120 Vol. 2 pt. 57 Patch 10.0: Something Stupid (2/2)
”You'd get along with Olly with how you take rods into your throat,” Fenrir says and manages to get a giggle out of Nell.
While those two enjoy the somewhat comedic situation of Alexander being choked to death by a pole, Alexander tries pushing Fenrir away with his only working arm as he desperately struggles for air.
”Now that is a good expression, Alexa. It's almost good enough to make me want to release you since I feel bad for you always losing, but you hurt Nell's tail, and I really like that tail,” Fenrir mocks Alexander even more. His arms are back to their humanoid forms at this point as he is no longer giving in to his feral instinct, instead relying purely on his human side to cruelly choke Alexander by caving in his throat.
But then something is different.
The look in Alexander's eyes changes as if some other soul is within him now. He is still struggling to survive, but that defiant spirit is gone and replaced by an imitation.
”He quit!” Nell says, trying not to laugh.
Not being able to kill Alexander himself isn't that satisfying, but it's more than made up for by knowing that he ragequit in his final moments.
Fenrir uses all of his strength to give Rod a final push against Alexander's character's neck, caving it in and killing the avatar that was just being controlled by the game's overseer.
He hears fighting still raging on out on the ship's deck, but he finds himself too weak to go and help out. Instead, he leans against the wall and slumps down onto the floor.
”I win, asshole,” Fenrir says.
”The hero always wins at the end of the day, does he not? A story without a victorious hero is not a very good story,” Nell says, crouching down in front of him.
”Surprising words to hear coming from you. I thought you loved tragic stories? The heroes never win those.”
”I may love tragedy, but I want only a happy ending for my own story, my hero.”
Their reunion is interrupted when a man is sent flying through the wall into the room! Going by the fact that he is bent in a way that no human should ever be bent, it is safe to assume that he is dead. But, what killed him?
Both Fenrir and Nell look through the new hole in the wall. Tabitha is standing on the other side of it with a proud smile and her bloodied, oversized hammer resting on her shoulder.
”Ya lovebirds done yet? Oi,” Tabitha says when she looks at Fenrir's face, ”ya ain't goin' to expand your harem if ya look like that. You are alive, right?”
”I can't die until I get to pilot a mecha,” Fenrir tells her.
”Yep, you're alive and the same old captain as ever.”
Behind Tabitha is Bonekraka brutally swinging his axes into a terrified, helpless man. The axes are not powerful enough to cut through the man's armor, and they break more with every swing, but it doesn't stop Bonekraka from violently shouting in the man's face while trying to slash through his armor.
Then there's Cassiel. She looks injured and bloodied, making Fenrir want to stand up and go kill whoever did that to her, but he sees who did it to her impaled onto the ship's mast by her sword. She's already healing herself, but when she sees Fenrir, she comes over to heal him.
”Sorry, my face got messed up,” Fenrir says.
”Just don't let this happen to your real one. I like that one better, you bastard,” Cassiel replies.
”Come on, calling me a bastard while I'm almost dead here? I got a long pointy thing stabbed through me again. Only you're supposed to do that to me.”
Cassiel stops healing him to heal Nell instead.