章 718: Fouled Blood

Reima looks back at Nerissa with his foot still on Akua's skull, only not noticing blood beginning to stain the vampiress dress... His brow raises and his eyes contract as more blood begins escaping from her new wound. "Rissa, are you okay?"

...

She looks down and feels her chest, the fabric of her dress falling away and revealing that a fist sized hole had been created where her heart would be... "Rei?" she mutters, falling forwards and into his arms.

...

Reima isn't able to process what'd just happened, this girl hadn't managed to hit Nerissa right?... Then HOW!?!

He grinds his foot against Akua's skull as his aura is unconsciously released due to his roiling emotions, he spots Nerissa's flesh beginning to be burned which has him quickly restricted his aura...

Reima "Rissa get up!" he shouts, shaking her gently but receiving no response.

The world goes silent, his Observation Haki flaring as if it were trying to find answers to solve this situation. His eyes scan the ruins of Fairy Tale... Eventually landing on Gyokuro. His rage bubbles at the sight of her but rational thoughts prevail, memories of her rapid regeneration causing him to teleport next to her.

She'd been watching the fight between Akua and the duo, attempting to regrow her arm so she could reenter the fight... A hand wraps around her skull and forcefully turns her head, making her look into the furious eyes of Reima.

Without a second thought he bites a chunk out of her neck, spitting out the flesh and taking in a large amount of Gyokuro's blood into his mouth.

Gyokur o"AH! W-WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?!" she screams as he continues to hold her still, dropping her when he's unable to hold anymore blood.

He then opens Nerissa's mouth and helps the blood flow down her throat by massaging her gullet with his hand, the girl slowly managing to take it in... He would feel weird about this, but under the circumstances, he considered it similar to CPR... An essential life-saving technique.

His eyes dart to her wound, spotting that it doesn't seem to be closing... He grits his teeth, there isn't much time left... He'd store her soul if he had to but create a body out of nothing would be virtually impossible at this stage, the only reason it'd work for Akasha being that her body is still technically alive, her soul just being split.

Reima "Fuck! Please fucking work!!" he shouts, restricting his aura and cutting his wrist before allowing the girl to drink his own blood.

*Gulp, Gulp, Gulp*

Instantly he notices changes, the girl's wound closing but knitting itself back together... Recreating her heart and allowing her to breathe again.

Reima hugs her to his chest as she begins healing, thankful that she was alive...

*Tremble*

...

Nerissa body begins glowing slightly, a turquoise mist being emitted with every breath she took. Reima isn't sure what's happening, but its definitely got something to do with his blood...

*Woom*

Small spatial tears begin opening and closing within Nerissa, taking small pieces of her body and teleporting them away somewhere, effectively wounding her.

Reima had never seen anything like this before and attempts to stop them from opening, this only makes things worse as the spatial tears get wider than before... Seeming to increase in size the more resistance they meet.

"GET OFF OF ME!" A familiar voice shots, Reima's head zipping around and spotting Moka being dragged somewhere by a black-haired man and Gyokuro.

Gyokuro "Haha! Now that I've got the Rosario, the world will be mine!" she shouts victoriously.

Miyabi "Be quiet, we need to be quick." he says, breaking into a sprint with Moka being pulled behind him.

Reima slowly follows after them with Nerissa in his arms, still attempting to find a solution to the spatial rifts slowly tearing her body apart... Her eyes flicker open, small streams of blood dripping down her face as spatial rifts over more wound over it. "Rissa?" he asks hopefully.

Nerissa "Save, Moka..." she utters, passing out again.

Reima rubs his face and nods, laying her on the ground and blinking towards where Moka is...

Miyabi and Gyokuro had reached a part of the ruins where some kind of seal had previously been... The only thing that survived in a wide stone platform that'd bee split in half, the cross shaped hole in the middle of it obviously broken.

Miyabi frowns, "It seems we'll have to do this the hard way then." he says, kicking a crippled surviving Fairy Tale member out of the way and dragging Moka over... Positioning her arm over the hole and cutting her wrist deeply, allowing the blood to flow into the halved cross-shaped seal.

Moka "Get, off, of, me!" she shouts, kicking Gyokuro away as she lets her guard down and headbutting Miyabi... Her attacks deals damage to him but he doesn't let go.

Miyabi "It's already too late child, he's awakening." he says, the ground underneath them rapidly shaking.

The rubble of Fairy Tale shifts and reveals what's under it... Black flesh can be seen as the creature begins to move. Reima blinks beside Moka and sends a heavy glare at Miyabi and Gyokuro, "I'm going to enjoy killing you both."

Miyabi smirks, "It's too late for that... I'm immortal!" he proclaims, widening his arms and allowing himself to fall backwards into the writhing sea of black flesh.

Gyokuro's eyes widen at this as she follows, Moka's Rosario in-hand. However, she finds herself telekentically grabbed and lifted, Reima dashing forwards and stabbing both hands into her chest, moving them apart and tearing her body in half.

The light in the woman's eyes quickly fades as her body is absorbed into the flesh of the monster, Alucard.

Reima "Moka, go look after Rissa... I'm going to destroy this cunt." he mutters, his demeanor giving no room to refuse. She slowly backs away, her eyes remaining on the gigantic monster sprouting from the ground, only the thoughts of Nerissa helping her to tear her eyes away from it.