Flourishing white particles instantaneously materialized in the middle of the abrasive forest on the empty island miles away. The island was miles away from the island where Lambarotz prison rested. The particles kept growing until they polymerized into a giant cocoon floating in the air.
The cocoon vomited out the inmate, Kelkanda, and he dropped onto the ground, gasping for air as a petrified shock poured down his face. The Inmate fixated, turned around, and witnessed the cocoon diminish its presence, unfolding Casmine, who smoothly landed in a steady standing position.
"Wow, such an unexpected thing happened to me," Kelkanda uttered, exposing his intrigued grin toward The Supermodel Succubus.
"Being rescued by a gorgeous young lady," Kelkanda flirted, giving a gentle bow to his rescuer. "A dream that finally becomes real."
Casmine panted and heaved her eyes, "And I was surprised that you acted 180 degrees different with your alter ego's personality, Kelkanda."
"Or should I say, Omnugorg, The Slayer of Non-Human Being," Casmine remarked, gazing at The Inmate pinching his collar.
"Also, I bet you knew that I am not a human too especially with your enhanced nose already detecting it" The Supermodel Succubus guessed, taking one step closer at Kelkanda who persistently locked his roused expression at her.
Kelkanda simpered, "To be fair, I didn't care if you were a human or another being."
"As long as you looked stunning, I wouldn't mind trying," The Inmate teased, sniffing and feeling his nose vibrating. "Besides, my human-hating demeanor is only a good gimmick as a bounty hunter."
Casmine whistled in fascination, "Then, you set the higher price for your client when the bounty target is a non-human being right?"
"Indeed," Kelkanda answered, tapping his finger to the collar and grinning.
"By the way, can you help me remove this annoying collar, gorgeous one?" The Inmate requested.
Casmine rolled her eyes and groaned, "Fine, fine."
"This might be a little hurtful unless you are a masochist too," Casmine whispered vivaciously.
Kelkanda grinned, "Alright, bring it on then."
The Supermodel Succubus hurriedly dashed closer to Kelkanda, faster than the blink of an eye as he painted a startled look. She grabbed The Inmate's collar, bestrewing a white particle. Some of the particles even intruded on his neck's inside as The Inmate coughed heavily, feeling his legs tremoring.
Kelkanda felt his body was spiked by hundreds of needles, especially when his limbs staggered, whimpering in gut-wrenching pain. Gawking at The Inmate who raised his scream , Casmine extracted a slimy-like white cloud from her shackling grip on the collar.
The slimy cloud imminently phased into Kelkanda's neck like a ghost, speedily venturing into his inside. As the small cloud reached his brain, a pyramid-shaped black ship planted on the center and liberated a vibrating red mist. The mist's hefty force concealed the small cloud's movement as it was immobilized.
The immobilizing effect was short as the slimy cloud flickered the wild white light ray and began to fly forward. The cloud hastily catapulted by firing the pale white flare on its back, tackling the chip. One strike of the cloud incinerated the chip into smithereens, leaving no visible remains.
Hence, The Supermodel Succubus yanked her grip and the collar tore apart into uncountable pieces, pouring to the ground below. At first, Kelkanda gasped in exhaustion after feeling his body no longer shaking, holding his throat. Then, navy blue energy flow surged on his back, grasping a refreshment as he locked his haughty grin at Casmine.
"Thanks for removing the disruptor collar and its chip," Kelkanda shared his gratitude toward The Supermodel Succubus, generating radiating vines on his wrist and flipping his hand to the right
Kelkanda coughed and blurted out a question, "I forgot to ask this one important question, what is your purpose in rescuing me, gorgeous lady?"
"Ah, it's related to a bounty," Casmine said placidly, plucking a glimmering white phone from her pants and tossing it to The Inmate.
Kelkanda promptly caught the phone, painting a delighted expression when he pondered on the screen. He overturned his phone before walking closer toward The Supermodel Succubus, sharpening his fascinated eyebrows and pinching his chin. Casmine crossed her arms, peeking at the bluish vine on The Inmate.
