Hi everyone~! I'm back with another chapter! ^^
I'm sorry if you got disappointed that the last chapter wasn't really a chapter, but I promise that it won't happen again! ^^
Heng Shi: And why the hell is this chapter so late? It has been two fucking months!
I'm sorry! -Goes off to sulk in a corner- At first I wasn't motivated to write, and then Vampie-chan's brother got sick…
Heng Shi: How the hell has that girl's brother got anything to do with your lateness?
Well, since her brother was so sick, I knew that she was really worried about him and I knew that if it had happened to my own brother, I wouldn't be in the mood to write fan fictions. And since we're working on our stories together, I had to wait until she was in a better mood. That's why.
Heng Shi: You still could have posted it… It was just one tiny flashback that was missing! And you could have added the flashback later!
You know that wouldn't work, because then no one would read that last flashback in its complete state, since it's not likely that anyone look up my story just to see if a tiny flashback had been added.
Heng Shi: Alright, alright. I get it! Now continue the story instead of talking rubbish.
That's a good idea. Now then, enjoy the long awaited chapter~! I hope this was worth waiting for! ^^
When I log on into Second Life, half of the night has already passed. As always, Garel has killed some monsters while I was gone. I pull a little on my special gloves and motions for Garel to follow me; he raises an invisible eyebrow questioningly but follows me anyway. The reason for the raised eyebrow: my mood.
Because for the first time since I started playing Second Life, I'm happy when I log in.
You can't blame me for that – after all, I got to kill. Although, after the mission, the 'crew' started to ask me questions, which annoyed me a little; but I couldn't care less about that right now. Now that I am in Second Life, I just want to sit around and relax.
It takes a while to walk back to the city from my secret cave, but as we arrive at Star city, even more people than usual are staring at me. It's probably because I'm grinning happily as I walk through the streets, something that no one in the game has seen me do, not even Garel -at least not like this. There has always been a sadistic undertone as soon as I even got close to grinning like this.
I wonder what I should do… The dango café is almost always empty, so I could go there to eat some… or maybe I could look for Prince and have some fun sparring? No, I don't feel like it… Then the dango shop it is!
With that in mind, I begin to make my way towards my favourite shop, the people around me separating to give me some space.
"Bishie!" I can hear a girl scream to my right; I turn towards the noise only to find a deeply blushing girl with some guys standing around her. The girl is an elf with curled blonde hair, big lips and wide blue eyes. Any guy would probably consider this girl pretty, but I'm not 'any guy', so I just smirk and continue my walk towards the dango shop with Garel following close behind me.
I had just been walking for a few minutes when I feel someone run after me. It's probably that girl…
I grasp my sword, transform it into its pistol form and halt the blond elf's movements by placing the gun to her forehead. I give her a big grin, not removing the pistol from the shaking girl as the fanboys run towards me to help the girl.
"Perfect princess!" They all scream in worry. My grin widens a little at the mention of her name and I lean in a bit closer to her.
"Ooh~." I say in amusement, "Perfect princess, ey? Sure, you might be considered pretty, but do you really think this game is all about chasing after guys and making them like you? I really hate your type. Now, if you would just leave me alone to enjoy my good mood, I will spare your life."
With that, I remove my pistol from her forehead, turn it back to the heavy sword, place it on my back and turn away from the still trembling girl. I can hear the other girls around me cooing about how hot I am and blah, blah, blah. I can also hear someone scold 'Perfect princess' for confronting me; the same person also tells her that I'm not someone you want on your bad side since I could kill you in the blink of an eye.
I grin happily once again as I think back to when I killed all those people at the mansion and the car ride away from the mission, when the 'crew' asked their questions.
Flashback
As soon as everyone were seated in the car, the people in Jing's 'crew' immediately begin to ruin my good mood. The same thing that happened on our way toward the mission starts up again now that we're heading back to the school and I can feel my cheerful mood slip further away for each word the idiots say…
When I start to twitch in anger, Jing, to my surprise, tells the others to keep quiet. When the car is silent for the first time in since it departed from the burning mansion, I begin to think back to my slaughter happily.
