Alex who seemed like he was in his 12 year old form was sitting by a river with the wind blowing and the water on the river flowing well. Ranpo who was sitting beside alex had a soft smile on his face telling Alex "You seemed to be in a mix of all sort of emotions right now. Is there something wrong, alex?", alex replied to his grandpa, with a defeated and yet matured smile "Hm. Honestly, I can't tell. I'm so happy to see you, but yet I'm still so sad and pissed off about the fact that raquel just died infront of me. That and the fact that I'm in a very embarrassing situation right now. Honestly, I don't know how to feel." They both keep quiet as the only thing that was airing around the silence was the flowing water and the nice breeze that was blowing. Alex said to ranpo "Granpa, I have alot of things I want to say right now, but I'm just confused. Back then when I was still younger, I always bragged about how I wanted to be the lord one day, and how powerful I wanted to be In order to achieve such goal. I trained non stop. And with you always coming in from time to time, getting stronger wasn't an issue at all." Ranpo replied to alex with his hair blowing with the wind "Hm? Is that so? Well i always did train you alot at the time. So much so that training became a daily routine for you even while I wasn't around. That's kinda something to be proud of. Don't you think, alex boy?" Alex then appeared while looking like the 16 years old version of himself as he then says to ranpo "Grandpa, you see.... ever since you died, I've been through alot. I fought bara who wiped out the city, I went berserk and activated my demon powers while doing so. Later on I trained to become stronger. After that, kojin told us that we were going for a war against the lightning country. Kazuki and I fought relentlessly at the time to win that battle, I even went ahead and unlocked two new powers. After that, I came back to the city and did some more training, the city got attacked again, and then ukina waged war on the entire world." Ranpo paused for a moment and then asked while slightly being shocked "Ukina did what? That little.....", alex then had a nervous smile on his face as he said to himself "Wait till he finds out who zodia was." Alex then says to ranpo "I've gone through alot of things, and I even developed the mentality of what doesn't kill me makes me stronger. But it looks like all that was just useless. In the end, I was wea-", before alex could finish his sentence, ranpo knocks him on the head. Alex exclaimed in annoyance "OW! HEY OLD MAN, WHAT WAS THAT ABOUT?! IM POURING MY HEART OUT AND YOU JUST BANG ME ON THE HEAD WITHOUT WARNING! WHAT GIVES?!" ranpo replied to alex while being abit annoyed "Alex boy. I have taught you alot of things, but what I didn't teach you was to ever doubt yourself and play yourself down." Alex is abit perplexed by this statement from his grandfather and then pauses for a moment. Ranpo explained to alex "I dont know what kind of situation you've gotten yourself into, but whatever it is, as long as it hasn't killed you yet, all you can do is just become stronger." Alex was still abit perplexed but this time, his eyes widen in hope, ranpo stands up and explained to alex "When kojin and I were your age, we found ourselves in crazy situations. At the time, we were the only A-rank that was around. A ranks were very rare, and people always feared them due to their country levels of power. We were sent by the city to fight many armies, but non of those things never stopped us. We kept fighting and getting stronger." Ranpo looked at alex with a smile on his face, he said to alex "Look boy, there are only two things i want you to know. The firsts is never give up. I've taught you this several times while you were growing up, but it doesn't hurt go relearn. The second thing I want you to learn is that as long as you aren't the cause of the problem dealt to you by someone else, you have no right to back down. Always fight no matter what. Do I make myself clear?" Alex is stunned but he eventually just smiles "Yeah, I understand.", he said with small drops of tears rolling down his eyes. Ranpo started to walk away as he said to alex "I dont know the problem you've found yourself in, but it doesn't matter. You have the strength to overcome anything, and I know it." Alex then stands up while looking like the current version of himself (19 years old), as ranpo was walking away, he said to alex "Kojin delivered your message to me in the after life alex.", he turns around to alex and says to him "Continue to get stronger alex, strength will always open doors of new achievements for you." As ranpo was faiding away, he said to himself "Ah, it's a shame. A shame that I wasn't able to see you grow this much. I'm sorry I passed away without seeing you grow alex, please do forgive me. Just know that no Matter what, I will always be there.", he started to remember all the good times he and alex had spent together before he just completely disappeared. The background then changed into a colourful space, kazuma and mio appeared behind alex as mio wrapped her arms around her son and said to him "Its okay alex. No matter what, even in death, I'll always be there for you." Kazuma then pats alex head as he said to him with a smile "Your mom and I will always be there for you, so never give up. Okay alex?" Alex just smiled with tears slowly dropping from his face as his parents just vanish. Suddenly, the entire space turns white,diablo appeared behind alex while using his knee to hold up alex's head "You remember this position? I did something similar to this in your fight against mori back when you were still a damn knuckle head for a kid. Remember?", alex replied "Yeah. Diablo I-", before alex could finish what he was about to say, diablo cuts him "Oh please kid,cheer up. You are my student after all, and plus the future lord shouldn't act like that.", diablo had a cheerfull smile on his face and says to alex with a thumbs up "Don't worry kid, I got your back. Trust me, everything would be fine." A bright light appeared and shined all over the place, alex then see's himself on the floor with all his injuries healed up "Wait a moment, I'm..... okay? Cerepharot's blast didn't kill me huh.", alex just smirked as he stood up and said to seiten while pointing at him "Hey seiten you bastard! You're dead." Seiten was abit shocked "What the.... how did he survive Cerepharot's attack? He's supposed to be dead. He seemed pretty broken and powerless at the final moment. How is he alive?" Cerepharot then started to roar in pain, seiten looked at cerepharot as he asked it "What is it now?" Suddenly, a huge burst of white light blasts itself out of cerepharot's back, this caused cerepharot to scream in more pain while being pinned down with those spears. Both alex and seiten are shocked "What the....?" They both exclaimed in shock. Out of the white light, raquel is seen with her hair shining like a white light, her arms and legs were covered with white light, she had 6 large wings made from white light and crystals, she also had a cross like necklace on her neck, it was made out of a shining crystal. She seemed to be wearing an very revealing armour, and she had a very long sword. This was the rebirth of rahelza, the crystal goddess of creation.
END OF CHAPTER.