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Chapter 14 - Escalation

Right now, the problem that they were going to have to answer one way or another is that this conflict was definitely going to escalate. It was going to go up in scale whether they liked it or not. And since the Gemini had already chosen a side, and that was by the side of Astrid the Sagittarius, it was going to go down harder than how they would anticipate, however. The Gemini got up early in the morning and asked Blizz something that was definitely on his mind ever since. "How did I manage to beat Gilgamesh at his own game?" He asked the bluish hued companion of his to which Blizz sighed. "It seems like you have unlocked something else entirely, Eisen, a new form or a new state or however you might call it. Your eyes turned as white as that of a mistletoe in the snow." Blizz said which surprised the Gemini.

"Eyes as white as snow?" Eisen asked in confusion at what he just heard. "That is correct. And due to that, some way or some how, you were actually able to go toe to toe against the Leo in terms of raw physical strength output during your skirmish, even I was not able to do anything as that was happening." Blizz said as he still kept looking at those hands of his. "Do you recall anything at all about that? Do you know how you are able to activate it?" The companion of the Gemini continued on asking him as that kind of a power could actually prove to be some kind of a trump card in the long run.

Eisen shook his head afterwards as soon as he heard what Blizz asked of him. "No, not really. I do not know how to do it. Maybe it just activates out of pure instinct or something." Eisen added. "It could be, it could be something like that, but we still have a long way to discover what or just how it is actually activated as well." he said to which Blizz replied with a resounding nod as well. With that, the two of them paid up to the innkeeper and bid their farewells. "Wait a moment, sirs!" The innkeeper stopped them as they were already on their way out of the door. "Y-You will bring every single thing back to normal, right?" he asked Eisen and Blizz. "That is..." before Eisen could reply, Blizz knew that he had some kind of trouble answering back. "Yeah, we will do that, do not worry, old man." Blizz said with a thumbs up sign on his hand and with a smile as well, assuring the old guy that they would do it without fail whatsoever at all.

"I am not that big on making promises, to be quite honest with you." Eisen said to Blizz. "Yeah, it was pretty obvious that you would not have said anything to that old guy if I did not butt in." Blizz added in response. "But aren't you confident that the Sagittarius is going to win this war with you by her side?" Blizz asked him. "I might be confident in my own strength and in Astrid's, but there is still something that we call a certain kind of 'randomness' to how things might go in the long run as it stretches on." Eisen said. It seemed like he was definitely much more wise and much more mature than his age lets on.

"I do not know this because I am basically just a random pile of code formed to make a flesh heap of an abomination of an artificial intelligence, but still, you have definitely appeared to be more mature and wise despite being in your senior year of high school only." Blizz complimented the boy as to how mature Blizz felt that he was even though he was not really a human at all at that. Eisen just merely laughed it off and told Blizz that he had experienced his fair share of troubles in real life and that is probably why he acts like such an old and stoic soul at that. "Yeah, you did mention several times in the past that you have had several run ins and developing problems and conflicts with bullies at your school." Blizz said as he remembered.

"Yeah, and one of them just literally got turned in to an NPC, I am sure that even you know that could have felt good and all." Eisen could not hold back the confident smirk that he had written all over his face as he said this, because it was the sweetest kind of revenge mixed in justice that he had ever experienced so far. "You want to go ahead and go back to them just to rub it in their faces?" Blizz teased him to which Eisen told him that it would be alright to not do that. "If I was a petty person, then I would for sure have the time to do that, but seeing as I am not, well, let us just say that I hope Randy has learned a valuable lesson." Eisen said as the two of them were traversing throughout the entire world and walking around to some place.