Chapter 56(End of Stage 4, part 1)
Every action causes consequences huh...
Tch.
With that, two weeks passed and the first part of the stage ends. The system didn't do anything for that period at all, is it trying to find the right moment? Or has it already made its move but the effect is not immediate and obvious...
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I wake up. My body felt sore...of course, it will be.
After that fight with devilman, there were lots of doubts and people kept challenging me, I killed every one of them in one hit though and none in Japan dared to mess with me now.
I also used my free time to train with my clone to prepare for whatever the system is planning.
My speed and power drastically increased. My swordsmanship also became sharper.
I check my phone to see the information on the one who placed a bounty on me.
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Wait...this woman?!!
She's the same woman I fought in that underground arena when I tried to save Ika and Reina!!
Her name is... Azusa?
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She first kidnapped Ika and Reina to get information about me...
Now she puts a bounty on me?
Is she this desperate or...
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That's when I noticed I fell into her trap.
Shit... It's all coming together.
I receive a call from Eugen.
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I answer it and he told me the location we are meeting up at.
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It's a mansion in Osaka? Tch...
I travel to the mansion and see the group outside the mansion, waving to me with that carefree attitude...
I follow them into the mansion and Azusa is just sitting on a couch near the entrance.
She looks at us and smiles as if she expected my presence.
Eugen sends Azusa the recording and she hands a credit card to Eugen. As we are about to leave, she says "By the way, can we talk for a while Kel? Or... Should I call you Karma?"
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"Y-You are Karma?!" Exclaims Luis.
I glare at her with my fist clenched.
"Fine. You guys go." I say.
"W-Wait! What! I'm so confused-" before Kelli can finish her sentence, the bodyguards pushed them out of the mansion.
"You've been trying so damn hard to find me. What do you want?" I say.
"I will get straight to the point," says Azusa. "Work under me. Your salary will be three times the amount of an average high paying job. How about it?"
True...this is a very appealing deal but...
"Number 1, I don't like working under someone for numerous reasons. Number 2, I need a large sum of money in a short amount of time. And number 3... What makes you think that I don't know the fact that you are trying to use me?"
Azusa smirks. "You don't have a choice. If I remember correctly, you have a sister in the hospital right? If you refuse-"
I immediately grab the chair I am sitting on and rip the wood off from the side with my pure strength before glaring at her. "DO THAT AND I WILL CHASE AFTER YOU TO THE ENDS OF EARTH."
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Azusa sighs. "Alright but let me tell you something. Everyone now knows that you are both Kel and Karma. After that show you put on in the first part, it's very obvious to almost everyone now. So obviously...people are going to start coming after you. However, if you do join me, nobody will touch you."
Tch.
"I don't need your help. They can come at me all they want."
After all, they are nothing but cannon fodder to me; Come at me however you want if you want to donate your stats to me.
Azusa frowns and her aura changes.
"Fine by me then... But the offer still stays, I will give you my number. Call me if you change your mind."
Azusa offers me a card containing her number.
There may be some sort of tracking device or camera so I just save the number on my phone and give the card back. "I saved it."
Azusa clicks her tongue and sighs.
I smirk at her bodyguards glaring at me and leave.
True, nobody dared to mess with the five gaming prodigies because they have powerful backing even though they are viewed as a threat by every single player.
But as for a no-name like me, they will confirm hunt me down... Every single player will.
I was returning home when I received a call
"Aki? What do you want?"
"Woah uhh...want to meet up? I don't know what happened to you for the past few weeks so let's talk alright?"
You are the reason why I'm like this you piece of shit.
"Fine," I reply regardless.
"Sweet! Where are you, I can pick you up?"
After about an hour, Aki arrived and drove us to a supermarket. There's a famous and delicious newly opened ramen store here so he wanted to try it out.
Aki's Charisma attracted lots of girls... This is disturbing.
We ordered our ramen and wow...its a bliss. This ramen store's reputation is no joke or scam.
"Mmm!!! Howy chit!! This is amasig!!! (holy shit!! This is amazing!!)" Says Aki.
"Don't talk with food in your mouth."
*gulps*
"Alright alright. With that aside, I need to tell you something. Remember what you did last time at our class reunion?" Asks Aki.
