*reader's discretion alert, contains disturbing, gory, and bloody scenes that even the writer felt uncomfortable with.
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Field B. The atmosphere had gotten really creepy as the broken arm of Longe started squirming on its own, then, before anyone could react, it flew up and attached back to its owner, however, instead of returning in a hand form, it became a creepy irregular mass of flesh that squirming on the attached point. Then, without any warning, it turned into multiple long tentacles and successfully tied Itsuki up...
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Waiting area.
"Woah! Tentacles~" Sky exclaimed.
"Hmm... Is it just my imagination or you are unusually excited about those tentacles?" said Chris, as he stared at Sky with despising eyes.
"Uh-huh... Are you pretending you didn't go 'Oh~' just now?" said Sky, a bit unhappy about Chris's diss.
"I did? Maybe just some hallucinations from your hangover." said Chris, totally denying Sky's statement.
"Aww! Come on, you two! Focus on the match! Itsuki-chan seems to be in a dire situation." Maria exclaimed.
"Itsuki... chan? Since when he 'leveled up' from *'kun' to 'chan'?" said Sky.
"Yeah... Just what the heck you had done to him." said Chris.
"Ah... You two..." said Maria before give out a short sigh.
*in Japanese, adding a 'kun' to the name shows the level of friendliness of a person towards another person, while 'chan' sounds cuter and more intimated.
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On the field, Itsuki is trying hard to escape the grips of the tentacles but failed to as the tentacles are extremely strong and gives an awful stinging sensation when struggling hard. Then, without giving Itsuki any chance to reassemble his thoughts, Longe's other hand turned into a few strips of sharp spike and pierced directly through Itsuki's shoulders limbs and torso...
"Argh..."
Itsuki felt an excruciating pain as the spikes broke through his flesh and bones. As he closed his eyes and gritted his teeth due to the extreme pain, Itsuki felt a weird dejavu that he had experienced something similar like that before despite the fact that he is very certain that he never went through this sort of thing in his seventeen years of life, and as blood slowly dripped out from his wound, he somehow got pulled into a deeper and more estranged part of his hidden memories...
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In one of those estranged memories, he vaguely saw a person that looked exactly like him been nailed on a wall, his blood dripped down to the ground as people around him frantically trying to collect his blood. Then, his consciousness slowly merged with that man on the wall and eventually replaced the man. At this moment, he can no longer recognize himself, he doesn't even know who himself is, Itsuki or that man on the wall.
Fortunately, just before he fully sunken into that piece of memory, another piece of memory pulled him back to his sense...
"But still, we can't deny the possibility of potential dangers you might be facing. If you are actually unfortunate enough to get into that sort of situation, always remember that, we have Ben with us, even if you don't trust yourself, you need to trust him. Please have faith that he will not let you die easily... So just go for it."...
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"Ah..." Itsuki opened his eyes as he been pulled back to the reality, and he soon realized that twenty seconds had passed for the one-minute countdown. Staring at his strong opponent, he knows that he needs to escape that deadly grip of him, and he needs to do it fast. Suddenly, he caught a breaking point as he was trying to move his right arm, he found out the spike that pierced through his right forearm had somehow missed his bone and only hold up by a thin stripe of flesh and skin. He wasn't sure if it's the right thing to do or not but he knows that he doesn't have time to hesitate. And so, he took a long and deep breath before tearing his right arm off from the spike.
"Oh my goodness! What a gory move! Just what kind of dedication is needed for anyone to do that?!" the Emcee Cat exclaimed in shock.
As soon as Itsuki freed his right arm, he immediately summoned back the curved sword he dropped onto the ground when he getting pierced by the spike. Then, with just his right arm, he swiftly swung that sword and successfully cut off all the spikes that pierced onto his body. Shocked by this rather gore and brutal move of Itsuki, Longe loosens his grip a bit, giving Itsuki an opportunity to escape just before the one-minute countdown ended.
After Itsuki escaped Longe's grip, he stared hard at Longe with a pair of exhausted eyes as his breath gets really heavy. While Longe prepared to launch another attack on Itsuki, Itsuki recalled Blair's match earlier, then, his eyes turned red...
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Later, Itsuki woke up on the infirmary bed in Ben's dimension and is greeted by Ben's rather flat tone.
"So, you had awake huh? It's a good thing that your body has a good self-recovery mechanism, if not it will surely be a tedious task for me." said Ben as he is writing some sort of report at a table near the infirmary bed.
"Ah... The match..." said Itsuki as he trying to get up but got pressed down to the bed by an unseen force.
"Don't worry about your match, you didn't lose, you fainted just after the thirty minutes ran out." said Ben, still in a flat tone.
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*Something out of the story
Sky: "Dear readers."
Chris: "Hmm?"
Sky: "This chapter is meant to be released for webnovel.com."
Chris: "Oh! This matter. Yes, if you're reading this chapter on another platform than webnovel.com, know that it's an illegal copy diffused without the Writer's authorization."
Sky: "As what Chris said. Right now, this story is free on the authorized platform, so please read it from authorized platforms as mental support for the writer."
Chris: "Mhm... There are two authorized platforms. One is webnovel.com. And another one is that messy and half-dead Weebly site that she uses for draft and backup... But not recommended."
Sky: "Ah... Haha. Yes, as Chris said."
Chris: "But look out, those scums might change this note to their own website link. So, be cautious.
Sky : "By the way, if the cover page is the old cover page that shows two stickmen, stop reading it, it's cursed and might cause the writer to stop writing."
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