Half the Fallen Angels
Episode 25: Zivan's dark side

Morning, Goa in the Sei Roja valley….

“They already know that you are here.”

“How was it?, according to what you explained last night I should not have activated my magus during the trip here.”

“Possibly they know from Aslan, considering your trail ends at his place.”

“Aslan?”, Devan's face confused in disbelief.

“Do not misunderstand. Nor do we know what the situation is facing him. Maybe he's having trouble too.”

“So yes. Looks like I really bothered Aslan.”

“Originally they don't know your destination that doesn't matter. They are impossible to enter this valley. But..”

Zivan was silent for a moment not to continue his sentence, as well as Devan quietly waiting for Zivan's continued sentence.

“If they have arrived here, I fear something has happened at Rayyana.”, continued Zivan.

Hearing that, Devan reacted a little..

“Then you have to help me master my magus immediately so I can get there. I have to make sure Luna is okay.”

A momentary silence…

Suddenly, the look on Zivan's face became unfriendly, he looked at Devan with a cold look.

“Before that I apologized to you, Devan. Actually to this day I still have a hard time trusting you.”

Devan was puzzled, his forehead shriveled looking at Zivan full of wonder.

“What do you mean?”

“Devan... Why do you care so much about Luna?, when you only know for a moment.”

“Why did you say!”, Devan's intonation suddenly rose slightly “That's obviously because..”.

(“Eee...Why do I care so much At Luna?”, suddenly Devan asked inwardly.)

“I've expected.”

Devan suddenly felt confused and difficult with the question, as well as with himself.

“Last night you seemed happy to tell her. What did he do to you so much that it made you so?”, asked Zivan in a cynical tone. His speech style slowly became rough.

Devan was silent, but his heart spoke.

(“It's weird to think about it. All Luna did to me was make me meet her grandfather. As simple as that, but...”).

“Could!…You fell in love with her?”

“Haah!... You seriously ask like that?”, Devan spoke loudly.

“No?. Then you hate him?”

“Hey!, stop!”

“You look confused, Devan. You haven't answered any of my questions.”

“What if I'm confused?”

“Hahaha..Why don't you just let your dark side answer it?”, put a cynical smile on Zivan's face.

“My dark side?”

Zivan turned his body slowly, looking at all the directions in the cave.

“You know?, why did I bring you here?, in a place full of food like this.”

Devan quietly did not answer, He only saw the behavior of Zivan, without realizing Devan was on alert to see the sudden change of Zivan's style.

“For humans, tombs are sacred places, they must maintain ethics when in their territory, say hello, give do’a, and must not do things that are forbidden or taboo, especially to disturb the tomb inhabitants. Yes, even though they are just a bunch of bodies anyway.”

Devan reacted small, looking a look of dislike on his face at the last sentence he heard.

“But this tomb is different. All its inhabitants have been cut off from the love of God. They came to this valley because they gave up on their lives. There are also those who are not grateful for their lives, and they think by coming here they will become a special person. Ck...ck...ck.”, said Zivan, he clucked while shaking at the end of his sentence.

“They were only fooled from the stories that circulated, in the end they were all in a state of loss. And guess Devan, why is it all?”, asked Zivan, raising both palms to shoulder height.

“Tell me what you want to say.”, respond Devan coldly.

“Haa?..don't you guess?”

Devan just kept looking at Zivan.

“Hahaha. All right, I'll answer it myself. He.”, said the arrogant-faced Zivan.

“Because it was Amethya who caused all this to happen. The absence of an aura of fear surrounding this valley, made the foolish humans in this tomb dare to enter the valley to the detriment of themselves. Hahaha.”, Zivan said then laughed.

“Hmmm.. Sometimes I think fear is not entirely negative. He exists so that we beings do not hurt ourselves.

Ck...ck....ck, Amethyaa.... Amethya.... I understand, I believe you left because you were against God, because you hated your own power right?

I want to meet you, I want to ask why you left this valley?, why do you disobey God?, do you hate your power?, you know, your strength is God's grace, because of your miracle, I don't know how many people in the past have been saved.

So you heard Devan, I looked back, I saw the past, which is why I know why this is happening. So, your words last night weren't true. And about my house, it just so happened that the back was covered in rock cliffs. It's part of the natural form of this place, not part of my house.”

Hearing that, Devan rang his words last night…

(....“If that's the case, your room isn't actually open, Zivan.”, Devan responded. Julian and Morgan turned to Devan.

“You mean?.”, asked Zivan who turned towards Devan after he had previously faced forward.

“I mean, the front and side are open, but not at the back. It is covered by a wall, and the wall is not an ordinary wall, but directly by the rocks of this part of the cliff that rises to the top.”, explained Devan.

…..

“Zivan philosophizes this room as a thought. The left, front, right space that is open, can be interpreted as thinking far ahead with a wide viewpoint.

(“It looks like I offended Zivan by accident. But, did I say it too much?...Wait..not that it matters at the moment.”, Devan thought.)

