23 A Variable
In the Palamuru city, standing on a street road few women were gossiping.
"Have you heard that? Expert Henry is fake "
A woman started the topic out of nowhere.
"Fake? How do you know?"
Another woman asked her in disbelief.
"You are all ignorant, you haven't seen today's Toyo broadcast by Berlin"
The woman who called Henry fake said.
"Toyo channel? Isn't it joking news channel?"
one more woman joined the conversation.
From the day, when Toyo channel broadcasted the fight between Henry and Julio,
it's popularity skyrocketed.
The number of loyal viewers it garnered consisted of more than 30% of the population.
It earned the name joking news channel,
due to recent broadcasts being more entertaining than entertainment channels.
" Look, I even saved the broadcast in my CC tube"
Saying it out, the woman, who called Henry as fake, took out a circular looking object from her spatial pocket.
She pressed the button present on the top of it.
A small virtual screen appeared in front of them.
In the screen,
Hello, this is Berlin from channel Toyo.
Today I am going to talk about Expert Henry with the caption"Is Henry Expert or A Coward who seeks fame?"
As you know, I and other reporters have tried to interview Henry a few moments ago, but we have got nothing.
Now I will explain why Henry did not take part in the battle.
The reason is….
Berlin attracted the viewers with his swift explanation.
Everyone was listening to him attentively.
The reason is that he can't, he is not some expert just a normal guy like us or maybe the worst.
He is not a man, He knew only to hide behind a woman.
I know most you won't accept this, so I am going to present some evidence.
You remembered that I went to Lost Tomb village, I investigated there about Henry in my free time.
What I found was, on the day when team Sahara killed the guardian of natural relic Lotus, Henry was attacked by a Bear.
When I enquired the villagers,
they said that when they located Henry,
he was unconscious,
and the bear was found dead with an arrow pierced through its neck.
Now the question is what does it imply? It implies that Henry was saved, probably by March Butterfly.
If Henry is an expert, Why someone needed to save him from a wild bear?
The audience began to ponder over the question.
Wait...I am not done yet,
Let's look around the incident when Henry got kidnapped by a strange creature.
The creature was too strange, it could turn itself into any beast followed by black smoke.
When it attacked Henry, he did not fight back, instead hid behind March Butterfly.
Henry when saw the situation was grim, he did not resist and handed himself to the creature.
Then Master Khush personally had to visit the remote village to save him.
Again I am rising the same question,
if he is some expert, why always someone needs to save him?
well, well...
forget about the past, let's talk about today's incident.
Henry was spectating when badass sister was fighting with Captain Jack.
He should help her, should not he?
But he did not step up even when Captain Jack turned to one-eyed giant, and almost crushed her.
Is he really an expert? Are all experts are emotionless?
the audience was caught in a dilemma,
especially the one who loved Henry after witnessing him defeating Julio.
I know, I know you still don't believe me, that's why today I called a guest here.
please welcome Dr Rustom.
the camera turned towards a middle-aged guy with a long bird and skinny body.
He is none other than the doctor who examined Julio's body after the battle.
He has come here today to tell us the truth behind the dual.
Ok, Dr Rustom can you tell us the details.
The screen now showed Dr Rustom.
Hello all, I am doctor Rustom.
I and my colleges examined Julio's body for 5 days, and finally found how he got defeated.
Julio was poisoned.
It was extracted from the plant Lucto .
It can be found everywhere even in the streets.
The poison was not lethal, but it can paralyze people for a few minutes when entered into the blood.
Henry coated a very thin needle with this poison,
and somehow the needle made its way into Julio's blood vessels.
That's how Henry won the fight.
The screen now showed Berlin again.
You heard that right, that bastard used a foul way to defeat Julio.
If you still call him expert, then you are nothing but fools.
Thank you for listening, I am taking the leave.
The screen turned off.
the woman, who did not believe Henry as fake, cried out
"It opened my eyes, that coward Henry, how dare of him to fool the public?".
"A coward wanted fame, he is worse than retarded fools"
other woman expressed her opinion.
" He is fuck***g womanizer, I have seen him two women moments ago while badass sister was facing her trial"
another woman joined.
they were too busy in their discussions as they did not notice
a silhouette brushed past them.
"Everything is right on track"
the silhouette said to a circular object the same as CC tube present in his hand.
the silhouette appeared outside the palace.
"Old Tai, open the door"
he ordered the old man guarding the palace.
" Where is Miss? why is she not with you ?"
seeing the silhouette, the old man asked.
"Miss asked me to bring her something, so please open the door"
he explained.
"Sorry, I can't do that"
the old man replied.
"I am asking you one last time, please open the door"
he requested the old man again.
"no"
the old man was stubborn, he had no intention of allowing that guy inside.
