章 343: Volume 5's Opening Chapter: White Snow's Flee

" Where is this? " Yukino asks herself, as she sees herself in a place filled with Forests and Waterfalls.

" Am I inside a Dungeon? " Yukino sees her prison from afar, the one she froze using all her might.

From afar, she sees a Gate opened at the place and was immediately closed again.

" I don't know what that is, but I could tell that those are reinforcements. "

" I shall not suffer them, not while Yeji is still unconscious... " Yukino looks at Yeji as the two Blue Blood Clan Descendants had to flee as far as they can.

"( The Lord, 'Sal'... )"

"( He told and taught me many things I need to know ) "

"( From my mother and sisters' death, even some new powers he offered me the knowledge off. )" Yukino says as she tries to use Ki, allocating it's energies all around her muscles.

"( I felt stronger, for now I could lift Yeji and perhaps some monsters here if existed. )"

"( Speaking of monsters... )" Yukino stops and then looks around, she realized something after running far, fleeing from her Holding Place hours past.

" This place is too empty, no... "

" Is it just me or... " Yukino wonders while she uses her Ki Abilities, trying to sense things around her.

[ Ki Inner Sense ]

" I could only sense Inanimate objects like rocks, trees. "

" But none living thing whatsoever. " Yukino wonders as she sensed around, still didn't found anything.

"( This place had been emptied, this entire Dungeon... )" she hears a voice, in her mind.

" 'Sal'... "

"( Yukino, even from my place, I could tell there's no living being besides us... )"

"( You're both alone here, alive and moving... )" 'Sal' tells Yukino about it, telling her that whatever it is, he instructs her to go north, for he could sense an incoming Gate.

" Are you sure the Gate will take us home? " Yukino asks Sal within her.

"( As once a Divine, I could sense even a slight chance of the coming Gates. )"

"( After all, it is made from Quantum Particles, the one of the Universal Particles of the Cosmos... )"

" Pardon...? " Yukino asks.

"( Sorry, it's too hard for you, I should've remembered you're not into the scientific stuffs. )"

"( But your enemy is..., the 'White Demon'. )"

" Him... " Yukino grunts as she goes forward.

" He already killed too much people... "

" Does he had any sympathy? Is he really a demon now!? " Yukino asks about him.

" How could he be a human before he is now!? " Yukino asks Sal within her.

"( Ah, you remembered what I said right before you escaped, do you? )"

"( Yes, I sensed he's a human before, I could still felt some parts of it still lingering within him. )"

"( His body, now his body is mixed with many things after the Abyss Tower, I believe... calling him a 'Demon' still 'degrades' him of what he's going to become... )"

" So what is he? " Yukino asks Sal.

"( Hmmm... )"

"( I... I... can't find a proper word. )"

"( For there's no word I knew that could at least give you a hint of what he will be... )"

" A False God... " Yukino said it out of the sudden, even Sal is startled as he heard this inside her body.

"( What did you say? )"

" The White Demon is a 'False God'... "

" Before we commonly called him that, he was actually given another title. "

" The 'God of Abyss Tower'..., as the people witness his destruction that ends the whole Event. "

"( I see..., a 'False God'... )"

"( Hmm, close..., but still it didn't fully describe him. )" Sal tells Yukino.

" I don't care with what right he should be described! " Yukino tells Sal that.

" I just want to stop him, for whatever you told me he will bring to the Earth. " Yukino remembers the Niigata Sea incident, she remembers who ferocious the Black Shadows are, not to mention...

* She began to remembers the White Demon from the Abyss Tower event. *

* She remembers the moment he choked her with his bare hands. *

" I could still remembered it. " Yukino stops for a while during her run towards the place Sal mentioned.

" His tight hurtful grip over my neck, his bright crimson red right eye. "

" His cold stare, even colder than my White Blizzard could ever be... " Yukino still shivers while remembering that.

"( His life is filled with pain, hence the cold attitude... )"

"( I know this, I've seen the likes of him many times. )"

"( Those who will walk a chaotic future, after surviving the pain of the past. )"

"( I doubt there's no warmth that will make his coldness melt. )"

" Good! " Yukino tells Sal as she hears it.

" Because I don't intend to 'warm' him also, unlike you, Lord Sal. "

" For whatever sympathy you had on him. " Yukino says while Sal, inside her body could only sighs as Yukino strikes his sympathetic attitude.

( Inside Yukino's body, Inside the Realm of 'Candida Aeternitas'. )

" Guess I use my heart too much that I couldn't think more straight. "

" It hurts me to plot for other's demise, but... " Sal holds it as he closes his eyes.

...

" Sal, I'm here! is it here? " Yukino asks as she is now in the place Sal just mentioned, after running with her bare feet while carrying Moon Yeji with her.

"( The Gate will be here, hold on... )" Sal tells Yukino but then.

* Yukino felt something in her back. *

" Moon Yeji? " Yukino asks as she felt Yeji finally moved again, surprising her for a while as the young woman opened her eyes.

" A..a... "

" Moon-san, hold on. "

" The Gate will be opened soon, we- "

" Moon-san? " Yukino calls Yeji as suddenly Yeji startled and somehow falls from her carry as if her body become hard all of the sudden.

" A..., ah... "

" Moon-san, Yeji? " Yukino asks as she tries to approach.

"( Yukino, retreat from her! )" Sal suddenly calls her loud.

" What, what do you mean, Sal- " Yukino wants to ask it, but suddenly Yeji screams so loud as her body suddenly inflates, turning so monstrous than before.

" Ye...ji...? " Yukino asks she sees her turned into something, something different.

"( Yukino, take some large steps back, now! )" Sal told her as Yukino follows it while seeing Yeji mutated all of the sudden.

" What's going... " Yukino wonders as she then sees Yeji completed her mutation that immediately happened after she awake.

" Mother-Nim*... " she says it in tears.

" Jun Woo-Oppa*... "

" Fubuki... " Moon Yeji says it but then she is lost, for whatever happened to her, she is now not 'herself' anymore.

" Moon-San! " Yukino shouts, calling her name as she sees her mutated, seeing it all in disbelief.

" Moon-San... "

" No, no, no... "

" WHITE DEMON! " Yukino immediately shouts as she sees all of this.

" What have you done to her!? " Yukino asks in her loud shout of confusion as Yeji loses it and attacks.

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Extra:

*Mother-Nim.

Moon Yeji's mother, Moon Ji Yeong. Matriarch of the Moon Clan from South Korea's Blue Blood Clan Descendants.

*Jun Woo-Oppa.

Moon Yeji's boyfriend, Shim Jun Woo from the Shim Clan, part of the South Korea's Blue Blood Clan Descendants like Yeji. He is South Korea's no.1 S-Rank Hunter but was killed by Dreadbone (Park Gi Mu) in the Niigata Sea Massacre.

They all live and die in the Previous Volume (Vol.4).