21 Chapter 19 – My Sorrow. Their Melancholy. The Despair of Life.” (1/2)

”E…Emilia?”

Looking at the distance, Jens noticed the square where the group, which existed of Emilia, Priscilla, Nathan, Haku, Julius and Meili, fighting a giant creature.

It was hard to describe whether it was a snake, a bird, a dragon, or something else.

However, Jens felt different from before… before he read the letter and met Satella.

He felt troubled. Anxious. Upset. Uneasy. Afraid. Provoked. Flustered. Angered. Pained. Irritated. Frightened. Disturbed. Concerned. Plagued. Confused.

The feeling that went through Jens was extremely unknown. However, he still felt like being himself.

[ Jens ]

That's the name of the boy that stood there. However, like the feeling, Jens was different from before.

Jens summoned the Spear of Vengeance and threw it right in front of Emilia.

He teleported to the Spear and the creature turned back.

Emilia : ”J-Jens!”

Jens : ”Please, stay back Emilia. I don't want you to get hurt.”

Emilia : ”Wh-What? You…. look different… You talk different.”

Jens : ”Don't be stupid. Jens remains Jens.”

That moment, Jens threw and extremely harsh respond to Emilia.

Priscilla slowly walked towards Emilia. Haku looked shocked like everyone else.

Meili : ”Jens? Brother? Is everything oooookay?”

Jens : ”Meili… It's time to slaughter them.”

Meili : ”Ooooooooooh….. I get it.”

Hearing this, the two of them talk in a very familiar way. The two of them, had the most least aquatinted relationship, but now responded to each other as if there was something going on.

Nathan : ”J-Jens… what's going on?”

Jens : ”Shut up. Let me finish this peace of crap.”

Jens turns towards the creature which turned back to the girl with a dragon hand, angel wings and serpent skin and a snake tail. She also partly had Dragon Scales on her body. She was a true shape shifter.

Capella : ”Oh? I guess we aren't known with each other, are we mister handsome? Please tell me, do you feel love—”

Jens : ”Shut up…. [ Shit Bird ] ”

Capella : ”Oh! HA! THE BOY IS ALREADY IN OUR POSSESSION?”

Julius : ”Jens? What is that woman talking about?”

Capella : ”BAHAHAHA! HILARIOUS! TRULY HILARIOUS! AAAHH… It's so sad you're a pretty boy.”

Hearing this, the group shocks. Emilia especially, starts to tear up.

Nathan : ”Ah–”

Julius : ”I would… assume Jens is possessed by the individual who speaks. Who may my enemy be this time?”

Jens : ”I give you a hint. My birthday is on the 14th of May and I'm from Gu–”

Nathan : ”That… can't be… The…”

Jens : ”YES! AHAHA! YOU KNOW WHO I AM? RIGHT? YOU DO!? YOU THEN ALSO THAT I'M VERY VERY CRAZY AND I'M PAST THE POINT OF RETURN. NOW THAT YOU KNOW WHO I AM I CAN'T STOP, WON'T STOP, NEVER STOP STABBING YOU IN THE HEART. YOU ALL WILL DIE AT THE HANDS OF The Crazed Prince.”

Priscilla : ”Wh-What? The Crazed Prince is here? I'm not speak lies, but I'm quite interested and frightened because of that. After all, he's the only one that can resist the heat of my Blade.”

Jens : ”HAHAHA I FUCKING LOVE THIS!”

Julius : ”N-No… Emilia….?”

Julius looked at Emilia and saw her pointing her hand towards Jens while collecting Mana from the atmosphere.

Emilia summoned spikes of Ice.

Emilia : ”I… I never thought this would happen Jens…”

Jens : ”You filthy half witch bitch. AHAH. WITCH BITCH—”

Nathan : ”WAIT! EMILIA! That voice of Jens…”

? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? ! ? !

Nathan : ”That's the voice of Masquerade…”

Jens : ”Oh now it's… serious…”

Nathan : ”The… Crazed Prince is the reason of Melissa… The Crazed Prince is Masquerade?!”

Emilia : ”Tch…”

Emilia bitted her teeth and the tears fell.

Emilia : ”I request one answer of you, Prince.”

Jens : ”What may it be Witch?”

Emilia : ”Please tell me, is there something else, even if it means my life?”

Jens : ”Do you really ask that? If you surrender and walk towards me… I'll teleport you to the Royal Palace where we'll bring you to an end.”

Nathan : ”Emilia-sama! Don't! We can beat Je–”

Jens : ”So… You want your friend to die?”

