Irllytia, Run!
Eternal Silhouette Region, Hidden Crimson Shadow Sub-Division's Rainbow Shadow Division; at the farthest to the north on the Regional borders.
Tongqiu: "..."
Zyv and Sash: "..."
Rosey: 〆(・∀・＠)
While Rosey had the impatient to start attacking and destroying everything in their sight, Tongqiu was silently and speechlessly staring at all angles at the even greater and scarier amount of rivers upon rivers of players waiting at the farthest north of the Hidden Crimson Shadow Sub-Division. Meanwhile, Zyv was coldly and indifferently looking at the same as Tongqiu while Sash was feeling ultra nervous and extremely embarrassed.
As for the rivers upon 'rivers' of the astronomical amount of players, Tongqiu had already confirmed his death sentence as he got slightly dizzy upon discovering that there were at least a few million players camped around the Regional borders farthest to the north. Of course, that was if, he remained to fight; which he obviously wasn't going to.
Clap.
Mumbling in a low voice, Tongqiu carried the tied Sash on his arms while Zyv started clinging to his back: "Okay, let's make a move on now, everyone get ready- here! Let me get you, a-ahem, okay. Now, let's just go..."
"Hold on!!" But before Rosey, who was shaking her head with complete unwillingness, could be coaxed into using her Bloodline skill; the yelling of a youngish voice of a woman sounded out.
"Tongqiu! Tongqiu, right? Eheh~, look who it is. Well, well, well..." After continuing her yells and coming out from a human barrier of players, a young woman in fully black, tight clothes appeared in front of Tongqiu and company, infinitely close; coming to a stop 1 meter before them.
Tongqiu and company: "..."
That young woman in tight clothes: ˙ ͜ʟ˙
While smiling candidly, the young woman spoke with her sharp, platinum eyes staring deeply into Tongqiu's: "So you are Tongqiu, okay let's just make this real quick, got it? Mhm! first of all..."
As the young woman flicked her short black hair behind her ear, she posed so that her front would be perfectly seen with perfect angles, namely by only Tongqiu and company.
"..."
"My ID is Juvenile Blade, and I'm here to offer you a bit of a trade, it'll be worth it. I promise!" Saying so, Juvenile Blade got close to Tongqiu that the players all around them behaved at once.
"What tha-fack."
"Yo, ey. Where are those Black Lotus now? How come they've disappeared? If they could see their princess now, hahaha."
"Shh, shut it. Or else, you'll also end up LV0 in just a few hours."
"Damn! Those damn clothes makes it impossible to see from behind... if only I was Tongqiu..."
"Dream on, Tongqiu's dead as fuck. Not even Baston should be capable of confronting her 1 on 1, let alone this Tongqiu that depends on weird weapons."
Tap, tap.
Placing both her palms on Tongqiu's shoulders as Zyv gave her a pair of scary, uncaring eyes; Juvenile Blade then whispered towards them: "Yun Beishang, this deal concerns mostly you. As long as you agree, we will pay beautifully with grace. How about it?"
Tongqiu didn't spoke back, giving Juvenile Blade a 'just what the fuck' look in silence as she had her nose inch closer and closer to his, only stopping moving forwards until their noses each were about to touch.
"Hehehe, okay~. Whatever, whatever. So, let me tell you. My father is now in the search for a great thig-shoulder to lean on, and it just so happened that a fit, eligible and talented candidate had appeared for us a few months ago. What a coincidence! Don't you think? Imagine, the most powerful, hidden and ghostly organization suddenly gets hacked squeaky clean one day out of nowhere and with no traces! Doesn't that sound weird? Better yet, we barely managed to discover that one of the information that was stolen were about our previous monarch. Now, isn't that strange, hmm?" By the end of her words, Juvenile Blade had her eyes exaggeratedly grow wide and 'shocked', before being overtaken by a relaxed expression and a wide, genial smile.
"Er... no, you're mistaken...? I'm not that great, and I'm not this Yun Beish-"
Swipe!
-120.
