It was an instant massacre. With not even much of an effort, both of the opponents were defeated. He was truly the protagonist, no one and nothing could stand in his way, except for the fated meeting between the villain and him.
Glimpse Water questioned why he himself was even needed in the story and he wondered if the protagonist was already this strong, how he could get captured and tortured?
The two opponents who seemed so sure of their powers and were confident to defeat Prota were taken out by just one punch of his.
Prota hurried down the hallway with Glimpse Water in tow. The bandages on Prota opened and his wounds started to bleed again as he rushed his body to move.
To move and move and move. Closer to Frozen Milk. Closer to rid this pain in his chest. All that was on his mind was to get Frozen Milk.
Go. Go. Go.
Prota and Glimpse Water finally arrived at the hallway Holbe was minutes ago.
"Damn, what the hell? So much blood," Glimpse Water walked after Prota who knelt down to examine the unconscious Oppoa. Prota slapped him on the cheek.
"What you doing?" Glimpse Water got curious and moved closer.
"Waking him up."
"Seriously?" Glimpse Water narrowed his eyes in disbelief, "He seems like an enemy but- "
"No wounds," Prota finished the sentence and continued slapping Oppoa like a fish on a cutting board. He gave up and saw the blood trail.
"Could be Holbe, ain't it? Wow, she finished him with one blow too? No wonder she's the captain."
Monsters, added Glimpse Water in his head.
However, he felt something wasn't right. There was too much blood for it to have been peaceful.
Glimpse Water couldn't help but ask, "Hey Prota, why were you captured... like that?"
Prota didn't stop walking, "Because they thought I was a water person."
"How did they realise? You ain't told them, ain't it?"
Prota remained silent.
"You really told them? What the hell? You ain't even a water person!"
"When they asked where I came from, I told them the water capital because that's where we've been..."
Naïve! Truly naïve! Yep, that was still their protagonist. Glimpse Water somehow sighed in relief.
"And then?"
"Well, the nature people seem to have a grudge against the water people, so they wanted to take it out on me. They especially didn't like the idea I wanted to join their prince's army."
"Ah yeah, that makes sense. We should've thought about it better," Glimpse Water had to admit their whole plan was full of plot holes and was rushed, poorly executed and just thought up on the spot.
As if an author really wanted to troll their readers and just went out of steam and started to write whatever the fuck they wanted. Glimpse Water was also an author, but he'd never write bullshit like this.
If there was really an author with such bad writing skills and storytelling and abrupt plot turns, they better hand themselves in and quit writing for the rest of their lives!
They walked for a while down this one endless, long hallway with no end in sight until at one point the blood vanished. Glimpse Water explored the path a bit further but there was no blood anymore. Everything was clean.
"There must be a shortcut," Glimpse Water thought. It was a problem since none of this was in the book Frozen Milk wrote.
"Ah damn not shortcut, I mean hidden passage."
"I agree," Prota started touching the surrounding walls. Glimpse Water followed suit but even after minutes, they found nothing.
"Maybe the ceiling?" Glimpse Water jumped up and touched the ceiling for a while.
"Nothing... Where could they've gone?" Glimpse Water had to be the brain here because the protagonist was indeed handsome and powerful but as for brains it was lacking, but Glimpse Water wasn't that much better off, though he didn't know that himself.
Prota and Glimpse Water went in circles until Glimpse Water finally noticed the abnormality in the blood trail.
Glimpse Water looked down and narrowed his eyes, "Wait."
He moved the spot where the blood ended.
"The blood here's thicker and more up until here," Glimpse Water turned around and moved about a short distance back the way they came from.
"The double amount of blood stops here. I see," he clapped his hands and pushed on the wall. He noticed a tiny blood print of a hand.
"See what?" Prota couldn't follow along.
"See the short part where the amount of blood seems to have increased? Holbe or whoever walked until there and saw they couldn't move further because they missed the hidden passage. So, they went back again and stopped here. Here's the entrance,"
Glimpse Water was proud of his deduction skills and pressed his hand on the blood print.
The stone wall moved back and opened a passage for them to enter. It led to another long and dreading hallway that seemed to go on endlessly. The wall behind them shut and Glimpse Water turned around to see Prota lean against it.
