Chapter 286: Free XP? (2/2)
”Is that a shadow ability? Is she…”
*Qrinsh*
All of a sudden, he felt a deep pain strike him in the stomach, looking down only to see a glowing, black and purple katana strike him exactly where the pain resided…
”What the…”
The feeling of burning in his stomach felt surreal… Burning but with no heat or fire… He would have much rather been impaled by 1000 swords than what he was feeling right now as he threw up buckets of blood on the purple grass, dying it red.
His eyes suddenly began to tear up and become blurry as his body slowly kept on getting weak… The reality was only just setting in… He was really about to die… He was about to die and did not know by who or what.
His week legs failed him as he slowly tumbled to the ground, looking at the blue-haired girl run towards him, her expression unclear to him.
”Please! Jayden! Save me!” He put his bloody hands out in desperation as he was forced out of his spirit mode.
That was when some of his pain was relieved as the glowing sword was taken out of his wound, leaving him hurling on the ground, coughing up even more blood.
Using all of his remaining energy, he turned around to see the face of the person who did this to him… And he was very shocked to say the least…
It was undoubtedly the face of death… Or was it a demon? His purple and red gaze struck even more pain into his soul and his cold, almost indifferent expression like he was nothing but an insect made him shudder in fear.
However, when he looked past all of that… He managed to pick up on the face of that same man he called out for, noticing exactly who he was now that he had a closer look at him…
”W-what the hell is this… Moby Kane? Aren't you supposed to be a hero!? What is the meaning of this!? Is this for what I did to you at the reception desk!? I-I promise I didn't mean to! I had no idea it was you and miss Griffith all along! Please! Spare me and let me go!”
Moby did not speak a single word and simply smiled coldly at him as Jayden, Nags, and a nervous Ray joined his side.
through James's perception, they looked nothing but a band of demons sent directly from hell, ready to drag him down along with them simply from the looks in their eyes. He could not believe that he was looking at those same people that fought the shalkers and were praised all over the news...
That was when he finally spoke.
”Hmmmmm… let me think about it… No… I don't think I will spare you! But please don't take it personally! This is all for a worthy cause!”
The fear and shakiness in Jame's eyes multiplied 1000 times over, and tears of blood began to fall down them as his speech became like that of a mixture of a beast and a crying infant.
”W-what… Are you a fake? A traitor? W-what the hell are you gonna do to me!? It doesn't matter what status you have! You can't get away with this! If you kill me now you won't be walking out of here unscathed! If you heal me and leave me be, I'll forget any of this happened okay! I'll even pay you as much as you want!”
”...”
”hmph!”
”You serious? Does it look like I'm gonna spare you?”
Those few words almost shut down all the hope in Jame's heart… He still understood nothing of why he was going to die and he stopped trying to as he tried his last pleads before he finally gave into his fate…
”Please don't kill me… I beg of you… Please don't kill me… I beg of you… Please don't kill me… I beg of you…”
That was when the smile on Moby's face almost burst out into laughter.
”Kill you!? Oh no! Oh no, no, no, no, no! We're not gonna kill you! Why would we ever do that?”
Hope and colour was rekindled in Jame's eyes with a smile on his bloody face.
However… that was when all of his hopes were snuffed away like putting out a match, and what lingered of him was nothing but a faint smoke as he began to cry more and more…
”I won't kill you… I will do much worse… By the time I'm done with you, you would have more than served your purpose and you would have wished you were now dead…”