2023-05-29 15:38:02Andrew walked wearily as the elevator doors opened on the third floor. He let out a long sigh, resigned to the decision given by the director.
"Attention!"
Andrew, who was packing his office desk, turned toward the source of the voice and found Orlando and Nadine standing by the elevator doors.
"Everyone, just stop your work for a moment. Let's give some time to our friend Andrew who has been fired from this company because of stealing. "
Hearing the announcement, all the employees on the third floor buzzed with excitement. Andrew became the center of attention. All the scornful gazes were directed toward him.
The anger building up finally propelled Andrew to move closer to Orlando. His steps were quick, and while pointing at Orlando, Andrew shouted, "Shut up, you coward!"
Andrew glared at Orlando and Nadine alternately, his face red as he continued, "You're nothing more than the trash, Orlando. Your dirty plays won't intimidate me. I'll return to make you regret."
"Hahaha! Aren't you ashamed to say such things in front of everyone?" Orlando confidently laughed.
"That's absurd! There's no way Orlando would want to frame someone like Andrew!"
"Andrew has a real problem with the wrong person! What was he thinking?"
"He's a disgraceful loser!"
Whispers from the employees further heated the atmosphere that afternoon. Andrew looked around at them, and in that moment of distraction, Orlando took advantage and pushed him, causing him to fall.
"Ugh!"
"Let me remind you, Andrew! I play the card here. Don’t you ever dare to be rude to me."
Orlando pressed Andrew's hand with his expensive and heavy shoe. Andrew's face showed pain as he tried to lift the shoe.
Some employees began taking out their phones and recording the incident.
Orlando's other foot now pressed on Andrew's neck. Andrew's eyes widened as he opened his mouth, struggling to breathe. But Orlando did not immediately stop his cruelty. Instead, Orlando and Nadine laughed hysterically, seeing Andrew's face grow redder.
Andrew tried to breath, as labored as a fish out of the water, suddenly felt refreshing. His blurred vision seemed clear, and Andrew slowly pushed Orlando's foot off his neck and succeeded.
Andrew turned his body to the left and struck Orlando's foot, which was still stepping on him.
"ARGH!"
Orlando's smile turned into a scream. He immediately lifted his foot, and Andrew quickly got up.
" Orlando!" Nadine screamed, and both of them seemed busy rubbing the shoe that Andrew had hit. "What are you doing, Andrew!"
"I'm resisting the trash that imposed itself on me," Andrew calmly replied.
Orlando glared at Andrew fiercely, growled, and stood up. Andrew raised his head and folded his arms as if ready to challenge Orlando.
"Okay, Andrew. You want to play with me. I used to be the overall champion in judo and a young boxer. You could have chosen your opponent better. "
Andrew stepped back simultaneously with Orlando, who was preparing to throw a punch. Nevertheless, Andrew remained in the same position, showing no fear whatsoever.
Orlando clenched his fist, and everyone looked serious, anticipating the imminent fight.
"You're gonna die, Andrew! See you in heck!"
Orlando was ready to strike Andrew's face with his punch. However, suddenly he fell forward, causing his face to meet Andrew's shoe.
"ARGH!" Orlando's cry was heard. Moreover, to make matters worse, his pants tore lengthwise. Nadine quickly crouched down and covered it with her hand. All the employees were chuckling.
Meanwhile, Andrew smiled broadly and murmured, "Who's gonna die, Orlando? Better watch your words before you speak."
