-Break-
Φ Hiding in her corner detach from everyone, Suzuka says whilst freaking out, “SPARROW WAS SO HANDSOME! Looking at his rugged face almost made me faint, if he saw me, I would have died from embarrassment.”
Calming down, I say, “Well, in all honesty, I was embarrassing myself anyways, I have barely been able to talk to any of these people, I mostly have just been following Orb around like a lost puppy.”
Digging my head into my knees, I say, “I can’t do anything right except fight.”
“You are being too kind to yourself.”
Turning my head, I say, “Gozy!”
“The only thing you can do is fight, but when was the last time you fought, You dumb fox!”
“But I fell unconscious.”
“That’s your own fault, it is because you couldn’t deal with the mental strain, and due to that all your friends had to fight alone, and due to that Cyrus's sister died.”
“But.”
“Atalanta lost her arm.”
“I wa-.”
“And Orb fell unconscious. You weren’t even there to help them when they needed you most you idiot, and now you're hiding and being difficult. Why do you even exist!”
As Gozy starts to hit me, I say, “I am so, so, sorry don’t be angry at me,” While a few tears fall from my eyes.
“What the hell are you doing?”
Looking up, I see Iancu staring down at me. “I am just having a chat with Gozy.”
Confused, he asks, “Who?”
Turning my head away, I say, “Gozy is my friend of mind.”
Hitting me on the head, Gozy says, “You see that attitude is why you're all alone imbecilic.”
Covering my head, I say, “Gozy please stop.”
Sighing, Iancu says, “I already knew you were stupid, but I didn’t think you were crazy as well.”
Standing up, I say, “I AM NOT CRAZY!”
“Whatever you say.” Looking back at me with a grin, Iancu says, “Now I am going to go back to talking with everyone, lonely girl.”
Angered I say, “Who cares it is not like I want to talk with those people anyway.”
“Says the girl who was just crying in a corner by herself.”
“I wasn’t crying!”
“Now you’re lying, truly a child. I see why you have no friends.”
“If you're so mature, why are you here talking to me when you could be talking to everyone else?”
Pausing for a moment, Iancu then says, “That’s none of y-your business.”
“Wait a minute.” Reading Iancu’s mind, I get my answer, “You couldn’t start a conversation and decided to look for a place to hide too!!”
“Wha-at no!”
Laughing, I say, “It’s true!!! You act like you're so cool that no one wanted to even approach you loser.”
“I don’t want to be called a loser by a girl whose only friend is in her mind.”
“Gozy is a real friend.”
“Then show it to me right now, you dumb fox.”
“WHY DO YOU KEEP CALLING ME DUMB FOX.”
“Because you are one, it is your name from now on.”
Blushing, I whisper, “I never had a nickname before. Does this make us friends, should I call you dumb bat as well?”
With a face of disgust, Iancu says, “Eww, stop being gross you failure of an existence.”
Beside me Gozy starts to laugh and then says, “Hahaha, that’s what you get. Did you actually think you could make a friend outside of me, you dumb fo-.”
Smashing Gozy into the ground, I wrap my tail around my arm, then say, “Fox art; Bone breakers!!”
-Break-
Φ “Suzuka where did you run off to?”
Hearing a loud bang, I look to my left and notice that Iancu has just flown past me into a wall. Sighing I say, “So it finally happened.”
Turning my head around, I see Suzuka walking towards Iancu with furry in her eyes. Standing in front of her, I say, “Hey Suzuka calm down.”
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“NO! That bat is going to pay, I am finished with pretending like I can’t rip him in two.”
“Suzuka remember violence isn’t the anger.”
“You pick violence all the time.”
“There is a lot of nuance there, like the fact I don’t kill my opponents.”
“Don’t worry, I will only half kill him.”
“I am pretty sure that would still kill him.”
Behind me, I hear, “Orb let her go because I am going to need a clear shot.”
Turning around, I see Iancu putting on a glove, and before I can say anything he activates his legacy.
“IANCU YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!”
“No, I won’t, I am going to put that little fox girl in her place.”
“You see he wants to fight as well; NOW MOVE!” Suzuka says as she throws me away.
Seeing both of them slowly walk up to each other, I look at Avram and scream, “YOUR SON IS ABOUT TO DIE.”
Avram looks at me and nonchalantly says, “Talk shit, get hit. Maybe it will knock some sense into him.”
Slamming my fists against the ground, I say, “Are you serious!!”
This is bad, I can’t stop Suzuka in my current state. Please someone save Iancu from death.
Φ As me and the dumb vampire are about to clash are fists against each other, I am tackled from the side.
Looking down, I see Orb’s Sister Maple hugging me. “Oh, you’re so soft, you're so fluffy.”
Freaking out, I say, “W-Wh-What are you doi-ing?”
Looking directly at me, she says, “You’re so adorable. I didn’t get a good look at your face before but you're so cute. Do you want to be my friend?”
“Eh, why would you want to be my friend?”
Crying Maple says, “NOOOOOOOOOOO! Why won’t you be friends with me!!!!!?”
“S-S-S-Sorry, please don’t cry.”
“So, you will be my friend?”
“O-O-Ok.”
“YIPPEE,” Maple says as she continues to hug me.
Φ Through the arms of Orb’s sister, Suzuka gives me an incredibly smug expression, then says, “Looks like mister lonely is standing there jealous.”
“YOU DUMB FOX.”
Suddenly, I am hugged from the side as Orb says, “Don’t fall to her provocations it leads to certain death.”
“I can take her!”
