Negative skill energy, I remember her mentioning that before.

It's not like I've completely forgotten to ask about it, I just didn't bother when she refused to answer more of Vacinay's questions.

But based on context clues, it seems like it possibly negatively impacts the use of skills.

Yamanda eyes her down. “Then I will just cut you down where you stand.”

Tanya asks, “How though?”

“The hell you mean, ‘how’?!”

“Even with your teleportation, you couldn’t really touch me. So… how will you achieve it now? Oh oh! I know what you are going to do, but nope!”

Yamanda's gaze hardens on Tanya, who is flying around at extreme speeds. However, she is keeping close to Hessien.

She waves as she says, “I am not going to let you teleport me around. Although… Since I am composed of pure skill energy, pure negative skill energy, I wouldn’t be damaged from it. Or maybe you were going to try a far more violent version of teleportation?”

This is going to escalate again!

I shoot a look at Hessien, who notices my gaze.

He loudly whispers, “Don’t worry. I am pretty sure Tanya would be okay.”

Oh wow, nice. You really think I care about the creature that tried to kill me, well-being? But whatever, we need her alive to keep the president in check, so technically I do.

Yamanda is about to do something, but I suddenly have an idea.

I shout, “Wait!”

Yamanda looks at me quickly before turning back to Tanya.

She asks, “What is it?”

"I'm sure you people have always had a hard time dealing with Tanya and her kind…"

Vacinay snickers. “Now she sounds like her racist mother.”

“I didn’t mean it like that!” I shout at her before turning back towards Yamanda. “Anyway, what I want to say is that Tanya is...”

Tanya wonders. “Different? Changed?”

I look at her, wondering why she is sabotaging this for us. We aren’t in Naruto. No amount of change is going to change the impact she has on these people.

I ignore her and proceed to say, “She isn't bound to Hessien by choice.”

As soon as I say that, I glare at Tanya, hoping and praying she wouldn’t be like, ‘actually!’

She smiles at me.

I continue, “The President is responsible for her being free and bound to Hessien. Since he thought we weren’t reliable—he wanted to take control of us using her.”

Yamanda looks at me as if I am a child missing half their brain. “Do I appear that stupid to fall for something so nonsensical?

Actually, yes.

Ghomas nods heavily. “Yeah, but you are hot, so it’s okay.”

Without looking at him, she swings her sword in his direction, causing a massive white arc to disseminate the ground near him.

“Insinuate I am stupid again, I dare you.”

What the…

She is almost completely different… Blood-lusted Yamanda is something else.

Ghomas's entire body trembles as he gawks at the burned ground which she has just blasted.

My heart is hammering against my chest. It almost seems like it wants to break my rib cage.

I swallow my nervousness and say, “It is true! That dude has skills that relate to contracts. I am sure he had some sort of contract set up to take control over Tanya once she had possessed us!”

Yamanda glares at me. “Lying on the President’s name can lead to capital punishment.”

My eyes twitch. Getting constantly threatened is really starting to eat away at my damn ego.

‘LyInG On ThE PrEsIDEnt NAmE CaN LeAd TO cApItAl pUnishMeNT’ Why don’t you suck a dick and die?!

I think I am a lot more pissed because I am telling the truth. And she isn’t simply treating what I am saying as a lie, but she's acting like I am some sort of dumb fuck.

Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

Your damn president tried to set us up, but failed, yet, you want to be angry at me?

“Then why don’t you kill me?” I ask. “Kill us all here right now so that your planet can get overrun by the mutants.”

She keeps her eyes gaze on me for a couple of seconds before turning back towards Tanya, who is floating above the ground without a care in the world.

“I think… I will just get the president's confirmation,” she says before suddenly disappearing.

Oh.

Hm.

Man, my day is so ruined… I couldn't even digest my food before this shit happened.

I am so pissed.

It doesn’t take three seconds for her to return but with the president. I think I learned his name but forgot it.

Or did I learn it? Can’t recall, that’s how little I care for this shithead.

Yamanda suddenly appeared with the president.

The president looks around before locking eyes on Tanya. He licks his lips out of anxiousness. Tanya swipes her finger across her throat, sending a death message, which gets him to back up in fear.

With her arms folded, Yamanda says, “Sir, can you please make it clear that you have nothing to do with that evil creature… Lumine claims you do. I know it’s a lie, but—“

He straight out says, “I-It’s kinda complicated.”

Yamanda originally had a tired but confident expression (Like, 'And for the tenth time... This is why the Earth is round...' kind of face), is now stunned. Slowly, slight confusion seeps into her expression.

“In what ways…?” She asks.

Tanya is now sitting by Hessien, her eyes still stuck on the President as if he were prey.

The president folds his arms behind his back as he says, “You see… the reality defenders are very young. Minors at that, so… They are not fully mentally equipped for the role they were supposed to serve, so… we... Um. Had to use unconventional means to harness their full potential.”

I don’t like his bullshit and say, “That’s code words for he wanted to mind control us!”

