-It's should be over.
I wished.
But was it truly?
Maybe, maybe not?
My unblinking gaze, my stiff behavior, and my solemn aura said otherwise.
-Step.
-Step.
-Step.
I walked slowly, going down the crater, towards its center where soone was having a coughing fit, a bloody coughing fit.
'Half-dead, but still alive... will die in a few monts...'
-Step.
-Step.
My footsteps resounded. My shoes crunching the scorched ground as I walked. Finally causing the half-dead woman to notice .
Seeing , she turned her upper body, which was only thing left on her.
-SCHWING!
"Don't bother."
I said, as I drew my sword and placed it against her neck.
"Heehe-cough! -cough!"
Still, she laughed, or so she tried, before breaking into another coughing fit. Red blood spilling from her mouth.
"Don't bother, I said!"
"-cough, and why shouldn't I, cough, brat?"
"Hmm, maybe cause your life is in my hands."
"Heehe, is it, cough, now?"
"My life, in your hands? In the hands of a, cough, still green boy...?"
"You could have killed with that spell. But, you didn't. You can kill now, but you aren't...? So..." She took a deep, painful breath as she asked. "Are you really gonna kill , with those shaky little hands of yours..?"
And with that she had .
Of all the things she could say, she said this.
And surprisingly, I was tongue-tied.
I couldn't refute.
I stayed silent.
Causing her bloody smile to widen, "So, instead of, cough, watching die, why don't you fulfill my one last wish..."
A crazy, an evil, a dark light of pure malice flashed in her eyes as her voice distorted demonically.
"Heehe, WHY DON'T YOU DIE!??"
-BUZZZ!!
The mana in the surroundings massively fluctuated as wisps after wisps erged from her half-dead, broken body.
10, 20, 30, 100, 1000, and still increasing, the number finally stopping at 3364.
3364, that was the number of wisps I counted. The number of wisps that escaped from her body, as she laid there with only a last spark of life left in her body.
And yet she was like this, crazy and evil till the end.
So eager to kill, even in her last monts.
Seeing her like this, I felt sothing in my heart.
Rage and anger directed at myself? Yes...
But along with that was sothing else, sothing cold, sothing dark. And yet, that sothing was eager to burst.
I couldn't quite describe the feeling, it was sothing I never felt before, but I suppressed it. I killed it, along with all other emotions I was feeling using [Parallel Mind].
I knew I was running away, but right now, I had to be at my best.
The 3364 howling wisps that combined and revolved, coalescing to form a thick do around , demanded at least that much from .
Squinting my eyes, I sized up the black do made of howling wisps, before turning my gaze towards the insane woman.
"Heh-cough-hehe, see you on the, cough, other side brat..."
She chuckled quietly, her voice barely audible, and yet again, I remained silent.
The do around flickered. Flickering with countless dots that kept appearing on it. Each dot signifying an attack.
In that black do which was my death trap, in the black do that was ready to pierce with thousands of attacks, I stood still, finally breaking my silence.
"Sorry. But your wish..."
As I called forth a completed magic spell from the deepest thought process of my mind.
My real trump card.
A magic circle ford around my whole body, a blue magic circle which erupted before the do could, enveloping the black do, enveloping all the black wisps within it, in an instant.
"I can't grant it."
-SWISSHHHHH!!!!
Then, the magic circle with a lot blue prisms, spun. Spun insanely fast as it sucked them all.
Sucking all the black wisps into it, forming a black cloud that seed to be screaming with a thousand different faces and voices.
The spell worked fast, for the spell itself was being corroded by the frenzied wisps, so it had to work fast.
Fortunately, I knew that and added a lot of branching and dummy parts to the spell, making it much harder for the energy to infest it completely.
Bringing the black cloud near my head, I triggered the final part of my spell.
The runes covering my armor climbed up, up from my neck to my forehead. From there, they stretched into the air, forming a funnel like shape with revolving runes that enveloped the black cloud.
Delivering it straight to the array in my mind, cleansing it all...This ti it felt like the lion-of-the-array burped a little...
It all happened in a second.
From being in the middle of a death trap to having the complete control of the situation.
It all took just a second.
And for the half-dead body lying in the middle of the crater, apparently, it was too much to process.
Her expression blanking for a few seconds, before she finally figured out what happened.
Pure malice downing her whole visage as she spoke.
Or she tried to...
With a simple spell, I shut her up.
-Step
-Step
-Step
"For soone who is going to die you talk too much."
I walked slowly, revealing with each step I took.
"The only reason I kept you alive is because I was waiting for you to reveal your trump card, so that I could counter it with my own, nothing more nothing less."
I lied, for who knows why.
