Chapter 153: The Sign
The stars shone yellow today.
Kai looked at them in pale awe. From constellations to constellations, even the brightest blue star looked sickly blurry. Only one star was beaming red, almost outdoing even the distant moon in brightness.
Like the eye of some demon, that red star glared back at him.
Kai looked away.
They had been waiting to see her for a long time. So, the moment Kai saw a wisp of silvery mist coming out of the ground and then going in, he smiled. There was a wooden stick in his hand, using which he kept tapping the ground with a predetermined rhythm.
Soon she found them and lunged at him.
Kai couldn't have afforded to go for her in the port's region, so he had pointed one direction to her to come to after the task was over. The tapping took care of the rest. He wondered what tale Selene would have in store for him. He could already smell it, the stench of meatballs.
'I hope whatever she's doing behind my back is a reason enough for the System to allow me to kill her,' he thought, as Selene solidified in her material form.
His thoughts solidified along with her.
When Kai held her, he found her trembling, burning with fever, and her left eye swollen, bleeding with red and yellow pus-like blood. She coiled herself into his embrace as if something was chasing her, some natural predator who hadn't existed before, but now did.
"What happened to her?" Petyr asked, standing in the shadows of the trees.
Kai frowned. There was only one way to find out, but he wasn't sure if he wanted to know, either. It would be stupid to deny that Selene, as she was now, was stronger than him. If it wasn't for his Glitch, there was nothing on Kai that could have matched her existence, let alone having her as a pet.
So the thing that had shaken her to this degree, what it would do to him, this thought lingered at the back of his mind like a warning from his ancestors.
And he would have heeded that warning if it wasn't for Kai's nature. It was Power he desired, and it had never come to him without a cost.
-Tell me- he commanded.
She raised her hood, flicking out her tongue. Though she was shaking, defiance rose within her, hearing Kai's command, and his powerful murderous voice.
Then she told him, one by one, all the things she had heard, hiding in that room.
First the flutters of hundreds of wings, and then the crawling of even more insects. No life she had sensed in them, and as she mentioned this, Kai frowned.
"No life in hundreds of -birds- and even more insects," Kai repeated, looking at Petyr. It didn't take long for Kai to realize what was going on. A Master Ability. This alone was reason enough to kill Meg. Did he need to hear more?
"Good thing we took a precaution of 1000 meters," Petyr said. "Your instincts were right, my lord. As always."
-Master, then she undressed. I could taste her naked skin- Selene hissed, now almost calm, as she pressed herself against Kai's chest.
What safety she felt in his embrace, Kai didn't know. Nor did he care. The only thing that mattered now was a naked old woman. "She was -naked-," Kai told Petyr, and repeated himself when Petyr shook his head. "She -was- naked."
Petyr laughed. "It seems you missed a chance, my lord," he jested. "Don't you like older women?"
"Not that -old-," Kai said, scowling.
It felt odd, with Petyr joking about everything and the strange sense of a horror that Kai felt welling up in his heart. The two contrasted each other like sweet and sour, making the tale almost drinkable.
-Then she took out a box- Selene hissed, rubbing her left eye over Kai's shirt.
-Don't do it!- Kai snapped, taking out a cloth and cleaning the space around her eye. -What was in the box?-
-I don't know- Selene hissed, almost gritting her fangs as if she regretted not having eyes. -Powerful things, and some ordinary things. She took out a candle from it. And then… then she cut herself, as I tasted blood, a lot of blood-
When Kai told Petyr these things, the character too became serious.
"Blood?" Petyr mumbled, scratching the stubble on his chin. "My lord, we both know what blood is used for the most, don't we?"
"Rituals," Kai uttered the word with an odd premonition. Blood Prophecy was a ritual, and so were the many things that Kai had heard about after coming to the Primordial Tower.
'Where is this going?' Kai thought apprehensively. 'Something's too wrong with what's happening.'
-She then used her blood to draw a shape on the floor-
-Shape?- Kai hissed. -What shape? Can you redraw it?-
-No. But I can help master redraw it- Selene hissed, almost taking pride in her Earth Vibration Sense.
Kai told Petyr about the matter with this shape first, before tearing out a piece of paper from the notes Meg had given him. Taking out the pen from the random assortments he carried in his MRB, Kai nudged Selene to go on and do her thing.
The ghost serpent coiled herself around his right forearm, pressing the underside of her head against the backside of Kai's palm.
-You draw, master. I will sense the vibrations to tell you how to proceed-
This turned out to be more difficult than Selene had made it sound. 2 hours, 3 hours, and then midnight came and went, as both Kai and Selene kept drawing that odd shape.
Finally, well past midnight, into the hour of the wolf, a tired hiss from Selene told Kai that this was the shape.
A Shape was what Kai called it, for the lack of a better word. Looking at it rose such disgust from the depths of his heart that Kai wanted to tear that paper into hundreds of tiny pieces. What was it? A character, a glyph, or a hideous geometrical convulsion of distorted lines?
And then a fact originated in Kai's mind, like knowledge from the ancient times passed down as an instinct.
It was just a Sign, drawn in the wrong color.
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AN: A major part of Vol 3 (Reincarnation in Harry Potter World) will revolve around this sign. Do give it some extra attention. I wanted to combine Chapter 154 and 155, but it got too long. So enjoy one more chapter today.
The Sign's image reference is available on discord and on google. :)
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