Chapter 18: Off with a start

Standing here sucks, why am i even waiting at this point?

He questions himself as he watches as the mist clears through his destruction.

*foot steps*

I hear someone! Coming from behind? Why behind if theres a huge front right here?!

"My, what have i missed here?"

A voice of a woman sounds behind him as he tilts his head back.

Her appearance resembling a grayish gown topped off with flowered vines protruding around her along side her green hair, as flowers toppes it off.

She approaches then stopping at a distance staring ahead.

"You"

"Yes, me"

"You do know there is a front door right?"

"Front door? All i could see is a huge gaping wall the size of a 1 story building, what makes you say that?"

"Nothing, might as well start it anyway"

He shoots a chain of ice pierced towards her only to be pierced at a summoned wall of moss.

URRAAHH!

He pulls the chain hard as it pulls down the wall of moss, she shifts herself closer to him as she manifests her hand with thorns in a rash instant to take the blow.

The blow closer as it got blocked by ice, she continuously starts barraging vines at the ice only to be projected even further as kirino summons an ice spike through it.

She hit ceiling as she shoots thorns towards him, he rolls away as the thorns trajectory follows him as he ran circle wise, he jumps up assisted by ice, as he attempts an icy fist smack.

He succeeded causing her nose to bleed, feeling this she utilizes the room as she summons more green life, moss, moss and more moss as pores spewed out.

Kirino seeing this swiftly covered his lower face with ice, as he lands on the ground staring at her from below.

She clinged there towards the ceiling, facing her arm towards kirino as a vine shoots towards him he quickly spawned ice to stop it but it pierced through and hit him.

Caughting him alongside it in the process kirino dangles down as she proceeds to spin him around, kirino covers himself in more ice as the ice got grinded at the more speed she spun him.

"Ahahahahahah"

She laughed as she spinned him around much like a child playing with a toy.

"How about that?!, have fun while your final moments last!"

She exclaims as she spinned with more force and speed, as the world around the two spinned around, the face pace made vision even renderless as kirino still stuck faced on.

This bitch! Thinking i'm some sort of play toy! I'll show her.

That moment her scene of joy turned into a scene of frost. At that moment the quick emersion of ice spewed throughout, quickly

Incapacitaping her in the instant leaving only her head visible and mouth free of frost.

Coming from the pierced leg the vine come through kirino excerted full pressure managing to instantly freeze herself and stopping her maddness.

The ice shatters as both, fell forth towards the ground. Kirino breaks free from the falling height as the floralist, shatters to pieces only leaving her face intact.

Kirino steps towards the woman facing her as her conscious face lays flat on the ground, kirino mocks her as he copies her face.

Her face slowly turning red, as she slowly dies.

*slam*

Kirino gets slammed towards the side of the wall as laughter can be heard.

"Aahahahahah"

She laughed as she regenerated herself slowly but easily as each phase of recovery inched her height even more.

No way!

He exclaimed as she laughed whilst slowly regenerating herself through the green life around them.

As kirino dashed forward he was slammed again only by this time with stronger vines,

He sticking towards the wall watching as she slowly regenerates till she is fully complete.

I have to deal with this again?! What the hell!

All the effort and waste of time all goes for this?!

He staggeringly tries to free himself but the struggle wont work as she approaches him with red veined eyes.

"My, my! You seem to be in a situation here, care if i can bring out of your way to free you here?"

She tauntingly questions him as she proceeds to turn her hand into a huge sharp thorn.

"This is the end, your time ends here, end of the line, you should be speaking these but i am the one who's going to say so."

Repeating words she expected he would say had she lost.

"Anyhow This is my victor--

*crash*

Woah.

Kirino looks in a daze as her body flung towards the side of her stature. He looks at his left seeing a huge piece of debris alongside a huge splatter of blood trailing all the way where she was speaking to kirino, the vines fade as kirino drops to the ground.

He fell, as he tumbled along. As he stood up he quickly checked to see what had happen, viewing upclose she was indeed dead. A random piece of rock suddenly coming to save him. What could that mean? As he faced towards the area he had summoned a huge ice avalanche had been.

The mist had already cleared out, this was the time he can view things more clearly.

He stood up and the closer he focused he saw someone carrying somebody. Of course he had already know who these two are.

What are you doing there?!

He yelled out as he ran towards them, his steps limping but he got the hang of it as he ran closer. Reaching the two.

