113 Josephs Awakening (2/2)

Slowly… he stood up. Slowly… he made his way out of the truck.

When he thought that he finally made out of that hell, he saw the scene outside. Several dead soldiers were lying around the truck with incomplete bodies.

RATATATATATAT!

The sounds of gunfire continuously echoed across his ears but it looked like he could not even hear the noise anymore.

He watched the scene were the soldiers fought the enemy to death with both parties enraged.

Joseph looked around and saw the body of his dead father who had already been taken out of the truck. Unfortunately, it was just the upper body. It would be hard to distinguish whose lower body was whose after all of that happened. Further away hiding behind a vehicle, he could see two familiar figures. They were the two brave girls he met at the mall. One of them was unconscious however, while profusely bleeding on her back.

He turned his head back to the body of his father and kneeled.

”Dad, you said that I must become strong and survive. I'm sorry for being too weak and hard headed. I'm sure I gave you a lot of hard times since the time Mom died. Thank you for everything. I promise. I will become stronger. I will also live your share. However, I can't do that if I don't get revenge for you now.”

BADUMP! BADUMP! BADUMP!

Joseph could not even realize if he was speaking out loud or said all those in his mind. It was because all that he could hear was his heart beating loudly. He did not realize that his eyes were literally red at the moment. The only thing he could see was his enemy, the creature that killed his only family in this world.

”Kill.”

He muttered. There was a strong bloodlust sprouting from his heart and mind. He did not know where it was coming from but he just let it affect everything in him.

He walked several steps and kneeled down beside a dead soldier's body. He picked up a military knife and took a grenade from the soldier's belt. He did not mind the blood that stained his hands as he took the weapons from the dead soldier's decapitated body. There were other weapons on the soldier's body but as a normal person, he had no knowledge on using these things. At least, he knew how to use this knife and how to pull the pin on the grenade.

BADUMP! BADUMP!

His heart pounded hard continuously as he walked towards the battlefield in a sluggish manner.

”Hey! Where are you going?!”

A soldier hurriedly grasped his shoulders. However, he just shrugged his shoulders and the hand grasping him was thrown away with force. The soldier tried to stop him once more but was suddenly frozen. It was because the soldier saw Joseph looking at him, exuding a huge amount of bloodlust. Joseph then continued walking leaving the frozen soldier in that spot.

The humanoid figure saw him approaching. It immediately shot towards Joseph making the soldiers even more panicked. In their eyes, Joseph was only a civilian and would be another worthless casualty. However, they had no ability to stop the raging grey figure.

The grey humanoid arrived shortly in front of Joseph swinging its blade downwards if a very fast speed.

'Slow…'

Joseph thought as he stared at the blade swinging down towards him. He then stepped his left foot back facing his body sideways. In his eyes right now, the movements of the grey figure were slow.

TING!

A metallic sound echoed after the meter long blade was swung hitting nothing but air and directly landed on the concrete ground. Pulling back the blade that missed, the grey humanoid tried to attack again and swung the blade diagonally upwards.

Then…

Blood splashed…

It was not Joseph's but the grey humanoid's blood. The grey humanoid succeeded in swinging the blade but it missed once more as Joseph had already jumped back. Taking advantage that the inertia from the missed swing that brought the blade upwards, Joseph jumped forwards lunging towards his enemy boring the knife towards the grey humanoid's eyes. He twisted the knife inside the grey humanoid's eye socket before pulling the knife and jumping back immediately.

ROAAAAAA!!!

The grey humanoid roared loudly as it unstably stepped back while wildly swinging the blade on its right arm.

Joseph who had already retreated back pulled the pin of the grenade on threw it straight on the defenseless body of the grey humanoid.

BOOM!!!

The grenade did not land on the ground nor hit the body of the grey humanoid. The grey humanoid was wildly swinging its blade and the blade ended up hitting the grenade slicing it and causing it to explode, right in front of its body.

The explosion stopped the roars of the grey humanoid as its body was severely damaged. Its arm connected to the blade was now dangling with just a few muscle strands left to connect it from its body. Its throat and mouth had melted while its torso had a several holes and a huge scorched wound bleeding profusely. Its legs were also damaged making it kneel on the ground.

”RAAAAAAHH!!!”

Seeing that, Joseph did not give it time to recover. He ran forward roaring and and tackled that grey humanoid down to the ground. He then bore the knife in his hands into the grey humanoid's remaining eye.

The grey humanoid tried to resist but Joseph pulled out the knife and stabbed it as hard as he could at the center of the grey humanoid's forehead stopping its body from moving.

SHIRK! SHIRK! SHIRK! SHIRK! SHIRK!

As it was not enough for him to vent his grievance, he repeatedly pulled and stabbed the knife unto the grey humanoid's head splashing blood and brain matter everywhere. However, he still felt that it was not enough. Joseph's eyes then landed at the blade on the grey humanoid's arm.

Joseph stood up and cut the blade remaining flesh connected to the blade. He then held the end of the blade not minding that his hands got wounded and was now bleeding. He raised the blade up over his head.

SHHIIIRKK!

He decapitated the grey humanoid's body horizontally in half. The same way it killed his father.

However, he did not stop there.

He repeatedly swung the blade cutting off even more parts of the grey humanoid's body. The grey humanoid's internal organs, blood and limbs were scattered on the ground in front of him.

Joseph continued slashing the dead body until he was forcefully stopped by the soldiers who watched the scene with both shock and amazement. The moment Joseph let go of the meter long blade from his hands however, he fell unconscious, burning with an absurdly high fever.