The Crisis World XX

Chap. 81: The Battle for Cecilia

I strangled Herlin so hard this time that it made him have trouble speaking and breathing. My body cannot be controlled like something is trying to control my body from the inside.

Herlin tried to remove my hand from his neck with his left hand, while his right hand smacked my arm with the handle of a sword. But it was all for nothing, none of his efforts were successful.

My check weakened Herlin quickly, evident from the expression of pain and difficulty in breathing he showed. Also his punch got weaker and weaker and he gave up.

The sword Tetsu he held was released from his already weakened grasp.

Mr. Creeett…

Before the sword fell to the ground, Tetsu quickly grabbed it and then cut off my hand that was still suffocating Herlin. The blood from my severed hand soiled the clothes and faces of Herlin and Tetsu, and then Tetsu carried Herlin away from me.

"Ahakh .. ahakh .. ahakh …." Herlin coughed while holding her neck which displayed her tight marks I strangled her.

"You okay, Herlin?"

"I'm fine ..., but what did you do to Iraya?"

"I have no other choice. If my own owner loses control, then let me end his life myself" Tetsu said with a serious face.

"But …."

The two of them watched me in pain while holding onto my missing hand. Meanwhile from inside Herlin's body he suddenly shone for no apparent reason and then Cecilia appeared.

"Cecilia?! What are you doing?!"

"There is no time to explain, for now it is better to protect me until Iraya's body."

After talking like that without explaining it any further, Cecilia immediately ran towards me which of course was realized by Delta—or maybe now I will just call him Hasuki-san.

"Subject C? All this time he wasn't in Iraya's body? Yeah, it doesn't matter, I just need to catch it again."

Hasuki-san pointed her left hand over the running Cecilia. Then he made a dome of ice big enough to lock Cecilia in it. And then he dropped it quickly.

"Si—!!"

Sryiiig.. Sryiiig…

When Cecilia was almost certainly trapped inside Hasuki-san's ice dome, suddenly came Tetsu who darted quickly over Cecilia's head and slashed the ice dome into small pieces of ice that were shapeless.

"Tetsu?!"

"I don't know what you're up to, but please help Iraya!"

Cecilia instantly turned her surprised face into a serious one and nodded her head. He also tries to ignore the attacks coming from Hasuki-san, because he believes in Tetsu.

While Tetsu who then landed perfectly on the ground after slashing the ice dome earlier, put up the horses and blocked Hasuki-san who tried to disturb me and Cecilia.

"Your opponent is me!"

"Low-spirit doesn't have to bother me."

Klink…

Hasuki-san then made the ice needles which she directly aimed at Tetsu. But this time Tetsu put up different horses, he did not wear Herlin's horses before.

Kraank…

Then after that he did a slash before the ice needles approached him and then created a strong wind that spread all the ice needles and did not hurt Tetsu in the slightest.

"I'm not as strong as Cecilia, but you can't underestimate me!"

"Tch!"

Finally, Hasuki-san must attack Tetsu first, which disturbs him to get to Cecilia. Meanwhile Cecilia had reached my place of pain and could not control my body.

"Iraya! Now calm down and listen to me! I'll try to reduce the pain, so calm down!"

But I couldn't hear Cecilia's voice clearly. Right now my focus is only to relieve the pain felt all over my body. I held my head and rebelled making it hard for Cecilia to get close to me.

"Armghh …!!"

"Iraya?! Relax!"

Cecilia then understood that using ordinary means would not work, then after that she waited for the right opportunity while I was opening my defense.

After waiting for a while, it finally opened up also an opportunity for Cecilia to approach me and she did not waste it at all then held onto my forehead and pushed it to the ground so I fell hard.

Cecilia focused herself on getting inside my body again at this moment. And after waiting for a while, Cecilia's body began to shine brightly and she disappeared from in front of me. Hasuki-san who saw it was shocked at once did not accept when Cecilia re-entered my body.

"Subject C?! He went back into his body?!"

Sryii…

But Tetsu did not allow Hasuki-san to even daydream for a while. He really made him focus a hundred percent on his fight with Tetsu.

Luckily Hasuki-san was still able to dodge the vertical slash Tetsu had carried towards her. But that made him even more annoyed to Tetsu.

"You …!"

"Still dare to ignore me?"

