48 Black Inside. (1/2)

”Is this what they call 'fate'?”

Contemplating with lazy eyes, Su Min yawned as he grasped at the blitzing blue finger. The flame, fuzzing under his palm, attempted to fight back as it imploded and engulfed his grasp.

Though, Su Min's eyes remained unchanged as that fluttering flame, under his gaze, shivered with a trembling gold. It was as if a glorious might had descended onto Su Min's palm, as strand upon strand of Ancient Energy wrapped around the spitting finger and constricted without mercy.

*SSSS*

Like he had just pinched a candle flame to darkness, the burning blue got gnashed with the barely visible gold that swirled around Su Min's hand. Then, as it dwindled into a trembling spark, the strands around such a hand seemed to bark and then pounce onto the spark.

*Poof*

Resounding with a muffled boom, the blazing finger within Su Min's grasp stuttered then blasted into a poofing cloud of smoke that got blown astray within the wind. Though, it was so minute that nobody even noticed such a small cloud puff out of the grasped finger getting held above the kid's shocked head.

In fact, although this took a while to describe, it happened in a matter of milliseconds. To the audience and to the two on the stage, it was as if Su Min had just grabbed the magma hot finger and snuffed the flame out like it was but a trivial speck.

”?!”

Exclamations rang out like buzzing cries as numerous members in the crowd gasped in shock. They were incredulous due to many things, including how Su Min stopped a move midair; how he destroyed such a move and the basic fact that he even interfered in the first place.

The same group of three, staring with wide eyes at the frightful scene, gaped as the young vibrant man spoke with doubt within it.

”Who is that..? Does he have a death wish by interfering with the match?!”

The lady next to him had trouble speaking as she tried to find words to say, but found that she couldn't understand the thoughts of this cloaked person.

”What's the point in saving a peasant just to anger the Lord's son? Hasn't such a being heard of the infamous rumours?”

However, as the two were feeling confused, the middle-aged man standing behind them gasped and choked on his drumstick with widened eyes.

”Cou~gh -#~ H-he..!”

It took a few seconds for him to collect himself as he found that the two's attention was now drawn to his sweat riddled face. They were about to ask, but he answered for them as he spoke with a tremble.

”He's the one who bypassed the town's barrier earlier by jumping over the goddamn wall!”

”Huh?”

The young man's face changed as he, with a quick glimpse, stared at the robed man, then at the middle-aged man a couple times.

”You sure?! He's that monster? Inform the guards then..!”

The crowd around them seemed to hear the commotion as they listened in, only to hear what the young man said.

”Guards?”