Chapter 93 - Wings

"Watch out!" Von shouted and pushed Petunia out of the way.

"Got you!" the Crone laughed maniacally upon catching Von with her severed upper body even after just a few flaps of her big bat-like wings.

When Von noticed this, he immediately closed his eyes and tried to struggle his way out of her clawing long fingernails that were hugging him from the back.

But to no avail, his efforts were put to shove when he felt the thick liquid spreading from the old woman's lower body to his shirt from the back, making his courage disappear completely.

Von didn't want to believe what was happening in front of him right now. He tried his best to stay still and close his mouth from shouting too much especially when he felt these disgusting slimy things hanging from the old lady's severed lower body but he just can't control himself from not shouting nor from not touching it.

Even without looking, Von could almost swear that those were the old lady's intestines. They were black and slimy which only made the thought of it more disgusting, black internal organs hanging down from her flying upper body? Who would like to think about such things?

"H-Help!" Von cried weakly while shutting his eyes desperately from looking at his black bloody hands which only made him shiver and cry even more.

He couldn't believe how disgusting this situation was and that it was actually happening in real life, right now. Even the thought of flying in mid-air was not able to save Von from feeling suffocated and helpless from all of it.

When the old lady saw Von's reactions, she couldn't help herself but laugh at his reactions hard, spinning him around with her huge wings that were creating a tornado because of its extraordinary shape.

She even tightened her hold on Von while preparing for a takeoff when Petunia suddenly got in their way.

"Wait!" Petunia said while trying her best not to fall from her Gummy while grabbing a sleeping potion from it.

When Petunia finally found what she was looking for, she immediately shut her eyes tight and fed it to Von without hesitation, alarming the both of them from her sudden actions.

"Hey!" Von complained which was then followed by a sudden pull backward from Yorela.

"What are you doing?" Yorela said with her high-pitched old lady voice which immediately made Petunia shiver in fear.

"N-Nothing." Petunia said nervously and rushed away from them as quickly as she could.

'If only I was allowed to save you…' Petunia thought to herself while looking apologetically at Von.

"The cat can talk?" Yorela said and laughed as if she was amused which Von only ignored.

'What was she thinking?' Von thought to himself while looking at Petunia that was now staring at him from afar.

"Von!!!" Lei shouted from a distance, grabbing both his and Yorela's attention back to him and the tower where he was being harassed by everybody else.

But what was more surprising though, was the fact that even though Lei had already been striking critical blows to his opponents, they were still standing and fighting with him as if they weren't even hurt by it a little bit.

'Is it possible that they also have regeneration powers?' Lei thought after having a reality check that his opponents weren't even budging from his attacks.

'I can't let them reach Von. I need to find their weak spots quickly!' Lei thought and gathered more willpower to fight with these people that were now all covered in their own black blood.

"Sisters! I got him!" Yorela shouted to them excitedly from a distance.

'Why does she have wings?!' Lei thought to himself and got into thinking even more while jumping around and escaping from the hold of these old sickly women... demons.

"Bring him back here immediately!" Posa said while trying her best to catch Lei despite being slimy because of their blood being spilled everywhere.

"Coming!" Yorela said enthusiastically and started flapping her big wings slowly, giving Von a good look and estimation of its size from their shadows on the roofs below them.

Yorela's wings measured twice her upper body each if Von was to measure it, but other than the size of Yorela's wings, the other thing that caught Von's attention was the track of black liquid that she was leaving on their tracks.

'Isn't it painful?' Von wondered while secretly taking glances at Yorela's waist that was cut perfectly in half.

'How could she be this strong?' he wondered even more while suddenly feeling his eyelids becoming heavier.

"Lei…" Von said when they finally arrived back at the tower.

Yorela threw Von carelessly to the floor while retracting her wings and attaching her upper body back to her lifeless lower body that was still standing on the wall railings exactly as she left it there before.

"Nice work, Yorela," Posy said and approached Von slowly.

"Von!!" Lei shouted and tried running to him but the others prevented him from doing so.

"You should just surrender, kid. Look at your friend, he's being polite and friendly to his elders." One of them said and laughed while still trying hard to grab Lei's blades away from him.

"No!! Von! Wake up! Von!" Lei shouted even more when he saw Von laying comfortably on the ground.

"P-Petunia…" Von murmured, remembering the potion that Petunia shoved in his mouth just earlier.

"So that cat is also our ally? Just like that girl from down there?" Yorela said carelessly which made Posy cover her mouth immediately.

"Let's go," Posy said and led the group back downstairs.

"What girl? What did Petunia do? Von? Von! Wake up, Von!" Lei said, finally being able to approach Von when the Crones let him be.

"Just come with us silently if you don't want to see your friend die in front of you." Another Crone said, trying to get Lei to come with them voluntarily which worked spectacularly even though they weren't really allowed to kill Von just yet.

"Come," Posy said and grabbed Lei's shirt while Yorela separated Von from his view using her wings that were still out from her fake hunchback.