Netori: Stealing The Hero's Party!

Note: Sorry about no updates yesterday, I may not have informed those who are not in the discord but I'll be taking one day off every week. It was Saturday yesterday for me, so I took it off, but if you guys think I should take some other day off instead of a weekend day, lemme know!

Like a dog's tail, a pirate never learns to be straight and narrow. Thus even though the girls were unconscious and hallucinating, one of them had decided to play with a knife around their bodies just as he'd done numerous times before with other women. But to his horror, a sudden jerk of the mother's body as she suffered through a nightmare, slit a major nerve from her neck.

And now as she laid drowning in her own blood, the pirates watched cackling at the idiot's mistake, all the while, using the dead woman's daughter still.

Their laughs, however, didn't last much longer as flying through the glass window came the winged warrior with his devil companion not far behind. The glass shattered and scattered at his entrance and while the pirate wasted time staring at him with shock, Amedith raised his blade and began the slaughter.

"Liliyana, kill anyone who tries to escape!" Angered at the sight of both the dead mother and the man who'd killed her still being connected, he flew towards the shocked man in an instant and pierced his neck with his blade of light.

Lifting him up high while his body thrashed in a desperate attempt to save itself, Amedith made the man suffer until every drop of blood from his body had painted the decrepit room and everyone inside it.

Listening to the sluggish sounds of a squirting vein in the neck, the other pirates lay frozen, unable to comprehend exactly what was happening or even figure out if it was real or the result of taking some hallucinogens themselves. High as a kite, they could hear their hearts racing with fear and their palms sweaty with anxiety at the thought of being next.

Even so, not a single one of them moved, for in their minds the first to move would be next in line to be devoured by this nightmare.

Only after the light in their companion's eyes dimmed into oblivion did the pirates get off the ground and attempt to escape. Some wanted to stand their ground and fight, but with what appeared to be an angel and a devil standing before them, their bravery was thwarted and they attempted to escape just like the rest.

"Liliyana kill the rest." But with Amedith's order, as he threw the pirate's body to the ground, Liliyana smirked at the pirates and created a chain of clones that encircled them in a moment.

Trapped within the encirclement of the fae-devils, the pirates walked backwards into each other with their eyes still glued to the devil. Drawing pleasure in their fear, the devil side of Liliyana chuckled at their misery. Moving closer and caving them in, she forced them to react, but in their dazed state, they couldn't clip a nail from her fingers.

However, that was not the case for Liliyana as grabbing them by the throat after a quick evade, she used her shapeshifting magic to turn their skins inside out.

Like a peeled orange with veins, the pirates were laid bare in the most literal of senses, and the brush of their clothes against their undone skin burned their bodies with a heat no flame could compare.

"AGHHH! IT BURNS!"

"GHUAHHH! WH-WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!"

"MO-MONNSTERS! FUCKKKK–LEA-LEAVVE US! JUST GO!"

Even in their agonizing screams, the devil smirked. Not only the devil but the fae side of her was also relishing this moment. Taking further by creating a slit in her palms that was pressed against the many throats of the pirates, Liliyana conjured a sharp vein that tore through their trachea and began spewing bloating poison into their lungs and the rest of the bodies.

In a moment's time, the pirates' bodies were swelling up with coagulated blood. Heart attacks became common, and their lungs ruptured loudly inside their bodies, and yet kept alive by the devil's magic, they could feel every moment of torment right until their bodies were swollen like pimples.

The eyes were first to pop like raw eggs on an open flame, then came the turn for their fingers to blow up like crackers. Limb by limb their bodies splattered throughout the room, and by the time they were all dead, even the golden light of the lighthouse had turned a crimson red.

That alone was a sign of their mission's completion to the rest of the party still arriving by a rowboat. Being the most capable of handling the situation, the two had been sent to rescue the women, however, one of them had already succumbed and the other appeared to be near death as well.

"Her body's been ruptured from the insides, these monsters probably stuffed her with something beforehand to open her up for themselves…" Although unflinching at the sight of guts all over her, seeing the daughter's mangled body, Liliyana couldn't help cringing.

"Can you still save her?" Looking up at Liliyana with his hand still checking for a pulse on the mother, Amedith stared at Liliyana hoping she could help at least one of them. "So? Can you?"

Recognizing the gravity of the situation, Liliyana nodded back at him and began the healing process even though the damage was inside the body and was much harder to heal than any surface injury.

"I'll try…" Getting on her knees beside the girl, Liliyana whispered further under her breath. "Although I doubt she can ever be a mother now, poor girl."

Healing the injured parts–at least the ones that she could feel, Liliyana tried her best to keep the girl's body as functional as possible. But with the trauma to her innards being far too grizzly, the girl's lower body had lost all blood, and despite the best attempts of the fae devil, they couldn't be revived thanks to necrosis.

Defeated, Liliyana checked the girl's lower body some more to find the main cause behind her problems, and from just one touch on the cracked pelvis, she knew exactly what had happened.

"They cracked her pelvis and she bled internally…" Glancing up at the darkened eyes of the girl, Liliyana felt a cold grip around her chest. "Her body's been like this for hours, half dead and half alive somehow. Even if I heal her, she'll never be able to use her legs or anything below her stomach, if it hasn't internally bled too, that is."

Looking at the dark marks on the girl's chest, her belly, as well as her arms, Liliyana knew that even if they saved her, the girl would be a cripple for the rest of her life and no amount of magic could heal her injuries.

"I can still heal the surface-level injuries but that won't help the girl much." Feeling Amedith's hand on her shoulder, Liliyana turned her head to the side to look at him. Getting on his knees, the warrior held his free hand in prayer before whispering.

"The very first lesson we learned from Helga was that sometimes death is better than suffering." Reminded of the time he and the rest of the party were made to kill statued people in the corrupted forest, Amedith accepted the girl's fate and instead of trying to save what little life she had left, prayed by her side until her suffering came to an end.

Although unsure if it was the right choice, Liliyana prayed alongside him and only after she was dead did they open their eyes to carry the girls down the lighthouse so they could be properly buried. Thankfully for them, the whole congregation was asleep at this hour, thus there was no one to disturb the two while digging two graves for a burial.
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As it all happened, the rest of the party was still en route, however, once they learned what the action of the false heroes had led up to, the survival of those frauds would once again be put in jeopardy.

"It should've been those three instead of these two women who died," Amedith whispered to Liliyana as the two had already, at least in their minds, decided the punishment for those liars.