Chapter 34:

My Timeline Is The One Where I Win

Kitezh the Invisible Phenomenon

The time for peace was broken. Grigori was remotely using his own tentacle arm to hold Jadwiga at knife point. And yet, Kitezh claimed she would be the one killing her first.

Kitezh did not have a strong sense of alliance with Jadwiga. However, due to the state of brainwashing, Kitezh decided not to see it as neutral. She had to see her as the enemy and kill her.

“You’re just bluffing. You think I’m going to be swayed by a stupid lie? After everything I just told you?” Grigori asked, contradicting Kitezh’s intentions.

“Who cares about what is true or not? I’ve decided to state my decision. Why question it further? I’m going to kill her right now. Simple as that,” Kitezh replied.

“You’re rejecting my proposal just so you could have the exact same output. However, if you’re not going by my terms, fine by me. I will just act however I please as well.”

Right in the middle of his response, Kitezh used her body to get up and charge straight toward Jadwiga.

SHANK!

Kitezh’s dagger plunged into Jadwiga. She did not even hesitate. She promised what she had to do.

Kitezh, however, felt an odd sensation. She had the drive to kill, but her hands felt different. She could not feel her dagger.

Kitezh looked at her body carefully and rolled to look at Grigori’s body.

“Damn it! It looks like he switched my upper body and right arm with his own.”

She made this realization as she saw it was now Grigori’s upper body doing the knife digging. On top of that, Grigori had his own head replace the guard’s head that was on Kitezh’s torso. Now he was able to inspect the stabbing himself.

Of course, Kitezh wouldn’t be that stupid enough to stab into Jadwiga’s vitals. The handle of the dagger stuck out of the tentacle arm attached to her body.

“I’m not surprised. I’ll show you how to do it right. As I've said, the deal is off. I’m just going to fight to the death. First, I'll finish off Jadwiga, and then deal with you right afterward,” Grigori said monotonically.

He pulled the dagger out of his tentacle arm. He raised the dagger and readied it at Jadwiga’s chest, right where her heart was placed.

“WHOA-HO!”

Grigori suddenly blurted out, and he flew backwards. He forgot that his legs belonged to Kitezh still. She was able to control them to stumble backwards away from Jadwiga deliberately.

SHANK!

“AAAAH!”

Kitezh screamed in pain and looked around to see the source.

"That bastard stabbed both of my legs with my own dagger!" she thought.

Kitezh was heaving in pain, but couldn’t give up. She needed something to use to attack Grigori. She looked at her upper half and realized the position.

“If Grigori swapped his top half with mine, that would mean…”

Kitezh reached the ground and grabbed something with her right hand.

“The carpet weaver. Grigori was using this when I wasn’t looking. Though I still don’t know how to use it. You need the original owner’s body to get it to work. If that’s the case, then maybe Girgori has something.”

Kitezh realized that below her torso was Girgori’s pants. She dug into the pockets and pulled out something long and fleshy.

“A finger? If I had to guess based on the interaction with him, this must be Drevtvarz’s finger. Grigori obviously did something to him before we got to this place. He can use this finger to interact with the carpet weaver. Let me try to use it.”

Kitezh saw a bunch of characters woven into the carpet. She rubbed the finger against the carpet weaver. However, nothing was happening.

“Come on, just switch anything! I’d rather die if it means knowing how the hell this thing works!”

Kitezh lifted the finger and looked carefully at it. She then looked at the drawing on the carpet again and identified a crude figure of Grigori. She noticed the coloring of his hand looked a little different.

“He attached Drevtvarz’s finger to his actual hand. Meaning this thing I'm holding must be Grigori’s finger!”

Kitezh set the carpet weaver down, knowing she couldn’t actually utilize it.

“In that case, I will do this.”

CRACK!

“OW!”

Grigori dropped the dagger he was holding against Jadwiga. Kitezh slammed the finger against the corner of the desk to break it, making Grigori feel all the pain from it.

BAM!

"OW! Damn it, Jadwiga!"

Kitezh was struck in the head with another yellite.

“If I’m going to kill Jadwiga, I might as well use her as my weapon,” said Grigori.

Kitezh didn’t realize it until now. She thought about how Jadwiga actually attacked her.

"Since Jadwiga’s body had the tentacle arm, it meant her other arm had to be somewhere. Her one arm on her body had to be the one holding the ammo. For Jadwiga to actually attack, it would mean one thing..."

Kitezh looked at the back of her body.

“Jadwiga’s other arm is attached to my torso! I saw her put that arm behind my back from where my head could see it.”

Kitezh looked at the floor and saw her helmet. She tried to reach it, but Grigori’s legs were standing still. They refused to let Kitezh bend further.

Kitezh saw Jadwiga load up a redite this time. She saw Jadwiga’s other arm on her torso, pointing at the yellite.

BAM!

No explosion resulted from the shot. Kitezh used her arm to wrestle with Jadwiga’s arm from behind to aim at Grigori’s legs, causing him to fall over.

She had her eyes on one thing now. Kitezh’s torso crawled forward with one arm and grabbed the helmet on the ground. She immediately turned the whole body invisible.

The invisibility began to spread around her. It turned the floor invisible, and all the objects touching the ground. This included the chair that Kitezh’s head was still bound to. Everything was being erased in front of Grigori’s eyes.

