I Was Not Meant To Exist

The stench of blood sharply pierced one of the guest reception rooms in the human palace, a pool of blood could be seen beneath the stairs that led to the corridor on the second floor.

The Blood Scythe leapt from the stairs, he jumped over the pile of servant corpses, his feet landed in the pool of blood, but he did not slip in the slightest.

His tongue stretched out licking the blood scythe that he held.

"Am I already famous among kids now?...."

The Blood Scythe looked at Aril who did not waver in front of him, his brown eyes trembled, his breath hunted as if he could devour anything.

The Blood Scythe looked at Aril from head to toe

"....or are you not a kid? Because your posture is already like a gorilla..."

Reva and Ken who were behind Aril looked at each other, they also whispered to Aril.

"Hey Aril... it’s better if we retreat first..."

"Aril... you must control yourself, we must regroup with the princess first."

Aril no longer heard what Reva and Ken said, slowly he walked toward the Blood Scythe whose eyes were still covered by the black hood.

A crazy smile was carved on the face of the Blood Scythe.

"Aril?...."

The Blood Scythe tilted his head, he had heard that name before, a name shouted by an old woman.

"Ahh....Aril huh. Are you that Aril? The child of that loser Teresa?"

Reva and Ken swallowed their saliva hearing what the Blood Scythe said, they slowly prepared their posture.

Meanwhile Aril only stayed silent with his head lowered, but his body trembled, his breath became more and more irregular, he stared at the Blood Scythe who kept mocking him after knowing he was connected with Teresa.

His large body suddenly moved, he charged toward the Blood Scythe, his emotions controlled him until his vision only focused on the Blood Scythe.

A cackling sound was heard from the Blood Scythe when he saw Aril heading toward him, he swung his blood scythe repeatedly like slashes toward Aril, those slashes formed from sharpened blood tried to strike Aril.

The bodies of Reva and Ken who saw that slightly twitched, but not for long, they also supported Aril.

Meanwhile Katarina’s blue bird left them.

Reva turned into a shadow and crawled on the ground toward the Blood Scythe, while Ken ran slightly to the side while holding his katana with both hands.

Meanwhile Aril who saw the blood slashes from the Blood Scythe did not flinch, he crossed his hands to cover his face.

Aril did not dodge those slashes, he only flowed mana throughout his body.

Those blood slashes cut Aril’s body, Aril’s face slightly twitched, his blood now also came out from his body.

But those slashes made Aril’s body glow green, now Aril’s talent was ready to attack the Blood Scythe.

The Blood Scythe stretched his body and attacked Aril whose body glowed green.

He did not care about Reva and Ken.

Aril threw his right fist which glowed green toward the Blood Scythe, the Blood Scythe responded with a slash of his scythe.

That clash brought an air explosion in that room, from Aril green kinetic energy was released which made the Blood Scythe’s right hand tremble, he was slightly pushed back by that kinetic energy.

Reva who turned into a shadow tried to take advantage of that gap, she brought back her physical form near the Blood Scythe, her right hand holding a shadow dagger slightly trembled because she was nervous.

But she tried to stab the Blood Scythe with her shadow dagger.

The Blood Scythe who saw Reva suddenly appear immediately made a fast slash toward her body while he was being pushed back.

Reva’s brown eyes widened, in the reflection of her eyes a red line could be seen that wanted to reach her body, unfortunately she could not react to it.

Slash!

A horizontal slash targeted Reva’s stomach. She did not feel pain instantly, but she felt a warm sensation spreading through her body, Reva’s stab stopped when her brown eyes trembled.

The Blood Scythe removed his scythe from his left hand, he immediately grabbed Reva’s short brown hair.

Pain spread in Reva’s stomach, the Blood Scythe added it with a knee strike toward the wound on her stomach.

Pain instantly spread throughout Reva’s body.

Meanwhile Ken began to approach from the side, he closed his right eye, instantly his left eye turned white.

He saw various red points on the Blood Scythe’s body.

Ken’s heart beat fast, his vision looked focused and slowed, he directed a stab toward the Blood Scythe’s neck.

The Blood Scythe immediately released his grip on Reva’s hair, he slightly moved his body backward.

But Ken’s stab managed to hit a little of the Blood Scythe’s neck skin.

Blood came out from his skin, followed by a small explosion that made the Blood Scythe’s hood tear.

After Ken’s attack, a green fist headed toward the Blood Scythe’s face which was still smoking, that fist released kinetic energy.

That punch made the Blood Scythe thrown toward the pile of corpses on the stairs, his feet touched the pool of blood.

