Chapter 20 : TruthKawaei slid the door open to reveal Mayu typing onto her hologram keyboard, searching for something. Mayu knew that Kawaei was already in the room and yet, she continued ignoring her presence. Given what she did to Mayu before this, it’s no surprise she’s acting cold towards her. “...”
“So, you fixed yourself already I see...” Started Kawaei.
“I have no time for your antics now, Kawaei. I’m busy right now.”
“Come on, Mayu. Aren’t you taking things a little too personal?”
Mayu stopped typing and looked back at Kawaei in a condescending manner. “You seem to be a little slow for a Mechanic Commander, Kawaei. You destroyed my goggle and my booster. I have to recreate them so that I could fly once again. As long as I can’t fly, I can’t travel far. Do me a favor and exit from that door right there or I’ll have to force you out of there.” Mayu pointed at a glass window this time.
“What’s the rush? Where are you going?” As stubborn as Kawaei is, she sat down in front of Mayu and crossed her legs in a confident manner.
“To look for someone whom is none of your concern, if you may. Now scoot.” Mayu gestured before working on her stuff once again.
“You know you’re under quarantine right? You’re not allowed to go out of this place.”
“Yeah? Make me.” Mayu replied without even looking at Kawaei. “As long as I have both my hands and legs, I’m not going to let myself be contained in this box.”
“Why do you long for freedom so much?”
“Why don’t you?”
“Because only rules and limitations can bring forth true peace. I don’t want a war, Mayu. I want a peaceful life. A peaceful world. You should realize having too much freedom is the sole reason people are committing countless of crimes. The reason why we follow rules and orders is because we need them to keep us from straying off the path of a Cyber. You broke the rule by befriending the humans.”
“Says the one who followed the Core’s orders to go on a war with the Spectres and humans. You don’t seem to understand the true meaning of peace.”
“They were disrupting our peace. I think you’re the one who is misinterpreting the meaning of true peace, Mayu. Acting on your own accord without restriction like that will only bring about unwanted war. Which is why we must put a stop to this.”
“RIght. Very enlightening to hear that from you, Kawaei. You wanted true peace right? Peace for everyone? Now why don’t you take your philosophy badonkadonk out of this room and leave me alone. You’re disrupting my peace.”
“Alright then.” Kawaei shrugged and stood up. “Good luck escaping this place.”
Mayu smirked a little. “I don’t need any of your luck. Trust me... Once I’m done with my brand new upgrade, I’ll be out of this place before you even know it.”
“…” Kawaei seemed to be a little curious, but that didn’t have much effect on her. “Whatever you’re trying to do, it’s never gonna work.” She then exited the room and left Mayu to her stuff once again.
“What a long winded Cyber.” Mayu shook her head as she looked upon a rectangular object on her table. “Just give me a little more time, love. I’ll get back to you in no time once this is finished.”
Paru’s breath remained white as snow with the presence of Yui in the dungeon. Her icy aura seem to be overflowing from her body continuously without stop. Despite that, it didn’t bother Paru too much. She was desperate to learn more about herself.
“Please. If you know more about me, I wanna know.” Paru begged.
“Very well..” Yui extended a black blade from the tip of her finger and swung it at the direction of the chains, freeing Paru immediately. “Help yourself.”
She fell down with a thud. Paru was confused. “Wait, you’re releasing me?”
“You wanted to know more don’t you? And you can’t possibly do that while being chained up. Have fun here, little one...” Yui caressed Paru’s cheek and made her way towards the exit.
Paru stood up immediately and chased after Yui and grabbed both her arms. “Wait, where are you going!? You said you would tell me! You’re the Omega right? You should know something!”
Yui smiled a little and tilted Paru’s face up. “I believe someone else has more to tell you than I do. It was her duty after all..”
Paru was confused for a short moment before widening her eyes. “Katsuzetsu...”
“I have some matters to attend to. The one you’re looking for should be upstairs. You might want to find her.” And then Yui disappeared into the darkness of the dungeon.
“....” Without any hesitation, Paru ran up and looked for Katsuzetsu. Just as Yui told her, Katsuzetsu was just sitting right in front of the dungeon entrance with her legs crossed, once again with a lollipop in her mouth.
“Katsuzetsu!” Paru ran towards Katsuzetsu.
“I already had a hunch that the Omega would ask you to see me instead.”
“You know everything about me. Please tell me.”
“Since Omega released you from the dungeon, I think you’re free to go anywhere you want. So you can even leave and go back to your human gang right now.”
