🌹The Crimson Tyrant: Chapter 24

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BA-BUMP!

Riddle suddenly gasped as a sharp, painful pulsation shot through his body. He grasped his chest and doubled over in agony as his breath hitched. "Riddle-senpai?!" Alice exclaimed worriedly. Riddle didn't answer. He covered his face and gritted his teeth as the pain continued to spread throughout his body.

Alice's sky-blue eyes widened when that familiar uneasy feeling suddenly jolted up her spine. Every hair on the back of her neck stood on end. There was dark liquid dripping everywhere now. Something dangerous was about to happen.

Trey, sensing the oncoming danger, quickly grabbed Alice's waist. "Alice, get back!" he cried as he quickly pulled her away. Suddenly, Riddle threw back his head and let out a scream of agony as a furious flurry of crimson rose petals and blobs of black ink began to wrap him in an inky cocoon.

 Suddenly, Riddle threw back his head and let out a scream of agony as a furious flurry of crimson rose petals and blobs of black ink began to wrap him in an inky cocoon

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"RIDDLE!!!" Trey screamed in horror, and he helplessly watched as Riddle began to float into the air and started to transform right before everyone's eyes. All the while, Riddle continued to scream painfully. "Riddle-san! NO!!" Alice screamed.

Everyone watched in sheer horror and shock as Riddle's form began to change. Black tendrils of ink snaked their way up his neck, his arms and his legs. Once Riddle's transformation was complete, the inky cocoon vanished. He now looked completely different than his usual self.

He was now wearing a tattered red-and-black gown with black leather belts wrapped crisscrossed on his torso and black playing cards falling down to floor-level. A ring of blackened white roses and black thorns enveloped his waist.

 A ring of blackened white roses and black thorns enveloped his waist

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He wore tight black pants and black knee-high boots. An inky heart-shaped choker was wrapped around his neck and a sharp inky black crown was placed on top of his head. An inky heart tattoo etched across Riddle's right eye as a bright red flame flickered over it.

His skin had turned into a sickly pale ashen-gray color. When he opened his eyes, the color of his eyes had turned from slate gray into a lifeless blood-red hue. Black ink wrapped around his arms like tattered gloves.

Everyone then backed away when the black puddle of ink began to grow larger, spreading out underneath Riddle. Emerging from the inky puddle came a large shadowy silhouette, taking the appearance of the warped, stitched-up phantom of the Queen of Hearts.

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