Leo pulled back, wiped his face.
“Where’s Lia?”
Niya sniffled, nodded.
“This way.”
They ran—halls twisting, stone cold, memories heavy. Stopped at a plain door, steel-reinforced. Leo’s hand shook. Eight years. Niya’s touch on his shoulder.
“She’s in there.”
Deep breath. Handle turned.
Creak.
Dim light spilled on a curled-up girl, blanket cocoon, silver hair messy, eyes puffy.
She peeked. “Aunt Niya… who’s he?”
Leo froze. Lia. Grown. Alive. Tears hit. Step forward.
“Lia… thanks for waiting.”
Her eyes locked. “Big brother… Leo?”
Blanket dropped. She crashed into him, sobs loud.
“Why so late?! I waited every day!”
Leo crushed her close. “Sorry… I failed to rescue you both soon.”
'I am sorry even though I decided to be a perfect brother in my second life and consider you to my actual little sister in the end I still wasn't able to be a brother that you wanted.' Leo thought.
Looked at Niya—weak nod.
Lia gripped his sleeve.
“Don’t leave me here.”
Leo wiped her cheeks.
“It's Over now. I Swear I’ll protect you both. We're all leaving this place right now.”
Violet flash. Outside. Lyra bloodied, bruised, herding civilians. Light flared. Leo there—Lia’s hand, Niya beside. Lyra’s knees buckled. “Mom…?”
Niya ran, hugged tight.
“Sorry…. I am sorry my daughter I wasn't able to raise you by myself I destroyed your childhood.”
Lyra bawled.'Mom it's okay please just don't.........don't leave me alone this time."
Leo to rebels “Balzock?”
Finger toward center.
“He's fighting against Kael alone probably.”
BOOM.
Shockwave rattled teeth. Leo crouched to Lia.
“Stay with Lyra. My friends need me.”
She grabbed. “Don’t leave again.”
Leo touch her forehead.
“Promise. I'll come back soon.”
Niya, Lyra hands on her shoulders. Lia sniffled.
“Better.”
Leo draped his cloak over her.
“Guard this.”
Turned. White shirt, black pants, blood-soaked shoes. Walked to the fire. Leo’s eyes burned violet, aura leaking like smoke. His gaze was tough due to unstoppable determination. Each step cracked the stone.
“Kael…”
Plaza was a butcher’s yard. Balzock swung—life force in the blade. Kael raised a fist.
CRACK.
Jaw shattered. Balzock flew, skidded, didn’t get up. Lili unleashed fire, ice, void.Punched with shadow. Kael caught it.
BOOM.
She cratered. Sara screamed. Sheron down, sword snapped. Zack’s claws—we're toring wind itself to attack yet—useless. One kick, ribs caved.
Sara nocked—punch. Wall.
Slump.
Kael to Balzock golden fist.
“Die.”
CRASH.
Rag doll.
Lili’s last spell—golden chains yanked her physically.
“No!”
Kael charged, vortex fist.
BOOM.
Fist stopped. One hand. Kael stumbled. Aura flickered purple. “Who—?!”
Dust cleared. Leo. Smirk. “That's a punch?” Dropped the hand. Ground spider-webbed.
“Lili—teleport everyone to Mountain.”Pointed to old home peak."
“I Can’t that bastard grab me with his chains you have to break it the one who is grab with these chains can not use any magic.”
Leo touched chains.
CRACK.
“Stay alive.”
Lili raise her hand and a purple sphere on the ground appeared to everyone besides Leo.
FLASH.
Gone.
Mountain. Rebels stared at violet-yellow storm. City empty.Leo
"Remember me? Kael"
“Leo Vallis. Village kid.” Kael said with rage and hatred.
“Why my parents?” Leo asked calmly.
“Goddess said so. Still whispers.”
Leo clench his teeth said “She’s next.”
Kael laughed.
“Hero. Divine. You’re a murderer.”
“You Killed those innocent people who didn't even do anything.”
“Doesn’t matter.”
BOOM.
Purple explosion. Roads floated. Kael’s gold storm answered. Buildings flattened. Sky split. They vanished.
BOOOOOOM.
Fists met as their punch hit on each other. Dome shockwave. Capital gone—crater. Sky ringed clear. Mountain shook. Trees snapped.Sky cracked. Gold-violet comets. Leo behind Kael. crunch ribs. Kael twisted, countered.
