Psychic Overlord

Franco was ready to die. The operatives who had broken through had now shot both his arms and legs, and he lay on the tiles weakly, coughing blood endlessly. The sky was coated with bits of blood and smoke from the carnage on the campus, as well as the wounds on his head leaking his body's vital liquid.

As he breathed weakly, watching the operatives curse as they counted their dead and treated their wounds, he tilted his head to glance at the young girl whose eyes had become lifeless, still displaying the extreme unwillingness to die until the very end.

"Tch, what a bunch of goddamn monkeys," one of the relatively uninjured operatives cursed as he rose to his feet and picked up a gun.

He walked over to Raul's corpse and shot it thoroughly, making sure he was more than dead. After that, he spat at Raul and walked over to Rina's body, aiming his gun at her head to blow her pretty face to smithereens to vent his anger.

As he raised the gun and pointed it at Rina's face, his finger slowly depressed the trigger, time seeming to slow down in an almost cinematic manner as the muzzle released its payload. The bullet moved through the air slowly, causing a small speed line to form around it as it hurtled towards Rina's forehead.

However, the bullet never reached its destination. A black light suddenly emerged from her body, sweeping over the entire area and rushing towards the sky. This black wave created a severe physical pressure like the winds from a hurricane, causing everyone on the roof to cover their faces as they were blown back and forced to grab hold of something.

Rina's body trembled slightly, the blood that had leaked from her slowly being dragged back into her body as her gaping wound healed itself, but her lifeless eyes did not return. Rather, in a manner akin to a marionette being pulled up clumsily, she rose to her feet and seemed to be in a confused state.

It was not too different from when Kaizer initially took control of bodies using telekinesis, but the difference was that Rina's body rapidly regained warmth as her heart started beating and her brain began to send signals to her body once more. Her slack and unwilling expression faded into one of cold calmness as her eyes became pitch black, both pupil and cornea.

Franco stared at the young lady he had been protecting all this while with shock, not comprehending what he was seeing. He was startled when he saw Rina casually glance at him and Raul, her eyes showing no emotion even as her mouth moved to speak.

"You two… you were protectors of my sister? Good, you have done well. I shall reward you," Rina said in a voice that was hers and at the same time not, due to the inflection contained within.

She pointed a finger at Raul's corpse, which shuddered greatly as it reassembled into a whole form, his eyes also becoming pitch black at first before receding, allowing the once-dead man to rise to his feet with a look of agonized confusion.

Franco was chilled by the sight before him, which was even more shocking than Rina somehow resurrecting and healing herself. Rina seemed satisfied with her work on Raul—Franco had no idea how he could tell since the young lady had not changed her expression even by a fraction the entire time—and then flicked a finger towards him.

Franco felt a foreign energy wash over him, causing the bullets that pierced his body to be squeezed out as he healed back into tip-top shape, managing to push himself to his feet. However, Franco deeply felt that something was wrong, and that he hadn't been healed per se, but rather that death itself had rejected him, forcing his body to be healed as a consequence.

Before he could speak, he noticed that Rina's attention had turned to the remaining operatives on the roof, who had been frozen to the spot ever since the black energy appeared. It wasn't that Rina had stopped time, but that these men had glanced at the black light once and their minds almost scattered, seeing the word 'death' in their minds like a giant mountain crushing down upon them.

"To think, it was mere vile creatures like you that managed to awaken my sister," Rina spoke coldly, pointing a finger forward.

A black-colored beam emerged from her index finger and split halfway through its journey, spreading to strike the bodies of all the operatives on the roof. Immediately, the men snapped out of their stupor and began to scream in horror, their bodies rapidly shriveling up as if the juice was being squeezed out.

The black light around them grew stronger, eventually leaving their desiccated bodies and returning to Rina's palm as a much larger ball of sparkling dark energy. She held the ball of energy with an upraised palm and nodded with visible satisfaction.

"I was awakened by death, and so it is death I shall bring to this world, and propagate it to the ends of the earth," Rina declared grandly, folding her hands behind her back as she looked up, seeing the dark curtain from her power spreading rapidly around the entire campus.

Franco and Raul stood there with mouths agape, completely unable to fathom or process what was going on. All they knew was that they were witnessing an event that could change the history of their entire country… no, of the entire world!

While they were right, the powers that controlled fate were not so willing to have their carefully laid-down sequences of events for reality be upended so strongly, so something that disrupted the situation occurred at this moment.

Kaizer arrived.

Kaizer flipped over the edge of the roof and landed atop it, his face grim as he could not see anything that had gone on up here, even with his telesthesia. It was exactly that same pervasive blackness that blocked him from scanning Rina's emotions and mind all this while, making him have some speculations.

However, when he actually arrived, he found that his eyes could see what was before him, but his brain was struggling to process the fact. His cousin was floating slightly above the ground, her lush red hair whipping about due to the strong wind that came from her body.

The black energy that gave him a strong ominous feeling emerged from her body endlessly in waves, as if it could not be stifled by any means. What was worse were her eyes, usually fully expressive with their bright green color, now reduced to pools of darkness that were chillingly inhuman.

For the first time since she had manifested these changes, Rina displayed a different expression as her eyes narrowed and her lips curled in slight distaste. "It's you… the fledgling psychic."

Kaizer rose to his feet and walked towards Rina with a blue outline forming around his body, his visage one of utter seriousness.

"Who are you, and what have you done with Rina?"