“No....”
Katsuzetsu raised a brow. “Oh? Now, you don’t wanna leave?”
“I’m not gonna leave until you tell me what I deserve to know.” Paru insisted.
“You might not want to leave even after I told you everything. So probably not the best idea. Have a nice stay here.” Katsuzetsu stood up and was about to leave.
Paru grabbed Katsuzetsu’s arm tightly. “Please I beg you! My parent’s death may be related to this weird power inside of me! You definitely know something! Just tell me already!”
“You wouldn’t believe me even if I told you anyway, so why bother?”
“I can’t remain calm when I know that you know something!”
“.....” Katsuzetsu remained silent as she looked upon Paru.
“Please!!” Paru became teary eyed. “What do you want me to do so that you’ll tell me!?”
“.....”
“I beg you!” Perhaps Paru got a little too desperate to know the information. Her whole body and knees started bending over. She was about to kneel before a Spectre just to get the information.
Right when Paru’s knees were about to touch the floor, they landed on a Spectre blade instead. Katsuzetsu activated her blade and placed it underneath Paru’s knees to prevent her from kneeling. Katsuzetsu’s face showed a hint of anger. “Do not kneel down before me.. Not you.”
Paru then stood back up. “...”
“Let’s go out for a walk, shall we?” Katsuzetsu suggested. “For some fresh air.”
“Go out?” Paru was confused. “I thought you guys are trying to keep me here?”
“It won’t be too far away. And it’s not like you’ll run away from us as soon as you get out of this place anyway. Come.” Katsuzetsu gestured.
As Katsuzetsu said, they made their way out of the Spectre headquarters. Though, there had been some objections from the other Spectres around, it’s not like they could do anything to Katsuzetsu anyway. Among the Alphas, the only one who would actually go against this is Sayanee. Yuko and Annin didn’t seem to care much because it was of little importance to them. As soon as they stepped out into the sunshine, Paru noticed that they were in a flowery field. It was completely different than what she had in mind about Spectres. “H-Huh? The Spectre headquarters was in a flowery field the whole time?”
“As dark and intimidating as the Omega was, she actually has something for flowers. She chose this place as our landing spot.” Katsuzetsu said as she breathe in the fresh air.
“Landing spot....” Paru frowned for a moment. As she turned around, she was astounded by the size of the thing behind her. The Spectre headquarters was shaped like an organic spider-like alien creature with countless numbers of blades protruding out from its back and stabbing into the ground. The size of the creature/headquarters literally made Kawaei’s Bahamut look like a hamster. It was probably about three times the size of the Empire State Building. Paru would never had thought that the headquarters itself was a Spectre-like creature as well. “What the hell!?”
“There’s no need to be shocked. This is merely one. There are billions more of them back in our planet.” Katsuzetsu explained.
This made Paru wonder just how huge their planet was to have billions more of that creature inside of it. The planet would probably be a thousand times the size of Earth, but that wasn’t her concern at all. “The size of that thing! It’s huge! How could anybody not know that the Spectre headquarters is here?”
“Because it cannot be detected by radar of any kind, satellite or whatever. You can only see it with your own eyes, but of course so far no human and Cybers had ever seen our headquarters and live to tell the tale. You see, our headquarters is pretty much a live Spectre as well but it lacks intelligence, so it automatically attacks anybody or anything that isn’t a Spectre.”
“It’s not attacking me..” Paru stated.
Katsuzetsu smirked. “Exactly.”
That was when Paru got serious once again. “So you’re gonna tell me now?”
Katsuzetsu placed a lollipop in her mouth and took a deep breath. “What would you like to know?”
Paru started. “I know I have some trust issues with you Spectres.... But I’m still going to take the chances.. All I want is for you to answer me truthfully.. First things first.. Do you know my mom Akimoto Sayaka?”
“It’s not only Sayaka that I know.. I knew your dad Sae too.”
“Y-You do?” Paru’s eyes widened.
“I knew them well. Especially your mother. By the way, her name is just Sayaka. Akimoto isn’t her name. We Spectres do not have a so-called-family name.”
Paru’s fingers curled up into a fist. “I told you to answer me truthfully... Why do all of you insist that she is a Spectre....”
“Because she is.”
“STOP IT! SHE’S NOT! SHE’S A HUMAN! NOT A SPECTRE!!”
“I told you earlier that you wouldn’t believe me even if I told you. Your mom is a Spectre.”
