Winston reached his peak but he wasn’t done yet with his current actions.
“ALL YOU PUNK LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS ENJOY THE LAST DAY OF YOUR CONSCIENCE!”
He demonstrated his terrifying control over life and death by transforming some of the city's residents into a skeleton army with one motion of his hand. Lee was forced to make a painful decision between fighting the citizens who had become his adversaries and putting an end to their misery before they might hurt other people.
“HAHA, THIS IS GOLDEN, but I’m still not done yet!” Winston said admiring his work. He used another power based on his persona.
“DECAY, YOU PEASANTS!” As he looked at the eyes of those who weren’t turned into skeletons. The people’s bodies rapidly decayed into stone shattering into pieces, this was enraging Lee as if he was hearing waterfalls of shattered plates that can’t be fixed.
“DAMN YOU WINSTON, I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!
“THEN HURRY UP AND DO IT, EVEN IF THAT WERE TO HAPPEN I WON’T GIVE YOU THE PLEASURE OF IT I JUST CONTINUE LAUGHING AS I AM DYING!”
Lee released a burst of energy, and the fire in his eyes caused his aura to grow more intense. “I AM SICK OF YOU WHAT IS YOUR STORY HUH, WHAT CAUSES YOU TO DO THIS DAY AND DAY OUT, WHY RUIN OTHERS JOY AND HAPPINESS!”
Winston's joyful face faded away. “Because mine was taken away from me.”
“Take advantage of this man, screw his Pin what about yours release me now Lee!” The Persona persuades Lee to let him take over. Lee was fearful that the moment he let his other side too over it may increase victory over Winston but what would be the outcome of him?
Lee had to make a decision. He remembered what The One told him:
“Chosen, you weren’t chosen for anything it was out of pure randomness. But there is a catch to it mostly benefits those who have evil within or a human that fully exploits that peaks too early.
“So, I am evil is that what you’re saying?” Lee queried
“Nope, but it is ready to be unleashed. All that trauma you have suffered from has been building for years becoming a reason for you to succumb to evil but for those years you have tried to hold it back, that's why I said within.”
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“MAKE A DECISION, LET THE EVIL WITHIN TAKE OVER LET THE REAL YOU FREE!” The Persona said. Winston took the opportunity to strike him with his skull blade but there was a change his eyes were deceived thinking he pierced Lee but what he saw was a finger of Lee in contact with his blade. Soon later a crater suddenly appeared.
“You’re not serious did you… just block my skull blade.” Winston stuttered.
With his head down, Winston was hearing giggles of Lee which he thought instantly “Is it safe to face this guy?” Lee's giggles turned into a full outburst like a mental patient. Raising his head what Winston witnessed was a psychotic face that loved seeing the fear in others, face stretched even more with his hair turning to skeletal strings.
“THE EVIL WITHIN IS OUT!” Lee persona said fully embraced.
Winston gradually was building fear even the people watching.
Lee couldn’t stop laughing the more he laughed the more the aura of his green aura was evolving around the city.
Lee’s eyes were dead set on Winston “THIS WILL BE YOUR LAST DAY OF EXPERIENCING LIFE WINSTON WRIGHT!” The words chillingly announced Winston's imminent demise and lingered in the air like a death knell.
Lee quickly advanced. The conflict, which had previously been a match of equals, had changed, and Lee was now relentlessly advancing.
He moved with superhuman speed, pummelling Winston with fists that blurred in motion. Each strike represented the years of torture, suffering, and agony that Lee had gone through. As he knocked Winston out, his laughing had developed a terrible undertone, with each boom ringing with sickening glee.
Taking his eye off Winston, his skeleton was still around. In a flash they all crumbled not acknowledging, Lee just killed off a dozen of possessed people.
“It’s tough, I have to do what I got to do!”
He quickly took back his attention to Winston
Winston struggled mightily to fight back, but his once-invincible strength was dwindling. He looked worn out and the efforts he made to hold Lee off were getting weaker. Taz, Maya, Detective Luke Pierce, and the rest of the city's citizens, who were all present, could only watch in terrified amazement as Lee's assault proceeded unrestrained.
Louder and louder, Lee's laughing became a melancholy symphony that appeared to ridicule Winston's sufferings.
Face first flames blazed on Winston nonstop.
“FEEL MY PAIN!” Lee said
Winston was too prideful to say stop as he said, “I CAN’T TAKE, I CAN’T TAKE, I CANNOT TAKE THIS!”.
“I TOLD YOU, YOU’RE THE ONE THAT WILL BE BURNING IN ABSOLUTE HELL!”
Winston’s form was burning away rapidly. Once there was no trace of otherworldly power. Lee froze like a statue soon after grabbing Winston's head.
“LET ME SEE YOUR NIGHTMARE!”
Lee then used his skill to induce terror to full effect. Lee saw into Winston's head as the environment around them became twisted. Winston's darkest worries and regrets came to the surface in a flood of images and recollections. Lee experienced a piercing coldness as he saw Winston's greatest fear come true: a wife and kid being torn apart once more, leaving a pit of desolation in their wake.
Even in the middle of the commotion and the violence, Lee's heart was heavy with compassion. He knew the suffering that had led Winston to this decision. But the cycle has to come to a stop.
Winston's cries got louder as Lee exposed his suffering more and more. His deepest regrets, remorse, and anxieties were exposed for the world to see. Winston's determination grew weaker with each passing second as the misery was evident.
Lee unmorphed from his evil persona witnessing a man dying in agony of his fear in from of him. Winston's eyes were gone to a different place.
The World was silent.
“I did it, I have avenged you… father.”
The Sky lightens on Lee as he lets the water drop from his eyes.
“I HAVE DONE IT, YOU SUCKERS!”
