TO CUT A TURNING TAIL

16). BERSERK

"This time, I won't fix a time Jon. I mean I will, but if you constantly use your ken, I won't". "Ok, so you're asking me not to use my ken?" he asks paradoxically. "Of course! Are you nuts? Using it all the time!" "Good, I won't"!" Jon unhealthily assures in a clumsy manner.

Flashes are passing all over the place, chains are clanging all around it, sometimes, when Jon is tired of using his ken, it runs after Jon. And when not, he tries to make Jon tired.

After two futile whirlpools that Jon created by running at a ridiculous speed with the ken, he stopped. These two rounds were a great experience for him, he was jumping from one cell to the other at a great speed like a ninja on a mission.

In a split second, while clanging his chain at the wet floor at a flashing speed, he created an immediate whirlpool out of the sewer water; encircling Shridgaar. For some stranger, such an abrupt appearance of a fountaining whirlpool would have been a miracle.

Now Jon is sitting at a cemented cuboid which was has been placed at the edge of the elevated stage that brings an end to the sewer line.

(Jon doesn't find a sewer lane with a cemented ending rather than an opening to a canal strange because he has never seen a sewer ever before.)

Jon waits for Shridgaar to do something, but Shridgaar itself lies down on the wet floor and relaxes with some tantrums.

"Hey, what do you want your future partner to have? Partner as in a loving relationship." Shridgaar is simply coherent with Jon as he asks this absurd question.

Shridgaar is wearing a yellow-coloured raincoat and looks like a teen boy or maybe a girl or maybe a non-binary, one can never recognise from the outfit that covers this person entirely. Is Shridgaar even a person though?

"For me it is that they have a bone, even one will work. You don't happen to have one, do you?" Jon continues to follow up on his own question.

With another piece of ignorance, Jon comments, "yeah, so you don't have ear bones. Probably not even eardrums, I don't see those ears working. The clanging literally did not affect you. Oh wait! Do you even have ears."

The way Jon mocks Shridgaar at his slow pace makes it look even more comical. As Shridgaar listens to him, Jon's chain spanks at its stomach, letting a spill of blood off Shridgaar's mouth. It was abrupt, rapid and commendable.

As Jon stops right next to him, a hologram appears in front of his eyes as if it was his reward. He ignores the hologram and rushes back to Shridgaar, he constantly judders the chain at Shridgaar and Shridgaar succeeds in dodging it. Leaving a hologram alone at the distance.

Jon has started jumping on the cells, he hustles as he tries to attach the chain to his robe. To Shridgaar, it still seems that someone is juddering a chain, even though the chain is constantly banging next to him, he can realise its coordinates and prevent itself (themselves/himself/herself) from being attacked at times.

On succeeding in swindling Shridgaar, Jon brings out a dagger and throws it at the hunch. (Remember, he cannot see anything outside of the tunnel till his eyes turn blue.)

It hurts Shridgaar in the belly, yet it continues fighting like an ambitious dreamer. "If there was a normal human in your place, as you refer, they'd have stopped fighting by now. This is because you're the successor of Anbu. You're a kyle with its focus on protecting and improving rather than enjoying and improving" rings a voice in Jon's head. He is dumbfounded as to who it was, this was the voice of a female, not the previous cold tone that was undecipherable to a gender.

Running and chasing, Jon has stopped using his ken far before. For now, he looks like a poor man who has been trying his best at earning just so that he/she can feed himself/herself. There isn't direct pressure, there is some always going into his belly, but wouldn't it be great if they could buy this food through their own earnings. They know they'll get a job one day, but they have to try.