"And now that its done, its ti for you to die."
Stopping near her, I crouched down, my magic holding her in place, as my emotionless eyes reflected her face in them.
"Don't give yourself more worth than you deserve!"
I said, before drawing my sword out, and-
-Puchi!!
Plunging it in her throat.
Holding the sword stabbing in her neck, I watched carefully, I felt carefully. Her every attempt, her every struggle and her every spasm as she tried and failed to keep clinging to her life...
Her burnt bloody hands tried to push away, push my sword away, but I remained still, so did my sword.
My eyes t hers which even now remained crazy and yet, they had a feeling of desperation they didn't have before. Desperate, fighting for their life.
-Ga..gargle
-Ga..garrlee
Unfortunately, they had already lost. Unfortunately, I was unmoved... at least I tried to appear so.
And soon it was over. Her spams, her struggle, her life...
I stood up, my eyes the sa as before still emotionless, as they maintained eye contact with hers. Just, her eyes no longer had any focus.
'That was enough.'
I thought, as I stopped using [Parallel Minds] to kill any and all of my emotional thought processes.
With that they ca back, my emotions. A truckload of them, trickling back into my system bit by bit.
And yet, I couldn't handle those bits.
Guilty, nauseous, confused, scared, angry, desperate, isolated, helpless...
I felt all those emotions, at once. My mind becoming a useless ss that couldn't function at all.
All I could see was the corpse laying on the ground, and the bloody sword in my hands.
My mind churned, all sorts of thoughts running through it, all types of negative questions and doubts, popping up and disturbing it.
From 'Why was I transmigrated here?' to 'Why I had to kill?', I thought about all those useless questions.
I simply couldn't stop them.
I could still feel it, I could still rember it, her powerless hands doing their utmost to push away, and I also rember what I did.
I held my sword and stabbed in her throat even harder, not allowing her an escape.
And with that mory, with feeling, I ca reeling back to what I just did.
-I killed soone.
My hands shook just like she said, along with my body, almost hyperventilating on spot.
-Calm down!!
-CALM DOWN!!!
I scread to myself, but it didn't seem to work..
A vicious cycle of guilt, rage and helplessness overtook , like an bottomless abyss...
For how long, I didn't know.
But for a long while, I was imrsed in that feeling, not even knowing when I fell on my butt.
But in this long period, I dealt with my feelings, sowhat.
My brain wasn't a ss anymore, I could sort out my feelings, a bit.
I knew, I had to kill.
I knew it from my first day here.
This world was just that cruel.
I had even resolved myself to kill, but seems like that resolve was not enough, and even if it was...
'...I don't think its bad to feel sad, after killing soone...'
Even if that soone was hell-bent on killing you.
Even if that soone was a crazy bitch who had killed thousands.
And just like that, I cald down a bit.
I was not in the right mood yet, though.
Still guilty, still sad, about the world that was created based on my imagination. Even inwardly scolding myself for not writing a fairies and butterflies novel.
'But then again, the world couldn't be based on so all-goody book.'
After all, the world doesn't work like that, I thought absentmindedly as I sprawled on the ground.
This thought being just another passing one of the many I have already had.
-Crunch.
It was then, just after an emotional rollercoaster, that my bubble burst.
Popped by a small kid with blue hair, golden eyes and a heroic face.
And though the expression he was making was anything but heroic, I couldn't mistake him.
For he was the central piece of this madness.
Yes, Allen had finally arrived at the scene.
Walking ever so slowly, ever so carefully, as he made his way through the forest.
His gaze, his deanor showed no trace of being controlled or chard.
His expression wasn't normal though.
Rather his expression was like that of a drug addict who wanted but couldn't resist the allure of drugs.
Scrambling through the last of the bushes in his way, he stepped into the clearing, into the canopy that now had an massive crater embedded in it.
With a sowhat fanatic expression that turned into a betrayed one in between, he walked through the canopy.
With his attention on the crater, he obviously spotted . , who was sprawled near a dead body with semi-dried blood all around .
His eyes opened wide as he reeled backwards, falling on his butt, while covering his mouth with his hand.
But I didn't care. The rage, the anger, that I had just cald down bubbled up again, as thoughts like 'Wasn't it his fault that I had to kill..?' erged in my mind.
I knew it was stupid. I already knew what it ant to have him in the party, I already knew what it ant to travel with him, yet I had him join us.
So now, when I had to bear the consequences, I couldn't bla him...
I knew that, and yet my emotions got the best of .
In an alien voice, in a voice filled with dark and cold hatred I asked, "What are YOU doing here, Allen!??"
The kid didn't answer, the fanatic look on his face crumbling, as he stuttered.
