Chapter 89: Chapter 89 - Lavinia's Crisis and Parasite
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"Lavinia…"
Something happened to Lavinia and I could feel it immediately because of our connection as contract partners.
The connection we shared faintly thrumming with urgency as if giving me a silent cry for help.
".... What's wrong?"
Scathach-sama asked with her voice sharp with concern.
"Something's happened to Lavinia. I don't know what, but I can feel it. I need to find her."
I replied to her with a deep frown unsettled about the true situation of Lavinia.
Then I looked at Sakuya-san.
"Sakuya-san, you and Scathach-sama go back and bring Yamato-san to the mansion. I and Kulshedra-san will go to Lavinia."
Then I turned to Kulshedra-san.
"Kulshedra-san, let's go!"
I said to her with urgent tone.
Kulshedra-san nodded slightly.
"Okay."
After that, I grabbed her hand and then cast teleport magic following my connection with Lavinia as the beacon.
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At another place, on the outskirts of Kanto region which oftenly called as Tokyo Greater Area, a group of four youth just witnessed a black orb of light entered into a young girl with long, blonde hair dressed like a typical witch, Lavinia, and not long after a black magic circle around her faded and then she fell unconscious
"What's just happened!?"
A girl with tied light brown hair and brown eyes exclaimed in confusion.
A boy with short black hair, a girl with brown twintails, and a blonde-haired girl with heterochromatic eyes also dumbfounded with what just happened.
A few moments later after their shock, Lavinia regained her posture with her face lowered.
"Hahahahaha!!!"
She slowly raises her face added with ominous laugh.
For the usual Lavinia, a loud laugh of such a volume was unthinkable.
Lavinia turned her face to them. Her pointed gaze was filled with hostility.
"Too bad. I have taken this miss's body.... Now then, what would you do?"
Lavinia asked with a mocking smirk to the boy and the three girls.
""""!!!!????""""
The four of them more dumbfounded with what they just heard.
Especially added with how Lavinia's expression and behavior now was so much like the old witch's that they previously seen battling against Lavinia. And the aura drifting from her had also become that of the old witch.
The ominous magic they've seen from just a moment ago before Lavinia fell unconscious, it was something intended to hijack Lavinia's body.
Though they somehow understood the circumstances, it was nevertheless surprising that Lavinia had had her body and consciousness stolen by the old witch. And now the boy and the three girls were flustered and racking their brains over what should they do.
The old witch with Lavinia's body, paying no mind to how much confusion and the like they were feeling. She was then instructed the Four-armed Ice Princess Statue, Lavinia's independent avatar type Longinus Sacred Gear, Absolute Demise, on her side to points the four arms to the four teenagers.
Moreover, even the purple flame giant which is the old witch's own Longinus Sacred Gear also took an offensive posture towards them.
With the two Longinus of ice and flame on her sides, the possessed Lavinia laughed fearlessly.
"Hahahahaha! I wonder if you're able to oppose two kinds of Longinus simultaneously.... What do you think? Black Dog boy and Four Fiend young ladies?"
The hijacked Lavinia asked with a cruel smirk followed by the Ice Princess Statue produced a mass of icicles in its hand, and the Purple Flame Giant raised its flame cross up high.
The four teenagers getting more tenses.
In this situation, they'd end up sustaining simultaneous attacks from the Longinus of ice and flame.
The boy raised his guard and prepare to fight, but then the girl with light brown hair grabbed his arm.
"Let's withdraw temporarily"
The light brown-haired girl said with an unwilling expression and tone.
The boy was surprised and his expression became severe.
"What!? B-But to leave in this situation is-"
He had spoken to that point, but then he noticed how the girl was biting her lip.
Yes. She basically proposed that they abandon their friend, Lavinia, in this situation.
But even for her, this was a mortifying last minute decision.
Moreover, at the moment they couldn't think of a way to save the captured Lavinia.
"Guh!!!"
The boy made an anguished expression, and couldn't help but to let out a sound as he gripped his fist tightly in frustration.
And not only him who's frustrated. The other two girls also looks reluctant to leave.
But then, the boy took the brown-twintailed girl's hand while the two other girls also grabbed each other's hands and they immediately ran from that place.
"Running away are you! Hahahahahah!"
From behind they heard the loud laugh of the possessed Lavinia.
It had ended in the worst possible outcome for them.
Then the quartet of the boy and the three girls, after putting some distance between themselves and the possessed Lavinia, met up with the trio of two other teenage boy and a white-haired boy, Vali, as they ran along the mountainside.