"Yeah. why?"
"Arase...seems to have a huge grudge with you after what you did and was plotting something bad for some time. But he knows he can't win against you so he's going for your sister-"
I grab Aki's collar. "WHY ARE YOU ONLY TELLING ME THIS NOW?!"
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"I-I just recently know this!"
"FUCK!"
I throw Aki on the floor and dashes out.
Again!! Fuck!! Because of what I did, someone important to me is targeted. again!! AGAIN!!!
When running out of the ramen restaurant, I spotted a familiar face and caught a glimpse of Reina.
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Reina? What is she doing here? Ugh! Whatever, I will ask her later.
I immediately stop a taxi and ask him to bring me to the hospital, paying the driver extra so that he will get me there faster.
I dash inside the hospital and to the counter.
"I-I'm here to visit Kirei Yuro!!"
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The nurse looks at me and gulps. "I-I apologize, sir, she currently does not allow visitors."
...bullshit.
So this nurse is an accomplice huh.
"Arase right?..." I say.
Her shocked face proved that I'm right.
"N-No, sir!! I have no idea what you are saying-"
Tch.
I dash for the stairs and some staff tried to stop me. I evaded them and went to my sister's room.
"Kirei!"
I ram the door open and she is nowhere to be seen.
FUCK!!
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I notice a letter on the table and read it.
"Come to this location, alone. By 9 pm tonight or who knows what might happen to her~"
There's a picture of my sister being tied up and in a van.
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"He...HAHAHAHA!!"
Aki did not just "recently" know this. This is his fucking handwriting!!
That God damn greedy bastard. He was an accomplice with Arase from the start!! Wow!! I'm so damn surprised...
The security guards were called in and they surround me.
"Sir, we will have you to leave." Says one of them.
Tch.
I open the window and just jump down from there.
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"W-Wait!! Sir!!"
I use the friction on the wall and the bush as a cushion before running off to the location listed.
"He survived that?..."
After about an hour, I reach the abandoned factory and open the gigantic iron door by pure strength, the mechanism opens the door too slowly.
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"Oh? He came?" Says someone on the top. He is sitting on a chain attached from one side of the factory to another.
This factory is as tall as about 20 feet high... He doesn't have a fear of heights?
"Nice, I was getting impatient. My libido is energetic after seeing such a beautiful girl." Says someone big who appears from the dark.
The lights suddenly turn on and I can see almost 50 people here. My sister is tied up in a chair and is unconscious. She has bruises on her face, legs, and hands. Her clothes are also slightly ripped... Those bastards!
"Now now, you can all rape her later. For now... Do it." Says Arase out of nowhere.
Someone swings a bat from behind and I did a front flip to kick that guy in the chin.
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He was knocked out from the impact and his bat drops onto the floor.
I pick his bat up and look at the others.
"Shit!! No worries!! Attack him together now!!"
They all did so. The guy on top jumps down with a knife. I jump back and his knife was plunged into the ground.
I wanted to follow up with a hit but another attacked me so I bashed his head in with the bat.
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One hesitated after seeing me brutally kill his friend and I end him as well.
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Shit! The bat is stuck in this corpse!!
One of them strikes me from behind with a golf club.
The golf club hits my head and the shaft breaks.
"Got him!"
I grab the broken golf club and pierces it into his eyes.
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Blood appears from my forehead but I don't seem to be affected.
"What is he? A monster?"
Another one strikes me with a sword from above. I evade and kick his hands, making him drop the sword before taking the sword myself and decapitating him.
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I smirk at the sight of this sword.
"You guys... Are all bastards and trash. All of these are considered self-defence. So come on! I won't attack you, you attack me first!"
A few of them were triggered by my sudden arrogance and charged at me.
Within a single second, I slice all of their limbs off and decapitate them.
My training from BOG paid off.
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I walk towards the nearest one.
"EEK!!"
He was terrified and fell onto the ground before trying to crawl back.
"W-Wait-"
I grab his hand and force him to punch my chest.
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I then smile and pierce my blade through his skull before pulling his entire brain and spine out and throwing it to his friends.
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My bloody appearance and brutal kill only remind everyone here of one thing: A Devil.
"Hit me. I will give everyone here a chance to attack me."