Ken who saw the Blood Scythe thrown immediately carried Reva who was lying down to move away, while Aril moved forward toward the Blood Scythe.

Ken gritted his teeth, he shouted to Aril who was still moving forward.

"We retreat first bastard! Control yourself damn it!"

Unfortunately Ken’s shout did not reach Aril, he only focused on the Blood Scythe who slowly got up showing his face.

A cut mark from Ken was seen on the front neck of the Blood Scythe and his skin was slightly burned.

But even with that wound, the Blood Scythe still smiled widely, his red eyes radiated madness, and his white hair was now visible.

The Blood Scythe’s body trembled because of excitement, his blood heated up, he shouted to Aril.

"Yes! This is how it should be! A good prey is a prey that fights back!"

Aril did not care about the Blood Scythe’s words, he only flowed mana throughout his body again.

The Blood Scythe also created his weapon again.

Their exchange of attacks happened several times, every slash from the Blood Scythe was endured by Aril even though he was also injured, but from those wounds his talent activated, Aril’s kinetic energy gathered and he directed it with his fist toward the Blood Scythe.

Their fight made the entire room chaotic, Ken and Reva could only watch them from the corner of the room, Reva’s lips turned white after the attack that targeted her stomach, her voice sounded restrained.

"That big kid... he has already lost control..."

Ken swallowed his saliva seeing Aril’s fight, his blood became hot and his grip on his katana became stronger, he then moved to help Aril and left Reva lying in the corner of the room.

Meanwhile a wide smile was carved on the face of the Blood Scythe, he felt pleasure fighting a child.

He aimed his kick toward Aril’s stomach, the sound of the kick was followed by Aril’s groan.

The Blood Scythe immediately swung his scythe toward Aril’s face, but Aril held the Blood Scythe’s leg that was still planted in his stomach.

He lifted it which made the Blood Scythe lose balance, he then released his grip and immediately kicked the leg that was still stepping on the ground.

That kick made the Blood Scythe fall face down on the floor.

Aril approached him and wanted to attack again.

But the Blood Scythe flipped his body and tore his own stomach, that sight made Aril hesitate for a moment.

The Blood Scythe who saw Aril hesitate began to use it, the blood that came out from his stomach now turned into spikes that directly stabbed toward Aril.

Aril covered his face with both of his hands, but his body was hit by the blood spikes from the Blood Scythe, his body twitched when those spikes pierced his thigh which forced him to kneel.

Pain accompanied by the stench of blood now hit Aril.

He lowered his defense, but what he saw first made his brown eyes widen, there a servant corpse flew toward him, he could see its face clearly.

The servant corpse hit Aril’s body, its touch felt cold on Aril’s skin.

The Blood Scythe immediately appeared after that, he held the blood scythe in his right hand and three heads from servant corpses.

He made a slash toward the servant corpse that blocked Aril’s body.

Aril’s heart beat fast when he saw that slash, and for the first time after meeting the Blood Scythe, his fear was greater than his anger.

The Blood Scythe’s slash split the servant corpse, the slash reached Aril’s body which made his blood gush out and mix with the Blood Scythe’s blood.

Unfortunately that slash was not the end, Aril’s cry of pain had not yet been heard but the Blood Scythe immediately attacked him again.

He directed the three heads of the servant corpses that he held toward Aril’s face.

His swing went sideways which made the right side of Aril’s face collide with the three heads of those servant corpses, a cold sensation was felt by Aril followed by pain.

A loud impact sound was heard, Aril’s right ear rang as his body slowly fell, his brown eyes tried to keep looking at the Blood Scythe, he furrowed his brows to hold on so he would not faint.

Blood flowed from Aril’s head as he lay looking at the Blood Scythe from below.

Only anger still kept him conscious.

The Blood Scythe chuckled seeing that, he again swung the three heads of the servant corpses at Aril.

Making them collide once again, Aril’s vision began to blur when his head collided with those three heads.

His body unconsciously trembled, his blood heated up but fear and doubt began to mix in Aril’s heart.

The Blood Scythe laughed more satisfied seeing Aril like that, the Blood Scythe began to swing those heads again.

But suddenly his body became stiff, his movement stopped in a swinging pose.

A presence appeared beside the Blood Scythe, there Ken closed his left eye, while his right eye had now turned white.

He gritted his teeth, veins bulged on his forehead when he saw the Blood Scythe committing vile acts on the servant corpses even after killing them.

Ken held his katana with both hands, he made a horizontal slash toward the Blood Scythe’s neck.

That slash was not like before that missed, now that slash truly cut the Blood Scythe’s neck.

