Tell me about it!
As soon as the door was pulled leaving a narrow exit gap , Youno tried to flee by his skin on. *Thud* Taking no steps forward his sprint , his feet backed down by a shock to his face.
He pulled a grimace, his hand on his nose "ogh ! shit, this hurts". His eyes shortly opened after the vertige to see what hit him, there was nothing in front except a gloomy wall.
He turned cracking like a robot, looking towards the women and pointing to the wall. His dumb expressions stated 'How is that possible!'.
«There is no actual door in there» the lead woman stood up from her game position, dusted her clothes and looked at him when the other girls were already fixating there menacing gazes.
«I wondered what you were scheming, but for you to flee mid game!» her expressions were angry disappointed. «What is the matter?» she started walking toward him.
«T..Toilet!» He said hesitant. Drops of blood fell between his shoes, he wiped his nose to realize he has an epistaxis "I'm in the edge of holding nature, I thought this was where I can go since the girls came from it (damn, to think without speeding up my nose broke)"
«Toilet!" she exclaimed «You don't need it here» she was displaying I know you are lying.
She approached him «so..» .He tapped the wall by the back of his hand, trying to leave some steps between them, it was pushed violently back to him (A countering shield! how I can go past that!).
«What is the reason of you fleeing» She put her index under his chin and lowered his face to see his expressions. Glimpsing to her snake eyes his composure dropped, showing the disgusted in fear self he tried to hide all this time. «It was part of the gaaame!» his eyes swayed slowly to the left
"You look terrified"
He pull an uneasy laugh «me! Terrified! why would I be?»
«You tell me~» her eyes widened, her cornea contour blurred merging with her sclera and waves started coming from her vertical pupil. The methodical hissing and the continuous rattling in the background, made by the other girls, increased the hypnotizing effect. Youno's eyes were riveted by hers, falling prey inside the relaxing atmosphere.He was surrounded by wilting grasse swaying by a black wind under the golden sun, his mind was omitted inside the illusion.
«Why are you terrified?» she asks fixating her eyes on him.
He was silent, his mouth started drooling and his self seemed empty of any reason. «Why... are you terrified?» she repeated again as he took long to answer.
His pupil widened covering approximately half of his eyes «I remembered that you are an ugly snake, holy fuck so ugly that you make me puke. So ugly that my skin scream in pain from your touch and my insides shiver by your girly voice resonating in my drums. So ugly that I wish to poke my eyes and bleach them to forget such creature exist.So ugly that...»
«Stop ..!» she tried to interrupt pissed off but he continued «And I'm not talking about your appearance, being a huge snake with ore seaweed coloured scales, deep green shiny eyes, a dignified king or queen living among your sisters hunting together inside a majestic nest... I find it beautiful. But not accepting your self and changing to make someone feel excited is a hideous play.»
She was silent rethinking about what he said «Well, to survive you need to adapt. I'll hatch my skin and morph as many as it takes to build the energy to leave this place» she shouted defending herself.
She smacked her hand suddenly on the door, shut it to the wall, entrapping Youno and gazing to his eyes «But how come you know all that!» she questioned suspiciously, she remained in the human form all along their interaction and no distortion in her shape shifting could be spotted by a non magic user as himself. How did she know he can't use magic! Well, she is a monster and can feel preys and higher predators magic power, a useful ability to only engage in wining battles. «It also leaves how did you enter my cell! You don't look like the prisoners she brings me at meals times, and it was decades since she last put someone for me to fed on» «How did you end here?»
His eyes turned shaking to the right «I dreamed, opened a door then dreamed again and opened this door».
She looked askance of this vague answer «Are you making a fool of me!».
«Nah, that's what happened really. I also found it dumb when I say it like that. I keep getting thrown in places I know nothing about. I have some revelation dream, I suppose, it was true two times already »
«And how did you get here?»
«From the entrance door as I said earlier» He responded in a dumb way stating 'I already said that, are you retarded!'
«You want me to believe that!» she stared at him as if he was spitting nonsense.
«Well, it's the truth!»
