Chapter 342 341. Judgement.



'Locate Vinny.' I commanded inwardly.

[Task initiated...]

[User: Vinny Grover found.]

And, of course, as I expected, he was alive.

'Omniscience: Scrutinised Evocation' I muttered inwardly; my vision sense lowered until it matched Vinny's, and now I was back to the time when we were still on Earth. In the tournament that took place in the Elven Kingdom, I gazed at things from Vinny's perspective.

Vinny walked towards the Elven Kingdom with the intention of participating in the tournament with his identity hidden.

"Status." Vinny mumbled under his breath and gazed at his old status window, which had reverted back to being filled with question marks in his stats, titles, skills, and class, but his race had turned into [Demi-human], a fiend in common words.

The reason his system has turned like that is because he merged with Vassago under their master and slave contract, which Vinny signed hot-headedly without thinking much of it.

(AN: since calling Eshwar from Vinny's perspective "my other self" all the time will be annoying, I'll call Eshwar from Vinny's perspective Eshwar, and if current Eshwar's interference is required, I'll use first person.)

And soon, days passed, and the devastating destruction descended upon the Elven Kingdom, as a mere stomp of my other self, caused absolute devastation in the kingdom. It was also the moment when Vinny realised that Eshwar was too far out of his reach, and it was also the time when Vinny realised Eshwar's identity as White Swan and in that perticular instant, he connected all the dots and inwardly swore that he would make Eshwar feel as much pain as he felt when he lost his friends and killed his own father and later his mother, since he didn't want to leave out any possible threats.

Vinny was somebody who got no opportunities for himself before he regressed, and following which, his new life also provided him nothing much, or so he thought, due to his previous life's pathetic self, he had developed a nature of creating his own opportunities at certain times, from wherever and whenever he saw a gap between people.

And exactly like in his previous life, he was going to create opportunities for himself as he planned Eshwar's ruin, and after he was teleported to another world, where they were to pick their best-suited weapon and a pocket system, it was at that moment that Vinny found the "gap," which he could use to hurt Eshwar, and that "gap" was none other than Henry, who seemed to be wary of Core's attention diverted at Eshwar whenever they were in their presence.

Vinny then called out Henry and began to entice negative emotions, putting a dent in Henry's and Core's relationship using Eshwar as a scapegoat, and the most blissful information he dug out of Henry was Eshwar's and Core's previous relationship, so it was more easier to entice more and more negative emotions in Henry, playing him within his grasp.

And from what I read from Henry's perspective, Henry was extremely convinced by the false fact that Core was still in love with Eshwar and that he was just a middleman who was being used by Core to make Eshwar jealous.

And from then on, he began to become more "active" as he used Core to satisfy his lust. At first, since Core enjoyed it, it became a passionate intercourse. Slowly but surely, Henry began to get rougher, hurting her in the process of lovemaking as her painful groans began to satiate his lust. Even when Core rebuked Henry, Henry blurred out his suspicions about her and Eshwar's relationship.

Core was dumbfounded at first, but soon she felt she was done with Henry, and when she began to walk away after quick, short words of breakup thrown at his face, he involuntarily slapped her strongly and knocked her unconscious, and that slap made him gloat and be satisfied when put in motion, so from then on, he began to isolate Core in his room and began to abuse her. Of course, it started with slaps until it reached hits and punches, which left Core bruised and bleeding.

By the time he realised what he was doing, he was addicted to the feeling of being superior; her pained cries brought him satisfaction, and he had long cut off his relationship with Eshwar. Now, he was scared of nothing, a slap to her face and Core would be forced to shut up, so as long as she was kept shut, nothing would happen to him.

Or so he thought.

After weeks spent in the academy, on the day of the event, Isha and Eshwar approached them and kidnapped them. From the inside, they could gaze at everything outside; of course, only things Isha saw, but since her vision was far broader than others, they were literally able to see everything, and everything they saw made them despair until no turn back, as they realised the extent of a "God's" strength.

And now that he was in front of me, facing me face-to-face, he was scared sh*tless, as piss, snot, faeces, sweat, tears, and saliva oozed. Basically, Henry had each of his holes, except for his ears, ooze something out.

His gaze soon wandered around as he forgot Eshwar's existence as his friend as he searched for somebody with even a hint of pity, sympathy, or concern in their eyes that gazed at him, but except for one, he found none, and the one was none other than Isha, who was gazing at Henry with a pity-filled gaze.

"M-ma-madam, please, please, save me!!!" Henry crawled towards Isha and pleaded desperately.

The hint of emotion in Isha's cold and indifferent gaze was a lifeline for him—nothing except that he saw had a possibility of his survival.

"Mumma... this uncle is disgusting...." Eunomia really mumbled with her tone twisted in disgust. Isha placed her hand on the back of Eunomia's head and pulled her close into her neck, hiding Henry's disgusting existence from her daughter's eyes.

"Unfortunately for you, I showed everything that happened in the last few weeks, just like I had displayed how I made the world be what it is at this very moment." I said in a cold tone, shattering all hopes for his survival, before glancing at the victim in question. Of course, I had hidden everything inappropriate about Core.