Ken’s slash made the Blood Scythe’s head fly into the air, a spray of blood burst out like a fountain.

Aril’s brown eyes widened when he saw that, he did not know what feeling he felt.

Meanwhile Ken felt relief in his heart after making that slash, he closed his right eye which would soon bleed.

Ken’s body became more relaxed, he slightly glanced toward the Blood Scythe’s body that was still standing, blood still flowed heavily from his body and his head was still floating.

Ken who previously felt relieved, his body hair suddenly stood.

He saw something strange, the blood that kept coming out now moved wildly, that blood spray began to target the Blood Scythe’s head.

Ken’s gaze shifted toward the Blood Scythe’s head which had now stopped in the air after the blood began to connect to his head.

Ken’s breath became irregular, while Aril who saw that, slowly tried to get up even though his bones throbbed.

Ken could see it clearly, the Blood Scythe’s red eyes were now directed at him, and a wide smile was carved from his head that was separated from his body.

Ken’s body became weak seeing that, he could only stand still looking at it.

The blood that touched the Blood Scythe’s head began to pull it back toward his body.

In an instant his head reattached, Ken’s body became stiff seeing that.

The Blood Scythe immediately charged at him even though his head had not fully connected properly with his body.

Ken’s subconscious that realized the danger began to close his left eye.

But unfortunately he was too late to realize in that moment between life and death.

The Blood Scythe’s hand immediately grabbed Ken’s face, he slammed him to the ground.

The Blood Scythe was now above Ken’s body, he held him so he could not escape.

Ken struggled, his eyes could see between the gaps of the Blood Scythe’s fingers, his head that had not fully connected, slowly shifted into place accompanied by the sound of bones cracking.

Ken’s heart beat fast seeing that, he tried to struggle with all his strength, but unfortunately the Blood Scythe’s grip could not be easily released.

Ken slowly screamed even though his voice was restrained, his stomach felt nauseous and his scream echoed which made Aril and Reva try to get up.

Tears began to pool in Ken’s eyes, he began to lose his strength when the Blood Scythe smiled widely, his voice was now heard, his laughter made Ken’s body weak.

"You will be a good appetizer...."

The Blood Scythe formed his scythe again in his left hand, he began to swing it toward Ken’s head.

When the blade of the scythe was almost reaching Ken’s head, a push made it stop.

There Aril pushed the Blood Scythe which made his body thrown off Ken’s body.

But after that push Aril fell face down on the floor near Ken, while Ken began to vomit the contents of his stomach.

The Blood Scythe’s laughter became louder after that event, he slowly stood up again and looked at Aril and Ken who were now lying close to each other.

One had already felt the limit of the pain he received and one had lost strength after vomiting.

The Blood Scythe licked his scythe blade and slowly approached, every step was like a countdown of death for Aril and Ken.

Reva who was in the corner of the room tried to get up to help Aril and Ken.

But her body did not respond, the blood in her stomach instead flowed out more, she gritted her teeth, cold sweat came out from her temple, her brown eyes trembled.

A voice came from her lips that had now turned pale.

"Damn...."

Aril and Ken could no longer get up at that time to block the Blood Scythe.

A bitter feeling was felt on Aril’s tongue, a feeling of doubt began to shadow his heart when he felt pain throughout his body and when he saw the condition of Ken and Reva.

His heart beat fast almost exploding, his face grimaced filled with regret.

’Forgive me mother....’

Aril shifted his gaze toward the Blood Scythe who walked closer.

But the Blood Scythe’s steps suddenly stopped and Aril began to feel something warm around him.

That warmth slowly turned into heat and a giant blue fireball began to fly toward the Blood Scythe.

The Blood Scythe who realized that sudden attack began to slice his palm, blood came out from there, after that the blood turned into a blood shield.

His blood shield blocked the blue fireball, but the impact threw him away.

Aril’s brown eyes widened seeing that and suddenly his collar was pulled by someone, the same happened to Ken who lay near him.

Aril looked toward the person who dragged him, there Alex’s face was visible, his lips moved and his voice was heard in Aril’s ears.

"Idiot!! What are you doing you bastards!! You should have run!!"

Aril’s body became more relaxed when Alex dragged him, tears slowly fell from his eyes.

At that moment Alex dragged Aril and Ken toward Reva, there Katarina had also arrived.

Katarina took out healing potions from her smart bracelet and gave them to Reva and the others.

Reva’s pale lips began to return to normal, but her wound had not yet healed.

Meanwhile Alex also gave it to Aril and Ken to drink.

