Emotion Taster

Arc 4 New Stage: Chapter 31 - Four People

“Hanz! Wait!!” my shout from a distance prevented the man from acting any further.

There Hanz was swinging his axe. Not satisfied with killing one person, he was pointing the weapon at two people who were protecting each other there.

The two people who were dealing with Hanz, they were terrified. One of them was a man, brandishing an axe and holding the weapon with two hands forming horses ready to fight in self-defense. One of them was a woman, sheltering behind the man's body and not holding his gun at all.

They both trembled, frightened and could only give up fate on instinct. Because, one person among them was already lying dead with a broken neck. Seen from his eyes, muscle work, and the fireworks of his breath, they fell in an overwhelming feeling of fear.

“...”

However, when I shouted, Hanz's hand stopped swinging and froze in the upper position. Like being resuscitated from a cold movement of murderous blood, he froze not continuing the movement.

I hope Hanz over there immediately steps down and stops his actions. This sudden murder caused me a lot of panic. It is true that the goal of every player is to survive until the end, but killing someone in the beginning will make the atmosphere fall in a much more threatening direction.

“Ah ... Kaivan,” Hanz said as he turned his face slowly towards me. “Sorry to have shown you a terrible sight. But, if you don't want to be in pain, you better back off now.”

At that distance of less than fifteen meters, it means that it is within the range of my strength. Hanz could still think clearly to warn me, he understood that now I could feel pain when there were people he killed around me. The negative side that she turned out to know where I could feel the pain of death was similar from them.

But ....

“I won't back down, you back out now, Hanz!”

“...”

Hanz looked at me from afar, he looked like a blind man did not look at me directly and put a long vision behind me. He stood still, did not retreat and it was seen that the man was still strong to hold his decision.

“Naif, Kaivan,” said Hanz slightly in a whispered voice mocking me. “You've seen the memories and rules in this game, ‘right? If we don't kill, then we'll be killed.”

“That's no reason to kill people! You can't randomly select the person you killed.”

“Select random ...? Ah ... so yes according to you.”

Hanz closed his eyes, he melted his thoughts for a moment for an unknown purpose. However ....

“HAAaaAHh!!”

The custom-clothed man who initially confronted Hanz began to attack. He swung his axe firmly right at the neck of the man. Taking advantage of the moment of inaction behind her, Hanz who was talking to me was a golden opportunity for the man.

“Ah ..”.

*dodge

Hanz dodged the attack, he stepped forward to make further distance until the man's attack missed. The movement was so flexible, Hanz dodged along with the movement of turning his body and directly facing his opponent instantly. The position changed, he immediately stared directly at his opponent who was swinging the weapon.

“It turns out that naive isn't just you ... Kaivan,” said Hanz who managed to avoid.

The attacking man was still in the position of swinging the axe forward, his shoulders were open and he could not pull the weapon right then and there.

Hanz tugged back and forth, he made an open attack to knock out the man's right hand with which he held the axe. The swing is slightly swooping, leading to the upper arm area like wanting to cut the hand completely.

*swing

“Hh!?”

However, the man in customary clothes did not give up. He continued the swing downward until a sharp angle was created. Although it was slightly different, but it was enough to make Hanz's attack miss.

Then, at the same time, the man continued his attack, turning his body and using his left hand to deliver a blow to Hanz's head. The movement is a little complicated, but also clever. Instead of using dexterity and agility to change movements, the man prefers to make further movements and use the power in the first attack to attack again.

Buk up!

The attack was successful, the loud sound of the effect of the punch in a quiet state was clearly creeping through the air.

I thought it was possible that the attack had injured Hanz. But, that guess faded even more when I looked at the fight in detail.

Hanz did not budge from his horses at all. The fist that was pointing towards the head did not even cause any tremors to his body in the slightest. It made me ask a little, until I finally found out that Hanz was able to withstand the attack right before hitting his head.

My point of view is on the right behind Hanz. That causes the left side to be not clearly visible. However, this time I could see him, he placed a hand shield right on the head before the custom-clothed man's attack arrived.

“Arjuna, I know that you will use the gesture,” Hanz said in a voice that holds his power.

*grip

“Hh!?”

Hanz held back that hand. The hand shield he used turned into a strong lock on the left hand of the man dressed in custom. Once or twice the man tried to escape. But, Hanz's grip was so strong, it was seen with a difficult sense of the man trying to escape.

In the end, the man swung the axe again in his right hand. Directing right towards the hand of Hanz who was locking it.

*dodge

But, of course Hanz could avoid it easily. Its dominant body is very easy to bend the position of the hand so that the attack misses. Unlike the man in traditional clothes, Hanz still had control over his body at that time.

The position of the two of them is now chaotic, tied to each other at close range and in conditions unable to attack. But, it was more for the man dressed customarily. Because, Hanz there's still one free hand. The right hand with its axe still protruding above prepared to swing.

The custom-clothed man realized he was in danger after learning his hands were not functioning properly. He could only see, the eyes of the axe that were second by second approaching towards his neck.

*Slash

“Ghkuakh!!”

The attack hit his neck. The man dressed in customary clothes until he screamed in pain.

Then ....

