Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 27 - Bloody Contract

I fell down, lowered my head half way down, and could not stand up as a result of suffocation of the whole body. My body trembled, from my fingertips, to every joint in my teeth, every fear of the memories I saw was still there.

My head was filled with a sense of threshold, a feeling of dizziness like the brain could not be used. Along with limp, I held my head with my left hand.

*Drop, drop ....

Warm, wet, red, and feels like iron.

The sensation was felt flowing in the palm of my left hand that was holding the head. Along with that, I also saw a drop of blood. It turns out that the dizziness I experienced also partly comes from anemia lack of oxygen supply in the brain. It seemed like the attack towards the forehead made a real wound until blood flowed out.

“OOoooOhhhHH .. how did you sleep just now ... Kaivan?”

At that moment of pain resistance, I heard a familiar hoarse voice. Somehow after a long time running, Octa's voice sounded more annoying than scary now.

“A-what ... hah ... what did you just throw?” ask me with a slightly stifled breath.

“I threw a little magic at you. With this you have a little memory of every human being the producer of which is mine. How, do you have an opinion now?”

“Hah! Huh ....! So, you think I could just fall?” ask me a little hoarse with a sharp look.

“OoOOoohhHH .. Yes, that expression. I like it when a person with pride and stability can finally fall into emotional tension. You know, even though your sentences are trying to be strong, the expression is clear that now you hold a grudge against me.”

“...”

I actually also realized, in each of my firm breaths there was pent-up anger, in every gaze I expressed there was a sense of wanting to hit. Various blasphemies were already in my mind, wanting to cram him with various violent exposures.

But, on the one hand I also tried to think logically, trying to answer with neutral sentences as if not provoked.

“Hah! Hh .. hah ...”

Although, it seems like it is still impossible to do with my current condition.

“Alright, the game will start. I'll give you an advanced memory of the game you'll be doing later. So, prepare yourself now while you can. I'll make the magic dimension.”

Huh uh?

In the next sentence, Octa spoke as if I were stepping back against my decision. He was very confident and took the start first if I was going to follow the game he mentioned earlier.

“Si-who said I'd come?” many of us are still in an unstable state. “Not a deal already in place? Take me out and let me go now.”

“No, no, Kaivan .. there is no more agreement between us. I put a time bomb on your head. If you leave now, my magic will explode someday. Want it or not, you still need to follow my orders if you want to live.”

“E-eh!? Tu-wait— Gkhuak!” my words were accidentally cut by a cough. “Hah, hah .. are you serious?” ask me with a threatening tone.

“Before I gave too much lightening. In the end, manipulation and sabotage are more suitable for me.”

“Sneaky ground,” I said back cynically.

“Call it all you want. I don't give a shit. If you can win this game, I will admit that there are indeed humans who have value.”

“...”

Octa's there writing something on paper. I couldn't see it, along with the blurry vision and anemia effect, I was weak and almost fainted. Blood in the head continues to flow, the wound in the head makes oxygen in the head still can not be supplied perfectly.

But, I can still feel it, the huge-bodied demon Octa started walking closer towards me.

“Okay, Kaivan. Sign on this paper, and win the game in it. Prove that you deserve my attention,” he said while showing foreign-written paper right in front of my face.

“Heh, how do I know this game is fair? Seeing your cunning just now, it is not strange that you set many traps that make me lose,” I said back in a cynical tone.

“My shortcomings are enough to get here, I just want to put a little motivation on you. This game is based on magic contracts. Fair principles cannot escape even for myself. After all, I've made it clear that you have no choice now. Die here, or accept my offer.”

“...”

I didn't answer. I am still staggering with my severe condition.

The blood on my forehead still could not stop, how strongly I pressed with my left hand, still there was a missed flow and drops. My gaze grew increasingly blurred, I almost collapsed and did not really have any energy.

“OOooOOOooHhh .. sorry, I forgot that it looks like you really need help.”

“Hn?”

