Kapitel 25: Chapter 24: Valor of the Frail
"And so are you-"
CRASH!
Before I could even finish that sentence, I crashed into the wall behind me, going through it like it were butter.
"ACK!"
[You have been wounded.]
I coughed up a large volume of blood the moment I got up completely ignoring the strange sound that resounded in my head; my body was convulsing terribly.
Never in the 16 years of my life had I taken such a powerful blow.
I felt blood rushing to my head, my internal organs shuffling and my bones crack. I panted heavily desperately trying to inhale but failed terribly.
"HA...ACK!"
God...what kind of a monster is this...?
I thought in apprehension as I stared at the large cloud of dust that had dispersed due to the wall's destruction.
CREAK! CREAK!
I heard approaching footsteps, each of them sending a chill down my spine.
I've got to get out of here!
WHEEZE! WHEEZE!
Air grated on my throat as I forced my lungs to breathe. I tried to get up to my feet but held a sickening sound.
SNAP!
"AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
I let out a shrill cry when I heard the harrowing sound of bone breaking. I looked at my left arm with a horrified expression when I saw it bent at an unnatural angle.
"FUCK! FU-AAAAAHHHH!"
I cried out streams of tears when I tried to move, this wasn't the first time I had an arm injury. I had dislocated my fingers before but never have I had a whole broken bone.
"HELP! HELP!"
I let out desperate cries for help, completely driven mad by pain and anguish.
But of course, in this illusory world who would come?
The devil of course.
STOMP!
A slight shockwave rolled across the floors of the hallway as a silhouette stepped out of the fog.
WHIMPER!
I reeled backwards in fear, ignoring my broken arm as I backed up against the wall of the hall.
"STOP! GET BACK! DON'T COME ANY CLOSER!"
I screamed in terror.
The figure ignored my words and continued to advance.
"I SAID STAY BACK!"
The fog cleared revealing what it had enshrouded. It was a bare-naked Kansola with an expression I knew all too well.
It was the same expression she had before drowning me.
An expression that seemed bland in front but held utter malevolence behind it.
A completely alien look.
An expression a human is never supposed to wear.
The face of a monster.
"AAAAAAHHHHH!"
I screamed once I beheld her; an enthralled Kansola.
Cold sweat poured down my forehead and my back. I felt a moist running from my nether region.
I was completely be taken by fear.
I wanted to open my mouth once more but then Kansola spoke,
"Why?"
Huh?!
I shifted, my eyes wide.
"Why do you choose suffering?"
"Wha-"
"Why do you choose pain?"
I stared at her with a bewildered expression.
"Why do you choose sorrow?"
Kansola stared at me with the same chilling expression and spoke in an alien voice.
"I gave you happiness. I gave you joy. I gave you bliss. So why?"
She bent forward towards me, until her face was mere inches away from mine.
"Why choose despair?"
My face fell and my body jolted, what she was saying wasn't even what was eerie. What made the whole scene so horrifying was her voice.
Oh God, her voice.
Her voice didn't even seem curious or concerned or sad...it just felt alien.
It sounded inhuman.
My heart jumped in its chest as I pressed myself against the wall, desperate to get away from Kansola.
"Was this body not to your liking?"
I stared at her, bamboozled.
"Did you not like this dream?"
"Wasn't this the dream life you wanted?"
Her voice started sound even more alien as if grown colder. I could feel the air rumbling with an unforeseen pressure, the building seemed to shake and reality seemed to ripple...
Like water.
"GET AWAY FROM ME!", I yelled as I jumped to my feet and bolted away from her, running through the halls as fast as my shaken legs could take me.
I didn't look back, not once. I kept running and running and running until I discovered something...
Was...the hall...always this long...?
I stopped and looked forward. Before me the hallway stretched endlessly.
"What the-?"
Seconds after I witnessed that, the hallway suddenly changed. The place I perceived as forward suddenly became downward and backward as upward.
GASP!
