《Locked fates》 Chapter 1-4 Chapter 1: Wait, What? "Don''t mind me, I''m just a friendly god with nothing better to do, you can call me ted, you know, the movie with the fluffy talking bear? No? Oh yea, forgot that I can''t hear all of your replies, I mean, even a god can''t process a few billions thoughts of you itty bitty inhabitants." "So, carrying on, I''m too lazy to explain actually, perhaps.......yea, you can figure the rest among yourselves. I''ll leave some rules in place~. One~ killing each other is not allowed two~ you are supposed to carry your lives normally as you would as though nothing happened, oh and, murderers are not obliged to follow those rules, and normal people you are allowed to kill murderers~. Eh....as for the consequences of not following the rules.....find them out yourselves if you dare ~" "Until I say otherwise, you all are to follow as I say and mmhmm, yeah, I''m tired now. Bye." Was the only explanation we got. Time was paused and no one could move, only able to look at the scenery paused in front of us as we listened to the ramblings of a self proclaimed god, after that was a few minutes to get hold of our bearings. I guess it would be weird if a couple had been in the middle of that? Wait! Now is not the time! I can''t feel my fingers anymore! I had been feeding my pet hamster, named peanut the fifth, before all this happened. I need to move my hand away quickly! What if he bites me? I just got him at the pet store so he''s not that used to humans...... Managing my rampaging thoughts of a bite from peanut, who was currently frozen in mist of enjoying it''s daily hand fed meal. I waited, for the time to continue flowing, sharpening my senses for a quick reaction time. 3.....2.......1 the numbers in my head counted, reaching the number one, time flowed and I quickly jerked my hand away. Unfortunately, something I did not expect happened. A surge of strength burst into my blood stream, unlike the surge of adrenaline I expected and my hand smashed against the cage wall. With a small squeak, my newly purchased pet died with a shard of the expensive glass material of his cage poking out from his side. "Wait, what?" "EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!" ------------------------------------ About three days has passed since the initial shock of the day known as the "changing", it was shocking I say. Unlike the about 30 million deaths, I was not that dumb to commit the same act out of fear and eventually result in the same demise as them, some freaked out and thought of a ingenious idea of running to the hospital and checking what actually happened to their or someone close to them''s body, thus breaking rule number two. The changes only happened to people within the age of 12-18, the changes I speak of, well..... Currently only 3 changes has been identified and named. The rarity of each ordered from the most common to the rarest. 1) Weres, not just wolves but animals of many kinds, three types of transformations are assessable. One, human form, two, half, three, full animal. 2) Owners, the only within the three that are unable to transform. As their name entails, they have a affinity with some types of animals and are able to form contracts. Also, they can use magic. 3) Hybrids, mixes of animal, it is occasionally not as good as the normal single animal as some people may receive the bad qualities of more than one animal, has the same three transformations. Though, that is rather rare. So now, the world is a weird place with flying students or students running on four legs towards school, shocking. I suppose once they realize that they could transform without breaking a rule, students started using their newly formed physical capabilities instead of cars. I suppose I should introduce myself, my name is Kai, a student of Andersons High, a supposedly higher class school. I replaced my hamster already, of course. A hamster, white and fat that looks as similar as possible than the last, was bestowed the name "Peanut the Sixth" by me. Within these three days, we had rather normal school days, well, if you refer to flying students and animals running at 50mph per hour as normal. As I reached the classroom, I heard a pretty voice coming from behind me. "Kai~ you got first again! Not fair! I want you to teach me!" I turned around to see Melody, a cutesy mascot like female from our class. I smile and placed my hand on her head, she had such a small stature that I could literally rest my head on hers. "Hmm? Ah, look who we have here, isn''t this melody? We''ll, miss 8th in the whole cohort, I don''t think I have much to teach you eh?" "Teehee~ but