Having met up with their other friends, the black-haired boy and the three girls then reported on their encounter as well as the situation with Lavinia.
And hearing their reports, Vali approached the black-haired boy in a rage.
"And then you just ran away like that!? Without even try to rescue Lavinia!?"
For Vali, who only ever showed a cool expression, to become emotional just as Lavinia's situation was conveyed, even the boy and the few others who already knew Vali for a while were surprised.
Vali then faced the direction that the quartet before had just come from and then about to run when the light brown-haired girl immediately restrained him by pulling on his arm.
"Hold it, Vali! Where are you going!?"
The girl questioned him in admonish tone.
"I'll save Lavinia even if I have to do it alone!"
Vali stated and shaking off the girl's hand.
'Knock it off, Vali. The enemy has two Longinus. That's a lot to bear for the current you.'
Albion's voice emerged from the dragon puppet placed on Vali's shoulder when he was just about to ran.
"If it gets to that point, the armor will be sufficient!"
Vali shouted back at Albion.
'You still haven't able to use it completely without too much to bear, Vali. Don't tell me that you forgot what happened after your fight with the Kokuryuuto (Black Dragon Boy)? Even though you just silently bear it and hide it from the others, I know myself how your soul almost couldn't hold on. It would put your life in danger if you force yourself to use Hakuryuukou's Balance Breaker again. You'll fall just like your predecessors if you use it recklessly.'
Albion tries to calm Vali down.
"I don't care.... In any case, it's a life that was already abandoned once!"
The statement from the White Dragon residing within him made Vali with his hands trembling in frustration spat out those self-abandon words.
'Now now, don't say that, Vali.'
Voice of a third party suddenly emerged.
This time the voice heard from the dragon plushie on his shoulder was from Azazel.
'I wasn't late making contact, right? I received a rough report from Barakiel. What's the present situation?'
Azazel asked their situation right now, and then they described Lavinia's situation in details.
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After I teleports with Kulshedra-san, we then arrived at some forested area.
"Snow?"
I wondered when I saw the white-covered area with the snowfall.
I don't understand why was this area snowing even though this time of the year should be still in summer or early autumn at the latest.
"Don't tell me that it's because of Lavinia's Absolute Demise?"
I wondered again.
After all, Absolute Demise' ability which mainly about Ice and Low-temperature was the first thing I thought which could possibly caused this phenomenon.
"Maybe.... Let's just find her first."
Kulshedra-san said and advised me.
"Okay."
I nodded to her and then she transformed herself to her black spear form without waiting for my command.
Then with the black spear in my hand, I tracked Lavinia's exact whereabout following her connection with me.
And after a few minutes tracking, I found her figure seen from a far and immediately catch up to her.
"Lavinia...."
I called her name as I stopped in front of her.
"Hm?"
Lavinia tilted her head slightly at me.
And just from that reaction, I immediately frowned and realized that there's something wrong.
"...."
Even though I know Lavinia was an innocent and a bit air-head girl, her expression and how she act like now clearly different from the Lavinia I know. She acts like she didn't know me at all.
"She's possessed."
Kulshedra-san shortly informed me.
I also came to that conclusion and then I immediately get wary and pointed my black spear to 'Lavinia'.
"Who are you? And what did you do to Lavinia?"
I asked the possessed Lavinia with a grim tone and expression.
"You know her?"
'Lavinia' asked back with a bit frown.
"She's my contracted witch."
I replied.
"You're a Devil?"
'Lavinia' asked with a bit surprised expression.
"Half.... And you haven't answered my question."
I pressed her to answer again.
"I'm Augusta, Witch of the East. And it seems you're not in a group with the kids from before. So? What do you want, little Devil?"
She answered my earlier question and then asked back again with a small smirk.
Also, 'the kids from before'? Who?
"I don't know who you refer to.... But you u better leave Lavinia immediately or-"
"Or what?"
She interrupted my sentence before I finished it.
And moreover she did it with a mocking smirk as if she just saw me as a naughty brat who dare to challenge adult. She just thought me as a joke.
And honestly I felt a bit annoyed by that. Because it's Lavinia's face and body that she used to mock me.
"Shut up, you leech.... Silent! Restraint!"
I said grimly to 'her' and then I quickly cast my Custom Rune Magic.
When she saw the runes appeared around her, she clearly looks surprised and about to do something to defend herself.
But unfortunately, the runes was faster because I was having an initiative first.
And so the runes immediately casted to her body, making her couldn't move or even talk.
Witch of the East, Augusta? Never heard! In my eyes, she's just a parasite!
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