Perfect Avatar-Chapter 319: The Twilight Of The World: Despair Paradise

One more step, and Zury entered into Dora’s active zone. Dora, drowning in the millions thoughts his alter ego was filling his mind with, fought only on instinct, with the single self instruction to destroy himself after each attack, however, when he noticed a new presence, he stopped fighting.

"... Hm?... Oh? Almost scared me."

On the ground, Zury walked in the middle of the battlefield.

All around, everyone was scattered among the building or craters, some too battered to realize that they had some respite.

Zury passed next to Freya, Beta, heading with slow steps for the building on which Dora was standing.

The boy remembered that she was there from the beginning, leaving him a little surprised to see her in such a great shape.

He scanned the area for no more twists, but just as he located Iris, Zury stopped.

"Let’s finish this, parasite."

Everyone could hear her voice, and all remembered her presence.

Hardly, they stood out of their hideout to see the woman challenging an invincible for.

The situation was so absurd for Dora that he stood frozen for a bit.

From assessment, Freya was the strongest, Mercy followed closely, Hope and Liliana had the most dangerous weapon, and Marie and Iris were inoffensive for him.

Zury should stand between Hope and Liliana, in term of danger.

Basically, her presence should change nothing, and it was exactly what bothered him.

"And what do you exactly plan to do? Buying time for someone? Did my other half cheer you up with some sweet talks? Or do you want to be as close as possible to the Personas? Before I erase them... Wait... No, they pissed me off more than the others, I’ll torture them forever one by one, starting with Sigma."

Next to Marie and Giudecca, Sigma’s face saddened.

"... You’re... Not gonna let him do that, right, Marie?"

Zury arranged her hair, with an indifferent gaze to the ground.

"I don’t need to be cheered up, I have nothing left in this world. Let’s just fight and if you can kill me, then kill me, don’t let Beta heal me. You owe me that, for my service."

One by one, their eyes tensed, most couldn’t understand the dynamic between these two at this moment.

Zury never spoke to them even when Dora had returned, the only conversation they publicly had was Dora trying to reassure her about how he cared about her.

Only Marie was aware of the betrayal she faced, so she understood how broken she was, and it was enough to understand her words.

"You said that I could choose between opposing you and dying by your hands or doing nothing and still dying? Well, I’ve made my decision. I hate you, so I’ll use that power you used so much to annoy you. Then, you will kill me."

Dora tilted his head, he shared the other Dora’s memory, and every information he got was the confusion of the later.

"So... You... Want to kill me? With your power that couldn’t kill any Player?"

"No, I want to make you suffer, then you have to kill me."

"... Why do you insist so much on me killing you? You want to go to that world I mentioned? Or is it that you’re scared of being kept alive to suffer?"

"Hm? Are you really asking? Isn’t that obvious?"

She spread her arms slowly, the air moving with the pressure of her aura.

"Why would I want to live? I have nothing left in this world. Everything I worked for, everything I wished to get, you erased them. You made me resume my world to your existence, for me, life without you is already a hell... So why should I live? I am not like these idiots with dreams... My dream is you, my oxygen is you, I can’t die of starvation, but I can die of missing you. My whole world is you... But you don’t exist anymore. You want to kill me, and the other you want to die, so in the end, no matter what I do, I’ll lose you. I’m a loser in life, so let me try to win in death... But before that, I want you to suffer just a little for making me like this."

Her aura began to cover the cover the whole area, the green light of Beta progressively disappeared under the dark smoke.

Dora noticed this single change, something was replacing the healing, reaching him.

Her words left most of them speechless, the Personas exchanged for a moment the same burning feeling in their chest.

Marie rushed to her from afar.

"... Zury ? Hey Zury what are you..."

"Don’t come near me!"

Her scream echoed and stopped the girl. Marie’s legs trembled a bit, Zury looked behind, with her eyes narrowing.

"Stay out of this, you might have his Sin, but I am his sin."

She smiled at Marie who’s eyes widened as Dora’s shadow appeared next to Zury.

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- Thank you

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Dora’s hand pierced through Zury’s stomach.

Their eyes widened, their jaws dropped, everyone watched the scene in disbelief.

It happened so fast that no one could react, maybe thinking that it was an illusion or just frozen in mind.

The Pseudo-avatars, the Personas, the Warlords, the maids, all watched a hand emerging from Zury’s back, paint with a black blood spilling on the ground.

Their soul momentarily left their bodies, flying above and returned with a mighty roar.

"ZURYYYY!!!!" Iris screamed.

In an instant, everyone was above Dora, weapons or hands glowing, but a dimensional hole greeted each of them.

"!!!"

They all disappeared in the holes, reappearing all around the planet, too far from Zury and Dora, too far to act.

Dora and Zury stood alone on the battlefield, Iris further away, stood up.

She hadn’t participate in the attack, so she alone was still there.

Her sword in hands, she rushed toward them, but it was pointless.

"Thank you... For being such a good tool, Zury."

A black dome formed around them, spreading fastly, destroying the ground on its path.

Iris swung her sword, but her attack died in darkness, and soon her body suffered the impact.

Many dimensional holes opened again, Sigma with the same power bringing everyone on the battlefield again, but all they could see was a black light rushing to them. freewebnσvel.cѳm

The flash struck them like lightning, Giudecca, Lilith, and the maids screamed in great pain, the others struggling to maintain their consciousness.

"... G-Glu... Gluttony !" Solaria unleashed her attack, but nothing happened.

Her body was crossed by strongest lightning, finally forcing her to scream.

