!!"(Forvish)
Forvish mana then undergo changes. The color become pure black. The eyes turned into gold and then the old wings dissapear and insead black sakura petals appeared on it’s back turning into 4 new wings. The horn becomes silver with lines of red and pink color. The claw had black flame imbued while the blades on its arm were also imbued with those black flame.
"Marvelous, to think it would evolve. No less from my child! Hey how did you manage it?"(Leon)
"You will never know the reason. Nor will you ever understand it, Leon."(Forvish)
“…………………………………whatever. I just need to capture you and I will be capable of taking my time to understand.”
Forvish then lifted his arm, as soon as he do that the swords that were with Lune and Noir returned. He was sure that they will be fine, they are strong kids. Now all that he could do is defeat this monster in front of him in the time limit.
"Mana resonation!!!"(Forvish)
A huge black scythe appeared at Forvish hands. Slowly both of his arm was covered with black chain. A wing made from black Sakura petal burning on black fire appeared behind him.
"This is-"(Leon)
Before Leon could finish his words he appeared in front of Forvish ready to attack. Seeing this Forvish parried with the scythe in hurry, but he was still pushed back. Leon then went to kick Forvish on the stomach. Having already predicted that move Forvish stepped back to dodge it and then quickly swing his scythe which repelled Leon away.
“My 20% power is easily defeated!!! 30% power then!! Fireball!!”(Leon)[2]
10 fireballs went homing through the air after Forvish but he spun his scythe like a umbrella to protect himself. Once all of the fire ball vanished Leon was shocked. Forvish still keep spinning the scythe and then he throw it like a boomerang that was connected to him with the chain. Leon realized that he couldn't dodge this, he increased his power to 40% yet he still failed to catch Forvish movement. That's why he choose to use a defensive spell instead.
"Ignition wall!!!"(Leon)
But the scythe penetrated the spell easily, but the objective was completed as the trajectory was altered which made it so that it only grazed him. But just as the spinning scythe passed him Forvish appeared with the faster speed than ever before. What made him more surprised is that he couldn't block his attack. Forvish attack was made by the chain on his left arm that he changer the form to a sword, but because he was still not used to this form he only grazed Leon.
The chain was able to grow longer and shorter depend on the user wishes. At the same time he throw the scythe he ran and shortened his chain so he will be pulled which a increased speed. But what Leon saw was different, what he saw in front of him was a grim reaper!!! After the attack failed Forvish pulled the scythe back making it so that it came back aiming for Leon on his blind spot.
Leon dodged it and then prepared to pick his sword back but Forvish didn't gave him the chance to do so. He was already beside him like a grim reaper and prepared to collect the souls of all which made Leon fell dread by instinct and then use 50% of his power to push him away. Even though Forvish was able to block the sword he was pushed back to where Sakura was.
Forvish even thought he seemed calm on the outside he was rather hasty. He only had 10 seconds left from the original 15 seconds, he must finish this as soon as he can before time run out.
Besides Leon still didn't used his power full power yet as he thought that Leon stabbed his sword underground and then begin to prepare a big spell. A phoenix surged on his back.
"Forvish!!!! I WILL KILL YOU AS THE HERO I AM!!! YOU HAVE TO MUCH POTENTIAL AND COULD BECOME A TREAT TO THE WORD I CREATED, SO BEFORE YOU BECOME THE SECOND DEMON LORD I MUST VANQUISH YOU!!! GO DIE TOGETHER WITH DEMON YOU CARE SO MUCH ABOUT YOUR UNSIGHTLY FOOL!!!!"(Leon)
The phoenix was send toward Forvish. He couldn't dodge because Sakura was behinf him. He will bet everything on this last attack. The scythe grow bigger and its edge was covered with the chain from his hand and then was covered with the petals from his wings. Then he lifted his weapon up and prepared to swing it.
"This is the end Leon!!"(Forvish)
Forvish run to the phoenix with his scythe and attacked. They were clashing with each other, the heat was unbelievable but Forvish didn't give up and forced his way through this magic all the way with great momentum. This made Leon surprised but Forvish just kept running toward him with full of intent to end this fight!!!
"How can such thing be!!! It is destiny, it is fate for the demon to die by the hand of the great me!!!!"(Leon)
"If that is supposed to be her fate!! THEN I WILL TORN IT APART!!! I WILL DESTROY SUCH FATE!!!!!!!!"(Forvish)
Forvish swings his scythe and cut Leon into two which made his mana body be destroyed and made him pass out.
"...Leon You lost."(Forvish)
As Forvish said that slowly his form returned to normal. Forvish felt so unbelievably tired that he had the impression that he would pass out anytime, yet even though he feels that he walked to Sakura.
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"Sorry Sakura. I made you wait for too long."(Forvish)
Opening her eyes and seeing him Sakura gave a carefree smile that she never gave before and muttered
"Forvish."(Sakura)
Slowly he opened the dream realm and then he took out some plastic bag from there. He never thought he could be this tired just to take this thing out. Forvish then take out a pink headband with 1 sakura flower glued on it. He wanted to give it to her before he lost his conciousness. When Sakura received it Forvish feels he could no longer continue standing.
"Happy Christmas. I hope you like it."(Forvish)
Once he said that he lost his consciousness and fell on top of Sakura. Sakura seeing him could only cry because of happiness. This is the first time, the first she felt that she was blessed for being born.
"Forvish, thank you."(Sakura)
Her tears fells on Forvish face. In her heart she hoped that Forvish doesn't mind with her crying like this, after all she couldn't stop her tears.
Suddenly Leon twitched, and slowly stood up. This made Sakura frightened, not for her but for Forvish.
