Chapter 5: Chaptre 5: Betrayal and murder
When Arthur finished eating, he felt a slight heat rising from the depths of his body, this sensation of warmth was comfortable and soothing.
Without Arthur noticing it, the ray of light appeared again around his body and disappeared at the moment of its appearance, and with it the warm feeling disappeared.
Burp !
The yujin shark burped, his voice was strong and annoying, when he opened his wide mouth the remnants of food flew in every direction.
TOOT! TOOT! TOOT!
The annoying sound of horns sounded again from both sides of the door, when everyone present heard the sound, they moderated their seating and bowed their heads.
They do not know who will enter, but they will not venture to do what they like in the middle of the lion's den.
The room was so quiet that Arthur could hear the breathing sounds of the people around him, suddenly a slight sound of footsteps began to be heard.
The pace of the steps was very slow, but the sound is getting louder little by little.
At the end, a Celestial Dragon entered the room, his blue eyes were looking at everyone present with a simple smile full of evil.
When Arthur saw that a Celestial Dragon had come personally, he felt a chill in his heart.
This person was the same Celestial dragon that he saw in the quarry that day.
The Celestial Dragon took one of the chairs on the table and sat down, everyone present bowed their heads and none of them dared to look at him.
Then he looked at everyone present as he knocked with his index finger on the table.
The knocking was making a low sound, but in the head of Arthur and the other slaves the sound of knocking was like the sound of a giant hammer hitting.
When that finger will stop knocking their fate will be determined.
"We have an interesting group this time, come on, follow me" the Celestial Dragon stood up and ordered the slaves to follow him, his steps were too slow.
It made everyone live in an atmosphere of tension, in fact the Celestial Dragon's actions were deliberate he wanted to make them a little scared.
He loved to manipulate people, and now he has a new set of people to play with.
After walking for some time through a long corridor, they arrived at a huge room that was big enough to put 10 buses parked next to each other.
The windows in the room were very large, which made the room light as bright as the outside.
At the end of the room there was a high platform with a royally designed chair, behind which was a banner with an image of a dragon.
The Celestial Dragon sat on the chair and was surrounded by several guards, while 13 slaves stood in front of him in complete submission.
He looked at them and said, " We're going to play a simple game, and you're going to be the Champions of this game."
The heavenly Dragon stared at the slaves and when he found that they didn't show any reaction, he continued talking:
"But as you know there is a small problem, only 6 people can play, but there are 13 person here"
The Celestial Dragon stopped talking and looked towards the slaves again but this time he saw that their expressions became gloomy while some of them started trembling.
The sight made the Celestial Dragon feel good and then he continued saying:
"Hmm, what are we going to do in this case, do any of you have any ideas, come on, talk, don't be afraid "
The slaves kept silent and none of them dared to talk, when the Celestial Dragon saw this he felt a little angry and then pointed to one of them and said :
"I asked you, do you have any ideas?" The man he referred to was just an ordinary mortal in his thirties.
When he saw the Celestial Dragon finger pointing towards him, he was so shocked that he couldn't say anything.
" I said, do you have any ideas?" The longer the slave is delayed in answering, the more angry the Celestial Dragon becomes.
"Why don't you send them back to their cells" the slave replied in a trembling voice with the first thought that came to his mind, but as soon as he said his sentence he felt great remorse.
If this person wanted to send the other seven back to their cells, he wouldn't have brought them here in the first place.
"Hmmm, send them back to their cells! This is a good idea, I'll start with you " when the slave heard these words he was overjoyed, he did not think that his hasty words might be the way to save him.
Arthur looked at the man with a look of pity, he knows that the Celestial Dragon is only mocking them.
The Celestial Dragon pointed to one of the guards and told him:
"Bring this person back to his cell, but make sure you cut off his head before that" the guard stepped forward and pulled the slave, who is screaming at full strength.
"Noooo" this voice kept echoing in the room for a short time even after the slave left.
"Well, I think I've found a little game that will let us determine the six people who will participate"
The Celestial Dragon looked at them and there was an evil smile on his face.
"The game is very simple, since you are 12 people, each of you has to kill another person to get the right to participate in the game, the rules are very simple, when one of you kills another slave, he becomes protected and does not allow other people to kill him, and if any of you disobey this order, the guards will kill him"
When the Celestial Dragon finished talking, everyone froze in place, but suddenly the shark-like fish-men opened its mouth and swallowed the human head standing next to it in a sight full of blood and entrails.
The spattered blood from the human corpse flew out and stained all the people standing next to him, including Arthur.
The old man made a strange movement with his finger and pierced the heart of another person standing next to him, the murder this time was silent and clean unlike the fish-men.
No one understood what had happened, but what everyone understood was that someone else had died.
Everyone present began to regain their clarity and began to kill each other, Arthur, who did not understand what was happening, retreated a few steps back.
But suddenly he felt something sharp pierce his stomach, followed by a feeling of something warm sliding through it.
When he looked down, he found Rick's hand had shoved a metal knife into his stomach, this knife was one of the tools that was placed on the dining table.
It was an ordinary food knife that Rick carried and hid under his robe, in fact he didn't think he needed it so quickly.
"Why d..id yo..u do th..is" with a choppy voice were the only words Arthur could say.
"I apologize, but I have to do this, everyone will attack us because we are just weak children, and we cannot kill them, you are the only weak person here like me."
After Rick pulls out the knife, he stabs Arthur again and then pushes him away from him.
Arthur has fallen and blood is seeping from his wounds, his vision is starting to blur little by little as he looks at Rick's back who is walking towards the place where the successful people are standing.
Rick calmly walked around among the still wrestling men, no one dared to attack him because of the law set by the Celestial Dragon.
'Will my end be this way? The person I considered my friend betrays me, and I am forgotten in this place where there is not even someone to bury my body or shed a tear for my death.'
Arthur slowly closed his eyes until he could no longer see anything but darkness.
The only thing that remained stuck in his head was the back of the person who betrayed him,
In the middle of that total darkness, Arthur began to feel a beautiful warmth, it was the same feeling he had while eating.
But this time he was stronger and lasted a long time until he began to feel his energy returning little by little, he opened his eyes and his blurry vision began to return to clarity.
When he could see clearly, he saw a white-colored light surrounding his entire body.
'This light isn't it the same one that stuck to my body in that strange corridor?' After the whirlpool swallowed him, Arthur retained consciousness for some time, so he remembers the moment when he collided with this light and entered his body.
"I can move" Arthur stood up and began to check his body, there were two small holes in his stomach.
Although the White Light has cured him, he still feels very tired, and indescribable pain while moving.
But this does not pose any danger to his life, so he is not afraid of pain.
"Oh What do we have here, didn't this person get killed a few minutes ago" there were expressions of surprise on the face of the Celestial Dragon.
He is sure the child in front of him suffered two fatal stab wounds.
The Celestial Dragon continued to watch Arthur curiously as he awaited his next move.
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