User:Sirin of the Void/Ep5-7

 LOTM: Sword of Kings  Saga AA - Season 2   LOTM: Eckidina Arc

 LOTM: Sword of Kings AA 2nd Season - The Purge   Unit CM 130 Sub Arc - Episode 10   15th Episode of Season 2   29th Episode of the overall LOTM: Sword of Kings story 



 Previous Season: LOTM: Sword of Kings AA - Raizen School Arc   Previous Episode: LOTM: Sword of Kings AA 2nd Season - Judgement Day

 Previous Spin-Off: LOTM: Sword of Kings Spin-Off - Rise of the Blue Haired Heroine 

 Previous Spinoff Episode: LOTM: Sword of Kings: Rise of the Blue Haired Heroine - Liberty City War Arc - We Are Heroes (Final) 

 Previous Special: LOTM: Sword of Kings Special - KK Murder Case 

 Previous Storyline: LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow & Sword of Kings Crossover - The Corbin Files 

"We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome."

- Isabel Allende



' Not recommended for people under 18-years old. Gore images, obscene language, sexual content and brutal violence. You have been warned. We are not responsible for any negative reaction. '

Previously in LOTM: Sword of Kings...


''That creature known as Lilith appears to be a vaguely-formed roughly sized humanoid upper torso with blubbery white flesh, of non-distinct gender. Lilith has no legs or hips, its torso terminating in blobby masses with dozens of humanoid-sized pairs of legs growing out of them. Lilith is kept restrained in the most deep pit of Earth, crucified onto a giant red cross: large nails are driven through its palms into the cross from which it hangs. Lilith has five fingers on each hand (just like a human). Lilith remains totally immobile and unreactive, simply hanging limp on the cross it's nailed to and unresponsive to events around it.''

''Perhaps Lilith's most distinctive feature is the purple mask which covers its face. Lilith has seven eyes arranged in two vertical rows on its face, three on the right and four on the left, and the mask contains holes for each of the eyes. Etched onto the mask is a pointed-downwards triangle which intersects all of the eyes (except for the lowest eye on the left).''

''- Leonardo: Look at her. So glorious and majestic. Low scums like Eckidina KnightWalker, Astaroth Queen and Michael Langdon are not allowed to witness such beauty. This is our dream, our long dearest-wish and our victory: PEACE!''

''Leonardo and Anderson rose their head and met their eyes with Lilith's... ''

''Despite that thing was alive somehow even after having that strange spear sticked in her chest, it was not moving at all. More importantly, it was not breathing, meaning it didn't need to breath to live. ''

''Aside from its, or "her" breath, the creature known as Lilith was not moving at all. Not even its eyes were moving inside of that mask of bones. Until now, that creature's origin is unknown... But one thing is certain:''

' That creature is not from Earth... Worse... It came from a place very far away... Very far away... From another dimension... And Iscariot is planning to use its power against Qliphoth--But here is question? Ratatoskr. Revelation of Qliphoth. Iscariot Section XIII. Deus.Ex.Machina Industries Empire. Manufacturing Progressive Sciences. New World Order. Can anyone win this war? '

- Nurse: Boss... ​​​

''Suddenly, another nurse entered in the room where CM was watching the human experiment. The nurse was speaking in a very awkward way... obviously she was afraid of CM's wrath.''

- CM: What's it?

The nurse took a deep breath and put both of her hands in her belly.

- Nurse: You have a visit--!

''Out of nowhere, another person entered in the room, pushing the nurse on the floor with their height. It was a very tall woman. She was shown to have long curly dark red hair and fox-like icy blue eyes. She was wearing a black military uniform similar to the MPS' officers.''

''That was giving all people on the other side of the room shake like if she was some kind of mobile fear. The atmosphere that woman was carrying with her.''

''- (???): It's been a long time, doctor. 23 years now? I heard about your death in your death camp almost 2 decades ago... only to discover you're back again in this isolated planet of the 0th Multi-Universe. ''

''CM removed his gloves and let out a satisfied smile. He seemed very familiar with that person. Judging by her words, it seems she is also related to that mysterious DEM Empire Kotori mentioned several times before. The same organization that is behind the World War III.''

- CM: Good to have you back, Jessica Bailey, my strongest mercenary.

''Praised by CM, Jessica happily smiled as six women entered in the room, all of them wearing the same military uniform of Jessica. From CM's words, Jessica is in fact a mercenary... an ALIEN mercenary that came from another dimension. ''

''Kotori Itsuka said several times DEM Empire is one of the largest human-made empires of existence, having trillions and trillions of contacts. If the DEM had mercenaries working for them that wouldn't be a surprise.''

''- Jessica: Well, I see you are in good mood now for you to praise me like that! It's a honor to see you again so happy for the first time.''

''- CM: If I had to say, I just had success in one of the main experiments... soon the Gigalomaniac Project will begin and I'll be free from this rock they call "Earth".''

The women behind Jessica saluted to CM, which caused him to lift the sides of his lips in satisfaction.

''- CM: It seems the whole team is here. I didn't call you here for a simple greeting, Jessica. I want you to make a work for me. This time, your target will not be a mere person. It will be demonic beings.''

Jessica sharpened her eyes.

''- Jessica: Demonic beings? Triggers Hell?''

''Triggers Hell... an even more powerful empire that rules over Hell.'' '' - CM: Yeah... the Fallen's Essence informed me they are planning to revive someone very soon. This someone will be a danger for our plans. Obviously... you'll deal with them. ''

''- Matt: Kuk! What are y--?!''

''Matt, whose collar had been suddenly pulled by Maria, began to argue but then he looked at the spot where they were standing before and stopped talking. ''



''The reason was simple. The spot where they were standing earlier was exploded and the whole part of the abandoned building fell like if an earthquake shook the building.''

- Maria: Huh?!

''Next to the crater, they saw a female figure. She was just as tall as Maria. She was... just too similar to Maria but one could say she looked... sad.''

''She was a very beautiful and attractive young woman, being almost doll-like in appearance, with light-blue eyes, a fair complexion, and a slender frame. She has waist-length golden hair with locks that frame her face. She was wearing some kind of battle dress that turned out to be very similar to Maria's standard outfit.''

''- Matt: Maria?! What are y--! No, wait! Eh? Why are you there?! When you're here with me?! The hell?!''

''Maria sharpened her gaze in wrath, angered by the fact that woman almost looked like a clone of her. It was conscidence? A trick of fate? It was too soon to tell the truth. But one thing was certain: that woman was the person who tried to kill them, she was not there standing for nothing.''

- Maria: That's not me!

''Matt stood up and the two duo gazed at the unknown woman with hostility. That woman was Artemishia Valgorion, the 4th Strongest Cyborg of the world behind Eckidina KnightWalker, Imperia Deamonne and Atala Arck. A formidable enemy.''

''- Artemishia: The special forces and the rest failed in the end. Well, that's okay, it's within expectations. I was not really expecting the droid army could find you two. Neverthless, I was not expecting for you to steal our Hysteria CR-Unit. Do you know in what you're touching?''

''Artemishia had a very soft, sad and timid voice. It was like if she was suffering. Struggling. Trying to stand up after losing something important. Her voice was similar to a depressive gothic girl. Her eyes were beautiful but the way how they gazed at the duo caused them to look dead... empty.''

''While narrowing her deep green rust eyes, that girl said that with a quiet tone. Matt gasped. ''

''- Maria: ............. Who are you?''

Maria avoided to speak with the enemy.

''- Artemishia: My name is Artemishia Valgorion, the 4th Horsemen of John from the KnightWalker Family. Currently the chief of state police of Paris. Have you ever heard about that is rude to ignore people? I asked you if you know what you're wearing. It's property of Manufacturing Progressive Sciences and a project our director couldn't finish 20 years ago until his arrival on Earth. He took decades to finish this. Please, give it back.''

''It was rather surprising this woman was not hostile or aggressive. She was relaxed, calm and speaking with two like if they were clients in a store. The way she spoke was like if she was trying to be polite and kind, almost like a psychologist. Even so, the only thing Maria and Matt were thinking is how troubled they are... if she was telling the truth about her being the 4th strongest Cyborg of the world, they are in trouble.''



''- Maria: Matt... On my signal.''

Maybe Matt was too distracted with the girl's beauty and took  him a while to listen to Maria's command.

''- Artemishia: I'll tell you what you're wearing. This is the CR-UNIT EM-CBX001 Hysterica, a CR-Unit that had its projecte--!''

- Maria: NOW!!!

''Maria quickly launched a lance of fire at the Cyborg while Matt followed the lance's direction. Without effort, Artemishia slapped the lance away, creating a fire curtain. When the fire was wiped out, Matt was right in front of Artemishia with his sword ready to pierce her heart, however, much to his despair, Artemishia held his blade and quickly broke it before creating some kind of shield that pushed Matt away back to where Maria was standing.''

''Seeing the two were not being "kind", Artemishia let out a sign and her beautiful skin changed to something metalic. The nano-machines inside of her body began to cover her body and disappeared one by one, revealing her true Cyborg form.''

Suddenly...

''- Artemishia: ........ A CR-Unit that had its projected designed back 24 years ago but due to some problems the director couldn't finish the project until last week where he finally finished the projected by ripping out essence of Spirits like you to kill immortal beings like demons and angels... of course, Gods included...''

''Maria sharpened her gaze... she has a very short temper when it comes to enemies who understimate her.''

- Maria: Are you mocking me?

''Maria charged at Artemishia with her fists charged with fire energy. It was almost like if her hands had became spheres of fire. When she punched Artemishia in her chest, the whole floor of the building shook and exploded in a explosion of impact. Maria kept her fists jammed on Artemishia's chest, only to discover she was just there... standing like if nothing had happened.''

- Maria (think): *This is the durability of a Horsemen of John?*

Artemishia then rose her fist and slapped her on the right side of her face, sending her away from the building and hitting the street below with brutality.

- Matt: MARIA!

''Artemishia continued staring at where the duo were standing before as Matt jumped off of the building and ran to where Maria was lying. She was lying in the middle of a crater, with many civilians looking at the duo with fear and curiosity.''

''Maria grabbed Matt's hand and stood up... the state of the Spirit Guide was not good. It's been a long time since Maria was hurt that badly... Most importantly, she cannot be harmed by human weapons, but Artemishia somehow managed to wound her physical body.''

''- Maria (think): *What in the world was that? This strength was way superior to Carl and FOLIE... The only way to cause real damage on me is to be merged with dark demonic energy or having an energy similar of another Spirit Guide, Angel or demon... That was Magi-Tech? No. It was too pure.*''

''Artemishia jumped off of the building and landed 10 meters away from Maria... just then several patrol of droids arrived and stood behind Artemishia. It seems the chaos brought them to their locations.''

''Matt threw his sword on the midair and grabbed it when it fall in his hands, now powered-up with magic energy. It was a spell to increase strength of his blades, a simple magic attack Yuri Barnes taught him.''



- Matt: Maria... we can't die out here when we have the plans of MPS. Do you think they know by now?

Maria summoned her Magi-tech whip and used her spiritual force to heal her wounds.

''- Maria: I don't think so... But this is bad. ''

The civilians then ran when more droids arrived, of course they are terrified of the vicious droid army of MPS. Any normal soul would fear the special forces of MPS.

''- Artemishia: Where was I? Oh yes... This CR-Unit was made with the purpose of--''

''Before Artemishia could continue, a portal appeared behind Maria and Matt, and a sphere of purple magical energy left from the portal and passed by the two before hitting the ground in front of Artemishia. When it fell on the ground, a purple shield of energy begun to surround Artemishia and her forces... behind them, they saw Yuri Barnes holding another sphere of purple shield.''

- Matt: Yuri!

- Maria: Just in time!

''Yuri let out a cocky smile as he gazed at Artemishia and her army stuck inside of the shield. Artemishia twisted her head and crossed her arms as the droids aimed their weapons at Yuri, but even if they shoot at Yuri, it would be in vain as the barrier would block their bullets.''



''- Artemishia: Yuri Barnes. SS+ Classified Terrorist of the Catholic Rebels and heretic priest from a cult of magic parasites. I thought you were dead.''

''Yuri blinked to Matt and Maria, saying to them to enter in the portal and leave before it's too late. With this mess, there is no doubt more Cyborgs are coming and if that happens, not even Yuri Barnes can escape alive.''

''- Yuri: I see my reputation proceeds me. I've got to thank Michael Langdon for that. I guess breaking and burning military bases of Vatican made me famous, huh, Maria?''

Yuri said that in comical way, causing Maria to look away in disgust and disappearing in the portal alongside Matt.

''- Artemishia: It's too bad the two fugitives escaped but it seems I still can redeem myself by capturing you. ''

''Artemishia prepared her sword to break the shield. Yuri  opened his mouth while glaring back at her with a sight filled with nervousness. ''

''- Yuri: Is it really okay, Artemishia? Your comrades are out of the count... I mean... your droids cannot harm me so it's basically a one-against-one fight. And you're stuck inside of my barrier.''

''- Artemishia: Not need to worry about me. I did not count them in the numbers in the first place anyway. And I can easily destroy this barrier just like I slaughtered your cult before.''

''Sweat could be seen flowing down Yuri's cheeks from Artemishia's words. It seems Artemishia and Yuri share a history together but it was dark enough to make Yuri feel nervous.''

''- Yuri: Unfortunely, I have no intentions to fight you in enemy territory so I'll take my leave. Also, I'm not into hitting girls. ''

''Yuri then turned around and entered the portal in a sarcastic way. Of course he never had intentions to fight despite his provocations. Seeing her enemy leaving, Artemishia returned to her normal human form, putting a pair of gloves on her hands.''

''After returning to her human form, Artemishia slapped the barrier Yuri summoned, destroying it with a single hand, showing how powerful she is and why Yuri felt nervous when he saw her. From the beginning, that barrier was not even a problem for Artemishia.''

''- Artemishia: They escaped... Unit-CM 130 will not be pleased by this. ''

''The droid units behind Artemishia walked away, returning to their normal programming of patrolling like if nothing had happened. The buildings destroyed and hundreds of civilians' corpses on the streets were just left there to rot... True, it was just a normal day in Paris.'' ​​​​

- Crow: I was waiting for you.

''However, speaking is easier than doing. If he was a normal person, a mere civilian, a mediocre human being, it would be an easy task but the thing is Unit-CM 130 is a powerful person. Not powerful in combat but in influence, he has contacts and spies everywhere, so many you could say he has eyes everywhere. Not to mention, he is in Paris being guarded by thousands if not millions of security guards. In cases like this, when their firepower is not enough to destroy a single target that can disappear at any moment when the conspirators open fire, it requires one thing... assassins.''

''- (???): I had many things to do. And it wasn't boys.''

''Not mercenaries. Not spies. Not soldiers. Assassins. Silently like the night and mysterious like shadows. The Godom Empire has a military training center deep in the forests of their country, where they not only train their most hardcore royal bodyguards to protect the emperor but also their most deadly assassins. ''

This facility is controlled by the mysterious man who works for the Emperor, the Unknown Hooded Figure, as many would call him, but now you can call him Crow thanks to his doctor plague's mask.

- Crow: There are things you can't really train, huh.

''Crow is not just the person in charge of this place, he is also the trainer, a master of many skilled assassins. This is the primary fuction of Crow in Godom Empire: the training of amateur soldiers or orphans to transform them in the most skilled and deadly assassins of the world. One could call them ninjas from the Godom's history.''

''And the assassin speaking with Crow right now is Elsa Granhiert, the most deadly and dangerous female assassin of Crow's "academy". Elsa has long black hair tied into one tail on the left side along with eyes that droop, giving her a gentle aura. She wears a black dress and wields bent black swords from the northern lands of Godom. It's sure a busty woman who can cut you in half with effort.''

''- Elsa: So?~ How can my services be useful to you? If sleeping with you will make you forget your late wife...''

''Elsa is this kind of woman... people could say she is a... Thot, or a slut. She is a horny woman who is always teasing and hitting on men, including her master, Crow. Due to her close relationship with Crow, this woman is probably the only person who knows the true past of the mysterious Crow.''

''- Crow: Cut it off. We have important things to do.''

''His tone changed subtly, the corner of Crow's mouth started to twist. By summoning his deadliest assassin, there is just one thing he needs from her.''

''- Crow: It's time to execute the Operation 9. Our superiors and allies agreed we should use brutal force to deal with our... new friends. Kim, the Emperor and Hamdo finally came to the conclusion the director of Manufacturing Progressive Sciences needs to die. Not only the director is an amoral robot who backstab his own allies, claims what we built for years as his own property, ignores our requests, illegally sends his men and droids to take our war prisioners to his laboratories, kidnap politicians from our countries that are members of the party but are against his actions and uses them in human experiments to teach other rebels a lesson and even dares to shut down our military bases to use for his own purposes. I think the arrogant bastard must be being spoiled by the Master.''

''By Master, he means the Fallen's Essence. Crow and Elsa are one of the few people that knows about his existence outside of the KnightWalker Alliance's circle.''

''- Elsa: Wow. Wait? We are seriously going to act against that clanker?''

''- Crow: Oh. We are. The time has come to put an end to the MPS and take back what belongs to us. Due to the nature of this mission, the superiors decided we should use an assassin instead of a direct agent of our agencies. Why you ask? If the Master discovers we planned an assassination to take Unit-CM 130 down for our own purposes, he is going to kill ALL of us. So we need to be quiet and patient.''

Elsa put her hands on her hips.

''- Elsa: So let me guess, you want me to kill the clanker? ''

Crow nodded his head in satisfaction.

''- Crow: Exactly. The Master may know you but he CANNOT identity your work. Killing is your speciality and you know how cover up a murder to make it seems it was another person who did that. We will make Master believe Unit-CM 130 was killed by the Ratatoskr, for example. Use the name of your enemy to our advantage... to complete our revenge. And so we can finally be in peace and continue our activities as we take back what truly belonged to us, the genuine KnightWalker Alliance. ''

''- Yuri: It was a long trip. Are you okay?''

''Yuri asked as stepped out of the portal, only to see Maria and Matt seated on the floor like if they just finished a maraton. Indeed, there is one thing that many people get wrong: unlike other typical portals that literally create a hole in space and time, Yuri's portals are different.''

''The magical skills of Yuri are more advanced, that's a fact but his portals simply create a "shortcut" in space, reducing the distance between locations instead of immediatelly teleporting people to another location. Why that happens? While it's true that Instant-Portals are faster and more practical, they can be easily tracked down by other enemy mages and find the location of the person who used the portal to escape. ''

To prevent his enemies from locating the base of Arzonia in Spain, Yuri Barnes used this kind of portal.

''- Maria: Well... I guess... Thanks, Yuri. You arrived in the right time.''

As Maria  said this, she narrowed her eyes at the sight of Yuri carrying his book.

''- Matt: Who in the world was that? It's impossible that girl was a Cyborg!''

Yuri Barnes let out a sigh and waited for the two to recover their breath before he could explain what truly happened back there.

''- Yuri: I see you two got in trouble. So that means the message we received was a trap.''

''Maria shook her head soon after she stood up and returned to her composed natural behavior. Seeing a Spirit Guide in such state was a very strange sight to almost everyone who knows Maria. Actually, it was strange even for herself because technology and other man-made weapons are not effective against a race like the Spirit Guides that are astral beings that can only be harmed by magic.''

''- Maria: Not really, it was not a trap. It was a genuine important secret meeting. But... I admit it was ME who ruined the mission. In a sense.''

Like any girl trying to avoid the guilt of nailing the mission, Maria tried to make an innocent face but Matt was not convinced.

- Matt: Yuri, it turns out the person who sent that message was none other than Misogi Kumagawa, that scumbag who is almost like Eckidina KnightWalker's boyfriend.

''- Yuri: Misogi? As far as I know, the family that Misogi came from is affiliated to the KnightWalkers for centuries, and they are literally born to serve them. It's strange that Eckidina's right-hand called for you two... and it wasn't a trap. What happened there?''

Yuri put his hand in his chin as he saw Matt recovering his breath and standing up like a normal person.

''- Maria: It turns out... Misogi is desperate.''

Yuri gasped a little but not enough to be noticed by the two.

- Yuri: Desperate?

''- Maria: It's the Manufacturing Progressive Sciences again. They are slowly taking over the KnightWalker Family and are destroying everything Eckidina worked so hard to built in the organization. Like any dog, Misogi is not pleased and backstabbed the MPS by giving us their master plan.''

''Matt clenched his fists. As much he was pleased that Misogi was trying to defeat an even more vile organization than the KnightWalker Family, he can't simply forget how that man helped Eckidina KnightWalker to rise hell on Earth just so he could please his crush.''

- Matt: I should have killed him right there.

''Maria looked at Matt with the same expression... Misogi was involved in the Cyborg project that transformed Maria into a Cyborg when she was a human. There is no way she can forgive the people who caused her to feel such pain. Not Michael, not Eckidina, not Misogi and not even the scientists who did it to her.''

