Chapter 31: What Did I Steal?

Bobby POV

The scene changed back to the real world again with the boy standing far away from me. And there was still the sword right into my chest and the boy is still having that creepy plastered grin.

"Charge at him then!" one of my friends shouted

I did as the person asked and the boy could barely react as my sword came down his neck, but the moment where I thought I might have accidently kill him instead of just winning and getting his cooperation.

He just disappeared into thin air. Everyone is the area including the ones on my side had their eyes glowing in the same color.

"The best lies usually are the ones who have some truth mixed into it, same for illusions, they work the exact same way." they all spoke at the same time

"Stop this illusion and fight me fair and square!"

"Fair and square...hahahaha." the pipsqueak laughed once he appeared again "That's funny when you literally challenged an 8 year old to a fight."

"Get me outta here, you're the one who accepted the fight! It's cowardly for a person to use illusions in a duel."

"Well it is somewhat an illusion, you've never seen the matrix, have you?" he asked "This is nothing different from your dreams, we're in your head, but this isn't the worst extend of what I can do. Have you ever heard of people dying in their dreams and in real life? Well Don't worry, you'll just be mentally insane after this."

In a blink of an eye, the world turned read with these demons scratching and and pulling me down into this pit, they were ripping my flesh and eating on them. I tried cutting them, but my sword just went through them as if they nothing but air.

They were yanking me down hard now, and the pain is unbearable, I screamed, but no sound came out either, the boy just waved me before turning his back and walking away.

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3rd Person View

To everyone else who watched the fight, it was nothing but a strange sight. Bobby charged in and just stopped in the middle of the stage, Perseus just used his bat backed with the power of the rose and knocked the knight out with a jump and swing to the side of his head.

After a while of no response, it was obvious that it seems that Bobby couldn't move or hear what they're saying, the healer from the visitors and Beek would try to heal the man, but it was strange.

It was as if Bobby is in some sort of strange trance, his eyes is glowing ever so slightly and isn't responding to anything even though the healers confirmed that he is alive and conscious. no injuries apart from the hard hit to the undefended head.

"Those energy emitting from the boy...it feels familiar." Maple commented as she watched over the scene "I seriously can't put my finger on it though, I've never seen this before, but one thing's for sure is that it's not from this world...was he perhaps marked by Leilah? I might just need to meet him in person soon"

Ruka was also questioning the whole thing as she watched the fight, the fight was over in a couple seconds and she didn't know how it was possible, apart from the strange glowing eyes, the only weird thing was the knight stopping in his tracks.

"Well one of the easiest wins of my life, anyway, told you guys I can give you a free early retirement, with the money, I can hire employees now." Perseus said as he stretched

"What did you do? What was that?" Ruka asked

"That was just a small trick, it's a little of what I can actually do."

"Will he even be okay?"

"Physically yes, and it's up to his will when if comes to whether he comes out insane or not."

"His will?"

"You'll understand soon enough, when it comes to fighting against me, if your will is staggering even just a little, you've already lost, come on, let's go home."

The next day, in the morning, it seems that Bobby woke up from his trance, but what's strange was that he was shivering and refused to talk with anyone which is unlike him.

There were no signs of strange magic used on him, or was he drugged, everything was fine, he was rambling on how he was being eaten alive by demons and forced to experience death several times, but no one saw it and so no one believed him.

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Perseus POV

Currently, I'm sharing a room with Ruka since my parents adamantly refused for me to sleep in the attic despite my closet jokes to try and lighten the mod, so we got a new bed and put it in the room.

It is nice though, the pillow is cold on both sides and I'm pretty much guaranteed a lot of wealth, but just as I wake up, I see this beautiful woman who I've never seen before in my entire life just siting on a chair and reading my book.

"Who the hell are you and why are you in my house?"

"Are you going to accuse me of burglary too?" she asked

"Oh...the goddess...no, that's not it, why are you in my room? And why are you wearing shoes in here? I work hard to clean my room up so I can walk with shoes, you know."

"Well I'm here to make my case and make an appointment, when are you free?" she asked

"Um, today?"

Ruka seems to be still in her sleep, she doesn't look like she's having a good dream, hopefully, it's not Leilah. Alright, need to put on my usual face first in order to not stray away from my character.

"First, what did I steal for you to accuse me of theft?" she asked

"Oh, it is in broad daylight when you stole it from me."

"I'm innocent, what did I steal?"

"My heart."

I can't believe she's actually blushing from such a cheesy line, but at least I got to meet the goddess early.