Flip the Coin [BL]-Chapter 349. Kitty > Kenny

I was crouched down in front of the hole I cut, and I reached in, ready to grab his clothes or ankle if he wasn’t strong enough to give me his hand.

But his hand landed in mine as if it belonged there, and I pulled him out with ease.

When I sat him up and patted his clothes to get rid of most of the earth, I looked at his face and saw that he was as white as a ghost.

I bit my cheek hard and pulled him to me to again transfer it.

Henry grabbed the back of my head to pull me closer, apparently always strong enough for that. His tongue speedily found the bleeding wound and stroked over it as if he was trying to console me.

I chuckled, finally letting go because we were in the company of a child, before I took another look at him.

His weakened state hadn’t changed.

I used the giant’s power to pull out every bit of power he had; was he now paying the price for my actions? Why the fuck can’t I heal him?

"Sorry." I put my forehead against his.

"I like it; now you have to take care of me." Henry whispered before he laughed, nuzzling my face with his nose.

I combed through his hair a few times before I stood up and turned to the girl.

The color of her face wasn’t very good as well, but it was better than the blue she had shown before.

I think Henry, Henrietta, and I hadn’t suffered from a lack of oxygen because we had all leveled up.

"Do you think you can ride the tiger?" I asked her, and she nodded solemnly.

"Good girl." I praised her, and she grimaced.

I ignored it and lifted her on the tiger’s back before lifting the unconscious Henrietta and putting her sideways behind the girl.

Then I crouched down with my back facing Henry.

"Can you get up by yourself?"

"I can always get it up." His hold was weak, and I was worried as hell—even worried enough not to cringe at him getting funny.

"Yes, yes, yes, you are the best."

With his arms around my neck, I stood up while grabbing his thighs, and we were ready to go.

I looked at the tiger.

"...Kitty...let’s go."

Henry snorted with weak laughter while I took a step forward, checking if the tiger followed.

He did, looking at me as if I had accused him of being unable to walk.

"Yes, yes, sorry." I nodded at him and walked forward in the direction of the field with the black flower and the tents, all the while translating the ’noises’ of the voices I had heard while inside Kitty into language inside my head.

I told Henry about the things I heard after I understood them myself.

"That doesn’t make sense; why would destroying the capsular open the portal back home?" Henry whispered hoarsely before he continued to nibble on my neck.

"Hmm...if the capsule is destroyed, the connection to Henrietta is lost, and they have no way to open the portal without her? So an emergency function?" I offered an explanation.

"If they don’t need her to open a portal, then why bring her? The capsule could stay inside our world." I felt him suck weakly on my shoulder after he finished.

Really like a dog, always chewing on something.

I contemplated while looking around to see if the tiger still had Henrietta and the child on his back, and when I did, I saw the tiger stop as if he was offended by my suspicion.

I turned back speechlessly and continued to walk while Henry chuckled with a full mouth.

The tiger had been too long in the company of the old dragon; now he is as thin-skinned as her.

"The portal is on one side, so maybe the capsule must be on the other? There was no half doorframe inside the tent, just inside the military warehouse."

"You mean if they don’t have the capsule on this side, they have no way to get back? But if that’s the case, aren’t your grandma and the others now locked in inside this world with us?" He languidly and dangerously leaned to the side to take a look at my face.

I put him back in position by squeezing his thighs and bending my back.

"No, Danny, Jordan, and Omar have crossed from both sides already; we will go home today."

"Then they needed the capsule on this side because they closed the portal? Why not let it open?" Henry asked, sounding more tired with each word, but he could still plant kisses on my skin.

"Because of the time difference? Or because it wastes energy or Henrietta’s ability or something? It doesn’t matter now; we will leave this shitworld," I said, wanting to stop talking so that Henry could rest.

"Guess what? Since the lightning storm, there have been measures to save energy because of constant blackouts. Now the energy will be stopped when the sun goes down." He chuckled.

"Mhm, we probably know now where that energy they saved went. If they really used Henrietta’s ability somehow without her being awake and doing the deed herself, it surely must cost them some energy as well; that portal didn’t look very ’green’ either." I snorted.

"They have lost their minds." Henry growled, and I hummed in agreement.

Very good, all this shit only for money and power—what the fuck were they doing? Opening portals instead of inventing a way to close them—and I mean a solution that solely works with machines and doesn’t need a human inside a fucking coffin for them to work?!

We arrived at the field where we fought against the monster and could now all appreciate the black flower with our own eyes.

"Looks like a ’Dragon’s Skull’ flower, also called a ’Snapdragon’ or ’Skull flower.’" Henry provided unnecessary knowledge, and I grimaced.

"What a matching name. Why do you know that?" The black flower grew out of one stem, but then there were different branches or something with beautiful black blossoms.

"When the flower dies, the blossoms turn into skulls. I was also a teenager once and found it cool." Henry drawled out as if he were an old man now.

The flower was already taller than me, looking fucking ominous with the shitty pulsing it did. I made a big circle around it so that we didn’t have to be near that thing.

"Maybe the heart wasn’t a parasite, but the Bone Monster just changed forms again, or this is a combination of the Bone Monster and the Skyscrapers, now operating with hollow trees instead of skyscrapers and the flower as a heart?" Henry’s voice was already hoarse, and his nibbling had also decreased, showing that he didn’t have the power to stay awake.

"We won’t stay to find out. Go to sleep; when you wake up, we’ll be home." We will be in our homeworld, and the home I talked about would probably be the GreenGayHouse.

No idea if my old apartment still existed; where my grandmother’s prior mansion was, we all knew, and her last mansion could have already been met by lightning if she felt the need to move into a cornfield.

"When I wake up, will I be locked up?" Henry asked sleepily.

"Pfft, you can’t let that go, can you?"

"You can’t let me go, can you?"

"True. I can’t." I admitted involuntarily, and I felt his arms tighten around me before I noticed his breathing change as he fell asleep.

We had entered the forest that would lead to the tents after a long, arduous walk.

I could already faintly hear my grandmother having a fit and screaming her lungs out for Kitty.

For Kitty and not Kenny—her grandson that had disappeared since forever.

I smiled.

Good to know where the priorities lie.