Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Last Hunt: the broken omega : Kabanata 101 - Kabanata 110

KAI’S POVSilence didn’t mean peace anymore. It meant something was thinking. The air over the academy had sealed, the tear gone as if it had never existed, but the world didn’t feel whole again. It felt… aware. Like reality had just been forced to acknowledge something it couldn’t ignore.Zara’s hand was still in mine.I hadn’t let go.I wasn’t sure I could.Not after that.Not after watching something that existed beyond structure look at her and say kin.My jaw tightened slightly.No.Not kin.Not anymore.I shifted my grip, pulling her just a fraction closer still not enough to restrict her, just enough to remind myself she was still here.Still Zara.Still the girl who used to hide in shadows and pretend she didn’t care.She glanced at me briefly, catching the movement, and something soft flickered in her eyes.“You’re holding on tighter,” she said quietly.I didn’t deny it.“You stepped toward something that could’ve erased you,” I replied.Her lips curved slightly.“I stepped t

KAI’S POVThe sky held.That was the first miracle.Not the kind that split oceans or rewrote fate. No.This one was quieter.More dangerous.Because it meant something had changed… and the change was sticking.I stared at the place where the fracture had sealed, half-expecting it to rip open again just to prove a point.It didn’t.For now.Zara stood a few steps ahead of me, her hand still slightly lifted like she could feel the echo of what she’d just done lingering in the air.She hadn’t destroyed it.She hadn’t taken it.She had… redirected it.I exhaled slowly.That wasn’t just power.That was restraint.And restraint, at our level?That was terrifying.“Zara,” I called quietly.She didn’t turn immediately.Her gaze remained fixed on the sky, like she was listening to something deeper than sound.“I can still feel it,” she said.My chest tightened.“Feel what?”“The pressure,” she murmured.“The direction it was pushing from.”I stepped closer.Not rushing.Not crowding.Just clo

KAI’S POV“Watch closely.”Zara’s voice didn’t echo.It settled.Like a promise the world itself had no choice but to hear.I felt it ripple through our bond instantly, not power, not force, alignment.Clear. Intentional. Unshakable.This wasn’t like before.Not instinct.Not reaction.This was… choice made visible.The figure stood across from us, still as ever, its presence precise, contained, waiting for data, for outcome, for proof.Good.We were about to give it something it had never recorded before.I exhaled slowly, grounding myself.Not in the world.In her.Zara stood just ahead of me, but not apart.Never apart.I could feel every shift in her breathing, every flicker of thought that brushed against the bond, every steadying decision she made before it turned into action.“Don’t hold back,” she said quietly.I huffed softly.“Since when do you tell me that?”She glanced back just slightly, that faint, dangerous smile touching her lips.“Since we need them to understand exac

KAI’S POVI thought I understood power.Not in theory. Not in fragments. I mean truly understood it, the way it moves, the way it bends, the way it answers to intention if you apply just the right kind of pressure.But standing there beside Zara, with her hand locked in mine, I realized something that unsettled me more than any enemy ever had.I had only ever understood taking control.She was learning something far more dangerous.Giving it back.Her presence had changed.It wasn’t dramatic. Not in the way power usually announces itself with noise and chaos and destruction.No.Zara had always been a quiet power.But now, now she felt… anchored.Like something inside her had finally chosen a direction and refused to be pulled back into the cycle that had defined her for so long.“You felt it too, didn’t you?” she asked softly.Her voice carried that same steadiness, but there was something beneath it now. Something grounded. Certain in a way that felt new.I didn’t answer immediately

ZARA’S POVIt didn’t hit me all at once.That would’ve been easier.Cleaner.Something I could fight. Something I could brace for.But this?This came in waves.At first, it was quiet.Barely noticeable.Just a slight pressure behind my ribs, like my body was trying to remember something it had forgotten.I didn’t think much of it.We had just faced something that could erase us from existence. My senses were still heightened, my body still adjusting.That made sense.Then the second wave came.And everything stopped making sense.I gasped softly, my hand tightening in Kai’s.Not from pain.From… impact.Something rushed through me.Not energy.Not power.Memory.But not mine.I staggered slightly.Kai caught me instantly.“Zara?”His voice was right there. Close. Steady.But it sounded far away.“I’m okay,” I whispered.I wasn’t.The third wave hit.Harder.Sharper.A scream tore through my chest, but it wasn’t mine.A boy.Young.Running.Afraid.And then….Nothing.My knees buckled