Chapter 403 Three, Two, One: REMEMBER!

"It'll be worth it. You have a lot on your plate right now." Deep voice Keng spoke. "Between your Father and the growing problem of a potential spell let off by Number One, we need the extra firepower."

"W-wait. Why did you call the Creator my Father? I don't normally say that." Lee Seng asked.

"Oh, slip of the tongue. You've been under the spell so long I kept hearing you say 'my Father.'" Deep voice Keng lied.

'Was the spell that strong that even Keng noticed it and decided to not say anything strange to make himself known to me while I was under Nicole's spell?' Lee Seng pondered for awhile until deep voice Keng caught his attention again.

"This augmentation will be worth it. It'll allow both of us to grow stronger. I can be of help to you, Lee Seng." Deep voice Keng nudged Lee Seng towards accepting it.

"But we don't know what it does. I… I don't even have the orb. How can you—"

"It doesn't matter how I know. The orb is here with us. I'm in here with you right now."

"But what about the… Protocol? Is it gone?" Lee Seng asked. There was a moment of silence.

"He's not here. At least I don't think he is. We should make a decision. We could use this augmentation to our advantage. Don't you want to figure out what that thing is? Why the woman disappeared?" Deep voice Keng asked.

'Yeah. I do.' Lee Seng thought.

"Then we should go with this augmented skill!" Keng insisted. "Do you wish to accept these terms?"

"Will it really help me?" Lee Seng's quite voice asked.

"It'll definitely help you. You can take over the Protocol and still have me around. Anything's possible. Believe me." The deep voice reassured him.

'He's right. It'll help both of us. I can take that Protocol and use it to our benefit. It'll make us stronger. It'll make me stronger. Then the Numbers and the Creator won't mess with me…' Lee Seng slowly began to nod.

"LEE!" A regular Keng voice shouted. Lee Seng looked up and looked around. It sounded like Keng was in the room with him.

"W-what's that voice?" Lee Seng asked. "Is it… Keng?"

"Keng?" The deep voice scoffed. "You don't remember me after Number 1 did all those things to you? Did her spell make you forget about me? My voice is deep not that loud and whiny."

"Hey, that… Me! LEE! …in.." The other Keng voice sounded more static-y.

"I-I don't know what to do, but if you're insisting on this, we should just do it. It'll help both of us right?" Leee Seng spoke.

"Yes. It'll help all of us." The imposter Keng answered.

"Fine, I'll… I'll do it."

[Two Bodies, One Soul] has been chosen. [Soul Eater] will now change. Prepare for lifestyle changes. The pang in Lee Seng and Keng's hearts made them both gasp for air. Both of them, though apart, collapsed. Their visions blended in together and for a moment, both of them could see each other.

"Keng…?" Lee Seng weakly called out to the silver image.

"Lee…!" Keng reached out at the golden image. "That… wasn't—"

—

Lee Seng groaned as his eyes fluttered open. He was lying in his closet with the lights on. His head pounded as he sat up.

'What the hell happened…?' Lee Seng turned to look at the mirror and noticed nothing out of the ordinary. He groaned as he forced himself up onto his feet. He began to turn when a loud set of thud noises behind him spooked him. He turned and heard thud noises where he was just facing.

"What's happening?" Lee Seng asked. He turned to face the mirror and noticed white moving objects behind him. "Huh?" He leaned in closer, rubbing his eyes. "My-My… AHH!" He shouted as he backed up, remembering too late that people would hear him as he covered his mouth.

'I have my tails again?!? What the fuck?!? I thought I didn't. What the hell is happening?!?' Lee Seng flexed his tails and felt the oddly familiar yet sensitive tails smack his clothes off.

"Oh shit!" Lee Seng turned and pulled his tails in as he watched his stuff fall. "God its been too long! This… This is—"

"H-hey! I-is ev-everything alright?" Ritsuka's voicee called out.

"Fuck." Lee Seng swore. He spun around and looked himself in the mirror. "No tails. No tails. No tails!" He watched his tails disappear. He was, once again, tail-less. He double-checked his ears and noticed he still had human ears. He let out a sigh as Ritsuka knocked ont he door loudly.

