Blood Moon (2) - 79

"Kyaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!"

'Damn this fucking cliche scenario.'

As always, something was keeping me from running straight to my sister, as I suddenly heard the sound of a girl's scream in the forest, of which the voice I definitely recognized.

"Somebody help!"

'Can you please stop yelling out such stupid, cliche lines?'

I mean, I could already "see" the red flags that I was getting just from going to save her, but like, what else could I do?

I certainly couldn't ignore her, and that was the only thing that I was certain of.

If I lost one of the most important pieces of my plan right now, then it would be such a pain to think up a different plan again.

Taking into account her death, absence, and the loss of abilities that her death would generate... yeah, it was just too much of a hassle.

She was a valuable piece on my board after all, if not, a player for my satisfaction over anything else.

Just imagining the pissed off face of her mom in my head was a pleasant experience in it of itself.

"..."

Anyways, what I was trying to get at was that I really needed to go save her.

So, like any normal person would, I would displace my own socially immoral thoughts onto others, and so came the following reaction:

"Tsk!"

Cursing under my breath, I started running towards where the sound had come from, knowing for a fact that it wouldn't take me more than thirty seconds to reach her position.

With fleet feet, I quickly closed down on my first priority in this entire situation, the monsters surrounding the duo, as I naturally unsheathed my sword whilst running, never faltering for a second, as the blood red glint of the moon reflected eerily off the edge of my blade.

"I'm here." I said in a voice that was just loud enough for the other to hear, to pacify them a little bit, so that they wouldn't shout anymore damned "heroine in distress" lines.

All of this before I went into action of course, starting the progress of cutting down the monsters as I had already identified what type of monsters they were the moment I had heard the first scream with a quick scan by Angel, and had chosen a sword style to get the job done quickly.

Thinking about it now though, it might have been a bit of overkill, as I ended up taking less than 15 seconds to get rid of all the 20 monsters, but what could I say?

And there was also the added bonus of intimidating the duo a little, just to show them who was holding the reins here, if not anything else.

Flicking the blood off my maodao, my usual, signature move, I sheathed it before approaching the two women.

"Can you not look at me like I'm a monster?" I "politely" asked them, hints of annoyance scattered all throughout my tone.

'Oh wait, but I technically am one.'

Welp, details be damned, I would just play it off.

"Aren't you a demon?"

"..."

Well shit.

"Doesn't matter. I've saved you guys, so I'll be going now."

Immediately turning around to walk away, I was stopped by a hand on my shoulder.

Yet, I had sensed the hand coming at me from a mile away, but could I really dodge the hand of someone that I had literally spent days stuck in the same room with?

"What?"

Looking at Nora expectantly, I could catch the annoyed face of Ms. Helenrose (her mother) in my peripheral vision.

"Because, if you aren't blind, you'd see that your mom really doesn't want to be in my presence right now."

"Gosh man, I just wanted to say thank you." She said, looking away from me suddenly, a tinge of red layering her face and the tips of her ears.

"Oh...?"

Looking at her with a little bit of surprise creeping up into my expression, I truly couldn't believe what I had just heard and seen.

"Wait wait wait, say that again?"

"I just said thank you, you dummy!" She replied, hitting my in the arm with her clenched fists, to no avail.

If it had been the fiery version of her, then she might have been able to do some damage to me, but this was the nerdy version.

Yet, right now, that wasn't what I had been focusing on, as something much more disturbing had occurred to me.

'No way... She's acting exactly like a cliche female lead in a trashy harem novel!'

'I must find out if this is true!'

Leaning in close to her face, I placed my lips within perfect kissing distance between the two of us.

"Ah! a-a... ano?"

And then, there was a sudden change in her expression.

I realized my mistake almost immediately.

'Shit, I took the joke too far!'

Bolting away soon afterwards, I narrowly escaped the horrendous tentacles that had been reaching to stick onto me for the next few hours or so.

'Yeah... I better not try something like that next time.'

Yet, as I was thinking about the entire situation, I thought that it was funny, to say the least.

I mean, genderbent boy meets harem love interest, but then runs away as quickly as possible after trying to kiss her because she turned into a promiscuous octopus?

First off, was this considered lesbian?

Secondly, what had I been even thinking?

And third, was this too wacky for the audience to take?

I mean, where would you ever see that in today's writing scene?

Scoffing at the entire dumbness that I had experienced in the past five minutes, I continued to subconsciously follow the trail that my sister had laid out for me, scrolling down the page as quickly as possible to try and get the bitter taste out of my mouth.

Yet, I was still stuck thinking about the entire situation.

'It seems like my goodie boy church goer with bland humor still pops up from time to time.'

This was something new to me, but not particularly surprising.

Sometimes I was a bloodthirsty killer, sometimes I was a melancholic killer, sometimes I was an exceptional reader, and sometimes I was just a really, really depressed guy.

But this could all be explained.

After all, even though I had once been a child soldier, a mutant freak killing machine, a psychiatric patient, and so much more than that, and so I was still also a guy that had lived a normal, American life for a good chunk of my life back on Earth.

'Man, I wonder what crazy things Karens are doing at this moment right now...'

I continued to think about my extremely normal life as I ran.