Sylvie was having the worst thing happening to her. First, it was her memory that was lost. Second, finding out that she had become a 'blank' from an incident. Third, it was between feeling worse and better after knowing that she's close friends with an unusual relationship with Rei or so used to be 'blank' that she had known from before.
Then now, it was the fact that her head felt like splitting apart by some unknown force. Every memory that she could remember from her entire life looked to be breaking and fading. "Make it stop! Please!" The magenta haired girl begged, tears streaming down her face while holding her head tightly.
Eri and Elliot were doing their best to keep Sylvie stable but her vitals continue to run rampant. Either skyrocketing or dropping immediately where it was nothing in between and continued to fluctuate.
"She's gonna turn insane!" Elliot exclaimed while Eri had her prowess activated, constantly rewinding Sylvie's mental and physical injuries to the best she can without harming her.
It was taking a toll on her due to the injury that Sylvie was taking on every second. Damaged to repaired then constant loop of doing the same thing but it required sharp focus and execution for Eric's prowess to be effective since her spiritual energy was needed the most in order to keep the healing aspects active permanently.
"You'll be fine. You are strong. Just hang in there." Eri said calmly, her hand holding hers tightly while also adding tonics to heal her physically by letting the residue flow through the IV tube.
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"Shadow Art: Recoil!"
The blob of flesh immediately was cut down into multiple pieces from Rei's defense, the sickles looking worn and scratched. The male was already exhausted and frustrated. Exhausted due to burning through his spiritual energy then the fact that the woman before him still showed no signs of stopping.
"YES! JUST LIKE THAT! YOU'RE SO GOOD!" The woman exclaimed as she grinned at him before sending out a purplish lightning strike.
The male gritted his teeth as he put the other sickle to the other hand that still had the same sickle, "Shadow Release: Abyss Pillar." Rei chanted before slamming his now free hand on the ground which formed a massive wall of shadows.
"Shadow Art: Binding Flames!" He immediately changed into offensive form as the shadow wall immediately diminished after the purplish lightning was no longer in the area.
The shadows formed in a wave of flames that tried to reach out to the purplish haired woman.
"Blood Release: Puppetry Binding." The orange haired girl immediately appeared as she tried to capture the woman by surrounding her with blood strings all over the place.
"PISS OFF!" The woman exclaimed as she immediately manifested three tendrils that had just barely managed to destroy Rinka's blood strings.
"You alright?" Rinka asked as she immediately manifested a spear with a sharp blade. "Nope. I'm exhausted. I might enter the burnout stage if this keeps going…" Rei panted heavily, out of breath and trying his best to replenish his spent spiritual energy reserves.
"Eunji will be here soon." Rinka said while Rei nodded his head, taking a rest while the orange brown hair girl went on to the fight with the purplish haired woman.
Rei was putting up all the options that he could do at the moment while buying time for Eunji to arrive until Rinka was pushed back to her limits. "JUST LEAVE ME AND MY HUSBAND ALONE!" The purple haired woman screamed before her own flesh started to tear out of her body while emitting purplish lightning.
"Brat! Get that blood brat and scatter now!" Keith shouted through their mental link as Rei followed his statement.
The male immediately ran towards Rinka and picked her up as the orange brown haired girl created a bunch of kunai and shuriken to throw it towards the transforming female. "Damnit. Astralization at this level?" Rinka uttered as Rei asked why she's worried before Eunji arrived at the right time as she managed to land a critical hit on them, cutting three or five tendrils that were about to strike the two.
"It's when an awakener can use the very nature and existence of their prowess. Transforming into something they visualise as their prowess. Even more powerful than innate techniques, prowess art and release then territorial summons."
Eunji explained before channeling her spiritual energy into her blade as she immediately slashed a couple of more tendrils that were approaching them. "Give me time. I'll end it with one shot." She said as she was reserving all her spiritual energy into one powerful technique.
