Nier

"I don't think I caught your name." Vier turns to Alexandra.

Alexandra, still blushing, answers Vier. "My name is Alexandra." They look at each other awkwardly. "You're Vier... right?"

"You spoke to Unface." Vier seems off, he's surprisingly calm and composed.

"How did you know?" Alexandra was surprised.

"He and I have a weird connection." Vier pulls out the shears from his inventory. "I've felt kind of distant from him."

"Woah..." Alexandra looks at the shears. "Mind if I see?"

Vier hands her the shears. She looks at it, amazed at how it was built.

"Recently... I just feel like... I've felt..." Vier stops for a moment. "Unfulfilled."

Alexandra rubs the frost off the orb in the middle of the shears, revealing a perfectly clear diamond.

"Now with Kreel gone, I feel... empty." Vier turns back to Alexandra. "Is this what it means to lose someone?" A singular tear trickles down his cheek. "I've never felt like this before."

Alexandra places her hand on Vier's lap.

"This is it... isn't it?" Vier smiles, with tears down his face. "Thank you, Alexandra." Vier grabs Alexandra's hand with both of his. "Thank you."

xxxxx

"Rest well, Kreel." Vier placed a bouquet on top of Kreel's grave. Everyone stood around Kreel's grave. "Shall we go?"

Alexandra opened up a portal, back to the ice labyrinth where they were.

xxxxx

"Who the hell are you?" Unface is sitting on his throne. In front of him was Vier.

It's Vier in his [Deathly Aura] form, instead of Vier's white hair, he has black hair.

"I'm stuck here." Vier placed his feet on the table.

"Holy fucking shit, do you realise how hard it is to get furniture delivered here? Get your fucking feet off the table." Unface grabbed Vier's feet, moving them off the table but he wouldn't budge.

"I want to talk to you." Vier gave off an immense pressure.

Unface was sceptical at first but he went back to his seat. "You're not Vier."

"Trust me, I am. I'm just not YOUR Vier." Vier sighed. "I take over Vier's body whenever he uses [Deathly Aura]. We normally co-exist but this time... this time it's different. It must that 'Wheel' friend of his." He placed his finger on his chin.

"What do you want to talk about?" Unface was confused.

"Well... I want to get out." Vier started tapping his finger on his bicep. His biceps were massive, and as well as his legs, he was absolutely built.

"Ah... well, good luck mate." Unface took out a cigarette from his pocket. "You're gonna have to wait until Vier activates his [Deathly Aura] skill or he faints. Care for one?" Unface offered Vier a cigarette.

"I don't smoke." Vier seemed to be looking around the room.

"Huh." Unface placed the cigarette back in his pocket.

Both of them shared an uncomfortable silence. They looked around the room, avoiding eye contact with one another.

"Hey-" Both Vier and Unface asked each other at the same time. They both share a look.

"By all means, you go first." Unface allowed Vier to talk first.

"Thank you. Do you know if I can get back into Vier's body? It's kinda..." Vier looks around. "Boring here."

"Well, I don't know. Your case is pretty unprecedented. I've heard of wielders disassociating with their alter egos and they become separate identities, but never to me or this existent." Unface opens up a screen. "You wanna go out and watch Vier?"

xxxxx

Vier walks through the snow in boots and winter clothes. He seems unbothered yet everyone else is awkward around Vier.

"He's been weird ever since he woke up," Sylas whispered into Ella's ear.

Nuki is sitting on Sylas' shoulder. "Yeah..." Nuki looks at Vier, he's walking in front of everyone. "Maybe he needs a hot cocoa."

"Give it up guys, he's just..." Alexandra wrapped her arms around Ella and Sylas. "Grieving?" Alexandra said with an inflexion on the end.

Drache is walking quietly behind everyone. All six of them were walking in the middle of the snow forest, advancing to the third floor.

Drache is still thinking about the dream he had while he was knocked out. He didn't remember a 'Boss Cheng' nor a 'Christoff' or an 'Eos'. He didn't remember anything at all. He only remembered befriending Abe and Ella and it was all a blur when he hit his head in a dungeon.

"You okay pal?" Sylas looks behind at Drache, catching him off-guard.

"Oh- Yeah..." Drache reassured Sylas.

"So, they can't see us?" Vier in his [Deathly Aura] form is walking beside normal Vier. Unface is also walking by him.

"Mhm, they don't even know we're here." Unface yawns. "It's pretty cold eh?"

"It would be easier if I had a different name, other than Vier. How about... Nier?" Nier asked Unface.

"It's your name. Not mine." Unface waves his hand in front of Vier's face, he's unphased.

"Am I this ugly?" Nier looks at his own face.

"You said it yourself." Unface continues walking as Nier keeps trying to touch Vier, but his hand just phases through him.

"So what are we doing?" Nier asks.

"Well...we are gonna wait until Vier dies." Unface casually says.

xxxxx

"Police are currently investigating the death of the king of Oase Hafen." A news station reports over national news as it is being broadcasted across the entire nation. "There have been rumors of it being the terroristic group known as 'Primeira Masmorra'."

"Those boney cunts decided to make their move." A woman said. "And they choose to take our King."

"Then we'll take their Queen!" A man with a raspy voice interrupts her.

"Would you shut up Erwin?" The woman is wearing sunglasses and has silky long black hair with golden pins tied to it.

"I say we go down there and take all their heads." Erwin is wearing a blue hawaiian shirt and has a grey beard that wraps around his chin.

"That could work." The woman takes out his cell phone.

"Who you calling?" Erwin asks.

"The Venator Association, my daughter is inside the tower that spawned in the middle of Oase Hafen. I need to make sure they gate off the entrance to it before real shit happens, don't want her to be injured." The woman presses a couple of buttons.

"You're an amazing mom you know that?" Erwin says sarcastically.

"I don't need your validation, cunt." She places the phone next to her ear.

"This number that you have called is currently not in operation." The phone says.

"That's weird." The woman tries to call again, but it just repeats the same message.