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59.09% A Psychic's Scarlet Dream / Chapter 113: Chapter 58: "I'm Okay!" (Part 2)

Chapter 113: Chapter 58: "I'm Okay!" (Part 2)

He has reached the room he felt an aura of death from. This is an empty room, which in itself is strange. And then there is the aura of death here even though there isn't anything present in the room. These two things combined make the Hellfire cautious as he steps in the room with his psychic-barrier held up.

Gabriel: "Is anybody here?"

He asks. He asks, even though he can sense from the aura that no one is there. He asks, even though he knows that no reply will come. He still asks, just for the sake of easing his own anxiety. As far as his own safety goes, Gabriel doesn't even feel the need to be cautious. But for those who are not strong, those who are in fact plainly weak, those like his family, his in-laws and his fiancé, are all people whose safety can make him worry.

Gabriel: "Where the hell are they?"

And so he finds himself getting anxious but is unable to calm down even knowing that it will affect him in a bad way.

Gabriel: "Tsk!"

He just keeps looking again and again at the different empty corners of that empty room. In the house filled with comfortable sofas and beds, this room doesn't even have a wooden chair to sit on. In the house filled with brightly lit and fancy bulbs, this room doesn't even have a mere tube light. In a house filled with money and prestige, this room doesn't even have a life. Yet, it has death. How?

Gabriel: "Ah!"

He moves away in surprise when he realizes that he accidentally stepped on something. In his surprised and hurried getting away, he ends up losing his balance and falling on the ground. That causes his eyes to get on a lower altitude. And as he looks back at the room, and automatically is able to get a better view of the ceiling, his breath catches in his lungs and his voice stops coming out of his throat.

Gabriel: "…"

He stares at that scenery in idle shock and crooked silence with his mouth hung wide open and his eyes stretched wide.

Gabriel: "a … a …"

He tries to bring some voice out of his throat but it feels to him like something has been put in his wind pipe making him unable to breath, much less say anything. And so, he just keeps staring at the horror in front of him.

His mother-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing both her arms and has her half her clothes torn apart.

His father-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing both his legs and has cut marks on the rest of the body.

His brother-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing his tongue and his nose and has markings left of flogging on his back.

His sister-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing her forehead and the part above and has markings on both her sides as if she was crushed between two giant rocks and all her bones are now broken.

His uncle-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing all his clothes and has iron rods put in and brought out through his feet and his palms.

His aunt-in-law, now hanged to the ceiling, missing both her ears as well as her eyes and has burn marks throughout her body.

The six in-laws that he had familiarized himself with were all there, in states that may have been better had he not been seen. The rest of the family that he didn't even knew that well was also there, and in much more artistic fashion. Seeing that sight, how could he have any energy left at all in his body? He doesn't. He has fallen on the floor and is lying in pure shock and horror, moving not one bit as he stares at that scenery.

Gabriel: "Who …"

Without even his knowledge or consent, a word escapes his mouth … and then escapes a sentence.

Gabriel: "Who … could have done … something like this?"

He asks to whom, he doesn't know. He asks for what, he doesn't know. He asks for whom, he doesn't know. And yet,

With a dress pure black like that of a witch and an expression of a puppet with a smile, a woman with an oval face and downturned-brown-eyes and a caramel skin walks into the room with a knife in her hands and blood on her whole body as she says,

Woman: "I did this."

He tilts her head like a child as she says so. Gabriel, looking at his fiancé, tries to stand up as fast as he can as he says in an anxious voice,

Gabriel: "Anna, are you alright?"

He asks Anna Chesham, his fiancée, such an obvious and stupid question. Obviously, the answer is no. But,

Anna: "Yes! I'm okay!"

She tilts her head to the right.

Anna: "Mom is dead! Dead is dead!"

She tilts her head to the left.

Anna: "Bro is dead! Sis is dead!"

She tilts her head to the right.

Anna: "Uncle is dead! Aunty is dead!"

She tilts her head to the left.

Anna: "And I'm okay!"

She says as she spreads her arms wide throwing the knife away without any aim and acting like a little girl.

Anna: "Mom dead, Dad dead!"

She starts once again, this time with her hands raised.

