Home sweet home! I'm back everyone! I'll like to give thanks to Ryo no Kitsune for favoriting. I'll also like to welcome Weapon-Wielder for making an account on fanfic and thank you for the favorite and the follow! Also, many thanks for the reviews, it was interesting to read! Here's the new chapter.
"This sounds troublesome. This kind of exam is not for me. The rules are complicated. It's just better to fight each other. It's must have been a pain to put all this together. They sure are looking for trouble," Arkraptor complained as puts on his gray shirt. He turned to Horyang who was sitting on the bed, "What should I do, Teddy Bear? It's boring to just wait here. Go see the glasses girl if you want. I'll protect the room."
Horyang stared at Arkraptor without replying. Arkraptor sighed, "I won't betray you so don't worry and go to her."
"You should go."
"... What?"
"You go. You're worried about Miseng, right? I don't know what happened between you and your daughter, but treating Miseng as your daughter… I think it's stupid but even so, I think you should go. That is if you think you should," Horyang said.
Arkraptor glanced at Horyang and then averted his eyes. "I'm not that stupid to risk my life for a kid that has nothing to do with me. There's a limit to my stupidity."
"Then I won't go either," Horyang stated.
"What about that glasses girl-"
"I'm not that stupid either. Why don't we see who's more stupid?"
Arkraptor clicked his tongue before hurrying out the room and went straight to room 201, the room belongs to Miseng and Goseng. He knocked on the door and called, "Hey, glasses, kid, open the door. I came here to be your teammate."
He waited for a reply but received none. He sighed, "Open up the door, I'm not here to steal the room."
Still no reply. The silence continued leaving Arkraptor to start feeling uneasy. He then knocked harder. Seconds later, Arkraptor was banging on the door, "Open the door! It's not funny! Hey!" He exclaimed.
The banging got louder and louder as his volume increased. "I'm not here to hurt you! Just open the door! Before I break it down!"
"S...Stop it!" A small cry came from inside the room. It was really weak but it stopped Arkraptor from trying to break down the door.
"You darn kid! Why didn't you respond! You scared me!"
"D...Don't scream! You're making me scared..." Miseng replied weakly from inside the room.
Arkraptor puts his hand on his forehead and shook his head. "If you're scared, open up."
"I can't… Goseng told me not to open the door for anyone. So I didn't even open it for the Yogurt Auntie."
"I'm not like that fat piggy lady!"
"I know you're not! You're worse."
"Why am I worse than that pig?!"
"You tried to lick me out at first sight. You almost hit the auntie and you look like a bad person! Mom and dad told me not to make friends with bad people!" Miseng replied with a serious voice.
Her reply on made Arkraptor angrier. "Darn it. You should beg me to be your teammate. I'm not the one in need. I'm going back!" With that said, Arkraptor started to walk away.
Her reply on made Arkraptor angrier. "Darn it. You should beg me to be your teammate. I'm not the one in need. I'm going back!" With that said, Arkraptor started to walk away.
"Don't go! Please stay here!" Miseng hurriedly cried. "I'm scared to be by myself…"
Arkraptor stopped his footsteps and yelled, "Then open the door, you stupid kid!"
"But… Goseng told me…"
Arkraptor gnashed his teeth. He sat down and leaned against the door of Miseng's room. "Fine, spoiled kid."
He sat there in silence, "Are you there?" Miseng asked.
Arkraptor replied with a hum. "Why did you come into the Tower? You're only a child," He asked.
"Mom and dad said that I could be a great person if I came into the Tower. So they told me that I had to go…" Miseng replied. "Why are you here?" She asked.
"...I wanted to be a great man." Arkraptor answered.
"I wanted to be someone with the power to protect his baby…" He muttered to himself quietly. Unheard by Miseng. As the time passed the two Regulars somehow started playing the game, 'Word Relay'.
Tap… Tap… Sounds of footsteps started to come closer to Arkraptor. "I see, so you were also targeting that kid, but it won't be easy to make her open the door. I tried but failed." It was the women from earlier, the Yogurt Lady.
The woman had a smile on her face as she offered a suggestion to Arkraptor quietly. "How about we make a team since we have the same prey."
