Night 56: M51-M60 Hallway

[rolling_go]

"One... Two... Three!" Taking a deep breath, Ippo ripped off the large bandage taped to his side in one quick motion. His tempered skin still smarted and grew red from the tape, but it was no worse than a pesky mosquito bite. Now that he could finally get a good look at it, every scratch had scabbed over and it took a lot of self-control not to

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M55

[sixth_attack]

The voices from the venom that lived inside Sechs' spine had been closing in on him throughout dinner shift, brought on earlier than usual by the stinging cold that harassed the Replica during the trip back to the institute. Thanks to the food Sai exchanged with him, and a distracting conversation, Sechs managed to ignore most of the poisonous words echoing inside his skull.

Yet once night had fully arrived, and Sechs was alone once more in the room, halfway through putting on his battle gear, the drug in his vertebrae became louder, more coherent as though a crowd of bullies had finally arrived to surround Sechs.

Tonight was different though. The drug seemed to be focused on a new tactic of verbally taunting its host. Over and over, Sechs was told the words, "Your friends are dying around you, and it's all your doing...""Shut up," Sechs growled at the relentless voice, feeling his jaw muscles tighten against the building stress. There was a hint of guilt lingering in the bottom of his heart ever since the night he and Kibitoshin