"Which. God. Do. You. Serve?" Isha's eyes flashed with a ominous black hue as she glared down at the troll.
She didn't want any answers from that troll, she just wanted to know if the god they served was still looking after them, if yes then, she will be cursed like Eshwar....Eshwar!
'Then does that mean he was cursed by a god?' Isha frowned at that possibility, but what she couldn't understand was, when.
'Don't tell me from the moment the system talked about reducing the number of 'living'.....' Isha thought and that conclusion seemed quite possible.
"Kill him." She ordered apathetically.
SLASH
"Careful, look." Isha said and pointed at the dark green blood droplet which splattered on her right cheek.
'You done?' Isha asked the other summon, which was killing the other trolls outside. Isha would know if the shadow woman had completed her mission or was still in the process of completing it, but she would still ask them. It was a kind of respect she returned to her summons even though none of her summons had names or could speak.
SWOOSH
The shadow woman appeared in front of Isha and nodded its head, it seemed kinda cute.
"Let's return then. It's no use even if we stayed here." Isha said and turned around, and all the shadow summons seeped back into her shadow.
"I think, I should just sneak in from now on."
***
In a 20 feet semi furnished room which contained a kitchen, a bathroom and a few decorations.
A handsome long-red-haired man sat on the side of the bed with a melancholy and lost expression on his face, while another man who was average-looking stared at him with a apathetic expression on his face while sitting on the other corner of the bed and in front of the handsome long-red-haired man.
".... What were you doing?" Jiwoo asked with a ridiculing tone.
"...." Vinny simply stared at the bed with a pained and lost expression on his face.
"You. You killed the vampires?" Jiwoo asked, irritated.
'F**k! If I was as strong as him, I would have instantly kicked him out of here! I can't believe a 'main character' could be this pathetic.' Jiwoo thought and stared at Vinny's pathetic state.
Another possibility cruised through his mind, which said that maybe he was the one who caused some kind of butterfly effect for the main character to change so much, but Jiwoo thoroughly ignored it.
"You..... killed your own.... friends?" Jiwoo asked. Though he knew he would be pissing off a main character, he thought he had to take that risk to send him out of here as soon as possible.
"No!" Vinny roared abruptly and clenched his fists.
"....."
"No! Goddammit, no! White Swan killed them and ran away!!" Vinny said.
"Shut up, if you don't want to be kicked out of the room, right now!" Jiwoo yelled at Vinny loudly. Even though Jiwoo felt scared of the man in front of him, all he could see right now was just a pathetic kid throwing a tantrum.
"...." Vinny turned silent.
"...You, lower your voice; this is my house where you came into hiding! If you want to get kicked out, I'll do so gladly, but I don't want to get kicked out of this house for noise complaints." Jiwoo explained in a slow and pissed-off tone.
"Pfft, and what did you say? Hahaha, White Swan ran away?" Jiwoo chuckled at the pathetic excuse the 'child' in front of him gave.
"You. What do you think of yourself? Huh? You're nothing but a pathetic bit*h, not some kind of bigshot that the White Swan and vampires need to run away from. A single flick, that's all they need to kill you." Jiwoo said, while glaring at Vinny.
"If you want to yell, get out and yell in front of the government or the Hero Association, not here and definitely not in front of me. Though you are stronger than me right now, I'll seriously kick you out if you do that in the future." Jiwoo said.
'I was definitely stronger than Vinny before he regressed; that means I can definitely get stronger than him in the future.' Jiwoo thought.
"And why the f**k are you even hiding without directly saying what you said here? And what do you think they will do if you tell the truth? There are many people who use lie detector skills; you won't have a chance if you are really lying. Get out of here and go to the Hero Association and reveal what had really happened, and if they want any proof, bring Eshwar to them or bring them to the place the incident took place." Jiwoo said what was supposed to be obvious.
"Haa.... I can't believe how disappointed Eshwar would be to look at the state you are in. He helped your friends while you acted like a pathetic bit*h, taught you how to use mana, and even saved you and us when 'you' were trying to kill us in 'your' devil form!" Jiwoo pointed at Vinny and said, with his voice increasing with each word.
'And he even created you!' Jiwoo thought inwardly.
".... You're right, I can't disappoint my friends who are alive...." Vinny mumbled with a resolute face.
"..... Get out then; if you don't hurry, Eshwar or Katline, who are the next closest people to you, will be dragged away by the Hero Association." Jiwoo said it without thinking much.
'Please get out of my house, I am still feeling repulsive whenever I meet you, the main characters.' Jiwoo thought.
"!" Vinny jumped back on his feet when he heard Jiwoo's words and dashed towards the door with a hurried expression on his face.
CLUNK
BAM
"Haa..." Jiwoo sighed and slumped back on the bed, stared at the ceiling as his eyes slowly turned lifeless.
'Have I really transmigrated into one of the novels I liked or am I simply a 'character' that's created by the author 'Eshwar,' for entertaining other people..... This... story is messed up right now; it can't be changed no matter how hard any of these characters try, since it got messed up as soon as I arrived in this world. An outsider.'
'I want answers, but Eshwar is busy with all the things that have been messed up because of my intervention. He who created this world would be devastated to learn that their creation was being destroyed by somebody else. Maybe I should simply find a way to return to 'Earth,' and since Eshwar is the author, maybe he can send me back to Earth, or should I just die? If I die, maybe, just maybe, the story will return to its original state...' Jiwoo thought and curled up on the bed while another nonsensical and impossibly possible possibility cruised through his mind.
'Am I even alive?'