Paru grabbed onto Katsuzetsu’s collar and screamed once again. “STOP MOCKING HER LIKE THAT! SHE CAN’T BE A SPECTRE! SPECTRES ARE CRUEL CREATURES! MY MOM IS A GOOD PERSON! SO STOP FRAMING HER LIKE THAT!”
“We might not be the most refined species in the entire universe but not every single one of us are as bad as you think. You classified us as a whole from your bad experience.”
“SHUT UP!!” Paru swung her fist at Katsuzetsu’s face but to no avail as the latter caught the fist successfully.
“If I was as bad as you say, your head would have came off the moment you started raising your voice at my face. Deal with it. What I’m telling is the absolute truth. Your mom Sayaka is a Spectre.”
“SHUT UP!!!” Paru pulled her fist back and attacked Katsuzetsu with her Judgement sword.
Paru was definitely no match for Katsuzetsu’s speed. In an instant, the sword flew out of Paru’s grip. “This is a truth you must accept. You wanted to know everything so I told you. And now you’re trying to attack me? I’m not even done yet.. Not only your mom.... Your dad Sae... He’s not a human as well. He’s a Cyber.”
Paru’s whole body shook. She didn’t believe the words that came out of Katsuzetsu’s mouth despite stating that she would give her a chance. “LIAR!!!!! YOU’RE A LIAR!!”
“Would you care to explain how you got those weird powers?”
“STOP LYING TO ME! STOP IT! STOP LYING!! I TOLD YOU TO TELL ME THE TRUTH! I TOLD YOU TO TELL ME THE TRUTH!!” Paru started screaming uncontrollably while she squeezed her own head.
“Your mother was one of a kind. Out of millions and millions of Spectres born from the Omega, there will be only one who possess the exact same power as her. That Spectre happened to be none other than Sayaka. She possesses the infinity black blades too, and her healing factor was on par with the Omega. Sae too was one of a kind. Being the Core’s one and only child, he bore the exact same power of the Core.. The power to manipulate magnetic fields. This is the absolute truth. As long as you do not learn to accept the truth about your parents, you will never be able to utilize your parent’s gifts to you.”
“ENOUGH OF THIS ALREADY!!” Paru fell on her knees and started sobbing uncontrollably. “Just.....stop already.......”
“......” Katsuzetsu stopped.
Paru sobbed once for every word that came out of her mouth. “I don’t know what’s true anymore... You’re making me confused.. Very very confused.....”
“There might be another truth that you might wanna hear, Paru... You are indeed a human being.. Sayaka and Sae both adopted you as a baby.. And despite being a Spectre and a Cyber, they still loved you, a human with all their heart and even sacrificed so much for you. They literally gave you life..”
Paru stopped sobbing and looked up at Katsuzetsu. “H-Huh?”
Katsuzetsu sighed. “You didn’t know because you were a baby.. You were born with an incurable brain and lung cancer. You didn’t have long to live, but your parents wanted to give you a chance. If it weren’t for Sayaka’s Omega healing factor, you wouldn’t be talking to me right now.”
“I.....was dying?” Paru was dumbfounded.
“Bear in mind that your disease was supposed to be incurable. The only way for you to survive was from Sayaka passing on her Omega healing factor to you when you were a baby. From that point on, the Omega healing factor had been continuously healing your disease, preventing you from dying, even now. That’s why your healing factor isn’t too effective. Because most of it was used to contain the cancer within you. Do you understand how powerful the Omega healing factor is? You’re basically cheating death with it as of now. If you were to somehow lose your mother’s healing factor, you will not survive the disease.”
Paru started shaking. “This......can’t be the truth..... This can’t be.....”
“But of course, some Spectres and Cybers found out about Sayaka passing her powers to a mere human and they felt insulted by it. They started pursuing the three of you. Knowing danger may befall you in the future, that point was when your father Sae passed on some of his Core powers to you. So that you can protect yourself against evil. Eighteen years was what your body took to adapt to your dad’s powers.”
“......” Paru was silent. She was actually hearing Katsuzetsu’s whole story without flipping out this time. For some reason, a huge part of her chose to believe this story because somehow she could sense that Katsuzetsu’s story was the truth.
“Do you believe me now?” Katsuzetsu asked once again.
“I.....don’t know...” Paru shook her head. “But something still doesn’t make sense.. I still have a lot of questions... Like how do you even know about my daily life and all?”
Katsuzetsu looked up in the sky and twisted her lollipop. “Because I was your guardian all all these years. I was keeping an eye on you from a distance every single day. To make sure you stay alive.”
