Chapter 8:

Deathly Hollows

Azure Sins (Redux Ver.)


The two women quickly came to a sudden impact, both tightened their grips around each other. Miyaura was prepared to take most of the damage to protect Aisellia, whose head nestled in the cursed girl's chest. With a thud, the two came to a sudden stopping impact from crashing into something.

"Ow ow ow, What did we hit?"

"Nothing fell on us so it's not likely we hit a building."

Aisellia murmured, slowly opening her eyes, yet her sight was blocked. Her head rested on the middle of Miyaura's back. Using her hands she began to feel for the ground, her hand pressing onto something, she began to lift her head from Miyaura, seeing her friend lying face down.

(Hm? This doesn't feel like the ground...it's getting harder...though it feels like...)

Aisellia slightly firmed her grip, gently squeezing more onto it to support lifting her torso further. Sitting up, she could see Miyaura leaning forward. Suddenly the noble's head perked up, realizing now that she sat on someone's body, looking below her to see someone's legs lightly shuffling around under her. Slowly she turned to look at what her hand had been pressing on that she held a slight grip on. Her face turned a deep red before retracting her hands up to her face in shock and embarrassment.

"Mi-Miyaura it's a person!"

She looked at Miyaura whose rear end rested on top of the man's abdomen.

"Owie owie...Huh?"

Miyaura said before noticing that they were indeed on top of someone. Miyaura's large breasts completely enveloped the man's face between them. The man's muffled voice could be heard from between her breasts, involuntarily causing Miyaura to let a slight whimper escape her. Her natural reaction to the vibrations and warmth against her skin.

"EH?!"

Was the only sound Aisellia could make, hearing and seeing such a reaction left her in a state of shock. Miyaura's face turned red like Aisellia's, yet it was pure rage coursing through Miyaura.  Her cheeks puffed out filling with air in her mouth as she became visibly angry. Reactively her palms slammed against the ground beside his head while lifting her torso to remove the man's face from her chest. With a cruel scowl, she glared into the man's eyes.

"You touched them..."

She said using his stomach to sit still but it became apparent she used her position to hold the man in place, angrily raising one of her fists in preparation to strike the person with a powerful finishing blow.

"Nobody touches-?!"

Miyaura suddenly stopped. She had one hand firmly against the ground that held her over leaning over the man. Seeing him wearing a perverted grin on his face, her torso hanging just above his face, her breasts swaying before his eyes which Miyaura could see were locked onto her chest.

"You're...?!"

Shortening her sentence, the man lay wearing a grin on his face and spoke. His arms were already spread to the side resting against the ground and began closing his eyes faithfully.

"If this is the way I go, I'll die happy accepting its warm embrace. Drown me into-"

"...Paradise..." Miyaura said finishing the man's sentence for him, somehow instinctively knowing what word he planned to finish with.

"Hm? Yeah! You took the word right out of my mouth! Well, sadly those aren't the only things. Heh."

He said chuckling, his eyes finally moving from Miyaura's chest up to her eyes looking down on him. The woman remained silent, staring at the man blankly in disbelief.

Delivering a smile towards her, Miyaura visibly began to calm down, the tension in her expression and fist greatly loosening. Aisellia heard it as well, the two girls quickly got off him and back to their feet still looking rather embarrassed by his words. The stranger let out a deep sigh, appearing rather depressed while he lifted himself off the ground and back onto his own feet. Now standing the girls could get a clear look at the man with shoulder-length black hair and grey eyes.

Aisellia & Miyaura: "Shameless perv..."

"I wouldn't say shameless, What am I supposed to do? Pretend I didn't like it? In my opinion, hat would be pretty rude to pretend you two aren't as attractive as you are while I can see you in front of me. Credit where it's due Ya'know?"

Miyaura listened to his words but she found herself lost in her thoughts, staring the man down vigilantly before she noticed anything he said. Miyaura suddenly appeared rather embarrassed and shy to be face to face with him. Her vision locked with his own, sheepishly looking up into his eyes. Without her knowledge, the markings on her body began to fade from her skin. This view caught the male's attention, looking over her body as the black marking began receding to a spot on her chest before it faded completely. His eyes soon gleamed with interest, staring gleefully at her chest in her revealing attire. Seeing his eyes peruse her body, Miyaura shyly diverted her gaze. Almost immediately their view of each other was blocked. Both snapped out their trances for one another as Aisellia threw a cloak around Miyaura thus covering her body.

