Chapter Eleven: Switching Control

For a slight moment, Jim could feel that something was up with the person in front of him.

Xash had his eyes shut tightly until suddenly, he opened them and something Jim wasn't expecting overcame his body at once. He could feel the air around him change. The place where Xash had the bottle stabbed into his chest started healing.

And surprisingly, Xash who couldn't move due to being hold down by Jim's ability, started moving. With his fist clenched tight, he landed a punch to Jim's stomach which send him flying backwards in the air.

"Nobody messes with our body." Jim could hear Xash say although he found it strange.

'Let me back! Let me back! I need to punish that guy!' Xash said as he attempted to pull Tate from where she sat in his mind.

When Xash saw Tate approach him from the inside of his mind, he was a kind of surprised. To find someone living inside your mind was something that could never happen. Not in real life. That reminded Xash that he was in a novel world not real world. If something like this is really happening then sure it's possible.

"Want a hand?" The lady said stretching her hands towards him.

"Are you…?"

"It's me Tate. Will you be quick about it or you want to die in the hands of Jim?"

Although Xash didn't know what he was meant to do, he couldn't help but stare at Tate, drooling as he watch the beauty in front of him walk towards him.

Dragging him from where he was seated, Tate pushed Xash over to a corner and sat in the body controlling chair. The body controlling chair was some sort of chair that once seated on, makes the individual to be able to control the body as he or she wished.

As Tate sat on the chair, she suddenly got to work as she seem to be staring at the System.

[ System Override ]

[ identifying the user's information and ability ]

[ Name: Tate Cane ]

[ Ability: Negativity ]

Just as Tate could see the information from the system, Xash could also see the same thing as he stood at the corner of the dark room. It seems like whatever his eyes sees on the outside will also be shown to him. Despite not being in control, he could see things happening outside and so could Tate since she was in control at the moment.

[ HP: 1000 ]

Just as the HP points appeared, Xash's body started healing like he hadn't experienced any wound at all. But there was still the broken neck of the bottle stuck inside his chest. That was the only wound that is yet to be healed. And he couldn't heal unless he get rid of the bottle neck in his chest. And to do that, he needs to take care of something.

After all the System messages has been displayed to 'Xash' in a few seconds, he decided to take care of the annoying person standing in front of him.

Using his negativity ability to negate Jim's ability, Xash seemed to be in control of his body once again. The blood control or whatever that was used to stop his movements was negated by Xash and now he could move his body freely.

After being able to move his body, Xash didn't hold back as he gave Jim the most devastating punch of his life.

After sending him flying off in a direction, Xash removed the glass bottle that was stabbed into his chest and tossed it over to the side.

"Well pretty boy, I helped you out. I hope you're happy to be alive once again?" Tate said internally, referring to none other than the real Xash.

"Thanks, will you stand up now?" The real Xash said, frustrated but a little glad that Tate was able to deal with Jim.

Before the two switched controls, Tate decided to put some things back to normal before letting Xash sit in the chair. And after she was done, the two switched control and the real Xash was back in his body.

[ System is back to normal ]

[ You are yet to complete your Quest ]

[ Defeat the one who plans to kill you ]

Just then, another message appeared from the System.

[ - 50 HP ]

[ - 50 HP ]

[ HP is now 800/1000 ]

Xash was surprised at this. He thought his HP had gone to 1000 when Tate went in control, but now his HP was showing that it wasn't the case at all. He seemed to be losing more HP after the bottle was removed from his chest.

He wondered if he would still have the negation ability that Tate had from before and upon checking his ability, nothing seemed to be the case.

The list of abilities he had were the ones he stripped from people. There was nothing like negation ability among them. It kind of made Xash sad that he didn't get to have an ability like that. But that doesn't mean he couldn't find anyone with that type of ability that he could strip in the future. It would be a trump card against the protagonist once they finally get the chance to fight each other.

Now that Xash realised how weak he was, there was something he had in his mind, and that was to get stronger. If by any means he is to face the protagonist right now, he's damn sure he wouldn't last a minute against him. So for now, he will avoid having a fight with him. Not until he's sure he could win the fight.

While in the midst of his own thought, he saw someone charging towards him at an inhumane speed.

"I almost forgot about this guy. Let's deal with the matters at hand first."

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