you are first!" I suppose I missed out the fact that I was the smart kid in class too? I suppose my character is currently disliked by most people; smart, cute, rich. Psh, I''m such a perfect person. "You''re not! And stop reading out your inner monologue!" I laugh at the short little girl as she puffed up her cheeks in attempt to look angry. Suddenly I had a thought. What type of animal is melody? I mean, I could see her as a bunny, but when she really gets embarrassed, she''ll scratch you like a hell cat, I don''t assume she is a owner or a hybrid though, since they are rather rare. There are people that revealed their animals by transforming partially, but not a whole transformation because it would only result in inconvenience, but some preferred their own privacy or any other reasons they may have, Melody being one of them. "Alright alright, stop with your flirting, sit down, I''m going to take attendance!" The class chairman, Sean''s, voice pops out unexpectedly. I walk to my table, which was in the middle of the class and nearest to the window, I had asked for that seat since the first lesson, next to me.....well it''s an empty seat. Behind me was a ehh, a person that rarely spoke. Her marks were good to say the least, I haven''t checked the scores of the most current test but she was a few positions behind me last time. While fighting off the daggers she drove into my back as she stared, I drew on my paper, after three days, I was rather used to it, it was a surprise though, she didn''t bother to associate with me before but somewhere in her mind sparks happened and she decided to bore holes into my back everyday. The whole school day was boring to say the least? I had already studied ahead and since my scores were nearly perfect, the teachers had no qualms in dealing with me and could only helplessly watch on as I did whatever I liked during class. After the bell rang, students evacuated the room, leaving only me inside, scribbling incenses words with no particular goal in mind. "Kei." Eh.....? I turn around. She was still here, the creepy female that dominated the seat behind me. "You''re Kei aren''t you?" I smile. "You must be delusional, you know what happened with Kei, I''m really not comfortable to discuss anything about him." "I know you''re not Kai, you''re Kei." "....please knock it off, I don''t like it that you mentioned his name." "I will reveal this secret, unless you....." "I think you are mistaken, is someone spreading rumors?" She stood up, walking to where I sat, and placed her hand on my table "Stand up Kei." I didn''t move, but she did, with a motion of her foot, she flipped the chair. With me, who was entirely off guard, I fell to the floor. "What are you doing?!" Putting her foot below a man''s most prided spot, she said "Become my pet." Wait, what? Chapter 2: D-Danger! With her foot near my nether regions, I stumbled on my words "Eh? Before....before..we...talk......please move....your foot?" She shrugged and her actions was soon followed by the movement of cement on the classroom floor which rose and cuffed my hands and feet to the ground. "...eh? A [Owner]....?" She nodded, "Yes, be my pet please." "What? No! Get your foot away first! It''s uncomfortable with it near me!" I shouted. Wrong choice. With a loud ''Bang!'' Sound, a numbing feeling appeared in my head and the corners of my eyesight darkened. "Now, Contract, appear........." The rest of her speech was omitted as my consciousness faded away. ---------------------- Now, after who knows how long, I finally woke up. I look at her confused. The setting red sun enlarged the both of our silhouettes I watched as they danced on the tables and the chairs. "It''s impossible to form a contract, Im neither of the three groups." I sighed out as I stared out into the distance. A movement was spotted in the corner of my eye, turning my head back towards her, I saw a piece of paper in her grasp. My hand darted out as much as it could with the restrictions of the cement bindings, snatching the paper in her hands. It was a piece of white paper, written with a beautiful handwriting that was so alike to the prints of a computer. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Contract claim Contractor: Myrtie Contractee: Kai Contract grade: 5 Kai will now be entitled to Myrtie''s every command and is unable to do anything that contradicts between her chosen rules. Rules: Harming or killing anyone is prohibited unless commanded to. