Episode 47

"HOW DIFFICULT CAN IT BE TO TAKE DOWN ONE DAMN OMEGA!"

At this point Mr. Uzawa was panicking watching his men fall one by one as they came in Akio's way. Akio wasn't stopping either, he'd reached Mr. Uzawa and grabbed him by his neck lifting him off his feet just by a single grip.

"Don't get ahead of yourse..." Mr. Uzawa coughed struggling at this man's  wrathful grip "You...are...just....an omega!"

"Enough...just give me back Kei kun and I'll leave!" Akio squeezed in the man's neck who reached his hand barely to Akio's neck placing it there while Akio was still possessed by his anger barely cared until he felt a sting and his eyes went sideways to the needle emerging from the secret compartment of Mr. Uzawa's ring. 

Akio let him loose and rubbed in at his own neck.

"What was that" Akio moved away from the man who was coughing and trying to catch up his breath.

"You brought it to this...I wasn't planning on using it like this" Mr. Uzawa coughed rubbing at the purple marks that Akio had left on his neck.

"What is..." Akio suddenly paused, he felt his heartbeat rising, the blood rush getting stronger and his breath getting uneven.

"Sorry it's a little potent because you're an older omega...the younger ones don't require such high potency drug...so its gonna mess up with your senses too...other than the..." Mr. Uzawa smirked and went over to the door entering the code and letting it open "There you go...why don't you go get your Kei kun now?"

Akio's vision became hazy while he dropped to his knees being outta breath and little by little..it started...

Little by Little...the place began to fill up with pheromones.....

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I didn't... I didn't... I didn't do it! it was a mistake.... I'm not a mu.....

NO! SHUTUP! SHUTUP!!

"NATSU! NATSU LOOK AT ME! WE HAVE TO RUN...GET UP! PLEASE GET UP!"

I heard Alex's voice but my vision was heavily blurred by red. I felt a tug and my body being forcibly pulled and made to run...my mind was blank...

In my hands...it's all red...IT'S....!!!!

"Aoi...?!" Alex said and I finally raised my head. I don't know what came over me..I broke free and ran as if my life depended on it...

Ran into her arms...

"I DIDN'T DO IT..I DIDN'T! ACCIDENTALLY I..THAT MAN ...WITH ALEX AND THEN I GRABBED THE KNIFE AND I DON'T KNOW HOW..AND!" I broke out in her arms whilst she gently pulled me in.

"Natsuro...he's alive, you didn't murder anyone...why don't you get Alex to a hospital..he seems... not very well... I'll call the cops and ambulance..they will stitch up the man and put him in prison..don't worry" Aoi said in a gentle tone and kissed my forehead...

How is she so.....she's so calm....I'm panicking because I stabbed someone....my first thought was he must be dead..but since she's calm...she can tell he's alive..yeah! the doctors will..they will fix this man...I HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT! Yes! all I need to focus right now is on Alex and my dad! Yeah I don't have the time to think about a man who is not even dead...just wounded..yeah just a wound..nothing that doctors can't fix! science is so advanced these days ...!

I looked up at her face that lacked any particular expression but Alex's face was a different story...but maybe its because he's traumatized by everything so he keeps making this face...

The face of pure horror

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"Kei...kun..."

"I see you're still trying to retain your sense of self.." Mr. Uzawa slowly walked behind Akio who was literally crawling to cross the door so he can get to Keitarou "Mmmm as expected..you're starting to give out such a good scent now...little by little you'll go into a stronger heat"

"Shut..up" Akio mumbled, it didn't stop him from crawling his way across the edge of the door...just a room...he could feel it... a feeling that he hadn't felt in years....but that was not the only thing...the drug was overly too strong for his body to handle so heat wasn't the only thing that he was getting...he was getting high as well...and it was highly painful too...

Some how Akio finally made his way into the room where they were keeping Keitarou but he seemed to be under the guard of many buffed up men..and Akio wasn't at the best of his capabilities for the moment...not to mention...the gradual state of heat was putting him in a weird position even if they were betas. Seemed like it was strong enough to impact them too.

Yet Akio charged in like a mad bull..his body wasn't just betraying him yet...but even he knew that he couldn't hold much longer considering that even the lifeless looking Keitarou suddenly looked towards him with a different kind of gaze.

"Years ago..you told me..you won't ever call me father again" Mr. Uzawa chuckled and walked behind Akio as he dropped after putting down the men, whilst speaking something to Keitarou, he kicked Akio in the back, stepping over him whilst Akio was slowly starting to lose to the sensation. 

Keitarou seemed to be giving a little reaction too..his face and body were still but his eyes were wandering restlessly and there was little shiver in his hand.

