The air in the corridor was thick with hostility. As Akos and Jin walked toward the grand council chamber, the walls seemed to shrink. Members of ALPHA, ECHO, and DELTA lined the hallways, their hands on their hilts, their eyes tracking every movement of the "AKOS."
Akos and Jin moved with a haunting silence, their faces masks of cold indifference. Outside the massive double doors, Riko was pacing frantically.
— "Oh, thank God," Riko exhaled, his face pale. "I was hoping you were still in one piece."
— "We're fine," Akos said shortly. "Let's go inside and see what this mess is about."
As they pushed the doors open, Jin and Riko froze. The room was a powder keg. Seated around a massive mahogany table were not just the "Big Three," but the leaders of the BRAVO gang—Yuma, Yurezo, Osuke, Eito, and Koji.
— "What?!" Riko hissed. "What are the BRAVOs doing here? They're our enemies!"
Akos didn't even blink. He walked to an empty chair and sat down with a chilling calm. — "I'm listening. Tell me the plan."
Reino opened his mouth to speak, but Akos cut him off instantly. "Don't ask me how I am. Don't ask what happened. Get to the plan. We're out of time."
Reino's jaw tightened, but he nodded. — "Fine. The plan is simple: those few who can wield the 'Unknown Energy' will move to the city center. Tenshi and a scout team will lure as many Devils as possible into the heart of the district. Once they're funneled in, the high-tier users will wipe them out. We need to clear the numbers as fast as possible."
Kaiser, the leader of DELTA, slammed his fist on the table. — "Have you counted them, Reino? There are a million! And the civilians? What happens to the people?"
Kai Mori, the leader of ECHO, leaned forward. "We can't let the citizens die. This city was built as a sanctuary for free Ninjitsu users. If we let it burn, we lose everything."
Keal, standing behind Reino, sneered. — "Your morality is useless right now. We need a plan that works, not a lecture on ethics."
— "There is no one," Yuma (BRAVO) said softly, his voice echoing in the tense room, "who can stop an invasion of this scale. It's an extinction event."
Keal turned on him, eyes blazing. "Look who's talking! Are you speaking from strategy, or is that just the smell of your own fear, Yuma?"
Yurezo started to stand, his hand reaching for his blade to defend Yuma, but Yuma held up a hand to stop him.
— "Enough!" Kaiser roared. "This isn't the time for a civil war! We need a move!" He looked at his lieutenants, Omos and Zalinio, but they simply looked at the floor, silent.
Kai Mori turned to his second-in-command, a sharp-eyed girl named Fala Mei. "Fala, do you have anything?"
— "No, sir," she replied quietly. "The math doesn't add up. We are outnumbered a thousand to one."
Kai Mori looked at his other two specialists, Lios and George. "What about you two?"
Lios shifted uncomfortably. "I have an idea... but it's a nightmare."
— "Nothing is easy today," Kai Mori snapped. "Speak."
— "If we blow the city's main dam... the flash flood would sweep the lower districts. The water would crush and drown the lower-level Devils instantly."
Sukizei immediately interrupted, his voice horrified. "No! That's a suicide move! The city will be erased. It will be buried under the sea! We'll be killing the city to save it!"
Kai Mori slammed his forehead against the table with a dull thud. "Then we have nothing. We're just waiting for the end."
The room fell into a heavy silence as Tenshi stepped forward, her wings shimmering with a faint, anxious light.
Tenshi: "I have a plan. But for it to work, I need Akos."
Every head in the room turned toward Akos, who remained slumped in his chair, his expression unreadable and cold.
Reino: "We're listening, Tenshi. Speak."
Tenshi: "Listen... Devils need a source of energy to sustain their forms in this world. They are drawn to human energy or the life force of nature itself—trees, flowers, everything living. They are parasites of life."
Kai Mori (snapping with frustration): "We know this! How does that help us stop a million of them?"
Tenshi: "It helps because Akos isn't just a human. As the bearer of the Infinite Eyes, his body holds a reservoir of energy that has no ceiling. It literally never ends. No matter how much he uses, it is infinite."
The leaders stared at Akos. The realization of what he truly was—a living, breathing sun of energy—began to sink in.
Tenshi: "The plan is this: I have a way to 'unlock' the seal on his aura, letting his energy bleed out into the atmosphere.
Every Devil in Sinish will lose their minds. They will ignore everything else and swarm toward him. While they are distracted, I will take Akos to a location far from the city center, and he will use one of his Absolute techniques to wipe them out in one go."
Akos stood up slowly, adjusting his red jacket. He looked at the leaders with a gaze that felt older than the city itself.
Akos: "Tenshi only told you part of it. I don't fully understand what she's planning to do to my body, but we don't have a choice. Here is the final order:
DELTA and ECHO: Your mission is the civilians. Get them into the underground shelters and the safe zones. Now.
BRAVO and ALPHA: You are the cleanup crew. You will stay behind and slaughter any stragglers that don't follow the main swarm.
Tenshi and I will head to the outskirts to draw the million-man wave away from the heart of the city."
The leaders looked at each other. The rivalry, the fear, and the hesitation seemed to vanish under the weight of Akos's command.
Reino: "Then let's move. To your positions! Everyone, stand up!"
