The Insurrection of the Inept Hero - Chapter 133

“Join you?” I began, “Why the hell would I do that?”

“Well, if you join me, we could take down Authorian.”

“Say what now?”

“You hate him don’t you?” He questioned, looking at me with a grin. “I also hate him myself.”

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“Yeah, I do, but killing him is out of the question for me. Mordros himself said I am unable to kill him.”

He started to snicker as he stood only a few meters away from me.

“True, you can’t kill him since he has the power of kings, but what if I said you could kill him?”

“Then I wouldn’t believe you. Every word that comes out of your mouth will be marked as false to me. Especially the words that come out from the mouth of an Enigma. I don’t even know your name.”

“Right, how rude of me. My name is Omen, second of the Enigmas.”

“Yeah, I could tell by the number on your mask.”

Omen smirked as he held onto his mask.

“Yes, it should be obvious what place I hold in the hierarchy. Now then, will you join me?”

“You still haven’t spoken a good amount of reasons. And even if you do have a convincing reason, I still won’t join.”

Omen chuckled as he looked up at the sky.

“Hehe, I’m not surprised by your stubbornness. After all, I am the same.”

I narrowed my eyes at that sentence.

“We are nothing alike,” I said. This caused Omen to laugh.

“Ahh, I expected you to say something like that. Maybe I should reveal myself, but it’s not the right time. For now, why don’t you entertain me? There are some certain individuals that have been dying to fight you.” Omen said, snapping his fingers.

“Certain individuals?” I questioned and suddenly, I felt three energy signals approach me from behind.

I quickly spun around and gripped my sword until I saw who they were.

It was Kai, Murai, and Jessica.

The three struck me with their weapons and I flew back, sliding across the ground before stopping myself.

What are they doing here!?

“I have no idea why you would want to leave these three alive. After all, aren’t they the ones that bullied you?”

“Of course, but I was the one that made them who they were. I let them live so I can atone for what Naoko did back then.”

Omen stared at me, a frown crossed his face. Instantly, he appeared in front of me and threw me towards the three. I quickly caught myself and got into a stance.

I noticed that the eyes of the three were glowing strangely. Purple and blue, almost like my eyes.

“You see, I brainwashed these three so their only goal is to kill you. Of course, you only kill when it is necessary, right?”

“I won’t kill them, not when they’ve been brainwashed by you!”

“Come on, Nero. You are only contradicting yourself. You know who you are. You’d kill for your own survival and for your own goal.”

“No!” I retorted, “I kill for the ones I love.”

“And who are they?”

I opened my mouth to answer but I was intercepted by the three. I started to dodge their attacks as they relentlessly attacked me.

Damn it, I don’t want to kill them. Otherwise, what I did during the Frost Siege would have been for naught!

I continued to evade their attacks and soon I began my counterattack. Using my Principle of Oppression, I trapped them all in separate Rebellious Shields.

There… that should be able to keep them at bay.

“Return them back to normal!” I yelled at Omen, “They have no reason to be here.”

Omen clicked his tongue.

“Tch, disappointing.” He muttered as he approached Murai, extending his hand towards him.

“There is no need to turn them back to normal if they are already dead.” He spouted with an evil smile.

“Wha-?”

In a blink of an eye, I saw Murai turn into a mass of flesh and bones. His blood dripped to the bottom of my shield and soon, everything fell to the floor with a splat.

…what just happened?

“Oops. I almost forget about them.”

He snapped his fingers and I turned to see Kai and Jessica explode as well.

I was too stunned to move or process what just happened. He… he just-

“After your culling, they really wanted to go home. So, I sent them to a better place. Good for them, right?”

“You bastard.”

“Now now, that’s something you should save when I do something bad, like kill one of your girls.”

“Shut up!”

I shot towards him and kicked him across the face. He staggered slightly but then stood there as if nothing had happened.

As I flipped away, I fired Piercing Red at him. He must’ve known I was going to fire at him and he simply ducked, avoiding my attack.

“You’ll have to be faster than that to hit me.” He said before teleporting behind me, striking me across the face.

Even though it was a standard punch, it felt as if I had been hit by a train!

With that punch, I flew into the air. Omen was flying alongside me before kicking me directly in the spine. I coughed out blood as I began ascending into the air.

“That all you got?” Omen said, appearing above me before smashing me into the ground, creating a medium-sized crater.

I coughed as my skeleton mended itself back to normal.

“Hmph. after the Frost Siege, I expected you to be a lot stronger. Maybe I was just too much hope into you. Well, at least your intelligence increased.” Omen spoke in a mocking tone, attempting to piss me off but I knew his tricks.

I quickly tried to sweep him off his feet but he jumped and drop-kicked me across the face. He then grabbed me by the head and threw me up into the air.

I caught myself with Cursed White and readied myself against Omen. Omen flew to the same level as me and we stared at each other. I started taking heavy breaths as I tried to find any weaknesses. Omen, however, must’ve thought I was running out of stamina.

“What’s wrong? Tired already? We’ve only just begun.”

He started to look around before spotting my associates fleeing from the island. A smile appeared on his face and he shifted his left arm at them. Once I had noticed what he was up to, I tried to stop him but it was already too late.

“No, don’t-!”

BANG!!

A powerful red beam shot from his fingers and struck the boat belonging to my associates. Seconds later, an explosion occurred and I saw body parts flying and dropping into the ocean.

“Oh right, that reminds me,” Omen said before facing me, “Who did you say your loved ones were?”

I grit my teeth as I started to feel intense hatred for him.

“H-how could you…?”

“Now now, are you really going to start giving me that bullshit? We both know you don’t care about them. You care about your girls, correct? You don’t care about anyone else except Kiyomi, Ravyn, Akane, and Katrina.”

I wanted to question how he knew that but I quickly assumed he just read my mind. Then, as if he had just read my mind, he said:

“Yes, I can read your mind, Nero. Or to be specific, I can read your memories. Reading your thought, not so much. I can see your memories, though only up to a certain point. About an hour into your mind. Well, not that I rally need to since I already know the answer myself. My ability to read memories isn’t as great as Celestia’s who can read your entire mind. She can even tell when and how exactly you were born. Well, the only mind she can’t read is mine.”

This is getting even more creepy. How the hell does he know Celestia? Are they acquainted or something?

“Damn it, spit it out, who exactly are you!”

There must be something I don’t know. This man… for some reason I’ve been a little irritated. His voice sounded exactly like mines and it annoys me.

“Well, Nero. You should know who I am. After all-”

Omen took off his mask and revealed his face.

No… it couldn’t be.

W-why… does he look exactly like me!?

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