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Chapter 11 - Maybe You’re Right

Leina could be seen standing in the hallway. Leinas kimono would be covered in blood, with her blood red demonic eyes glowing in the dark, staring back at Donna with pure malice. 

"Stay back. Or I will really kill you!" Donna warns as she slowly steps back and away from Leina, with Leina only walking towards her in response.

"How pathetic…To be used against someone by the likes of you? You best not waste my time, Donna. Or I'll kill you faster than those eyes can perceive it." Leina says with her voice being distorted, as if someone else was speaking through her.

"You can't kill me. If you do, you will be a murderer. They will deport and imprison you. I don't know if you have some death wish, but I can maximize my wrath output too! And I'll really put you down for good!" Donna replies with a hand on her hip.

"A death wish is it? How cute. But how misunderstood you are, Donna. This vessel isn't yours to kill." Leina would mysteriously respond as she's seen spinning her new sword around, before getting into stance, preparing for a fight.

"Vessel?" Donna would ask, confused as to what Leina could be talking about.

"I admire your confidence. How courageous and ridiculous you truly are. It's about time I get you accustomed to being in the presence of a god!" Leina says, dashing at Donna with a crazed look in her demonic eyes.

Leina would travel faster than anything she could before. As she accelerates, Donna is forced to amplify her psychic eyes to keep up with Leina's movements. 

"She's fast! I can still predict her movements, but I don't know if my body is fast enough to keep up with her." Donna says, blocking a devastating punch from Leina, with her katana before getting kicked back and landing on her feet.

"She's so much faster than before. Is this even Leina? Her essence has completely changed. That should never be possible! One person can't contain two copies of essence. This power comes from something outside of Leina's spirit. She's only just showing me now. How inconvenient!" Donna would say

"Disperse." Leina says calmly, before swinging her blazing red blade horizontally, lighting up the entire room with three large crescent projectiles that decimate anything that they come into contact with.

"Shit." Donna says as she jumps over these projectiles, but only to see dozens of floating swords pointed in her direction.

"I'll label myself impressed if you find your way out of an undodgeable attack." Leina says, as with a wave of a hand, she sends these projectiles into the direction of Donna.

Donna grits her teeth before throwing her katana into an opening area past the projectiles, in Leinas direction. The katana would notably have a red link made from her essence, connected to the katana, to her hand. As the katana gets closer to Leinas proximity, Donna would appear to swap places with her Katana, evading Leinas attack before following up with a kick.

"Oh?" Leina lets out, as she nonchalantly blocks Donna's incoming kick with one hand.

Donna would jump back and out of Leinas grasp before questioning her on what she is.

"You're not Leina are you? Leinas essence isn't red. It's brown! You aren't even using the soulburn technique to manifest this strength! This is your normal essence. What is going on here?" Donna would question, not believing for a second that this could possibly be Leina.

"I tried telling you I did nothing wrong, but you didn't listen. I was awoken and you will suffer for my awakening. But not before I'm done playing games with someone that's as weak as you. If I'm being honest, I feel insulted for being awakened to fight miniscule little ants like you. Whatever the case, show me what you can do and I'll show you everything you can't." Leina responds

"Just shut up and fight me!" Donna says as swings her spiked whip into Leinas direction.

Leina would dodge and evade Donna's attacks effortlessly, all while she keeps her arms folded.

"Blood Bond: Cleaving Whirlwind!" Donna would yell out, before she's soon being seen circling Leina, picking up speeds, before her body would begin to distort as the entire building would start to be devastated by the speed alone as her body would turn into a tornado formed from her speed mirage.

"Could this be some sort of chain attack?" Leina questions to herself as her hair blows wildly in the wind.

"Blood Bond: Piercing Spiral!" Donna calls out.

The spikes on her whip could now be seen extended in growth as her speed mirage would duplicate each and every spike in the whip, causing Leina to be closelined by the oncoming spikes. But regardless, Leina would close her eyes and chuckle before summoning her red sword made from this pure demonic essence. Leina would stab the sword into the ground which would suddenly cause everything to be forced away from her, creating an energy field that shreds everything in her path, destroying the entire building they resided within and blocking Donna's attack completely.

"Impressive but far too weak to ever land a scratch on me" Leina insults as she raises her head slightly, looking back at Donna with her hair ducked down.

The boys from Leinas detention room would be seen running away from the area from far behind Leina.

"I rendered my attack to be non threatening to those boys. Fantastic." Leina says to herself.

"Why do you have to talk so much? You do so little! For someone who's as cowardly as you, you have no right to speak!" Donna says as she swings her spiked whip in the direction of Leina.