“You think turning all of yourself invisible should be an issue? I believe you’re forgetting that Jadwiga’s arm is still attached to you.”

Grigori grabbed the kunai from the tentacle arm and placed it in her right hand.

“Jadwiga’s phenomenon can give you a sharp stab in the back. One that will hit your vitals. She doesn’t need eyes for that.”

Jadwiga squeezed her hand, and the kunai disappeared.

SHANK!

"AHK!"

Blood spurted out of the air as Kitezh spat out pain. Grigori had caught Kitezh. Blood poured down in the shape of Kitezh’s back. She was silent.

"Finally. Kitezh is go- URGH! WHAT THE HELL?!"

Despite the expected outcome, Grigori was suddenly in pain. He reached out behind him. There, he could feel the sharp kunai digging into his back. It was actually him who got backstabbed!

“What happened? I just saw you bleeding out, but now- AH! HOW DID I-”

Grigori realized where he was. He was back near his desk, where he started from the very beginning. He looked down and saw that his body and legs were back to normal.

“I’ve swapped back to my own body?! When the hell did this happen?!”

SHANK!

Grigori pulled the kunai out of his back and another object. He inspected the items in his hands. The kunai pierced through the carpet he was using. All the threads have been sliced apart, creating a large fray of threads on an empty canvas. He couldn't see any of this go down, as Kitezh purposely made everything in the room invisible.

“YOU BITCH! WHERE ARE YOU?!” yelled Grigori.

“Grigori! What happened to me?!”

Grigori turned around where the panicked voice was coming from. It was the guard strapped to the chair. His arms were still mutilated from the shatter phenomenon strike. Kitezh’s head was not on his body anymore.

“Grigori, I’m back to my own spot,” exclaimed the guard, no longer having a tentacle arm, yet wearing Jadwiga’s backpack. “Jadwiga must have been swapped back to her own body in-!”

BAM!

The guard was punched in the face.

“Huh?! So you must be-“

SHANK!

“GAHK!”

The guard’s throat was beaten and stabbed mid-sentence. His gurgled out blood and fell to the floor.

“K-Kitezh! That’s right, your body walked to this room, so swapping your body b-back sends you right there,” said the guard strapped to the chair.

Kitezh yanked Jadwiga’s backpack off the other guard’s now dead body. As she did that, she saw something rolling on the ground. Her helmet. Kitezh limped forward and staggered her body, trying to pick it up.

“Urgh. I can see you’re struggling. Even though the kunai ended up in my back, you were still struck at that last moment when you were in my spot. Your legs are not very functional since I stabbed them. Yet, it looks like you still dare to kill me. You seriously are crazy,” Grigori said shakily.

“This is more like the way I should act. The moment I said I wanted to kill Jadwiga, you had to switch tactics and go after me. With a crazy announcement like that, no one could predict anything. But as for me, I just dealt with whatever came my way just to get what I want,” Kitezh explained.

Kitezh turned herself invisible. Even though Grigori couldn’t see her, he knew he had to do anything to win this fight. He lifted his right arm, as if he wanted to summon something.

“My tentacle phenomenon. That’s right. I had to give my item to-“

BAM! BAM! BAM!

“AAAAAAAAHK!”

Grigori was pummeled repeatedly in the face. It wasn’t like before when Kitezh beat him with her helmet. It was like she was beating him with a rock in her hand.

“I’m not giving you a fucking chance to fight back this time!” Kitezh yelled like a war cry.

Grigori’s face became black and blue as she continued to give him a beat down She beat his skull until he fell to the ground, and repeatedly slammed him in the chest until he coughed up blood.

Kitezh took off her helmet. All the invisibility was reverted so she could show her face. She was holding a bloody redite in her hand. She played with it in her hand, ready to strike a target like she was a baseball pitcher.

“Wait a minute, you got rid of your invisibility. And yet, I don’t see the yellites. Where the hell are they?!” yelled Grigori.

“Do you know what was the last thing I did while attached to your body?” asked Kitezh

Grigori looked down at his pants. Right where his crotch was. Yep, it was exactly what Grigori was thinking.

“Oh no-”

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The room was filled with smoke and flesh falling down.

“Ewwww! I don’t want Grigori’s dick flesh flying at me! That was the opposite of epic. I should’ve used that shatter phenomenon arm instead!” Kitezh complained childishly, realizing now that the deed was done.

“Wait! Kitezh! DON’T LEAVE ME LIKE THIS!”

As the smoke cleared, she saw one last piece of business to take care of. The guard who was strapped to the chair.

“Okay, I could still have fun with the shatter phenomenon. Ahk! Never mind, I can’t,” said Kitezh, remembering now that her body was still stabbed all over.

“Kitezh! There you are!”

Right behind Kitezh arrived Jadwiga.

“What the hell happened to you? I was being attacked by a guard, then all of a sudden, I woke up and he was gone.”

Kitezh looked at Jadwiga blankly.

“I wouldn’t be here killing you if you didn’t team up with Jadwiga.”

Grigori’s words suddenly echoed in her head.

“Kitezh, you need help right now! Hey, that’s my backpack. When did you get this? Can you answer me?”

Kitezh didn’t know what to say. She just put her head down. Her mood suddenly changed to misery.

“K-Kitezh? Jadwiga?”

Someone stumbled behind Jadwiga.

“Marigold?! Are you okay?!” Jadwiga asked.

Marigold fell to her knees.