Julius : ”Ah…”

Jens : ”Of course you can kill me. After all, I don't feel anything. Jens will feel every scratch and will suffer from the inside. He'll feel all the pain. I won't be able to defeat any of you with this body. I'm not able to summon anything or use my own powers. So if you want to kill me. Go for it.”

Emilia : ”Prince… What will happen to me?”

Jens : ”We'll use you as a vessel. We'll– BLAGH!”

Suddenly, a black shadow left Jens body and he collapsed.

Capella : ”WAH?!”

Jens : ”I–'M… Back…”

Emilia : ”Jens! Is that you?”

Jens : ”He…'s gone for now–”

Capella : ”IMPOSSIBLE! WE ALMOST HAD THE WITCH IN OUR POSSESSION! YOU'LL PAY!”

Capella Emerada Lugnica transformed into a black dragon and set the square on fire with her Dragon Breath.

Everything was burning, but Julius extinguished the ground.

??? : ”Jesus. The Jester really is useless. Revealing his identity like that. Truly sad.”

??? (2) : ”Doesn't matter. The Witch is ours.”

Capella : ”Ah. Gentlemen, you're finally here.”

The group looked at the two men that appeared.

One of them was Regulus. The other one has has long blackish brown hair that reaches to his eyebrows and sleepy looking black eyes, with features that make him look like a woman. He wears an outfit which is similar to Roswaal's own.

Regulus : ”Regulus Corneas. The Sin Archbishop of Greed. The Head of the Witch Cult is here.”

Hector : ”… Hector… Here.”

Emilia : ”Ah!”

Julius : ”Two Villains. Stay back or else I've to fight you.”

Regulus : ”This is weird. Hector, Emilia please.”

Hector snapped his fingers and Emilia collapsed and fell on the ground. Regulus teleported and grabbed her and carried her in his hands.

Regulus Gif and Emilia

Regulus : ”My apologies. But I have clearly no time to deal with you. I have to bring this beauty to the Royal Palace. Come there when you're ready and prepared.”

In a blink of an eye, Regulus was gone.

Jens : ”RRRRRRRRRRRRRREGULUS!”

Nathan : ”Calm down Jens! We've to deal with the dragon and Hector first.”

Jens : ”I'll fucking kill every one of them!”

Jens turned around and looked at the two.

Julius : ”Stay Calm. I'll help with bringing back Emilia. Let's deal with these two first.”

Hector : ”That saddens me. I did nothing wrong at all. I help Regulus because I'm forced to. It really isn't my fault and I have no desire to fight any of you. Especially not Jens… After all, you're the one that knows how I feel.”

Hector turned around and walked away.

Capella : ”COWARD! FUCKING COWARD. YOU DEPRESSED COWARD! NO PROBLEM. I'LL DEAL WITH THESE SHIT BAGS!”

Jens : ”Katana of Summer.”

Jens summoned the Katana and jumped into the air and cut her wings off. He landed perfectly and that all happened in less then few seconds.

Capella fell down on the ground and transformed into her human form.

Julius : ”I see. It's time to show you all my power. Let's kill this Cultist.”

Julius pointed his sword towards the sky, and his blade started to shine like a rainbow.

Julius : ”Water. Fire. Wind. Earth. Light and Darkness. Be on my side.”

Like he said, the six affinities of Magic were in the blade of his.

Capella ran towards them. She transformed her arm into a 3 meter long blade and tried to cut right through Meili.

However, Julius summoned a wall of Ice and froze her.

Jens appeared next to Capella and cut her body in half. However, her body instantly regenerated.

Capella : ”Did I forget to say? HA! I'M ABLE TO USE MY AUTHORITY WHEN DEAD!”

They realized what she was capable of. Even when her heart is crushed, she's still able to regenerate.

She pushed Jens away and the flames slowly faded away.

Capella : ”NowNow! I guess we had enough fun for us. I'll have to go. I'm being called.”

Capella transformed into a majestic yellow bird and flew away.

Julius : ”We… What is this? We didn't succeed in killing a single one… We defeat no Archbishops.”

??? : ”Heya! They're here!”

Maria, from the Crusch camp extinguished all the flames. Looking at them, all members of the Camps arrived.

Ferris : ”Nya! They need healing!”

Immediately, Priscilla created a giant light barrier where everyone started to be healed and so no infiltrators could enter. Immediately, everyone felt relief and rested for a few seconds.

Jens : ”Regulus Corneas has Emilia.”

Everyone looked at Jens at that moment.

Jens : ”Listen up. I know most of you don't care about Emilia, because she's different. Because she's an Half Elf! But I love her and we must work together to safe her. Please help me in bringing her back. Who will help me in defeating them and bringing her back?”