I stare out at the dark night sky with a wide happy grin on my face. Aah~ the screams sounded so beautiful… The time energy that I got from the killing-spree has really powered me up, so the grey markings should have disappeared now.
I can feel the eyes of everyone in the car on me as I rip the bandages off from my throat, but I don't care. I don't think that anything can ruin my mood right now…
"Hey, idiot! Why did you remove your bandages?"
Ok, maybe only a very irritable, blue, self-centred person. I glance at Jiao out of the corner of my eye, the big grin never leaving my face.
"I just didn't need it anymore. What does it matter to you anyway?"
I can feel Jing become slightly interested, even though she pretends that she isn't. She must see this as a chance for her to figure me out, but I won't give her that opportunity.
Jiao can't come up with a retort, so instead she just huffs angrily and turn her head away with her nose in the air. I snicker at her reaction and look out the window again, until another annoying person asks me a question.
"By the way, you were a former assassin, right?" Enlai asks me curiously and leans a little closer. I sigh irritably and slowly turn my head to my right; he is sitting next to me, with a blank face.
"Yes?" Enlai hesitates for a second, pondering if he should ask the question he wants to ask or not, before deciding to ask.
"What made you leave your organisation? It can't be because you became bored, because you're crazy in blood."
I tense up a little when he mentions 'organisation' and I ask him back. "Why does it matter to you?"
That's when Jiao decides to be irritating once again as she snorts in amusement and a smirk stretches across her face. "Ooh? Got some kind of embarrassing secret, Shorty? Or are you just afraid to tell us about yourself?"
I give her a slight glare before I respond, my good mood not allowing me to do a full-fledged deathglare. "I got betrayed, that's what." Is the only thing I say before I once again turn towards the window.
"Why are you so anti-social?" Another one asks. I turn to Hong and snort in amusement.
"Why should I even be social, I don't need anyone. And besides, I don't socialise with irritating people."
"You're doing it right now." Chang points out from his spot next to Jing, who is still trying to look like she isn't interested in our conversation, while staring blankly at me. I let out a short mocking laugh and cross my arms over my chest.
"Guess you're right. I was just in such a good mood that I didn't notice." I can see Jing send me a curious look at that.
"Can you answer me one question? It's been bugging me for a long time.." Enlai says casually and my grin grows even wider, if possible.
"Depends on what the question is…" I reply. Enlai becomes serious and for a moment I think that he is going to ask me about my 'trick' again, but his question surprises me.
"How the hell can you be so fast?"
I decide to play innocent and clean my ear with my pinkie before I ask him in return: "What do you mean?" Hong decides to push the subject.
"Back at the school, you caught Enlai's throat so fast that most of us didn't even see you. And also when you slaughtered all those people back at the house; I couldn't keep up with your speed. What is it that makes you so fast?"
I get a crazy look in my eyes as I stare at Hong. "That is something I'll never tell."
End Flashback
After their little 'interrogation' the car had been quiet the whole way back to the school. I really hate them, but I guess that I'll be able to put up with their company in order to survive…
When I finally arrive at the dango place I take a look around the mostly empty shop. Or café to be more precise. I walk over to the counter where the usual red-haired, green-eyed NPC is standing, drying off some glasses. When she sees me, she begins to smile warmly and puts away the dried glass, only to begin drying off another shortly after.
"Hi there Sabre! Glad to see that you're in a good mood for once~!" The NPC says happily, I nod in agreement with a grin on my face.
"Yeah, something good happened, that's all…"
The NPC raises a questioning eyebrow, but in the end, she only shakes her head, puts away the glass she's been drying off and puts her hands on her hips. "The usual?" She asks me cheerfully. I only smirk in response and gives a short nod to the girl.
As soon as she disappeared to the back of the store, Garel begins to speak. "What happened today? You came here later than usual."
I glance at Garel out of the corner of my eye as I pull up the hem of my red t-shirt to show him that my grey markings are gone, he nods, understanding.