"About the bounty, who is your main target now?" Kelkanda asked, painting his exhilarated smirk.
The Supermodel Succubus prodded her chin and hummed, "Oh…it will be your favorite one."
"That wretch, Morgozoid, isn't it?" The Inmate guessed, swinging his energized vine to the right and dispersing the vine from roaming around.
Casmine nodded and cleared her throat, "Very much correct. The one who imprisoned you, Omnugorg."
"However, I'm still curious why you could be cynical and misanthropic to a non-human being when you used an alter ego, but now you showed some strong desire for me?" The Supermodel Succubus argued.
"I will ask this again, curious man. You know I am not even a human in the first place?" Casmine taunted.
The Inmate spun his finger and answered, "The non-human hating personality is the only act to make the bounty show more intense."
"I killed a lot of humans too before," Kelkanda admitted, drawing his finger to mark the sky and shimmering the growing bluish particles.
"The only reason I chose alien or magical beings is only to have a better payment," The Inmate clarified.
Casmine whistled and heaved her interested expression, "Very interesting argument."
"You're indeed a quite good businessman," The Supermodel Succubus praised, approaching Kelkanda who snickered.
The Inmate set his glimmering finger to Casmine and closed one of his eyes, "By the way if you wanted me to exterminate The Morgozoid, I would raise the price to 60 billion."
"Sorry if it's too expensive, gorgeous one. Hunting him can be so challenging, especially with his good coordination skill," Kelkanda gave an apology, resting his glimmering finger downward.
"Very expensive, I see," Casmine said, clutching her chin and centering her emancipative stare at The Inmate.
"How about 45 billion? is it possible, handsome?" The Supermodel Succubus proposed, landing her finger on Kelkanda's shoulder and spinning it.
Kelkanda was riveted deeply by The Supermodel Succubus's stunning look, attracting him to clasp her hand. She shone her enraptured look at The Inmate who set his focus on her only, bursting a high-pitched giggle. Even the glimmering energy on his finger dispersed from The Inmate when he fondled her wrist
"Sadly, I couldn't increase the price, gorgeous one," Kelkanda rebutted, pushing his head closer to her right ear.
"Unless you gave me a most satisfying service tonight," The Inmate whispered, swiftly retreating his neck. "Then, I will make it free."
Casmine laughed and shook her head, "Interesting offer."
"Before we proceed…." The Supermodel Succubus didn't finish her sentence as Kelkanda dropped his capturing jaw, luring her to grasp the back of his neck and lean her head beside his left air.
"Unfortunately, I already have a lovely partner," Casmine confessed in a low, yet soothing voice.
"However, if you didn't care, then let's do it now," The Supermodel Succubus provoked.
The Inmate gasped in stinging shock, hurriedly pulling his hand that clutched Casmine and took a few steps back. A bewildered frown shrouded The Supermodel Succubus, observing Kelkanda who closed his eyes shortly and blared a disappointed grunt. He also scratched his left arm, which abruptly shivered.
"Even though I loved having a service with gorgeous women, sadly, I prefer the ones who are still single," Kelkanda mentioned.
The Supermodel Succubus chortled, "A playboy man who didn't like to engage in cheating, unexpected, yet impressive."
"I have a code in terms of picking the right woman to be played," Kelkanda affirmed, showing his jaunty smirk.
Kelkanda chirped "And you're correct. I never wanted to be involved in a cheating, gorgeous one."
Casmine groaned and argued, "Which means the bounty payment is still not free despite I already rescued you."
"Sorry babe, payment is much more important than sharing gratitude," The Inmate uttered mirthfully.
"Then, look like I have no choice to call my supposed lover," Casmine announced, expressing her sinister grin toward The Inmate who imminently latched a rigid eyebrows at her.
"To make a better negotiation with you, handsome," Casmine added, releasing a high-pitched giggle.
She quickly poked her chest and radiated a fizzing blue flash, broadcasting its presence in a circle. Then, the blue flash shrunk into nothing, initiating a tiny sun-orange volley to fly out from The Supermodel Succubus. Kelkanda raised his cautious eyebrows toward the volley that flexibly lengthened itself like clay.
