The Ones Within: Utaite Version

Chapter 36: Poison

"So? Care to tell us what happened?", Kradness asked while they were driving. Hashiyan laid down, as Eve looked to see if he was injured, and explained everything that happened.

"So long story short, I pretended to be dead. You should have seen the work I've done!

I even had some tears in the corner of my eyes.", Hashiyan explained as Eve tried to comprehend everything.

"So you drunk the slow-working poison to neutralize the poison from the pill.", Eve said and waited for Hashiyan to confirm it which he did with a nod. "Yep, it's working.

I feel slowly better.", Hashiyan assured them as Kradness only sighed.

"Why are you doing such things? You... you idiot.", Kradness said as Hashiyan could only laugh at the weak insult.

"Coccalap likes to do that with many intruders. He loves to play his games with them. So when he said that a package was added I already had a bad feeling.", Kradness told him as he could only sigh again. "I am just glad that you're alright.

You really had good luck to be able to win that game and come back here.", Kradness said as Hashiyan's smile disappeared and he could only think back to it. "No... that wasn't luck.

That girl put the right poison in two of the cups. The small bottle with the deadly poison was still like before. It looked exactly like when I gave it to her. It's just because that when I saw that she just took the bottle in her hands as if it was nothing... it made me angry.

So angry that I closed the lid of the bottle so strong and tight that she couldn't open it with her own hands the second time.", Hashiyan explained when he thought back to the time when she gave him the bottle hidden in the handkerchief.

He noticed that she could have informed Coccalap to open it for her.

But instead she gave it back to him. As he wondered about that he closed his eyes. I wonder if that was a favor she did for me...

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Sakata and Mafumafu looked at the hot soup in front of them as Mafumafu looked at Sakata worried. "I know that I'll be fine... but what about you Sakatan?", Mafumafu asked as Sakata smiled confidently. "I can do this! If Mafudon can eat this then I can to! Also, the people here all seemed so nice so we just have to try their food! Let's dig in!", Sakata said as he took a spoon.

"Yes, it probably has to do something with the clue that was given to us. Maybe something will happen after we eat the food.", Mafumafu nodded determined as he took one as well and tried a bit. It was hot and spicy but that didn't bother Mafumafu. What bothered him a bit was the taste.

He wasn't a great cook but this soup wasn't really enjoyable. Sakata tried some as well but as soon as he did he coughed making Mafumafu look over to him worried.

"Sakatan? Are you sure you can do this? It's really spicy and you are kinda crying...", Mafumafu said as he looked at Sakata who gave a thumbs up and shook his head.

"I'm fine! This soup tastes great!", Sakata said as the cook looked overly happy hearing that.

"Is that so? That makes us very happy. We have many other dishes so please dig in.", he said as Sakata just gulped before eating some again burning his lips.

Mafumafu looked over to Sakata to see how much he was suffering and the food was terrible unlike usually. But because the people were so nice to make them the food Mafumafu couldn't refuse the offered food and he knew Sakata felt the same way as the two of them forced to eat the food.