Chapter 121: Crimson
The piece of the broken cauldron wasn't too far away from her now.
She could almost feel it. It was right there. She couldn't see it as the piece of cauldron, as it was still dug deep into his back.
"Seriously. Where do you think you are going?"
"I've done nothing wrong. I swear. The shard appeared to me one day. It came to me. It picked me. It manifested itself to me as I…" the man with the spiky bones erupting out of his back was about to finish her sentence right before he was suddenly cut off by…
"It manifested itself to you as you were having sex with someone?" The Autumn Witch asked him as she interrupted him.
"How did you do? While I was having sex? Um… No… I wasn't. I was actually… No. You're right. You are exactly right. That was exactly what I was doing as the shard picked me and came to me. I was having sex. With a pretty lady," the man agreed with her.
"Oh, now, judging by the expression on your face, you weren't having sex with anyone as the shard came to you," she said.
"Um… What are you talking about? Of course, that is what I was doing… Why? Do you think I would be lying about something like that? It doesn't make any sense…" The man desperately wanted to hide so badly. He didn't want to be interrogated by the Autumn witch aunty longer. He didn't want to be chased throughout his own town by her. Chased out of his own. He felt this was the worst nightmare ever. This man was a normal guy once before he received the shard of the cauldron. He never asked anything from anyone. It wasn't fair.
"You weren't having sex with anyone when the shard came to you, you were masturbating," she knew everything. The awkward and suspicious way he was behaving betrayed him. She knew everything there was to know about him now. He couldn't hide. He couldn't lie. She knew. The man slowly stepped back from her. Preparing to run away from her again. He had no idea where he was going to go, but he knew he had to escape and lose her for good. He had to try at least.
"She knows…" he whispered to himself out loud.
"That's okay. It's even better that way, actually," she told him. Surprising him as she communicated these words to him.
"Is it better that way? I don't… I don't understand…" he said.
"If you couldn't have sex with women that one time, and that you had to resort to masturbating, this is great. This is amazing, and you shouldn't be ashamed of it. Masturbation is awesome. People and monsters who masturbate are a beautiful thing. And since you have sort of become a mixture of the two, a human and a monster, because of the cauldron shard, you could be considered a: 'Humonster'. And you were masturbating that one time, when the cauldron shard came to you. How was it? Did the cauldron sneak up on you in your bedroom as you were emptying your balls in your own bed right before falling asleep?" September questioned him. There was absolutely no hatred in September's voice. She was honest with him when she said that she supported him, masturbating. She was really into that kind of stuff. She was encouraging him.
"No. It wasn't like that. Since I can only have sex with women when I am lucky enough to have one of them, trick-or-treating at night and knocking at my door, such as tonight, which doesn't happen too often. It basically happens once a year or so. And this elvish girl of yours, it was paradise for me when I thought I had a chance, it was unexpected. But it didn't happen. So, yes, I masturbate a lot. But that time that the shard came to me, it wasn't in my bedroom, it was in the park. I was masturbating in the park. Yes, I was. I'm sorry. I was. I'm so sorry," he kept apologizing.
"So, you are a creep on top of being a pervert? I love it," September shocked the man with this statement and personal opinion of hers. The man nearly fell onto his butt when he heard this.
"So…? You don't want to hurt me…?" the man asked her.
"No. I only want my cauldron shard back," she told him.
"But you don't understand. I can't give it back to you. It's stuck. In my back. I can't take it out of there. I've tried. Myself. Then, our local doctor tried the other day. It doesn't work. It won't work. It has been tried before. Don't you understand?" the man was shivering as he said this. It wasn't shivering because he was going to cry or anything like that. He was shivering because something awful was happening to his body. He was sick. He wasn't doing well at all.
"But I haven't tried yet. Let me try," September attempted to reason with him and to gain his confidence, but it wasn't easy.
"I said: It doesn't work!" he shouted at her as the cauldron shard began glowing again and more deadly and spiky bones suddenly erupted out his back. The man was being taken over by his own, mutated bones, which were now covering a good portion of his body.
"I only want to help…" September tried reasoning with him again. Slowly, but surely, she realized that it was going to be impossible, sadly. This didn't mean that she didn't try again.
"Let me alone!" The man shouted at her one more time before running into her direction and attempting to reach her on the roof where she stood on. However, right before he could begin climbing up to her, the spiky man was suddenly stopped. Something in his back was holding him. It was reinforcement.
It was Junk.
He was holding him in place, and September ended up being a great distraction. The Minotaur had more than enough time to pull the cauldron shard out of his back. The shard electrified him in the process, but the Minotaur could take it. He electrified himself for the greater good of taking the cauldron shard back.
Ping!
He pulled out of his back.
The man, who had been affected by the shard, fell to the ground. His body failed as the shard was successfully taken back. Slowly, the spiky bones came back into his body.