After staring at the mess and the mutilated bodies for a while, Sky casually threw the decapitated head in his left hand to the bloody mess before removing the barrier he put up for Seito.
On the other side, Seito had defeated the Golem as well, or rather, the golem shattered as soon as Sky finished off both of the humanoid creatures.
"As expected from that guy, despite of being an idiot, he is actually quite dependable."
Seito murmured as he noticed that Sky had defeated both of the humanoid creatures and removed the barrier. However, before Seito could greet Sky, Sky loosened the grip on his sword all of the sudden and dropped the sword onto the ground before collapsing onto the bloody mess along with the mutilated bodies of the humanoid creatures without any warning.
"Sky!"
Seito shouted as he rushed to Sky.
Seito quickly and carefully held Sky up from the dirty ground and briefly checked on his condition, Seito noticed that Sky looks extremely pale with tiny droplets of sweats dripped down from his forehead, and to Seito's horror, a huge area of Sky's skin became extremely thin and fragile that it got torn apart and bleed by just a gentle touch, particularly the skin around his right arm.
Just as Seito was confused about what happened while feeling anxious about their current situation, the beeping security alarm suddenly stopped and returned to normal, and before Seito could react to the situation, he heard some footsteps from the stair, it sounds like someone is coming down from the stair.
Alerted by the situation, Seito immediately protected Sky who is rather weak and unconscious at this moment.
Seito tensely stared in the direction of the staircase as the footsteps got nearer and nearer every second. Then, the footsteps stopped and the gate that blocked the staircase opened. Seito slowly took out his Thousand Monsters gofu and was ready to fight whoever that would be stepping out from the staircase. However, to Seito's surprise and relief, it's none of any other potential opponents but Chris who is holding Itsuki that is in an unconscious state as well.
"Chris..." Seito murmured, slightly losing his words due to the relief after an extreme tension.
"Hey, Kenji... (!)... Sky!"
Astonished by Sky's condition, Chris immediately put Itsuki down near the entry of the staircase and ran towards Sky and Seito. Without any further conversation or asking anything, Chris immediately applied a special magic on Sky. The magic applied by Chris immediately repaired Sky's skin conditions while healed the torn wounds.
"Tsk... Right now, I can only temporarily soothe his condition. Without Ben's special medicine, it's not an easy task to totally stop this. Seriously, this hasn't been happening for years, just what the heck had triggered it?" said Chris as he frowned and looks troubled.
"What do you mean by that? What happened to Sky? He looks just alright earlier." said Seito, both concerned and confused.
"Well, if you still don't know about that... Sky had been bearing some cruel and scary curses for years and until now, we still haven't figured out a way to totally get rid of it." said Chris as he applied another special magic on Sky.
With this magic applied in Sky, he looks less agonized than earlier. Seito nodded as he listened to Chris's explanations before finally noticed Chris's charred hand and missing fingers.
"Ah! Chris! What happened to your hand? Your little finger and ring finger are gone! And your forearm is almost totally charred!" Seito exclaimed, rather astonished.
"Ah... Well... I had a rather intense fight with Itsuki who had taken control by Dracula's guardian spirits and those spirits had gone a bit too over. But don't worry, this is just a prosthetic after all." said Chris with a shrug.
"I see... Tsk... Fortunately, it's your left prosthetic arm, not your right arm, if not, it will really be a serious injury." said Seito.
"Yes. You are right... Hmm?"
Through these conversations, Chris noticed there is something very unusual about Seito.
"Kenji, I just told you that I had an intense fight with Itsuki. Don't you even worry about him? Like... Even for a little bit?" Chris asked and Seito remained silenced.
"Ah... You... Did you happen to find out anything crucial about Itsuki's identity?" Chris asked, in a careful and serious tone.
"Uhm... I..."
"Chr... Chris?"
Just as Seito was about to tell Chris what he had found out about Itsuki and how did he found out, Sky regained his consciousness.
"Sky, thank goodness that you had regained consciousness. How do you feel right now?" Chris asked, both concerned and relieved.
"Dying... If that can be considered as a feeling." said Sky, who still sounds a bit weak.
"Hmm... I guess it's good enough, at least you sound like you will be able to hang in there until we get back to the aircraft. Anyway, after I collected some samples for this bloody mess, let's get everyone and leave this place. Where are Junior and that earth deity?" said Chris as he crouched down and collected some samples for the bloody mess of the mixture of brain pulp and blood with a new test tube.
"Ah! Junior! I totally forgot about him!" Seito exclaimed.
"From your reaction right now, I believe his condition can't be any better. Kenji, lead the way." said Chris in a nearly commanding tone.
Seito sheepishly nodded before once again summoned Jimmy to 'protect' Sky and Itsuki. Then he led Chris towards another staircase at the other end of the corridor that lead to the lower floors...
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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 caused the writer to stop writing."
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