"Ah excuse me, I hope you don't mind if I borrow your omega from you..Kei chan" Mr. Uzawa chuckled with a vulgar demeanor and pulled Akio's face back with grabbing a handful of his dark gold locks and pulling them

"Thankyou for the food"

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"Aoi..."

"Ah...it's you Mr. Zhuang...." Aoi turned wiping the blood from her face with a handkerchief having a gloomy look on her face.

"What...the...!!!" Zhuang's eyes widened but he ended up closing the door by impulse and looking out if anyone had seen something.

"If you're looking for Natsu and Alex, Natsuro kun took Alex to the hospital..oh don't worry, they weren't hurt I just sent them away because it had to be done" Aoi mumbled continuing  whatever horrific thing she was doing that made Zhuang all hypered.

"What are you doing...?!" Zhuang couldn't even look at her directly, yet he kept his tone in a whispering harshness.

"Good timing....help me get rid of this dead body"

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"WHAT.....THE...." Mr. Uzawa coughed up blood

"I believed you...I believed that no matter what....you wouldn't..." The hooded woman mumbled and slowly backed off "to do something of this sort...again...!" She yelled pulling out the knife in Mr Uzawa's back with a sudden jerk.

"Chr...." Mr. Uzawa fell forward onto Akio's back who was reaching out his hand to Keitarou caring less about what was happening at his back.

"First Haru...then ...Yuri?! now this man?!!!!!" The woman screamed

"What are..talk...." Mr. Uzawa got out of breath.

"It's okay...it's..." She dropped the knife and pulled at Mr. Uzawa's arm dragging him "I don't doubt you... I would have killed you if I had doubted you... I get it...." The woman mumbled and pressed at the stab wound in his back breathing frantically.

Akio kept on crawling...until he finally reached the chair.

"Only..Kei..kun...I..." Akio huffed and reached his hand pulling of one strap that binded Keitarou's hands "Please..."

Keitarou finally showed some reaction and as soon as his hand got unstrapped he pulled off the gag that kept his from making a sound...he reached down to Akio without saying a word though..his other hand was still strapped yet he did not care.

The drug finally kicked in and Akio's eyes widened as a sudden gush of pheromones flowed out...Keitarou's eyes widened...and he wasn't the only one...

...the guys that Akio had beaten down suddenly started to get up and looked towards Akio with an unfamiliar hunger... didn't matter if one was alpha or beta...it was pure lust

Akio felt it...the terror of a cornered animal...surrounded by beasts..he was way too familiar with this world to know what was about to happen to him..He shivered..not because he himself was afraid..but because his body remembered this horror too well.

He desperately turned his face towards Keitarou, he could feel his rut too...yet Keitarou dared not touch Akio...as if he too remembered the horror..his body froze up...and what he was about to witness would completely destroy this one moment of sanity he had...

Both the alphas and betas started to gang up..almost too many in one room...Akio had no chance of survival if this amount of people were to....if it were one or two then he would've have bitten on his tongue and took it just like the old days when he did everything just to survive..but this....

He kept looking at Keitarou with eyes that screamed for his help yet his mouth did not dare word it

Akio kicked off three four guys that jumped him but now his body was giving in too,  seven to eight guys pushing him down and climbing him while he kicked and struggled still pushing people off..yet their hands already wandered before he could push them...he could feel himself freezing up with every touch that felt up his body.

"FREEZE!!!"

There was a gunshot that distracted everyone

"Oh shit..there's an omega in here! requesting for protective masks!" A guy in uniform spoke covering his face with the handkerchief backing away from the entrance.

"Request granted" The speaker in his ear resonated with a female voice.

Suddenly a swarm of uniformed men and women broke through the place wearing heat protection masks which was one of the recent advancements. They began to take down everyone present there one by one pushing them face forward into the ground.

"THIS PLACE HAS BEEN SURROUNDED! EVERYONE DOWN ON THEIR KNEES! ANYONE WHO RESISTS SHALL BE TREATED AS AN OBSTRUCTION TO JUSTICE!" the sound resonated through the whole place along with the sounds of multiple sirens.

"She was right...I don't know whether I should be happy or horrified..." Sam said standing nearby a cop vehicle.

"It's almost as if Aoi purposely let Mr. Akio and my Kei into this.....she told us the exact time that we're supposed to call the cops to this particular place, not a second earlier or later and tell them about illegal activities going on in their basement that wasn't even on mapping of this place...it's like she calculated the best time the cops could get them all in one go.....that in itself..." Rena also stood next to her

"Is scary as well as impressive...she's been ahead of them...either she was so sure or she was making a gamble....nevertheless, the girl was ready to make sacrifices if needed" Sam unwrapped a lollipop and offered it to Rena who declined so Sam went ahead and put it in her mouth.

