As Izzy continued slamming her fists onto the ground where I had disappeared through, I moved over till I was right beneath her shadow. With Plasmuk’s glowing slime no longer coating the areas, there are shadows all over the place I can exploit.

I then slowly poked a couple of fingertips out of her shadow, before using Distance Casting to create a blinding flash of light several meters in front of her, to distract her.

She let out a snarl as she stopped punching the ground and lifted her gaze towards the light, swiping her claws at it as I swiftly and silently emerged from her shadow behind her, before leaping onto her back, wrapping my legs around her waist tightly as I grabbed her neck in a headlock with my left arm and placed my right hand firmly against the left side of her face.

If I get too close to her right eye, that purple energy will vaporize my hand, this is as close as I can get...Azazel, you’re up!

’I’ve already begun!’

Izzy let out a fearsome roar as she dug her claws into my left arm, tearing our chunks of my skin and flesh like ripping through wet paper, before I let out an agonized wheeze of pain as she struck my right side with her elbow, shattering my ribcage and rupturing several organs.

My vision blurred sharply as I coughed out an immense amount of blood, which splashed onto her hair and trickled down her head, before I quickly formed a large black hole a few meters in front of her...i-if she hits me again, I’m not sure I’ll be able to remain conscious...or alive, for that matter.

She quickly dug her heels into the ground as she began to get pulled forward, letting out a furious snarl as an explosion of purple energy burst out of her right eye and began to swirl around her.

I was barely able to stifle a cry of excruciating pain as the purple energy vaporized the skin on the front of my torso and limbs, as well as off my face, rapidly, before eating into my flesh and bones, my entire body wracked with unimaginable pain as I grasped at every trace of my willpower to stay conscious.

D-damn it, I’m...I-I can’t hold on any longer, I think I-I’m about to die-... 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

’It’s done! Let go of her, quickly!’ Yelled Azazel urgently, as Izzy’s body suddenly went limp, the purple energy being drawn back into her right eye as I let go of her and shakily stumbled back, blood gushing out of my body, almost my entire skeleton exposed around the front of my body.

My head was spinning, the agonizing pain overwhelming my senses as I desperately tried to heal myself...b-but I couldn’t focus, the corners of my vision were darkening rapidly, everything’s fading away fast...

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Point-of-View: Izzozon

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Huh...?

What happened? I...I don’t remember, but my body feels all worn out and fatigued. It feels...vaguely familiar, somehow.

"Talk about gruesome, he’s completely-...hm? Oh, wow, he’s still alive, that’s kind of amazing," Suddenly came a voice from behind me.

As I glanced back towards it, my eyes widened in horror...the black haired girl was standing over a massive puddle of blood. And at the center of the puddle, was a body, all the skin off the front, and most of the flesh, was gone, the bones and organs visibly exposed.

Th-this scent, and that dark blue hair deeply soaked and matted with blood, that’s...that’s Larrk.

"N-no, what...what is this? H-how did this happen?" I uttered in shock, as I shakily walked over towards him.

"Huh? You mean you don’t remember? Well, you suddenly went berserk and drove that Slime Monster into a corner, and then your friend captured him in a barrier and sealed him inside his Pocket Dimension. But then you attacked him. After that he did something to do, which I guess brought you back to normal, though I don’t know what exactly he did.

But doing so left him in this state, you were violently trying to get him off your back, and this is the result. His heart’s still beating, he’s lost most of his blood but his body’s still alive somehow. Well, not for long...it’ll probably stop functioning in a minute or two, the heartbeat is already weakening," She remarked as she knelt down beside his body and peered in through the left side of his ribcage.

"H-hey, you can using healing Spells, right? Please...I’m begging you, heal him!" I implored her desperately.

"Huh? Why should I? Do you have any idea how much Mana it’d take to heal all this? Not only do I have to fix his ruptured organs, but I’ll have to grow back his skin and flesh, mend his several broken bones, AND replenish his blood. Of course, with how powerful you are, you could easily force me to-..."

"I beg you, please...please heal him. He’s...he’s like my brother, and one of my closest friends, I don’t want to lose him! Please...I’ll do anything, absolutely anything you want! I’ll let you enslave me if that’s what you want, I don’t care, just please, don’t let him die!" I begged her, getting down on my hands and knees as tears welled up in my eyes, the sound of his heartbeat growing weaker and weaker.

"H-huh? Er, no, I don’t want-...ugh, fine. I’m gonna feel bad if you beg that much, so, I’ll heal the guy...tch, I can’t believe I’m still so soft, what a fucking joke," She grumbled, as she placed her hand on his exposed body and began healing him, immense relief washing over me as his heartbeat stopped diminishing, his flesh and skin growing back rapidly...

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