"I...I...I..-"
His stuttering wasn't the answer I wanted, though.
[Acceleration]
-SWOOSH!!!
I disappeared, only to appear right behind him. Looking down on him, with my face inches away from his, I asked again...
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!??"
...despite knowing the answer.
He flinched, and fell, laying down on his back. And stayed like that, having nowhere to run.
Instead, he hid his face with his hands as tears falling from his eyes, "I... I'm sorry... b-big-brother, I couldn't... control myself..."
He apologized.
"I tried! I tried a lot! I really, really, tried. But once he gets interested in sothing he doesn't listen to ! He swallows ! He overpowers ! He's too strong for ..."
The little boy broke down. Weeping on the ground as he shrunk and murmured.
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry that you had to go through all this... I'm sorry... I'm sorry...sorry..."
Seeing the weeping boy on the ground, my mind froze along with my body...
-Oh! Shit! What have I done!!
-SLAAAPPPPP!!!
I slapped myself, hard.
A slap that both helped to co back to my senses, while also being my punishnt for scaring a kid.
But even then, I was clueless. I didn't know how to coax him; I didn't know how to help him.
So, without much thinking, I took his hands in mine, and stood up. Helping him up with , breaking his sobbing posture.
The kid was still sobbing, still crying, still going about how sorry he was, and I had to stop him.
Placing both my hands on his cheeks, I lifted his head, making him look up at .
And as soon as our eyes t, I spoke. Mana infused in my voice, while I stared dead into his eyes.
"Allen, listen. This isn't your fault. You hear , this isn't your fault! Not now, not ever. Whatever happens, just happens. Its no one's faults in that, no one's; rember that. So, don't cry Allen, this isn't your fault. Don't cry."
I paused, letting my words to sink in. But instead of stopping, he cried so more while spitting out so gibberish.
'Oh fuck!'
I thought as my attempt to coax him went to gutter. I didn't give up though. I just kept trying. Again, and again and again. And by the ti I coaxed him to sleep, I could faintly see three suns rising from the east.
-Huuuuuu.
Sighing, I caressed the sleeping boy's head. Inwardly lanting, 'I'm sorry Allen, but you probably will suffer a lot...'
I lanted about his pain, his suffering, not even knowing when mine stopped bothering ...
Absentmindedly, I thought about his skill...
**
[Unique Condition: Insane Dragon's Chosen]
[Unique Skill: Insane Dragon's On]
Bearer of the Insane Dragon's will, madness and power.
The skill tampers with the law of casualty and fate. Bringing upon the chosen what the Lord of Chaos, the Insane Dragon desires, Chaos.
The chaotic elents of the world will be attracted to the chosen, regardless of their form. Providing the chosen a chance to collect them, or to be collected by them.
**
A nasty skill that essentially ant kill or be killed.
A powerful skill that allowed Allen to absorb any power falling under the [Chaos] category to strengthen his power.
But that was not all, I wouldn't call it a nasty skill it was just that.
The skill was actually a double-edged sword, not only did it strengthen Allen and his magic, it also strengthened the Insane Dragon's will residing within him.
aning, the more chaos he collect, the more powerful and more insane he beca.
A truly nasty skill.
Fighting an intense urge to sohow go back in ti and smack my author self in the head, I sighed.
-Huuuuuu
Slowly caressing the boy's hair as he rested, while I called my teammates through the communication amulet.
My call, connecting on the first ring.
'They must be worried.'
I thought, as I left them almost clueless.
I opened my mouth to speak, but before I could soone was already speaking.
-Please, please tell us that you have already found Allen, and both of you are safe!!?
"Yes and yes. I found him. And we both are safe and uninjured."
I replied to the frantic Cana, calmly. My calm spreading to her as she quietened down, not before saying a 'Thank Goodness', though.
Next, I heard Syrus's voice. After all, this was Syrus's amulet that I called.
-Where are you guys right now?
"In the middle of the forest, in the clearing near the tallest tree. Allen is sleeping, so you'll have to co get us. I will send you the coordinates, right away."
-I thought so. There we so bright flashes of light coming from there, so we were headed that way already. Also, we secured Allen's raptor, so you won't have to wait for long.
"That's great."
I exclaid without any joy... my emotions ran thin after this... but finding a lone raptor in this big forest would have been no easy task, and yet they did it... good job, I guess.
-See you soon then, leader.
"Yeah, see you soon."
I said before cutting the call and sending my coordinates.
Then with both, a tired body and a tired mind, I watched the three suns slowly climbing up the sky. A sunrise that I never would have been able to see on earth...
A bright day after a dark night...
"...is beautiful as expected."
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