"I’ll kill you!" Jack screeched appearing before me.
He tried kicking me in the face but I leaned backward dodging it. I kicked the ground doing a backflip and kicking him right in the chin. On landing, I charged at the fallen noble getting ready to deal the finishing blow if possible. I don’t know about Natsumi-san and all but I am sure they would have been done with the vampires on their side.
"Kazuki-sama, look out," I heard Akira’s voice and right as my katana’s blade was about to come in contact with Jack’s neck, I came in contact with something else.
I decided to continue swinging my blade and cut through some flesh and with my guts kicking in, I jumped forward flipping in the air. Sadly, that was not enough for me to dodge the ice shards as some hit me in the back and got stuck there. I winced in pain and landed on all four but even getting up was painful. They were stuck right in my backbone and moving it was really hurting me.
I got teleported right behind Ai as I looked forward seeing Akira being dealt a blow by the female noble crashing her in the wall.
"Ai, get these out of my back," I said gritting my teeth to stop me from shouting in pain. It really hurts like hell a lot more than anything I had felt before. Even if the pain was numbing a bit, it didn’t change the fact that I had four massive ice shards stuck in my back and it felt as if it was spreading the cold to every single part of my body.
Without wasting any time, Ai got to taking out the shard and as every single one was pulled out, I bit on my tongue stopping me from screaming. Ai did all that quickly and poured her blood over my back healing my wounds. Once that was done, I tried standing up but stumbled a little only to be caught by Ai. What the actual hell is going on?
Right then, Jack appeared right before us surprising me and Ai, and punched me right in the guts knocking the air out of my body. I fell down on the ground but for some reason, it did not hurt me for some reason… don’t tell me.
Did those shards just numb my nerves this fast?
I do remember the shards stabbing my spine but it was healed with Ai’s blood but does it mean that in that time the ice shards were stuck in my back, it spread so fast? On second thought, how did that even happen?
I stood up and pinched my arm but I couldn’t feel a thing. I guess I need to work with this.
I looked up to see both Ai and Akira beat up on the ground with the two nobles standing before them. I grabbed my weapon and rushed at the two. As I got in range, I slashed horizontally making them back away from them as I stood between the four.
"You guys okay?" I asked the two without looking behind.
"I am fine Kazuki-sama."
"Yeah, me too Kazu-kun."
I looked at the two nobles and they were ready to kill us at any moment, not like I would let them. I stared at the two nobles and took a deep breath calming myself down. Letting my emotions get the best of me won’t be any good now. I am not trying to buy time but kill the nobles.
I started thinking of ways for that. I knew that the female vampire had the ability to use electricity so fighting her on my own would be a bad choice. We did have the number advantage so we can use that to our advantage. Oh yeah.
"Tell me that you girls can still fight," I said getting in stance.
"Of course, we can," they both said in unison and stood to either side of me.
"Well then, Akira, do your stuff when we tell you to," I said and they two nodded. "Now, let’s end this for real."
"Yeah, you are right," Jack said and stretched out his arm and ice started coming out of it but there was something interesting about it. The ice was not turning into shards but taking a proper shape. Once done, it formed, it took the shape of a katana but not just any katana.
"It’s a replica of my katana," I muttered and he smirked.
"I have seen that thing long enough to get down every single detail down of the weapon and you know what the two best things about this weapon are?" he said.
Slash
He cut his arm with the katana and it fell off only to be regenerated back to a normal arm. Then he held the blade and snapped it in half only for the blade to form back.
"It’s sharp and can be repaired even if it breaks," he said and charged at me.
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He stabbed his katana forward and I stopped him. We both stared down at each other and I could see him overpowering me in pure strength. Ai kicked him away from me but I could see a smirk form on his face. Of course, he figured it out.
"You have gotten weak Shiba Kazuki," he said pointing his blade at me. "Looks like my shards did the job."
He was right, my strength had depleted greatly due to everything that happened to me. Even if my body was being strengthened by Ethan’s blood, I still was a human and was not able to recover as fast as a vampire. My breathing was heavy, my heart was beating at a crazy rate and my vision was a bit fuzzy from time to time.
"Like I don’t know that," Ai shouted at Jack and my eyes widened. "If even he gets as much of a scratch on his body, I know beforehand so I already know what he is going through!!"