(I can feel it, is this energy coming from him? This ominous energy is huge, but it's not a relentless burst flowing from him like Leo's. It's...tamed somehow. Yet he looks like a normal person.)

The cursed girl's mind continued to race. Looking into his eyes once again, he seemed disappointed with Aisellia's actions. Disappointingly sighing as a result. Standing closely behind Miyaura, Aisellia glared intensely at him. Out of sight, Aisellia's hands and legs trembled in fear, clutching onto the back of Miyaura's cloak intensely. For all that she could assume, this man could be another threat to the two women. With a glance, it quickly became apparent to her that Miyaura was the calm one of them.

(It's different but I can't deny it this energy feels a little like...Could it be?! This warmth coursing through me...this smells like him...)

"Listen here, you weird pervert!"  Aisellia said sternly pointing her index finger at the male.

"Hey, you two are the ones who crashed into me! I recall I could call you the pervert here."

Aisellia became flustered, her hands moving to twiddle her fingers in front of herself, avoiding further eye contact with him.

Aisellia Rae: "T-that was just an accident! Anyway, this is not the time to be chatting! We have to escape!"

Miyaura: "You're at least as strong as a demon hunter right!? We weren't thrown lightly and you didn't look bothered at all by how hard we hit you."

Aisellia's lips parted, allowing a gasp to escape her while her attention instantly shifted back to the male.

Aisellia Rae: "W-what? Is it possible to fight against that? Is there a chance you two might be strong enough to defeat Leo together? I can't understand any of this but that's a good thing right?!"

Aisellia additionally questioned before he could even answer the first of four. Quickly looking at Miyaura for a response, yet it was the stranger who spoke instead.

Mysterious Man: "Uuuuuh no."

Aisellia & Miyaura: "What?!"

Aisellia Rae: "I-I don't have any money with me right now but if you can help us and escort me back to my home I could pay you greatly!"

Aisellia offered passionately as she stepped from behind Miyuara at once.

Mysterious Man: "Nah, Fighting demons without injury isn't something as easy as you make it sound. Another thing, you don't beat demons...you kill them."

He said cautiously, his eyes suspiciously looking off to the side. The women both fell temporarily silent. This prompted his gaze to return to the girls, their eyes meeting shortly before his own once again casually looked them over. The noble stood before his eyes lightly covered in bleeding yet minor scratches on her face, arms, and legs. Her outfit endured a few tears but it still clung snugly to her body. However, his eyes spent most of their leisure around her chest. The construct of her top left an ample view of her breasts exposed to him, cradled and gently squished. Aisellia's arm pressed against Miyaura whom she stood so close to, prompting his eyes to jump over onto Miyaura just as she cautiously pressed against Aisellia.

Under the opening of Miyaura's cloak, her form-fitting shirt clung to her body being supported by the thin straps on her shoulders, gently strained from the volume of her chest filling on the chest portion of the dress. Miyaura is significantly more voluptuous in the area, maintaining the great volume of her breasts. The fabric slightly strained forward under the weight carried by the dress, providing a large window of cleavage exposed to him as well until it loosened on her body under her bust down to her mid-thighs. 

Aisellia and Miyaura's thoughts prolonged their notice away from the man's visual adventure as their own eyes watched his ocular movements. Together they leaned closer pleadingly to him. Watching his eyes move as each woman took a single step forward, simultaneously alerted them to what held his attention after denying their plea. The two women found themselves suddenly shyly flustered. Aisellia quickly lifted her left arm and retreated a half step. Her forearm pressed into her chest, unintentionally squishing them in an attempt to timidly block them from his sight. However, it only caused her flesh to swell within her top, their soft shapes gently spilly over the edges of her shirt. Aisellia sheepishly turned her face away from him although she shyly brushed the side locks of her hair behind her ear, allowing her Cyan-colored eyes to peer embarrassingly from the side into his eyes.

Unlike her counterpart, Miyaura did not retreat in her step. Having noticed his ogling of her body Miyaura's hand instinctively raised to the base of her neck as she took a half step closer to him. With her hand resting gently against her neck, her forearm nestled its way between her breasts leading them to naturally form around her arm. Having taken notice of how he watched her body move, her shade of blush deepened to a burning red quickly. With a great sense of lust in his eyes, Miyaura physically welcomed it In contrast to the noblewoman. Seeing his eyes follow her breasts Miyaura nervously brought her hands together against her in front of herself thus forming a V with her arms. His eyes widened with intrigue from witnessing the results of her gifting gesture. Light violet eyes looked up to peer into his as he did to her body. Her breasts squished against one another, their volume shifting and swelling leading the dress fabric to stretch, straining the straps on her shoulders from her slightly leaning forward more. Miyaura's leaning position caused her breasts to begin spilling over and out of the chest opening to the dress yet nothing proved able to fall out.

