Arc 8.26

Φ As Easifatan approaches Orb, he runs up to meet him halfway and begins to clash. He is keeping up with Easifatan even with his body in such a state. What kind of monster is he?

"All the more reason to end him here." Using my whip, I support Easifatan from afar. Whenever Easifatan has an opening, I strike Orb to make sure he can't take advantage of it, and if he ever tries to move away from Easifatan, I can block his exit.

Seeing an opening, I try to strike Orb in his lower back, but he backflips over my whip while kicking Easifatan in the chin, and then immediately, he creates a large amount of snow everywhere.

Orb made an opening on purpose so I would jump at it and throw off our balance. He got me. The snow Orb creates covers all of the floor around me.

Easifatan says, "I knew he still had power left."

"Don't worry, whatever this is must be the last of his legacies power, he will be finished in a few moments."

Around us, the snow starts to shape into walls, and they are all so tall that even when standing on the elevated platform, I still am getting my view blocked. It is like a maze of snow walls.

Creating a bolt of lightning, Easifatan screams, "Scheherazade."

Good thinking, with that I can know his location. Around me, I hear the sound of something, and then, looking around me, I notice Orb is jumping from one ice wall to another at high speed.

Swinging my whip around, I try to hit him, but he is just too fast for me. Irritated, my swings become faster but more chaotic, and when this happens, Orb ducks into his ice maze and runs around.

"Is that all you got, miss storyteller!!"

"Don't mess with me," I say, striking the area where I heard the voice from, but I don't hit him.

"Missed, you should try again!"

Crap where is he; he gives off no spirit energy. Calm down, if you can't locate him, draw him out.

Chaotically, I start to swing my whip everywhere, trying to break as many of the walls of ice as I can. Orb is jumping around so fast that I can't tell where he is, but with how precise he is, I know that if I leave an opening, he will pounce on it.

Φ I can see it as clear as day, Scheherazade's back is open to an attack. Moving around across all my ice walls, I position myself directly behind Scheherazade and snowboost towards her. This is it!

Out of nowhere, I am hit in the side by her whip and am sent right into one of my ice walls. "She baited me."

Φ Seeing Orb lying on the floor, I waste no time and send my whip towards him, "This is the end."

But then, behind me, I hear a giant whump sound, and moments later, I see a massive avalanche of snow burst through the door that Orb and Easifatan came through.

Did he bring all the snow from the other room over here!? I thought I was baiting him this entire time, but I was the one being trapped.

I won't be able to react in time. Suddenly, I see a cannonball fly past me, then as it hits the snow, I see lightning hit it immediately, which causes it to explode, dispersing the avalanche.

"Don't worry, darling, whenever you need help, I will surely be there," Easifatan says, approaching Orb.

Dodging Easifatan's attack, Orb runs toward me at full speed. This is it for him now that his surprise attack has failed; he has nothing left. All we need to do is keep the pressure on, and we win.

I proceed to pour all my spirit energy into my arm and whip, and I attack Orb as quickly as I can. He barely dodges my whip and is torn up by the sides of it, which scrape past his skin.

Eventually, I see Orb miss a step, then, as if he is about to fall over, I send my whip for his head, saying, "This is over!" As my whip approaches Orb, he points his finger up, which causes me to look up for a moment, where I see that a dagger is going upwards directly in the middle of the room. Then suddenly, all the sights around me change.

Since I was looking up, the first thing I see is what looks to be the ground we were standing on, but everything there is missing, with the exception of the staircase Orb and Easifatan came through.

Suddenly, I start to fall, then looking down, I realise what happened, all of the objects in the room had their positions inverted, and everything that was on the floor is now on the ceiling and is now falling towards the ground.

Looking for Orb, I see that he has frozen his feet to the roof, so he isn't falling. Then, above me, I see a huge wave of snow falling towards me. Again, I fell for this child's plan!!!

As the wave of snow passes through me, it all turns to ice, freezing me in midair.

Φ Snowboosting from my position, I kick Scheherazade, with my full force, which breaks her out of the ice and sends he to the floor.

As I fall, I use my snow to cushion my landing, then immediately I hear a big thud, then following that I see Easifatan running towards me saying, "WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FUTURE WIFE?"

Seeing him, I run towards him to meet him. As I run, he shoots lightning at me that I dodge, and then, when I get close enough, I stamp my right leg into the ground and make a small ice spike, barely the height of Cyrus.

Easifatan immediately tries to use his left dagger to pierce through it, but the moment he tries, I convert the spot he was going to hit into ice, making the dagger pass through, then I use the heel of my foot to immediately kick the dagger out of his hand.

While my leg is still in the kicking motion, I hear sparks forming on the right dagger. He anticipated I would block his first strike and was already preparing to kill me with the second.

