The Burned Man Part 2

Choryang-gu, Busan, South Korea
August 31th
11:00 AM

I wake up as fast as I can, I find myself lying on a cold, hard surface. My body hurts, I can feel the wetness of the blood on my clothes, I was wounded. I struggle to stand up again, my height had changed, now I was much taller than before, on a metal surface I could see a reflection, I approached to take a better look.

My face had been destroyed, my skin was prey to the flames that I still felt embracing my skin, my breathing became rapid, but no matter how hard I tried I could not scream, I could not even manage to gesture, my mouth, despite moving, rejected any attempt to say something coherent.

I had been played.

Someone had somehow stolen Nanami's body from me. Whoever it was knew what they were doing, it was an elaborate trap, they knew exactly how to provoke me and they were ahead of me at all times, the thief had let himself be beaten and injured so that when he made the switch I could not follow him immediately.

The codex?

It was the only possible reason I could think of as to why they wanted to do something like this. The good side is that it takes a lot of time and effort to use it, it's impossible not to notice it, but on the other hand someone else knew what it was for, that in itself was already a threat, I have to get it back anyway and kill him. The thief should not be far away, he should still be in the city.

"여기 있습니다!"
"경찰이다!"
"문을 열고 항복하세요!"
"너희는 포위됐다!"
"평화적으로 항복하라!"

I hear voices on the other side of the door, I don't understand what they are saying, I can't speak back to them either. Although I don't know what they are talking about, I can be sure of one thing, it's not good news for me. I had to flee, but unfortunately, there was only one way out and that was to go through the door where those screams were coming from.  

I take a deep breath, hold my breath, open the door, a strong punch is what awaits the poor man on the other side of the door, a kick to the jaw to the fellow next to him. I steal the pistol from the waistband of one of them and walk out the door taking advantage of the commotion I had made. Despite all the pain, my body was in, I had to keep running, I couldn't let them capture me.

I hear a whistle blow behind me, more people shouting, behind me appear two police officers trying to stop me. I raise my gun and point it in front of me, the cops get scared and move out of my way. I walk past them and take one of them hostage to prevent them from shooting me on sight. I had his head right next to my gun, I only had to pull the trigger to create a tragedy. But I had to think fast to avoid mine, I had to find a way to get out of here as soon as possible or lose sight of them.

I hear a train whistle, when I look down I can see the vehicle painted with a canvas pass under the platform where I was, I approach the edge and push the policeman to distract the others and jump back. Fall of almost three meters, I fall backwards on the metal roof, my body hurts even more, I was sure that something new had happened. I look up and I can see the police pointing their guns at me, I do the same and shoot twice to scare them and force them to take cover. The train slowly picked up speed leaving the station, I had lost my pursuers, for now.

I stayed on the roof of the train for a little longer, but I still had to do something else, if the police were competent, which today they obviously should be, they should be waiting for me at the next station, so I had to get off the moving train at a more or less crowded one. I found my chance when the train went through an overpass, I managed to calculate the roof of a building that would not end up killing me by the fall and jumped, again landing on my back, at this point the pain was killing me with desire. I climbed down the emergency stairs slowly until I reached the street.

Lost in an unknown place, in a foreign country, everyone speaking a language I didn't even fully understand, seriously injured, being sought by the police and in a situation I didn't even fully understand. The situation was grim at best, I could only depend on myself to get out of it.

On my way, I come across a pharmacy, so I quickly go in to treat my wounds. Without being able to say a single word I start looking through the counters for anything that might help me, but everything is in bloody Korean, and I can't even ask in English for sedatives. But somehow I managed to find a box that said analgesics in English, so I took it and swallowed several pills. The store clerk saw me and started yelling, I took my gun and pointed it at him, the man raised his hands and calmed down, I indicated with the gun to move and the man ran out of the store. Without wasting time I looked for more things that could be useful, from that store I soon found thread to sew wounds, coagulating powder,  disinfectant alcohol, and cotton.

I moved my clothes a little to reveal the sore on my back that I had caused, I put as much powder as I could on the wound, took two full gulps of the disinfectant alcohol and poured the rest on the wound, took a deep breath and with my best arm started to sew it up hoping that would help, then I put a lot of cotton wool and covered it with several bandages. I took a deep breath and with my best arm began to stitch it up hoping that it would help, then I put a lot of cotton and covered it with several bandages. I heard several screams outside the store as well as the sirens of the police patrols, time was running out. I took some more medicine and placed it in a bag before running away.

Everyone stares at me, my appearance is so horrible, despite the lack of uniform features, it is easy to notice, my clothes are also partially dyed red, I am quite easy to identify. I need a moment to think, I have to plan what to do, but I don't have time, maybe I should do something else, I don't have many options, but I also have to find the thief, every second that passes I'm giving him an advantage, but I'm not ready to face him, what the hell am I going to do? I don't know!

More shouting behind me, probably the police, this is not good, quick, this way, down this alley, looks like a good place.