''- Maria: Me too, Matt. Me too. However, there are things much worse we should save our fury to. The MPS, it's more than clear our true enemy in this war was always the MPS and whoever is commanding that dirty group. Remember Akrak Couteau? She was merely a small piece in an even larger machine. To think there are many others like her makes me feel awkward.''

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''- Asuha (think): [We have to investigate the whereabouts of Qliphoth tomorrow... Even so, I feel strange. The sensors detected the Revelation of Qliphoth's fleet landed in some part of Rio and disappeared. But if they showed up in Rio, the people would have seen them somewhere. Unless they can not be visible to human eyes. There is no doubt they disappeared in Rio... but why they would come here?]''

''Asuha was dragged out of her thought when she heard sirens outside of the hotel. In 5 second, it was only one siren but after 15 seconds, more sirens could be heard. In a matter of seconds, more dozens of sirens could be heard. But they didn't go away, they all stopped right in front of the hotel. ''

''By the time she walked towards the window, the lights were reflecting on the white walls of the suite with red and blue. These colors belonged to the police cars parked outside of the hotel. It was only 3 or 5 cars, it were among 25 police cars.''

- Asuha: What is happening?



''Asuha looked at outside but her vision was blured by a helicopter that flew right next to the window with a highlight. At the time Asuha looked down, the place was filled with trucks, police cars, News vans and special forces vehicles.''

As if it was not enough, there were probably 5 helicopters and 4 space ships of the police flying around the hotel.

- Asuha: What in the world is happening here?!

Asuha yelled as she looked down with despair and confusion.

''The police of Rio is fast to act. Decades of crimes and brutal violence with the increase of criminal activity in Rio transformed the police of Rio into one of the most deadly and and well-equipped police forces of the world, even more so than the KnightWalkers' special police forces.''

''The military police force of Rio currently have the most advanced equipament of South America thanks to the connections of the national goverment with the Global Pact Defense that are sent monthly every year.  With that said, the police was fast enough to move a mobile and temporary central to coordinate the actions of the police in the hotel but not only that but they are also there to coordinate the snipers and ground forces around the hotel... Needless to say, the current Minister of Defense of Brazil, Felix Drake, which is revealed to be working with the Revelation of Qliphoth is directly involved with this division.''

- Police Officer 1: How is the situation inside?

''- Radio: [We evacuated the first and second floor. We just moved our forces to the third floor but there is no sight of any terrorist or suspects].''

A male voice came out of the radio inside of a tent where the commanders were operating just a few meters away of the hotel.

''- Police Officer 1: Roger that. Keep this channel informed. This is an order.''

''Inside of the tent, several men in black were looking at one of the operators in front of the radio. All of them had a nervous expressions on their faces as they gazed at the man in black suit seated on the other side of the tent. And next to him, there was another woman that was even more scarier than him.''

- Police Officer 2: Is it okay so far, Lord Asmodeus?

''- Asmodeus: Good. Good. Very good. Keep up with this good work, gentlemen... if you want to live for eternity as demons.''

''It was just normal for them to be nervous... because right in front of them, a legendary ancient evil was seated. He may look like a human but that person was indeed Asmodeus. A day ago, Asmodeus was summoned by the spies of Revelation of Qliphoth in Rio de Janeiro and gave him the body of Joaquim Batista, the Senator in the Supreme Court of Justice of Brasilia, one of the most important people in Brazil.''

''Asmodeus is a king of demons, mostly known from the deuterocanonical Book of Tobit, in which he is the primary antagonist. The demon is also mentioned in some Talmudic legends; for instance, in the story of the construction of the Temple of Solomon. He may look like a normal human but this devil is one not to be understimated.''

''- Asmodeus: Things will be easier than we expected. What do you think, Lady Vira?''

''Asmodeus stared at the woman beside him that was Vira. She maliciously licked her lips as she looked at the hotel and could sense Katarina's presence.''



'' - Vira: Everything is going as planned... Soon... Very soon. ''

Of course, information nowadays are immediately delivered to the entire planet easier than information was delivered back in 2016 with the power of media and internet.

''Even in France, a country that is being controlled by the KnightWalker Family for decades, has access to the news happening outside of the world. Even now, with the World War III wrecking havoc, the KnightWalker Family still have access to information coming from outside because media doesn't choose sides in a military conflict... at least international TV companies that are powerful enough to keep themselves neutral in the deadliest conflict of human history.''

- (???): Oh ho...

''Seated in her own personal office inside of KnightWalker Supreme HQ, Eckidina KnightWalker was watching a news via internet in her cellphone. No--it's wrong to say this girl is the "Eckidina KnightWalker" we all knew. Eckidina KnightWalker was a pure and dark psychopathic monster who lived only to cause mayhem and destruction so she could feel alive in a boring world where everyone was equal. ''

''However, this girl seated in the office that used to be Pyscho Eckidina's, is another clone of many Eckidinas. The Eckidina KnightWalker who caused the World War III for her own amusement is dead... she was drove to insanity after being betrayed by Michael Langdon in her partnership with the latter.''

'' After Psycho Eckidina committed suicide following her treason, this Eckidina, also known as "Otaku Eckidina", declared herself the new director of KnightWalker Family, replacing her old clone without the knowledge of anyone besides Misogi Kumagawa, Eckidina's butler and boyfriend. ''

''- Otaku Eckidina: Ooh... so the Rogues somehow got themselves into trouble without the need of me? It seems they are surrounded by the police force of Rio and are now exposed to the entire world as terrorists. Don't you think this is good, Senpai?''

''Eckidina looked at the dark and creepy entity standing up in front of the window of her office, gazing at the town with its dark and evil eyes... it was the Fallen's Essence, the mastermind behind all evil in this world... or a PART of it.''

''- The Fallen: [I am late... huh.]''

''The Fallen's Essence growled like an angry animal. But that was only normal because another greater evil is about to rise, something he can't stop.''

''- The Fallen: [There are many reasons why I wanted to destroy this world after consuming all souls of this planet... one of them is of course obtain unlimited power, immortality and superiority over my creator so I can kill him and take his place... but there was also another reason. In this universe, there is someone that even me, the Great Fallen, fears. And her name is Astaroth... I desired to end this whole world before she could rise... but it seems I failed. My long plans. Designs. Works. All of it was in vain... Eckidina.]''

The Fallen released his fists like if he was giving up.

''- Otaku Eckidina: What does it mean? This... "Astaroth" is related to incident happening in Brazil right now?''

This Eckidina knew exactly who was Astaroth but kept her mouth shut about her.

''- The Fallen: [I tried to end this world so I could also destroy Qliphoth with my own hands... but I failed. This world. My plans. You. Every single living being. Every human. Everything is over. Because right now, Astaroth is about to DEVOUR this world. And there is no one who can stop her...]''

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Party is over But I still wanted to dance The flame of passion, so strong I can't sleep - before I know it, one day.... I knew it from the start - one day the flame will go out Hey, I wasn't supposed to need anything But still, I'm so serious Ah, there's still time Ah, just Burn it up Baby Sorry darling, I'm not that sweet But surely I'm not that bad Give me fire Light it up Baby, we'll burn it up, yeah Yo! Thousands of years, an eternity, without changing A disposition truly beautiful, burn everything, Yaoya Oshichi* Step out, dance about, sparks! Building up a fire is your work Gasoline and steroids, the sight of them burning is - Bravo! I won't play with fire. I can't do a weak imitation Hard times, karma, trauma. Burning out, magma, drama This unquenchable thirst, like a blue flame Death is right next to the past. Soon, everything will become one Love is dying But it still hasn't gone out I want to try to forget That the flame of passion will, before I know it, some day... My body is realizing that one day, we'll disappear Youth is slowly melting away Don't cry. Why so serious? Ah, there's still time Ah, just Burn it up Baby Sorry darling, I'm not that sweet But surely I'm not that bad Give me fire Light it up Baby, we'll burn it up, yeah Turn it up... it's not enough Add fuel to the fire! Sorry darling Hurry up Ah, there's still time Sorry darling Hurry up Ah, just Burn it up Give me fire Light it up Baby, we'll burn it up, yeah Party is over But I still wanted to dance

Act 1 - Secrets of the Past
<p style="text-align:center;"> 20 years ago  <p style="text-align:center;"> 2016  <p style="text-align:center;"> Sleepy Hollow  <p style="text-align:center;"> National Cemetery  <p style="text-align:center;"> Five months after the end of Period of Tributations 

''It's been only 5 months since the battle for the fate of the world had ended. However, it felt like an eternity. No... to this day, Ichabod Crane had already forgot how many days passed since the final battle.''

- Ichabod: ......................

''Yes. This is a story that happened 22 years ago, before the Cold War II, before the Third World War. Actually, this is a story that happened years prior the birth of Katarina Couteau and La Folia Rihavein. It was the final days of Period of Tribulations. ''

"........................"

''Yes, five months ago the Period of Tributations had ended with a big battle. With the united forces of Team Witness and their allies, the wicked demon king Moloch was finally destroyed. Not only him but also all his children, allies and most of his subordinates who followed him. ''

''When Moloch and his United Kingdom of America were destroyed, the timeline the mad king twisted returned to normal. The modern Period of Tribulations spanned from 2013 to 2020, seven years in all, and brought billions of casualities. It was, to this day, the darkest decade in mankind's history to date. However, once Moloch's essence over the timeline was wiped out, the seven years of destruction and death he brought to the world had finally came to an end, returning the timeline back to 2014 and ending everything of evil and dark that he brought to reality for centuries... It was like, the world returned to a state where Moloch and all followers never existed.''

''Moloch's spirit was distorted and turned into a malevolent void of blackness that could never ever unleash his power or take actions. ''

''It was the ending... of everything. However, there is no happy endings in this world. In this war, they lost many great friends: Abbie Mills, Nick Hawley, Carl Robinson, Jenny Mills, August Corbin, Aerisi Kalinoth, Katrina Crane, Gar Shatterkeel, Martin Mint, Zoe Corinth, Mad Moiselle and Pandora. Dear friends. Dear comrades.''

''And right now, one of the survivors of this war, who fought to the very end to save what he truly embraced, Ichabod Crane, was standing in front of a grave in the National Cemetery of Sleepy Hollow. A young man wearing black clothes and black shoes.''

''He was standing there, like a ghost mourning for his family. And indeed, he was. Abbie Mills, his best friend and the only person who was there for him when he needed the most. She was the only person who supported him when he had nobody to help him. The only person who truly cared for him when he was a nobody. And the single soul that could be considered the true salvior of this world. Fighting for no reason besides the genuine desire to protect this world from the claws of Moloch and his minions.''

''There was no fireworks, no celebration, no parties. Nothing. The world was rescued from its imminent demise at the fires of hell, but no one besides those who fought to defend it would remember. ''

''For seven years, the world was plunged in the fires of hell, bringing waves and waves of corpses of men, women and children, plunging this world in blood and chaos. Yet, no one will ever remember it because, like aforementioned, that hellish timeline of the Period of Tribulations was erased from existence. Only those who directly fought the true villains, the monsters who created that world, will remember of all the agony and nightmares that reality brought to them. It was their burden to carry on these dark memories so no one will forget their bloody battles and efforts to bring the world back to its normal state.''

And they all vowed to themselves, to not forget the names of all the fallen comrades they lost.

''- Ichabod: Officer Abbie Mills... no, just Abbie. It would be odd for me to refer you as Abigail Mills. I'll retire myself from the war against the forces of darkness. I believe the new generation of the Order of Flourish will deal with any incoming threat from now on. Actually, I truly want to believe it's all over. I believe Moloch and all his followers are gone for good. But... I heard things in Europe are getting tough as the KnightWalker Family is starting their military campaign. I don't know for how long this peace will reign.''

''A breeze shook his straight black hair as the sun was being covered by dark clouds of rain. It was a depressive and sad day to visit a dear late friend.''

''- Ichabod: I just want to say... I... I... I want you to know that I am happy to be a part of your life. Just like you were there for me, helping me when all hope was lost. Even if you're gone, I know we will meet again. Someday. Somewhere. I'll always be here for you, Abbie. That's why I will leave Sleepy Hollow and travel across the world to know more about this era. Ever since I woke up in this century, I couldn't research or study about this new generation. I'll study more so one day I can help bring peace to this world in my own way. I believe peace is not impossible. The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ''

Ichabod stood up as he put a bouquet of flowers in front of the grave.

''- Ichabod: You were the only person I visited. I believe the others will return. Their death were not in vain. ''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

''Suddenly, Ichabod heard a breaking branch and immediately looked behind to see a tall young woman behind him. ''

''It was one of Ichabod's allies and former rival, Kristen Kiwifruit. She was wearing a large, white floppy beret with a red pom pom on top, a blue-white-and-red tartan scarf, white double-breasted jacket and belt over a navy blue dress, black socks, and white-and-red platform loafers. Her long slightly wavy blonde hair is streaked with blue, white, and red, and is pulled into a ponytail. She has swept bangs held in place with a small anchor hair ornament. Her rigging is suspended off her back, consisting of a deck-like platform carrying a mast and several cranes. Two ship-hull like platforms come along either side of her bearing two aircraft catapults apiece. Small turrets dangle from chains off of her jacket.''

No matter how he looked, Kristen was indeed a woman of style.

''- Kristen: I-It's not like I'm here to visit Abbie! You know!''

''Ichabod let out a bored expression and noticed a bouquet of flowers in her back. She was trying to hide it from him... and he was not expecting her to be such shy person.''

''- Kristen: This is... you know... to plant in the soil of this cemetery!''

''- Ichabod: You bring flowers to plant in the cemetery? That's one bad taste you have there.''

''Ichabod knew she was lying but gave her a sarcastic answer. Even so, it was in a playful tone, it was so obvious that even Kristen noticed that. ''

''- Kristen: I was lying... I am bad at it.''

''- Ichabod: Well, no need to feel ashamed. There is nothing to be ashamed in times like these. Where are the others? I mean... Selina, Helene, Calvin...''

''Kristen walked towards Ichabod and put her bouquet of flowers on Abbie's grave. With a gentle smile, she put her hands together and started to pray.''

''- Kristen: Selina visited this place 5 days ago to give her prays. She will be busy for a while now. Since Wiseman is gone and the organization of the Order is crumbled in ruins, Selina will be busy fixing all the damage caused by Phyllis Peach. Selina, Calvin and Diana Thomas are currently working overnight to clean up all articles related to Order of Flourish and all leaked informations of it by the ignorance of some of their members. The Order of Flourish will start all over again, with a better and lighty leadership. Selina is determinated to give her life for this town and to protect its people from the outside world. Recently, I heard news the Global Pact Defense is sending ambassadors to our doors to report the situation of this town to the White House. Recently, reports of serial murders and spree killing were leaked to the US government. And they are not pleased with the police's perfomance in these crimes. I blame the La Glóton for these cases. ''

''She was not lying. Ever since its foundation, the Order of Flourish and its leaders overlooked everything inside, developing itself and gathering new members. They acted like the defenders of Sleepy Hollow for centuries from the forces of Moloch. Their purpose was to keep order and peace within the entire Sleepy Hollow after the apparent disbanding of the Sisterhood of Radiant Heart, which were the former defenders of this town. However, the organization was corrupted from inside and heartless monsters joined their ranks, corrupting their ideology, moral and ethic values. After its development for more than two centuries, the Order of Flourish had connections everywhere in Sleepy Hollow, including police, FBI agents and even other citizens. ''

''All people in the town were doing the Order's bidding, although some of them were not even aware of it. However, the darkest secret within the Order, that not even some of the Top Exclusives knew, was that the entire Order of Flourish had already fell into the hands of Michael Langdon via the help of its traitor, Phyllis Peach, as the latter deceived many of the members and showed her true loyalty only towards Moloch himself, trying to corrupt and destroy the Order from inside to outside. This corruption opened path to the Period of Tribulations.''

''However, now that Moloch is gone and so its former leadership, Selina took over and abandoned the wrong path that the Order went on, and she moved on to a new way and made the Order benevolent again, building a new secret organization using peaceful methods with no more bloodshed. Since then, the Order formed a tight partnership with Ichabod Crane, who was once considered as a rival to the Order itself. However, Ichabod is rarely involved with them as his fight was already over. Now, he only wants do one thing: explore the world.''

''- Ichabod: I see. I still regret for calling Selina a wicked person in the past. I guess I was just blind to not see the good and light inside of people's hearts. After fighting in darkness for so long, I forgot that people not all people were corrupted because they wanted. Selina was... a child trying to escape from the abyss she was forced to jump in. I'm sure Selina will put the organization back to its rightful path. She is a woman of determination, courage, bravure and strength. ''

".............................."

Kristen then continued, now mentioning Helene Hawthorn, one of the Middle-ranked members the Order of Flourish that suffered the most in the hands of Phylls Peach.

''- Kristen: Helene is planning to leave Sleepy Hollow in a soon future with her circus. She is dreaming about giving laugh and joy to the world. Actually, she is planning to transfer her circus to countried ravaged by civil wars so she can bring at least one small piece of happiness to those who lost everything. She is going to move to Europe soon... because of that scumbag KnightWalker director started to invade neighboring countries. When we thought the world was finally going to have peace, in the very end, mankind still the greatest enemy of mankind.''

''Helene desired to protect this town and bring joy to all its people. But now, after all corruption is gone, she now desires to bring happiness to the entire world in her own way. Alongside her lovers and friends, Helene will soon leave Sleepy Hollow, to never return. Her home was safe. The town she lived her entire life was secure, and she knew she had benevolent people taking care of this beautiful town she grew up to admire. Its mysteries, secrets, culture, history... it was a masterpiece.''

"........................"

''- Ichabod: I see... so everyone is going to part ways, everyone is going to follow their own path to find their happiness and live in peace. The old generation of the Order is now ending. With Selina's leadership, a new era is coming to this town. Even if a new war is about to break out, this place will finally be lelft alone. All people living in it can spend the rest of their alives in security from the forces of hell.''

''Ichabod and Kristen gazed at town around them. They saw children laughing, playing, elderly opening their stories, police officers shaking hands with some civilians... it was good and peaceful.''

- Kristen: Indeed.

''Kristen stood up but suddenly she lost balance and almost fell. Luckily, Ichabod managed to grab her arms and put her back on her feet.''

- Ichabod: Hey, are you okay?

Kristen recovered her balance and put her hands in her stomach.

''- Kristen: Y-Yes... I just... Ahh...''

From her expression, moves and imbalance, Ichabod could tell what was happening.

''- Ichabod: Kristen... you're pregnant?''

''Suddenly, a familiar figure came out of behind a tree and walked toward Kristen and Ichabod. It was indeed Kristen's husband, Crow Faux.''

''- Kristen: Hmm... Maybe.''

''- Crow: This is why I said for you to wait at home. We have to go. ''

''Crow was emotionless but he was still a kind and warm person. Even if Crow and Ichabod are not really friendly to each other, they respect themselves with honor. ''

- Crow: Good to see you again, Ichabod.

''- Ichabod: Likewise, Crow. ''

''Before the two begun to leave, Kristen stopped walking and turned her head around to speak to Ichabod again before leaving. Her smile showed she was excited about something.''

- Kristen: Ichabod, what are you going to do now since our war is over?

''Ichabod smiled because he already knew the answer of that question. It wasn't something so difficult to answer. Years ago, when he joined the military, he could not find an answer when someone asked that to him. He spent so many years of his life serving the army and fighting against Moloch and his forces that he already forgot what he was going to do to his life if he won.''

''- Ichabod: I will do just like the others. I will find my own happiness and travel across the world to learn more about this world. All countries, all religions, all languages, all cultures, all history... everything. I want to know more about this era and what happened since the year I fell in a long sleep. What I lost? What I couldn't see? After thinking for so long, I'm greatful I could sleep for centuries and wake up in this era... because... if I died back then, when the Horsemen of Death sliced my chest... I would not have met wonderful people like you, Abbie, Irving, Molly, Lara, Sister Mary Eunice, Diana, Betsy, Katarina, La Folia... and everyone else.''

Kristen let out a soft smile and left alongside Crow without saying a word.

- Kristen (think): *So you already decided your fate.*

''Ichabod gazed at the two leaving the cemetery until they disappeared on the trees of the long cemetery. When they left, Ichabod returned his attention to Abbie's grave and spoke to her again as he stared at the beautiful scenario kilometers in front of him.''

''- Ichabod: I'll leave this town tonight. Under normal circumstances I would visit the graves of everyone who lost their lives in this war. But I noticed something. Their will and memories all live in me, guiding me to the truth, justice and light I wished to have for so long. Everyone, including my only love, Katrina. My life was full of miserable memories of pain and agony. But at the moment I woke up in this era, I met so many people I could call friends. Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness, they supported me in my battle. They were the first to accept me for who I am. They’re my friends. And you were the first person to believe in me.''

Ichabod slowly walked away.

- Ichabod: Goodbye, my friend.

''Ichabod walked for almost 3 hours to finally arrive at the roadway that lead to outside of the town. In his right hand, there was a luggage with all his clothes, weapons, equipaments and books to explore the world.''