A sound that was obvious from the tearing of air, came to be as Tongqiu's helmet was half-cut open. Obviously, this was Juvenile Blade's doing but, her hands were still on Tongqiu's shoulders as she didn't even move more than necessary; as if she was just a normal, common, ordinary and happy young woman in her daily life standing still.
"Hmmm. Okay, what's the deal." Feeling fresh new air on a little section of his face, not enough for the players without recording functions to distinguish enough, and even then they wouldn't recognize a face that disappeared more than 10 years ago for that matter. Tongqiu then kept little Sash on his arms with his 'facade' long taken off.
"Okay, as I said. My father and the organization are looking for someone to follow. Don't ask too much. I'll give you another secret to show our... hmm, my sincerity, okay💓? So anyways, as long as you promise to come to our temporary residence at a certain point in time, we'll give you a nice gift right now." She then turned her head half-around before turning it back to Tongqiu with an expressionless face, then, genuinely smiling right after seeing Tongqiu's face again; she spoke: "Unless you want to give it try, we won't force you. You're a man! After all~."
Step, step, whoosh~.
Juvenile Blade then made two steps back before ever so perfectly and skillfully doing a backwards somersault, strangely, as her body began to free fall in midair 4 meters above the ground; it disappeared as if it was just a shadow. A shadow that could do an okay mount of damage that fast and that easily.
"Hm hm hm, you have 3 seconds to-" As Juvenile Blade's words ethereally resounded through Tongqiu's ears only, as Zyv wasn't using the little of Mental Power stat that she had, her words gave Tongqiu the last stand for negotiations.
Yet, not even letting her speak more than 8 words, Tongqiu interrupted by casually speaking out loud: "Sigh, agh, okay I accept. Show me yours."
Shhhk, shhk, shhk, shhk-tang~ting~cla-ank!
Yet, Tongqiu didn't thought that as soon as his words spoken in a 'yes-man' manner were out, the not-really hidden players all between the rest of the rives upon rivers of players instantly sheathed their mostly daggers of all kinds, some with short or unique swords and some even had a pole arm attached to their backs; even then, some had to take the weapon directly out of their bags and those who did exposed their chosen weapon to be rather noticeable. And at the same that Tongqiu's words went out, and they all unsheathed their dangerous auras around them, they also started killing the players around them like robots and with utter precise, terrifying efficiency!
"Ooowoh-woh-woh! Wait! Kgh-"
"AAAAH!"
"Huh?-KHGJKK!?!"
As a couple hundreds of players died out almost without making a sound with the continuous efforts of around more than ten thousand previously 'hidden' players separated by merely a few couple meters from each other. As a result, it was only after 10 seconds passed that those players in the far out distance finally realized that things were going wrong, very damn wrong.
"..."
As the three looked at each other in wonderment, Tongqiu then glanced at the half-satisfied and half-grumpy Rosey that had her head almost fully tilted to her left while also confusingly looking at the mass-assassination going on.
'Okay, time to get away.' Feeling slightly overwhelmed, Tongqiu moved his feet while carrying two unthinkable, and from fairy-tail-like beauties away with him.
"Oh~, and remember~, all you have to do is kill my father. Go on your way, quick~!" Still sounding ethereal and magical, the bizarre words from Juvenile Blade became Tongqiu's source of trouble for the next few seconds as Little Zyv and the tightly-softly tied Sash felt his balance go awry a couple of times.
'What the hell is that of 'kill my father' deal? What the fuck I just got myself into? Ayayay...' Indeed, usually; in a plot like this, one just had to 'defeat' the spiritual leader of an overpowered organization to own it instead of 'killing' them. Yet, her words were not spoken venomously. There was no hatred on her emotions, ideals nor intentions. Pure casualness. Tongqiu was a little lost alright.
Chan~.
An unknown 'magical' sound resounded, right after hearing that sound Tongqiu turned his head to look at it only to find out that the sound came from an open road between dying players even a few hundred meters away and as the distance between Tongqiu and company with the murdering of Eternal Silhouette Region players was growing longer and longer; Tongqiu noticed that this 'open path' of bloodshed was basically pointing towards the southeast of the entirety of the Hidden Crimson Shadow Sub-Division's side of the Region. With only a few days' time, Tongqiu and company would be able to move back 'home' at last.
