Alex was having an inner monologue while remembering all the fights and missions he had been through before starting his three years of training "I've been through a whole lot of shit over time, and honestly, it baffles me how I managed to survive those events.", he was standing on a hill with the sky being dark red and the stars shining, alex was just staring at the sky as his hands were in his pockets and as the wind was blowing his white hair and red hoodie "I've always wanted to be strong. Right from childhood, I've always admired strength, and grandpa ranpo and kojin were my motivations. Although I made a decision, and that was not to kill." Alex started to walk around his inner mind with the entire night sky beig dark red and the entire space being a grass land with the dark red sky reflecting on the ground, causing it too look dark "No doubt about it. If you want to become strong, one way or another, you'd have to kill someone. Whether you want to save your own life from danger, or you're the bad guy or you're just living with no noble aspirations, you'd still have to kill." Alex started to remember the fight he had with the giant scorpion, bara, kirihai and even shinki, these were fights he had months ago "Each time I find myself in intense life or death situations, the only thing i can think of is just to break and destroy my enemies. Not necessarily kill, but to give them a beating and a breakdown so bad that they would be wishing to die. That was the rule I made for myself.", he pauses for a moment and looked at the dark red sky filled with stars "Not because I want to be some kind of morally upright main character who seeks justice, or some guy who thinks being the good hero is what's right. But because I made that choice for myself and that's what I seek." Alex took a single step forward and then heared a sound, like as if he just stepped on a puddle. Alex looked down and realised that he was standing on a shallow pull off blood. He looked up with an expression of disinterest and then saw a giant demon standing before him in a cage while grinning at him in a very demonic manner. Alex wasn't scared, he wasn't shocked nor was he stunned, he just wore an expressionless look on his face while his hands were in his pockets "But even still, I'm still a monster. It doesn't matter the goals I want, it doesn't matter the choices I make, nor does it matter the ideals I hold. It's about getting stronger, monster or not!", the aura the demon was emitting started to flow towards alex and cover his body up "Yeeeeeesss!! So you finally understand it now, boy. Good for you!", the demon exclaimed and praised alex with an deep eerie voice "Lets us do the things we need to do. To survive, that is!" Suddenly, alex appeared behind grey with a devastating amount of demonic energy covering his body up, he was powering up a powerful blade of death. It was almost as if his hand had fused with the attack he was preparing, this blade of death was a dagger the size of a sword. Grey was in total disbelief "What the....?! I thought I just cut off his head! HOW IN THE HELL ARE YOU STILL ALIVE?! YOU MONSTER!!!", grey exclaimed in fear and shock. Alex exclaimed "Blade of death: Ballistic overdrive!", and proceeded to use a very powerful and deadly variant of his signature move to slam grey. This caused a huge and devastating explosion of demonic energy, grey was screaming in pain as alex's new move was blasting and burning him. The move was so powerful that it let of another deadly explosion. The skin of grey's right arm down to his chest were burned off, it was so bad that his ribs and his heart along with a part of his intestines were not just showing, but were burned badly. Fuya seeing this from a distance was in shock, she was terrified and couldn't believe her eyes "No..... grey..!". Alex in this state of his wasn't done yet, his eyes were filled with anger and madness, and his body was covered up with a devastating amount of demonic energy. As grey was falling to the ground In slow motion, he said to himself as his eyes slowly started to change white "Ahhh, I see. While we were clashing on ground, he performed a hand sign which allowed him to perform a clone technique. So he was using a clone to fight me while the real him went to a corner to observe the fight and catch his breath. What a tricky sligh bastard.", alex on the other hand wanted to land the same attack as he did before on grey "I felt every bit of fear, anger and agony my clone felt right as you took its head off!", he started to remember all the banters himself and his clones had although the training he's been having for some time "IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A CLONE, BUT I WONT FORGIVE YOU FOR TAKING OFF ITS HEAD", alex yelled this statement in anger "BLADE OF DEATH: BALLISTIC OVERDRIVE!!!"he yelled out the name of his attack again as he tried to take off grey's head. Before he could do so, something similar to that of a giant needle flew straight from the forest and blasted right through alex's chest leaving a hole on it. Alex immediately coughed out blood and had a look of confusion on his face "What the...,", his demonic energy immediately disappeared. He looked up slowly and saw a girl slightly older than him wearing a revealing yellow and black assassins costume, her hands were similar to that of a mutated bug and she was flying down towards him "I WONT LET YOU HURT GREY!!" She exclaimed this with anger and fear as she bashes alex to the ground which caused the ground to shatter, she left a hole on alex's chest. Alex in this state started to remember the times he's been punctured on the chest, that being in his fight against the giant scorpion during the dead forest test, and the time shinki blew a hole through him few months ago. Alex had a look of confusion and worry on his face as blood was gushing from his mouth "No.....Not again. Am I..... going to die for real this time?", everything turns black. Meanwhile fuya was in worry as she was trying her best to heal grey's wounds "Grey! GREY!! WAKE UP!!!"she yelled with tears down her eyes "I can't completely heal him. I haven't perfected regeneration well enough to heal someone else completely. No I can't let you die here grey!", she was worried out of her mind. Fuya carried grey on her shoulder, she looked at alex with eyes that spoke of anger, before she flew away with her comrade. Alex was just layed out on the ground, his red eyes looks like they were fading away and his blood started to dry, the hole on his chest started to heal up. Alex had actually died for real this time. The cross that was in his pocket started to glow with red energy.
END OF CHAPTER.