Surviving as the Second Main Lead: Second Lead's POV

The bird continued to defend Horas for the time being but that did not ensure his safety. He was still not allowed to go out into the terrace and had to wait for the bird to loosen its vigilance.

Every time Horas tried to take a step, the bird boss ended up being in his way. He was stuck between two beings who wanted to see him suffer.

“Alright fine. You want me to keep your human alive, right? Then will you behave if I promise not to kill him?”

The brown-haired guy finally relented and the bird boss let out a thrilled sound. It picked up Horas by the back of his hoodie and started to move him inside again. The stupid bird might have just saved Horas’s life.

He was deposited into the bed again and the bird was looking after him when the building alarm sounded.

It startled the bird and the brown-haired boss who had not expected this to happen. They looked panicked before the boss pulled himself together and looked at Horas in horror.

“You! How did you do it? How did you manage to make the others alert about this place?”

The brown-haired man looked bewildered by what just happened. There was a thrilled look in his eyes and Horas was suddenly reminded of a maniac.

“Looks like you had more tricks up your sleeve than I initially thought. How fascinating it is to meet someone like you. Show me how you did it-”

Even if Horas wanted to take a step back, there was nowhere for him to go back to. His back was already facing the wall and his side was covered by the bird boss at his side.

The alarm was much louder than before now and the brown-haired man finally looked pissed off. Horas had a feeling that his chance was about to come now.

“Well, this is getting annoying right now. Oi, chicken, it’s time for you to prove yourself useful right now and get rid of the intruders for me.”

The bird boss seemed not to want to leave Horas alone, but then the brown-haired man pulled out a small device from his pocket, causing the bird to flinch and fly off. It seemed like the brown-haired guy did have a way to control the bird boss.

“Ugh, so annoying. That bird is big and strong, but he’s also a pain in the neck if it decided to be your enemy. How did you even get it to behave in front of you?”

The brown-haired man who had taken Horas hostage questioned. He did not look even a little bit nervous after holding Horas hostage. There was fear of getting mugged or hurt by Horas in this man.

“How did you control a monster like the bird boss? Are you even human?”

Horas could not help but question the humanity of this person. He did not have any mana but he was still controlling monsters. It must be because of some kind of device Horas had never heard of before.

“Hmm, you like it? It took me a long time to develop the technology needed to control the dungeon bosses. Of course, I also needed a lot of manpower and external help. Are you curious?”

The brown-haired man asked in a teasing voice. It seemed as if he had a lot of secrets and he was baiting Horas so hard with his teasing tone and hidden meanings. If possible, Horas would have liked to know more.

‘But I need to survive first. I don’t think I will live very long if I do not escape now.”

Horas knew how fast things could get ugly so he got ready to run away. As soon as he made his move, the brown-haired man realized it as well.

“Oh no, you don’t. Don’t you dare think you will be able to give me the slip?”

The brown-haired man yelled and blocked Horas’s step. But what he did not take into account was that Horas had recovered his mana by now.

10/100 - that was how much mana Horas had right now. And he raised his gun with confidence.

“It was fun knowing you. Sorry, but you’ll have to go down now.”

The brown-haired man looked startled as soon as Horas raised his gun. He tried to step back but Horas fired his gun. It was quite a low amount of energy, almost negligible at this point.

It caused the bullet to penetrate right through the brown-haired man’s shoulder, making him immobile.

Horas started running away as soon as he noticed an opening. Horas had been looking for. He ran for his freedom, followed behind by a bleeding human.

“W-Wait a minute. I will not allow you to run away. My f-future will not be lost-”

Horas did not care how interesting the brown-haired guy was right now. It was important for him to live first.

He finally escaped into the terrace since it was the only place that connected with the outside. That place had the best chances for Horas to escape.

The sound of the sighting reached his ears as soon as he exited the building. He looked down to see the retrieval team fighting with the bird boss. But there were two very familiar figures mixed in as well.

‘Nesh is here…..and Howard as well. What were the dungeon operatives thinking letting a rookie in here?’

Horas could not help but marvel at the stupidity of the dungeon association. They had really let a rookie gamble his life by fighting with the boss.

It had to be because Howard was the protagonist and he needed certain events to strengthen himself up. This had been an important battle in the original novel.

“You little- I will show you why you should not have messed with me.”

There was something weird with the brown-haired man who followed after Horas. He was still bleeding heavily but his wound had a black substance oozing out of it which did not look like blood.

The identity of that black liquid struck Horas all of a sudden and he went stiff.

“Demon blood? Did you inject yourself with the demon blood? Are you an idiot?”

Horas could not help but yell those words out. A taboo had been broken in front of him and it left him speechless. He should not have been as surprised since this was a world of fiction and taboos were made to be broken here.

But Horas lived in this world right now and it was his first time facing such a thing.

“Ha…haha….hahahaha you think that me injecting myself with demon blood is something that great? You have not seen anything in your life right now then. You don’t know the true nature of our powers and this world.”

It was surprising for Horas to hear these words.

As the creator of this world, Horas was the one person who had the most knowledge about this world. But this person in front of Horas was calling him ignorant. There could be no bigger insult to Horas than this.

But the weird thing was, Horas could not refute these words. He had realized early on that he did not know everything about this world. So he wanted to know what this bronw0haired man knew.

‘Will it help me go back home? Should I take this risk?’

That was right. Horas had not given up his hope to back home even now. He still wanted to go back home and forget this world as a bad nightmare he had.

“Are you interested to know more? Here, take my hand and I will tell you all about this world and what you need to know about it.”

Horas had to admit that he was tempted to take that offer. He wanted to know more about this world.

But the demon blood was putting him off right now. He did not want to come in contact with demons and attract their attention. It was calling for something bad to happen.

“Thanks for your offer but I’m afraid that I cannot take it right now. You should try it next time we meet.”

With those words spoken, Horas threw himself from the top of the terrace. He knew he had been spotted by Nesh already and she had the means to save him.

“Nesh, you better catch me properly if you do not want to face my fury later on.”

Horas yelled even as he was falling. His body was about to hit the ground when it was caught in a web of strings. He had been saved by Nesh and her strings.

“Whew, I managed to catch you right on time, huh? But can you stop pulling such dangerous stunts all the time? You are shaving years off my life like this.”

Nesh complained as she gently let Horas down. He was unsteady when his feet touched the ground but Horas managed to ready himself finally.

As soon as he had steadied himself, a drop of black acidic blood fell right where he had been standing and corroded the ground. But there was no signs of anyone standing on top of the terrace.

And then the bird boss noticed Horas and decided to make a move.