There is a strangeness in the air. It is mild and weak but it can make creature sluggish. Or may even force these creatures to fall asleep.
This strangeness is unusual but not unfamiliar.
Skin knows who is behind this strangeness and what even is this strangeness is even about. She is even immune to it. As a Restless Chosen her body won't let her feel peace so even if this strangeness can make her sluggish or weak. It doesn't have much effect on her.
She moves through hell in the dark reddish night. She finds it quite romantic and sweet. Perhaps, she should force Man-man to be awake in the night and do some naught stuff.
A Chosen doesn't reproduce so she can imagine Man-man saying that it is pointless. But they can still kiss or something. Or maybe even pretend to get pleasure from ordinary human methods.
She can admit it that it is pointless. But she loves it and love never makes sense so it is okay. Love is love and Man-man will have to make some sacrifices for Skin.
That is a nice thought. She likes it. As a Restless Chosen she can't find comfort in anything. But she can pretend that she does.
Skin continues forwards for few minutes more and finally find the one who is behind this strangeness. It is a Chosen human.
"We finally meet again, Skin. How is it-"
Skin jumps straight towards the Chosen and kisses him on his dried lips. Her lips are blood red and his dried off.
Both share their saliva and tongue with each other. There isn't a proper mannerism to it. Both looks like animals as they kiss each other.
The kiss goes for indefinite time. Skin always lost what time it is whenever she is kissing her love or killing a sinned soul. Those two things are her favorite. She can't get enough of it.
Soon, their lips separate from each other. This is always the worst part. Skin hates whenever it ends. It is such a shame.
"Mob, you are here. Why did you leave me? Do you have any idea how lonely I was? Very lonely."
Mob is another of Skin's love. He had got caught in the mountain soul's rampage. He only survived cause of Love heal, Skin's blessing. Without it, he would've died in there somewhere.
Having a borrowed healing facture is quite convenient.
"Yeah well, some things happen and then even more things happen. I got lost somewhere in between that too. Later, I found out that I wasn't lost in between but outside of it. Basically, it was quite inconvenient and annoying."
Skin answers.
"It doesn't matter. I am happy that you are alive."
Both hug each other. Feeling each other's warmth that doesn't exist. A Chosen body is quite odd as it never produces much warmth like an ordinary human.
However, Skin doesn't mind it. She still enjoys touching Mob's dried skin and bones. Mob wouldn't say that he enjoys it but he is fine touching her burnt up flesh.
Skin had many Lovers. She needs love and that is why one is never enough for her. She needs love even if that means having two lovers at the same time. She doesn't mind it though. It is like having a harem. A reverse harem that is half dead. She had loved woman Chosen too. So maybe, calling it a reverse harem is wrong. Maybe just a normal harem is fine too.
But there is a question. Why are they dead? Well, that question is easy to answer. She killed them. Or hid them.
Mob is familiar with her much more than others. He knows that she is much powerful and wild. But having her means a free healing factor which is essential for surviving in hell.
He is only here to get that benefit. He has no love, nor he understand love much at all. All he knows that if she is happy then he will get to have her blessing for himself.
Mob sighs with relief. Even if he doesn't care about her. He is still doesn't want her healing factor to die. Skin's blessing only works on the things she loves and she doesn't love herself so it doesn't. She doesn't get her own blessing's benefit.
It is strange and Mob just doesn't understand her at all. She is strange and insane. She loves killing sinned souls and wants to get love of any kind from anybody. Why would a Chosen do that? It doesn't really matter though as he only cares about himself.
Skin speaks.
"Do you want to go with me and kill the mountain soul? It would be fun and we are trying to find it. I promise it would be fun. Let's go together."
Mob's blessing makes creatures of any kind feel sluggish or weak. This blessing of his doesn't instantly force a Chosen to fall asleep though. But it can make them more prone to doing mistakes.
He is a restless Chosen and restless Chosen are the one exception for his blessing. There is no effect on those Chosen. They're basically immune to it. Perhaps, it is because he also a restless Chosen that makes other restless Chosen immune to his blessing. But what if he was chosen by a different God? Would his blessing be a curse then? As it would make him sluggish all the time too?
That is just a strange 'what if' thought that always come to Mob's mind. He can't help but think of the worst scenarios and currently, he is doing exactly that.
"We?"
Skin tilts her head in confusion and replies.
"Yeah, Man-man is with me. He is my love and my heart. He is so cute and adorable. Just like you."
Mob feels alarmed.
Mob's concerns are simple. He doesn't want to share her blessing with others. Her blessing doesn't make someone immortal but it is so much more important in hell.
A healing type blessing is valuable in hell. Mob's own blessing is weak and doesn't even work half of the time. Against that mountain soul, he may as well doesn't have a blessing. Only reason he survived that is because of Skin's Love heal.
She may be dangerous or even insane. But benefits of having her does exceeds that danger.
"Man-man, huh? That is a weird name."
Skin replies.
"I know right? But he is really cute. You would love him if you come with me and meet him right now. He is currently sleeping though. Not because of your blessing though. He is a listless Chosen, you see."