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The Gate convulsed again, swallowing the remnants of Noir’s explosion inside layers of expanding shadow that rippled across the chamber like waves stirred by an unseen, colossal heartbeat. The air thickened, then dropped into a cold stillness that made the hairs on Yuki’s arms stand upright. Every surface—stone, wall, floor, even the falling debris—froze mid-motion, suspended unnaturally as if the Gate itself inhaled and held its breath.Yuki stepped back instinctively, gripping her staff as every particle of air vibrated with a familiar and terrifying energy she had worked her entire life to keep dormant. Shadows spread across the ground beneath her feet like ink spilled with malicious intent, crawling upward toward her legs with an intimacy that made her skin crawl.Sahara gasped softly. “Yuki… the Abyss is calling you.”Rayan muttered, “Great. Because things weren’t horrifying enough already.”Jiro stepped protectively between Yuki and the spreading darkness. “Stay behind me.”Yuki
4-30
The chamber following the Gate of Sacrifice shifted into a suffocating twilight, thick with floating dust motes that glowed faintly like dying embers suspended in still air, creating an atmosphere both serene and unnervingly oppressive. The sky—if it could be called a sky—throbbed with roiling crimson clouds that churned slowly overhead like congealed blood reacting to unseen cosmic pressure that saturated the entire Gate dimension.Noir carried Andrew closely, one arm wrapped under his knees and the other bracing his back, while Andrew’s head rested limply against Noir’s shoulder, his breathing shallow and painfully erratic. The Sapphire embedded in Andrew’s chest flickered sporadically, each pulse dimmer than the last as though its light were retreating deeper into his body to escape the damage it had sustained.Yuki rushed forward the moment she saw Noir emerge from the collapsing corridor, her hands already glowing with frantic white healing energy. “Put him down, Noir,” she plead
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The chamber shifted with a grinding rumble that vibrated up through Andrew’s ankles, shaking loose dust from an unseen ceiling and casting the entire team into a wavering haze of deep violet light. The air thickened immediately—denser, heavier, saturating their lungs with a coldness that carried the sharp metallic taste of something ancient and cruel waking from a long slumber. Rayan stepped back reflexively, then hissed as the ground beneath him pulsed like a heartbeat.Jiro raised his blades. “Everyone stay alert. The trial is coming.”But Andrew already felt it.A whisper that wasn’t sound but instinct scraping across the inside of his skull, dragging the remnants of the Sapphire within him closer to the surface. The Gate was not asking for strength. It was demanding it—like a mouth widening hungrily, searching for the weakest soul to devour.Then the floor split.A perfect circle carved itself around Rayan with a burst of violet fire, isolating him in a ring of sigils that glowed
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Andrew drifted in a darkness so absolute it felt thick and liquid, clinging to his thoughts like ink seeping into the cracks of an already fractured mind. There was no sound, no ground, no sensation except the distant echo of a fading heartbeat—his own, dissolving slowly into the void surrounding him. He tried to inhale, but the darkness pressed against his lungs like invisible weights, suffocating and relentless in its silent insistence.He could not tell if minutes, hours, or an eternity passed before a thin spark of cold blue light flickered within the abyss, pulsing once with a weakened rhythm that barely registered as life. The light grew slightly, then dimmed again, as if struggling to decide whether to continue existing or finally collapse into nothingness.Another heartbeat.Barely.Andrew tried to speak, but his voice failed, collapsing into silence that swallowed even the attempt. He reached toward the flickering light, but his arm refused to move, the darkness clinging arou
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The Gate reassembled itself with a violent shudder, twisting the labyrinth into a colossal arena made of spiraling obsidian platforms suspended above a void so deep it swallowed even the faintest echo of sound, while arcs of pale golden lightning crackled across the distant walls like veins pulsing within some cosmic organism. The heirs materialized at separate points around the structure, each pulled by invisible force into positions arranged with surgical precision by the Gate’s unseen will.Andrew appeared on the lowest platform, clutching his chest as the Sapphire convulsed inside him like a dying star struggling desperately to stay lit against a collapsing horizon. His breath came in short, ragged bursts, yet his eyes immediately scanned the arena for the others because he feared more for them than he ever did for himself.Noir emerged across from him on a separate platform, the Phoenix fire swirling violently around his shoulders as the shadow of Solus trembled faintly behind hi
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The Gate shifted again, ripping away the shattered echoes of Andrew’s past and reforming itself into a labyrinth of twisting hallways made of shimmering bone-light that pulsed like a thousand dying stars trapped under glass. Each corridor reflected pale gold and eerie emerald hues, weaving together like veins of crystallized memory and fractal visions that bent unpredictably with Sahara’s every breath.Sahara stumbled forward, her hands trembling violently, gripping Yuki’s arm tightly enough to leave faint bruises as the Emerald Shadow inside her thrashed like a beast caught in a too-small cage. Her blind eyes glowed in waves—now emerald, now white, now streaked with shades no human tongue had words to describe. Every step she took left trails of shimmering energy that flickered and dissolved, as though time itself rejected her presence.Yuki steadied her desperately, drawing protective sigils around them while her own body shook under the Gate’s oppressive psychological pressure. “Sa
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