I gasped as I perceived the motion of falling, my senses becoming heavily disoriented.
BLEURGH!
I vomited from nausea, my head spinning wildly.
My eyes began to dilate as my body went limp.
God...please make it stop...I want to go home...
I want to see my mom...I...
I... don't want to play this game anymore...
The feeling of nausea seemed to become apparent as I slowly lost consciousness, but right before I closed my eyes, I saw Kansola high above me...her expression alien...her body enthralled but her soul...
Strangely, I could feel it...
A cry for help.
But...
What can I do?
I am weak after all...
I can't do anything to save her, talk less myself.
Accepting fate, I closed my eyes.
Yeah...this is probably just a dream...once I wake up, I'll be sleeping soundly in my bed...
I acknowledged that optimistic thought as I felt my hold of my consciousness slipping.
Yes...
But alas! Reality could never be so kind.
BAM!
A powerful punch collided with my chest, rattling my flesh and bones, and shaking my soul. My eyes popped open as blood spewed from my lips.
The strange voice spoke again.
[You have been wounded.]
"AAAHHH!!!"
With widened eyes, I saw Kansola's face, it held the same alien expression as before but at that moment I realized something so apparent.
This isn't...Kansola...
Instantly, my eyes flashed before my eyes.
...
"Dave..."
I turned to the annoying girl with a glare, "What?"
She shirked at my harsh gaze and said in a subdued tone, "I'm sorry..."
I irked at her and turned away, reaching for the doorway of my class, SS2.
She and I were the only ones in here. My classmates had thought it a good idea to live the foolish girl alone with me, hoping we'd make up after that fight...
But why would I?
Yesterday was Valentine's Day, prior to it, I had gone through thick and thin to find a beautiful rose to hand over to her as a gift, but when I gave her what did she say?
'...That's it...?'
Those two words shattered my soul, it made me feel weird and inferior. It made me feel empty.
It wasn't until today she realized the weight of her words, and now...the shameless bitch wants me to accept her apology...just like that-
She wants me to just forget what she said! She just wants me to-
Before I could finish that thought, I felt something soft press my back and thin arms wrapped me from behind.
"Please Dave...am sorry..."
SNIFF! SNIFF!
I heard her sobbing but didn't respond, I simply stood there as she hugged me from behind.
My anger seemed to wane and my disdain to her vanished.
"Tss...am sorry too..."
...
Suddenly, the flashback ended, as quickly as it had appeared.
I didn't know why I remembered that memory at this moment but if there was one thing I knew it was that it filled me with so much anger and unlocked an untold strength within me.
Suddenly, pain and fear vanished leaving behind hateful rage.
And all that hate was aimed at the source of my despair; the monster in Kansola's body.
"DIE!"
I screamed at the top of my lungs as I threw my right hand at Kansola's body.
The punch travelled through the air, cutting through it and made its way to her face.
That punch seemed to carry all the indescribable rage I felt; anger at the pain, anger at myself, anger at my weakness and anger at this monster.
"HRAAAAH!", I screamed as my punch collided with Kansola's body.
The punch sunk deep into her chest and seemed to send ripples through it, my muscles tore at the force of my punch and I felt my bones crack. I had used hysterical strength after all; the power that can only come through death.
For the first time, I saw the monster's expression change; from the eerie alien expression that hid boundless malevolence to an expression of utter wickedness.
Her face contorted into one of mad rage and her expression darkened heavily.
She opened her mouth and screamed,
"HOW DARE YOU!"
But I remained unfrazzled, my fist simply sunk deeper sending ripples through her body until, she erupted into a torrent of water but before she did...
I raised out my middle finger and said, "Fuck You, I chose freedom not suffering."
Before she could retort, she exploded and not only her but the illusion itself.
Everything collapsed into water, and the water in turn engulfed everything.
I fell into the raging waves, my hand still outstretched in a fist, as a voice spoke.
[You have completed the Achievement – Valor of the Frail.]
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