()= Thinking/ Replacing
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/= Whispers
<>= Phone
[]= Failure for first try
{}= Failure for second try
@@= Failure for third try
After the Kurumi rescue mission, I found myself on a hospital bed with my hands and body connected to some hospital equipments.
Darren: Aggh. I guess it's good that they have advanced hospital devices huh?
I looked down at my stomach wound which had completely healed and smiled.
Darren: Aaaaaaaah. FULL RECOVERY BOYS. Ouch.
At that moment, Kurumi, Velzard and Wiz all woke up due to my shouting and hugged me as tight as possible, almost making me unable to breath. From the looks of it, from when I was in a coma, they were taking care of me every single day of the week and spared no seconds.
Darren: Gi-rls I can-'t br-ea-th.
Girls: Sorry.
Kurumi: I was so worried. *while hugging me and crying* I'm so sorry. I'm sorry.
Wiz: You got us so worried, Darren-Kun.
Velzard: Next time you pull something like that I will make sure to freeze you into an ice cube.
Darren: *shivers down my spine* Got it now.
She and the other girls sent a darkness aura down my spine and I just nervously chuckled. I quickly turned to my serious face though with what I am about to discuss as top priority.
Darren: Call Lucas, Aether and Yuko as well as Rose here please.
Girls: Sure.
Darren: Reborn. The undead who has lost all but their will.
All of my shadow soldiers appeared there were more than the last time I summoned them.
Darren: (Heh, a power boost gave me more soldiers huh?)
Shoto: My liege, I beg for your command.
Shadow Soldier: Same here.
At that moment. Lucas, Yuko, Aether, Rose and the girls walked into the room.
Yuko: Alright, Darren what the situ- *Sees the 100 shadow soldiers on the ground bowing at me except for Hurwhiill*
Darren: Do you know why I called you all??
Everyone including the soldiers: No.
Darren: I wanted to ask you all a question...
Everyone including the soldiers: What question??
Darren: Will you all follow me, even if I do walk down the path of evil?
Everyone except my soldiers seemed shocked at the question.
Shoto: No matter what you become, my liege. I will follow you without a question, you who resurrected me and gave me a purpose again. I will follow you for life.
Kirito: Although I was killed by my liege, I now serve as my liege's swordsman. Even if my liege does walk down the path of evil and wants to cause destruction, I shall assist my liege in anyway I can. I lost my purpose when I died and had been protecting no one, you have me a purpose to protect you.
Yuji: I, who was resurrected by my liege and due to my soul's selfish wish of you wanting to resurrect me to serve you. I do not regret of staying with my liege. Instead I thought that why didn't I serve under you sooner.
Hurwhiill appeared from beside the window.
Hurwhiill: They are right, my liege. No matter what you become. We will follow you no matter what. This is the way of the soldiers, the way to our loyalty. I will follow you until I die or when you die.
Darren: Thank you, my commanders. I do not regret ever summoning any of you. Neither do I regret turning all of you into my soldiers.
Darren: Now, what about you seven??? I won't hold any grudges against you, I just need to know.
Wiz: Even if you walk down the path of evil and destruction. Just for you to know, I will stay with you forever, my love. My love is only for you and Kiriya and with Kiriya already dead. My love belongs to you and you only.
Velzard: I will love you and follow you even if you decide to steer from the path of righteousness. If this is what you have decided then, I as a lover shall support you all the way through.
I looked at Kurumi as she fidgeted her fingers, obviously extremely nervous to reply.
Kurumi: I- I- I will follow you, even if you turn evil and would want destruction everywhere. As long as you are still Darren, then I will stay with you all the time and even if no one would accept you, I and the rest of your lovers will stay with you.
Yuko: If you decide to choose the path of evil and destruction, I will follow you as my best friend. However, if you decide to do something that strays you from humanity then I would punch you upside the head to wake you up.
Aether: I would do the same as Yuko to be honest, I would follow you as my friend and knock some sense into you if necessary.
