Meanwhile in the cold night, from Zashi past, the city has been quite with no sounds from moving vehicles or birds chirping until there’s something fast moving between building to building.
They motion is blurry.For anyone to keeps an eyes on them, the world suddenly in back to black and white once again.
Eventually the two figure can be spot sitting on the rooftop of the building.
Zashi crotch at the edge of rooftop, his eyes was scanning around, sensing any threat for his mission along with his partner, a young guy with silhouette hair accompany him named Mazaki.
“You heard that Zulfias?, tonight is going to be our last mission before we can hit that vacation together, where do you think the best place we can choose?”
Zashi also known Zulfiaa from the past ignoring Mazaki small chat, continue jump around the building, until they closer to their destination.
“Hey, Zulfias do you even hear what I say?”
Zulfias finally respond without looking back.
“Yes I heard you, can we focus on the mission?
“Fine, but you better give me some suggestions after this.” For awhile they stop for a moment and lingerier a big building infront of them.
But at the same time, there’s a guard who’s gaurding the area watch them land perfectly to his target, he then try to report it but Immediately get slice on his throat from the back by shadow figure that look like Mazaki.
And finally both of them break through the building, sneakily killing two guards right infront of them with their swords.
More of gaurd came to secure the place, with the fun, but Mazaki shadow came just in time to take both of the guards down on ease
Zulfias step foward with a straight face.
“I could easily take both of that guards down.”
“I know, but wasn’t that part of charm of my power, he always exicted to kill anything that are killable.”
They continue their exploration in the building,
Zulfias glancing over the map of the building thay can he see wrou the corner
They constantly wakiig past the guards, and jump out from the windows and get inside, back and forth until they reach on top of the building.
Over the dark hallway Zukfias and Mazaki run on intense speed, but at the same time, they try to find the exact location that contain something they lookikg after.
When all of Zulfias sense some light projectile was about to come to their direction, and immediately duck hid dead down while Mazaki was all confused by his action, proceed to dodge at the same time, successfully.
“Woah, what the fuck dude, can’t you at least warn me as well?”
Zulfias remain silent studying the new threat that coming from the back.
There’s a guy with glowing sword came from the shadow, with his sword buzzing intensely.
“I see you came here to steal the most valuable marketing weapon didn’t you?, it’s quite suprise you managed to get here without triggering any alarm, but of course they always put me on the highest floor for reason, come here I take you two with me.”
The guy begin to throw his light sword on them, while both of them just stay still and let Mazakis shadow clone did the work for deflecting the attack.
meanwhile they remain still, Mazika shadow is already moving on the guy back, ready to strike him, the guy immediately slice the shadow away.
Mazaki wasn’t done yet, he then use his shadow power to create mutiiple of his clone the merge from the floor as the guy dodge every single attack,
Giving perfect opportunity for Zulifias to give his suprise attack,
Both of their sword clashing into each other, creating a light particle
And soon 𝗭𝘂𝗹𝗳𝗶𝗮𝘀 join and try to attack him from, the man decide to do something unpredictable by split his body into seprete lines, instantly kill all the clone and making both of them overwhelm by his ability,
Especially Mazaki.
“This guy was, Inner-Saptor, watch out!”
The man continues to lashing foward almost hit Maxaki on his head.
Zulfias immediately throw his fire blue ball to get him distance away, but Mazaski doesn’t seems get along with thag idea.
“What was that?, you can’t just just throw fire in the sword fight, that’s cheating.”
The guy start getting angry and charge massive attack but Zulfias dodge by swing his body around and use his tail to whip him to the wall once he open he’s eyes he almost get slice by Zulfias attack, ,The movement of his speed destroy walls around them, they slamming each other rooms to rooms
The man then choose to extend his sword, which Zack blocking them with trick that causing the guy to get his light sword leave a mark on his face.
Not bad, so you’re the lagend that peoples keep talking about, yes without a doubt you’re Zulfias, son of Marsgoff, the strongest gang leader in Japan and the rumor tell me that you’re bassicly unbeatable, which sounds like a hilarious baffling joke I ever heard, But now that I meet the man myself, I can see that, but none of that matter, because tonight I’m going to change that and prove to everyone, that rumor was just a myth.
