BUTTERFLY : SHINOBU KOCHO (PART ONE)

Part 1: Final Chapter; Serve

*Warning: Themes of this chapter will be incredibly dark. Mentions of psychological, mental and sexual abuse will be present, along with abusive relationships, trafficking and events of the like. No events of r*pe will be present, though it will be implied. I will put a marker at the beginning of this portion of the chapter when it does arrive, but please read at your own discretion.*

*also like all of this is just backstory and it's another really long chapter so I'm really sorry in advance I just want to get to more Sakusa and Shinobu moments so these chapters are long to get to the next arc quicker*

The final battle ended with one strike.

"YOU'RE DONE FOR, YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

"You invading the city and killing my friend is one of many reasons why what you just said isn't true, fuckface~"

Shinobu and Razel stared each other down, until it happened.

"BLEEDING PAROXYSM!!"

The female demon rushed forward, screaming as she wielded her orb of blood, her golden eyes rapidly losing their light as she sprinted towards the Hashira.

Shinobu, though, retained her shape.

She only thought to herself as Razel came within her range.

....The mustard gas at the very beginning would have been enough to kill you....and yet you still continue to fight......had I just continued with the plan for the toxin with course through your body and kill you over a longer period of time, the outcome would have been identical to what it is now.....

....but I let my anger get the better of me, and I goaded you into more attacks than I would have liked, and so many more died because of it.....

As the fight drew to a close, she began to remember something.

All the words, all the declarations, all the things the female demon before her said.

About her life, about how women can only serve in the world they exist in, and most of all, her words of praise for her leader.

The butterfly girl's expression softened, if only for a moment.

You....you really believe in Sephir, don't you.......

....I'm willing to bet that you practically worship him, even.....it's sad, really....

Razel took a step forward, and with a raging scream, flung her crimson orb in one final, desperate attack.

Shinobu waited patiently, waiting for that opening.

Waiting for when the female demon concentrated only on her attack, ignoring any possibility of a counter, when the tunnel vision set in and she was completely open for a strike.

Shinobu waited for the Zone.

The moment it revealed itself, she struck.

Snatching the demon's wrist as she leaned into her blow, Shinobu redirected the strike directly over top of her, and got within inches of the demon's body,

and with a rising thrust of her needleblade, ended the fight.

"Insect Breathing.....Dance of the Giant Killer....."

"....Ephemeral."

Her blade, soaked in poison, rammed itself through the skull of the Archangel, ripping Razel's head right off her body with a powerful shockwave shooting out from the attack.

The demon's body collapsed down onto the ground, but Shinobu still held Razel's head on her blade, the world going silent around them.

With nothing for a hundred metres around them, there the Hashira stood, holding the head of the Archangel on her blade.