Rei and Rinka followed her command as the two were trying to exhaust the transformed female in the form of a succubus with multiple wings and arms. The two clashing their blade onto the latter's sharp claws as they try to buy time for Eunji except an unimaginable thing happened as a wave of purplish lightning went all over the area.
Electrocuting all of them while the now succubus grinned. "It's my win." She exclaimed while Eunji was trying her best to heal herself, the mental shock that made her body unable to control doing its best to heal naturally and enhance her physical body with spiritual energy.
Rinka manifested a bullet before shooting it towards the succubus who caught it with their own finger before crashing it which made the orange brown haired girl grit her teeth, the passive ability of blood manipulation still slowly healing her.
Meanwhile, Rei felt like he had reached his boiling point. Frustrated and desperate to capture or kill the purplish haired succubus in order for him to ease Sylvie's pain and let herself be back to her original state without being in agony especially when her prowess was already taken away.
Keith, on the other hand, was already about to manifest himself to take over Rei's body since it was a part of their contract. However, he had caught something from his vision when checking Rei's spiritual energy flow.
"Looks like I don't need to intervene." The ancient being said, completely amused by the situation.
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Eunji was back on her feet but was barely able to breathe properly as she was still in effect from the electrocution as she forced herself to stand straight to fight against the succubus.
"Professor Reze!" She shouted before pointing her blade at the succubus, "This madness ends now!" Eunji declares as she stumbles on her feet.
The strawberry blonde tried her best to stay strong and dominant as she was doing her best to push her spiritual energy to boost her physical attributes as the two were about to attack each other before they felt an immense power emitting out of nowhere.
"It's so-" Eunji uttered.
"Creepy…" The succubus muttered before looking over to where the source was coming from as her eyes landed on Rei's form who was slowly rising up from the floor, his shadows flickering on and off as some eyes developed before small sharp hands continued to manifest.
"Sylvie… I will save you…" A grim voice emitted from Rei before the shadows immediately covered him as it started to form a shape.
His right arm covered and had become scales similar to a reptile with sharp talons. The left arm was the same but with a difference of what seemed to be a long sharp blade embedded in his forearms. The entire upper torso was shaped into what seemed to be armour while his face was unrecognisable, a mask similar to a wolf except for its sharp edges like a stone.
Then immediately from the waist down below that looked like a sharp tail immediately grew more sharp edges like a serrated blade. "No way… When can he do that?" Rinka uttered to herself after picking herself up from the floor after letting her passive ability heal her completely except was exhausted.
Rei immediately vanished while the succubus had barely managed to block his attack. The two individuals looked like more of a monster as they continued to clash into each other with Reze being excited while Rei appeared to be lost in himself.
Reze's mind continued to recall the memory of each man that left her life due to her living environment wanting to be always active, chaotic and dramatic. She wanted attention and she got what she wanted after kidnapping the dropout student from Kamigami Academy.
Then to being able to control one's body through a mental binding technique from her own prowess before witnessing Rei's performance from the live stream of the fight. She wanted him, desired him and lusted for him.
Reze was willing to do everything in her power to make him hers but there was one thing that she didn't take into account when hunting her prey. After all, most of her prey were just men that were mesmerized by her beauty and sex appeal but Rei was nothing like them.
He was captivated by Sylvie's charm, her smile, the way she laughs, her habits then her personality. It was the entire reason why one of Reze's innate techniques to control him wasn't working so she had to resort with a binding technique to restrict Sylvie's memories and force her to break him but went the total opposite.
Reze's desperation to make Rei hers was what made her lose herself instead of recovering and finding salvation for her own life. Her lust and desire for a man to love her instead of loving herself is what leads her to this entire ordeal.
The last thing she saw was the monstrous Rei who killed her with no remorse while uttering a name that she envied for having someone like him.
"Sylvie…"
The only thing Rei could remember was pushing his limits then to this part of where he killed Reze before losing consciousness into darkness.
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