Chapter 14: Chapter 14
The crowd slowly dissipated making away for the black-clad person walking towards the truce area, specifically to the center of the commotion.
His sharp eyes glued to the hand holding each opponent's arm. It was clear as the day that they were bickering and was about to start a fight. "Were the middle players this illiterate?" he said with such a low and calm tone yet his statement expressed a heavy threat and mockery.
Himari and the tall-brawny man's group unconsciously let go of each grip and stands straightly looking distressed towards the Dark King. The brawny man can't accept the fact that he feared this young lad, defending his prideful self he spoke up derisively, "What is his majesty thinking coming down here?"
In the next moment of breathing, a blistering pair of black daggers fixed near his thick brown neck along with the dark silhouette appeared both at his side. A mixed voice of a woman and man full of rage and life-threatening, synchronically warned, "You have no right to talked back to the Dark King, filthy trash!"
In terms of age, this brawny man was much older compared to them, yet in this unknown place, in this dark world, age has no value. A person can only gain respect through gaining achievements. Those who sit among the top has the freedom to ridicule those below them, even if the lower ranks will complain, no one will listen. Dominating with fear is the only key.
"Dark Knight. Dark Queen. Stop it. This is a truce area." The Dark King commanded as he firmly stops his steps looking at them in a small distance. The two instantly followed what he said and retracted their attack and step back to stand with him. With a great low voice Dark King then clearly stated, "A fight in this area is disallowed. The rule is easy to understand. Now, do you know your grieve sin?" his words intended to the person fixed his eyes, towards the leader of the small group of Wolfbane's House of the West. But, those who heard him shivers.
"But, they'd started it!" the center-guy of the other group shouted pointing his index fingers towards Akane. "Trust me."
"I see…" The Dark King shortly reply. He slowly steps with a stoic air not even moving his gaze towards the center-guy.
At the same moment, "What?!" Akane yanked, "You piece of shit. You were the one insulting our sibling!" she wants to move to want to strangle this guy who blames her this instant, yet Himari halt her from doing, seeing how the Dark King tapped the shoulder of the center-guy with such pressure.
Dark King then muttered, "Your mouth is loud enough to hear what you said as soon as I step on this floor."
The center-guy instantly petrified by what he heard and from the first touch of his shoulder, body shivers feeling the strange creepy sensation spreading from that tap. Seems a touch of a fearsome grim reaper.
"It's not my subordinates' fault." the brawny man said defending his companions, the tip of his thick fingers was almost reaching the Dark King's shoulder but before it could touch, the said person scowled at him intently. At the moment their stares exchanged, the brawny man's body rapidly produced an exceeds amount of cold sweat and his legs become softer, making him KNEEL unwillingly while gasping with air.
They only exchanged stares, no words added yet the Dark king's eyes are tremendously frightening and can make anyone cower in fear, his sharp icy glare represents death itself. The real terror of a person sitting on the top among all players.
"Scram." it was just a short command, yet so strong and horrifying making the remaining member moved with extreme panic while pulling their leader and the center-guy away, quivering.
The Dark King stared at Himari and others, this time his eyes has no trace of fear than before, and quietly proceed with his other two members to sit on the only couch of this area while watching the match on the big monitor.
Looking at them, Zhi curiously whispered to Haruto, "Why his eyes are soft to us compared to those other guys?"
After a short moment of pause, Haruto answered him with the low-tone too, "I don't know… yet." while looking suspiciously to the back of the top ranker and to Mizu who was seriously fighting right now. He and Himari have the same thought in mind.
"Most of the player was saying that the psychotic-girl will win this game. What do you think, my King?" the Dark queen asked wrapping her tender arms to his, while bossoms are tenderly bouncing with her moves. Yet, the person she's seducing is not giving her any attention and mind are only focus on the current fight on the monitor making her clicked her tongue, but after a few seconds, she strangely smiles and leaned her head to her king's shoulder.
"Do you think 'that girl' can win?" this time the Dark Knight asked towards the focus King, also not removing his stare from the monitor.
This time the Dark King answered, "Looking in the surface, the psychotic girl appears to dominate her opponent in terms of speed and strength, yet what truly happening was, the psychotic girl was already under the control of the other one without even knowing. Since from the start, 'that girl' maintained her calm."
He then added emphasizing each word, "Under the 'stagnant water' hides a creature of darkness."
Those who heard him only thought of how unusual his comments were and seems unbelievable, yet to Himari and others, knowing the real name of the teammate currently fighting, those emphasize word seems telling them he knew— Mizu.
Meanwhile in the arena,
"Why are you running? Come here little deer! How dare a prey scratch my face?!" the psychotic-girl chased after Mizu running towards the center while holding her left arm in bleed, dripping down from her wound towards the floor. Her opponent precisely aimed at her old wound which was not healed completely. Mizu just managed to wound her for once on the face, so shallow, yet the small drop of blood make her more insane and furious.
Mizu runs while avoiding her attacks, she plans to go to the center and avoid the horrible outcome if on the edge of the stage. However, the psychotic girl caught her up and slam her head on the floor, she was instantly pinned down. Blood, plum red and thick, oozes from above her right eyebrow.
"Drop dead!" her opponent yelled as her arms holding a knife was in the air about to stab. However, Mizu managed to carry her whole weight, it was planned. Since then, Mizu has always played horse and princess with their youngest sibling Riko and some other kids. Every time she fell and pinned by them she already knew what is the trick to go back to her standing, that is to force yourself upward so sudden, from the moment you were not restrained well.
"Aah!" the psychotic girl shouts as her back slammed on the floor, without further ado Mizu instantly aim at her neck, however from the moment her knife reach near her neck, Mizu stops, seeing how scared this girl was. She was having fun killing others yet she feared death herself.
With those split of seconds, the psychotic felt her hesitation, and so she terrifying sneered, "What a half-assed like you doing in this arena?!"
This time Mizu was the one on the bottom and speedily dodge the blade comes on her head in a small margin, and block the other one coming with her knife.
However, this time, her trusted weapon broke apart.
The sound of shattering echoes to Mizu's ear, in a short moment, she saw a vision of how her neck pitifully penetrated by her opponent's weapon.
Gifts
-- Gift
received Weekly Power Status
-- Power
Ranking 
-- Power
stone