Vash drags Hyun-sa by the collar toward the exit door and out into the auction auditorium. Hyun-sa tries to free himself by scratching and biting Vash's hand, only to get no reaction at all.
The host, the hostess, and the entire audience stare at them when they enter the hall.
Before the hostess can even use her wand, Vash knocks both of them out. He takes the wand from the hostess and the watch from the host, then turns back to Hyun-sa, who is once again holding something against his chest... and Vash notices it.
He walks toward him and crouches down, enough to look directly into his face, which had gone pale after watching him take down two people in a matter of seconds.
Vash reaches toward Hyun-sa's chest as he covers it even more with his hand. But instead of questioning him or even bothering to move his hand away from his chest... Vash grabs both of Hyun-sa's wrists and tears both arms out of their sockets with a sickening tearing sound.
It happens so suddenly and so fast that Hyun-sa doesn't realize for a second that his arms have been torn off his body. He looks down at both sides of himself slowly, confused, not realizing the pain yet.
When the realization hits him like a truck, his breath hitches and a guttural scream escapes his throat—a scream of pain mixed with fear.
Vash drops both arms to the floor and grabs Hyun-sa by the hair, forcing him to look directly into his eyes.
Vash: "Now, tell me... where is the heart?"
Hyun-sa opens his mouth, then shuts it again like a fish trying to breathe. His trembling form stares at Vash like a soul seeing the reaper at the end of its life.
He is too scared to speak, but somehow manages to shift his eyes toward the Phoenix hybrid and say—
Hyun-sa: "Th—... that's the... wi–.. wishing heart owner."
Vash turns his gaze toward the hybrid, silently asking whether what Hyun-sa said was true or not.
The hybrid slowly shakes his head and looks at Hyun-sa with a slight curve on his lips, amused by his state.
Vash stands up and walks to the cage in which the hybrid was locked. He looks at the lock and tries to pull it off, but his strength doesn't work on it at all. His gaze rises to meet the hybrid once again.
Vash: "How did you end up here?"
The hybrid looks at hyun-sa for one last time then turns to vash again and says—
Hybrid:"That doesn't matter right right now... The heart, you're looking for the heart, aren't you?"
Vash tensed up slightly, his grip tightening on the bar of that cage.
He looks at the hybrid with slight doubt. Because, he is certainly more interested in vash's reason to be here instead of asking to come out.
A beat passes.
Then two beat passes.
The hybrid sensed that vash had started to grow some hostility in the form of doubt, he turns his eyes towards the audience who were either sitting tense or trying to leave the Hall silently. He used some kind of mana wave with his eyes,making everyone fall unconscious on the spot, leaving just himself and vash stay awake.
He turns his gaze back to vash and says—
Hybrid:"My name is 'mobious de labro'... I am also a normal human like everyone else... I also came here as a member of the poker club.... But, winning there didn't mean getting whatever you wish for."
"I might sound insane or crazy..... But, the game that you have came from... Winning there means giving up your humanity... The admin knows that, that's why he never won himself.... And neither did those other three... The blonde and pink haired kids and that silver haired lady..... They never won the match directly,... Every time they played.. On the last moment, they folded and made the new member win."
"Not because they were generous... But...."
"You can see how I look, right?..... This is what happens to winners,.. The wishing heart is not what you think it is... It's a Phoenix flaming heart... It can grant you any wish... Make anything true... But, these guys have a magic spell that controls the user of this flaming heart.... They make the new winner take the heart..."
"And that's where the new players fall... Because once accepting the flaming heart as your part.... You're a slame to the spell binding it."
Vash was silent... He heard everything but didn't say anything right away... His gaze drops on the arms less, unconscious hyun-sa and then back on the hybrid– no, not hybrid. Mobious, who stared at him with desperation in his eyes. Vash didn't know what he was desperate about... But, his thoughts were all over the place.. Because... He couldn't understand what's happening anymore.
Vash:"insane and crazy are same things, aren't they?.... What the hell am I even thinking about?!.... There's a more serious matter at hand in front of me."
He sighs and says—
"Couldn't the flaming heart remain on one person than?... Why do they need every game's new winner to become the owner of that heart?.... Can't they just make one person be it's owner and leave them be the slave forever?"
Mobious stared at him for a good 50 seconds without saying anything... Like he just said the most illogical thing.
Mobious:"You can hear what you're saying, right?... You really think a human body can withstand this much power forever?"
Vash scratches his temple forehead and says—
Vash:"Then how are you alive?"
Mobious's frustration increased as he suddenly grabbed the collar of vash's coat, pulling him right on the cage bars and says in a annoyed and frustrated tone—
Mobious:"I've been stuck here for 60 years.... I only have a life of 5 years after I accepted that flaming heart."
"And just so, that no one else had to accept it too. I've been turning the time cycle over and over again for the last five years!... And you say how am I alive?!... Why the hell are all the winners of this poker club always so arrogant and masochistic?!... Just eho do you think you are to question something you have no idea about how it feels?!"
