Summer vacation is upon me, this means, my academic duties are done. That means, I have come to return regularly published chapters.
Well enjoy, this new one.
---ZACK---
As I sat on the cold metal chair and put the suspicious metal helmet onto my head, I couldn’t stop the feeling of excitement that I was experiencing rather than worrying for myself like how Ryosei is reacting now.
“I’m ready, Vesania-sama for whatever you’re going to throw at me.” I said to him as I smiled.
“Good.” he said as he smiled rather wickedly with a sudden pull of the lever.
As I saw the lever get pulled down, I immediately felt a surge of emotions go through me as if my life flashed before my eyes. My body sense that this was dangerous but my mind opposed what my body was trying to tell me. Next thing, I closed my eyes to ease the instinctive worry. Then, the machine does nothing but explode colourful confetti. I could hear Vesania laughing like Joker would, as I opened my eyes with shock with what just happened. Maybe, Vesania is really out-of-whack because all of his research.
“Congrats, kid. You’re not dead yet.” Vesania said, still laughing uncontrollably.
Then, Praeuro stands up from his seat and shoves Scleritas aside as he takes Vesania’s collar and raise him off the ground.
“Stop messing up the test.” Praeuro said angrily as he seemingly was smouldering in rage, figuratively and physically, apparently while I everyone felt to their silence as everyone knew how he gets angry and never will that be a great thing to see, even for me.
“That was just a preparation to lighten up the mood, Praeuro.” Vesania told, then, he just laughs there, insanely.
“What the hell? Are you laughing for?” Praeuro shouted across the entirety room and he was already squeezing Vesania’s neck.
“This.” Vesania stopped laughing as he pushed a button on his phone.
Immediately, a surge of electricity flows right through me which caused my vision to go blur and the only things that I can sense is that Praeuro dropped down the floor, shaking like I am while Vesania just stood there and looked at Praeuro. Then, I passed out, completely. The next thing, I knew, I was sitting in my room and Praeuro was there with me.
“What happened?” I asked him as he looked around, my room.
“You, do, truly idolized us. Huh?” Praeuro asked as he looked at the Founders poster and soon, locked his gaze unto mine.
“Yes. Praeuro-sama.”
“The Founders will be glad about that, now, if I may ask, who are the ones, in your home?” Praeuro kept asking as he still stared into my eyes which was now becoming unsettling.
“My parents, my sister and my adoptive brother.”
“And you are informed that I lead the world’s supply for fuel? And you know what happens, if I ceased to exist as a Founder?” he continued to ask as he held my family portrait. “The world will be plunged into war because they’ll fight over such an insignificant material.”
“Not to interrupt. But, what is happening here? We’re at my home, Praeuro-sama, I don’t get it. We’re once inside the Capital Tower and immediately, I’m here.”
“Don’t worry. You’ll understand everything afterwards.” he stated.
“What?” I asked him as he burned our family portrait and everything else, burned around him. “Praeuro-sama, what’s happening? Why are you setting everything on fire?” I asked him as I got confused, walking to and fro, then, I just saw that the fire, began to spread while Praeuro was unconscious in the middle of the fire, free from scorch marks. “PRAEURO-SAMA!”
Immediately, I acted quickly and took my blanket, trying to kill the fire by blowing it off. But, instead of the flames dying, it just grew stronger, so I decided to plunge myself into the fire and get Praeuro from the fire, then, I hear my family downstairs as they were screaming for help. Instinctively, I went downstairs as I carried Praeuro on my back.
“Praeuro-sama, what do you eat, you’re getting heavier by each passing moment.” I told myself as I was struggling to get him off the stairs, daring not to resort in dragging him off the floor.
When I reached the dinner room, I could see my family that they were all unconscious, intoxicated with the fire’s toxic fumes. Immediately, I saw the door still open and got a blanket to drag all of them outside. Starting with Praeuro and my sister, then, I proceeded to take my father and mother, outside to safety and I just kept coughing now with the intensity of the smoke that I was inhaling, now, it was only Ryosei that I needed to get out. But, before, I could do such a deed. The burning ceiling falls off Ryosei, instinctively, I took it upon myself to protect from the burning rubble but I felt myself, slipping between life and death as the third-degree burns were all too much for my body.
“Ryo-kun. Wake up, save yourself.” I told him as I still had the burning pile on my back as I tried to halt it from crashing down on Ryosei. Then, I realized that he was really unconscious, I slipped to unconsciousness as I let out a tear for my failure and the last thing that I heard was the burning chunks of our house came crashing down to burn the both of us.
Then, I came back into consciousness and I was still seated on the metal chair and that Praeuro was already standing while Ryosei had been beside me, the entire time. Immediately, I hugged Ryosei and cried as I believe all of that was real.
“Well, I wasn’t wrong to take you in and survive your obnoxious cries for days. I can prove that he is loyal to the Founders.” Praeuro declared and everyone was clapping for me.
“Now, do you wish to continue with your plan, Nashio-kun?” Temoro asked me.
“I still want to. I can still do it. I want to prove my complete, unconditional and undying loyalty to all of you.” I said.
“Are you insane? You’re body whimpered from whatever happened. Yet, you wish to continue?” Ryosei said.
“He is right. We can’t risk anyone to go crazy over this test.” Stiriacus said as he stood up.
“I can do it.”
“Then, let me take you on, next.”
“Don’t do this.” Ryosei said.
“I’ll be okay.”
In the corner of my eye, I saw Ryosei go back to his seat and searched through his bag. Suddenly, the painful electric shock surges again and this time, Stiriacus was going to invade my thoughts. But, before I could passed out, I felt that something had crawled beneath my clothes and that something phased through my chest. That’s when I urged myself to look that Ryosei’s eyes were brown instead of his gold. Not only is a Founder, but a soul, is about take a tour inside my head.
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