Little | Future Jerza

Chapter 23 - I Will Soon Perish ( Final )

"Is life a boon? If so, must befall that death,
whenever he call, must call too soon."

– W. S. Gilbert

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C h a p t e r⠀XXIII -
⠀⠀⠀I⠀W i l l⠀S o o n⠀P e r i s h
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀( F i n a l )

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Jellal and Erza seem to have gotten too gone, if that's what others described it. For some certain, specific reason, they started to shiver in tremor. They knew who this man was and they regretted forgetting about him; him especially.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"A guild cannot become a proper guild if there isn't any master, is it not?" the man revealed himself casually, hitting the ground with superior act in him. He was past Jellal's height and different for the height of an old man, from his face features seemingly being in his eighty's. When he landed from above, he was completely fresh; Jellal and Erza knew that he was saving himself for the very last — oh, how they hated it when they did not remember about him.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Papa, who is —" Jeraline cut herself off when the man unexpectedly started the fight already, throwing white rays right at Jellal and Erza, as the couple gasped in relief, quickly dodging them as if they knew it was going to happen when they didn't even expect that to happen. But they unleashed what they had as soon as possible, trying to keep up whatever this creature was resting up his sleeve.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Erza requipped in her Heaven's Wheel Armour as she immediately showed over two hundred swords and dashed them straight toward the enemy, twirling as she controlled fiercely the directions of her sharp weapons. She felt exhausted from fighting at the same time carrying her son, finding it complicated to multitask. However, she did not blame Eric nor did she have a second break for herself; she knew very well, what big of a threat this man is, in this guild.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The old man lifted his arm like he was making a movement, and he did it extremely fast. Sooner, heavy white beams that were very tall appeared behind the man, then quickly pushing his arms toward to make those beams fall smoothly, but harshly trying to hit his opponents. He narrowed his eyebrows, only watching Jellal and Erza dodging his attacks and fighting like mere weaklings to him. "Tch," the man said, finding everyone very boring when Jellal and Erza were certainly tired very quickly and could barely move.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"You're just wasting my time, just like you did before," the man said, when he meant the last time when Erza and Jellal came here, earlier than the time they found out that they were after their daughter.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The old male human pressed his lips together, abraded by the certainty that Jellal and Erza ignored him and only kept sending him physical assaults with power. The man growled, noticing that Jellal was just protecting his young daughter, carrying her in his arms in case of any danger that will come. The man didn't falter a moment to have his chance and immediately threw several charms to cease his opponents dodging him.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀However, Erza requipped into her Flight Armour, and Jellal used no ordinary Meteor to cover the attacks. Their eyes faced the man, scowling and swearing under their breaths.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Kusoyaru!" Erza shouted, a sword appearing in her hands as she completely transported herself behind the man and swung her sword to attract the man's attention. However, hitting him was not according to her small plan.

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Eric-kun!" Erza whispered very, very softly to her son, as Eric's knife appeared right in his palms and made his move when his arms moved forward. In the next moment, he briskly pierced the perfectly sharp dagger in the man's side, since he turned only about twenty five degrees and did not suspect that Eric was there. His eyes widened, but he did not fall.