Chapter 300: Infected

Yeah, let's roll on with the flashback, we have time for a short one.

"Man hearing your narration and 4th wall breaking is still kinda weird even after all this time" Zach whispered

| I find it infuriating |

Well flashback time...

So I remember after that, I met up with the others, they saw me looking agitated but they didn't ask why until we got home. When we arrive home, I told them what I heard.

"It could be a coincidence..." Kenny trailed off

"With the mission assigned right before I got approved to come back after the stupid minor infection? This is too much of a coincidence"

"Well I mean, you're not having any urges to feast on us right now, are you?" Benny asked

"Well if I did, I doubt I'd be allowed to leave the base nor even be left alive till now"

"What about if you switch to that personality? Didn't they do some experiments on you? Maybe tempt you with a soldier's corpse?" Kelly asked

"You should realize how stupid you sound" Benny commented

"Well it was live bunnies, a slab of deer meat and a few others, but no corpses" I responded "Besides, it's not really a personality change, it's more of a hidden emotion that force itself to emerge every time I get injured greatly"

Well this is the mission that my squad is assigned to after my recovery from the minor infection. I was experimented on for days, beaten up till the point where I was with that personality for most of the day and almost everyday.

Worst part is, I can still experience everything, it isn't like one of those fictional characters who can't remember what they did when the other personality took over, I remember everything, and I am somewhat in control, I don't hurt my allies but I still do whatever the hell I want.

To this day, I still do not know what that personality is, it could be my true self manifesting itself or what I fear most coming out. Either way, it is a part of me now, and I can't get rid of it.

So the mission. We are assigned to kill this one guy who has a tier 10 taming ability called 'Beast commander' named Con Yajuu, he's an escapee from the military. He was subjected to intense research to explore his ability of taming from regular animals to gorgers.

He hated being experimented on, so him and a few others broke out and created their own kingdom or empire or whatever in an abandoned city. But one of our spies have found out that he's temporarily away alone, so it's the most optimal time to take him down.

He's trying to go to this community of other escapees and recruit them, we are to intercept him and kill him before he can do that.

He has tamed 2 specials, 2 dozens abnormals, and 6 infecteds with him at all times, we are to eliminate all of them. We would use Kenny's sniping skills to assassinate him from far away, but the place where we can intercept him is an open field.

We have to wait out and hide ourselves in dirt and mask our scent with a lot of fertilizers, we will then jump on him when him and his gorgers go by. We can just have an open attack with several squads surrounding him, but information would leak out, so it is kept to us.

After his death, the gorgers will no longer be under control and try to kill us. The specials will try to kill us afterwards, and hopefully we don't get killed.

"I don't want to do this mission"

"I don't think we really can object to it" Kenny replied "It's probably also an experiment for them about you as the subject"

"I despise it"

"Big words."

"You think we do" Kelly scoffs "We're in this too, and just know that if you kill us, I would personally come and haunt your ass. I will curse you."

"I'm a protagonist, I'll probably somehow find a way to both dispel the curse and get rid of the ghost you"

"I really worry about your future girlfriend" Kenny sighs "I don't think a girl would like a man who think of himself as a protagonist of this world"

"Yeah, he'll probably fall in love with himself when he sees his own reflection like Narcissus" benny added

"Since when did you know that story?" Kenny asked as he was shocked like the rest of us

"Oh come on, I'm not that dumb" Benny retorted "I'm only dumb by you guy's standard, not by the standard of an average person"

"With an ability like 'protagonist'? It is within my right, the ability will probably need screen time though. Besides, have you seen me? I'm a great looking protagonist"

"Heh" Kelly chuckled "I hope that if you actually reincarnate into a world of fantasy, you will have a goddess who is as egotistical as you"

| Wow, the foreshadowing |

"Did you guys hear that?" Benny asked

"No" the rest of us answered

"...Will she be hot at least?"

"Well it's a goddess, they are meant to be super good looking, duh" Kelly replied "Even if they're ugly, they can just change into a more good looking form"

"If I reincarnate, I'll date a goddess. I won't be like those boring protagonist in the stories"

"You? Flirting?" Kenny questioned "You can barely talk to women without a façade or persona. It took you 2 months to really open up to us, you even have files on our strength and weaknesses before the sibling agreement where we're required to have them."

"Well in case one of us goes evil, we have to get rid of them" Kelly pointed out "Having them beforehand is pretty useful, since we barely knew each other, we could betray each other anytime"

"Yeah, back then, I would sacrifice you 3 a 100 times over to get my auntie back...what? I barely knew you guys."

3rd person view

The Elektra and Hypnos during the time were watching over Perseus like usual and are a bit concern for his blood thirst.

"It's really sweet that he still think of me...but killing a person a 100 times over to get me back is a bit too much" Elektra commented

"His mother did say one time that she'll use me as a shield to protect him if the chance arose" Hypnos replied

"But master...doesn't she already know that you're a god?"

"Well yes, but she also said that she would make the same decision even if I was mortal" Hypnos added "A weird thing to say for a medic"

< I mean...I would too > Elektra thought to herself