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43.23% The Eminence of a True Monarch of the Shadows / Chapter 114: Chapter 113

Chapter 114: Chapter 113

[Third Person's PoV]

After spending the entire night and some of the morning with Sherry, they went their separate ways as they both had things to do.

Cid appeared before Claire. "You called?"

Claire nodded, beginning to pout. "Because of your actions yesterday, I ended up winning."

"Why are you complaining then? You're welcome," Cid replied.

"That's not how I wanted to win, and you know it," she glared. "That's why I want you to make it up to me!" she demanded.

Cid just turned around and started to walk away with his hands in his pockets, ignoring her.

Claire jumped on his back, wrapping her legs and arms around him, and then began to rock back and forth.

"Come on! Please! You owe it to me! Let's do something together, please, just like when we were little," Claire pleaded, laying her head on his shoulder and giving him puppy eyes while pouting her lips out in a sad manner.

"Pretty please, little bro."

Cid let out a sigh. "You're so annoying… Fine… do you have any plans already since you're so persistent?"

"YAY!!" Claire yelled with her arms in the air in excitement while her legs still clung to his torso.

Cid scoffed and shook his head at her childish nature.

"And I do have plans. We're going to hunt down the progenitor of vampires, 'The Blood Queen.' There has been an increase in cases of vampire underlings attacking the city folks of Lawless Town."

Claire jumped off Cid and gave him a smirk. "Come on, let's go." She surrounded herself with lightning before disappearing from where she was standing.

Cid's hair ruffled along the strong wind Claire created. He then heard Claire break the sound barrier.

Cid let out a sigh before he surrounded himself in his purple lightning, disappearing from where he was standing and creating the same effects as Claire, catching up to her.

"Why are we running there? I could have just teleported us there," Cid asked telepathically.

Claire just shook her head as Cid and her maneuvered their way through a thick forest.

"Oh, silly brother of mine, then that would have taken the whole purpose of the trip away. We're having a one-on-one adventure together; the journey to the destination is part of the adventure. Just teleporting there would take away the fun of it."

If someone were to witness them from above, they would see two streaks of lightning side by side running in a zigzag pattern.

As they ran towards Lawless Town, Claire saw Cid with a ball of darkness concentrating on it.

"What are you doing?" she asked curiously.

"I'm studying my dark magic… I'm trying to see what other types of power I can develop with it," Cid explained.

"And what type of powers are you trying to develop?" she asked, wanting to dig at his thoughts since she hadn't really seen much of Cid training before. All she saw was him doing the bare minimum in front of others, and as this was the first time she saw him train seriously, her curiosity was at an all-time high.

"I'm trying to develop a power for each of the seven deadly sins with the power of darkness. Thanks to the mana core I created, apart from my ability to manipulate shadows, I gained the ability to wield both dark and light magic. And when my mana core merged with my Black Heart, the things I could do with them became almost conceptual, thanks to the infinite mana."

The only reason Cid was explaining everything to Claire was to see if saying his thoughts out loud would lead him to ideas on how he could fully develop them further.

"Right now I'm thinking about Gluttony. Darkness is something that swallows all that it touches, making it all a part of darkness," Cid explained

Seeing that Claire was confused, Cid summoned a ball of darkness and a ball of light. He made the two balls touch and clash into one another before the ball of light started to become absorbed in the ball of darkness, causing it to grow.

"I want my body to be that ball of darkness, everything that I'll consume to become a part of me, causing me to grow," Cid declared.

"..."

"Will I ever be able to catch up to you?" Claire wondered with an uneasy expression.

Cid just smirked. "Sorry, sis, I'm always going to be getting stronger. One of us is destined to be the weaker one out of the two, and it surely isn't me."

Claire started grumbling before the two of them came to a complete stop as they arrived at the gates of Lawless Town, which were practically in shambles.

As they entered, they saw how huts and shanties lined the roads. They could smell the foul stench of garbage that permeated the air and witness the sloven citizens meander around town.