Gabriel: "No!"

Anna: "Bro dead, Sis dead!"

She tilts her head to the left.

Gabriel: "No! No! Please, stop!"

Anna: "Uncle dead, auntie dead!"

She tilts her head to the right.

Gabriel: "Please! For god's sake, stop!"

Anna: "And I'm oookaay!!!"

She says as she jumps up trying to spread her arms even wider.

Gabriel: "NO! JUST STOP IT! GODDAMNIT! PLEASE, STOP IT!!!"

He shouts as he loses the strength in his legs and falls down again. No matter what he tries to do, he just can't stand up.

Anna: "Hmm?"

Seeing that, Anna walks over to him, silently, solemnly, like a curious, little witch.

Anna: "Hey!"

She says as she puts her hand on his cheeks and makes him look directly at her eyes, which were in turn looking directly at him.

Anna: "I killed mom, I killed dad!"

She says without the smile, while tilting her head to the right. Gabriel is unable to speak anything.

Anna: "I killed bro, I killed sis!"

She tilts her head to the left. Gabriel can't bring himself to say anything.

Anna: "I killed uncle, I killed aunt!"

She tilts her head to the right. Gabriel just plainly watches in despaired shock.

Anna: "And I'm okay!?"

This time, she tilts her head once again to the left and looks as if she is asking an actual question. But then suddenly,

Anna: "Yaaaaaay!!!"

She exclaims with a smile like that of a 5-year-old mischievous girl.

Anna: "I'm okay! You know why I okay?"

She says as she closes her eyes and asks him. He, involuntarily, shakes his head.

Anna: "I killed mom, I killed dad!"

She stays the same; Gabriel tilts his head to the left.

Anna: "I killed bro, I killed sis!"

She stays the same; Gabriel tilts his head to the right.

Anna: "I killed uncle, I killed aunt!"

She stays the same; Gabriel tilts his head to the left.

Anna: "And then you kill me!"

She stays the same; Gabriel tilts his head to the right.

Anna: "So I'm okay!"

She says and holds his right hand with both her hands and brings it to her chest. She then casually goes back to where she had thrown the knife, picks it up and comes back, all the while Gabriel's hand remains in the position she had left it in.

Anna: "I'm okay!"

She says as she hands him the knife in a way that the surface of the knife is facing her. And then she distances herself from his hands.

Anna: "And now, I'm …"

She says as she runs right into the shine coming off the sharp object.

Anna: "OOOKKKAAAAAAYYYY!!!"

And her voice dissipates in the air, forever!

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His memory suddenly gains something. Gabriel's mind all of a sudden comes to know how Sneha Stone's aura is like. He realizes that Rosevelt has sent him the memory sample of when he met that Aural.

Gabriel: "That's right; I have a job to do."

He gets up, lifeless, ignoring the fact that a dead woman lays in his arms who ends up falling on the ground when he gets up. He walks forward in order to escape the room and steps on the body of the dead woman, but ends up slipping sideways because of it.

Gabriel: "What! Why … did that happen!?"

He wonders why such a thing happened and gets up. It was probably some big gravel or something that made him slip, he reasons. And in order to remove that gravel from his path, he kicks it.

He kicks Anna's dead body on her legs, then her thighs, then her stomach, then her pelvis and keeps kicking until the dead body is completely out of his path. He then stops and ends up stumbling backwards.

As he stumbles, he realizes that there is no longer anything in his path, and so he starts walking towards the exit.

Gabriel: "Ha! Ha! Ha! HA! HA! HA!"

He laughs as if to mock the foolish gravel who thought it could come in his way, the way of the Hellfire named Gabriel Washington. He brazenly laughs even though he is unable to walk straight and ends up mimicking the street burglar he had met a while ago.

But he isn't on a street, he is in a room. And that is why, being unable to walk straight makes him stumble and bump on a wall. And so he punches that wall as if he's a drunk. But as he punches it, he sees something on it, some sort of paper. There is something written on the paper.

He picks it up, reads it and,

Gabriel: "Ha! Ha! Ha! HA! HA! HA!"

He laughs like a crazed drunk and throws the paper on the ground and leaves the room.