<p style="text-align:center;">' Meanwhile...  <p style="text-align:center;"> Arlington County ' <p style="text-align:center;"> Virginia  <p style="text-align:center;"> Pentagon  <p style="text-align:center;"> Office of Meeting 

''It's been only 5 months since the war for the fate of the world had ended with the defeat of Michael Langdon, Moloch and all Zodiac Demons. But peace... peace is never in the reach. Because this is the real world, such terms does not exist in this world of guilty and sins.''

''The Pentagon... The Pentagon is the headquarters building of the United States Department of Defense. As a symbol of the U.S. military, the phrase The Pentagon is also often used as a metonym for the Department of Defense and its leadership. ''

''Located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., the building was designed by American architect George Bergstrom and built by contractor John McShain. Ground was broken on September 11, 1941, and the building was dedicated on January 15, 1943. General Brehon Somervell provided the major motivating power behind the project; Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army.''

''Inside of the Pentagon, something was on the move. A big conspiracy behind the shadows of American society. The war was over in Sleepy Hollow but the scars were increasing and moving to other parts of the continent. ''

- (???): I see everyone is gathered here today.

''The aftermatch of the Period of Tribulations continued to burn the world for decades even if no one could actually remember this deadly event. And this scar could be felt by 10 people inside of a meeting office inside of the Pentagon.''

''Standing in front of all the 10 Generals of US Army and Global Pact Defense, a man with a creepy atmosphere begun to speak to the elderly generals with a dark tone of voice. He was wearing a black suit and had his face covered by facial hair, giving the impression that man was a veteran in some field of society. Business? Military? No one knew what was happening, the only the generals knew that man was important enough to gather the 10 generals in the Pentagon to a secret meeting.''



''One of those generals was Rick Flagg Jr., an important officer of VSA and ISA who is also directly related to Global Pact Defense. This man would be one of the first most important casualities of the Third World War in Japan more than 2 decades in the future. ''

''- Rick: So... what is so important for someone to call us here? For the Prime Minister to send us here, it must be something important.''

''Just after Rick said that, a hologram showed up in the middle of the table they were seated around, revealing the map of New York state. However, in this map, there was one location that was being highlighted: Sleepy Hollow.''

- (???): I didn't introduce myself yet, but my name is Jobe, one of the executive director of Dreyfuss Enterprise.

''Jobe... anyone serving the forces of Qliphoth... never truly dies. Jobe, also known as the Prince of Pain from Hell's sixth circle was one of the servants of Astaroth King back in 2014, served as Malcolm's assistant, bodyguard and assassin. This demon, who served the Astaroth King and met his demise by the hands of Ichabod Crane, was later brought back to life by Astaroth King to fullfil his mission on Earth, and his true mission in the human world wasn't to support Malcolm's Croatoan Virus...''

''Jobe, a man of pure evil and a demon who spent his entire life manipulating his victims was sent to Earth by Astaroth King to make him do his part in his work. Jobe's work was not only involved to expand the influence of Astaroth in Sleepy Hollow but the TRANSFORMATION of Sleepy Hollow that would later appear decades later.''

''- Jobe: Actually, I used to work to Dreyfuss Enterprise... until some incidents that happened in the town of Sleepy Hollow. As the secretery and assistant of my former boss, Malcolm Dreyfuss, I could spy into the files of Sleepy Hollow's government and the secrets of the state.''

''In US, it was already an absurd for a regional state to hide secrets from the Federal government, the central head of Global Pact Defense. When something like that happens, it's considered a violation of the constitution of the country as a whole. In the military view, it would be a conspiracy against Washington, D.C.''

''- General 2: As far as I know, the Article 54 of GPD says any creation of any state secret hide from the central government is considered an act of separatism. Proceed.''

''Jobe pressed a buttom in the table and changed the screen to many photos of corpses, mutilated bodies of people killed by the serial murdering of La Glóton and other agents of Moloch who did brutal murders in his name. ''

''- Jobe: From now on, I'll start to talk about the true issue here. Two years ago, the town of Sleepy Hollow presented a series of report of serial murders, torture, satanic rituals using animals, dark magic runes, black magic book, supernatural sightings and even actual summoning of dark forces.''

''That would sound a joke but it wasn't. The Global Pact Defense is an organization financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. In other words, they have access to all informations and secrets that the public does NOT have access. Things like aliens, mystical monsters from the Bible, ancient creatures of the deep sea, monsters, supernatural forces of the beyond... they exist, and the Global Pact Defense is an organization darker than Area 51 itself. Because they know, such things exist and they fight to keep the world safe from these threats hidden from the public. ''

Groups like NASA also support the Global Pact Defense's hidden agenda with experiments to production of weapons, futuristic devices, alien technology and even experiments with alien species that had arrived on Earth.

''- General 3: So what? Supernatural activities as well as murders and summoning of forces of hell exist since the early days of mankind. The Catholic Church, however, kept most of these heretic incidents hidden in the shadows after the Holy Crusades. Ever since then, things like ghosts, spirits, demons and other forces of the beyond were only considered dark fantasy theme for media or some fake videos of supernatural activity. Just send a message to Vatican to send some priests to the region, this is not something to be worried about.''

Jobe then let out a sigh and continued to scroll more images of La Glóton's murders.

''- Jobe: I fear the holy forces of Vatican will be not enough. Because the town is being controlled by an secret organization for centuries now. You may think I'm joking around but I'm not. The name of this group is called... Order of Flourish. The Order of Flourish is a secret organization or cult composed by old families and orphans adopted by the leader of this group in the village of Sleepy Hollow, serving as the secret order to stabilize the town into its proper order and secretly organizing allies to fight against demons. In other words, this... Order of Flourish exist and has been controlling the affair of the small village of Sleepy Hollow for more than 200 years.''

Jobe showed images, books and lost files of Order of Flourish found in the town.

''- General 4: Impossible... if there was such organization in the region, even the local government would notice and inform the capital. This nonsense sounds like a joke. What are you talking about here? A illuminati cult manipulating the town according to their own will? What a joke.''

Jobe let out a sarcastic smile and continued.

''- Jobe: It may be a joke for you... I mean, you are the JOKE here.''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Immediately, the generals gasped, leaving one of them extremely angry for called a clown in front of his own comrades.

- General 4: WHAT DID YOU SA--!

''- Jobe: Of course you're the joke here. The Order of Flourish had connections everywhere in Sleepy Hollow, including police, FBI agents and even other citizens. They had 100% of all its judicial, financial, administrative and civil bodies under their control, keeping any information of their existence hidden even from the eyes of US government and New York's governor for 200 years. Not even you, the Global Pact Defense, could locate them even after sending a supervisor annually to oversee the state's affairs. Then your supervisor would return to report everything was in order, making yourselves look idiots. They even fooled your military. And so they did as they pleased for centuries, playing with the country's power.''

"........................."

The general sat down but clenched his fists in rage after realizing he lost the debate even before it started.

''- Jobe: This Order had a special phrase to those people with potential magic ability or even show slight magical power. Those people are known to the Order as "Shines". The top members of the Order were not born to be magician, but thanks to the power of a magic artifact called Stone of Wisdom, they became powerful mages who had different kinds of magic power, usually connecting to light and any other natural elements. In other words, each one of them have a national threat. But the problem is, the Order of Flourish is not really a threat to the people, but the foes they having been facing for centuries now. The Order of Flourish only acts as the defenders of that town, as long they stay like that, we may even take opportunity to study... more about magic in our own field of science. ''

One of the generals looked confused to his friend and returned his sight to Jobe.

''- General 5: Study magic using science? This is even possible?''

''- Jobe: It indeed is. My group of scientists already named it... Magi-Tech. To enter in small details, Magi-Tech is an experimental kind of science that is found in Magical Dimension Universe, it is a modern take on alchemy and involves the fusion of magic and technology to form new machines, weapons and ultimately life-forms: the ultimate goal of Magi-Tech is to create a perfect, living fusion of magic and technology. However, the creation of Magi-Tech is not important here.''

''Jobe showed the generals another image. This time, it was images of clouds of colorful particles. Some clouds were yellow like mist, black like smoke, etc.''

- General 5: And this is?

''- Jobe: These images you're seeing right now are photos taken using infrared cameras. A few months ago, our agents of GPD took photos of them using their cameras and other devices so we could investigate what was causing the sudden appearances of supernatural entities. Just then, after we took those photos, we realized these dark clouds of different colors are leftovers of magical source. ''

''- Rick: Magical source? ''

''- Jobe: Exactly. That means... when magicians use some spell, it will cost magical power to summon such abilities. When these abilities are casted, invisible gases of magical mana will escape from their bodies and form clouds. In other words, it's like radiation but it's harmless to other living beings. Judging from this photo, we can conclude this... cloud was formed after some magician who uses dark magic to perform spells, casted a spell in this very location. As we speak, our agents are collecting samples of these clouds and researching about them. I'm sure that will be of great importance to this nation.''

Jobe gazed at the generals, without moving an inch.

''- General 6: So you want us to assist you to collect those leftovers of mana to transform it in a military weapon? What are you planning? Transform our men into mindless magicians?''

Jobe nodded with sastifaction.

''- Jobe: That too. I'm planning to make use of all that lost mana left behind so we can create Artificial Magician in a near future. We will hard to make our artificial magic be compatible with the bodies of our soldiers. But more importantly... it's an absurd to let Sleepy Hollow alone after so many reports of civilians being murdered by... zombies, nightmarish creatures, magicians, witches, hellish monsters. It's more than obvious Sleepy Hollow is the center of 50% of all supernatural incidents happening in this world right now.''

"........................."

''Jobe wanted revenge, but his mission was more important. The town that ruined his body. There was no better thing to see that place burn to the ground. The town that Ichabod Crane vowed to protect.''

- Rick: What a problem...

''Rick Flagg closed his eyes and thought about the situation. If Jobe was speaking the truth... then...''

''- Jobe: The presence of extremely powerful magicians like the Order of Flourish and even their every enemies are a national threat that NEED to be dealt with IMMEDIATELY. If someone inside decided to just... wipe out an entire town, they would just do as they please. Because, deep inside we know, the Global Pact Defense left those supernatural cases to Vatican because we lack the power to deal with enemies we cannot comprehend. But now, this is happening in our territory, and dozens are dying as we speak because this... Order of Flourish is not even capable of protect their own territory. It's scarier to think a cult of magicians managed to fool the government for decades and are doing everything as they please in the village of Sleepy Hollow.''

''Jobe was right. The duty of GPD is to protect the people, but its priority with the people of the United States of America is higher. ''

''- Jobe: With that said, I demand the formation of a new Military Branch of Global Pact Defense under the direct command of Mina Harker and her private army of advanced mercenaries. I believe the formation of an Anti-Magic branch will be of great importance to the security of this nation and world as a whole.''

''Rick and other generals looked at different directions, having different thoughts as they read the documents and reports about the situation in Sleepy Hollow. It was true, the situation there was not lighty to let it pass but the creation of a new branch...''

''- Rick: You're being serious right now? Do you think the president will approve this?!''​​​​​

''- Jobe: The president already approved our request. You can the paper right in front of you all.''

".........................."

''The generals opened the documents in front of them and lifted all pages until the last one that had an authorization paper with the signature of the president of United States of America himself. It was a genuine document that no one could deny.''

''- Rick: But the creation of a new branch without a query of the council of Global Pact Defense... normally it takes months for us to agree to form a new branch even after so many bureaucratic processes from White House and the Pentagon. For us to approve the creation of a military branch specialized in the area of anti-magic is...''

''Jobe let out a smile so vicious that he had to hide his mouth. Revenge. Revenge.''

Jobe recovered his posture and put his hands in his back.

<p style="text-align:center;">'- Jobe: What you guys are saying? There is no need to sweat about small details, not when a supernatural threat is about to escape from Sleepy Hollow and spread to other part of United States. More casualities will fall over your back and you will have some trouble dealing with the minister for your incompentence. This is why... I and my superior, Mina Harker, are ready to take action and stop this threat once and for all. Compared to the time you take to form a new branch, we, from STAR LABS OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have been waiting for 50 years to finally put our hands in action.'

Act 2 - Eckidina's Grave
<p style="text-align:center;">' 20 years later...  <p style="text-align:center;"> Nowadays ' <p style="text-align:center;"> Europe  <p style="text-align:center;"> France  <p style="text-align:center;"> 14 kilometers away from Paris  <p style="text-align:center;"> KnightWalker Secret Area  <p style="text-align:center;"> 03:20 PM

''It's been only a few hours since... Eckidina KnightWalker was killed by her successor. No, she wasn't killed. She accepted her death. Eckidina KnightWalker was the managing director of KnightWalker Family for the next few months since the beginning of World War III after she killed her father in cold blood. And since then, her position was solid and there was NOTHING that could bring her down from that position.''

''Of course, until the day Michael Langdon showed up and offered an alliance with Eckidina KnightWalker and her secret forces. However, one day, when Michael Langdon revealed his identity to Eckidina as the mastermind behind all those atrocities, he completely discarded her for being an incompetent ally who had no motives and ambitions to go after; she was only there for the fun of it. ''

''In his eyes, Eckidina was a spoiled, cowardly and pathetic child looking for some toy to play with. A psychopathic one.''



''- Misogi: You really had to choose death? ''

''In a distant area of Paris, Misogi Kumagawa was standing in front of a gravestone... and that gravestone belonged to Eckidina KnightWalker, the woman he swore to protect. The scenario around him was beautiful but at the same time sad. It was an open green aura dead trees but beautiful lively reliefs. ''

''Although this place receives many praises for its natural beauty, this place is really dark. Why? Because it was here where one of bloodiest battles of Cold War II happened; a battle between the KnightWalker Funeral Parlor and KnightWalker Family 8 years ago.''

''A day ago, Eckidina, who was already too crazy to live, choose to be killed by her successor to bring death and destruction to the world she swore to destroy. And so it happened... Eckidina was killed by the one who calls herself as "Otaku Eckidina" and assumed her post as director of KnightWalker Family in secret of the world so the pillar of the family will not crumble in these moments of total state of war.''

- Misogi: Death was really your only option, Eckidina?

Flashback
<p style="text-align:center;"> Scenes from LOTM: Sword of Kings AA 2nd Season - The Will of Qliphoth  <p style="text-align:center;">' Meanwhile...  <p style="text-align:center;"> KnightWalker Supreme HQ ' <p style="text-align:center;"> Eckidina's Office 

Meanwhile, in a building very far away from the MPS Territory, Eckidina KnightWalker, the current director of KnightWalker Family saw the explosion coming from the MPS Warehouse on the other side of the walls that divides Paris between the territory of KnightWalker Family and Manufacturing Progressive Sciences.

She was right now inside of her office eating snickers while looking at the explosion through a giant window, with a bored and emotionless face.

''- Eckidina: That's sure a big explosion. Did you cause this, Misogi?''



In front of her desk, Misogi Kumagawa, the person who was just there helping Maria and Matt to discover the true plans of MPS, was standing with a confident smile.

''- Misogi: That was my doing! I put Maria and Matt exactly were we wanted.''

''For obvious reasons, it seems all facade of Misogi being human and caring in nature faded in less than a second. He was just manipulating Maria and Matt to put them into the target list of Unit-CM 130. Yet, their plans in helping Arzonia Family to discover the true intentions of MPS were indeed true.''

''- Eckidina: I see... So now Maria and the others know about the Gigalomaniac Project? While I really love this idea of turning everyone in the world in monsters, I hate the idea I'm on the list too... It's too boring to turn everyone including myself into monsters when there is no one to laugh or manage the new world. ''

Eckidina turned her chair around and threw the chocolate she was eating.

- Eckidina: And how about the EM-CBX001 Hysterica?

Misogi nodded and bowed before Eckidina like a butler before he rose his head and let out a psycho grin.

''- Misogi: Obviously, I unlocked the room where that CR-Unit was being kept so Maria could steal it... But I never thought she would wear it.''

''The EM-CBX001 Hysterica, also known as Ultimate's CR-Unit is a new armor of Combat Realizer Units developed by Unit-CM 130 and Manufacturing Progressive Sciences. The Hysterica was an unique CR-Unit  based on Mana Takamiyta that  is suppose to be used with the solo purpose of being effective against Gods or Immortal Beings with the use of Magi-Tech and is the only armor which can use all types of elements from science and magic, being able to control nano-machines, having near-immortality like the Cyborgs from Horsemen of John from KnightWalker Family, mind-reading by telepathy, control over wind and gravity, telekinesis and control over light to heal wounds. ''

''The CR-Unit was made to kill the Angels, Guide Spirits and other mythological Gods once the WWIII was over but apparently Misogi allowed Maria to steal during her escape of Paris... Exactly, the combat suit Maria is using at this very moment was made to kill beings just like her but since she was once a Cyborg she has energy to control it without killing her.''

''- Eckidina: Fufufu... I see. That Mar--!''

Just as Eckidina was about to stand up from her chair, the door of the office opened brutally and a girl similar to Eckidina entered on the room.

- (???): MISOGI-CHAN!

A loud and annoying teenage girl's voice echoed on the air as the girl similar to Eckdina entered on the room saw Misogi and "Eckidina" looking at the explosion from distance... To be precise, that girl was not "similar" to Eckidina", she IS Eckidina KnightWalker... 

''As it was stated before, Eckidina KnightWalker has an army of clones of herself. They were created to transfer her memories to another body so she could live for all eternity in the bodies of other Eckidinas. However, a fatal flaw on her research allowed her Eckidina's to develop different types of emotions and personality. The Eckidina KnightWalker that was looking at the explosion with Misogi and helped the Fallen's Essence to kill his assassin a few hours ago, is a Eckidina known for being manipulative but cheerful in dangerous situation... And the Eckidina that had just entered on the room...''



''- Misogi: Honey?! What are you doing here?! You're supposed to be resting in your room!''

''The only Eckidina that Misogi refers to as "honey" is the Eckidina's clone that is known for being the very protagonist of this war, the woman that destroyed Fiore Kingdom, started Cold War II and III, brought the entire Europe to two decades of civil war between KnightWalker Family and KnightWalker Funeral Parlor, the woman that allowed vile people like Michael Langdon to rise to power in Vatican, the monster that started World War III after Liberty City War and the Night of War during the Mafusa Gang's invasion to Tenguu City... That's right,  she is the Eckidina that every single person in this world wants to at least give a punch in her face for turning all human life in the world a small part of what she consider to be "pain".''

- Eckidina: I was speaking about the Angel [Maria Arzonia] and not about the Devil [Spoiled Eckidina]

''And yes, even some Eckidina clones really work together with that Insane Eckidina because since her betrayal in Sleepy Hollow by Michael Langdon, she became even more wild than normal and almost kills everyone she work with just for the heck of it. Michael's betrayal became a PTSD disease that affected the little of sanity she had left. Due to her insanity, this Eckidina that is largely known as Spoiled Eckidina or Insane Eckidina, was removed from her post as M.D. of KnightWalker Family by the Original Eckidina and put a new Eckidina clone in her place called Otaku-Eckidina... Yeah... ''

''- Insane Eckidina: Yo! Otaku-Eckidina! I see you're enjoying staying in my place! You bitch! Know your place! You're nothing more than stunt double to replace for a temporary period of time! You think you're better than me?!''

Even so, the Otaku-Eckidina is known for watching thriller films, mystery animes and Serial Killer american series almost all days; these medias influences in her intelligence, something that allows her to think 10 steps ahead of her enemies in all situations since she can acquire IQ just by watching fictional psychological crime-thriller medias like Death Note.

The Insane Eckidina that was the director of KnightWalker Family before the Otaku-Eckidina had such intelligence before but the beginning of World War III made her intelligence to decay to a pitiful level; even more than Katarina's. And unlike the Otaku-Eckidina, the Insane-Eckidina that is responsible for the misery of almost all victims of this war, cannot absorb fictional information like texts from books, lessons from films and important contexts that might aid her in the future; this is explained by her narcissism that puts her above everything else while Otaku-Eckidina admits she is low and acts like a high-school girl in a training section.

[- Narrator: To separate the Eckidinas, the Eckidina in pink clothes (Japanese cosplay) will be called Otaku-Eckidina and wild Eckidina in high-school clothes will be called as Insane-Eckidina.]

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Sure, I'm enjoying this position. I have authority over everything you once had. Your army, your men and even the council. But trust me, I'm less brutal than you so they kind started to love me... It's really a pit Michael Langdon really messed up with your mind. Thanks to him, you almost gave our secret plans and schemes to the Fallen's Essence, who probably got suspicious of me because of mine--yours sudden change of personality... Also, may I ask how you escaped from Juria's Mansion?''

".........................."

''Since the day that Michael Langdon revealed himself as the Unknown Figure behind all incidents happening around the Vatican and his ascension to Pope, he betrayed Eckidina KnightWalker (Insane-Eckidina) and this betrayal caused her ego and narcissism to be broken in thousand pieces. As such, this betrayal caused her little of sanity to finally break and she developed many psychological problems, such as personality-disorder, PTSD, passive-psychopathy and among many others. ''

''The little of sanity she had left that was holding all her insanity, was broken by Michael and that made Eckidina to be unstable to the point of losing the sense of reality, for what she was fighting for... Her little time as director of KnightWalker Family were terrible to the organization as she lost her posture as director and proved to be too insane to be the director of KnightWalker Family. ''

Seeing this, the Original Eckidina sent the Otaku-Eckidina on the place of Insane-Eckidina in secret of the Fallen's Essence, who until now seems to be not aware of Eckidina's clones.

