After Shi was able to let out the stress and anxiety he felt they all sat down and talked about more light hearted things together. The topic obviously got back to the subject of Momoe and Shi.
"Tell me what happened and why guys!" Rika demanded
Momoe began to entail what happened, "Well, I was turned down on a date and went to speak to him, I figured you guys heard enough about that problem from me and perhaps he could've given me some guidance. He took me to get ice cream but I still felt sad and I eventually told him what happened, we hugged and took a moment to look at each other and...and...-"
"You kissed!?!" Rika exclaimed
"Yes!" Momoe exclaimed back blushing
Shi laughed, "and the rest is, as they say, history" he says as he gives Momoe a kiss on the cheek.
This, all of it, the circle, the bond, the discussion. It is what Shi was fighting for. He would and will put everything on the line for it.
"we should get to bed. It's approaching midnight" Ai says
"She's right, let's get to bed, I'll see you all on the other side"
They all laid down, Momoe and Shi together, Rika and Ai on the ground next to one another and Nieru.
The group was there in Shi's world on the lively green hill.
"Well, I figure since we are in my realm I'll crack my final egg", he cracks and he's frozen. He didn't say a word before Shi slapped the boy that stood before him.
"No..." He shook his head, "No way...". He picked the boy up.
"Me?" The boy said. The boy was Shi from an alternate universe. This Shi appeared to be emotionally and physically weaker, with a pain threshold more akin to that of a regular
"What made you do it? What was it!?!" Shi shoved his counterpart down.
"Enough, Enough!" Acca called out, "There is no wonder killer, or Seeno Evils, forgive yourself. He doesn't see you as what you truly are. His perception is warped, he can not see the girls either, nor can you"
Shi turns around and the group is gone.
"The girls were moved and they are fine. Right now you have to resolve your differences and forgive yourself. We know why you keep fighting."
"And what does that have to do with...This!?" Shi says as he circles his counterpart who lied on the ground scared and crying
"Enough with your self loathing. Shi, right now you are your worst enemy and if you wish to protect the people you care for dearly, you must forgive yourself."
"Who did he hurt? Why did he do it! Tell me! Why?"
"I couldn't take it! I saw her and couldn't do it! I never woke up okay!?!" The weaker Shi cried out
"What about them!? Ai, Rika, Nieru, and Momoe! What about the most important person in your life! Shi how could you do this?!?" Shi cried out. He pitied him but resented himself for leaving the group, he couldn't even imagine the pain he inflicted by never waking up. But then again, he himself was very close to the position his alternate self was at.
"Forgive yourself, Shi. If you want to have the power to defend those you care about you would find it in your best interest to do so" Ura-Acca told him
Shi, hesitated but caved in, giving himself a hug.
"*sigh* It's okay, it is alot to take, I came close to where you were. It wasn't your fault."
The other world Shi turned to dust at that moment
"Shi-kun!" He heard Momoe yell as he felt a pair of arms wrap around himself.
"Hi, Momoe" he stood up
"Acca warned us. Now is the time, the threat arrived sooner then they expected" Ai told him.
Shi took notice of Rika who stood there with Mannen. He felt a bad feeling in his gut like something was wrong.
"Put him away, Rika"
"Why? We'll need the support"
"Put. Him. Away. Now"
"Why are you sayin-"
"Listen to me, Put him away!He isn't safe here!"
"He's strong and he can fight!"
"NOW!" Shi shouted as he kicked Mannens nose and pushed the tortoise before a giant steel ball whipped Shi straight into the tree line.
Shi was resilient and got up easy but now he had a gap to close with an extremely powerful threat.
"RUN!" He shouted out. "JUST RUN!" He shouted once more as he continued running. He had never run this fast and hard before and the adrenaline made him feel nothing
He made it back, the girls were gone but he felt something was near. His suspicions were confirmed when a hand firmly and near lethal grabbed the back of his neck.
"Ah!..Bitch!" The grip slowly had him losing his strength, his legs weakening.
"Frill says we should deal with you first, Frill says your too strong, Dot doesn't want to let Frill down", the entity says before laughing
"Whats..so...funny!?" He shouts
"Frill says when you laugh it makes people happy!" Dot tells him
"I've got people to make me happy and if you want to take them from me then you can go to hell!" He shouts as he breaks her grip and grabs Dot back by the neck.
"Let go of Dot!"
Shi slams Dot to the ground choking her.
"You aren't laughing now are you? ARE YOU?" It was as if Shi had lost his mind, however it may have been the adrenaline and rage. "Go on, Does Shi have to let out a cruel chuckle for you?"
Shi ripped the wing-like limbs off the had of the enemy and ripped the insectoid head off before, Shi got up and began searching for the group "Ai!, Momoe! Rika!".
He walked down the hill through the trees and through the park that laid past them.
"Over here" He heard Ai responded as they found him.
"Are you guys alright?" He took notice of Momoe's absence immediately, "Where's is she?"
"We aren't sure" Rika said to him
"I'm gonna search for her, are you guys coming?" He asked
"Of course!" Ai said as her and Rika as the group went to find her.
Before long they found her, Momoe was speaking with it, another one of those beings, similar to Dot, however with tan wings on its head and with a boomerang like blade.
"Tell me, where are your friends. I want what they have"
"You won't get anything from them!" Momoe shouted back
"Anything but the worst pain of your fucking life!" Shi screamed as he charged towards it. He propelled himself off of a tree with a kick to send himself towards it in the air.
He grabbed Kirara and pull her down from the air and into the ground, however this takedown was short-lived as Kirara kicked Shi off of her.
"Ah, Your stronger than the last one I killed. I ripped her godamn head apart. I loved every second of it." Shi said with a malicious grin on his face
"No, you couldn't have!" Kirara said taken a back
"Its gonna take more than some bug head bitch to take me down"
Kirara launched her boomerang blade towards which he evaded
"I said what I meant, and meant what I said" he charged yet again to attack with his weapon. However, the baton shattered against her, "You don't realize that you've made things more painful do you?" He wrangled her down to which she her boomerang blade returned slicing Shi's back
"Ah!" It hurt him but he kept her down.
While Kirara was pinned Momoe took the boomerang blade from her.
"Good thinking!" Shi shouted as he finished off Kirara by ripping off the head. "I hate this! Why couldn't we deal with normal enemies."
In the blink of an eye, Shi and the group were moved back to the hill they started at before being met with Acca and Ura-Acca.
"We have a plan, to end all of this" Acca says
To be continued.
HOLY SHIT! My brain is just fried. I have so many concepts but I chose one. I'm going to give some forewarning. It will be depressing and really REALLY messed up.