NOVEL WEB Chapter 13: We'll bring you down instead
The bullet comments went wild, a barrage of disbelief, panic, and confusion erupting like a digital storm across the floating spectator screens.
[MagicSimps69420]: WTF IS HE DOING?!
[CultivatorGamer42]: bro just declared war on a top bloodline family?!
[DemonicXxBabe]: is this a death wish or performance art???
[SutterfouseFan69]: STOP IT YOU'LL KILL US ALL
[OniSlayerKun]: man really said "fun" and now it's over for everyone
[GrandpaCult999]: i haven't seen madness like this since the crimson moon uprising
[NoWorryMan]: reply to [DemonicXxBabe] - No it's not, since he claims he's the strongest.
Vonjo stood at the center of the sandy area, backlit by the fractured beams of crimson arena light.
He looked completely calm, almost serene, even as the madness in his eyes danced like wildfire. His arms hung lazily by his sides, his hair ruffled from the wind of earlier combat.
His robe was still stained with blood, but it added to the spectacle, to the image, like war paint on a prophet of chaos.
Then, he laughed.
It wasn't a booming laugh. It wasn't maniacal. It was casual. Cruel. A chuckle, soft and amused like someone watching a child trip into a puddle.
"Why won't I bring the family down?" Vonjo said aloud, as if the answer was self-evident, as if he had been asked politely why he wanted to burn down an empire. "Where's the fun if I don't?"
His voice echoed with such conviction, the crowd couldn't tell if they were witnessing the fall of a man or the rise of something far more terrifying.
He took a step forward, then another, the dirt crunching beneath his feet. He opened his arms like a preacher giving a sermon.
"Think about it! Look at them! So proud, so self-righteous, so above it all. The great House of Sutterfouse! But here I am, just some crazy abandoned bastard grinning at the idea of watching their reputation crumble, watching their heads roll on the same sand they used to walk on like kings!"
[UnicornBrothel: who TF is this guy
[MunchMunchDagger: is he serious?
[EmoSwordwaifu: i think i'm in love??
[Number1SutterSimp: THIS IS BLASPHEMY, BUT I'M NOT SURE HE IS.
Vonjo's words were like oil poured onto a roaring flame. He wasn't raising accusations, he was making declarations—each seemed like more outrageous than the last.
"I don't even need a reason!" he shouted. "Why should I need one? You think I want revenge? That I lost a lover? A brother? Nah. No, no, no! I'm not doing this because I'm hurt. I'm doing this because it feels good! Not right? Because someone needs to do it? Someone needs to knock them down? No! I'm going to do it because it's gonna be fun!"
The two Sutterfouse heirs standing across from him began to change.
Slowly, like a tremor rolling beneath the earth before the explosion.
The tall one-armed man's cursed energy pulsed erratically, red veins creeping across his skin like cracks in porcelain.
The round-faced man's aura ballooned with tension, his hands trembling not with fear but with a rage so palpable even the Hell Hound at his side began to shrink away, whimpering low.
And Vonjo saw it. He knew it. This was the moment. Not when he was going to kill them. Not when he bested them in combat earlier. No—this was the moment he'd shine. This was the act.
Because if he simply killed them, it would be quick. It would be expected. But if he humiliated them, if he enraged them into breaking their family's sacred composure, into violating every doctrine and vow of control they were raised with… that would be hatred.
The target of hatred?
It would be him!
And Vonjo, would plan to receive them all! All of it! And if he receives all of it? That's the show off that the system wanted.
"Come on you two," Vonjo whispered with a grin, "Show them everything you got or the Sutterfouse would take them all!"
[xxCrowFangxx]: WAIT… is he doing it on purpose???
[JujutsuLoreNerd88]: OMG HE'S PROVOKING THEM THAT'S WHY
[SkellyBoi2000]: bro wants to die stylishly
[SutterfouseReaderGirl]: in the novel it says… THEY NEVER TOLERATE INSULTS TO THE FAMILY. MAYBE HE'S DOING IT ON PURPOSE, BUT WHY WOULD HE DO THAT?
And then, boom. It just happened.
The tall man's cursed energy flared violently, spiraling upward like a cyclone of hatred.
His eyes turned bloodshot, and his one remaining hand clenched so tight his knuckles cracked audibly.
The round-faced man's aura began to burn like black flame, consuming the ground around him, his Hell Hound skittering backward with its tail between its legs.
"You… want to bring the family down?" the tall one growled, his voice like the edge of a blade being drawn. "You really want to disgrace us? You want to drag us into the dirt… for fun?"
"Yes," Vonjo said simply, rolling his shoulders, looking to the heavens with arms wide. "Wouldn't that be delightful? That's the way of life."
"You want the House of Sutterfouse to fall?" the round-faced one spat, his voice trembling with barely contained fury.
Vonjo chuckled again. "I want to see what color your pride bleeds when it dies."
That did it.
"Then why don't we bring you down? Right here. Right now!" the round-faced one screamed.
Vonjo would grin, "If you can…"
The crowd exploded.
In the real world, some screamed, some laughed in panic out of their houses and apartments, some ran toward the exits, others just stood frozen at the series. Because they realized what was happening.
Vonjo had triggered the unthinkable: a Sutterfouse blood feud declaration. And inside the underground arena, that meant no rules.
And yet, Vonjo didn't flinch.
They attacked.
Blades of cursed energy, fire whips, blood needles, and sonic bursts were unleashed in a chaotic maelstrom from both heirs, the arena being torn to shreds by the unfiltered wrath of the Sutterfouse bloodline. But Vonjo only threw his arms wider, his head back, his laughter now maniacal.
"YEAH!! MORE!! GIVE IT YOUR ALL!! DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER TO TAKE MY LIFE!!"
[LiveLeakCultBattle]: HES FCKIN SCREAMING WHILE THEY TRY TO KILL HIM??
[ZodiacPunchBoi]: he's eating this like it's ice cream bro 💀💀
[EpicClanxShadow69]: no defense jutsu, nothing he just STANDING THERE!
The tall man shouted through gritted teeth, his eyes seething. "You claim… you have the strongest ability of the Sutterfouse Family?! Then I want to see if it can handle… MY ALL!!"
The sky of the area turned black from the dense curse power as their attacks crashed toward Vonjo, a wave of destruction that should have reduced him to ash—
—but the moment they got within inches of him, they vanished. Completely. As if devoured by an unseen force. As if the universe itself refused to let him be harmed.
[LiveLeakCultBattle]: HE'S FCKIN TAKEN THEM ALL! HOLY SHIT! HE IS NOT REALLY HURTING! AND HE IS ABSORBING THEM ALL!
[ZodiacPunchBoi]: bro, didn't he say his bloodline ability is like a Blackhole, shit! Bro is Op!
[EpicClanxShadow69]: Why do I feel like he's showing off!?
Vonjo ignored the bullet comments and he just howled with laughter.
"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?! COME ON! DON'T DISAPPOINT ME! YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LEGENDARY! COME ON, GIVE ME MORE!!"
The two attackers were breathing heavily now, drenched in sweat, their rage only growing hotter.
And Vonjo? Vonjo looked like he was alive for the first time in years.