It was clear to him and her that the fabric of her dress was being strained to its limit. Her large bust squished together as if fighting to spill out from her dress before the other, which coincidentally kept either from fully doing so.

"I..."

He mustered the ability to say, his eyes now casually bouncing between each of their beautiful eyes. Before they realized it, both women gently smiled being under his gaze, having enthralled the man unintentionally. Easily becoming a victim of their physical charms even during the situation they were in. Although both felt embarrassed by their appearances and more so under the man's leisurely enjoyment of seeing their exposed bodies. A few seconds of silent eye contact passed before the man let out a depressing sigh and began walking toward the girls who were just a few steps away. Instinctively Aisellia separated herself several steps beyond where they stood.

"Getting to hang around you two longer definitely sounds more than just pleasant. Hm, If you want to negotiate my help..."

The stranger began, his eyes unable to help but to ogle their figures once again before bouncing back up to their eyes. A silly grin formed on his lips.

"I'd much rather get to-"

The man's sentence was suddenly cut short. A flying spear cut through the air at extreme velocities from within the darkest depths of the cave. Piercing well through the stranger's torso, its blade fully impaled his chest, protruding from his back, and quickly snatching him off his feet backward an extensive distance. Gradually the spear was weighed down by his body, piercing into the ground and coming to an immediate halt. His body was held suspended above the ground by the polearm portion of the spear. The expressions on both girls' faces only told how quickly all hope had left them as they now witnessed the man's body covering the spear in blood. The male was snatched away from their immediate sight within a fraction of a second before their very eyes. Suddenly Miyaura began to turn around in order to look behind herself, seeing Leo in mid-air closely behind her but it was already too late for her to react. Leo delivered a heavy downward punch to Miyaura's head, sending the cursed girl downward into the ground, cracking the hard surface with enough force to bounce her body and send her tumbling further across the ground, sliding to a stop in front of the impaled stranger.

Turning all too late, by the time Aisellia had turned to face her, Miyaura had already been sent flying, seeing Leo land where she formerly stood. It all transpired faster than she could keep up with mentally, emotionally, and physically. Her fear-stricken eyes focused on Leo, unable to move, Aisellia was paralyzed by complete fear.

Mysterious Voice: "You must watch your blindsides Aisellia."

Aisellia Rae: (That voice! It can't-)

Fully moving her eyes, Aisellia's vision was blocked by something white, looking up, she could see the face of Priest Leon. The Temple official that supervised them on their journey here, standing before her, his eyes were now a demonic red. The priest placed his hand against Aisellia's stomach while she was frozen in fear.

What looked similar to a gentle push from the priest lifted Aisellia easily launching her off her feet into mid-air and sending her tumbling back along the ground as well, stopping next to the impaled man and Miyaura. The two girls being damaged by the attacks struggled to lift their heads from the ground. Miyaura however managed to sit herself up, seeing Aisellia squirming on the ground in pain beside her, coughing up saliva in the process.

"Aisellia! No! This can't happen again!"

Miyaura screamed having tears begin streaming down her face, seeing the pain-ridden Aisellia and the man still held suspended in the air impaled by the spear. Miyaura looked back to see Leo and the priest slowly walking their way toward the group. Miyaura shuffled on her hands and knees scurrying fearfully across the ground, making her way over to Aisellia, hastily cuddling her into her lap.

"No no no no, please! Aisellia! I...I can't lose anyone else! When we were dreaming together, you could only see what happened to me but for me, it felt like I was always next to you for a big part of your life, but you...couldn't see or hear me."

Miyaura gently brushed her hand against Aisellia's cheek, A peaceful gesture that relaxed the noble, easing her to stop squirming from the pain while she rested in Miyaura's embrace.

"You've been through enough. I saw more in your memories than you could see in mine. I'm a weird, clumsy girl who looked forward to being around you. I'm so tired of watching everyone I know die around me! So much I feel sick! You don't deserve this...Please! I'm sorry Aisellia!"

The girl screamed holding her eyes tightly shut as she cried. Suddenly Aisellia's hand cupped Miyaura's cheek, Miyaura being surprised quickly opened her eyes already looking down at Aisellia, seeing a faint pained smile on her face.

