The World We Do Not Know - 184 Duality

Faust tries to wave his hand to touch the smoke that is around him. It is like a pink cloud. “I saw this somewhere Is it?” Faust remembers the first time he saw a cloud of this type.

It is the spiritual cloud that he saw along with Yui, in the spiritual world. Apparently, when you keep a handful of this cloud in your mouth. It boosts up your spiritual power to another level.

*”Is this done wanted? To improve the spiritual power of their gang?”* If they want to boost up the spiritual power of their members. They would be aware of Faust. Is this done knowing that Faust does not have spiritual power? Is what running in Faust’s head.

*Thud Thud Thud~*

Among this smoke, Faust starts to hear footsteps, he can tell that a person is coming closer towards him.

But Faust does not fear or get alarmed, he stays cool and looks in the direction, where he is hearing the footsteps from. “You are not scared of what is happening around you?” The leader of the mob walks towards Faust and asks him in surprise.

“What is there to be scared? You made a smokescreen to take me out or what?”

“Yes, taking you a kid out is better for us that heading straight for that strong woman. I’m sure you are not in the fight because you are not strong. You are just supporting her in a fight. Now prepare yourself.” The leader estimates that Faust is weak because he cannot sense spiritual power from Faust. And a fact that Faust is still fourteen.

He thought, he could come and take out Faust first, or take him as a hostage or knock him and steal the case, so the other members can fall back from fighting with Neith.

“Haha, I have been underestimated haven’t I? Faust says with a smirk. He knows that the person in front of him is not more powerful than him.

As Faust and the leader keeps talking, the leader slowly lifts his hand and with his fingertips. He slides his mask down.

He looks like he is in his mid-forties. He has a thin beard with both grey and black hair mixed. What’s more noticeable about his face is a scar that is on his chin which is stretched to his cheeks.

He slowly removes the hoodie on his head and Faust became concerned with what he is seeing. The scar on his cheek is split open as a fold. It is further stretched onto his forehead and his head. There is no hair on the side of his head. Also, the scar is completely open at the side of his head, exposing his skull and brain that look half-eaten.

“You look pretty ugly.” Faust utters at the leader.

“Really? Why don’t you look at yourself and say the same thing?”

Faust felt something is wrong, as soon as he heard the words from the leader. The first thing he did is to sense if there is anyone else in the smoke. Secondly, he checks his surroundings and then notices something strange is happening with his hands.

The skin on top of his hands looks old with wrinkles, Faust pulls up the sleeves of his shirt up to his elbow and all of his arm from his elbow. His skin turned like the skin of an old man.

He looks at the leader again and he is surprised. He and the leader are of the same height. Last time he checked, he is taller than the leader.

Shortly, blood drip from the jaw of Faust on his left. He gently touches the side of his cheeks and his cheek is split in half. It seems similar to the scar on the leader.

“Why don’t you touch a little higher?” The leader utters in a cocky voice.

Feeling anxious, Faust moves his hand above and the skin on the side of his head is gone. He felt his brain, the skull is broken from his eye.

*” What is happening?”* Faust thinks to himself. He feels no pain at the side of his head. it is just numb for all he can feel. And the other and most important thing is his wound looks exactly like the scar that is on the leader of the mob who is standing in front of him.

Meanwhile, Neith notices that she is not getting the support she wants from Faust. She places an ice wall behind her, where the bullets are coming from and keep fighting with four people in front of her and takes a glimpse towards where Faust is.

She is startled by what she sees. “Impossible! They are still alive?” Neith utters as she gets panicked and tries to jump to another roof to reach Faust.

But the moment she gets out of the ice defense, she put up behind her, bullets and arrows started raining at her, making her go back inside her defenses.

*”Be careful Faust! It is a deadly illusion.”*

What Neith sees is not smoke. She looks at Faust and the leader of the mob standing in front of each other. What Faust is experiencing is all an illusion that is made possible due to the orb.

All the pink smoke, including the evil grin on the face of the old man that Faust saw, is also an illusion made by the leader of the mob. Even the scar on Faust’s face, the face of the leader might be an illusion. But Faust is not aware of this.

“Hah, say goodnight kid.” The leader pulls out a short knife from behind his hoodie. There is no smoke surrounding Faust and his eyes have turned white as if he is in another world.

“She became slow all of a sudden, get her now! This is our chance.” The men near Neith yells while she is already fighting four of them at once.

The leader jumps to Faust in one leap, he holds the knife in such a way that the sharp side of the blade is facing outside of his hold and he swings the knife in front of the neck of Faust to slit his head open.

“Heh, say goodnight kid.”The leader jumps to Faust in one leap, he holds the sword in such a way that the sharp side of the blade is facing outside of his hold and he swings the knife in front of the neck of Faust to slit his head open.

“Huh?” The knife is on the skin of Faust, but it did not cut or go through. The leader is surprised at why his knife did not get through.

“A cheap illusion I would say.” Faust is sounding abnormal than now. His voice is not calm or arrogant as it is till now. He sounds like a crazy guy.

Faust holds the tip of the blade with his fingertips before it digs into his skin. He turns his face towards the leader who is on his right. The eyes of the leader widen. The right eye of Faust is all red with green pupil.

