49th chapter : Venomous .

As the situation had become a battle with one of the star lords of the toss realm, Marco had to face Vanica, so he would get back his family safe and sound from the dangers lurking around them, for him it felt like it was a boss event passing through now, it had just begun.

Vanica thought that the uneasiness she was feeling was from the tiredness of the work. She had left that feeling behind and clashed with Marco at full strength. While fighting him, she thought he was quite quick to a certain level but knowing the place and its advantages made her switch the tables on him.

Marco knew that he was at a disadvantage as he jumped up dodging the attack. Another full speed multi-hit attack from Vanica’s tentacles blew him away as she followed him after that to where he was blown. He took a deep breath then exhaled as he started leaping from wall to wall, as if he was trying to do something. Vanica knew that as she noticed that his speed was getting low, she grinned as she continued the attacks recklessly.

“Are you getting tired boy!!” she spoke in a rush.

Marco sighed, boosting his speed up to get close to her from the front. Vanica acted flustered as Marco was about to swiftly land a punch to her guts but he was taken by surprise as the shield of Carla appeared out of nowhere, blowing him to the other side.

“Surprised, I guess you wouldn’t know right! my daughter’s serment is my property” Vanica said with a smile, waiting for him to get up.

Marco stood, stretching neck first, before he would start stretching his arms and legs.

“Yeah, yeah, I know. I figured it out like a week ago but never mind that” Marco said as he took a stance, finally releasing his serment against her, its release put a whole other vibe to the area and its surroundings.

Vanica at first didn’t notice that Marco was fighting without his serment, she was speechless at the scene in front of her as the tension of the air had risen, his stance also added to his aura.

Marco took the stance, holding his right arm forward and the left arm close to the chest, holding the sword with it, putting some space between his legs a little, the stance was solid.

In that second Vanica held her shield up along with reinforcement via tentacles, alas it was no use. Marco’s wind thrust broke through it, destroying the shield and the tentacles subsequently leaving her defenseless. That one single attack left Vanica astonished indeed.

In a blink of an eye, Marco leaped straight on top of Vanica as he was about to pierce through her shoulder but tentacles appeared out of nowhere getting the hit instead. He jumped away, taking some steps to the right side.

Vanica wasn’t expecting that gap of levels at all as she was shocked, however she was expecting that Marco won’t let her take a rest as she unleashed her tentacles at him, she made some of them larger. Marco leaped to the back dodging the first hit as he slashed through the rest, while Vanica who was preparing for her next attack barely avoided getting hit by the black sword as Marco threw it, a boosted launch with a wind thrust.

The last attack served into taking her attention with the serment as Marco leaped straight to her left, landing a kick to her head so he would smack her down. Thus the hit was a success, Vanica didn’t get smacked down, instead, some tentacles were unleashed by her straight at him.

She caught him with full power, taking her time to balance herself as she said,

“You know, you never wondered about my serment or how it works right!” Vanica smiled at him.

Seeing that she was waiting for something, Marco realized that she’s playing to save some time.

“Like hell I care” he responded, playing with her act as he also wanted some time to rest.

Vanica smiled at him again,

“The trick is, There’s the main part that produces the tentacles, If it’s well hidden and no one knows where it is!! I can produce as many tentacles as I want!! I never get tired or even get euro particles loss!!”

She got him close while trying to touch his face.

“I see, well the trick to my serment is” he responded as he smiled back “ is that the sword is just a decoy, I’m the real problem here”.

In that moment, the black sword appeared in front of her, making Vanica throw Marco away from his black sword but she was shocked to see chains getting hanged to the black sword by Marco who pulled it to his side with ease.

“Also, if you’re wondering why the venoms didn’t work on me, That won’t get an explanation any time soon” he calmly said, looking at Vanica having a composed reaction too.

She studied his movements for a second then spoke,

“That’s unfortunate!”.

That moment, Marco didn’t expect that a tentacle would grow out of nowhere and slash him on the back. He was rendered defenseless because of this backslash.

“You see, I told you, didn’t I! The trick to my serment is if I hide the main producing part! I can win easily, even without releasing any second release. You should just give up at this point” she said.

Vanica grinned softly at Marco who Marco leaped up to the roof as he wasn’t expecting that swift swing, rather than focusing on Vanica Marco was studying the surroundings. That small flaw in his movement made Vanica take her chance to slam him down then capture him inside of a box made out of the scattered bricks around.

“I had a hope you're gonna just stop!! A fresh sample like you is priceless!!”,

Vanica pierced the tentacles through the box in and out at a fast pace. After stopping the full speed thrusts, She sighed as she lifted the box to the midair.

“It’s a shame but at least I still have your body, I’ll just retreat with yours for now. My daughter can’t live in the euro society without a serment anyway, so she’ll…”,

Vanica was speaking as she thought, she was only speaking to herself, however a response came on a hot plate for her.