Lucas: I will do the same as everyone said. I would follow you, who knows what kind of trouble you can cause without me. But I would be the first one to knock some sense into you if you do stray from humanity.
Rose: My brother, I can't fail you again despite already failing you once. So as a good sister will, I will follow you and knock some sense into you if you decide to stray from your humanity side or if you dare to forget it.
Darren: Thank you all. I really thank you all for coming into my life. But. AAAH.
I yelled when I pulled off all of the hospital equipments out of my body. I can feel blood still coming out of my body.
Darren: Shadow heal.
My wounds were healed in an instant as I got off of the bed. My bones still ached a bit and needed the help of the girls. Even Kocho, who I thought didn't care. Came to see me with a worried look on her face.
Darren: I'm fine, just my arms kind of hurt a little that's all.
Kurumi: Are you sure that you are ok??
Darren: Kurumi, Wiz, Velzard and Kocho. I need you to follow me and trust me on this ok?? My power is resonating and if it is what I am thinking. Then it would be what we need to defeat the spirit king. Or Mio.
Girls: Ok.
Darren: Let me stand please. Dismiss.
I dismissed all of my shadow soldiers while Kurumi and Velzard were hooking my arm around their necks to support me.
Darren: We have to go north to the old shadow palace.
Wiz: WHAT??!!! YOU CAN'T GO THERE!! THE PALACE ONLY ALLOWS THE TRUE UNDEAD MONARCH TO ENTER. YOU HAVE TO BE AS STRONG AS KIRIYA TO ENTER OR HAVE THE SAME AURA AS HIM!!
Darren: Wiz, calm down, have you forgotten who I am??
Wiz: The undead monarch.
Darren: Correct, my doll. Let's go. We have to get there.
Only the girls except Rose were able to go on this mission. We kept walking north with Velzard and Kurumi supporting me until we reached a castle like structure.
Darren: OPEN UP!!! GATE!!!
The gate opened up and yet with the gate's opening. The guards stopped us from entering.
Shadow Guard: HALT!!! TELL ME WHO YOU ARE!!!
I opened my eyes of ruin, scaring the guards in the process.
The guard was scared before allowing me inside the gate. A dragon double the size of Hurwhiill appeared.
Darren: I will make you my soldier. REBORN!!! THE FALLENS WHO HAVE LOST ALL BUT THEIR LOYALTY!!!
Shoto, Kirito, Yuji and Hurwhiill appeared and bowed at me.
Shoto: I will exterminate this dragon at your command.
Kirito: I will kill this dragon at your command, my liege.
Yuji: If needed, may I exterminate this filthy dragon? My liege.
Hurwhiill: May I protect the mistress' my liege.
Darren: Hurwhiill this is why I summoned the other three. They need to protect my lovers at all costs and under no circumstances should he leave their sights when I fight this dragon.
Shadow Commanders: YES MY LORD.
Darren: DRAGON!!! I WILL DEFEAT YOU!!! IN THE NAME OF THE UNDEAD MONARCH!!! ENMA I SUMMON YOU!!!
Darren: SUN BREATHING SIXTH FORM. DRAGON SUN HALO HEAD DANCE!!!
(Replace Tanjiro with Darren and Muzan with Dragon)
The dragon breathed fire at me along with slashing at me. In which I smiled and dodged all of his attacks. The next attack came extremely fast though. I was hit on the ribs before I could even react. Almost like he can read my next move.
Darren: I KNOW YOUR POWER NOW!!! YOU CAN BREATH FIRE AND USE FUTURE SIGHT!!! THE FUTURE DRAGON!!!! FAFNIR!!! It seems like you have swallowed the fire dragon to gain his powers as well. Camish was it?? Sad that your brother died just like that. But I will have your power!!!
The dragon seemed outraged as it breathed the fire at me yet again while I dodged and Hurwhiill was delivering wind attacks at long range to support me.
Darren: BECOME MY LOYAL SERVANT FAFNIR!!!
Fafnir: WANT ME TO BECOME THE SERVANT OF A UNDEAD MONARCH!!! THEN DEFEAT ME FIRST!!!
