As the girl smoked a cigarette with a cold expression, she didn't move an inch from where she was, drowning herself in the cigarette's smell around from the smokes formed in the air.
She didn't care about chasing and killing others, she only wanted to smoke silently in peace. As if smoking was her only enjoyment and something that reminds her of the past.
...
In somewhere else of the strange place, a weird looking sword wielding guy was chasing a silver dagger holding girl...
Sometimes clashing against each others, as the guy catches up with the running girl, or him just chasing after her...
"Why do you run so much?!" The guy yelled out in frustration.
'..why? I run because I want to live! Is that not obvious?!' The girl didn't reply as she kept running for her life.
Running and fighting back occasionally have saved her life multiple times, but she was eventually slowing down as she was tired as she didn't have a chance to catch her breath.
After a while of chasing, the guy caught up and grabbed the girl's sleeves, ready to stab a sword into her chest and kill her.
The girl was caught off-guard and tired. She couldn't resist and she was breathless. She instinctively raised her silver dagger...
Then a sound-bomb bursted as their ears almost bled! It stunned the guy and the girl both.
The dark sword moved on it's own to claim it's prey... But the girl reacted quickly.
The sounds of the dagger and sword clashed.
Both swords seemed unharmed but the same didn't go for the people wielding them, they were slowly getting exhausted.
...
I laid down quietly on the ground with my hands clutched at my wounded chest. There was still 2 bullets inside my body...
The homeless didn't bother to kill me, he laid in his spot holding his watch with his wounded left arm.
We are both just "lifeless" corpses laying on the ground... No one will bother us, right? Eh, why did I jinx it... As I thought, sounds of a sword and a dagger clashing could be heard in the distance.
It was for, some reasons... Coming this way... Eh, should I just pretend to be dead? There's no message that determines how many people are alive... But it's probably only around 15 now... Yes—as far as I counted.
I've bleeded quite a lot of blood already and I am feeling pretty dizzy... Ah, I'm going to die soon...
The homeless man's dead man act was not even an act. He was just laying there. Eh, same goes for me...
"Hahahha, you're going to die now!" A voice of a guy said as he slashed down at a girl.
The girl parried it with her own dagger, but it's too short! It's troublesome... If her dagger wasn't enhanced in both power and speed, she would already be dead.
She turned around and ran again after parrying. Seeing 2 figures on the ground... But she didn't ask for help, knowing what kind of place she was in.
Regardless, even if she can't ask for help, she can make the guy chasing her target them instead and strike when he's off-guard!
She quickly thought up of a plan but felt quite guilty as her face changed into a frown from an annoyed one with hints of fear.
Why's she sacrificing two innocent people who hadn't even harmed her in any ways to a wolf chasing her?
She felt sorry and really sorry but she didn't have a choice. She would take revenge for them... Surely.
Even if she abandons the plan and decides to run elsewhere, the guy would've most likely killed the 2 helpless figures on the ground. So she wasn't doing anything wrong.
Without any hesitation but with a guilty heart, she run towards the place where I was at. I was the closest...
..haha, you're kidding me. I don't even have anything on me and I'm dying soon... So can't I die in peace?...
She seemed to feel a bit guilty as she hesitated for a moment and stopped. Wondering if what she was doing was right or wrong. Using a person as a bait.
She was doing it for her own survival... She didn't want to kill others just to survive... But there's really no other choice, is there?
She had already killed one person in the duels... But it was out of self-defense, so she could feel less guilty about it.
Still, getting her hands stained with blood wasn't in anyways pleasant. It was her first time killing to survive...
She only won the duels because she had a better item on her compared to the opponent. Otherwise, she would be dead.
After the duels, everything reset. Like, injured people healed completely, and items or skills also disappearing...
"I'm sorry..." She decided to prioritize her own survival in the end, but she apologized as she still had her morals.
I did understand her choices... It was by no means unfair or wrong... She wasn't intentionally getting us killed... She had no choices here other than this if she wanted to survive...
I didn't say much of a word and stayed still on the ground. I didn't have much time to live anymore anyways.
She ran past me and towards the homeless man's direction as the guy chasing her turned his gaze at me as he fell behind.
She was going to wait for an opportunity to attack him by keeping him off-guard. So she was going to pretend to only run at first and strike when the time's right...
A mouth was on the dark black sword he was wielding, then it talked with an ominous voice...
"I'm f*cking thirsty for blood already! Kill that guy! Kill that guy! Whoever's blood it is doesn't matter! Why are so obsessed with the girl with a silver dagger!?" It spoke impatiently.
"Tsk. You fcking idiot, don't be so pushy. Isn't this clearly a trap set by that girl?" He analyzed the situation quickly.
Besides, these 2 guys on the ground seems useless, they have bullet wounds and they're only laying there like lifeless corpses! I guess they do make good food for you though... He thought as he stayed idle, not making any moves.
"Who cares!? You think that girl can kill you with such an obvious trap?! If you know it's a trap then you can just be careful while killing these preys on the way!" The sword didn't listen to him, as it suggested another solution.
"Ha... Fine, fine. You'll have to make sure you can keep an eye out for an attack that comes later." He said helplessly.
"Huh? You think I care about your life? If you don't want to lose your own life to me, you should go and kill these guys!" It said, starting to lose more patience.
...such an amusing sight, these items are really weird. Isn't that way worse than my flying sword earlier..? I'm really going to die to such a weird bloodthirsty sword...
The guy dashed towards me swiftly, slashing downwards and aiming at my neck with his sword. It didn't take more than 3 seconds for him to reach me.
And I closed my eyes subconsciously.
...
As the helpless person closed his eyes, ready to give up on his life. The girl quickly threw her silver dagger at the talking sword.
The dagger was swift and light but it was also able to parry a bigger sword with such a small size.
As the dagger parried the talking sword, it flew back a little, dropping out of the guy's hands.
His eyes widened in both annoyance and surprise. He knew the dagger could be fast, but he didn't expect her reaction speed to be this fast!
Before he could pick up the sword on the ground, the dagger returned to it's owner instantly.
Then she threw it again without hesitation, aiming at his head accurately.
The sword pierced through his skull and killed him at a speed faster than sound.
The dagger returned to it's owner again.
A body fell lifelessly in front of the helpless man, who had already closed his eyes, thinking he was already going to die.
Then, he opened his eyes after a few seconds, as he heard the sound of a body falling to the ground.
Seeing a body laying lifelessly, with his head seemingly pierced through by a dagger...
With the blood of pool from his body, the sword that fell earlier, finally "tasted" blood. It finally satisfied it's hunger.
The sword was stained with the color of blood, changing from a dark black sword to a dark red sword.