"Great Orbits! Finally, a lively human! Well, a half-dead human. Who are you? Are you all right, brother?" the stranger shook Han gently.
"Can you talk? There don't seem to be any wounds and it's not about the poison. Quickly answer, what's wrong with you?
'And really… My back doesn't hurt, how is it? Torn clothes and fatigue are the only thing, fatigue is in place.
Wait, do I understand this person?!'
"D-d-do you speak my language?"
The stranger was confused.
"Are there any other languages in our world besides the dead? As far as I know, only one language has been preserved in Ugonia.
"Wait, Ugonia?" Han's eyes widened.
"Brother, why are you so surprised?"
"Oh, no! Oh, my God! What in the name of all that's holy is going on?! What is the reason for all this nonsense?!! Oh my Goodness!"
"Brother, hey, brother! Don't get hysterical. Take it easy! What shocked you so much?"
Han paused, peered into the stranger's face. The more mangaka looked, the more confused he became in his feelings.
Han smiled bitterly. Sweat trickled down his pale cheeks.
"Hey! It's not funny, brother! Tell me why you're looking at me like I'm one of the Great Orbits?
'And what language did he suddenly speak?' the stranger knew no happening.
[It doesn't matter. In any case, I can't explain it.] the mangaka was crying.
"Ki Bai? Is your name Ki Bai?" Han wiped his forehead.
"Do you know about me?"
"I've heard a lot about you. They say that he is not a bad guy, although sometimes you are rude and stubborn. Wow, with your appearance, my chances of survival have increased many times".
"Rumors fly so fast, ha-ha, I didn't have time to become a Great Orbit, but I'm already popular!" despite the semi-darkness, it was visible how the guy blushed.
"Let's get out of here. When we get out, the first thing I want to ask for is a memorial painting".
"The painting? Ha-ha. Yes, no problem! Of course, everything is for my fans!" Ki Bai cleared his throat. " What is this strange place?
Han shook his head. "There are no ideas, although maybe this is hell? Personally, some strange girl threw me here".
"Oh, I don't remember how I got here at all. The last thing I remember, brother, is…"
Ki Bai hunched his shoulders. For a moment, his face turned black. "It doesn't matter, anyway, we need to get out of here".
Han held out his hand. "My name is Han Bin".
Ki Bai shook it with a smile.
"It is an honor for me to meet such a great cultivator like you, Ki Bai".
"I will definitely help you get out of here, I give you my word, Brother Han".
When they shook hands, Han smiled bitterly, the corner of his mouth twitched.
[Where am I? Am I in Limbo? In a dream? Or am I in a coma and delirious right now? His hand! That damn hand looks so much like a human hand. The environment looks like a fantasy, but at the same time incredibly realistic… Although who can say what is real and what is not, when he himself is immersed in a dream?
What is going on at all?! Why the hell did Ki Bai show up? And is it Ki Bai?
If this is another monster, I'm finished. I don't have the strength to escape again. We can only hope for "Ki Bai".]
"Get up on your feet, Brother Han. It's time for us to leave. Here, hold my jacket, it's cool here. It's not comme il faut for my fan to catch a cold, it will dishonor me".
[Heh, he's just as smug a fruit as I thought of him. This guy knows how to be cheerful even in the middle of hell.]
Ki Bai hoisted the mangaka on his shoulder and dragged him.
There was a fork nearby. In one of the paths there was a normal corridor: made of wood.
"Where, shall we go? It seems that I got through a normal corridor, maybe the exit will be through the same one".
"Let's check it out, brother," Ki Bai rummaged in the pockets of his worn trousers and pulled out a handful of rainbow stones. "It's bad to throw money around, but there are no other signs".
Ki Bey placed a couple of stones at the place where they came from and where they were going.
"May the Great Orbits protect us," Ki Bai whispered, " It will be sad if in a few days some unknown best throws me and you out.
The guys went to one of the " normal " corridors. The boards underfoot sighed, sneezing with damp dust. Han's palate was sticky and rough. Ki, on the other hand, was crowding along the walls, peering into the foggy haze.
The cultivator froze, listened, looked back. He also cautiously went to the back of the corridor.
[His behavior has changed, apparently Ki's gut has noticed something… Can it even work now when I don't prescribe it?]