''And by addition... the Insane-Eckidina developed another fatal problem...''

''- Insane-Eckidina: Michael? Michael? Michael Langdon? Oh yes... Hahahahaha...Hahaha...Hehehe... I see. I remember now... It's been 4 months since I last saw him in Sleepy Hollow... Even now the media continues talking about him... He is everywhere: TV, radio, Internet, news... Michael? Ahahaha... THAT '''MOTHERFUCKER!!! DIE!!!!!! DIE!!!!! MONKEY!!!! BASTARD!!!!!! SON OF A BITCH!!!! PIECE OF TRASH!!!!! HOW HE COULD HAVE DONE THAT TO ME AFTER EVERYTHING I DID FOR HIM!!! EVERYTHING!!!!! I DID MY BEST SO I COULD HAVE SEEN HIM PLEASED!!!!! THAT BASTARD WHO WAS BORN THROUGH AN ANAL BIRTH!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!'

''... The mere mention of Michael's name next to Insane-Eckidina might result in a terrible reaction of Intermittent explosive disorder. In this state, Insane-Eckidina will yell at everyone next to her, destroy and kill everyone next to her. At one point, the mention of Michael's name in the news of KnightWalker Family caused her to bite the throat of one of her officers just by listening to his name. This psychological disorder also caused Eckidina to lost all her Cyborg powers as she could no longer control them; thus eradicating her title as the World's 3rd Strongest Cyborg (behind Imperia Deamonne and Chinatsu). Now, Eckidina has only her immortality that keeps her suffering in reality.''

- Misogi: Why did you do that?!

Misogi looked at the Otaku-Eckidina, who only replied with a soft smile.



''The Otaku-Eckidina watched the scene in surprise as the Insane-Eckidina was in her knees while holding her skull until her nails pierced her head. At the same moment, a female KnightWalker guard heard the screams and rushed at the door to see what was happening, however, she was welcomed by Insane-Eckidina's teeth that literally pierced her skull and removed a part of her brain. ''

''Insane-Eckidina then began to eat her body with her sharp teeth of sharks as her eyes were glowing red, showing her Cyborg's insane strength. Misogi watched it in horror as the creature that once known as Eckidina KnightWalker devoured the body of her subordinate.''

- Misogi: H-Honey...



''Misogi began to cry as he saw the person who was previously known as Eckidina KnightWalker, his girlfriend, acting like some wild animal. The tears of Misogi fell to the floor like raindrops as the blood of the female guard was absorbing his tears.''

- Eckidina: SNARL!

''The Insane-Eckidina then proceeded to devour the face of the female guard and ripped of her nose without effort. Misogi got in his knees and touched her back with a kindness. Despite feeling the touch of his hand in her back, the Insane-Eckidina, now acting like a dog with anger problems, ignored him and continued eating the flash of the KnightWalker Guard as more and more salive fell from her mouth and tears of blood came out of her eyes... ''

- Otaku-Eckidina: What a pitiful scene...

''From possible tortures and fate Eckidina could have suffered in the world, she considered that to be her greatest punishment and humiliation as she was not feeling pain from her enemies but slowly drowning herself in a sea of her own blood... While eating the face of the guard, the Insane-Eckidina proceeded to rip off her arm and took several bites of it.''

''- Misogi: Damn it... Eckidina...''

''From all people in the world, Eckidina KnightWalker, the one that everyone refers as "spoiled", is the only person Misogi truly loves. The reason behind this is because they grew up together like siblings, so even if your sister may be the worst person in the planet, you will continue to love her... This is what Misogi thinks of his beloved Eckidina he met since they had 5 years.''

- Insane-Eckidina: H-Hel...p

''While the Insane-Eckidina continued eating the dead body of the guards with her own teeth, she could be heard trying to say something like "help" to Misogi and the Otaku-Eckidina. Since Michael's betrayal, the Insane-Eckidina was transferred to Juria's Mansion, the mansion of her deceased father she killed herself. In his house, the Insane-Eckidina passed through exams to cure her insanity and was kept in a locked room for days to avoid contact with people... Yet, she somehow escaped and went to KnightWalker Supreme HQ to take back what was supposed to be hers; the post of director of KnightWalker Family.''

With a gentle smile while adjusting her glasses, the Otaku-Eckidina got in her knees beside the Insane-Eckidina and pet her head.

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Poor older sister... You know that the word "help" is useless for you, right? Do you remember in how many millions died in your hands saying "help", "spare me", "forgive me" or "let me live" as they begged with their lives? Your father and your mother probably said something like that... But you ignored their wish for living. Oh, Eckidina... You killed so many, entire nations and now the entire world... Just for your entertainment... Just to kill your boredom and how annoying peace was. Indeed, the concept of peace in this world is laughable but instead of using the chaos you will unleash upon the world, why not use it to achieve something greater?''

Finally, the Insane-Eckidina stopped eating like an animal and looked at the her bloody hands.

''- Insane-Eckidina: Svmntving greaver? ''

Due to her mental state, the Insane-Eckidina could barely speak but she could at least understand the meaning of her words.

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Yes, something greater like how the Fallen's Essence is doing. He plans to use our suffering to get more power to overthrow his Creator and rules over the universe. He is admirable, he something notable worthy of watching but what is the fun of you and Junko Enoshima barking like two dogs to all people around you just to kill your white and black world of loneliness. There is nothing cool about, none. It's like watching a generic harem anime with the same virgin character and a bunch of girls who fall in love with him for no reason at all. The world, or at least people like us, want something greater and more interesting... You would use the LN-666 Project to fuse yourself with it and destroy the world. Sure, that's beautiful but why not use its power to build your own world where the entire reality in based in your vision and image? You will expand your existence and influence to other to make them suffer so your name will live forever... So why simply kill them for fun knowing it will kill your legacy faster? Tell me, Eckidina, how did you met Misogi Kumagawa here...''

The red glowing eyes of Eckidina changed their sight to a crying Misogi in his knees beside her.

''- Insane-Eckidina: ............ ''



While Eckidina was unable to speak thanks to the quantity of meat inside of her mouth and the mental problems wrecking her brain, she could still think freely.

''- Insane-Eckidina (think): *It's been 15 years since that day... From all people I used to love, from my father and even my mother, my love for Misogi never ceased and still burning in my heart until now. My father, I tortured and killed because he was useless. My mother, I killed with a gun because she ignored the sexual abuses of my father. But Misogi... He was always there for me, in health and disease. In the peace and chaos. In the calm moments and dangerous moments. He followed me everywhere I went and did everything I order him to do without questioning... Now, I wonder if my love for him just became some tool to manipulate and kill him once he outlive his usefulness.*''

''Eckidina looked at the female guard she devoured and vomited all meat she ate. Eckidina is a Cyborg who drinks blood from other people to survive, she is not a cannibal or animal to enjoy eating raw meat.''

''- Misogi: Eckidina... Stop it already... Quit KnightWalker Family and this war... We can still go back by living like two worms and cowards for everything we did. Even if the entire world is against us, even God is against us, I'll not leave your side. We can flee to anywhere; a desert island, a dirty swamp, Amazonia, a tropical jungle, the mountains of Japan, in an underground base... We can even go live in a sewer; all these places are proper for us who destroyed entire nations, committed genocide and even killed children. ''

''Misogi tried to reach Eckidina's humanity, the little human side she still had inside of her. Misogi knew a long time ago, since from the day Michael ruined everything, that Eckidina could no longer live to fulfill her dreams of war and death and he knew clearly that she must quit this insane plan as she had no mental health to continue leading the KnightWalker Family in the Third World War.''

"........................."

''- Misogi: Eckidina.. Let's end this and pay for what we did. There is nothing you and I can do anymore... From all Eckidina's in this world, from all clones that exist, I still loyal to you and only you. I refuse to keep following orders of this Otome-Eckidina. You're the only woman worthy of me!''

As Misogi was speaking, the insanity of Eckidina continued devouring her mind until her very identity faded in the tears of blood on her eyes.

''- Insane-ckidina: M-Misogi... I don't wanna live like this... Like a rat? Like a cockroach? No... If I have to die I prefer to die by the hands of those I made suffer! Just then my death will be worthy!''

''Eckidina stood up and walked around the office while stumbling in all chairs and furniture for office. ''

''- Otaku-Eckidina: I must admit, for someone who is known as childish, you have an impressive determination. You're not so lazy after all, even in the face of insanity, when your identity is about to disappear, you refuse to give up on your true dreams and objectives.''

''The Insane-Eckidina then fell against the floor crying in blood as her sad face was replaced with an insane grin. Soon afterwards, a purple aura began to fly around the Insane-Eckidina, who had just lost her little peace of sanity. It's really impressive because just a few number of psychopaths can keep fighting to preserve their identity and nature; even psychopaths and sociopaths have some small peace of sanity that keep the person of whom they truly are. People with split personality, however, tend to lose it faster than most insane people.''

- Otaku-Eckidina: This is it, Misogi.

The Otaku-Eckidina pet Misogi's head and removed her glasses as she gave him a comfortable smile to calm his panic.

- Misogi: 'THIS IS WHAT?!!! WHAT HAPPENED TO ECKIDINA!! ANSWER ME!!!'

''Misogi knew the truth but refused to believe in what had just happened. The Insane-Eckidina that everyone hates had to drink and eat different kids of tea and medicines from KnightWalker Family to keep her sanity while resting in her room in Juria's mansion. But since she escaped and suffered too much stress by Otaku-Eckidina's provocations, her mental health was broken and not even her medicines could stop the process.''

''Misogi grabbed her legs and cried in her knees. While he cried, the Otaku-Eckidina walked towards a locker and pulled out two Artificial Demon Gear from there; these weapons were two daggers of different colors: one was green and the other blue. Needless to say after so many battles with Cyborgs, there are three ways to destroy a Cyborg from KnightWalker:''


 * 1) To kill and torture him for decades until their regeneration stop working;
 * 2) To make Cyborg commit self-destruction;
 * 3) And the most easy one and difficult at the same time is to use an Artificial Demon Gear (an AD Weapon) to corrupt the system of the Cyborg and destroy all Magi-Tech inside of them... 

- Misogi: NO! NO! NO! NO!

''And Misogi clearly knew what the Otaku-Eckidina was going to do; she choose the option 3 to free Eckidina from her suffering. Seconds later, two Artificial Demon came out of the daggers and looked at Eckidina with malicious glares.''

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Misogi. Letting Eckidina live like this is the same as to put under constant torture. For a Cyborg who can't commit suicide due to his or her sanity being taken away from them is painful. Eckidina suffered enough; being betrayed by those she trusted, having her ego broken to pieces, losing her Cyborg powers, unable to commit suicide, die in a way she refused to suffer, seeing herself humiliate her own person and finally losing her own persona. She lost everything: dreams, emotions and even what she loves the most... War.''

''The Otaku-Eckidina walked towards the Insane-Eckidina as Misogi released her legs. When she arrived there, she saw the true face of Eckidina. Her face was completely destroyed, with many metallic tentacles coming from her mouth, her eyes and jaw fell from her face and her hands were not human limbs anymore but blades... That thing, was the true form of Eckidina's Cyborg form. ''

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Look at her Misogi. She is no longer the Eckidina KnightWalker you used to know. She is only an empty Cyborg with no mana, no emotions and no identity. Since her sanity is gone, the only thing left of her is this Cyborg vessel that will act like a machine, attacking and eating every one "IT" meets on its way. I'm sorry to call you but Eckidina KnightWalker is DEAD... ''

''Misogi walked towards the Cyborg body of what was left from Eckidina and saw that thing was no longer Eckidina in any way; her appearance was from a monster that came out of a horror film. Now, it is only a matter of time until that empty body starts attacking people randomly on the streets.''

- Misogi: Eck--!

Before Misogi could finish, the creature immediately cut his belly with its blade as it screamed like a youkai.

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

- It: [AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

''Misogi then jumped backwards and avoided another attack from that empty Cyborg creature. As soon as the creature spotted the Otaku-Eckidina standing only 3 meters away from it, the Cyborg monster immediately rushed at her with its large metallic tentacles to bite her face off but the Artificial Demons standing behind immediately reacted and stabbed her body with their large weapons in their claws.''

- It: [A-aH...]

The first vital point the Artificial Demon hit was its neck and soon they covered its entire body with bayonetas and sacred knives to seal its movements.

- Misogi: ECKIDINA!

''The creature heard Misogi screaming for Eckidina's name and one last time made a last struggle to kill its victims. The Cyborg then charged at Misogi with its blade to cut him in half but the Artificial Demons once again threw bayonetas at its back and sealed its movements. Soon, some German runes appeared on the bayonetas and created a powerful yellow light that entered in the Cyborg's body and killed it for good as its movements stopped.''

''- Otaku-Eckidina: Why exactly I did that anyway? I'm just like her so why I killed her to free her soul from this suffering? Maybe I took pity on her? It was a sister-instinct? I don't know exacly but I'm glad I did something for her after all.''

''Soon the body of the Cyborg creature faded and Eckidina's Cyborg  Full Form was disappearing, returning her appearance to her human form. As soon as the Cyborg stopped moving, the Artificial Demon disappeared and returned to the Otaku-Eckidina's Artificial Demon Gears.''

''Misogi rushed to Eckidina's body that cold, pale and lifeless... It was a scene that billions would pay to see, including most of the people that were fighting against her. The lifeless body of Eckidina KnightWalker, the woman that caused so much suffering to the entire world in less than 1 year and made billions cry in agony and despair.''

"............................"

- Misogi: No way...​​​​

Like a husband holding his dead wife in his arms, Misogi embraced Eckidina's body in his hands as he removed the bayonetas in her body, revealing her beautiful but pale face.

''- Misogi: Why? Why? Why?''

''The Otaku-Eckidina walked towards Misogi and pet his head again like a mother comforting her son. Now, there is only one Eckidina now...''

''- Eckidina: You may hold a grudge against me but I did what I consider to be the best for her. Better to let her die in peace than let her be alive to suffer eternally... Well, if you believe in Heavens and Hell, there will be no difference. Because you know to where people like her go... Misogi. I may put this in your brain as an advice: you can still avoid this fate... Deep inside you have a good heart and you can still avoid the fate of your beloved Master, who turned out to be your best friend and also your lover.''

Misogi cried in the deceased Eckidina's chest as the new Eckidina put the daggers back into the locker.

''- Eckidina: Misogi, she simply reaped what she planted. You can't expect people who plant rotten fruits like us to reap good fruits filled with warmness and beauty. We are horrible people and we eat rotten fruits filled with diseases and maggot. Physical beauty or how beauty in your dreams, that simply doesn't matter. If you use tactics like us to achieve good things, that means we are wonder in the same. We are not different. Even if I'm some lunatic dictator who kills innocent and slave my own people for the progress of my nation, I'm a bad person in the natural laws. Some people may consider you a martyr human and natural logic are different... Even if she was a monster, she was a living being so I had no rights to remove her lfie from her eyes; I'm just like her.''

''Misogi bit his own lips until they started to bleed. At the same time, his tears fell on the face of Eckidina, who was until then with opened eyes but he soon closed them.''

''- Misogi: YYou kil-lled h-her... But I know th-hat w-was for the best... I-I understand what you're trying to say... But without her, I have no reasons to live anymore.''

''- Eckidina: ..................... It's up to you find a new reason to live, young one.''

Nowadays
"..................."

''There was nothing but silence. Nothing could be heard except for the wind that gave even more sadness to that place.''





Misogi's Flashback
<p style="text-align:center;"> Scenes from LOTM: Crossover - The Corbin Files - Chapitre Dix  <p style="text-align:center;">' 4 months ago...  <p style="text-align:center;"> Other side of the woods '

''Eckidina KnightWalker hummed a tune while wandering in the Sleepy Hollow Woods, and she felt happy to know that her bait had worked well in luring Abbie Mills. She was intoxicated in her success... when suddenly, a wind had blown and she had to stop spinning.''

Michael and Misogi (possessed by Ancitif) with his hood was standing behind her. ''Eckidina turned back and saw her client behind her. She was so anxious that she asked about many things.'' ''Michael nodded his head. Eckidina was still unaware of his real identity. She laughed out and tried to hug him. However, Michael merely stepped aside. Eckidina fell on the ground in a funny manner.'' ''Eckidina stood up and cleaned the dust on her cloth. She then tried to hug "Misogi", but Ancitif had glared at her and Eckidina was pushed on a tree and knocked on it. Eckidina was horrified and she did not expecte this. She looked at the possessed Misogi.'' ''​Michael smiled as he clapped his hand. Ancitif then left Misogi's body and returned back to Purgatory. Misogi collapsed on the floor while having confusion and panic.''
 * Michael: Eckidina...
 * Eckidina: So, how did it go?
 * Michael: I don't want to make Misogi jealous. Hug him instead.
 * Eckidina: YOU ARE NOT MISOGI-CHAN!
 * Michael: The work is done.
 * Misogi: What have I...

''Ancitif is a powerful possessing demon who can change his vessel all the time. Most of the vessels do not remember anything they did while being possessed.''

''Michael smiled as he walked closer to Eckidina. Eckidina was now like a lab white rat who trembled in fear as the needle stuck in its body.'' ''No longer hiding his disgust on Eckidina, Michael shook his head and spoke his words in an ironic tone. During his talks, Michael slowly took off his mask.'' ''Michael then looked up and glared at Eckidina and Misogi. They were both shocked to see the man's face.'' ''Michael then used the Grand Grimoire to cast a portal between Eckidina and Misogi, and the portal started to suck them into it with immense force. At this time, Eckidina and Misogi could do nothing but screaming.'' ''Then, within seconds, the portal had sucked Eckidina and Misogi into the portal no matter how much they tried. Then, the portal disappeared. Eckidina was sent back to her headquarters, and so was Misogi.''
 * Michael: Corbin's life is ended, and the deal ends, now. You will go back to your world and deal with your precious stuff - LN-666 Project. Eckidina, I have to say that you would have been in my favor... if you are more mature. Mass suicide for fun... That is really not in my taste. It was amusing to see for you, but soon it lost its taste.
 * Eckidina: No, you must be joking. THAT WAS FUN AND IT WILL BE FUN FOREVER!
 * Michael: I am serious, Eckidina. Can't you see?
 * DemonBoy.jpgEckidina: MICHAEL LANGDON!?
 * Michael: Indeed I am. Don't worry. I am different than Aki Honda. If I become the Pope, then I will join your force. I think this is a good thing to make our companionship since there are many "good things" to earn from a spoiled kid like you.
 * Michael: But not that much.
 * Eckidina: NO! NO! NO, YOU CANNOT SEE ME AS A SPOILED KID! OH, NOOOO---
 * Michael: Aren't you?

Now, taking the full control of the demonic plot at last, Michael could not stop smiling.
 * Michael: Finally, it is my turn. Eckidina, farewell.

''With a smile, Micheal bit his thumb and made it bleed. He brushed a bit of his own blood on his pendant, which glowed red in response. Then, Michael's hair had turned whiter as a result of this.'' 
 * Michael: Ha-ha, ha-ha-ha... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes, yes, I can feel it... I can feel the power I took from Serilda is burning inside me...

''Now, Michael had turned into his new form - Blood Moon Wicked "Standard" Form. He clenched his fist as his new power started boiling inside his body.''
 * Michael: On a Monday, God created the world. On Tuesday, God drew the line between Order and Chaos. On Wednesday, God arranged each and every number. On Thursday, God permitted the ebb and flow of Time. On Friday, God explored every nook and cranny of the world. On Saturday, God rested. And on Sunday, God... forsook the world.

All of a sudden, however, Micheal felt his head hurt as he covered his hand on his head.
 * Michael: Ugh! No, I need to stay calm...

''His fingers now turned metallic and became taloned. The mutation of him had started its first step and Michael's mental state started to go unstable. However, he was still far from completely insane. Then, having himself calmed down, Michael removed his hood and smiled in satisfaction.''
 * Michael: This is it... This is very well. My power is rising... even though this is not enough. To truly make myself be one with the Blood Moon Wicked, it really requires a huge amount of bleeding.

