BXBX NOVEL Chapter 188 - Return Home
"You know what, you\'re right. I\'ve been feeling bad about just leaving them without giving them an explanation. I\'m tired of staying up at night thinking what they think of me now. I\'m just going to end all my worries by just talking to them," said Yuki, which brought a smile to Scar.
"But I need to go alone so you can just follow these people and I\'ll teleport back to you when I\'m done talking to my previous host family," Yuki said which Scar replied to with a nod to show that he was in agreement with the plan that Yuki had set.
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"Zero, teleport me to the kingdom where Marcell and Elpis are. Actually, just teleport me to their front door," said Yuki.
"Understood," Zero replied before doing as he was told. Within the blink of an eye, Yuki was teleported to the front door of the kingdom at which he had lived with Elpis and Marcell for a whole year. Before he knocked, Yuki took a deep breath as he would need to face reality.
"Here it goes. Remember Yuki, if they hate you, you can\'t be upset. It\'s understandable that they wouldn\'t accept a mass murderer," Yuki told himself before finally knocking on the door.
Due to time zone differences, it was night time at the kingdom where Marcell and Elpis lived. Yuki didn\'t know how late into the night he had arrived at the kingdom so there was a chance that they might not open the door but nevertheless, Yuki knocked once at the dirt before going quiet.
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Yuki\'s heart began to beat very fast as he feared what the reactions of his previous host family would be when they saw him. That was only if he got to see them since they were probably asleep.
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"I guess they\'re already sleeping. That\'s a shame, I guess I\'ll have to come back another time," said Yuki to himself as he began to walk away from the door with a sigh of relief since he subconsciously didn\'t want to see his host family from fear of what they would think of him.
However, just as he began to walk away, Yuki heard a sound which resembled that of a door opening and when he turned around, it was Elpis. Yuki just stood where he was, frozen in place as he looked at her. After a moment of just staring at each other, Elpis quickly walked up to Yuki with anger in her eyes and grabbed him by the wrist before forcing him to go inside with her.
"Who was at the door?-" Marcell asked as he stopped mid sentence when he saw who Elpis had brought into their home.
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"I\'m sorry, it was a bad decision to come here. Sorry for causing you trouble," said Yuki as he prepared to get out of the door. However, just as he had opened the door, Elpis slammed it shut once again. Before Yuki could say another word, Elpis just embraced him which brought Yuki to tears.
"I\'m sorry," said Yuki as he continued to cry. He wasn\'t even sure what he was sorry for but those were the only words which he managed to get out of his mouth.
"You should probably go to the attic. I mean after all, you\'re a prison escapee," said Marcell as he made a bad joke. However, Elpis took his words very seriously and forcibly dragged Yuki up the stairs and into the attic so that he wouldn\'t get captured again. As would be expected, Marcell followed behind the two as he also wanted to speak to Yuki.
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Once in the attic, the 3 of them resumed their conversation at which Yuki couldn\'t tell if they were mad at him or happy or a mix of both. There was no clear indication of a single emotion but instead a multitude of emotions were present. Nevertheless, it was clear why each of those emotions were present as there were many reasons for their existence.
"So...." Yuki said to figure out how Marcell and Elpis felt about him. However, hearing him start to speak, even they were confused as to how to feel. It was morally wrong for them to care in the least for Yuki, after all, he\'d killed so many people and it was only a matter of time before he turned against them. On the other hand, Yuki had spent a year with them and didn\'t even make the slightest hint of hostility present during all those days.
"I\'ll just get the ball rolling since no one else is willing to do so. Jack or should I say, Yuki, why did you kill so many people? And more specifically, why did you kill all those people but decided to spare us from that fate?" said Marcell so that the silence in the room would finally end.
"I know you won\'t believe me but I never killed anyone just for the fun of it. I would never kill someone unless I was forced to do so," Yuki tried to explain.
"Then how, how were you forced to kill 3000 people?!" Marcell demanded to know as tears came out of his eyes like a father who had been terribly disappointed at his child.
"If you must know, all of it started on the first day at which this world began. I wanted to get a head start on leveling up so I changed my ability to be that of a cloning one so that I could gain exp quicker. However, I had made a fatal flaw. I hadn\'t specified if my ability was supposed to kill people or not so at the end of the first day, I had found out that my clones had killed an actual person. Feeling sick of myself, I turned off my ability until I could change it," Yuki began to tell the story of how everything got as bad as it was now.
"Okay but that doesn\'t explain why 3000 people got killed," Marcell replied to Yuki.
"Yes I know, I haven\'t gotten to that part yet. After I killed that person, I went to join a squad so that I wouldn\'t be alone when I was going to dungeons or forests and I would have others backing me up. There was a huge line up for people to join a squad with really high base stats. I lined up for it and managed to get in by showing off the exp which I earned from my clones going and killing monsters and that one person," Yuki continued to tell the story.
"Wait, you knew about killing people for exp that long ago? The world had just recently started to learn of this," said Marcell in shock.
"Yes I did. I found out accidentally so I didn\'t tell people because I would\'ve gotten arrested for killing someone. Nevertheless, after I joined the group of people with really high base stats, we started gaining experience together. However one of them had found out what I did or almost did so I tried to kill her before she could tell the rest of the squad. Unfortunately for me, the others arrived right as I killed her and turned all on me," said Yuki.
"So how did you manage to win a fight where you had to battle highly competent fighters all on your own?" Elpis asked as she began to get suspicious of his story.
"I\'m still not done with the story. Anyway, when I killed the first of the squad, she gave me enough exp to level up to level 2 and during that time, I was one of the first if not the first player to reach level 2. That meant that I could easily take on at least a couple dozen level 1 players all on my own, even if they had amazing base stats," Yuki explained.
"Okok, get to the battle between you and those 3000 people already," Marcell said as he felt that Yuki was delaying that part a lot.
"Okay fine, basically some stuff happened after that and I made friends. However, I went to explore the first dungeon on my own but when I finished clearing it, my so-called friends had betrayed me for some quick cash and I ended up getting arrested. It didn\'t take me a lot to escape from there and I even warned the people there to not come after me if they wanted to keep their lives but..." Yuki continued.
"They didn\'t listen to me. Instead of forgetting about me, they brought an army of over 3000 people from 3 kingdoms just to defeat me. Even with all of that, due to me having just cleared the second dungeon, not a single one of them was a match for me. I even demonstrated my power to them so that they could escape with their lives but they didn\'t listen and would have never listened. When my life was placed in danger, I had no choice but to annihilate all of them," said Yuki as he finished the tale of how things got to how they were now.