Return of the Fallen Volume 10 Chapter 20
Stepping through the portal, everyone arrived atop a hill just outside a small city in the east. Kazuki could sense Sam and Kimi within. The two were moving through the city helping rebuild and remove debris etc. Kazuki hid Asuna, Nunully, and even Danny’s energy but not his own. The moment he arrived with everyone, Sam and Kimi felt his presence and the two had very different reactions.
Before even stepping into the city, Kimi became cold while Sam was already enraged. Usually, it would be Sam who was less emotional and Kimi the firey one but this time it was different. Sam and Kimi rushed out of the city and the two appeared before Kazuki in a split second. There they saw Mei and Bozek were with him and their temperments calmed slightly as they didn’t wish to scare Mei.
Sam walked up to Kazuki with his fist balled. He spoke through his teeth as calmly as he possibly could, obviously holding back rage.
“Why…Why did you not protect them?”
“I had a plan and it worked.”
Sam’s face twitched hearing this.
“What the fuck does that even mean? Asuna, she’s dead, this was part of your plan. Is this why you came here, to tell me such a bullshit of an excuse? Kazuki, how could you do nothing? At that time you went for Fera and left them to die. You let my little sister…die!”
“I told them both what would happen. Nunully and Asuna, they both knew they were going to die. They knew Fera would do anything to hurt me at that moment. I knew she would try and cut me as deeply as she could and realized that would be the only opportunity to take her out. Because of them accepting it, the world, no this entire Lower Realm has been saved.”
*BAM!*
Sam could listen to not another word and slammed his fist directly into Kazuki’s face.
*Crack snap CRACK!*
The bones in his hand and arm broke as he punched Kazuki in the face with everything he had. Kazuki of course felt nothing and didn’t budge an inch from this but Sam didn’t care. He was hurting and he put plenty of the blame on Kazuki. So his hands continued to strike out, his bones continued to break and blood splattered on the ground.
Mei didn’t expect this at all and she tried to stop it.
“NOOOO DON”T BIG BRO SAM!”
Kazuki though kept her back with his power. At first, he was just going to prank Sam and Kimi. He wanted to show them that they should have trusted him from the start but he realized that even if unintentional, his actions hurt them both deeply. At the time the plan had come together in seconds. To let everyone in on it at that moment might have changed everything. Kazuki needed Asuna and Nunully’s deaths to truly be shocking. He had to completely throw Fera off her game and because of that, he needed Sam and the others to believe they were gone for good.
He knew he could entrust Danny with a task but the others, could they pretend to be shocked with their friend’s death or would Fera sniff them out? If she thought something was off with everyone else’s reaction, she would not have been stunned for that tiny moment and things would have most likely been fucked at that point.
So Kazuki stood there while Sam delivered blow after blow and continually broke his hands apart. Kimi couldn’t take any more of it and hugged Sam from behind. Tears spilling down her face.
“Kazuki you bastard! How can you just stand there and say nothing?”
Everyone was stunned watching this and finally Asuna and Nunully snapped out of it and rushed forward. Light bent around them revealing their presence and they appeared in front of Sam.
“SAM!… Please stop. It wasn’t his fault.”
Asuna leaped into Sam and he caught her. Sam’s arms fell lifelessly by his side as he saw Asuna. She was a little different now. Her face was a little prettier and she had pointed ears. She had grown taller and her eyes and hair had deepened in color. Sam though recognized Asuna right away anyway. He could see his little sister once more, his childhood friend.
“A…suna?”
Asuna cried a river of tears as she held onto Sam.
“Yes its me its me. I’m sorry I thought it would be funny to see everyone’s reactions but I didn’t mean for it to turn out like this. Sam, forgive m
Before Asuna could finish her sentence, Sam wrapped his bloody arms around Asuna in a tight hug. His shoulders shivered and this time it was he who began to cry.
“You…you were dead. I saw it, we all saw it. You were struck by the lightning and then and then. How did this happen how are you here? Is this a dream, a cruel trick? Please tell me you’re really here, please don’t let this be fake. I, I wouldn’t be able to take it.”
“I’m real, I’m here Sam. I’m really here.”
Kimi, Nunully, and Kimi all hugged Sam and then Mei for some reason burst out in tears as well and jumped on the pile and hugged Sam as well.
“Mei Mei why are you crying?”
Mei shook her head.
“All of my Big sis’s are crying of course I’m gonna cry with them.”
A second later Danny stepped out from the same illusion of light Kazuki had set up and stood next to Kazuki rubbing his chin.
“I guess I better come out now before things get awkward.”
Kimi saw Danny and asked.
“Who’s that?”
Danny’s heart fell for a moment before Kimi wiped her tears and chuckled.
“Just kidding. Danny come over here.”
Danny didn’t know what to say and just walked over. He stood next to everyone but he didn’t know how to just join the hug. That’s when Sam’s bloody arm reached forward and grabbed him and pulled him in. Bozek and Kazki exchanged a look but neither of them felt like it was their place to interfere.
After a few minutes of tears and hugging, everyone separated. Sam looked at Kazuki, his brows furrowed.
“Damn you jerk. Why didn’t you say anything? You just stood there and let me hit you.”
Kazuki walked over while shrugging his shoulders. Holding up his hand a wave of ki swept out and covered Sam’s arms and hands. In seconds, Sam’s body recovered.
“I wanted to mess with you at first but that quickly turned sour. There’s not many excuses really but there is an explanation. Before that, Kimi I think it’s time we fixed that for you.”
Kimi was confused until Kazuki pointed at her shoulder. He had wanted to help her regenerate her arm before but trying to recreate the spinning void inside of her soul world when he still did not fully understand it would have been stupid and dangerous. Even now it still would be but now his ki had improved by a godly amount.
After devouring part of a fragment from Fera’s compass as well as from devouring some planet and Titan’s, his soul was enhanced by leaps and bounds and because of that his ki became purer, stronger. A force of undeniable life energy that could regenerate missing limbs. Not jus this ki though. His gordonian magic and water magic had also grown tremendously. He had used a healing rain earlier and had regenerated and healed nearly everyone. Anyone that it touched was healed.
For some reason, Kazuki didn’t know why Kimi didn’t come into contact with his healing rain.
(She must have been inside somewhere or something. This probably means there are others who did not get healed. Anyone who somehow coincidentally was indoors must still have some injuries. I’ll help them along with Kimi.)
Kazuki’s eyes glowed with both green and blue light. Pointing at her shoulder, a glob of water mixed with specks of green energy and ki touched her shoulder. At the same time, Kazuki’s aura spread out once more across the world. He sensed everyone that was still injured and directly sent gordonian energy along with water to rise up from the ground this time. Not too much to scare anyone but just enough to reach these poor folks. Using the healing properties of gordonia and the healing in the water, this time he healed everyone that was left.
Kimi as well stood there stunned as a new arm grew from her shoulder in only a few seconds. Bone, muscle, tendons, nerves, and so on. Her mind went blank as she gently lifted up her new arm and stared at it. For so long she had been tormented by the memory of when she lost it. No, from when it was taken from her. The trauma played back in her mind nearly every day. She literally saw Abura in her dreams. Just like that day, he would rip her arm from her shoulder and eat it in front of her.
Seeing this new arm and feeling it. It was as if a weight was lifted from both her mind and body as fresh tears started streaming down her face once again.
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