Devastated and Scarring Defeat

The fiery torch construct once again manifested into the physical realm and fluidly formed its shape into a blazing humanoid. The chosen spawning spot was near the dreaded view of the explosion, dispersing the flaming surfaces to reveal Sparror hovering with tiny dragon wings construct latched on his feet.

A thunder striking shock sundered into The Flaming Hero's tremoring molten hands when he fixated his stare on the twirling violet explosion, A look of frozen horror snowed through Sparror eyes, slowly hovering down his body to the ground nearby.

A round of harrowing and despairful screams escaping from the explosion echoed through Sparror's sharpened hearings and widened disconcerting gaze. The streaming fear even fastened his body from hovering down, began to feel the touch of the ground beneath his armored feet.

Hence, Sparror obtained a steady standing position and frozen on the spot for continuing to helplessly watch the explosion. Other heroes such as Akushijo and Chemistra heaved their trembling sight toward The Flaming Hero who standing in the front, releasing surprised gasps.

Sparror slowly turned around his unnerving neck to the back after cleanly capturing the gasping noises from the frantic heroes. A concerned furrow flooded his glare as a tiny fiery torch hurriedly spawned beside The Flaming Hero's left head, readying himself to enter the distressing conversation with them.

"Sorry….what's really happening right now?!!" A contorting-perturbed voice resonated through the flickering torch construct as Sparror completely turned around his body and received more flooding fear with his terrified eyes briefly dimming out.

Chemistra sighed and uttered firmly, "We lost. All the civilians were dead. No traces of survivor detected"

"Yup and I felt…fucking regret on not saving them!!!" Akushijo muttered, releasing a frustrated growl shortly. "Shit, shit, shit!!!!"

"Fuck…I hate myself!!!" Akushijo added, continuously shaking his head and feeling a burning regret boil through his mind the longer he thoughts about the failure. The failure of helplessness on preventing the early spawn of the explosion.

The Flaming Hero reluctantly bowed down his head and steered his sight onto the back, revealing the unmasked Agano sobbed and rubbed his eyes with a waterfall of tears rained down. A sorrowful stare shone within Sparror eyes and darted toward his friend who kept falling in undoubtful regret, hardening the grip of his molten knuckles.

Nonetheless, Sparror released a burdening hefty sighed from the void-black face and got the bitter spark of encouragement. An encouragement to blurt out the confession as he placed one of his affirmative knuckles on the chest even though disconsolate look burgeoned bit by bit within The Flaming Hero's eyes

"Everyone…I'm also responsible for this too!!" Sparror's lamented voice resonated through his flickering torch as he made an attempt to reassure the other heroes. "So please do not…fully blame yourself too."

The glimmer of hopes streamed through ds especially Agano wiped out his tears of regret and centered his attention toward Sparror. Even Akushijo bowed his head and forcefully closed his eyes for preventing the untamed regret from consuming his thought and blocking the path of temporal relaxation.

"What a very responsible person, wonderful!!!" A distorting voice like a gulp of clouds being mashed rang the inside of The Flaming Hero's ears.

A voice that commanded Sparror's tremoring limbs to staggeringly steered around his feet and broadened the shocked frown. The smoke-like appearance of Frenzy Cloverland's upper body gusted throughout the twirling lavender explosion, forming the extended welcoming arms to the guest.

Smoldering enraged moods burnt through both Chemistra and Agano when they caught the glimpse of Frenzy Cloverland's smoky form debut. A propelled wiry needle fingers was hoisted by The Chemist, regaining her stern standing position and Agano gritted his shaking teeth.

"Please…hold your weapon, mighty heroes!!" Frenzy Cloverland cheerfully insisted, raising his opened palms for strengthening his remark toward the heroes. "I'm truthfully told you all that this is just like a memorable message call."

"Because the true showrunner already had his own resting somewhere safe." Frenzy Cloverland added.

The Phantom retrieved his hand and uttered, "Especially for finishing the long-awaited novel in order to fulfill own satisfaction."

Chemistra skeptically dropped the wiry fingers from a shooting position and replaced them with the stern crossing arms, switching into the watchful-observation mood. The watchful thoughts also clouded Sparror's thoughts as he engulfed the combustible flames in his gleaming eyes.

"Tell us why you are here, NOW!!" Sparror demanded sternly, overwhelmed by the disdain from inside as the crimson light glistened on the half part of the torch construct.

The Phantom chuckled happily and said, "Very well."

"Let me tell you the main reason this extravagant explosion was able to bloom sprightly in the first place." Frenzy Cloverland uttered in delirium sprinkling his mangling voice, pointed one of his marking fingers toward The Flaming Hero. "You….were absolutely the main preparator on the awakening process, Sparror."

