World End: The Successor's Contract

Zeno stood up from the ground and looked Uta in the eye, "You seem worried, is something bothering you?" He asked.

"Well, other than the fact you are about to enter someone else's dream, no I don't think so." Uta responded.

"Uta, this is the first I've seen you get worked up like this." Hina joined in, "What exactly are you so afraid of?" She asked.

Uta turned her face to the side to avoid Hina's and Zeno's gaze, only for her to meet Ava at the other side.

Ava had a serious look on her face, "Uta! I can tell something is bothering you, spill already." She asserted.

"It's nothing serious, she's probably just worried something bad is going to happen." Zeno uttered.

He was about to sit back down when Uta held his hand again,"... If you go in, you might not come out this time." She voiced.

Zeno looked at her for a while and smiled, "I understand, you're worried but I got this." He reassured.

Before Zeno could take a seat again, Uta pulled him back up, "I don't think you understand, you've been trapped in his mind control before, it's riskier if you go in there!" She yelled.

"Before? What do you mean by ``before?" Hina asked.

"Lucifer was the cause of his memory loss." Uta gave a straight answer.

Everyone was surprised, most especially Hina, they knew he couldn't remember who he was when they found him but they never thought it would be the work of a demon.

Ava had her eyes on the ground, widened from the shock as she started to piece the dots together, "Back at O'Narvak… the demon... I heard you call him Lucifer." Hina voiced out.

Zeno suddenly gave out a laugh, "What are you guys saying, sure I lost my memories back then, but that wasn't because of a demon, I was low on magic energy… right Hina?" He asked as his eyes wondered to Hina.

Hina didn't look him in the eye, instead, she had her eyes on the ground, "No, grandma did mention, there were traces of magic in your brain waves, but we only assumed it was because you outgrew your brain capacity… we never anticipated mind control." She explained.

"The hell?" Zeno muttered, "This is ridiculous." He uttered before pulling his arm from Uta's grip.

"Zeno-".

"Get away from me!"

Uta moved back after seeing Zeno's outburst, his eyes were glowing blue as he stared her in the eye.

Uta didn't budge, she stretched her hand to the side and her demonic blade appeared, "I don't care if I'm going to fight my way in, you're not entering that dream." She insisted.

Zeno's glowing eyes suddenly dimmed down, he gave out a sigh before placing his hand on his forehead, "Okay, how do you suggest I solve this then? You can't expect me to leave her here".

Boom! Boom!

The sound of someone banging the walls of one of the wagons suddenly resonated throughout the field.

Everyone's eyes swayed over to the wagons, as they wondered what could be making that sound.

Anna unexpectedly rolled out of the wagon and slammed her head on the ground from the fall.

She grunted for a while as she messaged her head, "That's gonna leave a bump." She muttered to herself.

"Sis?" Ava called out.

Anna slowly turned around to look at everyone who had their eyes fixed on her.

She immediately stood up from the ground and cleared her throat before she walked towards them.

"Hello, guys." Anna waved awkwardly, she had a small bag around her shoulder with different bottles inside it.

"Anna? What are you doing here?" Zeno asked.

"Well, Lifa suddenly teleported me here after explaining that I should give this medicine to the unconscious lady." Anna responded as she looked around.

Once she spotted Rina on the floor, Anna walked toward her and knelt before placing the bag beside her.

"Grandma sent you? I find that hard to believe." Hina asserted.

"Well believe me or not, but we were watching the whole thing, apparently, Lifa can see anywhere you go." Anna said before looking at Zeno as she mixed different medicines together.

"I see." Zeno muttered.

"Yes, so Uta, you can put the weapon away, the cure to fix her is here, there's no need for him to enter the dream." Anna reassured.

With a sigh, Uta's blade dematerialized before she went back to keeping her hand tucked.

"And as for you, 'Lord Zeno!' were you seriously about to have a fight with her?" Anna asked.

Boss slayer laughed, "I can't believe she was willing to go one on one with the young master, how foolish!" He continued laughing.

Uta pointed her finger and a fast-moving beam shot out from it and straight into the Boss slayer's thighs.

He screamed in pain as he bounced on one leg while his subordinates tried to calm him down.

Anna was already through with mixing the medicine, so she raised Rina's head a bit and gently poured the medicine into her mouth.

Not long after, Rina started coughing as the veins on her neck started glowing from the medicine she took.

With another cough, Rina opened her eyes to find herself sleeping in Anna's arms, "W-What happened?" She mumbled.

"Rina!" Alisha and Horina ran to her side and immediately gave her a hug.

"Guys relax." She chuckled, her eyes suddenly crossed paths with Zeno which startled her.

She immediately pushed Alisha and Horina off her and went to her knees with her head bowed, "L-Lord Zeno, my apologies, I didn't s-see you there." She stammered.

Zeno tried to force a smile, "Relax, I told you not to bow." He expressed.

"Oh." Rina stood to her feet, "I apologize." She said again.

Zeno sighed, "Are you feeling okay?" He asked.

"Yes I am, I feel better actually." Rina responded.

"Okay then." Zeno turned and walked to the edge of the cliff.

Once he got there, he could see all the Glinx gathering at the bottom, the Carnon was already filled with them.

Some were trying to climb the wall to get to higher ground, but their size was making it impossible.

"A fresh start, to wipe them off the face of the Earth." Zeno muttered with his body covered in blue flames and eyes glowing alongside his lightning.