Eventide ~ a spicy noodles fanfic

Chapter 21. Guilt

Soon, the entire hill was filled with high pitched laughter and loud wind as the breeze formed into Iron fan. Red son couldn't believe his eyes.

"Hello, son. Did you enjoy your vacation?" She said with a smirk.

Red son remained silent, his eyes bloodshot open. She was back.

Mk stood up and held onto Red sons shoulder.

"It's okay. I'll make her leave." He said determined.

"I see that the plan worked. You actually got him to trust you and pretend to be his friend! You finally did something correct!" Iron fan continued laughing.

The awful feeling swallowed Red son once more. He slowly turned his head toward Mk who was already staring at him in utter disbelief.

"Pretending...?"

Red son tried to speak. He tried to reassure him as Mk had to him so many times. Every time he tried, his throat felt hoarse and small stutters escaped.

Mk's expression finally turned from disbelief into anger.

"How could you do this to me? I trusted you! I-"

Iron grabbed Mk before he could finish his sentence. Red son remained still instead of helping.

Before they teleported away, Red son could barely see a single tear fall from Mk's eye.

When they were gone, it was silent. Almost so silent you could hear the moon if it were to make a sound.

Red son collapsed. The feeling eating him alive, he wanted to throw up. He wished so hard to simply dig the feeling out of his guts deep in his stomach but he didn't move.

With a shaky breath, he finally figured out what that feeling was.

Guilt.

He knew all along that their friendship wasn't fake yet he still didn't say anything about the plan. He played along as if nothing was wrong.

He felt so sick. The feeling stung like a million bugs slowly eating him alive. All he wanted to do was see Mk again.

So, he slowly stood up and tried to walk.

Before he knew it, he was back at the city and bumped into Mei coincidentally.

"Oh! Hey red! Where's Mk? I was trying to call. I was wondering if you guys wanted to go to the  arcade tonight?"

Red son twitched upon hearing his name and choked back tears.

"M-my mom.. took him.."

Meis happy expression quickly faded.

"Where did they go."

"My home... "

"How could you let this happen."

The second she said those words, Mei was gone in a flash of green.

Red son wanted to rip his own throat out. She was right. How could he let this happen?

Red son tried to follow and run. He tried his hardest to run for as long as he could, but He got so tired compared to Mk's great running ability. He felt guilty once more.

Mei had made it to the castle and peeked into a room where Mk faced Iron Fan. Bull king was weakly standing beside his wife, still with bandages coating his body.

"I messed you up before, I can do it again."  Mk said confidently facing Bull king, whipping out his staff.

"No, talk to me, boy." Iron fan said with a grin.

The second those words escaped her mouth, Mk was already at Bull King, striking him with all of his clones at once.

Bull king tried to attack but was still so weak. With a loud roar that was loud enough to echo through the city, Bull king fell permanently unconscious.

Dust slowly cleared and Mk walked out, wiping blood from his nose and glaring at Iron Fan.

"Not so threatening without a big scary husband, huh?"