Anto, grasping the situation, throws a dagger toward my ice spike, and in response to this, I turn a section of the ice spike into snow, allowing his dagger to fly through.

"This is it, you bastard!" Easifatan says as his dagger is about to shoot lightning at us. But the moment his lightning is about to strike us, Anto teleports us, and I am directly above his head, and I continue my kicking motion, I strike Easifatan as hard as I can in the back of his head.

Landing on the floor, Anto and I let out a victory cry.

Φ Struggling, I try to get up from the attack Orb gave me. To think that little boy could still move and fight me and Easifatan while he that injured, there is no way I can let him fight our king, who knows what damage he would do to him!

In the distance, I see Orb make a turning motion with his legacy, and then from above me, I hear a sound. Looking up, I see Orb has made all the ice spikes on the roof fall down, and I am going to be crushed.

Crap I got to move. As I try to drag myself away, I feel a sharp pain throughout my body. I can't get away, I am going to be killed.

Suddenly, I see Easifatan get on top of me and say, "No way am I going to let my future wife die." Then I see all his spirit energy clumping up around his back.

"Don't be stupid, idiot, get away."

With a smile, he says, "Wow, you really are beautiful."

Seeing the ice spike about to hit us, I close my eyes and moments later, I feel something soft fall over my body. Opening my eyes, I see no ice anywhere, only snow surrounding both of us, then I hear Orb scream, "ALMOST DYING ISN'T NICE, IS IT!!" Followed by Orb's footsteps towards the door to the next room.

With a face of fright, Easifatan says, "Am I dead? Am I dead?"

"No, you're not an idiot, now get off me."

Trembling, Easifatan says with a pathetic face, "I would, but it seems my legs and arms can't move anymore."

"Your jokes aren't funny, you ran all the way here to protect me, I know you can move, we need to go after Orb!!!"

"I am not joking; I really don't know how I even got here. I just knew I couldn't let you die."

Sighing, I say, "Ok then, idiot." Grabbing his body, I pull him close to me and say, "Well, just rest up then, you did good."

Blushing, he says, "Are you sure, Orb still is running rampant?"

"We are in no shape to fight him, and regardless, we have nothing to worry about since our king isn't the only legacy holder among us. So just enjoy your reward."

Φ Hanging off Orb's back as he runs down the hallway, I take long deep breaths so Orb says, "Anto, are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm just trying to give my legacy some time to recover."

"I didn't know your has a limit since it doesn't produce anything."

"My legacy can only invert a certain amount of intangible mass every 24 hours before it needs to recharge. And after inverting that room, not to mention all the teleports I have been doing, I probably can only invert another 2 things at max today."

"Well, after inverting a whole room, it is normal for you to be tired, so just rest up, I will handle everything else."

"You need to rest more than I do, your entire body is gushing blood, look at all it does wou-." Staring at Orb's body, I see all his wounds have closed. "What the hell did you heal all the damage you have taken already?"

"I told you I heal fast."

"Regeneration like this isn't even humanly possible." This really isn't natural, is this a physical adaptation of his legacy like how I can see and hear through Mime? But the real question is, what kind of being has a body that can naturally regenerate like this?

"Well, I didn't think it was physically possible to rob someone during a fight, but somehow you managed to swipe Easifatan's dagger."

Embarrassed, I say, "It was too much of a waste to just leave it."

-Break-

Φ With tears in her eyes, my friend Haniya says, "And I found out he cheated on me with my sister, why does this always keep happening to me!!!?" While crying on the floor.

Sitting in my cell, I say, "Haniya, do you really want to know the truth?"

"Atalanta, please tell me!!!"

"You see, the truth is that humans aren't meant to be MONOGAMOUS!!"

Shocked, she says, "Really!?"

"Yes, it is all an illusion we have created to restrict ourselves, here me, Haniya, the only purpose of our existence is to do one thing, and that is to seek pleasure."

"Seek pleasure?"

"Yes, to only do things that feel good, morals be dammed. Society exists to restrict and contain our true desires; it is utter nonsense. Our one purpose is to seek pleasure. Live your life only for that goal, seek pleasure in all things, and anything that doesn't give you a constant cycle of pleasure should be removed from your life until it does. Eat what you want, take what you want, and sleep with whoever you want. There is no good and evil to anything that brings you happiness; life only exists for the sake of your happiness."

"I see, so that's the truth, so if I want to find a partner, I need to experience lots of pleasurable things."

Through my cage, I grab her cheeks and say, "My kisses happen to be amazing."

Blushing, she says, "You're very pretty, but I don't know if I am ready."

Pulling her closer, I say, "Shhh, it is ok, just let it happen."

As I pull her head closer, Haniya continues to blush until our faces get so close she closes her eyes, and the moment she does, I twist her neck, knocking her out.

Taking her keys, I open my cell and say, "That worked better than I expected."