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "What''s this?!" I exclaim as I attempted to tear through that damned parchment. "The contract." She replied cooly, as if nothing major happened, her words followed by the disappearance of the contract from my hands. "But, but I don''t have a type....?" You must be too retarded to not be able to activate it then." She said, continued with a confused expression on her face "Strange, I was so sure that you were Kei." "You were mistaken, now can you please move your foot and cancel the contract? I refuse to do anything with you." She replied firmly, "Refusal rejected." "......I demand my human rights." "You don''t have any anymore. Now, I wish to explain some things to you." "I''m not listening until you move your foot and tear that accursed paper." A small sound of ''thump'' resounded through my ears. ......she stepped on it. She did didn''t she. "FUCKING HELL!" I clutch my probably blue colored balls as she snickered, "Did you know, a kick to the nuts is above 5000Del of pain which is similar to giving brith of 160 kids and breaking up to 3500 bones at a time?" "Well fuck you! My nuts are certainly in pain." "Kiss your Father''s Day goodbye if you continue to irritate me." "I don''t give a fuck! I stay in class peacefully and you threatened me, knocked me unconscious, fucking bind me into a contract and now you kicked my balls!" I couldn''t help but rant. She squatted down and moved closer to me, who was currently grimacing in pain on the floor, and said with her breath hitting my face, "I know you''re a murderer." "Fuck your shitty detective Conan skills! At the end of this conversation you''re going to fucking deduce that I fucking kidnapped the fairy princess of fucking rainbow land and raped her." Those were the last words I spoke after she knocked me unconscious again with her magic. When I finally awoke again, she had already left, only leaving a note for me. Kei, You deserved the kick to the nuts, I tried to start a peaceful conversation (Yeah, peaceful as in your foot dangerously close to my balls). What I wished to say is that, I had only forced you into a contract because I knew doing so would be beneficial to the both of us. I know you are a murderer, and murderers are allowed to break rules, and because of a stupid murderer that decided to reveal that the god, Ted, told him that the murderer that had completed the most tasks will be given rewards, I decided on this cooperation. I wish to give you assistance in doing the fore mentioned tasks and in return, you give me protection, because it seems that you are the most dangerous person in terms of aura I have met. Myrtie. My left eyelid twitched, not good, something bad is going to happen. I hope it doesn''t include my balls. Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation. I looked at my watch, a action I was unable to do before due to the bindings created with her earth magic which was already gone. "Not good, it''s already 8....I need to go home....peanut hasn''t gotten his meal yet..." I mutter to myself as I stood up and packed my belonging which were strewn on the floor. I ran all the way home, looking at the peacefully sleeping peanut, I scratched my head. "What to do now?" Chapter 3: Training "___ .......w-why w-" ___ stumbled on ___words, clutching ___ wound as tears filled __ eyes, ___ voice shushed by a motion of a finger. "I''m....I''m sorry.......I''m sorry." My hands was shaking, the sword I held in my hands fell, my trembling finger moved to the mouth of ___. "How touching, are you done yet?" A unfamiliar voice sounded from behind. I jerked my head back, to only see a beautiful woman with a evil smile, I backed away, forgetting about ___. "NO! STOP!" I shout as I woke up from the nightmare. Sweat drenched my bed, my clothes and my back. My hand reached up and touched my face, moving away my wet hair that became an inconvenience to my eyesight. "It''s been so long since I''ve had that dream..." I mumbled as I wiped my tears that i didn''t knew fell. I covered my face, trying my best to ignore the surge of unknown feelings from the deepest parts of my heart. You''re dirty. Why is everything so dirty? The bacteria, the germs. Destroy them. The voices came back. Back to tormenting my life. ---------------------------------- "?????????????7?" I traced the patterns on my ruler, automatically filtering out the words of the teacher. After sitting on the chair for a long time, I finally looked up. It was already recess, time had passed so fast without me noticing. I stood up, grabbing my wallet, I headed to the canteen. "Kai! What happened to you today? You''re weird." I turn around, seeing Joy, the sides of my lips curled. "What do you mean? I''m like the usual. Though I seem to be rather late for recess." "No shit Sherlock, you better