Chapter 14: Anger

In a confined place, only darkness was there; Even though light couldn't reach there, sound crawled there after crossing many obstructions.

The conversation among Ted, Jina and the third person clearly heard by Bolt. As things moved forward, he became more uncertain about what to do then. His facial expressions hidden by darkness.

He somewhat recovered in those few days rest but still used the spears for safety. He clutched the spears, but he didn't move from there. His rationality still had upper hand; he suppressed his emotion.

' I don't have any advantage in fighting inside cave. My only weapon that can damage him is boulders, but I don't think it will cause any damage inside a cave.'

He waited for his time. But it didn't come.

***

"Such a stress relief, you slut, thanks, for being stubborn, you are the only one lasted till the end, many surrendered to me before facing all of my technics."

'Ted and Jina, huh, they don't even have any achievements, there's no privilege given to them either.'

" What should I do, Teddy? You are standing here for whole night.", he looked at him, "wow, what a great love, you are crying. Ah, I got an idea, smile.", looking at his face expression, " This is it. I will let you both live."

Ted smiled and cried at same time.

" See you later, make her healthy, I don't want a broken toy. I don't care about mentality; she is already broken. I want her physical health improved. Don't kill yourself Ted and Jina."

He left there searching for someone, who he didn't even know.

***

"YOU HAVE WITNESSED SOMETHING OUT OF ORDER. YOU HAVE AUTHORITY AND PRIVILEGE TO REPORT. DO YOU WANT TO REPORT IT?

YES

NO"

This didn't appear, when Ted accepted the offer. But it appeared after when Jina accepted.

Bolt waited until they left the cave. From his observation Jina was in a state not capable of coherent thought. She only mumbled, ' I accept'.

Sometimes seeing something trigger you more than hearing it. It was case for Bolt's current situation. He only left the hideout after the third person left.

His emotion started overwhelming rationality. He didn't let it go, he persisted. He left the cave, climbed the mountain where the cave was in.

He stood above the cave entrance, where he was hidden, not well hidden, but it satisfied him.

Then he clicked "YES"

"THANK YOU FOR REPORTING. APPROPRIATE ACTION WILL BE TAKEN."

***

" He once again doing something different from others. Is MC aura helping him?"

" I already told that he was one of the variables, who I sent to you. Should I call him glass cannon? No, Glass bag is correct."

" Now you mention it, how the hell did he get the skill and trait."

" He is one of 10 survivors from my last trial."

"I closely watched them from the beginning, and I come to conclusion that 7 out of 10 are cowards. How the hell did they even pass your 100th trial?"

" To put it bluntly or say in your way, because they were cowards. But not all of them. All of the survivors of 100th trial came from Easy difficulty."

" What!? You wanted to kill all of them, huh!"

"Okay, this is the statistics of 100th trial attendees, look and tell me about it."

Age. Number of attendees

18-21. 75,000

22-25. 20,000

26-30. 4,000

30+. 1,000

Difficulty. Number of attendees

Easy. 122

Normal. 34,908

Hard. 24,807

Impossible 40,163

"This is more than enough for you to understand. If I say most of the death due to one genre light novels, will you believe me?"

" I think I know the answer, those regression yapper stories. Am I correct?"

" Exactly, who hell are they to judge others? Why the hell are they act like I know it all. Those shit talkers. That is the trashiest genre I came across. There may be gems among the trash. But it was convenient tool for many, because human nature is like that, they always dream about past."

" I sense one of the so-called haters here. Jokes aside, if he didn't activate PROTOCOL 0 CLAUSE (b), I would have forgotten him."

"But it looks very easy, I doubt someone is helping him."

"Maybe she is keeping eye on him."

"You me our father."

"No, Mother."

" Whatever, both are same, you consider him as mother, I consider him as father."

"Nooo.", as the unknown entities disappeared.

Someone murmured but no one heard, " Eavesdropping children bantering is always amusing."