"What…did you mean?!!" Sparror asked with bombarding dismay lingered through his head and shivering the molten fists.

"The other heroes will see it. I promise." Frenzy Cloverland reassured with a mangling tone."

The Phantom clapped both of the smoky palms as the twirling-lavender slime-like object was forged when he stretched out his hands. The slime-like object broke free from the palm and blended its flexible shape in order to unveil the presentation, convincing Sparror to dart his worried frown closer to it.

Not only The Flaming Hero, but the other heroes such as Akushijo and Chemistra also took a cautious step closer for receiving a clearer picture of the flexible blending slime. Even Agano regained his shivering standing position and headed toward the slimy object that manifested its shape into a rectangular purplish screen.

The purplish screen reveals the previous scenery of The Flaming Hero commencing an urgent attempt to save his close partner from the hysterical blasting bolt alongside the calmly floating gem. Although the recording scene played meticulously with the moment before the explosion, the striking-spotlight differences were all the actors and the objects made completely by the gulp of crystalizing lavender smoke.

Furthermore, gasps of agitation concomitantly sang out from all the rising sun's lungs when they caught the specific-dreadful scenery. In the highlighting scene when the lavender smoke Sparror successfully retrieved his close partner into safety by the vanishing teleportation, the floating gem triggered the explosion of the building.

A feeling of devastation shuddered through the course of The Flaming Hero's veins as he felt all of his limbs staggering in earth-shaking fear. He even felt the flow of time stopped especially when misery scorned both mental and physical motion, revealing the Sparror's armored dimmed out like a dying light.

The devastated Sparrror also became the fixated spot for the grimacing stare of The Chemist's rotating eyes. A glare of aversion glowed inside her cybernetic eyes the more rapid seconds she spent her sight locking toward The Flaming Hero who kept having his armored flickering.

She also folded her knuckle in boiling enrage, embracing the resentment with flashing the glistening crimson-red flashes on her eyes. Capturing the contorting noise of convulsing desolation from The Flaming Hero, inflamed The Chemist's enraged demeanor with her taking one step forward and slowly hoisted her wiry hand in a punching position.

Whereas, Agano could only bit lips of pity and despondent on watching Sparror being inundated by the haunting guilt. Akushijo also bent down his glare in pity toward his fellow colleague or hero. He even made an attempt to comfort him by moving one step forward of his unnerving feet.

"Good reaction on seeing your fire friend's despair, Akushijo, Chemistra, and Agano!!!" Frenzy Cloverland complimented in the mash of sarcasm and enjoyment as he tackled down the air below with his mystifying elbow. The joyfulness of scanning the reaction of the other heroes forced him to steer his attention toward The Flaming Hero once again.

"So Sparror Or should I say Hatoshi Akarui, are you still the true hero or just a love-blinded monster who is willing to sacrifice everything?" Frenzy Cloverland asked with perturbing cheerfulness due to The Flaming Hero widening his desolated frown. "Answer in your deepest heart especially after you saw what you did."

Frenzy Cloverland chuckled and uttered in a thrilling demeanor, "Oh I shall explain again of what happened, Sparror!! The others should listen too."

"When I blasted my gun, you in your deepest heart chose to save your lovely Yuna other than shattering the crystal!!!"

Sparror shook his head in stronghold defiance and yelled out the contorting voice of frustration, "It's not true, you set it up! Mr.Cloverland!!

"I indeed set up the scenario, but the choice…it's you, my friend." Frenzy Cloverland rebottled, shoving his marking finger forward. "Because the scenario was all about what happened when there are very dead-end choices and you had chosen the perfect one."

"Stop this nonsense, twisted showrunner or whatever you are!!" Agano joined the conversation, aiding support toward his fellow fiery friend. "The bomb was entirely yours because he…"

Agano didn't finish his sentence when The Flaming Hero firmly heaved his left tremoring-opened palm. Shaking assertive glare was turned around by Sparror and darted on both The Onmyouji and even Akushijo who in the brink of raising his voice with holding a gasping air.

"Let him talk, please…" Sparror demanded with a stoic, yet despondent tone and continued. "Agano…..Akushijo….. I actually knew there was an off switch of the bomb, but I didn't do it or even prevent it."

The Flashing memory clip came to play through The Flaming Hero's mind when he witnessed the blast approaching his close partner. The memory clip that left a perturbed regret with Sparror groaned frustratingly and shook his head constantly, shedding the raining tears below his stoic eyes.

"I meant I could send the jewel…into a safe place or even the incinerating it…." Sparror bickered, raining more tears and sobbing. "Instead… I was too distracted with protecting…Yuna….that I let it slip and….killed all the people!!"

Sparror creaked and presumed, Because…deep down he proved I'm truly a selfish person. I couldn't let or even see Yuna die! I was so afraid that…in desperation situation, I let innocent bystander die even though I had a power…to avoid it."