run. 12 minutes left." I nod with a smile and headed downstairs after giving her a pat on her head, barely caring if I was late or not since I could do anything I wanted, even skipping class. Unfortunately, I didn''t get to buy my lunch. Halfway down the stairs, I saw Myrtie leaning against the wall. Upon seeing that I came, she beckoned me to follow her. I did, of course not that I had a choice. "So what did you want?" I say as I followed her to the roof. She patted the ground, ridding the floor of the dust that probably had been there for years, and sat down. "What tasks do you have?" "It''s not really that we get individual tasks, mutiple tasks are given out every day and upon completion, the task will not be available anymore and the person who completed it will get points, the amount of points decided by the difficulty ." "Ah...I see, how many points do you have?" "Zero." "Zero?" "Zero." "WHAT? You didn''t do anything?!" "Of course, it''s mostly killing things or other stuff." She rubbed her temples as she sighed. ------------------ "Are we really going to do this?" "To do missions, you need to learn how to be able to transform." "Tasks." "Whatever." She brought me to a forest, a rather long journey I say. Reaching the forest, I saw a overly buff male. He walked over to us and pointing to the whole of me "So this is the boy you spoke about? I don''t see anything special about him, tsk, did you just pick up a underweight teenager kid on the street?" I grit my teeth "Whose this." Putting her hand on my shoulder, she grinned "His name is Jonathan, a guy that went to the finals of the sword play competition finals, as a participant. Oh and by the way, he is a Were bear." "Were?" "I like to call it like that." I looked back to the guy and a chill went up my spine "Uh, I need to feed my rabbit." "Please go easy on him." She said as she pulled out a bag of potato chips. --------------------- Basically, I spent the whole of ten days studying in the morning, training in the after noon and doing tasks at night. I mostly did normal human murder tasks, not beast ones. The beast killing tasks are done by transporting the people who take up the task to a place,they would probably kill each other then kill the beasts itself, I didn''t those because it would be too risky. Currently, the top ranker on the list has 70 points. Human murder tasks give you 3 points upon completion on average whereas beast killing tasks give you 10 on average, A huge difference is because the people doing the beast tasks are teleported in a space with not much place to hide, resulting in clashes between each other to prevent kill steals while human tasks are done in our own world. Well, after such a long time of training, I of course, learnt to transform. Black panther of the leopard species. Not really that special after all. On the tenth day midday, something fascinating happened, Ted''s voice rang in all of our ears. "E-E-Event!" Chapter4: Event? "E-E-Event!" a voice I hadn''t heard rung in my ears, since at that time I was next to Myrtie and the bear, I could tell I wasn''t the only one that heard his voice. "Hello everyone! It''s been a long time! So we are going to play a game now, hmm what should it be? Ah, I know!" "Okay~ it''s a bit unfair only the [Owners] get pets! So....we are going on a egg hunt! The holiday you humans have, what was it called again? Rabbit something, ehh......ah! Easter! So now, we shall go on a Easter hunt!" "The rules are as follows, the objective will be to find as many eggs as possible and they will hatched into pets when the game ends, oh and killing for everyone is allowed! You will revive when you die, however...... your eggs given to the guy who killed you! But.....if you are killed by a murderer or if you are a murderer and killed, you are permanently dead!" "I don''t wanna ruin this world yet....so let''s go to another!" Without even a second passing from his last statement, the view in front of me changed, from a urban view to a beautiful mountain village, like the last time he spoke, the world had stopped, giving me a good chance to admire the scenery. "Ha! How''s this? So now, let''s enjoy the event shall we? When my designated time limit is up, you''ll be transported back to your world, and the results would be posted, the person with the most pets will receive a prize! So work hard everyone, Kay?" "Oh! Wait! One more thingy I have to say, the language barrier between you guys are gone, I have installed a pretty useful thing into your souls! So now, your hearing automatically translates any language into one you can understand! That''s it for now, go and have fun~" I tested