Without a care in the world, Leina would catch the whip in one hand, cutting deep into her palm. But to Donna's surprise, Leina wouldn't show any signs of pain, but rather a careless chuckle. 

"Heh, ouch I guess." Leina lets out, as she stares back at the brutal wound she had just sustained

But to Leinas surprise, Donna would find an opening to kick Leina back before extending her bladed whip, as it would wrap around her, Donna would slam Leina countless times onto her stomach and back.

"I've burnt through a lot of my essence. If I don't finish this now, I won't be able to put her down. Who cares about if she lives anymore? Who cares about any of these worthless people at this school? To hell with it all! I'll show you what I can really do! With my strongest technique!" Donna says from within her mind.

With that, Donna would toss Leina into a red cube with no form of essence inside, trapping her with no form of escape. Donna would then be seen to grit her teeth, focusing all of her strength into channeling as much essence as possible, pouring in every ounce of essence into the red cube until it glows so bright, it could blind anyone who dares to look at it. 

"I won't ever make the mistake of not killing you again!" Donna shouts, as she focuses more energy into the cube

"Are you really going to risk destroying this entire part of town and killing everyone in it, just to kill me?" Leina would ask as she punches the cube multiple times but couldn't find a single result.

"Whatever it takes. I'll do anything if it means seeing you and your family dead and gone. I will never be pushed to this point again! It's about time I show you true power! Blood Bond: Ruinous Combustion!" Donna would answer, following up with her chanting the name of her ability which can now be seen to be complete.

"Stop! You'll kill everyone else out there! Is killing me really worth the sacrifice?" Leina would ask.

"DIE!!" Donna yells, not caring about Leinas callouts or any further reasoning.

With that, the cube would ignite and explode, destroying all that it would reach. The size of this attack gets larger and larger, evaporating everything in its path, eventually destroying the entire town, leaving nothing but ashes and devastation in all directions. Notably, a burnt corpse could be seen resting nearby, which is revealed to be the remains of Leina. Donna could be seen on her knees, gasping for air, unable to stand, from the sheer lack of stamina from her last attack.

"I should've made it more painful! What was I thinking about not torturing her? The wrong things could happen sometimes. Good riddance Leina, you were nothing but a weak obstacle in mine, and my family's way. I'll remember you for as long as I live, to make sure I spit on your grave for as long as I continue to breathe." Donna says as she breathes heavily.

"You were never once considered to be a challenge to me. You and whatever demon you believe yourself to be, both die today." Donna continues, as she's slowly seen to be getting back up.

"I'm sorry I had to do this, Kyuya. Maybe you'd understand when we meet again. This is the way it always had to be." Donna says as she walks off. All would be silent as she continues her slow walk to somewhere entirely different.

"Is this what you call, power? Did you really think it would be that easy?" Leinas demonic voice could be heard saying.

"Huh?" Donna lets out, with a look more shocked than she's ever had before.

Suddenly, Donna's reality would seemingly shatter into a million pieces as a crescent mood shape would seemingly break Donna's fabric of reality. Leina could be seen with her blazing red sword in the ground, pushing everything away from her, as she did once before, but notably, she could be seen pushing away the same tornado-like attack Donna had thrown at her before.

"Let's get real for a moment, Akemina. What makes you believe you can possibly defeat someone who doesn't need to try against you. You're just a waste of space. A pawn in a world that wasn't made for useless weaklings like you. You've wasted enough of my time already. Say your goodbyes before I send you to hell." Leina says before unleashing a technique of her own.

"What the hell just happened?! I killed you! I killed everyone! That shouldn't be possible!" Donna yells in disbelief.

"Dream technique reversal: Malevolent Moonlight." Leina lets out, raising her right arm into the sky with an open palm.

As this goes on, chains made from Leinas essence would wrap around Donna's limbs, keeping her in place. Soon, a large red, white, and gold, moon-shaped, symbol appears on the ground below Donna.

"This can't be happening! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!" Donna yells in a panic.

Leina channels a dangerous amount of essence into her hand but as she tries to trigger this technique, nothing would happen. Instead, Leina's eyes would widen as blood would pour out from her nose, underneath her eyes, her bandage covered mouth. Leina would grab her throat as she began to cough up blood. As this goes on, Leina's blazing sword would dissipate, along with the moon symbol disappearing from under Donna, as well as the chains that would bind her.

"What? I'm free…and she's wide open…" Donna says to herself.

"Of course! This body can't contain techniques of that level! What a pain!" Leina says in annoyance.

