>>5188469>>5188472>>5188473"I thought I've told you once before, Serpico. I despise people who hide behind a mask, and yours is the most transparent that I've come across. The man you are now, fighting and giving your all? It suits you a lot more than the calm, naive boy you pretend to be around your master."
"Huh?" Serpico is mesmerized, both by your ability to see right through him, and by the way you boosted GP with your energy, making him go faster as he accelerated towards the giant gap at the other route away from Azan.
"Break free from that mask, Serpico. And maybe you'll one day be able to fight me as yourself. Don it again, and your failure will be imminent against the black swordsman." He thinks that you're bluffing, that you'll pull in the breaks at the last possible second so he can jump away and lose his advantageous position, but that's not it, you're going over that gap. And it's going to be up to him wether he leaves or stays.
Gunpowder gives a glorious leap over half the hole, but after noticing the apex of his jump being nowhere near as tall with the weight of the caravan, you decide to knock Sserpico off the Vlad-Mobile with a shoulder bash.
With the servant's survival instincts kicking in, he catches Merlina's cloak with his hands as it forms a noose around your neck, pulling you off your mount as you both fell onto the crevice below.
The black horse nearly slams onto a 70 degree angle before galloping in place for several minutes, coming very close to sliding off as most of your items fell with them. Jodi nearly went inside the hole too if Hyde didn't have the brawn to pick her up and leave the carriage, making it light enough for Gunpowder to go up and escape his untimely death.
Serpico falls first, him and his sword passing right through a thin fissure where it would forever stay lost. Your fall on the other hand, was a lot less stylish.
You attempted to land on your feet, but your armor made the force of the impact hit you twofold, your left ankle twisting as you kneeled right over a wet colloid of quicksand. Soon enough, the only thing that wasn't covered in mud was your face, and that's because you shot your neck as high as it could go.
"SERPICOOOO!" Azan's shouts are heard from above, but you don't really expect the Iron Chain knights to be carrying around 4 meters of rope around to take 2 idiots out of the tightest wormhole in the land, so you'll be staying that way for a while.
"So what were you saying about donning a mask and overcoming grievances?" Serpico mocks you for underestimating him. "You know, capes are very counter-intuitive in a 1v1 battle, someone who fights dirty can easily use them against you, there's also the possibility of it getting stuck somewhere, like in a mud pit."
"Oh, like I wanna hear it from the guy who walks around with Farnese 'put a miniature angel on my helm for tactical advantage' De Vandimion. At least mine is closed off..."
