Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 211

Chapter 211: Broken Lamp
“I-it…

Wasn’t …

…

Us”

“It wasn’t you doing what?!”

“The… woman…

He, brought… he-

Before he was done speaking, the man’s body stopped moving, Hans’s mana was too much for him to handle.

But thanks to him, the young man was now aware of the truth.

‘Is what he’s saying… the truth?

Wouldn’t that mean Kenta is against me?

But why?!

Why would Kenta-

As the young man watched Kenta, all his doubts cleared away.

He looked like a devil… smiling while slicing the necks of the defenseless people on the ground.

It was not… the Kenta Hans knew.

[current personality: 0]

‘But he didn’t lie… if he didn’t lie then why?!

Lie… wait… it wasn’t him who lied, it was…’

Hans’s mana, which was already spread throughout the whole building, was dissipated, and the people on the ground were finally able to move as they normally would…

But there wasn’t any need for that.

Kenta, who was standing in the middle of the room, was about to pierce another man’s heart with his sword when he felt Hans’s menacing presence.

‘What is this?!’

“Hans, what’s wron-

Before he could utter any other word, his body was repelled away.

“Bam!”

He was bashed again at the hard steel wall, but he broke through it and stopped at the fence outside the place…

“Tap, tap, tap, tap”

The sound of Hans walking towards him was enough to make Kenta shiver in fear, even if he still couldn’t open his eyes…

‘Did-did he figure it out?!

Fuck! I need to find out a way to shift the blame on the Black Bear!’

However… it was too late, hand had caught up with Kenta’s multiple personality little trick, which allowed him to bypass Hans’s lie detector.

“I will ask you once again… did you… kill your father”

‘Fuck!! If only I wasn’t stuck in this shitty personality!! Why did it have to change tonight?!!’

The man barely opened his eyes, and with an enraged look on his face, he decided to give it all up…

“This entire year of work, all the time I had to throw away for a stupid city… It was all to use you!!! You fucking Kid!!… let me use you, that’s the only fucking thing you would be helpful for!”

Kenta’s second class skill, which was locked under a hidden requirement… was now unlocked.

{unlocking condition: must not be affected by any other personality}

“So this is your original personality…

I must say… I feel disgusted Kenta.

I thought of you as a trustworthy person, almost as a friend, even though I knew your personalities weren’t stable.

But for your true face to be like this…”

“Shut the fuck up!

You are just a kid who has nothing but power, you do not deserve that strength… you should just… go back and crawl around the streets begging for money like you used to!”

At the mention of his past Hans did not react, instead, he stood still, watching the man in front of him with eyes full of pity.

Kenta’s words did not hurt him… he knew about that, he knew that if it wasn’t for those powers… he would be crawling on the streets somewhere, or maybe he would already be dead… but he had a reason to do it.

Every struggle, every challenge, every victory…

Everything he had achieved up to that point…

He did not do it for himself, sure, living a leisurely life and all didn’t sound that bad.

But there was only one thing he would choose over everything…to have his family back.

Someone like Kenta, who killed his family…how… pitiful.

“You will regret not upholding your promise!!”

As Kenta backed away, he slammed his hands against the ground, from the impact, countless rays of shadows began spreading out, quickly climbing up the walls and covering the sky, creating a space of nothing but darkness.

Class skill:{shadow domain}

It was dark, and everyone inside that place could not use their senses…

Not a sound, not a ray of light… nothing.

Only a loud voice resounded throughout their heads, laughing at them.

“Hahahaha.

It’s been so long since I’ve used this, I bet you remember it well, don’t you Kenzo?”

The current leader of the Black Bear, the man who had been the first to be blasted away by Kenta, was still on the ground, but he could still clearly recognize the skill…

‘That night… when everything began…

“You fucking bastard!!!”

He screamed in anger, but to Hans, who was just a couple of meters away, the echoing scream sounded like it came from far away.

‘Does this barrier also mess with the perception of space other than with our senses?’

Hans questioned, trying to find a way to get out of this situation.

And in the meantime, Kenzo was still shouting at the nothingness in front of him:

“A beast like you, who killed his own father without any reasoning should never be born!!”

