Date- 3 April 2321
Time- 21:24
Location- Sun Blossom City, City Gate No:3, Unknown alley
Joe pleaded guilty and took all the blame. He wanted Matthew to walk out of here alive even if it meant he would be losing his life. He was willing to take this bullet for his family. He had no hope that this selfless sacrifice of his would move Matthew in some way such that Matthew would reward his family yet he still went through this because all he cared about was that his family not would be implicated because of this incident if Matthew returned alive.
Matthew looked at Joe in surprise when he heard him plead guilty and take all the blame. He did not understand why Joe did this nor did he try to understand. He took Joe’s selfless sacrifice for granted. Matthew felt that Joe’s purpose was to sacrifice himself for him. Matthew and the other members of the Pelt family felt that Joe and other members of the branch family were just tools to make their day-to-day life easy. The branch family’s contribution to the main family was taken for granted it was not a new news.
“Yes, yes, what he said. I just asked him to bid for the summon armament card I never knew he would end up harming innocents for his greed. Believe me, I did not know. This is not my fault, it is all his fault. This lying son of a bitch did this. He deserves to die not me,” it did not take long for Matthew to collaborate with Joe’s story. Matthew looked like if it were to save his life he would not hesitate to give up on his father and mother.
Hearing the butler and the young man change their story, the boy just stared at them and after a long pause he said, “Which one of you has an origin card?”
“Master Wyatt, I don’t have an origin card,” Joe answered the boy immediately because he had learned that in a hostage situation it is best to answer the captor respectfully.
“Guess, I don’t have much use for you,” saying that, the boy vanished from his position and soon a hand could be seen sticking out of Joe’s cheat holding his heart.
The hand belonged to the boy, after vanishing in front of Joe and Matthew he instantly appeared behind Joe and used his hand to pierce his chest like a knife cutting through butter, and then he ripped Joe’s heart out. Just like that Joe die without knowing what hit him but he had a pretty good idea.
Seeing this Matthew was scared shitless and he screamed in fright. Then he watched as the hand crush Joe’s heart, with that Matthew’s knees turned weak and he fell to the ground on both his knees. Matthew then witnessed Joe’s corpse fall to the ground as the boy removed his hand from his chest.
For some weird reason even after he witnessed his retainer’s gruesome death, Matthew felt that he still had a chance to walk out of here alive just because unlike Joe he had an origin card. Therefore he decided to answer the boy before he killed him.
As Matthew tried to answer the boy he looked at the boy’s bloody arm from which Joe’s blood kept dripping on the ground of the unknown alley. Watching this horrifying scene Matthew swallowed his saliva in fear. He felt like he was watching a grim reaper at work. As for his summons, the black cat, that was sitting on his shoulder this whole time cowered in fear sensing the rule power emitted by the boy instead of stepping up to defend its master. When even his strongest summons, the black cat, was cowering in fear after seeing the boy, Matthew was terrified by the thought of how easy it would be for the boy to kill him. Still, he mustered all the courage in his body and answered the boy, “Master Wyatt, I have an origin card.”
“You do, good,” the boy said with a smile which to Matthew’s eyes was the most terrifying smile he had ever seen.
Not understanding the meaning behind the boy’s words Matthew grew cautious but was assured that the boy did not plan to kill, at least not for now.
“Tell me, what is your origin card? Better yet hand over your grimoire let me see the info on your origin card for myself,” The boy ordered Mathew to hand over his grimoire so that he could check the info on Matthew’s origin card.
“Yes,” Matthew immediately passed his golden grimoire to the boy and patiently waited for what was to come next while praying to live to see another day.
“Summon Possession, interesting origin card. No wonder you were so desperate for the summon armament card,” the boy said going through the info on Matthew’s origin card.
“…” Seeing the boy interested in his origin card, for some unknown reason Matthew felt that there was still hope for him to see the next sunrise.
“Mattew, If it’s you-” as the boy was addressing Matthew, he was suddenly interrupted by Matthew, “Master Wyatt, please call me Matt,”
“Sure, Matt,” the Boy nodded in agreement with Matthew and continued to say, “As I was saying earlier, Matt, if it is you, I won’t feel burdened using this new rune of mine on you. I thought Mike Brown would be the first subject to test the ability my peculiar rune of mine but I think you will have that honor now. This is better because I will get an idea of what this ability of mine is capable of before tonight’s fight. So, I guess thank for you being such a horrible person.”
Matthew who patiently heard what the boy had to say to him, did not understand what the boy was talking about. Even though Matthew had no idea what the boy was going on about he was thankful and happy about every second he got to breathe. He would not be so relieved if he knew that when the boy was done with him he would rather wish for a gruesome but instant death like the one, Joe, his retainer was lucky to have.
“Matt, before I do this, tell me why did you not just think of buying a summon armament card at the southern capital like the rest of your arrogant and rich kind do?” The boy asked Matthew. As he knew that second-generation rich bullies like Matthew would never come to a third-rate city as they consider it beneath their social standing to visit a third-rate city unless their situation forced them to.
“That is because I spent all the money I had buying this summons card,” Matthew answered, eyeing the black cat on his shoulder. Since he spent all his money buying a summon card Matthew did not have enough money to buy or bid for the summon armament card so he decided to use his family name to get the summon card for the cheapest bid. And if that did not work out he could always loot the card from the one who won it.
“You spent all your money on that thing, really? For a summons card, it appears to be very expressive and smart but it seems to be more interested in saving its ass than yours,” the boy said as he looked at the cowering cat on Matthew’s shoulder.
Most summon cards are not that expressive of their thoughts as they have none and since they do not have thoughts of their own they were loyal to their master and not afraid of death unlike the cat on Matthew’s shoulders. Witnessing such odd behavior from the summons the boy thought Matthew had wasted his savings on a useless card.
“Master Wyatt, this summons may not look like it but it is very handy and has many tricks up its sleeve. When used with my summon card It can help me achieve incredible feats. If you don’t mind, I would like to give it to you,” Matthew did not hesitate to offer up the summon card that he bought using all his savings to the boy in hopes that it would help him win some points with the boy.
“Elusive Aerial Puss, interesting name,” said the boy going through the information on the summon card, and continued adding, “Um this summons is not a monster but a spirit. I heard spirit summon cards are ten times more expensive than monster summon cards of the same grade. You must have spent a fortune to buy this card, no wonder. This answers a lot. But still, it is very rare for spirit summon cards to appear in the market. How did you manage to get your hands on this?”
“I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get my hands on this card. Since it seems to have fate with you, master Wyatt, I hope you accept it,” Spirit summons cards rarely appear in the market. And when they do appear they get sold at a moment’s notice. Mathew was sure that if it was this card he would be able to exchange his life for it.
