Chapter 48: Execution
"There isn't any way." His voice whispered at the end. "Vampires have tried to do anything to find out if they could help and return the Hollowed back into normal but we find nothing. Being infected is the same as dead, like a cancer without medicine and what laid in the end is nothing than death." said Jung Hwa who saw Han Seoyeon having a mournful expression. "Just think of it as an illness, one that no one could avoid." he said.
As a vampire, seeing a person died or even when they killed someone, they had no feeling nor thought about it it was their instinct running into their blood and like his fellow vampires, Jung Hwa felt nothing when he killed Gwon Sheiin. He didn't feel regret nor guilt as at that time to protect Han Seoyeon that was what he had to do and even if it happened again he wouldn't have to think twice before crushing her heart.
Han Seoyeon looked away when she noticed Jung Hwa had bent his knees to be on his heels to have a proper eye contact with her who was sitting on the couch and smiled, "Are you afraid, Seoyeon?" there was a challenge at his words.
"I am." she said frankly. When Gwon Sheiin caught and grasped tight her neck she felt alarmed and scared. The feeling of loosing breaths that she felt her nerves were about to pop was frightening even as she remembered it now.
He lifted his brows not finding her confession as cowardice. "Of me?" asked Jung Hwa making her wondered why he asked such a question.
She shook her head, "I was afraid because I almost died, Mr. Jung not because of you. Instead, thank you. Thank you for saving me." if it wasn't for Jung Hwa she would have died and the thought made her hands trembled.
"That's great." A smile appeared on his lips to her, a different one than his grins. "Put this on your neck. There will be marks but it should fade after two days." he said.
Han Seoyeon wondered what he meant and when she saw the large oval mirror placed behind them her eyes stopped at the red hand marks that had almost bluish hue to feel goosebumps creeping from her skin when she thought of how the woman was now dead.
Taking the ice pack to press it over her neck, she didn't notice when Jung Hwa had prepared the ice pack for her and wondered if he had taken it with him as he took a change of his clothes.
"We should go now, you can walk now, can't you?" she nodded and stood up at first a little unstable but then she stood straight up and followed him to walk out of the building which was soaked with bloods an hour ago. In the car they didn't talk a lot only a few words of Jung Hwa asking whether her neck was alright.
When they about to reach her house, Jung Hwa turned his steer to the left, pulling his brake to come at a stop in a red light and said, "Ji Hyeang had said it earlier. Because you know about vampire and after today's incident, you will be ask to meet the Associates."
"Associates?"
"The group responsible for Vampire's society, just think of them as police, detective, and sometimes act as a judge." he shifted his eyes toward her, his red pupils had turned back into a black color. "I don't think I have to tell you this but inside the Associates, there is nothing but vampires."
The thought of meeting vampires did made Han Seoyeon to hesitate after all it was no different than a rabbit entering a den of hungry lion. "But if I don't go, they would suspect me as a witch, don't they?"
A smile appeared at Jung Hwa's lips when he nodded, "You are right."
She gulped, looking back at his fiery black eyes, "And there will be possibility that they would execute me, don't they?" Though she heard only bits from the conversation Jung Hwa had with Deok Ji Hyeang, she could understand how dangerous the existence of witch was for vampire and she doubted the night creature wouldn't put the dangerous existence to death.
"I don't want to frightened you but you are correct. Vampires are cold blooded, Seoyeon and as you said if you didn't come they would hunt you and not only you, but your entire family."
The car at the point had stopped by her house. Jung Hwa clicked to take off his car belt and moved forward to bring his body to the seat beside him.
Before Han Seoyeon speak, she felt his body leaned and she moved back to feel her back pressed deeper to the cushioned seat. His face cut close in a distance where their nose brushes.
With the distance she was under him, Jung Hwa could feel the sweet smile milder than honey and sweeter than roses from her. It was the scent he had always smelled from her and smelling it closer, he couldn't help his lips from bending down to her collarbone.
Han Seoyeon could feel his warm breaths trailing over his neck and her breath hitched. Jung Hwa lifted his chin, finding her black eyes looking back at him and the rest of her cheeks turning pink like petals of flowers and smiled to whisper, "But you don't have to worry as the person who brought you in this, I will guarantee you there would be no finger that could harm you." a blazing fervent swirled at his eyes, like a calm sea before storm his promise had been shown tonight.
"I understand," her voice come uneven and her loose fists stopped at his shoulder. "Please move, Mr. Jung." a chuckle rang on her ears that rolled off from his lips, one which was low and felt ticklish to her.
"Good night, Seoyeon I hope you would have a sweet dream." he wished as Han Seoyeon walked out of the car to feel heat reaching up to all parts of her ears and cheeks.