In the far distance were the three enormous skyscrapers towering above its streets: the White, Black, and Crimson Tower.

From his shadow, Cid detected Yukihime's purple glowing eyes appear and looked towards the White Tower.

'Don't worry, we will see her soon,' Cid said reassuringly, causing the eyes to slowly close back up and disappear into the shadows.

As they walked through the town, people tried to sell them multitudes of items… and people.

"Oh my, if it isn't the most beautiful woman in the world!" one of the slave sellers called out.

"Oh, you're talking about me?" Claire asked, looking pleased.

"But of course, who else would I be talking about!"

"He's lying to you," Cid said in a plain voice before moving his head back, dodging Claire's fist as it was about to strike him.

After images of Cid's plain face appeared as after images of Claire's fist followed right after.

"*huff* *huff* You fucking bastard."

"I know you are, but what am I?" Cid teased.

'They're strong… which must mean they must have a lot of money,' the slave trader thought greedily.

"Excuse me, my lady, I know the perfect thing that would compliment your beauty… these slaves. Just imagine, you holding their leashes while they crawl and worship the very ground you walk on," the slave trader said, enticing Claire.

Claire then started to imagine it, but her imagination took a weird turn. Instead of it being the slaves presented to her, she started to imagine Cid on the leash and on the ground while she sat on his back like a seat while holding onto his chain.

Cid flicked her forehead, causing her to release a pained noise. "What was that for!" she cried, looking at Cid with a glare.

Cid just looked at her in disgust. "You know what that was for; I saw what you were thinking, get that image out of your head."

Claire started blushing as she was caught red-handed. She grabbed Cid's hand and pulled him away as she was embarrassed to stand in front of the slave trader, causing him to be aggrieved at the thought of losing two potential customers.

The two continued exploring Lawless Town, accidentally making it a date between the two until the sun started to set… and the Blood Moon Started To Rise.


Chapter 115: Chapter 114

[Third Person's PoV]

As the sun started going down, Claire let out a sigh. "I'll have to go meet up with the knights who are assigned to take care of this mess in a bit."

Cid just looked at her with a raised brow as they continued walking around aimlessly. "Ah, that's right... you're in their ranks, keeping an eye on them. Have you discovered anything?"

"Nothing so far. And for appearance's sake, I have to go and be involved in the strategy meeting being held in a few minutes, though it's going to be boring." Claire then started ruffling her hair.

"The thing is, they don't even seem to care about what's happening with this town. They sent a ragtag group here. I even had to volunteer to participate since it sounded cool and serious at the same time."

Cid just started patting her head to get her to calm down and smile towards her, "I hope you enjoy yourself"

"You sly bastard, I know you well enough to know that was malicious. I just said it was going to be boring!" She growled, while Cid just smirked.

Claire let out a sigh before grabbing his hand and pulling him away. "You know what, getting angry with you isn't going to solve anything."

Claire looked around for a few seconds before pulling Cid into an alleyway and jumped on top of him while wrapping her legs around his waist and grabbing his face. "Since I'm going to be in such a boring meeting, give me some memories to entertain myself in there."

Cid and Claire then began to make out passionately for a few minutes before she jumped out of his embrace and skipped along to her destination.

Meanwhile, Cid shook his head while wiping his lip with his thumb. His eyes turned into dragon slits as he looked up towards the darkening sky. 'The moon's slowly turning red. The magic still isn't acting up. It's moving weirdly but not to the point of creating ghouls. There's only an hour left.'

Cid leaned against the alley wall with a hand in his pocket and began to ponder. 'I can completely stop it from happening. I can completely control the magic and stop it from turning the people into ghouls and completely stop the death of these people, but I don't want to. I deem the revival of Elisabeth more entertaining.

But it doesn't really matter since I can just revive everyone again... I have to accept it. I don't know why I'm turning it away. My perspective was going to change one way or another. I'm already starting to see people as nothing more than things I can play with play with if I deem fit. And that's something I will have to accept the stronger I grow.'