Arkraptor smirked, "Swindler." Arkraptor stood up as he held onto a small lance and said with a cocky smile, "You know what? I don't trust women wearing more than 2 rings."
"Are you really going to team up with that kid. She's useless!" The Yogurt Lady exclaimed.
"You're not useful either."
Angrily the woman held out her right hand and flame appeared. "You'll regret what you said!" She threw the flame at Arkraptor which he swiftly dodged and with one big stride he stabbed the tip of the lance through the woman's right hand. Blood started dripping out and she cried in pain. Her scream was instantly muted by Arkraptor whose hand covered her mouth. "Shut up. That kid will hear you."
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Goseng ran to Wangnan's room and knocked on the door. "Open the door, it's Goseng." She waited for the door to open but it didn't. When she was about to knock on the door harder she felt herself falling forward. The door has opened and she fell into the room. When she stood up she noticed Wangnan and Nia hiding behind the bed using it as a shield. Wangnan has his Pokeball ready in his hands.
Nia soon closed the door with the remote and Wangnan explained for their actions. After hearing the explanation Goseng frowned. "That was your plan? Are you two cowards? You still call yourselves men?"
Wangnan averted his gaze as he got scolded. Goseng extended her hand, "Give me the remote," She said.
"Why- Why the remote!?" Wangnan was startled by Goseng's words.
Seeing that Wangnan was hesitating to hand over the remote Goseng sighed, "I know you're desperate and can't trust anyone easily so-" she handed Wangnan her USB.
After Wangnan took the USB Goseng sat on his bed "Do whatever you want. You can take me as a teammate or break the connector and fail me. To tell the truth, I took this test to give up everything so I've got no regret. I'm not confident. I got this far because I was lucky. Knowing that there are so many people better than me I got depressed..."
Wangnan and Nia listened carefully. "I left my house with this appearance just to sign up and get it over with. I had no confidence but then I met you and Miseng and somehow passed the test. You're as desperate as I am. Watching you fight made me change… I wanted to trust myself a bit more…."
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"Sir! Siiiiir!" A voice yelled. Prince looked in the direction of the voice. "Lurker?"
Lurker was running towards Prince covered in sweat and was huffing and panting.
"What's the rush? Did you see FUG on your way here?" Prince asked.
Luker shook his head, "That's not important" Lurker continued to huff and tried to catch his breath. "I just dropped by your room and… Rob Devil is…"
"What about him?" Prince asked in a not so caring manner.
"He's dead!" Luker cried. The news shocked Prince as he rushed back to his room with Lurker following, desperately trying to not fall behind. Once he entered his room he noticed Rob Devil's body was leaning against the bed covered in blood and wouldn't budge.
"Which b*stard did this?!" Prince fumed angrily. Without waiting for an answer he stated, "It must have been that FUG!"
"Do you really think it's him? There was so little time," Luker said with uncertainty.
"I'm sure he was targeting Rob Devil and who else could beat him? Nasty b*stard… Sneaking in while I wasn't here. Unforgivable!"
"So what are we going to do now? Viole is gone, let's go gather rooms and-"
"Shut the h*ll up! Even if we passed, would you want to be his teammates? You've got no self respect! Nothing's done until I kill that FUG b*stard! I'm gonna tear his head off!" Prince raged, his eyes looked as if he wanted to kill someone right this moment.
Suddenly he heard a voice, "Wanna catch Viole? We've got a good idea." Prince turned to the voice and saw two male, both weird looking, non human like stood in front of his room.
"There's a way to capture Viole?" Prince questioned suspiciously. One of the males nodded. "If you add us to your team we'll tell you the plan."
Lurker frowned and walked towards the two weirdoes. "Do you think were going to buy your lies so easily?!" Lurker argued.
"Alright, you're in," Prince said immediately. Luker turned and looked at Prince with disbelief. "I'll connect with you after I catch Viole. How's that?" Prince negotiated.
The two male nodded. Prince smile as he walked towards the two male. "Alright, out with it. If the plan is lame, you'll die here."
One of the males grinned, "We won't let you down. Please follow us." Prince nodded and followed the two mysterious male leaving Lurker behind. After Prince was completely out of sight, Lurker turned to look at Rob Devil's body and felt his lips crept into a smirk.