”
Right before the guy try to charge at him, he’s body already stuck in motion unable to move, he look down and see his own shadow was being hold i one place, he looking up at Mazaki give him a cute grin and stick his tongue out,” Oops, seems like you can’t react your goal for tonight, and probably forever.”
Zulfias step closer with his sword raising up in the air
The man try avoid meeting his death, but Zulfias only know for to cut people for alive
The guy’s body collapse to the ground with the blood that soon pooling around.
Zulfias turn back, still remamber thier goal.
“Come on let’s go , we have gun to find.”
Mazaki looking at him with unsatisfied face.
“Seriously?
where my thanks at?”
They both begin to look around destroyed room from previous fight, to get some clue where the gun might be hidden.
It doesn’t take for awhile when Mazaki use hie power and get his shadow to open a big secured door from inside and inside of there’s a intresting shape gun that hard to miss sit on the display.
“I think is where we are after.”
Zulfias eyes can’t stop gazing the way the gun, being represented to him, untouched, but holds trouble for him on the future.
“There it is, a gun that can that can kill Hybrid and immortal, what a joke”
Mazaki notice there’s something wrong strange about Zashi looking over the gun,
He took the gun and put it on the are and use his blue fire to make it dissappear, when all of sudden
“We’ve been surrounded, let’s head to downstairs quietly.”
Zashi command proceed to walk foward, while Mazaki can’t feel even more confuse.
“Tou siad we being surre, so why ain’t we just escape from the top floor, and go downstairs instead?”
Zulfias aware of Mazaki’s comment, but he choose to not tell him everything.
“We might be surrounded, down here, but from upstairs, there’s someone that will give us way more trouble, perhaps I misread it, but the odd is downstairs is way more safer path.”
Mazaki looking at him with a it of worry, regardless they both have made it to last floor and the place we’re free from any guard.
Before Mazaki can finsih his sentence, Mazaki’s shadow clone immediately block Zashi suprise attack that came faster than Mazaki can blink, send both of them for Mazaki to witness Zashi in his the most demonic look, with red eyes and his hand begin to duplicate.
Mazaki try to stand up.
His heart beating up fast.
“You…, what are you try to do?”
Zulfias pause for a moment, and catch a breath.
“Don’t make this more harder than what it look, dismiss it.”
Zulfias move foward and having a battle with all shadow clone that Mazaki create, killing the shadow clone with aggressive slice, another after another, shadow clone came in every direction, but Zulfias dare to fight all of them, using his stretching pointy tail to stab through Mazaki’s clone.
Performance complex formation, by switching the swords to his hand and his leg, he spin around to make him a hard target to hit,
Each clones fail to leave any scar on him, but the shadow clone keep spawning out without Mazaki’s command, just to take down one guy, Mazaki’s closest friend.
Mazaki take a step back with fear, feels like he watching a horror scene infront of his eyes.
The last shadow clone came with full dedication to survive the longest,
“Dismiss all of them!, do it!”
Zulfias command without try to explain futher more.
“Do it!”
Eventually all of Mazaki’s shadow clone vanish from thin air right after Zashi stab one of them and burn it with both of his swords stick into shadow chesg
Mazaki’s heart still beating fast, not knowing what to do and all he can say is.
“Now you better tell me what it’s going-”
Zulfias immediately came and stab through his stomach and lift him up, making him choke with his own blood.
“I’m sorry.” he apologized with merciless eyes from his face, and right on the corner, there’s a present Zashi watch it all happen
Zulfias then pull sword back, with Mazaki’s lifeless body fall to the ground.
Zulfias narrowing his eyes with expressionless looking, he take a step closer making present Zashi eyes widen and all of sudden more shadow clones appear and this time they doesn’t look like Mazaki, but Zashi himself.
But Zulfias is more intrested to to rip through Mazaki’s heart out from his chest.
He takes his time to look over his close partner’s heart first, before consume it raw, the blood splashing out from one bite.
Present Zashi almost want to throw out, watching his own cruelty and betrayal , the room turn red mixed with dark liquid painting his vision, making him stay in one place.
Force him to wake up from the sleep from his bed.
But he start his day at work as usual, and repeat his daily life over and over with bus bored eyes, but despite that, he always there to follow whenever Moon go.
His mind can’t stop thinking about his dark path, there’s something slowly growing inside him, that he doesn’t know how to stop it,
He start to lose passion to live, he refuse to get it fix, thinking it was just a phase that everyone have once in awhile, he became more quiter, unbother to laughs at Moon casual goal during dinner,
And he was watching a drama all night long with classic drama plot about lying and cheating.
