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Chapter 9 - Chapter 9 The execution

Ten men held Takeru, one of them cuffed him, and the others cuffed his legs and chained both the cuffs together.

Two men then held him, escorting him to the execution center, and the eight others pointed their spears at his face while going to the execution center.

'This feels awfully familiar.' Takeru wondered.

'Oh! I remember it felt like when a prisoner was being escorted to the execution center.' He finally remembered, but the expression on his face quickly changed when he realized.

'Wait, what!!! Escorted to the execution center! Shit!'

"Hey where're we going?!!" Takeru panicking asked.

"Shut up, Devil! You have no right to speak!" One of the men harshly responded.

"I just wanna know where you're taking me!"

"If you must know, then fine, you're going to be executed in front of everybody in the Kingdom.

"What!!!" Takeru almost peed his pants, his legs trembling and his heartbeat at its highest rate. At that rate, he was gonna die out of fear before they could execute him.

For a moment, he stopped walking. He just stood still, thinking, thinking about what to do now.

In an instant, he thought of a thousand plans, but all of them ended with him still getting executed.

"Hey! Continue moving!" One of the men said.

Takeru took one step forward and stopped moving entirely.

"Hey! Why'd you stop again?!!" Another one was pissed and asked.

"Would you gladly walk to your own execution?!!! Now shut up!!" He shouted but then.

BANG!! One of them hit him with the flat of the spear.

"You piece of trash, shut up and walk. Otherwise, I'll drag you to the execution center." The men said his aura was dark and intimidating.

Takeru forcefully went with them, he knew that there was nothing he could try.

After walking through a couple of passages, one of the men opened a door, and a brilliant light shone through his eyes, so brilliant that he had to turn them away.

"Let's go, Devil boy." They said as they walked into the execution center.

Takeru took one step closer to the center and saw his life flashing before his eyes.

He stopped in his tracks, not wanting to take the next step.

"Hey you move.." Takeru hit one of the guards with his elbow and cracked his jaw.

"The Devil's incarnate is trying to escape!!"

Eight of the nine standing men attacked him.

'I'm not dying until I get an answer from Alika, I no longer care about seeing this trashy world!' Takeru thought.

One of the men swung his spear to attack, but Takeru took advantage and used the attack to cut the gand cuffs alongside the leg cuffs all at the same time.

The others unleashed their attacks, but Takeru was able to dodge them. Although he was injured, in pain, and hungry, his desire kept him moving forward.

He spin-kicked two of them, and he ran away to the opposite passage from the one he came from.

"He's getting away!" They shouted and chased after him.

Takeru ran with all his might and did not look back, but then a bolt of lightning hit him and paralyzed his body, unable to move.

'What.. was that?" He wondered.

"I told you, didn't I, you idiot, I told you that if you try anything stupid, I'll drag you to the execution center." The guard said as he picked him up and went with him to the execution.

It was like an Arena, each part of it was guarded by strong men, and in the middle was the Stocks and Pillories[Metal devices with holes for hands, feet, and head to restrain prisoners for public humiliation], and bear to it was the beheading block.[A block with a giant axe hanging with a rope tied to the beheading block waiting to be cut and behead the prisoner.

The men grabbed Takeru and placed his head, hands, and feet inside the Stockand Pillories.

Boooooooo!!! The fairies shouted, showing him how truly unwelcome he was.

With a single raise of the Queen's hand, everybody went quiet and stopped the boing.

She stood up from her seat and spoke.

"Devil's incarnate you have tried to invade the kingdom, deceive us all with your looks, manipulate one of our own who is still being cured, and for these sins you shall be executed right here. What are your final words?" The queen asked.

Takeru just kept quiet, his eyes searching, searching for Alika, but she wasn't there.

"So you have no final words, Executioner please take the stage." The queen went back to her seat.

A masked man wearing full body armor, carrying a sword called the execution blade, appeared. He walked towards the beheading block, awaiting her majesty's order.

The queen slowly raised her hand, and if it reached a 90⁰ angle, that meant the executioner could cut the rope and kill Takeru.

"Be gone, Devil's incarnate." The queen said as she gave the order.

"You know what!! Go fuck yourselves you motherfucking bitcheeeesss!!!!!" Takeru shouted and pointed at them with his middle fingers.

Swing!! The executioner cut the rope and the axe fell on Takeru.

'It's over, finally.' Takeru thought.

"Hey me… did we have a good run?" A familiar voice asked.

Takeru lifted his head to look and he saw himself but at the age of 7, back when his mother was still alive.

"Huh, where am I?" He asked as he looked around in an empty white space.

"It's our self-conscious." The younger Takeru responded.

"And who are you?" The older one asked.

"I'm you but from back when we were seven years ago, back when mom was still alive." The younger one explained.

The older Takeru sat down and remained quiet.

"I asked a question, you know. Did we have a good run?"

The older Takeru looked around his young and innocent self, not knowing what to say, not knowing how to say it.

