14 Until Next Time

(Note: Hacker-san here. As most of you might know from the other fic from this author, but since some might not know I'll repeat myself . I'm the halal, 100% legal hacker that will be releasing the poor guy's chapter since he's getting ready for exams by getting holed up in his room. And I The Gracious One will release the drafts that were supposed to release after 8 June. What better way to avenge myself for all the atrocities this tyrant did on me. Anyways enjoy the shitty chapter)

Arthur Leywin POV

I floated in the air waiting for the 3 figures to arrive. They travelled at breakneck speeds and soon arrived in front of the floating castle. A tall man well above 7 feet with sickly grey skin eyed me up to down with his blood red eyes.

"It's been a long time, Cadell"

The scythe looked at me with a bit of confusion etched on his face. He was about to say something but soon closed his mouth, as he gestured to the retainers to attack me, with a scowl.

Just as the two retainers came close enough, a blur appeared for an instant and one of the retainer's head slipped and fell off by the diagonal slice. His body followed suit and disappeared beneath the clouds. The other retainer's face contorted into that of a slight fear as a shiver ran down his spine.

Sylvie descended gracefully, and stood side by side with me. I gave her a raised brow "I could've handled that"

"I know but everyone is having so much fun. You let Cecelia and Nico kill scythes. I want some action too"

She talked about killing something whose name would spend shivers down the spine of most people. "Fine, but just the retainer. I don't want a single scratch on my daughter" I looked at the retainer "Why don't you entertain my daughter... even for a bit will work while I take care of cadell"

The scowl on cadell's face grew even more deep. "You sure run your mouth a lot. Not that you'll be able to after today. Also I don't want to hurt Lady Sylvia's..."

He was cut off as I fired a spear of ice with lightning coiled around it and speed boosted with wind mana.

Cadell dodged just in the nick of time, the spear grazing his cheek. Black blood started to ooze out of it but it soon began to heal. His pushed his fingers against the wound and looked at his fingers solemnly "It's been a long time a lesser inflicted a wound on me"

"Don't you dare take her name so casually mutt" I spat my voice laced with pure hatred and venom. Cadell didn't reply but simply dashed towards me his hand clad with soulfire.

"Let's beat him with his own means" I thought as I also covered my fist with soulfire. When similar affinities clash together it becomes a battle of dominance. And only the more potent one wins the battle of dominance. My soulfire devoured his fire almost immediately and clung on to him. He screamed as I increased its intensity for a second and then retracted it.

He was about to fall due to damage by soulfire but I caught him by his hair and let him hang. His face showed a pained expression as his whole weight was putting strain on his hair. I brought his face close to mine (and then we kissed passionately)

"Don't you think it's too early for giving up cadel? I have so many things to show to you." Saying that with a smirk over my face I threw him towards the castle. He went through multiple walls before finally stopping in the meeting room.

I god-stepped to where he was. The whole castle was silent. With every step I took, the atrocities that he committed came to my mind. How he tortured hundreds of dicathians. How he killed mom. How he killed grandma. Anger and an abnormal amount of bloodlust seeped through every pore of my body.

I closed out distance and siphoned an unusual amount of mana from my mana core and punched him in his solar plexus. He coated himself in mana but to no avail. My punch connected and he spit a large amount of blood. He winced in pain, his eyes closed, like a prey would shut its eyes when captured. I pierced his sternum and took out his core. I crushed it in front of him and threw the shattered pieces away.

"Hey, look here damn it! Do you remember? Can you hear them? Can you feel it? The faces of the ones you killed. The cries of ones you tortured. Their endless resentment towards you."

He sneered, "I remember all of them. Their sweet voices as I tortured the life out of them"

My whole body flared in anger. For a moment I thought my whole body would explode from pure rage. "I'll make him regret saying that." I thought

I gripped his left arm, and plucked it out, his bone in the arm still stuck to the joint remained, as his boneless arm turned to ashes in my hands. He bit his lips but didn't scream with a smirk over his face. I gripped his jaw, "You know I can do this my whole life."

I took his middle finger and plucked it out. He didn't scream, AGAIN. "Quite resilient aren't we?" I said without showing any emotion. I then plucked his index finger. Again the same result, no screams. "Let's play a game.. don't scream until I'm done with you and I'll let you go"

He could do anything but glare daggers at me, which annoyed me. So I stuck my thumb in one of his eyes and pressed it. My finger seeped through the socket and reached inside. I slipped my finger to the side and totally crushed it. "Don't look at me like that. As a fellow sadist I'm also interested in the joy you feel from torturing others"

I diverted my attention back to his hands. I plucked his fingers one after another and once I was done with all he still remained stubborn. "Hmmmmm"

I healed all of his fingers and started plucking them out. This time after every 2 fingers I'd randomly stab his abdomen and pull out whatever I could lay my hands on. Of course without his mana core he'd die. So once I get a heart calming expression from him I'd immediately heal him.