Anastasia : ”Jens-san. I love your love for Emilia. But what would it help us in helping her? Isn't it quite beneficial for all camps to have one eliminates already?”

Crusch : ”Anastasia-sama! How dare you say something that dark ?”

Anastasia : ”Come now Crusch-san. I'm just being honest.”

Reinhard : ”I don't care what anyone says. But I'll help with fighting Greed and bringing back Emilia. However we got a problem. If this continues, the city will be destroyed, I can't let that happen. We need to create teams that will fight a sin.”

Ram : ”Gluttony is at the western part of the Palace. Lust is at the upper part of the Palace. Greed is at the northern part of the Palace. Masquerade is at the Southern part of the Palace. I used my Clairvoyance. We got time. But not long.”

Jens : ”Let me draw something real quick. Nathan, give me the Map. I'll draw something on the back.”

Nathan gave a map and a pencil and Jens started drawing.

The ones at the Square, inside of the Shrine we're–

Weiss Schnee, from the representatives. Cynthia was dead, Elis and Alexandrius were with the King at the Palace.

Priscilla's Camp, Ryuu Lyon, Haku Segmunt, Priscilla Barielle, Aldebaran and Schult.

Crusch' Camp, Levi Avaritia, Felix Argyle, Crusch Karsten, Wilhelm van Astrea and Maria Aqua.

Anastasia's Camp, Tivey Pearlbaton, Julius Juukulius, Mimi Pearlbaton, Anastasia Hoshin, Halibel, Hetaro Pearlbaton and Joshua Juukulius with no memories.

Emilia Camp, Otto Suwen, a coma state Rem, Jens, Nathan Harmonia and Meili Portroute.

Felt's Camp, Reinhard and Felt, Flam Remendis, Grassis Remendis and Aestas Toto.

Jens : ”It was a hard choice. But I made it, I created the groups that will fight one of the Palace Parts.”

Western Part – Gluttony Battle :

Julius Juukulius – Felt – Otto Suwen – Haku Segmunt – Priscilla Barielle

Upper Part – Lust Battle :

Weiss Schnee – Aldebaran – Crusch Karsten – Felix Argyle – Maria Aqua – Tivey Pearlbaton

Northern Part – Greed Battle :

Jens – Reinhard van Astrea – Aestas Toto

Southern part – Jester Battle :

Ram – Flam Remendis – Levi Avaritia – Nathan Harmonia – Wilhelm van Astrea – Mimi Pearlbaton

Entrance Part – Blood Cloud Battle :

Anastasia – Halibel – Hetaro Pearlbaton – Grassis Remendis – Ryuu Lyon – Schult

Saying this out loud. Nobody has complains about this, and agrees.

Jens : ”Group with your Team and prepare your strategy! Gluttony is able to eat Memories and seemingly also names. He can use their Memories to make you terrified. Lust is a shape shifter. I got no clue about Wrath. Greed is extremely strong, the Jester is strong, but hurt at the moment. Let's make it happen and win back our City!”

Everyone started clapping and yelled ”Yeah”

Jens felt slightly better when seeing everyone willing to put their lives on the game to save the city. It was a feeling of relief.

However, he did not feel totally relieved, the fact that the creep, Regulus Corneas of Greed, still had Emilia in his possession, was truly on his nerves.

Thinking of that, he starts thinking of how he got possessed. Even though it wasn't for too long. Jens doesn't remember how he, out of the sudden, got possessed by the Crazed Prince.

Anyway, it wasn't the time to think of that now, he should go group with his team.

Walking towards Reinhard, there was a female too. Aestas.

Reinhard : ”May I ask why you chose me for this battle?”

Jens : ”A-Ah… You're the only one that comes near his level. We can use you. Aestas, right?”

Aestas : ”Yeah! Ma Name is Aestas Toto! I'm quite strong, in fact!”

Jens : ”Are you a mage?”

Aestas : ”Ah no! This is my weapon!”

Aestas created a dark portal and grabbed a giant scythe out of it.

It's a medium length scythe with as origin Beyond the Waterfall, as powerful as any magic in Lugnica. A single eye of crimson hate stares out from the heel of the blade, tempting the strongest of men to wield it in battle.

Aestas : ”This is Nakuri! Nakuri is a unique weapon as he is alive and has it own Aura, Semblance, Od and Mana. Nakuri is even able to talk!”

Reinhard : ”Magnificent!”

Jens : ”Holy… You will help us bring back Emilia, right?”

Aestas : ”Ah yes. Nakuri would love to meet Regulus, wouldn't you?”