Esper Harem in the Apocalypse
chapter-170

The grass, rocks, plants, trees, and insects in the forest were razed into nothing. The area had turned into an empty ground with nothing, but cracks on it.

The girl who had turned into mist had changed her form into a bat and flew up as far away as possible to save herself from the wind wave.

However, it was too late, and she was caught up in it. But luckily, for her, Rudy used telekinesis to hold her steady, and then, he slammed her to the ground, creating a hole in the ground.

SIGH!

Rudy casually walked to the pit and saw the girl had changed into a human form to save herself from the impact.

"Are you dead?" Rudy asked in a cold voice.

The girl moved her body and grunted in pain, but she was still alive.

"I guess it is hard to kill a vampire, but then again. I wasn't trying to kill you," Rudy uttered in a low voice.

"Now." He jumped into the pit and said, "Do you want to live or not?"

"...."

"If you want to live, then start speaking and tell me what exactly happened between me and Rias, and where she is right now," Rudy threatened with an emotionless glare in his eyes.

The girl slowly raised her hand, even though it was trembling.

Rudy furrowed his brows and uttered, "Do you still want to fight in this state?"

But after looking into her eyes, Rudy realized that she was trying to do something else. So he let the girl do whatever she was trying to do.

She placed her hand on Rudy's forehead, and a magic circle appeared on the tip of her finger.

"^*#*^#^*^#*" she muttered something in a very low voice.

The next second, Rudy felt an agonizing pain in his head. He felt as if his brain was getting shredded again and again.

"ARGH!" he grunted out loud in pain and held his head in his hands. He glared at the girl and asked, "What did you do?!"

However, the girl had already passed out.

"Argh!" Rudy's pain was making him angry, and he couldn't endure it anymore. The ground started cracking and destroyed everything remaining in the forest.

He raised his head to kill the girl because he assumed his pain would go away if he killed the girl. However, as soon as he was about to kill the girl, he stopped.

"..."

His pain suddenly stopped and everything went back to normal again. He was confused as to what happened and what exactly did the girl do to him as everything was the same, but suddenly, unknown memories started flowing into his mind.

"Did she give my memory back or something?" Rudy muttered in confusion.

The girl had removed her charm from Rudy, and that caused Rudy to remember everything.

"So that's what happened…" he muttered.

He looked at the girl and uttered, "Her name is Jane, and she is Rias' twin sister. She was ordered by the vampire monarch to bring Rias back from the human world."

Rudy was smiling as he recalled all his moments with Rias, but the smile on his face soon turned into a frown.

"How dare someone come into my love story! How dare someone interferes in my life! And how dare someone take my love away from me!"

To Rudy, his memories with Rias were foreign, and they didn't belong to him, or so he used to think. But how, he was confused.

The only reason Rudy was able to learn about Rias in this world was that Rebecca accidentally mentioned it while talking, and that led him to Eric, who didn't give him any valuable information, but he was still grateful for his support.

He then went to school to learn more about it and ran into Rize, who told him what she remembered about Rias. He got Rias' address from Rize, but when he went there, her house was demolished.

In short, everything occurred due to a small incident. Now, Rudy was both curious and confused about what happened in his past life.

What if he also had Rias as a girlfriend in his past life but because Jane had wiped everyone's memory, he couldn't remember it?

Rudy only got to know about Rias through Rebeca, and that was because he ate dinner with Rebecca. But what if Rudy didn't eat dinner with Rebecca on the same date and time in his past life?

Rudy genuinely wanted to know about that, but there was no way of knowing it.

After regaining the memories of the time he spent with Rias, Rudy's heart ached. It contained both happy and sad memories. But the memories alone didn't mean anything if there weren't any feelings and emotions behind them.

When Rudy regained his memories, he also regained his feelings and emotions behind the memories, and that made him wonder if Rias was his girlfriend in his past life too.

"Rias promised me that she would always love me and wait for me. But she also asked me to wait for her. She believed that one day I would come to save her, or she would come to me, and we would reunite again," Rudy muttered.

"I don't know if Rias was my girlfriend in my past life too, but that life ended. I didn't meet her again, and she never returned to me. Maybe she waited desperately for me to come to save her, but I never remembered her and spent the rest of my life… until I got into that accident."

After a brief pause, he uttered, "But this time, I remember her, and I know that she is waiting for me to save her. I am coming, Rias. Wait for me."

Rudy carried Jane in his arms and took her into the mountains. Then, he came back to the forest and stood in the middle.

"I don't know where the vampires live, and I don't know how to get there. But I know one thing, which is that nothing can keep me from Rias, not anymore."

Author's Note- The next few chapters will be Rudy and Rias' backstory. But they will serve an important role in the story.

Thanks, @Irish_Kings, and @puremichigan, for the gift!