Nowadays






<p style="text-align:center;">' 20 years later...  <p style="text-align:center;"> Nowadays ' <p style="text-align:center;"> Europe  <p style="text-align:center;"> France  <p style="text-align:center;"> KnightWalker Secret Area  <p style="text-align:center;"> 03:20 PM



















Act 4 - The Seductive Assassin
<p style="text-align:center;"> Europe  <p style="text-align:center;"> France  <p style="text-align:center;"> Paris  <p style="text-align:center;"> MPS' Territory  <p style="text-align:center;"> 08:43 PM  <p style="text-align:center;"> 4 minutes later 







<p style="text-align:center;">' 10 minutes later... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> MPS' Weapon Warehouse 











Act 7 - Grimoire Heart
<p style="text-align:center;"> Europe 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Italy 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Rome 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Vatican 

<p style="text-align:center;"> St. Peter's Basilica 

<p style="text-align:center;"> 07:56 AM 

<p style="text-align:center;"> 5 minutes later 

























Act 25
<p style="text-align:center;"> Atlantic Ocean 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Fraxinus 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Hangar 

<p style="text-align:center;"> 5 hours later 



''It's been 5 hours since the Rogues and Ratatoskr escaped from Rio. These 5 hours were the longest hours for all members of the Rogues in their entire lives... But it was only normal, because this time, they did not lose only one person but two of their best buddies, Mana Takamiya and Jin Kisaragi...''

For the Rogues, mainly for Katarina, Jin was a new ally but wasn't that close to no one except for Saeko, Toshiro, Cole and other former members of Peace Foundation, the organization they used to serve before joining Ratatoskr after Tomas and the other released them from their punishment at the prison of Global Pact Defense.



''Right now, all Rogues were in their rooms or in other place around the ship, regretting for sending Mana and Jin to another different location. True, if wasn't for their strategy in dividing themselves in two groups, they might have won this battle... When we mean by "won" we mean a successful plan to escape from the battlefield. ''

''Imperia was right now walking down the hangar of the ship with a sad expression... It was the most obvious reaction, Katarina and Imperia were the most affected people as Mana was the first person to join their team and helped them in many quests. For them, Mana was a little sister, a true member of the family.''



- Imperia: ........................

''As Imperia was passing by a ship, she saw Saeko seated in the door of the ship with her face covered by her hands. She was obviously crying but she kept some level of secret to prevent anyone from noticing her weak side.''

- Saeko: Jin...

Imperia approached Saeko and touched her shoulder, scaring her a little bit.

''- Imperia: Saeko, are you okay? I thought you were not feeling well and I saw you.''

Imperia seated beside the samurai girl and looked at the space outside of the ship.

''- Saeko: I'm feeling well... But not at the same time. I never thought I would lose him like this... And I was not even there to save him.''

''Imperia pat her head like if she was a child, of course trying to comfort her. Saeko did not seem to be angry or bothered by her action and put her head in her shoulder like if they were actually a couple.''

''- Imperia: To think a few months ago you were beating me up in that ship of Peace Foundation when you delivered me to Kanon like a garbage... It's almost impossible to think this is possible.''

Saeko had no words to say but she wanted to apologies Imperia for everything she had done to her in the past.



''- Saeko: ............... I don't if it is wise to ask this now but what Mana was for you, Imperia?''

Imperia changed her sight to Saeko in surprise but did not move her body.

''- Imperia: It's okay, I don't hold negative feelings. Mana was... Mana was my little sister. She did nto grew up with Katarina and me, we found her in the streets abandoned like a kitten. We "adopted" her because she had no place to go... Just then we discovered she was not even from this planet... She was my family--And you? What Jin was for you?''

Saeko was not familiar with Mana's history but Mana was a Child Soldier of New Conglomerate, an alien military corporation that founded Ratatoskr and was sent to Earth to kill the Spirit Kurumi Tokisaki.

''- Saeko: Hmm... If I had to choose my words, I would say he is my childhood friend. We trained together, lived together and learned together... But for me, he was more than a friend... I really lov--''



Before Saeko could finish, Rindou, the Medical Officer of Ratatoskr appeared all of a sudden and scared the duo.

- Imperia & Saeko: !!!!!!!!!

''Rindou let out a sarcastic grin and stared at the two women comforting themselves... Of course, she considered it in a sexual way.''

- Rindou: What two grow woman like you two are doing here~?

Imperia and Saeko didn't take her seriously and signed together.

- Imperia: What do you want, Rindou?

Rindou smiled and walked away.

- Rindou: Come with me, something interesting is happening in the entire world!

Without much of options, Imperia and Saeko looked at each other in confusion and followed Rindou to the other side of the hangar, where there were dozens of Ratatoskr officers and other Rogues looking at a giant window with many monitors around it.



- Imperia: What's up?

''Imperia and Saeko stopped beside Lucas and Katarina and looked at the window with vison to all planet. There were so many people that it was almost impossible to move inside of the crowd.''

''- Lucas: I don't know the details but it seems the President of United States is going to pronounce his word to all countries, including the nations of KnightWalker Alliance, about the sudden attack of Brazil and explain what is happening. According to Kotori, billions of people are entering in state of panic over the Internet after a black and white light covered the entire country Brazil... The people of Earth may don't know what happened but we know who did it... the Revelation of Qliphoth!''

''Imperia and other stared at the window and suddenly the image of Earth was replaced by a white background. It took not so long for the white background have the symbol of the American White House in the middle of the screen.''





''- Katarina: White House? Don't tell me GDP is planning to find an excuse to hide the existence of the Blac--!''

Before Katarina could even finish, she looked around and saw all monitors, computers and even screen of propaganda were with the symbol of White House.

''- Katarina: Hey, Kotori! What is happening?''

Kotori, who was beside her noticed it as well and seemed to be surprised too.

''- Kotori: I don't know! Even the screen of propagandas are transmitting the same live!''

Katarina then grabbed her smartphone (which she rarely uses) and turned it on to see the symbol of White House in the screen as well

- Katarina: WHA--!

Katarina now was scared to her soul, the others beside her saw that and decided to check their cellphones too only to discover the screen of their devices were showing the image of White House too.

- Kotori: What is the meaning of this?!

Kotori then pulled of a tech-pad from her belt and turned it on, and like all the others, the private Ratatoskr tech-pad for military purposes was showing the same video.

''- Kotori: E-Even here!... Could it be an Universal Transmission?!''

Katarina heard her despite the loud voices of other Ratatoskr officers and decided to ask.

- Katarina: Universal Transmission?

Kotori turned off her tech-pad and looked back at her subordinate.

''- Kotori: An Universal Transmission is a live connected to all electronic devices of the world through hacking. Cellphones, computers, TVs, laptops, tech-pads, radios and even speakers will be hacked using an universal hacking program to transmit the video or sound of a livestream program... For the White House to use all electronic devices of Earth to transmit this... They found something...''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Japan 



''When Kotori said the White House was using the Universal Transmission, she was not joking around... Not only Fraxinus, a ship that flying in space, had their electronic devices hacked but all countries of Asia, Europe, America and Australia... There was not a single country not showing the American Pronounce.''

In Japan, even in the most destroyed areas caused by Mafusa Gang's remnants, were showing the live through the Internet.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Philippines 



In other countries like Philippines, a country where 100% of hydroeletric plants were destroyed by terrorists, causing the entire country fall in darkness and chaos, the live was being transmitted by cellphones, the few type of electronic that continued working.

''Even old cellphones like the ones manufactured at the year of 2000 were transmitting the live. Due to the high quantity of robbery, only 42% of all population had access to the video.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> United States 



In United States, almost 89% of all population had access to the transmission since it is a country out of the limits of the war, allowing all people to watch the video through billions of electronic devices like cellphones, televisions and computers.

Since it was a White House's message, corporations had to order their workers from working to watch the live as they think the US President might have come to a conclusion to end the war or an explanation to Brazil's sudden disappearance from the maps of the world.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Spain 



''There was something strange to be noted. The transmission was being translated from English to all languages from the respectives countries the message was being transmited. Even camps from La Nueva Familia de Arzonia that were offering food to all homeless people stopped their activities to watch or hear the video.''

''In Spain, for being a country where the native language is Spanish, the video was being translated to Spanish. The same was happening all over the world, with the video appearing in the langague of the natives.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> North Korea 



''The KnightWalker dictatorship of North Korea, a country that used to be a Stalinist dictatorship, lacked electronic devices due to the closed economy to the world, but that did not prevent the video from being transmitted through the speakers scattered across the country... ''

''Speakers that are used to spread the word of their leader, Kim Sae-Hak, the current dictator of North Korea. A crime for doing this would lead another invasion to USA by the part of the Korean government but it seems the KnightWalker Alliance allowed the US to transmitt their word to their countries as they want answers as well, of course the American transmittion was under total surveillance by all KnightWalker governments.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Mexico 



Even for a country like Mexico, a nation that suffered a huge damage caused by the destruction of the state of Cancun, a terrible incident started by Akrak Couteau, seemed to be transmitting the live as well.

Many people were expecting to see all of their communication to the world outside blocked after the fall of Cancun and the thousands of dead people but the US government somehow opened their communications channels, allowing the population to have access to their important pronouncement.

<p style="text-align:center;"> France 



For even the KnightWalker Family, the current organization controlling the entire nation of France, to allow the entrance of the video in their TVs and electronic devices, the governments of the world must be really worried with sudden appearance of Brazil.

''Due to the nature of Brazil, the country found itself in a state of neutrality, the country, however, was the main economic supporter of all nations to both sides of war. The disappearance of Brazil was really a shock to KnightWalker Family and the directors wanted answers.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Germany 



''In Germany, a country that become a "prostitute" country for the KnightWalkers mobsters and crime lords... The video was being transmitted even to the cellphones of mobsters and criminals doing their illegal activities. ''

''When the US choose to show the video to all over the world, they did not choose the type of people who will watch the video. As the name says, the Universal Transmission is a live to all people, even serial killers are allowed to watch it as they are humans. And humans, no matter who they are, they need to know the truth behind Brazil's fall.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Russia 



''Even in countries like Russia, a country that was dominated by the New Sovietic Union, had access to the video. This time, Russia was not going to sent a virus to US's army defenses like they always did in order ot gain advantage over America.''

''Despite the world is a place that should never stop, private places like airport ompanies were transmitting the video. Even some trips were delayed or even cancelled to present US' statement. Hamdo may be an Anti-American dictator but he was also clueless about the incident in Brazil. If it was the Fallen's Essence's doing, he would be immediately informed.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> China 



For countries like China, where more than 80% of the territory fell in the grasp of KnightWalkers, terrorists or destroyed by the radiation of nuclear weapons, the video was being transmitted directly to the KnightWalkers and Russians' communication channel.

Despite the total destruction of China land, the last electronic devices installed inside of buildings, houses and apartments continued displaying the video, even if no one was watching it.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Algeria 



''When Asmodeus mentioned times ago that Brazil was one of the biggest place for drug dealing, he was not lying. Algeria is a place in Africa with many civil wars, drug and weapon trafficking. Most of the drugs and deadly war weapons went to Algeria and other countries in Africa. ''

''The sudden disappearance caused a huge impact to all crime lords of the world, mainly the ones in Africa. This annoucement of America about this called their attention in a blink of an eye.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Uganda 



''Uganda in 2036 is mostly known for being a placed filled with genocides and civil wars... Like it always was but over the years the rate of crimes and death toll increased so much that not even the KnightWalker Family dared to install themselves there. This caused the country to have few economic allies as corporations refused to built their branch there.''

Despite all those problems, even public places like aiport and train stations had access to Internet and other TVs channels, allowing at least a small part of the population to have access to the video.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Georgia 



''Despite nations like Georgia were under the total control of NUSSR, almost 90% had access to Internet and other important mordern devices. Being invaded does not mean you're being privated from using your own goods... At least if your country decides to surrunder without shooting a single bullet.''

In Georgia, most of the people watching the US' annoucement were young people who were always connected to Internet and worldwide news while most of the adult population had to work for NUSSR.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Novosic Kingdom 



When we mean "Novosic Kingdom", only the people inside of the Castelo's district are watching, be they citizens and people from the armed forces of Novosic and MPS. Due to CM's bad administration of the country, only 4% of the population were watching the transmission, but with limited time as CM refuses to see his workers stopped.

Only a few people tried to ignore then announcement as they were afraid of being killed CM's guards.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Portugal 



''When the world is plunged in a World War, you can always expected people profiting behind the slaughter and death of millions for the sake of money. In Portugal, the most famous worldwide businessmen who were owner of big companies were interrupted by the sudden US' transmission that stopped their auction.''

Due to the rich state of Portugal, almost 99% were watching the video, making 100,000,000 people connected to the video only in Portugal.

<p style="text-align:center;"> South Korea 



''South Korea is by a far point, one of the most organized places in the entire world, a place that over 3 decades became the third largest economic power of the world. However, after North Korea's invasion through the Korean Peninsula, the country was filled with people living in the north of country, causing the population to have less access to Internet and other electronic devices like TVs, radios, etc... ''

However, most of those people were moved to public places, where the government showed the American's Transmission, allowing more than 55,000,000 to be connected with video.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Taiwan 



- Mafusa 1: WE FINALLY GOT A HIGH SCHOOL GIRL!!

''And in Taiwan, a country that was filled with violence against woman after the arrival of remnants Japanese gangsters who escaped from Japan after Aki Honda's death--the video was being transmitted to all shopping and markets of the country... ''

''For some reason, citizens were not allowed to watch the video, probably because of the current bad relationships of Taiwan's government with US'. And because of that, many crimes against innocent like this one happening now, could have been avoided.''

- Girl: HEL--!!

''When the girl tried to scream for help to escape from that dark alley, one of the Mafusas punched her in the face, making her lose her consciousness. The gangster cleaned his hand from her blood and smiled maliciously.''

''- Mafusa 2: Strip her... Let's have some fun!''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Egypt 



''Some of US' actions can be really messed up... As they don't know the right place to link their messages to the world. However, in times of war, they need to make sure that 100% of the world's population is informed about Brazil's disappearance.''

''In Egypt, even planes flying above the country received the message, scaring the pilots for thinking it is a hacker trying to hack the control of the planes. But soon, the airport companies and other planes noticed this is an important US message.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Israel 



Israel has been in conflict with USA since the destruction of Fiore Kingdom by the hands of Eckidina KnightWalker but that does not stop the current government from allowing important news from USA from entering in their country, in fact as long they can have good relationships with USA, they might even recover lost territories to rival nations invading their territory.

''Due to many civil wars because of religious differences (like Yuri Barnes predicted), half of the population had no access to modern devices like smartphones and hologram messages. In Israel, 55% of the Muslim and Jew population were watching the US' important message to the world.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Nigeria 



''Nigeria is know being a place that is very poor but even in World War III, the people is smart enough to survive in their own way by collecting the rest of what soldiers left behind. Even some people managed to create their own televisions devices and radios to keep themselves informed if the war is going to over from their government.''

In Nigeria, 73,000,000 people are currently watching or listening to the video.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Godom Empire 



''Like KnightWalker Family, Godom Empire had some business in Brazil as well, like the illegal transportation of natural resources to their country. ''

''In Godom Empire, the message of US was allowed and was translated to different languages in the country, from Chinese, Indian, Korean and even Hebrew. Godom may be a dictatorship but you need to know the country is well administered nation where 80% of population are always informed of what is happening outside of the country.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> Chronos Empire 



''Chronos Empire was one of the first nations to receive the announcement from US in first hand. The reason behind this is because Chronos Empire is known for being the best economic partner of both continents of Asia and America.''

And due to the great human care of the country, 100% of the population were allowd to see the video from bus, trains, public places, shoppings, military bases and even from radios.

<p style="text-align:center;"> Laos 



''Laos was one of the most affected countries of World War III, resulting in the 45% of the territory's destruction caused by hydrogen bombs of NUSSR and Novosic Kingdom. That means all population of the country have no electricty much less Internet to know if the world is even alive.''

''Despite that, the government of US managed to bring back the radio stations of Laos' states, allowing all people living in underground bases to watch the video. Now more than 26,000,000 people are watching the video.''

<p style="text-align:center;">' Back to Fraxinus... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> Hangar 



Back to Fraxinus, where more people were coming to see US' announcenment, Cole MacGrath, who was in his training section approached the crowd with Tomas Sev beside him.

- Tomas: What is happening here?

Cole crossed his arms and replied.

''- Cole: I saw the logo of White House in all screens and monitor of the ship. It must be an important message from the American governement... Probably from the destruction of Cancun or the downfall of Brazil's Republic.''

''After Cole finished, the logo of White House faded and a male voice echoed from the screens in English. However, as mentioned above, the English language was translated to different languages depending on the country's native language.''

''- Message (male voice): [This is special report to world nations from Stabilization Union and KnightWalker Alliance from American Government. Please, inform the people around you, if you are watching this. There will be an important announcement from the American President Tom Bucky and his party. Please, view it as much as possible to avoid misunderstandings. For the next 24 hours, we will repeat this broadcast every hour. Please, inform any who have missed it.]''

<p style="text-align:center;">' Meanwhile... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> United States 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Washington 

<p style="text-align:center;"> White House 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Republican Studios 



After the initial message was finished, the image of the current President of USA, Tom Bucky was displayed in the all screens of the entire world, in telivisions, Internet lives, broadcasts, cellphones and many more...

The president was inside of the White House's studios, the place where all US presidents give their speechs to the American population.

''- Tom: Good morning and Good night to all fellow human being watching this broadcast. Thanks for taking your time for watching to this important transmission directly from the United States's center of power, the White House. My name is Tom Bucky, the current President of United States and one of the Seats at the Stablization Union's military alliance of America. I don't come here as your enemy, no matter your ethnicity, color, nationality, language, religion or even politicial believes. I come here as your ally, an ally to the human race. I'm not here as a warmonger figure or a jingoist leader. ''



Tom let out a smile to express confidence in his speech.

''- Tom: If you're American, Russian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese or even KnightWalker, that doesn't matter. What I and my close allies are going to tell you tonight will keep you and your family safe from danger. Unfortunely, I'm not here to declare the end of this bloody war that had already took the lives of 2 billion important human lives. Today, I'm here to explain the sudden disappearance of Brazil and the destruction of Cancun... We believe these two terrible incidents are related to the same force that DOES NOT belong to KnightWalker Alliance or Stabiilization Union.''



Tom closed his eyes and stood up from his chair and showed the camera of a satellite showing the shield covering Brazil.

''- Tom: 7 hours ago, at the timezone of South America, a black and white shield covered the entire nation of the Republic of Brazil. If you're living in America continent, you can still see it if you decide look at your West. Since the appearance of this unknown shield, there have been communication failures across the world for the first 2 hours since it appeared. The sphere of light and darkness has been causing significant disruption across America.''



Tom walked towards a giant window beside the monitor and showed the world outside.

''- Tom: For some reason, if you stay too long of the sphere of energy, the sphere of light and darkness will appear like several small lines cutting the sky. We believe it to be the effect of the stratosphere dissolving the light... What I told about this sphere is only the surface of the true monster lying below out noses... Today, we are going to remove the cover of our biggest lies about the world... We, the US government, lied to the entire world for centuries in order to hid the monster we have been trying to remove from the highlights. And today, I bring one of my most trusted allies to explain the what caused the destruction of Brazil and Cancun, Mexico.''



''Tom walked towards his desk and seated like a normal person. Just then, all 430 cameras recording Tom turned to the left and pointed to a beautiful office lady seated in a desk beside Tom... She had long black hair and extremely seductive purple eyes.... But there was something wrong... She seemed to be busy? She was playing sudoku right in front of billions.''

"......................"

''- Tom: This woman is called Mina Harker, the Managing Director of the STAR LABS. Mina Harker is a secret agent of the American Government resposible for the studies and research of supernatural forces and incidents. From the eyar of 1800 to 2000, the US government believed that supernatural forces, creatures that humans cannot comprehend, exist. Most of these events started around an American town known as Sleepy Hollow around 2013... The files of the local police continued in place even after 20 years, and this when we thought we needed a special force to lead with such creatures... You can call me crazy, lunatic or even insane but they EXIST. If you don't believe in Angels, Devils, Ghosts and Demons, don't worry... This is normal, humans refuse to accept what they cannot understand or see... But what Mina Harker is going to say today might break your faith and your believes.''

''Tom extended his hand and gave his time to Mina Harker to start her introduction. However, she seemed to be very busy to hear what he had to say.''

"..........................."



- Tom: Mina Harker?

''Now... Mina was doing manicure, she seemed to not be a bit worried with USA stopping the entire world only to show her.''

- Mina: What do you want you, old man?

"........................................"

''The silence was pure awkward... Just then, seconds later, Mina noticed all cameras were pointed at her.''

''- Mina: Oh my, it's my time already? That was fast. ''



''- Tom: No, it  is you who are being dumb here, Mist--I mean, Mina. You can start.''

''Mina then threw all her things she was eating, playing and drinking in the floor, cleaning her desk in a matter of seconds... Of course, the cameramen were scared with how calm she can be in front of the eyes of billions.''

''- Mina: Hello there, my fellow slav--humans beings. My name is Mina Harker, the Director of STAR LABS, a former top-secret corporation in charge of studying and researching the presence of entities that are non-normal in this world. Well... We are not secret anymore so... Yeah... Ah... Please, give up... You will not find nothing in Google if you search STAR LABS. We are a group formed after the sudden appearance of many supernatural incidents that started around 2013 in the town of Sleepy Hollow... We have been in charge of wiping out those creatures from the face of Earth for 2 decades. To start with, I'm not going to tell what truly happened in Brazil... But I'll tell the responsible who caused the downfall of Brazil and many other supernatural incidents around the world... ''

''Mina crossed her legs like if she was trying to seduce the viewers from the entire world... And she was being successful.''