Ki Bai finally stopped without the desire to go further. Han noticed that his companion's expression had become incredibly ugly.
[Dear Lord, will this nightmare ever end? Please, God, let the damn instinct be wrong!]
Wrinkles formed above Ki Bai's eyebrows. The cultivator put his finger to his lips, pointed into the void, then made the gesture of "walking feet".
Han and Ki quietly moved back. But an unpleasant surprise was waiting for them behind. The guys were buried in a damp wall, soaked with the smell of organic secretions.
Han could feel the vomit on his tongue. He didn't have the courage to swallow it: he was afraid to make an extra sound.
Ki didn't look any better. Out of anger, he tore through the wall with his nails. Behind the soft film was another-a white wall.
"Are these fucking bones? What kind of sick psycho created this damned damn corridor?" Mangaka breathed hoarsely.
Ki Bai sighed, took Han off his shoulder and took a fighting stance.
Soon, Han heard rapid, thundering footsteps. The floorboard of the corridor and the walls shook and creaked.
"What the hell?" Just don't tell me that a train will crash into us! Ki Bai, be careful!
"A train? Is it a monster? Do you know how to deal with it, brother?"
"No".
Now the image of the bone face of a coyote broke out of the darkness, revealing millions of oblique incisors.
Han snapped and started saying all the swear words he knew.
Ki Bai shuddered. "Brother!"
The cultivator grabbed the mangaka by the skin and flew into the opening between the muzzle and the wall of the corridor.
Ki closed Han down. An elongated neck, consisting of tangled chains of vertebrae, swept past with an afterlife roar.
"God, reborn me back!"
The vertebral chains were slowing down. A scarlet stripe ran along their side. Ki Bai gritted his teeth:
"Great Orbits".
The cultivator's entire back was torn.
Terrible wounds, deep and bleeding.
"Ki Bai!" Han's face turned gray.
"I'm all right ... eh?" That's..."
"What?"
Han followed his friend's gaze. A mixture of blades was being scraped out of the depths of the corridor. Blades growing from the eyes and mouths collected by the ring. It was as if some child-maniac had made a creature out of his sick fantasies.
But none of this scared me so much. The chains of vertebrae went under tension into a ring, behind which the flames raged and millions of voices screamed, begged for mercy, bleeding and crying, bloody tears and bloody tears.
"Oh my Goodness!" Han tapped his chest, not knowing if his heart was beating.
"About the underworld... then you were joking?"
The comrades exchanged glances. They saw horror in each other's eyes.
The cross between eyes and blades slowly moved the blades like a spider. It was approaching, leisurely walking a bone coyote.
The cultivator was sweating profusely. The wound on his back was beginning to smoke with green smog.
"Holy Orbits!" Ki Bai looked at the crossbreed, then at the chain of vertebrae. "Get ready, brother! Hold on to my back. He tore the white belt from his waist".
Ki Bai tied the belt around the quietly moving vertebrae. Ki and Han crawled across the floor, holding on to a reddened ribbon of fabric-a belt.
Han looked down at his feet. A claster of blades and eyes slowly fingered the blades. "But will it be so calm when we get to her? God, this is the most terrible creature I've ever seen in this world.
Ki Bai is really bad. The damn wound is smoking."
"Ki Bai, do you have any medicinal solutions?"
"No, I'm not… I got here without them".
"We need to tie the wound. It is getting worse right before our eyes".
The chain of vertebrae froze, and so did the cross between blades.
The friends heard a deep rumble.
"What now?! What does this hell want to show us now?!" Han began to cry.
The chain of vertebrae began to sink into the ring of a cross between blades.
"No!"
Whistling. Friction. Screams. For a couple of seconds, Han lost consciousness. The chain was moving quickly again. Mangaka's back was heated by the friction on the floor.
A moment later, the light flashed. But there was no flame. Han and Ki were surrounded by light. A cold wind blew through Han's hair and pants.
The friends were flying high above the cloudy ocean.
"Aaaaahh!" Ki Bai and Heng Bin tightened their grip on the belt.
The cultivator turned whiter than a skull, and Han was shaking and muttering prayers.
It was the first time these two were at such a height.