"I'm coming!" Lee Seng shouted. He moved past all of his spilled clothes and opened the door. Ritsuka's eyes looked up and took in the shirtless Lee Seng.

"Oh, you're still… Shirtless." Ritsuka stuttered. Lee Seng looked down and nodded. "Wh-why's your lights still on? It's… It's like 1pm, dude."

"Oh, what?" Lee Seng turned around and moved to pull his shades open. The bright winter sunlight seeped into the room. "Shit. I was asleep for that long? What the hell happened last night?" Lee Seng "whispered" to himself.

"Last night?" Ritsuka stuttered. "Y-you don't remember you… You grabbed my… Boobs?" He covered himself as Lee Seng turned around. He definitely remembered that but couldn't really remember what happened afterwards.

"I remember that part." Lee Seng awkwardly answered truthfully. "I just don't remember… Wait!" He ran over to Ritsuka and pulled him in. Ritsuka shouted in surprise as Lee Seng twirled him around in his room as he shut the door and moved to Ritsuka. He tried to catch Ritsuka, but he didn't quite do what he wanted to do and the two fell ont othe bed. The two looked at each other and Ritsuka's face instantly lit up.

Ritsuka swung at Lee Seng as Lee Seng rolled the opposite way and fell off the bed with a loud thump.

"Dude what the hell?!? Are you really into me? I-I'm flattered but your advancing too much! It's too uncomfortable!" Ritsuka stood up and ran to the door. His shock and adrenaline were making it hard for him to open the door.He began to turn the door and open it when Lee Seng shot himself off the floor and slammed the door shut.

"No. I need to ask you something very private." Lee SEng turned and looked at Ritsuka. Ritsuka gulped.

'Is he going to… No he can't… I-I… I don't want to lose my butt virginity to this dude! He's acting so weird!' Ritsuka shouted in his head.

"I don't like you like that! I want us to be friends!" Ritsuka friend zoned Lee Seng.

"No not about that, dumbass!" Lee Seng shouted. He blocked the door and watched Ritsuka move away from him. Obsidian Glass instantly appeared in Ritsuka's hands. The blade shook in the shaken young man's hands as he tried to point it at Lee Seng like he really meant it (which he did).

"Stay there! Let me out! Now!" Ritsuka demanded.

"Not until you see what I need you to see." Lee Seng instantly turned around.

"You want me to fuck you?!? Hell no!" Ritsuka started to swing straight for Lee Seng. His reflexes acted faster than his panicked mind as he watched three white tails appear. "AH!" The tails wrapped around the blade and held it. "W—"

"Shut the fuck up dude! Oh my god! What did I do to deserve this!" Lee Seng hissed as a tail covered Ritsuka's mouth. He could hear the muffled screams.

'Recollect yourself, Lee Seng. Recollect yourself. Ritsuka clearly thinks you want to fuck.' Lee Seng let out a sigh and crumpled his left hand and fingers into a fist. The room instantly muffled with gravity as Lee Seng turned and released Ritsuka.

"Shut up and let me explain, Ritsuka. I need someone to talk to about this!" Lee Seng pointed at his tails. "Do you—"

"What the hell is that? How's that possible? Yo-you have three tails like… Like a kitsune! You're a kitsune and you want to suck my soul after you seduce me into having sex with you, right?!?" Ritsuka had clearly went off the rails. Lee Seng swore under his breath in every language he knew and began to reach for Ritsuka when Obsidian Glass pricked his neck.

"Answer me! You're a kitsune, aren't you?" Ritsuka asked.

"No." Lee Seng answered. "I'm not a kitsune. I'm not a gumiho. I'm definitely not a huli jing!"

"What are you then?!?"

"I've told you this before, okay? Remember yesterday?"

"When you grabbed my boob?"

"At the mail center. And I grabbed your boobs because I was figuring this out!" Lee Seng waved.

"Mai-mail center? What happ-happened there?"

"I asked you if you remembered anything in particular about me. About me looking like a kitsune slash gumiho slash huli jing! A Fox Spirit. Do you remember anything about that?"

"No! I would definitely remember you telling me you looked like that!" Ritsuka pressed into Lee Seng's neck and blood spilled. Lee Seng moved backwards and raised his hands as his wound instantly healed, leaving the blood behind.