His ears were ringing and his body felt numb but soon those feelings would disappear. Kenji's eyes then opened and soon sounds of ringing would be replaced by a loud ticking sound which Kenji would find to be a grandfather clock sitting beside a door. Kenji wiped off the sweat as he came to his senses and found himself in unfamiliar surroundings. Kenji wiped his eyes twice thinking they were deceiving him but he would soon realise this was the reality.

There was no window in the room to better understand his location. Instead of a hospital bed, he found himself in a small wooden room. It was half empty, only having one bed, two chairs, a wardrobe and an old-looking grandfather clock. The last thing Kenji remembers was a deafening noise that echoed through his ears before his vision blacked out.

As Kenji tried to move a sudden surge of pain could be felt on his left hand causing him to hold his left hand tight to his chest. It was almost as if it felt like someone trying to split his hand into two. Kenji heavily inhales-exhale his breath as he tries to suppress his pain and try to keep in the cry. The pain was so immense that it caused Kenji to fall back to the bed and make him break into tears.

Kenji can't think what could cause this kind of pain, It took a few seconds for the pain to ease off before Kenji was curious and wanted to see the hand and remove it from his chest. As he got a glimpse of his left hand, Kenji couldn't express the amount of panic he got.

His breathing was heavy and was completely motionless and speechless, not taking a single blink after what he'd just seen.

A crystal was fused into his left hand, it was covered with blood as it was evident that someone had been trying to take it off by using a hammer and chisel as it was laying on the tiny table on the side of the bed where also his phone and wallet was placed.

Then a sudden flash of words came through his mind.

'Look left'

The words flash brightly as they attract Kenji to reading words. His head jerked left as instructed by the words.

Right there, Kenji was facing a pale young woman who was dressed elegantly in her black and blue aristocratic-like dress which perfectly contrasted with her polished snow-white hair that fell past her shoulders, stretching like a silk road and her pale blue eyes that could easily block a man's thought. Her face was exquisite and would cause a few men to lose themself in her seductive trance.

Kenji saw her fidgeting with her wide-brim straw hat as if she was bored. He couldn't understand what a woman of such contrast of natural beauty and deathly aura could be doing sitting in isolation, legs crossed, as if she was waiting.

Her eyes then fixed on Kenji, "I see you're finally awake".

Kenji didn't say a word, he was too busy focusing on staring at the beauty in front of him. But eventually, the Asian male shook himself back to reality.

"Wh- Whe-?" Kenji stuttered. "Who are you? Where am I?"

The woman only giggles at Kenji's question, "I don't know."

Kenji swore that his heart had stopped at that moment, just who is this woman and how does she know him?

"You don't know?!" Kenji attempted to lean forward but his back felt as if it was split into two.

"You're lucky, Kenji. A very lucky boy."

"Who are you?" Kenji asked with a frightful yet authoritarian tone.

The woman diverted her gaze away from Kenji for a second before answering, "I don't know. I don't know if I have a name or what I am. It's all blank..."

Kenji squinted his eyes in confusion, "Sorry? You don't know yourself or where we are?"

"I wish I did." She smiled warmly. "But I don't." She giggles.

The energetic wave of the woman didn't help Kenji's newly found scepticism but his eagerness remained steadfast so continued to inch towards the bed.

"But do you know anyone that can help?" Kenji calmly asked. "I don't need to know who you are but you could at least you can get someone to tell me where I am."

"Huh..." She said scratching her chin. "I just thought of a place that is nice and safe, but I've no idea where we are or the people in this place."

"You've got to be joking right?"

With the woman about to answer Kenji, the door of the room opened to reveal a middle-aged woman with dark brown hair and ocean blue eyes. Kenji could see their clothing, it looked old, very old-fashioned, roughly about 18th-century style clothing. The woman was wearing a leather stays above her white top with a yellow cotton dress.

Her eyes widened in surprise, causing parts of her hair to expand upwards to it which resembled wolf ears, "Oh my lord, you're finally awake." she then hastily exited the room and loudly shouted, "Darling! He's awake!"

"Who are you?" Kenji curiously asked but as he looked up towards her head he saw the two unnatural ears. At that point, Kenji's mind had enough and the young man quickly collapsed back into the bed.

"Honey?" A man then entered the room. "You said he was awake."

"He just fainted," she mutters

"He what?"

The demi-human sigh. "I just heard him talking to someone. Probably himself…"

The husband huffed, "Please don't tell me Melody brought a madman into my house."

"He seems confused. Whoever he is." Out of curiosity, the woman observed the room, 'Just who was he talking to?"