"You alright?" Glimpse Water was concerned.
Prota lost a lot of blood, "I'm fine, let's go."
Prota went ahead.
It was sheer garbage how long the hallway was, but Glimpse Water could guess in his little author's brain that this underground place did not only run underneath the arena but a good portion of the area. Did Frozen Milk know of this?
Was this one of his hidden plots later on in the book? Glimpse Water did manage to make Frozen Milk spit out the ending, everything he had planned of the book and when he realised what a badass but literally bad and ass character Frozen Milk made him, he started to reflect on himself a bit.
It was true he wanted to take the protagonist's spot but wasn't that just because he was following his fate- the plot Frozen Milk wrote for him? Wasn't he in the end just a puppet with no will?
At first, the thought of that made him resent Frozen Milk but later he came to realise that not everything was up to fate and he was able to change himself and this made him feel better upon realising he was just a character in a book.
At the end of the hallway was a single door and behind this door was a single magnificent room and, in this room, stood the villain with the holy beauty being strangled by him as Frozen Milk laid on the sofa, badly wounded.
Prota and Glimpse Water noticed the ripped dress of Holbe, the blood running down her bare skin forming a puddle on the ground, they noticed Frozen Milk unconscious with black threads surrounding him again and they noticed the villain.
The terrifying and intimidating villain whose dark eyes flickered to them and with his deep, threatening voice said,
"You're here? Good timing. You were able to beat some of my good fighters, so I'll reward you. You can either save her or him. Choose."
Good? Not best? All three of them were stupefied, especially Holbe was shocked. Oppoa was only good? She couldn't breathe and scratched at Vil's hand.
On the other side, Glimpse Water blanked. He truly spoke like a villain. That was the OP and badass, the real badass character.
Prota only had eyes for Frozen Milk but couldn't deny that Holbe's life was also in danger.
Choose one of them? Who could make that decision?
"You can't," Holbe choked out, "If I die, Frozen Milk won't be able to survive. I'm the only one who can heal him!"
Was that a selfish statement of Holbe? But if Frozen Milk died anyways and she lived, she couldn't save him in the first place.
However, if Holbe died then no one would be able to save Frozen Milk and they couldn't let a person die. Even if they weren't close to her as Frozen Milk was, she was still their... friend, no?
Glimpse Water and Prota were frozen on the spot.
Holbe glanced at them, were they able to get her intention? To draw out time?
It wasn't the best way to give them more time but Holbe couldn't die. She really was the only one who could save Frozen Milk.
She wouldn't be able to rest in peace if Frozen Milk didn't make it either. What could they do? What was possible? If only... if only Holbe could transfer her powers.
"Choose now," the grip on Holbe intensified, she could barely stay conscious.
The silence in the room was overwhelming to the point it suffocated each of them until it stifled their sense of morality and justice.
One thought coursed through their minds: If Frozen Milk was conscious, he'd know what to do.
But he laid there, needing them to save him.
With the last bit of energy Holbe had left, she kicked the villain as a decoy and put all of her force on removing his hand as his grip weakened trying to deflect her leg.
Holbe was free and crawled towards Frozen Milk. Glimpse Water and Prota moved in sync as they both grasped the opportunity and attacked the villain.
Holbe spent the tiniest bit of her power on subduing at least the black threads before the villain grabbed her by the neck again and flung her away.
From the corner of her eyes, she saw how Glimpse Water and Prota were defeated, laying on the ground. There was no chance they could win.
The villain was too strong. Holbe desperately fought to stay conscious to witness how the villain approached Frozen Milk.
"No..." her soft whisper faded into the air to become nothing.
"Is he really that important to you? So important that you weaklings are willing to risk your lives?" Vil wrapped his hand around Frozen Milk's neck.
"Since you can't choose, I'll choose for you."
Even though the three of them were far away from Frozen Milk, they could still see the colour fading even more from his face.
Move, move, move-
Each of them commanded their bodies but they wouldn't listen.
Anything.
Something.
Please.
Suddenly-
BING.
Inside Glimpse Water's head, his system rang.
"You want to make a deal?"
"What deal? No, it ain't matter as long it saves father."
"Fine, I can give you a power-up for a minute however it'll cost you."
"How strong?"
