"I'll make you regret the mistakes you made back then! Gerard!!!"
He hurtled over the sea, savage magic power surging from his body in tireless waves like roiling volcanic lava!
Achill's eyes blazed with towering fury and hatred! Wherever he passed, the vicious waves of magic radiating from him sent the sea churning and breaking apart! The fierce winds whipped up by his headlong flight tore a deep fissure through the once-calm waters, like a gaping fault in the earth!
"No one can save you this time—" His black hair lashed wildly in the wind, and a chilling, predatory gleam suddenly flashed through his deep, onyx eyes. Achill snarled low in his throat, "Absolutely no one!!!!!!"
His words seethed with boundless hatred! Eight years of searching, eight years of endurance, and the bitter defeat eight years ago had all become a hatred that could tear even gods and Buddhas to pieces! Yes, hatred!
Before, although he had been furious at what Gerard, his little brother, had done back then, what he had felt most was sorrow! A deep sorrow for Gerard and for himself...
Before, even if he had killed Gerard upon finding him, his ultimate reason would have been to stop him from continuing down that mistaken path.
It would also have been a form of reckoning: for the unwitting people who had suffered at Gerard's hands, for Erza, for the justice Gerard had once possessed and since lost, and for his own heart...
All his obsession had begun there, and so all the knots in his heart and all his fixation would end there too!
But when he learned that Gerard still refused to leave Erza alone, Achill was enraged! He had never been this furious! The conviction that had sustained him for eight whole years finally came