The Third Law

*Proofreader : Tsu*

"Fucking die!" Melting Love said, arching her fist back and punching Koko. In response, he raises both of his arms up to block the attack. However, the impact was so powerful that Koko slid back from his previous position.

Both sides know that the fight could end immediately if Melting Love just swallowed Koko whole and assimilate him. Melting love, though, refused to do so. Just out of pure disgust from the thought of having him as a part of her.

That and she wanted to beat the crap out of him.

**Meanwhile, about 5 minutes ago at the Bismuth Heart HQ**

“Angela, are you okay now? Angela?” Rev asked, raising an eyebrow at Angela.

“Just give me a second” replied Angela, who was laid down on the floor. Gazing at the ceiling with a blank look. Slowly, she started sitting up while regaining her composure.

“So, why did you suddenly have a breakdown? I mean… it’s okay if you don’t want to tell.”

“It’s not that suicidal hug addict that’s giving me a seizure” Angela sighed. “It’s his adoptive father. You know him to be Zia the Furry. He’s the one giving me a seizure.” Rev raised an eyebrow, “Isn’t he your so--”

“We don’t talk about that” cutting her off, Angela deadpanned at Revelyn.

“Oh, sorry, but… what do you mean by suicidal? He seemed like the happy and wholesome type, not that.”

Angela nodded, "Oh yeah, I didn't tell you much about the past of Zia children didn't I? I guess it's time for a backstory,It begun long time ago...like, really fucking long ago. Around that time alchemy start to spread and people were experimented like crazy. I say about 2000 year ago, give or take 3 decades. There were many empires that had strings attracted by their religions. You know, the usual human stuff. One of them is called "Sukhonachor" which has economic inequality as high as it can get, while being governed by an idoitic totally-corrupted government. So, I can say that place was quite already doomed. There was a slum that empire where our huggy boi were born. As you can guess, he was a street thief and sandbag to local authority."

Revelyn raised an eyebrow, "That’s dark. So, that was really Koko?"

Nodding, Angela continued, "Yes, and we are about to reach the tipping point of the entire story. By god's whim or maybe just his sheer edginess. Some meme essence inside him got unlocked, which grants him equally edgy ability dubbed ‘Kammuna Vattati Loko’."

At first, it seems to be an ability to take anyone’s life, as in time left before death and then adding them to your own. The effect works on anyone who has harmed him. And can you guess how many people already harmed him adding to that time?"

"I...don't like where this is going."

"You shouldn’t. I think he sucked every guard’s life out first in his local area. Next were the debt collectors and chief collectors. And my favorite, the shit-fests of ignorance; the nobel leech that were unfortunately having a wild party in the nearby vicinity."

"That...still sounds like a vigilant work."

"Yes, I do suppose that was what he set out to do with that ability at first. But it was right around this time that william decided to shake his spear."

“People started to condemn him as a vampire."

And as you might know, fear in that time is highly contagious, especially for some anti-religion cryptic. He became a walking nightmare. And everyone started to actually try to kill him. Be it out of actual fear, greed for fame and greed from bounty or pure foolish hero tendency. Kings, nobles, soldiers, adventurers, normal people but worst of all, his friends and family attempted to murder him."

This made him something beyond furious and he went on a massive rampage...no... genocide is appropriate on that one. Funnily enough, no one in the entire population of that place can figure out how his power worked. That goes to show how bad their education system is and how idiotic they are."

The End result? It’s just like how Melting Love consumes city-worth of lives like breakfast, he sucked every life in the empire. A single man destroyed an entire empire."

Revelyn looked at Koko on the screen then looked back at Angela with a face of pure disbelief.

“Upon realizing that there is no one alive to murderfuck anymore. Which is like the moment when one anger management session is over, he got his sanity back and remembered every killing montage that happen. Ironically, this made him go insane again and stab himself in the hope of suicide."

However, since he basically had a shit ton of extra life thanks to how he sucked all of them from the entire country. He didn’t die. He stabbed himself again this time in the head. It’d knock himself out for a couple of seconds but he was still alive. Sliding into even deeper madness, the following days he done nothing but trying to kill himself by non-stop exsanguination, bashing his head against the rock or any hard thing and anything else in his vicinity including some gnarly stuff like having venomous snake bite him."

