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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9: A way out

An old man with white hair and black eyes.

Appears in the middle of the Void.

I hate you.

I've always hated you.

The sword swings.

Why do I hate you?

Why are you like this?

Why did you decided to live?

Why did you forgive them?

He have a sword.

That tall black falmes sword...

The same sword Z's father used..

He cuts Z in half with tears on his face.

Z wakes up from the nightmare.

Panicking.

But the panic... Is...gone?

Z feels warmth beneath his head.

He looks up

Liora was watching him as he wakes up.

Z stared at her for a bit.

Liora felt the stare is a serious one.

C-can you stop looking at me like this.

It's a little uncomfortable...

Z sits next to her.

Looks at his hands.

The two lost fingers are back.

Liora looks at him.

Shushh.. This is a secret between us.

Z stares at her again with his tired eyes.

He touchs her cat ears.

Is this your ears?

Why are they like this?

A long story...

Liora answer.

A weird creature appears.

Not the Kyōmen...

But it was the Kūbito...

The Kūbito tried to eat Z's head,

But Liora kicks him in the right time.

Both of Z and Liora looked at that weird creature with his weird glowing head.

Liora decides to jump him alone.

She swings her sword.

The sword was glowing with gold like it came out of heaven.

She cuts its neck but the Kūbito fought back like nothing happened.

Liora steps back as she watches him growing his neck back.

She decided to aim its head.

The sword stopped.

Liora can't cut its head.

Too powerful to even cut it.

The Kūbito grabs her leg and throw her away.

Z catches her in time.

This thing is stronger than the Kyōmen.

We entered the next level already.

Liora stands up and starts thinking.

Z looks at his body.

He had a very small scar on his chest.

The body is pure black but Z saw the scar.

He runs towards the Kūbito aiming the chest.

The Kūbito reacted quickly and dodges it.

Z didn't expect that...

The Kūbito dodged the punch like it can think.

Z remembers what did the curse Kurayami said.

They were humans too trying to leave hell but they failed.

The Kūbito tried to eat his head again but Liora came in.

Enough for now.

Rest in peace.

She swings her sword harder this time and it was glowing bright.

You can't see what's happening.

She ends the fight with one hit.

The body cracks in half and falls.

Z looked at her.

She looks older, stronger, and taller.

He felt something was off.

He asks if something happened in her trails.

She responded.

Not much but a cat fused with me.

With a smile on her face.

He asks if the sword is what she got from the trails.

She looked at him and comes closer.

Want one?

She was so close.

His heart went a little bit fast.

He couldn't react.

Inside him: Why do I feel like this?

Liora spoke: You'll have something like this if you finish the trail.

Awww I want one too...

Both of Liora and Z turns their head slowly to see what's behind them.

It was another Kūbito.

But he can speak...

Z hits his chest but the Kūbito catches in time.

Liora cuts his hand and both of them retreats.

The Kūbito regenerate his hand back like nothing happened.

His weakness is on his chest.

Z spoke.

Liora responds with a fast attack.

The Kūbito cuts her arm this time.

Liora punches him away.

Z is shocked.

He just saw her arm floating and yet she hits him with the same arm.

The Kūbito yells to the other Kūbito's to come out.

More than a thousand came out.

Liora didn't panic.

She remembers what happened in the temple.

She spreads her kaketsu around the place.

Everyone feels cold and freezing.

Some of the Kūbito frozen to death in just few minutes.

Kori no Yaiba

Liora swings her sword to the Kūbito's.

An exactly 500 ice blades appears in the sky.

She swings again.

The blades moves in one rhythm aiming the Kūbito's.

Half of the Kūbito's died with one deadly move.

Z watches her power.

Is this her ultimate?

Or is it just a normal move?

The rest of the Kūbito's realized they don't have a chance infront of Liora.

They targeted Z.

They don't want to die alone...

Sorry but I won't let this happen.

Kurayami takes his turn and uses the left body.

He slightly touches the Kūbito, and the Kūbito shatters into pieces.

The power is in a whole another level.

A level that no one could even reach...

Both Z and kurayami starts walking like both of them knew each other from a long time ago.

Kurayami kills while Z uses his flames to burn.

While they were killing.

Kurayami starts taking a bit of Z's right body to control him completely...

but Z fought back from inside.

They were done with the Kūbito's but the Curse is still fighting from inside.

Inside Z's mind.

Z asks how is he even controlling his body.

Kurayami responds.

I'm a curse, of course I want your body and control it.

I don't have a body.

Im only alive inside you...

Liora uses her back of the sword and hits Z.

Some how the curse stopped and chains came out of the ground holding him still.

The Curse is also shocked.

How can someone from outside affect the cursed world?

Z open his eyes again.

Bakc to hell where everything is dark and bloody.

Liora tells him.

The Curse will stop for a while.

Wanna go ahead?

Z realized something.

He didn't feel fear this time...

But he also fought back.

It's okay.

You won't feel fear when the angel is next to you.

He looked at her.

Both of them starts laughing.

Minutes passes and Z wonder if he can uses his power to get out of this place.

He remmbers.

Hibari ten can take him anywhere just by remembering the place.

He uses his imagination to imagine the place again.

.

.

.

He did it.

He can telports there with no problem.

A small flames appears infront of Z.

Z grabs Liora's hands and leaves the place with this one small flame.

Both of them left...

Just a few seconds pass and Z collapse.

Liora felt weaker but she can still stand.

Both of them used a lot of Reiritsu....

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