Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 116 - . Thinking and Bleeding

I blacked out again, and when I came to, my orange jumpsuit was clean, well, besides it being used and sweaty, only for fresh blood to seep through once more.

There was new food and water on the floor, but there was no way I could crawl there, so I tried to conjure some water up, only to find that on the table in my mind was no fucking coin.

FUCKING WHY?

This shook me more than my battered body could.

I blacked out again, and the third or fourth time I regained consciousness after constantly blacking out, my wounds had mostly stopped bleeding.

Still, I didn't dare to move and let them open again.

When I found myself finally awake for longer, I noticed that any kind of blood that came into contact with my jumpsuit, would disappear after two minutes.

I was reminded of the approximately two weeks of time in my solitary cell, of which I had no recollection.

Maybe now I have my explanation for the time span back then.

Everything is happening at once, and at the same time not. There is no linear concept.

Wasn't that essentially what Emilia had told our Henrietta?

These two weeks, which were blank before, were now filled with a future self, healing from his injuries.

Wasn't there an old film that had this kind of content?

After Henrietta had attacked me, she apparently went and got Henry's knife, which he had thrown at the shadow, or maybe she had another one on her. After stabbing my unconscious body, I should have died, but instead I...what? Went back in time to heal, before I would go back to fight with that bitch again?

That was an astonishing turn of events, and what the hell do I do if I die in here? The people outside the solitary cell didn't seem to be conscious of my presence, or better said, the future-me-presence inside the past me.

Or was it that I would survive no matter what because if not, then the past me would also die?

And what about my doggy, not only proving itself but also getting that ghost inside him instead of myself, wasn't he also in fucking dire need of someone doing something?

I just had to hope that if I really come back when she stabbed me, I would be fully healed, and with no further time difference, so I can take a look at him.

Maybe it wasn't bad that the shadow was now inside a body because we had to find a way to kill it anyway. If you can't kill it in its shadow form, then possibly while it occupies a body. Though I would prefer if the person that it occupied weren't Henry, if he hadn't shielded me, and if he had instead beaten up his sister. Then, I could take on the shadow on my own instead of being stabbed.

Additionally, I don't like being indebted to him for saving me. Though, at second thought, I had also saved him... A LOT. He should still owe me plenty.

Well, no matter.

I will kill Henrietta when I come back.

No, it was my fault, I should have killed her immediately, after seeing her. But with killing her comes another, fatal problem.

I have no idea if she is currently in contact with another one of her counterparts. If awareness is the key, the link, and if I killed her while a link between her and another counterpart existed, then her memories, her power, everything of hers would transfer to that counterpart.

It would be an endless loop—kill one enemy, and make another stronger.

Though we don't know if her next counterpart was as evil and depraved as her, the risk was fucking high.

And if the power this counterpart got, was also used to opening portals unabashedly, then good night.

But the whole new shit I learned also told me another thing.

If all these details were made public, if people knew and became aware of the counterpart theory and its ins and outs, then wouldn't that mean they would not only try to slaughter their own counterpart to get stronger, but also stop killing other counterparts? Like monsters? For the reason that they wouldn't want someone else to level up?

I don't know how swiftly such a link can be established, do you need to talk or touch your other counterpart?

Talking, yes. Touching—no, Henrietta had never touched the little vampire.

Is it enough to just know that in other parallel worlds, a counterpart of yourself runs around?

No, if that were the case, I would constantly level up, Henrietta as well, because we knew of the theory much longer than others. Especially Henrietta, with Emilia feeding her the facts since her childhood.

Anyway, I can imagine that, if this whole thing blows up in a few years of time, when everyone knows about everything because it can't be disclosed forever, when dungeons pop up and not only human or orb-counterparts, but also MONSTER-counterparts evade our world, that people would rather let other humans die than to risk them leveling up before they themselves had.

Then, if it really is like I suspect after having two Henriettas drinking my blood, add a bit of 'if you drink blood or eat the flesh of someone who has leveled up, you will get stronger' in the mix, and we get a cannibalistic, suicidal, and apathetic society.

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I FUCKING CAN'T WAIT!!

THIS BULLSHIT ASSHOLE HENRIETTA, I WILL FUCKING KILL HER, AAAH!!!! WHAT THE FUCK HAD SHE DONE? WE WILL ALL DIE GRUESOME DEATHS AT THE HANDS AND HOOFS OF MONSTERS BECAUSE EVERYONE WILL ONLY THINK OF LEVELING UP, AAAHH!!!

Some wounds of mine started bleeding, and I was forced to calm down, watching as the blood disappeared from my jumpsuit soon again.

No, isn't it also good? If the awareness spreads, and each human is only out on killing their counterpart, consciously avoiding killing anyone so that they don't level up, won't the killing rate go down considerably?

That be as it may, there are still DUNGEONS APPEARING THAT DESTROYED OUR EARTH WITH FUCKING SINKHOLES, OR WITH UNCONSCIOUS MONSTERS WHO GIVE A FUCK IF SOMEONE LEVELS UP AND KILL PEOPLE RANDOMLY, AAAHHHH!!!

FUCK, FUCK, FUCK, FUCK!!!!

Damn it, I'm bleeding again.