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7. Battle Time

"Batter!" you called out to the man, taking a quick glance at the stats your are only able to see, told you he is fine. Mostly. "Think you can hold out a little longer?" you ask worryingly.

"That was but a scratch." he smirks.

"Alright, let's attack the three of us." you says.

Coordinating your team is easier than you thought since you understand how the think and work. Batter is aggressive, he aims directly for the blow he believes is the weakest while Zacharie takes a moment to figure out how to imbalance a target, attacking multiple spots at once.

Because you and Zacharie don't have weapons you two resorted to using your fists, but where Zacharie had extra damage because of the weight of his backpack, you had nothing.

Your fist didn't do significant damage when it landed on the Rabbit King's face. The proximity allowed it to slash at your stomach, sending you tumbling back.

Status: Paralyzed.

Both add ons cried your name in worry, you internally started to panic the second you couldn't move your extremities. But the music kept playing inside your head, the battle must go on, so for both yours and your teams sake, you tried to keep yourself steady.

"Don't let it distract you I'll be fine in a few turns!" you warned both men, reminding them of the battle in hand. "Batter, keep using plastic competences and Zacharie, keep attacking like you did before. Everyone has an hp that goes to 0 at some point!"

You gulp. Processing your own words.

'Even mine..'

By the time you could feel your body again, Batter landed the finishing blow to the rabbit king. Leaving behind a mush of flesh, credits, a silver flesh and the typical experience points. But now that you can actually see them, they manifested themselves as small blinking lights (like fireflies) flying straight into the three of you.

Zacharie was the first to run towards you, helping you stand to your feet.

"(y/n) are you alright?"

"Yeah I'm fine... Just feeling really tired." you try to resist the urge to yawn. "Let me see how you guys are doing."

Despite your state you checked the party's stats.

Batter is the one who went through the most damage, having a 2/4 of his hp down while Zacharie was thriving with a 4/4 of his hp intact. Yours however, was a low 1/4.

"You don't look fine to me." Batter noticed. He suddenly picked you up bridal style, jogging in a light pace towards the floating square you two started on.

"Where are you going? The building is over there, we need to head there to continue our journey!" you raised your voice in confusion.

But Batter stayed strict and firm, hearing how agitated he really was. "We need to take you to the save point to recover health."

Zacharie was following behind, unable to keep up with Batter's legs, for every step he took Zacharie had to take 20. "He's right, we can't continue if our leader is down. Well, we could if we drag you around... but you know what I mean." Zach agreed.

Batter slowed his pace once the save point came to view, lowering you to your feet so you could interact with the floating block.

Health and Competence Recovered.

The familiar message flashed before your eyes.

You checked your add ons stats again, fortunately finding them at their max health. A ghost of a smile graced your lips until you noticed your own health bar once more, still at 1/4.

"It didn't work." you admit solemnly.

Batter didn't outward say it but you could see the way he held a tight grip on his bat. He's worried, both of them are.

However Zacharie reacted in a different way, he dug through his backpack pulling out a handful of luck tickets. "It's no biggie, with one of this babies you'll be at full health in no time." the Masked Man said hopefully. He approached you with one of the tickets, ripping it on your chest and waiting for it to do it's magic.

You checked your stats once more to see nothing has changed. You didn't have the guts to tell him so you simply shook your head.

Zacharie remained quiet. "That one was probably defective, let me try again." he ripped another luck ticket on your chest, letting the white sparks land on your body without any avail.

"Zach stop, you'll just waste them." you told the man.

You turned around to look back at the floating red block, unlike the yellow ones these take you back to the nothingness. To your room.

Your raised your monochrome hand, admiring how much you contrasted with this colorful world. How it's rules don't apply to you.

Maybe I'm the issue?

"How about I rest a little at my room?" you comment.

"It's worth a try." Zacharie looked back at Batter.

"At least you'll be safe there." The Batter nods.