“Sister?” Lydia asked out loud the word swirling in everyone’s heads.

“Oh, don’t tell me you don’t know.” Demon Lord Aberis spoke in a condescending voice.

“Sh-shut up! I d-don’t even know you!” Shao spoke in a strangled voice while still unsuccessfully trying to kick him.

“It’s true.” He nodded thoughtfully. “I was banished long before we could meet. However, my father could pop out a baby any time he wanted. I have many brothers and sisters. They just all choose to be pawns under father, running his empire in the north. I thought I had heard whispers of a demon princess being born not too long ago, but they went quiet shortly after starting. You must be her.”

“Th-that’s not true…” She gasped angrily.

“You can’t deny it now.” The demon lord shrugged. “I barely noticed you before, but now that you’ve called on your true demon bloodline, your identity is as clear as day. Don’t tell me that you didn’t know. Only the demon king and his children have the true demon bloodline. Only we can transform.”

Shao still glared at him, but she had stopped kicking, and it was clear she had been shocked by his words. We had seen through Shao’s eyes. We knew for a fact that she had appeared from our world. Then again, that world only contained humans, and Shao was a demon. Was the current Shao physically different from the Shao from Earth? We didn’t know, and neither did she. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that her entire history from my world was a bit clouded. Like, did she come from our time or a few decades before? We didn’t know.

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Our memory of Earth was crystal clear, but her memory was foggy. We used to think this was because Shao had experienced all of that abuse. She had been kidnapped, enslaved, and forced to fight for her life. That was why Shao couldn’t remember well, right? What if… she was reincarnated? What if… she only remembered her past life later. The pair of us looked at each other with equally shocked expressions. What if we were the reason she remembered?”

When we absorbed her life force while giving her our own, perhaps our memories triggered the retrieval of her memories from her previous life. That would explain part of the reason her personality had suddenly changed so drastically after that event. Then again, maybe it was turning into a demon lord that triggered it. We just couldn’t confirm any of it, especially with her in the grasp of the demon lord.

“Come on, fight us!” We shouted together. “Let her go!”

“Oh? You want me to release her?” He asked, a smile growing on his face and a bad feeling growing within our hearts. “Then, I will happily oblige.”

He squeezed, and there was a sickening snap. He broke Shao’s neck. Her eyes popped, and she kicked a few more times, but these were closer to death spasms. Only then did he drop her, and her corpse flopped to the ground dead.

“No!” Celeste shouted.

“Shao!” Miki took a step forward, but then a dark blade shot out at her, forcing her to jump back.

“Hahahahaha…” Aberis laughed. “What? Are you surprised? I tried to kill my father, remember? Once you’re all dead, I might resurrect her. She can be my plaything. Hmmm?”

He stopped as he noticed everyone around him had gone silent. Terra pulled out her mech suit, newly repaired and improved, and jumped into it. Lydia’s body transformed, turning into her beast form. An eruption sounded out as Celeste shed her body, going into full attack mode.

“Deedee,” My male half spoke up.

“Mm?” I asked cooly.

“He dies.” My male half’s voice was filled with rage.

I threw back my hair. “Agreed.”

Everyone attacked at once.