Contract and the end of a story.

"A contract?"

"Yes! A…..contract!"

She climbed off of me and extended her left hand to help me off the ground.

"Ah whoops…..sorry."

What was up with that? Did she seriously forget about my arm? She took back her hand and extended her right hand helping me onto my feet.

"What do you mean contract? I'm not exactly in the mood to sign my rights away."

"Well it's…..actually more of a…..verbal agreement so to speak. A binding of...souls."

"And why should I agree to that?"

"Oh we can talk about the…..specifics another time but if you don't agree you will definitely die. Your current body has lost most of its...blood. Honestly the fact that your here is a very…..special case."

I take a minute to think about it, I'm sure there is something to this…something she's not telling me, I can feel it but what other choice do I have?

"Fine. I'll agree to whatever."

Her eyes shoot open and her expression changes from that melancholic bored look to one of excitement.

"Alright…let's not waist time!"

She quickly extended her hand towards mine motioning for me to shake her hand so I do and immediately a feel a sharp pain deep inside my chest I look up at her and from her expression I can see she felt the same pain as I did but that expression soon vanished and in its place a smile.

"Thank….you."

As soon as I heard those two words everything went black.

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After I killed the infected guy I stood up but immediately tumbled over as the strength in my legs had completely vanished after using 「speed step」for a second time.

"Damn it."

I started to crawl to Marcus's body as swarms of infected started to exit the buildings around me. I crawled over to Marcus but before I could reach him he stood up.

"Ha. That stupid...boy."

Marcus had willingly entered into a contract with a being who's true purpose was destruction. A being who brought nothing but death to everyone and thing it could get it's hands on. A being that would in roughly 3 days time completely destroy this world but that's not what this story is about.

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"AHHHHHHHH!!!"

I woke up screaming, flailing around, trying to stand up and run but my legs wouldn't allow it.

"S-sir? Sir are you okay? Do we need to call an ambulance?"

I calmed down and looked around. I was in a library, back in a library. The same library I was in before all of that. There were 3 people looking down at me with nervous expressions on their faces.

"W-what? Where?! A-am i me or am I…her?!"

"Her? Sir what are you saying? Y-you. Call 911."

"That won't be necessary."

An agent wearing an all black suit and tie showed up shadowed by soldiers wearing semi-futuristic suits. The soldiers shot all 3 of these people with tranquilizer rounds and they all passed out near instantly.

"Now. What do we do about you?"

The man wearing the suit made a motion with his right hand and a tranquilizer shot was shot into my shoulder and I passed out for what felt like the 100th time in the past hour.