Storm of the abyss

”On one hand we have prisoner 321, a serial killer responsible for the death of more than 35 people in the last year! ” the announcer began by announcing to the prisoner that he was about 20 meters from Seth.

A serial killer? That kid? Seth was quite confused. The prisoner in front of him was no more than 15 years old, or so it seemed. The young teenager was around 1.60 meters tall and quite thin, looking very delicate like an innocent child who grew up in a healthy environment and had somehow tragically ended up here.

The boy had a knife in each hand as he hugged himself trembling. Seth couldn tell if the boy was shaking with fear or something else.

But one thing was for sure, the presenter was showing him as a serial killer. Maybe it was to create atmosphere or just to add more excitement to the fight.

”On the other side is prisoner 16, a young man with nothing to write home about except his ability to escape! ” the announcers voice echoed throughout the coliseum.

This son of a…, I understand what he means, but… It was true that Seth was good at escaping, but he had an excuse, and a person couldn face the baptized face to face, or so he thought.

”Im not sure who to bet on ”

”Prisoner 321 seems to be frail, but hes actually a murderer. ”

”Yes, on the other hand, the prisoner has nothing special ”

”Hes just a little taller and thats it ”

Seth was 1.75 meters tall, he wasn too tall, but if a normal person were asked who would win between Seth and the other prisoner without knowing his background, most would say Seth.

”I think Ill bet on prisoner 321 ”

”I also ”

”I trusted prisoner 16 ”

While all the spectators made their own bets before the fight started. Seth looked at the young man who was still trembling, and from time to time he looked at the crowd with teary eyes.

How did someone like him get to this place? Seth thought, feeling some compassion for the frightened young man.

”I hope everyone has placed their bets, because ladies and gentlemen, this match… begins now! ”

As Seth listened to the man announcing the start of the fight, the young prisoner began to slowly walk towards Seth with his head down and still trembling.

Seth watched as the young man approached and decided something in his mind.

Seth also approached the young man and raising his arm placed his hand on his shoulder.

”Hey, I don know how you got here, but I don think its necessary for us to fight each other. Maybe if either of us surrenders, we can get out of this place alive together. ”

Seth was not new to fights to the death, he had been surviving this way for several years. But fighting an innocent young man was too much for him.

And while he was willing to kill his opponent if it gave him another minute to live, he wasn going to do it by abandoning his values.

While Seth looked at the boy waiting for his words, he noticed how the boy moved one of his trembling arms and with the knife in his hand stabbed Seth in the abdomen.

”Wh-what? ” Seth quickly backed away from the boy as he kept pressure on his wound.

”Why would I waste this opportunity? The young man raised his head and looked at Seth pityingly.

”This is the best thing that could have happened to me. ” He raised the bloody knife in his hands and licked it.

”Its just delicious. A delicacy! ” The young man completely cleaned the knife with his tongue and looked at Seth again.

He seemed like someone completely different from the trembling young man from before.

”Its not the most delicious blood Ive tasted, but you can always have the best ” the young man seemed to be talking to himself as he nodded several times.

”Okay, I made up my mind ” the young man started walking towards Seth again while he pointed his knife at him. ”You will be my dinner today ”

The young man suddenly started running at full speed towards Seth as he laughed.

”HAHAHA! Come, and give me your blood! ”

Seth took his sword and went on guard. He had only held a sword a couple of times in his life, but he had to defend himself against the deranged young man who was coming fast at him.

The young man attacked with his knife from the front at full speed. Seth deflected the knife away from him with his sword and took a few steps back.

He groaned in pain from his wound, but pain was the least of his problems right now.

The young man continued his attack by attacking with both knives while Seth tried to defend himself from all his attacks, but without success.

When a minute had passed from the fight, several wounds could be seen on Seths body where the leather armor did not cover it.

Although the armor saved him from deadly attacks, Seth hadn even been able to hurt his opponent. No, he hadn even attacked him.

As they both caught their breath, Seth again tried to persuade his opponent.

”H-Hey, we can seriously talk about it, Ill give up. ” He didn even know if he could give up, but he couldn find the courage to face an opponent who seemed to be several years younger than him.

”¡JAJAJA! ” the young man didn even respond and charged again as he stuck out his tongue and saliva flowed from his open mouth. The young man was already completely insane and immersed in combat.

Fuck it taking a few steps forward, Seth decided to fight his opponent. It didn matter if he was a child, at least he wasn going to let them kill him so quickly and stupidly.

The young man attacked again from the front and Seth defended himself again. Neither of them had nearly any combat experience with bladed weapons.

The young man had killed many people who could never defend themselves, and Seth, although he had been in some street fights, they were only fist fights. And in the warehouse, it was the first time he had faced someone with weapons.

He managed to kill the thug that time, luckily and because he ambushed him in the dark, but this time it was different.

Tired of defending himself, Seth tried to attack his opponent the moment he stopped his attack.

The young man who had not stopped for a full minute began to get tired and seeing that his enemy did not succumb to his attacks, he began to get anxious.

Just when the young man stopped his attack for a second and took a step back, Seth swung his sword diagonally, aiming at his opponents arm.

The young man seeing the attack coming was shocked. It was the first time someone had attacked him. None of his victims had fought back as they never expected a frail-looking young man to attack them. Thats why he didn know how to react, and it was too late when Seths sword hit the upper part of his arm.

Seths sword failed to pierce the body of his arm thanks to the armor. But the blow broke the brittle bones of his arm making him cry out in pain.

”Aaahhhh! ” The young prisoner howled in pain as he dropped one of his knives and held onto his broken arm with the other.

”You! Damn you! ” The young man glared at Seth.

”Just get killed! ”

Seth just smiled nervously as he held the sword in both hands. His sword technique was just bad, no…it was non-existent.

Even if the young man had no armor and Seths blow had hit him, he surely wouldn have been able to cut off his arm either.

Its harder than it looks Focusing once more on his opponent, Seth concealed how tired he was thanks to the loss of blood and decided to quickly end the match once and for all.