Limitless The Strongest Revenant-Chapter 990: Even when [1/2]

Wordlessly, I pulled Aki into my embrace and hugged her tight. I could hear her erratic breathing. The woman's heart hammered against her chest like a drum. And her rage caused her to bury her nails into my clothes.

"Yet, I still joined the enlistment. Against my wishes, I was brought to life. And I found out I was Formless. My hate for the Reapers grew even more. It was then that I saw Robyn being harassed by a couple of horny bastards. She reminded me of Haru."

Aki then hugged me even tighter. The force she applied to my neck and torso would have been enough to break the bones of a human. Yet, as if trying to forget the stories she retold, her voice grew faint like a whisper.

"I knew the Miroku were experimenting on him. But I did nothing. I told myself it was beyond my control, but I knew better. I blamed everyone else but me. I am such a terrible sister. I had thought that if I could at least save this one child, then my life would have some meaning."

"Aki… That's…"

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When I tried to speak, Aki suddenly kissed me. As if trying to quench her rage with my lips, she licked the insides of my mouth and sucked on my tongue. After having her fill, she pulled away, breathless.

"As a Descendant, I knew of the power wielded by the Revenants. Rather than live yet another life chained to their whims, I resolved myself to die after I sent Robyn home. I fought the enlistment all because I wanted to save her; I am quite a wretched woman…"

My Kamisan then kissed the tip of my nose. With a smile that gushed with bliss, Aki continued.

"But then I met you."

"…"

"You were even weaker than I. Yet even Descendants followed you. It intrigued me. But that was all. At least until I saw you face down a Revenant. It made no sense; no one sane would challenge a godlike being to a brawl, yet you did.

"It was then that a question popped into my mind. If it was this man. This lunatic. Would he be able to do it? Would he be able to kill the Revenants for me? I had to know. And so I began to scheme. I was prepared to study, charm, and manipulate you.

"I was fine even offering my purity and body as payment. It didn't even matter if you succeeded. If you could hurt even just one of them. It would have been enough. Anata, I saw you as a tool. A piece of iron I could forge and temper into a blade."

The woman in my arms then gazed into my eyes as she whispered.

"A blade that exists only for my vengeance."

Aki then began to shiver as her tears fell from her eyes. Her breath began to grow ragged as she sobbed. Considering her breakdown earlier, she must have felt really guilty about all this.

"I noticed early on your perversion and lust. But I also witnessed your nobility and strength. If I used your kindness, I was convinced I could gain your trust. I even planned to have the Simmons die in accidents. All so you would turn to me for emotional support."

I flinched at Aki's confession. To take out someone by making it look like an accident. It could be said to be the truest calling of an assassin. There was even a series of games built around that concept. To someone with her skills, it would have been an easy task.

"But then I received a card from Trinity about Haru. They ordered me to kill you. It was then that I understood how horrible I was being. I was acting just like the people I hated the most. Thus, I decided to die by your hand as my repentance. I am so sorry, Anata."

Funnily enough, Aki recounted her account of how we met and what ran through her mind. During the entire thing, she never once said that she loved me. That may have been true then. But Aki's sobbing as she buried her face in my chest said otherwise.

Others might say that she could just be acting. But even without the Kindred link, I knew that this woman only had me in her heart. I remember the day we dueled. We really gave it our all. She even used her soul breaker.

Among the girls, the only one whom I tried to kill for real was Aki. The Sin of Gluttony.

If the Sins of Gluttony acted in a similar manner, they would have only two outcomes. Convince the Successor to abandon humanity and destroy it. Or let her Successor treat her as a villainess and slay her.

While I was a unique case, if you told a lawfully good person to butcher the Reapers, few would agree. Even the logic about it being a way to punish the world made little sense. But the truly bitter and vengeful would. That would have been how villains are born.

'But the Sins of Gluttony did not come first. They came last. By then, if the Successor were still alive, they would no longer be White Knights. They saw the darkness of betrayal from Envy, gained healing from Sloth, and Lust taught them to love.