She accepted his answer as he can't lie when under her hypnosis, but she wanted to get sure about his statements after a way in was revealed a way out can be there. A girl came with a chair for her to sit on, she adjusted comfortably then catechized him about every detail from his first dream to getting in here. «And don't talk in the dumb vague manner you use to answer without really giving an answer» she clarified as his way of talking was confusing to know his true intention. It's easier to have all the storyline from him than trying to ask specific questions he will dodge by actually truly responding «Answer seriously»
«Hmmm!» he put his hand on his chin thinking then wandered like a guarding soldier «left go, right go, clear in proceed». He returned again to his spot in front of her «Nah, that didn't work» and he leaned on the closed door, deep in thoughts the fist under the chin.
«What are you doing?!» she expressed her confusion.
«Loading my seriousness in front of the sergent» he replied with a serious face «But I realized what does a weak woman have to do between the ranks of soldiers! But then I remembered that you are strong and we are in an equally rights for men and women country.But then wondered what is this country I'm in now, does it even have an army! And for what crime a sergent was held captive and why am I an accomplice? why am I following orders for a higher up purpose and dreams in life? Then I settled in not questioning orders, that's easier on my mind»
«Wai...wai..wai...what?» she shut him up by a hand gesture. «Didn't I clearly state not to go out of track! Are you truly dumb?» He stared at her in dumb static face, realizing it is hopples she adds «Just pull any silly details out, I can put your disoriented speech together»
His eyes sparkled like a puppy «My dream girl!»
«What the hell!» she smacked her face
«Will you be my wife?»
She waved her hand in carry on «Yeah, yeah, whatever, just tell me what you know ( You will be actually disposed off when you consume your usefulness, you will become a husband eventually)(But who the hell wants to be eaten!) -she took a glimpse to him- (yeah, that guy)» «Start already, I'm all ears»
«OK, ok, so here it is. From before I came here I was executed, I died...you sure you are not an angel trying to fulfil my desire!» she stayed silent «Sorry, sorry, that was an out of track» he scratched his hair. «Anyway, I thought like I was in heaven, the scenery was beautiful, not more than you of course.». «(Beautiful! Weren't I ugly!)» -she remarked- . «Horrors were coated in a pleasant wind, fresh drops of goblin's blood mixed in the flowers aroma...Do you have a manga to read?.... Then an axe broke the scenery » he did a DUDUM! gesture « And TACK, my head flow spinning, dying above death, what the fuck that was a first..sorry for the inappropriate language.. All was upside down, it got dark then bright, I was in the same fucking place minutes before I died..Sorry again... The axe was thrown to the tree, I dodged it, what a handy ability. It was a titan!» he narrated acting with his face and body « he aimed to crash me, but as I'm this world's main character I handled him easily...Ultra Instinct!... The heroine's spot is empty by the way» he winked «A door appeared in the damn mountain , I opened it to hell to realise I'm in heaven meeting you» he formed a heart by his hand « and.. uuuh..and..and that's it, I was on your lap after I got suffocated by a girl's boobs, shit why didn't I die then!»
He stayed silent regaining his calm breathing, they were staring at each other blinking in a deafening silence. His chest regained his calmness but he didn't spit any other words.
She tilted her head as in 'go on'. «That was it!» he stated
She looked at him in a straight face, he really did spit only silly things leaving the crucial detail she wanted « Tell me more about this door you went in»
«Well, as I said, it was built on a mountain. A huge volcanic frame held by chains centred by a glitching hour glass. He spoke to me in carved fire, can you believe that I was having a conversation with a door! Thinking about it, maybe he was the prison guard or something who communicates from it, like a door can articulate words silly me. But then, this is a magic world, objects can also have a consciousness maybe! Oh, the ring, my ring» he checked his left index by his hand «Where is my ring!He spoke to me, did he! Am I going crazy! Where is my ring, where is it?» He was disoriented.
«Easy, easy» she tried to calm him down «It's on your ring finger». He checked his little finger «On your, ring finger» she pointed to her finger «The second from the left». He checked again his index, «The other left!», he checked his right hand.
«Haaahe!» she passed her palms above her face in tired disappointment «(How can a person be this dumb!) You can actually look at your hands»
«Oh!» he saw the ring worn in his 'second tall finger' «Her he is». «But I never put it here» He said confused.