One of his eyebrows raised when he saw Ken.

Ken’s gaze was empty like a dead person, a sigh came out from Alex.

He patted Ken’s cheeks to make him conscious, but his expression was still stiff.

The sound of footsteps was heard from the direction where the Blood Scythe was thrown.

They all looked there except Ken.

There the Blood Scythe walked, his black robe slightly burned from Katarina’s attack.

Alex also looked around the room, the servant corpses were still scattered, even their bodies were no longer intact.

Their pools of blood slowly dried, giving patterns to the floor, the stench of blood was clearly smelled in that room.

The sound of the Blood Scythe’s footsteps was also accompanied by vibrations on the floor and also followed by the sound of giant glass shattering coming from the back garden of the palace.

There under the confinement of the black dome, frozen flowers shattered scattered, their forms became shapeless, holes in the ground appeared everywhere.

In one corner Thomas could be seen trying to avoid all the attacks of the glass clones shaped like the queen.

Black veins that appeared from his neck had now spread to half of his face.

His golden eyes kept moving to see incoming attacks from the queen’s glass clones who used various weapons.

Suddenly, a gust of wind struck Thomas from above.

Thomas looked upward after destroying several of the queen’s glass clones.

There was nothing there, but the gust of wind made it seem like something massive was about to pierce the ground where Thomas stood.

A faint smile appeared on Thomas’s face, he raised his left palm upward, from there sharp black shadows emerged.

Those shadows wrapped around something large, Thomas closed his palm which caused the sharp shadows to tighten their grip, and from nothingness the sound of shattering glass was heard, the transparent glass slowly fell to the ground.

Thomas avoided it as the transparent glass pieces fell onto his previous position.

His golden eyes shifted toward the queen’s location, several clones were still appearing there.

Black veins appeared again, this time reaching right beneath his eyes.

He pointed his hand toward the queen as if issuing a challenge.

"Come forward yourself, Cathryn! Are you afraid of me?"

The queen behind her glass clones only chuckled, she brushed her golden hair, her blue eyes looked cold.

"Come with your real body, then I will kill you here as well, Envy."

Thomas laughed loudly, he held his stomach as if unable to contain what the queen said.

"If I come, this capital will be destroyed in an instant...."

Thomas glanced toward the glass cube necklace worn by the queen.

"Just give me that beautiful necklace, and I will leave peacefully...."

The queen manifested glass blades attached to the backs of both her hands, their edges were almost invisible.

"If you only want to leave peacefully, then I will send you to the afterlife gently."

The queen glanced over Thomas’s entire body which was slowly changing form due to the protruding black veins.

’It will be difficult to get Mira and her mother out... if only Saint Azara were here.’

Slowly the queen’s glass clones began to move, the queen followed behind them.

Thomas who saw the queen and her clones approaching immediately raised his left hand toward them.

Sharp shadows wriggled out again from his left palm, one of the glass clones was caught, those sharp shadows wrapped around it and crushed it instantly.

The others directed their glass weapons toward Thomas, Thomas covered his hands with shadows, both his hands turned black, he directed them toward the glass clones and clapped once.

The gust of wind from that clap shattered the remaining glass clones, the wind reached the queen behind them but she did not waver in the slightest.

Thomas now began charging toward the queen, his black hands opened wide aiming at her.

The queen did not move at all, even though Thomas’s black hands were almost reaching her face.

Because something invisible restrained them from touching the queen’s face, a massive transparent wall held them back.

The queen blew her breath onto the transparent glass wall.

The wall moved toward Thomas, pushing him as he could not avoid it, his face slammed into the transparent glass wall.

Thomas gritted his teeth as he was dragged and then fell onto his back after several meters.

The queen passed through the transparent glass wall, she directed her glass blades toward Thomas.

Thomas who had no time to stand saw the tip of the queen’s transparent glass blade, he did not avoid it.

The blade pierced Thomas’s head, but no black blood came out like before, because Thomas’s body trembled and he turned into a shadow that crawled along the ground.

Thomas who turned into a shadow immediately crawled behind the queen.

The queen turned her body, she immediately directed her transparent glass blades toward Thomas.

Their clash happened dozens of times, every cut received by Thomas on his black arms healed instantly as before.

Meanwhile every strike directed at the queen never reached her because transparent glass always blocked it.

The queen who realized the fight was pointless tried to create distance.

She stepped back away from Thomas, while Thomas tilted his head with a smile, he immediately tried to chase the queen.

But the queen who had reached a safe distance began snapping her fingers several times. The snapping sound stopped Thomas’s movement.