"The urine of Orbits..." said Ki in a hoarse voice. "Brother, we need to calm down. Don't look down! Hold on tight for all the Great Orbits! Everything is fine with us so far."
"Y-y-yes, you're right. We're not falling, are we?"
Vertebrae rained down from above.
"My gracious Lord."
"Orbital Urine…"
Clinging to each other, the screaming youths flew towards the cloudy sea. The roar of the wind rammed my eardrums. The air raged under his cheeks and in his nostrils, barely allowing him to breathe.
But still, Han could shout so that Ki could hear:
"God, I don't want to die a virgin! No, Lord! No-o-o!"
Ki was crying too. 'Under the cloudy sea, the earth is waiting for us… We'll be crushed to a pulp. That's the end.'
"Damn it!" Han looked at Ki madly. "Please! I don't want to die a bachelor and a virgin! Ki! Let me! Please, I want to get married and experience "it" before death!
The cultivator opened his mouth slightly, wanted to answer something, but his tongue became sluggish.
Han's eyes turned red.
Ki looked away, biting his lips and paling.
"Y-yes... Yes! I agree! I agree! Will you accept me, dear?"
"Forever and ever!"
"Forever and ever!"
"Until our death!" my friends shouted, sobbing.
The quick wedding ceremony of Ugonia was completed.
There were a few seconds left before the fall. Ki Bai tore off Han's pants. Following them, the cultivator lowered his own.
The " friends " were swallowed up by thick clouds.
Ki and Han landed on a giant slime-like trampoline.
The mangaka and the cultivator were thrown up; each time lower and lower, until they slid to its edge. Both of them fell head over heels on the hard ground.
Along with the darkness and fog, the land of nightmares was shrouded in silence. But not for long…
Han and Ki jumped up, yelling with joy.
"We are alive!"
"I thought our damn guts would be smeared all over the neighborhood! Dear Lord, you have not forsaken us!"
Friends looked at each other. Han's smile faded.
Ki blushed, hurried to cover his groin.
"Wait... No! Did we just... bh ... kiss?!" Han's face turned green. "I just got married to a man?!! Oh, my God! And we... and we're almost… Almost did "this"?!
[First issekai, then bodihorror in the spirit of Jujo Ito. And now yaoi?!]
Ki frowned. "If you vomit, brother, I will tear off your "bells" and shove them deep, deep in one place. By the Great Orbits!"
Mangaka threw up. The vomiting flowed profusely and continuously for several seconds. Ki's face turned gray.
"What's up, brother?" Ki gave Han a light slap on the head. "You asked me to, didn't you?!! You were literally crying and begging there! And by the way, I didn't want to fulfill your crazy request of a pervert! But I just couldn't refuse then! You put pressure on pity! He took advantage of my guilt, my kindness! This is despicable!
And now you're sick of it? Piss Orbits, I don't see the logic, Han!"
[Ki sometimes behaves like a girl, but he's a man, don't I fucking know?!!]
"Sorry, Ki Bai. I don't know what came over me. My mind is clouded..."
"Oh! Your mind is clouded! Did you hear that? His mind is clouded, so everything is allowed, give him your hand and heart, and then take them back: you make me sick. Ha-ha-ha!"
"Mom... mom and uncle wanted to see my wedding…"
Ki was about to continue his tirade, but froze.
"She and my uncle really wanted me to get married," Han sat down on the ground and covered his face. "When I thought about it, it seemed to cross my mind… I'm sorry, Ki, for "this" and for vomiting. You're beautiful, but I'm still interested in girls."
Ki Bai shifted from one foot to the other, feeling a chill.
"Heh," mangaka chuckled in a strangled voice. " You know, I've never opened my soul so deeply, even for a moment.
Maybe it's because you're my idol? You are cooler than me, braver, more beautiful. Deep down, I wish with all my heart to become the same… But this is unlikely to happen.
Now Ki's whole face was painted in a rich purple.
"Brother, don't. Don't worry! As soon as we get out, I'll find you a cool woman and teach you coolness! Who knows, maybe you will surpass me, and I will already bite my lips? Ki laughed. - Come on! Get up, brother! We need to get out of this mess!"