<p style="text-align:center;"> - Mina: Do you believe in Demons?



''The cameramen and all allies of Tom gasped at the same moment... Some thought she was joking around because asking what many people consider to be fantasy must be one of the most idiot things you can do out there.''

''- Mina: Many of you don't believe in demons if you don't follow any religion. All religions of the world have antagonists to be played with. Devils, demons, creatures, hybrid monster, undead monsters... Most of the mythical creatures humans have created throughout history. Hydra, Medusa Gorgon, the Morrigan, Chupa-Cabra and creatures like Centaur, Harpies, Nymphs... They all exist. They are here with us since from the very beginning. We call them as the Ancient People of Earth as they were the first beings to step in this planet before even life existed. If you don't what is a demon, a demon is a supernatural and often malevolent being prevalent in religion, occultism, literature, fiction, mythology and folklore. In Ancient Near Eastern religions as well as in the Abrahamic traditions, including ancient and medieval Christian demonology, a demon is considered a harmful spiritual entity, below the heavenly planes which may cause demonic possession, calling for an exorcism. In Western occultism and Renaissance magic, which grew out of an amalgamation of Greco-Roman magic, Jewish Aggadah and Christian demonology, a demon is believed to be a spiritual entity that may be conjured and controlled. They are pure spirits of malevolence, they cannot feel love or even compassion for other beings except themselves. ''



''The cameramen seemed to lost their cool and all viewers seduced by her beauty returned to the real world when she declared the existence of legendary creatures. Unlike her previous persona who was sloppy and clumsy, she was now serious to the point she could hypnotize people with her remarkable words.''

''- Mina: What we are talking about here are the Black Demons... Those demons are known for being physical beings. There are two types of demons, demons that be physical beings known as Black Demons and the invisible demons that can be only by shadows or other kind of mystical methods known as Seirduizhal. Long before humans existed, the world was already occupied by demons from all species, billions years ago, this world once belonged to demons. In the current days, there are only two species of demons, these beings are the evil entities I mentioned before, Black Demons and Seirduizhal. The legends of werewolves, vampires, ogres and all other forms of legendary creatures are all forms of demons seen over the course of history. ''

Tom extended his hands to ask Mina.

- Tom: So you're saying demons are the beings behind the occupation of Brazil?

Mina giggled and gave a death glare to Tom.



''- Mina: Fufufu... Wait a little bit more, President... Your time will come... Over the course of history, demons gained an ability to gain the characteristics of other organic beings by merging with them. Just like humans developed weapons, demons changed their own bodies into powerful weapons by this merging. Demons are beings who feed from negative feelings like depression and sadness. They enjoy the suffering of people so much that over the years they gained the ability merge themselves with humans as well. Black Demons are known for their extremely high-negative energy so they can easily fuse themselves with other organic beings and use them as vessels to become stronger. They don't need to find a host human who is suffering from deep depression to take over his or her body. ''

Mina stood from her chair with a grin.

''- Mina: One of the examples I can bring here is the famous director of Sephira Gastronomics, Lusamine. During my journey to find more evidences of the existence of demons we, from STAR LABS, formed a temporary pact with the Sephira Gastronomics in Africa, where we have been travelling to study the ancient people of Earth.''

One of Tom's ministers looked at Mina and asked.

- US Minister: And by ancient people you mean demons, right?

Mina nooded with a smile.



''- Mina: Correct. The appearances of monsters and mystical creatures humans have seen over the years, caused Lusamine to take interest in our research. And as the managing director Lusamine studied these monsters, who are actually Black Demons in different forms, the ancient people of Earth, she began to change. Lusamine's personality changed drastically, her appearance changed and even her mode of talking changed. Lusamine, before the start of World War III, was far more composed, gentle and somehow playful... When this bloody war broke out, countless reports of violation of human rights from the Sephira Gastronimics started to arrive at the office of the Human Rights at United States and other headquarters of the Global Pact Defense all over the world. All companies of news from the world have been showing this for months, that Sephira Gastronomics abandoned their old method of using animals as guinea pigs to achieve cure to lethal diseases... When this war started, the Sephira Gastronomics formed an alliance with a secret corporation known as Manufacturing Progressive Sciences, the dreadful organization behind the disappearance of thousands of people all over the world... Many of you recall the days that people were disappearing and their bodies returning to the same place where they were last saw.''

''All ministers and supporters of Tom gasped in shock, they knew Lusamine was somehow related to human experiments after the WWIII broke out but to think she related to the disappearances of countless lives over the last few weeks was impossible... But of course... She was lying.''



''- Mina: In December 9, 2036 at exactly 05:32 AM, I had a meeting with Lusamine to talk about her recent behavior about this war... Instead of answering me why she was acting like that since our trip. Instead of answering me, she attacked me and said this war needs to go on for the sake of someone called Astaroth King... Luckily, I escaped from her grasp and never returned to her company in Europe. I have been studying this person called "Astaroth" and I discovered that Astaroth, in demonology, is the Great Duke of Hell in the first hierarchy with Beelzebub and Lucifer; he is part of the evil trinity. He is a male figure most likely named after the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar. Connecting the events of human history and Lusamine's sudden corruption, I discovered this war, the World War III, allowed the Black Demons grow stronger than before.''

"..............."



One of the politicians watching her speech rose his hand to ask something that was instiganting him.

''- Politician: Wait! So you're saying demons are HUMANS?!''

''- Mina: Correct. The reason why Lusamine is missing for weeks is probably because she was taken over by her demon. Just a few weeks ago, Lusamine could be found in her office working at the main branch of her company but now she is missing for weeks and the KnightWalker Special Police don't know about her whereabouts yet. Somewhere along the line, she has become a demon. To cut to the chase, the Black Demons we are speaking about are demons in a sense since almost 70% of all humans of the world have a demon inside of them. Humans are intelligent beings so they can choose to commit good and evil deeds... No matter if you are a priest, a nun or even the Pope, you will always a personal demon inside of you... And this World War III is causing people to lose control of their emotions in a world filled with death and chaos...''

Mina walked towards Tom's desk and stood up in front of him.



''- Mina: Before the WWIII, Director Lusamine was deeply dissatisfied about how the world is changing with humans starting wars all over the globe... When the KnightWalker Family invaded Liberty City 3 years ago, she had decided to change the world for a better place by using all the potential of her power to create the best cure and antidotes of the world's history. While this is a good goal in mind, this shows how deeply disappointed she was with the world. After many years of study with psychiatrists from the University of GDP at Los Santos, I came to the conclusion that Lusamine's dissatisfaction with the world may have allowed a Black Demon to take over her body and use her negative emotions about the world to become more powerful... When this WWIII started, Lusamine and many other people worried with the world's current state started to lose their mind and sanity... More importantly, Black Demons are a variant species, they can take many forms of monsters that not even Hollywood's directors have imagined it. These creatures can take forms of twisted lovecraftian horrors like sea monsters, mutated insects, hybrid monsters and even humanoid figures... Each Black Demon with a different appearance will choose a host to invade with the personality that matches its appearance... That means if you have love for sports, a Black Demon with the appearance of a tall, thin and black humanoid figure will watch over you at night and enter in your mind to wait for a moment to gain a stronger physical body.''

"..............."

One of the reporters recording Mina jumped off her chair with excitement.



''- Reporter: So you're saying that any person who refuses to accept the world or is dissatisfied with society have a grand potential to become a Black Demon? ''

Mina almost laughed but she managed to hold her laugh.

''- Mina: Bingo. In other words, there is no way to escape from Black Demons... The only way to prevent yourself from being dominated by your demon is to accept the world how it is now. The chaos and death caused by this war allows the demons to become stronger but as long you accept the world how it is, refusing to show any emotions of how much do you hate this world to never exist, the Black Demon will continue inside of your body OR even give up on you and search for another person who can easily accept his existence by denying the world around her.''

''The reporters now were confused... That means there was no way to escape from the Black Demons but to become some kind of psychopath to enjoy the destruction of the world.''



''- Mina: Now if you think Black Demons only possess humans you're wrong. Sure, you can fuse themselves with other animals but they can also possess them just like they do with humans. Animals like dogs, cats, chickens, horses, sharks, bears, tigers and all ohter kind of non-rational being in this planet can be easily controlled by those evil entities. Because of the lack of intelligence in animals, the Black Demons can easily take over their mind and control their bodies as they wish... The difference is that animals do not turn the Black Demons stronger as they are when they possess a human body.''

"...................."



''Mina then walked towards her desk and noticed she threw her files on the ground just a few minutes ago. Mina got in her knees and opened her files, after a few seconds she showed dozens of photos of mutated animals and insects.''

''- Mina: The STAR LABS have been studying those demons for years as they are physical and can studied through scientific methods. We came to the conclusion that Black Demons are really more dangerous than the non-physicial demons as they are even more powerful and destructive to the point of destroying and consuming entire towns alone. For a Black Demon to go stronger like this, he need to consume more than 900,000 human souls, which may take centuries considering not all humans are depressive... However, during times of war and crisis, millions of people will suffer directly somehow. At the time of World War II, the Black Demons got stronger than ever by feeding from the hate of soldiers at the battielfield and the sadness of their families... When this World War III started, those demons had a full banquet for them... 2 billion of death toll. Billions of innocent lives destroyed like flies. Billions of families plunging themselves depression. The destruction of our nuclear weapons. These times of darkness allowed the Black Demons from all eras, demons who have been feeding of humans for thousand years, to grow so powerful that they finally managed to take over one of the biggest countries in this planet, Brazil, the largest country of South America.''



''Soon afterwards, Mina showed another image... But it was not a photo of mutated Black Demon, but a photo in the monitor behind Tom Bucky... That photo was the best look of the Ragnarok that occurred 3 months ago, when Heis tried to destroy the world at the battle of Aldegyr Kingdom... It was the photo of the entire world covered in red and crosses.''

''- Mina: Now, it's time finally show you the truth that the Stabilization Union decided to hid from the world... Many of you remember this day, right? Soon after La Folia Rihavein's execution at the hands of Kanon Rihavein... This incident was so scary that 5 billion people posted comments all over internet declaring the crosses was the return of God after the infinite chaos and suffering all over the globe... But it wasn't God... It was not the Apocalypse... It was not the end of times and the Judgement's Day... What happened that day was the first DECLARATION of the Black Demons to the world.''



Mina turned her back to the reporters and looked over the image in delight.

''- Mina: At that day, almost 312 countries of the world were invaded and attacked by countless black-like figures that resulted in the death of 5 million people. What if I say that Stabilization Union created a lie to cover the truth that those things were not actually Magi-Tech soldiers created by the New Sovietic Union but were the most avarage types of Black Demon troops?''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

''The reporters were so scared that some really tried hard to ask why the SU decided to  cover the truth of the Black Demons but soon Mina replied their questions in mind. She went towards to one of the reporters' seat and grabbed his beer with rudeness yet keeping her soft personality.''



''- Mina: Why the SU decided to cover the truth? Because us, the STAR LABS, thought it was too soon to introduce the existence of Black Demons to the world knowing that we had not enough informations about them. We planned bring this to the top one day but not like today, when the Black Demons would dare to take down the Republic of Brazil... Seeing how those things became stronger, we had no other choice but to explain what is truly happening.''

''Mina started to drink in front of the cameras but she seemed to be so delicated that she fell on the ground in the first drink. She was so clumsy and cute somehow that it was almost impossible this woman is behind one of the most important moviments of the world's history.''

- Tom: Do you need help?

Mina tried to grab in his desk wit her arm and made her way up.

''- Mina: N-No... I'm okay... I spoke so much that now I'm thrist. I can continue this all da---''

".......!!!!!!!!!"

''Mina could not... She throw up right in front of the cameras while the entire world was watching... This woman surely knew how to destroy a tense moment.''



''- Reporter 2: Eh... Excuse me, Lady Harker... Many of us here have questions but since we are in an Universal Transmission, we are not allowed to ask more than enough... Knowing the Black Demons are the organization or group behind the downfall of Brazil, what exactly will happen to all Brazilians and tourists from other nations living there? There is a way to break the shield and allow the entrance and exit of people from inside?''

Mina put the beer in her desk and cleaned her mouth, now she behaving like a normal person who did not throw up a few seconds ago.

''- Mina: That's a good question... Look, right now there 340,000,000 people inside of the White and Black shield covering the surface of Brazil. No one can enter or leave. And I fear there is nothing we can do to rescue those people. We have been studying the spells and black magic related to Black Demons. We have saw this type of spell before in our labs, this shield is called as...''

<p style="text-align:center;">' - Mina: ... the Will of Qliphoth '

''Mina continued in a dramatic way of speaking while the reporters, cameramen and other Tom's allies were about to throw up just like she did before... She was introducing so many shocking revelations that it was impossible to keep their cool as mature humans.''



''- Mina: There is no way to destroy the Will of Qliphoth's shield considering it is formed by magic from another dimension we don't even know about... And you asked what will happen to all people inside of this shield, right? Well... I fear they will be all... DEVOURED.''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

It was the last drop of water, some cameramen ran to the bathroom to throw up just like Mina did before.

''- Tom: WHAT?! ''

Not even Tom could keep his mouth shut this time.



''- Mina: Exactly, Mister President... There is nothing that can be done to save those people. Once you're inside of the Will of Qliphoth there is no turning! The Will of Qliphoth is a powerful shield made of spirits that can resist even explosions of supernovas...! They will all die and become food of the Black Demons to grow stronger by feeding of their despair and meat...! In other words, even the people living in desert areas and on the middle of green areas will be consumed in no time... They are already dead. There is also a possibility that even their souls can be consumed...! If humans have souls!''

''What Mina said left dozens of people angered... Her words were so rude, brutal and cruel that billions of humans watching over her wondered how someone so cold like her say that while smiling like an innocent office lady.''

''- US Minister 2: Y-You... How can you... What in the world are you? ''

With the same soft and innocent smile, Mina replied.



''- Mina: A warrior of justice! I fight for mankind but if we want victory over those demons we need to step in the lives of others to win this war! Right now, those demons are mocking us for destroying ourselves in this destructive war! Nowl ladies and gentlemen, it is time to show how a human can turn inot a Black Demon... ''

''Mina then put her hand in her breast pocket and removed a silver locket, within it was an extremely discolored photograph. In that photograph, contained the figures of Mana Takamiya and her younger brother when they were still children... Mana's younger brother died months ago when Mana arrived on Earth. His death caused Mana to stay on Earth to find a new life.''

<p style="text-align:center;">- Mina: 'This is the only thing that STAR LABS could catch to remember the sacrifice of this girl... Saddly, we don't know her name and we could not find her family as they seemed to be at Rio at the time as well. This girl you're looking at this photo was at Rio de Janeiro when the Black Demons attacked and locked the country, preventing all life forms from escaping from the nation. During the invasion, one of our agents recorded the invasion and sent us the video that caught this poor and innocent girl being turned into a Black Demon by other demons... Be careful... What you will watch now is heartbreaking.'

<p style="text-align:center;">' Meanwhile... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> Fraxinus 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Hangar 



"..........................................."

The entire sip of Fraxinus fell in total silence when they saw the photo of Mana and her brother at the hands of that woman known as Mina Harker...

''- Lucas: That silver locket... It was one of Mana's only memories about her brother... What that precious memory is doing at the hands of that woman...''

''Katarina and all the Rogues' eyes were covered with the shadows. No one dared to open their mouth to question what they just saw except for Lucas, who was slowly being dominated by his anger. The feelings the Rogues were feeling now were pure wrath for showing Mana's photo with her deceased brother to the entire world without a shred of compassion for Mana, an precious and important friend that everyone lost today. ''



- Katarina: ..............

Katarina clenched her fists and was ready to punch the screen with all her strength but Kotori stopped her from doing so.

''- Kotori: Katarina... No... It's enough...''

''Katarina fell in her knees and started to cry again without saying a single word... However, she was not the only one who felt that feeling of punching the screen right in the face of Mina Harker.''

- Kotori: Mina Harker...

Kotori sharpened her eyes in wrath and clenched her fists until her fingers pierced her palms, making her hands bleed.

- Atala (think): *How you dare step in her memories like that...*

''From all Rogues, Atala was the only controlled but also... the most sensitive.''

<p style="text-align:center;">' Back to White House... '



''Back to the White House, where Mina showing the photo of Mana and her brother to the world. After showing Mana's photo, Mina put a glass and pulled out a control from her pocket... Again... With that innocent smile that seemed now not be cute at all, but for the lack of words... Devilish.''

''- Mina: I'm sad to inform that our agent from STAR LABS also could not escape from Brazil at time when the Black Demons attacked but as an agent of STAR LABS, he managed to send the video via Internet to our HQ in United States. This video is the proof of is sacrifice. For security, we will not say his name here but I want to make it clear to his family, that as a person who fought for mankind, he followed his heart and dream of getting rid of demons of this world. He will be remembered by us as a hero who allowed us, STAR LABS to discover the truth behind how humans become Black Demons... Right now, we will show you all a video of how humans become Black Demons via psychological corruption. Please, watch with attention.''

Mina then pressed a buttom in the control and the photo of the world covered with crosses, the incident caused by Heis, changed to a video format of Rio de Janeiro in flames.

Video
''When Mina started the video, the first thing that was shown in the video was the scenary of the streets of Rio in flames and darkness. There were explosions happening everywhere and thousands of people running down the streets to escape from spider-like monsters running towards them in order to devour them. Not only spiders but ghouls and bunnies as well...''

The Black Demons were getting humans in their hands one by one and bitting off their faces with hunger for meat and thrist for blood.

''The cameramn recording that hidden behind many destroyed cars in flames while the loud screams of despair and pain of the humans being devoured hid the sounds of shots and explosions happening all over the town. Seeing the demons devouring the  humans on the middle of the street, the cameraman decided that place was not safe and ran away... Until he stopped in another street where he saw Mana surrounded by several Bunnies and a giant shadow-like figure staring at her from above... That shadow figure was Astaroth King himself. Meters away from her, he saw Jin Kisaragi on floor staring at Mana being violated by those things on the middle of flames and dead bodies everywhere.''



- Mana: AAAAAHHHHAHAHAAAAAAHHA!

The long and painful screams of Mana continued for a long time until some parts of her screams started to sound like laughs.

- Mana: 'JIN!!!! RUNN!!!!'

''Mana's hair started to change as some kind of black smoke was entering in her body through her nose, mouth, eyes and even her private parts. When almost all black matter entered in her body, her skin started to be colored with black, her hair became white and her were glowing red... But her pain continued intensely as she had her innocence and sanity violated by Astaroth King's Blackness.''

''- Jin: MANA!! I'LL NOT LEAVE Y--!''



When Jin tried to stand up even with his broken leg, Astaroth King forced Mana's right hand to become into a demonic hand with long claws and forced her arm to attack Jin when he tried attack the bunnies and Astaroth King with his Magi-Tech sword.

- Jin: AAAHHHHH!!!

''Mana's sharp claws cut through Jin's belly and opened a huge and fatal injury in his stomach. Jin was throw away like if he was nothing while Mana tried to hold her arm from moving by itself. The body of Jin hit a car with all the weight of his body and he fell his consciousness.''



''- Mana: STOP IT! STOP IT! I'M NOT ONE OF YOU!!''

''As Mana continued to fight his control, Astaroth King created a black arm inside of his shadow and touced Mana's head, unleashing thousans of spiders in her head, devouring her eyes skin from outside out. Some of the spiders entered in her ears and went all their way to her brain whole others entered by her mouth and fused themselves with her body.''

- Mana: 'NOOOOO!!!! IT HURTS! IT HURTS!!! STOP!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!'

<p style="text-align:center;">' - Astaroth King: [NO! YOU'RE ONE OF US!! YOU'RE THE ARACHNID OF LIMBO!!] '



''As Mana continued to scream in pain of many spiders violating her face, Astaroth King unleashed more spiders in her human arm and allowed thousands of spiders to bite and eat her arm until it fell off... Which was now a ritual to turn Mana in a Black Demon became a brutal torture section that no human in this world dared to think of.''

- Mana: Ahh!!-Ah....A̼h͉h̼-̜A̰h̖.̧.̧.̞

Slowly, Mana lost her forces and could no longer scream.

''- Astaroth King: [Become one with us! Your pain will become our strength! And your hatred our will!]''

''After her arm fell off, the blackness of Astartoh King surrounded Mana and her body was changing slowly in a new form... Her hair was white and spiky, her skin was blue, she had three horns made of light... Feared by the brutal section of torture and seeing a small girl like Mana being violated by those things, the cameraman hidden behind many rocks decided to sent what he recorded so far to the HQ of STAR LABS via-Internet considering that video to be the greatest prove of the existence of Black Demons. The modern cameras from 2036 allows the person to sent their photos and videos to internet without problem and with just one click, he sent the video with more than 10 minutes of duration to STAR LABS in USA.''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

- Mana???:  .........................