He gathered up all the strength he had and said it;

"We, we died." He said.

The younger him lost all the words he had, but he still had one thing to say.

"You know it's kinda funny. We died at the hands of the creatures we loved, and we died when we finally got our dream adventure, you're a pathetic sight to see."

"You don't understand anything so shut up, you're just a kid version of me, most of all you're from back when we still had mom so shut up! You don't know anything." The older Takeru snapped at his younger self.

"Did mom raise you like this?" The younger Takeru asked.

A gasp escaped the older Takeru's mouth, he paused and went deep into thought.

"Did mom raise you to give up so quickly?" The younger one asked another question.

"You're… you're right, mom didn't raise me to be like this, but she's not here." Tears fell to the ground.

"Mom may not be here, but I am and I'm going to help you. I'll help you to eliminate them all, all those in the Fairy Kingdom who treated you like shit just because you're different," The younger Takeru offered his hand.

The older Takeru remained crying and just ignored the younger Takeru's hand.

"If I've learned anything, it's that both the human world and this place are just one in the same, so if they won't let us see the beauty of this world then we'll show them hell, together! Now take my hand and unleash hell upon this world!" The younger Takeru glowed with a dark aura as he offered his hand again.

The older Takeru looked at his younger version, and he responded.

"Show them hell. Show them hell. I will show them what hell truly looks like!!!!!!" He took the hand offered to him, and he was covered with the dark aura, and it consumed him.

His eyes suddenly opened right after the rope had been cut, and suddenly, his eyes became dark.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" He unleashed a devastating amount of mana with a single scream and all of his reasoning vanished, it was as if he was the embodiment of destruction.

The axe, the beheading block, and the stock and Pillories were all destroyed.

"What's going on?!!" "I don't know!!" The people, the guards, and the queen wondered.

"The devil's incarnate has shown who he truly is, killed him!" Somebody from the audience shouted.

The guards took out their weapons and prepared themselves to fight, but then Takeru activated his magic which shocked everyone.

Light magic: Light beam

Light magic condensed together into a single beam of light which he shot at the queen.

The queen was shocked by Takeru using light magic, so much so that she couldn't react until too late.

BOOM! The shot directly hit her, and she fell to the ground. She was brutally injured, and her blood dripped from her body, painting the ground red .

"Your Highness!!!!" The guards screamed.

"You bastard dieeeeee!!!!" The guard who shot him with a bolt of thunder attacked.

He swinged his spear, but Takeru grabbed by it by his hand and broke it, then he punched him;

BOOOM! He landed to where the people were sitting and he lost consciousness.

The people gasped in fear, their feet shaked, and they all paused.

"What are you idiots doing? Start evacuating!" A guard shouted, and the faries spread their wings and flied away.

All the guards attacked Takeru, all of them trying to cut him down, but he was blocking their attacks while countering with his own.

Light magic: Light particle bullets

Takeru used his magic and dispersed a light beam into nothingness, which is what it looked like to the humans or fairy's eyes, but the blast had been turned into small bullets of particles.

In an instant, blood splashed everywhere as the bullets shot through all the guards' bodies.

Light magic: Light arrows of the end

Beams of arrows were shot everywhere, fatally injuring a lot of people and decimating the whole execution center.

Takeru's rampage carried on with nobody being able to stop him, and almost all of the guards were down for the count. The execution center was painted anew with the blood of the guards and the citizens.

All hope was lost until

"Takeruuuu!" Alika shouted from the entrance of the execution center standing with Ana.

Ana placed her hands on her mouth, and she heavily breathed.

"Takeru, what are you doing?!!" Alika shouted as she walked towards him.

"You! What are you doing here?!!!" Takeru asked with a deep voice.

"I know this isn't you, Takeru, so please calm down and let's talk." She said.

"You don't know me, so shut up!!"

"You're right, i don't know you, but i know that this isn't you, so please stop this madness, Takeru, look at all these injured people, is this what you really want?" She asked, walking closer and closer.

"This wouldn't have happened if you hadn't left me to begin with!!!!"

"Don't you think I know that, I know this is my fault, so please punish me, not them, I just… I just want the old you back, so please come back to me." Alika's tears fell to the ground, and she opened up her arms.

Light magic: Light Arrow

Takeru used his magical and created a big arrow of light.

"Alika die!!!" He shot the arrow straight at her, but Alika did not move out of the way.

Stab!!! The arrows pierced her chest, and she spat out blood.

"Alikaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!" Takeru snapped out of his berserk form and ran to her.

He grabbed her and held her in his arms.

"Idiot, why didn't you dodge?" He asked, his tears falling one after the other.

"I… I'm glad… you're back to normal." She replied before she lost consciousness.

"Alika, come on, Alika, wake up! Wake up! You can't leave me here! Alikaaaa!!!" Takeru cried.

"Man, I leave for just one week and look at what happens." A dark figure stood in front of Takeru, and in an instant, he was knocked unconscious.

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