"I didn’t know this would happen!" Daniel suddenly snapped as he pulled away from Rafael. "It’s my daughter’s account, not mine!"
Rafael stood there in absolute silence as his eyes moved down without him even meaning to.
The pink hair, the bunny ears sticking out from the top of her head, the tiny body covered by that ridiculous neon-pink outfit, the boobs.
And it wasn’t even the most fucked up thing.
The feminine voice was so fucking believable, the way he acted, those little movements, everything about him pointed toward him being a woman, a girl... a sexy one.
"How old are you?" Rafael finally asked.
"Forty-three."
He had been carrying a forty-three-year-old father around in his arms, hugging him while using Shadow Step, and at one point Rafael was pretty fucking sure he had even thought about how soft his body felt.
The thirst trap of the outfit, the thirst trap of the body... it had gotten Rafael good, while in reality, the person underneath all of it was a whole grown-ass man.
"No fucking way..."
"I was buying my daughter shit in the game, cosmetics and this whole outfit!" Daniel pointed at himself. "I had just bought all of it when this happened!"
"Cosmetics..." Rafael whispered as he suddenly remembered it clearly.
When he had logged into his alt account to crash the server, he had actually closed several fucking pop-ups showing all the new cosmetics that had just arrived in the game, and now he remembered one of them perfectly.
The bunny girl outfit.
Part of the Easter Event.
And suddenly, this whole fucking story about the sexy bunny girl standing in front of him actually being a grown-ass man made sense.
Daniel’s story lined up perfectly with what Rafael himself remembered seeing right before he crashed the server.
But even though it was surreal, and for a moment it got Rafael and he was actually liking what he was seeing, now it all connected, and more importantly, it didn’t change anything.
They were still in the Event.
"If it’s not your account, then how do you know how to use magic, or even know this whole thing?" Rafael asked, as it was the first real concern he had with the story.
"My daughter made videos and uploaded them to the internet. I watched some of them to better understand what she likes, her hobbies and stuff. This is the only skill she always used, but I don’t know anything more."
"Did you buy her anything that was a weapon, potions, anything? Do you have anything on you we can use?" Rafael asked next.
Daniel shook his head. "Nothing. Only cosmetics. I don’t have anything on me either... just this."
He suddenly pulled out a big-ass lollipop.
"I don’t know what this is or what it does. It came with the bunny girl outfit."
Rafael’s eyes suddenly widened as he stared at the absurdly huge lollipop, his mouth even falling open.
"That is a—"
"Found you."
It was instant, impossible to react to.
Rafael only felt the man’s hand smash straight into his chest, breaking his ribs one after another before finally shattering his spine as the man’s arm went completely through his body.
Rafael didn’t even scream... as if his body, his mind, hadn’t even realized what had just happened.
Then the man pulled his entire arm out of Rafael’s body, bloody and covered in pieces of flesh, while shattered pieces of Rafael’s rib cage fell from the hole like fucking legos.
[CRITICAL WARNING]
[Multiple Vital Organs Severely Damaged.]
[Spinal Column Destroyed.]
[Health: 10/ 100]
[Critical Blood Loss Detected.]
[Estimated Time Until Death: 20 Seconds.]
The man looked at Rafael, who was still sitting there completely motionless, but then his eyes slowly shifted to the side.
"You’re not the bounty."
He looked back at Daniel, who stood there like a fucking bitch, doing absolutely nothing.
"You’re the bounty."
The man simply raised his palm toward Rafael, and in the next second, Rafael’s entire body was sent flying.
His mutilated body flew several meters before crashing into the ground, the impact sending him rolling violently across the dirt until what remained of him finally came to a stop.
And what remained of Rafael was truly horrifying.
One of his legs was broken and twisted in the wrong direction, both of his arms were bent unnaturally beneath him, and his entire body was covered in blood, while the massive hole through his chest still exposed the shattered remains of his rib cage.
[Critical Warning.]
[Multiple Bone Fractures Detected.]
[Left Leg: Compound Fracture.]
[Both Arms: Fractured.]
[CRITICAL BLOOD LOSS DETECTED.]
[Health: 1/ 100]
[Estimated Time Until Death: 2 Seconds.]
"You are a cutie... it’s a shame I need to kill you."
The man said as he reached out with his bloodied hand, fucking pieces of Rafael’s flesh and organs still stuck to it, and gently touched Daniel’s face.
"Luna, go loot the other guy."
He said it without taking his eyes off Daniel, and suddenly, from behind one of the nearby buildings, another girl came running straight toward Rafael’s mutilated body.
There was the chance.
But rather than aiming at the Clean Player running toward Rafael, Daniel was dumb as fuck.
"Pop!" Daniel shouted as he raised his hand like some Wild West gunslinger, pointing his finger directly at the man.
"Pop?" the man repeated, staring at Daniel.
Nothing happened.
"Pop! Pop!"
Daniel shouted again and again as he kept pointing his finger at him... but nothing happened at all.
More so, he couldn’t even pull away, his entire body anchored in place so completely that he couldn’t move an inch, even though the man was only holding him by the chin.
Then suddenly, the man smiled.
"Oh... Pop the Gunslinger?" The man’s smile widened. "It doesn’t work on high-level mages, darling."
Daniel’s eyes widened because the man looked like anything but a fucking mage.
He was dressed in a fucking black suit like some gangster, with brass knuckles on his fists.
Then he slowly raised his finger and pointed it at Daniel’s left arm.
"Pop."
Daniel’s entire left arm fucking flew off, the whole thing torn away at once as his body immediately gave out and collapsed onto the ground, but it wasn’t over yet.
The man raised his hand again.
"I’m sorry, darling. Po—"
Out of nowhere, he collapsed onto the ground.
There was no attack.
No sound.
Nothing.
One second he was standing there about to finish Daniel off, and the next he simply dropped to the ground in complete silence.
[Clean Player Eliminated.]
[+20 Event Points.]
[Bloodmarked Player Eliminated.]
[+10 Event Points.]
[Current Event Points: 60/100.]
[Remaining Participants: 36/50]
Daniel slowly looked up, though he could barely see because of the blood loss, but there was one thing he could still make out.
"H-help..."
He was there.
Daniel could see the same woman who had run toward Rafael earlier, now on her knees in front of him, except her head was unnaturally leaning completely to the left side... or more like it was just hanging there.
"Ple..ase" Daniel whispered as his vision became more and more blurred.
But he could see him.
Rafael was coming toward him.
"H-Help..." His voice came again, but his head bowed down, his vision blurred even more as blood splashed onto the ground beneath him.
But he heard it... heard Rafael.
"I’m sorry Daniel... but I need to try it..."
"H...help—"
The dull, chipped blade smashed into the left side of Daniel’s neck snapping his head sideways.
[WARNING: Your Assigned Clean Player Has Died.]
[Congratulations! You Have Successfully Hunted the Bounty Target!]
[ERROR: Contradictory Event Conditions Detected.]
[Resolving...]
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[ERR##R: C#ND#TIONS OV#RLAP.]
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[Resolving... Event Completed.]
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