“You don’t expect the only thing you’ll keep having me do is make me enter berserk mode, kill everything in my way, and then send me back to my realm because my body needs the familiarity.” Kai said as soon as he appeared in front of Zane.He was also starting to grow impatient no matter how hard he tried to act as though he wasn’t. Whatever Zane was doing wasn’t proving to be effective at all, and he, Kai, didn’t know why he kept going along with it.His head ached so badly, and the more he tried to remember what happened to him when he was in that mode, the more painful his headaches became.He couldn’t remember anything, except the fact that when he came back to his normal self, he had severe pain all over his body, his muscles were sore and practically screaming at him to rest.How was this supposed to help? If he hadn’t been through harsher training, he would have thought that Zane got a kick out of putting him through pain.“Since you’ve disappointed me when it came to critical

Kai could taste the blood in his mouth, and even his bones were starting to feel weary as he lifted his head to look at Zarus who looked equally tired.He couldn’t believe that he’d been able to hold his own for that long, but he had done it, and every time that invisible force seemed to always want to take control of him, he fought back.Zarus had told him that the only time he, Kai, was strong was when he went into the mode where he was completely oblivious of what was going on around him—berserk mode—and he was desperate to let Zarus know that he didn’t have to go crazy to beat him.“Oh, what am I witnessing?” Zarus asked, his tiredness evident in the way he spoke, they were both breathing heavily, and it was clear that they both wanted the fight to end.But before Zane would be able to acknowledge this, before they could bring whatever madness this was to an end, there had to be one winner, and Kai was desperate to make sure he was that winner.“You really seem to be holding your

His body hurts, but he couldn’t stop moving it because the moment he stopped moving his body would be the moment the miasma took over, and from everything he and Zarus had done to that miasma, he knew that regaining control would be hard.“No matter what you do, Kai Grant, do not ever concede to it! Do not give it even the slightest opening to take over you completely.” He heard Zarus shout, but Zarus’ voice was starting to sound distant.“Do you hear me?!” Zarus asked, and Kai wanted to respond, but he couldn’t. His throat felt like it was being closed up, his muscles were screaming at him to concede, but Zarus was screaming at him not to.Kai could see the look on Zarus’ face, and he knew for a fact that Zarus was worried about him. That was something he wasn’t expecting, he didn’t think that Zarus could ever worry about him.He thought that Zarus hated him, and that the reason he was even training with him was probably because Zane had asked him to, and Zane had probably threatened

He could feel his body ache, an evidence of what had gone down in the divinity realm, and although he had a lot of questions, he was more than glad to be back.Looking around, his eyes landed on the clock and he saw that there were only about twelve hours until the main event. Kai hadn’t thought that he was going to be able to go what Zane wanted with twelve hours more to spare.His mind drifted to what Zane had said about Zarus coming to the human realm, but when he looked around, he realized that he was the only one who had come, and Zarus was nowhere around.“Do you have the time now to tell us what’s going on, or should we be expecting you to go into another pull?” Catherine asked, her tone serious, but Kai could hear the plea in her voice.It was almost as though she was begging him not to go anywhere, and looking at his palm, he couldn’t help the smile that tugged at the side of his lips.“If I didn’t meet a certain expectation then maybe I would have gone back, but I think I ex

The maid stepped aside as soon as Kai got to the door, and Kai could see Zarus’ irritation evident in the way he glared at him, but Kai was most excited to see him. He didn’t think that he was actually going to come, when he’d heard Zane say that he, Zane, needed Zarus to be in the human world, Kai had wanted to ask if Zarus was going to come with him, but when he woke up without Zarus, he’d thought that Zane had meant after the charity auction. “What are you doing here?” Kai asked, the question directed at Zarus before he turned to the maid. “Thank you, you can go do other things, I’ll take care of this.” He said to the maid. Without any other word or any hesitation at all, the maid bowed her head lightly and left Kai alone with Zarus who looked like he needed really long hours of sleep. “The air here is so fucking impure, I felt like I was going to barf just trying to make my fucking way to this place, and this world smells like shit too.” Zarus grunted as Kai ushered him in. K