Meanwhile, Prince and the other two male stood in the middle of the hall. "Alright, what should I do to catch Viole?" Prince asked.
"It's easy. You just have to hide in Yeon's room and attack him when he returns," The male with gray hair replied.
"What?! Are you kidding? I'm not gonna sit around and wait for him! Do you think I'm a fool!? He can freeze people! If I can't stop that then it's impossible to get close to him!" Prince exclaimed.
"We'll take care of that," The gray male said as he took out a blue can. "This is the Boong Boong Drink. This drink has a thousand time more caffeine than coffee. If you drink this your resistance to Shinsu will increase," The gray hair male explained.
"Really?"
The gray haired male nodded, "If you drink this and fight Viole, I'm sure you can beat him."
Prince took the drink from the gray haired male and smiled. Prince examined the drink and was about to open it before realizing something important. He asked himself, why should he trust them and what if they put something weird in the drink? Prince thought for a while and finally thought of an idea.
"Alright," Prince said with a smile. "But first, let's go to Yeon's room."
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"Hey man!~" Wangnan called as he approached Arkraptor who was still sitting on the floor, leaning against the door of room 201. "Miseng kicked you out? Poor daddy."
Arkraptor instantly stood up and glared at Wangnan and yelled, "I bet you were hiding like a coward!"
"No, I wasn't! Who's afraid of Viole! I would dance a jig in front of him!"
Arkraptor rolled his eyes and exclaimed, "Stop bluffing!"
"I'm not! I can even sing in front of Viole!"
"Is that so? In that case, I can play a Sonata in front of him!"
Goseng looked boredly at the two male arguing in front of her room. Then she noticed a figure from the very corner of her eyes. "Viole…"
Wangnan and Arkraptor immediately looked in the direction Goseng was looking at and then both started banging on the door.
"Miseng opened the door! I'm in danger!" Wangnan cried frantically.
"Kid, open the door. Glasses is back!" Arkraptor exclaimed. The two were desperately trying to get Miseng to open the door after confirming that the incoming figure was Viole.
"Miseng, this is Goseng, open the door." With that said, the door immediately opened and the two male dashed in. Only Goseng walked in properly and was greeted by a hug.
"Good job Miseng, you're stronger than those 2 cowards," Goseng said as she patted Miseng's head. Miseng nodded as she hugged Goseng even tighter.
"I guess Viole just made it to this floor. I guess they couldn't stop him up there," Goseng stated after breaking the hug.
"Of course not. Who could have stopped that monster of destruction? Everyone upstairs must be dead…" Wangnan felt a shiver ran down his spine at the thought.
"I don't think so. I think he's going to fight the Ranker. I just have a feeling that he's the type who would do so," Arkraptor stated.
Goseng nodded in agreement. "I think he's right. How else would he get here so fast… And he didn't even care about the auntie out there."
Arkraptor leaned back and stretched as he said, "So before Viole gets back we need to move faster than the rest. We need to secure room fasters than others."
"We're quick at gathering teammates but they still have to upper hand upstairs," Goseng stated as she observed her lighthouse.
Wangnan nodded, "Of course, they probably have already made a team. Furthermore, they're closer to Flame Thrower's room…"
"Anyway, now that Viole the vile is gone it's the best time to steal rooms and beat the test, let's go get 3 more rooms and the Flame Thrower's! Are you all ready!?" Wangnan shouted excitedly, pumping his fist high up into the air.
"After this, we should go eat sweet and sour pork. After the test, let's have a party at Nia's restaurant!" Wangnan stated happily, Miseng nodded enthusiastically in agreement. Nia, in his room, listened to the conversation through his pocket in silence.
Love's P.O.V
The Men's Bathing Room
Love sat on the floor with his arms crossed and looked at Viole who has just entered the bathing room. "You chose to fight me rather than fighting the other Regulars… Are you sure that you could win or did you just want to avoid hurting the other Regulars? I'll tell you one last time, accept teammates."
Viole shook his head.
Love sighed, "I noticed that the newest Slayer, Karaka, got special missions from FUG while taking his tests. Some examples are killing a specific Regular during the test, helping a specific Regular to pass the test or passing the test ensuring everyone else failed."
