Festival…

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Seth strolled through the festival, filled with the power, eyes searching . The air of people laughing and enjoying themselves improved his mood even farther . It didn't take him long to figure out that his brother manipulated him with magic . There was no way he could realistically turn on Clyde after all of the s.h.i.+t they've went through . h.e.l.l, the guy saved his life—the mental block Julius gave him sparked Seth to do something stupid . And that was absorb the taint .

Despite returning to himself, Seth still felt the need to challenge the leader . Maybe the difference between them wasn't that great, as long as his eyes didn't s.h.i.+ne . As long as the crazy white aura didn't erupt around the dude . No . Seth wasn't going to waste his time fighting an impossible fight . He didn't want to hurt Clyde or see anyone else do it—nor get his a.s.s kicked on the contrary .

You hold back…You keep away from greatest to remain in his shadow . You are weak… Pull yourself from him… Attack him, show your strength . Your power…

And that was another reason why Seth needed to find Clyde or even Alice . Maybe the holy duo of whatever could purify him . He MUST be purified . Maybe it would be as simple as giving him the Omen's sphere, ridding the young man of the taint .

"Alright, stupid voice, I need you to shut up," Seth said under his breath .

Show your strength . Kill him! Kill him! Kill him!

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"Yeah, no, you can f.u.c.k off," Seth whispered to the Omen's sphere . Clyde absorbed FOUR of them . How did he put up with this? Maybe his Stone powers cleansed the taint .

Did Julius do something to the orb? Played him deeper than he calculated .

Seth held back a snarl—he didn't want to look angry in front of these good people . Just wait until he found that s.h.i.+thead . h.e.l.l, knowing Clyde's weird powers and all, he probably thought Seth went rogue . Maybe…Seth could use that to his advantage . No, logic failed there . Seth wanted to think this logically . So yes, find Clyde it is then, he thought .

You will…You will fight him . Show your strength . You cannot resist .

Evil orb of death that thought it could manipulate Seth . Check . Evil dips.h.i.+t brother who was full of himself and probably believed he turned Seth into a p.a.w.n . Check . The idiot had no idea that it was SETH who played him . He planned to just give the orb to Clyde . His team leader was collecting them after all .

This ordeal just reminded Seth that he was way too vulnerable to mental magic . Why in the h.e.l.l would he wake up believing himself to be used like a lackey by Clyde? The guy never made any demands, really . And h.e.l.lo, saved his life . Twice . Seth wasn't the type of man to forget that . He always respected his team lead . Julius would f.u.c.king pay for this—Seth sensed his presence . Rage was like h.e.l.l's fury inside of Seth . No one played HIM like a fiddle or his friends . He at least hoped they'd still consider him one . Clyde would definitely know already .

Well, no point of worrying about that right now . Take down the manipulator and everything should snap into place .

As for the vampires . Seth had no intention of going near that hot oil if he could help it . Unless his team was planning to kill them off or something, he'd rather go the entire night without getting his blood sucked, thank you very much .

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The more the young man thought of Julius, the more he felt like screaming in frustration . Mental magic . He needed some way to resist it .

Abruptly, he spotted Harumi, as beautiful as ever with her cute friend, Kiko . They were heading toward Sazuki . In fact, Kiko spotted her sister and ran toward her with heartfelt joy and tears . Then three vampires suddenly appeared at the halfway point between the two sisters .

Seth snarled then . He was not about to sit there and let the bloodsuckers ruin this .

Kill him! Go for greatness! Do it! Listen to your own blood! LISTEN AND OBEY!

Seth tuned the annoying evil voice out as determination took over his spirit . Focusing on the three goons—the kid Vampire seemed to observe from afar—he began to cast . People were moving away without looking at them due to that weird instinct that went off around supernatural occurrences . Seth could not understand it . And he wouldn't .

[Seth activated Targeted interruption!]

Targeting the three vampire goons, he negated all of their magic .

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[Enemies cannot use magic for 2 minutes . ]

[Your MP has dropped to 80%]

Unlike the regular Interruption, Seth didn't have to worry about his MP getting halved . Sure the time of negation was much longer, but the cost…way too steep for his tastes .

Just then he saw Clyde, Toru, and Kitome running toward the vamps . He also spotted Julius, on the rooftop of a stand, hand aimed at Clyde and the party . He knew his brother's cult would try to give him orders, but the man would never follow them . He knew Julius too well . He bet whoever commanded him simply wanted him to scope the area, retrieve the Omen's sphere and do something else with it . Maybe destroy it . But his brother, being the a.s.shole that he was, decided another course of action . He just knew it .

Seth couldn't make it in time to his brother, but that didn't matter . He motioned to his left . Clare emerged and nodded . She aimed her bow and fired, true to her aim . Julius dodged the arrow somehow, at the last second, but his focus was off Clyde . That mattered .

"Thanks for the help," Seth said . He had no intention to try taking on the festival madness by himself—and possibly Clyde's wrath . So, he told Clare everything and asked her to advocate for him .

"You be careful," Clare said . "I'm going to try and explain everything to your leader . If he doesn't already know already . He's a nice man, I think he'll understand . He's as sharp as a razor these days . "

"And that's why he's our leader," Seth said . He nodded, as if confirming something to himself, ignoring the Omen's sphere . As if he'd leave a party filled to the brim with hot women . They may be a part of his leader's possible harem, but that didn't mean he wouldn't get to look . Besides, Clyde attracted monster girls and fairies and angels . Seth could learn from that, figure out the secret and become harem king . He chuckled . How ridiculous . His studies wouldn't allow such a thing .

He bounded forward, fiery aura surrounding him . Julius would f.u.c.king pay for messing with his mind .

Festival Entrance…

Ming was late . Though the ordeal wasn't her fault—her stupid publishers scheduled her to make an appearance at the festival to sign books and manga, at the last minute . She didn't feel like doing the signing . She was supposed to be a prophet of the Stone . Venus herself appeared in her dreams and told her to find Omen's spheres for him . At least Ming thought it was Venus .

She also said that the Stone was the one who possessed the forbidden spellcaster deck . That turned out to be true .

Ming wanted to get to know him, become his wife . They'd be an unstoppable couple . She shuddered when she thought of her rival . Chika . Even the real possibility of having to share Clyde .

Abruptly, she noticed something as she strolled into the festival . People were moving away from somewhere . The way they moved…It couldn't be .

She looked around but saw no monsters . The demon lord was gone anyway . She'd have to go to that area to find out . Her fans wouldn't be able to meet and greet if they were under that weird trance . A pity . Tyrone's girlfriend, Kazumi, forced her into a yukata . It was quite pretty too…purple with a rosy design . A pity indeed .

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