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~~ Ye Yuji's Apartment ~~
In the apartment bathroom wearing a white shirt and dark pants, a young man with dark hair and dark eyes stood dazed with his mouth open sloppily. His eyes, while still maintaining their pigment looked dead and soulless while his body somehow stood upright on its own.
Until a change occurred, his hair began to change colour; multiple strands lost their dark colour and turned white leaving his head as an equal mix of white and black hair. And finally his eyes. Their dark colour was lightened turning them silver.
*GASP* *THUD*
The young man fell back to his bum as he gasped for air, finally awakening. "Well, that was unpleasant."
It was our MC, Yuji who had awakened.
Standing up to look in the mirror Yuji said to himself. "From this guys memories, it seems Yuna and I managed to change details of this world. Instead of Ye Chen, my name is Ye Yuji but...why am I not as tall or as handsome?"
Yuji was indeed shorter at 175cm and noticeably less handsome compared to when he was in the God Realm.
"Nevermind that for now, what time is it?" Shaking his head as he turned to walk out of the bathroom he said so as he pushed those worries to the back of his head.
Walking out he entered his room and by the counter was his indestructible Nokia phone, picking it up he said. "It's Sunday, 7:23 am...Alright, I've got about 5 hours before that bitch goes to Starbuck. "
Yuji let out a breath of relief seeing he had arrived on the day the plot should start and he could have a bit of fun.
'Whose a bitch Yuji?'
A grin tugged at Yuji's lips hearing the familiar voice of his demoness sound in his head.
"The previous owner of this body has been being cheated on by his girlfriend, Yu Ting for the past 3 months because he was poor. " Yuji explained as his grin disappeared and he frowned.
'What a revolting woman.' She immediately shunned the bitch.
Cliona was incredibly horny practically all the time being the Great Demon of Lust and all but no matter how horny she was she would never go as far as to cheat on a host who couldn't satisfy her even if it was frustrating.
That's one of the other reasons why she was so picky about her who she would agree to partner with, she didn't want to have to live through something so frustrating knowing that she wouldn't allow herself to cheat no matter what.
Yuji was just about to comment but his eyebrow raised as he noticed something. "Cliona, is it just me or is it hot in here?"
As he wiped at his forehead which surprisingly had a few droplets of sweat on it, beside him Cliona appeared in the same outfit as earlier and said. "It's just you Yuji, it's co-..."
She cut herself off, surprised at what she saw as she came out of his body. The fact that he was shorter and less handsome only contributed to her shock as she noticed his body steaming.
Grabbing him by the shoulders to try to examine his body she exclaimed. "Yuji, why is steam coming out of you and why is your skin red?"
Yuji was immediately shaken and a frightened look plastered itself on his face. "Cl-Cliona, did you say just say my body is steaming and turning red?"
Seeing his expression contort into one she had only ever seen once, she was unnerved. She had only ever seen Yuji visibly frightened once, during training when he killed his first enemy making it all the more startling as she frantically replied with her worry plastered on her face.
"Yes, I did now tell me what's going on!" She exclaimed as she tried using her powers to examine his body repeatedly and yet found nothing wrong.
Following behind him as Yuji forced himself out of her grip and ran to the bathroom while undressing himself, her voice breaking between words. "Yuji, t-tell me what's going on!"
At the same time, Yuji was saying to himself. "Fuck, anything but this! Why is this happening again?" Meanwhile, his condition quickly began to worsen as more steam came off him and his breaths became deeper.
He ran into the shower, still ignoring Cliona's shouts that became more frantic with each one.
He had already thrown off all his clothing leaving him naked as he opened the shower to the coldest setting to try to cool himself as he turned around then fell to sit on the floor with the cold water pouring down directly onto him.
Not caring that she was still dressed Cliona jumped in with him, crouching in front of him as she held his face in her hands and she stared into his now panicking eyes she said. "Tell me what the hell is going on right now Yuji!" She exclaimed.
"My-My creation source is unstable. I think-I think it's because I changed bodies, now it is going to mould this body into a suitable vessel for itself...I just have to survive the process."
