Hallow was sure he didn't say a word wrong. Maybe he had spoke in a way that is too mean, but being mean is his quality that he didn't think he should change. More so, it wasn't his fault that he became bitter! The person who started everything was him! Leviathan!

Staring back at Leviathan's burning golden eyes, the chick monologues to himself.

Okay, fine! It was his fault he shouldn't have say that. Why is he staring at him anyway?! Hallow know he is quite good looking and an ultimate adorable creature in the body of a chick or a dog he was now but the daunting gaze, which Hallow would like to stress he is not daunted with at all, linger for too long than necessary.

It's not as if he was going to be cut into halves just because he stared at him like that!

"W-What?" Hallow was sure he didn't stutter earlier, it was the sudden need of intake, he didn't stutter! "If you have anything else to say, say it."

Leviathan frowned, the surrounding around them turned dark all of a sudden. Hallow thought that the demon was angry as his expressions was too dark and gloomy to be seen as happy. But in truth, Leviathan's mind was filled with something else.

"Did Elise say that?" came his question, the bitterness and sadness was something Hallow cannot understand before when he was still a roaming grim reaper. Once he had been tricked, shunned, and his good name smeared with lies; after living with Elise, he learned the sadness and noticed the forlorn over the man's words.

All of a sudden, Hallow felt bad and he didn't know why he felt bad.

"Elly didn't say that but I think she is upset of you," Hallow answered and he saw how Leviathan's brows pulled tighter.

"I didn't have a choice back then, I won't force her not to become upset or welcome me," Leviathan had not seen Elise as she grew up. When he regained his body, he quickly went to meet all those people who had lived in Saltige, to find out what had happened to his dearest wife and daughter when he wasn't with them only to find out their suffering.

Leviathan was so enraged when he knew that his wife had been shunned and everyone had gossiped her, making her the saddest person on the land. He cannot imagine how painful it must have been for Adelaide who was strong to keep hearing rumors that he had left her for another woman which was an utter bullshit.

Not to mention, his only daughter had been told as a cursed child— a child who will cause death to the people around her when it wasn't true.

Oddly, a few days after he woke up and busily meeting the family who was responsible for Elise briefly before kicking them out of their house with cold heart, he found out that indeed some of the family members who had taken care Elise had died. He was on his way to find out how they died when he remembered to pull his stuff out of his storage space when instead, he had channeled into Hellie Mirror from his old mansion only to find this grim reaper chick that now had turned into a dog.

"Now silent," Leviathan ordered as they both saw the large wooden fence that was made around the village. "There is something that I need to take care here and you talking will hinder my work."

Hallow had just thought of speaking when he was told to be quiet. Not wanting the demon to kill him for the worse, the grim decided to keep quiet.

They entered inside the village where around there was only humans. Hallow wondered how Leviathan would be able to mask his bright golden eyes that signify he wasn't a human but when he entered, at once, his bright golden eyes turned deep black.

"What can I help sir?" came a polite guard toward them who offered a polite bow. His eyes assessed the new guests to the village, noting how strange it was for him to see a single man coming with a dog. Not to mention they had walked from the forest?

"We... I had just came here after being lost from the forest. There is a large road there where a boulder had fallen frown the hill so my carriage is currently finding another way in here. Is this the village of Costent? Where there is a small building of the Church Morgue? I am here to meet Mr. Langston, the person responsible for the morgue." Leviathan questioned, his word polite albeit cold.

Unlike other villages where people could come in and out at their will, the village of Costent held the most vital building of the Church which is the morgue. Many cases and death profile of people were placed inside the building, there was the documents that Leviathan needed there as well. Considering how important the documents were, guards were placed to stop suspicious people from thieving information.

"Oh!" The guards appeared as if he knew Leviathan that had Hallow's brows to raise, "You must be the Churchmember who was told to come here to see the case paper of the recent deaths in Bemenerly? I remember it was the death of two sons and their parents are searching for the killer?"

Clearly, the church member wasn't him but it made it easy for him to adopt the fake profile.

Leviathan decided to play, a smile on his lips that was hollow, "I am glad that you know me that makes it easier, can I come in now? I am in quite a hurry my team leader, Sir Sidney is a fairly punctual man and I am needed to meet him as soon as possible," Leviathan looked at the guard who was trustful enough to only assess him by his posh clothes, without a doubt or the need to confirm his identity.

"I need your name but if you are in a hurry that cannot be helped, please come in." The guard had spent almost ten years of his life protecting and guarding the village. His guard had been loose as he believed nothing was important inside the morgue.

"Thank you for your generous help," said Leviathan, having the guard a little confused of the sincere gratitude when he had only open a single door, a very effortless action.

The guard then remember something, "But sir, I don't know about your dog and if they are allowed inside the building... oh where have they gone to?"

"That fucking human called me a dog!" Hallow cursed as he walked away.

"And are you not one?" Leviathan retorted and he rolled his eyes, wondering why had he talked with such a stupid grim reaper. "We need to get inside your appearance is too striking. Change back to a chick."

Hallow dislike the most being ordered but he turn obedient for now as this man was Elly's father. In respect of Elise did he decide not to go against the High Demon.

"What are we doing here, anyway?" Hallow questioned once he had entered inside Leviathan's pocket. "And that man earlier wasn't speaking about you."

"We are here in the need to find out the person who is responsible for creating my daughter's bad image," answered Leviathan and when a person passed by them, they both turn quiet.

"You must be Mr. Alder!" a nurse who came toward them said. She was dressed in the light blue dress with a white apron placed over her dress.

"I am here to meet Mr. Langston," Leviathan named, offering a polite look that won't make him out of place though it couldn't be seen as sincere as he didn't mean his smile.

The nurse offered a smile, a white headband on her head that was a little crooked, while her hand was tied in a low bun. "Certainly! We have been waiting for you, Mr. Adler is in the room on the far left. I have heard that you have come here before, do you remember where it is?"

"Not quite, the morgue is large and I don't want to be lost," Leviathan answered a smooth lie.

"Oh, right silly me. Then come with me I shall show you the way," the nurse turned and walked away. Hallow who felt stifled by Leviathan's leathered pocket pushed himself up and out of the pocket. His yellow wings dangled and his eyes turned around to look at the man who passed by them.

While they were going straight, the man went opposite side and Hallow who saw the man's face narrowed his eyes, his first attention noted the man's bright brownish yellow eyes that had him to frown before following the man's sharp and tall ears of an elf.

"Mr. Maxwell," said the other nurse who saw the elf. "Do you need anything else?"

"This is fine thank you," answered Maxwell and when the nurse nodded before leaving, his eyes turned to look at Leviathan who he had passed by, but his eyes fell more to the pocket.

He sighed to himself and muttered, "What have you been doing, Hallow?"

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