He stopped the knife with his left hand and his right hand is holding the case. Faust goes for a strike with the case onto the stomach of the leader. He swings the case from backwards, The leader pushes his body back and swiftly tries to move away from Faust.

“What?” The leader cannot move back, Faust held his right wrist tightly, the same hand that he tried to attack with a knife. He got himself caught and unable to go away from Faust.

*”How is a kid, so strong.”* He thinks for himself while anticipating where the next attack comes from.

Faust again swings the case to his front from the side, targeting the abdomen of the leader. Realizing he cannot go back, the leader pushes his gut back and bends his chest forward to avoid the strike.

As the case came closer to his abdomen, the case instantly disappeared and the right hand of Faust travels upwards fast and grips the neck of the leader.

*”It’s a feint.”* The leader played into the hands of Faust.

Faust is suffocating the neck of the man without mercy, as he is not able to talk anymore, an electric structure is broken with a cloud of black smoke coming from the neck of the leader.

“Huh?” A computer frame to protect your neck? Lame.” Faust grunts out and grips his neck tightly again.

“Ahh” He screams, but his voice is different than before. So the frame is a voice changer? Faust thought.

Faust is suspicious and wanted to see who is behind the mask. He reaches for the mask and pulls it down. For is frozen for a moment, it is Melissa from the shop he just visited.

His grip on her wrist loosens, Melissa finds the opening that Faust gave her, while he in shock, she flips the knife towards Faust in her hand and goes to ram the knife in his eye.

Instantly, Faust blocks the knife by landing a hit on the forearm of Melissa with the lower side of his hand, with the soft part between the wrist and fingers. Blocking her hand from stabbing him, he swings his right hand back as he slaps her on her cheeks with the back of his hand.

His knuckles dig inside her cheeks, causing her unbearable pain, he then swings the same hand to his front and slaps her again on the other side of her face.

The slap paralyzes Melissa with a shock. Half of her face is numb while she keeps hearing a bell ringing constantly in her head.

To end this fight, Faust takes a step towards her, clenches his fists tightly and lands a powerful uppercut. Only the knuckle bone on his middle finger makes direct contact with her chin. Her chin clamped with her upper set of teeth, it sent a jolt to her brain and she immediately rolls her eyes up and falls on the ground lifeless.

Faust immediately turns back around and looks up at the roof behind him. It’s the man from the shop he traded the stones. He said, he met with an accident and could not move his limbs. But he is on top of the roof with a crossbow aimed at Faust.

*”How did he notice me? Anyway, he wouldn’t be able to stop this!”* He mutters in his head while being surprised, at the same time decides to shoot Faust anyway and shoots his crossbow that is glimmering in green.

The green elemental stone provides extra wind and enhances the speed of the projectiles they shoot. And the man has three green stones embedded in his crossbow.

He rained arrows made of air, the arrows keep raining down on Faust, but none of them hit him. The shopkeeper on the roof gets scared by seeing

Faust. The arrows keep landing on the concrete roads while Faust is casually walking without getting hit by an arrow.

He then sees Neith is having trouble with the rest of seven people. He tilts his face to a side like a lunatic and his lips form a creepy curve as he smiles.

*Snap* He snaps his fingers and all seven of them who circled Neith and trying to fight her are now around Faust. They are surprised and before they even realize, the arrows from the shopkeeper’s crossbow hit four of them and they collapse immediately.

Seeing what he did, the shopkeeper holds his shooting, and immediately, Neith teleports in front of him and her swords are on the neck of him. He dropped his crossbows and surrendered. The three on the ground with Faust, also dropped their guns and tasers as they surrender.

“Kneel down!” Faust commands the three of them.

The robbers kneel down in a circle around Faust. Faust enjoys the view as he laughs. Finally, he gives a psychotic stare to the old man sitting in front of the stairs.

*Sleeeck*

The heads of the three robbers kneeling down around Faust in a circle fly in the air with blood squirting out of their decapitated bodies. Faust does not have a sword, nor does he move his hands. But the heads of the three are cleanly cut at the same time.

“Faust!” Neith, shouts at the horrible self of Faust. “You need not kill them, they have surrendered,” Neith yells at him.

The curtain beside the old man opens at the same time and Bang walks out slowly with his huge body. His body covered the whole stairway.

He came as a security to the old man. Everyone can sense the blood lust emitting from Faust.

“You don’t understand!” The old man sitting in front of the stairway lifts his head up. His amber eyes look Faust straight in the eye as Faust utters the words.

I won’t give second chances, if one is thinking about messing with me. I will make him go through real hell. I will burn his arms multiple times at the same spot. I will burn it, heal it and repeat until his tendons start to profuse pus. I will then cut off his limbs and peel his skin slowly, torturing his body as his soul will scream endlessly, while he is still alive and barely breathing, I will make him feel the pain and the experience of hellish punishment.

“Then I will hang him to the wall as a showpiece. He is like the deer to me which I had hunted. Thus, Do not try to scare me, I will pay you back tenfold.” Even though at first it sounds like an explanation to Neith. The last two lines seemed like they are directed towards the old man and Bang.

Faust walks away after saying what he wanted and Neith follows him without saying a word to Bang.