''At the same second the cameraman of STAR LABS sent that video to USA, the camera omitted a thin sound that could be heard from far away despite the sound of shots, screams and explosions happening everywhere. He did a great mistake... Instead of sending the video to USA, he connected his camera to a broadcast of STAR LABS, creating some kind of accidental live of freak show.''



''Astaroth King and the bunnies looked at the cameraman and the poor human started to tremble in fear when he noticed he was discovered by those monsters... But what attacked were not the monsters around Mana... But something that came out of the Astaroth King's Blackness... For better words, from the same place where Mana was standing while being tortured by Astaroth King. ''

''- Astaroth: [A guest... What a nice timing.]''

The creature that ran towards the man was not human, it was a tall and thin figure with a demonic gaze of hatred and coldness.

- STAR Agent: H-HELP!!



''The STAR LABS agent tried to run away for his life but it was useless, the creature with red glowing eyes was faster and easily knocked him down with her claws. When he looked up, he immediately noticed what was above him was a woman... An attractive woman with several spider arms in her back, fangs of a vampire and claws of a monster... And that thing came from exactly where Mana was...''

''- STAR Agent: N-NO! ''

''When the spider woman let out a sadistic grin, the man immediately noticed what was going to happen. The camera he was holding fell from his hands and landed right beside him. When the camera hit the floor, it showed the image of Astaroth King as a tall and creepy shadow figures with many red eyes all over his body watching over the spider woman and the STAR Agent.''

- Mana???: B̦e͖a̫u̪t̩i̺f̱u̧l̗ ̢f̤a̪c̰e̠ ̠o̻f̝ ̨d͕e͇s̫p͔a̫i̭r̜!!!

''The spider woman then used her spider arms to pierce the agent's stomach and started to drink his blood, organs and even bones using those monstruous arms...Even if the camera was showing another angle, the viewers could clearly see that spider arms were injecting a white liquid that was melting the man from inside, allowing the spider woman to drink every single particle of his body with those arms. It took not so long for her to use her own teeth to bite the neck of the man while using her hands to keep his mouth shut.''

''The video continued like that... And Astaroth King was just there, looking at the creature once known as Mana Takamiya, devouring a human like a true spider.''

Real World


''The reaction of all politicians, reporters, cameramen and Tom's allies were same... And of course, the expected reaction of sheer terror. If it was only the people inside of White House... But almost 80% of all people watching had the same reaction while the other 20% could not even watch until the final without going somewhere else to throw up after witnessing such brutal video...''

''Many people really tried to consider that video a CG animation but that was too damn realistic to be considered fake... In addition, the US government would never do such important announcement only to show a CG animation. Only ignorants would think like that. But one thing is true: that video is 100% real... And what Jin said about Mana becoming a Black Demon was also 100% true.''



''- Mina: As you could see, this is how humans become Black Demons. We don't why but there are some Black Demons that can easily turn humans in other demons without problem. As you watched, that young girl became one of them... No matter how much she fought, she was easily corrupted... That only shows how the Black Demons are stronger than humans. If this is true, that means humans don't need to be possessed by Black Demons to become one of them. This video is the proof that humans can become Black Demon with as an individual being, with one body and one mind!''

Mina smiled seductively at the cameras as she exposed the existence of humans that can become Black Demons without possession of other Black Demons.

- Reporter 3: 'SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT SOME OF THE BLACK DEMONS ARE HUMANS?!! YOU MEAN US, HUMANS, ARE OUR OWN DEMONS?!!'

"........................."



''This reporter could not hide his fear and despair, he was clearly out of himself after witnessing that humans like himself can become Black Demons even if they are expressing any negative emotions... The eyes of Mina were becoming more and more demonic as she continued speaking with excitement.''

- Mina: 'Exactly, my dear! If this is true, that means there are two types of Black Demons! The Pure-Blooded Black Demons born as true demons and finally the Half-Black Demons! Who are humans who became Black Demons! Once a Pure-Blooded Black Demon possess you, this demon will slowly consume your body and mind to control it... But that does not make you necessarily a Black Demon as it is the demon using your body... But in the case of that girl, she BECAME one of them!'



Mina then smiled at the reporters with happiness.

''- Mina: But do not worry, my fellows. We can still win this battle against Black Demons! Black Demons are evil entities who need a person who is drown in her own negative feelings. People with depression due to family problems? People who are feeling suicidal after losing a job or losing some loved one? People plunged in their own bad emotions due to suffering bullying in school perhaps? People holding a hatred for someone who caused harm to him or her? The Black Demons seek people like that, humans who are exposed to negative emotions like sadness, hatred, fear, depression, misery... ''

".............................."



''Tom stood up from his chair... Now, even Tom thought she went to far this time.''

''- Tom: WAIT! WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH THAT?!''

Mina let out a grin and looked back at Tom.

''- Mina: We cannot win this war considering there are Black Demons who are able to turn humans and animals into demons like one of them. More importantly, these demons don't need to find a person who is broken for personal reasons as they can turn even the most happy-happy and innocent humans into Black Demons... However, we can still fight them by finding these people with negative feelings. People revolted how the world is going like Lusamine are an example... Even if you think the world is now bad, thinking that this place world sucks and shows dissatisfaction with society is an open door for Black Demons to enter in your mind and letting them do whatever they want with you.''

''At that point, even Tom alreay knew the "cure" to get rid of Black Demons... But he was too scared to say that in the front of billions, thinking his words might one day return to him in the bad way.''



- Mina: Even if you manage to bring these negative people back to the light via psychological re-animation, the demon still inside of this person and will not leave 'UNTIL HE FEELS... PAIN!'

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

''Tom knew it... Actually 23% of all people watching the broadcast knew that it was coming.''

- Reporter 4: Don't tell me...

''Mina interrupted the reporter... Now, no one dared to ask another question for that woman.''



''- Mina: There are two ways to repel the existence of Black Demons inside of humans... The first method is: TORTURE. If the host feels psychological and physical pain, the demon inside of this person will give up in his or her body as even demons don't like pain, much like us, normal living beings. When demons possess a person, they are exposed to many weakness. If the host feels pain, pleasure, happiness and even sadness, the demon wil felt that as well, but the difference is that he will feed from the negative emotions of the person... So torture must do it! ''

''The reporters and even Tom's allies were no longer looking at Mina with normal eyes, they were scared of her... However, no one could deny she was telling the truth.''



''- Mina: And now the second and most brutal cure is: DEATH. If the host, be they human or animal is killed at some point due to natural or even external causes, the demon living inside of his or her body wil perish with him without possibility of returning to life. ''

Mina walked towards the camera with widened eyes of drama.

''- Mina: This is the truth of the Black Demons, who are to be considered the most dangerous enemy mankind have faced before since the Black Plague! The only way to protect the modern civilization is to find all people who holds dissatisfaction with society and expose these people to lethal torture before they can become demons. If the person is in a near state of death even hours and days of torture, the demon will not leave his body. That means erradicate this person is the best way to get rid of the Black Demon before it can take over his or her body and becoming a real threat to all humans.''

''Mina then clapped her hands as some people inside of White House had already starting to doubt each other.. That woman may be scare but no one there can deny she is saying the truth considering Brazil has fallen to the hands of Black Demons.''



''- Mina: The destruction of Cancun is also related to Black Demons as well. The end of that state was the first declaration of their existence in this planet and only shows how powerful they are. If a Black Demon who is alive for more than 2,000 years that means this demon should be considerd a SSS+ threat. ''

''Mina grabbed the beer in her desk and started to drink again... Destroying the tense moment for quite some time.''

''- Mina: Once the Black Demon is alive and in his Perfect Demon form, the only to kill this demon is to use the nature's element, fire. But there is also another way to kill them: the use of Blessed Artifacts from the Catholic and Protestant church like the Ancient Artifacts of Rome. Don't waste your time using a Bible, Holy Water, crucifix and religious third. They are useless against Black Demons... More importantly, don't go hid in Churchs, there is nowhere that Black Demons can't reach. The Church is the most dangerous place to stay as people who are aware they are hosts of Black Demons will be there to somehow free their bodies and souls from the Black Demon... Useless.''



''Mina then stopped drinking and put the bottle of beer in her desk again... Just like before, she continued smiling kindly and put both of her hands in her back.''

''- Mina: Now, what I'm going to say will probably hurt the feelings of some people! Due to the high-threat of Black Demons increasing each day, the leadership of Stabilization Union will be all transferred to ME and my office since the fomer proved the ineffective against both Black Demons and even KnightWalker Alliance. This was decided yesterday even before the downfall of Brazil. The purpose of putting us in power is with the solo purpose of ensure security and order of the world. Don't think bad of us. Saddly, STAR LABS will only be in control of SU countries so we wish all KA countries well and good luck in your fight against the Black Demons.''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

''That was the last thing that many people refused to hear... The Stabilization Union is the strongest military alliance of the world, even more than the KnightWalker Alliance, putting someone in power like Mina Harker means 67% of the countries of the world allied to SU will be under the control STAR LABS.''

<p style="text-align:center;">- Mina: 'STAR LABS will control all armed forces of the SU and to prevent more people from becoming Black Demons, we will continue this war until all humans reach a peaceful method to end this conflict. Due to the times of war, the Black Demons are getting more powerful, so we need to deal with this with IRON FIST! '

<p style="text-align:center;">'Places like Internet will lose the NET NEUTRALITY that keeps people as anonymous. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'Schools will be under the control of the military, all buildings will be under the vision of STAR LABS through cameras. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'All people will work under the surveillance of soldiers experienced in dealing with Black Demons. All religions will forbidden considering people with different religions might start conflicts. '

<p style="text-align:center;">All places of leisure will be demolished to build laboratories!

<p style="text-align:center;">Shoppings and all othe markets will be closed!

<p style="text-align:center;">'All people will obliged to attend a military base to install a chip that will allow us to analyze your mental health. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'All criminals will be executed, no matter if they crime go only to robbery to homicide... People with BAD MINDS will easily allow Black Demons to appear all over the world. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'All pregnant women will have to say in home. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'Children will no longer play outside considering the high risk of attacks. '

<p style="text-align:center;">All people with mental problems will be cremated for OBVIOUS reasons.

<p style="text-align:center;">Kids committing evil deeds like bullying and even abusing animals is a signal of a Black Demon taking part in his mind, if we see this kind of children this kid will be EXECUTED.

<p style="text-align:center;">All public transports will be locked.

<p style="text-align:center;">All people engaging in fights and conflicts will be arrested and tortured.

<p style="text-align:center;">The police will have total access to fire against citizens if they disobey one single order of the agent!

<p style="text-align:center;">All criminals inside of prisons shall be executed from tomorrow onwards!

<p style="text-align:center;">'All weapons under the possession of citizens shall be brought to the SU headquarters of your town... And so go on. '

<p style="text-align:center;">'You must forgive us but this is necessary for the sake of mankind... Tomorrow, the US president Tom Bucky will removed from his post and I shall assume the leadership of SU taking my part at the First Seat of the Council of GDP and becoming the Central World Leader of Stabilization Union!'

''Mina walked towards the camera with that same... Soft... Smile that was no longer gentle like before...''



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Mina: Now, to finish this. Tomorrow, there will be planes and ships throwing papers from the skies all over the countries allied to SU. These papers will explain all the rules of the new Stabilization Union's Anti-Demon methods, anyone who disobey those rules will be severely punished like I said before. More importantly, if you find any person who shows dissatisfaction with society and or present serious emotional problems, contact the STAR LABS's Department of your town! You'll be helping saving lives! In 1 week, all police departmens of all countries will be replaced by STAR LABS' Special Division. If you find yourself in a dangerous situation, you need to erradicate this person before they become demons! Have you notice around you who has suddenly changed? Someone who is suddenly a different person? If so, BEWARE! Demons are not idiots! They're cunning and smarter than humans! If you notice someone who is slightly different, be HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS! Once the Black Demon reveals itself, it is too late! The only way to avoid this demonic Apocalypse from happening is by killing that person... ''

<p style="text-align:center;">' "..................................." '

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Mina: ... F̪̳͇͕͚̪̘͂̀̐́̓͌͝I̪͖̥̰̱͔͕̋̾̆̀͆̎͝R̫̖͉̩͔̥̈́̐̓͑̑͘̕͜Ŝ̛͚͈͖̼̝̂̀͆̓̕ͅͅṪ̡̡̛͈͎͈͙̯̽̿̈́̉ ''



<p style="text-align:center;">' Meanwhile... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> Back to Fraxinus 

<p style="text-align:center;"> Hangar 



''Just after her voice sounded more like... "Demonic", the broadcast ended with End Transmission screen without warning. But everyone knew that broadcast was going to repeat for the next 24 hours.''

- Katarina: That bitch...

''Katarina and the Rogues were staring the screen in pure rage... But soon, a strange feeling cold felt by everyone there... The officers of Ratatokr were trying to avoid to looked at face of each other. Seconds later, all officers started to walk away from the screen without saying a word.''

".............................."



''- Roy: This is a bad situation, Kotori... I never thought the Global Pact Defense would sell themselves to that supernatural division.''

Kotori crossed her arms and started to tremble.

''- Kotori: This is bad. If Tom Bucky will be removed from his post as the US President, that means all the Global Pact Defense's Board of Members will be removed from their posts as well and new members chosen by Mina Harcker will take their place. The STAR LABS are just like us, Ratatoskr. They are a top-secret military division in charge of their respective matters... But I never thought an organization equal to us had such power over an entire military alliance... Worse, Mina Harker could one disband our organization.''



Tomas and all the Rogues approached Kotori with sad expressions, except for Tomas who was more angered than down.

''- Tomas: Kotori, what we are going to do now?! That means we will have to follow the orders of that annoying bitch?! I feel that woman is more dangerous than Eckidina KnightWalker, Heis, the Fallen's Essence, Unit-CM 130, King Hamdo, Michael Langdon, Kim Sae-Hak, Junko Enoshima and Tathagater Killer all together! I refuse to show any loyalty for someone who mocked from our friend!''

''Everyone had to agree with Tomas, the way how Mina mocked Mana for being turned into a Black Demon was revolting... But thanks to her, they know she is alive... As a Black Demon, making some people relieved as they had hopes they will one day bring her back home.''



''- Lucas: I agree! That sex--Annoying bitch will turn the Stabilization Union in a dictatorship just like the KA, that only means our fight against Fallen's Essence will mean nothing considering we are no better than the KnightWalkers fighting for dominance! If the two sides are disgusting factions, then I prefer let this world die with the beasts killing each other!''

While the Rogues were discussing about Mina's rise to power, Asuha Chigusa, who was studying Barnes' teaching and things about Qliphoth, was looking down in frustation.

''- Asuha (think): *Yuri Barnes was right... If humans discovered the existence of Black Demons at this modern era, we would be brought to an era of chaos. The World War III will become less important! Mina Harker... Who the hell is that woman?! How the Witch Cult, the organization in charge of keep the existence of demons in secret, will react to this?! I have a bad feeling about this.*''

''Asuha looked around and saw some Ratatoskr officers starting at each other in total mistrust... It was only normal, if you remember someone who was crying yesterday you will probably think this person must have a Black Demon inside for her.''

''- Tomas: Even so, Kotori! Do you really plan to let he--!''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



''Just as Tomas was speaking with Kotori and all the Rogues, everyone heard the sound of weapons being aimed at their heads at the backs. When Tomas looked back, he saw several Ratatoskr soldiers aiming their rifles at his head.''

''- Ratatoskr Officer: We saw your fight at Rio through Ratatoskr's cameras... The way how you killed those guards...''

''Not only soldiers but all officers of Ratatoskr who saw the news of Rio were aiming pistols at him. At the videos of Rio Hotel, Tomas was seen killing the police officers of BOPE and Policia Civil using brutal methods of TORTURE while he was laughing about it... There was no doubt that Tomas would be the first people suspected to be a Black Demon or even starting to become one.''

''- Ratatoskr Soldier: And your black blood... When you arrived at Fraxinus, we saw how non-human your blood is at infirmary! '''TOMAS SEV! YOU'RE A DEMON! YOU'RE NOT EVEN HUMAN!'

Tomas widened his in shock and immediately tried to protect himself with words.



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Tomas: NO! I'M NOT A BLACK DEMON!! ''

<p style="text-align:center;">"....................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

<p style="text-align:center;"> [BANG!] 

Lyrics
When you said, "They're early this year too," looking with disappointment at the flowers scattering after they had just opened, you were so beautiful.

If you were to look at me now, what would you think about me, living without you?

Everybody finds love In the end

Everybody finds love In the end

If you heard the healthy sound of of a baby's first cry sounding again today from somewhere within the town you protected, I'm sure you would be happy about the footsteps following after us.

Everybody finds love In the end

Everybody finds love In the end

I can't believe we'll never meet again. I haven't told you anything yet. I haven't told you anything yet.

Looking upon the flowers scattering after they just opened, I wonder, is this the cheerlessness of this grove?

No matter how frightening it is, I won't look away if there is love at the end of everything.

Eckidina KnightWalker's Message


'' - Eckidina: When I was born, I couldn't find myself in this world. But when I took a look at outside of my closed world, I saw how... silent the world was. Day after day. And all the same things repeat all over again. This society is so black and white. So simple. So flat. So boring. So pathetic. So pitful. Working, eat and sleep. Working, eat and sleep. Working, eat and sleep. Working, eat and sleep. Working, eat and sleep. All days. This is what people consider to be life? What is the point of life if you work only to live a miserable life then die to disappear like a nobody in history? ''



'' - Eckidina: But... I didn't have a choice to begin with. I was born as a KnightWalker, a conglomerate group of businessman. We were so rich and powerful that at the end of the Second World War, our family, alone, invaded France and took over the nation. Our private army, that also fought alongside the Axis in Europe for dominance, was the solo faction to survive at the end of the war. But why we the KnightWalkers were not wiped out like its Germany allies? Because the KnightWalkers were the first to produce the atomic bombs. Fear struck the hearts of our enemies. And so, almost 100 years later, we begun our invasion on Europe, conquering nation after nation. This is where I came in. ''



'' - Eckidina: My father, Juria KnightWalker, ruled over the political and financial world with iron fist. He was the one who started our conquering campaign across Europe. He was called the Shadow King from there on. But when those... rebels showed up, my daddy got furious and started to feel what is defeat in his own skin. He got so mad that he began to beat me and my mother so he could relieve himself. At one time, he punched her in her stomach when she was pregnant of her second child. Of course, she lot her baby, just like I lost my future brother. Things only got worse from there. ''



'' - Eckidina: Some times, he would come to my room at night and force himself against me as my mother covered her eyes and refused to hear my screams for help. Because she knew... she could do nothing against someone who holds the supreme power of KnightWalker Family in his hands. I can only remember how much it hurt... Just then I put all my efforts to become the next director of KnightWalker Family at age of 5. It seems impossible but they installed a chip in my head so my IQ would increase faster than common humans. When I was six-years old, I already had the mentality of a 19 years old woman. I somehow became the prestige of my family overnight. In the same year, the Second Family of Kumagawa sent me a butler around my age called Misogi Kumagawa. At first I thought he was weird and pathetic but it turns out he became my best friend. He would follow everywhere and became the target of all my pranks. ''



'' - Eckidina: But... it didn't change nothing. Since the day I look outside my window and I saw the world, my world continued boring and lifeless. Since I was born, I saw the world black and white. When I said that to my parents, they thought I had a vision problem and sent me to hospital. But all exams denied any proof I was suffering from some ocular syndrome. It was psychological. The world was black and white, and all sounds coming from it were reaching to my ears like a silent voice. It was a dead, empty and gothic world. But then, I remembered how my father hurt me when I was younger. So I thought: I'll share my pain with others. And then, I used a rebel prisioner as my first guinea pig. And guess what? I felt alive! Her screams reached to my ears like the voice of an angel. My first reaction was: "this is blood?! This is pain sounds like?! This is how the world looks like?!" I still remember that day, it was the most wonderful day I ever had. For the first time in my life, I could see the world in colors and how vivid it was. When she was gone, my world returned to be same grey, silent and empty world. I had just discovered how to make myself alive and happy. I wanted more! Like any child would want a toy! Like any boy in love would want his crush to be with him! Like any cat would want a pat from his owner! It was a simply and pure wish! ''



'' - Eckidina: Like any addicted person, I found myself in a new world. And I was not capable of escaping from it. Instead of studying, I spent most of my time in the dark dungeons of my mansion. In the dark, cold and abandoned dungeons of our mansion that was built during the Second World War to protect the our leaders of the allies' bombing. Every time a rebel was captured by our forces, I asked to my dad to send them to me so I could have own personal fun with them. For the first time, my daddy didn't beat me or yelled at me. Just then, I noticed my father stopped abusing me. My guess is that because I was no longer an useless child. I was becoming the proper heir of KnightWalker Family. Odd. But I did not care about that. Because... at that point, I no longer cared about family. One day, when all rebels' stock were empty, I felt bored to the core. It was so boring. My day started to become black and white again. No. I don't WANNA! RETURN! TO THAT WORLD! AND SO! SO! I KILLED MY MOTHER USING THE GUN OF MY DADDY........! I still remember the day I killed her. I acted by impulse and let my emotions taok control of me. I felt despair. Pain. Suffering. I whinned like a baby. It was so agonizing to the coffin of my mother being buried by the dusty earth of the cemetery. Everyone were crying, except for Misogi and my daddy.................................... And to be honest, I FELT SO GREAT. ''



'' - Eckidina: It was probably around this time that Shadow Man... the Fallen had arrived on Earth and contacted me to join his factions with promises of eternal joy and life. An alien form who came from another world. Because I was studying to become a director, I never thought about things outside of Earth. I was a petty ignorant kid who thought this world was the only thing in this universe. It was at the moment that I thought: "why exile myself in this rock when I can become so MUCH more?!" And then, I started to involve myself with military affairs. The LN-666 Project. The production of Cyborgs and my own research for the infamous Tech of the End. Controlling the production of weapons, vehicles, ships, space ships, submarines, droids, technological devices. And then, I was finally able to create my own army: Eckidina's Horsemen. Well... after a few things like blowing up Fiore Kingdom, Liberty City, some parts of Tokyo... It's a long story... I just wanted to settle down for a second. ''



'' - Eckidina: This world. Filled with the war I desired for so long, is finally crumbling! The war I wished for so long has finally came, the Third World War. How many plans, schemes, briberies and resources I had to use to FINALLY achieve this dream of seeing a world plagued by the virus of war and pain? People after people. Nation after nation. Continent after continent. And then, one day, when I finish my LN-666 Project, maybe, it will be a "world after world". ''



'' - Eckidina: To this day, I still don't know what I truly want. I still don’t know where to find happiness. Is it waging war, spreading the virus of pain, causing brutal destruction all across the world to intensify the suffering and chaos? I'll find my anwer one day. But I’ll continue to think about whether it’s good to be here… whether it was good to have been born. But in the end, it’s just realizing the obvious over and over again. Because I am myself. And no matter how I stop to think and look back to see all the atrocities I did, I can still feel nothing. Because in the end... PAIN IS THE GREATEST PLEASURE!! ''

In the Next Episode of LOTM: Sword of Kings...


