"Ki Bai!"
The cultivator disappeared inside the book. No matter how much mangaka tried, it remained closed with an invisible lock.
A silhouette in torn rags growled from behind the statue.
"Oh my goodness… No! No! I'm almost dead! No, enough of the damn fear! Do you want to kill me? I'll kill you myself, you half-finished rat! Come here!"
Mangaka grabbed the spear from the statue, as it gave an advantage in distance.
Han stuck his spear into the monster. Miss! A scratch! The mangaka growled and stepped back to disperse. The deformed rat huddled in a corner and howled.
"Die! You'll die, and my leg will recover, you rags!"
The monster was curled up in a ball, tightly wrapped in rags.
Han stopped. There were faded patterns of flowers on them. The beast whined and licked its wounds.
With a sigh, Mangaka opened the first-aid kit. With bandages, the guy approached the beast. The monster shuddered. Han jumped back. A cold lump was rolling down my throat.
"Don't be afraid, there is no danger."
A new attempt. Mangaka touched the wound. The monster closed its paw.
"A difficult case. Um, do you want me to sing? I'm a singer, like a fish out of a leech, but still."
A lullaby filled the twilight corridor. Han stammered on the first lines:
"Um, no, I'm lying... my mother didn't sing like that. So let's start over."
This happened all the time while Han was treating the wound. The monster obediently lay there, breathing heavily.
"Lucky for you, I didn't hit the torso – just the limbs. And you were so scared, huh?"
The monster put his wounded paw for a sling.
"Thank you, with your cooperation, it will be more convenient for me to do this."
Han bandaged his paw.
"Is it better now? Ki Bai's spear was not poisoned by anything: the wound should heal normally!"
The beast lay down on the ground, breathing heavily. Han reached out to stroke it, but wisely decided to refuse to do so.
[I think I'll leave the little animal alone.]
Han sat down next to him, looking bitterly at the wounded rat. [It's strange, when did I stop being afraid of three-meter rats? Do I really cease to be normal after the horrors I have experienced? I don't like it. Fear is not a good feeling, but if I start treating everything terrible with composure, what will happen then? Will I become a fucking terminator?
In any case, I don't want to get used to the game going on! I want to go home to my mother and uncle! I want to continue drawing manga!]
Tears dripped from Han's eyelashes, mangaka looked at the book. [And, bro, I will definitely pull you out if you are still alive! I give you my word.]
A cold nose touched his shoulder. Han shuddered.
You're not going to eat me, are you?
The rat was sweetly caressing. Han's face was very long, he became tongue-tied and could only allow the animal to continue to show sympathy.
[It is somewhat similar to a domestic dog (as I have seen in films), but much nicer. Dogs, in my opinion, are from the devil. True devils, only there are not enough horns. I still can't understand why to keep them, especially large breeds: you can't pick them up, you can't caress them.]
Han peered at the rat's face. [If we discard the similarity with a sheepdog, it looks really cute. Mustache, long muzzle and eyes- "cute-lo-lo-lo-ta!"]
"Do I seem beautiful?"
"What?" Han choked. "It's strange that you only spoke now, and not then. I wouldn't have hurt you if you had, well... shouted: don't come, don't come! Or did you want to eat me?!"
"Eat you? Ha-ha-ha!" the rat giggled.
"Stop! Why do I understand you? And anyway, what's going on here?"
"Oh, I would love to answer, but I don't know myself. My function is to block the way of people. By the way, thank you for the lullaby, it, haha, helped a lot. And before your sing I can't speak. Your sing given me ability speak and other abilities".
The rat began to sing.
Her appearance changed: her posture straightened, her face took on human features, the wool fell off and intertwined into clothes.
"Give me a name! I need a name!"
"Uh…"
Things were happening too fast. [God, I don't understand! What for? Why? And most importantly, is it written?!! Is it marked?!! Good! What does the name mean? I'll give her what she wants!]
"Sophie," Han spat out the first thing that came to mind.
"Thank you, swee...
"No, Anagara will do better."
" ...eet! A? It sounds like something, of course, I'm being impertinent, but can I take my first name?"
"I said it out of stupidity. And what don't you like about Anagara?!"
"It..." the rate lowered her head, "...sounds rude, can I be called Sophie?"
"Nick?"
"Sophie!"
"Filicia?"
"Sophie!"
"Shanti?"
"Sophie! Sophie! Sophie!"
"Aaaahh!" hysteria rolled over Han.
[Oh my Goodness, how exhausted I am! My brains are like jelly. How long have I been awake? The bill is already going, I feel, for a day. Give up the bickering and just agree?]
Han looked at the rat. She smiled sweetly
"She's nice, but not Sophie at all. If I call her that, my missing brother will curse me in the next world. Sophie Gats has golden hair, and she has black. Oh, how about ..."
"Mikasa!"
The rat's smile faded.
"Hey, listen. Maybe I'll give you something in return... a very tempting reward for the name? You'll call me Sophie, and I'll..."
"No discussion."
[Wait! I can asked her to escort me, is don't?]
