Withered spirit -compleated

unleashed

Issei woke up one morning the feeling of pain washed over his body and his muscles ached from the pain The overwhelming numbness he felt was starting to grow, he knew this was death calling for him, if he turned evil he would be getting stronger, not weaker he took a deep breath before he got up he felt a presence in his room then he felt someone holding him he opened his eyes and saw Irina next to him holding on to him for dear life he could feel the warmth coming from her and how warm it made him feel better but broke his heart for her

Issei: " I wish I could treat her better, but with the way things are going I'll have to treat her the best I can tonight it's the least I can do for her..."

He pulled her closer to him and she snuggled and smiled in her sleep and got comfortable in his new body warmth, that night he slowly started getting warmer as they slept, he stayed like this for a bit then after 10 minutes he kissed her forehead and went to the living room and made a place for him to sit on the couch, As he got the space ready Ddraig spoke to him

Ddraig: Ise, we could try the transformation I made, it's one of the few things that may save you but I thought about it phoenix tears, they could help slow down the spread because they rebuild the body not fix it... It's worth a shot, The reason I'm bringing it up is there is nothing other than myself slowing it down, and if you fight we going to need to have another thing to fall back on

Issei: "I want to, I really do but if it doesn't work and it kills me, or it only speeds up the fall and I have less time with them, plus she would feel like she made my time shorter "

Issei then sat down and started meditating to try and calm down his body and to find an inner piece about the situation.

Ddraig: Understood partner, but you know that new promotion you have we haven't tried it... It's going to be one hell of a learning curve during the game, but we can't risk it now, it should be fun using it

Issei:" yea one hell of a way to go out but hey it was something I loved about my life like meeting you and everyone else I sure things aren't good now but I'll take everything that happened over a normal life any day"

Ddraig: Hmmm if things are cut short I want you to know I'll mentally abuse my next host They won't come close to anything you've done You were my first friend in a long time I want to say thank you for everything

Issei:" No problem *chuckles* have some last bit of fun yea"

To the outside world, Ravel and Irina saw him meditating and saw a small smile on his face, They could only assume that Ddraig was trying to make him feel better, they had small smiles to see him smiling but their hearts only felt the pain and sorrow from knowing the truth.

Irina: We should call Rossweisse sensei I'm sure she would like to at least see him doing well before the fight.

Ravel: Yeah I agree, but should we let those ones know?

They looked at each other for a bit but in the end, neither of them knew if they should or not it made things complicated which they knew he didn't want to deal with

Issei: It's your choice I'm not going to stop you from telling them, but Ravel.

She looked at him with a slight blush.

Ravel: Yeah...

Issei: Ddraig wants me to try a phoenix tear to help me

Ravel: Oh, okay let me go get one

She quickly went to her room and came back with a vile containing the tear and gave it to Issei

Issei: (deep breath) please don't hurt like shit