"You can go back..I'll stay here and answer the questions, leaving Yuki chan alone right now isn't good..." Rena said.

"Yeah..." Sam mumbled.

"I still think Yuki chan shouldn't have this kid...besides we don't know whereabouts of Mari chan..." Rena lowered her head guiltily 

"She doesn't listen...right now all I can do for her is stay by her side...at any cost we must find Mari chan fast...but I don't know what we can do even if we do find her... I don't think she's in a sound mind enough to be a parent or if she even cares..." Sam replied

"I don't even understand at this point what we should do anymore.." Rena had a gloomy expression on.

"Hey hey Ms. Prosecutor...shouldn't you be worrying about your son right now rather than this.." Sam smacked her back "Don't think too much, we'll figure something out" Sam said with a straight face.

"You only ever call me that when you are mad" Rena flinched a bit

"Well then Ms. Prosecutor, I'll leave the rest in your care" Sam said walking away whilst waving her hand backwards.

The officers that stormed in soon took the whole place under control for illegal activities based on an emergency warrant over Rena's testament which was proven to be true with the amount of evidence they found...

Surprisingly enough....

Mr. Uzawa and the woman was nowhere to be found amongst those arrested.

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Zhuang swung his arm and tossed the bag into the sea. Aoi walked up from the back as they both stood by the edge in the moonlight.

"This secret goes with us to the grave" Aoi whispered

Zhaung gave her a mocking look as if that was obvious "Don't worry..if someone ever finds about this...I'll take it upon myself...but what erks me is that this was done in self defense..Natsuro couldn't have been criminalized for this...then why do we have to hide this body?"

"He's a pure person that's why..." Aoi replied

"What?" Zhuang couldn't get what she meant by that exactly.

"I'd rather take this upon my own conscience then have him suffer for rest of his life...even if it was self defense..with a pure personality like him, he'll still blame himself forever for this kind of thing...he won't ever forgive himself..it's better for him to live in the illusion that this man was wounded and alive rather than know that he murdered a man in cold blood by stabbing his heart.." Aoi spoke in a monotone.

"You..." Zhuang's mouth hung open.

"I know.." Aoi gave a light hopeless chuckle "I'm a monster.. I don't deny it anymore, I accept it..the me who tried to seem normal and the me who is a vengeful monster.. I accept that they aren't separate..they're both me.. I have denied it for too long.. I think that lamp you hit on my head brought me to senses" She chuckled.

"You really do love Natsuro don't you! At first I thought it was an obsession rather than love but now I know you do love him!" Zhuang said.

"EH?" Aoi was dumbfounded that he meant to say that instead "Yeah well.."

"For an asshole like you to give so much thought about prioritizing his well being and feelings first..it's almost like you do have empathy!" Zhaung said and Aoi's eyes widened.

"What are you talking about! We just dumped a damn body! Don't you realize I am a monster!" Aoi got frustrated.

"No..you're just a kid who's a little different in the head..but you don't lack the emotions and feelings that you think you lack... I understand you a little better now after you put your thoughts to words..." Zhuang spoke gently.

"You're crazy!" Aoi became angry

"You too are a victim..not a monster.." Zhuang reassured.

"SHUTUP!" Aoi yelled at him.

"Aoi chan...listen carefully when I say this...whoever put this thought in your mind that you're a monster is the real monster..because real monsters don't put others before themselves..they don't regret when they have wronged others...they don't see anyone other than themselves, they make others feel bad about themselves and most of all....they don't fall in love with someone other than themselves.." Zhuang turned to Aoi " so you're not the monster, you're just different..but you're not a bad person..even the time you were handling this body.. I could tell...there was something you were holding back and now I know what it was..."

Aoi was too silent, her messy hair hid her face completely, only the wind swayed them and sometimes one could see the blue diamonds. 

Zhuang moved to her and cleared off her hair pushing it back.

 "Ah.. I knew you were hiding a huge forehead behind those hair" Zhuang smiled cupping the girl's cheeks "you have been taking alot upon yourself, nobody understands right?"

Aoi didn't show any resistance, she stood still like the sea, though sometimes the soft breezes of wind would make both the waves and her knee length hair dance.

"Yep...now you look your age, maturity in kids really isn't cute..." Zhuang said with a satisfied expression.

For the first time in a long long long time...she had that expression on...those flustered cheeks...those trembling lips...a runny nose and those teary eyes

"Surely...monsters don't make that face.."