Chapter 15 : Grief

"I like my meat cooked!"

"But, I like it raw. You can still feel its freshness in every bite!"

Hobo and Vagrante had started to argue again. Hobo picked up the tree's fallen branches and piled them. "I should prepare things for cooking, ha ha ha!"

"These bitches, even their voices in telapathy are so damn ugly and don't decide things on your own!" The twins shifted their gaze towards where Leo is, he was standing whilst holding his sword tightly.

Their faces turned gruesome but Leo didn't flinched, "Bitches" Leo's voice cracked, "Prepare your goddamn selves 'cause I might be the one whose eating here"

The two were provoked, losing their tempers.

"What can you do?! You're barely standing, you think you can beat the two of us?" Their faces turned more scarier and uglier.

Hobo initiated the first attack, he was angrily swinging his mace. What Hobo said was right, Leo's badly hurt and his muscles' still aching from the workout and the hits he got.

Adrenaline rush is what's keeping him from standing, he might collapse anytime, when it wear off. Leo had kept the shortsword he used earlier, he took it out, holding it reversely whilst normally holding the gladiolus. He was evading Hobo's attack. It wasn't the same as earlier, where his attacks are planned and don't leave an opening when he attacks. It became easy to dodge his attacks, 'you lose if you lose your temper'.

Hobo jumped, Leo swiftly took a step back and hit a blocking tree behind him. Vagrante had also moved from where he is and rushed towards Leo. "Hobo, I won't let you beat me to it!"

Leo had thought something, Hobo was still in mid-air while Vagrante is quickly decreasing the gap between them.

Leo slightly jumped and stomped his feet to the tree behind him, Vagrante was on his left, holding its mace, he raised it and swung it down to Leo. In that moment Leo had took off like a torpedo, he launched off from the tree. Vagrante's attack didn't reach him, Leo tighten his grip. Leo holding the gladiolus, he lowered the sword down to his hips then he changed how he holds the shortsword.

He flew in an instant, Hobo and Leo crossed paths in mid-air. When Leo had passed Hobo in mid-air, he had made a reverse hips slash, then Hobo landed on the ground. He hadn't pulled off his vertical smash using his mace, things occured in an instant, Hobo's stomach up to his chest opened up from a cut and blood splattered and from his neck, blood sizzled. Hobo didn't felt pain but he tried to shut the blood by putting his hands onto the wounds. On the other hand, "Oh no, I don't know how I will land!" Leo stumbled and rolled away, then crushed his back. He can barely stand but still struggling to fight for his life.

Hobo fell on his knees, Vagrante ran to his aid shutting the blood down. "Hobo! Stay still, don't try to move" Vagrante then put Hobo to his hands, Hobo's eye sight was starting to fade away. Hobo was trying to say something but the words wouldn't come out because his throat was slit.

"Don't say anything" Vagrante said, he's not crying but he was feeling the pain, the grief of losing a friend, a brother, a family was too much of a pain to take. Then, Hobo, his hands on his brother's cheek fell down and his eye slowly closed. Vagrante hugged him tighter for the last time, he felt more pain, more grief, more anger towards Leo. "I'll kill that f***ing bastard" he lay down Hobo's dead body and picked up his mace then he gave a grimace of pain.

Leo looked at gladiolus, he was surprised when he saw the gladiolus, sucked dry the blood of Hobo in the sword. [Gladiolus: passive trait, blood sucking sword] (The blood which was sucked by the gladiolus that came from the enemy will turn into a boost of the wielder's strength, using the wielder's own blood will not activate the passive trait of the sword).

"I'll crush your head! I won't stop till you're dead body" the furious Vagrante said, his eyes bloodshot.

"Like I'd let you you bitch, I want to see you try"

Leo provoked the angry Vagrante.

Leo had been wondering if Vagrante's grief was true, like, are monsters do feel sad, seeing their own brethren get massacred in front of them? Like, do they have souls?

Such thoughts had crossed his mind. Wondering while trying to figure out, how he's gonna throw a blow on Vagrante. His skin looks so hard to penetrate as if he's wearing an armor under his flesh.

Vagrante, furious to smash Leo's head and kill him, approached Leo, readied his mace for a swing pointing directly in Leo's head. Vagrante raised his mace and swung the mace vertically but Leo swiftly evaded the attack by going through the side. Vagrante looked at him, he quickly picked up his pace and let out a horizontal swing still pointing at Leo's head. In that moment, Leo had put all his weight when he evaded Vagrante's last attack, 'I can't dodge it!' he was reached by the mace, but he had raised his arms and blocked the attack.

Vagrante's strength had gone up, Leo couldn't blocked all the damage and felt it in his arms. The force of the attack had threw him out of his feet. He was rolling into the dust then he again let out a groan, he tried to stand but his legs won't budge from where he is. 'Damn legs, stand up!' then he again forced himself to go through his limits then a thought had crossed his mind. He had thought if he has access to the store when he's on a raid. Leo tried to open the store and to his amusement the store popped up. He quickly scrolls to see if there's something he can buy. Small health potion, medium, large health potion, small mana potion, medium, large mana potion and the bottom of it was the all healing potion. He looked at the price of the item and it was 10,000 gold per piece, exactly the same amount of gold he has. He was thinking if he should buy it or not, it's a life and death situation one wrong move and he could die if hit by another attack. "I'm putting all of what I have to beat this stinky ass bitch!" he punched the buy icon, the glass bottle of all healing potion appeared into his hand. He opened the lid and drank all of it without leaving a small drop. It's sweet yet bland, then a chill ran down his spine, like a sudden boost of adrenaline, his body doesn't feel sore anymore and his bruises healed then his notification made a 'ting' [All healing potion, heals all of the internal and external wounds though this potion has no effects on your health,be it increase or decrease.] [Health Points: 74]

"Are you done saying your prayers!? 'cause I'm gonna send you to hell now!" Vagrante swung down his mace, Leo rolled to the side then stood up, but Vagrante gave no time to prepare. He quickly followed smashing, swinging his mace still aiming for his head. Vagrante didn't stop, he raised his mace again, "There it is" before Vagrante could release his attack Leo predicted and dodge to his side "Predicted you'd do the same trick" Vagrante lowered his mace, it was a feint, he used his other hand and grabbed Leo in his collar, then Vagrante tightened his grip, raised his mace and smashed Leo but Leo stabbed his arm losing his grip on Leo. Leo fell down and went between his legs, with a two slice cuts in his tendons, Vagrante fell on his knees, his wound bleeding. Leo placed the edge of his sword to Vagrante's neck and ended his grief.