Balke pov

  Closing my eyes , I felt Lappnd hand tighten tighter and tighter on my wrists . Feeling the pain I was already ready for anything when suddenly I heard the muffled growl of Lappnd who suddenly let go of me .

  Opening my eyes I seize the opportunity , with the help of my elbows I crawl back far enough to hit my back with a tree . Against whiext I sat down to catch my breath .

  Being in further shock a sudden touy shoulders makes me regain the ability to think clearly . Looking to the side I see that the person holding me is Trifa , who looks at Lappnd who was now standing alone surrounded by ten people in white fang uniforms , who stood arou a distance of about twenty meters .

  Trifa " Bke is not injured , it's just shock ".

  Says Trifa turning to Adam who is standing separately from the group surrounding Lappnd .

  Adam: " It's really disgusting that you did something like that to someone who is like a sister to you ".

  Says Adam with clear disgust in his voice disgusted by Lappnd's behavior . He then looks at me , through his mask I 't tell what he is thinking however his look makes me cover my mouth with my forearm realizing what happened .

  ' Everyone has seen it , but it looks like everyohinks it is another quirk of Lappnd and not something more .'

  Thinking I look at how everyone in the group surrounding Lappnd are holding long poles at the end of which are long wires made of steel ed in loops . Through the rain falling oeel wire I see arcs of electricity showing that they are under high voltage . On the belt of some of the people surrounding Lappnd I also find whips and ropes .

  This is not what Adam mentioned when telling his pn , but at that moment I was too shocked by all that was happening or just surprised by the developments od this situation to remember the pn accurately .

  Lappnd : " Shut up . I don't want to hear it from someone like you."

  Said Lappnd in a cold tone as she stood in the rain , a single fsh of lightning lit up the sky behind her . At this time, the wind with a loud noise shook the entire forest. Uned with her surroundings , Lappnd looked around at the people surrounding her , firming familiar faces in them .

  Lappnd: "I see people from the a at the mine , no wonder I'm having " halluations " ."

  Said sarcastically Lappnd under her breath when her gaze fell on Trifa and two other people around .

  Lappnd: " So even the people on my team are after my skin ? ..... Traitors .... ."

  Said Lappnd with her teeth ched with anger when suddenly the sound of thunder , from the st lightning spread through the forest stopping her in her words and making her ears twitched only to fall on her wet head .

  As cute as her ears might be her eyes filled with fury and madness directed straight at Adam caused instinctive terror in my body . Lappnd did not even look at me but heless her tracted pupils and exposed teeth frightened me and some other faunus around .

  Suddenly Lappnd's eyelids tracted gently as she furrowed her eyebrows as she slowly looked towards the forest from which a fhanus with bat wings flew out .

  ' I know him Adam often talked about him I think his name was .... Yura , Yuma'

  I wonder as I see the tension in the group diminishing. The guy clearly did not care about Lappnd's gaze as he simply without looking at her approached Adam whispering something in his ear .Listening to Yuma , Adam does not take his eyes off Lappnd which stared at both of them.

  Lappnd: " So Sienna doesn't even know about what you are doing ? "

  Asks an amused Lappnd apparently hearing parts of their versation . Even though I already know this, still knowing that Sienna the leader doesn't know what we are doing here makes me worry .

  However Adam as well as the rest of the people gathered they look like it didn't matter . Everyone just tio stand there uned about what they were doing .

  Adam : " I know that many will call it treason but it is for the good of all " .

  Said Adam with seriousness on his face all the while loosely holding his hand on his bde tucked in his scabbard.

  Lappnd: " I think it's for your own good . But it doesn't matter , now I don't have the right to my own opinion ."

  Said Lappnd pulling her sling when perfectly at the same time anhtning bolt stru the distance illuminating the entire clearing. However , the moment ahunder came , her ears trembled again .

  ' Lappnd has always beeive to sound , so Adam decided to use the long-annouorm to fuse Lappnd's sense of smell and hearing . And it worked Lappnd did not sense or hear the ambush due to the fact that she probably had to focus oorm in the distance or simply the storm must have overshadowed the ambient sounds . The disfort of the sound alone will help disorient her .'

  Thinking about this I get up with the help of Trifa who then because of my weak legs helped me lean against a tree .Seeing me uo eve up Trifa sighed .

  Trifa :" Bke you should leave . We uand your itment but Lappnd was like a sister to you , so it is uandable that you want to leave ."

  Says Trifa with a calm smile , theing go of me she walks closer to the group surrounding Lappnd leaving me alone . Of course there is no way that I will leave them gathering I take a deep breath and pushing away from the tree I walk closer despite the fact that I feel in my bohe o leave .

  Adam : " Move away Bke , I uand that you want to help however this situation is too personal for you ."

  Says Adam very strongly urgio leave, however, despite his thick skin, I sense his worry in his voice makiop in my steps . In the end apparently Adam has everything under trol . While before I thought I would be able to help them with this now I am not so sure . In the end no matter how much I would curse Lappnd ... that kiss .

  Makes me realize that somewhere deep down this monster is Lappy. No matter how she ged it's the same face . It's that stupid Lappdumb whiow is dead and I have to bury her myself . As now there is only animal that ed her .

  Lappnd: " Stay Bke , for once have ce and stay until the end ."

  Says Lappnd with a maniacal smile when suddenly there is disfort apear on her face . Looking at her previously stabbed leg , Lappnd using a healthy hand pull out a broken piece of needle from her thigh which apparently broke during all this . Appling the tip of the broken needle under her nose Lappnd is apparently sniff its st .