Tetsu gave a confident smile to Hasuki-san which made her look not afraid of him at all. But fighting like this for him for a long time was not a good thing, considering that he was a Spirit.

The more a Spirit expends energy, the shorter the time it is outside its host. And that happened to Tetsu. With the puncture wound he had received earlier also made his time even shorter.

Tetsu is now exhausted and he realizes that there is not much time. He also called Herlin who from earlier was silent while watching the fight between the two of them. According to Tetsu, Herlin's power should have returned and he should have been able to fight again.

"Herlina! Can you fight?!"

"I'm ready!" herlin was sure.

"Good then."

Tetsu then walked backwards but still kept his horses and focused on his opponent in front of him. But after being near Herlin who was already standing and ready to fight, he let go of his horses and spoke to Herlin.

"Ehehe .. I sometimes envy humans who can continue to be free without having to rely on their hosts. The rest I leave to you, yeah, Herlin!"

"I understand."

Then from Tetsu's body came a bright shining light and then his body disappeared, leaving the sword itself to fall to the ground. Herlin took the sword and then placed it in its sheath on his back.

"Just rest, Tetsu. This time it was my turn to fight."

"This time you're against me?" ask Hasuki-san.

"Chifu-san ..., did you feel nothing when you killed our classmates back then?"

"That time? Ah ... which time was yes …."

Hasuki-san was wondering and remembering the heartbreaking events that happened back then. The one burning the class back then was Hasuki-san, so Herlin asked Hasuki-san that question. After thinking for a while, Hasuki-san then replied.

"… I don't know, but it's a pity that they're all dead. I was just trying to weaken Iraya so that it would be easier for us to catch her, it spread throughout the class."

Herlin's eyes widened slightly, but not like before. Although surprised, but he could already guess that it would be issued by Hasuki-san.

Actually it was not the answer that Herlin wanted but for now he would harbor his anger and would fight Hasuki-san once again.

"That's it, but it's a pity that your answer was wrong, Hasuki-san."

Zii…

A huge aura shot out from Herlin's body which created quite a strong wind and flew the surrounding pebbles.

"I'm different now than I was before."

"It's okay, I was confused because you're wearing a sword."

Their fight will start again. But this time with different conditions where both sides can already expel all of their respective powers.

**

Meanwhile Cecilia who had managed to get into my body immediately rushed to do something so that she could relieve the pain in my body. But Cecilia realized something.

"His barrier disappeared?"

There was no longer a barrier blocking the flow of Cecilia's power throughout my body. The chains that had once locked him up and restricted his movements were no longer there either.

Cecilia then concentrated and tried to heal the wounds that were inside my body. But he also realized that something similar to his aura was filling my body right now, even though it was not from him.

Srrtt…

Cecilia then looked out my body at the hand that Tetsu had cut off. He suddenly regenerated very quickly and healed as if nothing had happened. Starting from the bones, the flesh, then the skin everything became normal again.

"His hand healed?! Damnit damnit! Too many things I don't understand, I'll ask for an explanation from him later."

He refocused on spreading his aura throughout my body and finally found something that was causing me pain.

Gyuut…

After being discovered by Cecilia, the alien aura then changed shape into a green slime liquid that could move and began to attack towards Cecilia. But he did not stay silent and launched a counterattack on him.

Craaass…

The green slime was quite weak and easily destroyed, but her regenerative abilities could not be underestimated. As if it was not inexhaustible, it continued to move towards Cecilia even though it had been attacked continuously.

Then this room was also almost filled with green slime. Everything moved towards the middle of the one where Cecilia was there. Even so, Cecilia did not look worried and actually looked angry.

"You think you're great, huh?"

Craaassh…

The green slime liquid instantly shattered as it approached Cecilia. It is like being surrounded by a protector who forbids anything from entering it.

"I assume that you're the liquid that Ayakashi Corp made. But you're just an imperfection. How dare a creature like you approach this perfect me!"

Cecilia continued to leisurely walk towards the huge aura she had already felt from earlier. All the green slimes that approached him seemed to bounce and crumble while trying to get close to Cecilia. Then after a while, he reached the center of the slime liquid.

"So you, huh?"

In front of Cecilia this time there is a green creature in the form of an adult woman with her entire body green, from head to toe.