The red-haired NPC soon returns with a cup of tea and a plate with two sticks of dango on it. After she placed them on the counter in front of me, I give her three silver coins and move to sit outside and eat; Garel follows me.
After eating my dangos with all the girls in the vicinity fawning over me, I had nothing to do.
I'm bored, I thought. I could of course kill some monsters to lift my boredom, but I really don't feel like doing that today… And no, that isn't a sign that the world is about to end. It's just that I'm not in the mood; I got to kill real humans and that is enough for me. Killing one human is about as satisfying as killing three monsters, so right now, I don't feel like I have to kill anything.
Garel lifts his head a little to look at someone approaching us to my right. When I notice Garel's stare, I turn around myself to see who it is that's coming. When I see that it's Prince with a determined expression on his face plus his teammates and the Dark Phantom team, I smirk sinisterly.
I stand up from my seat, my smirk growing wider when I notice the leather bag Prince is holding in his hand. I raise an eyebrow at Garel, silent code for: 'You told him something?' Garel nods silently.
I sigh and scratch the back of my head tiredly before I fix my bored, yellow eyes on the white-haired elf in front of me. "What is it? It better not be something that ruins my good mood." I ask Prince in a bored manner, at which he blinks in confusion, surprise clearly visible on his face.
"You aren't going to attack me like you'd normally do?" I snicker evilly as he keeps silent and my eyes shine happily, making Prince a bit nervous.
"Let's just say that something really good happened in real life today…" I answer their silent question and I snicker a bit again before addressing the now sweating Prince. "So? What do you want?"
Lolidragon nudges Prince in his ribs to bring him out from his daze; jolted, Prince clears his throat before he throws the leather bag to me. I catch it with ease and open it to see its contents; at the bottom of the leather bag lays two big horns. I raise an eyebrow towards Prince, silently telling him to explain.
Prince red eyes shine with determination as he speaks. "You said to me before that if I defeat a certain monster, you might become my teacher. Does that prove what I've killed?"
I flash a big grin as I flip the bag upside-down; making the two horns fall to the ground. I grab my sword and change it into a black hammer.
"Wha-?"
That's the only thing Prince manages to say before I slam my hammer down hard onto the two horns, my blow creating a crater in the ground. When I lift my hammer away from the ground, the two horns don't even have a scratch from my hit. That means that they are real Minotaur horns. I change the hammer back into a heavy sword and put it on my back before looking up to meet Prince's shocked gaze. I smirk in return.
"Good work, a minotaur is hard to take down. Did you kill it alone?"
Prince throws a quick glance toward his team before he shakes his head.
"Not entirely, but I was the only one who attacked it." He answers. My smirk grows wider and I shrug my shoulders.
"Well… I'm not entirely sure if I should take you on as my student…" I muse smugly. At Prince's disappointed face, I point lazily towards the purple-haired bard. "I don't think that your little team-mate over there would like it."
Sure enough, the guy is glaring daggers at me. Since I killed Prince during our last encounter, I don't think that any of them like me very much except for Prince himself. I really don't know why he keeps insisting on being my student; there are a lot of other sword masters in this game, why not study under one of them? I really don't understand what he is thinking; I can kill him any time I want, and I'd take pleasure from it, too.
When I point at the angry bard, Prince turns around to look at him. "Gui, we already talked about this." He says with an emotion I can't really place, at which Gui shifts his gaze from me to Prince, his eyes softening.
"But Prince. He killed you. Why do you even want to be his stude-?"
"If you hate me so much, just try and kill me." Gui glares heatedly at me for interrupting him, but I just give him a cocky smirk in reply. "What? Are you afraid? You know that I can kill you all in just a matter of seconds if I wanted to."
At that, both teams tense up, knowing that it is true, but I just wave lazily with my eyes half-closed. "But I don't really feel like killing anything right now, so your lives are safe for the moment."
They begin to relax a little, but the magician from Dark Phantomsnorts disbelievingly. "Yeah, right. I will cast Heavens Fury on you before you have the chance." He mumbles. I grin, taking his cockiness as a challenge and looks the magician in the eyes.