When Leina would look back up, Donna could be seen behind her with her sword in motion, as if she already took a swing. Soon after, the same arm Leina had been raising up, would be cut clean off, causing blood to spurt from this new wound. Leina would yell in pain from the sight of her arm being separated from her body, with Donna would turn back to look at Leina, as she's completely out of stamina to cut Leina any more.

"That attack was meant to cut off your head. Unfortunately I missed and now you're stuck without an arm. Sure your arm will heal but your arm? Heh that healing factor of yours doesn't work like regeneration does." Donna would let out with a grin, despite being out of energy to keep the fight going.

"My arm! My arm! My arm!" Leina yells in pain.

"Maybe I can push my Mana to create enough energy for one last finishing blow. But that means I'll have to push the seishin gate to its limit. This is going to hurt…HAAAAHH!" Donna would yell out, her veins bulging in her body as an orange aura would surround her, showing her energy being weak at this current moment.

"Stop this Donna! This isn't a fair fight anymore. Whatever I did, I'm sorry. Stop! Please! I give up! I don't want to die like this!" Leina pleads to Donna, acknowledging her sudden defeat.

"Don't give me that, Leina. You can't beg your way out of something you started. The blood is on your hands. But why should I ever fight fairly against someone I hate?! Blood Bond: Death Sickle!" Donna yells out, as she prepares an attack, aiming to cut Leina's head off.

Donna's katana is soon to be engulfed in a flaming red aura. The aura itself would surround the entire area. As this goes on, Leina's eyes would widen with fear as Donna closes in on her, seemingly landing this attack on Leina. But something stops this blade as Donna could be seen with a bewildered look on her face.

"Heheh just kidding." Leina could be heard saying, chuckling as if nothing was wrong. 

As Donna would stare, she would see Leina stopping the blade with her palm, using the same arm that was previously cut clean off. Leina being the one that had seemingly tricked Donna from the constant expression of weakness, would only mock Donna's efforts.

"This was all you had? How futile." Leina says, degrading Donna's attempt at finishing her off.

"Y-you regenerated…that shouldn't be possi-AAAHHH!" 

Donna's words are cut short from a back-hand smack to the face, knocking her back and sending her to her stomach, incapacitating her in the process.

"Know your place, foolish weakling." Leina says, looking down at Donna as she's walking towards her, before lifting her arm and aiming an open palm in Donna's direction

A white and red energy ball could be seen manifesting within the palm of Leina, seemingly ready to finish off Donna all together.

"Die." Leina says before she gets ready to fire this blast off.

Suddenly, a pulse could be heard from Leinas head, stopping her in her place.

"W-what…?" Leina questions, as her entire body collapses onto the ground, and abruptly loses consciousness.

Somewhere else, Leina could be seen sinking in a dark orange liquid, within a dark void, her mask gone, but her bandages still remain, covering most of her face with the sole exception of her eyes and forehead.

"Where am I?" Leina asks, slowly looking around in every direction to only see light coming from above her.

"This isn't what I wanted. What am I anymore? What is this?" Leina would ask, as she would swim up until she reached the surface. 

Leina would gasp for air, crawling out from this orange colored water, and climbing onto a stone platform. As she looks ahead, she would see a large temple with purple, white, and red tiki torches all around it. But as she looked to her left, a tall woman with long white hair that reached down to her knees, could be seen standing in the distance outside of the temple, turned away from Leina.

"And so you've come." The woman says, not even turning around to look at Leina.

"What is this? Who are you?" Leina questions as she gets up to her feet.

"I don't need to tell you anything brat." The woman responds.

"Where's Jack?" Leina would ask, disregarding the woman's initial response.

"Probably dead after Kyuya got done handling him." The woman responds. 

"Dead?!" Leina questions, frantically with fear in her eyes.

The woman chuckles at this response of urgency and worry coming from Leina

"Not at all. Fortunately enough for you, he's still fighting on." The woman responds.

"Are you telling the truth?" Leina asks.

"If he died, I would've sensed his mana signature fading." The woman answers.

"What? How is that even possible to sense from here? I can't even do that." Leina would say, trying to gather her thoughts and skepticisms with this new lady.

"It's simple really. It's because you are the one that called upon my power to save you. So you better be grateful I gave you the time. Because I sure as hell hate having my time wasted on the likes of you and anyone else you're dealing with." The lady says.

"Can I ask what your issue is?" Leina asks annoyed by the lady's rude responses.

"To think you went out of your way to wake me for someone who's unimaginably weak like you, is beyond preposterous. And to awaken me without approval. Who are you to seek power from someone who doesn't deem you as a worthy adversary." The lady responds angered from her time seemingly being wasted on being summoned.

