101 Avatars
77. The Ambiguous Healer

Kaiser, no, the faker managed to get right pierced in the heart by Mecha.  For a moment, Mecha had cheered cheerfully in her heart once she had guaranteed herself to be able to finish off the most annoying pebbles for her master, Xavier.  The victory was seen on his face.

But in a short time, the grin instantly turned into gloom once Mecha began to feel some irregularity.  The faker did not bleed at all.  It was only there that Mecha realized that the faker in front of her was not human.

“Sraaaak!”  Mecha immediately pulled her spear back from the faker.  There was a look of worry behind Mecha's face.

Instead, a smile was seen on the faker's face which made Mecha feel all over her body goosebumps.

He frantically said, “You, who are you?!”

However, the faker did not answer the question, but instead gave another response.

“Already expected, you coward who had been hiding behind the wall would do this if I showed a little bit of my negligence.”

“Hahahaha.”  A moment of silence, the faker suddenly burst into laughter.

“You are easily provoked.  Though it was very difficult before to finish you off because Void and Time always protected you.  Thank you for giving yourself to me to kill.  With your death, it must be Mr.'s plan. X will be very messy.”

Mecha just remained standing in her position listening to the nonsense of the faker, not realizing that behind her, the faker had prepared his trap.

The faker was changed to its original form, the Avatar Healer.  Seeing that, Mecha remained standing pecking in surprise.  He did not think at all that the true figure of the hunter his avatar colleagues during this time was also an avatar.

“Srak!  Srak!  Srak!  Srak!  Srak!”

Healer's five pricks were quickly directed at Mecha.  Mecha's body was immediately full of holes, pierced by disgusting threads.  Without knowing what was going on, Mecha only realized when she was dying.

“You, what are you doing?  If you are also an avatar, you should also understand our suffering.  Why are you doing this to us?”  Mecha asked in her dying.

Healer replied, “Something out of place, should be returned where they should have come from, right?”

Mecha too could only stare blankly at the cruel expression shown by the Healer before her.  A moment later, Mecha caught up with Freeze, lost to data.  And once again through his strange gun, Healer collected the remnants of the data.

Healer was again transformed into the form of Kaiser and then re-activated his change bracelet to become the Avatar Bomber.

“Srek, srek.”  The sound of friction of some kind of plastic suddenly sounded by Healer's ears were quite sharp, although not as sharp as Sly Dark.

He looked towards the source of the voice.  Apparently, it was Adrian in his Avatar Arjuna form who was seen dragging Dream with him.

“Arjuna?”  Ask the fake Kaiser in surprise.  He was wary of getting to where Adrian saw the incident in the room.

“Ah, Brother?  Why is Brother here?”

With concern, Kaiser fake also answered Adrian's question, “I have managed to beat Freeze here.  All right, I was lucky to beat Mecha, too.  Our business here is done.  That, what are you dragging?”  The fake Kaiser asked back while pointing at the battered Dream by Adrian.

“Ya.  I intend to defeat Freeze by myself.  But since it has gone first Big Brother, there is no longer any point in thinking about that now.  Ah, this is Dream, the avatar of the system.  Crusader had told me that nothing embedded like a fighter avatar could trigger a repulsion so I was confused what to do with it because if it didn't trigger a repulsion, no more reason to eradicate it.”

“Lantas what will you do to him?”  Once again, the fake Kaiser asked with a heavy expression to Adrian.

“For a while, I will hold him captive while asking for advice from others about having to face this monster.”  Adrian answered casually.

But Dream suddenly came to her senses and said an unexpected word,

Instantly, Adrian's expression turned thick.

“Sruuush.”

Healer immediately returned to his original form and tried to attack Adrian,

“Plaaaak!”

But with nimble, Adrian was able to fend off the attack.

At that time Carnaval came along and intended to help Healer face Adrian.

Healer swiftly raised his hand as a signal that Carnaval did not need to do a meaningless action by helping him fight.

“You don't have to interfere with this issue.  You just take Dream away from this place.”

“But, Sir..”

Healer instead just told Carnaval to take Dream home.

In an instant, Carnaval and Dream left the place, leaving Healer and Adrian in the room.

There was a fierce fight between the two.  The healer attacks with his threads, but every thread is stretched out, and Adrian slashes him with his Crusader. No, it was obvious that Healer lowered his usual pace to match the strength with Adrian.

“Adrian, you are too quiet for a weak-hearted person who has just learned the identity of his mentor who is apparently an enemy.”  Healer told Adrian with maximum alertness.

Apparently, Adrian was silent to hear the comment.  However, it turned out that behind his helmet, he was trembling while clenching his teeth.

Seeing the silent Adrian, Healer continued, “It seems, this is not the first time you have come to know my true identity.  Since when did you find out, Adrian?”

“Since I first saw Brother fight against Mecha.  As the one who always stood beside Big Brother, how could I not recognize Big Brother's fighting style.  However, back then I was still in doubt because I only caught a glimpse of it.  But I became convinced as soon as we fought again after that coupled with the words Crusader.”  Adrian opened his mouth.

“Lantas, why have you been silent all this time?!  Why don't you reveal my identity?!  Don't tell me you're really taking me seriously on your side.  Where is your stupidity to be fooled by the cheap tricks of avatar monsters, Adrian?!”  Healer yells angrily at Adrian's naivety.

“That's because I still want to believe in Brother.  Although Big Brother always and always says that the feelings of the avatars are just fake, of course Big Brother is the one who knows that it is not true, right?!  Because the one standing before me right now is not Kaiser Dewantara, but Kaiser Healer!  However, more than anyone else, Brother is still the person I trust the most!”

“Buaaaak!”  But Healer actually responded to Adrian's sincere remarks with a death review right in Adrian's heart.  Fortunately, Adrian was in the body of his avatar so that he was able to defend against the deadly fist.

“Stupid basis!  I told you never to believe the talk of avatar monsters.  You who are weak-hearted, will be their only meal to use you with their perfect acting.”

“But is it true that Brother is too?!  What exactly am I in Brother's eyes?!  Did Big Brother really just think of me as a tool?!  Not so, right?  Just as I consider Big Brother to be my precious mentor, Big Brother also considers me as valuable right?”  Desperately, Adrian said that sentence.

“Unfortunately for us, you are just a tool, Adrian.”  But beyond Adrian's expectations, Healer gave a cold answer.

However, unexpectedly Healer also thought Adrian would shrink by his weak heart after being bullied so, Adrian actually said,

“Fuck with all that.  Brother, just tell me what purpose Brother actually did all this.”

Both of their eyes looked at each other cynically.