Chapter 75

I pull Jacob into a room.

He groans in pain from the wound.

As I look away for a slight moment Jacob tried to retaliate by pushing a wardrobe down on me and dashing for the door.

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Suddenly he felt something at his feet when he was about the walk through the door frame and he immediately fell onto the floor.

"ARGHHH!!!!"

Jacob screams from the sudden pain and looks below to see his legs amputated.

"P-Piano wire?!" He exclaims.

I smile. "Jacob, I'm surprised. You didn't set any traps or anything in this entire mansion. I thought you would. So I took the effort to do so instead, in your place."

"Y-You motherfucker!! Arghh!!!"

I casually walk towards the wire and walk through the door frame. The wire snapped when it tried to slice my legs.

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Jacob looks at me, with both curiosity and fear. "That wire... Impossible!! Your defence... It's even higher than mine?! But my level is higher than yours and your attack stats are also very high!! How?! How do you have enough stats to distribute your defence, speed, and attack to such a level!?"

"I don't know... Don't ask me." I simply reply.

"Y-You..."

Jacob starts to slowly try to drag himself away from me then a screeching scream can be heard echoing from the master room.

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Damn... Sakura is not holding back either.

"Heh... Whatever."

I take out a knife and Jacob's body starts to tremble, he is remembering the pain and suffering he went through.

"W-W-Wait! P-Please!! A-Anything but that!! Really!! R-Really!! I'm sorry for everything! I will leave you alone so, please!! Anything but that!! I don't want to go through that hellish-"

I immediately plunge the knife into his upper thigh which is still intact.

Jacob screams in pain as he tries to grasp the knife and pull it out. But his body doesn't have the strength to and is trembling too much.

I lift my leg and smirk.

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"W-Wait!!...Listen to me! What do you want?!" Jacob tries to stop me.

With brute force, I stomp on the handle of the knife, plunging it deeper and attaching his thigh to the ground.

"ARGHH!!!... W-What do you want?! Money? Girls? What is it?! There wasn't even any deep grudge between us!! All we had was a competition!! What makes you want to go this far?!" Says Jacob as tears start to appear in his eyes. He is gritting his teeth and trying to bear the pain.

"Well... Firstly, it feels remarkable to do this against a bastard. Secondly, you piss me off too much. Get off your high horse will you? Don't worry, if you are mentally strong enough, you won't die in real life and just will be eliminated from the game. So... No hard feelings okay? Just take this as a simple lesson." I say, taking the poison syringe out from my inventory.

Holding Jacob's head, I forcefully pierce the needle through the tissue of Jacob's skin and exudes it.

After I'm done, Jacob struggled and finally freed himself while bracing himself for the effects of the poison but nothing came.

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I then take a simple revolver out and shoot his arm.

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"RGHSHARGHHHHH!!!"

Jacob grabs his arm tightly as he cries in pain.

"Looks you notice, that poison does nothing to your body but it lets you feel pain 4 times worse," I say to Jacob.

"N..."

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I immediately stomp on Jacob's Stomach. He immediately vomits out and I can see a pill.

"Trying to commit suicide eh? Not yet. I won't let you go yet..." I say.

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Phew... I'm done over here. Jacob's tolerance is... Higher than expected, I like it.

I walk over to the master room to find...

It stench... What is going on?

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Nothing can explain what I'm seeing except hell. A messy gore. Blood is everywhere as Sakura continuously stab the lump of meat on the floor. I can see several intestines flying around...

For the first time, I feel like vomiting myself.

"This is what you get this is what you get

this is what you get this is what you get this is what you get this is what you get"

Sakura constantly chants.

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That incident might have scarred Sakura a lot... For her to go to this extent.

I place my hand on Sakura's shoulder and she snaps back to reality.

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"Karma?"

"Enough... He is already dead."

Sakura looks at the messy lump of meat on the floor and she lets go of her dagger.

*ding ding ding*

It drops onto the floor as Sakura starts to cry.

"I... Finally... It's over..." Says Sakura.

I sigh as I stare at her.

"Come on, let's go. We've stayed here too long, they are getting suspicious." I say, helping Sakura up.

She wipes her tears and nodded.

I use a cleaner in the shop to instantly clear any blood on us and fingerprints on any evidence. I then use a teleport scroll and teleport back to my home.

Phew... I guess I will take another shower then.

"What about you? Do you want to take a shower?" I casually ask.

Sakura shakes her head.

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"No is not an option," I say.

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Sakura stands up and starts to strip.

"Woah woah, not here. Inside there!" I quickly drag Sakura into the bathroom before just placing a towel and a dress I bought from the store on top of the table.

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I walk out to the living room and sit on the floor beside my bed.

This is awkward...

I can hear the sound of water now.

Now that's off the list...

Jacob... Regardless of whether he dies or not. The other prodigies will surely catch on. Because Jacob has been openly proclaiming that he will defeat me and Joseph. Since Joseph to this day still cannot fully outsmart Jacob, the only potential target is me. They will surely know that I defeated Jacob and got rid of him from BOG.

And if I'm not wrong. Joseph, Jacob, and the other three are more or less of the same calibre. But each... Have a different play style.

If I'm having a problem winning Jacob, then surely I will have a problem facing off against the rest.

The water stop running and I can hear Sakura's footsteps walking out. She looks great in the new white dress although it contrasts with her black hair.

I went ahead and take a shower myself before finding Sakura patiently waiting beside my bed, sitting in a Seiza posture.

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"What's wrong?" I ask.