“Tsk, and I thought that letting her go without grabbing the mask was a good point”. Replied Marco.

Marco slashed the box down and got out as if he wasn’t touched at all, it surprised Vanica enough that she wasn’t buying the act, on a different side, Marco wasn’t bluffing either, he was unharmed.

“What’s the meaning of this?” she asked calmly.

“Ah, you simply landed the hit but on a different thing. you see, after master Emilis, I’m the only one who can use euro flow control to auto heal in the middle of the battle. And this was also the explanation to why your poisons don’t work on me”.

In that matter, Marco instantly slashed Vanica with full speed leaping from the box towards her. She wasn’t expecting that as Vanica got blown by a kick afterwards, that kick’s strength laid in its afterwave.

“Tsk , I was really going easy too.” he spoke,

Alas, the second that he ended his words, Marco realized that Vanica had already switched the tables to her favor again. She fired two thorns straight to his heart like bullets which it landed making it grow as soon as they landed on Marco’s body, tentacles were growing out of him.

“I don’t really like to use this one, cause it makes the body malfunction for the rest of its lifespan, you see, you’re a nuisance.” Vanica was talking to herself not waiting for any response from Marco who looked like he lost his life to that last attack.

She approached him with a smile, touching his face while checking on his vitals although his heart was crushed by the thorns.

“You sure love to do that part of the mad scientist” Marco spoke so suddenly as he looked straight into her eyes.

While she was touching his face, Vanica shivered from fear as she jumped away from him.

Marco held the growing thorns as he erased them with ease. He spat some blood on the ground after that as the hole in his chest was closing little by little, enforcing his frightening image more and more, Marco’s pale glare glowed in that dark area.

At that moment when Vanica confirmed that Marco was dead, his comeback shocked her yet it put her in joy too as she thought she found the perfect sample for her work. Although she was shivering, Vanica grinned at him.

“I guess you really are the perfect guinea pig!!”,

She roared as she was about to attack him again but Marco had already deployed his attacks towards her, he slashed through her arm with a single swift swing of his chains. Vanica wasn’t expecting he would do the same as her, as she saw her arm flying in the middle of the air.

The blood was flowing non stop as Vanica was barely able to stand, she looked at him with a face of joy, happily saying,

“Hehehehehe!! I guess it’s time to truly use the thing that I was working on!”.

As she spoke, Marco was surprised to see euro circles around her wound as it regenerated itself in the form of tentacles. Within the healing Marco sensed the same small euro particles that felt like they were cursed. It was the same cursed euro particles that he sensed back then inside the orphanage.

He sighed, looking at Vanica getting healed as if nothing happened to her. So on, he realized by now that it was time for round two.

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“I’ll give you the real reason why I was able to reach this state!! mostly!! because of your little sister’s euro nature!! And with my daughter’s fresh blood and euro particles too, it created a mix which held a strong adaptability if i may say so. It wasn’t easy but Carla’s ability to control the flow of euro particles from the serment to herself was top notch!! That’s why!! with merging what I got!! I was able to make that mine and fuse the serment with my own body!! And so I did the same for the other subordinates of mine too!! It’s the success of the new age for the euro society!!”

Vanica was talking about her own achievement in such tremendous joy that Marco confirmed the need of stopping her, sooner or later, she might become a hindrance if not treated with now.

Marco listened to Vanica’s words although his attention was to something else as he was getting annoyed by how Yuna’s expectation was right the whole time. He started stretching his arms and legs again while she was speaking. The second she finished talking, she mocked him about what he was doing.

“It’s not something that I would really use but since you’re close to being an imperfect curse at this point, I think I won’t really let you finish this thing you’re working on” Marco calmly responded as he was about to take a stance. His words about being an imperfect curse picked Vanica’s interests as she tilted her head to the side a little upon hearing his words.

“You know about the curse!! then I guess you’re really some rat that ran away from some lab of the council!!” she said, happily swaying around right and left.

“Nope, I’m the real deal itself”.

Marco responded, grinning a confident smile as exhaled a breath before letting out an ominous aura and taking a stance right in front of Vanica who anticipated that. She was about to do the same with launching all her tentacles from one side as that one fragment of second was enough for Vanica to put decoys and release her second release to withstand Marco’s hit, petrifying him in the process. She thought it was all done as she let out a sigh to calm down, taking back her composure.

“I guess it won’t take much of a time until I get to some new place. I guess talking to some star lord in exchange of information is good too…”,

Vanica was walking towards the lab on her own, leaving Marco who got turned into a stone figure with her second release behind her in the main area where they fought.

Her second release looked like a euro circle floating on her back as in the middle of the circle there is a scheme that looks like an eye, alongside most of the tentacles becoming snakeheads as it seems that the shield is the thing that turned to the euro circle.

