"May I join you?"
I looked up and saw soone I had never seen before. He had short golden hair swept back and golden eyes that gazed at with a smile. His expression was a bit unsettling from my point of view.
"Sure, whatever," I shrugged.
He must be so noble from here, even though he clearly had the presence of soone strong. It wasn't like I knew every single person in Sancta Vedelia, after all. There were people I only heard about in the ga but never actually saw.
An awkward silence settled between us. I pretended to admire the sky, but it only made things more uncomfortable. I should have just refused and told him I needed so air.
"Elizabeth seems quite satisfied with the engagent, from what I have seen," he said suddenly.
Elizabeth? Informally? Is he one of her friends?
"Well, it would be embarrassing for if she wasn't," I replied.
"Indeed," he chuckled. "Even more so when you are both madly in love, from what I heard."
We might have exaggerated the story a bit in our hurry to find reasons behind our sudden engagent...
"Well, yeah," I replied ambiguously.
He was quite talkative and sounded too casual compared to all the other humans who spoke to . I furrowed my brows a bit, feeling forced to ask, "Huh, who are you by the way?"
He smiled at . "Finally, you ask, Amael. I am Earth Tepes, Elizabeth's adopted brother," he said, reaching out his hand with a smile.
Earth? This is the guy I kept hearing about from Celeste and others. He seed to be their friend and was supposed to be Elizabeth's fiancé if I am right. So this is Earth Tepes, huh? I stared at him for a mont, feeling a strange sensation seeing him. He was never ntioned in the ga, though... But again, so characters weren't ntioned, so maybe I am overthinking it.
"Glad to et you," I said, shaking his hand-
"Huh?!"
As soon as I shook his hand, I felt a burning sensation within , as if my heart was burning to crisps.
"Arghhh!" I clenched my chest.
What the hell is that?!
It was unbelievable pain. Purple flas started enveloping my body, raging around . A dark vertical slit appeared in my left amber eye as I glared at Earth. These weren't my feelings, but I felt contempt toward him now.
"B...Bastard..." My voice sounded deeper and hoarse. It was my voice, but not my words.
Earth looked at struggling, not confused at all. Rather, he seed to be observing. "Are you okay?" He asked.
"Y...Yeah..." I tried to shake off that bastard's voice.
It was Vysindra.
Why is he showing up now?
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Cleenah's voice echoed in my mind, reassuring . I couldn't ss up now, not during my engagent.
"Get back," I growled at Vysindra with a glare.
The slit inside my eye vanished, and the purple flas began to recede. After a minute, I already felt better.
"Ah, what the hell was that?" I sighed, resting my hands on the balcony.
Earth remained silent, watching .
I looked at him. It happened when I shook his hand. What was that? Vysindra had never appeared like this before.
What was that emotion I had felt?
Anger?
Betrayal?
Did he lose control already?
If you aren't going to help , stay inside like a good puppy, Vysindra, I thought with a glare, making sure he heard it.
"A sha."
"Huh?" I looked at Earth.
He looked down on , disappointed and with pity.
"The host of Vysindra doesn't seem that strong at all, Heldora."
"What?"
Did he just say Vysindra's na? Did he hear it from Elizabeth or sothing? And who the hell is Heldora?
My mind was racing, trying to make sense of what happened. Earth looked sowhere as if seeing soone, then chuckled.
"I suppose so. They must be both weak, but I am disappointed," he said, looking back at . "What are you babbling about?" I had enough and dropped any semblance of pretense.
Earth's smile widened. "That glare, now I recognize that hateful, arrogant prick."
"I asked a question," I repeated, my tone dropping to a cold low.
Earth sighed. "I just said I was disappointed. I expected more from you, Nyr."
"!"
I opened my mouth in shock. "N...Nyr?"
How does he know my na?
Vysindra began to regain control, taking advantage of my confusion.
"It's your na, right? I prefer to call you that rather than Edward or Amael or whatever, because in the end, you will always be Nyrel Loyster," he said, leaning on the balcony.
"Who the hell are you?"
Even though I asked, I already knew. That displeasing expression, that tone and way of speaking- I was too familiar with it.
Earth looked at and smirked. "Jayce, of course."
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Images I had wished to forget flashed in my mind as my complexion turned cold.
'I—I am...sorry, Nyr. I think I've fallen for you. A bit late and dramatic to confess, I know.'
Shayna's last words to .
Ephera.
I couldn't even speak to her. She lay in a pool of her blood inside that garden in Paris, her body
on the blood-red grass like a painting. Immobile, pale face, cold lips, body, a knife stabbed in
her chest.
I didn't even get to say any words to her.
All this was his fault.
"Now, now, ahahaha!" Earth laughed madly. "You are truly Nyr after all! That face, that murderous gaze... I would have begged anyone to see it again!"
-BOOOOM!
My flaming hand reached toward his cheek, but before it could touch him, he jumped away,
and I destroyed the balcony instead. The entire palace trembled.
My eyes, as cold as death itself, stared up at Earth floating in the air. He looked down on with a smirk as golden flas swirled around him. Pointing his index finger at , he
beckoned.
