Chapter 125 In every world I am the hound
Three days had passed since the arrival of Esong's grandparents and in a twisted turn of events that she could not fathom, Esong had not touched her since then. In public everything was fine, he would smile and act as if they really close but behind close doors he seemed to be distant. Scarlet could not even guess what had possibly occurred to bring on such a change. She did not like it one bit!!!
This same reason was why on the first day of her fight in the underworld she was distracted by unnecessary thoughts which Severus described as 'tedious and silly.'
"I chose a day on which the crowd will be smaller and your nerves would be calmer and yet you are ruining my efforts by cluttering your mind with irrelevant thoughts, if you don't concentrate we are both going to be humiliated." He chose a Monday, the irony of the fact that days of the week in the human world also affected the affairs of the underworld realm was completely funny to her. Grim reapers were lazier on Mondays not because they went out partying or having fun over the weekend but because weekends were hectic for them, more people died on the weekend than other days of the week. Scarlet could understand this easily because the most common accidents like drunk driving and drowning happened over the weekend. For this reason Monday was a rest day in their world, not many souls were delivered, even most soul registrars took breaks on Monday.
"I am ready for the fight, I also have no intention of being humiliated." She was sitting in the small in the small crowd of about fifty reapers waiting for her name to be called. Just as she had named herself the hound in the human world, so had she done here in the underworld. Her soul pet was hell hound, he was her partner and trainer so in each and every world, she would be the hound. Severus never said anything about the name but she could tell from the way he looked, he was proud that she chose it.
The pair which was fighting in the ring concluded, with one male reaper gaining a victory over the other.
"Scarlet the hound." a bored announcer called.
"Here." she stood up with her hand raised and announced her presence.
"You are facing off against Callistus."
She covered her hair with her robe and she was transported into the ring where Callistus a young female reaper with a charming smile was waiting for her.
"What weapons do you wield?" the announcer asked.
Scarlet produced her whips and Callistus produced a large hammer.
"Great, another smasher." the?announcer said in a very displeased tone. "Try not to break the shields."
There was no applause in this realm, unlike the human world where everyone gathered for her first fight. In the underworld most reapers only cared when you climbed up and entered the top one hundred. Over five thousand grim reapers were on the leader board, no one had time to attend and applaud everyone's fight.
Despite this however there was some interest in Scarlet because she was the only other grim reaper that had a hell hound as a soul pet. The scuffle between her and Ulysses had been shared on the underworld forum. Many were interested in knowing why the hound had picked her of all reapers to sign a contract with.
"Take it easy on me newbie." Callistus said.
"I am afraid my partner won't let me." Scarlet pointed to Severus.
"Then I wish you luck newbie." Callistus saluted playfully, a bell rung and the fight started.
Straight up, power punches and kicked were released from both sides, each doing their best to avoid to avoid getting hit by the other. Unlike the human world, here she did not hold back at all because they were both fighting with soul energy.
As they were both level two soul cultivators, they were quite matched in strength levels but Scarlet beat Callistus in speed. This is how she was able to land two hits on Callistus which sent her flying. Callistus sent out her hammer and Scarlet dodged it by bending so low and sliding as if she was playing a game of limbo. The hammer narrowly missed her hitting her head.
"The newbie has some skill." someone commented.
"She should watch out for the hammer though, that thing hit me once and my bones ached for an entire week."
When she raised her body, she directly went into a spin throwing her whips out to trap Callistus's hands. She was also dodging the hammer which would cause the ring to vibrate evrytime it hit the ground.?It looked like wood but it sounded like steel.
"Give up newbie." Callistus taunted Scarlet.
"Never." Scarlet responded and used her energy to send the hammer flying when Callistus raised her hand to grab it, Scarlet trapped her hands with her whips and they entangled Callistus. They coiled around her like a python squeezing hard and suffocating her as Scarlet controlled them. They had the ability to make one feel as if their life was being squeezed out of them.
"Wow."
"Oh my God!!"
"That's new, where did she get the whips."
"Could my thinking be correct if I assume that she went to him?"
"Who?" a reaper asked.
"The favor." another reaper said.
"No way." his neighbor said, "Only a crazy person would take on that deal."
"Or a crazy one."
Even though they were still arguing about it, someone put the rumor out there on the forum. In the ring meanwhile, Callistus surrendered by saying the words, "I yield." and Scarlet released her from the whips.
There was no pomp, raising of her hand or loud celebratory declaration of her victory, just the five second clapping of a few reapers here and there. On the leaderboard Scarlet's name appeared in position Four thousand fifty two.?It would have been accomplishment elsewhere to go from zero to that position but only low level cultivators hovered in those positions so no one really cared. She was just like the rest of them.
"Great job." Severus said when she came down from the stage.?"For one small second there I thought that hammer would take you out."
"What you said about speed was right Severus, I should work harder." she responded.
"We have time, in five years you will be untouchable. I this mighty lord will make you number one on the leaderboard."
"I know," she replied confidently. "Let's deliver our souls and get out of here, I have to drive my son to school in the morning. By the way, you have not gone hunting in the forest for a while now, I have spoiled you by feeding you only store bought meat."
"Just tell me that you want me to find you new edible animals." he replied in a sarcastic tone. He had also learned how to roll his eyes from her so he added that.
"We will both eat better when have a variety of things to choose from." she reminded him.
As they were walking away, a figure walked out of the coliseum and took the hood of her black robe which was turning red down. This was Lythia, the leader of the guardian reapers.
"Why did we come to watch her leader?" the reaper on her left hand asked.
"Because, Severus does not do anything without a reason, if he chose that girl then she must be special in some way. I intend to have her join us, I will not lose this one to the warriors."
"If he is training her, we guardians might not stand a chance leader."?the reaper on the right side.
"No," Lythia smiled mysteriously, "We stand a chance, Severus has not even noticed the most obvious thing about her yet."
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