chapter 35: Blinding radiance.
After seeing all the hobgoblin's memories Grey was back to the pitch-black plane.
*Did you see?* asked Hobgoblin.
"Yes, I saw." Grey wore a pained smile on his face.
*Do you understand?*
"I thought I did before. But I was wrong." Grey Sighed.
He continued "But I think I understand now."
*So you do admit that you are the murderer of my family, you are the sinner.*
"I do." Replied Grey.
" I was the one that took everything from you. Your mother, your kind" Grey paused.
"…..Your partner …..you kids... I killed them all" Grey voice broke.
*Why did you kill them?*
"I wanted to be a hero, I wanted to save people."
*Do you regret your actions?* asked Hobgoblin.
"Yes, I do." Replied Grey, he continued "After watching your memories I think I regret it more. The way you loved your kids, your mom, and your partner, it doesn't make you guys much different than us humans."
Hobgoblin stood up and summoned a pitch sword in his hand. The sword was created from the bit of abyss, It was the sword of nothingness.
*Then let me give their soul peace by your blood.* Said Hobgoblin as he readied his Sword with an intention to kill Grey.
The hobgoblin headed slowly towards Grey with his sword.
"I can't let you do that," said Grey.
"I can't let myself get killed right now. I have something I have to do. I need to save everyone, I have to be a hero and I have to take revenge."
after a small pause, Grey continued.
"I will kill... I will take life... that's something I need to do as a hero. I have to make my mom proud, I need to be a hero that she will be proud of"
Grey pointed his polearm towards the hobgoblin.
"You say that I have killed your people, you kind. you guys hunt humans, eat them and raid their belongings."
Grey walked closer to the hobgoblin as he said:
"Now goblin, I will ask you a question..... do you think humans will sit by and watch their kind get slaughtered?"
*Shut up!!!* shouted hobgoblin.
*you killed my kind...my family, that's the only thing that matters to me!!!!*
the hobgoblin gripped his sword tight and said:
*Pay with your blood!!!*
Grey let out a sigh.
He threw his polearm away and said "you were kind enough to not finish me off or you just wanted to torture me. whatever it is, I will repay you with the same."
Grey relaxed his shoulder and arms. lowered his elbow down and in, with his hands up till his face. his chin down covered behind both of his hands.
The stance that Grey took looked roughly like a boxing stance.
"I suggest that you hide in your darkness," said Grey.
Breathless with anger, hobgoblin rushed towards Grey holding his sword.
Upon reaching a certain distance, the hobgoblin swung his sword aiming at Grey.
But there was no proper form in it, it was just a plain and predictable strike, which Grey dodged with ease and counter-attacked with a punch on hobgoblin's face.
Due to the adrenaline rush, the hobgoblin didn't feel the pain from the punch.
but the punch did its damage.
Due to the shock from the punch, the hobgoblin retreated to the darkness.
"Demoness..... are you still there?" asked Grey. he was talking to himself or at least that's how it looked.
But there was no reply to Grey's question.
Grey let out a sigh and said:
"Fine, if you help me now. I will never block you off again.
"It's a deal!!!" said the voice inside Grey with a chuckle. It was the voice of demoness Ami.
After her death, her will was trapped inside Grey's body.
A person's will is a fragment of their soul and Demoness Ami's soul fragment resides inside Grey currently.
Grey was blocking off her will since she entered his body.
"What help do you need?" she asked.
"You reside inside my body, so you must know that I possess a fraction of divinity inside me. Help me with how to use that."
Grey was on guard with his defensive position against any possible attack from Hobgoblin.
"Sure, I will help you. But only on the condition that you will never block me off again," said Demoness Ami.
"Yes, I promise." Said Grey assuring Ami.
"Fine, for now just focus on fighting like you normally do. I will draw out your divinity so that you can use it," said Ami.
Grey relaxed his shoulder and arms. lowered his elbow down and in, with his hands up till his face. his chin down covered behind both of his hands.
Grey again got in a boxing stance.
This time he hoped around his foot frequently while waiting for Hobgoblin's next attack. Grey was building a rhythm with his footwork to exit any incoming attack swiftly and counter it with his attack.
Grey was trying to find a rhythm on his footstep and arms. A rhythm to counter any possible incoming attack.
And then it came, the attack from the Hobgoblin.
This time from the back. The hobgoblin appeared instantly behind him from the darkness and swung his sword, which Grey easily dodged and countered with a heavy blow to hobgoblins chin.
In a split second the punch connected, Grey's hand glowed with Milky white radiance which glowed brighter than anything in the pitch-black plane.
This radiance drove all the darkness away from the pitch-black plane. Revealing a whole other dimension.
A dimension with a land filled with a bed of white flowers, the white flowers stretched as far as eyes could go.
The sky was pitch black, but it was unlike the plane Grey was earlier on. The black in the sky felt like nothing, it felt like Abyss...
The hobgoblin was knocked away from the impact of the punch. The hobgoblins crashed on the ground destroying any white flower in the path.