“You——You’re still alive?”
It was a young girl.
Blonde drill hair that reached up to her waist, which complemented her blue eyes with pink butterflies as her pupils. She wore a frilled dress with pink ribbons, tights, and shoes.
A tiny crown lays latched upon the rear right side of her hair, with a butterfly-shaped ribbon joining her cape at her sternum.
Beatrice managed to be the tiny ray of hope in Justice’s eyes, once again. The look she gave him, the face that never changes. For once, Beatrice’s stern facial expression made Justice feel happy.
“What, I suppose? You look awfully happy, even with the situation we’re in. You have something you want to say, I suppose?”
“Beatrice... Please kill me...”
“You would ask me to kill you?”
Beatrice closes her eyes and shakes her head left to right, slowly. Almost as if she was disappointed at him.
“No. That’s too cruel, I suppose.”
“You understand nothing.”
Her voice starts to get deeper. She was mad. This was the first time Justice saw Beatrice mad. He only saw Beatrice get a little upset at him, but it was never a big deal, as she gets upset at everyone from time to time. Justice knew very well, that this would not go well.
“You understand nothing at all.”
“Huh? Beatrice?”
“I won’t grant any of your wishes. If you wish to die, then go die on your own. Betty wants no part of it, I suppose.”
Beatrice raises her hand, it looked like she was casting a spell.
“Everything is already hopeless, but it’d be troublesome for you to stay here.”
Her hands begin to glow white and moments later, the reality in front of Justice began to start swirling around, reminiscent of a Black Hole.
“I will, at least, protect what’s left of the Mansion, I suppose.”
“Betty is not like Wald. Even if it would secure a future for me, Betty’s come to hate pain, suffering, fear... Everything, I suppose!”
The Black Hole started whirling so fast, It sucked in Justice. The young girl looks down, sad like she just lost a friend. Or so it seemed. She looks up at Justice, who was slowly getting sucked in deeper into the Black Hole.
“At least die where I can’t see you... Please... ”
The Blackhole disappears with Justice. There wasn’t any trace of him. The room stayed silent, up until the young girl said something.
“Mother,”
She looks up, with tears running down from her eyes. It didn’t seem that Beatrice was crying about what had happened with Justice, but something else.
“How long does Betty...”
That person was Justice, it was amazing that he survived being in there, seeing as how Black holes tear everything inside of them. But, on the other hand, it didn’t seem like it was that much of a surprise that Justice survived.
After all, the last words Justice heard from Beatrice were “At least die where I can’t see you.” So what was the chance that she was going to kill him with the Black hole? Very low.
“This forest...”
There was a trail of giant footsteps close to him. After examining them for a bit, Justice could tell that the footprints were Gouto’s. Perhaps Justice followed the footprints, he would find his way back to the mansion and maybe reason with Beatrice about killing him.
——No. If Justice went back, there was a chance that Beatrice would become slightly more mad at him, teleport him somewhere farther away from the Mansion, and create a barrier to prevent him from coming in, if he ever reaches the Mansion again. Knowing Beatrice, she would do all of that, due to her precautions.
That wasn’t the only reason Justice didn’t want to go back. The sad expression she had on her face when she told Justice to die where she can’t see him, still haunts his head. Going back and further trying to reason with Beatrice will most probably make that image come back to his head.
A group of men walk over to Justice and surround him. Their heads and necks turned into tendrils, exposing their identities as non-human monsters.
“I’m honestly getting super tired of you guys just appearing out of nowhere and ruining everything for me!”
Full of courage and wrath, Justice stands up, looking angry. An outward burst of wind engulfs him, looking almost as if it was a tornado.
“I’m tired of running away while my loved ones are fighting for me!”
He lifts his arm up and targets one of the men, Justice fires wind at high speed, unfortunately, the man he aimed it at dodges and fires all of his tendrils at him. The tendrils grab onto his arms and legs, restraining him. All the other men joined in and fired their tendrils, constricting Justice.
For some reason, all the men did was just use their tendrils to constrict and restrain Justice, unlike all the other times. The more he squirmed trying to break free, the more the tendrils got tighter and started squishing him. Eventually, he decided to stop fighting back, as the tendrils only got tighter the more he moved.
The men started carrying Justice somewhere. He could only hope it wasn’t somewhere they would torture him.
Their destination was a cave——A nest full of people that could transform parts of their bodies into tendrils. Once they got there, they threw Justice onto the ground, next to a man. That man was most likely their leader.
“Is he the new body?”
He was about 6 feet tall and resembled a Vampire. and he had pale white skin, so pale that it looks a little gray, and his looks could only be described as “handsome.” His short jet-black hair was neatly combed forward. Looking a little messy.
He also had circular glasses, along with deep red pupils were filled with a seductive look of delight. There are dark circles under his eyes, possibly alluding to the fact that he doesn’t sleep at all.
He looked to be in his mid-20s, though, there was a chance that he could’ve been in his early-20s. He sports a dramatic red and black robe, along with a dress shirt and black pants.
Even Justice had the notion of how handsome he was.
However, his handsome appearance was hard-pressed to hide the evil air about him. He wore a sadistic grin on his face and had sharp, jagged teeth.
“Hey there, I’m Braz Daniel Blood. Though, you can feel free to call me anything you like.
A handsome face with a down-to-earth personality, suddenly, Justice felt a little better about the situation at him. Maybe, just maybe, Justice could persuade Braz to let him go.
