Dialogue: Kill

- Arc 2 -

***> Chapter 21:***

Her every step echoed down the long, wide hallway. Her heavy armor on her body, her eyes burning with determination and her angry look on her face. The woman moved leisurely, but her heart was beating so fast that it threatened to explode with rage. Her fists were clenched, her teeth gritted in an eardrum-shattering manner, and her aura enveloped everything around her.

This woman now possessed the name "Kill", but before, it was something else.

Each of her steps was heavier than the last. No one was in the way: she had chosen the right moment to face what was eating away at her from the inside. The scratches of her gloves were digging into her palms, but the physical pain did not interest her. She was only focused on one thing and after so much time, she had finally decided to act. To the point of rolling around in her bed, biting her pillow and touching her heart as if it had stopped beating, this woman would no longer accept being passive.

This red-eyed woman was somewhat different from the woman with the name "Kill" that Arcave knew in the present times.

She was heading for a door so big it was ridiculous, but totally justified. The hallway was dark, the candles extinguished. The woman started to run, her breath became excited and the emotions she was trying to keep inside her exploded. She ran towards the door and summoned her power called "Murder" in the air, jumped and grabbed it before destroying the gigantic door that served as the entrance to the main throne. The "person" who was sitting on the huge chair opened her eyes and looked down at the little creature that had entered her room. The woman twirled her scythe in her hands and assumed a fighting stance.

Her aura was gigantic, black and proved that she was ready to die in this fight.

The gigantic person sighed and didn't even bother to stand up, and before accepting this fight, let out:

"Nonsense, betrayal is hardly accepted, even from you."

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Kill had opened her eyes, a time that seemed like infinity afterwards. She stood up with difficulty and looked at her hands.

- I... am not dead... ?

She could hardly believe it, but her mind was sharp. She tried to summon her Power... and succeeded. She grabbed her scythe and slid her index finger over it, noticing that it was real. She could see perfectly well, which told her it was daytime... but as she looked up, she noticed she was in a cave. She started to move forward, but her body screamed in pain, begging her not to move. She took a second step, but fell to the ground on her stomach. She gasped for breath and realized that she was not allowed to go beyond her limits. She touched her body and noticed that she still had her armor on, but parts of it were broken and pieces of it were digging into her skin. She sighed and smiled.

- I get... a second chance... ?

She didn't deserve it; that's what she thought, anyway. Why should she continue to live after her own decisions? When she had been born in such a way, for such a purpose, by such parents, why would she deserve to live? Life itself knew what she had done, but perhaps her betrayal redeemed her... ? Kill used her hands to move forward in this cave and tried to figure out where she was. Her lungs burned, her muscles ached, and if she stopped thinking about so many things at once, she would have fallen asleep forever. She could see perfectly well even though she was in a cave, but she took that as an advantage.

It took her over two hours to get out and rest on a rock. She removed the pieces of armor that had gone into her skin and cried out in pain as she removed the last one, very weak from the fight she had been in. She held her head and saw that "Lura" - the moon of Arcave - was up in the sky. Yet she could see as if it were day. She grabbed a piece of armor and looked inside...

- ... ?

She touched her right cheek and tugged on it to get a better look at her eye...

Which was on fire?

She blinked and threw the piece of armor away before closing her eyes. Not to fall asleep, but to check something. She laughed when she saw that even with her eyes closed...

She could see as if a star was in her irises.

She opened them again and sighed heavily. She didn't know how it happened, but she assumed she had been cursed somehow. She stayed on her rock, caught a few small animals that passed by to feed, and drank from the waterfall that was just a few steps away. She had no idea where she was or how she got here.

The woman took months to recover and even changed her name to Kill. She even changed the color of her hair and got a look she now loved. She fled to the other side of the continent and began to visit and travel while keeping her guard up. Now that she had a second chance, she didn't want to waste it. She still didn't feel she deserved it, but she wouldn't spit on it. She noticed that her burning eyes forced her to see light all the time, and she found it hard to fall asleep except when she couldn't take it anymore. She had lost some of her power and sometimes she shook from her old battle. Now she had to do everything she could to regain her full power and think about what she wanted to do next in life. She did not want to be found and did everything she could not to have any more worries...

But one day, someone found her and Kill almost died under their hands.

Because she didn't pay attention, because she stopped watching her surroundings even when she was sleeping.

She managed to get out of it, but she understood her own weakness. She might be more powerful than 99.9% of the entities on Arcave, but the 0.01% were a considerable threat to her. It was only moments later that she was rescued by Annie, a girl she began to bond with.

Kill would never confess her past to Annie, not necessarily because of a lack of trust, but because confessing would only ruin her life, so she would keep it to herself. Kill loved the way she looked now and thought she was beautiful, but sometimes when she looked in the mirror she felt disgusted. Because of her past mistakes, because her betrayal hadn't worked out the way she wanted it to, and because she had taken far too long. Kill regretted her actions. After all...

***It was partly HER fault that the Gods no longer had hearts.***

**>>>CHAPTER 22<<<**