"Alright, thank you. Make sure none of your people stands in my way." Finishing saying so much, which irritated Tongqiu, he finally had the chance to encompass both Zyv and Sash with his innumerable Mental Power as he sent Rosey his intentions. Right away, though slightly pouting in a dispirited manner, Rosey's body began to emanate a powerful red-bloody aura on the outline of her little body as Tongqiu began to do the same but in a lesser demonstration as the familiar feeling of his blood boiling like crazy -which made him feel really good- similarly began to occur inside his body.
Huuu...
Haaa...
Finishing breathing in and out slowly yet sharply, Tongqiu then closed his eyes before opening them up again but this time, with a glint of thirst across his eyes.
PAH!-Cr~...crack...
'HOLY FUCK. What was that... what was that?!' Juvenile Blade reacted shockingly to Tongqiu's sudden and out-of-this-world-like depart from her eyes, she expected for Tongqiu to carry both young women since they probably had worse stats than him but... who the fuck would just imagine Tongqiu initial move to be much more scary than even those failed spaceships through the story of New Earth? Fuck, holy fuck, fucking fuck!
'Ugh... what a man, grrr.' With her eyebrows scrunching down with her nose similarly doing the same but up, Juvenile Blade finally began to resume her killing as a subordinate made a few signs to her in the distance of more than 100 meters in the hopes of waking her up.
"Ah." Waking up from her wild imagination, Juvenile Blade then took out the thick, sawed knife in her right hand after turning to look back at the bloodied and hurting player still in a Stunned negative altered effect for so long.
"Hehe, oopsie, here you go. Now, go die and tell your friends to not bother my future husband, or else!"
Meanwhile, shaking in exasperation and hopelessness, a young-yet-middle-aged man was shaking his head endlessly at the sight of such a scene with the forum's interface in-game as he was in a dark room with no one at his side. To this point, he was already immune to headaches, migraines and even irritation.
. . .
In the oh so far distance from the previous Regional borders where Tongqiu and company just escaped from, as Tongqiu kept on moving forwards with Rosey's Bloodline boosting his Movement Speed by an unimaginable amount.
Zyv opened her little mouth to expose her canines before starting to nibble down everywhere on Tongqiu's back; from his shoulders, shoulder blades and even his spine to his nape and the sides of his neck, before finally speaking like a human, intelligent being: "Aaaah~, nomnomnomnomnom... Aha! Big Brother, mmm, tell me. Who was that weird girl?"
'Girl... She's probably my age though?'
"A-ahem. She is an extremely gifted, yet unknown, young woman whose existence is not even known to those who suffer at her hands. Mmm, why? Feeling threatened?" At the end of his words, Tongqiu had obviously caught on Zyv's demeanor and as his thought twirled, a devilish idea came to his head. Yet, to his surprise, Zyv responded in a totally pure and melodic voice: "Mhm, she's way too much into Big Brother. What do I do if she steals you from me? Big Brother Wolfy is mine..."
Tongqiu: :$
"Eh, well... Even if she 'gets' me, it won't be her stealing me away from you, it would be me having both of you. You two would be mine at the same time so, what's the point in worrying so much over such a si- Grwaakthkh-!! Zyv! Stop!" While in the middle of bragging, seeking death, Tongqiu was attacked mercilessly by not only the hungry teeth of a young girl in 'luve' but also by the hungry tongue of one as she kept on licking the areas where she wasn't biting while holding his neck with her teeth...
. . .
1 day later, midway through their destination.
The players from before had started moving towards the southeast and southwest -besides the obvious south- of the Hidden Crimson Sub-Division's non-taken territory. So when they were, almost all, taken out in a single hour from the 'betrayal' of the Black Lotus, none wanted to embark on a long journey towards the same awful and lawless place once again just so that they could die.