“I guess fate really is!!”,

Vanica spoke as she entered the insides of her building, however before she could even finish her words, a sudden slash destroyed the building and her second release as well.

In the second she was about to look behind, a full strengthened punch from Marco slammed her down onto the ground, unleashing a furious gale of black colored air that destroyed the whole building and half of its surroundings.

Right after taking the Black gale attack head on, Vanica barely survived as she focused everything on healing her body. She looked up to see Marco standing in front of her, with a calm deathly gaze in his eyes whilst holding his serment pointed straight to her.

“h-how!?” She was able to speak only one word.

“I told you I’m the real deal, and I told you that I’m going to erase the face from you” as he held his sword straight at her, Marco spoke with no emotions uttered from his face, the expressionless face that Vanica was gazing at right now showed her nothing but a quick way to death.

Vanica was fazed by his glare as her thoughts started to accumulate faster with everything going blank on any side other than thinking of how Marco did it. Marco was about to kill her as he sighed after seeing her tears.

“Ah, I really thought I would do it, now I understand that last line better than anyone” she calmly mumbled before closing her eyes, accepting the futile result that led to her death.

Marco was about to finish her therefore he leapt away at the surge of the enormous ominous euro pressure that got out of Vanica’s body, Marco sighed as he saw her euro circle that she calls the eye of medusa getting reformed along with her eyes turning semi-dark and a cross shaped star was forming as curse marks on the circle.

Vanica stood, realizing that revenge had filled the part that she was looking for all that time. Studying her own figure now, Vanica looked at her arms and behind her back at the eye of medusa which felt more synthetic to her now, she waved her arms around a little before inhaling some air afterwards. Vanica released a deathly euro pressure to measure her new strength as she smiled.

“round two!” she grinned at Marco before leaping to his side, blowing him away with one kick, as the afterwave was terrifying.

“Sigh, I was going to finish it but no!! I have to care for other things too! I hate it when I need to check on other things too!!”,

Marco was talking to himself while being upside down in the crumbles of some building.

“Are you talking to yourself!! you must have gone nuts!!” Vanica appeared next to him as she struck him to the air with a swing of her tentacles.

Marco balanced himself with chains as he dodged two thorns again then leaped to the eastern area, throwing wind thrusts at her as a decoy with the black sword.

“That won’t work!! my current state is far from your level!!”.

Vanica closed the gap between each other then punched him to the guts, subsequently kicking him towards the land as she kept sending blows towards him using the tentacles. The battle wasn’t in favor of Marco as Vanica was kicking him from side to side. She felt the unexpected surge of strength as she was hitting him non stop alongside slashing and blowing everything around her. Right after getting the satisfaction she wanted, Vanica caught him upside down, almost beaten up with her tentacles.

“I guess I don’t need you anymore so I’m gonna finish you off”.

Vanica pointed some snake heads at him as she was charging a euro ray. Marco exhaled his breaths as he whispered something, Vanica didn’t hear him as she thought he was badmouthing her. Eventually, Marco wasn’t talking to her but he was talking to Deva who was annoying him the whole process when he was getting blown from side to side.

“Can you say that again?” She asked as if she felt offended.

“Like I said!! Shut the fuck up!” he responded to Deva instead, since he asked the same thing as Vanica.

Hearing his answer made her laugh a little.

“Did my imperfect curse make you lose it!? Tehehehe!!” she laughed in his face, “This is the weight of seeing a curse!! I’m delighted to see you suffer more for me!! show me!!” she roared in his face as the snakes were at one step from firing what they had stored in.

Marco heaved a sigh then looked at her straight in the eyes as he responded,

“Fine, I’ll show you what a real curse looks like.”

Coldly replying, Marco broke free from the tentacles by firing wind thrusts then instantly caught her from the arms, blowing her away with a kick to the chest ripping her arms off.

Vanica wasn’t much injured as she healed herself again easily, along with creating a lance from the snake heads. At the second that she was about to throw that lance at him, a sudden huge euro pressure made her kneel down as Marco slashed everything again when he swung downwardly, his black sword straight at her direction.

Vanica was terrified to see his glowing dark green eyes again as Marco was in the curse mode, unleashed after that slash. She tried to resist but as she mostly unleashed everything she got, Marco was effortlessly erasing any tentacle or any attack that was coming in direct contact to him. Marco walked slowly towards Vanica as He caught her by the face, erasing most of the cursed euro particles that were inside her body.

While being unable to do anything the only thing that Vanica was seeing in front of her is the boundless darkness that Marco’s cold look was showing. Right after feeling that everything was drawn off, he let her go as he held his black sword again. Merged with the curse cloak, it grew a little bit longer and bigger than its usual length and mass.

“I told you I won’t miss next time”.

Marco said as he was about to finish her off therefore a sudden a guest appeared shouting at him to stop as it was Carla who came rushing with everything she got. She stood between the two, surprising both of them as Vanica was the most surprised.

