*GRASP!*
He clutched her neck hard. Surprisingly, all this happened within just two seconds.
"How?!"
Clementine Eyth Lifeblood looked into his cold crimson eyes, for the first time feeling shocked. 'Have I truly become so weak...!'
"You don't even have a soul anymore." He answered in a tone devoid of emotions! Cold. Afterwards, let the things happen naturally. Where, all of a sudden, a translucent energy with black and white strands came put of his palm grasping her neck, in waves.
"Release me mortal!"
Clementine demanded in a loud voice!
While feeling an existential dread unlike never before. She was left completely powerless, sapped of all her strength when the new and peculiar energy, one which she had never seen before, encompassed her whole form.
"You shouldn't have attacked me, woman from outside!"
He actually smiled, just like Clementine. It wasn't a mocking smile though but a smile of farewell and also a relieved smile, relieved from pain of course!
"You...!"
Before Clementine could say anything her body trembled. With a speechless gaze, she watched as how her body disintegrated and deconstructed itself into small quantum red-coloured energy particles. Which spread in the surrounding tens of meters along with the translucent energy with the black-white strands, yet the red particals never move out of the new energy!
Merely staying within it's confines!
*SWOOSH!*
It was a process done within a full second, the metaphysical body's disintegration to the condensation of the new energy and red particals, to their crystallisation into a small centimeter wide red dot-shaped translucent ball.
Something which silently hovered before him, while the raging energies started calming down, dissipating into the air.
His eyes narrowed. Hand moved down. Feeling quite nervous after what he just went through. However, before he could think of anything or come down from his emotional high, the ball of energy suddenly shot towards him and entered his chest the next second.
He saw it coming, but could not react in time.
Moreover, before he could ponder further on what just happened to him, something else happened, starting from his chest, from his heart, all his blood vessels started to glow in an eerie red, he looked at his forearms and his body as the veins became visible all over.
*BURST!* *BURST!* *BURST!* *BURST!* ...
The next second, they bursted apart. His body felt numb and fell on his back with a loud thud, bathing the green grass ground with his fresh red blood, and many small pieces of his flesh. The blood pooled around his motionless figure in another second.
The while he couldn't even scream through all of this, considering the veins in his neck also weren't there anymore.
*COUGH!* *COUGH!* ...
He coughed blood.
His eyes turned red. The subsequent moment, the eyes exploded, followed by his skin getting ruptured, and even the cracks of bones could be heard in this silence, along with the faint gurgling sound coming from the groans of the suffering calamity!
One shouldn't forget that he wasn't even a day old right now! The simple thought of imagining some other day old baby going through this same experience, should tell that he would die immediately. It was horrible, but as though being pitied by the viewers (the supernatural, the world), in about 30 seconds of torture he went unconscious.
The world of darkness finally embracing him.
A world without pain and suffering.
Meanwhile, if one were to look from above they would be able to see a tremendous amount of energy rushing into his body! It was enough that in a three meters diameter with him in the center, everything was deep dark blue, with a blue mist of energy spreading for another 17 meters, becoming quite hazey as one traveled towards the end from the center.
Silence reigned.
The storm of energy churned. The sun vanished with time as night came and the moon shone beautifully. Hours went by as the time continued to pass!...
*** *** *** *** ***
The morning came and as though the world held it's breath, lying in a pool of his own blood, the calamity opened his eyes.
Nonetheless, the second they opened, he closed them shut. His brows frowned, as he felt the piercing light of the morning sun directly hit his pupils.
His hands moved covering his eyes.
He groaned, in time using his other hand to sit up, remembering what happened yesterday, he trembled, that pain was really something, first the soul pain and then the pain from his own body falling apart and destroying itself in such a barbaric and violent manner.
Truly an horrendous experience to have on the first day of his life no less! Certainly, he would never forget this.
"I'm actually alive...!"
He smiled, while swearing inwardly to never lower his guard against anyone unfamiliar. "Or better yet, I should never lower my guard at all, whether before someone unfamiliar or one familiar, doesn't matter."
He stood up, turned and looked towards his own blood, frowning immediately. "So much blood, just what happened to me after I defeated that crimson haired woman?"
While he tried to look into his mind for some answers and even understand why his ability led him to her in the first place if all of this was going to happen. Not to mention, the disturbance preventing this meeting from happening.
[Ah. You're finally awake. How awesome~] A very familiar, sensual and feminine voice echoed in his head. [Now quickly summon me, I want to talk with you-]
"WHAT THE WHAT. Y-Y-YOU ARE ALIVE...!!"
He practically screamed at the top of his lungs, nearly falling on his bare ass because of this now, sudden overly-friendly voice. His eyes wide open.
"And wait, where are you? And why are you speaking in my head? What is this? Answer me outsider woman. Just so you know, I'm not afraid of you anymore...!"
He questioned. His head turning from one direction to another, frantically trying to find the source of the dammed voice.
[HuH!]
[I don't understand, why are you freaking out calamity? Aren't you the one who forcefully formed this contract with me. Furthermore, if someone has to get angry than by all right it should be me, just who do you think I am. Summon me right this instance and explain to me what this contract is, and is about!]
[Even though, I have many I want to eliminate but if the price of my vengeance is me becoming an eternal slave then I'd much rather embrace true death then sacrifice my pride and dignity!]
Clementine Eyth Lifeblood answered in an utterly cold tone.
Fully conveying that behind that overly-friendly tone of hers, was hidden a strong anger, one which she controlled masterfully, all because of the bits of information she gained at the moment the contract was established. Understanding that this contract wasn't like the one she imagined in her head or had seen before.
Therefore, she waited to hear the explanation directly from the master himself, before coming to any conclusion or making any decision.
"Eh!.."
He blinked. His mind getting even more confused on hearing her words.
His head already had a lot to ponder, about all that has happened to him since his birth, and now this new problem, he was actually slowly getting overwhelmed now. Nevertheless, even though failing to understand her words, he could perfectly sense her emotions, through which he also understood what she wanted to know, but again, he had no answers, yet he still replied.
"What... are you saying, outsider woman, when did I contracted you? Never mind, you simply tell me, what do you mean by this 'summon you,' that you keep mentioning!"