[center][h1][color=AFEEEE][b]Sora[/b][/color][/h1][img]https://i.imgur.com/NadKhuX.png[/img]

《 Level 1 Tamer 》
[b]Location:[/b] Ruined Inn[/center][hr][hr]
Sora got the hit in. He [i]thought[/i] he might have gotten the brain, but he wasn’t sure. It felt down, but was that really it? Peering closely at it, Sora crouched down, ready to inspect it. [color=AFEEEE]“Don’t worry, we would have had to clear the cellar out soon anyhow,”[/color] he told the hammer lady. [color=AFEEEE]“But–”[/color]

Before he could say anything else, the thing picked itself up, and turned to [i]face him[/i]. Sora’s eyes widened, and he jumped away from it faster than he thought possible. The zombie was still [i]slow[/i], but it [i]knew[/i] to aim at him. Did that mean it could feel [i]pain[/i]??

Either way, his stab hadn’t been enough to do him in, and Sora was ready to protect himself, thinking about stabbing it once again, this time in the eye-socket. However, hammer-lady grasped the situation as quickly as he had, and dealt the death blow. She swung the massive hammer as if it was second nature, splattering rotten, dried out brain matter all around. [color=AFEEEE]“H-huh. I sure hope it’s [i]dead[/i] dead now, yeah.”[/color] He watched Blonde’s confident posture, gory hammer in her hand.

Now, he wasn’t queasy about blood but…this was a human – even if it was a [i]once human[/i] – crushed into bits and pieces. Even though it disgusted him, Sora was still way too curious to let it be. He crouched down next to it, examining the corpse.

Before he could really start, Tiny went onto a tirade. That’s right, she’d shouted something or other when he’d stabbed the thing, hadn’t she?

[color=AFEEEE]“I was– No, I– It’s not–”[/color] He didn’t get a word in as she went on and on, shooting question after question in that sharp, high-pitched, near hysterical critical tone. [color=AFEEEE]“Would you [i]just[/i]–”[/color]

He ground his teeth at that final interruption. Anger flared, sudden and bright. [color=AFEEEE][i]“I don’t want to hear [b]shit[/b] from someone who just stood there doing nothing!”[/i][/color] he snapped back.

Sora realized he’d gone too far as soon as that last word left his mouth, but the upset feeling wasn’t easy to overcome. He looked down– Bad idea. He looked out– It wasn’t much better. Was it just his imagination, or were the zombies starting to be drawn to the sounds from their inn again? He exhaled harshly. They couldn’t argue, not here, not now. They had to work together, or else they’d end up [i]dead[/i], like Tiny had said.

He looked back at the small elf, still disgruntled, yet also contrite. [color=AFEEEE]“Look, I’m sorry. That wasn't fair to say to you. I get that you’re worried and scared, ok? I am too. But it’s easy to talk about how things should have gone down after the fact. Doing something in the heat of the moment?”[/color] He shook his head.  

[color=AFEEEE]“Besides…It’s not as if I went in without a plan, you know?”[/color] he tried saying gently. He inched closer to the fallen zombie. Without compunction – now that he got used to the grisly sight – he grasped the head. [color=AFEEEE]“Do you know which are the weakest parts of the skull?”[/color] he asked rhetorically. 

[color=AFEEEE]“There’re a few of them. The eye sockets,”[/color] he indicated the area with his fingers. [color=AFEEEE]“But I was behind it, so stabbing it here would have been difficult. Same for through the mouth.”[/color] He pried open its jaw and showed off the palate. [color=AFEEEE]“Then there’s the temple – that’s why people shoot themselves here,”[/color] his hands moved to the temples. [color=AFEEEE]“But a knife ain’t a gun. And then…”[/color] His fingers travelled to the back of the skull, specifically, towards the base where the neck was joined to the head – and more importantly, where the spinal cord attached to the brainstem. [color=AFEEEE]“Here.”[/color] He felt up the stab wound. 

For all his theoretical (high school level) knowledge though, it’s not as if he was an actual expert. Even after thoroughly rooting around the stab wound, he wasn’t sure how deep he’d gotten, or if his dagger had even really reached the brain.

[color=AFEEEE]“Maybe I didn’t get it good enough,”[/color] he shrugged, [color=AFEEEE]“or it takes more damage to do them in, or smashing the brain case is the only way…We can’t know that without trying a bunch of things.”[/color]  His hands grasped the zombie’s neck. [color=AFEEEE]“Oh, and severing the head with [i]a knife[/i] wouldn’t be any easier. That’s why they used axes for executions back in the days, ya know? Even with those, some still failed…”[/color] he fell silent in contemplation, then met Tiny’s gaze again. [color=AFEEEE]“Either way, I [i]did[/i] think. But yeah, I agree we’re gonna need to be careful if we wanna survive.”[/color]

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