213 Chapter 213- Crazed Rookies (Part 2)
Kai looked coldly at the panicked young man before he sighed and started approaching him slowly. His steps were nimble and quiet, leaving only the sound of flickering fire inside the room.
"S-Stay away!"
"Don't move. Your powers are out of control. If I let you do what you want you will burn this whole place." Kai replied in a calm tone.
"I-I don't want to burn anyone else… Please, just let me be alone." Tears welled up in the young man's as he held his face. At that moment, Kai appeared to the young man like a scary demon that was there to harvest his soul.
The young man whose name was Elliot, had been an introverted boy ever since he was young. He didn't like interacting with people because of his weak structure. He always got bullied in school and couldn't defend himself so after high school, he closed on himself inside his mother's house and didn't talk to anyone, not even her.
Years passed quietly as he got addicted more and more to this quiet life he was living. He found solitude to be the best feeling ever, to not find a need for other people, it was amazing. However, there was still a part of him that wished to be social, to have friends, to have a girlfriend, and to live in the social norm.
That was until he saw this new invention, Temporary Origin. It was akin to a distant dream manifesting in reality. Gaining superpowers, how great would that be?
So, he decided for the first time in years to leave his house and buy this new drug that took the world by storm. The journey was arduous to the closest pharmacy as people looked at him. He was overweight, shabby in clothes and appearance, and had a gloomy presence around him.
The looks of people were akin to a sharp knife digging into his skin. However, he forced himself through that pain and bought the drug with whatever savings he had. It was very expensive but worth it.
When he came back and opened the box he bought, it had a syringe in it with a needle and an instruction book on how to use it. While the injection itself was rather simple, people would still make idiotic mistakes so Divinity made that instruction book for that category.
Following it to a T, he was able to inject the liquid into his bloodstream and then he waited. At first, nothing happened for a while. He waited and waited but nothing changed. It reached a point where he thought it was a fraud and disappointment loomed on his mind.
"Fuck! So it was all a fucking lie!!" Cursing loudly, he smashed his hand on the ground and clicked his tongue. At that moment, something happened that shocked him to the core. Flames suddenly ignited into his body. The temperature of the room increased almost instantly as Elliot panicked.
He thought that his skin was about to burn, but in actuality, what was burning was everything around him. He himself, however, was unscathed, completely.
"No! No, no, no…" Trying to kill the fire, he only made it even worse. It didn't take long for everything around him to be swallowed by fire.
"Elliot, are you ok?" His mother called for him.
"Stay away!" He yelled as he looked around with a terrified expression. The fire that covered his body grew along with his panicked state.
its user. The angrier they are, the more likely for his powers to get out of control. Add to that the fact 03:51
that he was completely clueless as to how to use these powers and a disaster was bound to happen.
What he didn't know, however, was Origin was an energy that followed the will and emotional state of its user. The angrier they are, the more likely for his powers to get out of control. Add to that the fact that he was completely clueless as to how to use these powers and a disaster was bound to happen.
"Don't move," Kai said coldly.
'I will be punished…. He will kill me… I'm going to die!' He thought to himself as he clenched his teeth.
His steps grew closer and closer, scaring the young man even more. For a second, he saw in Kai the bullies that would always approach him menacingly while he hid and tried to protect himself. That fear and trauma ignited his panic even more. Then, in a split second of uncontrollable horror, the young man's powers exploded again.
*BOOOOOOOOM*
A giant ball of fire covered the whole room and destroyed everything left intact. The tongues of flames engulfed Kai completely.
'I need to run…' Elliot quickly tried to stand up and leave. However, as he dashed through the inferno hell, a hand suddenly extended out of the fire and grabbed his neck.
"I said don't move," Kai said as he moved his hand, pushing the flames away.
"W-What?!"
Before Elliot could even understand what happened, Kai used his powers to barge into his mind and knock him unconscious. After that, he moved his hand again, killing the giant fire that was threatening to eat the whole house.
'What a troublesome fellow…' He thought as he put Elliot on his shoulder.
It didn't even seem like he injected himself with Temporary Origin that long ago and yet he still burnt down a whole house because of it.
'Divinity didn't lie when they said that Temporary Origin could create people with the strength of an 8-year-old Origin User. This is something of that level, at least.' He thought while walking out of the room.
"Kai!" Eva approached Kai when she noticed him. He seemed unscathed even after the explosion that occurred.
"I made the neighbors leave so that nobody could see us." She said before she looked at the unconscious young man. "Is he?"
"Yeah, her son. He was the reason for this fire."
"So, he already bought it…" A complicated expression appeared on Eva's face.
"We need to leave before the police arrive," Kai said as he carried Elliot outside and gave him to his mother.
"Oh my god, my son, Elliot!" The landlady cried when she saw him.
"He's fine. The same can't be said about your house." Kai said to reassure her before he looked back at Aria. She was standing silently in front of the burnt house as if she were examining it.
"How did you get him ou-" The old woman was about to question Kai.
"Let's leave." Kai looked at the landlady before he snapped his fingers and she was knocked unconscious too. He made them forget what happened there for now. Even if Origin was now something everyone knew of, keeping his identity a secret is always the best choice.
"Aria?" Eva called for the blind girl but the latter didn't respond. So, Eva approached her.
"Hey, we're leaving."
"Hm? Oh, my apologies." Aria woke up from her trance and answered hurriedly.
"What's wrong?"
"It's… Nothing."
"... Ok…" Eva seemed confused but she didn't try to ask any further. Everyone has his secrets, after all.
The trio quickly returned to the apartement and closed the door right when the police sirens reached their ears.
"It hasn't been a day and there are already accidents like this." Eva frowned visibly. "At this rate, whole cities will be eradicated because of a bunch of panicked newbies that don't know what they're doing."
"It was bound to happen. The only thing that could be done now is to wait for Divinity and see how it will deal with this problem. They aren't going to let people die needlessly since that will only harm their image as a new corporation that got revealed to the masses."
"Are they even going to do it? We're talking about hundreds of millions of people across the whole world. The control they have isn't big enough to stop this." Eva murmured in response. She didn't believe that a situation like this could be fully contained in a matter of days if there was even a solution to begin with.
"They will."
The one to respond was shockingly Aria, catching the attention of the duo. Being the quiet type, Eva thought Aria would only speak when spoken to but to see her willingly talk was surprising.
"How do you know?"
"I…" Aria wanted to speak but when she glanced at Kai, she decided not to and instead said something different. "I'm sure they will."
"..."
Kai understood the hint and didn't say a single word.
'That bastard must've acquired some way of controlling this drug's effects. He wouldn't let his plans be ruined because of a stupid mistake.' He thought.
Silence took over the room for a while before it was broken again by the news channel that was still open. There, videos of people barging into pharmacies to buy the drug were being broadcast from across the world.
It is safe to say that millions of people have already gotten or will get their hands on the drug in the next few hours and the number is bound to increase exponentially in the next few days.
If there was any chance of stopping this insanity, it was now all gone.