Assault Game!

Felling the Villain— And Karen

“I thought you died!”

“En, I thought so myself. And I feel glad, to be alive” I say to Alexia before she fainted.

“Hello again, motherfucker” I say to Julius.

“So your hand was a ruse?”

“Along with other things. It was true though, I lost my hand. And it wasn't part of the plan.

Editing some parts of the plan when it goes haywire, is the true feature of a Strategist.”

“What is the plan though?” Julius asked interestingly.

“You are. To, Kill, Julius”

We look at each other, and a sadistic smile appeared on both our faces.

I kicked his legs to pull him down, but even when he was at his lowest, he was like a truck.

Instead, I had to use my body to topple him.

“Julius die!” I furiously slam my head against his. I start bleeding instantly, and my vision blurred for a while.

But Julius, he bleeds too.

He yells, and the type of repulsive force Alexia used picked me up my feet. But not too far. I stop seven feet away from him.

Julius grinned sheepishly, “You must really want to kill me huh?”

“You don't know how much I do”

We crash together again, and this time, I already have my military knife on my only hand. I swipe while Julius steps side.

He blows me on my abdomen and a feel the urge to vomit. Yet, I couldn't lose now. I force my hazy vision back to focus and catch his fist coming for my chest. I make a roundhouse kick that snapped his neck to the side.

He responded by thrusting his other hand to my abdomen again before head butting me to one side.

“Again!”

“You will fail”

“Again!!”

I jump at him now. I kick out successively as I fly out, but he accurately blocks my legs with his hands.

I returned to blocking as he whipped his leg to my face. My dagger fell off my hand.

Because I had only one hand, it was difficult to fight as I use to. Finding balance was difficult, and defending blows like before was impossible.

so I chose to fully operate on the attack.

I shout and kick low at his knees. He skips back on one leg, but I get the other leg.

With this he buckles. I rolled towards him, in the process, I grab my knife.

“You were an impossible opponent.” I almost swipe my blade across his throat.

Almost...

/TWANG/

Karen had been missing since. I did not forget her, but I surmised that she had run off, or was injured somewhere.

This was my recent most foolish mistake. How could I think that way?

What reason would make me forget such an important threat?

Especially one that had a long-range weapon and could strike while hiding from the dark.

‘Fook!’

I clutch my chest where the arrow was embedded on my left side... It hit my heart, did it not?

‘Am going to die now. For real! ’

“As if! ARGH!”

‘Move your body. Any part! Move!! ’

Julius was hard on his last leg. If anything, just a punch from a boxer would give him a life K.O

I just had to move.

I stumble backward, The knife slips from my hand, It was dyed with blood, showing that I had cut Julius' neck a bit.

‘Why did you move back? You stupid. Stupid body! Though it doesn't make any sense in the end, even if I killed him, I would still die’

It was poison. Karen coated the arrow with some kind of paralysis toxin, or something.

“Arara? I was this close. Maybe, in the end, the turtle would always win the race.” I smirk as my vision gets blurry.

”It's Amazonian, not Turtle, Mr. Xavier.

You were truly magnificent on the battlefield, flowing with valor, and glamour.

I almost lost myself watching you slay the ‘Evil god’. A pity, truly a pity.”

Was it the capillaries in my eyeballs that burst or I was bleeding from the top of my head.

Red washed over my eyes slowing. I tried to clean the blood off, but I couldn't even lift a finger.

“Let me kill him”

“Ha! There's the saying of kicking someone when he's already down. Not much of it there at all!”

“Do you think you're in any condition to bark an order to me? You're barely awake”

Karen was talking now, but she wasn't talking to me. It was Julius!

Except filled with fury, or someone cursed his Mum, I couldn't think of any reason that'll make him push his body to kill me, instead of thinking of a plan to escape. Though there isn't any way now.

“I need to kill him. You can do whatever you want with me later.”

“Gross. You are a psycho. Why do you want him dead so badly?”

“He cursed my Mum”

Karen, “Oh!”

Me, “Oh!”

Fook my mouth!

Julius was serious! I didn't think he would be infuriated with what I said like an hour ago. The immortal feel he gave off twisted to one of disgust in my eyes.