On that paper, he had just read,

"This crimson pool you see is just a warning! Next time, it'll be a crimson sea!"

A message written in blood, and the writer gave his name as 'Bronzer.'

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Chapter 114: Chapter 59: Rome Residence (Part 1)

There is a two-storey house with an air of luxury around it. It looks to be owned by a rich family, named Chesham. However, last night, some really terrible news came to the nearby police station. Bodies of all the residents of the house save one was found hanging by the ceiling, all bruised and cut in different places, which showed that different methods of torture were used on them. The one resident of the house who wasn't found hanging to the ceiling was lying on the ground with a knife, the reason that she had ended up dying, stuck to her chest.

It is suspected that someone killed all of them for revenge against something. For a family as rich and powerful as them, it is a believable cover-up. The real story, that the clues lead to, seem to indicate something much more terrible. They indicate that Anna Chesham, the woman found dead with a knife on her heart, was responsible for so brutally killing all her family members. After that, she died by a heart-stab. Why did she kill them? Who stabbed her? And why? These are what the task force's real questions are?

And as the task force wonders about all of that, they see a man sitting at a bench by the street, alone and looking like a suspicious individual. He isn't acting suspicious or something like that but he just looks like he wants to kill someone.

This man has a muscular build with a square face and a straight nose. His downturned-aquamarine eyes are glowing with rage and his skin is colored like a marshmallow which makes the darkness in his eyes ever more visible. In short, he looks dangerous.

According to the data the task force has gathered, Anna Chesham was the fiancée of this man, Gabriel Washington. His rage would have been justified, had it just been on her murder. But his rage seemed to be on something else, something that the cops have no idea about. His rage is on the Vampire Kingdom.

However, regardless of how dangerous he looks, the cops have a job to do. And so, two of them step forward and walk towards him. He doesn't react in any way at all as he sees them coming. As they step in front of him, one of them says,

Cop: "We have a question for you, Mr. Washington."

Gabriel: "Oh? What a coincidence! I have a question for you too."

He says as turns his head to the cop who had asked the question and asks, in a calm voice, the voice that meant the coming of a storm,

Gabriel: "Do you work for The Vampire Kingdom?"

The cops frown as they hear his question.

Cop: "Is everything alright with you, sir?"

One of them asks, thinking of the possibility that the death of his in-laws and his fiancée might have affected his mental health. But,

Gabriel: "Your heartbeat didn't increase."

He says as he points out the sign of someone not lying, which he had picked up on from his aura-reading.

Gabriel: "You live another day!"

He says and smiles as if something genuinely good has happened to him. He gets up and before the cop could say anything,

Gabriel: "If you ever meet a vampire and find out that I haven���t lost my mind here, I want you to tell them this -"

He looks at the cop as if he is looking at an innocent and ignorant child, and says,

Gabriel: "'YOUR KINGDOM IS GOING TO BURN … IN A HELLFIRE'."

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A figure of a man with a devil's mask stands in the rain. His real name is unknown, sold and forgotten long ago. At present, he is only known by the name 'Abgere'. What this name means, most people don't know. But he knows, and his friend Ro Garland did, and that's enough for him.

Even if he did have some interest in telling people his name's meaning, who would he tell? The only man he ever converse to, the last friend he had left in the world, was killed a few days ago by a man named Ethan Kales.

Therefore, he now has no one left in the world to talk to.

He has no one left in the world to care about.

He has no one left in the world to share his problems with.

He has no one left in the world to stop him from giving up his humanity.

Therefore, there is no longer a reason to not dawn the mask of the devil. There is no longer a reason to not start the clean-up. There is no longer a reason to not fulfill what he believes to be his life's purpose.

And so, in order to fulfill that purpose, he now knocks on the door of a Hellfire.

Knock! Knock!

It takes a while after his knocking but the door does open. It is opened by a girl in her teens, about 14-16 years of age who says as she looks at him,

Girl: "Yes?"

She asks in a polite tone of voice, a voice that didn't have the respect one shows another from the heart, but has the respect one is trained by their elders to show despite their feelings.

Abgere: "I am a friend of Julius Rome."

Abgere lies in a plain tone as he takes the name of the owner of the house and one of the 9 remaining Hellfires. He states plainly the name of his target.