"What were you doing there?"

Kirai questioned kirino as he approached her carrying mori.

"Nothing just dealt with a bitch"

"I see...."

"Speaking of bitch, what happened to him?"

He questions, seeing him in such a state.

"Long story, but we need to deal with the last guy."

"You know where the bastard is?"

Staring at the structure she analyzes where the room could have been located, as she points towards a direction.

"There, i'm sure of it."

This was too easy to find, the temple now having a large portion of it obliterated due to the fight.

Kirino summons a staircase of ice directly leading towards the direction, as he signals his hand for the two to follow from behind.

One by one the two took step into the broken halls, as they reached the place, where the triggered traps had been.

That was closer than i expected.

Her thought raced as the staircase seemingly leading us to the halls only for us to immediately find the path towards that singular room, the triggered traps then to a hole on the ground, kirino covers that up with an ice platform as they both crossed it.

As they both walked front they reached a glowing tree to its left path an overgrown, path was met. As they crossed the light of that room shined before their eyes as they got closer.

The room still the same like before but somewhat ravaged in destruction yet also wreaked the horrible smell of vomit, as it lies around.

Kirai settles down mori on a couch as kirino looks around the place, kirai approaches and inspects around in attempt to find the man who had the mic.

"He was here somewhere"

Kirai said to kirino

"Could be!"

Kirino standing on a pile of gold stomps on a specific area, facing downwards hearing a

Cough as pile spoke.

"He's down here"

Plundging his arm downward he pulls someone up and proceeds to toss him to the ground. The man huddling and shaking as blood soared his mouth.

He held tightly a microphone which was vibrating on the temple of his head, as she shakes and foams from the mouth.

Kirai grabs it back, as the man raises his arms in an attempt to retrieve it only for him to be weakingly crawling on the ground, as he has overdosed through the high amounts of circulated dopamine.

"This ends here"

Kirino steps on his hand, as he screamed feeling the pain his hand bleeding out, as he attempts to suck it back in but only for kirino to step on the it once more canceling his healing.

"Huh??? Wa-wa-wa what are you two doing here?"

His face staggers as he questions, his eyes deep brown as he squirms in pain.

"Your two buddies out there, their goners you might as well say your final goodbyes. Your gonna be the last one to go."

Kirai said coldly as kirino stomps on his, back breaking his spine in the process.

"Gack!"

He sqealed as his eyes widened with blood gushing out of his mouth. His mouth processing to form words as he speaks out.

"N-n-not at all But.... i H-have one more thing to saaaayyy."

His voice even more hoarse than ever as he stares at kirino.

His eyes turned bright red as he attempts to do something.

DONT DO ANY FUNNY SHIT!

Kirino slams his foot onto his face, seemingly breaking his skull in the process of it.

"Gaaahhhh...."

His teeth break as the head drips out more blood than usual.

"I cant heal. BUT... You.....Will face... the judgement..... of my bloodd...."

His words turned to sighs as he breath his last breath, as he raised his hand with all his remaining power.

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

SPEAK UP!

Kirino yelled at him whilst grabbing and holding him by the collar as his face turned closer to him, only for the man to give him a sinister smile as he looked behind.

Kirai also seeing this yells out to kirino, as she tumbles attempting to run away

"RUN!"

She yells out, kirino hearing this drops him down and gazes back before blacking out.

The last thing he saw the last frame before blacking out, it was but to be detailed as a giant hole a huge amount of red liquid as it shoots out.

That was had happened that so fateful last

Process.

○ ○ ○

Huh?! What the hell happened?

His eyes awoke to the sky upfront the same dark atmosphere gleaming and fainting to his eyes.

Kirino yatsuda had woken up in a place he was very confused about, he analyzes the area around to see more on the ground alongside kirai clumped up in the ground over there.

Standing up kirino goes over to kirai and pokes over to her waking her up in the process she screams in terror.

Aaaaahhhh!

The first time she see's waking up was that sinister face of his, how sumbliminally disturbing and disorienting it did as she yelled out.

"What's wrong with you?!"

She frantically spoke up.

"Nothing about! Anyway *Kirai* where the hell are we?!"

"Yeah where exactly are we?!"

Kirino questions her alongside mori who had just recently woken up as he helped himself back up his two feet.

"Wait? Come on you do know right?"

"Do i look like i know something?"

