We Can't Kill Sleeping Beauty (1)

"Jason!" Sleeping beauty screamed.

"I'm right here. Please look at me," she dashed to where he stood.

The overseer was Jason Mercier? She did all of this to see her lover's face again. She did used all of us like her puppets this entire time! I became speechless while I stared at her being ignored by Jason. He pretended he couldn't hear her desperately calling out his name. Sleeping beauty tried to pull his arms to get him to notice her. But instead, he grimaced, wondering why his arms felt like they were getting dragged to a certain direction.

Jason created a barrier, repelling her, pushing her away. It was something that she deserved. Sleeping beauty pounded on the barrier to try to get closer to Jason. However, I felt nothing from her wailings as her fists became bruised. She could rot in her coffin and I wasn't going to save her. I initially thought of killing her from my anger, but I realized there was something worse than that.

She could continue living in that horrible cage where she wouldn't ever be able to physically see her lover again. There were only so many things she could do with her spells inside her coffin. I knew how horrible it was to be inside a cage. I was almost stuck inside one because of her. You were helpless, you couldn't do anything when you were confined. I noticed she could only influence people, but she couldn't actually do anything on her own.

I didn't know why I was seeing this, but it made me give up on trying to find the chairman's office. It would be better to enjoy the freedom I had before anyone would place me inside the same cage. Once Rika entered the portal with the overseer, she finally gave up on trying to reach her lover. It appeared she didn't have access to the other dimension. This was why she was desperately trying to pull him out into this one.

If she wanted my help, then she shouldn't have messed with all of our fates. I wondered if the overseer knew about her existence. It couldn't be that he couldn't see or hear her as his punishment in exchange for his second life. I laughed from the thought as I continued to watch her cry in despair. I would rather die than to help her out.

Feeling my hostility, the scene shattered into many pieces. I continued to madly laugh as I was back in the office the next time I blinked. It quickly switched into coughs as my blood splattered onto Melissa's cloak. This was something that I expected. However, I had no one to help me recover as I was still on the run.

"I'm really fine," I tried to assure the people around me.

"You slept for hours. It's the evening now. I think we should bring you to the hospital," the person feared for my diminishing life.

"I'm from the first district. I'll be fine," I revealed.

I could go back to Melissa's house to get some more rest. I had enough mana to use heal on myself. I slid my hand under the cloak as I pushed myself to exhaust most of my mana supply. It would be dangerous as I wouldn't have enough mana to defend myself if something did attack me, but it was better than doing nothing. I staggered back and forth as I was able to heal myself enough that I could stand on my own two feet.

"See," I twirled.

I had managed to temporarily close all my wounds. As long as I was careful where I walked, I would be fine. Everyone stared at me in shock as they saw a dying person become healthy again in the matter of minutes. I placed my finger against my lips to gesture that they would have to keep this a secret. I narrowed my eyes before they all nodded their heads.

"It'll be a secret that I was here," I tried to intimidate them.

I walked out of the floor and into the elevator. I opened my map again as I searched for the shortest route. I pulled my hood back up before I would forget as I walked to the train station. The best place to go was the furthest away from this place. I wanted to enjoy the outside air as much as possible. I could die from my actions, but I would die happy. It was better than dying on a bed in the hotel while sleeping beauty made me bleed to death.

I sat down on an empty chair in the bullet train. The first place I planned to go was the tallest mountain in the second district. There was also a hot spring inside and great food that almost made me drool when I explored through all the pictures. Melissa was generous to give me enough money, knowing I was on the run. With the number of zeros inside her card, it was like she gave me her entire savings account.

I wasn't going to use the bank account in my name controlled by the Roselia family. I watched the scenery gradually changing as I pulled out a strawberry shortcake from my inventory. I was never so glad that I didn't stay for the entire week for that competition. Thanks to it, I had a lot of strawberry shortcake in my inventory I split with Luke.