The Zombie Tournament

Act 41 : Truth be Told

”No! He’s our friend, don’t kill him!”

A bellowed scream from one familiar voice abruptly arrived to Zeno Gunnar’s ear. Of the young knight’s point of view, the softened tone of her warning brought him to the picture of their latest objective to encounter. Kamara has never told of any distant affiliation in the game for the group’s full perception on what needs to be done. Of course, Queen Aldana the fourth is one of the only information that their tactician could gather.

So, this is the suitable period to ask, hence the young knight’s attention to the order implied,”Could you elaborate with it? Why don’t we kill him on the spot?” Zeno Gunnar asked, slightly put a bold tone of voice to instill intimidation on her cause. In regards to his coercion strategy, the order-maker goes inaudible for awhile.

“Come on, state your reason, Kamara. I’ll execute him right away in three seconds.” another row of pressure beckoned. Zeno Gunnar stays bland in expression, for he was keen to know Kamara’s history as a contestant of the game,”We don’t have much time to wait on your selfish desire. Tell us something that you haven’t, and his life will be spared.” He continued.

“He’s one of the ‘Ronin’. They’re the deserters from Shina.” Kamara’s voice goes a little bit shrunken by the continuous volley of the young knight’s fear-mongering intimidation. Zeno Gunnar hold on tight, waiting for further description on the particular gang’s motives and plans. However, it seemed Kamara has stated everything from her side by the minutes of silence afterwards.

The young knight fell disheartened for Kamara’s reluctance to follow suit, but she was indeed given a good point for him to refute on killing. Zeno Gunnar sheathed either sword on his palms and issued a withdraw by a circle from his right hand,”We’ll have to go, then. Leave him be.” He ordered.

“No, you have to bring him here, or else someone else will do it!”

Kamara’s voice was erupted once again, now under the tone of concern. There are no other methodology to gain her full-fledged information than for them to comply with it. They required Kamara’s entire support by doing her request, that is for sure, therefore Zeno Gunnar’s hand sign to Tanya Rushdi for an immediate lift-up by using Rio the fist-fighter’s strength.

Lucky for them, the beast’s shattered limbs has been re-connected to their expected joints. Head to the neck, arms on the left and right, and his bottom to the middle lane of the fist-fighter zombie’s waist.

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(kriek)

Tonado’s infiltration party has arrived to the housing quadrant of Ofta. They gathered at Frank Terino’s house that was built around the edge of Ofta’s three regions. In this particular area, they could perceive Minopia’s outer-layer fortitude and engaged with the city’s mere chain-link fence before Frank Terino’s front yard. To the next row of their neighbor’s yard, all of their sets looked in somewhat similar manner to Frank Terino’s domain. They have the same form of vacant pond upon the front-side, with two flamingo statues that stood apart to each other’s place by the pond’s edge.

“Home sweet home, baby!” Frank Terino roared,”Welcome to my nest, fellas. Hope you all love my crib.”

Tanya Rushdi springs in delight to the empty bed immediately, plunged her own head to the fluff. She felt exhausted after the first reconnaisance mission and goes lavished around the bed’s comfort. Being the sole woman of their current group stirred her to many points of errands that was specified to woman’s specialties and skills. Of course, there is one other woman in their 12-person group, but she was currently in custody of Juno Rumondor’s team to storm her target back at Gastamo.

(drop)

Zeno Gunnar carefully leaned the stranger’s unconscious figure on the sofa of Frank Terino’s living room. Kamara watched his straddle of movements with a suspicious look around the face. She was afraid of the young knight’s stern expression as he dropped the man’s body to align with the sofa’s contour, being feared because of her blatant request within the hunt mission’s progress. By the vision from their wristwatch’s link, that the young knight specifically provided for the young girl’s amusement, she saw everything unfolded before her eyes.

And then, Zeno Gunnar laid a glare to Kamara’s direction,”Any thoughts on your proposal, perhaps? You’re not really cleared up those ‘Ronin’ of yours.” He blurted. The young knight’s eyes stared blank into her heart and piercing the truth directly to the bone. Kamara stays shut for a moment, seemingly stoic against Zeno Gunnar’s cold stare, but eventually bursted into whimper by the considerable pressure from the man.

“I’m sorry for betraying your trust, Zeno Gunnar. I am indebted so much to your act.” She muttered under the sniveling breath. Her advance to talk stopped for some time to wipe off tears, laying down the snort on top of tissue from the table, before then proceed to talk again.