Vash held onto mobious's wrist yo support himself and looks at him.... Really looks at him like seeing him for the first time and says—
Vash:"Uhm.... Do you not know how to talk in simple English?.... Because... I didn't understand a single thing you just blabbered out on my face... Or, is it that your English isn't very good?"
Mobious tightens his grip on the collar.
Mobious:"I never leaned English... I just caught it from all the people who talk near me.... 60 years of representative life teaches you many things."
"Don't bother with how I talk,.. My words get jumbled up because I never had a proper learning on this language I don't know many things either."
"But, that's not important right now.... What's important is that you are a arrogant brat who have no emotions for others just because you won a gambling game... What, you think you have seen everything now that you've felt hoe death feels a few times?... Ask me!.,.. Ask me about how it feels to kill myself every five years to return back into the time just to relieve the same f_cking pain over and over again!"
His hands trembled on vash's collar, his eyes soaking wet from tears and the flaming hair on his head blazing red and the heat radiating so high that the bars near his forearm started to melt.
Vash pushes himself away from the cage using his feet. The collar gets torn by mobious's grip and a piece stays into his hand, that turns into ashs from the heat from his body.
The torn part of vash's collar regrows and sets evenly out.
Vash let's out a deep breath and materializes his short sword on his right hand and say while taking on a alert stance—
Vash:"Well, it's relatable since you've been sending me to past everytime after killing me... But,... That heart is more important to me than a NPC boss."
The system name tage window pops up on mobious's head, saying—
[Phoenix boss: molten trantacula.]
He throws his short sword at and invisible speed. Which did nothing as mobious just deflects it with his hand. But, when he raises his gaze again, vash was not there anymore and before he could call for him.
His voice came ringing to his ears.
Vash:"I never play fair, you know."
His hand tears through mobious's chest all the way to the other side from behind, his heart in vash's grip, blinking red glows at a steady speed.
He pulls his hand out, the heart still on his grip, but, mobious's chest heals.... "Along with a new heart"... Not the flaming wishing heart.. But a normal one. The powers of the Phoenix still seems to be flowing through his body.
Vash looks at the heart in his hand and then drops it into the system inventory and looks back at mobious... Shaking his hand slightly to shrug the blood away. He raises his hand as the short sword comes back to him... Even though it's not a actually metal... The blade of the sword was blazing hot and red like a iron blade taken out of the furnace.
He narrows his eyes and walks to the unconscious form of hyunsa.
He grabs his collar and tears out the coat.
All the while mobious stared at him in confusion and hostility after getting a fatal blow to his heart. But, his eyes widens the moment he saw him tearing hyun-sa's clothes.. Because, there was a encarved a large crest onto his chest with some kind of hot rod or something.
Mobious walks upto him and asks—
Mobious:"Just,... What the hell is that?"
Vash doesn't say anything at first and just stands up quietly.. Handing the short sword to him and says—
Vash:"That's the slave crest.... The thing that was holding you here.... I have never killed a human... I still can't.... And you asked me... If I won that death poker game or something to make me this arrogant."
He pauses.
There was silence for a good one minute.
The only sound that came was their breathing and heart beating sound.
Until finally he continues with—
"I didn't let the game end.... It's on going even now."
That... Made mobious freeze... Making him doubt his life of 60 years, or maybe even more than 60 years.
His mind going into frenzy of questions, looking for answers that he thought never existed before.
After a moment of doubtful silence, he asks— "what do yo–"
Before he could finish, vash continues—
Vash:"The game will only be completed when the last player gives up or either loose... But here, the game ends when the final player.... Or maybe I should say.... The admin folds.... That's when the winner is decided... But that's only when the admin alone folds... Not when the admin and one more player does.... That only extends the decision to make a winner.. Because, two people had folded.... Means, there are two individuals for the winner position now."
"And that means there's one more round left.... And I never gave him a chance to play it."
He said it... Calmly... Not cold, not enraged, not even mocking... Just calm... Like he had planned everything thoroughly and strategically from the start.
He steps back after handing the short sword to mobious and raises a hand towards the unconscious form of hyun-sa, like offering him to mobious and says—
"He's your... I can't kill a human because I've never done it before... Hurting them is a different thing.. Because I hurt only those who had ever done a crime that can't be let off without punishment."
He closes his eyes and starts to walk to the exit of the Hall.
Before saying a one last sentence—
Vash:"Humans don't deserve to die... And I promised myself that I'll save every human in this world."
"But,... Not every human deserves to live either... Some need to die.... For the greater good.... I'll leave these people to you.. Do whatever you want, kill them or leave them... Since I have taken the flaming heart out of you, the won't be able to control you anymore."
After saying that, he finally left... Leaving him in the underground gambling and auction house, all alone.
And in a few minutes... The whole area got caught in an big explosion.