- Roberta: Let's see what happens when the predator becomes the prey...



- Mina: Yes... Echidna? Don't you think it's about time to call our little friends to deal with them?



- Katarina: You can cry all you want... That proves you're stil human, Tomas. Even if you're a monster in body, as long you have a human heart, you're still human.



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 1: ♬ Yeah! Listen to my song and cower in fear! ♬ ''



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 1: ♫ Yo, you heard? Demons be real, that's the word! ♫ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 2: ♫ Over here, out there! Demons be lurkin' everywhere! ♫ ''



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 3: ♫ What form is they takin'? Tell me how they look, Hell if I know, but they got me shook! ♫ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 4: ♫ They demons, so they evil! Demons is as demons do! Make them ugly grills illegal! ♫ ''



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 5: ♪ Demons is as demons do! Steal, destroy, murder, spy, no rules apply! Stackin' paper by dirty deeds, Where you and I can't see! ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 6: ♪ But look, tons of people in the world, already doin' that, actually, So what's the dilly up in here? ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 5: ♪ You and demons, demons and I, How we gonna draw dat fine line? Don't nobody nowhere know the difference no more! Not you! Not me! ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 6: ♪ But I ain't gonna be no demon? ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 7: ♪ You sure? ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 6: ♪ You a demon? ♪ ''

<p style="text-align:center;"> - Rapper 7: ♪ Hell no! ♪ 



<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 8: ♫ Yeah, you say that, but I don't know! I only know me, and how I roll! Not out to please peeps! Just out to protect me! Mess around, might get shanked from the back! ♫ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 1: ♫ Let that guard down, might get took for all your bank! The cullin' of the weak! Shit ain't never gonna change! The ones that get shook, get guns and hit the streets! ♫ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 3: ♫ But most ain't shook, and ain't packin' no heat! Last mistake, they'll ever make! 'Cuz with guns at stake the first to grab are the worst of us! Shots pop off, the first to die are the best of us! ♫ ''

<p style="text-align:center;">'' - Rapper 5: ♫ Nobody knows friend from foe! Getting tested as we should! To stay humans fo' sho'! Needle o' truth! Haystack o'doubt! Needle o' truth! Haystack o'doubt! ♫ ''



- Lusamine (think): *And goodbye, darling. No--I mean, the Fallen. The worst scumbag of this world. I was never in your heart to begin with.*



- CM: Nothing happened. I always knew Lusamine wasn't the type of person who would follow me blindly. She is liberal, she decides her own fate and decisions. So I was expecting for her to betray me at some point, but not like that. 6 capsules of Zoyineian virus, huh? What a wise woman. I know she is going to take my virus to our mortal enemies, the Ratatoskr, and she is going to do everything in her power to stop us from succeeding. But no matter... let her be. Soon, the hand of fate will get rid of her... and even if they discover about my operation, there will be no way stop my ultimate objective. This world will fall before science sooner or later.



- US General: STAR LABS exposed the existence of Black Demons without preparations for the outcome and acted recklessly! Millions died because of your lack of care! You have no preparations to be the leader of Stabilizatio Union! Nations fell before your eyes and you did nothing but remove your forces from those countries! You expanded the power of the government, removed all rights of the civilians, indirectly caused millions to go on a rampage to kill other people into thinking they were demons for minor details and even executed other politicians from the political opposition!



- Voice: G̤̊i͋͜v̲̀e̪̎.͇́.̘͘.̫̓ ̧̀B͓̌ǎ̤c͉̆k̢̇.̱̕.̗͌.̛̣ ͓̐I̖̊.͇͑.̻̽.̲͗



- Vira: I'm coming to pick you, my beloved Tyrant. Just wait for me.



- Asami: To prevent rebel cells from rising in the organizations of their allies, Mina arrested or executed all potential enemies who could be a threat to her new regime. Finally, installing a new kind of dictatorship in what is left from United States. Not only that, all nations allied with the Stabilization Union suffered the same fate. Politicians, businessmen, deputies, senators, presidents, mayors, governors, councilmen, police officers, activists and reporters.



- Sergeant: Jesus...



- (???): Do you think you can slay demons? Do you think you save people's lives when you couldn't save me? You just sat and watched. You were powerless. You didn't do a thing. Because you're weak and a coward. I see how Maria manipulated you, she wants people around her to feel worthless, she wait until after they've lost everything so she can approach them as a friend, just like she did to me. And you fell for it... because when you're at the bottom, you'll follow anyone, that makes you feel like less of a failure! Why? Because you don't want to be forgotten as a trash! And you know why people will forget you! Because you're USELESS!



- (???): My name is Trinity... a former Meta-Human from Chronos Empire. But from now on, you two will call me as "Master".



- Azul (think): *I'll show them... the true power of a Zoyineian!*



- Eva: They found her, Maria. Your mother... Felisa Arzonia, your late mother who was said to be dead for 15 years now.



- Katarina (think): *No... No... I don' want to die... I don't want them to forget me... Please... Don't forget me!*

???
<p style="text-align:center;"> South America  <p style="text-align:center;"> Brazil  <p style="text-align:center;"> Rio de Janeiro  <p style="text-align:center;"> Unknown Location  <p style="text-align:center;"> 07:35 PM 

''Many hours had passed since the global speech of the woman known as Mina Harker. The people outside of the nation once known as Brazil could only think and imagine fantasies about what is happening inside of the country. ''

''Even if their countries were not attacked or suffered the same fate of the South America country, there are many BILLIONS who have at least one or two people of their families living in some part of the country. This caused not only Internet users but the whole international community to enter into panic.''

''Outside of Brazil, the a large part of the international population were entering in state of panic but the STAR LABS, the military organization that is part of Global Pact Defense, already expected this and was already to use violence to control the chaos around the globe. While the STAR LABS prepared to take over the nations allied to Stabilization Union, Brazil, the country that was "devoured" by a black shield, was being literally being "raped" by the forces of Qliphoth... More known by the Witch Cult as "Black Demons".''



''Things inside of the country were not good at all as expected, all known cities, states and important capitals were being invaded not by thousand but millions of Black Demons. Like it was said before, a huge black shield is surrouding Brazil, keeping the population inside without able to escape through sea and borders between Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and among others. As such people outside of the country are not able to enter Brazil without being vaporized by the shield. ''

''Right now, the borders of Brazil are being watched the Border Patrol of South America in each kilometer of the shield to inform if there is something happening inside. Even if those people were outside of the shield, the living being that dared to stay just 1 kilometer next to the shield would slowly lose his life essence and drained until he or she became an empty zombie. Due to this side effect of the shield, not even the most advanced drones built by SU could enter in the shield to show the facilities of the Central (the new name of Stabilization Union after Mina Harker and the STAR LABS estabilished themselves as the new Directors of the organization) what is happening inside.''



''Needless to say, the people of Brazil, including tourists who were at the country to travel were targets of the Black Demons. All civilized cities of Brazil were currently under attack from millions of Black Demons who were wrecking havoc all each kilometer of the country... Yet despite all the chaos, the Black Demons and other evil creatures coming from Qliphoth were not attacking, torturing nor abusing of animals.''

''Obviously, humans are animals but the animals in matter are not intelligent like humans... Yes, the demons were trying to avoid killing animals like dogs, cats, birds, rats, insects, monkeys, snakes and among other species.''

''In Rio de Janeiro, where the true carnage had started with the battle of Rio Hotel, things were no different. The current situation of the state and its capital is total destruction. While people would call it a war between demons and humans, the most intelligent individuals would be smart enough to say that was no war... This is an extermination, a type of war that man hangs against insects and bugs... ''



''Right now, on the top of a destroyed building on the middle of the Rio's capital, a woman with demonic traces was looking at the horizon of the town filled with flames, shots, explosions and screams. This woman, despite looking human much like Vira, is not human at all as some of her limbs were parts of animals... She was almost like a hybrid-human with animal limbs.''

- Woman: What an ugly vision.

''The who had eyes of a wolf, sharpened her gaze in disgust and spit on the floor as she witnessed the demons of Qliphoth burning down the town and feeding off the civilians for their own amusement. Despite that person seemed to be a demon, she was not behaving like a wild-crazy animal but as a very civilized diplomat. If it wasn't for her animal limbs, it would be easy to say she was a normal human. ''



- (???): So you were here, Ms. Wheelahr.

''As the woman was busy looking at the horizon, a female demon came out of nowhere and called the attention of the hybrid demon. That demon resembled a deformed human female with an abnormally large head. The most recognizable point of the appearance of that demon was her head in place of her upper torso. Her eyes are large with hypnotic multicolored irises, and she has long red untamed hair.''

- Woman-Wheelahr: You found me, Jenny?

The female demon with characteristics of animals then looked at her back and saw the other demon with scarlet hair and a giant face known as Jenny.



- Jenny: It's "Psycho" Jenny for you.

''The full name of that demon with giant face is in fact "Psycho Jenny". The same implies to Wheelahr, the hybrid-human with animal limbs...''

''Wheelahr, unlike, Jenny, is fully human in appearance but has a few things that removes her title as "human". Wheelahr has the appearance of a young adult woman with some traces of a teenage girl of 18 years-old, making her almost similar to Katarina Couteau. Oriax has long-princess red hair, orange eyes with pupils of eagle, fangs of an animal, has feet of a eagle and long ears of fox.''

''- Wheelahr: Fufufu... Show me respect or I'll cut off your tongue. I'm Oriax Wheelahr, one of the Hell Lords. The fact that I'm here on Earth to attend the request of Astaroth Queen does not mean I'm no longer one of the Lords of Hell.''

''The hybrid demon also revealed her full name to Psycho Jenny as a way to remind the incompetent minion who she truly is... Yes, her full name is Oriax Wheelahr and like she said she is one of the leaders of Hell. ''

''In many mythological, folklore and religious traditions, Hell is a universe of torment and punishment in an afterlife owned by the King of Darkness Lucifier. Hell is ruled by Lucifer but many other groups say the Devil and Lucifer are different entities. It is viewed by most Abrahamic traditions as punishment. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal destinations. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between incarnations. Hell was one of the first universes to came to existence... And just like like Oriax said, she is one of the Hell Lords. The Hell Lords are a group of demons that rule the inferior floors of Hell to keep the universe of Hell in check that nothing will bad will happen there.''



''[- Narrator: It's not like nothing "bad" is already happening in Hell. Duh.]''

''Asmodeus, the demon that was hired by Vira Hermes to attack the Rio Hotel to strike down the Rogues was once a Hell Lord. He mentioned that many times before his death to Felix Drake... However, Asmodeus is no longer a Hell Lord because his generation is over... The person who took over his post in the Hell Lords is Oriax Wheelahr herself, who is his successor.''

- Jenny: You must excuse me, Lady.

Oriax then turned around and began to ask questions.

''- Oriax: I'll put that aside for now but I'll punish you later. Jenny... What was that young girl? That young girl with red hair.''

''Oriax was not present at the moment but she was watching the fight between Asmodeus and Katarina from distance while she and others demons were waiting for the signal to attack. The truth is, Oriax somehow saw a little bit of herself in Katarina while she was fighting the former Demon King.''

- Jenny: You mean Katarina Couteau?

''Jenny put her hands in her giant chin and thought about Katarina... Until now, her name was unknown for most of Revelation of Qliphoth's members but the insane devolution of Vira to her was recognized and known by many in a matter of hours.''

''- Oriax: Katarina Couteau... That's her name? ''

''Oriax was not familar with Katarina, actually and had many questions about her... Including questions about her power. Even from distance, Oriax could feel the ExKrieg energy that Katarina was manipulating... And this is what was causing Oriax to feel unconfortable.''

''- Jenny: What's wrong? You're interested on her? It's rare for you to ask about other people... After all, you don't care about anyone but yourself. ''

Oriax is not really this kind of person but she was a demon herself like all others so she have no rights to deny it.

''- Oriax: No... It's nothing. You know my former identity, right? This is why I'm so curious about her.''

"..........................."

''And like it was mentioned before, Oriax have red hair just like Katarina. That scarlet hair was pure scarlet, like blood.''

''- Jenny: Everyone is familiar with you, Lady Wheelahr. Your story about your ExKrieg's trace.''

''The entire reason why Oriax, a Hell Lord was so interested in Katarina, was because of her ExKrieg power. And just like the her, Oriax was also once a pure-blooded ExKrieg. Kotori Itsuka confirmed once Katarina may be the last ExKrieg alive after the genocide conducted by a Dark Empire known as DEM Empire, an organization that is deeply related to the Fallen's Essence and Aryana Westcott.''

''- Oriax: Hum. I hate when your mouths ramdonly spread about my past without my permission. Well, let's forget it now. I'll make my own research about Katarina... I think she might be useful for me one day. We are...''

<p style="text-align:center;">' - Oriax: ... FAMILY BY BLOOD AFTER ALL... '

<p style="text-align:center;"> Russia  <p style="text-align:center;"> New Sovietic Union's Area of Nuclear Test  <p style="text-align:center;"> 04:43 AM  <p style="text-align:center;"> 1 hour later 

''There is nothing more terryfying than a pos-apocalyptic world. ''

''The apocalypse event may be climatic, such as runaway climate change; natural, such as an impact event; man-made, such as nuclear warfare or resource depletion; medical, such as a pandemic, whether natural or man-made; eschatological such as the Last Judgement, Second Coming or Ragnarök; or imaginative, such as a zombie apocalypse, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, or alien invasion. ''

''The story may involve attempts to prevent an apocalypse event, deal with the impact and consequences of the event itself, or it may be post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time frame may be immediately after the catastrophe, focusing on the travails or psychology of survivors, the way to maintain the human race alive and together as one, or considerably later, often including the theme that the existence of pre-catastrophe civilization has been forgotten (or mythologized). Post-apocalyptic stories often take place in a non-technological future world, or a world where only scattered elements of society and technology remain.''



''Many cities and countries of the world are the definition of the very concept of a world after a nuclear war... Most notable China that is currently at war with almost all nations allied to KnightWalker Alliance. ''

''- Azul: This place smells like... Death...''

''And right now, Azul Jissele, one of the warriors of the Rogues and Ratatoskr was currently walking on the middle of many destroyed buildings... Currently, she was in the New Sovietic Union's Area of Nuclear Test... A small place that was once a town but was bombed by King Hamdo's forces to test his new chemical weapons.''

''However, not even Hamdo is crazy enough to bomb his own people, before Hamdo and the new state planned to bomb the town, they removed all population of the location and moved them to another town far away from there. The name of this town? It's unknown but the soldiers of NUSSR call it as Area of Nuclear Test... A place where all kinds of gas and toxic weapons are used to test.''



''For normal humans, this place is like hell. No living being can survive here for more than 15 seconds but for Azul, who is sniffing around without any protection this is nothing. Azul is a Zoyineian Black Demon and such weapons like chemical weapons are nothing but normal oxygen for her.''

Just as Azul was sniffing, a group of military left from a destroyed building and spotted the young woman.

- (???): What the...

''As such, this place was not left unprotected. To patrol this destroyed town, the military left hundreds of droids and androids to protect the area as normal humans cannot survive in this environment. ''

''Azul, who was sniffing to sense the aroma of Revy opened her eyes and gave a pitful look at the androids who seemed to be humans in everything. Even their reactions was similar to a human.''

- Azul: Do you need something?

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



''Those androids pointed their weapons at Azul in fear when they sensed a murderous aura around Azul and prepared to shoot... But before they could push the trigger, they looked up and saw a ghost-like figure in the form of a dragon flying right above Azul's head.''

- Android 1: What are y--!

Azul's body began to emitting a red aura like gaseous-blood.

''- Azul: I see... So you need nothing. Then do me a favor a disappear!''

"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"



''The androids may have an artificial intelligence but they have feelings just like Unit-CM 130 so for the first time they were feeling fear and despair... The fear of the unknown. The fear of death.''

''Seconds later, the dragon above Azul opened its mouth and let a monstrous roar that created a giant wave of air. This roar was so intense that everything in a straight line in 30 kilometers was washed away in a powerful tornado, causing many cars, houses and buildings nearby fly away like toys.''​

''Many minutes had passed but the dust and smoke continued on the air. Just after 2 minutes, Azul came out of the smoke with a emotionless expression.''



- Azul: Amen.

''Azul then bowed before the long crater like a priestess and walked away... Normally, this attack is extremely dangerous due to its destructive power and might hurt or even kill citizens in a fight even if they are not target. However, since this an abandoned area, there was nothing to fear when she used this ability.''

- Azul: Time to go.

''Azul, like if nothing had happened, continued walking down the abandoned street that could be seemed as some kind of horror film's environment. While seeing the dark side of the world, walls tainted in black jelly, birds infected with radiation and mutant insects, Azul finally found the energy of Revy by sniffing the buildings.''

- Azul: She is close!

''Azul, this time, truly could feel the presence of Revy after 3 years away from her. And her friendly nature could be felt even from distance... A sweet and kind feeling that she don't feel for 3 years since she last saw Revy.''



- Azul: REVY!

''Azul began to ran and found a street that was completely destroyed like if there was a battle between titans there. There was rocks and debris everywhere, as well as craters and some marks of blood on the floor.''

''Azul then followed the trail of blood and spotted a several toys boxes on distance. They were located next to a wall that had some kind of pentagram drawn on it.''

- Azul: What in th--!

''Before Azul could continue her question, she immediately saw a face inside of one of the boxes. It was the face of a woman she was very familiar with.''



''- (???): T-This voi-ice... It's so... ''

''From the boxes full of blood, which were in the form of a human, a weak-female voice came out of the top box that was forming the head... It was a very melancholy and sad voice of a person who could barely speak.''

''- Azul: No... Way...''

Azul slowly began to walk towards the boxes and fell in her knees at the first sight when she...

''- Azul: No... No... ''

''- (???): Ah... It's really you... Who this is just another dream...''​​​​​



''Yes, that person inside of the boxes was the first Zoyineian Black Demon to be "murdered" by the dreadful Zero Numbers from Manufacturing Progressive Sciences; Revy. Revy, one of Azul's best friends that showed her the way back to humanity even after they became two alien creatures called Zoyineian Black Demons.''

- Azul: WHAT THEY DID TO YOU REVY!!!

Without thinking twice, Azul let out a loud scream that echoed through the abandoned town.



''- Revy: ........ You're so loud...''

''Revy opened her eyes but they were empty and rotten... Her pupils were now long gone and her insides were exposed, revealing insects inside of her head, eating her slowly. That was obvious, Revy was cut in pieces by Yuuki Terumi many days ago, so it was more than obvious worms and maggots would began to eat her decomposed body.''

''- Azul: No... What they...''

''Azul was trying to complete her sentence but her tears were stronger, strong enough to make her stop thinking in anything at the moment. Despite Revy's head was almost consumed by the maggots, she could still speak thanks to her Zoyineian's blood.''

''- Revy: Azul... Listen...''

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