"Old Tai, please forgive me then"
the silhouette looked at both the sides of the road, finding it empty, he waved his left hand from right to left.
the throat of old Tai was slit, his body fell,
blood rushed out of the cut.
he died without making any noise.
the silhouette then entered the palace.
"Wait, how did you enter? "
the silhouette encountered another soldier as soon as he stepped in.
the silhouette folded his fingers, lifted his arm to his back and moved it forward as if he threw something.
blood flew out, the soldier fell as his head was pierced by something.
at first, there seemed to be nothing which pierced his head,
but a few seconds later, a knife with white handle appeared at the place of the wound.
the silhouette grabbed the knife out of his head, again it became invisible.
he continued to lurk around.
there was a room in the palace, it was very small in size.
Even after being as small as to contain a single person inside, it was guarded heavily.
the soldiers here are not Protectors, they had a different outfit.
the one who seemed to be in charge of the soldiers here was a fatty guy.
He wore gold armaments from top to bottom.
"Sir Zomuto, sir Chu Chen and sir Ronald left you here guard, while they went there to watch the show"
"Sir Zomuto, why do they always do that? "
a soldier standing near to him asked.
Zomuto turned towards the man who spoke and said
"Listen, they are afraid of getting killed if they stand here for protecting the item inside."
"Sir Zomuto, but I heard that you are the weakest one among three sirs"
the soldier replied while he felt some kind of aura from Zomuto.
"You should be careful with your words," Zomuto said with glaring eyes.
there were roughly ten soldiers around.
"woosh...."
a soldier felt something passed by his head, he turned his head to the side of sensation.
the next moment he fell,
seeing a fellow soldier falling,
"What happened? "
Another soldier approached the fallen one.
blood was leaking out from his forehead, the soldier felt something was wrong.
he turned around, and when he was about to open his mouth to call for help
"splash"
blood splashed with his head separating from his body.
"Intruder alert! Intruder alert!"
Finally, a soldier gave outcalls.
the remaining people held their battle relics tightly.
"Intruder alert! intrude.."
"So noisy"
following the foreign voice,
the man who was shouting felt pain in his heart, blood gushed out from his heart, his body fell as his soul left.
the remaining people finally saw the face of the person who did all of this.
"You are Expert"
Zomuto tried to recall the full name, but he did not remember it.
"Why ? why are you doing this? "
Zomuto questioned.
"Yo fatty, isn't it obvious? "
he pointed his fingers at the room behind the fatty.
"Aren't you afraid of consequences? "
Zomuto tried to pursue the devil to not to continue further.
"The consequences? of course I know about them, but still I am going to take that thing"
he said.
"Sir Zomuto , who's this guy? "
the soldier beside Zomuto asked.
"Your name is Zomuto"
with a sharp voice, the silhouette closed his eyes for a second then he shouted "I have got one more reason to kill you "
"ATTACK"
Zomuto ordered.
everyone immediately activated their battle relic, but they seemed to be late.
another guy fell while blood flew out from his throat.
"Razor"
a soldier shouted as he moved his hand forward.
the ring on his finger shined brightly,
The silhouette waved his hand.
"aaaa aaaa"
his hand was cut off as he yelled in pain.
"Too bad, do you know what's more dangerous? the danger which you can't see or sense "
the intruder said as he moved his hand from up to down.
the soldier's face was split vertically.
The silhouette moved his hand again from upper right to lower left,
every time he moved his hand, he folded the fingers as if he held something.
"aaaa...."
A fountain of blood could be seen on his throat.
the soldier fell while beating himself to ground till his last breath.
the floor looked like a sea of blood.
seeing the scene
"gulp"
remaining people gulped down their saliva, as they held their throats tightly out of fear.
The death was not a common thing in the city.
the silhouette looked straight in the eyes of Zomuto.
Zomuto was not different from anyone else when his eyes met with the silhouette's he felt despair.
"Stop him"
"You guys what are you doing ? stop him attack him at the same time "
Zomuto shouted.
hearing the orders, among six soldiers four charged at the silhouette.
The silhouette smirked.
" Store"
" Slice "
" Eye"
" Trap"
they activated the skills of their battle relics.
the silhouette felt that he had limited space to move,
he also saw an eye as large as his head floating above, and something was trying to suck him.
the silhouette moved his hand up something cut through the rays coming down and pierced the eye.
the trap is invisible four walls surrounding me,
I can climb them.
the silhouette thought as he moved up.
at the same time, a black coloured light shot at him from the ground.
the silhouette moved two of his hands and made a cross shape in the front side of him.
"zzzzzzzz.....zzz"
a sound travelled out as if black light hit something.
A pair of knives with white handle was revealed in the silhouette's hands.
"Rewlong's knives"
Zomuto cried out.
"Why do you have them? "
Zomuto questioned, but there was no answer.
hearing the word Rewlong's knives the soldier beside him shuddered.
