Book Five
Volume 15
Ch. 208 Conqueror
Pov.
-Kara-
My heart aches as she collapses in my arms.
I lay her back before flying out her windows just as the sirens began screaming down the street.
I continue out of the city with my head spinning.
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The sky began cracking with thunder.
My muscles cramped as I flew with the rain whipping my back like 50 caliber rounds.
For a moment I was lost. My mind was blank. I only snapped back as the familiar scent struck my nose and I spotted an old barn.
I teleport just above the degenerate bastard as he dumped a bag of tiny limbs into a pig pen, probably learning from his last mistake.
The immense rage I felt as the limbs landed on the filthy mud popped a blood vessel in my eyes and turned my vision red.
It took every fiber of my being to keep myself from erasing the scum where he stood and giving him a quick merciful death.
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Rather than feeding, the pigs scatter after sensing my overwhelming presence.
He looks up after the moon casts my shadow over him.
"Demon!" He stumbles back.
"You'd wish I was." I bring my hands together, not wasting a second more.
Domain Expansion
"House of Hades."
The scene darkens. A Sea of Flames erupts behind me.
Chains and hooks hang from the sky as severed heads resembling everyone he has ever held dear, hail from the dark clouds
"Agh! Ahhh!" He cries before he coughs up a lung forcing him to gasp for his life with every single breath.
He falls on his hands and knees, looking into a puddle of water as his face begins to melt off. He holds it against his skull, crying and gurgling as I grab his hair
"Peas, peas my Im shorry." He pleads incoherently before I tear his scalp off.
His head bursts into flames, melting his eyes and cooking his tongue but he doesn't die, no I did not give him that luxury just yet.
The domain keeps him alive and as healthy as one could be without a lung.
I then began to tear off one muscle on either side of his body.
From his right side. I took his pec, a tricep, a quad and his calf
From the other side. I took his bicep, half his abdominal muscles, rear delt, forearm, a glute and snapped his achilles tendon and scraped the skin off the soles of his feet
Every tear was slow and painful, making every second feel like an eternity.
I set the meat aside before I raised my hand, his stomach bulging as I began rearranging his innards.
I tie his intestines around his neck and around his spinal cord.
I let his stomach spill out as I stretch his kidneys up to his chest
I twist his limbs and skin the underside of his arms the backside of his thighs and the soles of his feet
I peer into his memories and create a solid book copy of everything he did to every single victim. I then proceed to put him into a Tsukuyomi where he experiences everything he ever did to them indefinitely.
There was a total of 147 victims
Far more than they had thought there were
He tortured and strangled his victims even burned some alive
And almost half of them, alive or not, were fed to his pigs.
There was a great deal of them that were buried not too far from his farm and some he even cremated
By the time he was done we had just about an hour and a half till sunrise
Before we left I had one of his swines bite his dick off.
I land on a rooftop of a building where I could sense Gordon smoking a cigarette
I toss the killer down at his feet
"Y-your not serious" he catches the notebook I tossed at him
He began looking through everything
"H-how'd you get him to tell you all this?" He asks
"Have a look."
"You did a good job, but this not how we do things here" I hear a deep voice behind me
"Yeah?" I turn around "who are you supposed to be, Robin Hood?" I ask
"This is The Green Arrow" Gordon says "he was investigating the case with us" he crouched down to see if the man was still alive
"Sounds gay." I wave him off
"You tortured him?"
"He won't die. But, you'll have to feed him through his ass, no bullshit."
"Next time you do something like this I'll be hunting you down myself" The vigilante grumbles behind me.
"Sure, do what you'd like"
Gordon whistles and his men swarm the rooftop
They rushed the killer to the hospital
"Here, you said you don't do things for free like Arrow does, so this is all rightfully yours" he pops open the briefcase that was filled with the money.
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But seeing the money didn't settle the irritation I had clawing the back of my mind.
Not even tearing that bastard apart did a thing.
I still felt like I had lost somehow.
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I disappeared back to Cana. I waited outside as she prayed inside a cathedral.