“If you love me then why you betray me.” said the female actor.
“Im not betray you, we simply follow our seprete way.” the male protagonist try to defend his action
“Seprete way, but you swore that I will be the only girl you can think of.”
Suddenly Moon came out glance over him from far away.
“Zashi, there you’re, what’s wrong, can’t sleep?”
Zashi turn around with his bored eyes.
“Oh hey, sorry, yeah I guess i really can’t sleep.”
Moon give her gentle smirk on her sleep wear.
“Well come on join, maybe we can figure out something that put you to sleep.”
Zashi chuckle on the couch.
“I don’t think that’s how that works Moon.”
Moon voice getting husky, as her finger tracing the door frame.
“Oh I think you know exactly how it’s going to work.”
Zashi stunt immediately understand her implication, he turn off the TV and facing her, as Moon turn back swaying her hips, to alure him to get into bed.
As they arrive to their bedroom, Moon begins to take off her cloth slowly to the floor, and sit on the edge of the bed, using her legs to capture him, and bring him close.
Zashi stare at her for a wild second and suddenly he hey a instant flashback from the past, when he also stuck in the same posit and he caught Moon glancing at the door for split second before Yukio enters.
That thought alone, cause him to stepping back.
“For the second thought, maybe we do this on the other day, yeah.”
Zashi immediately dive into the bed, immediately put himself on sleeping position, Moon join him after and already can tell he still unable to sleep.
“Hey…, what’s up with you lately?”
Zashi respond with his arm cover his eyes.
“What do you mean?”
“You just seems to feel off, like I barely see you haoyg or smile often, is there something wrong?”
Zashi take his time to finally remove his arm from his eyes and face her.
“Lately I just thinking about my past, the bed one, and it was memory to forget, but now all of sudden they came at me, all st once, is just full with regret, and bad things I did from the past, is almost like the world tell me that I didn’t deserve what I have now.”
Moon gentle smile fade to frown hearing his trouble.
“We all have our past Zashi, might not seems to be more painful than you, but that doesn’t mean you will forever live with it, and you actually already prove me it wasn’t possi, because if you ask me, I have no idea, that you’re battling with your past until I see your face tonight, and whatever makes you think about your past again, we will get through it together.”
Zashi nod after hearing her comfort word, slowly lean her a picky finger to seal the promise.
On the next night when he was working and cool the last order by, he finsih it by putting it on packaging to deliver to last remaining customer, and his eyes widen to see what appear to be a girl that look exactly like Yukio waiting for him.
“Hey.”
Zashi space out for a moment until the girl snap her finger and turns out she was completely different person.
“Hwy, do you get my order or not.”
Zashi immediately get his mind on track.
Wjth that the woman leave the restaurant leaving Zashi do all the closing, and then he suddenly spit someone was watching agyer him, and when he get closer to them, the figures run away beside the wall and disappears afterward.
Zashi suddenly get a phone call from asking him when he will be back.
And is he up for the plan.
Zashi give his response with a small smile.
Not too long after, Zashi is already hit the road with Moon holding him on motorcycle ride, enjoy the view of the city night
They stop at small vandor burger that can he spit near the beach.
The owner smile to see both of his favorite couple has made it though to his place
“Ah Zashi, is it your off day already, I thought your off day is only on the weekend.”
Zashi smile with both of his hands on his pocket.
About that, today I decided to spend time with my girlfriend earlier, beside that’s what boyfriend need to do right, always make time with his partner no matter what.”
“True, true” The owner nodding with his stament,
The guy keep having conversations with them while frying and flipping some burger.
“is just really bother me that you two still haven’t married yet, you need to hurry up, the time is ticking, if you know what I mean.”
Zashi blush frok hearing the owner stament, while Moon completely endorsing it.
“Yeah, Zashi, is really strange that we already been almost for eight months and yet he still doesn’t suprise me with any ring or anything.”
Zashi try to cover his face out of embarrassment.
“Yeah, I don’t think this was a perfect time to dicuss about that.”
The owner chuckle continue to finalize the burger.
“You right, my fault.
My fault, just make sure don’t forget to invinte me yeah.”
