Chapter 224: It wont be really hard. (2/2)

Flavio shrugged and disappeared too. Night, Karma, and Layla looked at each other and followed Arima inside his soul.

Evangeline, Raylein, and Gilgamesh left together soon after. Malum sighed and glanced at Shakti.

”Hey, we're going,” he spoke up and she tilted her head.

”Where?”

”I don't freaking know...” Malum grunted. He didn't use space magic like everyone else and walked toward the door. ”Are you coming or not?”

Shakti stared blankly and chuckled before following him.

”Hm, what should I do?” Chulainn uttered and peeked at Aergia sleeping. He mused for a while and proceeded to go sleep on a chair.

***

”So? The truth?” Layla inquired the second she landed on the vine field.

”What? I didn't lie,” Arima retorted and she scowled. ”…just didn't tell everything.”

He wryly smiled and took out Ambor's eyes which he had taken earlier.

”Before making that bridge to another Reality, I will have to integrate the ability of these eyes. To be honest, I didn't expect that I would meet someone like Ambor. It will help me quite a lot.”

”What are you going to do with it?” Night sat down and asked. ”Are you going to retrieve your vision?” He presumed and Arima gazed at him.

”I don't know. Getting my sight back would be really complicated. As I said already, my vision has been robbed at a fundamental level. But indeed, if I manage to tame these eyes, I will not only be able to gain insane analyzing and copying skills but I might also have a chance to get my sight back,” he answered and Layla's expression brightened.

”Anyhow, Ambor used these eyes pretty well. But his strength limited them. I think I can bring their potential to a whole new level. As for what I'm going to use it; unambiguously, I'm going to use them to get stronger. But, above all, I will employ them on the Original God and Devil.”

”Why would you do that?” Layla was perplexed.

”Obviously because I want to know what I'm fighting against. When I fought the Guardians and the Pillars, along with their life force, I managed to collect the 'blessings' they had gotten from the Creators. But I couldn't get anything from it since I always had to destroy it. Instead, I learned how I could communicate with the Creators from the memories I collected.”

”That's what I want to do,” Arima stated. ”I won't actually meet the Creators. Just enter in contact with them. And these cursed eyes will help me analyze them and understand them. I want to know what kind of being they are so I can destroy them,” he said and looked at the pair of frozen eyes he was holding in his hand.

He ignited a fire and the ice cubes melted to let the visual organs come out. At the same time, the crimson pentagram reappeared on them and actively attempted to reject their current holder.

Arima smirked and crushed the negative response of the eyes with his aura.

”How are you going to assimilate that?” Night questioned while staring at the eyeballs.

”It won't be really hard,” Arima replied and opened his eyes wide. ”Maybe just a bit painful,” he mumbled and didn't leave any time for his comrades to react. He grabbed the eyes and literally pushed them into his own.

Layla and Karma gasped while Night shuddered. Blood flowed down from Arima's eyes which he was covering with his hands. Soon after, a bright crimson light escaped through his fingers. It turned into a giant red pillar that pierced the ocean above.

***

At the same time, Malum who was leisurely strolling with Shakti stopped on his tracks. His expression twitched. He slowly rubbed his eye and looked at the blood on his fingers. He quickly washed it so Shakti wouldn't see it and furrowed his eyebrows.

'It actually hurts… what is he doing? How can something make me feel pain?'

Malum's body had been created with the Third White Art, Doppelganger. This meant that Arima and he had virtually the same body. If one of them sees their body structure change drastically, the other will experience the sensation coming with it.

***

Arima gritted his teeth and groaned. The man who had withstood the assaults of Gods and Demons without even frowning actually wanted to scream out of pain.

From the inside of the light pillar, countless pentagrams were drawn and threatened his very existence. The cursed eyes were trying to kill him.

”Quiet!” Arima shouted and his aura mixed with the crimson light. The pillar expanded and Night, Karma, and Layla were forced to retreat.

”Whether you want it or not, I'm your owner now. I name you;”

”[Maledictus Natus.]”