TASER GUN

"How to get rid of this voice in my head?" Jax asked the fat guy after contemplating for a moment.

"It's not an easy feat to get rid of this type of system..." Marco started hesitantly.

[See, didn't I tell you that it wouldn't be very easy? Actually, it's almost next to impossible. In my opinion, you are just wasting time by listening to his rubbish. Just kill him and get over with it. XP points are more important... ]

Nexus's overly excited voice rang in his head with a hint of gloating which rubbed Jax off in the most unpleasant way.

'Can you please shut up for a moment? Whether I'm wasting time or not, it's my obligation to do so. You don't have a say in it.'

Jax cut it off rather impatiently. After all, he needed at least a moment of quietness to think properly. And he couldn't handle hearing about killing people in its every other sentence.

Then, he focused on the grey round ball, who seemed to need a little push to overcome his hesitation to answer his question.

"Just spit it out, if you know a way to solve my problem. Why bother playing Tai chi with words?" He whisper screamed at the guy who was supposed to be his 'first kill', almost giving the latter a mini heart attack.

But, the fat guy didn't mind it so much as his grin only got bigger.

What the hell is he feeling giddy for?

[Creepy, right? That's why you should get rid... ]

Meanwhile, the system started trying to goad himself to kill this fat guy just because the latter grinned in the least unexpected situation.

'Nexus, you wouldn't really miss a chance to try waver my decision in killing people, would you? Now even grinning became a provocative reason for a person to be punished with death?'

Jax shook his head mentally at the system's relentless attempts to make him give in to it and do its bidding.

He even found its eagerness somewhat cute.

Wait, how could he use the word 'cute' for a robotic voice which wouldn't stop talking about killing even for a second?

Nexus is definitely a bad influence on him. Like really really bad!

He should make sure of getting rid of it. Or else, he would turn into a hopeless outlaw at this rate.

Before he could self admonish some more, he heard the so called first target of him speak which successfully stole his undivided attention.

"You need to find the MONARCH to help you with it." Marco answered slowly.

The MONARCH? Who is that?

However, even before Jax could voice out his thoughts to question the person in front of him any further, Nexus went berserk for no particular reason as it started blaring loudly in his ears.

[NOOO!!! DON'T LISTEN TO HIM!!!]

Jax couldn't think straight for a minute as the system's high pitched voice echoed repeatedly in his head at a rather very high volume that he even feared that the entire grey matter in his brain would be resonating from the sheer intensity of its screams.

And this had Jax clutching his head on both sides tightly, because Nexus seemed to be going all out for hindering him from leaning about anything about this new entity, about whom Marco mentioned for only one time.

At the same time, its hostile reaction clearly confirmed that finding this person was rather useful for him and seemed very harmful for it.

[Stop thinking about the rubbish sprouted by this ugly creep.]

Nexus continued to scream, like it were a three year old child throwing a tantrum in front of his parents for their undivided attention.

As if screaming until his eardrums could explode wasn't enough, it even started to hammer Jax mind with all kind of sounds in all possible frequencies.

Jax felt like his cranial bones would get separated from each other at this rate. He couldn't help but groan in pain when the stupid system wouldn't stop being cranky.

If only Nexus were a human being, Jax would have definitely made the stubborn system his first target to kill it again and again. How he wished he could get rid of it now and here!

On the other hand, God knows what happened to the system, it stopped drilling his skull nail by nail and spoke with a hint of righteous tone to its sickly excited voice.

[I don't mind finding an annoying person to be your next target, but don't you dare think of getting rid of me. Even for a second.]

Nexus reprimanded Jax like the latter were a naughty youth who skipped the morning drill in a military school.

On the other hand, Jax didn't know how to feel now. But at least his brain got a break as Nexus stopped its so called tantrum. He couldn't guarantee how long it would keep calm though.

Thus, he could only brace himself for the inevitable as he asked the fat guard about more details of this 'Monarch.'

"Who is this Monarch you are talking about?" Jax voiced out his thoughts finally.

"Before talking about the MONARCH, I think we should do something about the system in your head. Or else it wouldn't stop torturing you and might kill you even before you could finally come up with a way to get rid of it." Marco, the fat guard with yellowish teeth stated in a neutral tone as if he didn't just talked about the young man's death but some harmless news headline.

Jax didn't know how to respond back. He had met so many weirdos in the span of just a month that he even forgot that he had been desperately trying to get out of this prison for quite some time.

Getting no response from him, the fat guard nudged the young man's shoulder a little and then after gaining a nod as consent, he fished out his taser gun.

Even before Jax could comprehend what the new weirdo was intending to do, he felt a bone tremoring electric shock to the back of his head that left him singing a full stanza of curses in one single breath.

"Rest after lunch until dinner, I'll sneak you out in the middle of the night."

These were words that echoed through his muddle head before he felt the new weirdo leave his match box.