Assistant System

[Activate part two]

Kuo did not understand a word being fed into his vision as peered up at the words being pushed onto him. He was nothing more than a helpless spectator in this whole thing as he sat in the nothingness that lay before him.

The hobbling stick fell over to his surprise not getting back up he quickly noticed. Keeping a constant gaze on the person there.

"Boo! Did I scare you?" A girl laughed.

He couldn't answer back. She had perfect pleated braids leaned over her short pink cheongsam. She paraded around in front of Kuo.

"You can't talk can you?" She asked.

Kuo nodded his head back and forth several times. The look on her face as though she knew right away was on her lips.

"Feng! Get away from him!" A voice chimed.

"Madame Hu!" She shouted.

"He is a traitor and works with Briar Black!" She scolded.

Suddenly it came back to him. Li-Hua held that card and the Goddess didn't know anything. It was someone else's plan to kill Atlus.

Kuo wanted to speak out, but his lungs were muted by some unseen magic. He only let out a silent push of air through his lungs in an attempt to speak.

Another woman made her kick him in the face. Visible tears ran down her cheek as she wiped them away with the sleeves of her long orange and white hanfu.

"I will never allow you to speak!" She argued.

She was beyond upset with Kuo. Li-Hua's body wasn't even touched. He wondered if she was dead; they didn't even give her the courtesy of clothing to cover her nakedness.

"Feng! We leave in a few hours to court!" Hu explained.

"Understood Madame Hu!"

Court?! Why am I being pushed into the judicial system he speculated. How did I even do it in the first place?! His mind was exploding with many scenarios and none that made any sense no matter the brainpower he put into it.

[You will be safe assistant, Kuo. be calm as I can feel your heart racing]

Be calm? Be calm?! How can I be calm when I am about to be tried for something I never did! He reflected thoughtfully.

[You will not make it past the judgment assistant Kuo]

Kuo wriggled to and fro feeling jumpy as the two exited. He felt his life was in danger and yet this robotic female voice told him otherwise. Who would even come to save someone like him?

[Assistant Kuo! Be still please you are going to harm yourself]

He wanted out yet everything felt against him. Kuo always felt he was kind his whole life yet now he was stuck in the place of dreaded nightmares. His family always warned him and told him many things that they felt would help him yet now he was stuck between a rock and a hard place.

[I am going to instruct you!]

The voice yelled. He finally stopped and listened. He had no idea what it was capable of, but he needed to trust it.

[Indentifying spells used…loading please wait…]

Lying there patiently he waits for results. The noise in his reminded him of old dial up when he was younger, but why is this system akin to a computer?

He breathed out to realize he could speak again. The binding became lose and breakable Kuo decided to pretend playing it smart in his venture in this new world.

[Becareful assistant Kuo]

Undertood he thought to himself, maybe the system was useful after all. He didn't know it could do many things.

"Is Li-Hua dead?" He whispered.

[Checking…]

Kuo became worried thinking about his long time friend. She laid there so peacefully and unmovable from the spot she was in.

[I determine there is visible signs of life in assistant Li-Hua]

"Assistant? Li-Hua is also one of these?!" He said softly.

[Briar Black planned this assistant Kuo]

He felt like he wanted to throw a tantrum, a fit, throw his hands up in the air and find whoever this Briar Black was and why he was here and involved in his life.

Men in dressed in white suits and hat covering their eyes came in to take Kuo when he lept to his feet sticking one hand out at the two men.

"I have undone the s-spell!" Kuo shouted.

His legs shook in the appearance of the two men weakening for mere seconds. A beep could be heard in his ears phasing out his consciousness.

"Madam Hu will be soar with us if he doesn't come!" A man explained.

[Auto-possession]

"N-no!" Kuo shouted.

The two men had no idea how to react. He slumped forward on his knees. One of them shrug pulling him up only to be dragged down by the collar of his shirt gawking into the face of two red eyes with fury.

"Would you both like to play a game?" Kuo asked.

His hands on his hip looking at the guardsman that came for him now intimidated by his being.

"A game? Look we need to meet Madam Hu!"

"I see…you don't want to play, but I do!" Kuo shouted.

The other man attempted to free his friend from Kuo's grip to do a running bash. Crashing into both Kuo and the worker instead of knocking him out of the way.

"Chaos BURST!" Kuo yelled.

An explosion of white light blinded all three. The blast ate into laborers skin pushing a hole into his stomach. Kuo laughed out.

"If I am going to be trialed then I will make it for an actual reason!" Kuo snapped.

His flesh now smoldering under the heat caused from the outburst. He gazed up at his friend bowed over in pain holding the non existent tissue that now sat a heap on the floor in front on them.

Kuo's fingers trembled coming back to himself. His face white as a sheet gawking at the men only trying to do their job.

"T-Take me to Atlus…" Kuo huffed.