Around Thomas, glass walls quickly appeared from nothingness, those walls trapped Thomas like a cube.

Thomas looked around in all directions as he was now trapped.

The queen let out a breath as Thomas was successfully trapped, she took out a black sphere from her smart bracelet.

The black color of that sphere also made the queen’s fingers turn black, she clicked her tongue.

"Yeah... thanks to the dwarf king, but why did my fingers turn black too?"

The queen looked again at Thomas who tried to break the glass walls, cracks began to appear after several of his strikes.

The queen’s blue eyes became colder, she threw the black sphere toward the glass walls, she shouted as she threw it.

"IF YOU STILL CARE ABOUT YOUR FAMILY, TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR BODY, THOMAS!!!"

The black sphere hit one of the glass walls, but it did not fall to the ground, it immediately melted and spread into darkness that colored the glass walls, in an instant the glass cube turned completely dark.

The queen brushed her blonde hair, she slightly glanced elsewhere, there White who was fighting the manifestation of Thomas’s dark side began to stop, the manifestation trembled and slowly disappeared into shadows.

The queen turned her gaze back to her glass cube which had now become pitch black.

The black cube trembled several times, as if indicating Thomas was trying to escape from inside.

Inside the black cube, Thomas punched it several times, he could no longer see, he could not even hear anything.

A growl came from Thomas, the black veins that had reached beneath his eyes slowly receded, Thomas held his head with both hands.

Pain spread through his head stabbing into his brain, the ringing in his ears made it worse.

Shadows were no longer present in the darkness, Envy began losing control.

Thomas grabbed his hair, he slowly sat down in the darkness, his blackened eyes slowly turned white again.

He buried his face into his knees, his heart beat fast, his blood heated again.

But in that darkness, a voice now appeared, Thomas’s ears that had been ringing now heard a voice, the only thing he could hear.

That voice sounded disgusting.

"No... Thomas... you... are not... allowed... to wake up yet..."

Thomas’s frightened voice was heard in the darkness, he shook his head hard.

"No no I don’t want this anymore! Where is my wife where is my child!"

That disgusting voice answered Thomas which made his body hair stand.

"Ssst... ssst... go back to sleep... Thomas..."

Thomas’s eyelids slowly became heavy in the darkness, he tried to stay conscious, he scratched his face until it bled.

But even with that, his eyes became heavier.

His voice that kept resisting strongly now slowed down, his body felt a comfort he could not resist.

Finally his eyes closed in the thick darkness.

That disgusting voice was still heard even after Thomas fell asleep.

"Good... you... will... meet... your wife... and... your child... in hell... Thomas..."

That disgusting voice now echoed inside the black cube.

"For... now... you... must... complete... your task...."

After those words disappeared, Thomas’s body trembled, black veins emerged again spreading to his face, this time covering his entire face.

Slowly something unknown wriggled from Thomas’s back, a wind that should not exist began to be felt.

Gradually the space inside the black cube began to feel pressure from that wind.

The sides of the black cube began to tremble, each second the vibration grew stronger.

That vibration reached the queen outside.

The queen’s blue eyes focused on the black cube that now shook violently, White stood behind her.

The queen clicked her tongue, she pressed her forehead.

"Such a weak faith..."

Slowly the ground around the cube began to tremble, cracks started appearing on the black cube.

But after a few moments the cracks stopped, because after that a gust of wind from inside shattered the black cube into pieces, the loud sound echoed throughout the palace.

The queen and White looked at Thomas there.

He was sitting, his face buried in his knees.

The queen and White prepared for Thomas’s attack, but Thomas only moved to show his face.

There, black veins had covered his entire face, his eyes slowly opened revealing his black eyeballs again.

But something strange appeared at the tips of his forehead, his skin cracked and from within something black began to emerge.

That black thing kept protruding, tearing the skin of Thomas’s forehead.

A wide smile formed on Thomas’s face, a smile more terrifying than before.

And from his back something wriggled, something tore the clothes covering his back.

From there spread wide, two black wings larger than Thomas’s body.

A breath escaped from the queen’s lips, she snapped her fingers.

After that snap, a giant glass sword fell from above onto where Thomas sat.

The impact and vibration reached inside the palace, even to the banquet hall.

There, the vibration arrived as chaos unfolded in front of the grand doors of the palace banquet hall.

Not far from those doors, a man stood surrounded by people in black robes.

The black mask he wore to cover his face was partially broken, revealing part of his face, his black eyes looked tired and his black hair was wet with blood.

A shout was heard not far from him.

"DON’T LOSE, BLACK!"