Sacrifice: Time of Mine

At the bar where Jemer was intending to celebrate, a "crime" was about to occur. From what he just heard, there are a lot of cases of these.

'It's not the Colosseum's job to know what crimes they have. Whoever the court placed in the Colosseum we don't question. I've been attending as a manager that I lost track of what's inside. Good thing that I have this chance now that someone was temporarily in charge of my position.'

Jemer thought while he watched the scene where his new friend, Raff was overseeing a potential despicable act.

When the snack was placed in front of the hooded person, he tapped his finger on the woman's cheek and said, "Marin, the food's here, aren't you hungry?"

Seeing the meal in front of the woman, saliva trickled down her mouth and raised her hand. However, before it even picked the fork, it dropped.

"... no energy left... used it on running... sob, I'm going to die..."

"You're not, you're not." the hooded man then took the fork himself and placed the food in front of her mouth, "Come on, just one bite and you will get a little bit of energy. Aaa~"

"... no... I can't... I'm going to die and it's all your fault..."

'This girl...' Avion, under the hood, had his eyebrow twitched, 'But it's not my fault, anyway, so I'm not going to say that if she got the energy to speak, she has the energy to eat.'

"Is the Great Marin just going to die from hunger? Isn't that too pathetic?" he said.

NOM*

'That was fast...' Avion patted her head and praised, "Good girl, good girl."

"De-delicious..." while chewing the food, tears rolled from Marin's eyes, "Sob... days without food... more!"

"Here, here." Avion smiled but inwardly he thought, 'Does this girl have two personalities? She kind of reminds me of Alisera now.'

Minutes passed and Marin was finally full after plenty of empty plates.

"Finally..." Marin retained her composure.

Avion peeked at her belly and saw that it was still flat and thin like before, 'Did the food directly became energy for her?' he just randomly guessed but he didn't know that it was what happened.

"Bartender?" Marin called while combing her messy hair.

"Y-yes?" the bartender replied with the face of 'Who is this girl?' because of how different Marin changed.

"Where's the restroom?"

"There"

Marin nodded and glanced at Avion before standing up and leaving the words, "Don't go anywhere."

Seeing her leave and enter the restroom, Avion heard from the buff man beside him.

"Excuse me... but what is your relationship with that girl?" Raff asked while trying not to be intimidating.

'Maybe I'm wrong on my suspicious...'

"I just met her earlier. I guess we're strangers who knew each other's names." Avion replied.

'Or maybe I'm right?' Raff's suspicion rose.

"If you mind me asking, what happened to her?"

Avion had a face of guilt and said, "Ah, I left her in a locked room for days..."

"Huh?" Raff, Jemer, and the bartender raised an eyebrow.

It took Avion a second before he realized, "Wait... that doesn't sound right... aren't you confused?"

"I am but I kind of get what happened." Raff nodded, 'You just said you met her earlier but you left her in a locked room for days... maybe it's an accident, and when he realized what he did he's now compensating it for her. That explains it.'

"You get it? Oh, that's good." Avion frowned, 'Maybe he also knows me. Up close, this hoody is useless, after all. However, even though I encountered a lot of people who recognized me that I have to hide my face, I'm very sure none of them know that I have control of time. Who is this guy? Very suspicious.'

Before they continue, Marin came out of the restroom as a brand new person. her gracefulness enticed every man and even woman there as she sat beside Avion.

'She's fast...' Avion thought but then, he noticed Marin's trembling hands, 'Did something happen? Even when she's feeble earlier, she wasn't trembling.'

"Avion, congratulations. For you to kill a goddess, I commend you. I will never forgot this." she whispered with a solemn gaze.

"W-what happened?" Avion's heart skipped a beat, 'Get straight to the point.'

Marin turned her head to him and glared, "I'm going to die and it's you who did it. You killed me, Avion Teller."

"Just tell me what happened!?" Avion whispered.

Marin looked around first and saw that many was staring at her. Being in her natural habitat, the center of attention, she relaxed and leaned forward to whisper onto Avion's ear.

"My pee is red." her hand trembled more.

"..." Avion was speechless.

Marin continued, "While I was peeing, it really hurts. Even now it hurts, furthermore, I had the strong urge to pee again even though I already released everything earlier. I am very sure of it, this is the sign of death. I am only telling you this because you have already seen my embarrassing state many times. Now, your mission is to call the Gods and tell them to bury me in the Highest Realm after I die."

Avion felt his head hurt from Marin's words. There were too much detail and he couldn't tell what's the lie and if this girl is really serious or not.

"Godkiller, isn't it a good title?" Marin then retreated and said with a sad smile, "However, be careful. After I'm gone, the heaven and earth will go for you since you had done something unforgivable by any existence..."

While Marin was having a monologue, Avion talked to Raff, "Hey, I don't know what Si-i is but since you sound incredible earlier when you said you can see its effect at first glance, I think you know this thing." he then said Marin's symptoms.

"Oh, she probably has an infection for holding her urine for too long. Holding it for days, huh, what an incredible endurance she has." Raff explained, proving Avion's guess was right.

"Lucky for you, I always have some spare of recovery pills. It will not directly fight the infections but it generally strengthen the body to fight the infection."