Return of the Fallen Volume 9 Chapter 118
(KAZUKI PLEASE HELP ME!)
Detra’s voice echoed across the stars and into Kazuki’s head.
As her soul was starting to crumble and was on the verge of being destroyed, millions of thoughts ran through her mind as she felt death’s blade at the edge of her neck.
(Is this my end? My husband, my children, I’m no longer going to see them, hold them, ever again.)
It was at this very moment as she was on the verge of collapsing, that a rift appeared a mere few feet away. To her shock, Kazuki actually stepped out of the tear in space before she felt a strange suction force on her soul. Because she was severely weakened, she had no resistance to this pull. The very next moment her soul was ripped away from her body and under Fera’s power, her body exploded into tiny fragments of space energy.
Detra’s mind went blank and her vision became black in an instant and she truly thought she was no more. That is until she heard a voice.
(Get up and stop being so dramatic.)
Detra’s vision returned and she found herself leaning against a tall strong tree. The tree though was anything but ordinary. The moment she opened her eyes and felt the power emanating from the tree she knew right away it was someone’s soul tree. Her form pressing against the soul tree she understood right away.
(This is…Kazuki’s soul world. I’m still alive.)
Zephris appeared next to Detra like a phantom but she was unafraid as she knew it was his voice that called out to her.
(I was wondering why Kazuki suddenly teleported near Gordonia but not on the planet itself. You must have used that weird mind power to beg for his help, heh.)
Detra was a little annoyed at the way Zephris phrased it but at the same time, she was feeling such immense joy that her soul still remained intact. Ignoring Zephris’s attitude, Detra sensed her surroundings.
(This power of his, it’s incredible.)
(Why feign ignorance woman. You were observing their battle the entire time, you saw his power grow yourself, don’t act surprised.)
(There’s obviously a difference between watching and experiencing this power firsthand. Yes I saw him gain power but how can I know how strong it is without actually feeling it.)
(If you didn’t know he was this strong then why did you call out for his help. If he were weaker, do you believe he would have been able to get to you in time and bring your soul in here?)
Detra shrugged.
(I was desperate. I really didn’t know if Kazuki could actually save me but my guess was he could. After all, if he wasn’t strong enough then why would Fera flee from him in the first place. Since even she ran away, I figured there was a fairly high chance that he could do something in that position. To think he actually did manage to get to me, amazing.)
Detra’s eyes seemed to almost shine as she said this. Looking at the spinning void fused to Kazuki’s soul tree, she knew for sure if she still had her body, at this moment she would have gotten chills after feeling the mysterious force coming from the spinning void.
(To think Kazuki modeled this after the Vazul power. He managed to see through the secrets of those awful beings and made this power his own. Seeing it up close like this now, this power truly is dangerous maybe even dangerous for him.)
(A danger for who you say? As Long as Kazuki has this and he is my ally, only our enemies will be the ones in danger. You don’t know what you speak of you wisp of a ghost.)
Detra looked Zephris up and down.
(You are one to speak. If I’m a wisp of a ghost then what are you? As far as I can tell you have no body just the same as I.)
Zephris smirked.
(I only need to replenish some of my power to reform a body.)
Detra was even more annoyed.
(Once more we are in the same situation, I merely need to acquire the element of space and I can reform a new body immediately.)
Zephris looked left and right with his hand perched over his brow as if he were blocking his eyes from the sun as he spoke sarcastically.
(Up, down and diagonal, hmm, no matter where I look, I can’t seem to find any of this space energy you speak of. I on the other hand.)
Zephris pointed behind him at Kazuki’s Mage core.
(Since Kazuki uses the dark element I can reforge a new body at any time. Heh, even if he did have space magic for you to siphon, you still wouldn’t be able to, seeing as that’s Kazuki’s core you can’t access it.)
Detra was taken aback. She had never experienced something like this and she tried to immediately tap into Kazuki’s core to see if she could pull out any energy at all but the moment she tried, Kazuki’s aura shot out of his soul tree and struck her.
Detra went flying backward before crashing hard on the ground. She could feel that her soul had received some damage and her form inside of this place shrank slightly.
(Woman did you not just hear me? KA…ZU…KI’S…CORE!)
Detra immediately tried to draw in the element of space from the outside world but she couldn’t. This was Kazuki’s soul world and unless you were Kazuki or someone like Zephris who had a soul connection or someone stronger than Kazuki in terms of the soul, you could not bring anything in nor could you take anything out. Detra quickly realized that if Kazuki wanted, he could keep her here for an eternity.
Her joy quickly turned into fear.
(If he wants me to be his prisoner, I would have no choice but to be.)
Zephris nodded.
(True enough but who says he would want you to remain in here. He has no reason to keep your soul intact and could have devoured you instead of just bringing you inside of here, it’s obvious he saved you because he wanted to save you and not take you as a prisoner so quit with that expression full of despair, it’s ugly.)
Detra was once more annoyed with Zephris’s attitude but some of what he said did give her comfort. There was no need to keep Detra a prisoner she was not his enemy nor did she really have anything he wanted. Maybe if he was interested in more immediate power he would have eaten her soul but since he didn’t it made sense that he had no interest in that and he had saved her because she had asked.
(Then what do we do now. Things are still bad outside. Fera is desperate, if she can’t beat Kazuki, knowing how hateful and spiteful she is, It wouldn’t surprise me if she were to really finish the world and kill Kazuki’s friends as she said. Even though she can ascend at any moment, she wants to drive Kazuki into madness.)
Zephris agreed with Detra.
(Use your senses, you may not be able to take in power but you can still observe the outside world from here. Fera is gathering power and aiming it at Gordonia. She’s trying to do exactly as you said and drive Kazuki insane just out of spite and hatred.)
Detra did just that and heard Fera threaten to destroy the world and give Kazuki a terrible choice to either try and kill her or save those he cared about.
(Damn, that bitch is willing to go that far just to fuck with Kazuki. Such venomous enmity.)
(Zephris is it even a choice, clearly, Kazuki will move to protect the world. How is this even a thing?)
Zephris shook his head once more.
(You saw his past but you who was born and lived for eons as a Titan would have no clue about what it is to be a human. The line between love and hatred for us beings with such strong emotion, that line can sometimes blur, and depending on the day it could be pushed to one side or the other. Kazuki, just like me has an intense hatred constantly boiling within us. Speaking of which how’s that shitstain of a son of yours? Is Torzz still in whatever secret hideout you placed him in.)
Detra knew about the hostility Zephris held toward her son but as a mother, she still felt her anger rise hearing someone insult her son.
(Do not speak ill o
(WHY!?)
Before she could finish what she was saying Zephris interrupted her.
(Do you think you have any right to tell me not to speak ill of him. If not for he and Sephra would I not have become a monster? Would my family have been surrounded and pursued, hunted like animals out of existence because I could no longer protect them? Forced to be both his and Sephra’s slave, forced to kill millions upon millions with no control whatsoever. Your little demon, is he not one of the main reasons things have become so bad. It was the path he chose and it was this path that has led me to hate him with every ounce of my very being but that will soon be resolved. Once Kazuki finishes Fera, there will only be one more enemy left in this Lower Realm and that’s Torzz. At that point, who will be able to stand in Kazuki’s way…No one.)
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