“Abiz once. I don't understand why you seem happy?, shouldn't you be sad, regret the departure of Amethya which makes many people die in this valley?”, asked Devan not understand. He scrunched his forehead.

“Hm?, so that's what you caught?. Of course I am happy at a time like this, because, I have a corpse this much.”, Zivan said as he spread his hands with an evil smile on his lips.

“Zivan..”, said Devan who still does not understand.

“Finally we meet again, Devan.”, Zivan smiled wickedly as he stared intently at Devan.

“Meet again???”, said Devan in a small voice.

Suddenly the ground inside the cave suddenly shook. Then the buried human body began to rise several until all at once out of his tomb.

A black aura emerged from where Zivan was standing, like a burst of water circling Zivan and then spreading in all directions, resurrecting human bodies into the undead with complete flesh and limbs and regenerating.

The corpses were completely intact and looked healthy, they stood upright, at first glance looking completely alive, their skin and face returning to how they were, except for their empty eyes and broken clothes.

Devan was so unexpected to see the incident, he looked around already many undead surrounded him. Then he looked at Zivan and the black aura coming out of him.

At that time Devan only understood the purpose of Zivan's conversation.

(“For humans, tombs are sacred places...”.

…..

“But this tomb is different. All its inhabitants have been cut off from the love of God. They came to this valley for giving up on their lives...”).

“Zivan shit!, you really did the forbidden thing. Just because they're not real people and then you justify what you're doing. ”, Devan said looking at him unhappily.

“Hahaha.”

Shown in the mind of Devan, Zivan who yesterday with the one today before him.

“So this is the dark side of you huh.. Imagine yourself yesterday I forgot, that you are still a fallen angel, a defiant being.”, Devan whispered a small talk to himself.

Devan who was standing still, suddenly from the side appeared a single undead galloping towards him. Until when Devan realized it he saw the corpse had pointed his fist right into Devan's face.

“TASS!!”, Devan pushed the corpse to the left with his right hand as he shifted his position slightly to the right. The body fell down too.

“Hei Zivan, what does this mean?”, soon Devan takes a running step when he sees other corpses start chasing him.

“So I've apologized right, that I have a hard time trusting you.”

“We can still talk well if you just don't believe me. I have no reason to fight with you. I thought you also had no reason..”, suddenly Devan did not continue his sentence. He remembered the words of Zivan.

(“Finally we meet again, Devan.”)

“Hah!”, Devan reacts small.

(“Don't happen something between me and Zivan in the past.”, bathin Zivan.)

“I told you too, right?, if you're confused, just let your dark side do the talking. He must know everything.”

While talking…

Devan continued to run at moderate speed, looking dead body in front of him right hand turned back, when the two had reached a distance, Devan braked suddenly…

“Wusshh!!”, the sound of wind near Devan's ear, right beside him through the fist of the corpse. Devan took a step until he aligned his shoulders, he immediately turned around and pushed the corpse in accordance with the direction of his fist and then he turned back.

(“These undead cheeses, although their movement is very simple, but their blow is strong once.”)

Devan immediately turned to change the direction of his run when it appeared in front of him a number of bodies confronted him.

However, unexpectedly, just a few steps Devan was immediately greeted with a stretch of side arms swinging strongly towards the side of Devan's head.

Devan immediately stopped his run and raised his left arm to protect his left head.

“Pumb!..”

Devan's eyes widened for a moment, although he managed to deflect, he slightly grimaced and slightly bounced off receiving the blow. Devan just threw out his tank and immediately ran back through it.

Devan continued to run to the point where he could freely dodge, and could not stop running, or he would be in a condition where he was surrounded in all directions.

While Zivan was motionless in his place, he just stood looking at Devan who was busy dodging while releasing his magus inside Goa.

Along the way, Devan bathes…

(“Tch!, it would be bad if you had to confront Zivan at this time. Though I still need his pointers to help me control my magus..”).

Devan remembers Aslan's words before he left Avalon.

(“.....we must be fast, not only for your sake, but also for the sake of Luna and the fairies.", said Aslan raised his tone.

(“If I fail here, how do I help Luna and the fairies.”)

“Hei Zivan, I didn't come here for myself?, Aslan asked me to come here, so that with my strength I could help Luna and the fairies?” said Devan in a loud voice, while busy dodging and fending off the attacks of the undead.

“Oooh... So not only Luna, you are also worried about the fairies?”

“Of course. Not only you, I'm also worried about Rayyana.”

“If about that. I have other plans. You don't have to bother to go there, you won't be able to. So, you just die in this cave…

LET ME ALONE GO HELP LUNA!!!”, knotted an evil smile on Zivan's lips.

“HA???”, the instant the corpse that was facing Devan at that time, was hit by him to fall and broke the neck bone of the corpse.

Devan's black aura shot out faintly for a moment making the corpses stop moving.

“So so. From the beginning you had no intention of helping me. But I want to take on the role that I am taking on…

Just sorry, helping Luna is my job. Since you have blocked me, then this very second I will fight you.”

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