The entirety of the castle was silent. They watched me torture the supposed scythe with expressions of pure horror and some with disgust. But who cares about these nobodies?

Once I healed all of his injuries again his eyes showed fear. He was about to say something but I gripped his lower jaw firmly and with one swift movement dislocated it. It was a funny sight. He wanted to speak but his jaw would dangle here and there. After that I slowly burned his tongue to crisp. "On another note don't scream." I said deviously as I started the seemingly endless cycles of dismantling and healing.

Once I healed him and was about to start again he said "I don't care if I die here, I already had my sweet time killing Sylvia. Honestly it was really refreshing watching her wince in pain and die" he said but his eyes had lost life.

This was the end of the line. The worn out shackles that kept my sanity in place broke. I dispelled all mana from my body and started punching the face that laughed while Sylvia was dying.

I punched him like no tomorrow. The ground shook and small chunks of ceiling started to fall. Even without mana I was able enough to punch the life out of him. I kept punching and yelling.

"Tell me, what was so enjoyable when you killed her?" I pinched his nose, shattering it completely.

"What was so fun in taking a mother away from a child who had yet to open her eyes in this world?" I ripped his eyeballs out.

"Did you tortured her, even when she plead for her life? Huh? Tell me dammit!" I yelled as his body started to feel limp even with my aether arts healing

"No, no, no, I won't let you die so easily. You can't die so easily. I won't allow you!" I used higher form of vivum and life returned to his eyes

"YES, now that's more like it. I need you in top-notch condition so you can imprint every blessing I'm about to bestow you mutt"

And I started to punch his face which carried the grin I hated from the times when I was 3 years old. After a while his features were unrecognisable. His horns shattered like glass by my onslaught of punches. Due to the relentless attacks my hands which weren't protected by either mana or aether had nothing left except stubs. I channeled aether into them as I felt my bones reconstruct themselves and new muscles, tendons and ligaments started to grow and my hands returned to their former glory, with no calluses or scars whatsoever.

I looked down and felt a pair of purple moist eyes watching at me inside my mind. Tears trickled through them, which made my heart feel like bleeding. Tears formed in my own eyes as I covered them by putting my palms over them.

"I'm sorry grandma, it took so long. You can rest in peace now." I said as she gave me the warmest smile I've ever seen and started to fade away. "Until next time, Grandma"

After a while of crying out I felt someone wrap her arms around me. It was caera. "You did well Arthur. You did well." She said as I bursted into tears once more in her arms. I didn't care about the people around us. Because right at this moment, I was what I needed the most. 'Peace'

(A/n Eren:: WE DON'T SPEAK OF THAT WORD HERE)

After a while I sobered up and I saw a silhouette. He carried a smug expression over his face. "Ah yes I have to deal with this idiot too" I thought as I made my way to him.

Nico looked around and let out a whistle, "Woah, you caused quite a mess haha. You should've seen...."

I broke him off by punching him in the gut and he was sent crashing into the wall. "Gaaah. Asshole what was that for?"

"Ah nothing. Just seeing your face made me remember a guy who hung corpses on spikes just to imitate a scene he saw in a movie"

(A/n this was what Nico did in "The battle at the wall)

Nico groaned once again "but we had set up a statement..." I interrupted him again by sending a blast of ice his away but the spell dissipated in mid-air. "Stop fighting you two. How long do you two plan to make me babysit you. Jeez, I wish there weren't people here i would've given both of you some disciplinary ass bonks" Cecelia said her voice tinged with frustration.

"It's Arthur. None of my fault. He's angry at the fact I hung alacryans corpses on display." Nico said hurriedly as colour escaped his face

"You what?" Cecelia screamed and looked at me "sorry Arthur I'll do the deeds" she said and the same spell I had fired at him manifested at the exact same location where she had cancelled it. The spell hit Nico and he was plastered over the wall like a cockroach stick to the ground after you step on it. She grabbed him by his collar and said "Looks like he has lost some brain cells. I'll help him regain those" and then a smirk formed on her face "While you two can go and wash out the pent-up frustration" she giggled leaving a red caera and me.

I took Caera's hand in mine and god-stepped to our room. Due to my sudden action she let out a small squeal, but quickly recomposed herself as she wrapped her arms around my neck. We got close enough that I could feel her warm and intoxicating breath against my face, suddenly the door bursted open and a certain white haired woman barged inside and practically jumped at caera and hugged her.

"S-scythe seris? What are you doing here!? Huh? Arthur ?" Caera said while stuttering

Seris looked back as I gave her a smile that didn't quite reached my eyes. "As much as I value your reunion, I think you came at a very wrong time" I said as I placed my hand on her shoulder and released some of my intent. Beads of sweat formed on her face as her breathing got ragged and an expression akin to "It was at this moment that I knew, I fucked up" formed on her face.

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(A/n how about a threesome? Haha kidding . Anyways that's all. Happy reading stay blessed and I'm out.

Sayonara