SOURCE : A MULTIVERSE TRAVEL

Another two days had passed, time that Cloud used to calm himself after discovering that there was still a small chance that he would return to the world of the living.

"Is it time?" - Yue asked as she noticed how Cloud had returned to normal.

"Yes, it's time to leave for the final maze to finish Ehit once and for all," Cloud replied neutrally.

"Everything will be alright, right?" - Kaori asked with concern, after all, she had been on the verge of death, and now someone important to the blond had been killed by a former friend of his.

"Yeah," Cloud replied seriously, "Let's go."

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"Tell me I'm safe..." - Kouki said as he wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed heavily after escaping even further because he had heard Ehit's warning about Cloud's appearance in the area.

[Yeah, it looks like they didn't feel you because of your low mana level, I guess you're fortunate enough to be saved by being weak.]

Kouki gritted his teeth before letting out a sigh between a mixture of relief and anger, after all, he didn't like hearing about his weakness, much less when he had managed to unlock Umbra.

[For now, all that's left for you to do is hide until you recover before moving to the dark continent so you can kill as many demons as possible.]

"I thought they were our allies," said Kouki with a frown, after all, he thought he would use the demons for his attack against Cloud's group.

[No, they will be your food to increase your power now that you have Umbra.]

"My food?" - Kouki repeated in surprise.

"Yes, their blood is a great magical tonic, so killing them will increase the power of your sword, and who knows, maybe with all the Umbra power, you can kill the irregular one."]

Ehit was betting his life on this situation because he knew that Umbra would go after him after unleashing his full power, though at the same time this would cause him to expose himself in front of the irregular, in the process making his two enemies fight each other, and with a lot of luck they would kill each other.

If he was honest with himself, he wasn't very comfortable with seeing Umbra return, but if he had to choose between facing the Irregular or his former subordinate, he would choose without a second thought to face Umbra because he was much easier to control.

"I understand..." - Kouki said as he closed his eyes and thought about what had happened, only to frown because he could feel how he was slowly starting to lose what little humanity he had left, though if he was honest, this wasn't as much of a problem, as the fact that he could disappear at any moment due to Umbra's influence - "That's the only way he could control Umbra?"

[Yes...]

Kouki frowned again because Ehit's tone of voice didn't calm him in the slightest, in fact, it only made a strange feeling of crisis grip his insides. Now that he had regained some of his feelings, the instinct for self-preservation was becoming more and more powerful.

"I understand" - Kouki nodded as he thought about how to solve his situation, which was difficult because Ehit was paying attention to him most of the time, in other words, he couldn't investigate how to get out of this annoying problem, at least not without first breaking the bridge with the only ally he had.

* * * * *

"This has to be a joke... a fucking joke..." - Ryutaro muttered as he slumped into a chair with a pale face - "Kouki..."

"Rika-san..." - Suzu muttered with tears in her eyes as she heard about her friend's death.

The other heroes were devastated at this news that had come as a direct blow to their faces.

"Tell me you're joking, Kousuke..." - Kentaro Nomura said while looking at the boy who was like Rika's shadow.

"I'm sorry, but I saw it with my own eyes..." - replied Endou while gritting his teeth - "I'm sorry..."

"Don't lie!" - exclaimed Ryutaro as he stood up with tears in his eyes - "I know Kouki left us, but it's impossible for him to have killed Minami-san!"

"Do you really think so, Ryutaro?" - Jugo Nagayama asked as he looked at the boy who had a physique similar to his - "I know Amanogawa is your friend, but you have to look beyond your former friendship, he betrayed us, he joined our enemies and killed one of us, even Nakamura helped him kidnap all those people for a plan that we have no information on, beyond that it could be a satanic ritual."

Suzu gritted her teeth when she heard her former best friend mentioned, though she quickly let out a sigh with tears running down her cheeks.

The heroes began to argue amongst themselves, though the clearest opinion was that Kouki Amanogawa had indeed killed Rika Minami, which made him worse than a traitor.

Ryutaro clenched his fist before letting out a sigh - "I'm sorry... it's just..."

"We understand how you feel, after all, Amanogawa was the best of us, he was the person we thought would be the real hero..." - Jugo said as he let out a sigh - "But it seems like that was too much pressure on him..."

Ryutaro bit his lip before he started to cry.

"Can you tell what happened, Kousuke?" - Jugo asked as he took a long sigh.

"She called me to take the Haulia clan members during the last attack, and that was the moment when Amanogawa attacked" - Endou replied while clenching his fist in fury - "When I became aware of the situation, the battlefield was covered by a strange dome of shadows, and when I tried to touch it, I was overcome by a strange feeling of weakness, so I retreated to a safe place because the dome seemed to react to my actions."

"React?" - Mao Yoshino repeated as he frowned.

"Yes, the dome expanded its range and began to vibrate, creating strange spikes of shadows" - replied Endou as he looked at his hand - "They seemed to have the power to absorb my blood, so I tried to contact the other groups so I could attack Amanogawa when the dome disappeared, what I didn't think was that when it disappeared, Amanogawa seemed to have been possessed by a strange shadow entity..."

"You say he was possessed?" - Ryutaro asked hopefully - "Which means there's still a possibility that his actions were not of his own free will."

"Give it up Sakagami, Amanogawa did all those sins when he was still in control, just because he killed Minami while possessed, doesn't mean he wouldn't have done it if he had the power to do it personally, I wouldn't even be surprised if he did something else to her seeing how much he hated Strife" - Jugo replied with a frown.

Ryutaro tried to defend his friend, but his words got stuck in his throat, after all, he knew how much Kouki hated Cloud for being the person who had stolen the girl he liked, and he was only showing his calm attitude because he knew that if he acted like an idiot, it would only make Kaori feel repulsed by him.

"In retrospect, it's no wonder Amanogawa acted so cruelly, I mean, he had received everything in his life, but the one thing he really wanted, was snatched out of his hands without him being able to do anything about it, and when he was finally able to overcome rival, he found out that he was still superior, all those blows should have caused the darkness inside him to grow, which made that shadow drive him to the dark side..." - said Yoshiki Saitou, one of the former friends of the traitor Daisuke Hiyama, the person who had thrown Cloud into Orcus' abyss - "What?"

"We didn't think you'd be so smart" - said Kentaro honestly.

"How rude, I know about this kind of stuff, I used to watch documentaries about criminals and psychopaths, as well as studying to be a criminal psychologist" - Yoshiki snorted as he crossed his arms.

"I guess that explains why you were hanging out with Hiyama" - said Jugo while raising an eyebrow.

"No, Daisuke wasn't that bad when you knew him, or you just didn't get in his way..." - Yoshiki muttered as he let out a sigh - "Though it's possible that he hid all his true thoughts in the deepest corner of his psyche..."

The heroes decided not to get into the topic any further, after all, this wasn't as important as talking about the general situation.

"We'd better get back to the initial point of the conversation" - Jugo said as he looked around - "Amanogawa is a treacherous assassin, Minami is dead, Strife is overcoming the mazes, looking for a way to return home, if it's even possible, after all, it's possible that Ehit wasn't lying and there was no way to return to our home..."

The heroes felt their bodies freeze, though they quickly regained hope because there was still no clear answer to their situation, that meant the possibility still existed.

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