"Co, Ephera's beloved Villain."
I vanished from my spot and appeared mid-air in front of Earth. "Anathema's Fire," I called out, and a longsword of purple fire appeared in my right hand. The vertical slit appeared once more in my left eye. My hatred seed to synchronize with Vysindra's personal hatred. I swung my sword down. The dark sky seed to split in two as my purple fire raged.
But Earth's raised hand released a torrent of golden flas that nullified all my fire. "What the hell?" I was shocked. I had never seen my flas being nullified like that before.
"Ah, I wish Ephera could see your dumb face, Nyr," he taunted, his hand burning with golden
flas. I recognized those flas...
Pyres.
They looked like his Sunfire.
"Sunfire..." I muttered. Hearing it, Earth smirked. "Yeah, that's Heldora's Golden Fire. Not any pitiful copy the Iris
Project tries to replicate. These are the true Sunfire!"
-BOOOOM!
When he waved his hand, a blade of golden flas swung, ready to slice off my head. I reached
out my hand, burning with Vysindra's fire, but I soon felt a dreadful sensation. Rembering how he nullified my flas before, I chose to dodge it.
"Ahaha! Look at you running away!"
"Aghnnnn!" I clenched my chest harder.
Fuck off!
Let fight peacefully!
Your flas are useless!
I shouted at Vysindra, getting angrier. The only reason I can understand why he is angry must
be because Earth is also using so dragon's flas. And Earth seems pretty synchronized
with them.
No choice. I clenched my left hand, causing the emblem on it to glow amber, along with the marks under my eyes. "Perseus."
The amber blade appeared in my left hand in all its beauty. But Earth didn't seem perturbed.
"You don't understand, do you?"
I ignored him and jumped once more toward him, swinging my blade. He summoned a wall of
fire, but my sword cut through his flas. Earth frowned a bit before reaching out his hand,
creating a sword of golden flas.
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I swung down Perseus as soon as I heard Cleenah's warning.
-BOOOOOOM!
A powerful shockwave rippled through the dark sky above the Tepes Castle.
"I will kill you," I spat with sheer contempt.
Earth licked his lips. "That's right, Nyr. Show who you truly are."
"Ugh..." I groaned, seeing Earth overpowering .
How's that possible?
"I am using Heldora's Flas, Nyr. The flas of purification, the Sunfire," Earth muttered
with a smirk.
"And what?" I glared at him.
"Any flas or attack filled with hatred and unholy emotions like yours would weaken in front of my Sunfire. Do you understand what it ans?" He asked with a twisted smile.
I had never heard of that. His flas could weaken and even nullify mine as long as I attacked
him with negative emotions?
"It ans-"
CRACK!
The bones in my left arm broke, making groan. Earth tilted his sword down, swinging it.
"You, especially, can never beat ."
-BAM!
I felt my body being propelled down to the garden of the Tepes Castle. My impact gouged deeply into the ground, leaving a crater. I coughed lightly, blood trickling from my mouth as I
glared up at Earth, who smiled down on . My whole body was in pain as sparks of golden flas burned . I thought I was immune to fire, but it seed not.
Sunfire.
Purification of negative feelings?
I raised my body and stood up. That bastard Jayce had that power? My hatred and wrath only
intensified.
Is that so kind of joke?
The golden flas around my body ignited further, bringing more pain.
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"He killed Shayna and Ephera. I will never calm down."
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Cleenah's voice held no hesitation. I clenched my fists.
"I will use Nevia's Fate and kill this fucker."
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"I won't die against this little bitch."
I stretched out my hand, and white sand swirled around my arm.
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"Stay out of this, Cleenah."
The white sand swirling around my hand soon took the form of a swirling white sword. The
ground trembled under the pressure, and scales appeared on my arms. Another slit appeared in my right eye.
"I will kill this fucker, and everything will be fine."
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"I will kill this traitor, Heldora."
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My lips twisted into a twisted smirk. Earth looked down on , and his golden sword beca
larger, scales also appearing on his arms. In a single second, we both shot out at a frightening speed. I lunged toward Earth while he shot down towards . The air trembled for a mont, and just as we were a ter away from each other, a trendous pressure fell over both of us.
I saw my and Earth's arms being grabbed before we were both thrown down right into the
ground.
-BAM!
I crashed into the ground, my sand dissipating imdiately.
"UGH!"
I spat even more blood from the impact.
-BAM!
Earth also crashed sowhere else, and I heard his groan. Looking up, I saw Duncan Tepes
floating with a cold gaze fixed on both of us.
Standing up, I searched for Earth once more.
"Enough."
Before I could rush towards him, I felt a soft sensation behind . This feeling and perfu
was Cleenah's. She wrapped her arms around my chest, hugging .
"Please, Amael."
She appeared out of her world as she whispered to . All the anger I had been feeling soon
vanished, and I sat on the ground, breathing out deeply. Cleenah knelt with .
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After saying that, it seed she couldn't remain and vanished.
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