"How do we make it go faster? How do I help?" She immediately asked.
"We need Yun-MMMMGGGHHH!!" Veins bulged all over his body and loud cracking of bones drowned out the pattering of water as Yuji held in the mother of all screams so as not to alert everyone in the building.
The only thing holding him up was Cliona who had frozen in shock from the sudden breaking of his bones since otherwise, he would have fallen to his side.
"Yuji!" Cliona panicked as she watched his eyes glaze over and his body trembles in her hands.
Under both of their navels, their tattoos shone with their purple light as Cliona began pouring as much origin energy into his body as she could to heal him.
At the same time, Yuji's body began to boil so much that from the cold water that touched his skin even more steam rose.
His body temperature skyrocketed and his blood began to boil causing Cliona's hands to burn but she didn't care, not right now.
'He said he needed Yuna, is it because she has a creation source too? How am I supposed to help him if that's the case? No, I shouldn't be worrying about that, I'll just do what I can. Over the year we produced a ton of origin energy in the tattoo with Yuna that we never used, that should be able to help him...right?' Cliona thought to herself as she maxed the output on origin energy while embracing him. " Please Yuji, I'll do my best to heal you. Just stay conscious, please."
Hugging him, Lust could feel the bones in his body breaking and with each one, she could feel it repair thanks to her, and the cycle continued, each time strengthening his body a tiny bit by bit, but it was a gruesome process for the both of them, especially Yuji whose body had gone limp as his skin and his nose began to bleed.
'So this is what would have happened if Yuna wasn't with me the first time. It hurts way too much. My vision is blurring, my skin feels like it's being peeled off and all I can smell is blood. How much longer do I have to endure this?'
~~ 2 Hours Later ~~
Filled with the metallic scent of blood, a heavy atmosphere burdened the room with steam stained with a reddish hue filling it.
The cause of it being the blood-drenched floor that had steam rising from it.
Despairing cries filled the room as Cliona kneeled next to Yuji's limp and pale body laying over the pool of his blood.
His eyes had barely opened to slits and their once bright silver colour had nearly dulled entirely.
Cliona's figure was soaked in water and blood with her hair sticking to her clothes that were drenched. Her body had dozens of burns on it with skin peeling off and blood spilling from them but she couldn't care less.
'Dammnit! No, no, no! There's barely any left to use! Even with the enormous amount of origin energy we had, it wasn't enough!' Cliona exclaimed miserably in her thoughts as she tried to squeeze out whatever origin energy she could while also giving him chest compressions to restart his heart that had stopped beating a few moments ago.
With tears falling onto his chest, her sobbing increased as she cried out. "Yuji...*sniffle*...weren't we supposed to go on adventures together?...*sniffle*...Didn't you tell me during training you would become the strongest? How are we supposed to do all that without you? Now please... wake up. I can't lose you like this...*sniffles*...I'm begging you..." She paused as she gave him CPR.
She repeated over and over until, gazing sombrely at his still practically lifeless figure her chest compressions became more desperate because the window for when he would possibly wake up from them, considering his body was now stronger than normal providing a larger window was closing.
The only hope that had kept her going so far was that her tattoo hadn't disappeared from his abdomen which would mean he couldn't be saved if it did but even that couldn't go on for much longer.
She glanced to his groin and horror, struck. Nothing but a light shade of what once was the brightest Mystic Tattoo she had ever seen compared to the Contractors of other Sins was left.
It was but a shadow of its former self, dim and faded. Her face contort in anguish as her powerlessness began to set in because other than continuously pumping in the little Origin energy that her body could produce by devouring energy from her surroundings into his body while also giving CPR, she couldn't do anything. "...*sniffles*...I love you Yuji. I don't want it to end like this...*sniffles*...please, wake up. You still haven't proposed to me yet. I wanted to hear you call me your wife, just like you do Yuna, to build a family with you and commit everything to you for the rest of my life. *sniffles* Please, just wake up"
Her feelings began to pour out. Like a writer pouring his soul into a story or a songwriter into music, simple words from her as she cried down to the still and pale Yuji we're filled with indescribable emotion.