The eyes of the two of them looked at each other. The green lady was attached to a pillar made of green liquid as well. His hair that seemed to have a mind of its own then tried to attack Cecilia who was trying to get closer. But his attempt failed.

The green lady shouted as she opened her mouth wide as if she wanted to eat Cecilia. But there was no fear in Cecilia, the feeling she felt right now was one, that of disgust.

"Raaawrghh …!!"

"disgusting."

Craaass…

Pillars, hair, as well as all the green slimes that were near Cecilia tried to attack her simultaneously. But all his efforts were in vain when Cecilia quickly cut off the green woman's head which rolled near Cecilia's feet.

"Graaaawwhhh …!!!"

It was his last scream before he turned into tiny grains floating in the air and then disappeared. As if like a train car following his head, the rest of the green slime disappeared and the place became clean as before.

Cecilia let out a slight sigh as she had managed to eliminate her main problem. And now there's nothing else he can do, the rest depends on me.

While I was struggling with my pain suddenly felt something strange. Something that seemed to break out from my body in one push.

It made me take out everything in my body. The blood coming out simultaneously from my mouth, eyes, ears, and nose made me look like I had a bath of blood. My hair, which was entirely green, has now returned to normal along with my iris which is no longer orange.

"Iraya?! You okay?!" ask Herlin.

"Where did you see it?!"

Herlin who was checking my situation was suddenly attacked by Hasuki-san with a burst of fire. Luckily he could still hold it with his strength.

Herlin's scream in my ear wasn't very audible because the blood coming out of my body was too much to make my head feel dizzy. After my vision faded, I fell unconscious again.

When I opened my eyes, I realized that I was not on the battlefield. I was in an endless clean white room that felt nostalgic to me.

I realized something, too, that I was in my mind. Where I usually meet Cecilia.

"Are you conscious, Iraya?"

As if it was justified by the voice that called out to me earlier. I got up from my stomach and looked at Cecilia who was standing beautifully.

"Ce-Cecilia? Are you here?"

"It feels like a long time ago I didn't see you. We've only been together for two weeks."

"If you're here, then the way I gave you that time worked?"

"Yep, I can say half the success. Despite being inside Herlin's body, he couldn't use his abilities."

"That's it, huh? I'm glad to hear it."

"Iraya, I want to ask you something."

"A-What's wrong?"

Suddenly Cecilia put on a serious face to me as if to interrogate me. I don't know why I got so scared after not seeing her for so long.

"Did something happen when you were taken hostage?"

So that's what I was asked. I was worried that he would ask me something strange, but it turned out that he was only worried about me.

"They injected me with green liquid three times."

"Green water? What happened to your body after that?"

"It felt like something alive had entered my body. It was trying to take over my body and use it as they please, but fortunately I was able to hold it in, so only my appearance changed."

"Appearance? I don't think anything has changed at all" said Cecilia puzzled.

"Eh?! Did ya? But I'm sure that my hair is—"

I pulled out a few strands of my hair to make sure that the hair I have now is green. But it turns out I was wrong, my hair is back brown as before.

"Eh? How strange. What about my iris?" I pointed towards my eyes.

"It's back in black too."

"Seriously?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"It's weird, but I think it's cool if I have green hair, huh? Ehehe ...," I muttered.

"Still joking ...?" ask Cecilia flat.

"... Yeah, I don't think that's important. Now what are you going to do about a situation like this?" continued.

"Of course not I won't stay silent. I will defeat their boss and resuscitate Hasuki-san."

"Iraya's good dream, but are you aware of your body condition?"

"Gil …!"

As Cecilia said, my current condition is not very good. The lack of blood was the most severe thing I was going through right now, hence my strength and fighting ability dropped drastically. I bowed my head and begged Cecilia.

"I beg you! Please heal me!"

"Huh …. It was fortunate that I was here," Sighed Cecilia as if facing something troublesome.

"Cecilia is an angel! I can't live without you!" My praise to Cecilia.

"We'll just miss the compliment, now quickly wake up and be ready to fight."

"Good!"

My body glowed and gradually faded away leaving Cecilia alone in this room. Then I opened my eyes and came back to life in the real world. I was lying on my stomach with my own blood, making my face dirty.

I also stood up. I could also feel that Cecilia was doing her job of restoring my stamina. A small smile was created on the tip of my lips, my optimism this time was very high.

"I'm ready!"

Seriate