The chairs scraped against the floor as the council broke. As Akos headed for the exit, Reino grabbed his shoulder for a brief second. Reino: "We have a lot to talk about when this is over. Good luck."
Jin: "Hey, Akos! Don't you dare die out there. You still owe me fifty steaks!"
The scene shifts to the open air. Tenshi is flying high above the ruins of Sinish, her arms hooked under Akos's shoulders, carrying him into the clouds.
Below them, the sight is a nightmare. The streets of the city have turned completely black. It isn't shadows—it's the sheer number of Devils. Thousands upon thousands of them are packed so tightly in the intersections that the ground is no longer visible. It looks like a sea of writhing, dark oil consuming the world.
Tenshi (looking down): "Are you ready, Akos? Once I open the gate to your energy, there's no turning back. You'll be the only thing they see in this world."
Akos (looking at his hands): "Do it. Let them come."
High above the ruins, the wind whipped through Akos's hair as Tenshi held him firm. The city below looked like a festering wound, covered in a black crust of moving Devils.
Akos: "Alright, we're here. Tell me exactly what you want from me."
Tenshi: "I'm going to make you use your hidden ability... the one called ZAMKA."
Akos stiffened in her grip. The name felt familiar, like a word heard in a dream, but it triggered no specific memory. Akos: "How do you know I have an ability like that? Tell me!"
Tenshi (sighing): "That question is so stupid you should be able to answer it yourself. You've lost 90% of your memory, Akos. Just because you don't remember it doesn't mean it isn't carved into your very soul."
Akos: "I need explanations, Tenshi! Not just cryptic riddles!"
Tenshi: "Ugh, Ronika was right—you really are an idiot. Look at me: I am a Devil. I can feel your essence. Right now, you are operating on barely 10% of your true power. The rest is locked behind a door you've forgotten how to open."
They began their descent, dropping rapidly toward the heart of the city. They landed in front of a heap of twisted steel and pulverized concrete. It was the remains of the Holy Blood organization's skyscraper. The massive building that started this nightmare was now just a graveyard of glass and stone.
Tenshi: "We start here. Listen carefully: I am going to forcibly unlock your Nature Energy. When it happens, you need to hold your breath and brace yourself.
The surge will be so violent it could kill me if I'm too close. It's going to release a massive shockwave that will vaporize hundreds of nearby Devils instantly. But after that... every single monster in this city will track your scent. That's when you must scream it with everything you have: ZAMKA."
Akos: "Zamka... eh?"
Tenshi: "Don't talk! I'm going to strike you right in the center of your chest. The core of Nature Energy—its very nucleus—is located right next to the heart, behind the sternum. I have to hit it hard enough to shatter the seal. Are you ready, or are you going to keep shaking?"
Akos took a long, jagged breath. He looked at the black horizon, where a million pairs of glowing eyes were beginning to turn toward their location. He tightened his fists.
Akos: "Do it. Let's see how far this 'Infinite' power can actually take us."
Tenshi's fist didn't just carry physical force; it was a concentrated spark meant to ignite a sun. She channeled every ounce of her demonic energy into a single point and drove it into Akos's sternum.
CRACK.
For Akos, the world went silent. His heart skipped a beat, then two. His nervous system flared with a pain so absolute it transcended screaming. His vision blurred into a static of white and gold.
Tenshi didn't wait to see the result. Sensing the atmospheric pressure shifting violently, she spread her wings and propelled herself into the stratosphere with a desperate burst of speed.
Across the city, in the various sectors of the defense, time seemed to stretch. Jin, Reino, Keal, Riko, Cairo, Luno, and the entire ALPHA army stood frozen.
Suddenly, Akos let out a jagged, guttural breath, and the "seal" finally shattered.
An explosion of Blue and Crimson energy erupted from his body—not as fire, but as a solid wall of raw power. The shockwave was cataclysmic.
The ground beneath Akos didn't just crack; it disintegrated into dust. The wave of energy expanded at a terrifying speed, shooting upward and slamming into the retreating Tenshi, tossing her through the air like a leaf in a hurricane.
The pulse covered the entire expanse of SINISH.
Every living soul felt it. Jin, Reino, Ronika, Yuziri, Vsoko, Kaiser, and Kai Mori—all of them stopped mid-breath. The civilians in the shelters clutched their chests, t
heir faces pale and slick with cold sweat. It wasn't just power; it was Dread. The aura was so heavy it felt like the sky had gained weight, pressing them down into the earth.
The first wave of the million-man swarm—the Devils closest to the epicenter—didn't even have time to scream. They were simply erased, turned into ash by the passing light.
The energy slowly began to pull back, coiling around Akos like a living cloak of flickering neon. He stood in the center of a massive crater, gasping for air, his lungs burning.
"Ah... ah... God... what was that...?" he whispered, his hands trembling.
He looked up, and the sight was enough to break a lesser man. The "Black Wave" was no longer distant. From every alleyway, from the rooftops, and from the tunnels beneath the earth, the Devils were coming. Small, skittering horrors and mountain-sized titans alike—all of them had turned their heads in unison.
The silence of the city was replaced by a trillion claws scraping against concrete. A million voices let out a single, hungry roar.
Akos stood alone in the ruins of the Holy Blood skyscraper, the center of the world's hatred, watching the horizon vanish behind a wall of teeth.