"Huh? HUUUUUUUUUUH?!"

...

....

....

After Yato was swallowed by the [Greater Revival] spell Ithiel casted on him, he felt like he is being forced out of this illusionary world. Everything happened so fast, that his senses couldn't possibly keep up.

Then, he was blinded by bright light, and he felt dehydrated, he was exhausted.

As he woke up, he felt like his head was lying on top of someones lap...he was confused, on whose beautiful lap could he be lying on..

-SPOOKY BONE SOUNDS-

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

-CONFUSED BONE SOUNDS-

Yato wasn't laying on top of som beautiful maidens lap, but instead on the lap of a skeleton, looking him dead straight into the eyes (quite literally).

As Yato got scared by the skeleton directly after his revival, he started jumping up immediately, which made his exhausted body cry out in pain.

"AARGH!"

'Damnit! It f*cking HUUUUURTS!!

*As he let out his painful scream, there came chuckling from besides him*

It was Ithiel. He helped Yato stand up and gave him a mid-level healing potion.

"AHAHAHA! Haha, oh, yeah right, drink this."

-CHUG CHUG-

Yato chug chug'd down the whole potion like it was free real estate.

"I know you have no time to waste since your loved one is in danger, but know this, with your current strenght, you will die."

Yato got quiet for a moment, he then threw the now empty bottle at the ground, and then started screaming at Ithiel.

"Then what should I do then...? WHAT CAN I DO? SHOULD I JUST LET HER DIE?!"

'Damnit...DAMNIT! DAMNIT! F*UCK F*UCK F*********CK!!'

-SMACK-

Suddenly Ithiel gave Yato's face a good smack.

"H-...huh?!"

*Ithiel took a big breath (just visually, the undead don't actually need to breath)*

"YOU GODDAMN IDIOT!"

'Huh?! What happened?! Why is he suddenly so angry?!'

Ithiel started to scream.

"YOUR LOVED ONE IS IN DANGER AND YOU HAVE NO TIME TO WASTE! AND YET YOURE HERE, IGNORING THE ONLY WAY TO SAVE HER BECAUSE OF YOUR SILLY DESPAIR?!"

Yato was shocked by the anger that was flowing out of Ithiel, even greater anger than his own. He didn't even need to look at Ithiel's face to know that he was angry, he could feel it in his whole body.

"W-What do you mean?!"

-SMACK-

Ithiel gave Yato another punch.

"YOU HAVE ME, THE STRONGEST NECROMANCER AND ONE OF THE BEST MAGES IN HISTORY AS YOUR ALLY, AND STILL LOOK FOR A WAY TO SAVE HER YOURSELF! I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE AS FOOLISH AS YOU!"

'Gulp.'

Yato finally understood what Ithiel meant, even though he couldn't figure out why Ithiel was so angry.

"If someone was about to do something to Sephira, I would not hesitate one bit to use all I have to kill those daring to hurt her. Now, boy, tell me, do you want my help to save Sophie, or will you just die a meaningless death at the feet of those who stole everything from you, just like the trash they think you are."

On one hand, Yato was deeply frightened by Ithiel's words, but on the other hand, he knew that if he had the chance to murder all those planning to hurt his loved ones, he would take the chance, even if the price was his soul.

"ITHIEL VON BISMARCK! AS YOUR ALLY I REQUEST YOUR HELP IN ORDER TO SAVE THOSE NEAR ME! PLEASE, LEND ME YOUR STRENGHT!"

*As Yato sreamed his words at Ithiel, he kneeled down, waiting for Ithiel to respond.*

"Ahaha...AHAAHAHAHA! AN EXCELLENT RESPONSE! THEN I, ITHIEL VON BISMARCK, WILL LEND YOU MY POWER, SO DON'T YOU DARE MAKE A FOOL OUT OF YOURSELF, HUMAN, no...MY ALLY!"

"YES SIR!"

Ithiel signaled Yato to stand up again. He then looked like he was thinking about something for a moment, and then began speaking again.

'Hm?'

"Okay, Yato, listen carefully now. I will use my [Greater Soul Contract] skill to give you 10% of my strenght for one hour, then, I will cast [All Stats Up (Area of Effect)] and use [Maximize Magic-Triple] to buff you, the spell also lasts for one hour. In this hour, you can slay as many enemies and humans as you like, but remember, after this one hour is up, you will lose the powers I gave you, and through the knockback of the contract, you won't be in a condition to fight for the rest of the day. So please, make sure you don't end up surrounded while youre running low on time. Yes, I could save you, but I'd like to keep my existence hidden for as long as possible. Understood?"

