As soon saw the face of the last sacrifice that the duo brought back into the ritual hall down below. I was sure that even if I were to escape from the 'Church of Dark Hours' and go out I'm dead.
Why is this always happening to me, why me?
What sins have I committed in my last life?
Am I really not destined to avoid this calamity that befalls me today?
No wait, it's Not just me, our entire class is in the same situation. if any of us were to escape and let this guy here dies we are all dead.
Actually, death would be the least of our worries.
It would actually be an easy way out of what was about to happen to us.
You guys might have actually guessed, who is it by now?
And if your answer was Owen then, Yes your right!
The duo went and brought back the walking disaster to be their last sacrifice. And just by looking at the smirk on their faces, I am pretty much sure of what their bird brain reasoned when they selected Owen to be their last sacrifice.
They must have envied Owen's looks.
The Blonde bastard's fuckboy face seems to have infuriated their egos and they seem to want Owen to be the last sacrifice so they can chop him up later.
I always knew the bastard had a hateful face that always gives off an impression like it's pleading for a punch from every man on Earth.
So I knew it would earn him a punch or 2 in the future but never thought that it would be this serious, that it may become the leading factor of his demise.
The guy at the altar seems to have also guessed the reason for the duo to bring Owen as the last sacrifice but he didn't seem to be bothered by it.
I thought after seeing Owen the leader would as them to change for another sacrifice but seeing him not being worried about it I was confused.
Wait, Don't tell me these guys don't know who Owen is?
Are these guys for real, were they living under a rock until now to not even recognize his blonde bastard?
He is the one and only Son of our nation's no:1 leading company the 'Williams groups' and the only grandson of the leaders of our nation's current ruling party.
If this was a Kingdom, the guy's status will be equal to that of a Fucking Prince.
While I was cursing my bad luck and comprehending the situation and coming up with a solution. The duo and the guy by the altar had not stopped for me to finish my thoughts.
I started panicking because if Owen was to be killed by the 'Church of Dark Hours' and I were to escape from this situation, his parent's anger would be 1st directed towards the 'church' but if the search isn't fruitful the next main target would be me.
Because I am the easiest to bully so all the other parents of my classmates would do anything and everything to direct the anger of Owen's parents towards me and my mother so that they save their children.
If it is just me I won't even care about them resorting to killing or tormenting me. But if they were to hurt my mother and that was because of me I would don't be able to forgive myself.
Just the thought of seeing my mother's painful face hurt me more than dying by 1000 needles.
And in an impulse of imagining my mother's pain, I stood up from my hiding spot and shouted
" Wait"
The moment they heard my voice from the balcony the entire group was stunned. They never seem to have expected a guest to arrive at the crucial moment.
They immediately raise their weapons to open fire at me. Not wanting to die without even explaining the situation pitifully. I immediately raised both my hands up in the air and shouted
" Please don't shoot, please don't shoot, I come in peace, please don't shoot."
After hearing my plea the group hesitated for a few seconds and looked at the guy near the altar for his commend. The guy seems to have been intrigued by my entry so he signed them to lower their weapons and asked me
"Who are you? And how did you get in here?"
"My name is Isaac, I'm a student from the same school as that guy, As for how I came here, I followed those two guys down there when they went to bring the hostages"
As soon the duo heard my answer they immediately wanted to say something but the man near the altar gestured for them to stop. He then asked with a serious voice
" How were you able to escape from my 'MindMaze' magic?"
As soon as he said that I looked at him with a face that had 'Dude are you serious for real?' printed on it.
But not wanting to voice my opinion, I replied
"Hmm, I don't know what this Mind Mase thingy is but when you guys attacked and took everyone hostage, I was in the restroom and got lucky enough for you guys missed me out."
After saying that I smiled at them with a painful expression. After listening to my reply the leader seems to have been interested in my reason for not escaping and decided to appear here,
" Well, it's not that, I don't want to escape but it that my curiosity got the better of me, I wanted to know what you guys are up to and while I was hiding here I saw you guys were about to kill the blonde over there, so I tried to stop you before the situation goes out of control."
As soon as I mentioned Owen, the short guy from the duo who was silent till now seems to have been infuriated by my demands to not kill Owen.