"What was that? You don't think that I can kill you?" I ask him mockingly, upon which the magician tenses up even more before he decides to play tough and takes a step forward.
"Yeah, that's right. You won't even be able to come close to me with my skill." He says confidently, while the swordsman in his team glares at the cocky fool.
"Oh, really?" I muse smugly before I quickly run up behind him, placing my katana against his throat before anyone can even notice what's going on. "Then how did I manage to come this close to you? To me, it looks like you're just playing though, and that those so-called skills of yours aren't really that much to brag about." I whisper menacingly in his ear.
His teammates stumble away from me in shock as the magician, known as Miwa, freezes in either shock or fear. I snicker at their reactions before I pull away from the frozen boy. I feel an arrow fly towards me from my right, aiming for my skull, but I easily tip my head a little bit backwards and avoid it. I lazily glance towards the glaring bard who is already preparing another arrow on his harp.
"Do you really need a reason like that to kill me? Because I sure don't need one when I kill people." I say lazily while Miwa takes a few steps away from me; Gui only glares even harder, if possible, at me.
"Are you a PK?"
I turn towards the scared little girl who is hiding behind the wolf priest with a raised eyebrow. "No." I answer simply before I turn around to walk away. Garel, as always, follow me. I then remember why Prince confronted me in the first place and stop in my tracks, asking Prince without turning around:
"Hey, Prince. How many days are there left until the finals?"
Instead of Prince answering, Lolidragon does. "It's in three days, why do you ask?" I can hear in her voice that she is both confused and suspicious at my question, but I ignore it and continue to walk. I open my chat and type in a message for Prince which says;
'If you want to be my student, be sure to be at that very dango shop tomorrow. Alone. I will start with the basics, but be prepared for a living hell. Remember, be alone.'
After I had sent the message and made sure that Prince had opened it, I jump up onto the roof of a building and start to run towards my secret cave, where I can be alone.
"This will certainly be interesting…" I say to Garel once we've arrived at our cave. Garel just sighs and shakes his head in defeat.
"Why do you even want to teach him? He's just a beginner with no experience at all when it comes to swordsmanship. Why train him when you won't gain anything in return?"
Garels' question makes me stop and think. He's right… Why do I want to train Prince? Is it because he amuses me? Or is it because I am beginning to grow soft towards people since I quit as an assassin?
I shake my head in frustration to get rid of those thoughts. No, I'm not growing soft. I killed all those people without mercy or guilt back at the mansion.
But if I'm really not growing soft,then why haven't I killed Jing yet? Is it only because I need her to satisfy my curse? Or am I really growing soft? Maybe I am… Maybe that's why I told Jing what I did before when we got back to the school…
Flashback
"Heng Ru Shi, can you stay for a moment? I have something important to talk to you about."
I turn around from where I was just about to exit the Student councilroom to face Jing, who has her back towards me. The other people from Jing's 'crew' exit the room one by one after having changed into their clean uniforms. Blood is very hard toget out of clothes, so instead of having to try to get the bloodstains out of our clothes,we get completely new uniforms from the council.
I furrow my browns in frustration as I glare weakly at Jings' back, still not able to glare fully because of my good mood. "I really don't want to stay close to you longer than necessary, so make it quick." I say irritably. Jing only looks to the side towards her butler and say,
"Gao, can you bring me the folder?"
He nods obediently and walks over to one of the many file cabinets in this room to start searching for whatever file it isthat Jing speaks of. I lean against the wall furthest away from the black-haired girl and cross my arms over my chest. Jing herself walks over to her desk and sits down, her arms resting upon it.
Just when I'm about to ask her why she wants me here, Gao walks over to Jing with a thick brown folder in his hands. Jing accepts the folder with a thankful nod and Gao walks behind the chair, to protect her if necessary.
Jing opens the folder and spreads its contents on the desk in front of her. "I've found some interesting pictures that I want to ask you about."
I raise a suspicious eyebrow before I walk forward to look at the big bunt of papers that lies on her desk. The papers are laying upside-down so that I can't see what's on them without picking them up; I do just that and stare at the first picture in masked shock.
