I looked at Howell who was in his arms. Tesha was right beside me, with a worried expression on her face. “Will he be okay?” Tesha asked. I just smirked. “He’ll be alright,” I told Tesha. Tesha held visible confusion on her face, most likely due to my smirk. If anything I should have been worried but instead I was smiling. And to make my sister even more disturbed my smirk slowly turned into a sadist’s smile. The hidden part of me which had stayed hidden for the longest time now, had surfaced. At that moment I realised what was happening. I slapped myself. Then I snapped out of that feeling of trance. “Hey brother, you okay?” Tesha asked me. I answered her with silence. Now I was worried about Howell. Why? Why did it have to come about now? When I had just received this amazing power?

My sister just continued about her day as if nothing much had happened. When we got back to the hotel I started scolding my sister. “WHY DID YOU GO OUT BY YOURSELF?”. “Well, I was trying to get levels,” my sister replied. I hit my hand against my forehead to show my disapproval. “Next time, call me too. I’ve already lost my mother. I can’t lose you too” I said, putting emphasis on the ‘ can’t ’. I just sat on our bed for the next few minutes trying to calm down after the two issues. If there was one thing I was good at, it was sitting down and reflecting on my current situation. So first of all that thing surfaces. What the fuck should I do about that? Well at the very least we had enough money for the next couple of days from the goblin hunt.

I then heard a knock on our room door. I opened the peephole and saw a man with spiky long yellow hair, finely dressed in a grey suit. He was wearing a red tie. I opened the door. “WHAT do you want?”. The man in the suit spoke, “Hi. My name is Glenn and I am from the famous guild known as ‘Osseous’ Bone’. We would like to recruit you in-”. “Sorry. Not interested. Also that name is dumb. Osseous means boney. So you're saying your guild’s name is Boney Bone? Fuck off” I said whilst slamming the door. A knock came on the door again. I opened it and then the man Glenn said “Are you sure that you want to do th-”. I slammed the door on his face again. This time I heard footsteps leave my door.

When I looked through the peephole again I saw that Glenn was still there. Then Glenn held his finger up to the peep hole and then bashed his finger through it causing it to hit my left eye. That was it. The turning point. “Let’s take this outside shall we?” I told Glenn. “How about… No?” he said before punching the door into my face. “That’s for earlier,” he said. The door pushed me back as I started conjuring some plastic up. “I shouldn’t get near that now should I?” said Glenn. As soon as he finished uttering those words he just disappeared. I looked around before sensing the air just behind me had changed. Then I saw his blonde hair behind me. “Shit” I managed to say before being punched. The punch sent me through eight of the rooms in the direction of our room door.

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The next thing I knew was the man was behind me again. He then shoulder bashed me downwards. I hit the road and coughed up blood. It was getting hard for me to breather. It almost felt as if my ribs had bent inwards into my lungs. I tried using causality warping to regenerate my health but then Glenn was in front of me. “Join us. You can become as strong as me. Who knows, maybe even stronger,” he said in a kind and compassionate voice, his hand held out. “No. N-O. That’s my answer and it’s final” I said. At last the regeneration kicked in and I felt some relief in my back. Then Glenn said “You have a strong will. I respect that. And that’s why we will have you. Whether you like it or not,”. Then I just snapped. I was behind Glenn and was giving him reverse treatment. I kept on attacking until I realised I was in public. “Double shit” I said.

People started staring at me with an absurd amount of enmity. Why was I getting enmity when he had started it? Of course. Those stupid people wouldn’t know that. Shit. I tried to use causality control to make them forget the incident. Then a popup appeared. “Not enough mana,” It said. I tried getting more mana with causality warping but then the pop up appeared again “Not enough mana”. I kept on trying but nothing worked. Shit. They knew Glenn better than me. I mean who would you support? A person you knew or a person you didn’t know?

The people started crowding around me as I was on the ground. "I can’t use plastic manipulation now. If not they would be aware of my identity” was what I thought. But it didn’t matter. My vision turned black. And when it returned I couldn’t believe my eyes. Blood. Blood everywhere. All those citizens, dead. Had the second mass dungeon break appeared? Had I slept through it? No. That clearly wasn’t the answer as I saw multiple policemen surround me. And behind them I saw Howell. He asked me “How could you do this Dom?”. Further behind Dom I saw my sister being handcuffed. What the hell was happening? “Howell what do you mean?” I asked. Multiple police men readied up their guns ready to fire at any moment. Howell then replied “What do you mean ‘What do you mean?’. Look around you. All this carnage… Was done by you,” Howell said whilst pointing at me.