Kirino said with a serious look

No way these two forgot the whole session,

And the entire reason why we came here in the first place.

That entire point wasted majority of my time and yet these two pricks dont remember?

"You seriously dont remember?"

Both nodded with expectant looks, looks easily pressuring people to speak out, despite the circumstances.

"Listen, lets just get out of here. I'll keep it short we already found the thing i was looking for."

She sighed then explained that simply.

"Alright! Dont care! Lets get a move on!"

Kirino steps forth leading the way alongside mori following by. As the 3 wandered upon, now having returned to the point on what tk do next.

"Say kirai, we did kill some people right?"

Mori questioned her as he tilted towards her

"I'm not what even happened back there but you seemed to know something"

Mori still questioned.

"Not much, just at best a few other"

"A few other?! Specify with accurate depictions?!"

Kirino spoke back, wanting this unneccessary topic to go about.

"Listen i'm trying to get in there just give me some time alright?"

She said whilst rubbing her head, following forth the three had made it into a hillside directly having a path towards a new area, a tree resides next to them as the three stood gazing at the view around them.

"Look at what we have here! The sight of a thrilling new place!"

"Sure indeed!"

Kirino commented of the view and breeze as mori affirmed his statement, kirai stares upon taking a deep breath with relief.

Maybe this wasnt so bad at all.....

It wasnt that perfect of an expedition but i still got it back despite differences.....

"Say kirai that hole thing that happened in there. Had no idea what happened but that was insane!"

Kirino commented on what had happened back there despite having zero memory of what had happened, atleast he still kept the muscle memory of what had happened the strain his body felt out of all the things.

"My head feels weird and i could feel as if i was supposed to be injured here, should i be guessing that something did happened."

"I dont know!"

Kirino replied to mori's comment his words spoke truthfully of what the hell even happened back there. Wounds that were supposed to be there he pointed out but the feeling stems but the physicallity healed, somewhat of a turn of the mind.

The two now starting a conversation as kirai stares forth of the valley ahead, her mouth attempts to form words until speaking out towards her content.

"Say...guys....how about it.... let's...."

She studders to say the last one out, as she truly felt something within, something she realized it wasnt just about it but somethinf

"Lets?"

Kirino implyingly repeated that last phrase

"Lets's beat this game.... thats what i'm talking about....."

She spoked finally giving in and realizing there was more to just this game something really greater she wanted to embrace about it.

"Hm? Someones getting optimistic? What are you saying so? That was our goal from the beginning."

Mori assures her that *beating the game* was an already knowing factor all throughout.

"Really. If your that hyped what are you waiting for lets go for a move on!"

Kirino replying in a hard friendly tone, pushes kirai along for her to take a lead in their way towards embracing the destructabilities this game had offered for them.

Ha! I'll take lead this time!

"For sure!"

She said as she stepped foward as she kirino replied to her with a game faced smile,

As this scene truly depicts the wonders of embracing what the game had to offer as her first step reached the ground.

*BANG*

The loud sound echoed throughout the fields as the sound of a body dropped down, sounds of muffled laughs then bursted into hysterical laughter, the sound of it being sadistic, chaotic and sinister all echoad throughout.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAH

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

The both laughed hysterically at the corpse facing flat on the ground as blood drips down through her head.

They laughed mocking, mocking her in everyway as the two laughed and laughed and laughed and laughed.

"Haaaa... How easy that was..... really fucking easy!"

Kirino finishing his laughing session, comments at how easy that was. Such an easy kill to save for last.

"Looks like little missy did not have the brains at all! Asking us for help was the last thing a person would do at their stake! A prey comming to the predator how easy it really is!"

Mori scoffs at the dead body, staring at it as he pleasingly exclaimed his pride for such an easy kill came forth to them.

"Such an easy kill! Indeed!"

Kirino expressed as he proceeds spread his arms out and wide as he yelled out

"WE WILL CRUSH THIS GAME!"

"MASS DESTRUCTION WE WILL BRING AND FURTHER MORE CHAOS!"

Mori yelled out that statement as he raised his arm fisted towards the sky. As the two raced off, pursuing their goal towards crushing this game altogether, their sillouhettes further dissapeared as they their distance went even farther.

Her body left there as it bleeds out, her body still in the state the exact state the moment mori had shot her in the head, ensurring them the easy kill they had waited and pain stakingly held back till the time met right.

This truly shows what it takes to play the game seriously towards its limits.....

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