Paru’s eyes shot wide open. “W-What did you say?”
“It was a promise I made for Sayaka. To keep you alive. She insisted for me not to get near to you. She wanted you to live a normal life as a human. So all I could do was watch you from far.”
“I have been kept in the dark like this for 18 years already? And they died because of me.. I don’t want these powers!! I never asked for them to pick me up from the orphanage! I never asked for them to pass on their powers to me! They should have just moved on with their lives than to pity a dying child like me! How am I supposed to live with all these fact from now on!?” Paru punched both her fist on the ground and at the same time, she released a force wave that blew some flowers away and also disturbed even the Spectre headquarters.
“The short term pain of accepting the truth is much better than the long term pain of believing an illusion. You can’t escape reality. You simply have no choice but to accept it in the end. It’s not called giving up on what you want to believe in. It’s called growing up.” Katsuzetsu then placed a new piece of lollipop in Paru’s mouth and continued. “Now that you learned the truth, everything might change from now on but hey.. Don’t be afraid of change. It may lead you to a new beginning.” Katsuzetsu tilted Paru’s head up. “Keep your head up, got it? Just like what your parents wanted from you.”
“.....” Paru wiped the tears off her face and nodded. “Can you tell me the whole story in detail?”
“Let’s take a walk for some fresh air.” Katsuzetsu gestured.
Paru nodded and started walking behind Katsuzetsu along the flower field. “Wait.... Something doesn’t seem right.” She stopped in her tracks all of a sudden. She just realized something was a little off. “My parents were betrayed… The betrayers. Who were they?”
“Humans. It’s a long story. Your parents thought they had good intention and trusted them, but it turned out to be the other way round.” Katsuzetsu smirked a little. “Funny how things suddenly turn 180 degree around, right? At one point, you actually believed that every single one of the Spectres and Cybers were the bad ones... Now it turned out that they were the real victims of humans. So you decide.”
“....” Paru’s fists curled up in anger. It seemed that her hatred for humans had gone up one level. “Is that why you told me earlier on in the dungeon that I should stay away from Legion?”
Katsuzetsu paused for a moment and shot a look at Paru before continuing. “Well, not exactly... You see.. As heroic as Legion sounds, it didn’t really have such a bright history. After all, Legion was first created for all the wrong reasons.”
Atsuko had just gotten a proper bandage and she was still a little shaken from her earlier encounter with the deranged serial killer Miyawaki Sakura.
“Are you feeling better now?” Takamina asked Atsuko in a slightly concerned tone.
“Better..” Atsuko replied with a groan. “I don’t know why but the wound is taking a little longer this time to heal.”
“You’ll be fine.” Takamina convinced and stood up.
“We should not waste any more time here. We have to get Paru back before they do anything bad to her.” Yuki continued.
Atsuko sighed. “Why must so many bad things happen to us? Mayu got taken away, Paru got taken away, Jurina is nowhere to be found, I got attacked by Sakura… Things are just getting more and more disadvantage to us.”
Takamina continued. “That’s life. Either we find a way to solve it or we sit back and weep about it.”
Yuki nodded. “Takamina sensei is right. We have to move on.”
“I understand the both of you, really.. But you should really think twice about infiltrating the Spectre Headquarters. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s too dangerous. You don’t even know what the Spectre Headquarters is like!” Atsuko retorted.
“It doesn’t matter what it’s like. I can take them on. We will go now. Where’s Rena?”
All of a sudden, a deer hopped past them. At the same time, Rena was seen with her fangs gripping tightly on the deer’s abdomen. As Rena was light, she was being dragged along by it. The deer didn’t last long as it had already lost too much blood. It soon fell on the ground and that allowed Rena to lay her fangs all over its body. “Hehehehe…..”
“Not again.” Yuki shook her head and walked over towards Rena. “Senpai? We are leaving now. You can play next time.”
Rena slowly turned her head towards Yuki’s direction with her mouth all bloodied up from decapitating the deer with her sharp teeth. All of a sudden, Rena started letting out some dry cough and spit some blood out of her mouth. At first, they thought the blood was from the deer, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Rena’s blood.
“What the..” Yuki was surprised. “Senpai, are you okay?”
“Hehehehehe…” Despite that, Rena still giggled back at them in an insane manner.
“…..” Probably it was from Rena’s earlier battle but something still bothered Yuki. “Sen-”
Yuki was suddenly silenced as she was dragged flying away in an immense speed by something. Before she could realize, she was being held by the leg upside down in the sky by someone. It caught her off guard definitely. “WOOOAAAAHH!!!!!!”
