1.10 Brothers

Gerald being back home was in his training room, his body exposed and covered in sweat, and due to some weird movements his body grew hotter.

His eyes were closed during the strange movements, and with huge amount of concentration, he was revolving the spirit qi through his body’s meridians.

With every complete circle, Gerald’s body grew hotter and faint traces of lightning danced through his body. It was the chaotic fire that he practiced.

His movements got faster with the temperature in the room increasing, the lightning grew thicker and started to discharge from his body outward, wherever the lightning fell the land was burned and heated to the point of sundering the leaded floor.

Control… Contain the lightning in the body! Gerald being a new Master stage expert couldn’t control his ability thoroughly, it was unsafe for him to use it when fighting with others, as other people could also be hurt due to his lightning type fire. So his parents build a special room with lead in the walls, to contain the heat.

When he was a hunter, the lightning was just a passive ability, without physical contact his electricity was useless. But now if he tried using the lightning, it start throwing itself to the closest targets, he couldn’t control who to attack.

It continued for some time, but seeing no progress he stopped.

Looking at the temperature of the room he was dissatisfied. “Only 450 degree Celsius! It has dropped than the previously 460 degree.”

Gerald was breathing deeply, the oxygen in the room was burned to the extent that the ventilation can’t keep up with it. It will take at least half a minute for the oxygen to be restored in the room.

Thinking that his training was enough, Gerald opened the tightly shut door, and exited the room. As the door opened, the hot air blasted through the room and in the face of an old man who stood in front of Gerald, with a towel in hand.

The old man wore the common uniform of a butler and had a refined aura around him, he didn’t flinched when the hot air blasted on his face, signifying that he was really used to this.

“Master Gerald, you should consider marriage now, you are at the ripe age now and the lord is looking for heir.”

“Did father asked you to say this?”

The butler just nodded with a smile. He was someone who has seen Gerald grow up from a baby to a master stage expert, he also wanted Gerald’s happiness.

“Well! I will marry when I have time, for now I want to focus on cultivating this body mine!”

Wiping away the sweat, he stared at the old butler, the expression of the butler was uneasy and seemed to be wanted to say something, but just couldn’t put it in words.

“Just speak uncle! You don’t need to be so formal with me!” feeling the uneasiness of the butler in front of him, Gerald thought to give the old man a little push.

“For the last week, the young master seemed to be grumpy. Whenever he come from that god forsaken place, he will have annoyed expression, and in the last 2 days, I noticed some injuries surface on his body, though he hides them, but being close to the young master from birth, I can see his injuries from the way he moved.”

Gerald started thinking about his young brother. Titus from birth had a minor illness which plagued his body, and only 2 years ago did his body recover and he climbed the heights of human rank in those 2 years.

“Probably some guy keeps beating him again and again, injuring his pride.” The pride Gerald talked about was his brother achieving peak Human stage in just 2 years, Titus seemed to be gifted in fighting, from the day he started to practice, he was never beaten by anyone in the same stage as he was and his improvement rate was even faster than the genius of the big families.

“I tried to talk to him, but young master just pouts his mouth like a little child and ignores me, it would be good if he replies, but now he just spends his time in the gym and doing math problems.”

“Ok! As I am also free today, so spending some time with him might cheer him up.” Agreeing to his butler’s suggestion, Gerald went inside the shower to get refreshed and wash away the oil and dirt that has settled on his skin.

He didn’t come to talk to me, guess! He is embarrassed about it.

*

Titus sat in his room, with his girly face and unruly hair and specs covering his eyes, he gave the impression of some nerd boy who was concentrated on doing his math problems. His room was filled with posters of demonic beast and cute demonic beast plushy dolls spread throughout the room.

If someone was to see the man known as Vulture now, they will all be confused and think that he was just an imposter, he stopped doing problems and drank spirit medicine from his cute chicken glass.

“Titus! You in?”

“Come in! Brother!”

Gerald entered the room, with a fluffy demonic dog doll.( or in short DDD or 3D)

Titus’s eyes went wide seeing the doll, he took the doll from his brother and placed it on the top of the shelf.

After settling down, Titus sat on the chair and questioned. “What is it brother?... I thought you were training.”

“Ah! I didn’t made any progress and I was free so I thought to spend some time with you!”

“And by the way… congratulations, you are one week away from becoming a hunter!”

“What’s the real reason you came brother?” Titus didn’t want to hear any excuses, he just wanted his brother to be straight.

“Old Ulcie was worried about you… and seeing you now, I think he was right.” Gerald too came straight to the point and continued. “You sure got grumpy for some reason, something happening in the arena Titus?”

Titus looked at his older brother for a while before answering. “Some guy in monkey mask keeps coming again and again to fight even after I broke his bones and sometimes humiliated him in the whole arena.”

Hearing that Titus has broken the other guy’s bones, Gerald was not surprised, but hearing that the guy keep coming each day even after being beaten to a pulp, Gerald was surprised.

Each day?

“Wait a minute, you fought a guy with broken bones through each day of the week…. How is he alive?” The arena was a brutal place, but they will still not allow people with broken body to participate, and how can a guy mend his bones in half a day?