Girl: "What business do you have with father?"

She says in an anxious voice to which, the man wearing the devil's mask answers calmly,

Abgere: "I just want to meet my friend."

He tries to speak in a sweet voice so as to not frighten the kid or anything, which doesn't help much because of his face being covered by a devil's mask.

Girl: "Father is busy right now. He said to turn any visitors away."

The girl says while looking down in anxiety and a bit of fear. She feels like there's something threatening about the man standing at her door.

Abgere: "Hah!"

He sighs as he sees the girl stubbornly refusing to let him in or call her father.

Abgere: "Your father is in debt to me."

Seeing that that kind of lies won't work, he chooses a better one as he says so with a bit of scorn as he lowers his face to look, from the face of the devil, directly into the girl's eyes.

Abgere: "If you don't call him here or he refuses to come, there will be consequences."

A calm voice says so to the girl and she finds herself shaking in fear to it. She slowly steps back while keeping her gaze on Abgere and her mouth agape. She doesn't find the courage in herself to say anything as she then starts running to a closed room just a gallery away.

Using that time, Abgere invites himself into the house and casually sits on the sofa near the door after closing it, closing the knob, the closing the handle, closing every way to get out of the house.

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A pecan-brown-skinned muscular man in his early 40s sits on his chair, naked, except the towel around his lower portions. He looks at the clock with an annoyed expression as he taps his foot on the floor repeatedly. However, he finds himself at the verge of losing his patience as he has waited for about 30 minutes by now. So, he gets up from the chair, briskly walks up to the door of the bathroom and kicks it hard enough for a yelp to come out from the person inside.

Then, in an angry voice, Julius Rome says,

Julius: "It's been a freaking half an hour, bitch! Get your ass out here!"

He shouts at the woman who has occupied his bathroom for half an hour now.

Julius: "I'm not paying you to use my shower!"

He shouts at her from outside and the woman can only meekly say in response,

Woman: "Y-yes, p-please forgive me!"

Julius: "Tsk!"

He clicks his tongue in annoyance and knocks on the door with his leg once again as he says,

Julius: "Do you know who you are talking to, bitch!? I don't forgive. I make a person repent. Now get your ass over here so you can repent."

He shouts at the woman who just meekly jumps inside the bathroom and starts closing the shower in fright. Then,

Knock! Knock!

Girl: "Daddy! Someone has come to meet you!"

The voice of the girl who was too afraid to think anything comes and,

Julius: "Tsk!"

He clicks his tongue yet again and walks over to the closed door that connects his bedroom to the rest of the house. He opens it, looks at his panicked daughter and,

SLAP!

He hits her hard enough for her to get thrown on the ground.

Julius: "Alexa, did I or did I not tell you to turn anyone who comes looking for me away?"

He asks in a scornful voice and Alexa just holds her right cheek, which has grown red, and says,

Alexa: "B-but t-that man …"

Julius: "Hah!"

He sighs in exasperation before she could finish and,

Julius: "Get up!"

He says in a voice that clearly shows that he is holding back his anger. His daughter obeys his orders and gets up. And then,

SLAP!

She gets hit on her other cheek. That cheek too ends up growing red. Droplets start falling down her eyes and his father sees it,

Julius: "Bloody drama queen!"

He says as he walks around in anger and then kicks Alexa's stomach.

Alexa: "Agh!!!"

She screeches in pain. Julius, seeing that, only gets annoyed further. He then says,

Julius: "Go offer whoever has come to meet me some hospitality. I'll be coming in a while."

He says, walking back into his bedroom, and closing the door. Alexa then gets up, tears falling down her cheeks and both her cheeks red, the 15-year-old pecan-brown-skinned girl with cute features walks over to where their guest has seated himself.

As she walks away from the bedroom, she can hear, coming from the bedroom, the shouts of a woman accompanied by various sounds of hard impact happening against skin, i.e., the voices of slaps, kicks and punches. Eventually those voices dies down and the voice of painful moans of a woman start coming to her ears, along with the cursing voice of her father.

Alexa: "Tsk!"

She clicks her tongue, as that is the only thing she can do.

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