💫MMGJ-2.3🪞

💫Event 29🍀

So that's the second part of this plan.

Down the chute we both go.

Out of the interconnected space of the portal I traversed as the Queen spun aimlessly in the air and turned to meet my green eyes. It was a little eerie how intent her black eyes were. For now, I must steady and keep her busy as everything is rolled to perfection.

The question is how I would do that.

Hmmm.. What should I do here? Come on. Think fast. I can't allow her any time to think and devise a plan. It would ruin every part of this loosely explained plan.

She's probably already getting an idea of what was going on. No matter, since all the plans before had failed offscreen without any proper results but only making a properly agitated queen, I will give this my all. Manipulate the vines, entrap her and get to busily restraining her. Alright.

As I accomplished this speedily, I caught up with her in the chute and restrained her from the back with my blade. It was nothing much as she shattered it in quick succession. I then recieved a sharp kick to my stomach, being sent directly flying as I made a hole in the metal chute. I could feel my head reeling in small circles as I felt immense sharp pain.

Then I heard a loud bang at the end.

Did she just hit the metal casket?

Moving back to the original placement and making makeshift bandages for myself out of vines, I looked down. Chaos could be heard from above somehow. Below, there was no sound. Nothing to actively hear.

Concerned, I slid down the chute with vines about, to ensure that I wouldn't come in contact with the designed material akin to the Fairytale Treatment. It would be terrible if I had to somehow get out of the trouble. Once I landed on a safe spot, my eyes widened exponentially at the silent sight.

"Help! Help! Prisoners have escaped!"

"I repeat! Prisoners have escaped!"

"All unnecessary members with combative experience must engage in recapture!"

"I repeat! Prisoners have escaped!"

The knights have escaped? I should have seen that coming. Alright. Time to chase after that queen. Where could she be now?

I doubt she would know that she was currently at a disadvantageous, out of her own world and all. It was quite interesting how a mysterious sponsor added essential information about how the Queen could only manipulate elements in her home turf. With every step I took, I hurried forth in a confident posture. I was to not kill her. She does have a curse of immortality after all.

Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry.

No time to waste jogging.

Even without the abilities to freely control Dahlian soil, matter and element, I know that she can break anything apart with her fists alone. It was most serious on how there showed a tale of how she specially forged swords exclusively for her knights by her own hands alone. It just sounds crazy.

Further on.

Further on, I spy with my little eye; a face of grey familiarity. There stood Lethargy. I haven't seen him in quite a while. Where had he been? Hold on. No time to play some catchup. I have a task at hand. Be serious. As serious as one can be, in such a important task. Acedia was out there risking their life to play as the Queen and ensure ignorance.

I can't afford to let them down. It would be wicked to do that. Only the heartless could do such a thing; to waste time so casually as another's life was on the line in this duty.

Knowing this, I won't.

"Lethargy! Have you seen the Queen? She's here now!" I interrogated aloud, trying my best to keep calm and professional in my tone. "Everything may have fallen apart as she didn't recieve the Fairytale Treatment!"

No reply.

Why was he staring at me like that?

"Oh, is that so?"

Suddenly, my eyes glimpsed the truth. It was the Queen's appearance. Perhaps she had an secret ability outside of being the Queen. How could I have been so blind? My eyes.. It hurts. My face... A pounding headache upon myself.

With a ample strike to my face and nearing my eyes, she took me off guard and then delivered a strong roundhouse kick to send me flying across the hallways. Recovering, I stood up and called down more blades to my aid as I instinctively dealt with her fast attacks, by my good enough dodging skills.

Once my blades arrived, I took them up and attempted multiple parry strikes to hopefully take this battle up in a good way. Effortlessly, she shattered the blades. No matter. I shall think of something. Giving up hope just wasn't like me. There's always something to turn the tides. Come on. I can think of something.

Across all these vague colourful hallways, these questionable floorboards and set-like areas, it can't be impossible to borrow the environment to my own advantage. It may be difficult to slice or stab her directly, but I think blunt attacks would fare better. Those likely would work better.

Barely parrying and evading her attacks, I soon found my sparkling golden opportunity as we neared a metal table in this wrecked hallway. With my leg, I flipped the table over onto the Queen and slammed it down. In a single minute, I then leapt to shove myself onto the table and ensure a proper impact and attack on the Queen. She reacted immediately by trying to kick me away and couldn't move her arms due to the cold, heavy and metal table atop her body.

"Stop resisting!"

"Absolutely no!"