He struggled to stand on his feet and succeeded after failing twice. His legs wobbled like a child learning to walk. Again I curse my stupidity for letting such I chance to go to waste.

“I won you fair and square. What you are taking, is a loser's reward!” I mouthed at him.

Julius didn't seem to care though. His eyes turned to me maniacally.

His back was towards Karen, while his disgusting eyes stared at me.

But somehow, then... I felt a sinking feeling grow in my chest. Something was not right. I couldn't wrap my finger around it.

‘I don't care anyway. The world may burn if am not in it.’

Julius finally stood beside my paralyzed body, his smile, was so contagious, so exciting, so liberating.

How can a person about to die, walk with that evil grin?

“Julius Kincaid?” Why did I ask that?

He, in reply, crouched down to make his head level to mine... “Do you miss me?”

Then he punctured my eye with his finger.

“AHHH!!” I cry because of the pain, and because I finally knew what Julius was planning, and I was powerless to stop him, ( He was going to absorb my energy to use fuel his abilities. And effortlessly kill Karen ) and because this world was as f****d up like the real world.

Why was it always like this? Nothing happens just because you work hard, or because you try.

You don't get any friends,

You are still bullied.

Your father still think you're some lame mule that can't keep up with his expectation?

You don't get A's

You don't enter college...

But you tried. You f*****g tried!

I tried! I freaking Fooking tried.

But yet.

In all of these, put your 100%, and more, and a lot more...

Plus Extra!

‘I can still try!’

“AARGH!”

I feel pressure growing on my chest. Along with it came the heat. It was like I was suffocating, and I could only be better if I let it out.

And I did. I just tried hard.

It was then that it clicked on me, there was a part of my ability I forgot about.

A black body is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. A black body also emits black-body radiation.

This was Wiki's meaning I got some years ago. But if my ability followed the same principle, then the scenario that happened now would make perfect sense.

Or else I don't know how I could describe such a disaster.

—

Alexia’s Energy during our brief fight

+

Ciel’s Energy when we fought.

+ Yuuri and Elaine

Then + Julius’

.

I had been bombarded with their abilities in one way or the other. And each Ability is required every to perform and to hit.

So for each ability, I was shaving all of the energy behind it.

——

Now imagine this all blowing out.

You get it right? Super!

“AHH”

/KABOOOM!/

It was like Little Boy [1] dropped on us, only thousands of times smaller. And the fission started from my chest...

.

Before the Quake rocked the place, the sudden gust of energy directly peeled off Julius' skin, along with muscles and bones.

Karen was far off, but it managed to knock her to one side.

I didn't know about the others. If they weren't died before now, then might have been now.

“Let there be light” I giggle to myself before spitting out a spray of blood.

I did it, and maybe finally, I'd get what I wanted. What the plan was all for.

“*Coughs* Coughs*”

Someone was still alive. And there was more than one!

Maybe the paralysis had a time limit because it wore off after I released the energy in me.

Or did the energy cumulate in the one I discharged?

I stand, then check my surroundings. My shiny eyes caught up to someone. My shiny face turned sour.

“You're still alive. Amazonian?”

“Curse you! Do you not feel anything? Your plan killed your comrades! You killed your friends!!”

.

I walk to her softly. Thank the gods my dagger was in might under some rubble.

“Don't misunderstand. There are no friends in hell. We all are, pawns? Knights, Bishops... And kings on the hands of the playmaker.

He sets us up, and we, fight.”

She was scared. She was finally scared!

Karen struggled to get to her feet and run away. But before she could move her battered body, I had already reached for her... With the dagger on my hand.

This time I did accurately slit her throat. Or to be precise, I wasn't stopped halfway.

She let out a last gasp and some throaty gurgle, while I stared at her in anger.

“I very much hate when I'm killed. You pulled the trigger twice.

Of course, I can't let you live”

I turn my face to the cloudy sky. Was it going to rain?

It did rain immediately after. I bathe under the cold chilling droplets.

Unaware everything I had done did not escape the eyes of another. Far from where my eyes could see, one of the bodies shivered with fright.