"Then why did you choose to help me? Why did you choose to stay here this whole time?" Leina questions.

"I have no choice but to do so. You are no more than a vessel to me. A vessel that I will reincarnate into once the time is right.

"Who even are you?!" Leina asks, with an angered look in her eyes.

The lady would chuckle and turn around to meet eye to eye with Leina. She would wear red gi, with black samurai sandals. Her skin is pale as paper, with nails sharp as knives. Each tooth on her mouth would all be sharp, as if she had shark teeth. Her eyes being as red and demonic as any demon's eyes would be. 

Her face would have countless scars on them, her ghoulish face would be a hidden beauty that's been through countless battles, with two white menacing and defining horns protruding from both sides of her forehead. Her body would consist of fifteen extra eyes, six on both ends of her arms that would go down her arms vertically. She would also have two on her palms and one on her forehead.

"I am the last Royal primordial demon valkyrie of dreams, and void. A prominent figure within the hierarchy of demonhood, the second coming of Akuma the ruler of the council of Hell. I am Akime Takamura." She would answer.

"A demon Valkyrie??" Leina says with a shock in her voice

"Yeah that's right." Akime would answer with a grin.

"Kuro was right…he was right about me. When he first called me a monster…is this what he saw? Did he see this side of me all along? The side I tried so hard to keep from everyone?" Leina asks herself.

"So what will you do now, my precious vessel?" Akime would ask, rubbing her chin.

"Is that all I am to you? Just a schedule? A number?" Leina questions with a hidden anger.

"You haven't given me a reason to think of you any differently. That's all you are and all you ever will be. A vessel. Your life means absolutely nothing. We both know that for sure." Akime would answer condescendingly.

"You damn demon! I'll make sure that never happens!" Leina says with anger in her tone, clutching her katana.

"Is that so? How amusing. Have you forgotten you have no way of beating me? How ungrateful it truly is to be allowed to wield the power of divinity and threaten the one who gave it to you in the first place. I've been here since the very beginning, Leina. I'm the demon you've been afraid of this entire time. I've been this demon you've been afraid of showing the world to. Ever since your birth, your fate has been decided by my hand." The lady would answer.

"You have no right to live in my body! You don't get to choose the life I get to live!" Leina yells in a fit of rage.

"Oh but I already have. If it weren't for me, you'd be dead a long time ago. Either you would've died years ago when you first saw Donna, or you would've died now. My sole existence is the reason you're still breathing." Akime would calmly respond with a smirk.

"That's not true! What are you talking about?!" Leina yells out, attempting to invalidate Akime's claim.

"I forget how defiant brats like you are. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be able to heal. If you weren't able to heal, you'd be old news…an even weaker version of yourself. You'd be dead if it wasn't for me." Akime reveals.

"No…but…why?" Leina would question with a more calm but hopeless tone.

"Enough with your foolish questions. If you want to wake up from this unconscious state of yours, then you better get a single hit on me and maybe I will deem you worthy of being in control of your body once again. If not, I will be in control and you will watch and I will destroy this entire village and break you from the inside out." Akime says with a cocky and sadistic tone.

"You're taking my body…you're taking my life, and now you want me to fight you for my own body…you're one sick demon. You're the reason I'm cursed!" Leina yells out.

"I'm the reason you're blessed." Akime would counterclaim.

"HAAAAAHH!" Leina yells out once again, but this time she dashes and clashes with Akime's bright red sword. 

"That's more like it." Akime responds, with a cocky grin.

"HAAAAAHHH" Leina yells, raising her katana to swing it at Akime, with Akime getting ready to block it with her sword.

Meanwhile, Jack could be seen getting punched and kicked in the face and body, sending him barreling on the floor, until his acceleration stops, allowing him to recover.

"Dammit!" Jack says as Kyuya follows up with a powerful punch to Jack's stomach, causing him to cough up blood before catching a punch thrown by Kyuya.

Kyuya in response would form black oil between their hands, before causing an explosion between their hands, knocking Jack back, before placing his hand out before casting a wrathful signature attack.

"Parasitic Wrath Gallery!" Kyuya says, before blasting Jack with countless explosives. 

As the dust settles, Jack could be seen with his clothes ripped and torn, he stands out of energy, waiting for his defeat.

"I can't do anything against him with how I am right now. I wish I had more essence. If it was for his technique, I'd have more than enough to go toe to toe with him. Fine…I have no choice…" Jack says to himself, getting ready for a new plan.