"yes,Yes, YES… FINALLY!!! THE PERFECT CHANCE!!! HIS POWERS AWAKENED AND IS EVEN BETTER THAT PLANNED!!!! RAISING HIM WAS WORTH THE TROUBLE!!!!!! WITH THIS I WILL REACH EVEN GREATTER HEIGHTS!!!!! I WILL DEVOUR FORVISH EVERITHING AND BECOME A SUPREME BEING!!!"(Leon)
Slowly Leon walked up to them with the stone at his hand shining.
"I WILL FINALLY BE CAPABLE OF ELIMINATING ALL THAT STANDS ON MY PATH TO MAKE THE WORD HOW IT SHOULD BE!!!"(Leon)
"Wake up baka onii-chan."(Claire)
Claire suddenly appeared in front of him and destroyed the stone. Claire’s face this time was colder than ice, no emotions appeared but her eyes exuded pure hate. Sakura suddenly felt that it was lucky that the one after her was not this woman or else she would had died without even knowing how long ago.
"Claire, you are my cute sister. Surely you know that what I am doing is jus-"(Leon)
Slap*
Claire slapped Leon.
"Stop being pathetic Leon onii-chan. I know your first love was killed by the demon lord. But that doesn't make it justice to hurt his daughter or my son."(Claire)
Leon still tried to defend himself but Claire don't care about what he had to say. Beside if they fought right now Claire can easily defeat him. Still what's more important was Forvish so she didn't pursue this any further. But when he checked Forvish she noticed his wound clearly which made her confused. Wasn't he supposed to be wounded very badly? As she thought that she noticed that Leon mana body was destroyed. From his clothes it can be seen what happened.
"Ha, Leon learn from this. Think for yourself what made you lose for my kid. You are not a total fool, surely you realize what I mean. For heroes to be beaten by anyone, especially a child have a justification."(Claire)
"He is a demon!!!"(Leon)
Smack!!! Claire punched him which made Sakura surprised.
"You lost not because you are weak or anything!!! It was because you lost it!! Your burning soul!!! Your wish to help the innocent and not just yourself!! All the others are the same, they lost what made them special!! Where is the burning hero who fight off the demon army alone to protect me? Where is the Leon who risk all to protect the smile of the kids!!!!! Where is my brother who was brighter than anyone? Where is the Leon who don’t fear destiny or the word?!! Where is HE?!?!?!"(Claire)
Leon only look down when he heard that. Claire continue her reasoning.
"The reason you lost to Forvish isn't because you are weaker than him. You lose because you lost your only way and turned into a shadow of someone I don’t even recognize anymore. IF, you were still your previous self you would not struggle against a child, you wouldn’t even think of what you depending on another and just ran straight ahead with a smug smile on your face challenging all and never backing down."(Claire)
Leon grit his teeth. Claire deep down in her heart thanked Forvish. If Forvish intended then this guy would already be dead. After all when your manarize is forcefully ended y you will end up pass out. Even if only for a minute. But Forvish spared him. The reason Forvish didn't return now she understood clearly now. To think all of her precious friends were so weak inside. It made her understand why Forvish didn't trust any of them.
"Think about it carefully. The live you walk now. Don't be blind by the beauty of some title.... foolish brother."(Claire)
Leon was incapable of saying anything. Then Claire go to Sakura:
"Hey demon lord daughter.... do you want to go with Forvish?"(Claire)
Looks like she was an ally so Sakura nodded her head.
"Of course I have requirement if you want to do that. Will you still do it?"(Claire)
"As long I can be with him I don't mind."(Sakura)
"Good. Then you-"(Claire)
Forvish POV.
........where am I? As I thought that I slowly lifted my body and noticed I am in my own room. I heard ruckus outside and soon Sakura entered the room.
"Sakura, thanks god you are safe."(Forvish)
"No it was me who must thank you for saving my life."(Sakura)
Sakura then took a seat...
As I am glad she was safe I then ask her if she already met her little sisters or not.
"Sakura, did you already meet your little sisters?"(Forvish)
"My little sisters?"(Sakura)
"...The little girls, the ones that wear the ribbons at their hair."(Forvish)
Sakura then think for a moment. Looks like they already met each other.
"There is no way. They may bear an resemblance with my mother. But there is no way. There is no way they can be my sisters, after all they died when my mom was pregnant with them."(Sakura)
"Sakura, actually."(Forvish)
I told her everything. When she heard all that she was crying and hugging me.
"Forvish. Thank you. Thank you for saving my little sisters."(Sakura)
"....yeah."(Forvish)
Once she stopped crying I asked her what she planned to do.
"So what are you going to do Sakura?"(Forvish)
"I am going to stay here, your parents let me stay here as long I am willing to go to school next term."(Sakura)
"I see, then you better begin your studies from now."(Forvish)
After all you can't even do a basic elementary question. That's why my parents choose to do it by next turn, so that she can learn at least the basics first. But I am relieved that mom and dad didn't hold any prejudice against her. As I thought that I noticed Sakura wearing the headband that I gave her before.
"Forvish, thanks to you I can leave my past live and live be a normal girl, thank you."(Sakura)
"I see, then it is all good."(Forvish)
As we chat about that suddenly Lune and Noir entered the room. More likely they wanted to eavesdrop but accidentally pushed the door on a way that broke the door, probably because Julius keep entering by kicking it open(Note to myself: tell Rosa about Julius secret file on his computer, what made him think I would not find this weakness). But Sakura didn't care about the girls intrusion on this moment and said to me with a smile:
"Forvish, let's stay together forever and ever."(Sakura)
"Yeah."(Forvish)
Editor note:
[1]: I saw the terminator again and couldn’t resist kkkkk.
[2]: yu yu hakusho younger toguro approves.