my fingers, wriggling them as I took a deep breath of the fresh air, I stood tensed, ready to run off to find myself some pets. "Oi oi, you''re forgetting I''m here?" A familiar voice came from behind me. My left eyelid twitched and I, instead of turning around, broke into a run. I''m not staying with the fucking slave driver and her pet bear. "Turn! Come!" Is she kidding me? My body moved in the opposite direction, opposing my will. I glared as I tried my best to get a hold of my body, which did not happen. Like a dog, I had to sit below her legs "Good boy." She said as she petted my hair. This is absolutely humiliating. This is ridiculous. Where''s my human rights. I will rip this woman into half someday. No wait. I need to be positive. Rainbows and sunshine. Rainbows and sunshine. "That wasn''t so hard was it? You don''t need to fight every step along the way." I didn''t reply, only focusing on repeating the chant I had. Rainbow and sunshine. Friendship and magic. "Haa," she sighed and continued while scratching the back of her head "We have to decide on our next course of action." "But then, there''s you." Her voice emphasized on the last word. "RAINBOWS AND SUNSHINE." I screamed at her. "He lost it." The bear man finally spoke. Rubbing her temples, she sighed again. ---------------------------------- For now, we had settled down on the inn of the village I saw, it was called Diona. Apparently, from their world, a similar thing had happened a few centuries ago, Ted had barged in and played a game. There was not much records and everyone''s interpretation on what happened was different, after all the information had been passed from generations to generations for each family. Since this was a fantasy like world, there wasn''t any computers or anything, though, I didn''t mind as I liked the outside more than the inside. Currently we had come to a agreement, since Myrtie was a owner, she doesn''t need the extra pets, me and bear will decide who will be the one handling the eggs, after all, there can only be one winner. "If there''s any hamster like pets, I''m calling dibs." I shouted my hand banging on the table. "Especially the female ones...Peanut needs a bride...." I added, rather softly. "I don''t want pets, I don''t need to hide behind them." Bear shrugged. "....then I''ll do it. I want a hamster army." "There may not be hamsters." She said dryly. I gasped. "Looking at you, I never could have guessed you were a cruel Japanese murderer." She muttered, fiddling with her fingers. I supposed I hadn''t shared more about myself? I wasn''t technically a pure blood jap, somewhere along the lines something happened. My height was 184cm, with jet black hair with a lean body shape, my eye color black with sliver flecks, I wasn''t ugly but neither was I extremely beautiful, those guys you can''t tell is male, just a normal guy I guess? Myrtie was a cliche Chinese person, it wasn''t really a fact that all Asians had small eyes and yellow skin, and she was a living proof. Her height was 163cm not terribly tiny or tall, her eyes hazel brown like her hair. And also she was a rather well proportioned female if I say so myself, her body wasn''t extremely busty but filling, she also had skin white like porcelain. Lastly, the bear. He was taller than me, 195cm. He was a tanned American male, with natural blonde hair and blue eyes. Oh, he was unnaturally buff too, I swear someday his muscles will pop out , ripping his clothes. "Did you even listen to what I said?" A small hand waved in front of me, the owner of that hand had not a I-will-kill-you mad but a I-am-mad-but-I-have-to-keep-up-my-appearance cool expression on her face. Of course I didn''t. "Of course I did." I smile, one so big that it gotten on her nerves even more, knowing that she couldn''t reveal her owner status in the inn full of people and order me around. Ah. I know what will make her even angrier, this is a once in a lifetime chance. "Hey, hey, Myrtie." I said, batting my eyelashes. "What." She smiled, one that looked like she was threatening to murder me. "Did it hurt?" "Huh?" She replied, after a while with confusion clearly on her face. "Did it hurt when you fell from someone''s asshole and into the toilet bowl?" She looks like she''s really ready to kill me, I am literally doing this with my life on the line. She answered with a gentle smile dancing on her lips "I will gladly rip off your balls right now and feed it to you." "I''m sure you would, I love you too honey." Pursing my lips together, I kissed her on her cheek and ran as fast as I could outside of the inn and towards freedom. I will never forget the look she had