Without a second thought, Haro clicked yes on the Contract of Power offer without even reading the terms and conditions.
The Centipede fully crashed down, swallowing Sayaka whole.
"Sayaka! No!"
It had swallow her up and burrowed under the ground.
Sayaka was completely and utterly dead.
"No no no no.."
Haro grabbed his horse as it rode forward, digging his claws into it trying to find a way to release the anger in him.
"She can't be dead.. She can't be...-"
But she was.
Haro saw it with his own eyes, with once clean move Sayaka was swallowed up with nothing left behind.
All forms of grief hit Haro at once. Despair, anger, sadness, the list went on.
He was sweating nervously, he chuckled a little bit to distract himself from what had just happened and looked forward.
"Heh.. Why..?"
Tears ran down his face, his vision became blurry and his face scrunched up.
"Why did it have to be her...?"
Chat:
Viewer #8672 - "This can't be real.."
Viewer #19532 - "Gg to the 10 Sayaka fans out there (I'm one of them)."
Viewer #13539 - "Haro, are you okay?"
The wall that Sonya created blew down completely, chunks of rocks were soar through the sky, cracking the ground as they landed.
"I didn't think the end would be so soon."
He looked at Sonya for help but she just stared right back at him while she shook her head.
"I'm technically not allowed to cast multiple times a day..! I'm sorry Master..!"
Haro gritted his teeth so hard that his gums began bleeding.
The taste of iron in his mouth was displeasing to say the least, but due to it's awful taste it was the thing that helped him push on through Ground Zero.
"It's still hard to believe Sayaka is gone.. No.."
He felt vomit well up in the back of his throat but he quickly swallow it back down.
"No.. I can't think of that.. Right now we have to get away.."
Haro's chat filled up with more and more viewers, soaring to 30k.
I suppose streams love this kind of this, drama.
He wasn't wrong, one of the main things entertainment relies on is loss.
Despair, grief and death. They are the heavy costs of entertainment, but are also fundamentally what gives it purpose.
Haro rode up to Sonya, getting close to her as they rode along each other. They started in the middle of Ground Zero when they started running away and they ended up getting half way.
Haro chucked.
"So I guess that's it, huh?"
"Why...?"
"-? Why what?"
She looked at Haro.
"I can see the imprints of dried tears on your face, your snotty nose and your dry lips.. You are clearly in pain but here you are, smiling."
Haro chucked once again, shocked by how she didn't understand.
"It's simple if you think about it.. I got what I wanted!"
"-"
"I gained a following... Blew up.. Spent more time with Sayaka.. Got to learn a bit more about the apocalypse... All in all I had a good life, well, that's just what I think."
"-"
"Oh! And your promise.. It's fine. Well, not really. I wanted to be the best.. The top of the top. I wanted to shine as bright as possible"
"Master, I-"
"But it's okay, it's fine and I forgive you. Because right now, I'm content with dying in this very moment."
Death was right behind them, approaching closer with every second, ready to swallow them up.
But Haro did not feel sad, he felt content. He got to become a trending streamer, he got to bask in the spotlight, he was able to shine. Even though he wished he could've became some more than his current self he believed that if he died, it wasn't as a weakling.
One centipede leaped into the sky and came crashing down, about to consume them whole when.
Stream Notification:
User - Sayaka
Contract of Power - Hecate, God of Witchcraft
Activated - true
The centipede that leaped forward had exploded, raining blood onto Haro and Sonya. When they looked up they saw Sayaka suspended mid air, sitting on a broom..?
"No way.."
In one hand she wielded a stick that had a mystical orb on the end, it was a staff. Her clothing had changed drastically too, she now wore black skirt with a black soft fabric shirt that was just a little bit baggy, the sleeved were long so he arms did not fully fit into them with the end of the sleeves sticking a little bit out. Her most distinctive new feature though was the big witch's hat that now sat on top of her pretty hair.
"I'm sorry for taking too long! I was figuring out this power!"
'-. YOU'RE ALIVE?!"
Haro started grinning gleefully at Sayaka's appearance but Sonya was more shaken up than happy.
"I thought she flipping died?!?!?"
"Nope! Turns out I got a guardian angel!"
One centipede came flying at her, ready to kill her a second time.
"Hyah!"
With one flick of the wand it was completely blown away.
"Guardian angel?!?"
"Yeppers!"
She stuck her tongue out playfully.
"When I was in that big monster's belly, a little chibi girl appeared in my palm and now I got powers!"
She faced away from the centipede to keep talking to Haro and with her right hand she just swung the staff around killing off all the incoming Centipedes with ease.
"Sayaka! Sayaka!"
"Yeah?!"
He shot an even bigger grin at her.
"Did the little chibi mention a Contract!?"
"Yeah, how'd you know!?"
He chuckled and then winked at her.
"It's good to have you back! Lets mess these monsters up!"