I throw myself on the ground next to the other helpless men, with signs I manage to make myself understood and exchange my good coat in exchange for the rags of one of them. The policemen appear soon after along the main street, I hold out my hand and ask for money with them, the men pay no attention to me and continue running looking for their target. There is nothing more invisible than a homeless man.

When the trouble passed me by, I immediately went on to finish treating my wounds, my other brace, took a few more pain pills and changed my head bandages which were already red. I change again the clothes of mendio for another one that had a black hood in exchange for a couple of medicines, which in a way reminded me without a doubt of a dark cloak, which I found fitting for this ugly situation. Before leaving I saw another homeless man with something particular, they were small white crystals, methamphetamine, I changed him a little, I needed every advantage I could get today.

I continued my trip, after having a couple of minutes to think without the police directly behind me I came to the conclusion that the "burned man" that stole Nanami's body would have two options after achieving his goal, one was to get out of town, which would be quite difficult with the international meeting. The other one was to take advantage of having obtained Nanami's body and use it to commit a different plan, try to kill mother, which nobody would see coming, not even Tamamo or the Twins, maybe Lisa with her weirdness and her yandere personality, but when she does maybe will be too late, the thief only needs to fire a single shot while everyone is off guard.. I had to get to the naval base and find Adelis now.

On the street a car was approaching the traffic light, I approached it and pulled out my gun one more time, I threatened the driver to get out of the car, he didn't want to, so I opened the door and hit him with the butt of the gun until I knocked him out and threw him to the ground, I got in the car and put it in gear. I started driving at full speed. I didn't know where the Naval Base was, but one thing was obvious, I had to be by the sea, and it is easy to find the sea in any coastal city. I took the highway and began to travel south of the city, in a short time I could see the silhouette of several military ships, as well as again the USS Essex CVN-88 was close.

I left the car near the entrance of the naval base. The place was perfectly protected, it was not possible to enter without being discovered, there was a soldier protecting every 5 meters around the perimeter, inside the place were the bodyguards of the Secret Service, DDK, Mosad, GSPR or MI6, and the only way to enter was to be invited or be shot.But the same problem also applied to my enemy, if he wanted to go there he had to get past the guard post somehow, his was going to come first. I was betting everything on just one possibility, which was also not very certain.

Wait! That's the one!
There's the damn bastard!

The white girl was walking next to my brother, it looked like she would use him to enter the place. The motherfucker is holding on to Leon's arm like he's her boyfriend.  My heart was pounding in my chest as I tried to contain my excitement and anger, this was my chance to confront her, I wanted to kill him right now. I started the car again to have an escape route after causing the inevitable future rampage that would happen soon.

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Another car arrives by surprise, several girls get out of the car, they were my mother and the others. Shit, that's not good, I thought they were already inside! What had delayed them? had they been looking for me?

Adelis is the one who walks first towards my brother and the forger, I can see the monster's malice in his face, his hand is reaching for his weapon. There was no time left, I could only make one move. I took my gun and pointed it in the air, two missed shots would put everyone on alert, right now I could only pray that Lisa would still be able to stop protecting her from the shot.

Less than a second later a third detonation sounded, the white girl in her hand held another gun, the demon with her scythe was in front of my mother, one of her hands was holding the tip of the bullet, my mother looked confused at the situation. Screams of panic broke out soon after, the Guaidias prepared their weapons, people took cover. The impostor had lost its chance. I for my side put the pedal to the metal, my goal was to try to disable her by running her over.

The bitch manages to react at the right time and jumps, crashing into the windshield instead, Leon is nearby crawling on the ground trying to get into the guard house. I get out of the car and take out my gun to shoot the white kitsune at close range, but a spear lands a few centimeters away from my face, it was Tamamo's nagitanta, but that wouldn't stop me, I held it with my hand so it wouldn't leave the ground, knowing that her magical propensity was to fly according to the will of the goddess, with my free hand I shot, but the white girl kicked at the last moment and deflected my shot, I didn't kill her but she was wounded in the abdomen too, I could see it when she tried to run away from here. The other guards start shooting at me, I get in the car and put it in reverse to try to reach the thief.

Tamamo seems to be trying to stop me again, with one of her hands she manages to pull the door off the car, then she holds on to the car and tries to hit me, I manage to deflect her fists because it was impossible for me to beat her in a contest of strength without any trick, I said with all my might to stop attacking me, I wanted her to recognize me, but no word came out of my mouth, instead only a guttural gesture sounded. I manage to push her so that she falls off the car, the spear passes behind her at full speed but she holds it with her hands at the last moment, she prepares to throw it with her own strength, that was not good.

"Tamamo, hold on!"
"No, no, no! That's not my precious Darling!"
"Look into her eyes! Elise's eyes are still blue!"
"The man has the red eyes of the True dragon"
"That's not her! It's an imposter!"
"Think more carefully before you act, fool!# said the demon from a distance.