Soon after they were a distance away, Yuki was tossed onto the ground hard. Right before she came in contact with the ground, she managed to spin her body mid-air and landed perfectly. As she looked up to see the faces of her captor, it turned out to be two beings who were very familiar to her. They were none other than Kumi and Yuria whom were defeated by Yuki and Mayu some time ago. “You two again.. Haven’t you both learn your lessons yet!?”
Yuria giggled at Kumi’s direction. “Haven’t we learn our lessons yet, she ask.”
“Oh, don’t you worry, Kashiwagi Yuki.. We have learned, alright.” Kumi said as she cracked her fingers. “And we’re here to beat the crap out of you.”
Yuki noticed that the both of them were wearing some kind of mechanical looking gauntlets which was emitting steam from some of the holes there. A little weird for Machs to have these kind of accessory. That made Yuki frown quite a bit because this is the first time she saw Kumi and Yuria having that weird gauntlet. Without another word, Yuki activated a Judgement scythe. “I will beat the lesson into both of you this time. And this time, I’ll make sure it’s permanent.”
Yuria shot a look at Kumi and smirked. “Shall we?”
Kumi returned the smirk. “We shall.”
Upon mentioning that, the Cybers got into their fighting pose as both their feet and gauntlets glowed in light blue. For some reason, the gauntlets were still troubling Yuki quite a bit. Yuria then stated with a wink. “Don’t blink.”
The both of them disappeared out of Yuki’s sight in a flash. For the first time, Yuki almost lost sight of them. Yuki fought with them a couple of times before. There wasn’t one time where Yuki didn’t manage to catch on to their speed. But this time, they were much faster than before. “Something is definitely off with the both of them. It’s like they got some sort of speed upgrade or something.”
“Where are you looking at!?” Yuria suddenly appeared and swung her fist down at Yuki.
Having her superhuman reflex, Yuki somersaulted out of the way and manged to dodge the attack at the last minute. To her surprise, as Yuria’s fist came in contact with the ground, it cracked the ground open with a small tremor. “What the-” Yuki definitely did not see that one coming. “That kind of destructive power... It’s comparable to a Terra.”
“What’s wrong!? You look a little disturbed!!” This time Kumi appeared right in front of Yuki’s face. Kumi brought both her hands together with a clap in an attempt to smash Yuki’s face in between her palm.
Once again, Yuki tilted her whole body backwards to dodge against the fatal attack. Kumi’s clap literally sent a shockwave across the whole area, flattening the field. The amount of strength in that attack was beyond words. Yuki leaped backwards and panted a little. She didn’t expect to have such a hard time fighting these two. “What did you both do to your bodies?”
Kumi held her gauntlet up and smirked at Yuki’s direction. “Let’s say we had some new upgrades.. Do you like it?”
“Let’s just finish her off already, Kumi!” Yuria told.
“No way...” Kumi shook her head. “Why end it so fast when we can play around with the great and speedy Kashiwagi Yuki?”
“We shouldn’t waste our time on the enemy. We should kill her when we have the chance!” Yuria retorted.
“Just let me play with her a little longer!” Kumi kicked off the ground and leaped towards Yuki with a great speed.
As Kumi swung her fist, Yuki swung her scythe as well. Upon contact, the impact pushed Yuki back a few feet. Some sparks were seen at the clashing point between Yuki’s scythe and Kumi’s gauntlet. Yuki was literally draining her energy just from blocking Kumi’s punch with her scythe. “Shit..”
“Feeling pressured, Yuki?” A satisfied smile crawled upon Kumi’s face.
At the same time, from the side, Yuria came flying in with a fist as well. Yuki immediately activated a shield and blocked the attack. The titanium shield dented pretty badly upon contact. Having one shield blocking against Yuria and one scythe against Kumi definitely put Yuki in a disadvantage. But of course Yuki wasn’t a fool. There was a reason why Yuki’s favourite weapon was the scythe instead of sword. The curved blade of the scythe makes it easier for her to deflect an attack. Yuki slid her scythe a little to the right and added a little push. That alone was enough to make Kumi’s fist glide along the scythe blade and got deflected towards Yuria’s direction. With that done, Kumi’s fist landed on Yuria’s face instead and blew her partner far away.
“ARGHH!!!” Yuria crashed onto the rock with a scream of pain. Almost her whole face was torn off from the strength of Kumi’s gauntlets. She got knocked out cold immediately.
