Last chapter, Seric approached and started talking with the girl who tried to kill the trio, and the girl asks Seric to kill her due to her injuries being too severe to let her bounty hunt anymore. King Metallica approaches the two and is about to kill her, until she stalls her death until Seric makes the decision to let the girl join the crew- under strict circumstances of course. Karia wakes up next to the new member of the crew, Amandeath, and is terrified. After arguing with King Metallica, Seric offers to take Karia to her room, and she reluctantly takes his hand for him to help her.

Seric's P.O.V.

"Hey hey, watch the arm!" Karia complains as I awkwardly try to help her down to her sleeping bag which I just brought into her room for her.

"Sorry, I'm not used to doing this kinda thing!" I respond back to her a bit angrily as I let go of her arm, letting her fall back down to her "bed" when she's close enough with a slight thump.

"...Don't even think that me letting you help me meant anything, monster. You're still just a murderer and a liar." Karia says to me after a second as she turns onto her side and stares into the wall...

"Wow, you're welcome. And do you have any idea how long you think you'll be out for? No rush, and I get that you're tired and all but we shouldn't stay here on a, you know boat in a alleyway for too long, right?" I ask with some definite sass implied.

"..."

"Karia? Come on, we only came to the Hopian Continent because you wanted to, so please can you at least tell me where we're going next or what the plan is?" I ask in a pleading tone as I can honestly get her frustration right now- but we still need to know where we're even going.

"..." She still doesn't respond and continues to lie down with her eyes open as well as she now glares at me with disgust.

"If you want to be a "good person", a good start would be to at least try to be kind to the only people you have left." I say without holding back with a scoff, and Karia's turquoise eyes immediately widen until she raises her good arm to her face and covers it.

"Get. Out." Karia says as I start to hear her voice quiver a bit... after realizing what I just said and what it meant to her, I quickly mumble a "sorry" and leave the room.

"Daaaaamn, she's got problems too yeah?" Amandeath says to me as she's still lying casually on my sleeping bag with her arms behind her head and with a bunch of medical pads on her in the main hall of our dark candle lit living quarters.

"Huh, where's King Metallica? Did he really leave her alone, that's way too risky even if she's injured! Maybe Karia was right, this might be stupid..." I think to myself with a bit of panic as I look at and around the girl closely to see if any traps have been laid.

"...Yeah. And I'm not making them any better..." I finally respond quietly as I walk towards the chair that King Metallica laid out by the sleeping bags beforehand.

"Is King Metallica outside?" I ask Amandeath as I sit down.

"Yeeeep. After I asked him to be on the lookout cause of other hunters on the streets, he dipped out of here... thanks again by the way. Never thought I would get fixed- but here I am I guess... that bot is something else, you program those like, medical procedures into it or something...?" Amandeath asks as she looks towards me with her eyes alone, not bothering to move her head.

"No. He just... can do almost everything really. I don't get it either, he's a robot but has so much personality... anyways, don't ever call him bot though. I'm sure you understood that when Karia added "stupid" to the bot part." I say with a small chuckle at the insanity of King Metallica in general.

"Ahhhhh, got it... I'm like that too after all..." Amandeath says lazily with a yawn as she glances back up to the roof of the pure white living quarters.

"...You mind getting me my gum? It's in my left pocket, and my arms are kinda sore and I dont wanna move em' so..." Amandeath asks me as she looks at me with a more determined look in her eyes which gives me a bad feeling...

"...Uh... sorry, but no I can't. I have a... phobia of being around girls." I make up the shittiest excuse on the spot, as there's no way I want to take the chance of this girl snapping my neck or something when I'm down on her level. Her arms do seem to be somewhat functional after all.

"Huuuuuh? But you carried that annoying girl Karia to her room just fine... I'll give ya a piece if you do. And I don't do that often- especially to people I just met, trust me... so pleaaase?" Amandeath tries to convince me with puppy dog eyes- but can't pull off the look at all.

"Look, sorry but no." I respond, feeling tempted to help her but still refusing using my common sense... I wish I thought more about saying she should join the crew...

"Alright alright, I'll give you- twwwwwo pieces, but not a piece higher. Deal?..." The girl asks, but I ignore her this time and instead stare at the wall to make things less painfully awkward...

"Oh, I get it now. Trust is the problem here. Look, just tie my arms and all that up if you feel like my crippled self- both mentally and physically can hurt you. Won't be the first time for me... my boyfriend used t-"

"OK, fine!" I interrupt with a groan as I fall to the floor next to her feet, reaching and bending over towards her pocket that I already saw before. Without notice I dig into it, and feel a small rectangular metal box as I start to blush with my mind being calmer now.

"It's a box right?" I ask as I prepare myself mentally to jump away if I need to.

"Yeeep." She luckily responds.

I take it out, and see that the small box with a lid hanging overtop of it is made of blue painted metal and has the lit up words "Infi-Gum" being projected onto the front of it somehow in bubbly rainbow letters.

"Thanks... now, I'm feeling really comfy around here so can you just take a sec longer and, I dunno, plop one into my mouth for me?" The girl says with a hopeful look on her face as she slightly raises her eyebrows and starts to stick out her tongue.

"No." I say boldly and with a blank face as I bend forward and plant the box a bit behind her arms, just to see if she can move them that far in the first place.

"Woooooooow, you're worse than that purple haired chick. I thought we were friends... not cool, noooot cool." The girl says in a disappointed tone.