" Shut fuck off kid, who in the actual fuck do you think you're, snotnose punk trying to take my prey right in front of my eyes? I don't give a shit about what you say, today I am skinning and chopping up your friend Mr. Fuckface blonde over here to my heart's content "
Seeing the short guy from the duo openly voice out his opinion even before the leader could speak, And with a look on the tall guy's face, I'm sure they seem to hold some kind of a grudge for people with handsome faces.
" I think you guys are getting the wrong idea, I'm not trying to save the bastard over there because I'm his friend or anything, I'm trying to save all our lives here, that blonde over there is Owen Williams the only son of the owner of William group of companies and grandson of our country ruling party leader"
As soon I finish my lengthy speech the shocking and fearful expression I expected didn't appear
They started laughing out loud and every single person in the hall looked at me with a
'do you think I care?' attitude.
I was shocked at the reaction of this group of people, are they not afraid of Owen and his background. Is the power backing them even greater than our country?
Just as I was having my doubts, the leader suddenly said,
" Do you think we care about you vermins up to, a bug with power is still a bug "
Hearing the leader call the great William groups a bug I don't where I should compare myself to.
Am I, something that is lower than a bug?
Not wanting to continue on the topic I immediately came to the issue I wanted to speak
" Please can you change the candidate for the last sacrifice?"
As soon the duo heard me request a change of sacrifice they were about to open their mouths and the leader immediately gestured for them to stop. He then looked at me with an evil smile and said
" It's not impossible to change the sacrifice but we don't have time to fetch another one now but if you are willing to take his place as the sacrifice I would think about it"
As soon as the leader said that my heart stopped beating for a second even though I knew that this is what going to happen at the moment,
Yeah, I already knew how it will happen the moment I saw Owens's face and I decided to stand up knowing that I will be the one who will be replacing him.
But still, even though I had made up my mind to do it my heart doesn't want me to do it.
Seems I am afraid of death.
Well, who isn't afraid of dying no one would want to die and leave their loved ones behind.
But as soon as I remember my mother's face and the consequences of my decision if I back away from this now, I immediately made up my mind and answer
" Ok, I will be the last sacrifice but you have to let me talk to the guy first before you kill me"
As soon the leader heard my reply he was shocked at my decision, he thought I would back off immediately if he asked me to be the sacrifice but seeing me willing to die in the place of another person, he even agreed to my request.
As soon as he agreed, I ran over to the hall without waiting for any to say anything I jumped in front of Owen and punched him as hard as possible to wake him up.
*sigh*
" Well that seems to have not worked, but at least it was satisfying"
The entire group was in shock after Looking at me going straight for a punch in the face to wake him up. Looking at their face I felt a little embarrassed so I cleared my throat and sheepishly said.
*ahem* " I thought it would work"
After coming back from his startled state the leader snapped his fingers and Owen was able to return to his senses.
Just as Owen was about to open his mouth and voice out his doubts, I immediately stopped his rambling and explained the situation to him and all the in and outs.
As soon I started explaining my hypothesis, not just Owen, the members, the riff-raffs, and even the leader of the ' Church of Dark Hours' were impressed by my intelligence.
After explaining everything in a moderate way that may not endanger his safety, I look at him one last time and said.
" I'm not giving away my life to replace you because you deserve it, I'm only doing this to save my mother, she deserves a better life, and don't you dare forget that "
And with completely fixed on him I claimed on the altar and led down. Ready to end this pitiful life of mine once and for all.
The duo saw me lay on the altar they got near Owen and the short guy said
" You got a real good friend, even though he could have escaped from here without helping you he decided to sacrifice himself. if not for him, I would have loved to skin out that fuckboy face of yours"
Looking at the malice and hostility in the eyes of the short guy the last bit of doubt that Owen had was gone.
He had seen and thought to read others' motives through the look in their eyes from childhood so he can easily identify if one were to lie to him.
But even after listening to Isaac's explanation, he still had not believed it. But the hostile in the eyes of the group told him that same story
As Owen was busy buried in his thoughts, Isaac laid down ready to be sacrificed and the group was busy getting ready with all their preparation for the final sacrifice.
No one noticed the dark clouds gathering above them with heavy golden crackles in them as If they were about to bring down the 'Heaven's Warth' upon the ground below.