DYSCHRONOMETRIA

CHAPTER 24 - The Clock's Decision

Collins and Lianna were cuddling by the hill, enjoying their reunion. Lianna was wearing a white dress at the time. She was happy to be free by her own nightmare, killing Hollow Collins. But as she thought about it, he disintegrated as he died, as if he was made of... magic?

There she comes to the million dollar question, who trapped her there? As if a call, the Red Demoness appeared, wearing her real body. The watch appeared too but was behind her, levitating and glowing. Though its cracks and damages are more prominent than ever.

Lianna felt scared yet she had the desire to end this all.

Collins, despite being injured, grabbed his pipe and stood up. Positioning himself into a battle stance. Lianna still had the knife in her hand, she copied Collins' motions.

"So what now? You two a power couple?" the Demoness laughed.

Lianna scowled at her, "Give me my body back! You hungover lowlife!"

The Demoness stopped cackling, and her glare to Lianna was piercing. "You dare... insult me?"

Lianna hit a nerve, looks like battling this woman won't be easy. She fired blasts of fire magic on them, fortunately they dodged.

"I put you in this dream so that I can have no hindrance. You have proven ye again that you are such a hindrance!" she growled at her and fired another blast of magic. This time she was more focused on Lianna. "I put an end to your suffering, yet you kept crawling back to chaos! Why? Why is that?!" she kept continuous fireball on her, Lia bolted at the other side but it took damage to her annoying dress. Lianna can't attack her.

The Demoness looked around at her surroundings, "Where did he--" suddenly she screamed in an ear-piercing voice and lunged at Collins to prevent him from destroying the watch. This made Lianna go and--

No. She can't. This is her body, she can't kill it. There must be another way... As the Demoness was busy taking down Collins, who lured her away from the watch, she heard someone, a familiar voice.

You ruined the timeline. Now it is yours to fix it.

The watch had said.

This watch, is the very reason why magic is imprisoned away from your world. The Earth. This has existed in another dimension, and is the guardian responsible for locking away all of the monsters and magic.

"Why? Why are you telling me all of this?" the voice was from the Witch. She also remembered how the watch has portion of The Witch's magic as the Priestess told her. She went closer to the watch as it spoke,

You cannot kill your body. But you can kill her by destroying this.

Lianna gasped,"But aren't you the keeper of this magic?"

It's no use, Vishnu has released too many and it is now breaching into your world... It may not be seen by now, but soon... they will.

This creeped Lianna out. But she bravely held out her knife, preparing to destroy the watch,

Do not fret, there will rise a new generation to stop these monsters. Yet a new generation of monsters will arise... It will breach into the digital world and escape into reality... Remember my words... Lianna.

Lianna gave it a sad look, "Goodbye..."

"What--NO!!" the Demoness has saw her, she ran fast to her but it was too late,

Lianna has sliced the watch.

"NOOOOO!!!! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!!" She held the shattered remains and attempted to put them whole, utterly failing. She was crying in tears, "What have you done?! You ruined everything!" she gasped in air as she forced her spirit to stay put in Lianna's body, "You can't do this to me! AHHH!!" and that was it. The Red Demoness' spirit has completely left the body and crumbled into dust swept by the wind.

For a second, the Lianna thought something worse might happen as she released that deafening cry. She felt herself being pulled into her body.

Collins panicked as he didn't saw Lianna nearby, but he laid his eyes to where the Demoness was from, she was lying peacefully, wearing the same dress earlier.

He sighed in relief. Her soul was back to her body. He can't believe it, he was actually interacting with her soul. He chuckled.

He sat down beside his lady, and watched her sleep. He also took note that it was dark, they didn't even notice it. His head moved to the watch's remains, now how are they going to get back?

Maybe tomorrow. Just let him rest now. He slept beside Lianna and snored peacefully. They were relieved the madness was over.

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A figure, glowing blue and purple, appeared beside the couple. The Siren smiled at their victory, "Looks like someone needs some help."

"You need any help, toots?" a demon in ink appeared, his voice was slurred with his deformed figure, yet she perfectly understood him. "I can help you with my portal," he opened one on the ground, a black inky entrance appeared. She looked at it, then back to the demon, "Maybe I could use some help," she looked at them "To help these two." she chuckled.

The two carried them into the ink portal, voices were heard but they were used to it.

They were back into the real world. They put them down in Lianna's old house. "There you go. Sweet dreams." they left the two sleeping peacefully.

The siren and the demon went ahead of the ink portal and disappeared.

"Now all is well."