“Move aside,” Marco asked calmly.

“I won’t move!! and don’t you dare launch that at her!!” Carla responded, looking determined on protecting her mother.

Marco sighed then undone his curse mode calmly as well as sealing back his serment. He wore his glasses back then tied his hair again.

“Leave her and let’s go, I won’t be coming here again, and I guess she’ll think a hundred times before thinking of approaching us too” he said as he went on his way first.

Vanica, who was barely able to regenerate, was looking at her daughter, sighing and looking around so she could take a seat next to her mother. As the atmosphere was getting awkward with both of them being silent, the cold breeze and night view made Vanica have some thoughts about what she did until now, and what happened to her after all that time.

In the middle of that silence, Carla noticed that her mother was rethinking about what she did and so she thought that it was also time to speak.

“You know!” Carla said in a joyful voice, however Vanica interrupted her as she spoke,

“I’m sorry, I lost my way and was tempted by rage, and!!”.

She listened to most of what her mother said, Carla giggled a little then flicked her mother’s forehead without saying much.

“No apologies are really needed, so it’s fine. I realized that the pain was kinda a part of the flow too, more or less, everything is looking good right now. Alice senpai and the others are like my older siblings and they took good care of me. I wasn’t able to go to school like normal people but Alex senpai was responsible for teaching me at home.” Carla said vigilantly before she stopped,

“You have a fine friend as I see, although he’s a monster, huh!”.

Vanica said as she looked at how a single blow made the whole place into a ruckus. Carla looked around then smiled in a silly way.

“Ah, he’s reckless but is a good partner I guess!! so I was thinking!! Mama!! Why not forget everything and start a new life again!?”.

Carla spoke out of the blue as Vanica was surprised about the suggestion. Looking at what she did until now, a lot of things made Vanica shed some tears without holding a drop. Carla grinned at her mother’s crying then stood. At the same time, Vanica was about to talk when a sudden man burst out of nowhere as he heard everything, Xander wasn’t happy with that suggestion.

“Starting a new life?!! Vanica sama!? What about our freedom?! What about us!?” Xander growled these questions in rage.

Vanica, who was unable to fight, felt fear for her daughter who took the lead to protect her own mother. Carla was holding her ground waiting for any surprises.

“Xander it’s over!! We lost!! I lost!!!” Vanica said with a tone filled with worries and sorrow, trying to take the lead as Carla didn’t let her do so.

“You lost!? We lost!? Fine then!” he responded, grinning a devilish smile “I’ll make sure to finish your research, and so you can rest with your little lovely girl!!”.

He was about to attack, therefore a sudden chain that swung out of nowhere cut him in halves straight from right to left. The two Fullblack, mother and daughter, saw Xander’s body decaying down in two sides.

“What da!?” Xander said, not knowing what happened to him as he saw Marco while falling to the right.

“That’s why I said leave her and let’s go back!! sighsss! Why don’t you listen to what I say!” Marco said, scolding Carla after he returned for her.

Carla and Vanica were surprised as Vanica was the speechless one changing glares from him to her daughter who had a full bright smile knitted to her face. Carla giggled at him, responding,

“hai! hai!! I’m coming but mama is coming with us too!!” she responded while giving her hand to her mother, so she would help her stand.

Vanica looked at the bright smile that Carla had again as she felt a heartwarming feeling that she never felt in years. Upon seeing that, Marco didn’t really reply to Carla’s words harshly as he only approached them.

Vanica took her daughter’s hand and stood again, with being all beaten up, she spoke in a calm tone,

“Marco” she called for him then bowed “Thank you for beating me today, and thank you for being my daughter’s boyfriend”.

Marco wasn’t having any intention to reply but hearing her misunderstand the current relation between Marco and Carla made him answer anyway,

“As I said, I’m not her boyfriend, I’m not in need of dating your girl!! so hurry and move your asses here!!” Marco responded as he made them get closer to him by chains only.

“I’m sorry for her words, if you see that Alex senpai is annoying that you would wait to see the real reason for her acts” Carla said as she was looking at Marco acting strange for a first, she had to say sorry to him somehow but she refrained.

“What are you doing?” Vanica asked him,

“none of your damn business, and until we reach the restaurant no words” he said as he tied both of them in chains then put them on his back. Carla was down and Vanica was on top.

“You know we can walk, right!!” Carla said as she felt like he restrained her as punishment.

“Yeah I know, I’m doing this for the sake of my entertainment” he replied before leaping at full speed up, taking a step on a chain while holding both of them on his back.

After balancing himself pretty well he leaped with full speed almost vanishing from the sight of anybody from the top of one chain to another. At the end, he made them both puke as soon as they reached the restaurant.

With the return of Carla back home, it was finally done, the last doubts and trials hidden within her have been all vanquished.

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