The Second Chance of Reincarnator

The bullet whizzed past Nefarious, went between a couple of Rav'akari, and smashed into the forehead of Ivy.

With the blood splattering, Ivy's eyes rolled back to her skull, and she collapsed on the ground with the crimson blood pooling around her body.

She wasn't moving, and her chest stopped moving.

"…"

Rav'akari looked at her, felt pissed as hell, and turned to Kael with an angry growl of some kind of wild beast.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Kael had already broken off into a run—running away—and the Rav'akari shouted after him before starting their chase.

"Get back here!"

Nefarious walked to Ivy, crouched before her, and looked at her silently without saying a word.

He touched her face—the body was still warm—and then ran his hand down her long brown hair, still having his lips tightly shut.

At that moment, a pounding headache began to throb in his temples, and a look of discomfort came to his face.

'Where are you…?'

A godly voice sounded inside his mind.

"Whitesky… I'll be back soon, my Goddess."

Nefarious massaged his temples, stood up, and then took off into a quick walk as he headed off, leaving the corpse of Ivy alone to bleed on the floor.

…

"Huff! Huff!"

Kael made his way down the hallway, spinning his head around as he looked behind at chasing Rav'akari, and grimaced.

'Yeah, keep chasing…'

The Rav'akari were catching him slowly. They were faster. But it didn't matter, as Kael had already arrived where he was heading.

The double doors stood ahead, and he pushed them open, ran inside the dining hall, and jumped on top of the long dining table.

The chandelier hung above him.

Behind them, the Rav'akari ran inside the dining hall, black swords in their hands, and they were still ignorant of one thing.

They've fallen into a trap of an Outlaw.

Kael pulled out something from his breast pocket—it was a clown-faced marionette—and he put it hanging from the chandelier from the hangman's knot.

In that moment, the marionette's influence fell over the dining hall, and from its orifices, light threads, which were almost invisible, shot down.

The light threads wrapped around Rav'akari's necks, constricting and stopping their movements in an instant.

With the back door of the dining hall open, Kael rolled out of the hall before the light threads came for him, rolled a couple of meters, and stopped against a metal table in the kitchen.

"Huff! Huff!"

Kael breathed heavily, walked to the doorway, and saw the Rav'akari struggling to move a singular muscle.

"W-What the hell is this?"

"A Cursed Artifact?"

Rav'akari said angrily, trying to move their hands to rip off the threads, but the invisible force was holding them in place.

"…You guys seemed to be having fun."

Kael pulled out the chamber of his revolver and slid one bullet into it—then a second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth—and then spun the chamber to lock it in place.

"I want to have some fun too…"

He lifted the black revolver, pointed it at one of the Rav'akari, and pulled the trigger.

With a bang, the bullet left the barrel, pierced through the forehead of the Rav'akari, and ended his life.

The rest of the Rav'akari stayed quiet, but they didn't plead, and just tried to rip off the marionette's light threads.

Kael pointed to another, pulled the trigger, and killed yet another. Then killed another. Then another, and another.

Corpses of the Rav'akari didn't drop to the ground, as the marionette was still holding them up, but their eyes had turned lifeless.

At that moment, only one Rav'akari remained standing in the dining hall, a cold look on his face, and with a smirk, he said.

"You know of Willow?"

"…Willow?"

Kael narrowed his eyes, checked that there was still one bullet inside the chamber, and then pointed it at the Rav'akari.

"Yeah… That freckled bitch died screaming, you know. You'll be joining her soon. Lord Nefarious will drag you out of that kitchen, and even though I consider myself a pretty effective torturer, he is leagues above me.

"He has designed ways of torturing the mind and body of a man that I never thought were possible. He is a master. He will break you down, and there will be nothing left but a shell of who you once were."

Rav'akari said with a grin.

"…I have a question for you."

Kael asked coldly, scratched the side of his head with the barrel of the revolver, and then asked.

"Ants Village slaughter. Were you part of that?"

"Heh~ I was wondering when you'd bring that up. I was able to see your memories, and haha, I saw something interesting.

"There had been rumors over in Serifah Zero that someone burned one of us. It was thought to be done by a powerful fire mage.

"To think that it was done by you… Hahahahaha!"

Rav'akari laughed.

"Answer my question."

Kael said coldly.

"No… I was not part of that, sadly. I heard they had some really good fun over there. That was done by Deceptive Innocence's followers.

"Oh, boy, they sure are ruthless ones, hehe. The most ruthless kind, I would say. Your brother and his bitch of a girlfriend must've suffered quite a bit at their hands."

Rav'akari grinned.

"…Deceptive Innocence, huh?"

Kael lifted the revolver, worded out 'thank you,' and then pulled the trigger.

With a bang, a bullet flew out and ended the Rav'akari's life, who was still grinning even at the moment of his death.

Kael crafted another bullet, shot down the marionette from the ceiling, and its influence vanished from the hall.

He walked over to the middle of the dining hall, picked it up from the ground, and looked at the dead Rav'akari around him.

"…Finn, Willow, and Ivy."

Kael sat on the table, put his revolver on top of his right leg, and let out a weary sigh of sadness.

'…They didn't deserve this.'

Kael pinched his forehead, gritted his teeth, and crafted some bullets from the bread crumbs that were scattered across the table, and then dumped the entire chamber's worth of bullets into a corpse of Rav'akari.

BANG! BANG! BANG!