“No you can’t, and anyway she is lying, because we’re friends.”
Feeling weird I force Orb to let go of me, then say, “Where not friends!”
Trying to hug me again, Orb says, “No need to be shy, I know you love me very deeply.”
“Get the hell away from me. You’re acting like Atalanta.”
Stopping in one place, Orb falls to his knees and then screams, “LIFE ISN'T WORTH LIVING ANYMORE!!”
Dumbfounded, I say, “You really don’t like her that much?”
Φ Smelling something coming from Maple, I run over to her and say, “I am not like Atalanta!!!”
I take Maple's face and look directly into it then say, “Maple are you drunk?”
Burping in my face, she says, “Yep.”
Smashing my fist into the ground, I say, “SPARROW YOU’RE A DEAD MAN. Suzuka I need you to come with me now.”
“Sorry Orb, all the happiness has made my legs give up.”
Iancu tapping me on my shoulder says, “I don’t think you guys even need to move,” Whilst pointing towards a large crowd.
In front of the crowd is Sparrow running towards me screaming, “Orb save me!!”
As he runs towards me, I activate my legacy, and when he gets close enough I punch him directly in the face, “DIEEEEE!”
Taking a deep breath, I say, “That felt good, now can you guys explain to me what’s going on?”
-Break-
As Sparrow cowers behind me, I say, “OK I got the gist of it, but I don’t see Elia anywhere around?”
“She went with others to gather up the rest of these scum.”
“Now Orb get out of the way, so we can punish this lying bastard.”
Sparrow says, “Please save me, I am going to die.”
Grabbing his face, I say, “You really lack any form of shame don’t you, now please tell me one reason why I should do that?”
“Because you’re a nice person who would never allow me to be killed.”
“Well your right, I won’t allow them to kill you.”
“Really?”
“Of course, but you can live without your family jewels.”
Sweating he turns to Maple, then says, “Village chief save me!!!!”
Maple in a drunken stupor says, “Don’t interrupt me, I am cuddling SUZUKA IDIOT!!!”
Putting my hand on his shoulder, I whisper into his ear, “Let’s get started, don’t worry I will be gentle.”
Breaking down in tears, he smashes his face into the ground, then says, “Please don’t hurt me, because if you do what you say my mind will break and I will be of no more help to you.”
“We have had enough of your lies, only death remains.”
Stopping everyone, I say, “Wait a minute; Sparrow finish what you were saying.”
“Part of my plan was to sell you all off using the support of some powerful people. But now I can use those connections for other things. Whenever we decide to start trading, we are going to have to get things like trade permits for different countries which depending on a region can be quite a long process and very expensive, and were running out of supplies quickly.”
Iancu says, “My father has a trade permit.”
Sparrow's face turns to one of fright, whilst I ask, “Really?”
“Yeah, and it is one from Cordum, so it can be used essentially in all the major countries and markets.”
Looking at Sparrow, I say, “Looks like you’re out of use.”
Crawling backwards, he says, “Wait I am sure my connections can be of use in other ways.”
“Any people who were willing to get in on the slave trade aren’t business partners I want to have.”
Sparrow getting up tries to run, but his body is suddenly sent into the ground.
Iancu says, “10 times gravity, you’re not going anywhere.”
The enraged crowd behind me, says, “Now let us beat him down.”
“No, we shouldn’t do that.”
“Why not.”
“Because they still formulated this plan after all the physical torture I put them through, so we are not doing something that won’t work. So, give me some time to think of a way to better shatter them on a spiritual level.”
As I am lost in thought, I hear behind me, “You guys are getting up to some fun I see.”
Turning around I see Oren, but when I see him, I am shocked; the scaring has spread throughout the left side of his body. I thought the medicine we got to help the people from the Basileia mine would work better than this.
Pine says, “Oren get back to bed immediately.”
“Why? I heard Orb had finally returned, I just wanted to say hello.”
Walking up to me Oren pats me on my head, then says, “Don’t worry about this I am feeling much more amazing than I have in years thanks to that medicine you got.”
“But.”
With a smile he says, “I spent years as the village doctor, but I never made medicine this potent. The outside world really is amazing isn’t it!?”
Putting on my best smile, I say, “It is and I will definitely show you a lot more of it.”
“Now that’s enough my dear husband, time to go to bed, and I’ll make sure to spend time next to your bedside, so you won’t be lonely.”
“No, you should stay out here and enjoy the party with everyone else.”
Making a sad face, Pine says, “It is my job to take care of you in such a state, no buts.”
In that moments seeing Oren’s scaring, Pine's sad face and Sparrow's pathetic crawling, an idea hits me.
Grabbing Sparrow, I say, “Don’t worry Pine this scum and his people will take care of Oren instead.”
Looking at me she says, “No.”
“Just listen to me. This scum needs to learn the importance of others and I bilevel by taking on helping Oren and the rest of the people with his same problem will help these guys better themselves.”
Pine says, “I can’t trust him with such a task.”
Oren then says, “I think we should allow it.”
“Why?”
“I invoke the special power I have as a husband and ask that you simply please trust me on this, my gorgeous wonderful wife.”
Sighing, Pine says, “You're lucky I love you.” Turning to face Sparrow she says, “If anything happens to a single person, you will wish we just took your family jewels.”
Like a domesticated animal, Sparrows says, “yes.”
As Pine is giving careful instructions to Sparrow, Oren whispers to me, “It has been rather hard for Pine to see me in this state, so I thank you for allowing her not to.”
“No problem.”