Argons could be seen approaching them with a blade in his hands. The same blade he had cut Tujitou’s leg with not too long ago.
“Look at what you did to me”, he exclaimed as he showed his melted face.
“Fuck the king. I’ll dissect you till the day you die.”
His words made Tujitou remember the awful things he had done to him and it also made him think of all the things he could’ve done to Moraña. His hands turned a bright red. Moraña groaned making Tujitou look at her, which made him calm down and come to his senses before his hands burned aflame.
“You! How is a dud like you already able to control the powers of the crystal to this extent?”, Argons wondered.
“A dud like me? I’m an unleveled with the gift of fire. And what do you mean by the powers of the crystal? What did you do to me?”
“A…an unleveled? You? You were an unleveled the whole time? Haha”, Argons falls to his knees from disbelieve.
“It all makes sense now…haha…ha… no wonder it seemed so easy…hahahahaha…”, his laughter shortly turned into silence. “They’re gonna kill me. I gave the crystal to an unleveled. I failed. They’re gonna kill me”, he panicked.
“Hey, answer me! What did you do to me?”
“No…they won’t kill me if they don’t know. Yes…yes! I’ll say the experiment failed right after Lazerus left. Yes, all I have to do is kill you”, Argons tightened his grip on the blade.
He rushed towards Tujitou with the blade in his hands repeating the word “die”.
Tujitou fearing that he might hurt Moraña gathered up all of his courage and walked toward Argons. Even though Tujitou was trying to protect Moraña, the moment Argons was in range to try and cut him with his blade, he didn’t know what to do and instinctively put up his hands to guard himself. Argons had swung his blade too soon, causing the cut on his hands to be shallow. Tujitou pulled his hands back from the pain. Blood streamed from his hands which dropped to the floor. Sizzling could be heard as his blood fell into the sewer water. This caught Tujitou’s attention and he remembered that his blood also caused Argons his face to melt. In a flash, he came up with an idea to melt the remaining bars with his blood. He looked at his hands and saw that his hands had already healed.
‘Again! I didn’t really think about it, but I’m pretty sure I saw him cut my leg off with that same blade and yet I still have both of my legs as if nothing happened. Now even the cut from my hands is gone. Is this what he meant by the power of the crystal? But what crystal? What did he do to me?’, before Tujitou could even think further swung his blade against him. Tujitou luckily managed to dodge his swing.
“JUST DIE ALREADY!”, Argons prepared himself to swing his blade one last time, but Tujitou who stood in front of him kicked him in the abdomen sending him flying a couple of meters away.
“Huh? I-I did that?”
Tujitou was stunned by his newly-found strength. Bewildered he admired his leg, but his attention soon shifted to Argons who could be heard vomiting from the pain. Tujitou looked at the ground and saw the blade that fell from Argons his hands when he kicked him. Tujitou looked back at Argons who was still vomiting and picked up the blade. Anger fueled him as he held the blade. He knew that one good swing of the blade against this vulnerable Argons was all he needed to end this. He wanted to take revenge on Argons, but Moraña’s well-being mattered more to him. He walked to the bars and cut his hand. His blood quickly melted the bars that held them back from escaping. Tujitou threw the blade away and lifted Moraña so they could leave.
“Where..*cough* *cough*...do you think…you’re going?”
Tujitou looked back to see Argons pointing a gun towards him.
“I didn’t…*cough*...want to resort to this, but seeing as I have no other choice…*cough* *cough*...I might as well take you down with me.”
Tujitou panicked and instantly ran out of the sewer with Moraña on his back. Argons fired a shot, but the ignition of the bullet mixed with the gases in the sewer caused a massive explosion. Tujitou and Moraña managed to escape unharmed from this incident.
“So that’s why she said no fire. Good to know.”
*cough* *cough* *cough*
The explosion caused Moraña to wake up. She looked at Tujitou panting as he stared at the sewer from which smoke came out off.
“I told you no fire.”
“Moraña!”
“Can’t you listen to me for once?”
“I know it’s hard to believe, but that-” he pointed toward the sewers-“wasn’t me.”
“It is hard to believe”, she implied as she continued coughing.
“Save your strength. We need to get you some help.”
“I..I need aqua. Get me to the Brague Academy for the Gifted.”
“No. Brague are the ones that did this to us, we can’t trust them. I’m taking you home. We have aqua there and phapha should know how to take care of you.”
“But I’m-” Tujitou quickly interrupts her- “No buts. I’m taking you to the only place I trust.”
“...”
“Get on. We need to go. I’m sure it won’t be long before people start to come.”
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