The clay-like volley transformed into an orange humanoid levitating in the sky, extending its arms like a person enjoying the dawn sun's lukewarm heat. The humanoid thrust its feet to land on the ground, clapping its glimmering hands steadily. Small blinding rays leased from its hands, scorching Kelkanda's eyes as he hurriedly drew his blocking arm.
Nonetheless, the rays ceased from the naked eye faster than a split second, spawning Pendoswing who stood brazenly. Kelkanda withdrew his arm from shielding his eyes after no longer enduring the scorching heat. An appalled expression loomed on The Inmate's face as he witnessed a two-foot-tall figure's abrupt appearance.
"No way….y-y-y…" Kelkanda couldn't finish his word as The Reincarnated Cosmic Being set his captivated sight at him.
"Pendoswing," Pendoswing uttered confidently, floating to The Frightened Inmate. "In the flesh."
"And you must be another interesting candidate?" The Reincarnated Cosmic Being guessed avidly.
Gazing at the active aura on The Reincarnated Cosmic Being's back only flared a frown of trepidation on Kelkanda's face. Dreaded sweats flooded The Inmate's neck and his heart suddenly beat faster forcing him to cover his chest, similar to a person who's been running for a long time.
Despite the intruded trepidation corrupting his thoughts, The Inmate cast string-like bluish rays inside his eyes. His heartbeat went to a slower pace as the ray increased its brightness, sensing a chilling refreshment. Therefore, Kelkanda centered his watchful stare on the two-foot-tall figure.
Kelkanda winced, "Candidate? What did you mean?"
"Long story short, Casmine already recruited other criminals for one of my great projects," The Reincarnated Cosmic Being explained, wrapping his tapping fingers and shimmering more gleams within his eyes.
"I see, a candidate for your twisted game," Kelkanda spoke, nodding and chirping. "Like I said before, you needed to pay me 600 billion for hunting The Wretched Morgozoid, gorgeous lady."
"I can do that with my cosmic power," Pendoswing replied boldly, raising his fingers that surged the binding orange ropes.
The Inmate gasped, "Wait, how you could do it?"
"First, give me your payment device and I will give the proper demonstration," The Reincarnated Cosmic Being insisted.
"Fine, fine," Kelkanda bittered, propelling his holographic phone toward The Reincarnated Cosmic Being.
Pendoswing pushed his rope-binding finger to neatly land on the phone screen, soaring a small flame. The rope reduced into bestrewing ashes when The Reincarnated Cosmic Being lifted his finger away, alerting Kelkanda to withdraw his phone and darting his focus to the screen.
A bizarre phenomenon abruptly arrived within Kelkanda's eyes when his phone's screen showed a white notification box in the center that stated, "You Have Received a 60 Billion Glorilar". The Inmate puffed in oddness, repeatedly staring his sight from the phone to Pendoswing.
"What…the hell? How you can do it?" Kelkanda asked frantically, shaking his head in defiance. "Is this some kind of reality-warping power?"
Pendoswing laughed distortedly and answered, "Nice and correct guessing. It's one of my cosmic abilities, a small reality warping."
"However, I rarely use this reality-changing power," Pendoswing stated. "Because I have few more powerful tricks."
"Damn, damn, you're truly one of the most bizarre otherworldly beings I ever met," The Inmate bickered, closing his lip and rotating his uncertain sight at Pendoswing. "Even more unexpected you decided to pay it now instead of after claiming the bounty."
"To make you more satisfied," The Reincarnated Cosmic Being clarified.
Kelkanda nervously cackled, "Then I have to say, thank you very much for the large payment."
"Although it still doesn't make sense to me regarding how you pay it, I'm pleased to have the money earlier," The Inmate shared his gratitude.
"Then, the payment deal is settled, right?" Pendoswing asked, offering his open hand to The Inmate.
"Very much, yes, bizarre cosmic being," The Inmate confirmed, accepting his hand and shaking it.
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