Chapter 245 - Useless

"You see, even though we had all attacked him at the same time, he had tried to hold us back so none of us would get hurt however as the battle passed on it became harder and harder for him to continue holding us back while also fighting a whole war against nearly all of the strongest people in our world. To expect that from even a normal Julius would have been proposers. However for anyone to actually expect that from an already severely weakened version of our king is blatantly insane. Although this all remains true, you also have to look at it from another angle. Although all of us had joined up with the enemy which was supposed to originally be a battle with the meditation army as well as the battling army combined against our army, it ended up being a battle between all three of those monstrous forces all up against a single man, that man being our king. You see, all we did during that battle was to be nothing more than a setback to him. All we did was hold him back. If he had simply headed into the battle by himself, he would have had a much easier time dealing with the enemies than if he actually brought us wit him. Just think about it. We were all ready to prove ourselves as worthy assets to our king. Assets which would come to his recuse at any moment and could be dependable and in turn we did the exact opposite. We proved to him that he couldn't trust in our power. We showed him that he's better alone than to have us at his side," Spike continued to explain.

"Look, I'm just dying that instead of feeling stressed about the situation, just accept it for what it is and move on. There's no point in trying to redeem ourselves from such a heinous act. It's just better if we stayed out of our king's way," said Spike with a sigh.

"How intriguing. I never really thought of it like that," said a familiar voice which set true fear in both Ian's and Spike's hearts. That voice belonged to none other than Julius himself who had managed to hide his presence so well that none of them had caught on to it while they talked about how they really felt.

"My apologies king Julius! Those words should have never left my mouth! I will do anything to regain your respect! I deserve nothing but the worst punishment," said Spike in worry as he didn't know how to get out of the situation he had placed himself in. Not only had he talked behind Julius' back even though it wasn't anything bad in general, but he had also failed to protect him in the war and to make matters worse, he tried to attack him during the war as well. Although Spike was expecting Julius to hit him or at least yell at him so that he would learn his lesson, Julius didn't do anything even close to that. 

Instead of scolding Spike like he had initially expected, Julius instead took Spike off Ian's back and brought him down to the ground slowly as he carried him by the shoulder so that he could rest on the ground where Rosie was resting.

"Thank you for protecting us," said Julius as he placed his hand behind Spike's head and brought it towards his shoulder where he patted Spike on the back before telling him that he did and good job. From having received the reassurance that he had always sought out from Julius, Spike finally allowed himself to break down and allow his tears to flow out of his eyes like water.

As Spike continued to cry out from having all of his emotion flow out of his body as they had been forced to stay inside for so long, Julius just stood there and allows Spike to let out all of the pain. This was all fine until a sudden change took place. 

Julius had been smiling gently as he was proud of Spike that he managed to defeat the enemy and also because he felt comfortable enough to break down in front of Julius. While this was all fine, Julius heard something behind him. Something close to that of a blade piecing skin and shortly after, he heard the sound of blood flowing out.

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After hearing this, Julius had a horrible thought in mind which he didn't even want to think about. Even so, he wanted to make sure that it was not a reality as such, he decided to turn around at which his worst fears had become a reality.

"No..." Julius said as he felt sick at what he saw behind him. Julius saw the body of Rosie which was asleep as she had called asleep from exhaustion while sleeping on Julius' lap as it had caused her utter happiness. However what Julius saw was something else. Someone so horrible that he couldn't even comprehend it.

Even Spike noticed the sudden change in Julius' body and became curious at which he looked behind Julius to only back away with a gasp as what he saw was truly terrifying.

"No. How? Who could have done this?" Spike asked with a horrified tone as he couldn't believe what he had seen. 

"Why? Why is it it red?!" said Spike with a fearful tone as he looked at Rosie's neck which had a stab wound on it. All while her unconscious body continued to smile as she still thought of being with Julius.

"Please, please take her body and leave this place," said Julius as he pleaded to Spike which was different from the way which Julius had acted in the past. Julius usually did things on his own however there was a reason why he couldn't accomplish the task on his own this time.

"Please run away," said Julius as he didn't know how much longer he had left.

Julius didn't know much longer he could hold it back.. He didn't know how much longer he could hold himself back.