Love stood up and continued, "All those missions were set to make fun of the rules of the test." Love tightened his fist, "If you can't respect the rules… Then I can't respect you either, Mr. Viole."
Love held out the connector and puts it in a blue machine, "I'll give you three chances. If you catch the connector thrown from this pitching machine before it gets to the glove on the other side, I'll give you the connector. However, if you can't catch it within three chances, you're out and fails the test, meaning Ms. Violet also fails."
Viole nodded in understanding. "But if you give up, you can take the test with the teammates who pass this exam. I will interfere with you to keep you from catching the connector and I might 'accidentally' kill you. Do you still want to take this test?"
"Yes."
Love nodded. "Alright, Let's begin. Then- 1st ball- Fire!" With the commanded given, the pitching machine on its own fired the connector. The connector went flying straight for the glove.
Love observed Viole and pondered in confusion. Why is he- standing still? What is he trying to do?!
Then Viole moved, he lifted up his hand and directed at the connector.
Viole's moment confused Love. Love was trying to predict Viole's next moment until he noticed that the connector was no longer flying. It wasn't in the glove at the other side of the room but was frozen in mid air. Love's eyes widened in shock.
He stopped the connector?! He has that much control?! A Regular on the 20th Floor?! Love rushed towards the frozen connector as he noticed Viole was rushing to catch it.
I guess I underestimated him! Love quickly reinforced his body with Shinsu and with one step he appeared before Viole who was about to grab the connector. "Upshoot!"He yelled as he did an uppercut, shoving the connector away with great force. The connector slightly cracked the wall as it slammed into it.
"That pitch is a foul," Love stated as he went to the connector and placed it back into the pitching machine. Viole nodded in understanding.
He surprised me... He stopped the connector and almost caught it, but I have the advantage. Now that I know his plan, the next time he stops the connector he'll never get his hands on it. "Ready? Pitch 2, fire!"
Once again, the connector was fired. Just as Love predicted Viole did the same actions as before. This time, as soon Viole froze the connector Love has already started dashing towards it. "You think I can't push the connector that you stopped!?" Love shouted as he was about to punch the connector aside.
?!
Love's eyes widened at the sudden incoming punch that was aiming for his face. Love's reaction speed decreased at the surprise attack but still managed the dodge the punch. He was targeting me!?
Love glared at Viole, If that's your plan- I won't be go easy either! Love arched forward with a punch of his own after he stabilized his footing.
?! The punch Love was about to launch never made contact with Viole.
He… He stopped me, a Ranker!? At the incoming punch from the Ranker, Viole froze the Love, avoiding battle and continued dashing towards the connector.
He can use two Bangs and is able to freeze a Ranker like me!? A Slayer Nominee for sure- Such overwhelming talent! But -
Love quickly broke free from the freeze attack by reinforcing his body with a large amount of Shinsu. A blue disc suddenly appeared underneath Love and he instantly appeared right before Viole on the blue disc. Not enough to fight with a Ranker!
"Upshoot!" Love shouted. He performed a uppercut on the connector before Viole could get his hands on it. The connector was no longer frozen and flew across the room. Viole extended his arm and a beam of Shinsu came from his hand. "Slider!" Love shouted. Love's speed increased and dodged the attack.
Slider was the technique that used Shinsu to boost one's speed mainly for dodging and to switch to counterattack. By using Slider to dodge the beam of Shinsu, Love was able to create some distance between him and Viole. It wasn't much but it allowed Love to land a punch on Viole even though it was blocked by Viole's arm.
"You think you can block this punch?" Love asked with superiority glaring at Viole. Seconds later Viole felt his feet leaving the floor and was suddenly pushed back.
Breaking Ball!
Viole felt his back slamming into the wall and was drenched wet due to being punched across one of the bathing pool.
Love turned to the glove at the other side of the room with the connector and then back to Viole who was on the ground. "That was strike 1, FUG."
7/8/17
Based on the continuation of chapter 12 and chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16. I skipped the mini part where the Yogurt Lady tried to make Miseng open the door for her before Arkraptor came. Hoped everyone enjoyed!