"Now onto the other matter," Cid sighed as he ran his fingers through his hair before ruffling it nervously. 'That connection that's growing, there's no denying it. That's a whole fucking baby growing inside someone, and I'm the father.'

Cid then looked down and put a hand on his face, covering his mouth. 'I'm going to be a father... compared to when I would use my powers, this feels different. It feels much more intimate... more special.'

'Am I seriously growing anxious about being a father?'

Cid forcefully calmed himself down and let out a sigh. "Igris, Beru."

"My liege..." they both said as they knelt down towards him. "Protect my body for a moment."

They both grew confused until they saw Cid's eyes grow purple before softly starting to close.

Cid focused his entire attention on the growing connection that was linked with him before sending his consciousness through it.

When Cid reopened his eyes, he was in a completely white space that seemed to expand infinitely with nothing around for miles.

With a sigh, Cid just started walking. After a few hours of leisurely walking, Cid saw a floating clear orb in the middle of nowhere with a curled-up baby inside, breathing and sleeping peacefully.

Cid didn't say anything and continued walking towards it without an expression on his face.

As he arrived in front of it, he didn't say anything and just continued looking at it. He carefully stretched both his hands out towards the Orb, which was the size of a beach ball.

He continued to gaze at the little life growing inside the orb until he felt something rolling down his cheek.

"She's beautiful…" Cid softly muttered before pressing his forehead against the orb for a few minutes.

"And it looks like your soul is growing strong, little one. As expected of my daughter, I can already feel it. You're going to grow strong. Ah, and it looks like it won't be long until you are born… it's a good thing you're sleeping. Imagine the first thing you see is your cool and handsome dad with a tear rolling down his cheek; that definitely wouldn't be a good first expression."

Looking at the orb, the reality of the situation started to become apparent to Cid. He has a child on the way. He's going to be a father, which was something he definitely wasn't expecting.

"I'll see you in the real world soon enough. I better get going… I haven't thought of a name as of yet."

Cid then released the orb, which still floated in the empty space, and started to squat down with an arm resting leisurely on his knee and a hand on that arm's bicep, while tilting his head to the side with a smile, admiring his creation.

'I honestly don't even know how to feel. I'm happy, worried, proud, anxious, excited, and fearful… so many conflicting emotions all swirling inside of me. Is this what fatherhood is?'

While smiling towards the sleeping baby, Cid's eyes grew purple before slowly starting to close. When he reopened them, he was still leaning against the alleyway, but to his side then laid a tiny mountain of bodies.

"What happened, and for how long have I been out?" Cid asked before noticing the magic around the area had turned chaotic.

'I see an hour has already passed,' Cid thought before Beru confirmed it.

"An hour has passed since my liege went into slumber, and those fools at first tried to take advantage over my liege's rest and take your possessions, so I disposed of them," Beru then looked at Cid with expectant eyes, wanting to be praised.

Cid just smiled amusingly about Beru's expression and petted his head, causing him to glow with pride before continuing with his reports.

"Upon the rising of the red moon, they turned frenzied and tried to attack my liege, so I disposed of them as well."

Cid just shook his head, still amused while patting Beru's head. "Good work. You may return to my shadow."

Beru and Igris bowed, accepting their liege's decree, and went into his shadow.

A ghoul then appeared and jumped towards Cid, ready to kill him, but before it had the chance, a woman with red hair jumped from the skies and impaled the ghoul in the head to kill it.

"What are you doing, young man!? Hurry up and leave, this is bad. The 'Red Moon' has risen. The rampage will begin," the woman announced.

Although already knowing who she was, Cid asked, "And who are you?"

"I am the oldest vampire hunter, Mary. The one who has been hunting the 'Queen of blood" Mary, the one who dropped down from the skies responded.

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A/N: Made a new fic please check it out

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