on her face. Utter shock. I would take a photo but I don''t have my phone. Heh. Chapter 5: Why? After my little escape attempt, Myrtie decided to trap more poor souls into her contracts, which were better thought out after seeing me taking advantage of the loopholes. Her rules were, no escaping and every command must be obeyed. Seeing as how she did not alter the contents of my contract, it should be that the rules of a completed contracts can not be changed. There were four of them, all male, which was highly suspicious. No, not them, but Myrtie. Anyways they are all normal basic types, there was 2 mutts, a bird and a fox, all of them were sent out with the mission of gathering eggs. Currently, we are trekking through the forest west of the village, in my light backpack I sto- I meant borrowed, we carried only 3 eggs. 2 of them was stolen from a Solo player, which I had the task of killing. That person had let her guard down and strolled though the forest, her tracks were easily followed. After stalking her as a panther by jumping among the branches, I pounced and pierced her stomach with my claws along with a bite to the neck, a foreign attack method that I had never tried. Normally I would had used a knife, like how I did for the murderer tasks, but it was obvious that in such a terrain, panthers had a better advantage. Now that I experienced killing with my own bare claws, the slimy squishy feeling of my hand, or should I say paw, inside of someone wasn''t that bad. Even though there wasn''t a mirror, I could feel the childish smile of a child that just learned about something fun on my face, that appeared when I changed back to a human, which was gone in the next moment. I do admit, I did enjoy the scene of her despairing face of the girl and the life leaking out from her eyes, this was the expression that meant I did not had to go back to the room. But then again, the room isn''t here, how could I forget. Though, old habits are the hardest to change. Without checking the contents of the backpack, I headed back. Only when I returned did we learn about the appearance of those eggs, they were about 2 times larger than a normal egg, with intricate patterns carved on the tough shell. After that we leisurely strolled through the forest, only finding a single egg, honestly I think we should just kill people, but Myrtie insisted we should also look ourselves, in case we encounter a powerful person or group that could permanently kill me, I did say it was fine but she was stubborn about it. So now, its just me, bear and her. The rest of today was boring, we just looked for eggs, so I''ll omit it. At night, we had gotten two rooms in the inn, the money to do so was collected by skinning and selling the meat from the beasts that populated the forest. One room was for the guys, it was only a small one with a kid sized bed while Myrtie had gotten a single bed room for herself. I wasn''t able to sleep along with the pile of people that gathered on the only bed and so I decided on going for a walk, just to clear my mind. The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation. "Kei? Why haven''t you gone to sleep?" A familiar voice came from my back. Turning around, I replied, "Kai. " I corrected, then after a while, I added "I can''t sleep, anyways you''re out here too. " "Sheesh." Running towards me, she pulled at my hand and continued moving towards a bench. Siting down, she patted the space next to her. I sat down, "What do you want? " "You can''t sleep anyways, let''s talk. " she answered with annoyance in her voice. After a moment of silence, she said as she pushed a lock of hair behind her hair, "When do you think this whole thing will end?" "Someday, I guess. " I answered, my gaze locked on one of the small houses of the village. "Why are you, like that? " "What do you mean?" I asked turning to her, she was looking down at her fingers she fiddled around with. "You, it''s like all this isn''t anything to you, all this killing. You kill players knowing they will truly die. How are you calm in this kind of situation where you could die any moment? It''s like.....like you don''t care if you die. " She said, her words a bit fumbled, halfway through, she looked up with her eyes shining with tears that seemed to be on the brink of leaking out. "I have nightmares every night. Scared that I''ll die, and you, you kill and enjoy it as you do so. " She added with a small voice, as if scared of someone hearing her words. I shrugged and changed the topic, "How''s your family, do you miss them? " She knew what I was doing, but she did not question me but answered, "I miss them, a lot. How about