My ears are still functioning, but my brain is not in line. He said a sentence I didn't really understand what he meant. I saw the paper that Octa had shown was pulled back, feeling that the huge body was standing and away from me for a moment.

As soon as I almost fainted and was interested in gravity collapsing kiss the floor ....

*grip

“Hgkht!?”

Octa held my head. His large hands can reach all sides from the tip of the head to the ears like he is holding a volleyball. But he doesn't hold me that way. As soon as his hand retraced, the huge demon instantly snatched his hand to grip my hair violently.

“One drop of blood and the tread of a body part, then you will enter. One, two, ti—GA!”

“Gkhakh!!?”

Octa over there slammed my head hard on the floor. He who had not received any response from me had started to take shortcuts. By putting the magic contract paper on the floor, my signature could be completed with a drop of blood and a stamp of my forehead straight away. So, that one head clash could already make me complete the terms.

*Shine, shine, shine ....

“Alright, all done. Let's see what you're about to show me, Kaivan.”

Just now that I had escaped the illusion, I now had to face a great attack. My limp body is unable to resist, I cannot activate the power of the emotional wave as there is no catalyst around here. So, all I feel is the threshold of surrender.

Together with the splashes of blood flowing down the head, the blurry look where my head smelled the floor, and a dazzling magic light.

*****

The last pain I felt was a hard blow right in my skull. When Octa slammed his head against the floor to get my blood and skin on the contract paper, I felt for a moment that the nerves in my body had stopped working.

I was in a feeling of floating, treadless floating body, lying in an empty space. But, here I did not completely faint, I could realize that I was in an empty room without a single piece of the thing I was holding.

I try to feel myself, slowly, slowly. However, the result is the same, there is no tactile sensation like normal nerves feel stimulation.

I couldn't stand, because my own position wasn't in the space that allowed me to stand. No tread, no gravity, no top and bottom. My every move there has no direction other than my own shadow. Empty, empty, and somehow the longer it gets the more it scares me.

Until in the end, no matter how long it lasted, I found a single point of light.

There was nothing else in this magic empty space. I too was there with no other choice and no activity other than to pursue him.

In the empty room I was also confused, whether I move should swing like swimming, or walk even though not set foot to the bottom. Whatever it was, I tried both, moving my legs and hands together.

Even so, I did not feel something in the body like the sensation of swimming or walking, still empty numbness throughout the body. However, at the same time I began to realize, it turned out that the point of light was approaching by itself.

The brighter, the bigger, the more it filled my body and my vision.

Again, my eyes began to fill with white beams.

I reflexively closed my eyes there, holding my head and eyelids to avoid the rays. But, there I still could not escape the white light. Until finally ....

“Hh!?”

My breath was jolted wonderfully.

“Hh! Huh ...! Hah .. hah ...”

I took my breath back a few times. The shock at once is not usually my body in an unstable state makes shakes in each joint.

“Hah .. hah ...”

Even so, I was able to adjust quickly. Unlike before, I now feel no pain in the body. What I felt was purely out of panic and shock—

Hn?

Wait, no pain?

I felt part of my body, the position of the hand that covered the eyes was still holding up until now. With a blank look, I began to examine the wounds previously engraved on the body. And there I began to realize.

Missing.

Wounds in the forehead result from a puncture of Octa, wounds in the shoulder and abdomen pierced by Geza, and even ....

Eh?

I forgot that actually now I use my right hand to check as well. In fact, before I still remember the hand was hung and still frozen by a cast.

“Kaivan?”

“Hmn?”

I heard a woman's voice behind me. Approaching curiosity and reflexes, I was also good at finding the source of the sound.

“Ah, it turns out it is really you,” continued said the girl after seeing my face.

“...”

“I have to ask why I'm here. But, from your confused face, it seems that you are not the culprit.”

The girl was mature, she stood with a face full of confidence while thinking like a wise man. I didn't know that she could calmly assess the situation, but I understood that she had something more in the direction of logical thinking than other women.

“Imarine ...”