Chapter 3 - The bull needs injection at least two times

"Raise your head to the ceiling, Inhale deeply and hold it in as long as possible," instructs Bertrand for Martian to correct his yoga poses.

Inhale~ hold!

Exhale~

"No, no, not that way! Feel the air as you expel it, don't just let it go too fast. Let it flow damn slowly."

Inhale~ hold!

Exhale~

"Hm…" Bertrand acts like a photographer looking for a good angle as he scrutinizes Martian breathing and yoga poses, "That's good enough, let's wrap up. Your fragile body needs to rest."

Thump! Thump!

"Fuuh...." relaxing his body, Martian feels the quick thumping of his heart, and his face lit up with realization.

"It feels good, right? Those thumping hearts?" smugly, Bertrand approach Martian and pats him in the head. "Still thinking you don't need to do them and merely do meditation?"

Brushing Bertrand's hand, Martian make his face straight and rebuke, "I can also get those thumping by doing jump rope!"

"Will your body feel relaxed right now? And can you feel the mana, then? And with wobbly feet of your?"

"I..." Martian wants to counter again, yet he doesn't know-how.

"Speechless, huh? goo goo goo~" Bertrand laughs out loud right in front of Martian. Still laughing he looks at Martian and stretches his hand to gently caress Martian sparsely baby hair, "Just do what the good brother of yours tell you to do, from now on, all right?

"Grrr!!" growls Martian pissed, trying hard to hold his urge to punch Bertrand and worsening his not yet healed fingers bones.

"What want to punch my smug face, yet can't even clench your hands?" Bertrand crouches slightly and put his face right in front of Martian face, "Shall I not give you healing injection and make you feel those sharp stinging pain tonight? That will be a good show to be seen, isn't it?"

Snap!

"You already planning all of this from months ago, aren't you?! So you can exploit these cracked fingers to reins, me?! Who in heaven give you the right to?!!" Martian glares crazily.

"goo goo goo~ No need to be so angry, it's not like me who had that exhilarating experience to punching his big bro, right in the face, isn't it? Or am I?"

"GRRRR!!!" Martian clenching both his hands, not caring of the stinging pain they transmit to him.

"goo goo goo~ You and your temper~" playfully Bertrand moved his hand to cover his face and then quickly put it down.

Whoosh~~

Like mask changing, Bertrand playful baby expression becomes straight ice-cold. His baby pure black eyes turn to sharp ones as he glares at Martian, "You aren't a baby. Don't keep acting like one. Stop grumbling to me about the life you choose yourself. And shut those rubbish shit of yours inside. Before..."

Inhales~

As Martian glaring at all serious Bertrand face in the eyes. Without him noticing, he has inhaled a faint dark mist inside.

"...I give you a shot of caffeine jitter." still, in the straight face, Bertrand completed his words.

Jolt!

Thump! Thump!

Martian suddenly can feel his body convulsing and his heart thumping crazily. He then feels restless, nervous, dizzy, and then a panic attack like impending doom is coming for him.

"You! Arggh..."

"Pfffft~" smile crop up in Bertrand straight face, 'Don't look at me like that, I merely made the dark mana near your nose, and you are the one who inhaled it. Hehehe...'

"Urgh...what did you do to me?! Stop it NOW!" Martian holds his head like crazy, the world spinning in his eyes.

"Bufufufufu~" Bertrand giggles in delight at Martian panicking reactions, yet suddenly Martian feet become wobbly and can't stand straight, "Watch out!"

The wobbly feet Martian took a wrong step and tripped by the bedsheet.

Thud!

Martian falls down and rolls in the bed to the edge of the bed.

Bertrand quickly dashes and stops the rolling Martian body with his right foot like a goalkeeper.

"Urgh...you almost kill me!! Aaargh... if you do not stop this right now, I swear to god, I will kill you for the second time!!" wails Martian.

"Is that how you say please and thanks?" snort Bertrand, yet when he sees Martian truly writhing in pain, he feels a prick of pain at heart, "Oh, fine... who's making me the brother!"

Flick!

Flicking his fingers as a gimmick, Bertrand took out the dark mana from Martian ears with his mind power. 'Hehehe...better keep the dark mana. The hot-tempered bull will need it again pretty soon.'

"Ugh... this wanker!" getting his clarity back, Martian quickly stands up and grabs Bertrand by the collar, "Are you out your mind?!!"

"Goo goo goo~" brushing Martian hands over his collar, Bertrand suddenly burst into laughs. He laughed so hard till some tears came out of his eyes. "Goo goo goo~ I'm sorry truly sorry. Goo goo goo~ But, you need to see your face at that time. It was marvellous!"

"What?!" Martian face went all red out of embarrassment. His rage went up a notch.

"Wait, wait! Let's me finish my word. So we do not end up like months ago, Goo goo goo~ wait let me laugh for another second, it's so damn funny."

clench!

Martian clenches both hands hard as he glares at Bertrand, "You better said it now, now!"

"Alright, alright. Goo goo goo~" Bertrand wipes tears of joy from his eyes, "Goo goo goo~ I'm sorry, but it just so damn exhilarating as you know it you loved doing this kind of thing it on Earth."

Bertrand looks at Martian in the eye sarcastically while moving the dark mana near Martian nose. "It's a great hobby for an aristocrat baby like me, isn't it? So, I can use this to mingle with the other kids. How is it? What do you think as you already left that life?!"

pang

Bertrand sarcastic words give a pang to Martian's brain, his breathing becoming heavy and his heart racing, "So you mean I was a loser, so shut up and follow your rules? YOU? The one I killed?"

Nod!

"You! Bas--- agh!" before Martian could swing his fist, the dark mana in his system began to act up, "Argg... Arrgh...Stop it!"

Flick

With another finger flick gimmick, again Bertrand takes out dark mana from Martian's system. "Goo goo goo~ Nothing is more painful for a prideful person than to drink his own poison and feel his own powerlessness. Or so someone says... Goo goo goo~ I should really pick it as a hobby to whooping someone asses in the future!"

Getting his clarity back and hearing those annoying threatening words, Martian shows an angry babyface, "You sick sicko! I'm not gonna talk to you anymore!"

Martian immediately sit in a meditative position, closes his eyes, and acts like he is doing meditation.

'This shameless power tripper must be using some illusions spell to me! I need to quickly learn spell casting! And give him some beating for good!'

"If you want to beat me. You need to work hard and do whatever I say..Oops, not my intention for being sarcastic there goo goo goo~"

"GRRR!" Martian let out a growl while his eye was still closed.

'My, my, what a simpleton, adorable~'