"Enough to render the villain immobile."
"Deal."
"Good."
The moment the system disappeared. Glimpse Water felt a surge of energy and power elevating his body. In this room where there were only a sofa and two chairs, Glimpse Water grabbed the chair and smashed it on the villain's head.
Unfazed by it, Vil still turned around and reached for Glimpse Water.
Glimpse Water dodged and took Vil's arm to fling him to the other side of the room. Not only Vil but everyone present, including himself, were surprised.
"Holbe now!" Glimpse Water called her awake from her gaze and he dashed to Vil to smash him further against the wall.
40 seconds left.
Yet Holbe couldn't move but she was suddenly lifted up and Prota carried her to Frozen Milk before he collapsed.
Holbe pushed herself further over the limit to heal Frozen Milk.
Stop the spread of the threads. First, remove the ones around his heart and his organs and then heal them.
Holbe knew she had to speed up as she heard the loud fighting sounds Glimpse Water and Vil made. She had no idea what Glimpse Water did but she figured he couldn't hold on for long.
Holbe started to heal Frozen Milk's heart.
3 seconds left.
Glimpse Water was smashed to the ground.
2 seconds left.
Vil raced to Holbe.
1 second left.
Holbe needed more time, only half of Frozen Milk's heart was-
0.
Holbe was again flung away and laid on the ground. This time she fell unconscious.
Holbe, Glimpse Water and Prota were at the end of their powers. They lost and didn't witness anything anymore after they fell into a dark pit that enveloped them and forced them out of reality into a dangerous slumber as their wounds relentlessly poured out their blood.
"I'm the strongest. There is no way anyone could ever defeat me," Vil spit out blood and stretched his body.
He had to admit Glimpse Water was able to subdue him, but it wasn't enough. He was an amateur and didn't know what to do with the fighting power he suddenly got.
"Now," Vil stared at Frozen Milk, "It's your turn."
Vil's hand hovered over Frozen Milk's neck.
40 seconds was all Frozen Milk's body needed to catapult him briefly back conscious. His system also played a hand in this, but it was unknown how much or how.
Frozen Milk awoke and locked eyes with the villain's gorgeous ones. It took him a second to process as his system flooded information into his mind.
"Fuck," was the infamous word Frozen Milk said the first thing he woke up and for some reason, Frozen Milk couldn't stand the intense eyes of the villain and used his precious middle and index finger to stab them into his pupils. Hard as he could at least.
Vil staggered back and fell to his knees, "You! What kind of hidden power is that?"
"What? Stabbing your eyes with my fingers? It's a common thin-" Frozen Milk's vision fell on his characters.
He felt anger welling up again as Vil cowered on the ground holding his teary eyes. Frozen Milk wanted to vent his rage but his body was too weak to comply. Frozen Milk tripped from the sofa and fell onto the villain and laid on top of him now.
"Fuck," Frozen Milk cursed again as his hands sought to get a hold on something and instead fumbled around on something hard and pointed.
Once again, Frozen Milk and Vil locked eyes. Vil knew this feeling he could recall it again; it was the all-familiar feeling he felt that day as he wandered in a jungle and met a guy who sexually harassed him.
Vil could clearly feel it as Frozen Milk's hands fumbled his chest and even grasped his nipples. Vil trembled underneath Frozen Milk's touch.
Frozen Milk widened his eyes. WTF? He was so flabbergasted he actually pinched Vil's nipples quite viciously.
"Ah~" Vil couldn't' suppress his moan and there was something else that Vil couldn't suppress- it was the hard bulge that violated Frozen Milk's private part on top of it.
Yes, it was this feeling he felt. On that day after being harassed by this male who touched him everywhere and after chasing him to murder him brutally, he realised that he didn't hate this strange feeling.
In fact, he craved for it along with the pain Frozen Milk gave him just now, it was a new sensation Vil desperately yearned for.
Frozen Milk could guess what went on in his villain's head as he saw the intoxicated expression on his face.
"Fuck!" Frozen Milk slapped the villain on the chest, "Stop getting aroused!" but was met with another moan.
His villain! His brutal villain that slaughtered and murdered, that wanted him and the others dead...
His villain, his OP and badass villain... was actually a fucking M!
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