Even though Hinata had just lived through hell, he still couldn’t wrap his head around what had unfolded. Not only had he survived a group of superpowered freaks, he had killed them without hesitation.
Noticing that his hands weren’t shaking and his heart remained steady, Hinata suddenly rembered—he wasn’t normal.
Before he could dwell any further on his nonexistent morals, his body lifted into the air against his will, hovering three feet above the altar.
"Wait! Why am I flying?!"
Hinata braced himself for another wave of enemies, only for black mist to pour out from his clothes. The mist thickened, coiling around him in lazy spirals, until it ford a pitch-black barrier around him.
Hinata strained his eyes to catch anything moving in the darkness. Then the mist churned slightly, knitting together the head of a pale, ghostlike being. What creeped Hinata out even more was that no matter how much he stared at the head, he couldn’t understand its form, shape, or even gender.
As he stared at the head, a deep, ancient voice echoed directly into his soul.
Black-golden text burned across his vision, like those status panels in manhwas and novels back on Earth.
Hinata’s lips curled into a slow, dangerous grin. "Yeah? Good luck with that. I don’t give a fuck about who you are or what your goals are. I just want to go ho, not beco a tool or a source of entertainnt for you."
Before he could finish speaking, a new panel unfolded in his mind like a perfectly drawn map.
Hinata tilted his head from left to right since this ti he didn’t hear or see the creepy head.
"No, I can’t. If I could, do you think I could have taken the stinking core?"
Like a real ghost, the head appeared in front of him again, which made Hinata’s face go white.
Hinata hovered there for a long mont, staring at the being in front of him. It was clear this wasn’t the Shadow God, so what was it?
"Answer ." He asked cautiously. "Who exactly are you?"
A few fingers appeared from the face’s side as it pointed at itself. >
It laughed.
"Causality?" he thought with a scornful expression. "And you expect to believe that?"
The head moved like it was shrugging.
Hinata tilted his head. ’So he’s a guy that makes sure your actions have their consequences?’ He studied the face for a mont. ’But what does this have to do with ?’
Since it hadn’t even been an hour since he ca to this world, Hinata knew there was no way he would have triggered a cause and effect. However, if one was left behind by the core he took, then everything would make sense.
The head suddenly smirked.
Hinata stared at the head with obvious disgust. "What the fuck are you saying?"
The head moved closer to him, forming a finger and placing it on his forehead.
"You expect to believe the words of a talking head?"
"Then do it," Hinata said with a serious expression.
"I said swear on your existence and bind that contract to . If you want to agree to your terms, then swear it. You can never order , hurt , sche against , or lie to . In exchange, I’ll listen to everything you have to say and try to finish your mission. But if I finish my task before then, you’ll have zero right to stop ."
The head went still. It sighed.
Hinata shut his eyes as the head suddenly turned golden, illuminating the dark space.
It began speaking words that seed foreign, yet Hinata could understand them. The words it spoke flowed around them, then turned into a golden chain that linked them together.
When it opened its eyes, it asked, "Happy now?"
Hinata narrowed his eyes in suspicion, but that suspicion soon faded. Sohow, he could feel deep within him that the head had ford a contract with the exact terms he stated, and there didn’t seem to be a hidden clause.
In an instant, the black mist faded away, and Hinata landed on the obsidian ground again.
The air that was stuffy before now felt fresh, like he was sieving out the harmful things from it.
Ding!
Hinata read the text carefully. He didn’t yet trust the system, so watching for any hidden phrases was the only thing he could do at the mont.
"Damn, that wasn’t dramatic at all."
Hinata held his breath and answered, "Yes."
"Bloodline ability?"
A long silence filled his head. Then:
Hinata’s eyes widened as the floating texts filled his vision. He was just about to speak when light exploded from everywhere, and a large spinning wheel ford out of nothing.
He paused deliberately.
Reviews
All reviews (0)