Knights of Hell

Chapter 16

Yua’s frown deepened, but he continued walking when he realised he was getting odd stares. Mint, on the other hand, remained frozen. What did that mean? Of course, now the demon was playing the mute card, and Mint rushed over to him as he continued walking. He grabbed his stained black hand, forcing him to stop and look down at him.

“Yua,” Mint snapped, though his heart was racing a hundred miles per minute, and he struggled to understand his thoughts. He needed to know. “What do you mean rebirth?”

“If Azure hasn’t told you then there must be a reason.”

“Oh, you do not get to play that card with me right now,” he snapped. “Tell me.”

Yua sighed, running his free hand through his hair before nodding slowly. Though he began walking again, and mint, a little flustered, he realised that he was still holding the man’s arm, so he let go rather quickly. Yua paid him no mind as he stared ahead. “There will come a time when the knights are to rebirth. Lucifer will call for us, and our minds will be reset, everything we know will be forgotten and we will be reborn anew.”

“Why?”

“We’re not sure. All we know is that it has something to do with the balance of the universe. The angels have to perform it and so do we.”

“When?”

“We don’t know. It could happen tomorrow, or it could happen a hundred years from now.”

Mint ran a hand through his hair. What the f**k? Why had Azure never once mentioned this to him? What had been his goal plan here? To just disappear one day, he and Church be damned? And what about Kai? Would he have just left them all alone, wondering what had happened to him while he continued with what appeared to be his brand-new life?

Oh, god, Church. How would Mint explain all of this to Church? It didn’t take a genius to figure out that his best friend had formed some sort of bond with Nether, and even if he didn’t know much about his past, one thing he often made jokes about was his abandonment issues. He had to tell him, right? Right. But how would he go about phrasing it?

“Mint?” Yua asked, frowning a little. He had stopped walking again, and he was staring at him. “Are you okay?” he croaked out.

Mint looked up at the demon, and he realised he had tears in his eyes. “Azure never told me,” he whispered. “Was he just going to leave one day and never come back? And Church and Nether. We can all see that Church has strong feelings regarding the demon, and he also has severe abandonment issues. So, we’re just going to be left behind?”

“No, Mint,” Yua responded. “I’m sure he planned to tell you.”

“When?” he hissed. “Five minutes before he disappeared?”

Yua ran a hand through his hair and muttered something under his breath. He pulled out his phone to look at the time and sighed. “Come. We need to go back. You need to sleep. Even if it is the weekend, sleep is important for humans.”

“I’m a halfie.”

Yua frowned a little. “You are still a human nonetheless.”

Mint was quiet on his way back. Yua tried to initiate a conversation several times, but Mint was too mentally worn out to hold it. His mind was more focused on the fact that everyone he knew, Azure, his father, would be leaving him soon. Including the knights, who knew they were around a lot more often. He had formed a bond with them.

So, within a month, he had lost one parent and now found out that sometime in the future, he would be losing his other parent.

As if this week couldn’t get any worse. When Mint got home, the Vause twins were again tied to the dining room chairs. He stared at the scene before him. Cedar passed out with the bottle in hand. Nether hunched over a book, Feather near the window staring out of it solemnly. Azure hunched over his computer. Ah, so they were just going to ignore them.

Mint stormed over, undoing their bindings apologetically. “Hey, guys. So, what the f**k?”

“We found them sneaking around,” Feather replied. “Thought we’d let you deal with it.”

Mint was tired. He stared at Azure, and the man smiled at him. He smiled back. But then waved the twins away, promising to find them tomorrow. He went to bed after seeing them off, though he had questions racing his mind. He was too tired to focus on anything right now. So, when he got into bed this time, he fell asleep rather quickly, and the lull of Church’s rhythmic breathing knocked him out.

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