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Chapter 41: The monster destined to be
The air was dead.
The entire universe contained the breath.
The planet seemed paralyzed, trapped in an eternal moment of fear. The sky, once dark, was now tinged with a sick red, as if the cosmos itself was bleeding.
Juan's shadow dominated the landscape.
Juan, with his torso bare, was covered with black lines that twisted like snakes through his body. His skin seemed to be burning from inside. His eyes... were not eyes. They were two soulless abysses, two wells of infinite darkness, with a red glow that burned like the fire of hell.
The villain... was shaking.
His body, injured and bloody, barely responded. The arrogance that had fed him... had become pure panic.
"I DON'T DO IT...!"
CRACK!
Juan was already in front of him. Without warning, his hand closed on the villain's skull like a claw. BOOM! The ground exploded under his feet when Juan smashed him against the ground. The impact was so brutal that the entire planet seemed to shake.
The villain tried to get up...
CRACK!
Another blow.
His jaw broke. His head turned at an unnatural angle. He tried to scream, but his words were just a bubble of blood.
BOOM!
Juan lifted him by the neck as if he weighed nothing and smashed him with a knee directly to the chest. The crunch of ribs was heard breaking and the villain flew out, bouncing against the ground like a stone thrown into the water.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Every time he stopped, Juan was already in front of him.
Each blow... was worse than the previous one.
Each blow... plucked a piece of his humanity.
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Each blow... destroyed something more than flesh and bones.
The villain's face no longer distinguished between blood, broken bones and torn flesh.
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In the transmission...
Thousands... millions of people watched. No one spoke. No one was breathing.
That wasn't a battle...
It was an execution.
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"Valterion!" VALTERION! -Waru's voice rumbled in his mind.
Valterion, barely conscious, held Lightning in his arms. Charlotte and Elizabeth were close... they were barely breathing.
"You must stop him!" Waru shouted. If Juan continues like this, he will erase everything!
Valterion gritted his teeth.
"I can't break the field!" he replied in despair. I don't have the strength!
"Then you burs up if necessary, but save it!"
Valterion knew it.
If Juan didn't stop... the universe would die.
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Back in combat...
Juan trampled on the villain's body.
Each stomp broke more bones.
Each step split the ground.
Each step... tore off a fragment of the universe.
Reality itself cracked.
The patches of darkness - the Nothingness - began to grow around him.
Juan was erasing existence.
"Did you really think you could call yourself a villain?" Juan whispered.
His voice... was not a voice.
It was a hollow roar, devoid of life, as if every word came straight out of the abyss.
The villain could no longer answer. His chest raised and fell weakly. There was no more hope.
Juan raised his fist.
The energy that surrounded him was dark, intense, as if death itself was squeezed in his palm.
"You attacked my friends..." Juan's voice echoed all over the planet. You attacked the people I love the most...
The fist shone even more.
"And you dared to endanger... my reign."
Juan raised his hand.
"Chaos..."
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"NOOOO, JUANN!" Valterion shouted.
Juan's fist was going to fall...
But then, something flew in front of him.
The photo.
The photo they had taken before. Everyone was there... smiling.
? Lightning, with his jokes.
? Elizabeth and Charlotte, hugging, laughing.
? Scarlett, with her calm look.
? Valterion, with his shining armor, serious as always.
Juan stopped.
His empty gaze was fixed on the image.
The darkness in his eyes seemed... to tremble.
"My... friends..." he whispered.
For an instant... a single moment... his gaze was human.
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Valterion fell to his knees, panting, with his heart still beating his chest like a war drum.
The villain, barely alive, smiled through the blood.
"Is that all?" he murmured with a grimace.
CRACK!
The villain stopped smiling.
Juan turned slowly.
His eyes lit up again in an incandescent red.
Nothing expanded again...
His body no longer looked human...
It was something else. Something worse. Something that shouldn't have existed.
"This... is for them."
Juan raised his hand.
His voice was cold...
His voice was dry...
His voice was a sentence.
"Chaos."
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The whole universe trembled.
The ground was torn.
The sky roared as if the planet itself screamed in agony.
The stars... went out for a moment.
Throughout the bi-universe, the most powerful beings felt a crushing pressure. The fear... the real fear... had awakened.
On Earth, his mother fell to her knees.
"Juan... what are you turning into?"
Waru, from his world, looked up at the sky and closed his eyes.
"He's not a hero..." he murmured. It's a walking storm.
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And Juan... just stayed there.
Standing.
Breathing.
Cold.
Empty.
The monster... destined to be.
End of chapter.