"I wanted the same thing Miyaura, Eileen was right. I already absolutely enjoyed having you as a friend. You could be clumsy or an airhead as she said but none of this is your fault. You're kind of like me, you wanted your opportunity to live the best life you could, the way you want to enjoy it. I've had time to realize it's not just getting to do what you want. It's enjoying that happiness with people who'll understand you and love you for all that you are and help you enjoy those things even more. It's strange. Even realizing all this...I'm scared...I don't want to die...I'm...I'm so fucking scared."

Aisellia finished saying, her cracking voice fighting to speak through her tears which flowed more heavily the longer she saw the sadness in Miyaura's eyes

"How pitifully sad." The priest proclaimed loudly. Miyaura's eyes turned towards Leo and the priest with a vicious glare.

"Fools will run the world until all life becomes submissive to the rule of a savior. I'll do you a favor Aisellia, I'll end the lives of you and your new filthy friends as quickly as I ended Dan's. The greedy fool has served his purpose as a sacrifice for my revival."

Miyaura angrily bit her bottom lip. Suddenly she released the pressure she placed on her lip, feeling a heavy pressure push down on her shoulders.

(The heavy pressure pushing down on me. There's no way to deny...he's the demon that attacked us back then. This demonic spiritual pressure is pouring from that priest. They're sharing his body!)

"Leonel, if you wouldn't mind. You can kill them or keep them for your satisfaction."  The priest suggested to the demon boy. Leo nodded in agreement, the priest stopping a moderate distance away while Leo initiated moving towards the girls. Miyaura looked at Aisellia, then back to the impaled man, fear-stricken by the realization everything could be over for her and Aisellia at this very moment.

(I...somehow able still feel...no I couldn't feel it like this before. He's lost so much blood...}

A heavy step from Leo snapped Miyaura's attention back to him, seeing him running at them at a full sprint. Miyaura's head quickly turned back to the impaled man. Her face revealed how mortified she was by what was to come and all that had transpired in only a short time. She stared at the man's corpse with tears flooding from her eyes, in what sounds were left of her to muster; her cracking voice was barely audible when she attempted to speak.

"H-hey. I'm happy we could actually meet again. With help, I've been able to live... and see? I've grown, what were the chances right? I've still only thought about and wanted to keep my promise. Maybe I'm still just too weak. I-I wanted to give you my heart...but...but...it all hurts so much right now...I-I can't take any more hurt...I feel trapped!"

Clutching Aisellia deep into her bosom and intensely shutting her eyes, Miyaura screamed out loud. Unable to contain her well of emotions.

"JUST PLEASE DON'T LET HER DIE!!"

Aisellia's exposed eye opened wide. Facing upward toward the sky above, she saw Leo right above them with his clawed hand already drawn back and ready to slaughter both women in one attack. Just as quickly as Leo entered her sights, the stranger who had been impaled entered her vision right above them as well. Leo's eyes locked with Aisellia's, apparently to her, he was completely unable to see the man coming, his fist already crashing against the demon boy's face. The stranger's fist sank into and simultaneously deformed the demon boy's head as it warped around his fist, completely redirecting the young man back toward the priest in a fraction of a second.

(WHAT?!) Leo yelled loudly inside his mind. Immediately as Leo's body forcefully left the man's fist, in that brief second, his vision allowed him to witness the male. His hair that fluttered in the wind partially covered his eyes yet a twisted devil's smile stretched across his face from ear to ear. From that fraction of a second, Leo's eyes grew wide with merciless fright. A massive visage of the stranger's demonic energy, ominous in quantity and shape. For Leo this combination only made the feel of his energy manifest an image resembling a visage of cloaked death as if right before his eyes.

(That can't be a demon! It's a nightmare of death!)

Only a fractional second following his body being forcefully redirected, the sheer force of the hit left Leo's neck and up obliterated by the explosive force of the attack, ripping his head from his very shoulders. Following through and landing on his foot, It was then the spear that had impaled him could be seen in his other hand releasing steam as if the man's hand was burning from the simple touch. Within the same moment, the weapon was launched at an extraordinary speed. The spears launch visibly warping the wind surrounding the travel path, causing the ground and objects around its immediate path to quake due to the outlandish force of the throw. The eyes of the Priest snapped to focus on the spear. His eye-locking onto it the second it entered his vision unsuspectedly after Leo was destroyed.