"I'll give you two options, Core. Although it hurts me to do this, I don't want to let him live. So, first, I'll dye my hands with his blood, like many others. Two, I'll erase his memories from the last few weeks and let him live; you can do whatever you want to with him afterwards." I stated that, though I had a more crueller option, I didn't voice it because I wanted to give Henry the most painless way out possible, but if Core is as smart as I remember, even without me voicing that option, she would voice it, of course, only if she has no lingering feelings for Henry.

"I'll choose the third option. I want you to make him remember every moment we spent over the last few years, so that it would break his brainwash and itch the last few weeks of what he did to me into his soul, so he won't ever dare to forget what he did to me and live his life drowning in guilt and dread." Core stated it coldly and turned her back on Henry without an ounce of melancholy in her tone.

'He died for me the moment he doubted me....' Core thought, and satisfied by her thoughts, I stopped intruding into her consciousness before turning to face Henry.

"You seriously disgust me, Henry. Not once have I behaved that way with Core ever since we broke up; though it was awkward at the beginning, it died down as time passed, and since then, hers and your lives have been just as important in my life as they had been for Louie and Arngrim. You just.... disappoint me." I said this to Henry, who was gazing at me with a lost look on his face.

SNAP-!

With a snap of my fingers,

"Uck..." With a subtle groan, Henry's head snapped back as he gazed up with his eyes and mouth wide open as a bright white, eerie glow glimmered through his mouth and eyes. Tears began to stream out as the glow died down, and when the light completely died down, Henry's head hung low as tears streamed profusely out of his eyes with a lost look plastered on his face.

"I'm so... sorry, Core...." Henry's mutter sounded, and Core's face slightly distorted in pain, but she pressed her trembling lips and walked towards a corner of the floating, translucent room. Complying with my will, the corner opened out, and stairs that led her down materialised.

Gradually, as time passed, everybody left the room, leaving only Isha and Eunomia in the room with me.

"C..." I wanted to speak up, but the stutter and my painfully dry throat prevented me from doing so. Pressing my quivering lips together, I sighed.

And the exit shut off completely as Isha tried to walk away with Eunomia in her arms with a deep sigh.

"I want to...." I mumbled, but closed my mouth again before

"Can we talk?" I asked.

"Mumma, I'll be playing with brother Pyre and brother Erebus; please come back soon." Eunomia said this and jumped off of Isha's arms before walking towards me with a small smile on her face.

"Haha..." I chuckled and summoned Pyre and Erebus before making her sit on Erebus while Pyre sat on top of Eunomia's head.

"Our daughter is very smart." I said this after Eunomia teleported out, together with Erebus and Pyre. She had left the room under my command without my consent; of course, I would have allowed it if there was some force fighting against my powers, but there was absolutely no resistance whatsoever, as if she were using my powers. Well, she is such an existence, so there was nothing to be surprised about.

"She indeed is...." Isha commented under her breath as she stared at Eunomia running around the ruins with her arms crossed as if she were uninterested in my existence.

"I'm sorry." I apologised with my head down.

"For what?" Isha asked in a heartbeat, as if she had expected this outcome.

"For not showing my so-called "real"-self to you...."

"Why is that so?"

"Because even I was afraid of myself while I was like that, if that wasn't the case, then why would I even bother to create a new persona of myself?"

"And? That's your problem."

"Yes, that's why I didn't show it."

"Hmm.... Ok. Alright. Okay, then, is it over? Please open an exit for me; I need to look after my daught-" sha said, but I cut her short by appearing right in front of her. Not once from the beginning had she even spared me a glance.

"Look at me, Isha." I held her chin and forced her to look at me, as I said in a stern tone, glaring into Isha's cold, indifferent gaze that was staring back at me.

"....."

I leaned in, captured her soft lips, and was thoroughly rejected by Isha. Since I had no plans of letting her go, the kiss wasn't broken, as huffs of hot breath were released in between. Her hands pushing against my chest weakened noticeably as I continued to kiss her while holding her chin so that she wouldn't turn her head away.

"Seal....our abilities.... for five minutes...." I commanded the system in her mouth while huffs of hot breath escaped in between.

[Task initiated...]

[Task completed!]

Isha instantly turned weak, and now she was nothing but a normal human, like I was currently, but the control over the translucent room was now lost, yet the room hadn't fallen apart as Eunomia took control over it as soon as the command left my mouth.

"Don't listen, Eunomia." I said it in Isha's month, and though I could feel nothing, I trusted Eunomia, so I didn't think too much of it.

"Get off me!" Isha pushed me off amid huffs; tears were seen streaming out of her eyes. Though her state and actions hurt, I decided to endure.

I had fallen butt first on the ground due to her push, but I got back up and rushed towards her since she was yet to get used to her now "normal" body.

"Look at me!" I said, held her chin, and kissed her again, as a salty and sweet, almost addictive, heavenly taste tasted in her mouth.

"Look....at....me..." I mumbled and bit her lower lip painfully as blood trickled out of her lip and hot huffs escaped our mouths into each other's. I gazed at her eyes as her blood dyed my lips red and her lips quivered before sobs and hiccups were released into my mouth.

THUMP-!

She punched against my chest weakly as her body trembled.

THUMP-!

"Who.... Are, hic... You?"

"...."

"Huh? Who are you?!!!!"

"...."

"Why...are you doing this to me?"