Rico and The Proof of his Brother's freedom

It was a clear night. The sky was sparkling with bright stars and a full moon. The buzzing of crickets was echoing throughout the moonlit wood. John was sitting inside his camp and gazing at the moonlit sky through the unzipped opening. There was a campfire in front of the camp. John was eating the fast foods he had stolen unknown of the danger lurking only a few hundred metres away from his camp.

The danger was none other than Seto. Seto was camping in the same woods. Seto was searching for a person. He was ordered to search for and kill that person.

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John was having difficulty in sleeping. He was just lying there. John wanted to save his father but he still hadn't solved the mystery of his dad's death. He had a rough idea that it maybe because someone changed the timeline.

'It looks like someone changed the timeline.', he thought to himself.

'What if it was me? I have seen this a lot in time travel movies. There's a possiblity. I have to be very cautious.'

'I have to do something to return to the previous timeline. For that, I need to find the reason of his death in this timeline.'

After thinking a lot, he felt asleep at about half past one.

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When he opened his eyes, he found himself in the hospital bed. It was the same bed in which he was admitted months ago when he suddenly fell from the stairs and hurted himself. He was confused and couldn't process what was going on. When he moved his head a bit. He saw a man sitting on a chair beside his bead. That man was Seto. Seto was glaring at him without blinking and with a grin on his face. He was repeatedly murmuring something. John couldn't move or even talk.

"Wake up!! Wake up!! Wake up!! Wake up!!", Seto was repeatedly murmuring.

John couldn't understand what he wanted to say. Seto suddenly stopped. His grin disappeared and turned into a frustated look. He took a deep breath, looked at John with his eyes wide open and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

John suddenly opened his eyes in shock. He was at his camp. He was breathing heavily. He looked around. He tried to calm himself.

"So that was just a dream.", he said to himself. After his breathing went back to normal, he was about to lie down again. Just when he was about to lie down again, he saw a shadowy figure outside the camp. He freezed. After collecting himself, he slowly moved forward and unzipped the camp. To his surprise, he saw Seto right there.

Seto was standing there looking down on him and grinning.

"Yo! Are you ready?", said Seto.

".....", John couldn't reply. Suddenly all those moments of his previous fight with Seto flooded in his mind.

"I was ordered to kill you...umm...what was your na....Ahh.. John. Don't take it personally. That bastard Pica gave us enough trouble already. We want to erase him from existence. We have already completed the first step of doing so. You are proving to be a trouble in our plan."

"....."

"By the way, I am furious with you too. We didn't have to go through all of that if it wasn't for you. We wouldn't even need to erase Pica. Not that I care about him. Anyway, you must die too, you filthy human."

"Human??", John suddenly started levitating in the air. Seto pulled John out without even touching him. Seto inflicted multiple injuries on John without even touching him. John had understood Seto's power already. He tried to do everything in order to counter Seto's ability but he was failing to do so. Seto showed no mercy.

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John was injured to near death just like before. He really hoped to get transferred to the present just like he did before.

Seto's right hand started to glow in fire. He made a fist and aimed at John who was lying on the ground. Seto was about to give his final blow to John.

"You will be erased from the existence too. Killing you here is the first step of achieving that goal."

Seto attacked John.

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He was stopped by someone else. An unknown person saved John. That person's hand was glowing in fire too. Seto was both shocked and furious at that person.

"Rico!!!!!! What's the meaning of this?", Seto asked furiously.

"My older brother Pica went through a lot to be free from our father, Picollo's tyranny. I won't let you destroy older brother Pica and the proof of his freedom."