The white girl who was still on the car turned and fell to the street, got up and started to run towards a bridge, I followed her, but before I managed to get close she jumped into the void, or so I thought, a green train was passing below, but just like this morning, I jumped on the roof of the train that was passing at full speed, I barely managed not to slip and fall to the ground. The thief was speechless at the sight of my determination not to let my prey escape.

"你为什么不死？"
"你不可能赢的"
"她总是能得到她想要的"
"就算你杀了我，我也不会是唯一的一个"
"她会派一个又一个人来 你迟早会犯错，然后我们杀了你"  Said the impostor in some unknown language.

I didn't know what he was saying but I was filled with even more fury, anger burning inside me like incandescent embers.Each beat of my heart is an explosion of rage that reverberates in my ears. Adrenaline runs through every fiber of my being, my hands tremble with rage as his image blurs under the gaze of my eyes. We are on the edge of madness, her toying with me and me, ready to make her pay for her daring. Flashes of police lights mingle with my distorted vision, but nothing will stop me in this hellish crusade.

Her actions have crossed all boundaries, defiled my existence and made a mockery of my being. Now, in front of me, with the face that was once mine, she struts as if she owns my life. I will not allow it! The certainty that I must destroy her clings to me like an infernal obsession.

From her clothes she pulls out the pistol that was mine yesterday. My fingers squeeze the trigger of my pistol hard. There is no mercy, no clemency. There is only the voracious desire to see her burn in the fire of her own arrogance. The blood flows, I had been wounded by another shot, but I can't feel the pain, only the heat of fury.

If today will be my last then so be it, but I'll take that bitch with me to the grave!

I run towards the white girl, she shoots and shoots, her bullets don't stop me, I grab her face and throw her with me out of the train, I use her body to cushion my fall. When we stop rolling I get up immediately and start hitting her, her body is already full of wounds similar to mine, but one of them manages to give me a strong kick, my legs don't react for a moment and I lose my balance, leaving her a moment to recover.

We were now in a place with almost nothing around us, the only thing that was next to us was a small church next to a cliff next to the evil, there were several people watching the acciende and the fight, the place seemed to be a clamored tourist site, but today it was not, it would be the place where I would stop all this shit once and for all.

The girl ran towards me and jumped to have more power in her kick, I stopped her in place with my hand, she no longer looked human, strange and sharp fingers came out, as if they were the claw of a cursed animal, but I didn't care at this moment. I turned my body and valencia her body over mine and with all my possible strength I threw her to the ground. The girl hit the ground with her body stretched out all over the concrete.

I only needed to give her the coup de grace, I raised my fist to hit her head until there was nothing left, but the girl raised her hand, in it was a grenade. The thief got up slowly, her body was a complete mess, it was a horror to see it despite the blood covering most of her face. And yet somehow the bastard laughed, it seemed she still had one more ace up her sleeve. From her other arm she pulled out again the weird artifact from before, the light enveloped her face again, I lost sight of it for a second.

I could feel how the whole front part of me was soaked in blood, it was hard to breathe again, my hands were shaking, I could barely hold the grenade and the cage with the little strength I had left. In front of me was the burned man laughing with his horrible mutilated voice, his disfigured face still as repulsive as before.

The son of a bitch had once again switched the bodies for his benefit, once again I was once again the injured person hurt by the wounds I caused.

With a kick the man took the box with the gem from my hand, then he put it together, it seemed that he needed it to do his damned magic. It seemed that this magic was his best card, but it was also his only one, knowing how it worked I had already won.

Now I just had to bet everything on luring the creature into the prepared trap. I stood up strongly and pretended not to be sore from the wounds, while in my mind there were not enough insults in the Spanish language to express what I felt.  I pulled the Codex crystals out of my hair and threw them into the street, the impostor didn't even flinch at the sight of it, which confirmed my suspicion, he didn't know its true value, what he was after was me.Then I changed my limbs again to those of a dragon, the only other form that gave me even more disgust than the sight of the burned man in front of me, my hands had again become powerful claws. In the face of my enemy I could see his expression of doubt and suspicion, no doubt it was something he had been interested in, he seemed to want to have it.

Now I just had to continue with the performance and motivate him one more time. With only one hand and holding the pain I lined up to attack him, the bastard tried to use the gun, but there was no bullet for him, it was something I already knew. With my claws I dared his chest, it was so easy that I didn't feel any resistance. The ugly man was fucked up and I knew it, the rest of that body had been destroyed before, and now it was worse, just like mine was now. He had to say which one was more likely to get out alive, the answer was easy, and predictable. With his ember he pulled out his imitation of the Thalassian Enigma, the golden artifact from before, just as I wanted it.

His face was surrounded again in light, preparing the transfer, I for my part with the grenade in my hidden hand removed the pin of the detonator. I could again feel the horrible pain of the new wounds, in front of me was the white girl laughing at the residual power she had, being unconscious of the deception. With her hand she picked up her magic artifact again, and just after that she realized that in her other hand she had the grenade with its countdown. I jumped behind one of the benches to protect myself from the explosion, but it hit me first, managing to hit several parts of me with its shrapnel.

The pain was unbearable, that was the last thing I remember.

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