you? " I shrugged again, "Peanut is probably dead." "Peanut? " she questioned. "My hamster." "No one is at home to feed him? " "No, it''s just me. But I suppose I should make plans to buy another hamster when I get back." "Look, you''re doing again, does lives not matter to you? Is it so easy to replace a life? " I stood up and stretched my back, without turning back, I said, "I''m sorry, I''m a bit tired, I''ll go back to sleep. " ----------------------- Upon dawn, we were woken up by bear, the four of Myrite''s slaves were sent off whereas I and bear gathered at her room to discuss the course of action today. Apparently she had decided to receive information by visiting a information broker and paying the price of one egg. There was 2 different tiers for eggs, common and uncommon. The uncommon eggs had the type of monster it would hatch into carved onto the eggshell instead of patterns. Those were extremely rare to find, but it seemed that the information broker had gotten the information by following a player that resided in this village like us. So it seems that our mission today is to track down that very person, that is if he had not left this area. Chapter 6: Stupidity. Unfortunately, Myrtie had decided that I would not be allowed to harm that guy, instead she and Bear would take care of the man themselves, since he would not really die if it was them who had done the deed. I did suggest that she could just trap another poor soul that happens to be a mutt so that it could help in tracking but she said that she had hit the limits of how many pets she could posses, luckily. Though after a while I remembered that bears was among the animals with the best sense of smell. When we payed another of our precious eggs to the information broker, he had added in the fact that the guy we had decided to hunt down had been seen leaving for the forest a few hours ago, he must have a lot of dedication to wake up so early. His appearance was of a tall lanky guy with short brown hair and black eyes, his age estimated to be 14 due to a a hint of features that belonged to a young child, he was wearing nothing but short pants and also, he had a bandage on his arm, perhaps a attack from a beast or a player. So with my backpack filled with only 5 eggs left, we left in hopes of finding him. Instead of walking with Myrite and the bear who was in fluffy form on the forest floor, I jumped around the trees, also in fluffy form. She had insisted that I be their ''back up plan'' if there was any problems so currently, I was just pouncing around in the treetops while trying to detect any unnatural noises that doesn''t belong to any animals. We didn''t have any items of that guy, so honestly, bear was rather useless, however, he proved himself by picking up scents of humans, despite that he did not come into contact with many scents of beasts, he somehow was able to differentiate them with humans, which I guess was helpful. Myrite ordered us to not attack anyone other from our current target because if we do so, players could notice something was amiss and leave the forest and perhaps alarm the guy. Even though corpses would disappear like magic, there was a chance of being seen. After many tries, we finally found him, indeed as described, he had extremely short hair and was half naked with only pants, shoes and a belt. Though his muscular body how as a bit concerning, it showed that he wasn''t some defenseless kid, currently in his right hand was the neck of a young girl, perhaps merely a 14 year old, she was currently desperately hugging on to a single egg, her arms covering it as tears flowed freely down her cheeks At first I wanted to wait a while for him to let his guard down after but instead of doing so, the bear charged out shouting "Jolie!", he was currently naked as he had changed back, in his hand was a wooden sword he used for competitions. I wanted to help, but I can''t you know~ disobeying orders gave me a really painful electric shock that could compromise my safety due to the paralyzing effects, so I sat in the trees as Myrite rushed out to help with a slow speed. Unfortunately, the guy had been alerted of the bear''s presence due to his shouting and had roughly thrown the girl aside and took out his throwing knives that was sheathed on his custom made belt that hung from his waist. With caution displayed on his face, he backed away knowing that his weapons were useless in close combat. He then raised his knives, warning the bear of the consequences of coming closer. I could tell he wasn''t capable of killing the girl, he probably just wanted her egg and then he would have left her alone but