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To say this match hadn’t been the greatest would have been a huge understatement.
It wasn’t necessarily going that bad in general, but Naib had been feeling incredibly on edge the entire match, and it didn’t help that Wu chang had just eliminated Martha from the game.
He dragged himself over to the nearest cipher, glancing around him as much as he could while decoding, finding himself lightly running a feet against the floor to distract his mind from the sounds. In the distance, a cipher popped, showing that there were now 3 ciphers left to be decoded, Naib’s on 76% because Martha had been decoding it earlier.
Regrettably, just a moment later, Andrew was hit for a second time by the dual guard. He found himself frantically typing away at the cipher, finishing it before the grave keeper got chaired. From the other side of the map, Kurt pinged that he had finished digging up the last of his password pages, as surely enough, another cipher was done.
Naib made his way over to the chair as quickly as he could, swiftly undoing the binds to let Andrew free when Wu chang appeared next to them.
“Get away from here when you can.” The mercenary said to the grave keeper, running right behind him to take the hit once the hunter decided to attack. He couldn’t let Andrew be chaired another time, he had to make sure the male got out of here in one piece.
And Wu chang did hit, pain coursing through his back as he kept running, continuing to guard the grave keeper when he noticed the hunter wouldn’t relent. Shortly after, another wave of pain coarsed through him when he blocked a second hit for Andrew. He groaned, gritting his teeth because he had to stay strong, a hand going to the wall of the hospital they had made it towards to steady himself. Sadly, the hunter seemed insistent on hitting Andrew, and the determination from Wu chang made Naib follow after once more, his eyes widening as he noticed the white guard prepare another attack.
At high speed, Naib propelled himself towards Andrew. He effectively blocked the hit one more time. The black guard switched out with white and scoffed, the grave keeper nowhere to be found anymore.
The burning hot feeling left Naib the moment tideturner wore off, and the agony from the hits he took came rushing in just as fast. His knees buckled below him, sending him crashing to the ground, his mind going haywire from the intense pain coursing through him. The feeling of his old wounds opening under his fresher ones never got easier, and even now he barely clung onto consciousness as the pain threatened to drag him under.
But at least, Andrew had gotten away safely. The alarm signaled the last cipher had been popped, but Naib couldn’t get up, his mind dizzy from the pain.
The black guard’s condescending laugh rang through his ears, but he couldn’t bear to look up from the place he had collapsed. He felt a foot kicking his side, and he cursed as another wave of pain rang through his already weak state.
“Not so brave anymore now, are you little mercenary?” Fan Wujiu’s low voice rumbled.
Naib didn’t reply, partly because he felt like he couldn’t, but he also refused to give the hunter the satisfaction of him fighting back. At the silence, the black guard kicked him one more time before proceeding to drag his body to a chair, though Naib doubted it would have any use.
He let his eyes close as he slipped in unconsciousness, but not before smiling softly at the communicator showing that both Kurt and Andrew had made it out.