"Huh, you stupid plankton! Give me my phone back!" John screamed as he tried snatching his phone back. However, it was already inside Kunjan's exoskeleton. So, he had no other choice but to go on a one-on-one fight against the war veteran.

"Ah, you're actually planning to attack me, huh? You know that you can't physically damage me, right?" Kunjan gave out a chuckle.

"Oh, I know. And that's why I'm gonna do some mental damage on you!" John proclaimed.

"Ah, trust me. I'm quite immune to mental damage as well. I mean, at least I got better after getting tortured by Lonappan." He shrugged.

"Tell me, how did Lonappan torture you?" John asked.

"Why? So you get to do the same against me as well? Unfortunately, that's not gonna work, so I might as well tell ya!" The plankton ended up telling him about that one day, since he was confident that John wouldn't be able to harm with that sorta information.

However, John's expression differed from what he had expected. John was laughing as if he heard something hysterical. It had a tone of mockery as well, which Kunjan didn't find tasteful.

"Haha! Are you kidding me? He tortured you by showing some random shows which makes no sense plot-wise? I mean, I guess it might've tortured you a bit back then, however he seemed to have missed the point. I don't think that's the right one if he wanted to torture you. Seems like his information network was limited, unlike me who got to see it all in first hand." John continued laughing after he spoke.

"What do you mean? I don't have any other things that could inflict mental damage on me and that's a fact!" Kunjan tried defending himself, Lonappan and his information source M'Baku in a single turn.

"Oh my, over confident now, are we? Do you really think you don't have any other weaknesses? Well, I know of one. It might seem extremely meager in someone else's eyes, however those meager weaknesses are a goldmine in my hands." John replied.

"What is it? Aren't you going to show me my weakness now?" Kunjan asked.

"Sure, sure! If you're begging me for it; I don't have any choice!" He took the lemon tea that had been refilled for the umpteenth time and drizzled it onto the ground.

"Don't you dare!" Rather than getting tortured, such actions enraged the plankton. The same lemon tea which seemed to bring forth a friendship between the two was being trashed right before him. It was disrespectful in the plankton's eyes.

"Oh, getting irked now, are we?" If a random person viewed this scene, they would think that the two were acting like little children. However, little would they know about the psychological warfare that was happening before their eyes. "Plankton, think about it. I'm pouring your favorite lemon tea on the floor that you carefully mopped yesterday. You know that the lemon tea could be a bit sticky in this kinda cheap tile, right? Wonder how much it'll get messed up if you don't clean it soon." John spoke with a serious look this time around.

"You bastard! You evil bastard!" #69420 mumbled, which delighted John.

"Ah, feeling tortured now, are we? What about your previous statement, huh? About how you have nothing that could inflict mental damage, huh? Feeling the pain now?" He asked.

Kunjan bit his lip in anger and tried running towards the mop he kept nearby to mop the mess that John made. However, then came the dilemma. If he just blindly ran towards the mop, John would actually escape through the front door. So, he walked carefully towards the said mop while monitoring John, which ended up proving to be a tiring task.

Seeing John drizzle the tea to the ground was excruciating. The plankton endured it as he finally got to the mop. Once he got hold of that, he ended up running towards John. However, he was late. John dropped the cup onto the floor, causing it to break. So now, it wasn't just the tea; it had broken shards of the cup on top of it as well.

Kunjan blamed himself for this event, even though he knew that there wasn't anything he could do to save the cup from its inevitable demise. It was the sad truth that he wasn't willing to accept.

While the plankton mourned for the cup's death, John tried creating more havoc. He threw the newspapers that Kunjan had carefully placed and made a mess out of it. He tried pushing down the glass stand that had a multitude of things, including the television into the ground; however, before he could do so, Kunjan stopped it. Although the mess made by the papers remained, at least the most valuable and clean stuff was saved, which made Kunjan a bit relieved.

However, that relief just covered a small portion of his mind. Unfiltered rage filled the rest of his mind. After setting the glass stand back up, the plankton rushed towards John and spear tackled him right into the shards of the cup he dropped to the ground. When those shards pierced through John's skin, a loud cry was heard from his side. John tried wriggling to get those shards out, however it only helped in

its way in going deeper inside John's skin.

While this happened, Kunjan was actively trying to get some punches on John as well, which meant that it was hell for John on both sides. He struggled to push the plankton aside, however the exoskeleton was exceptional. For the longest time, the duo wrestled in the ground. At times, John miraculously escaped Kunjan's clutches and tried wreaking havoc.

Whenever John escaped, he threw stuff that Kunjan carefully arranged and made a mess. And when he couldn't escape, he used his legs to kick the glass stand that he previously tried to push down. However, whenever he tried that, the plankton wouldn't sit still as well. He actively blocked John's advances in destroying the stuff he arranged with precision. And the reinforced exoskeleton made sure that he won the match-up every single time.

It came to a point that it ended up as a stalemate. Neither of them had any sorta upper hand against the other, no matter how much they tried. However, they were nowhere close to giving up. Both hoped for some momentary distraction which could cause the other to lose their focus.

And that came by the arrival of the ones who came back from the school. Kunjan got distracted for a second from their arrival and John got his window to escape. However, the thing he didn't consider was the mighty Wadorian named Taro. Although he thought it to be a momentary distraction to his favor, little did he know that it was actually in the opposition's favor.

Taro stopped him dead in his tracks, and his advances were quickly dealt with. It seemed as if John wasn't lucky that day.

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"Ha—you're saying to me that he got triggered by the words 'smashing' and 'flashing'. What's up with this dude's triggers?" Thankappan sighed.

"Well, at least we know which words to not use before him." Taro spoke in a hopeful tone.

"So, are we gonna tell Lonappan about this?" The plankton asked, to which he received a negative reaction from the ones surrounding him.

"Are you kidding me? Remember how we trashed him back then when he flashed John back then? What do you think he's gonna do now?" Thankappan asked.

"Ah, but John didn't actually show signs that he regained his memory back then, did he? However, this time around, we got proof!" The plankton argued.

"Well, that's something we can't say for sure. He would argue that he diffused the situation before it could grow into something grave—like what happened right here. He could easily argue that he's the sole reason that such a thing didn't happen back then and gloat about it." Thankappan spoke. He looked annoyed, thinking about the mess that Lonappan might create if he knew about this event.

"So, we won't inform Lonappan about it, huh? Is everyone fine with it?" Kunjan asked, to which everyone else nodded their heads.

"However, there's still a problem though!" Taro spoke up.

"Hmm, what would that be?" The plankton asked.

"The neuralyzer. This would be the third time that we use it on him, right? Why didn't he have some sorta side effect from its use? I mean, using twice is supposed to have some kinda side effect, right?" Taro asked.

"Oh, he has high mental strength. That's why-" Thankappan's words were cut short by Taro.

"Yea, I know that. And what do you think will happen if we flashed it for the third time? I can only think of two possibilities. He might end up forgetting everything as part of the neuralyzer's side effect or he'd be totally fine, which would be totally weird. I mean, if that happens, don't you think the effect of the neuralyzer on him would be totally nullified at some point? I mean, it's a possibility, right? Think about it." Taro spoke, which brought forth a tough decision for the group.

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