  Lappnd: " Poison ."

  Lappnd says with plete seriousness . Hearing about poison, I feel momentarily fused. Casting the needle aside Lappnd look at me . In her eyes surprisingly I see her anger nor betrayal .

  Lappnd simply looked at me and, notig my rea to her words, sighed and simpli pulled out her bdes . Returning to the thought I already wao deny it that this is another of her nonse surprisingly Adam spoke up first .

  Adam : " Unfortunately we both know very well that the medical ways of incapacitating you will not be very effective . I know it may be overkill but it is the only solution that will prevent a fight , don't worry I have an antidote to help you . Ultimately, no one wants your death . "

  Says Adam in a strangely mysterious tone pletely as if there was something else underh this shog fession of his . The fact that I poisoned Lappnd even if not iionally hit me strangely harder than I expected and even though Adam's words calmed me down a little bit I still felt a little cheated by his ck of siy .

  Lappnd: " Don't act like anyone is buying this crap except Bke . Poison will take a while to knock me down and then I will be dying . You just want to inflict as much pain on me as possible . You're just a snake Adam . I don't care about this antidote , we both know that I'd rather die than live again by someone's mercy much less yours . "

  Says Lappnd spitting out saliva tinged with dark blood on the ground after that Lappnd licks her lips dyeing them a simir scarlet and at that moment everyone was already sure how it would end . Someone is going to die here .

  Lappnd: "Of the two of us you are the one who needs others to survive. You are the twit who cries when he is denied . You've always been like this you're angry because I don't hold the same values as you , it hurts you that no matter what you do you 't get me to work with you."

  Lappnd: "I am already dead inside , I am messed up. I'm just waiting for my death the question is whether you are ready for it . Because no matter what you are ing with me today along with the rest of your helpers . And you Tryfia , you bitch I will drag you with me to the grave by your hair ."

  Says Lappnd pletely indifferent to Adam's words aimiwo bdes at him as if firming her point .

  Lappnd: " I hated you from the first time I saw you . However, I could never kill you because of Bke but today it doesn't matter anymore ...... To be ho I should have just killed you at the very beginning . Then perhaps everything would have been different ."

  Lappnd: " I don't reatment , I want someone who will finally put me to sleep . In the end even you don't want me anymore Balke so I no longer have a purpose . I just wanted your dream world to bee true . I wao defend you from the truth however ..... I k would end like this ! You are all ungrateful liars. "

  Says Lappnd with a calm smile on her lips whose charm pletely destroys the look of her bloodshot eyes whose pupils were dited as if after some drugs.

  Bke : " Stop !!!! Everyone just wants to help you ..... you for ohink and calm down !!! Act like a normal thinking being !!!"

  I shouted like an idiot pletely ign the fact that Adam with the help of my hands poisoned Lappnd . But Lappnd at that moment did not answer me she just closed her eyes for a moment as if she listening or thinking after which she began to ugh . That awful hoarse ughter that sinks into your ears , spreads on the wind throughout the forest.

  Everyone was silent listening to the ughter which apparently was Lappnd's st remnant of healthy sciousness esg . The ughter eventually turned int and when Lappnd opened her eyes her pupils shrunk to the size of a pihe now familiar to me silver glow came out of her eyes along with her tears .

  Lappnd: " Isn't that something that is normal for you , that is normal for everyone ? Big bad Lappnd , monster , murderer . Scapegoat , the only oo bear the bme . A person so bad that she aloarhe reputation of the entire anization . "

  Lappnd : " This is me Balke , this is the norm for me . This is me !!! So go ahead and fuck yourself already !!!!! You want to see the mohen I'll show it to you !!!! "

  Shouted Lappnd in total anguish tensing her whole body . Knowing what it meant I only sand throw herself towards Adam leaving behind two silver lines ing from her eyes .

  The distance of twenty meters was closed immediately . A single fanus with gray scaly skin standing in the way of Lapped immediately by pushing with electrified sticks like a spear towards her .

  However, Lappnd with her eyes all the time directed at Adam jumped up .Pg one leg on the spar Lappnd used her to stand on the head of the faunus from which she then leaped into the air while simultaneously rotating the bdes in such a way as to catch them in a reverse grip .

  When the huge soundless pilr of light hit the ground it illumihe figure of Lappnd who , holding the bdes in a reverse grip , glided at Adam who , holding the strong hilt of his katana , leaned forward , while putting one foot back . Despite how fast it happened I had the impression at the time that Adam was smiling .

  I saw him looking directly at Lappnd as ay grew in my heart but suddenly after the st huge thundercp came it sound wave , so loud that despite the fact that I do not have some special super hearing I felt disfort .

  Si had su effee, it was no different from Lappnd who, despite not showing a rea, pletely failed to notice or deliberately overlooked the Yuma who came from the side and, spinning around his own axis in the air, delivered a powerful spinning kick, into the ribs of Lappnd who flew out of the air .

  Hitting the muddy ground with a bang , Lappnd rolled through the mud. Finally regaining her bance Lappnd stopped crouched on one kh her head still poi Adam . Such a blow would never have been enough to injure Lappnd's one and only her ued injuries meant that even the aura did not help her .

  With blood leaking from her nose and mouth, Lappnd smiled when a sudderified steel noose ut through her head. Before the noose was tightened around her neck Lappnd ged her grip on the bdes and then she raised both bdes making them e between her ned the wire stopping them at a safe distance .