Mob isn't sure who is this Man-man guy but that name really pisses him off for some reason. Mob just hates that guy and he hasn't even met him yet.
He is also a listless Chosen so Mob has an advantage. Listless Chosen are lazier or prefer to not bother with staying up all day and night. His blessing is basically a death sentence for these Chosen.
His blessing has a range. He himself isn't sure of the exact radius but if he has to guess that it is somewhere close to a half a kilometer or little less than that. If they were to fight, Mob would kill him without much effort.
"Did you fight him somewhere half dead or something? Why keep a useless Chosen with yourself?"
Skin has a smile on her face and she looks so innocent and happy within Mob's presence. But that mask twitches a little at Mob's remark.
"Don't say that. I love him very much. He is very cute and listen to every word I say. He is the sweetest."
Man-man just doesn't want to die so he follows her around. He also doesn't argue so he just listens to whatever nonsense she says with an expressionless face. From her perspective he is cute but from Man-man's perspective he is just trying to survive.
Mob clicks his tongue.
"That doesn't answer anything. That Chosen you found sounds pathetic and just a pain in the ass. I am much more useful than that useless dead weight. It was same with that other guy you fall in love."
Mob had made her kill other Chosen she had loved in the past. He would like to say that he manipulated her into killing her. But she killed them herself and without much resistance.
She cried herself a lot though. Mob doesn't understand how can you kill someone and then cry for them at the same time. That doesn't even make sense.
Whatever the case, he just wants her to kill him too. There has to be some things that she dislikes about him and then he can take advantage of that and make her kill him.
"You know, let's do this. Let me fight him. It would be a one on one. I am sure that I can defeat him and then you would know that. He is useless dead weight."
Skin stares at him with dead red eyes.
"Why are you arguing with me, Mob?"
There is a craziness in her eyes. Did he mess up? This plan had worked last time so it should work now too.
"I am not arguing. I am just saying for your own benefit that-"
Skin interrupts him.
"You are arguing again. Do I look like an idiot to you, Mob?"
He messed up.
Skin jumps straight at him without any warning. Mob has always been ready with his own weapons, two battle axes on each hand. He can't take her down. Her combat style with her Polearm is much more destructive. But he can make it a path for himself to escape.
However, she didn't go for her polearm. Instead, she went for his lips with her own. She kisses him.
But it is different. She is violent and she has bitten his tongue, crushed his teeth and forced his skull on the ground. He can't use his weapons against her. She has restricted his moments.
With another moment, she rips out his tongue. Her mouth full of blood and flesh of Mob. It hurts so much that he can't even scream properly. She isn't letting him go either.
"Why do you want to hurt everything I love? It hurts you know. I love you. But when you hurt what I love. I…I don't know what to do with myself. I loved Felix. He was annoying and he was bad but I love him. I LOVE YOU AND HIM."
He is bleeding but he is not healing too. Her blessing won't work if the damage comes from her. He needs to find a way to get away. He can't talk his way out of this one. It isn't like he can talk as his tongue isn't in his mouth anymore.
Skin continues with a terrifying smile on her face.
"Do you know, I had thought I could've cut his limbs off and kept him to myself. That way, Felix wouldn't have been so hard on himself. He wouldn't run and constantly fight with me. Then you wouldn't have any problem either, right? That is why I took that bad tongue of yours. Now I can't hear you hurtful words about everyone. That is good."
She swallows his tongue and gets close to his face.
"I love you. You can't hurt yourself now. I protected you."
Then Mob jolt his body with full force and reaches his battle axe. This whole time he was trying to reach it somehow and he finally did.
He attacks Skin and she seemed to be puzzled by his action. As if she doesn't understand why would he attack him. She protected him and loved him so why would he do that?
Mob take that opportunity and make a run for it. She just stares at him in confusion. She doesn't understand why did he leave and attacked her. She just wanted him to protect from herself.
If she can't hear his words then she won't get hurt. He is safe but so why did he attack her?
A tear falls down from her eyes and she shouts innocently.
"I don't get you, Mob. I love you so come back. let's make love together and be happy together."
Mob didn't turn back. He ran away as if death was close. His whole tongue, from the base of his mouth to the back of his throat is ripped out. It is fair to say that without Skin's healing. He won't be able to speak ever again.
Now he understands that he can't control her. But if that Chosen, Man-man, hasn't come in Skin's life then he would've had Skin for herself.
It is all Man-man fault. He will kill him and get Skin back for himself. And so, Man-man got a mortal enemy for no reason.
Skin on the other hands, whips her tears and stands up.
"We will meet again and I hope you will come to my arm so I can cut off your limbs. Then you won't ever run away from me ever again… "
A lot of time has pasted and she is kind of worried about Man-man now.
"I should get back. I want to hug Man-man to feel happy."
Skin leaves the place and gets back to where she left Man-man in Louis's care. There, she finds out that Louis had fallen asleep.
That night, Louis's head was impaled on Skin's polearm (Dicky). Poor Louis.