*Yato nodded, with eyes looking like they're on fire*

"Good, then I will begin. [Greater Soul Contract]! Transfer 10% of my stats to Yato for the duration of one hour!"

[System Alert!: Do you accept? Yes / No ]

"YES I DO!"

[System Alert!: Ithiel von Bismarck has temporarily transfered 10% of his stats to you! Stats added:

HP: ?̸̣̲͖͇̭̿́͑͑͋͝

MP: ?̸̲̞̔̈́

STR: ?̸̣̲͖͇̭̿́͑͑͋͝

VIT: ?̷̺̪̔́̽́

AGI: ?̸̲̞̔̈́

INT: ?̸̣̲͖͇̭̿́͑͑͋͝

M-RES: ?̷̺̪̔́̽́

P-RES: ?̸̲̞̔̈́

After one hour has passed, the stats will return to Ithiel von Bismarck.]

Ithiel then prepared his next spells.

"[Greater Maximize Magic-Triple]! [All Stats Up (Area of Effect)]!"

[System Alert!: All of your stats have been temporarily increased by 300%! After one hour has passed, the buff will disappear.]

"Now...NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BUFFED!"

Ithiel seemed happy upon casting these spells after a long time again.

*Yato is now completely overflowing with power*

"OOH! I FEEL LIKE I COULD KILL A DEMON KING AS STRONG AS I AM NOW!"

"Of course you couldn't. A Demon King's stats are as high as yours the moment they are born. Anyways. GO NOW! GO OUT THERE AND FIGHT! YOU HAVE NO TIME LEFT! OR IT WILL BE TOO LATE!"

"YES! THANK YOU!"

"I will pray for your success, not literally though, haha. Good luck, Yato."

*Yato began running so fast, that the ground under his feet began breaking everytime his feet touched it. He reached Ruria in under 4 minutes, what once used to be 4 hours*

Yato now saw the city gate, and decided to pace up even more. As Yato hurried trough the city gate, he was so fast, that the wind pressure created by his speed was strong enough to knock over some adventurers and guards.

He reached the Adventurer's Guild in no time and was now standing infront of the door, hesitating to open it for a moment, but then, as he was about to smash open the door...

"YATO!? IS THAT YOU?"

It was the old man! And he looks very exhausted.

"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN? wait, no, that is not important right now, SOPHIE IS-"

Yato interrupted the old man.

"I F*CKING KNOW! THAT'S WHY I AM HERE!"

*Yato smashed the door open, shattering it beyond repair*

But then, what he saw next, made him angry. Very. Angry.

There in the Adventurer's Guild were lying about 14 unconcious adventurers, and right next to them was a group of 30 well looking knights, that were proudly holding up the flag of Etheria, while...while their leader was choking and screaming at Sophie, who already looked like she was almost beaten to death.

"WHERE IS THAT DEVIL?! TELL US ALREADY! YOU WH*RE!"

-PUNCH-

The leader of the knights gave Sophie a punch, making her fall onto the bloody floor.

"H-Hey..."

The knights heard a voice coming from a door, and suddenly, except for the captain, everyone inside the guild started to shiver in fear.

What the knights saw made them shiver deep inside. All they could see was this...figure...standing at the entrance, giving out this ominous aura that almost made them collapse from pressure. It's eyes shone red behind it's helmet. It was trembling in anger, and to finish it off, it's gaze was directed at them, and nobody else. Then, suddenly, the creature tok a few steps forward and started speaking.

"What the f*ck do you think you are doing there to Sophie..."

While he said that, he had bloody and painful tears running down his eyes, some also ran down his helmet.

"A-ahhh...AAAAAAAAAAAAH! A MONSTER! AAAAAAAH!"

One of the knights got feared so badly, that he started screaming and ran away. As he ran away, he passed his captain. Unfortunately for him, he ran into the wrong direction...

-SLASH-

*The captain of the knight group suddenly had his sword drawn*

"What...WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?! WE ARE HERE TO SLAY THE DEVIL! NOT TO RUN AWAY FROM HIM OR TO TREMBLE AT HIS SIGHT! I HAVE NO MERCY LEFT FOR FOOLS! YOU ARE A SHAME FOR MY BATTALION!"

*The knight that was running away, has been cut in a perfectly diagonal line, cutting him in half*

The captain then slammed his right clenched fist onto his chest and held his sword up high in a proud way.