Omega raised an arm, covering his hand with dark aura to deliver a slash with the signature of Pride, but the same event reproduced, and his hand covered in black lightning.

"What... Fuck! Corruption!!!"

And then, the realization crossed each Personas.

They came as fast as they could to save Zury, but little did they know, that they had committed a fatal mistake.

"I told you before... That I don’t know how you could expect to hurt me with your power..."

Dora’s voice resonated in everyone’s head, making sure that everyone could understand just how doomed they were.

Zury lowered her eyes, blood spilling from her mouth.

"So... What’s about... You leave it to a real genius instead?" Dora’s armor glowed.

The raging wind of the corruption increased, every power was parasited, no one could act.

The Personas jumped on Dora one last time, but as they reached him, their minds synchronized.

- Thank you

Time stopped for each of them, they were suspended in mid-air with a voice reaching them, with a message they wished to never heard

Zury’s face was turned to their direction, tired eyes, vomiting blood, but a smile on the lips.

- It’s ok, it doesn’t hurt. I know you would never hurt me, right? Don’t intervene, I’m fine with this.

Dora’s hand illuminated, swallowing her whole in light.

She closed her eyes, her smile never disappeared.

- I’m so glad... To be the poison of your life.

"ZURYYYY!!!!" Alpha screamed.

A blast ceased the expansion of the dome. The wind blew violently, followed by a shockwave.

Everyone was sent flying backwards, landing on their feet or against a wall.

They raised their head, watching in despair the aftermath.

Behind a cloud of dust, Dora stood alone, looking at the hand used for his last heartache.

He was alone, alone with black smoke in his hand.

The Pseudo-avatars trembled, right under their eyes, powerless, Zury had died.

Their head shook slowly, they were speechless.

Marie was petrified. She forced her head to look at Beta, something similar had already happened with Ratoncia, so there was still that solution. It wasn’t a tragedy if he could just act instead of trembling.

But...

"...."

None of the Personas moved, all petrified on the spot.

"Zury... Zury! No, Zury!!!"

Iris, through her injuries, dragged her body.

It was an unbelievable, it was a disaster. She couldn’t accept that Zury’s speech was her requiem, that her wish to die would be granted like that.

"... Envy for life... We need envy for life!!!!" Marie shouted.

She turned to Hope in distress. "Hope! Do that thing Apophis did! Wish that no one could die!!! Hurry!!!!"

But the boy didn’t react, trembling, he barely shook his head.

Maybe he could, maybe he had this power, but the drawbacks of the Sins were cruels.

He was a fighter, not a patient thinker, he couldn’t control his emotions. Everytime his creations were destroyed, and he began to wish instead that he could fight himself properly, but Envy forbade him to do so.

"... Beta! Beta do it! Do it, please!!! You have Envy in you, please!!! Don’t let her die!!!"

But even him didn’t move.

Marie’s eyes filled with tears.

"Don’t just stay like this! Do something!!! You can’t let her die like that!!! She’s suffering!!! She wants to be with you!!! Move!!! Sigma !!!Gamma!!! Alpha!!!! Someone help her!!!"

Her voice rang in the void, all her comrades dropped their arms, head hanging down.

They had hope, they had fought, but even with the ultimate twist, they were losing.

Dora’s ominous laugh rose.

They were in a nightmare, and he reminded them that it was only the beginning.

"It’s pointless, no one can do something. And even if they tried, now it’s impossible."

Freya gritted her teeth.

"You... I thought you wanted to torture us forever... Isn’t that what we deserve? To make us pay for everything?!"

"Is that your last idea to save her? You really hope I would resurrect her just to... Torture you?"

He lowered his arm, even with his helmet, anyone could guess the satisfaction on his face.

"Do you think you’re facing an idiot, little Freya? I want to see you suffer in any way I can, so mourning someone also count... Also, I could revive her... But oh, wait... This armor forbids me from using time manipulation properly... Guess I can’t? Because of you..."

He turned to them, they all tightened their grip on their weapons.

The Personas lowering their head.

"How does it feel? Every second passing the possibility to revive her gets reduced. You know that after a certain time I won’t be able to reverse time, right? Even this stupid state of alive or death won’t work. Every second you could save her... but you won’t. She is dead... And she will... stay... dead."

He spread his arms, sighing loudly his head turned to the sky.

"But.... I wonder.... Everyone... My dear friends... Those I hate so much... Why? Why aren’t you asking me the best question? The only people like you always ask in moment like that. Why did I kill her?"

No one answered, not even tried to think about it, already burning with rage or despair.

He lowered his head, rising his hand in front of his face.

"I’ll help you... I’ll give you 2 hints... It’s gonna be fun... Look, look... I’ll show you something... Something amazing... This will only last a second... Because I love so much surprising people...."

He clenched his fist, a red light sparked on his eye.

"What happens when I kill a Sin Avatar?"

An eerie sensation began to rise, all around everyone, a black mist was spreading, but with a sensation different than usual.

Soon, the sensation became too familiar to ignore, and Marie realized that she had already been victim of it.

"... Zury..."

"I give you half, yes, this is Zury’s power. Now... Since you got that... Last question... For everyone, even you, my other half... What is the property of Zury’s power?"

The aura suddenly took a new course, swirling, gathering around Dora.

Liliana frowned, then, her eyes widened.

Behind everyone, she opened a wide mouth, as only her understood at this moment the true reason of Zury’s death.

Dora, instead of talking, decided to show them the answer.

He did a single move, and everyone immediately understood.

"Corruption"