Chapter 25: Mixed Reactions

*In Perseus original world*

3rd Person POV

The therapist went to meet her superiors, she was assigned to work on Loki ever since the project was discovered and shut down, and Loki wasn't even the youngest to be brought into the project.

She heard of his death and was devasted, she was encouraging him to join the trip, and did not expect him to die. This case baffled investigators since only 2 bodies were found and based on cameras, no one ever left the bus or left behind, yet no blood or anything were found.

Based on investigators, the camera's of the bus barely survived, the only scene provided was a few seconds of the people being there and not there the next second.

Despite such a baffling case, Loki's death were celebrated amongst many people, the therapist knew that some of her superiors put some people on him to make sure he is eliminated if he were to go mad. It was obvious, even if she vouched for him, no one can 100% agree with her and bet everything on a vouch

The public had mixed reactions of course and are not as one sided, Loki was nothing more than a victim, he was brought into the project against his will, all his family members died as a result, he was then subjected to years of suffering with no friends, no family, and no help at all.

But he was also a large threat, the project was created by several countries who discovered the special people, people that are different from others...and some turns out to be threats, red, black...and even higher, apocalypse. Worse, 3 of which were categorized as threat level of extinction, but those 3 are eliminated before they could do anything.

Her head were full of different thoughts, she got information that due to him being one of the apocalypse level, his body actually survived hours before his brain died, he was in a coma...and endured the pain for hours, silently, with no help. He had a small, super slim chance of survival due to him being what he is, but it's all too late now.

"I hope you are happier where you are now, I wish I could have done more." she whispered to herself "If only I had listened to you when you said the trip was weird..."

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Perseus POV

Instead on relying someone else to lower us, I can just use a rose light platform to lower myself till the bottom of the tree and walked into the dense forest after talking with some of the watchers who told me where to go.

With the money, I bought cheap sword and a used bow before I wandered around till I found a pack of the poison sabretooth tigers. They look like your usual sabretooth tigers, but the large elongated teeth on the upper jaw is completely black, and like their name, are poisonous.

I got the bow out, and using the rose powers, I formed a blue arrow of light. I've never used a bow, only used a gun before, this world has them, but it's not really used a lot and are mostly just a collector's item.

I'm probably gonna miss, but I'm just gonna hurt them enough before charging in with a sword I guess, luckily I'm in hunting season, so these tigers are free to kill.

I shot the arrow and hit them in the hind, I nocked another one in and this time I managed to make my shot stable and killed it by shooting it in the head, I shot a couple more, but the tigers seems to lock on the direction where the attack was coming from and charged at me.

"If I look like I'm about to die, jump in." I instructed Ruka "We'll try to do as less damage as possible."

I then clad my sword with a blue light and run out, one jumped at me, but I slid under it, and with a swipe from my sword, I separated its head from the body. I got up, dodged another one by stepping to the side and also cut its head out again.

About 6 down, 6 more to go. They are now surrounding me at a good distance, since they're now on the defensive, it seems that I can go on the aggressive.

3rd Person View

"He really is barely reacting once he's killed a creature." Ruka muttered to herself "The tiger maybe one of the more weaker creatures here and he may have gotten stronger, but this is just ridiculous."

Perseus is flexible and jumping over every attack, like the dance, he can spin in the air and move freely with the sword like an acrobatic. One charged at him, he did the same, once he got close, he jumped, spin, and with a clean cut, the tiger died, blooding going everywhere and reddened the ground.

The movements with little flaws managed to kill all of the tigers except for the young ones which they let go.

With magic, they lift the corpse and brought it back, where they then had a hunter of the village prepare the parts for them, they wanted the blood, the poison in the body, and the teeth grinded into powder as they then sold the rest a bit extra money.

They both then went to but a box of tiny glass jars and many containers.

"Alright, we'll make the products in the back, we'll sell them with promise of home deliveries." Perseus instructed "And we'll also provide free drinks to entice people to come."

"We will literally make everyone want to buy this, we don't have enough." Ruka replied

"Well, we'll sell them and tell them that due to high demands, we can't keep up and their orders will be delayed, and our apology would be to give them discount coupons so they'll come back. Besides, once we get more money we can spend it on better substitutes than killing a pack of tigers."

"You're...actually smart?"

"Nope, just smarter than you at the very least, come on, let's go."