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4.04% The Sinful Life of The Emperor / Chapter 31: What A Waste

Chapter 31: What A Waste

"What I pursue is true happiness! If pursuing happiness is a sin, then I don't mind being a sinner!" Kiba concluded with a heavy expression.

Even the golden lightning and the dark clouds in the sky didn't make any sound, as if their silence denoted their belief in Kiba's words.

Lisa was astonished. His philosophy sounded genuine to her, especially the reasoning he used to justify his pursuit of the opposite sex.

She couldn't help but think of his words on how things like world domination, gaining strength, and pursuing immortality were nothing but pipe dreams.

"He might be correct!"

Lisa thought, but then her jaw dropped. She shook her head, trying to regain her wits.

"Am I being brainwashed!?"

Lisa felt a chill down her spine. She recalled how she tried to brainwash him by enticing him with fame and reverence as long as he agreed to become her experimental specimen.

She couldn't help but think he was toying with her!

Kiba noticed the change on her face. With a sigh, he said, "It seems like you are not qualified for the Holy Path! I didn't want to kill you, but you left me with no choice!"

"N-no! I believe in you!"

In response, Kiba smiled and crouched in front of her.

"If you kill me, the world government will surely find out and kill—" Lisa stopped in between. She thought of Kiba's personality and knew the threat was useless.

"What a disappointment. You are the same as those I killed before," Kiba let out a sigh as he continued, "Even Castor Damon threatened me in a similar fashion before I killed him. I guess you scientists think too much of your life."

Lisa's face turned ashen and her ears rang. She was a Rank III scientist, so how could she not know of someone like Castor Damon?!

He was a Level IX scientist who disappeared four years ago! She had heard rumors about him working on a secret project amidst which he disappeared in Delta City!

Hang on!

Kiba's first public sighting was three and a half years ago! Could Castor Damon be related to how Zed gained the Cosmic Spark and became Kiba?

No! I can't think of these things now! Survival is more important!

"Don't...please," Lisa begged as blood continued to leak from her orifices. Her powers were already erased by the pressure from golden lightning. All the military tech she had was also erased. She couldn't defend against even an ordinary mutant, much less someone like Kiba.

"You are making me look like the bad guy here. It was you who attacked me, so surely you can't blame me."

Kiba placed his right hand on her cheek.

"I-I was wrong," Lisa didn't dare use any more cursing or warning. She regretted trying to capture Kiba for her experiments, but now it was too late for regrets.

His hand moved from her cheek to her lips. His fingers wiped the blood from her rosy lips.

"I have to give you credit for putting up a better front. Almost every opponent I have killed tried to scare me off by saying their families or their organization would give me a painful death if I killed them. They actually think that would change my mind. But you realized that threats won't save you, so you started apologizing..."

Kiba's hand moved from her lips to her slender neck.

"I will become your slave! You can have my body any time you want! I will be your loyal slave till my death!" Lisa cowered in fear as she used the last bargaining chip.

"An enticing offer," Kiba agreed as his hand wandered from her neck to her cleavage.

"Thank you! I will do everything to satisfy you!" Lisa assured him. Her eyes erupted with tears of happiness, knowing she has avoided the crisis.

"I only said the offer was enticing."

Kiba's smile didn't waver as his hand traced her cleavage.

"I never said I'm accepting the offer."

"Wh---please. Don't kill me. Not only my body, but you can also have my knowledge. I might be not as resourceful as Castor Damon, but I am definitely useful!"

Lisa's voice was filled with fright as she tried to prove her usefulness.

"I will be soon promoted to Rank IV! I can help you in many ways!"

The tears in her eyes continued to fall, mingled with her blood.

Her condition was such that it could invoke pity from even the cruelest of men, but Kiba's expression remained the same.

His fingers moved from the center of her cleavage to her left breast.

Lisa trembled, but she didn't dare resist his touch.

"I may have made you my slave, but sadly your heart is far too black for my taste."

Kiba poked his index finger on her left breast where her heart lay.

A golden spark burst out from his fingertip and charged into her heart.

"AHHHHHHHHH!" The blood inside her heart started burning. It was as if her heart had turned into a volcano erupting lava!

She had never felt such pain in her life. Blood was the source of life, but now it had turned into poison.

Kiba continued to smile even after hearing Lisa's scream. Soon, she wasn't even able to beg as the blood inside her corroded her vocal cords.

But the pain didn't subside! It only increased, even though her pain sensors were destroyed by her lava blood.

Internally, she begged and screamed while staring at Kiba. But even her vision didn't remain for long as the blood burned her eyes.

The man in black and the man-woman duo vomited when they saw the condition of their leader. Their bodies trembled beyond their control as they saw Lisa turning into ashes.

"NOOOOO!"

The man in black screamed in horror.

Kiba waved his right hand, and the ashes disappeared into thin air.

"She had a beautiful body, but her heart... Sighs. What a waste!"


Chapter 32: Embrace of a Mother

The golden lightning in the sky continued to roar like a dragon trying to free itself from shackles.

On the ground, ashes scattered in every direction. Every trace of Lisa's existence was wiped out.

"What a waste!" Kiba said with a smile. His words showed regret, but his expression was one of amusement.

The members of Lisa's team felt a chill crawling down their spines. Their fear only increased when they heard Kiba's words and saw his amused expression.

He didn't fit the image he had created!

"Is he really the playboy from a few moments ago?"

Earlier, he acted as if he worshipped women, but now he tortured a beauty to death without any sign of discomfort! They couldn't understand how a person could change so quickly in personality!