*THUMP* *THUMP*
She froze at the sound and feeling.
Within that moment's pause, it felt as if she was waiting for hours until she got her confirmation.
*THUMP* *THUMP*
The moment she felt it for the second time, his heartbeat that is, she couldn't describe her emotions.
Joy? Relief? Surprise? Perhaps it would be a more accurate description for all of them and more to be the case because even her expression didn't show any particular one but at the very least she knew what she felt was good.
She glanced back to the Tattoo and a faint smile stretched across her glistening lips seeing it slowly return to its enchanting, purple colour.
As what used to be tears of desperation and fear dripped onto him, Cliona said. "Thank you, thank you...*sniffles*... so much for coming back to life. I don't know what...*sniffles*... I would have done if you didn't."
'Ahhh, did I just die for a few minutes? Considering how horrifying the experience was, I'm honestly not surprised. This time my Source wasn't awakening so I guess the reason it took less time is that it only had to improve my body. If it wasn't for Cliona healing me through the process, the origin energy I can feel she's using on me right now and my Three Thousand Star constitution I would have died for good this time. Wait...didn't Fuji-san say as long as I had my source I could reincarnate when I die?... Ugh, I'll think about all that some other time. I put Cliona through a lot right now, I should focus on her...' Yuji thought to himself as he lifted his trembling hand towards Cliona.
Noticing what he was doing she hurried to hold his hand as she said. "Don't push yourself Yuji, you're already in horrible shape..."
Yuji didn't reply and simply pulled her into his inner world along with him.
They appeared in an open field of short grass as Yuji muttered. "Ori...gin...ene...rgy."
Lust who had initially been surprised to be in his inner world all of a sudden, quickly came back to her senses hearing what he said.
His inner world was filled with origin energy allowing Lust's body to directly absorb it into her body and use it to heal him. "Just wait a while Yuji...*sniffles*...I'll heal you as fast as I can."
~~ 1 Hour Later ~~
"Come on Cliona, I'm fine. As much as I would like to stay like this with you until you've calmed down we need to go clean the bathroom and I've got places to be."
Still, in the open field, Yuji sat cross-legged with Cliona sitting between his legs with her back to him.
His arms were wrapped around her and she held them possessively as she rested herself backwards on his chest.
Yes, his chest. Yuji had grown back to his original 187cm height.
Tilting her head back to look up at him she stared silently into his eyes with a light blush tinting her cheeks. " I want to tell you something, Yuji."
"Hmm?" He hummed curiously
"I love you."
His eyes widen from the 8 letters he had been waiting to hear for a whole year.
"I love you more than anything, more than anyone and I can't bear to be apart from you. I realised that last part today. When your heart stopped and you weren't waking up, I felt lost, I didn't know what to do. I had never felt more helpless, desperate and powerless...ever."
Through her confession, Yuji's eyes returned to normal and a smile stretched across his face then as she finished he said. "Although I'm not happy that it took my heart stopping for you to confess, I am happy that I can finally call you my woman. I love you too Cliona."
Once he replied, without waiting for a response from her he lowered his head and kissed her.
And a much more drawn out moan than usual, muffled by their kiss tried to escape her lips as Yuji's lips lingered over hers.
There was something different about this kiss, she couldn't put her finger on it but, his unique taste even though mixed with blood gave her even more of a rush than it did before.
'Was this what Yuna felt? This strong sense of undeniable belonging he's giving me, this feeling that I can entrust every part of myself to him with no worry and I'll have the best time ever? No wonder she looked like she was enjoying it way more than me all the time...' She thought to herself as they went on for a bit longer.
"One more ~" She mumbled in her naturally seductive tone as she attempted to lift her head to meet his lips once more because he abruptly separated from the kiss, just when she was getting into it.
After giving her a small peck he grinned mischievously and said. "Unfortunately, we don't have time to get too excited Cliona. I've got places to be soon and we have to clean the bathroom."
Pouting in dissatisfaction, itching to explore that feeling more, she asked. "Once we are done can we come back and continue?"
With the same mischievous grin plastered on his face, he replied. "No can do, I wish I could but we don't have the time."