Chapter 49: Disappearance-I
Once Han Seoyeon reaches back home, she took her phone and recalled how she had been called inside the hotel. Going through the series of phone call history, the number she saw was an unknown number. Who had called her? She didn't know the number and there had never been once when she saw the particular number. As the night was close, Han Seoyeon chose to think again in the next morning and feel asleep.
On the other side of the night about an hour and half before Han Seoyeon went back hime, the darkness was silent and stale, wind that came and go to blew some wind sang a night melody for the people who came out to roam at the time that belong to the night creatures. A certain couple came out from a small pub in Myeondong. The woman had a beautiful face and with the body tight dress she wore every eyes couldn't stop ogling at her and her partner was a young man with a glasses.
The man slide his hand up to her waist and the woman chuckled right next to his ears to whisper, "I don't think I can hold it anymore." said the woman with an alluring tone that made the man gulped.
The dress the woman wore had a round opening near her chest and every time the woman rubbed her breast to the man, it emphasizes the cleavage that they man was unable to move his eyes anywhere. "But the hotel is still far." the man said brushing his hand for the ring he wore on his left to shine.
"I don't mind doing it outside." the woman grinned, her hand pulling him closer and pouted, "Or you don't want to do it with me? I guess you are thinking of your wife."
"No, no." The man didn't want the woman to be saddened and lifted her chin, "Of course not how can you compare to her?" and the woman had a smitten smile after his words.
"Come with me." urged the woman and the man abidedly followed her steps. The couple walked and walked only to a deeper and narrower alley as the man was slightly drunk he didn't find it odd at first but soon he spoke,
"Where are we going?" asked the man.
"I just forgot the path a little don't worry." the woman said when the man's had pushed her behind to the wall.
"Let's just do it here." the man leaned closer and had his face buried on her shoulder. Feeling the sensation there was a smile that creeped to her face dropped coldly.
The woman rolled her eyes, "This is why humans are so gullible and stupid." she sighed before the man was able to comprehend her words, he felt a slash of cold strumming to his neck. The man stumbled a few steps back holding her neck where the skin had tore and blood spurted out all over the woman's face.
Basked in red fluid, the woman held her smile widely as the man collapsed forward lifelessly. As a witchess, she loved to see death especially when her body was soaked with blood as it give her pleasure better than ever. Death is frightening to humans but for her it was a beautiful existence an end that she loved to see.
"Finally? I've been waiting." said another woman who from the top of a wall jumped down to the ground in front of the woman.
"This isn't fun I can't see his frightened expression because he was drunk." said the woman wiping off the blood from her face and used her feet to turn the man's face.
"Don't be rash, Yul remember what happened last week to our target? He almost ran to ask for help fortunately Dowan was there with us or else the Associates would find out about us."
"Tch." Yul, the witch clicked her tongue having an expression that wasn't satisfied with the lack of frightened expression that the man gave. She wanted to see more blood and the expression twisted on a human's face as they were about to die but for the last few days she was unable to enjoy her murderers as the mistress had told her not to kill unless the victim had been intoxicated to lessen the danger of anyone finding out of their deeds.
"But why are you here, Hana? I thought the mistress had assigned you with a mission. Something that have to do with vampire.." Yul tried to recall the order their mistress gave when Hana filled her blanks, saying,
"The one held in the wedding party. The mistress said it would be a good chance to show both vampires of how frightening our existence are and to human, it would be a good chance to know the night creature called Vampires." There should be happiness on Hana's face but Yul saw nothing on her face instead she saw the gloom and irk over her face.
"And something bad happen?" asked Yul with one of her brows crooked.
"Yes, the transformation from vampire to hollowed was unsuccessful and instead the Associates catch up to our tail and now the mistress is very angry and demanded for ten human sacrifices." Hana said with a sigh.
"That is odd I remember perfectly yesterday how our potion to the vampire work well but why not now?" Yesterday the two witchesses have went to hunt for a defenseless vampire and potioned the man with a needle soak in the solution to see the man had their eyes bright red and rampage. It was successful and they had used the same potion as for why it didn't succeed, the two witchess couldn't understand.
"I wish I could know so I could appease mistress's anger but we still don't know anything. Fortunately she wasn't that angry because of the new book you found yesterday else, I wouldn't know whether she would ask for only ten human sacrifices."
"Help me to bring this one." when Yul asked for a hand, her face suddenly scrambled. Her skin like an old skin of paint on a wall began to peel off from her skin to show the cracked features of her real face.
Her eyes was black in color dilated and the white spot outside her eyelids was yellowish. The corroded teeth have began to show up along with her skin that wrinkled like an old woman in her nineties to erase all traces of the beauty face she had earlier. There were bumps all over her skin and when the woman smiled, it looked unbearably disgusting that one couldn't help to wince.
Although the Witchessess had a face like ladies in their early twenties in truth, they were much older than that. The witchesses have always lived under the dark, hidden amongst both humans and vampires to plan for a triumph over the two creatures...
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