'He's evolving mid-fight if this fight goes too long it will cause me trouble.' Kael thought.
And then he hit a Uppercut and threw Leo more higher in sky. But before they could realize they were in space.
'Shit my stamina is limited and I am already at my limit how ? How is his stamina is not dropping' Leo thought.
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Snap.
Gravity bent. Feet locked. Kael blinked in.
“Zero-G’s my playground too.”
Leo’s fists flared. Punch—Kael's face so hard that he goes more far from planet. And the impact of that punch that even on planet everyone could feel that energy.
The stars around them flickered like distant embers, but neither Leo nor Kael noticed. They clashed in the empty void, their movements carving ripples through the vacuum. Leo’s shirt had long since been torn apart. His skin was a map of bruises and cuts bone showed in places where flesh had torn
He fought anyway
The only reason he still stood was simple immortality. A gift—or curse—from the demon lord.
If not for him, Leo thought, wiping blood from his lip, I’d have died a hundred times already.
Kael steadied himself a few meters away, breathing cold clouds into the void. His glare hardened.
"Still alive? This human is…is evolving mid-fight. I need to end this now."
Leo remained where he was, floating calmly, a faint smile touching the corner of his mouth.
Leo vanished—and reappeared with a brutal punch and the impact goes so hard that sent Kael flying across the stars. The blow slammed him into a distant gaseous planet, poisonous clouds exploding outward.
Kael staggered upright, coughing, aura flickering around him. His body shook—not from pain but from something worse: pressure. Leo’s pressure.
Across the shifting haze, Leo walked toward him. Slow. Steady.
He raised his hand.
A blade of pure night formed in his grip, dark enough to swallow starlight. Null fang. A sword that shouldn’t exist.
Kael’s pulse jumped.
“That blade… impossible.”
Null fang’s presence alone felt wrong—silent, cold, absolute. Kael knew the truth a single cut from it would end even an immortal.
He forced a crooked smile and summoned his own divine blade in response, golden light blooming around him.
“Fine,” he said. “Let’s see which one of us breaks first.”
They vanished.
Their blades met in a shockwave. Each strike carved trenches through the gaseous planet, turning entire clouds into vapor. After fighting there for few moments they leave the planet both fighters burst back into space, still clashing, still relentless.
Far away on the mountain, the rebels felt the shockwaves rumble underfoot.
Some stared in horror at Lili.
“She’s… a witch,” someone whispered.
Fear spread, instinctive and sharp. Lili lowered her eyes. No protest. No defense. She had lived long enough to know this reaction.
But Lyra stepped forward.
“Believe what you want,” she said, voice clear, “but without Lili, Leo would never have made it this far. If you trust Leo, then trust her.”
Silence. Then a few hesitant nods. Fear or not, they needed each other now.
A booming rumble cracked the sky above them.
Lili looked up—and froze.
A streak of golden light tore across the sky.
“No…” she whispered.
Lia grabbed her sleeve. “Lili—what’s happening?!”
Zack and Sara gathered beside them. Sheron squinted toward the sky.
Lili’s voice dropped to a shake. “That’s Leo.”
Shock rippled through them.
“He’s losing?” Zack muttered.
Lia’s breath trembled. “Brother…”
Far above them, Kael lifted his hand. Divine energy swelled into a glowing sphere—the size of mountains, pulsing with lethal intent.
“Goodbye, Leo Vallis.”
The beam fired.
Leo turned—and saw his home world behind him. Its strange pastel colors, pink continents, yellow coastlines. Peaceful. Fragile.'Oh so this planet is tottaly diffirent from the earth
His heart stopped.
Not them.
He threw his arms out, catching the divine beam with both hands. The energy seared through him like starfire. His scream echoed into the void as the blast pushed him backward—toward the planet he wanted to protect.
The beam hit.
The world lit up.
A distant explosion spread fire across the sky, its shockwaves reaching the mountains seconds later. The ground trembled. Trees bent. People stumbled to their knees.
Lili gritted her teeth. “I’m going.”
Lyra tried to stop her. “Wait—”
“No.”
Lili’s body burst into silver light. Wings of pure aura unfurled behind her, bright as dawn.
She launched herself forward—vanishing into the sky, leaving a streak of silver across the horizon.
Straight toward Leo.