«My bad, it was me who took it and put it there after an examination»
He looked at the ring, then at her, to the ring again and to her. He put his hand on his mouth and gasped «Hah, I do!»
«You do what?»she was puzzled.
«Accepting your mariage proposal!» he wiped imaginary tear of joy from his eye «I'm so happy, I was anxious this day would never come»
«Marriage!» she was even more puzzled
«Being your husband of course, belonging to you in a monogamic relationship, that if the gendre of the story wasn't a harem . Either way, you will be my first favorite don't worry»
«I don't need your consent, everything in this cell belongs to me»
He behaved as a puppy again «Badasse!I like it»
« Anyway, just proceed talking about this fire looking door of yours, why did you enter willingly when you were outside?»
«I wasn't outside, he said and he kept following me, I got annoyed and surrounded to his request, it was more of an order I couldn't escape to be blunt»
«And where is that door?» she leaned forward, looking enthusiastically.
He looked around the room , there wasn't another door beside the one behind him «I don't see it here»
«Of course it is not!» here cold blood boiled in reproach.
«Sorry!» He was shut mouthed and open eyed. She took a sigh accepting that he doesn't know where is the exit she hopped for. What did she expect from a human who claims slaying a titan single handedly, but it doesn't seem he is lying, maybe he is delusional, but delusions holds some of the truth in there fabric. It's reassuring something exists behind those walls, an exit mentioned is enough to nourish her hope.However she's now curious about the other dream, maybe it has some answers «And what happened in this second dream of yours to make you frightened, pale on my sight»
«AAA..» he grit his teeth like refusing to answer.She stood up and smacked him to the door, a detail he looks hesitant to spit out could be her answer «Tell me!» she ordered when her eyes shone brighter.
«You realized I don't feel excited so you ate me alive.» «Why did you have to mess your beautiful image in my mind by making me remember!» His eyes reflected the throes of his ripping apart scenery, lighted in golden fire swayed dancing burning the dried grass, the green plants turned to summer wheat flames.
««AAAAGH! My eyes»» They screamed simultaneously covering their eyes in pain.
After a brief time Youno regained his eyes sparkle and returned facing reality, realizing he gave a deadly testament he kept waiting powerless for the outcome. he looked to her direction waiting for an attack to pierce his frail body, yet she was pressing her eyes in agony while blood flowing between her fingers.
«What did just happen?»she was supporting her self on the chair. Her mouth widened, her teeth sharpened, her tongue split halfway from the middle and some of her face covered in scales «It's still soon for this body to crumble» she coughed blood «Did I overuse my visuel powers!»
She moped the blood from her monstrous face by her sleeve. Keeping her eyes closed and face toward the ground, she started talking in hisses to see by her heat detection «You sssay you don't feel excsssited but you overflow in energy Sss.». «You keep lying in front of my facssse!» she turned violently looking at him.
She was starting to show furiousness by her expressions when an abrupt realisation struck her all at once. Washing the anger by a confused «wait!», a frown carved in her upper face wrinkles of surprise.
Her vision displayed Youno's form shining, in front of a pale grey blue layer, in yellow broke by green and stained by purple and red convections. The colours were vividly bright, the radiant lights formed a halo around his body covering the switched off places and the non alive surrounding particles. It was true that he overflows in energy, though it wasn't created in lust or excitement.
«Are you gay!» she concluded.
«What?»
«You don't get excited by girls is that it!»
«I like girls!» he opened his mouth in a cutting retort.
«There's no shame in it»
«I'm not gay!» he shouted furiously before he calmed down. «But oooh! Maybe girls don't excite me cause I'm loyal to my crush (in my conscious state)» He scratched his nose proudly.
«You are proud, are you!»
«Hhhhh, of course!» «( But thinking about it reasonably, did I get reincarnated into a gay character! That would explain the feminine dress I was wearing. A character who have the same eyes and recognisable features as me, yet black haired and ten times more handsome. One could tell it's me getting an impossible glow up or something)» «Loyalty is a rare thing, and to do it by heart! I'm a rare catch.... who no one wants» «(It's sad that I erased someone to take his place)»
She was amazed by his talk.
