It's been a week since we visited Vera's parents. Everything has been going well. No drama, no urgency. Just peace.
Blair also seems to be holding up well with her ability, the demon king ability. Now that I'm closer to her, I've begun to realize that what Blair wields isn't simply an ability. It was the power of the forr demon king sealed inside a crystal. The feeling I get from it sotis is so overwhelming that I feel threatened and wary of it, which pushed to start researching it.
I wanted to pay the celestial monkeys another visit, but their emperor didn't want to see after having his ass handed to him, so I turned to soone else.
Alphonso…
FWOOOSH!
I threw a tal pipe at Alphonso, impaling his shoulder to the concrete while blood dripped from the wound. Even though he looked worried for a mont, his face soon relaxed and he pulled the pipe out as his body began to heal.
"I know it's you, Your Highness. There's no need to disguise yourself," Alphonso said, lighting a cigarette.
I stopped with a smile on my face and transford back into my original appearance from my initial disguise identity—Ben.
"How could you tell it was , Teacher?" I asked, and suddenly he burst out laughing at my question.
"I an, who the fuck could impale with a fucking cheap tal pipe and not even a Beast weapon? Only you, of course!" Alphonso said, letting out a sigh.
"You've obviously grown stronger since the last ti I saw you. That's why I stopped teaching you anyway. There's nothing left for to teach if you can stab with a fucking cheap pipe," Alphonso added while I grinned the whole ti.
"Hahah, that was revenge for beating the crap out of back when I was still oblivious. Either way, I'm sorry about that. I think I've finally figured out how Absolute Blood Control works," I said, and Alphonso looked at as if he were staring at a monster.
He stepped forward, but from his movents I knew he wanted to run away, so I blocked him.
"Please listen to . I need your help. You can't run away from . I'm not bragging—you just can't ignore what I have to say," I said. Alphonso sighed again, and we crossed the street and sat on a public bench.
"Man, I just want to live in peace. After Zero turned on us and was killed, I decided to retire. Maybe start a new family, you know, popping kids here and there. I even heard that evil bitch Zamira got pregnant and is now acting like a softie. Man… I'm going crazy…" Alphonso rambled, drinking the blood juice in his hand until the bottle was empty.
"Hey… man, I think you should calm down—"
"Calm down, you say? You fucking impaled with cheap tal! I have never been impaled before, you're the only one who could do that. I an, you make feel useless… Truth is, I'm so angry that I can't get any stronger. Yeah, I can use Ki, but within months your Ki pool beca ten tis larger than mine, and I've been training for years. Life is unfair," Alphonso exclaid, pulling at his hair.
I was shocked by his outburst, and the smile on my face completely vanished. Maybe I had been unfair to him after all. But it's not my fault. Being a Protoss and the only user of Absolute Blood Control, I can wield all Blood powers. Not only that, I can directly command users of those powers because, in the end, they were mine to begin with.
"I understand your pain. I've been in those shoes before. You might think I was young or sothing, but living among humans and being friends with them, I faced being bullied for being powerless. I know what it feels like to be looked down on. However, Alphonso, I've never seen you as powerless."
"Instead, I look at you with respect. You trained yourself from scratch and beca a monster to be reckoned with. You are special. I, on the other hand, am a failure. I've died and reincarnated over and over again, becoming a ridicule for the gods while they used people close to to get to . I've lost fragnts of my power and grown weaker over ti. Maybe I got lucky in this reincarnation and recovered a lot of my abilities and weapons. But it doesn't change the fact that I'm a failure," I said.
Alphonso opened his mouth as if he wanted to say sothing, but instead he suddenly began to sob.
"Sotis I don't even bla myself for being frivolous. After being killed over and over again, I decided to start enjoying life itself. Despite that, every reincarnation—even when I try to mind my own business, they still co after . You don't know how much it sucks. You have no idea. But this ti I seem lucky enough not to have fully gained the attention of the upper gods yet. That's why I refrained from killing the Blood God. Killing him would return a huge chunk of my power to , but it still wouldn't be enough. There are terrifying beings out there, Alphonso. What do you want to do, shit my pants like a pussy?" I asked.
Alphonso smiled, wiping the tears from his eyes.
"You know what? Other Protoss have reached out to , but I turned them down. I know they'll be back, and there's no way I can keep refusing them forever. But this ti I want things to be different. I don't want my life to follow so fucking script written by nature. I want to carve my own path," I said, finally calming down. I was already getting emotional and carried away while a new influx of mories from my past life surfaced.
The wives from my past life. So dead, so still out there bearing my mark and hoping I return to them. That's one of the main reasons I stopped forcing markings on my wives. I only give them on request. It's selfish if I die and they end up spending hundreds—maybe thousands—of years unable to be with another man.
This ti will be different, though. At the sa ti, I won't force anyone to bear that mark.
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