There was literally no one who did not know about Rewlong in the entire Assassin domain.
His stories were legends, his accomplishments were great.
especially his sharp knives,
they could go invisible, and one can control a knife with the other remotely within 100 metres range.
Just like how a remote-controlled Device could be controlled using it's controller.
"I had enough of fun"
the silhouette said as he moved his hands from front to back horizontally.
the invisible walls were no more as if they were sliced apart
, the intruder freed himself from the trap.
the knives went invisible again.
"Slice"
a soldier took his sword as black light flew out from the sword again towards the silhouette.
The silhouette jumped back over his head dodging the attack then he performed the gesture of throwing knife.
assuming that knife was thrown at him, the soldier flipped his body.
the soldier thought that he dodged the knife
but
"pachak"
next moment his back was pierced.
He knelt in pain by supporting his body with the sword, then his throat was slit making blood to ooze out of his body as he fell on the face.
the scene was so cruel that if it has been seen by a child, the child would faint right away.
"spare me"
"spare me "
"We don't want to die, please spare us "
seeing the ruthlessness of the devil, the soldiers lost the resolve to fight, they bent on their knee as they begged.
" I will spare you under one condition, bring me the head of Zomuto"
the silhouette declared.
as if he had always been waiting for this chance, the soldier beside Zomuto stabbed Zomuto's fat belly with a knife
"Tung"
but the knife seemed to hit gold instead.
other soldiers also surrounded Zomuto.
"How dare you guys to turn back on me?"
"Gold"
Zomuto shouted, his armaments shined turning his surroundings to gold.
everything within 100 metres range of Zomuto turned in to gold.
"Good work fatty"
Zomuto heard
"No"
Zomuto shouted as he could not see from one of his eyes when he took a look from his other eye he found blood.
soon Zomuto completely got blinded.
"This is for Timmy"
following the voice
"no"
"no"
"no"
cries of Zomuto filled the place as one by one his body dismembered.
the cries subsided when Zomuto took his last breath, his whole body was split into parts from hands to legs including the head,
the people who turned into gold became human again,
but when before they gain conscious they were added to the dead.
the floor filled with blood, but rarely any blood spots were on the silhouette's dress.
The silhouette moved towards the small room, he opened it.
there was a locker inside it, the silhouette cut the locker made up of Iron like cutting paper using knives.
A smooth pebble in the green colour present there.
The silhouette carried the stone and placed it in his pocket, at the same time he took out CC tube, placing it near to his mouth he said
"Mission Accomplished".
"Henry!"
"Don't tell you caused all this blood bath, you murderer"
A familiar silhouette appeared carrying a bow.
"Wait listen to me..."
Henry pleaded.
But March Butterfly did not listen, she put an into the bow and launched it towards Henry.
"What happened?"
A voice sounded out from CC tube.
"A variable appeared"
Henry replied as he put the knives cross shape in the front side.
"Tung"
the arrow carried air pressure behind it, Henry was flown back.
"You bastard I thought that you rushed here to save big sister, I thought of assisting you "
"But you came here to fulfil your hidden agenda"
March Butterfly cursed out loud.
"Listen to me please"
Henry pleaded.
March Butterfly launched another arrow, this arrow carried fire with it.
"Damn"
Henry cursed as he threw one of his knives to a wall next to him.
using some known method he instantly made a distance of 80 metres between the wall and himself dodging the fire arrow.
"Please listen"
Henry pleaded again.
"Why should I listen to someone from team Rewlong? I should have doubted you because of unclear origins"
March Butterfly threw another Arrow.
"This time Henry did not dodge"
the arrow carrying power wind pierced through Henry's chest making him fly back to the wall again.
Henry fell on the floor as he bled.
March Butterfly walked closer to Henry.
Pointing her arrow towards his head she said
"Why did you fool us all, why?
Henry lifted his head he directly looked into the eyes of her.
Henry saw tears in her eyes.
"Intruders! Intruders"
a loud shout vibrated through the palace.
"Hurry up, let's get out of here first, I will tell you everything once we get out don't worry about big sister "
"Master is protecting her, Big sister would be ok"
Henry said.
"Is Master involved?"
March Butterfly asked.
Henry nodded in reply,
March Butterfly picked Henry up on her back and disappeared.
far away from the palace, on the roof an apartment
two silhouettes appeared, one of them was male and had bandaged on the chest, and the other being a female.
"That knot should be enough to heal you within a week, now tell me everything"
March Butterfly asked Henry.
"Everything was a part of the plan"
Henry said.
"What do you mean by everything? "
March Butterfly questioned.
"The potatoes, the wine and everything that happened today was planned"
Henry explained.
"Tell me in detail"
March Butterfly demanded.
"So listen attentively, I am going to start".