“You might be very worried, as you don’t know what’s about to happen to you, and, I’m here to tell you that, you should be. We’re about to plant a Parasyte in your brain!”
And there goes the small ray of hope Justice had left. Despite what he had just said, Braz sounded awfully excited and content. But that wasn’t what Justice was thinking, the only thing in his mind was him asking himself what a “Parasyte” was, and how painful and brutal it’s going to be when they attempt to plant the Parasyte.
After Justice thought about it, a “Parasyte” was probably just a parasite, but just pronounced differently. Though, he still couldn’t confirm what he thought was true or not.
“I don’t want to feel the pain of getting my head dissected. I probably have 0 chance of getting out because of their numbers...”
Justice was full of despair until he remembered the “Suicide Attack” he learned when he was with Emilia. He still wasn’t confident that the move would be able to kill all the people in the cave, after all, it had seemed that there were 10 times more people in the cave at the moment, than there were in the Mansion. However, Justice had no other options left, but to use this move.
It was all or nothing——
“I can Return by Death——”
Exactly like the previous time he used this move, time appears to have stopped and he gets a monochromatic view of everything. It isn’t long before the cave starts to slowly get filled with purple mist. No— It wasn’t purple mist, it was Shadows.
Once again, the same shadowy figure shows up again.
Unlike the previous time, when she was approaching him, his heart no longer ached. The shadowy figure reaches out her hand, which goes straight into Justice’s heart. She started to slowly caress his heart. And, while she was doing so, Justice began to imagine what his life would become soon. An endless cycle of trying to save everyone, experiencing pain, and then finally dying.
The figure stopped caressing his heart. Her hand — which had looked dislocated because of how far it stretched — slowly returned to her. She seductively blew Justice a kiss, — slowly. She started to disappear along with all the other shadows in the cave.
“You can return by wha—?”
There was Braz, standing there like nothing had happened. Looking confused, he tilted his head, like a confused animal.
“Crap... It didn’t work! Maybe there’s a cooldown that takes one day.”
“Eh——Nothing! But can you please give me more details about these “Parasytes?” And why you’re going to plant them inside my head?”
“Hm? You still haven’t heard about Parasytes or anything?”
Whenever Braz would talk, he would move his body weirdly.
“Hehe— Nope! I don’t go outside much!”
Although Justice was bad at acting and lying, it seemed that he was able to trick Braz. ——Finally, there was someone gullible enough to actually believe his bad acting! Justice was very happy about this, so happy, that his happiness almost showed when talking.
Sigh “Kids these days, they never go out and explore the world anymore.”
“Well, Parasytes basically are parasites that’ll use your body as a host and control it. But "how are Parasytes different from regular parasites" you may ask. And, to that, I can simply answer with: They allow your body to create whips——tendrils out of your skin, with blade-like parts at the end. They use those tendrils to hunt for other creatures. But that is only possible if the Parasyte is linked to your brain.”
“Now, with all that said; do you have any questions? Or can I just hurry up and plant this Parasyte into your Brain?”
“Welp, thanks for all that information! You’re probably the first person in this timeline to actually help me! But I’ve got wait until I can use my trump card to escape.”
“Is there any way to remove a Parasyte once they’ve taken over your brain?”
This is it.
This is the question that Justice needs to be answered by Braz. If Braz answers Justice’s question, then that’ll help Justice——No. It’ll help everybody in the next possible timeline. Though, there were still doubts in Justice’s heart. First of all, why would Braz even answer Justice’s questions? Was trying to mislead him?
There were so many questions in Justice’s head, was Braz misleading with false answers or not? Was Braz actually that gullible? Many others like that, however, the one question Justice needed answered, was if it was possible to remove a Parasyte that has taken control over your whole body.
As Braz is about to open his mouth, Justice can only be anxious by what he has to say next. What if he was going to attack Justice as soon as he lowered his guard?
“Ugh! C’mon Justice! This is just one simple question, surely he’ll answer it... right?”
“Okay, I have got to just stop overthinking things. I’ll just wait for what he says and then overreact.”
“Nope. Everything is final. If your brain gets taken over by a Parasyte, everything is over for you and you should just say “goodbye” to being able to control your own body.”
“Good, he just answered and did nothing funny, now is my chance!”
『 Ul Fura! 』
A gust of wind comes flying out of Justice. It killed all of the surrounding Parasytes and also created a dust storm, which he used as a diversion to start running. He started running as fast as he could.
“Wow! My Maic has definitely gotten stronger! I didn’t lose as much stamina either!”
Everything looked perfect, right up until he bumps into a man and falls down. The aforementioned man pushed his glasses up.
“Don’t think that you’ll get away that easily.”
Behind Braz were five sharp, blue swords connected at the base of each with a crescent moon. All in all, it was really beautiful to look at, which also meant that it was dangerous. It was Braz’ magic. Depending on what it looked like, it was easily distinguishable as not one of the 7 Elemental Magic types (Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Lightning, Yin, and Yang), but one of the dozens of non-Elemental ones.
It resembled Demon Magic, Magic only able to be utilized by the Undead. Braz definitely was a Vampire, Justice’s suspicion was right. Still, his suspicion isn’t going to change the fact that he’s cornered by a Vampire using Demon Magic, with no one else there to save him.
“This’ll be a fun battle.”
-=Chapter 6 End=-
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