"Ah... No. I want to profusely thank you for the opportunity and the bath. As per the contract, you are now my permanent master and we will go through life and death together." Says Sakura.

"You sound like we are getting married but weirder."

"I apologize if that offended you!"

"What? No. How did you get that impression?"

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"So what are you going to do now?" I ask.

"I will just go back into the void and wait there until you command me to come out." Says Sakura as she stands up.

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Sakura Is dead. She is nothing more or less than a tool, a simple tool for killing. She can never live as an NPC...no, as a human again.

"Wait."

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I stand up.

"Sakura, why do you look so sad?" I ask.

"S-Sad? How could I be? I had an act of satisfying revenge, that's already enough to lift my spirits and morale."

"And after that? What do you want to do after you have your revenge?"

"... After that?"

Sakura stares at me for a while.

"I don't know... I just want to meet my parents and family I guess, those that I treasure..." Says Sakura.

"That's all? Are you sure about that? What about their wish for you?"

"Wish?...?"

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Sakura's eyes widen.

She remembers it now. Before her mother's death, she hid Sakura and tell her to not be engulfed in revenge and live the life she wants. Yet amid rage, Sakura threw that sentence away and lock it.

"I... Want to live..." Sakura mumbles as tears appear in her eyes again.

I stood there, calmly staring at her as Sakura collapsed onto the floor, crying.

"Well... For now, go to bed and sleep dor tomorrow, I can sleep on the floor." I say.

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"... Sleep on the floor? No, don't do that! Then how about we sleep in the bed-"

"No," I reply quickly. "Besides, it's a single bed, too small to fit two people. And I am already used to sleeping on the hard ground."

In my training days, I always camp outside and sleep on mud, dirt, rock, whatever you name it. The sense of disgust and discomfort has already long been numbed.

Sakura grasps her dress.

"Why... Are you helping me so much? I am just a mere tool for you players. I am not even real!" Exclaims Sakura.

"... Firstly, don't say it as if you aren't real. You have the emotions of a human, you think like a human, and you act like a human. How could you not be real? You just... Exist in a different world. Secondly, I sympathize with you. My parents are similar to yours. They ask me not to chase after revenge, and live the life I wanted with my sister. But I could not simply just accept that... In the end, I realise that the only reason I'm after the revenge is just that I want to live normally. Not have some fucker mess up my life." I say.

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"Good night." Says Sakura.

"Good night."

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I woke up the next day to find an invitation to an event featuring the top players of FG, both present top players and past top players.

The contents also state that we will be able to meet the one and only Lustzn.

Lustzn... Is without a doubt, an NPC. She cheated her way to the top I suppose and still wasn't caught. Interesting.

I guess I will go.

I wanted to wake Sakura up but she looks so comfortable sleeping.

Hmm...

I sigh.

I let her sleep and left myself.

I proceed to travel toward the venue. It's in the Yokun District, a popular street flooded with people, a shopping mall, business branches and all sorts of stuff.

I take the neon-looking train there and it was an amazing experience. The train suddenly floats when I'm in it and shoots through the sky at a considerable speed before arriving at my destination.

The scenery and ecstatic colours and light illuminating this dark world are a plus as well.

"Daddy Daddy look!" A girl says, pointing outside the window.

I look in her direction and what I saw memorised me.

"Holy shit..." I mumble as my eyes are glued to the scenery. Holograms of advertisement enhanced with different varieties of colours at every single corner. Together with a holographic statue in some areas moving on its own. This is Yokun district, a Sea of humans, a sea of colours.

I can even see one area containing some Sakura trees without any neon lights. The area is instead illuminated by lanterns.

In the middle of the Yokun district is a giant skyscraper which looks like a tree. With bits and parts of the building protruding out like branches. The one tall straight structure below represents the trunk of a tree. The top part of the skyscraper is congested with piles of "square" buildings. Making it look like the upper congested leaves on a tree.

There are a few empty large squares around the skyscraper, allowing access. The Train slows down and enters one of the empty spots in the skyscraper.

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We have now reached Yokun District.

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The announcement plays and I stood up.

The wave of humans in the train squeezes their way out and I manage to do so too before walking to the venue listed.

Asking around, I manage to locate a plaza and I presented the letter to the staff.

"Oh! You are Karma! Welcome. Please follow me, the rest is waiting." He says and I did as instructed.

Looking around, I can see many stalls being set up like some sort of festival and it is very crowded.

I can barely even hear my voice.

Following the staff inside the building beside the plaza, the noise slowly disperses and I can hear better now.

"Please enter." He says and I did.

Inside are a few people staring intensely at each other.

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I see Lustzn and we lock eye contact before she smiles. "Oh... So this year's potential winner is also invited huh. We already have 4 potential winners here. Go sit over there, young boy." Says Lustzn.

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Lustzn points at the table she wants me to sit with. That table...

When Lustzn said 4 potential winners of this year's FG, She meant me and the three remaining prodigies.

I gulp as I sit beside Igor.

"Hi, we meet again." Says Igor.

"Y-Yeah."

"Feeling nervous? Meeting all of the prodigies personally I mean." Says Igor.

I look at the other two prodigies. Both of them are smiling at me.

"Of course I am..." I blurt.

This... Is intense... Too intense. I am in the same room, sitting at the same table with my prime enemies. All of their prodigy stares are killing me.

I decided to look around the room instead. Aside from the 3 prodigies and me, there are also past top players relaxing around this room. Some of them are staring at me with a grin.

Eughh... I'm getting goosebumps.