Chapter 65: Hole

"If you are...I'll fucking kill you." Desire's voice resounded out in this dark and lonely place.

Even though Fireboy shouldn't be able to see him, he spoke as if he was looking at Desire eye to eye.

No...Desire could feel that Fireboy was looking straight at him.

"I'm not trying to kill you. The monster that appeared before is to make the blue fire come out."

Fireboy answered simply as he brought up his hand in the air carefully.

A flame appeared out of nowhere, and it was in the color of blue. Another flame appeared, enclosing the blue flame that appeared before it.

Fireboy then pointed at it with a finger that he shaped.

"The outside flame is you. And the inside flame is the blue flame. To make that blue flame come out, I had to do something like that."

Fireboy brought his finger down and then added to his words, "After all, that was the condition for it to work; to have you be in danger."

Fireboy looked at Desire with a face that seems to smile softly, and he spoke.

"That is the reason the monster came out earlier. Do you still think that I am trying to kill you?"

Fireboy asked Desire, who still had his guard up. Well, of course, he would, after seeing that display of strength that Fireboy suddenly did.

Anyway, Desire found Fireboy's explanation to be reasonable. If the condition for the blue flame to work was for him to be in danger, it was reasonable to have Desire be in danger.

At least, that's what Fireboy thought.

"Bullshit. You could have done it in any other way. Why would you have to attack me just to get it out?"

It was then.

The smiling face of Fireboy suddenly...distorted. Well, it was made of fire, so it was already distorted.

"What makes you think that?" Fireboy asked with a low voice. However, if there were something different about him now, that would be the fire that composes his body is...escaping.

Right...it was as if he were shaking.

And when Fireboy heard Desire's answer, it blew his mind away.

"No, the question is, how can you not think of another way when you are the fire itself?"

After all, Desire's question was spot on.

Although Fireboy was attracted to Desire because of special reasons, he didn't expect that Desire would actually be able to think things through.

However, he did expect Desire to be smart to some degree.

That was why he was able to recover quickly, and he spoke.

"Well, there are other ways, but I would need to speak with you. However, I cannot speak with you if you are outside of the real Dungeon."

When Desire heard Fireboy's answer to his question, he soon tilted his head.

Desire knew that he was in a Dungeon right now. However, Fireboy's words were making it seem like he was actually not.

"What do you mean by that? Aren't we in the Dungeon now?"

Desire asked as this got his interest piqued. His attention was all over Fireboy now as he watched him closely.

"You're in the Dungeon right now, that's right. However, outside the huge, black door that you entered, it is not the Dungeon."

"That is what you call the entrance. You don't need to worry, though. As I've said, you're in the Dungeon now."

Fireboy then walked towards Desire with very slow momentum. As he was the fire itself, he wasn't used to walking with two feet.

"And I can only talk to you when you're in the Dungeon. I had to do it that way. Well, if you're still gonna be that stubborn-"

Fireboy couldn't finish his sentence as Desire spoke up.

"Alright. Alright, I believe you."

Desire then proceed to ask another thing he wanted to ask all the time.

"So, why are you attracted to me? You probably know that I am weak."

Fireboy then stopped walking abruptly and stood there silently. He stood still for a moment before his head tilted a little bit.

However, he didn't speak. He just looked at Desire as if he were observing his prey.

And this fact made Desire...itchy.

"Why aren't you answering?"

It was then.

As Desire asked Fireboy one more time, a weak murmur escaped Fireboy's hot lips.

"He doesn't know...?"

Fireboy shook his head when he thought about it seriously. After all, it wasn't connected to him, and he was just attracted to Desire.

He didn't need to do anything to gain Desire's favor. In fact, it should be Desire who should be trying hard to curry favor with Fireboy.

That was why he decided to be bold now. Right, Fireboy decided to do whatever he wants.

"Ah, whatever. I'll explain it to you after you get it done."

Fireboy then formed two fingers in what seems to be his hands and snapped it! Expectedly, he didn't make a sound when he did that.

Well, he was a fire, after all.

And because it was all sudden, Desire didn't have any time to question Fireboy what he meant by that.

Why?

It was because the dark place suddenly lit up, and Fireboy, being the fire he is, couldn't be seen in this place.

"W-what!" Desire shouted out in a fluster as he tried blocking his eyes.

It was too much for him as it started hurting his eyes. Well, too much is always bad.

"Don't worry, this will benefit you a lot." Fireboy's voice resounded out in Desire's ears.

Even with his Heavenly Demon Trait, Desire couldn't tell where Fireboy's voice came from.

No...it was just that, for Desire, it came from all sorts of directions.

"What are you doing!" Desire screamed once more as he felt the ground vibrate strongly.

He couldn't see anything happening at all due to the light's strong intensity.

However, Desire couldn't give any attention to that anymore as he felt the ground cave in.

"S-shit!"

Desire's right foot lost its balance, but Desire regained his balance right away.

No, he tried to. But Desire couldn't as he couldn't find the ground.

And because of that, his left foot followed, and he was about to fall to the ground.

"W-what?"

However, what he felt wasn't the hard, dirty ground that he was standing on.

"I-I am falling?"

What he felt was the air that kept on cooling his back and the hollow feeling of falling.

Right, when Desire wasn't looking, he fell to a hole that slid out of nowhere.

"Shittttttttttttt!"

Desire's scream resounded out in this space where the light and dark kept colliding.

"Fuck you, Fireboy!!"