"HAAAAH! THIS IS IT!" Kyuya screams, super charging his fist with a volatile explosive.

But as Kyuya closes in on Jack, Jack would close his eyes and breathe calmly before dodging out of the way, dodging each and every attack thrown at him. Before kicking Kyuya in the stomach, knocking him back.

"What is this?!" Kyuya asks with annoyance.

"This is when I defeat you." Jack would say with confidence.

"Hope you can keep up." Kyuya would respond before blasting off towards Jack.

"Because I'm only going to get faster!" Kyuya would continue, before throwing punches and kicks that are soon to be dodged by Jack. But to Jack's surprise, Kyuya would have something in mind.

"Parasitic Burst…" Kyuya says, holding up his hand in point blank range of Jack.

"I can't move in time! I have to use my essence in my surroundings to push away the attack!" Jack says, before holding out his palm to block Kyuya's attack. 

But to Jack's surprise, Kyuya doesn't use this technique, but rather, grabs Jack's arm.

"He faked it!" Jack yells to himself.

"HAAAAH!" Kyuya yells, sending a devastating volatile explosive fist to Jacks face.

This attacks would send Jack through the academy, destroying everything in his path, completely knocking Jack unconscious. As this goes on Kyuya would float above Jack, raising both hands in the air

"PARASITIC DEATH COMBUSTION!" Kyuya yells, forming a giant green bomb above him.

"DIE!" Kyuya screams. throwing this green bomb in Jack's direction. 

As the bomb gets closer, a gunshot could be heard, before the entire bomb explodes right before it reaches the distance of Jack.

"It was interrupted!" Kyuya says.

As the dust settles, Bowa Bowa, Ren, Kisuka, and Yakuto could be seen standing before Kyuya. Ren would stand with an unbothered look as she blows the gun smoke away. Bowa Bowa would stand with an enraged look in her young face. Yakuto would cross his arms with a serious look on his face, with Kisuka brushing one hand through his hair, and grabbing at his sword, all with a smile on his face.

"Sorry we're late, Jack. I was having a little talk with your father about the school." Kisuka would say as Jack would be in a daze from the process of him waking up.

"How dare you hurt all of these innocent children!" Bowa Bowa would yell in pure anger.

"Safe to say this academy doesn't do background checks." Ren would comment.

"You don't have to say anything Jack, I know you put up one hell of a fight before all of this." Yakuto would assure Jack.

"W-where's Kuro?" Jack groans.

"With your father. You will meet with you two once we're done crashing this party." Kisuka would answer

"ENOUGH! HAAAH!" Kyuya yells before throwing another bomb in their vicinity.

Kisuka in a flash, would seemingly slice through the air, and cut the bomb into two, causing it to detonate in the air.

"Heyyy! We're talking here!" Kisuka shouts, not paying Kyuya any mind in the slightest.

Kyuya could only groan in response

"I wish I could've used the button my father gave me…but it broke when we were fighting." Jack would say, as he shows the broken button in his hand.

"Don't worry about it Jack, we've got this under control." Kisuka would respond, reassuring Jack about the button.

"Don't kill him…please. He's a good person…he just feels like he doesn't have anything to live for." Jack would plead.

"We weren't planning on it. But we need to make sure this kid understands the damage he's done." Yakuto responds.

"Bowa, evacuate as many people as you can." Kisuka orders.

"On it!" Bowas responds, before dashing out of sight. 

Kisuka would look to Ren before giving her a command as well

"Ren, get Jack and take him to the mansion's recovery unit." He says.

"Throwing orders at those that are a higher rank than you, are we? Though it's something I can't say no to. Very well then. Don't die!" Ren says, picking up Jack to carry him onto her shoulders, and walking out of the area.

"Brother…I need you to go with Bowa. I got this on my own. Besides, she needs you." Kisuka would tell his younger brother.

"Have it your way…but hey, don't get the pants beaten off of you by a mere child." Yakuto would jokingly say.

"Trust me, I'm not like you." Kisuka would respond with a cheerful smile.

"Heh see you soon." Yakuto replies before dashing off to meet up with Bowa Bowa. 

"ILL BRING THIS WHOLE ACADEMY DOWN IF I HAVE TO!" Kyuya yells in an uncontrolled rage.

"You've already done that, kid." Kisuka says in response.

"THIS WILL BE THE DAY YOU DIE." Kyuya threatens.

"This will be the day you answer for your crimes against the future of Tensen. But now I stand against you. So do your worst." Kisuka would say with a cold and serious tone, as he stares off at Kyuya charging his energy.

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