First Love - A New Hope!

Pain... 

Agony....

While the black stones began to flow through the small orb, Nikolai's mind became blank the feelings towards the dark hound and his anger towards the Faust Clan vanished. He couldn't care about those people as the sounds of the arena became distant.

'It hurts... I can't breathe.... what's happening....'

[Nikolai? What's wrong?!]

No matter how she spoke, their connection seemed interrupted.

The moment those black blood crystals entered his heart, the small orb that contained his Lupus Diabolus bloodline, Nikolai couldn't feel anything—his felt cold as the world became distant. It seemed like he was the one who died.

Ba-dump~ 

Ba-dump~

His two hearts beat slower, with a powerful force as if they were trying to force his blood to keep flowing in their dying moments. The strange crystal caused his energy to turn black, as if all sources of life began fading inside him.