The rat came up to Han. Mangaka grabbed his spear – a slender, strong hand intercepted him.
"Hey! What are you doing?!" Han was pinned to the fountain.
"Ha, ha, ha! Please try it! If you like me, just call me by my first name Sophie!
"Oh, my God!.."
For a while, the mangaka's head turned off, he became an limp doll. The girl who was a rat took off her clothes with a smile.
When the last rags fell, he looked at the girl. Below the abdomen, below the navel.
Convulsions of joy froze on the facial muscles. And then a shout:
"A-a-a-a-a!" Han pushed the rat-girl away. "What the hell?! In the name of the Lord and his seraphim, who put them there?!! Oh, my God!"
Mangaka threw up.
"My eyes! Damn you all!"
Han jumped up, and was immediately grabbed:
"Hey, why are you scared? I clean them just like the top ones, three times a day."
"What the hell are they doing there?!! I... I…"
The girl smiled and continued to "reward".
"N-no! Wait, don't!"
The rat snorted. "I don't understand, what's wrong? Teeth like teeth! And they're pretty cute."
Han turned pale. [It's no use!] Mangaka began to cry. "I didn't mean it! Ah!"
"Oh! Oh! Ha-ha-ha! You're chewing on my pen."
"Let me go!"
"Stop it. It tickles! If you don't stop I'll bite back… Is this really a provocation?"
"Damn it!!!" Han felt a chill in the area below his lower back and immediately stopped resisting.
"Oh, stop messing around! I'm already on edge!"
[God,] Han looked at the rat's "lower teeth" and trembled, [When I said that I didn't want to die a virgin. I didn't mean... I didn't mean that I was ready to die during the loss of my virginity! Oh, my God! I will die from pain shock or blood loss! In terrible agony!]
"Eh? Take off this rag! Come on!"
"No!"
"I have said, take it off! Stop building a shy boy!"
"B..."
[Burn you in hell, rapist! Heck! We need to calm down!]
"Hmm?" the girl have stopped.
"Beautiful mistress Sophie…"
The girl blushed, smiled broadly, looking at Han like an angel.
"Yes, baby?"
For a second, the mangaka's heart skipped a beat. "How beautiful"
But he remembered about the "quirk " of his friend and about what she was going to do with him now
"Mistress Sophie, I'm not ready. Everything happens so fast. Can we postpone this?"
"But... but I almost took a bite out of you."
Sweat trickled down Han's face.
[Aaaahhh! How the hell am I scared! Did I understand correctly: I will be devoured alive?! From the pelvis?!! A-a-a! Is this hell? Is this a circle of lust?!! Pull yourself together, rag! Pull yourself together! After so many trials, you just don't dare to die here!]
"Mistress Sophie... Mistress..."
"Don't mumble!"
"I shall die from it."
The rat smiled and leaned in Han's ear:
"Why would I did it? Hehe, but if you wanted me to burn in hell and called me a rapist, I would castrate you. You not said it, didn't are?"
A shiver ran down Han's spine.
[She can do it...]
"...read minds? Absolutely, little Han! Now let's have some fun. I like you, and if I get pleasure from you, I will regret it and let you go. On the contrary, if you, a slug, decide to run away or show yourself badly, then... Clack!" Sophie snapped her teeth at Han.
"D-d-do you...?"
"... promise? What a stupid question? What choice do you have, kid? Either it will be my way, or nothing."
The rat let go of Han and sat down on the fountain.
"What the…"
"...what the hell?" Ha-ha-ha-ha! I'm just losing interest a little bit. So I want to complicate the game. You can run, who knows, maybe it will work. Or you can go to this beautiful fountain with a statue. Come on, what will you choose, little Han?"
Mangaka was trembling.
"Ha, ha, ha! If your dead brother were here, he would try to kill me."
Han clenched his fists to the knuckles.
Sophie's smile faded.
"Oh, how many swear words we know. Why be so angry. As if it's my fault that his…"
"My brother isn't dead!"
Sophie sighed.
"I sometimes go too far."
"Too far? Did you just realize that now?!"
"I said I was sorry. Don't raise your tone else…
"I don't care! I'm not afraid of you, you ugly one! Do you hear?!" Han ran up and hit Sophie.
The girl fell into the fountain.
"You think..." Han didn't have time to finish the sentence: the ribs and internal organs were pushing through Sophie's knuckles.
Head spinning, Han fell.
"Utyrok!" the girl spat out a broken tooth.
A new one came out in its place.
"Oh my Goodness! Thank God I have regeneration. Oh my God! It really pisses me off that I can't kill this brat! Hey, drawings!"
Ink flowed out of the ground, forming girls with sharp fangs and a darkness of cockroach paws, instead of the upper half of the head.
"I have no desire to touch such this rude person, this ferocious monster, not worthy of life!"
The girls laughed and dragged the unconscious Han behind the statue.
"Just don't kill him, okay, chicks? Bozhechki! It's first day of being?! Polnuy otsoi! Han, you are a ferocious monster, not worthy of life!"