Episode 25: Death Of A Candidate
BA-THUMP! BA-THUMP!
The black thread swirled in the air again, this time making contact with Chaz. Something within Kilr shifted and he could see another thread this one of white light connecting with the the monsters head. The white thread moved slower than the other.
"T- two options?" Kilr mumbled.
Kilr saw the massive zombie let out a thundering howl that rocked the entire room before lowering its head to bite his head off.
Chaz closed his eyes and screamed at the top of his voice. "Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!"
CHOMP!!
SQUIRT!!
SPLURT!!
"F**k!" Kilr tried to look away but couldn't.
To think he would have chosen the black string.
If he had picked the white, he might have been able to behead it after it bit Chaz's head.
Chaz opened his eyes and stared in shock unable to comprehend what had just happened.
DRIP!!
Red blood splattered the floor.
"D**m!" Kilr expelled blood while coughing. "Is this retribution for what I did to that bastard?"
Half of his shirt was saturated in blood as the zombie took off his right hand and devoured it with a proud gleam in its eyes.
CRUNCH!!
CRACK!!
SNAP!!"
Kilr sighed regretfully as he looked over to the area where his right hand had been. "All that and I'm still not strong enough? Ah shucks!"
Chaz was frozen with dread, tears welling up in his eyes. "Senior? But we're just k- kids! Why do we have to die?"
Kilr expelled warm air.
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Kilr looked up at the zombie and boomed. "You killed me once… it wasn't fun! This world is not fun, but I love it! It's my playground, and I'm going to tear you to pieces like you did me!"
Kilr had to bet everything on this. Every thing he had learned, his every being.
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Kilr kicked forward and grabbed the zombie's eyes and decayed it to black goop. His suppression of the dead managed to slow it down enough for him to attack.
The gym boss zombie lets out an ear-splitting shriek as it raises him and slams his face into the ground.
CRACK!
Kilr's head cracked open diagonally by the side and blood gushed out. His system kept bringing warning signs in red filters but he was too occupied to sort them out.
The zombie, enraged over its missing eye, seized one of Kilr's legs and yanked it out.
"Eeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkkkkkkkk!!" Kilr's scream rocked the building even more than the monster itself.
Narci awakened from her catatonic state and looked forward to see Kilr in such a pitiful state and screamed at the top of her voice.
"Kiiiiiiillllllrrrrrrr!! Don't die!!"
Kilr would have laughed if he could.
Chaz cried too. "Senior! Stand up!"
"W- why? Why does everyone want that for me?" He thought.
The gym zombie flipped him over and spat at him.
"Brother...?"
"Nerissa...!?"
"Come back home...!"
Kilr pressed his remaining intact leg hard on the blood coated ground and kicked himself up. The zombie was unprepared for it, but when he noticed the thread again, he went for it!
Kilr's hand flew into the zombies eye socket where he activated "Touch Of The Dead" with every little bit of mana he had left and decayed the zombie from the inside starting from the brain.
"Raaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwrrrrrrrrr!!"
"F**k!" Kilr cursed as the zombie tried to throw him off it with as much force as it could muster.
Black smoke billowed from its eyeball, and the stench of overcooked flesh filled the air. Kilr's had a pleased smile on his face as the zombie rampage trying to shake him off.
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"You feel that bitch?" Kilr laughed. "It's pain! It's death!"
The monster reached out, ripping Kilr's waist and flinging it to the ground. Kilr's intestines protruded from his dismembered corpse and jiggled in the air. Kilr used all the pain he felt at the moment to drive his hand deeper into it's head.
The zombie stretched out and grabbed his head. Kilr could practically hear his skull breaking off his body, but he refused to give up.
"Just die you MOTHERF**ER!!!"
"ASTA LAVISTA! BABY!"
Kilr's hand erupted in the zombie's brain, causing a massive plume of dark smoke to consume the cells on his skin in seconds.
"Whew!!" Kilr flopped on his back and grinned. "Die bitch!!"
Kilr watched with pride as the zomie tumbled backwards and landed with a thunderous thump. His body had been reduced to nothing more than a shattered skull and a limbless body. His intestines began to expel even more blood into the ground, drenching him.
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"Fuck off!" Kilr spoke with a wheezy gasp.
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"Kilr!!" Narci screamed out his name as she set him on her lap and tried to keep his eye on her. "Why do you have to do the most ridiculous things?"
Kilr tried to laugh but coughed out blood instead.
"T- try true loves kiss", he moaned.
Narci brushed her tears away with the back of her palms, but they continued to flow. "Don't you ever shut up?"
Kilr drew a faint smile on his lips.
"We--ll pardon me for trying to talk with a lady?"
Every other student crowded around him, all sobbing for reasons he could not understand. He wanted to tell them he did this to avenge his death and nothing else but… he didn't!
Something about being honored felt great!
"I'm sorry I failed you Nerissa?" He contemplated.
Duke bowed his head to him in respect while Chaz stayed on his knees crying.
"Who knew a slacker like me wo--" Kilr's thoughts ceased, and his eyelids gradually shut.
Narci moved in so close that she was practically kissing his forehead.
"Kilr!!"
Kilr could not muster enough energy to speak but if he could say something...
"Don't worry, it's not my first exit."
A notification whirred and beeped over his head for everyone to see!
It was the first time such a notification could be seen collectively.
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Narci pressed Kilr's head to her chest and screamed at the top of her voice.
"Noooooooooooooooooo!!!"
Kilr, the strongest person in Rising Star Academy was now dead.
The Number One Slacker ends his story.
There was still a boss to beat.
After the moment of silence the students all left the gym room one at a time. Because the gym lord had been defeated the barrier had been removed. Duke and Chaz offered to team up with Narci but she stayed.
After a while, Narci covered Kilr's lifeless corpse with his jacket and laid him to rest. She placed the rusty dagger he had first given her on the corpse and walked out of the room. On her way out, she came upon a fresh face.
"I just can not believe he died!" Said the hooded figure in a strong masculine voice.
Narci aimed her sword at him and immediately collapsed from the pressure he exuded.
She coughed incessantly. "So, who exactly are you?"
The figure stopped his pressure and lent her a hand she refused. "I am sorry about that; we are still working it out!"
The person turned to go.
"Kilr was my buddy! I refuse to stand by and let injustice continue! I am going to defeat the boss myself!"
He pushed aside the hood, revealing his lovely face.
"My name is Ryod. Ryod Dutchman!!"