*Whoush ....

I also got the effect of the pain he felt.

“Arjuna, what you did, you dodged the attack and made your death painful,” Hanz said as he slammed the grip of his hand moving backwards away from the customary-clothed man.

Blood splashes out, spurting out a few inches and flowing profusely to fill the entire shoulder of the man. The axe attack did not cut the entire neck, only a small part on the side because it slightly missed due to the man's traditional dress.

“Embngh!!”

*drop

The man dropped his axe, clanging strongly several times on the surface of the floor of this room.

I could feel the pain from the wound on his neck. A prick and skinned feeling made me feel stressed. Therefore, I retreated several times, reducing the pain by staying away from the source of the emotional wave.

The custom-dressed man frantically held the side of his neck. Severe wounds with blood spurting, he still intended to survive. He closed his makeshift veins, preventing those splashes of blood from flowing too much out of his body.

However, the blood flow did not stop. Several times I saw a gush of blood coming out from between his fingers, making me grieve without even having to feel the waves of his emotions.

The people behind me also started to get scared. When I retreated and stayed away from Hanz with the custom-dressed man, I might be able to escape the emotional wave of pain. But, at the same time I had approached towards the people behind. Those who saw the horrifying scene also produced negative emotions. Especially, of course the most powerful is from Amalia.

“Hah .. hah ...,” breath hard custom dressed man ‘ uncontrollable. “Why did that person call you Hanz?” then he continued by asking.

“You don't need to know. The awkwardness of this world I will end now. So, please don't make your death hurt any more than this.”

Hanz spoke with confidence. He was just like Geza at that time, saying the thing that was explicitly a crime, but with a calm face as if he was right. In my eyes, he was committing a random, baseless and all too sudden murder.

“Wait, Hanz!!” I shouted trying to stop him.

“No, I won't wait, Kaivan,” Hanz replied in his typical calm tone again. “You didn't understand. What I'm doing is indeed the right thing.”

“No, Hanz. If you don't have proof, you can't kill that guy. He's just your opponent to defend.”

“Naif, Kaivan. Just so you know, the person you are defending is a dead person. He no longer exists in the real world.”

“Eh?”

I was daydreaming for a moment, the sentence expressed by Hanz made me forget to reply to his words.

Then, at the same time Hanz again tightened his horses. He held tightly to the axe while doing a powerful shake to make an attack. His opponent the custom-clothed man was already helpless, he also seemed to have no intention of resisting with the wound on his neck that was already severe.

*Slash

In the end, with a simple movement of swinging horizontally, Hanz killed the man with a flash. One strike was powerful, leaving the flesh on the man's neck cut off completely, and splashing blood onto Hanz's body.

“You remember what the rules are in this world, Kaivan?” hanz asked in a tone of questioning to himself. “The world was formed of two individuals, a real drawn human, and a fake human being made into a pawn.”

“...”

“Didn't you catch him? The memory says that players who are killed will actually die in the real world. What if that person is already dead? Can't the dead die anymore? I hope you understand what I mean here, Kaivan.”

Got two bodies around Hanz right now. The fresh blood flowing on the floor made the environment around his feet muddy and filled with a peculiar smell of iron. In fact, for some reason this room already looks like a slaughterhouse.

Over time the emotional wave of the person's pain disappears, the person lying with blood is finally in a state of death. One state may improve, but the emotional waves from others do not go the same way.

I could feel it, fear, hatred, and disgust appeared continuously behind my body. It's not strange that there's a whisper of tension seeing a murder in person like this.

Amalia was blindfolded by Pero, sister Dina was carried further and further away by Verdian and gazing from a distance, Farrel stood alone with a shriveled face looking at something disgusting, then Imarine ....

“...”

“...”

He froze with a gawking expression. Unpowered and limp hanging hands and with feet that are not sturdy. His empty eyes seemed to not accept the fact he heard, something that would certainly be surprising if he had to accept it as a whole. I was there to understand, too, especially when Hanz was talking about the dead.

*Splats

Hanz splashed the blood on his axe to the floor, he threw the weapon hard so that the red liquid dirt crashed and did the main cleaning.

There he had no rag, there he was also in a state of clothing full of blood. Then, there too Hanz walked up to one woman dressed in similar custom where she had previously taken refuge from the man who was killed.

“Woi, Hanz!!?”

Hanz raised his axe again. The man covered in blood still wanted to throw a gun at someone else. Not satisfied with just killing two, he still wanted to kill the woman.

The woman did not move, she trembled unable to escape from her place. His legs were stiff, his response was slow, and his gaze was blank. It seemed like he was in shock to the point of not being able to escape at all.

*Step, step, step ....

Hanz kept getting closer, he did a little shake-up and warm-up by moving his axe in different directions, just like a man who was ready to slaughter cattle.

*falls

The woman was frightened, she finally fell into a sitting position while looking at Hanz with her fear. But, at that time the woman still did not resist, she just looked at Hanz with an expression of despair.

“Kaivan, maybe you asked me who these four people around me were. Unfortunately, you don't need a clear answer. One thing is for sure, none of them are still alive in the real world.”

*Slash

Hanz said as he swung his axe to kill the woman.