He swung his giant tail at me as I dodged with Hurwhiill the other shadow servants also came to help Fafnir. Yet they were all stopped by my shadow aura.
Darren: I WILL DEFEAT YOU!!! I WILL DO WHAT KIRIYA WASN'T ABLE TO PERFORM!! AND THAT IS TURNING YOU INTO MY SHADOWS!!
Fafnir: YOU ARE INTERESTING HUMAN. FUTURE SIGHT!!
Darren: Sun breathing Fourth form. Burning bones summer sun.
(Replace Tanjiro with Darren and Muzan with Fafnir)
Due to his ability to read the future, he quickly blocked and flapped me away with his wings.
Shadow Guard: Attack them. He can't protect all seven of them.
The shadow guards went to attack my lovers Kocho seemed slightly alarmed yet the others all had a confident expression on their faces.
Shoto: Fire End.
Shoto immediately fired off a fire blast towards the enemy soldiers. They were not able to withstand the fire and was burned all while turning into my soldiers under Shoto's command.
Kirito: Let me show off for a bit Shoto.
Shoto: Understandable.
(Pretend that the Lizardman is a shadow soldier)
Yuji: Excellent Kirito. Now, may I show off for a bit.
Kirito: Go ahead. I have no opinions.
The massive explosion destroyed all the shadow vanguards that was attempting to harm them.
Yuji: My liege, how was that.
Darren: It was excellent. Now. Time for the finale of our game. Fafnir.
Fafnir: My thoughts exactly. Human.
Darren: Sun breathing eighth form. Solar Heat Haze
(Replace Tanjiro with Darren and Akaza with Fafnir)
He dodged my attack with ease. Yet I smiled knowing that I won already.
Darren: Sun breathing seventh form. Setting Sun transformation.
(Replace Tanjiro with Darren and Akaza with Fafnir)
Fafnir: Impossible. I have been defeated by a mere human?
Darren: Not just a mere human. But the vessel of the undead monarch who you will serve now.
Fafnir: I understand.
Fafnir then died while his head fell off.
Darren: Reborn.
[Failure]
Darren: REBORN!!! THE FALLEN WHO HAS LOST ALL BUT HIS WILL!! SERVE UNDER ME AS ONE OF MY MOST LOYAL SERVANTS!!!
A shadow dragon appeared from Fafnir's corpse as it roared loudly and from his power, it allowed me to have his future sight for the attacks.
Darren: AHHHHHH!!!
Kurumi: Darling
Wiz: Darren.
Velzard: Darren-Chan.
My eyes were burning with pain as Fafnir's transfer were almost over. I could almost feel my eyes losing vision if I was a normal human or spirit.
Darren: Fafnir, as a general of my army, you should know right??
Fafnir: I will serve you with the utmost loyalty. My lord.
Darren: Girls, let's head home for the day. Even though we have only reached the bottom floor of this castle. We should hea-
???: You are not heading anywhere.
Darren: *veins popping on his head* YOU!!! UPPER SPIRIT 6 I WILL KILL YOU!!!
6: Name's Kizaru, nice to meet you, Undead Monarch.
Darren: I will enjoy killing you.
Kizaru: My, what a quick temper. Light Laser End.
I dodged his attacks with ease while zooming in front of him and kicked him on the face.
(Replace Kizaru with Darren and Drake with Kizaru)
Darren: Are you prepared to die?? You asshole.
Kizaru: I may be weaker than the rest of the Spirits. But we will win in the end.
Darren: Yada, Yada, Yada.
Darren: Hollow.
Darren: Purple.
It reached Kizaru and obliterated him before he could turn into light and escape.
Darren: No cells are left, the Monarch's powers won't work here.
Darren: Kurumi-Chan. I avenged you finally.
Kurumi: I-
Darren: No need to reply, it's fine. Let's go home.
I collapsed onto the floor with many light spears piercing my back. Although Kizaru was dead, his techniques didn't die with him. Which means that the last attack was able to reach me before I wiped it out with hollow purple.