"So-"
"Oh, don’t you worry Kazu-kun," Ai said with a scary smile on her face. "Once we get home, I will have some fun with you~. Bad boys need to be punished~"
I gulped loudly imagining what Ai was talking about. Her voice was seductive and also had a scary tone in it. Now, I am scared to go home.
How did I ever think I would get out of this without anything happening? Of course, Ai will have her ways of "taking care" of me later.
"A-Ai, look here, I love you. A lot," I said in a broken voice.
"I love you too Kazu-kun," she said with a kind smile on her face but a shiver went down my spine. Her smile was threatening and I could feel a malicious intent behind her words. "I already have the chains ready."
"Wait, wh-"
"Don’t you dare ignore me!!" Jack shouted and rushed at us. I looked at Ai and we both nodded. She had the same idea. Let’s use our trump card.
Akira.
"Akira!" Ai shouted and Akira appeared beside me kicked down Jack planting his face in the ground.
"You are in charge now Akira, don’t disappoint me now," I said and jumped back as I got switched with Ai and sun around sweeping the leg of the female noble. "Now that I think, I never got your name. It’s kind of unfair that I don’t know it."
"Don’t go flirting with other girls!!" Ai shouted.
"I’m not!"
The noble tried getting in contact with my body I got switched places with Akira and appeared before Jack. I slashed vertically cutting his arms which were reaching for Ai making his sword fall down too. I spun around kicking his back making him crash in the wall. Right then Akira appeared beside me and held Jack by his neck.
"Don’t kill him yet," I ordered her and she nodded. "He will work as a broken bait."
I had a sinister idea in my head as Akira stabbed her arm in Jack’s stomach pulling out his intestines. "ARGHH!!" he screamed in agony as Akira went on pulling the intestines out without a hint of expression on her face.
"Jack!" I heard the noble shout.
She rushed at us pushing Ai away. Jack tried forming shards to hit us but I stabbed my blade in his hand and Akira cut off his other hand. I turned around seeing the female noble getting dangerously close and I pulled my katana out jumping back avoiding them. As Akira lets go of Jack, he fell down only to be caught by the female noble. She had tears streaming down her eyes as she held the noble in pain.
He was regenerating his wounds but the process had gotten a lot slower. She hugged the man tightly and we could hear light sobbing coming from her.
Ai stood beside me as we three looked at the spectacle with expressionless looks. Ai was about to charge at them but I stopped her. For some reason, I didn’t want to kill them just yet. It was not like I was going to not kill them but…
"Why? Why does everyone keep dying on me?!" she shouted and her voice echoed in the empty room. "First Lucy, then Adam, and even you. Why did this end out like this?! Ricky was right, this was a suicide mission for us! We should have not come here! Why did father make us do this?!"
My guess was correct. They were not here on their own accords. They all were just puppets for the play staged by this father. My grip on my sword tightened and I felt Ai grab my shoulder.
"Please…" a sad and desperate tone escaped from the female noble as she looked at us. "Please just kill us already."
"Why ask us this? We can let you go, you k-"
"NOOOO!" she stopped me mid-sentence screaming at the top of her lung. "Anything but that!! If we get out, Father will find us and I don’t want that! I don’t to be controlled by that man! Please just end my life."
"Susy…." Jack, who had now regenerated his wounds said in a weak tone. His eyes then fell on us and he lets out a sigh. "Yeah…just kill us. Death sounds a lot better than dealing with Father after failing the mission."
While Jack tried remaining calm, Susy was a mess right now. Tears do not stop falling down her cheeks. I could no longer look at this so I took a step forward and quickly stabbed the two right in the chest. The sound coming from them suddenly stopped and they both looked at me but I could see some tears still in their eyes.
"Thank…you," they said with a slight smile on their face and then disintegrated into dust.
I fell down on my back and just stared at the spot where the two sat before. My eyes kept staring there and then I pulled my knees closer to me, curling up in a ball. That was really scummy of me, wasn’t it?
I knew the two had an emotional attachment to each other so I used it against them. I planned on killing the two right when I had the chance when they would be distracted but what I saw was something I really didn’t expect to see. I saw right there was the same thing I see in Ai.
It was their human sides.
In all this, the fact that the vampires were once humans almost got filtered away. I felt Ai’s arms wrap around me and I held onto her. This was the path I chose for myself and there was no turning back at this point.
"Ai," I called her out and felt her cold breathe on my neck. "I know we are in the middle of a war and all but…can we stay like this for a bit longer?"
"Sure, as long as you want Kazu-kun," she said and hugged me even tighter.
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