I massage my eyelids, healing them with reverse curse.
Cana finally steps out wearing a black habit with her face veiled.
I could see the tears trickling down her cheeks as she quietly followed me back home. I lock our bedroom door as she knees at the bedside.
I summon the flesh I took from the degenerate and I place it across the bed for her.
She sniffles and prays for forgiveness before she'd even taken a bite.
I watch as she removes her glove and reaches for the smallest abdominal muscle there
"Is he dead?"
"No."
"Did you hurt him?"
"He was a terrible person, Cana."
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She blesses herself using the sign of the cross, before taking a small bite.
She nibbles quietly. Before taking another bite and washing it down with water.
She sniffles quietly as I rub her back.
I take a slice of the thigh muscle for myself.
I bring it to my lips.
It had a sweet scent to it. Like her home made barbecue chicken.
I could feel my heart racing with anticipation. A sudden rush to fill the depths of the appetite that I'd long forgotten was there.
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She grabs my wrist as she chokes down another bite.
"Please don't. This is my burden, Kara."
"Thought we're in this together?"
"We are. But I won't let you blemish your soul if you don't have to."
I drop the meat
"My soul?"
"The one you went through hell to retrieve."
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After she finished eating. We went stargazing on the rooftop.
"You're better now." She sits up "Don't use me as an excuse to fall into temptation."
"What's the point?"
"Of what?"
"Holding back? If we will fall anyways."
She sits back, looking up at the sky.
"Everything will come to an end eventually, Kara."
"Not this hell."
"So why bother yourself with someone as little as me. As little as our family?"
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"I ask myself that every day…"
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"It's because every moment is precious. Have you not realized that yet?"
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"Thats why I don't want it to end, Cana. Every time I'm with you… all I can think of is the eternity that I will be without you."
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"What if there was a way that you could remain with me, Cana?"
"Wh-what?"
"In my vast life, there have been many humans who have achieved immortality. Would you? Given the opportunity?"
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"You know me too well to ask me something like that, Kara."
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"Imagine, what we feel for each other. Experiencing that forever. Without interruption, hardship, temptation… this word cannot give us that, Kara. It doesn't matter if we are together for an eternity.
Our love will never be complete. Not Because it's lacking but because this world perverts it no matter how much we hold on to it."
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"This world is all I have, Cana. You may have the stars to look forward to, but this is my prison."
She shakes her head
"This is not something you can lose, but it is something you can deny yourself whether you do it out of spite or ignorance.
Don't beat yourself over the sins you've committed, but deny your flesh and do what is right. Don't be a slave to your hate, or the pain of this world, but conquer them. The way you would conquer a nation. Don't let this world continue to poison your heart."
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"If you are angry, forgive. If you are sad, smile. If you are afraid, laugh. You do that, and you don't have to conquer the heavens, because it has been destined to us, his children who do good, not because we feel that we must. But because we have fallen in love with the fruit."
"So what? What is the reason that you do a good work if not to earn the heavens? If we have inherited this paradise, then why do them? Why do we need to prove to him who is all knowing, that we-… that you want this paradise."
She takes my hand "The battle is with yourself, if you do not do good when you know it is good. Then you are not truly choosing the paradise that is not lacking in good. You cannot say you want the good fruit but saw the tree from whence it grows."
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When the priest arrives to speak to Cana I take a moment for myself.
I found myself by that same virgin statue
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The sky darkened and began to weep as I contemplated everything
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I conquered every corner of his creation.
But I truly do not have even a grain of sand to my name.
I have no semblance of knowledge as to who or what I am. What I want…
The Wrath and Pride that I conquered with
The Greed and Envy that has driven me.
The Lust and Appetite for his most precious creation
And the Sloth that has kept me from contemplating change.
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They have driven me since an eternity
I always believed they were the tools that I would use to conquer the heavens, but in reality… have I been a slave all along?
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I fall to my knees, staring at my palms
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Is this what I want?
Is it even possible to deny myself from this world?
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Can someone, as malevolent as I…
Truly…
Inherit the Stars?
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-to be continued