69 Farewell (1/2)
The strong shockwaves of the explosion caused Tianfei's hair to flutter in the air. However her eyes were unwavering as she looked straight into the light. A ball of flesh fell to the ground slowly reforming once again.
”Did you....just!”
Tianfei stared at the pitiful corpse slowly reforming it's body. Blood spiraled around closing up any wounds. Xin Fan could see a stone tablet lodged inside one of the wounds before blood filled it back up. The corpse stared up at the girl looking down upon him.
”This tablet...is it a formation?”
Tianfei kept a silent yet sad expression as she watched all the wounds close up. As the skin started to rejoin...
*BOOM*
Fragments of flesh blasted everywhere and the cycle continued. A couple dozen corpses on the ground would be consumed every time Old Bones recovered. He tried everything. He tried to reach for his gun but his body would detonate.
”There is no point...I made it so it would absorb all the air it could around it. When it couldn't any more, it would explode. You recover, there is no air, it explodes.”
Slowly bit by bit, the horde of corpses slowly disappeared, leaving Old Bones back to his old skeleton self.
*Crack*
A tablet dropped out from his rib cage shattering upon contact with the ground. The wind picked up and it became particles of dust to be blown away in the wind. The skeleton collapsed onto the ground as if he had given up.
”Well...you win...I guess...”
The rifle in his hand returned back to it's plain steel form and simply laid on the ground. At this point he looked lifeless, almost as if he was a real skeleton.
”I have only one question...Why...?”
The skeleton looked up at the girl's eyes with his empty eye sockets. He slightly tilted it as he response in a straight forwards manner.
”As I said before, The abyss tells me to and so I do.”
Old Bones pointed at the blue and red stars that are now once again scattered in the sky.
”As you can probably tell, those are not real stars. That is what the ab....kggg...looks like I cannot say anymore. Hey, whats with the long face...At least I still have self awareness.”
Old Bones lifted up an arm only for it's joints to disassemble. There was no going back. Those bones are not going to reconnect.
”Well, It would heal up...”
Old Bones stared at his missing arm and tried to grab it with his other arm only for that to disconnect as well. As he said so, Tianfei twitched for a moment. Old Bones stared at the violently shifting stars in the sky. He seemed to be in a state of glee and laughed as flashes of blue and red illuminated the sky.
”Looks like this is the end of me...”
The ribs on Old Bones started to loosen. One by one, they started to fall apart landing on the ground with a thud. The disks in his spines also are starting to slip by this point.
”Why the long face Glutton? You did this to me.”
”Yeah...I know...I'm sorry.”
The skull shifted slightly almost as if making a frown.
”Sorry...Sorry...Sorry...Stop saying 'sorry'. Stand up would you. You are like how old? 5? There is a world out there that you don't even know about. When you get to my age...I mean when you get to my age before I died, You would have things you wish 'sorry' solved.”
”I'm so...”
Tianfei bit her lips before anymore words would come out. The Skeleton on the ground was no more than simply a skull, one that is laughing gleefully back at her.
”Do you want to know what the best feeling is?”