Both of them make sure to get a perfect time as they enjoying thier perfect burger staring at bright ferry from the distance away, the sounds from their chewing can’t describe more how tasty the burger was.
“Mhmm this burger never fail to explode inside my mouth, is just taste so good, but what Mr.
Philip said waa true though, I think we both need to start thinking about the future…”
Zqshi keep looking at the the horizon hoping Moon will change another subject but instead she shock him by poking his waist with her finger
“Hey!, I’m talikg to you”
“Yes married I hear that pretty clearly.” Zashi respond casually, even he was stuttering.
Moon mood suddenly change after seeing his uncertain face..
“Hey what’s going, talk to me, you know, I’m just joking about the married part, we don’t have to rush or think about anything.”
Zashi keep his head down.
“Moon there’s something I need to tell you about my past, before we going to been through this life together even futher, I am not nice guy that you thought I was, I did some pretty bad stuff, that it isn’t okay, and I regret every decision I make.”
Moon hold his arm to give him a little comfort,
“Hey, shh, shh, please stop, you going to harsh on yourself right now, you may be a bad person in the past, but not now, not my Zashi, and the fact that, you share this with me, and hie much you tell me you regret, is enough for me to know, that you really are change.”
Zashi shake his head refuse to let his thoughts away.
“No you don’t get it Moon, I just, I don’t want to repeat my same regret, and I don’t want you involve with it, my last is just too dark…”
Moon lean closer, moving his cheek to face her.
“More darker that makes you unable to see my infront of you?, more darker to you won’t be able to see the moon shining on top of the sky night?”
Moon point at bright moon she being stare at for awhile.
“Just so you know things that you choose to ignore when you’re down, never give up shining around you, Zashi, you just need to learn it go, even it seems…
selfish to you, because you did deserve all the happiness you have right now.”
Zashi begin to change his position to facing her more clearly, try to let out a words from his mouth, but he hesitate with the emotion he was carrying
“Moon can I just something?…”
Moon smiling nodding whatever come to his mind.
“I just want to say thank you to come to my life, after I save you from that big hybrid guy, I personally don’t know what i got myself into, and I have no idea that this world, has destined me to be with the most incredible woman I ever know.”
Moon look over him with playful disbelief.
“Did you just say thank you?, for what?, saving me?
”
“No, for saving all of us.” Zashi continue with serious and yet sincere look.
“That day you show me, there is a second chance, even the chances that I have is more than I can count, you make me no longer be afraid of making a mistake anymore…, because those mistakes was nothing compared to having someone that accept me, my help, for accepting who I am, even I was an hybrid, you didn’t runaway from me, but instead you came closer and hold both of my hand , I want to thank you so much…, to finally give me a home…”
Moon let a tear out from hearing his speech, and give him a warm hug
“Anything you need Zashi, you know that I was made for you, no one in this world can accept you more than I do, even you’re hybrid or devil, no one truly see the real you expect me.”
Thr memory of Yukio suddenly flashing on his mind after Moon give her statement, and some of them are the memories he can’t recall.
Some are painful but it reminds him who Yukio was before there’s Moon.
And the conversation between two of them before everything end.
“I’m no longer being someone who you love and you know, I’m just a devil, with horrible past, you don’t completely know me!”
“And so what?
I don’t care who you think you supposed to be and who you are from the past, all I know is I love you Zashi!
, so so much, no matter you’re hybrid or human.” Yukio respond.
The conversation keep getting sadder.
“I’m a monster Yukio, a hybrid, can’t you see?, I’m exist just to put fear in the world, I have a dark past, I’m a horrible person, you deserve someone better, I shouldn’t give you this trouble.”
“You never give me any trouble Zashi, you’re everything I need and I love, why can’t you just accept that?” she respond firmly than usual.
When they’re heading home together, on motorcycle ride, Moon will wrap her hands around his waist making him feel a sudden déjà vu when Yukio was wrap himself when they ride bike together back when they’re live in small village.
While Moon was enjoying the cold night breeze lay on Zashi’s back, he still remambering the very day the relationship between both of them never be the same.
“I’m a monster Yukio, a hybrid, can’t you see?, I’m exist just to put fear in the world, I have a dark past, I’m a horrible person, you deserve someone better, I shouldn’t give you this trouble.
Yukio speak after patiently wait to hear his response.
“You never a trouble to me Zashi , you’re everything I need and I love you…, why can’t you just accept that?.