The scientist quickly proceeds to give 47 the syringe that contained Indhra's mana. 47 picked up the syringe and then kept it in front of his face by stretching his arm. A weird, red liquid starts to come out of Akuma's skin and travels until it surrounds the syringe. The syringe begins to move and proceeds to inject into Akuma's arm.
Akuma felt it, and he opened his eyes, completely red. A sudden red color gas starts to emit from Akuma, and the bed he was sleeping on breaks apart. His skin, which was weak and lacked muscle definition, started to show signs of development.
Hidoi and the scientist tried to cover their faces so that dust couldn't enter their eyes.
If all this were less, Akuma starts to float and keeps his posture bipedal. He gives a side eye behind the scientist.
The scientist thought in his mind," Is he a Devil or a Human?"
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" Huh! What does she mean by that? Damn you, Amanda." He keeps both his hands in his pockets to pick up a gun that rolls towards his left side, and turns back to aim towards Aldred. " Calm yourself, it ain't that hard to kill your ex-teammate, right?" He questioned himself in his mind.
He heard an electric bolt sound behind him. He got scared and shuffled the aim to shoot just beside Aldred's ears. From behind, someone's arm holds Albert around his neck to push him down. The pushing caused Albert's gun to fly up. The person who held Albert caught his gun in her hand and quickly aimed it towards Albert's head. The person was none other than Kyra.
Aldred blocked his ears because of the intense sound of the bullet passing by his ears. Amanda quickly uses her reflexes and holds Aldred. While holding, she uses her left hand to take a gun out of her pocket, which she kept hidden. She aims the gun directly at Aldred's head, threatening to kill him.
She says to Kyra," Look, there's no need to kill him." Kyra grunts and says aloud," All of this was just a trap to kill us, wasn't it?"
Amanda takes a breath for a second and then says," Look, we were friends once, and I still believe we are friends. I just fell in love with this stupid moron."
" We had almost done it if this moron hadn't betrayed us!" Kyra shouted to show her anger. She continued," And what about you, you betrayed me and Aldred to save this asshole!"
Amanda accepts that she has done some pretty bad things in her past, so she accepts the fact that she betrayed Kyra and Aldred. But she had no other option if she wanted to save Albert.
" Calm down! A deal, please, leave him, I'll leave Aldred," Said Amanda.
" Do it, Kyra, only if you want me alive, just do it!" Aldred gulped out of Amanda's arms to shout.
Kyra was getting pressured; what would she do?
She throws Albert on the ground; this was the only option if she wanted to save the rose in her life. Amanda gently leaves Aldred, still pointing the gun towards him. Kyra keeps the gun in her holster, and so does Amanda.
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Akuma gently drops to his feet from floating. He looks at his hand and arms, they look like he took a reincarnation. No sign of weakness.
Suddenly, his eyes were keen on the scientist. There was a golden glow on his pupil.
" After so many days," Says Akuma while walking in front," Someone tried to kill me." His expression was still dull. Hidoi and 47 look at the scientist with the most terrified look.
The scientist took a gulp, which could be heard metres away. His eyes looked like he was terrified and scared. His blood pressure started to increase spontaneously. His heart started to pump the blood so fast that even Hidoi could hear it.
Akuma suddenly appears in front of the scientist with the most terrifying look possible in the existence of humans. " I am not sorry," He said calmly.
He started to choke the scientist. The hand movement was so fast that even Hidoi or 47 couldn't sense the movement.
They both started to levitate up while the scientist was getting choked.
" What is the reason?" Akuma asked calmly.
" To destroy... a monster from this earth," The scientist said slowly while being choked. Akuma loses a hand, a bit, so that the scientist can survive a bit longer.
" Monster, huh? You think I am a monster, what about Kamui? Oh," He grinned," You don't know what it is, right?" He gathered his serious posture back," He created mana, which was then used to kill humans and animals. And then you say I am a monster."
The choking started ot get harder.
Hidoi closed his eyes when he heard a blast sound. He opened to see Akuma, himself, and 47 covered in blood.
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" So, you're sorry now, huh?" Asked Aldred.
Aldred, Kyra, Albert, and Amanda were sitting on four different benches in a bar. All of them were already drunk except Aldred, who neither drank nor smoked anything.
Amanda was crying, apologizing continuously to Kyra and Aldred. Albert was beside Amanda, trying to console her.
Kyra asks," Can...we trust on you after what you did?".
Amanda and Albert looked at her, and both started to smile a bit. Amanda, of course, had to accept this.
Aldred started," Look, we need the layout of the Taka castle prison".
Albert looked at Aldred, concerned," Why do you need that for?". He asked with a concerned look on his face.
Aldred looked at Kyra, Kyra did the same, and she then nodded.
Aldred spoke," You know who Indhra is, right?" Albert's expression said that he understood what they were planning on. Aldred continued," We want to rescue him, and we don't have many days left to rescue him, so we need your help."
Albert looked down," But, wouldn't that make you guys criminals?"
Kyra said," We can be living in hiding and fear if he is there with us". She then calmly said," And, I don't care if I die, I want a pure soul like him to live."
Amanda looked at Albert to give a message of acceptance. Albert said," Fine, I will give you the map of the Taka castle, which has many layers, including the location of the prison. This is illegal, but if you guys insist, I will do it."
Aldred had a smile, he stood up and extended his hand forward, which Albert accepted by standing up as a handshake," Thank you so much, we will be grateful to you both forever."
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Akuma looks at his body and says," If one drop of his mana can do this, then how much will his whole body will do?"
47 was still unfaced after the scientist's death. He had experienced this a lot of times before. " I know, but I don't recommend his whole..." he gets stopped by Akuma.
" His whole body is what I need." He turned back and proceeded to sit on the ground." I have recovered, but I am still not strong enough to commit to our plan; we need his whole body."
47 bit his lip, showing his annoyance. He stood up and also signaled Hidoi to stand up. He said," Fine, if that's what you want, then that's what you will get."
THE END