At least he didn't try to drug us, I guess.

Vacinay adds, “Exactly, also, Lumine is the only damn minor. I am a grown woman.”

I shout, "I turned 18! I'm 18! I only said I was 17 because I forgot I was 18!"

"And i'm batman."

"Oh you..."

Yamanda says, “We can talk about that later. What I am hearing is far more important…”

She is biting down on her glove, stressing out. “So… You really, purposely unsealed that creature… The same one that killed the president two centuries ago, directly killed 780,000 innocent people, and killed mothers and fathers by possessing the bodies of their kids…?”

Holy shit. I knew she did bad stuff, but the last one was insane. That had to be disinformation. I hoped it was, at least.

Hessien whispers, asking Tanya, “That’s all propaganda, right?”

She replies with a blank expression. “No. I am surprised that’s all I did.”

Yamanda hears her and stares daggers at her.

Tanya says, “It was an interesting experience.”

“You sick shit!” Yamanda angrily storms to her.

Tanya stands up lazily. “I know what I am. I embrace it. You Flowman’s however, for some reason, tend to pretend to live on the moral high ground. You all are responsible for the genocide of many other races. You all run a genocidal campaign that was responsible for the deaths of all Despertamors in my time. Anyway, the death of them in my era in this country is what led me to commit so many atrocities.”

With a completely honest expression, Tanya adds, “To be frank, I fully intend to kill every single Flowman that walks on this planet. Not now, of course, but a bit later. May it be this century or the next six ones. This isn’t even revenge anymore. My friends and those I considered a family can never be truly avenged. No matter how many of your kind I keep killing... It will never be enough for me to think, 'I am satisfied with that number. The suffering of Bhusrui, Klon, and everyone has been paid'. At this point, I just want to be the person that makes you all think:

‘Oh. This is the consequences of our actions.’

‘Oh. We are going to die because we tricked and betrayed the Despetamors.'

‘Oh. We really should not have done that.'

I said Despertamors, but I know you all are obsessed with calling us Evil manifestations as if we don't have an identity outside of that."

Oh… So that’s why she is so obsessed with killing. She mentioned that Flowmans killed her kind when she was fighting Yamanda, but I didn’t know what scale it was on, and I definitely didn’t think it was on something so huge.

Yamanda is now only an inch away from her. “Even if that was—“

“If it was? Don’t be foolish. I am sure it’s in the history books that you all ‘wiped’ evil manifestations off the face of this country 2 centuries ago. Since we are seen as the embodiment of evil, I see no reason why it would have been censored or changed in any form.”

“The war was because of the harm you all were causing!”

“We did less harm than your kind did to others.”

The tension between the two is growing even more.

“You… didn’t only kill. Your attacks led to many towns and villages not getting food or water, leaving them to starve to death. You made people die slow and painful deaths…”

“I am aware. You all killed a lot of us by ripping us apart. One day, you would take their leg, the other week, their arm, and so on. Your kind did all that to use to my kind to make or enhance your weapons, pills, armor and more. Every action I made, I calculated the amount of suffering that was done to my kind to do against you all.”

Yamanda seethes in rage. “Fine… let’s say what you did was justifiable for the sake of revenge. You just said you plan to kill every single Flowman. What have the modern or future ones done to you two centuries ago? After all, their ancestors have died. Why should they inherit their sins?”

“I suppose when I kill all Flowmans, the only Despertamors that will be created will be from the other species, which will have a different dynamic with them since they don’t share the same extremely hostile history.”

I listen intently but don’t say anything.

Yamanda grunts and then asks Hessien, “How much control do you have over her?”

Hessien answers, a bit anxious because of the heated conversation they had. “Not much. But, she can’t kill anyone unless I permit it.”

Yamanda takes in a deep breath and exhales. She turns towards the President and says, “I am immensely disappointed in you…”

And with that, he disappears. She must have teleported him.

Under her breath, she mutters, “So damn fucking incompetent…”

I make eye contact with Ghomas and Vacinay. We all don’t know what to say.

Yamanda then says as she leaps back. “Whatever, I guess. I am somewhat pissed, so let’s start the training now. Before we start, Hessien, can you get her out of my sight?”

Hessien looks at Tanya, waiting to see how she would react.

“Open up, boy.” She turns into energy before entering Hessien's mouth.

That... nearly gets a laugh out of me.

Hessein blinks a couple of times, in complete disbelief.

Then there is silence until Hessien breaks it. “So… You aren’t going to try to kill me—to kill her, right? Like, on some ‘a necessary sacrifice’ shit.”

Yamanda sighs and tries to put on a smile. “I am trying my best to not give into that temptation… unless you are offering yourself.”

“No no!”

“He isn’t!” I shout, quickly moving in front of him like a meat shield

“Exactly! And Tanya would rush out to protect him too!” Vacinay says rushing to his side.

Ghomas with his arms folded nods, as he walks away from us, trying his best not to get caught up in another fight. “What they said.”