"YOU TREMBLING FOOLS! COWARDS! WE ARE HERE ON THE ORDER OF HIS MAJESTY, KING GOTTHARDT HIMSELF! WE FIGHT FOR OUR PEOPLE! WE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE! NOW GET YOURSELF TOGEEEETHEEEEEEEEEEEEER!"

When the captain was done screaming, all of the knights suddenly gave themselves a full force punch into their faces.

"YES SIR!" (proudly shouted by 29 knights)

-PUNCH-

-CLANG-

-WHACK-

It may have looked dumb, but they actually stopped trembling after doing so.

"PERFECT! NOW YOU LOOK LIKE REAL KNIGHTS OF OUR KINGDOM! BE PROUD OF YOURSELVES! AND REMEMBER! NOBODY EXPECTS THE INQUISITION! FOR THE HOLY CHURCH! FOR ETHERIA!"

Then, the Captain turned to Yato.

"Now then. Guessing from your earlier reaction, you must be Yato Ishida, the devilish berserker, correct?"

"..."

"Hmm? I take that as a yes. now then, I am Captain Python, Santiago Delakatio Python. I am at Level 56.467, meaning that I am surely 100 times stronger than you, so let me say this, SURRENDER RIGHT NOW, OR WE WILL KILL YOU AND THIS GIRL IMMEDIA-"

-BOOM-

"H-Huh...?!"

Yato threw a piece of the broken door at the knights behind the captain, specifically killing 1 of the 29 knights, destroying the flag the knight held.

"BRIAN! NOOO!"

Some of the knights started trembling again, and some let out tears of sadness for their fallen companion Brian. Brian has always been a good friend for everyone in the battalion. Rest in Peace, Brian Brian (Yes that is his full name).

*Then, Captain Python's face suddenly turned red, with veins popping out on his forehead, he also seemed to care less about his knights than about the flag*

"You...how dare you...HOW DARE YOU SULLY THE FLAG OF OUR BELOVED KINGDOM?! IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY INQUISITION, I, SANTIAGO PYTHON, LEADER OF THE 3RD BATTALION OF THE HOLY CHURCH, WILL BEHEAD YOU AND BRING YOUR HEAD BACK TO THE CAPITAL AS A TROPHY AND AS A SYMBOL TO SHOW THOSE WHO DEFY US THAT RESISTANCE IS FUTILE AND-"

"Spare me with this bullshit."

*Yato suddenly stood infront of Captain Python*

"Brutalizer."

"HUH?! HOW CAN A MERE B-RANK BE SO FAST?! I WILL-"

[System Alert!: [Brutalizer] activated! HP used: 50.000.000, HP left: ?̸̣̲͖͇̭̿́͑͑͋͝ ]

-CRACK-

Yato gave Captain Python a brutalized fist into his chest area, making his armor break down and sending him flying against the wall, breaking it and a part of the upper floors too. The old man, Sophie, and all the other adventurer's in the guild were left speechless.

"50.000.000 HP are enough for trash like you."

The knights were all shocked and feared for their lives, and since they saw no other choice but to take revenge for their commander and Brian, they all prepared themselves to fight...

"MEN! WE HAVE TO AVENGE OUR COMMANDER! AND BRIAN TOO! FOR THE HOLY CHURCH! FOR ETHERIA!"

"FOR THE HOLY CHURCH! FOR ETHERIA!"

"FOR THE HOLY CHURCH! FOR ETHERIA!"

"FOR THE HOLY CHURCH! FOR ETHERIA!"

"AND FOR BRIAN TOO!"

The whole battalion began saying those words in a chore, before finally moving.

"Hurry the f*ck up...for hurting Sophie, I will make you suffer pain beyond your wildest imagination...!"

"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGEEEEEEEE!"

"Cursed Flames."

[System Alert!: [Cursed Flames] activated! HP used: 25.00.000, HP left: ?̸̣̲͖͇̭̿́͑͑͋͝ ]

*Suddenly blue and red fire started coming out of all the open spots of his armor, the fire was flowing out of Yato himself, which damages him too*

"AAAH! STAY STRONG! GOD WILL PROTECT US FROM THE FLAMES OF THE DEVI-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!"

They all got burned inside the flames, while their mentality and their HP were sucked away, resulting in them all becoming mad while dying a painful death.

[System Alert!: HP recovered through [Cursed Flames]: 42.277.000]

"*Smirk*"

Yato's only reaction to this view was a huge grin under his helmet. It wasn't how a human smile should look like. His smile was as big as to reach his eyes on both sides, and his eyes were glowing read and blue, making him look like someone made a deal with the devil, then beat him up, took the devils wife and son, took a shit in his garden, stole his underwear and murdered his dog, and then demanded a refund for 'bad service'. Just that he is the devil in this case.

