Charles received his usual kiss on the cheek of the loop but his attention was elsewhere.

  "If I arrive 43 seconds later, Arthur lives 32 seconds longer.

  That is enough."

  This is his 15th loop and he started following a pattern like a game.

  He only changed the choices where he made mistake.

  According to his calculations, he only needs to survive 17 more seconds for the man with bucket to arrive.

  All his plans relied on a single thing.

  Arrival of the bucket man.

  He was so busy calculating time, he didn't even realize where he was at the moment.

  And he found himself fighting the monster he has been fighting for hours now.

  All three of the heroes were exhausted but were still working like a machine.

  Their strategy has also changed and evolved with the loops.

  This new strategy is simple, since they can't keep dodging forever and will eventually get hit.

  They have decided that they will try their best to not get hit but when they fail, water man will come between the fist and the hero who is about to get hit.

  This will reduce the speed of the punch and its intensity since the fist has to travel in a dense medium.

  So only 30% of the impact gets delivered.

  Even that 30% is enough to make the heroes pass out for a second.

  With this strategy they fought even if they were bruised and battered.

  And finally, they had lived for the 17 more seconds.

  When the creature's punch knocked Arthur unconscious, they saw a tall figure across the road.

  The strongest man alive.

  Bucket Man.

  Without hesitation, he leaped forward and smashed the creature into a building.

  Without waiting for a second, the bucket man leaped at the creature and smashed it on a building.

  Hero of hell ( another name of Hell's last soldier) found himself laughing at the craziness this night has shown him.

  Beside him, he saw water man crying.

  Maybe he thought the bucket man would never arrive and they will die fighting.

  But finally, the moment has arrived and everything is going to be fine.

  Or is it?

  Hero of hell felt weird watching bucket man.

  Bucket man was fighting as if he had never fought before in his life.

  Even the way he was punching felt awkward.

  After exchanging blows for a few seconds, the creature grabbed bucket man's fist and slammed his bucket on the ground.

  Grabbing him by his bucket, the creature threw him in the sky.

  Before creature's fist could land, hero of hell's axe hit the creature and all of its attention was on the man in red wielding an axe.

  The creature grabbed the car beside him and ripped a gate out of it.

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  Hero of hell was running away as fast as he could.

  Suddenly he hit a rock and fell on the ground.

  When he looked up, his eyes widened and he looked at the creature in disbelief.

  He had finally understood the creature's ability when he saw the shape of gate on the wall in front of him.

  He finally understood when he saw the shape of the gate embedded into the wall.

  The creature's ability was simple and horrifying.

  Whatever object it threw erased anything it touched from existence.

  The object itself vanished from the universe too.

  That's why, in one loop, his legs had disappeared without a weapon in sight.

  Hero of hell finally understood the gravity of situation he was in .

  The creature was stronger and smarter than he thought.

  The heroes are tired and can't hurt the creature unless they learn the concept of energy somehow.

  And finally, the man everyone was waiting for in every loop and the man who knows the concept of energy is acting differently and is not guaranteed to return.

  Before he even got the chance to formulate a plan, he found creature's fist in his chest.

  He saw his own reflection in the eyes of the creature doing something he thought he will not have to do now.

  He saw a man killing himself with tears in his eyes.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Charles woke up.

  "Couldn't sleep?" his wife asked.

  Finally, the shell broke.

  Tears were falling without stopping.

  " Why ? Why ? Why ?

  I suffered so much and waited for the longest time for him.

  So why?

  Why was bucket man acting different?

  Why was bucket man defeated so easily when he has never been defeated?

  Why can't I save anyone?

  Why am I so weak?"

  While he cried his heart out, he was in his wife's arms who did not ask even a single question.

  Finally, when he stopped crying, she puts her hand on his forehead.

  " Everything's going to be ok."

  In her embrace he felt so safe that all the exhaustion hits him and he passed out in her arms.

  " WAKE UP.....

  WAKE UP CHARLES

  PLEASE..

  WAKE UP "

  he slowly opened his eyes and saw his wife in panic.

  She was saying something, but he was too sleepy to understand what she was saying.

  But he noticed she was constantly pointing out of the window, so he rolled his eyes and looked out of the window.

  He saw smoke.

  Smoke was all he could see.

  When he understood what he meant, he finally woke up.

  " For how long did I sleep? " He asked while grabbing his wife's shaking hand.

  " 1 hour may be "

  He understood that all the heroes had lost and it took around 1 hour for the creature to reach from that place to his home while destroying everything.

  " What do we do now?" His wife cried out.

  Hero of hell was mentally unstable right now since all of his strategies relied on the arrival of bucket man.

  He was able to stay sane because he had hoped that once the bucket man would arrive, he will fix everything.

  His wife felt the grip on her hand getting tighter and she couldn't believe the words she heard next.

  " Let's enjoy the view." he said quietly.

  " What ? " His wife replied in disbelief, horrified.

  " There is nothing we can do so we might as well enjoy the view of that bastard killing everyone."

  The hands which were caressing him few minutes ago slapped his face now.

  " How can you even say that? That's not you. Charles would never say that"

  " WHAT DO YOU WANT TO HEAR THEN, HUH?

  I will save everyone. so, relax my beautiful wife.

  NO

  no.....

  I can't save anyone. I am weak, I am pathetic

  I am a liar too...

  I can't keep my promise to you.

  I will not return back to you."

  After saying this, he covered his wife in crimson by cutting his own neck in front of her.

  The look on her face was horrifying. Even though he was emotionally unstable, seeing her like that broke him even further.

  He became ashamed of himself.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  Tick.

  I opened my eyes and looked at the location of my wife.

  She wasn't there.

  Wait.

  Where am I?

  This is not my room.

  In fear I rushed everywhere and by mistake saw a glimpse of myself.

  I was not myself.

  I was a different person.

  Before I could grasp the reality, the windows opened automatically and I saw stars surrounding a green planet.

  I found my room surrounding that green planet.

  I was in a spaceship.

  The silence kept getting louder and louder until finally I couldn't handle it and screamed to hear something.

  Anything.

  After shouting when I felt a little better, I decided to leave the room and explore further.

  When I walked, suddenly the door opened automatically and I started levitating.

  I was moving automatically and finally I stopped in front of a bar.

  The doors of the bar opened and I entered it.

  It was strangely beautiful because of the view of vast space the bartender has behind him .

  The bartender was not an organic species. The bartender was made it steel and other elements I don't know about.

  Automatically I moved to the seat in front of bartender and sat on the seat.

  The bartender took a bottle from below the desk and poured the liquid in a cup and served it to me.

  " No, I don't want to drink."

  " It's from the customer beside you."

  I looked beside me and a streetlight was sitting beside me.

  It wasn't there before.

  I swear if I would have noticed if it was here before.

  I felt bartender's cold metallic arm on my shoulder.

  " Will you not thank the kind man?"

  And automatically my seat moved and we were so close to each other that I could feel the warmth of the streetlight.

  The head of streetlight tilted towards me

  " No need to thank me. Just enjoy the drink.....

  Charles "

  My eyes widened and every fiber in my body screamed me to run away from him.

  His hand which was made of thin wires grabbed the cup I was holding.

  " Relax and drink. We have a lot to chat"