"Tortoise aside, I really can"t accept a snake in my place." said Chris to the Ganbus after sending Rei out. "I understand your concern, my master, but the boys said that they want you to be their master and I definitely know how stubborn they are. How are you planning to deal with them?" said Byako while serving Chris a cup of tea. And please take note that Sky is not yet back from buying meals for lunch.
Unable to reject their offer, Chris finally gives in but with the condition that they need to pa.s.s his tests. However, instead of some real "tests", it"s more like some random games and entertainment, for example making them do some viral dance online, instructing them to shape the cookie dough that was made by Rei earlier, bake it and eat it, and force them to do a swimming pool party in his indoor pool that built secretly without letting Sky know. Oh! Byako did those with them as well.
After Chris "fooled" the boy for almost half an hour, he decided that he will give them one last test, which is also the real test, he walks into another room which is supposed to be his personal lab, and come out with a bottle of red liquid after fifteen minutes.
"This is the real test, to see if we can really trust each other well if you decide to be my underlings. Here is a bottle of poison, drink it, and the test will be ended." said Chris, he placed the bottle in front of Gan indicating that he is the one that needs to drink it.
"Master..." Byako tried to stop Chris but getting leer by him...
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At the same time, at the street near a fast food restaurant, the whole area is badly deformed, casualties can be seen everywhere, in the middle of the mess, it"s Sky, he is currently facing a man with a totally "melted" face, that formed a "faceless" look if seen from a far distance, surrounded them is a group of faceless humanoid creatures, yes, faceless for real.
"So it"s really you the one that a.s.saulted Ben that day, what are you doing in this place? I thought you were supposed to be banished from all the listed dimensions." said Sky while creating a shadow trap around the area to prevent further casualty in the street.
"Yes... I am. But still, here am I." said the man with a creepy smile that gets really disturbing along with his deformed face...
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Sky"s house, Gan is looking at the red liquid anxiously, while Bu is worried about him.
"Drink it or not, it"s up to you, I will not force you in making any decisions." said Chris. Bu holds Gan"s arm tightly indicates him not to drink the solution, Gan looks at Bu for a while before turn back to Chris.
"If I drink this, you will accept us right? Including Bu." Gan ask.
"Yes." said Chris. Then Gan grab the bottle, hesitated a while before gulp it down at once.
"No!" Bu shouted while giving Chris a fierce look, however, nothing seems to be happening to Gan despite of chug down a whole bottle of "poison". He looks at Chris with a confused look. Chris laughed out a bit while pulling down Gan"s collar a bit showing some gruesome black marks on his neck that slowly faded away.
"This is... But you said it"s poison." said Gan, still confused along with Bu, and Byako seems to understand what is happening.
"It is a poison, just that it has no effect on you, it only have effect on those low lives that executor placed in your body." said Chris.
"How do you know about that? I never tell anyone before, including Bu." said Gan, a bit surprised.
"Well, that half an hour is sufficient enough for me to found out about that." said Chris in a casual manner.
Hearing this, Gan realized that the purpose of fooling around just now is to test their body condition, he is amazed that Chris is able to found out about the parasitic worms that been placed in his body by just doing some seemly meaningless things.
"Now you are completely free from him. You have pa.s.sed my test, do you still want to be my servant?" said Chris. Without saying anything Gan kneeled down along with Bu, then he offered Chris a piece of pure white scale.
"I see... I will accept your offer as promised." then Chris accepts the scale from Gan...
Later, in Chris"s workshop, Chris is still working with the gemstone while Byako is helping him with some trivia matters.
"I"m always wondering what makes the boys willing to serve that executor, I never thought it will be this reason, it"s really disgusting that someone actually uses this kind of method to keep others in their control." said Byako.
"Well, that"s what people do after all, just in different forms... Tsk... What takes Sky for so long? He had been out for almost two hours." said Chris rather worried.
"Yes, the injury on his right hand hasn"t recovered completely yet." said Byako.
"Mmm... Maybe I"ll go look for him after I have done with this." said Chris while polishing the gemstone that had been shaped like Sky"s magic resistance crystal.
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At the street, Sky is leaning on a deformed light pole, his right arm is badly injured, blood dripped down from his wound and form a small pool of blood on the floor, the man with a deformed face is looking at him with a maniacal smile...