46 An Important Lesson

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An awkward silence lingered in the safe room after Axel spoke. Akira, Ryuji and Morgana were stunned with how quick Axel could change his mood.

However, Axel ignored their stunned gaze as he smiled and said, "First things first, Morgana!"

Axel's loud call shook Morgana from his daze as he stumble abit and said, "Y-yes?"

"What were you doing before we got here?"

"A-ah, well, I was searching for treasure."

Axel smiled inside his mind while Akira and Ryuji had confusion written across their faces.

"Treasure?"

Morgana suddenly perked up as he excitedly said, "Yeah, Treasure! Inside every palace is something called a treasure. In reality, it's more like the core of a palace."

As Morgana explained the ins and outs of the palace to Akira and the confused Ryuji, Axel was silently scanning the room. He watched in amazement as the room flickered between a small room with a couple tables and chairs and a small classroom.

Feeling a tap on his shoulder, Axel turned towards Ryuji and asked, "What's up?"

Ryuji gave him a weird look as he said, "Are you not gonna listen to Morgana's explanation of this place? He sounds like he knows his stuff."

Axel softly shook his head and replied, "I might not look it but I have very little patience. I honestly just wanna leave the room and explo- *cough*, I mean, gather evidence."

A cheeky smile appeared on Ryuji's face as he wrapped his shoulder around Axel's and happily said, "Bro!"

With a wry smile, Axel said nothing and allowed his lie to set in. While it's been awhile since he saw the anime, he remembered the basic concept of the treasure inside the palace.

The treasure was the core of the palace that allowed it to take shape. The ruler of the palace, the shadow of someone's heart, created the treasure to form a palace, a place where they could become 'king'. As the shadow continued to fall into depravity, the feelings that the shadows indulged in would be shared to the true body.

The treasure was the key to defeating the shadows that dwelled inside the palace. However, Axel couldn't remember the specifics to steal the treasure and the system wouldn't even give him the tiniest hint.

Wait, no. That's wrong. The system did give him one hint.

[Wait for the story to naturally arrive at that point.]

Sighing, Axel mentally cursed his system for being stingy with answers.

Suddenly, Axel froze as his ears twitched slightly. Then, under the bewildered gazes of everyone in the safe room, Axel seemingly disappeared as the door was flung open in a gust of wind.

Behind him, Axel could hear the screams of Akira and Ryuji, calling him to come back but he ignored it. He zipped down corridor after corridor before coming to the main entrance.

Seeing the sight before him, Axel stood rooted in place as he trembled, not in fear but in anger.

The reason he left the safe room was because his ears caught the loud and sensual scream of someone familiar.

"…Ann."

In the room, King Kamoshida had a crazed expression on his face as he brutally whipped Ann, who wore nothing more than a tiger print bikini. Her face was stained in tears yet a crazed smile floated on her face.

Seeing one more person appeared in the room, King Kamoshida stopped whipping Ann as he smiled and said, "Finally stopped hiding?"

As he spoke, rows and rows of walking armour uniformly entered the room. However, none of this caught Axel's eye as he stayed focused on Kamoshida.

His stared seemed to even scare Kamoshida as he slightly trembled. Raising his trembling hand to his eyes, Kamoshida became wide-eyed as he softly muttered, "I'm… trembling?'

Suddenly, unbridled fury appeared on his face as he screamed in hatred, "GUARDS!!! KILL THIS INTRUDER!!!

Axel didn't even flinch while facing the army of living armour as the temperature in the room began to fluctuate. Frost quickly covered the right side of the room while flames started to engulf the other.

Plainly opening his mouth, Axel's hoarse voice muttered, "Frozen Hell…"

A wave of fatigue, followed by a large headache assaulted him. Yet, Axel didn't care. All he wanted to do was erase the shadow of Kamoshida and kill Kamoshida.

The image of Ann's battered and bruised body continued to play in his mind, over and over, tormenting him. In his mind, he couldn't even retain any form of composure as rage clouded his mind.

However…

Even though he launched that attack with all the mana he could muster, he only managed to clear out three quarters of the enemies in front of him. Once the flames and ice died down, the suits of armour still standing collapsed into a pool of malice as they became two different forms.

"Jack-frosts and Jack-o-laterns…"

Axel could only sigh. Jack-frost gained health from ice type attacks that target them while Jack-o-lantern does the same but with fire. Even though the other element Axel used did critical damage, they managed to heal themselves, allowing them to survive.

Axel regretted charging in on his own and silently waited for death. Tears streamed down his face as he silently thought to himself, 'I'm sorry Olivia, I don't think I'll be able to come back to you. Makoto, Ann and Shiho, I'm sorry that I won't be able to stop Kamoshida. Hopefully, Akira can stop him, just like he did in anime.'

Just as a Jack-Frost was about to reach him, a roar of extreme anger bellowed from behind him as a familiar voice yelled, "COME! ARSENE!"

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Blue flames burst in front of Axel as Akira's persona appeared and slashed at the Jack-frost, destroying it instantly.

Hope ignited in Axel's heart as he turned towards the approaching figures and yelled, "Akira! Guys!"

However, what welcomed Axel was a fist to the face.

Akira had lost all semblance of the calm and collected young man he was as fury painted his face.

"YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! WHO WAS THE ONE THAT STOPPED RYUUJI FROM CHARGING INTO A DEATH TRAP WHEN WE FIRST ARRIVED HERE!?! WHY THE HELL DID YOU DECIDE TO JUST THROW YOUR LIFE AWAY!?!"

Facing Akira's anger, Axel wanted to explain but Akira seemed to become even angrier as he continued, "I DON'T WANNA HEAR YOUR EXCUSES!!! YOU MAY BE STRONG AXEL BUT YOU CAN'T BECOME ARROGANT JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE POWER!!! REMEMBER MY WORDS!!!"

Arsene suddenly flickered as he quickly tore apart the rest of the shadows around them. Black and red flames danced around Arsene like leaves in the wind as Akira plainly said, "No matter how strong we may be, there will always be someone more powerful."

Axel was surprised as he quietly committed Akira's words to heart. Maybe because he was growing fast when he reincarnated, he let his strength go to his head. Luckily, he was reminded by Akira before his arrogance got worse. Because he had to admit, he honestly thought be could take on the shadows and Kamoshida all on his own, if he wanted to.

Slowly, Axel stood up and retreated to where Ryuji and Morgana were. As he stood side by side with his friends, Axel felt warm inside his heart as he said, "I'm really sorry for the trouble I've caused guys. What do we do now?"

Akira showed a wry smile as he sarcastically said, "What do we do? Do you honestly think we can get away? We can only stand our ground and fight."