Kyle looked at Manny, who just kept laughing.
This joke was not funny.
But before Kyle could say anything, the door behind him opened again.
He turned around, and when he saw the person who entered, his eyes widened.
It was Warp Space.
As soon as Warp Space saw Kyle, her eyes narrowed.
"You!" she shouted, pointing at him aggressively. "Why are you here?!"
For just a moment, Kyle felt like his heart stopped.
'Really?! Her?!' he thought.
But then, he noticed something, and he got annoyed again.
Without saying anything, Kyle swung his left palm outward…
Right at Swamp Dragon.
The back of Kyle's palm slapped Swamp Dragon across his cheek, and he fell over.
His body rolled a couple of times before he hit the wall.
Swamp Dragon looked with horror at Kyle, while Kyle just turned to Manny.
"A bit slow there," Kyle said.
Manny immediately stopped laughing and looked at Kyle with an innocent but interested expression. "I don't know what you mean," he said.
"Meteor Hammer?" Swamp Dragon asked in shock.
Kyle just snorted.
BANG!
In an instant, Kyle charged through the big table, completely demolishing it.
BANG!
He directly continued to the corner and kicked it.
The entire room shook under Kyle's power.
While this was happening, Swamp Dragon and Warp Space distorted, and finally, they completely vanished.
Instead, there was a pile of guts, two legs, and a torso in front of him.
The body parts belonged to Manny, who was currently looking at Kyle with surprise.
Funnily enough, he didn't seem scared at all, even though Kyle had just kicked his body into two pieces.
"How did you see through my illusion?" he asked with interest, his torso "standing" on Kyle's outstretched leg.
Kyle just snorted. "Illusions aren't real, idiot!"
Manny blinked a couple of times in surprise.
That…
Yeah, but also no?
The next moment, Manny laughed again.
"That's a good one!" he shouted as his body slowly recovered.
Kyle pulled his leg back, and Manny's recovering torso just kept hovering in the corner.
"I warned you," someone said from the other corner.
Kyle looked over and saw Swamp Dragon.
For just a moment, Kyle furrowed his brows.
Then, he just moved his hand again like he was slapping someone, except that he wasn't hitting anything.
Except…
The distant Swamp Dragon fell over like he had been slapped.
Without hesitation, Kyle slapped the cheek of the recovering torso.
Manny's torso flew across the room, hitting another wall.
Once again, Swamp Dragon distorted before vanishing.
Yet, when Manny recovered, he just looked with even more interest at Kyle.
"Wow!" he said with excitement. "That's amazing! How did you do that?"
Naturally, Manny had created another illusion, and somehow, Meteor Hammer had broken it again.
Not only had he realized that he was in an illusion, but he also managed to hit Manny accurately!
At first glance, the second part didn't seem surprising. After all, the torso hadn't moved.
However, if someone was able to create an illusion and fly around, it meant that they could be anywhere in the room again after a few seconds.
Believing that Manny hadn't moved at all would be dumb.
Kyle just looked at the distant Manny and snorted again. "I already told you."
"Illusions aren't real, idiot. They're just make-belief. It's all in your head. You think I'm stupid? You think you can just tell or show me anything, and I will believe you?"
Manny just looked at Kyle with a mix of curiosity and disbelief.
"No, seriously," Manny said. "I've never seen anyone break my illusions like that. How did you do that?"
Kyle just rolled his eyes and groaned. "Fine, it's a free country. You can believe in whatever illusions or delusions you want. Anyway, your jokes aren't funny. Is Swamp Dragon alive or not?"
Manny smiled again. By now, his body had fully recovered. "Swamp Dragon is-"
The door opened, and Swamp Dragon walked in.
"Oh, you're already here," he said.
The door opened, and Swamp Dragon walked in.
"Oh, you're already here."
It opened.
"Oh, you're already here."
"Oh, you're already here."
Kyle lifted his hand in greeting and smiled. "Hey! How did things go?"
"Not so bad."
"Pretty bad."
"Good, and you?"
"As expected."
Kyle raised a brow. "Why? What happened?"
Manny's eyes kept widening more and more.
"Two of my teammates died."
"Three of my teammates died."
"One of my teammates died."
"Four of my teammates died."
"Ah, that sucks," Kyle said.
Meanwhile, Swamp Dragon noticed that the room looked a bit strange.
There was even part of a body in the corner, which was slowly turning into Energy.
His mind quickly combined the clues, and he looked at Manny with a raised brow.
"Did something happen?" he asked.
However, Manny wasn't even looking at Swamp Dragon.
Instead, he was fully focused on Kyle.
Meanwhile, Kyle was walking through the destroyed table and grabbed a chair. As he sat down, he casually slid a chair to Swamp Dragon.
Swamp Dragon simply sat down, still glancing at Manny.
Manny was acting differently from before.
Back when they had talked, Manny almost couldn't shut up. He was constantly interrupting Swamp Dragon, trying to finish his sentences for him or answering a question before it was even fully spoken.
But now, he was completely quiet.
"Did you do something to him?" Swamp Dragon asked.
Two women were grinding on Kyle.
Swamp Dragon's body was filling the room.
Five Mannys were staring into space.
Warp Space was growing new arms.
"Initially, yeah," Kyle said. "He made a joke about you being dead, and I didn't take that well."
Swamp Dragon looked over at Manny again, whose eyes were widely opened in focus and interest.
Swamp Dragon furrowed his brows and waved towards Manny, who didn't react at all.
"What did you do?" he asked.
A five-headed Swamp Dragon was consuming an amalgamation of five Warp Spaces.
Cows and sheep were jumping over each other.
"I kicked him," Kyle answered.
"And that's why he's so… different?" Swamp Dragon asked.
A fountain of blood was drenching Kyle.
50 beasts were eating the growing furniture.
30 people were trying to tell Kyle that everything was a lie.
"Nah, that's probably not the reason," Kyle said as he leaned back. "I think he's trying to convert me."
"Convert you?" Swamp Dragon asked.
Kyle smirked. "Into a believer."
Swamp Dragon blinked in surprise. "A believer in what?"
"Illusions," Kyle answered with a laugh. "He says they're real."
Swamp Dragon's brows rose. "That's… I think I have to digest that sentence for a moment."
Kyle just suppressed a grin.
Meanwhile, the sentence Kyle said repeated in Swamp Dragon's head.
Naturally, illusions weren't real, but their effects were real. Thinking more about the topic would lead one to the perception or reality, which would lead into a rabbit hole of what reality even was.
Were they real?
No?
But one couldn't just say that they weren't real.
Yet, they weren't real.
But…
In the end, Swamp Dragon just shook his head with a helpless smile.
"You're right," he said. "Illusions aren't real."
Then, Swamp Dragon's brows rose, and his gaze turned to an empty wall with confusion.
Meanwhile, Kyle's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Manny.
"Want me to smack you again? I can deal with your weird conspiracy theories, but I'm not a fan of you annoying my friends with them as well."
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