"Sorry. I might change my mind if you answer some of my questions though. Firstly, not important but I've gotta ask why the pajamas? Isn't that inefficient or something?"

The girl glares at me, which makes me look away for a bit. Then back again to see that she's still staring at me... uh...

"...They're comfy. And I like how they look... so, I wear em'. I decided years ago that I wouldn't follow the stupid "norms" of this world anymore... and that I would live for me... and meeeee. Alone." She says with a sigh.

"Oh, that's interesting. Fair enough. Also, what's your background? Are you just a bounty hunter, or a criminal like us? Oh shit- because you were hunting us, you... know what we did to get our bounties, right?" I ask uneasily as I start tapping my foot on the floor anxiously knowing what my proclaimed crime is.

"Yep... but I don't have any morals, so I reeeeeeally don't care... but still, why the hell'd you it? You a revolutionary?" The girl asks as she slowly starts to move her non-sniper bearing hand to where I put her box of gum.

"That's the thing- I can't remember. I woke up one day locked up in Vegahold Prison two weeks after... that happened to the island of Aprase. But the thing is, when I woke up that day I couldn't remember anything about my past from before then- and basically everything about this world. Well I mean except for a few things like foods and words but still... so, really I don't know why I did it. I'm hoping and betting that I was just being controlled... just please try to trust me when I say that I'm not actually evil or something. My purple haired friend has been having quite a few issues with that for a while now..." I respond back with a shaky sigh as I'm now feeling guilty again...

"Daaaaaamn... must be tough. I won't treat you any different for it, though I'll probably be just a liiiiiittle bit more careful around you anyways in case you really are lying. I like my skin after all... and my limbs." Amandeath says with a blank look on her face as she continues to slowly reach her arm back for her gum while glaring at me.

"Wha... oh. Wow. Haha, hilarious...
sure it "must be tough" for me yeah?" I respond back in a both an annoyed and amused tone.

"..." I stay quiet for a bit to think of my next question as Amandeath goes back to staring at the ceiling lazily as her glasses continue to act like two screens with blue lights filling the lenses of them... never thought about it until now but, suspicious...

"How do those glasses work anyways? Are they always on or do they uh... track your eyesight or something?" I ask while trying not to show my concern, I do want her to like me after all.

"Always on. I was forcibly exposed to a shitload of tech in the area when I was younger that my eyesight's garbage now... also cause of when I was a kid, some other kids... never mind. Where was I... ah so yep, they increase my eyesight by a whole bunch and let me use my snipers scope well- which also has pretty slick zooming features itself." Amandeath says as she glances away from me for once, with her face seeming to just barely look worried but it's too small of a change for me to confirm.

"Oh, I se-"

"Hey guys, look at this piece of scrap metal over here! He's got a- a fucking cape on!" I hear the rugged voice of a man laugh from outside innthe distance which makes me jump up from the chair I'm in.

"Stay put pals! Keep bonding and I'll turn these pieces of G.A.R.B.A.G.E. into unusable scrap in no time!" I hear Kimg Metallica shout passive-aggressively from right outside the door, and his loud metal slamming onto the floor a second later.

"...Was he listening in on us?" I wonder to myself with a bit of a scrunched up face...

"Haha... well, he should be able to deal with-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHH!!" I'm interrupted by the sound of a terrified scream.

"...Wooooooow. Even I can't get people to scream that loud... guess my Blessing's too crappy, except for my entrances I guess." Amandeath says with her mouth forming a small 'O'.

"Oh, speaking of your Blessing. What is it anyways?... Oh! If you're not comfortable with saying it yet that's fine too." I say as I catch my mistake and quickly sit back down.

"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU SO- GUAH!!" Another man yells from outside as I hear the sound of something crashing through rock- or probably brick a second later.

"Hm... eh, whatever. You would have killed me already if you wanted to... you know anything about physics?" Amandeath asks.

"Uh... yeah, yeah a bit. Why?" I ask with a slightly confused face.

"When any thing in this world touches another thing, "action forces" happen... so if I punched you- which I won't... that would be my action force that hits you. But, in that scenario you... kinda hit me back, 'cause for every action force there's an equal reaction force right in the exact opposite direction. Like recoil on a gun. Get it?" Amandeath asks as her hand finally reaches her packet of gum.

"PLEASE WAIT-" I hear another more scrawny voice yell, and a second later something slamming into a hard surface which makes me squint my eyes in guilt.

"...Yeah, I do. Makes sense." I respond, feeling like I already knew a bit about this... and also being uncomfortable with King Metallica slaughtering people outside of course.

"Well... my Blessing gets rid of that second part of the force example entirely. I can cause a niiiice action force, but I can make it so that there's no reaction force at all that hits me back. So... using the first scenario, if I punched you, I wouldn't get that reaction force from hitting you. Or from a brick wall... Oh right, and I turn the reaction force into action force- so anytime I use my Blessing the action force I cause gets doubled... so basically it amplifies my hits." Amandeath gives a lengthy explanation as she slowly pulls the box of gum towards herself.

"Ok... so. Hm... oh is that why your sniper has no recoil?" I ask as I try to put two and two together.

"Bingo. I made it so that the barrel can withstand double the force it normally would for the bullets I use for that exact reason..."

"Hey c'mere pals, its time to loot the bodies! This guys got a few Herin on him!" King Metallica shouts from outside, which I'm about to retaliate against... but then realize how poor we are.

"Nice!" I reply.

A/N: Amandeath's character is finally explained, along with what her Blessing truly does!

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