“You!!” Kumi was angered by Yuki’s actions.
“I told you I will teach you both a lesson. It seems like it doesn’t matter if you both had upgrades or not. The conclusion would still be the same. To be honest, I was a little worried earlier when you showed your new powers but now that I think about it, it’s probably nothing.” Yuki pointed her scythe at Kumi’s direction. “Now come over here and get this over with.”
“Don’t get too cocky! You were just lucky!” Kumi stomped her foot on the ground and seem to be gathering some sort of energy into her gauntlets. Her gauntlet started glowing in dark blue. “Now behold the max power of the gauntlets..”
Yuki stretched her feet and got on guard. “Max power or not, with or without your partner, it doesn’t matter to me. I will still be able to take you down.”
Kumi started giggling and laughing. “You still don’t realize how powerful the max power of these gauntlets are..”
“Why don’t you enlighten-” Before Yuki finished her sentence, Kumi was already right in front of her face. “!!!!”
“Take this!” Kumi thrusted her fist forward.
Yuki dodged to the side and was surprised to see a shockwave burst out of the punch and destroyed everything in front of it. “A ranged brute attack!?”
“I’m not done yet!” Once again, Kumi leaped towards Yuki and swung both her fists down.
As expected from the Legion’s third in command, Yuki still managed to hop out of the way and watch the ground she was standing on break apart. Yuki panted and thought to herself. “Sasshi might still have more devastating attacks than Kumi but hers is almost three quarter way there. In addition to her Mach speed, each and every single one of her attacks are fatal. I have to be careful.”
“Yuki!” A familiar voice called out to Yuki all of a sudden. As Yuki turned around to find the source of the voice, her face brightened.
“Haruka baachan!!” Yuki was more than happy to see Katayama after so long.
“It’s good to see you again, Yuki. We’ve been looking for you and Paru all these time.” Katayama smiled and placed her hand on Yuki’s shoulder before looking at Kumi’s direction. “Enemy?”
“Tch-” Kumi scoffed at the sight of yet another Reaper.
“Haruka baachan, now that you’re here, let’s finish this one off together.”
Katayama raised her brow. “Finish this one off?”
“The other one is down.” Yuki gestured.
A little smirk crawled upon Katayama’s face as she activated a Judgement sword. “This one doesn’t seem all that strong.”
“YOU SHUT UP!!” Kumi pointed at Katayama’s face and flew towards them.
“I will end this now!!” Yuki was ready to swing her scythe at Kumi’s direction.
“....” Katayama too was ready to swing her sword.
The tip of Yuki’s scythe suddenly stopped one inch away from Kumi’s face for some reason. Her hand started trembling as some blood was seen flowing out of her mouth. “E-Eh?”
She slowly tilted down and saw a Judgement sword piercing through her chest. Yuki slowly turned her head back with both eyes widened in shock as she gacked out more blood.
Katayama’s expression couldn’t be read at all. Her eyes were simply covered by the shadows of her hair. “....”
“W-Why....” Yuki forced the word out of her mouth. She couldn’t quite comprehend the reason why Katayama would do something like this to her. She had been like a mother figure to Yuki ever since she took her in.
As Katayama pulled the sword out of Yuki’s chest with a lot of force, she stated in a soft voice. “I need you out of the way, Yuki. I don’t want anybody messing up our plans.”
“Ugh-” With a last groan, Yuki fell down unconscious on her own pool of blood.
“Tch- For a moment I thought you were really gonna attack me.” Kumi scoffed.
“Truth be told, since Yuki was here, I was actually this close to attacking you.” Katayama stated.
Kumi stood in front of Yuki’s unconscious body. “Yuria was right. We should have killed her earlier.. I will finish the job right now.”
As Kumi raised her fist, she was stopped by Katayama. “No. She needs to stay alive. We already made a deal with ‘her’. It would be bad if Yuki dies now.”
Chapter 20 : Truth
ENDThis is the beginning of the Climax Arc of Ultimatum!! With unexpected betrayals and hardships coming one by one, what would become of the heroes? Stay tuned for the next chapter to find out~! Chapter 21 will be the turning point of the whole plot! And yes, there will be a backstory chapter about Saeyaka coming up soon. Chapter 22. It will feature the time from before the Cybers and Spectres invade earth until the point where Paru was rescued by Yuki. It's just 1 chapter so no worries lol. And bear in mind, even though it's a backstory, it includes a lot of main plot as well~ Till next chapter~ CHIAOZ~!
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