Arc of the Souls Chapter 88: Arc 3, Chapter 12 - Nine Lives

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“I'M GONNA KILL YOU! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU! YOU FUCKING MONSTER! I'LL TEAR YOU APART LIMB FROM LIMB! YOU'RE NOTHING BUT A PUPPET YOURSELF! YOU'RE THE ONE BEING A SLAVE TO YOUR CURSE! YOU DO KAIOSHUN'S BIDDING AND KILL EVERYONE FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT! WHAT DO YOU GAIN, HUH!? YOU GAIN NOTHING! YOU'RE NOTHING! YOU'RE A PUPPET! A PUPPET! THAT'S ALL YOU ARE TO HIM! TO YOURSELF! NOTHING DRIVES YOU BUT HIS ORDERS! YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE FREE BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE FREE! EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE BELONGS TO HIM! EVERY MOVE YOU TAKE BELONGS TO HIM! YOUR ENTIRE BODY BELONGS TO HIM!” Rage. “YOU ARE NOT FREE AND YOU WILL NEVER BE!” Rage. “AS LONG AS YOU DO HIS BIDDING, YOU ARE JUST A FUCKING DOLL!” Rage. “I HOPE YOU DIE A DEATH SO PAINFUL THAT YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE CHANCE TO REFLECT ON WHAT YOU'VE DONE!” I can't think. I can't think. I can't think. I can't think. I can't think. I can't think. I can't think. “I SWEAR... I SWEAR I WILL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU WITH MY OWN HANDS! MY SOUL WILL PASS ON EVEN AFTER I DIE! I'LL CHASE YOU DOWN IN EVERY LIFE I WILL LIVE! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE Y-!” She couldn't speak anymore. Her throat was slit. Jumkou grabbed her throat before dropping to her knees. Her wide-eyed expression only became bigger, as if her eyes would pop out any second. Hana could only chuckle and laugh at Jumkou's pathetic rage. There is nothing she could do. She was just blowing off steam for the sake of it. “Is it you saying it, or is it your Soul?” Hana smirked. Jumkou tried to speak, but only gargles of blood came out. “Seriously... Soul-Wielders really are cancers upon this world.” Then, she laughed at her for the last time. A deserved mockery for someone who defied causality. “I'll take you to the beyond.” ... .:. WAI- .:. - The library was empty with just Jumkou traversing the lobby of the library. She was alone. Alone in a place where everything is stored. Her clothes were bloody and her left side of her face was cut open. She was limping. Her left eye was popped out of its socket. She was a mess. A dead woman walking. Sachiel, Asheera and Flynnigan all died painful deaths to the hands of Hana Zurgen. She was just too powerful of a force to pick a fight with. She made it out alive from Purgatory by going back to the door, but it looked like she could only take a few more steps before she collapses to the ground. But she didn't. She walked. And walked. And walked. And walked. And walked. ... She kept walking. ... ...And walking. ... She walked all the way to the entrance. ... “Jumkou Katatoria...” Vox Dei was waiting for her. He didn't even flinch at the sight of her. He looked at her with a calm, detached expression. “The misplaced one... You've returned.” “...” Jumkou was in tears, crying at the voice of Vox Dei. He let all of this happen. “Why...? Why didn't you do anything...?” She asked, her voice hoarse, confirming a great struggle to even string a sentence together. The popped eye didn't blink, staring into the void. “Why...? Why didn't you save him...? Why... WHY!?” “I do not meddle in mortal quarrels.” Vox Dei said, his face devoid of emotion. “I am a keeper of stories, not a writer of them. Your story is yours to live, and yours to end.” “But you could've saved them! You could've done something!” She cried out, her good eye wide with a mix of fury and despair. “You let them die! You let him die!” “For that was his destiny. For that was your destiny to witness it.” Vox Dei replied. “You cannot change the past, Jumkou Katatoria. You cannot change the future. You can only change your present.” Jumkou tugged on the doorknob with her one good arm, her other arm hanging limply at her side. “I... I'm going back...” “Going back? There's nothing for you to go back to. There's no one for you to go back to. ” Vox Dei's words were a cold, hard truth. “You are misplaced, Jumkou Katatoria. You have no place in this timeline. You must return to where you came from... or bear witness to the creation of your future.” “...My future...?” Jumkou g