Chapter 59: First kill (2/2)

Barry soon felt his body being dragged deeper into the alleyway, being pulled by the hoodie he had worn to not get recognised immediately by passerby He didn’t knohy the other was doing that, but whatever his reasoning was, it couldn’t be good for hiet out of this situation, Barry looked for anything that round and quickly picked it up Gary was still busy dragging hi, so he was surprised when the other suddenly juround and smashed him in the head with a brick

[-10HP]

[51/100 HP]

[Your skull is partially fractured]

[Congratulations! After repeatedly taking a beating your body has grown stronger Don’t get used to this though, you ht lose some brain cells]

[Endurance +1]

Unsurprisingly, Gary let go of Barry For a moment, he even saw black and by the ti away Following an instinct, he i the distance, he leapt up in the air, landing on Barry’s shoulders, causing hiround and s hiht of his knees, but was too weak and had no energy to try to lift Gary off hi with you? Not only did you torture To stabbed ht and tried to bash ht have to sit on the bench!” Gary shouted at Barry as he had pinned hier cared about ould happen to hi Barry as if his hands were h the other’s school unifor ripped off froh schooler continued to scream in pain

“HELP ME! A monster… he’s a monster!” Barry could only pray that someone would help him, and hear his cries for help

“Did you stop when To like yours, I’ll easily take yours!” Gary thought as he lifted his hand once et off him!” Afro to the police officer, he decided to pull up his hood, and began to run back into the alleyway

Theforward and wanted to chase the culprit, but looking at the state of the person on the ground it was obvious that the high schooler needed an aht away, perhaps by the time they arrived it would be too late

“This is Chief of Police, Anton Milstun, reporting in We have a culprit who has attacked what looks like a high schooler, heading down 163 street alleyway Need an ambulance sent to my location ASAP”

Anton quickly went down to look at the kid’s chest, and could see that the wounds were deep, and the s looked as if they were done by claws It didn’t look like so a normal human would be able to accomplish

That’s when he noticed that the boy wasunder his breath

“It’s okay, conserve your energy The a carefully he could justout from Barry’s mouth

“Was it an Altered?” Anton wondered

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Running through multiple alleyways as fast as he could, Gary was still bleeding out and to y was still incredibly low His Charging Heart had also coh to get away from the policeman

‘Stupid police! Only there when you don’t freaking want theo and stop soe!’ Gary cursed, as he went to lean against a wall and was applying pressure to his wound

“Craaap!” Gary shouted out in pain “What do I do noas going to…I was going to - as I going to do?“

Then it hit him

‘Was I really just about to eat another person to replenish y? If the police didn’t stop ht Not being able to y about to hit 0, there weren’t many options he had left He was far away from home, not even sure where exactly he had run off to

Suddenly he heard the sound of squeaking Squinting his eyes, he could make out the shape of several rats who had scurried over to him Curious as to as in front of them, and then eventually a few of thery” Gary ot within distance, he i and bit down on Gary’s finger

“I…deserve that for what I’uy, but I need to live” Gary apologised

[+10 Energy points gained]