Salute To The General

Arlo gasped in shock when he heard that.

As he made eye contact with Nathan, his mind went blank, and his body was frozen in place.

The sounds around him seemed to get farther and farther away, and his vision got increasingly blurry as well.

The next thing he knew, he was standing on a river bank with lots of bright red flowers.

Huh? Where am I? What is this place?

As he glanced about, he saw a stone next to the river with the words "Stone of Lives" written on it.

That was when Arlo finally understood what was going on. The river was actually Styx, and the red flowers by the road were red spider lilies-the road he stood on was the road to the afterlife. Suddenly, Arlo felt his heart skip a beat as the illusion around him disappeared completely.

All he saw was the bright light from Nathan's sword coming down on his head.

As much as Arlo wanted to block or dodge it, he knew it was far too late to do so.

Arlo closed his eyes in despair and accepted his

few seconds soon went by, but Arlo had

opened his eyes in confusion, only to see that Nathan's blade had stopped a centimeter away from his

You've lost this

in disbelief, Arlo turned around and asked,

and said without looking back, "Why

eyes went wide

to do was defeat me in a fight! There was no reason for him to kill me at all! I showed him no mercy when I used Absolute Judgement on him, though He

bowed at Nathan and said sincerely, "Your level of honor and swordsmanship far exceeds mine, Mr. Cross. I humbly accept my

Eight all had proud smiles

did not take

silent in shock and disbelief. I didn't know Nathan was this powerful! I guess

fear and anger written all over his

forever! However, he now has

Milo ran up to Nathan and shouted with a gleeful smile, "Defeating Arlo was a