After all, it took them almost a month of moving while levelling and farming so as to not lose their time completely, until they got where they previously remained camping at. They were, after all, a few millions of players participating in this 'glorious' and 'historical' expedition. Anyways, after the poor fools died like pigs in the slaughterhouse, they no longer wished for glory. It was better to take the scrolls back to the settlements near the portals and to go inside of them to level up instead, much more profitable indeed.
As for Tongqiu and company, they only needed to utilize Rosey's Bloodline skill 6 more times to reach the previously visited somber, kinda creepy small forest to return to the Azure Dragon Sub-Division, or rather, close to it since Zyv could no longer teleport back to that oh so well known -by Tongqiu- forest at the south of the Azure Dragon's Main City.
At the moment, Tongqiu was walking with Sash on his shoulder, she was already so used to it that instead of speaking in a princess-like way to demand for freedom; she merely slept soundly while feeling out Tongqiu's body with her own sexy and heavenly seductive one. Zyv, was indeed, pretty jealous.
'If only I was my Big Brother's bad girl~? Sigh...' Such were the troubles of a young girl in love, stupid and whatnot.
Of course she wouldn't be jealous of Sash's heavenly, seductive body. Sash's heavenly body couldn't be compared to Tongqiu's unique tastes, just by looking at Diana and Natalia at home, it could easily be described what kind of beast Tongqiu was.
And while Tongqiu and Sash would walk with their bodies plastered upon one another, Zyv would play with Rosey occasionally while calming the little naughty girl some times to show her the beauty of sightseeing and that destroying everything wasn't, everything.
At this moment, Tongqiu lead the girls towards an area where Zyv finally started to hear things while Sash was now waking up.
"Eh... Tongqiu? Why did you brought us to a crowded area? We... Sigh, we'll be recognized." Sash was the first to talk. Her voice no longer erratic, volatile and thunderously with an uncontrollable temper anymore. In fact, her tone was now shockingly calming, quiet and slightly shy...
Tap, tap.
Giving Sash's butt a couple of taps that, strangely, incited no cracking in the sky as it had been doing so before in their endeavors, Tongqiu then spoke in a 'teaching the young' as an Elder-kind of manner: "Most players should have given up, most threads in the forums say so as well. But, there will always be some groups that, even if they are not an Association or a real big group inside the game; just by joining each other in a raid or more, would want to try their luck."
Zyv spoke out at this moment, not wanting to be left out: "Ah, those!"
Tongqiu looked at her with a sly smile before nodding as he responded: "Yes, 'annoying flies', those."
"So, where did you... bring us to?" Sash continued her questioning, she thought that her curiosity and interest were hidden perfectly, but Tongqiu smelled it right away.
"A portal, one of those shadowy-looking ones." With a casual tone, Tongqiu patiently explained to the extremely intelligent and clever young woman.
"Ah." Sash's last words before a big and long silence remained in the group for a good while.
"..."
"But, why here then?" Blinking a little at the thought that he may be was dealing with one of those 'lazy' creations of 'I'm actually 40 years old while having a kid's body' kind of situation here, Tongqiu cluelessly misinterpreted Sash life's story as he kindly answered with patience: "The more obvious it is, the less they'll look."
"Aaaah."
"Aaaah."
"!"
"!"
As the two of them responded in the same manner, and at the same time, Zyv and Sash both looked at each other with clear exasperation, wide eyed and almost fully opened mouths before their gazes began to create sparkles in midair.
'Should I sweat profusely or do a wry smile? Ugh, too cliche, my head hurts.' Tongqiu's thought went a little wild there before gradually calming down.
"Hmph."
"Hmph."
Both 'rivals' then once again acted as if making a show for Tongqiu, right before becoming instantly stunned at their incredible synchronization when hearing each other's reaction to their previous 'coincidence'.
'Agh, that was painful.'
"..."
Shortly after, silence became once again apparent and engulfed Tongqiu's party without a care for awkwardness.
At some point, they finally came to the sight of the shadowy-portal. It did had a similarity with a shadow's substance but, it was more like the mirage of a completely unknown, restrained and occult power, presence and even being; rather than just being a cosmetic. At least for the 4 pair of intelligent and unique eyes from Tongqiu, Rosey, Zyv and Sash. Especially Rosey and Tongqiu's.
