A little brother that only ever knew how to cause problems and let his family deal with the aftermath.
It's one of the reasons why Pragati was used to cleaning Luvi's messes. Even if that mess ends up hurting Pragati as well. One Of the reasons why Luvi was kicked out of the family.
Though this time, the mess was caused by not his little brother, but his own family.
As for who specifically, he didn't know.
All he knew, these were the enemies of his family that were eyeing for a chance to make mockery out of them.
"I expected too much from you." Pragati said with disappointment as he saw a total of three mushroom cows appearing on the screen as well as the state of Luvi's friend.
Giving a long look to the frantic organizers and security officials who were confused how they were infiltrated. Pragati, like a ghost, disappeared from sight.
"Call… where is the security? The guards?"
Their cries and act of worry didn't win Pragati over.
He knew better than anyone to have to depend on officials like these. The old hierarchy would always be rotten to some extent and incapable to the other.
Their act of security is always superficial and few would actually want to put their life on the line when the situation calls for it.
As for how this all happened?
Pragati didn't know the specifics. But he knew that the enemies were far more prepared than the side of the organizers who barely got a few days to prepare for the attack.
And even if they did, it might have only been on a superficial level.
Pragati flashed through the stadium, jumping from the high floor to the middle of the stadium. Where the remaining confused audience was wondering about the sudden change in difficulty over the events.
They even wondered what the blurry figure was in the arena who was rushing toward the portal.
But before this figure can reach the portal to the artificial dungeon. It closed on its own, while the console on the side burst, much to the confusion of the workers managing the portal.,
"Late."
He said, looking around, before throwing an icy blade to his back, breaking reality like a mirror, exposing a woman that was hiding calmly in it.
"We meet again!" She said, walking out of the portal as the panicked staff started to run away, seeing the situation getting serious.
The managers of the staff were already aware of some attack, so they were ready to respond and lead their workers toward safety when the moment arrived.
Though Pragati was not going to wait for them to leave and clear the field, the moment the woman walked out of her illusion, Pragati attacked her, aiming for her neck.
"I won't fall for it again."
With those words, she was decapitated, once again.
But from the side of Pragati, the woman appeared once again, but with time she directly fired a shot from her gun at Pragati's head, the moment he came to stop.
Sadly, the bullet was too slow in his eyes and he dodged easily, before backing off a bit. "I have seen this ability before."
Little mirrors like crystals that hide and create illusions. "The cleaner."
Not so long ago, during the hunt for a cult member, Pragati had hunted the entire group including some youngsters for the crime of joining a dangerous cult.
As per his directives. But during that time, a certain cleaner had tried to hide the bodies of the two youngsters from him. Which in turn resulted in her death.
"Finding a body with a head was hard during that time… if not, I would have actually died." The woman said, rubbing her neck as she recalled how close she was to death.
"But I am not the old me anymore… I can fight as well."
Her ability was crystal illusions, she can create triangular mirror like surfaces and use them to construct the illusions any way she liked.
Which is why she got her job as a cleaner. Her ability made it easier for her to do her job. But sadly, it was also a curse as she was only a slightly stronger human and could never match people of Pragati's stature on killing power alone.
Though, all of that changes when Luvi's methods were introduced to the world and their effect when matched with her innate ability gave her an edge.
She might still be one of the weaker ones. But with her trained movement and blade techniques. It will be easy to distract Pragati for a long while.
"So… I failed at a kill."
This was all that Pragati had to say, before throwing multiple blades made of black ice around the whole field. Smashing many of these mirror spaces which hid some people as well as weapons.
"Just six peopl… just 5 people?" Pragati said while looking toward a man with a dark knife stabbed in his head. Which killed him instantly.
Much to the horror of those that wished to kill him.
"Wa… how did you?" The woman was horrified to look at this scene. She never imagined Pragati would have a move like this and if not for moving fast, she might have been a victim as well.
And this time, her real body.
"Thirty seconds is all that is needed." Pragati said, as the blade in his hand grew longer, while he disappeared from the sight of these people.
******
Luvi was angry.
"FUCK". Knowing that time was of the essence, he took out a bandage and tried to seal his wound. But he was shocked to see that his left hand, which held the shield, didn't move. Instead, all he felt was pain.
Even though the mushroom cow below cushioned his fall, he still ended up dislocating his arm.
'I forgot how much it actually hurts.'
Getting off the mooing cow, Luvi walked a bit far while looking up the hill, where he could hear sounds of combat.
Which disappeared as soon as they started.
'Did the two kill each other?'
No, Luvi thought.
The mushroom cows were slow and the Idhant he knew lacked strength to actually kill them.
Meaning, both parties can't hurt each other or at least, end the fight so early.
Then, he heard the sound of rushing steps.
'He is coming.'
The slight delay was caused by Luvi's own folly. The sound was lower than before due to Luvi's own suggestion of buying better boots.
Now it has come back to bite him in the ass.
'I give him 20 secs to reach this place. No, probably faster.'
Thought Luvi. Meaning, this was not time to think, but to act.
'Dislocation is easy. I have done it before.' Recalling the training he was forced to go through in his home, Luvi recalls what his brother did to him when he dislocated his shoulder.
"Its gonna fucking hurt."
Luvi was strong, his fist more so. There was no need to require external force, with just a simple grip and moving his shoulder a bit with a jerking force.
A sound of crack came and an audible cry leaked Luvi.
But that was enough, he could feel his hand properly again, the lack of energy he felt in that limb was no more and Luvi was able to move it as naturally as before. And he didn't waste any time.
Knowing the coming enemies, Luvi tried to put the bandage on his wound to seal up his injury. But before he can do it, he paused.
Ignoring the lingering pain in his body as well as shoulder, Luvi saw the figure of Idhant appear in front of him.
"??"
But this was not Idhant, it was a faceless man with Idhant's physique.
"??"
"Mental illusion?... such a shitty one?"
There were different forms of illusion abilities in the world.
Some created images in the real world, while others directly broadcasted to one's psyche. Making them hallucinate.
Idhant was of the latter category.
And from the image he was making Luvi see currently. It was too immature and easy to differentiate.
So Luvi, ignoring the faceless Idhant in front of him, stuck close to the wall of the hill and put forward his shield.
And as expected, his shield automatically deflected an attack. Following which Luvi punched at his front. Ignoring all the pain from his previous stab wound.
*Boom
He felt it.
The feeling of bones cracking.
"Invisibility… now this is new." The moment the punch landed, the real image of the surroundings finally set in and Luvi saw Idhant, bleeding from his mouth but his eyes remained focused like an animal, as he glared at Luvi silently.
'This is no Idhant.'
One can't fake their nature.
Not in this situation.
"Using you as a puppet?"
It's been mere minutes since the frantic fight began and seeing the current situation, it was easily coming to end under Luvi's calculated attacks.
Though this was too easy.
"FUc…" And he got his answer, as something slid past his leg, puncturing it as well.