Chapter 104: Incident Of A Certain Flight 3 (2/2)

Rockshaper fell to his knees, shi+vering uncontrollably as he knelt in the presence of this terrible, terrible being This manifestation of death fro like this? I've turned off the life drain and debuffs on my mist There shouldn't be a reason to be this afraid Or maybe I've simply lost what it feels like to be afraid as a simple man," said the entity

All Rockshaper could do was kneel there silently, his face staring down at the dull grey metal floor as sweat poured froue felt heavy, like lead He felt frozen in both terror and acceptance, knowing that no , he was just prey

Was this how it felt to face certain death?

It was such an awful feeling It felt like every single inch of his being was about to be devoured, at the precipice of a ht breeze, he would fall into enornificant little life

How had Minutee? With a smile on his face?

"You kill me, and there's nobody left to pilot the plane!" shouted Computation in sheer desperation "The plane will crash!+"

"Oh, I did not carethis plane in the first place It is Panopticon property, after all I cannot just take it" To end his sentence, the entity thrust his clawed hand out and sliced it straight through Co bluefroh his head

The entity withdrew his claith a gruesome squelch, and Computation fell forwards, his face planted into controls that covered under a veil of his blood

"Hed," said the entity as it stared at the control screens "Lying about the plane crashi+ng with your death - an interesting gambit to save your life But a crash fro me in any case"

The entity moved back from the controls and then stopped as it stared down at Rockshaper's frozen, kneeling body Rockshaper's breath caught in his throat and his eyes widened in terror as he felt the entity's gaze burn into his back

"I alot about you, the way you were so still," said the entity

"Why…," whispered out Rockshaper, barely getting out words through his throat ht with fear

"Hm?"

"Why did you kill us? Why!? When ere all heroes!?" said Rockshaper His words came out freer now, maybe it was because his body had instinctively accepted its death, and thus, was free to say whatever it wanted before its inevitable end

"Why? You say you are a hero as if it , as if it h to spare

Then let me turn that question around on you What is a hero?"

"What…?"

"What is the purpose of a hero? Is it not to hunt variants and save lives?"

Rockshaper looked up at the unblinking red dot loo over him, confused

"But look at you Look at those around you-," The entity motioned with its spiked, clawed arm behind it, at the medley of corpses it was responsible for "You abandoned the lives you were meant to save And you run from the variants you are meant to hunt

Does that not mean you have no more purpose?

And without purpose, why do you deserve to live? What is the point of your less existences?"

The entity raised its clawed hand up, and Rockshaper put his ar that arm raised up, those claws splayed out, he felt a renewed burst of desperation "Please! Please! I-I'll be a proper hero! I'll save as many people as I can! I'll hunt down all the variants! Just-just giveyou want, I can give you!"

"Anything I want, is it?" said the entity as its clawed hand froze in the air

"Anything!" shouted Rockshaper He was crying now, snot drizzling frohtrope of death

"Then I will add you a my experimental subjects Fler'Gan will be pleased"

"H-huh?" Rockshaper looked up in confusion, not understanding, but the entity's hand chopped down at him Yet, the entity did not slash doith its sharp and lethal claws… Instead, the being slammed the flat of its pal the consciousness out of him