A Bitter Lie

The scream instantly caught my attention and I rushed to where I heard the screaming coming from. But I stopped as soon as I turned the corner, and saw a bloodbath and standing in the middle of it was my teacher.

She gives me a thorough look and smiles widely. "Can you tell me where your mother is? I'll give you a treat if you do." she pulls out an obviously poisoned candy and starts to walk towards me.

I quickly set a needle to check where my mother is while I take another 4 to help me fight

Ecurn notices the wooden needles hovering behind me and gives a weird glance before pulling out a dagger she had hidden somewhere in one of her twenty pockets and rushes at me.

With the needles behind me I try to use my homemade snake hoard technique.

2 of my needles shove themselves at her right. She blocks them easily. And as she turns her vision back on me my other two are on her left and they puncture her neck leaving two vampirelike marks. Ecurn coughs up a lot of blood before giving me a look of despair and falling on the ground.

At this point I check up on my mother and see her through the hallways running towards us.

my original needle not being able to distract her for long enough causes me to panic before I hear another ding.

"A rogue angel has spotted your situation and has given you an ability in exchange for two of your gachas. Congratulations you have been given For a 'Better Truth'.

For a Better Truth Makes in impossibly real basic ilusion by using the fresh soul of someone who didn't want to die or sacrifice themselves. The more souls the bigger the ilusion."

I stand still for a second with a deadpan face before remembering that my mother is still coming towards the scene. Without a second thought I try using the new ability. "For a better truth."

A sudden feeling comes over me and I open my eyes to realise that I'm now floating above my body and the whole world seems to be frozen in time.

Leaning forwards I'm able to go to my teacher's dead body and pull out a ghost like version of her. The soul itself seemed to be slowly fading; it looked like I would disappear soon.

Pulling the soul into my full grasp it comes back to life and stops fading and I start to mold it like clay. I felt like I had been doing this process my whole life and it felt weirdly natural.

I then lay the flattened soul upon the teacher and mold it around her creating a replica of me with a massive stab wound that most people would not be able to survive. Heading back towards my body I take one last look at "my dead body" before putting myself in my real body.

Opening my eyes it felt like I had just had a big nap. Slapping myself fully wake up I return all of my needles, flicking them in the air to get rid of blood. I knew that with my dad dead mother would never let me leave the house by any means she will probably even make my grave in the backyard but with this opportunity she wouldn't be sending anyone to bring me home

I rush into my room grabbing a backpack I had prepared for any occasion where I had to run away from home. Inside said backpack was a tarp, snacks, matches a pillow and a bit of money. Lastly I grab my box with the rest of my needles and put one of the needles from my hand in there as well leaving four left.

Putting my custom leather/metal boots on I put my last four needles into the attached metal pockets one for each side and jump out my window.