7. DO YOU WANT TO RUN AWAY WITH ME

SECURITY OFFICE BASEMENT

“we have to rescue all of them,” bell said worryingly.

It was Dark.

It was a nerve racking scene to see countless town female were turned into skulled. There mana were absorbed until there life energy started to deplete.

In one of the cell all man were brutally killed with their heart pierced right through, their intestine were dangling outside. There eyes were gouged out and kept hanging with the liquid slurping outside from the socket.

As the cockroaches were moving in and out.

“Hey can you hear me,” bell asked looking at a girl whose full body was like a skeleton covered in a thin papery skin with the Large vein going inside to her mouth which divide inside her body absorb the mana and comes out from her hands and legs, which again join together and move upwards joining to inspector.

They keep on moving looking left and right as they passed through each cell looking for survivor. Only veins can be seen tangling inside the cell.

“This is the interrogation room, it is lit,” Paul said confirming there must be survivor in it.

It was locked, paul slammed the lock with his sword opening it.

As the door open, it was difficult to see as their eyes were adjusting to brightness of the room.

A person was sitting in a rocking chair, facing towards the giant red vein, in-between which the vein had an expression of a heart shaped structure, pumping in and out.

With the sound of their footstep. The person in the chair turned around. She was an old lady with white hair , her eyes has white pupil, she was probably blind and was carrying a knife.

“So you have come, I was waiting for you, please kill him,” she said sadly , while reaching out to give her knife to bell, she stumbled but was supported by Paul.

“By looking at your eyes, aren’t you blind, if yes then how did you notice it was not inspector zeal but us,” Paul asked surprisingly.

With the hint of her motherly smile she said

“I am his mother after all, I can recognized him with the change of his heartbeat” as she further told that the vein here is the lifeline of Zeal, his heartbeat is always calm when he comes in this room.

"Please kill him"

“He was not this kind of a person from the start, it’s just that he is a pitiful soul who had lost his path” old lady said which the saline fluid fell from her eyes.

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“hey can I touch that,” as the boy refused to be scared of forest asked to the girl sitting next to him.

“Here Zeal,” as she throw it in his face.

“Ahhhhhh, take it out,” he jumped from his place and started moving his head violently to remove the bug.

As the bug falls “it was nothing,” he said proudly as she laughed. ya, it was nothing more than a monkey dance,” trying to restrict herself from smiling.

“DO YOU WANT TO RUN AWAY WITH ME”

“You” he said as she started running towards the town laughingly.

She always asked that but he always brushed it off taking it as a joke.

It sure was nice weather near the forest with thin lines of sun rays falling through the gaps of leaves, morning dews sprayed around like a twinkling star as she walked through them.

“it was mostly like this in the town, days were passing peacefully, he must have thought that things were going to continue like this.”

It was his 18th birthday, all were very happy as it was going to be a party, but there was always a saddening aura around her with a fake smile.

To cheer her up he gave her anklet, though it was only one instead of pair.

She was girl of poor family but it was not that bad as if she had to sell her for food, then also she was covered into cuts and bruises.

It was seen that she always wears full sleeve clothes and was many time visited by the child of pope.

It was then that the girl asked zeal to run away with her and it become his biggest regret.

By looking at her how serious she was about that he asked for a day thinking that she might just forget that and the life will move on.

Next day she came running in the house. She locked the door.

“are you ready,”

He was never committed to run away

The door slammed open as the guards in silver armor and central church logo engraved in it dragged her and took her with them.

It was the next day he realized of losing something important in his life

He ran towards her house only to found out that her parents had sold her to the child of pope. As he had taken liking to her.

He come back to the house only to cry that whole night.

It was the next day, when every thing changed there was no gleam of happiness can be seen in his eyes as he looked towards the branch of a tree.

It was her, hanging their naked with two to three fingers were missing, she was stabbed with the knife countless time in her stomach

Her face was burned but he can totally see her legs with the anklet.

It was Dark but there was something he had to do to bring her peace of mind.

He reached to the inspector asking for help. He refused by saying it was the attack of the blob monster.

He ran left and right, knocked every door in the town to asked for justice but it was all in vain.

And that was then he realized they were afraid.

They were afraid of the church pope so that none of them reached out their hands to help him.

He took the rope out and embraced her as tight as he can and started crying as he regretted.

He was the same as all, just like all he refused her to reach out his hand and now it’s all gone.

He carried her into the forest with the shovel, dug the hole and buried her saying his last goodbyes. He slept there for whole day until it was night talking if he had taken her hands, if he had just reach out to her it would have………

Night time was the scariest time in the forest as the lone voice started calling him, he moved towards it, it was pit a deep dark hole which is releasing a tremendous amount of mana.

A hand reached out to him, as soon as he turned he was rammed by a man with mask, resulting into his fall.