One moment he was talking about sex, but the next moment he brutally killed someone with whom he had passionate sex!

"Is this the side effect of having multiple identities? Or because he has summoned his full powers he has gone crazy? Or maybe he was born insane!?" The man in black thought with fear evident in his eyes.

Kiba turned his face towards the man in black. It was as if he could read the man in black's thoughts.

"I planned to kill you all from the start. The moment you interfered with my teleportation... you sealed your fate," Kiba arrived in front of the man before continuing, "I never forgive anyone who tries to harm me. Even if she was the most beautiful person on this planet."

"Why will you..." The man in black stopped thinking of his future. He was ready for his death or at least he thought he was.

"Why will I let Lisa think she has a chance of survival?" Kiba completed the question.

"Yes," the man in black grudgingly nodded.

"Because it is much more fun compared to killing someone who doesn't have any hope of living. My words on my philosophy ignited the spark of hope inside her," Kiba patiently explained his thought process with a smile, "Lisa thought she had chances to live given my love for beauties. Isn't it exciting to kill someone after shattering all their hopes? Letting my enemy experience both hope and despair is what makes killing exciting for me. It gives me happiness!"

"You are insane..." The man in black tried to strengthen his heart for his upcoming cruel death. He knew his fate would be the same as Lisa so he didn't try to beg.

"Maybe I am insane," Kiba waved his hand, and a black vortex appeared in the sky, "But I don't understand why you all are pretending to be the victims here."

The vortex released a sucking force on the man in black, targeting his blood.

He released horrible screams as the veins inside his body shattered due to the pressure from his own blood. Every single drop of his blood wanted to merge with the black vortex in the sky.

The blood inside of him shattered every inch of his skin and flesh as it flew towards the black vortex. Even his eye sockets were filled with countless holes as the blood left.

Soon, there was nothing but the skeleton of the man left. Afterward, the skeleton was also devoured by the vortex.

Kiba then moved towards the man-woman duo. They were the ones who launched missiles on him after he teleported here.

"Sir Kiba, please don't kill us," The man begged.

His eyes were red with tears as he prostrated himself on the ground, begging. He didn't think it was shameful as long as he could live!

"Give us a clean death, please," The woman didn't request to be spared.

She knew surviving was impossible as they have seen Kiba's other identity and realized the secret of Cosmic Spark. All she begged was for a painless death.

"You guys interfered with my teleportation and brought me to the wasteland. Then you attacked me so that you can use me as your lab rat," Kiba made a grasping motion towards the vortex, " You wanted to give me a life worse than death. Yet you are asking for a clean death?"

"We are sorry--"

"I am already being magnanimous for not torturing you for eternity, and yet you dare ask for more?"

"Plea---" The man-woman duo didn't get to complete their words as the black vortex started sucking their blood. A minute later, they were dead with all traces of their existence removed.

"I never forgive my enemies. There are no exceptions."

The black vortex then sucked in the eight corpses of mutants who have died before.

In reality, Kiba could have killed Lisa and others easily without summoning his full powers. But he had no choice but to use his full powers in order to overpower the ability nullifying energy waves as those waves have made him transform into his other form.

The technology of world government wasn't for show after all. These ability nullifying waves were one of the government's trump cards against the hidden heritage.

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Kiba turned his face towards the sky which was filled with golden lightning. It was his second time seeing the golden lightning. The first time was when he fused with the Cosmic Spark four years ago. Even now, the golden lightning was still in shackles, just like the first time, as if the entire strength of this world was stopping it.

Kiba felt a strong kinship towards the golden lightning. It was as if his very source of existence and the golden lightning were the same. Kiba knew this feeling was created by the Cosmic Spark inside him, but the feeling never felt artificial to him.

The lightning created a terrifying pressure on this world, but for him, lightning was the most attractive and pleasant thing he has seen or felt in his life. It was like the embrace of a mother.

"Embrace of a mother..."

When Kiba thought of this, he started laughing.

"Oh Creator! Hahaha!"

He remembered his childhood when he was just Zed. He recalled his slum life, and the words spoken by his 'caretaker' when he once failed to collect enough money from begging. His 'caretaker' didn't allow him to eat for two days straight.

"You are an unwanted bastard. Your mother discarded you in my care, by promising me a lot of wealth, but she gave me nothing!

"Instead, I lost my powers while protecting you! So don't blame me for being cruel to you!! Blame your mother for abandoning you!!!"

The 'caretaker' has said these words when Zed was four years old.

Zed has seen multiple expressions on the 'caretaker's' face when he spoke of Zed's mother: anger, longing, greed, and even lust!

Zed didn't know if his 'caretaker' was lying or was biased, but there was one thing for sure:

His mother has left him in the hands of 'caretaker'.

A 'caretaker' who made his life hell...

After a minute, Kiba stopped laughing as he once again focused his attention on the golden lightning. The golden lightning was still shackled but it never stopped its struggle against the world. It wanted to enter the world and embrace Kiba.

"Perhaps we will embrace each other someday, but not today."

His golden hair, which reached the end of his back, now started getting shorter. His irises were originally golden, but now a small trace of blue appeared inside them.

The dark clouds and golden lightning started fading the moment the hint of blue appeared in his irises.

Soon, his golden hair shortened so much that it now only reached his shoulders. His irises had an equal combination of golden and blue.

He was still in his Kiba form, but it was the Kiba form known to everyone in the city.

Kiba lifted his head and looked at the night sky. It was back to its former glory, brightened by the radiant moon...


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