Fight or Flight?

'Who the hell is this guy.' that was Arya's first thought when she heard Derek's question. He first of all morphs into some kind of monster, scares the hell out of her and still asks this dumb question.

She was contemplating between leaving him with a snarky reply or just ignoring him entirely, then Maya entered the room. As if she had sensed that Derek had woken up.

Confusion was beginning to set in on Derek's face, he could not understand why he was in this strange place and why he had to see these two girls. He wondered if he had transmigrated to another world where the two girls were part of his massive harem collection.

That thought vanished as quickly as it had come with the first question Maya asked him.

"Did you know that you killed him?"

"What?" Derek asked in confusion. He looked around the room for the person in question,

"What do you mean killed him, killed who?"

"Drake" Maya replied briefly.

"Drake? Wait... Drake?" Derek almost laughed "you mean Drake the host? It's not time to crack jokes. How did we even get here, we have to get back to the hotel, it's late and there's going to be a head count in the morning" Derek replied.

'These girls are funny. That guy has to be at Rank C or Rank B. Talk about be beating him much less killing him' Derek soliloquized. He made his way to the nearest door attempting to leave and make his way back to the hotel.

The only sound from the room came from his shuffling feet approaching the door, the sound made Derek stop and turn around. He expected the two to equally make a move. But they both stood there looking at him with a serious expression.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" Derek asked the girls.

"Did you?" Maya asked again, her expression stern as ever.

"What!!" Derek did a mental double take "Are you both serious? Wait. Is Drake dead?" Derek asked both shocked and shaken.

"Yes, he is. And you were the only one there at the time" Arya spoke up this time.

"I couldn't kill Drake even if I tried. I don't..." Derek paused. The question finally made sense to him and he was hit with a wave of instant shock.

He looked down at his cloth and could see some blood stains, some of it looked like someone had tried to wash it off but only managed to get a portion of it off the cloth.

It was now him questioning himself, 'did I kill Drake?'

He remembered how he had killed the Ogre some few weeks ago. It was a threat level three monster and he had taken care of it with ease even though it was not really him, but somehow he had done it.

"So, it you did" Maya accused following his silence.

"I did not... No, I, I didn't" the last part of the statement sounded so low. He wasn't so sure of himself anymore.

It had finally began to make sense to him, the system had informed him that the transformation was complete. That was why he couldn't remember what had happened in the past few hours.

The girls stared at him as he wallowed in turmoil, his eyes looked distant and he held his hand over his head.

'Wait, the system' Derek thought. 'The system had to know something, since it's an AI. It definitely wouldn't have gone unconscious as he did.

'System? What happened, why did I kill Drake?' Derek asked in his mind.

<Though you might have caused some real damage, had you come across someone during your transformation. You did not kill anyone, yet.>

"What!" Derek said out loud

The girls suddenly stared at him in confusion, he was so carried away by trying to interprete what the system had said he did not realise that he had said that out loud.

'What do you mean yet?' he continued to question the system, luckily this time the question did not come out loud. 'Am I supposed to kill someone'

<I didn't say that>

'But you just said yet'

<Yes, meaning that it's a possibility, it can't be ruled out just yet> Hearing just yet from the system did not put Derek at ease.

<There's still a possibility that you could lose control in one of your transformations and run rampage>

When the system said this, the memories started to flood back to Derek, he didn't recall all the memories of his transformation, but he clearly remembered the beginning stages, when he separated from the girls.

But then he had still seen them again, they had followed him. He remembered the pain, his bones breaking and changing positions in his body. He winced at the thought of the pain.

'You mean this is also going to happen again' it was not something Derek was pleased to hear.

"Derek?" He heard Maya call his name. He turned back to face them, while bantering with the system he had turned away from the two girls. They had grown confused watching his strange movement and his expression change so often.

"I remember now. I did not kill Drake" Derek finally spoke with certainty.

"Do you remember what happened?" Arya asked

Derek just realized that he had lied that he remembered, because he couldn't mention the system.

"I don't remember the entire details but I know did not kill him"

"So why were you at the scene of his death?" Arya asked him

"Are you accusing me of murder?" Derek asked her

"Well, all the signs points to you and it's not like you have any evidence to back up your innocence. Especially with whatever it was you just became. You will have a hard time explaining to the authorities if they get a wind of this" Arya replied.

When Arya put it like this, Derek now understood the type of dilemma he was in. The girls also now knew he wasn't normal. He took a brief look at the two girls and guaged the distance between him and the door.

He was not going to let his life end before it's even started