Looking at the portal with a little bit of interest, Tongqiu and Zyv then looked at each other before smiling at each other gently. They continued to move forwards without a care for the portal, even if it was extremely good even to the current stage of the game for all players, they did not care.
Besides that, there was an encampment all around and before the portal that spanned over a few kilometers in the distance. Right to the sides of the portal were various type of shacks. One seemingly a stable, another a blacksmith's shop, another a smith's shop while there were three more consisting of a tailor's shop, craftsman's shop and finally, a gardener's shop.
They might be just shacks, however, the items on the shops and the NPCs working at them were truly and unmistakably high-end. Made for players who would like to have an easier time without having to travel all the way back and forth between a 'capable' settlement or all the way even farther back to the Main City.
And, of course, the prices there were at least x4 to those of the rest of the world.
Ah, money, how useful it is.
While giving a last look at the portal's surroundings, it was obvious that there was an ongoing commotion, between players and NPCs. There were more worried looking NPCs while most players were chatting with each other in schadenfreude. Ignoring, but frowning at the sight, Tongqiu and company separated from sight.
. . .
Moving on, after walking for almost an hour and not being surprisingly discovered. Tongqiu was about to check up his memories to make sure he wasn't going to charge towards a village of town and even a small city while using Rosey's Bloodline skill. That would be just awful, as such, as he was positioning their little squad towards an angle and direction in specific, Tongqiu felt a set of peculiarity in his senses that prompted him to move in the somber-looking and unfavorable plains until a certain point.
Frowning at the weirdness from this feeling, Tongqiu was already aware of a few groups of players heading to the previously seen portal, the problem was that they would slightly -almost not even- cross paths. And by the time Tongqiu arrived at that 'certain spot', right before it; those groups of players were already capable of seeing a few black dots standing in the completely solitary, lone somber plains without seemingly a reason. Similarly, out of curiosity, those groups of players began moving slightly towards them. Who knows what kind of hidden somethings they could find, right?
Stomp, step-step, stomp!
"AGKH-Grwaaaaaaghkl!" Right after Tongqiu made three probationary stomps and steps with his right foot on the soil, slightly impatient and after doing a final 'decisive' harsher stomp with his right foot once again against the soil, Tongqiu then heard the growling and howling full of hatred right after making that fourth stomp on the soil.
Crack-Fwoop!
The earth cracked horrendously before all the earth, grass and even some worms were brought upwards in a ferocious storm of strength from a small individual underneath the earth.
"!" Reacting perfectly at once, Tongqiu extended his left hand with a claw form to catch that little individual's head, stopping it from assaulting him with both the individual's large and curved claws and their demonic-looking pair of tusk that were pointing upwards from her mandibular teeth.
"Graawwwwwwwww-gkhaaah!!" After the countless tons of items fell back down to the ground, Tongqiu finally saw the appearance of this little thing.
A Demon.
His pupils shrunk slightly at the realization of it, he had already seen this Demon's skin with his senses but, he didn't really thought it was one. Basically, how did one got out from the portal as the only source of possible entry from... anywhere?!
T-shin!
At the same time that he became aware of the little individual's situation, Tongqiu experienced what he didn't really wanted to right now. Irllytia came immediately out from the White Space, and in her Demon form, at that.
Choosing to remain silent, he watched her as Irllytia first took the little Demon's shoulders before beginning to speak in an almost heartbroken, tearing tone, a language he didn't really understood and that Tongqiu could only do so by using his almost extremely vast Mental Power.
After the little Demon's eyes which were pale-red, became wistful and coherent once again, Irllytia proceeded to shake off the dirt and dust on this little Demon. Two small protrusions at the little Demon's chest with pinky-red erasers on them and a clean, empty crotch.
Tongqiu's eyes expanded a little, a girl, a little Demon girl.
