Chapter
Forty-Eight: Game Over:
He stood over her smirking
as he shook his head.
"Well, well, well," he
said. "You came back. That's a good girl." She fought to keep up
the planned farce. She hated his voice now that she learned the truth from the
kiss. He choked back a snicker.
"Whatever," he said. He
pulled out a whip. "Time to end this shitty game. Get on your knees!" She didn't
move. He gritted his teeth.
"Get on your knees!" he
barked. "Do it now!" She struggled to comply. The pain danced around in her
mind. Keep
it together! He
watched her push herself to her knees.
"Beg for forgiveness," he
said. She would not give him the satisfaction anymore. He tightened his grip
around the whip.
"Beg for forgiveness!" he
snapped. "Beg for fucking forgiveness!" He whipped the cold floor with a loud
snap.
"Beg me to fucking forgive
you!" he barked. He paused when he heard mumbling float out of her mouth.
"Sorry?" he asked as he
leaned in close to her ear.
"You are not my Asato!" she
hissed.
"What?" he asked. She
looked up with hate-filled eyes.
"You are not my Asato! He
would never hurt me!" she declared. "Who the hell are you?" He sneered at first
and then chuckled.
"Very good," he said.
Suddenly, his looks melted away from him. The black suit disappeared into white
robes. Two white wings sprung out from his back. The violet eyes changed to an
icy blue. His glasses caught a sinister light. The new man smirked.
"That game was getting
boring anyway," he said. Anna snorted at him.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The angel smirked at her.
"Kind of pointless to tell
someone I'm about to kill," he replied. He raised his hand for the attack.
"That's enough, Satoshi!"
Tsuzuki barked in his head. The angel smirked. Looks like Tsuzuki managed to get
back enough control in this prison to control the outcome of this twisted game.
"I'm sorry," he said. "But
you have no say in this game, remember? You agreed to my terms or did you
forget?"
"Now I'm ending this! No,
we are ending this!" the shinigami snapped.
Satoshi snickered. "And how
are you going to�" Blood flooded from his mouth. He didn't even make a sound.
Anna sat on her knees, watching. Satoshi laughed in his head.
"Oh what? You think you can
kill me? You can't do it! I can't die! You're wasting your time!"
Tsuzuki smirked. "Good to
know. If that was the plan."
"What?"
"Anna-chan, you can leave
now," Tsuzuki said.
She blinked at him. "But
how?"
"Go through the gate."
"What gate?" A
light-covered blade pierced through Satoshi's chest. The angel gasped as the
blade dragged down to his stomach. His body ripped wide open.
"Now, go!" Tsuzuki shouted.
"Go!" Anna eyed him in Satoshi's body.
"But what about you?" she
asked.
"I'll be waiting for you on
the outside!" her lover yelled. "Just go! I can't hold him open much longer!"
His woman nodded.
"Okay!" she yelled. The
woman pushed herself to her feet and raced toward the blinding light.
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At five in the evening, Anna
came to in her hospital room. Her eyes scanned the dim lighting.
Am I back? Her eyes moved to the foot
of her bed. Tsuzuki sat before her, smiling. Anna tried to smile uncertain.
"I'm back," she said. Tsuzuki gently took her hand.
"Welcome home," he whispered.