due to the bear''s sudden appearance, he panicked and picked up his weapons. Myrite was still roughly 50 meters from them, how slow~ Despite the guy''s warning, the bear responded by increasing his speed, thinking that he could dodge the guy''s attacks. Seeing how bear did not stop, he panicked and threw his first knife, which had missed by a large margin, I chuckled thinking about how he was able to survive all the ambushes he had probably come into contact with due to him possessing a uncommon egg this long with such sloppy attacks. The guy threw yet another knife of his limited supply, this time aimed at the bear''s leg, hoping to slow him down, this time he was close and probably could have hit the bear but luckily, the bear had jumped and the knife missed yet again. This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon. At that time, most people would have retreated and tried another approach but the bear continued his charge, should I praise him for his confidence or pray for his stupidity? The third and forth knives all flew passed him with a whoosh and landed on aunlucky trees, at that moment the bear was already rather close to the boy with only an estimated distance of 7 meters or so, the bad side of this situation was that it was easier to hit him. Just as I predicted, the knife pierced into his left arm, while his right arm was the one holding on to the sword, with a roar, he pounced as anger took over his rationality, he aimed for the guy''s left hand that was in charge of shooting and I scoffed, he should have aimed for the head, despite it being merely a wooden sword, his strength could have caused a concussion and effectively save the female, but I suppose decapitating one of his arm could work too. Unfortunately, the guy was fast enough and his right hand, which the bear did not care enough to be cautious, shoved his last knife into bear''s chest, causing the bear to roughly fall to the ground mid pounce and using that chance, he turned to retreat from Myrite who was closing onto him. Seeing that the guy was attempting to escape, she manipulated the ground and caught one of the guy''s foot. As he fell, she raised a knife she had grabbed from a tree when he had missed bear, there was tears in her eyes as she shoved the knife into the guy''s heart. After she had done so, she rushed towards bear who now was dead with two knives lodged firmly into his body, squatting down, she reached towards the knife that was in his chest but was stopped by me. I had climbed down when she attacked the guy. "You do know you can''t save him, he''s already dead." I said as I pulled her up for her to face me, she looked into my eyes furiously as she wiped away her tears. "Why didn''t you help?" She asked, her index finger pointing accusingly at me. "I can''t, I can only kill people you allow me to, if I tried, I would have been paralyzed by the electric shock and thus be vulnerable. Anyways, he should respawn after this game." I said, my face still calm. "How do you know this guy wasn''t a murderer?" She asked, her eyes filled with hope, but as she mentioned the guy, her eyes widened with realization, remembering that she had killed someone and fell down, starting to vomit. I took a step back, not wanting her puke on me. I waited rather impatiently as she finished vomiting, the commotion here would have probably attracted some people that was confident of killing someone. When she was done, I pulled her up and said "He''s not a murderer, he and bear will be fine, let''s go." Retrieving the eggs and the belt sheath along with the throwing knives, I wanted to leave but was stopped by a meek voice "A-Are you s-s-sure Jonathan is gonna be okay?" Turning around, I realized that this was the girl the bear desperately wanted to save "I am, so are you his sister or something?" Shaking her head, she blushed and I guessed their relation immediately, turning to leave, she called out suddenly "W-w-wait! T-thank you for saving m-m-m-me, umm......c-can I, I...I come with y-you?" She asked hopefully with her large blue eyes. Honestly, she was useless. Seeing how she still stuttered terrified even after the threat was eliminated showed her incompetence during important battles, she would only become a burden in the future. Just as I was about to reject her, a voice that was unusually gentle came from behind me "You can." Myrite walked towards the girl as I stared stupefied at her back, helping her up "This is what we can currently do for Jonathan, until he is back, we''ll protect you." She smiled. With my left eyelid twitching in annoyance, I walked away, thinking about how dumb some people could be.