I look at Jing's serious face with furrowed eyebrows in fake confusion. "Why do you want to show me some guy that looks like me?"
Jing narrows her eyes dangerously as she clasps her hands together in front of her face. "You might want to look at the other pictures as well; I think that you'll be able tosee a resemblance."
So she's figured me out, huh. I'm surprised that she was able to get this many pictures, because if these are what I think they are, they will all be very similar to each other and all of them should be classified, some of them not even saved on a computer…
I hid behind my face-mask, not letting my suspicion or apprehension show on my face as I skimmed through the pictures. Sure enough, she found them all. Even the original…
I gaze lazily at Jing and carefully hold the original up in front of me. "Mind telling me where you got this?"
Jing sits a little bit straigter in her chair and glares at me. "I will not answer anything - you will. What is the meaning behind all those pictures of you? The oldest are about four hundred years old, yet you don't seem to have aged at all. Because that is you. I can clearly see the resemblance between those pictures; just changing your hair colour and hairstyle can't fool me."
I snort in amusement and I raise a questioning eyebrow with a smirk. "Why do you think that I'll answer your question? Because I really don't have a reason to do so."
Jing keeps her eyes narrowed as she leans slightly forward. "Because Heng Ru Shi," She says mockingly, "You owe me."
I narrow my eyes at her, she's right, I DO owe her… That's what I hate about all this. I hate owing people favours, especially when the favour the other person is doing for me is saving my life… I wish I could contact someone else than her…
I use my time energy to erase the ink from all of the pictures except for the original before I place them upside-down on her desk. After that, I turn around and walk away,towards the door. When I reach it, I open it and look at Jing over my shoulder with a smirk.
"If you're really that interested, think of my name." Is the only thing I say before I step out of the room and close the door behind me. After that, I walk home and log onto Second Life, already having forgotten about our little conversation.
End Flashback
Realizing that I hadn't answered Garel's question yet, I look down at him with furrowed eyebrows. "I don't really know, but his personality is familiar somehow… Maybe that's why, but I'm not sure… It's the same with that girl, Jing - Bolin here - it's almost as if she's acting like a person I really cared about. But I just can't figure out who it is she's acting like."
Garel nods and walk over to the cave opening to lie down; he motions for me to settle down next to him. I sit down and raise an eyebrow at him, seeing his serious expression.
"The only persons you ever cared about were your parents, correct?" I nod silently before Garel continues. "Then maybe their personalities resemble your parents'."
My eyes widen in realisation; now that I think about it, it's true. Both of them act similarly to how my parents would act if they were in the same situation. That must be why I find Prince interesting and why I can't bring myself to kill Jing in the real world where I know that she would cease to exist. So I'm not growing soft towards people, only towards those two…
This realization angers me, but at the same time, it makes me relieved that it's only those two that I'm growing soft towards. I would prefer it if I wasn't growing soft towards anyone, but I guess I can't help it if it's because they resemble my parents.
But I won't ever allow myself get comfortable around them, I resolved, because no matter how similar they are to my parents, they can never be them.
I look up to the orange sky of Second Life in thought for a while before I pat Garel lightly on his head in praise. Garel growls quietly in contentment as he lays his head down in the grass; my hand remains on his head while I just stare up into the sky for a while.
I then remove my hand from Garels' head and say a quiet 'goodbye' before logging out.
I wake up 10 minutes before my alarm would have woken me and remove the game console from my head before sitting up with a determined glint in my eyes.
I won't let those two ruin my plans just because they resemble my parents. I won't let myself grow any attachments to anyone until I've reached my goal. No matter what…
Heng Shi: So that's why… I can't believe that I didn't realize it sooner…
What? That you're growing soft?
Heng Shi: No… That Jing's and Prince's personalities are similar to my parents'.
Well, I knew it a long time ago.
Heng Shi: Of course you did, you're writing the story.
Ok, he's really boring… -_-"
I'll leave now, since it seems like Heng Shi is too happy for me be able to mess with him right now!
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