Han stood up. The corners of his lips were trembling:
"Yes, we should get out, otherwise this whole nightmare is driving me crazy. By the way, Ki Bai, brother Ki Bai, can you cancel?.."
"Now?" the cultivator interrupted mangaka. "Cancel the marriage? Do you want to be the lucky guy who got divorced twenty seconds after the wedding? Personally, I don't! Let's get out of here first, then we'll solve this issue, okay?"
Although the wedding ceremony was fast, I approached it with all seriousness! But I also adore girls. My fiancee was much more beautiful than you…
Ki hesitated. The cultivator began to look haggard.
"We seem tired, brother."
"Let's go find a place to sleep."
"A reasonable thought, how long have we been wandering? But first, please turn away."
"Why?" Han saw Ki's angry expression.
"I can't wander through uncharted lands with my bare belongings, can I? Brother, turn away!"
Han Bin turned his head.
"Are you kidding me? You can just turn your back on me and close your eyes."
"No. Ki, I can only see you out of the corner of my eye anyway. If something comes to you, I'll notice. And besides..."
"If you think that you are worthy to look at me, then you are deeply, very deeply mistaken! Don't you dare turn your head a single degree. Understand?!"
"Understad."
[And don't be so dramatic! Only now I realized that Ki Bai is overdoing it with expression: it's hard for me to communicate with him in real life.]
Ki Bai took out a cloth with threads from his bag and hastily sewed a kind of boxer shorts for himself.
"Let's go, huh? What..."
"Oh my Goodness!"
The slime trampoline opened three green fiery eyes (and opened its mouth).
"Let's get out of here, bro! Let's get out of here!"
The wind was rising on the desolate plateau. The ground was cracking
The cultivator and the mangaka ran. But they almost fell off the cliff.
"The abyss! The urine is Orbital!"
"What the hell, damn it!"
Next to the mountain of slime, a pair of the same appeared. The rocks collapsed, the friends flew into the abyss. There, under the clang and roar of a million chains, a toothy throat was waiting for them
Without having time to understand anything, the friends were already flying into the mouth with three rows of teeth.
"Are we falling?! What?!"
"No. What's happening? Why are we flying up?"
Instead of a stomach, the brothers flew into a transparent head.) Whirlwinds of black, white, gray, red and blue, and all possible colors and shades attacked the friends from all sides, like a violent storm.
It was endless. He was all-powerful.
The friends clung to each other tightly.
[Maybe this is really hell? Am I dead and now I'm doomed to be afraid forever? Most likely so. But then why is Ki Bai next to me?]
"Damn!" mangaka opened his eyes a little. The whirlwinds dried my eyes. In the middle of the endless hurricane, there was only Han and Ki. But suddenly a strange light flashed in the distance. Han's pupils narrowed.
"Ki Bai!"
The wind got softer. Friends seemed to float in the air.
"What, Brother Han?" And? This... what is this color?!
"I do not know, Ki. It doesn't look like any one I've seen before."
The more Han stared into the increasing light, the more he trembled. The glow of a foreign color.
[A color similar to the beginning. A color similar to a funeral. The color created by God himself?]
Han's thoughts became stringy.
[Why? Do you know Han? And you are Ki?] The glow of a strange color was approaching.
"The color of communication, the color of order, the color of reckoning."
Soon the rest of the colors faded, only he remained! When looking at him, it was bitter and, at the same time, it became sweet.
"There is no limit to fears. There are no limits to this tone, because my name is the whole world... " Han's lips moved of their own accord. "You will know my anger, and that's when you will know that my name is the Lord!"
"Is this the Great Orbit?"
"No, it's probably much scarier," Han Bing paused.
The light was blinding. A three-armed, three-legged, three-eyed monster breathed in a strange-colored halo.
His six limbs bent and a book with three eyes, three mouths appeared in them, and on its cover there were three drains of three different words from three symbols drawn in three lines.
The creature fused with the book, and it flew up to Han.
The unknown color of the light dimmed, like the setting sun, and the friends found themselves at the statue of the triangle in the middle. The monster statue itself repeated that it had grown into the book, but it had a difference comparable to a bird with a hawk: the silhouette was more majestic, the posture was firmer, strong chains covered the shoulders.
In the hands of a spear and a whip, and a sword.