Chapter Seventeen

A weak push, yet enough to pull some distance away. Cynthia manage to make her decision in both her weak mind and body, bleeding herself enduring the pain that snapped right behind her lower waist while trying to not lose focus toward Nanami who waiting for a chance to strike in silence.

"Admit it, sis. Your boyfriend doesn't want you anymore, your betrayal toward him was the proof of his action," Nanami provoke, waiting for the despair came shroud her sister mind, knowing the expression of confused, scattered mind clearly stated on Cynthia's face.

"What have you done to him?!"

Despite having a mental breakdown, it caused Cynthia to get more enraged by the trickery act put by Nanami. She didn't weak enough to pull herself into darkness, letting herself fall into the pit of despair created by Nanami, waiting for herself to get a strike back from the result of winning.

"Both of you were the same. Same face, same engagement. He despises me at first, but look at him now, a different person who doesn't even recognize who you are!"

Nanami revealed her trick as for what she had done in this past few weeks during the time she tried so hard to save Walker from the bridge of death. She didn't even get an appreciation for saving him, Walker strike openly once he regain his consciousness, knowing the person who stand in front of her wasn't Cynthia.

"Why do you always have to scramble other's belongings?! What your sister has done to you to be so obsessed with her body?!" Walker persuades his answer while keep pushing Nanami on the wall.

"Do you even know where are you right now?! Could you calm down for a little while?"

It was an act, knowing Walker was still confused during the moment where her sister regain her control, wrongly thinking that Nanami tried to come back using whatever voodoo skill to make sure her soul doesn't leave Cynthia's body. But Nanami doesn't have time to spare while knowing she has been pushed to the end of space, dodging while defending herself with the wrath fist doesn't suit herself to look so weak in her born place.

With a slight push toward a random fist thrown by Walker, Nanami got the momentum right and twist Walker's arm around, instead of against the law of gravity, Nanami deicide to paralyze Walker's movement. Twist and break, a clear sound of bone cracking came from Walker's arm. Walker didn't stop there knowing Nanami power suddenly spike up to an unspoken amount.

Relentless he tried to throw another punch, Nanami slightly push off the fist again, knowing there no threat shall come onwards, leading Walker's body thudding onto the ground, restraining him while talking some senses into him.

"You never learn, aren't you? Do your anger and jealousy enough to blind your eyes?" Nanami speaks in a normal tone, instead of a cocky and proud attitude.

"What does that mean?"

Nanami draw a smirk knowing there was a space to draw a negotiation once Walker begin to keep his suspicions. Nanami explains everything that happen for the past weeks, while it is just a few seconds away from where Walker came from.

It was too good to be a true story, but Walker had to buy it. Nanami releases her constraint knowing Walker has already fallen deep into his dilemma. Let him decide, let him see what and where his feet already step onto.

In the truthfulness told by Nanami, a lie was bridging the gap of the stories. Nanami lied about how Cynthia and the rest of the elders used him to open the portal, as a sacrificial subject. Their objective was to find her in here, a different world prison where she had everything in here, where everything was ruled by darkness and a complete hell world that was beyond Walker's imagination.

"Not only I didn't get the appreciation, yet suddenly get attacked by someone who I try so hard to save," Nanami said while blushing her face. Showing another side of her was the most convenient way to brainwash Walker.

"My apology, Nanami. But I still can't accept the fact that we are already in another realm."

Walker held his hand toward Nanami, a sign for an apology, a sign of treaty. Nanami draw a sweet smile, as her hand draw out, reaching the tip of the finger of someone she meant to keep by her side forever. Deep down inside, she draw a sinister smirk, playing the victim was the right call. Getting all the sympathy from someone who is still lost in his head, it is really easy to mix the story, as if everything she said was the truth, though it mixed with white lies.

"Your smile…" Walker speaks of a sudden. Of course, it did grab a bit of attention of Nanami, "Yes?"

"You laugh, isn't it? Seeing a fool like me played by you, it amuses you, isn't it?"

"Tchh…" Nanami shows her inner emotion once she realizes her plans get caught by Walker right after she plants the lies in between the truth.

Grabbing on Walker's wrist, trying to catch him off guard again, Nanami intends to slam Walker head down to the bickered stone ground. Hoping to get Walker to break unconscious. Her impatience cause her another trouble when Walker already foresaw what she tried to do when the force suddenly accelerated, not when Walker already prepared for the next moment to come.

Walker makes quick reflexes, as he twists the opposite direction toward Nanami pull, having her inner energy locked, one of the unique abilities possessed by Walker himself. Even supreme beings sometimes get frightened dealing with this kind of mysterious power that knows no boundaries of its foes.

Walker can lock, or retain the energy of its foes. No matter his foe is stronger or weaker, his ability will not sway as it will decrease the mana and capability of his enemy, causing them to paralyze, immobilize for a short period.

Nanami couldn't see this coming. She thought Walker was just a mere demigod, how he was supposed to know how to read others people's minds? Curiously want the truth, but her position won't allow her to do so.

Throwing her last tricks toward Walker, Nanami had to use the lowest cowardly act, throwing a dust-filled with sleeping powder, hoping to lower his guard while attempting to perform a complete brainwash on him.

Her final struggle seems effective once Walker slowly loses his sight, as he draws near to blurry view, at a slow pace, his vision begins darken, thudding his head on the floor, remain unconsciously and unable to ward off whatever Nanami tried to do next, which lead to the Walker personalities who not recognize Cynthia. As he stab behind her back, that was the very proof opposite of what he will not do no matter how much Walker hates her.

" I'm sorry to make you behave like this. But I'll make sure it will be fun, till the end…" Nanami drawing true self reflecting her expression. She can't wait for what going to happen when both lovers finally meet up, just to become the enemies in this land of Namor.