World End: The Successor's Contract

"Zeno, what's wrong?" Uta asked, kneeling beside Zeno to check what was going on with him.

Rachel's eyes were on him too, but from her expression, she seemed to have known what was going on with him.

Zeno immediately stood up from the ground and the next thing he did was run to his left ignoring all of Uta's calls.

"Zeno!" Uta shouted and immediately ran after him, leaving Rachel and Shuna behind who were both standing there puzzled.

Zeno ran as fast as he could, speeding past a lot of dead bodies, some of which were the soldiers in his village.

He chose to ignore it and just keep going, jumping from wall to wall while Uta raced behind him.

There was a narrow turning up ahead so Zeno had to squeeze past it, but once he got out he took a huge leap forward to cover more distance.

With a huge leap came a look of dread when Zeno glanced past Anna laying on the ground in a pool of blood.

"Uta!" Zeno cried out, using his legs to push back against the wall before landing right beside Anna.

"Uta!"

He voiced out again and ran to her side, when he got a good look at her, Zeno couldn't believe his eyes.

There was a huge cut on her chest all the way to her stomach, she was no longer breathing nor was her heart beating.

Uta landed on the ground a bit further from where Zeno was, but what she also saw shocked her.

Geko was standing in the middle of four demons who had their hands inside her body while she had her gun aimed at two demons' chests.

They were all standing but dead, Uta walked toward her with almost grieving eyes, as she placed her hand on Geko's forehead.

"You did great." Uta uttered, using her palm to close Geko's eyes before pulling her out of the Demons mist.

She laid Geko on the ground before staring at her, "Sorry… sorry you got dragged into the curse." She uttered.

Uta suddenly spotted Poseidon on the floor, "isn't that the demon in contract with the little girl." She uttered before standing to her feet to pick it up.

Once she got close, Uta froze up in shock when he saw Haliva and Alisha's bodies plastered against the wall with only their heads still intact.

Grunting, she immediately turned away and ran toward Zeno, "Damn it!" She yelled, 'I wonder how he's handling all this'.

"Zeno!"

Uta called out as she slid in, she met Zeno knelt in front of Anna's dying body with his hand on her injuries.

Slowly walking toward him, she tried to put up a smiling face so she could cheer him up if he were to break down.

But when she got a good look at him, she noticed that he was dripping his blood into Anna's open injuries.

Uta panicked and pulled his hand away, "What do you think you're doing?!" She asked aggressively.

Zeno looked at her calmly, "I'm going to bring her back, my blood is supposed to be able to do that right... form an Ankia." He replied, pulling his hand from her grip.

"Bring her back? 'Damn it, does he remember the blood art?', " Uta questioned, "What makes you think you can do that? Zeno, you shouldn't be messing around with life and death." She advised.

"It's alright… I won't add all my blood." Zeno responded calmly.

"That's not the issue here!" Uta yelled.

Pausing for a bit, Zeno stood to his feet, he stood on top of the poll of blood as he stared at Uta.

"How many demons are left?" He asked.

Uta could tell something was off but she wasn't so sure, "I believe only one, at least the ones we started with, Shuna will be the one to know that though.".

"Well, you heard her, both of you come out." Zeno asserted.

Rachel and Shana both came out from where they were hiding with a nervous smile on Shuna's face.

"O..h, hi Successor." Shuna stammered, while Rachel just observed all of the dead bodies, most especially Anna's.

"The demons, how many of them are left?" Zeno asked again but he had his back turned on them.

"Oh right." Shuna raised her staff to the sky and a holographic images concerning what she was about to explain formed in mid air.

"Alrighty, there are a total of seven high-ranking demons. Satan, Abadon, Belphegor, Asmodeus, Lucifer, Mammon, Beelzebub." She continued her explanation.

"So far, I only had signals of four demons appearing in this world, Lucifer, Beelzebub, Mammon and Satan, although I never really found Satan. But the rest of the Demon were never detected, it's safe to say they've not been reincarnated or they didn't join in the killing to reincarnate." Shuna explained.

Zeno faced Shuna, "So right now if I understand you, we have only two demons to take care of?" He asked.

"Yes two… ahh.. make that one look like someone is currently in combat with Mammon, we should head to the scene,".

Rachel rested her back on the wall as she listened in on what they were discussing, folding her arms she uttered with her hands pointed at the sky.

"You might want to hurry up with that, if Lucifer gets free, it's going to make it harder for you to kill the other demon." She added.

'How the hell did she know that?!' Shuna yelled in her mind as she stared at Rachel with a bit of curiosity.

Clenching his fist, Zeno looked to his left, "I'm ready… Lead the way!" He voiced out.

Rachel and Uta subconsciously smiled after hearing Zeno's response.

"Okay, Successor." Shuna said out loud, pointing to the left as she uttered, "This way!" Before leading the others.

Zeno walked behind Shuna, while Uta and Rachel walked behind him with a pissed-off look on their faces.

"Do you plan to break the curse? I could help gouge out the heart if you want." Rachel teased.

"That doesn't work you Idiot, exactly why I placed it in Zeno's body to save his life." Uta uttered.

Rachel suddenly stopped walking, she held Uta's hand and asked intimidatingly, "I'm sorry, did you just say you…placed the heart of a demon in Zeno?".