«But how come you know about gays and not love and marriage!» he realized «Love is love! And Legalize same sex marriage» He was mimicking a protester holding a sign «No!»
«I don't know what you are talking about. It was a person who stated he doesn't get excited by girls cause he was gay. I questioned him on the matter and he elaborated, like how it's useless to try bringing him into heat. Yet, I sensed lust from him, the instinct to procreate can't be overcome, no matter how you oppressed it lying to yourself it escapes sometimes. His reaction was cold holding on his convictions, he reminded me of your state, however I don't sense any tiny tiny fragment of lust on you»
She gazed to his shiny form when she spotted another distortion. His heart was not the source of the sentiments she is detecting, it was rather displayed as a little dark space covered by blazing supernovas lights, a black switched off area filed of void and hollow beats.
«I sense nothing from your heart. It's as if you don't have one, but that is impossible» she informed him.
«Are you alluding that I'm heartless! That's mean to say from your part» he cracked a joke to dodge the statement.
«What is mean is that your mind holds so much sadness and an immense fear towards me to death»
«To death!» he lifted his brows «Maybe I fear to get stabbed and eaten alive, but to fear you that much! You don't even frighten me as yourself after this conversation»
He rolled his eyes in awareness «Yet you are right, I feel frightened, deep fear that I don't know from where it comes (maybe it's his emotions!)»
«Enough chitchatting, this conversation took more than planed already» she seemed annoyed «Your mind is totally open, the thing I never considered before, but now I can use that».
Youno's glowing was getting sucked into her body till his frame became faint coloured in wilting dying roses. «Aaah, so much energy» her eyes closed , still, showing satisfaction.
He leaned on his side exhausted, his head spinning and his vision darkened. He felt like having an anaemic seizure. «But it's not yet enough» Her face rested, her claws sharpened to blades and she sliced his hand off his shoulder like cutting melting butter.
His eyes widened open looking at blood gushing from his injury, he grabbed his shoulder letting out a screech . The racking pain arrived, like thunder following a lightening, after he spotted his hand tossed on the ground . He kept screaming trying to hold the bleeding, but it was no use, his legs run cold and he fell to the ground.
«AAAAH! It hurts, it hurts, it hurts.. why, why, why.... GHaaaheghnghhhne» He was squeling.
A finger was put on his mouth «sshht, you are hurting my ears». He kept sobbing, looking at her from the top of his eyes.
She spit venom on her other hand, then placed it on his injury. A burning sound rose, blood coagulated , his bleeding stopped and the pain ceased «Better!» she playfully stated. He silently was watching the process of his wound closing, sobbing quietly at times, and she was looking at his energy flow. He glowed again in yellow and blue «Yeah, it's better» she adds before again absorbing his glowing.
«You know!» she grabbed his tossed hand «Beside lust and content the heart exteriorize» and she placed it above it's original place on the shoulder «There is fear and pain the mind conjure» she inserted the hand violently into it, he screamed by a tingling pain «A greater source of energy and easier to create, but the mind usually leaks a little from it» she rotated the hand inside his flesh hole, steam build up accompanied by another burning sound, the fibres linked with each other «But with you, it's not the case. So we will change our approach from now on»
She backed off «Your hand is better now». He was out of words «It's as efficient as new» she continued indicating check it out.
He did a fist then undid it, flex his biceps and rotated his shoulder. He felt no pain it was as if it wasn't cut off earlier. He was quiet moving his hand in various direction surprised of this occurring «(an injury like that was healed so easily!)»
He was contemplating the wonder that happened in front of him silently when she hit his jaw suddenly making it unlock and fall before him without even bleeding. He tried to scream but he couldn't, a chocking sound was created by the air coming from his lungs «We say thank you! And that's also for calling me ugly.
He was covering his open mouth by two hands «Let's finish our game. But let's change the rules shall we! If you win a round I heal your injury and if you lost I rip a body part from you. What do you think?»
His frame lighted by yellow and red, his eyes shone showing rage. «Oh you are mad! But if you have a disagreement we can talk it out». Without a jaw to articulate words all he said was «Ah oh (fuck you)».
«You have nothing!» she carried on «So it's decided then»