The Inheritor

All his friends only spoke for a few minutes only the overexcited Boris proved that he was nothing short of a chatterbox.

"Big Bro Quinn asked me to take care of the Crab villain hiding between the rocks; I went over to the crab"s hideout and muster every ounce of strength I had and gave my best shot at its sh.e.l.l.

Before my mega punch, even the st.u.r.dy thick rocks quivered and the poor sh.e.l.l cracked into pieces...

I was expecting a pitiful b.u.mped up Crab but a sudden outburst blew that broken rock sh.e.l.l and innumerable shards attacked towards me, fortunately, I had inhumane reflex, so I managed to dodge most of the sharp projectiles...

After the dust settles a Giant Crab was standing at the Nest hole….

The Evil Giant Crab was too strong none of my attack from a left jab to flying kick to elbow strike to the headb.u.t.t. Its defense was stronger than a steel wall even then I didn"t give up, with justice by my side and faith in heart I sent attack after attack completely disregarding the fatigue and bruises building up…."

Quinn speechlessly listened to Boris"s heroic tales and awed his talent in twisting black to white; he actually turned his inability to break the Crab defense into a stubborn Hero fighting against a foe where all the odds were set against him.

The most frustrating part was the other two kids were entirely engrossed into this fictional story Boris was making up.

"Even after hitting it with punches like missiles and rockets the Evil Giant Crab won"t budge an inch much less get injured. Though it"s an incompetence on my part it was an absolute disgrace for a worrier like me to run away in face of a stronger foe, so I held my ground firm….

But I was running out of ideas and despair took over me, suddenly I caught sight of Big Bro Quinn standing far behind the crab; the dark clouds slowly cleared with appearance and he gave me instruction to lure away from the nest...

Then I put up a flawless act and lured the Evil Beast from its nest and finally collapsed on the floor to play dead. But that cunning beast didn"t buy my trick it went all over my body hara.s.sing me with it itchy claws…

Finally, I somehow managed to fool it with great difficulty; once the Evil beast let its guard I didn"t miss that opportunity and mustered all the reserve strength to send a boulder punch to its eyes which missed it by an inch, so I could only stun the Crab...

Then Big bro Quinn took over, he fabulously crippled two of its legs within few seconds while I was struggling to keep it stun for moments….."

Quinn"s face started heating and slowly turned reddish, even his thick skin couldn"t swallow such comments. In Boris heroic tale, Boris was a small time Righteous Hero while Quinn turned to Overpowered Super Hero while the Giant Crab was obviously the Evil villain.

After that Boris paused for a while and gradually the excitement or hype he built up evaporated in silence and slowly the joy in his face disappeared only to be replaced by 5-point sorrow and 5-point guilt.

Quinn noticed Boris sudden change but before he could enquire Boris once started. Only this time his voice didn"t have the previous enthusiasm or zeal, he spoke in a deep voice with a hint of remorse.

"At first I was expecting pleasure and contentment from stealing the eggs and getting Jade Pearls but when the thought of the Giant Crabs last struggle and final retaliation in despair to save its loved ones all the excitement and enthusiasm dampened down like pouring cold water.

None of you guys would understand Big Bro Quinn was too close to the Crab and fighting it with everything he had while Lardo just got a glimpse and Kallis didn"t even see that Crab.

I was watching the entire battle like a movie; I felt the changes from its enraged beast battling to kill its enemy to a pitiful father rushing to save its kids. From its final crazy attack, I could sense the love and care it held for its baby."

Boris didn"t cry but a deep sense of regret and remorse was apparent on his dark face. Quinn never expected his friend to be this tender and naïve, but then again they were all little kids and if his other two friends were to face the same thing they would also crack up like Boris.

But that"s not what baffled him the most, the thing which bothers Quinn most was what Boris was doing throughout his narration.

"It"s Okay if you feel guilty or sad at your first kill but why"re you eating the eggs while shedding tears for killing the baby?"

Yes, Boris would randomly stuff pieces of boiled eggs into his mouth while narrating his story, he even ate a large chunk of the egg while delivering Guilt Note.

Then Boris sighed after taking a deep breath to cool himself.

"Unfortunately, we can"t change anything. This is after all the natural order; the Crab would have killed us if we were weak. But the Crab reminded my father, though I only spent a few days in a month with my parents, I can feel his love..."

Boris went on with telling everything he could remember about his father while reminiscing those wonderful fresh memories. As he wasn"t fully concentrating in the oration Boris was delivering the speech in a very disoriented form, bit and pieces with random pauses.

But his sincerity and love for parents pulled Quinn into reminiscing his childhood memories of both the lifetime and he really started to miss his parents after all he didn"t see them for half-year.

Lardo"s life was something similar to Quinn"s previous life born with a silver spoon and loving parents yet a rather lonely life. His parents had to take care of the business which had them busy throughout the year.

Thus even though he loved his parents it wasn"t like Boris or Quinn; so he wasn"t interested in this topic but he chose to silently sit.

After few moments he looked Quinn"s absentminded face and shook his head; later he turned to Kallis who was sitting adjacent to him only to find Kallis staring at the walls with red gloomy eyes while gritting teethes.

He could feel intense hatred and disgust from Kallis; Quinn was deeply engrossed in own fantasy so he missed his friend"s sudden transformation.

"Kallis is everything all right, why did your eye turn crimson? What"s going on?" Lardo started to panic and quickly pulled over to Kallis. At the same time, Quinn woke from his stupor.

[Boss!!! Boss!! something"s wrong with your roommate, he"s like a beast going berserk.]

Elgar"s voice rung in Quinn"s head instantly waking him from his stupor; Elgar noticed Kallis sudden transformation, so he warned Quinn to take immediate action.