“To tell you the truth, I am a contestant from ‘Ronin’. We’ve disbanded from the A team of Shina’s group to create our own.” She explained, decorated every word with sincerity as Kamara locked her gaze to the man,”My mother gotten mad because of it and fabricated the entire ‘a*******n’ thingy to pretend that it wasn’t my willingness from the start.”

Indeed, such twisted information brought every man to yield an open mouth against the fact. There are no certainty beneath those knowledge she muttered. Yet, it could also be considered as an actual truth to the mind-bending circumstances that they have been into at the moment. Neither of Queen Aldana’s information nor Kamara’s new input would be precise to believe.

Frank Terino abruptly raised his hand to the current information that he has listened to,”Mind to talk a bit further? I’m totally lost with your ideas. How come you’ve been fiddled your finger with those deserters?”

As far as many have concerned, Frank Terino’s query hits the blunt. Nobody would be in trouble if there’s no place to burn. There is one clue, yet more of those in need to be verified soon after by the person involved.

Kamara fidgeted her fingers steadily to the rhyme of jazz music from Frank Terino’s radio. She carefully filled out every holes that was uttered beforehand. The young brunette laid the interest to the house’s ceiling, even, for her to find a better word to the full picture of the issue,“Okay, it might be insane to you all, but I don’t really close with my mother as everyone had stated.” She answered in brief,”That queen is a tyrant and a monster in political means.”

“And you’re being a defiant for how long, Kamara?” Zeno Gunnar tailed it with another query. Against his question, Kamara planted two fingers up front.

“It was started two years ago. I have decided to abandon my objective on the second round and being eliminated afterwards. My mother was infuriated with the result, truly, but I have gone somewhere far from home.”

Kamara’s revelation made the living room goes slightly out of life. No way for them to be certain of such nonsense, but her solid gaze has proven a robust dedication to disclose a rough secret of Frandemulo. She was stranded for two years, out in the wilderness, looking at nothing but a victory to take home. Her mother has a clash of mind in the past, yet she never yielded to the queen’s cause and push forward.

For another absolute state of conviction, Zeno Gunnar pointed on another query once more,“Okay, if it’s true, then who’s this man real identity?” He directed their glance to the skinny black-haired male on the side. The young blood was sleeping on the couch peacefully. His burly arms was holding around the pillow and dozing off upon it to feel unaware of everything that happened. Two instances of bruise appeared upon the man’s forehead, might be the evident cause of his blacked out state. Indeed, one of the most authentic ones in plain sight is the man’s wardrobe. Instead of putting an armor like everyone does, He wears a long-sleeves blue garb for sole protection to the game.

“That’s our weakest crewmates of the team. Everyone called him as ‘mute’ because he was rarely speak in direct battle against someone from the other group at the time.” Kamara stated,”For that garb, he’s a fire magician from Animea Kingdom abroad. It’s quite impenetrable, but his head is prone on contact, so you can see why that man is down at this moment.”

Animea Kingdom is the bread and crust of magician world in this universe. They were mostly renowned for magical properties that instilled within as the most sought of power to maintain. Their country is resided to the far-south of Numonia before the country itself had crumbled. King Burdoin has no ill-feelings towards them, but still layered a ton of anxiety against their advanced mystical powers anyhow.

“So, where’s your home, then? If you have none, where would you go?” Sounded Tanya Rushdi, being worried of Kamara’s awful situation,”You must be having it far from here.”

“Yes and no, actually. I’m living pretty distant from Frandemulo, which is a yes, but Ofta has been my home ever since.” Kamara nodded in acceptance.

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In their discussion, everything was set to the Ronin’s headquarters at Ofta. The unknown figure from Tonado’s latest battle handed down his medal for Damon as soon as he awakened. He was defeated in the most gruesome manner, instantaneously overtaken by the breeze of blitz attack from Tanya Rushdi’s fist-fighter zombie and fell unconscious afterwards. Verily, their leader has promised on keeping her secret, in exchange of Kamara’s trade-off and a small necklace to carry onwards.

(Tap-tap-tap)

“So, we’re heading back to Frandemulo, Zeno?” Frank Terino asked along the way to the north,”You’re not worried of a persona non grata title from her?”

Their recurring leader nodded,”I had estimation that she would never be pleased regardless, so having her death token might be something worthwhile to try.” He answered, displaying her personal necklace to show his adamant thoughts,”Look, it does even have a scratch on them. Queen Aldana will believe any crap we said.”

“So, let’s grab that twenty thousand and do something for a tweak!”