Entering the Competition (9)

Luke cut the ends of my hair with his sword before pushing me inside the room after opening the door. He panted as his back was on the door. While we had the time, I messaged all the others to come back to their rooms. We needed more help as Ben and Alex were unable to faze him on their own.

"Is he even a human being?" I wondered.

"I don't know," Luke began to close all the windows again.

"I think he's related to the notes. He's saying the same things that were written," I pointed out.

I got a call from Shelly as she was outside the rooms. The scene showed how everyone was working together to take the person down. Lucius created another barrier to keep that person inside. Meanwhile, everyone else focused on attacking that person from trying to get inside Ben's room.

"It's like he can't feel any pain," Shelly frowned at the scene.

The person used heal, something that consumed a lot of mana while trying to fend off their attacks. This continued for ten minutes as if that person didn't have a limit in how much mana he could use. After he finally collapsed onto the ground after exhausting everything he had, everyone began to fortify the barrier with Lucius to keep him from escaping.

"We should call the authorities," Lucius shouted.

"I already called for them," Alice showed them her marble.

"The people will be teleporting here within a few minutes," she read out the message.

Like Alice announced, the workers from the first district retrieved the barrier and teleported with that person to another place. However, most of our surroundings were trashed from most of our failed attacks. Luke and I decided to stay in this room as everyone else began to repair the area.

When we finally left Ben's room, the barrier was put up in our rooms again, much more fortified than before. Everyone had exhausted their mana to increase the security inside the rooms. We couldn't trust the authorities after everything we have been through.

"But weren't there two of them?" I recalled inside my bedroom.

"You're right," Shelly sighed.

I hoped the other one left once since that person was defeated. I opened my closet door, about to change into my pyjamas. I screamed as I found another person, who resembled the one taken by the authorities. He squeezed into my closet, crouching this entire time. His dull eyes looked into my pupils, "help me. Find me."

"I'll take you to me," he got up to hold a knife against my neck.

"Can it be tomorrow? Today really isn't the best day,"

"But I have been waiting for you for months. I have waited enough," he pressed the knife closer.

Luke dashed into my room from my screams with Alex behind him. He shot a pressurized wind arrow at the knife before he sprinted to separate us. Luke stood in between us as the knife clacked against the floor. Everyone rushed to attack him as I immediately sent more messages for some help.

"He's inside my room," I opened the door.

Lucius created another barrier to repeat the same thing as before. Luke and Alex jumped out at his signal as they wouldn't want to be trapped inside with him. I clenched my fists as I knew that the person behind the scenes was starting to take more extreme measures as I burned each and every note.

"What do you want from me?" I asked.

"I want you to kill me. To find my body hidden inside the second district, trapped under something," he replied.

"Why me?" I wondered.

"You have the scent of Jason on you," he explained.

"Jason? I don't know who you're talking about," I couldn't recall that name from anywhere.

"You know him!" he screamed.

He stopped talking as his body went limp from everyone's attacks. Lucius moved the barrier with the support from Claire as Alice called for the authorities again. The workers stiffened when they saw almost the exact replica of the person they had dragged away. I hoped we took care of everything by now. I didn't want to get involved any further.

I was done with trying to help people after Ella. I knew why everyone exchanged favours for a price now. Somehow, I got the feeling this problem was messy and entangled into the history of the other districts. Once everyone helped to repair our room, I slumped into my bed after checking if there was anyone else hiding inside the room.

Since there were no events going on tomorrow, I planned to leave this place. I didn't want to stay here longer than I had to. I stretched my arms as I held onto a comic book. I sat on a bean chair with Oili at the next neighbourhood. We planned to go to the karaoke room afterwards. Next to me was Shelly and behind me was Luke and Alex.

I woke up early in the morning to start the day. But I was caught by Alex when I tried to sneak out on my own. This was why they were here with us. My plans were achieved as they followed us around the light novel library, cafés and other tourist spots. I sipped on a sugary strawberry milkshake as I promised Luke that I would eat more for breakfast tomorrow in exchange.

I wondered why things couldn't be usually this peaceful. I laughed as I enjoyed taking pictures around all the old buildings. I sang my lungs out while I punched some songs on the karaoke machine. I shook the tambourine while Shelly was surprised with how well Oili sung. I never wanted this to end.