"You'll know soon enough," Lucifer said as he looked at Rouge.
Of course, what he said was the truth as Grimmy finally disappeared completely from here and went inside War's body.
As soon as Grimmy went inside, the atmosphere in the room changed completely as it just...went dark.
The light that somehow survived the clash between Lucifer and the Patriarch grew dim and darkness became evident in this place.
"W-what the...hell...you bastard! Is this your doing, too!?" Rouge shouted out loud after losing his calm.
Well, it suddenly got dark all of a sudden, and as far as Rouge knows, when it gets dark, something unbelievable happens.
When the room got dark the first time, the 6 pillars, who Rouge viewed to be the strongest subordinates in the Warmester Denoble House, collapsed on the ground and are likely to be dead.
And when the room got dark the second time, the Patriarch of the Warmester Denoble House himself fell on the ground and is likely to be dead as well.
Rouge was the one who gave the Patriarch a good smacking to wake him up, but the Patriarch didn't wake up at all.
That was why Rouge thought that the third time that the room got dark would be his turn to collapse on the ground and...die, just like the 6 pillars and the Patriarch of the Warmester Denoble House.
However, contrary to his expectations of being killed right away, Rouge...couldn't feel any killing intent directed at him nor could he feel any abnormal happenings around him.
'W-what's going on now...what is he doing? Fuck this shit...I can feel my life shortening just because of this shit...' Rouge thought as he kept his senses sharp and he strengthened his guard around himself.
After all, even though he knew that he would be no match for Lucifer, he would still fight for his life.
That was just how living creatures are. Of course, it would be a different matter if Rouge was broken mentally, but in this case, he was not.
That was why Rouge could still prepare himself even after losing his calm and knowing that he stands no chance against Lucifer.
However, it seems that Rouge didn't have to worry about dying or anything of the sort as...nothing really happened to him.
Nothing happened to him, and just like that, the lights in this room...came back on as if nothing happened.
"Huh?" Rouge exclaimed out loud with a dumb look on his face. He couldn't believe that he didn't die even though the lights turned off already, and nothing happened to him.
Well, it would be more correct to say that he was relieved that he didn't die.
However, Rouge knew better than to be complacent right now, which is why he quickly looked around the room to look for Lucifer and Grimmy, who was supposed to be in War's body.
But...as soon as Rouge found them, he couldn't believe what he was seeing as his eyes widened as if they were about to pop out of his eye sockets.
Why? It was because War's body was standing up on its own now. However, there was something weird about him.
And that was...his entire body was decomposing fast. It was as if he was being melted away by the sun itself.
His flesh was falling out of him, and his organs could be seen now.
It was obvious, but...this is the aftereffects of Grimmy possessing someone else's body.
Because Grimmy is such a unique living creature, which is a Grim Reaper, his obnoxious and toxic aura naturally decomposes people that he possess or people who are near him.
Of course, Grimmy can stop his aura from destroying people, which is somewhat convenient since he wouldn't just kill people randomly, but if Grimmy himself possesses someone else's body, his aura would naturally kill the body that he possesses, which is...quite irritating for Lucifer as he was in this situation.
And that was why War's body was quickly falling apart, which made him look like a zombie who couldn't die.
However, the next thing that really made Rouge widened his eyes so wide that it looked like they were about to burst out of their eye sockets was the fact that Grimmy...himself was pulling out his body.
With War's right hand, Grimmy used it to pull War's left hand away from his body. With that kind of 'baggage' in his right hand, Grimmy continued to pull several parts of War's body away from his torso.
Eyes, nose, lips, ears, flesh, fat, literally everything that Grimmy could hold with War's right hand, he grabbed onto it.
Of course, because War's body was already decomposing, it was really easy for him to do something like this.
And seeing something like this was...really disturbing even for Rouge, who killed a man when he was but a child.
After all, it was as if he was looking at a monstrosity from his nightmares that wouldn't stop chasing him around.
But...the next thing that happened shocked Rouge even more.
When Grimmy finally stopped pulling body parts away from War's torso, he began to walk up to Lucifer, who was just observing him from afar.
Of course, his flesh continued to decay over time, and with each step he took, his legs and ankles flew in every direction.
With each step he took, War's body was getting shorter and shorter as components of his body fell down to the ground.
And when Grimmy finally reached Lucifer, Grimmy made War hand over the body parts on his right hand to Lucifer.
No...to be exact, Grimmy just stuck the body parts right inside Lucifer's stomach as if that was only normal.
As Lucifer's stomach was already open due to his injuries, Grimmy was able to do that easily.
As for Lucifer...he didn't react at all. Even though he just got stabbed with loads of body parts right at the center of his injury, he didn't groan in pain or twitch in pain.
It was amazing how he was able to do that without even blinking an eye.
Well, it was because Lucifer knew that Grimmy would do something like this to him, so he kind of expected it already, but...it was just really nothing to him.
Anyway, the next thing that happened was...something Rouge or anyone in the Hidden world would consider as 'magical.' No, to put it in better terms, they would call it 'weird.'
After all, magical and weird are the two sides of one coin.
And what happened was...Lucifer's body...to be exact, his injured stomach started to move as if it was some kind of living being.
Well, his body was indeed a living being, but it was as if his body had some kind of brain that was controlling its own.
And what his injured stomach did was...it absorbed the body parts that Grimmy stuck.
It slowly but surely absorbed the body parts, but that was not all. As War's right hand was stuck in Lucifer's stomach, his right hand was getting absorbed as well.
And that means that...his whole body would be absorbed.
And that was indeed correct as it would only be a matter of time until War's body would be completely absorbed right inside Lucifer's stomach.
This...was the nourishment for Lucifer's body, which is a technique of Grimmy.
It would encourage the growth of Lucifer's body, which in turn would help and heal his body.
Incidentally, Lucifer wasn't the one who was controlling his stomach or anything of the sort.
He wasn't doing anything in this situation, he was just waiting for it to happen.
The reason why his stomach was acting like this was because...of Grimmy.
Right, Grimmy was the reason why Lucifer's stomach was absorbing War's body.
Due to the aura that was decomposing and destroying War's body, Lucifer's body has picked up that it is Grimmy's aura and thought that this was some kind of help, which in turn made Lucifer's body absorb the nutrients that Grimmy prepared for his body.
Even though Lucifer's body didn't have any consciousness of some sort, its instincts were still able to pick up who was who and what was what.
It was also able to identify what Grimmy planned to do with the nourishment.
If one thinks about it, Lucifer was truly a monster, inside and outside.
And the effects of doing something like this was...evident as Rouge, who was keeping a keen eye on things, could see it.
He could see Lucifer's body slowly but surely close its wounds on its own. Hell, he even noticed that Lucifer's body somehow got bigger on its own.
Well, it wasn't really that big, but it was evident that Lucifer's body grew bigger.
And while Lucifer's body was growing strong and his wounds were closing up, War's body was getting smaller and smaller until eventually...War's body completely disintegrated into Lucifer's body and disappeared.
His blood and flesh on the ground were still here, but that was all.
And after some time, Lucifer, who was staying quiet, finally made a noise.
"Hahaha! It looks like things paid off well." Lucifer said with a smile on his face.