"Hu-Husband, sniff, can I-" Being abruptly woken up from his own befuddled state, Tongqiu didn't even let Irllytia's words finish as he took her hands with his' and agreed right away with a nod before saying: "Just get in, Irllytia."
"!!!"
At this moment, Tongqiu could oh so perfectly hear a couple of the incoming groups exclaim in astonishment.
"Oh wow, someone's with a Demon."
"They-they're helping the Demon Race? What are those idiotic players doing? Lol."
"Senior! Those are Tongqiu, Zyv and that unknown beauty!! Look!!"
'Fuck.' Tongqiu's eyes widened almost fully this time, invaded by worry, he exasperatingly spoke again in a loud volume this time: "Irllytia!! Come bac-"
But, similarly, with an infatuated loving smile and a sorrowful smile, Irllytia thanked Tongqiu with her eyes as her heart thumped. How could she, a being not even Tongqiu could fathom, not realize of the surrounding players and their now 'brand new' shocking discovery of a secret?
And with those eyes alone, Tongqiu understood. Even if she told Tongqiu to save that girl, the little Demon would rather kill herself before even being touched a second time by Tongqiu. The only way to keep the little Demon girl safe, was for Irllytia to come out herself and convince her to accept his help.
Indeed, right now, the little Demon girl no longer appeared to be a savage and unruly animal. Instead, looking perfectly or even more so like a little Human girl that was afraid, confused and lost. Her wide pale-red eyes looking a Tongqiu like a child meeting their new step-family would, distrustful and afraid of the new.
"Sigh~..."
Step, step, step.
Taking a few steps forward, Tongqiu placed his left hand on the little Demon's right shoulder while his right hand went to the taller-than Tongqiu Irllytia's left cheek to propel her lips to meet his.
"Mwp... Husband..."
"Mn, go back in and wait for me. I'll make everything better, I promise, just more time... just more time."
Shaking her head in response, Irllytia connected their already and still touching lips together once again with her left hand caressing the back of Tongqiu's head while her right hand kept on holding the little Demon girl's left hand.
"My husband, I'll go back first then." Her lacrimals expelling a few sorrowful tears, she then became a white glow that disappeared above Tongqiu's head.
T-shing!
Tongqiu closed his eyes for half a second before opening up again in an extremely calm and extremely fierce change. No bullshit would he ever sacrifice his 'dear' secret of his White Space being oh so very exposed and have Irllytia and her efforts from protecting the girl go through unnecessary risk.
Sash, unlike Zyv who was calm and even smiling a little at Tongqiu's back; was confused, speechless and had no fucking clue on to what to even say or ask about, merely glancing at the back of Tongqiu's head like a little rabbit unafraid of the lion.
"Brr brr? Brrrr~..." At this time, Rosey's always naughty and playful eyes were now having her lacrimals expel a few tears as well. Hers were red and with multiple sparkles, they would also grow 1/4 as big as her head which made it seem comical yet heart-piercingly at the same time.
Rubbing her own eyes softly, Rosey tugged at Tongqiu's suit at his neck with her eyes growing slightly watery.
Knowingly, Tongqiu glanced at her in silence as he recuperated his breath, before saying in a very low and calm voice: "Okay, let's get back to moving forwards. We'll deal with other things, later. Come, Little Sister."
"Brr, brr...!" A bit cheered up, Rosey exclaimed equally softly and in a low volume before letting her body grow a bloody-red aura around her body.
Nodding at Rosey who was now standing on his left shoulder and with her 'fists' clenched together at her chest, he went back to the girls. While he picked up the softer and weaker Sash than usual, Tongqiu's back was taken by a little wolf cub with his neck being hugged from behind into a soft lock with Zyv's little hands clasping together in front of his collarbone.
"Okay, let's go." Quietly, Tongqiu delivered his last words before his somber and downcast eyes narrowed to a half...
Crack~...PAM!
...right before they all disappeared from the spot in but a moment, shocking the greedy and schadenfreude players coming closer to the four of them.
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Let It Rain's Note: Writing so much every day is tiring for me, but I can't help cracking up after finishing these last few chapters HAHAHA.
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