Chapter Nine

Inside the science laboratory...

After the stranger left, everyone's mood was down in the dumps. Their spirits were brutally crashed, and they felt worse than crying. Crying wouldn't be enough to express their grief, and the word grief was not enough to do their lugubriousness any justice. They wanted to just die.

Then, the guy whose balls got stamped spoke up unexpectedly. The look on his face was one of a man who was staring at the devil in the face. Or the look of a man who was slapped on both cheeks, before getting kicked in the balls. Then again, he actually got kicked in the balls.....

With the remnants of his energy, he managed to say,

"All is not over, friends", he said.

Everyone looked at him with mixed expressions. Hopeful expressions, sad expressions, and even pity. But the look on everyone's face was urging him to continue.

"You'd better have something sensible to say", warned one orderly. His name was Jonas.

"Don't get me angry", hissed the orderly with the destroyed balls. His name was Randy.

Everyone was silent. After the brief quietness, Randy continued.

"Anyways, before well....er, that incident, I managed to sneak a tracker ball in his clothes. I'm sure you get what I imply".

There was pindrop silence. Then a crazy celebration followed. The scientists began to jubilate. All hope was not lost after all, they thought happily. Their sadness subsided into happiness. All their sadness evaporated.

"You didn't lose your balls for nothing", said Jonas to Randy.

Randy flinched, he was offended.

"But I guess the tracker ball was not important after all", said Randy.

"Oh please, please, please", begged the rest of the scientists, even their boss.

Then, they channelled their anger at Jonas.

SLAP!!

Jonas felt a heavy slap to his cheeks. He looked in confusion at the one who slapped him.

"This is for having a big mouth", said the orderly.

"Huh?!", Jonas let out indignantly.

"This is for having a vile tongue", another orderly said,then followed with a slap.

SLAP!!

"This is for your stupidity."

SLAP!!

"This is for being a jerk"

SLAP!!

Some people began to involve personal matters in this. This was their chance to settle some personal scores. Some very personal scores.

"This is for stealing my girlfriend."

SLAP!!

"This is for cheating me".

SLAP!!

"This is for framing me."

SLAP!!

Apparently, Jonas had a lot of enemies. His misery was so much that despite the good news, he just couldn't be happy. The slaps were filled with personal grudges so they were quite painful.

'At least, I still have my balls', Jonas tried to console himself.

Suddenly, he saw a foot coming towards his crotch area. He screamed and instinctively tried to dodge. Because, not everything can be replaced.

"Noooooo!!!!", he shouted.

"Anyways, let's hurry", exclaimed the boss, "Let's prepare to go after that thief".

"Yeah!!!", exclaimed the orderlies.

Meanwhile, in the training area...

The area was like some kind of jungle. But it was quite different from the other one. This was less thicker and less dangerous. A group of Marroy Academy nobles were sitting in a lush greenery, with an expression of enjoyment on their faces. That's right, in the middle of a forest, they were a picnic. They seemed clearly relaxed as they basked in the sunlight. Suddenly, a level three blood beast cat came out of a nearby shrubbery. Without wasting much time, it lunged at the group.

"Fire rot", said a noble guy who was called Andy. He was still sipping tea when the air around the cat blood beast began to turn blazing hot. In no time, the cat blood beast let out a shrill scream and gave it's final breath. Andy continued drinking like it was no big deal. Of course, Andy was another of those geniuses, so it was really not surprising that he destroyed a dimension three beast like nothing.

...

"They should be fine", said Principal McCarthy. He was watching the projection on a screen.

"Sandra", he said, "Take it back to where the commoners are."

"Sure thing.", she replied.

The projection was switched back to the forest zone where I was. There, a tiger beast was going through a severe illusion. This time, it was really frustrated. It was going through another scene when it abruptly stopped. What was happening was that, the girl's energy was overused and her body could not handle it anymore. So out of extreme exhaustion, she collapsed, completely weak and worn-out. This was good news for the monster, and bad news for us. The tiger snapped out of the illusion, and I think I heard it offer a prayer of thanksgiving.

That didn't matter now, because from the mannerism of the tiger, it was really vexed and it was brimming with killing intent.

Pure, unadulterated and rich killing intent. We flinched. The girl was falling, so I caught her before she did, and I rested her in a safe place. The fatigue from overexerting herself rendered her immobile. She couldn't move her limbs or body parts. All she could do was to look on as I moved her to a safe spot.

"Let me handle the rest", I said.

I'm sure you're expecting her to blush and fall for me since that is the shtick of webnovels and comics where the guy is given a knight in shining armor poise, and let him get a girl out of it. Unfortunately, that's webnovel. Fiction.

Rather, reality was different. She stared at me like I was some kind of idiot, and to be honest,

I regret saying it. I'm just saying.

"YOU, I WILL KILL YOU!!!", threatened the tiger blood beast. It was overflowing with fresh anger. If looks could kill, both of us would have been dead thousand times over. Suddenly, the tiger began to lunge at us with unspeakable anger. As for its frustration, it was out of this world. It's eyes were thot bloodshot, and it rolled with mad rage. The memories were still fresh in its mind, and it was driving it crazy. Completely crazy. The more the tiger tried to forget those thoughts, the more it was harder. So the tiger was suffering even after the illusion.

Also, a normal psychic attack was enough the brain, and that's under normal circumstances. The noble girl was surprised the tiger still had its consciousness and sense of self. This just went to show how strong the tiger was. Because it'll take someone with very strong willpower and mental resistance to survive that. It was a very broken ability.

Anyways, I hadn't recovered fully, yet, I was up against the tiger blood beast. It was rushing at me first, and I could pretty much guess what it was thinking.

"I'm going to shred you to bits and feed your corpse to the vultures!!!", it threatened, "and you the bitch, I'll be sure to repay the favor . You know I don't like owing debts".

The sarcasm in it's tonation showed it's anger and annoyance.

"I swear, I will destroy you in the worst way possible", it screamed in a belligerent tone.

I knew fighting it was going really difficult, especially since it was annoyed, fighting an angry dimension four blood beast, what bad luck?

Anyways, I couldn't help the situation. Neither could girl.So our safety relied solely on me.

I had no ideas. But I was determined to defeat this beast, move on, grow stronger and survive the ordeal. And I'm doing just that. Absolutely just that. With this in mind, I tried to look for a weakness.....on the tiger.