Around this time, it was when Zia founded him. Immediately upon their first meeting, Koko attacked Zia in hope of forcing Zia to kill him. Which he did...but then he was alive again. About 30 kills later, Zia find Koko’s ability to be interesting and fascinating. So he decides to adopt Koko to become one of his children. As to HOW he did that, even I don’t know myself. My best guess would be that he rolls nat 20 on his charisma and persuasion check."

After that is likely the world longest and hardest rehabilitation ever complete in the entire history of life itself."

"Woah...Finally some good stuff."

"Finally, after he completes the rehabilitation, Zia decided to let him have a normal life that everyone should have. Letting him live in a normal society again. That’s the last thing I know about him ...wait ...oh...Ohhhh…!"

"W...what is it Angela?"

"After recalling the report of the situation we are in right now. I just realized something."

"Ey?"

"You see, while that rehabilitation happened. We discovered the true nature of his ability and how its quirks work."

On the screen, Rev saw Koko get punched many times by Melting love. But he still gets up and try to hug her.

"First, this ability can work in a reverse fashion.

If you’ve done something good to Koko. He can in turn choose to give equal amount of life to you. But since there are so much karma you have done to him, it's often looked upon like a healing spell. The person who Koko can potentially dump his extra life to the most is Zia. But he refused.

Then again, the boon you get from saving and redeeming a life of mad murderer is still not that much compared to the amount of sin that entire fucking kingdom had done to him.

Another quirk to this reverse trade is that he can’t just force someone to do good things to him, or even to tell them that they will get extra life from doing good things to him since actions can only be considered as good action only: if it’s something they did it themselves without other people ordering them to do it and without the thought of getting something in return.

Now think to yourself how many time people done something like it? Can you just go to some random people and hope they will do something good for you without hoping for something in return?"

"That’s...hmm…"

"The truth is...it’s easier to do bad things than good things. Now, My hypothesis is that he joined that secret lab thing in hope of creating the Panacea which is the equivalent of end-all-world-suffering...if it succeeds, there will be many people that will be thankful to him and undoubtedly try to help him without them hoping anything in return since, in a sense, he already did that with inventing panacea. With how many in that instance will happen plus the fact that he has all the time in the world, it would be possible that can give out enough extra life to the point he will have none left!"

This whole shebang is just an over-convoluted way for Koko to commit die!"

"Ehhhhh?!?!?!"

"And...there is also another thing about this ability…"

Meanwhile...back at Salem…

"HYAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

Melting Love grabbed Koko and savagely slammed Koko many times against the ground and ending it with a punch so powerful that it blows Koko’s body away. He rolled on the floor several meters before hitting a rock so hard it exploded.

Surprisingly, Koko body was still intact....but definitely had some bones shatter. He was bleeding out pretty badly.

"What can you do huh? NOTHING! ALL YOU DO IS SWEET TALK AND HUG!! You are a fool, brother...a foolish human...while I am inevitable. Now... die."

"Yeah, That was the plan from the beginning. I’ll die by my own hands, that’s the fate of the murderer who mercilessly wiped out the entire country."

"...what?"

"Sister...I will tell you about my true ability. You said my body is durable. But it’s not the only extent of it. It’s way much worse and horrible. It’s a power that shouldn’t be in the hands of mortal like me. Listen well…"

Angela spoke in sync with Koko for the dramatic effect.

**Kammuna Vattati Loko - All beasts are as their karma directed**

**[กมฺมุนา วตฺตตี โลโก - สัตว์โลกย่อมเป็นไปตามกรรม]**

"It’s an ability to **choose and force** the **exchange** of something **equal** between user and someone else. The catch is “something” in this context is or at-least can be “**Karma**” for one side of the trade. Life force is the easiest thing to trade…"

"But life force is not the only thing tradable."

Koko raised his hand...revealing that he was holding the Philosopher's Stone.

Melting Love face suddenly turned grim. She quickly groped and look around her own body. But it was gone! Her face was now expressing her sheer horror...The Philosopher's Stone...had been exchanged!

Koko : Lastly...**Hi inevitable**... **I’m koko.**

Melting Love try to rush toward Koko but it’s of no use...Koko smiled...as he used the other hand to snap the finger. A brilliant shine appeared. Consuming everything in the horizon.

Everything...white...