“I may not know how.

I may not know when!!

But hear these words beast!!

The day will come!!

The day in which all that you have done will come back to you!

And that day, you will remember what you were before becoming a beast!!”

Shouting at the top of his lungs, the man continued to vent his anger, while Hans, trying to gain time to figure out how the skill worked, spoke to him as he normally would:

“Kenta”

He said…

“Do not call me by that stupid name, from today on, I am to be reborn as the Shadow Emperor!!”

The voice, filled with excitement the man could not contain, was louder than ever.

‘Emperor?’

“Kenta… have you?”

“That’s right!”

“From today on, I! shadow emperor!

have become the eighth seat of the Crimson Tyranny!!”

“You must’ve received a strong hit on that thick skull of yours if you go around saying things like that now”

“Hahaha, don’t bother trying to work me up, I’m extremely grateful to you”

“Grateful… to me?”

“That’s right!! The condition for me to become one of the lords is to bring your head to the seventh.

Exciting isn’t it?!”

‘My head? What could I have possibly been doing?’

Thought the man who killed one of the seventh lord’s most trusted subordinates and ruined his plans in the Japanese academy.

“Well… I hope you haven’t forgotten the second promise I have made you”

“The second…”

The voice burst once again into laughter:

“Hahaha, you mean the promise you made when my other personality was talking to you?!

Killing me, wasn’t it?! Do you really think you are capable of doing that Hans?! I have Emily’s throat a couple of centimeters from my blade.

You have a choice, either you stay exactly when you are without defending yourself, or I cut off this bitch’s throat.”

“Kenta…”

Hans called out walking forward.

“Stop that this instant! Stay right where you are! I said stay in your place!!”

The other man’s threats had no effect on Hans.

“… no matter how much of a piece of shit you are…

there are lines you shouldn’t cross”

“Stay where you are!! For fuck’s sake do you not hear me?!!”

But no matter what Kenta said, the young man continued walking towards him.

‘How… how does he know I’m over here?!

His senses should be

His eyes are… closed’

That moment, when Hans seemed not to care about Emily, Kenta frowned, his mind was on the brink of collapsing, but he managed to get his head back on his shoulders:

‘I need to calm down!

There’s no way he doesn’t care in the least about Emily’s life…

He must be bluffing!

That’s right!! He’s just bluffing!!’

The man tried to hold onto the hope that Hans was walking in a random direction just to scare him, but the more the distance between them diminished, the more his absurd hope started to crumble.

‘This is wrong… this is just wrong! How the hell does he know?!

I- I can’t face him!

Let’s abort the plan, next time, I will definitely rip that arrogant head off his shoulders!’

With the intention of threatening Hans while he escaped, Kenta planned to kill Emily and pretend she was still alive while he got out of there.

‘Finally! She’s been nagging me for the last year, and she always interfered with whatever I did, I’ve always wanted to kill this bitch!’

As his knife touched the unconscious woman’s throat, a red line formed, and blood started dripping down.

Just a moment later, her head might’ve been cut off, but Hans did not let the chance slip by.

As his hand grabbed Kenta’s face, he strengthened his grip and lifted the man off the ground.

In an immediate reaction, Kenta swung his dagger at Hans, but it passed right through his arm.

{ghostification}

‘W-what is this strength? Wasn’t he a mage?!’

“I believe you have a good enough memory to remember the second time we met”

‘The second…

In Kenta’s mind came afloat those memories…

As he rushed into that abandoned building, he saw Hans holding up one of his subordinates just like he was holding him right at the moment.

The flames enveloped the room, and the heat was strong enough to reach him, a couple of meters away… how could he forget…

“W-wait!! It was just my other personality! I haven’t done anything bad! You have to believe in me!”

As Kenta felt the heat touching his temples and his head, he understood… that he wouldn’t have made it out of there alive.

“Fucking hell!!! You have to believe in me I said!!”

But words weren’t enough to stop Hans anymore.

At that moment… Kenta was reminded of the words spoken by Kenzo a few minutes earlier…

“The day… will come”

And with those words, like a broken lamp, his life flashed before his eyes for an instant… before turning off forever.

{purgatory’s flames}

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