"Sparror was right." Chemistra scolded the other two heroes, raising the almost everlasting resentment toward The Flaming Hero, and bitterness. "Agano, Akushijo, you better quiet!!"

"Arguing and protecting Sparror's point of view most likely make the problem even worse," Chemistra added.

The moment of unsettlement showered on Agano and Akushijo's irritated furrow sharply locked onto The Chemist. Needs on defending the horrific action Sparror drizzled their mind, especially with Akushijo pointing his hardening knuckle on the edge of loosening a punch that triggered Chemistra's alarming sense to lock her coldly stare toward him.

Eventually, a reminder of prevention snapped in Akushijo's head when he caught Sparror giving him a bloodshot look. He rested the punching hand and breathed out the shivering-bothersome air before forming a concerned glance toward The Flaming Hero who switched his stoic stare onto Frenzy Cloverland once again. It also convinced Agano to forcefully close his eyes from reality, sprinkled with either dread or horror.

"Ah..thank you so much for preventing the heating debate. Sparror." Frenzy Cloverland muttered. "Let me continue it again."

The Phantom released a high-pitched giggle of delirium and murmured, "I appreciate your honesty Sparror. It amazed me you admitted your biggest regret of not saving those people."

"You even admitted you could actually save them, but in reality, you're just a miserable teenager who couldn't see his beloved…pleasure person!!!." Frenzy Cloverland shouted, loosening more the exuberant mock for safely keeping the torment within Sparror's regretful mind. "Hence, you shouldn't call yourself a hero right now."

"Look if you are a real hero of justice, you will let Yuna die even in the most desperate scenario, especially on picking the right choice. Frenzy Cloverland added, tilting his buoyant head, left to right. "Don't put the denial shield that you may have a selfish ideology, but you will never sacrifice the world."

Frenzy Cloverland agitatedly clapped his hands as he watched The Flaming Hero dim out the gleaming eyes, turning his sight into all black to shutting down the grim reality. A grim reality that polishing his denial came in terms he was a selfish hero who could sacrifice the world for the sake of Yuna's life, loudening the mangling sob of burning guilt.

"Or strengthening the denial shield is much more suitable for you Hatoshi!!" The Phantom suggested with a grim remark. "Because teenagers always love to defy the truth."

Frenzy Cloverland hastily uttered and raised the distorting voice of exploding enthusiasm "Anyway, it's the most wonderful night show I've ever done in my life and I appriaciated all of your best contributions!!!"

"Goodbye, hardworking Rising Sun Heroes and see you later in the next show that will be declared in the next week!!" The Phantom declared the bid of farewell.

Unnerving confusion and anxiousness broadcasted on all the Rising Sun heroes broadened frowns such as Agano who swallowed his saliva and signaled up his clutching hand. A clutching hand mainly for preventing the mist form of Frenzy Cloverland to shrunk down into a faded zone.

"Wait, you will declare another show again next week?!" Agano took a guest with an infuriating demeanor.

"Oh of course my friend, of course." Frenzy Cloverland replied in firing eagerness. "The next show will be much more fun because I still the part 2 to complete my mood on running this show. this Should I said a perfect sequel for this wonderful tonight's show!!"

"Also I hope the sequel of this tonight's show will be better and extra information, I didn't care if Iost or not." Frenzy Cloverland added, embarking the striking confidence through his distorting voice. "The main thing I care about was simply running a smooth and thrill-seeking show with the endless material being provided, life itself!!! When the show has done or reached its peak, it will be written in my diary-semblance novel!!"

With Agano attempting to resume the conversation, the mist form of Frenzy Cloverland dispersed faster than the blink of an eye. Micro level traces didn't even occur on the scene as if his existence was completely erased, leaving a disturbed confusion through The Onmyouji's furrow

The twirling violet explosion instantly dissolved too after split seconds of the lavender mist departure. Smoldering black ashes were the only thing being captured by the grim Chemistra as she zoomed in her point of view for an inspection of finding the leftover.

An alerting concerned mood spiked on Akushijo as he rushed onto The Flaming Hero who felt numbness trembled down his steady stands. The Grass Nija swiftly caught the despairful hero, evading the chance of him falling to the ground. Moreover, Akushijo shook his body with his solidified grips fettered Sparror's arms.

"Come on kiddo, that freakshow just messing with you!!" Akushijo shouted, trying to rescue The Flaming Hero from being constrained by the regret of indirectly opening the selfish truth as a hero.

Sparror didn't reveal any response even when The Grass Ninja continuously shook him, as if he became a statue. A hero with his beating heart and blazing soul of eagerness faded out, replaced by devastating and haunting defeat that might plant a permanent scare for the rest of his lifetime.

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