“No! Each day he comes, his body is fixed and is even stronger than before. He is like a Zombie.” Then Putting down his specs on the table, he continued. “I have seen his face one time, the first time he came to fight, he didn’t look much older than me but the next day he came, he wore an odd mask!”

“And how do you know it’s the same guy?” His question was valid, as according to Titus, he had only seen the face of the man one time and maybe the man under the mask keeps changing only with the mask remaining the same.

“Yeah! Though his technique keeps improving each time, his fighting style never changes.”

Seeing the time on the watch he looked at Gerald again. “It’s already time! He will come today too, come with me.. look at him yourself.”

Titus went back in the closet and came back with his body covered in bandages, now he was not Titus but was Vulture from the underground arena, then he put on a jacket to hide his bandages also hiding his vulture identity.

“Brother! Will you come?”

Gerald though for a while, he was also intrigued about the guy Titus talked about he nodded and as Vulture, he also wore inconspicuous jacket and a hood to cover his face.

“But before going.. What is this guy’s name?”

Titus turning towards his brother replied.” He’s just a guy with monkey face and turd for moustache so toilet monkey he named himself.”

Gerald.”---“

*

It didn’t take long before they reached the arena, Gerald can see the crazy man shouting in madness seeing 2 people beat each other.

Instead of beat each other in the arena, these people should fight at the front lines.

“That’s the guy… I will be going in the waiting area, his fight will soon be over.”

Gerald turned around and looked at the next arena, a man with monkey mask was fighting a huge blurry man, and all of the attacks from the blurry man was easily dodged by the monkey man.

“This is that guy?”

He is good, but doesn’t look that much threatening considering Titus’s strength… why is Titus worried so much about him?

Soon the fight came to an end with Toilet Monkey winning the fight on an easy note.

Wait a minute, he only attacked at critical points of that man… where did he learn to fight like that?

As the next fight was in processing, Gerald looked at the other arena with the thought. So much wasted talent. Sigh!

It didn’t take long before Gerald can see Titus now Vulture standing in front of Monkey, he was banging his fist and the previous scholarly persona he had was all just disappeared, now he stood on the arena with his eyes on his prey like a vulture.

Let’s see how he good has he become? I haven’t seen him fight in the last 6 months. Though Gerald came to see the man his brother talked about, but still he didn’t believe what his brother said and was thinking that Titus was worrying for nothing.

But what he came to see was how good his brother has become in the last 6 months.

Soon their fight began, and unlike Gerald expectations, it was Monkey who launched the first attack while kicking at Vulture’s leg, which was timely dodged by Titus by jumping in the air.

His speed increased!... but this monkey guy is not bad too.

He was elated to see his brother progress. The fight continued for a while, most of the time it was Titus who landed an attack, but occasionally Monkey will also hit his body.

Gerald can see his brother getting restless with each hit his body took. What are you doing you stupid Titus?... you said you could easily break his bones..

Monkey was fighting like a monkey, he tried to dodge Titus’s attacks but was hit regularly, and when Titus took Monkey in a hold and broke his leg, Gerald thought the fight may be over now, but Monkey got up and limping in one leg fought Titus.

This guy got endurance, but he not attacking the critical points like he previously did…Why? The same thought appeared in Gerald’s mind that had appeared in Titus’s. “He’s looking down on my brother… that’s why Titus is angry.”

Coming to an understanding, Gerald saw the fight get more intense with the monkey throwing much fiercer attacks like a cornered animal, and Titus could only stop the attacks mid-way and keep on defending not having a chance of attacking again.

So that’s what he meant by improving at a rapid pace, this guy has researched Titus’s moved thoroughly, that’s why he is showing this much strength than when fighting with the previous guy.

The match continued for 15 minutes with Vulture winning again.

“Vulture is really unstoppable, he has not lost even one match.”

“But this guy Toilet is a monster, he is improving at a faster rate and he always gets his body fixed the next day… maybe he is some rich guy from an aristocratic household… able to afford wondrous medicine that can fix him in one day.”

“Nah! If he was someone like that.. why would he come to a place like this?”

By their side Gerald heard the crowd comments and assessment, for some part he agreed with them. that can fix him in one day.”

“Nah! If he was someone like that.. why would he come to a place like this?”

By their side Gerald heard the crowd comments and assessment, for some part he agreed with them. Maybe! He is like Titus coming here to gain experience, but unlike Titus who cultivates his mind without taking any medicine, this guys just wants to fight.

After some more continuous fights Vulture retired from the arena and met up with his brother.

“I guess he is someone like you!.. but more rich!”

“There are only 3 people richer than us in this city… and I can’t see him having one of them at his backing.”

The 2 talked for a while before going back to their home.

*

“Why did I had a feeling that I was watched by an actual vulture from the spectator seat?” Why going home limping, Sura thought for a while, the last 1 week was very profitable to Sura, though his body was broken each day, but the strength of his body has increased by a lot too.

“And I even hit that Vulture guy 16 times today…” The man possessing me, if you are listening.. Teach me some new moves, these are getting old… and no more dreams of my ass being sodomized by fat men.

For the last week, he has seen himself getting raped by multiple men in 2 of the dreams, Sura didn’t know what kind of life that men led, but remembering the first time he fought he punched the people in the crotch, he understood why the man taught him that.

He is scared of dicks.