Nobody dared to. All of them are shivering.
Heh...
I try to find Arase, he is not there. Kirei is not here as well!!
Within 2 strikes, I killed the remaining 34 of those fuckers and chased after Arase.
I can see a clear trail because of the dust left behind in this abandoned factory.
Finally, I realize that the trail leads to a locked back door and I kicked it open.
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Arase is carrying Kirei into the van. The driver is Leon?!!
Looks like both of them are accomplices huh hehehehe...
This makes things a lot easier. Thanks for coming to me Leon.
"Shit!!! That blasted monster is here!!! Hurry, get in!!" Says Leon.
Arase was about to get in the van when I slice both of his legs off.
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"ARGHHHH!!!"
My speed is my most prideful attribute, don't try to compare with me.
"!! Tch!" Leon attempts to drive off, leaving Arase and Kirei behind.
I slice off both of Arase's arms as well before chasing after the van.
Leon was making a U-Turn when I suddenly appear in front of the van.
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He smirks and speeds the van up, aiming to crash into me.
I return the smirk and stopped the van with only my hand.
*BOOOOM!!!!*
"W-What?!! T-This is impossible!! What kind of monster are you!!"
The front of the van is completely crushed by the impact and I am entirely fine.
"WHAT KIND OF FUCKING MONSTER ARE YOU!!!!!!" Shouts Leon.
I smile at him and grab his neck, throwing him out of the van and to the floor.
"The treatment I'm about to give you...is to pay back a thousand times of what you did to me in high school."
"W-Wait!! I can explain-"
I left him no chance to spout nonsense and his screams of agony were heard throughout.
When I'm done having fun, Leon's corpse is already unrecognizable.
"Haha... I might have overdone it a bit."
I went back to Arase and sighed. He died of blood loss, I took too much time.
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My sister started moving a little and I untied her.
"K...Karma...?..." She says, barely opening her eyes before losing her consciousness again.
"It's okay, everything is okay now... Everything is okay now..."
Her tears stop flowing from her eyes once I said that.
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The moon tonight is bright as hell... A full moon?
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I carry my sister up and went back to my apartment.
I notice I have a notification on my phone! It's a transfer of money from Eugen and Azusa.
Why did Azusa give me such a huge sum of money!?!
"As a present." She messaged.
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Reina noticed the blood and runs to me. "W-What happened?!" She exclaims.
"...Something."
"Who is this?"
"My sister," I reply as I enter my apartment. "Can you help me wash her and give her a change of clothes?"
Reina nods and follows me into my home.
After Reina is done, I take a bath myself and changed.
Once I'm done, Reina looked as if she has something important to ask.
I sigh and tell her everything...with a little bit of altered truth.
"I see... I hate bastards like that!!" She shouts. "Say... Why don't you call the police?"
"I would if I can. Arase belongs to a rich family and has an important status in this society. He can easily bribe the police and bail his way out."
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The atmosphere then becomes tense and awkward.
I then remembered seeing her at the mall and asked "Reina, where were you this afternoon?"
Reina slightly frowns when I ask that question.
Soon, she smiles and says "I was at Ika's apartment next door for a project! Why? You can ask her if you don't believe me!"
What?
Then who was that I saw at the mall?...
Was it just my imagination?
The most logical answer and possibility right now are that...she lied.
But I have no proof...
For now, I will keep an eye out for Reina.
"Okay then," I reply.
Just then, my sister woke up.
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"Ah! Uh... I will leave both of you to it!" Says Reina and she left.
"K-Karma?... Is that...you?"
I nod.
She looks at the bruise on her body and her tears start to flow again.
"Did they... Did that to me?" She asked.
"Nope. I managed to reach there in time."
Kirei's eyes widen when she sees the bloody hoodie and the bandage wrapped around my forehead.
"I-...I'm sorry...Thank you..."
I went in for a hug and asked "why are you apologizing?"
"I-...I thought you wouldn't come and always thought badly of you... I've always trusted you the least and... When those guys captured me, I thought it was Karma getting back at me, just like your name. When I remember how badly I treat you... I thought you wouldn't come... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Says Kirei.
Kirei kept apologizing.
I did nothing but hug her tighter.