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Cold Havoc: Carl, the Destroyer
Chapter 5: Mind break

Chapter 5: Mind break

His head began turning slowly, he can't move or do anything as if something was in control of his body.

The trembling stopped when he met a pair of eyes filled with shock.

Blood pooled from where the decapitated head laid. At that moment the boy's mind went blank.

He ran towards her, the person he had commited to protecting with his life. His shaking knees made him stumble a few times. Finally arriving at the lifeless corpse of the girl he let out an unintelligent cry.

"AAAAAAHHH!!"

"My, what do we have here?"

The familiar soft voice from earlier now sounded like the devil's laughter to his ears.

He turned towards Carl and shouted.

"WAHT N YU DO!?!"

The boy hugged the still warm body of the girl closer to him. he glared at Carl with teary eyes.

"What i did, you ask? But i haven't done anything at all. Isn't it all you making a move?"

The boy briefly recalled his actions. He unsheated his blade and unhesitatingly try to take the life of the man in front of him. But instead it was Irra whom was beheaded.

The boy sat lifelessly, staring at the head of the beautiful girl that he is used to seeing since the day he was born.

"Such a pity sight."

At those words his heart thorned and was filled with hatred. He regained a little bit of sanity and charged at Carl with his sword.

Carl didn't try to dodge or block, instead he opened his arms and took the blade.

The slash connected and blood spurted like a fountain in front of the boy's vision.

"U, uu–ugh.. "

Carl's figure shrunk and transformed into the shocked face of the girl who was supposed to be dead.

The boy's vision quaked as he screamed in frustration.

"A, AAHHHHH!!"

He stepped forward to try and catch the falling body of the girl.

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"–san."

"Ni– "

"Nii-san wake up!"

His body jolted awake and the face most familiar with him entered his eyes.

"Irra."

He tried to hug the girl in front of him but his brain screamed in pain. Cold sweat poured down his back with his eyes quivering and unfocused.

"Nii-san are you okay?"

Irra looked at him worriedly. The sound of someone gasping for air deemed audible in the silent atmosphere. Finally the boy's vision readjusted and he can see clearly now.

"Irra, what happened?"

"Ah! Nii-san you suddenly lost consciousness after bringing me to the walls. I got so worried, Hup– !"

Before Irra could finish her words, she was embraced tightly. The arms and head that's on her seems shaking so she frowned in dissatisfaction.

"Nii-san! You should tell me if something is wrong. Really, how would i help you in any case?"

Irra grumbled but she let her 'Nii-san' embrace him more.

"I, i thought you were gone. I, i dreamt of a m, man– a d-demon. He made me kill you, y, you died by my own hands... "

The last bit of his words sounded faint to Irra but he heard the part about him dreaming of a man.

"Ah! Nii-san did you mean him?"

Irra pointed to a direction. She smiled energetically when she waved at the 'man'.

Irra seems to be a good mood. But the boy, was strucked with fear.

The smiling face of the man looks the same as his dream.

He immediately stood up and went in front of Irra, to protect her.

"You! What did you do to me?"

Carl's face had a 'I'm innocent' written on it. he stared blankly at the boy that's glaring at him with hostility tinted in terror.

"Nii-san what are you doing?

The boy reached for his weapon in it's scabbard. He barely lifted the sword before slipping off from the massive trembling of his fingers.

Carl watched this scene with a peaceful expression. But contrary to the outside. His inner self is in turmoil.

'Crap i didn't know that the 'price' the succubus queen demands is a nightmare from a person'

When Carl used his healing magic on the girl he saw some disturbing things in her mind that his power cannot erase.

So for the sake of her recovery, Carl decided to ask for the experts on dreams, the creatures 'succubus' he made for help. The only mistake he did is that he didn't specify who to call and just connected himself to the demon realm.

He didn't know what transpired inside the nightmare but it seems like himself is a bad one in the boy's eyes.

'If only i can use dream magic i won't need the goddamn help of this noisy bitch'

"Oh my, but didn't i save father from being beheaded? Didn't you see that foolish boy's delusions on killing you?"

'You know he can't hurt me yet you still went and did unnecessary actions.'

'Did i make father angry? Oh my, i'm so soorry.. Next time you should have– '

'Shut up, Succubus queen Harloys.'

The dark and deep tone that seems to revebrate from the abyss made the Succubus queen Harloys feign docility.

'Yes, master'

The voice of the Chaos god that Carl used has the effect of complete submission from any being that sides with Chaos. Monsters or Demons.

'Go back to your realm. remember next time not to heed my call and send somebody else to me.'

Harloy's figure bowing, briefly appeared in Carl's vision before disappearing in a blur.

"Nii-san what is happening with you?"

His brother isn't listening to him, instead his eyes are affixed on Carl.

"Irra.. "

"Huh, what?"

"Run. Run as faraway as you can."

"What!?"

Irra raised her voice in confusion by the words of her brother.

"What are you saying? Why will i run when Ni– "

"Irra, that isn't someone we can defeat."

'Now he's just spouting nonsense'

Irra turned to the man who had saved and healed her. He leisurely nodded and smiled at the two.

"Nii-san come on! Get a grip of yourself! Can't you see you're being rude to the guy who helped us?"

His brother twitched at the word help.

"H, help? You said help... "

"You will die and i can't do anything... I can't help.. "

Slap!

The loud sound of her palm hitting flesh made the birds and critters startled by the broken silence.

"Nii-san... Why are you like this? I have never seen you act like this for the past years we've been together. Please do not make me embarass myself more than necessary."

Those words poured down the boy like cold water because his mind is now crystal clear by the light shock from the slap.

"Irra, I.. "

He turned towards the man whom embedded him with a deep fear. He never felt fear like this before, his instincts are screaming for him to run, but the duty of being a brother strongly stomps that desire.

"Sorry, Irra."

Irra's eyes sparkled by the light of sanity returning to his brother's eyes. He stood up and trotted towards Carl.

"Excuse me sir Carl."

The boy almost instinctively ran to grab her sister but he resisted the impulse, he might only get hated more at this point.

"Yes?"

Replied Carl while combing his fingers through his blonde hair.

"Would you like to come together going in the city?"

Carl stood up casually.

"Of course."

Irra turned to go back to his brother when Carl asked.

"By the way what's the name of your brother?"

Irra rotated to face Carl again and cheerfully spoke.

"Ah! I forgot to tell you. His name is Artur."