I Got A Title: Lord Of The Time!-Chapter 97: Nal and Lin

"Who are you?! Don’t interfere! This is none of your business!" the girl said to Lin with obvious anger in her voice and slowly stood up, holding the cut part of her stomach.

"Aargh!"

She looked at the floor and suddenly began coughing up blood, feeling a strong pain that was hard for her to describe.

Lin smiled slightly at the girl’s words, then pointed at Tis and said:

"Tis is my good friend. How could I leave him when he’s being beaten?"

"What? Friend? Argh!" the girl scattered even more of her red blood everywhere and fell down, having no strength to do anything. She raised her head and looked at Tis, who showed confusion on his face.

Realizing everything immediately, the girl hit the floor with her fist, ignoring the pain, and shouted at Lin:

"You all piss me off so much!!! Damn bastards who appear right when I almost manage to get that little brat! That bastard — Nal! And you, whom I see for the first time! Just die in some sewer and disappear from this world!!"

That loud, hate-filled scream drew everyone’s attention. Everyone looked toward the shout and saw a teenage girl bleeding heavily and staring at Tis with murderous intent.

"Ha-ha. Ha-ha-ha!" Lin laughed at the girl’s outburst and ran toward her, holding a dagger in his hands, always ready to use it!

The girl snorted coldly and somehow stood up. Standing rather awkwardly, she looked at Lin and was already prepared to take his attacks!

"Show me everything you can do, bastard!"

Lin smiled and had already envisioned various defensive options the girl might use. But to his surprise, when he quickly approached her, instead of defending herself from his dagger attack, she threw it toward Tis!

"What?" Lin quickly stabbed the girl in the stomach again, but from his face, it was clear he wasn’t happy about it.

Whoosh!

The dagger flew several meters and stuck perfectly straight into Tis’s neck!

"Argh!" Tis didn’t even have time to understand anything; he tried to grab the dagger lodged in his neck and successfully did.

"Aargh! P-pain..."

Tis quickly pulled the dagger out of his neck and felt an incredible cold, as if a refrigerator had appeared inside him, starting to freeze everything!

"Ha-ha-ha! Ha-ha-ha-ha!" the girl laughed madly when she saw Tis’s condition and loudly said:

"I got my revenge! I got my revenge! Sister! I avenged you! Be at peace in heaven, I’ll join you soon!" the girl looked up and awaited death.

Lin’s face twisted; he realized that the plan he had devised hadn’t worked!

"Damn! I underestimated this girl too much..."

He snorted coldly and quickly approached Tis, starting to act as if they had known each other for a long time.

"Aa... P-pain..." Tis coughed blood and cried at the same time, trying to understand what was happening to him.

Watching Tis, Lin suddenly felt that he saw himself.

"I avenged you... She died."

Tis looked at Lin’s face and began to cry even harder, trying to say something:

"M... Mom!.. I want to go to her! P-please... Mom!.. I don’t want to die... Mom... I don’t want to die. I want to go to Mom... Please!.. Please. Please... Plea-" Tis’s gaze faded, his eyes fixed on one point, indicating that he had died.

Tis was dead.

Lin sat silently and looked at Tis’s body. In his heart, he felt a sharp sting, as if he had been pierced by the sharpest needle. He slowly closed Tis’s eyes and silently stood up.

"Death is inevitable for everyone... Some understand this, others consider it an obvious statement that doesn’t need proof. But when a person sees another person’s death, begging for just one more moment of life, they realize that the scariest thing is not death — it’s the emotions that arise in those last moments..."

Lin sighed and looked to the side, seeing Nal, completely covered in blood, walking toward him with distrust in his eyes.

"Tis..." he muttered quietly and walked past Lin, looking at the dead child’s body.

"I wasn’t fast enough to catch the flying dagger in his neck," Lin said slowly, not looking at Nal.

Nal clenched his teeth tightly, producing a faint grinding sound. He looked at the girl’s body, which had died with a smile on her face, and felt immense anger!

"That damn bitch... I should have killed her back then..."

Lin silently observed Nal’s reaction and took no action.

"Thank you... Thank you for trying to save him... I saw everything, I saw your efforts to save him... But unfortunately, you didn’t succeed," Nal sighed and slowly picked up Tis’s body.

He slowly walked toward the corner of the arena, saying along the way:

"He didn’t deserve this. Tis was an ordinary little boy who was interested in games. I was interested in them too, which is why I started talking to him often... Ha-ha. For a while, I even thought he was my younger brother..."

"Why didn’t you protect him from the beginning?" Lin asked a question he had wanted to ask for a long time.

"He would have been a burden. Jason and his friends were ready to do anything to show their superiority. They would have used Tis as a victim and forced me to do what was beneficial to them because I took him in. I hoped that my intimidation would somehow show people that Tis couldn’t be touched, but I was wrong," Nal shook his head and sighed.

"What’s your name?" he suddenly asked.

"Lin."

"Lin? Ha-ha... Not a bad name. I guess your parents took a long time to choose it?"

Lin shrugged and replied:

"I don’t know. Maybe they really did take a long time to choose it, or maybe not."

Nal smiled, shook his head, and said: 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚

"My grandfather named me. I never saw my parents because they died, so my grandfather took care of me..."

Lin quietly listened to Nal’s story, sometimes asking questions:

"Did he die?"

Nal somehow forced a smile, although in his eyes one could see endless longing and pain.

"Yes. He died. Two years ago, when I was fourteen, he died. Then people from the bank came because it turned out we had debts — they took everything, leaving me with nothing."

"Ha-ha... Then I survived... I hoped that a miracle would come, and I would get some Title. But fate turned away from me..."

"You didn’t get a Title?"

Nal nodded and felt a tear slowly run down his cheek.

"In any case, life goes on. There’s no point dwelling on the past."

Lin nodded and sat with Nal in the corner of the arena.

"Let’s team up," Lin suggested.

"You finally said it."

"Hm? You knew?" Lin looked at Nal in surprise, which made him laugh.

"Of course I knew everything. Your face said it when you looked at Tis and that girl."

"Then why didn’t you kill me?"

"Should I have? Your face after Tis’s death wasn’t important. I realized that your desire to gain my trust suddenly disappeared."

Lin smiled slightly and asked:

"So, you still agree?"

Nal nodded and replied:

"Of course, Lin!"