As all the knights died, Yato slowly regained his normal mindset, looking for Sophie who he almost forgot in his killing spree.

"Wait...SOPHIE! WHERE ARE YOU SOPHIE?!"

"YATO!"

The old man started yelling.

"She is here with me! Come here already!"

"YES!"

The old man was sitting there infront of the counter, holding Sophie in his arms.

"Here, be careful not to drop her!"

"I would never let that happen."

*Yato now held Sophie in his arms*

"SOPHIE! ARE YOU OKAY? DO YOU STILL HAVE PAIN? ARE THERE ANY DEEP WOUNDS AND-"

*Sophie put her finger on Yato's helmet*

"I am fine...a few days in the medical treatment floor...and I am fit again!"

Sophie was still exhausted and wounded, but gave it her all to say this in a happy tone, as to not worry Yato further.

Yato secretly started crying in relief that he made it in time, and hugged Sophie in a way not to hurt her.

Sophie simply smiled at this.

"It's fine, I am safe now. It's fi-"

Suddenly, she stopped speaking.

"A...ah...! Ya...to...!"

"S-Sophie?!"

*Yato looked at Sophie, just to notice that she got stabbed in the heart by a golden sword with what seemed to be holy runes engraved on it*

From behind Sophie, Yato could see Captain Python, holding the sword that stabbed her in the heart, in his bloody right hand.

"For the Holy Church...! For...Etheria...!" "

*At this point, Yato started rembling in pain and started to scream in an extremely painful tone, that could be heard in the whole town*

He screamed and screamed again for some time. Nobody dared moving or even saying a word, not even the captain. They all just watched and waited.

There were several emotions in his screams, pain, sorrow, sadness, madness, hate, heartache, dreadfulness, killing intent and loneliness.

Then, the captain cowardly interrupted Yato in his painful screams.

Haha...you fool...as I said...nobody expects the...inquisition...and as long as the church and the king rule this kingdom...we shall never give up and fall into despair! You devil!"

-SNAP-

*Yato slowly takes off his helmet*

Now you may be wondering, was he crying? Was he smiling? Or was he angry or had he an emotionless look? No, none of them. It was something worse. He laughed. And to make it worse, his eyeballs were...gone. Completely gone. HIS. F*CKIN. EYEBALLS. WERE. GONE. THEY WERE F*CKING GONE! Just hollow dark spaces with bloody tears running down from where his eyes supposedly were. And his body slowly changed too! His fingers and feet became long and pointy, his arms, legs and overall his body became slimmer, almost to the point where he is just bones, his back got longer and became really crooked, his hair grew a bit longer, there was now cursed steam emiting from him too, from everywhere on his body.

*Everyone in the room started trembling in fear that surpasses terror, it was like they lost all of their senses, from touch to sound and sight*

[System Alert!: [Aura of Demise] leveled up! [Aura of Demise] is now [Greater Aura of Demise]! Targets can now temporarily lose all their senses while in terror.]

[System Alert!: Title added! [The Wendigo]! You are now regarded as a fairy tale to scare children, but it's so effective, that it scares the adults too. Passive terror effect has risen by 5 times, can be turned off and on at will. Terror is now twice as effective. You can now terrorize people at will, is 5-10 times more effective at night. Compatible with: [Greater Aura of Demise]. Consuming abilitys are thrice as effetive while in Wendigo form. Compatible with: [Cursed Flames] and [Gross Eater +3].]

[System Alert!: Title added! [Shapeshift-Wendigo Stage 1]! Your appearance can now change at will into "The Wendigo Stage 1"!]

"Ahaha...haha...I...I see...if you really want me to be a devil, then I will become one. Now, so what you say is, if I destroy your holy church and the kingdom of Etheria, you, your companions and the rest of the humans will find utter despair, even in death? Have I gotten that right? And since youre here on behalf of King Gotthardt, maybe I should pay him a visit too? Is that how a devil would act?"

"Wh-What?! You...you devil! Don't you dare lay a hand on his majes-!"

"Shhh...it's fine...since you took someone I love away from me, I shall now take everything  you love from you away too, and pay the bill back to the others as well, right? Have a nice death, mister salmon pyramid..."

"WAI-"

-TWIIIIIIIST-

*With his long pointy fingers, Yato slowly twisted the captain's kneck in a devilish kind of way, that would keep him alive to suffer as long as