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8% Invisible: Hunting Hyperdimensional Beasts / Chapter 4: Chapter 4: Not of Your Concern

บท 4: Chapter 4: Not of Your Concern

Kai was paralyzed for a moment.

‘That thing killed me last time, right? But that was when I didn’t have my powers yet. But wait… I still don’t have the powers! I mean, I managed to somehow use it in the grave that day, but…’

The thing was staring at his eyes with the same never-changing expression. This time it didn’t give the chance. Noticing it was cornered in the room, it jumped right at Kai.

But Kai swung his body to the side with all the speed he had and dodged it by a hair’s breadth.

“Woah!” Kai didn’t know whether he was more surprised due to the thing’s sudden charge of the fact that he actually managed to dodge.

‘This isn’t normal. I wouldn’t have dodged that. It turns out I still have some of those powers, after all. Even if the scale is far inferior.’ He thought. ‘In this case…’

Kai’s eyebrows curved in a serious expression. He extended the palm of his right hand at the creature while it was turning around to try and attack Kai once more.

As soon as it saw Kai’s serious face, it froze down. It lost the desire to attack.

Is it scared of his eyes? Or maybe it felt something else…

Either way, the thing, and Kai stared at each other for a brief second, and then the monster decided to run away, as it had swapped places with Kai after the first charge-in. Now Kai was the one behind the shelf and the monster was closer to the door.

It ran to the corridor with all its speed.

“Hey, wait!” Kai shouted and proceeded to chase it down.

‘Why do I feel some kind of déjà vu?’ He asked himself while he followed it around.

He spotted the thing running down the stairs, even passing right beside one of the inspectors. The inspector didn’t do anything. He didn’t seem to mind. Instead, he even said in a loud voice:

“Hey, no running in the corridors!”

Kai didn’t bother, he ran past him and kept chasing the thing.

“Hey, come back here!” The inspector shouted.

Soon the inspector had been left behind by Kai’s recently obtained high speed. He chased the thing all the way to the courtyard, trying to fire another one of the waves at it. The pressure was very weak but it managed to cause some impact on the monster, which caused it to start bleeding lightly.

The monster then climbed the walls and jumped to the outside of the school. Kai was locked in, so he couldn’t follow it.

“What are you doing!? You’re making it run away!” A voice behind him said.

“Aimee?” He recognized the voice before he turned back.

She was staring at him, carrying the same metal shapeless idol-like object from the other day in the hands.

‘Finally… She is here. Where do I start…?’ Kai thought.

“What’s going on Aimee? What is this thing?”

“They are called ‘presences’.“

“Presences…?”

“Ghosts. Spirits. Whatever. You name it. Most people can’t see or feel them.”

“So that’s why no one was hearing all that fuzz on the ceiling? And how do…”

“Look…” Aimee held his forearm menacingly “Most people shouldn’t see them. You included. What happened to you was an accident. But I tell you: you are not ready for this. I’m going to take care of this one. Please go back to the class and pretend nothing of this ever happened.”

With some difficulty, Kai managed to get his arm off of Aimee’s grip.

“What do you mean, act like nothing happened? Who are you? What happened to me on that day? Why do I suddenly have all these powers? What did you say to my parents? How am I supposed to ignore all this? If you haven’t noticed everybody is staring at me like I was… Like I was a ghost.”

Aimee just ignored all of Kai’s rant and began walking back to the class.

“I’m counting on you.” She said firmly.

‘Aimee…?’

She went back and Kai was left alone in the courtyard. The wind swept at his face like a cold shower, reminding he was in the middle of nowhere without anyone around during the class time.

‘And now people looking at the window are going to think I’m even more the weird guy. Great.’ He thought.

Kai followed Aimee’s steps back to the class.

‘Guh! Act like nothing happened! Like hell I’m going to ignore all that! Screw ghosts and living objects and such things. That damned thing killed me once and I got the chance to get my revenge. I’m chasing down the thing and if Aimee is not clarifying the things for me, I’m going to clarify them myself!’ Kai muttered to himself in his head as he walked up the stairs.

The rest of the class went by pretty fast. The students would always whisper at his back and stare at him strangely, but he just ignored. At least he did the best to.

On that day, Kai was allowed to leave the gates at lunchtime, since there was no mandatory class after. He thought of finding Aimee and walking with her back home.

‘She is going to act like an ass, but she’ll open in no time if I insist.’ He planned.

But even if he planned doing so; Aimee was too fast in packing her things and leaving the school. If there was really a race of the students against the bell during the last period, Aimee was probably McLaren or Ferrari.

As he crossed the guardhouse at the gate, he went to the other side of the wall where the creature had climbed earlier to confirm a thing.

“There it is.” Kai spotted a blood drip on the floor of the sidewalk.

“I’ve seen movies where people can work after analyzing a drop of blood like that. People can see that, right? I wonder what’s going to happen if I catch a sample and send it to analysis…? Huh? What is this…?”

Kai noticed the shape of the grass near the sidewalk looked funny.

‘”Did the creature do this…? No. It looks like a human. Footprints…? Oh…”

Kai realized that earlier Aimee probably had the same idea he had.

“So she is also chasing down the thing. What is she? Some kind of ghostbuster?” Kai considered his options, then abandoned the idea of the blood sample.

“Anyway… If I find Aimee, it means I’m probably going to find the creature.”


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บท 5: Chapter 5: Investigation

Kai was never the type to get involved. He was always the quiet guy sitting in the middle of the class. That’s also why he didn’t have any colleagues he knew to walk out the school together with. But for some reason, he felt really invested in chasing that animal.

Perhaps it was because he wanted revenge. Or perhaps it was curiosity. Or maybe he was just having fun with the change? Even he didn’t understand himself very well.

Kai wasn’t the most experienced tracker so he went back into the school to check the files for Aimee’s address instead of trying to track overly small blood drips. He knew the library kept a record of all the student’s data for registering. Kai never understood why they didn’t do it all with an online system instead of actually keeping a bunch of files filled by hand, but at least that came handy at that time.

The door to the library was locked, as expected. Kai could test whether he was really stronger or not. He tried pressuring the knob with all his might. It took him a while, but the lock gave in. He literally broke into the room.

“Interesting…”

Kai knew the big record was kept under the dean’s desk somewhere, so it didn’t take him long to find the address. It wasn’t very far from the school. Kai took a picture of the address with his phone and began walking there.

“This is the place…” He observed after reaching there, looking at his cellphone to ensure he got the address right.

It almost seemed like an abandoned house. The undergrowth occupied the whole entry area, the whole ambient was darkened by the trees. The paint in the walls was peeling off and the overall state of the building didn’t seem to be the best.

‘But is this really it…?’ Kai scratched the back of his head as he thought. ‘Oh well, I need to ask her parents something. What story do I come up with? Oh well, gotta ring the bell and think later.’

Kai notice there was no doorbell. He clapped and tried shouting ‘Aimee’ but no response.

‘Is this really hers…? This place looks so…’

The next minute Kai was in the yard, trying to swoop at the window.

‘What am I doing?’

He couldn’t see much as everything was dark inside. He thought of breaking in again.

‘Should I do such things just because I now can?’ He thought. He tested the knob with a portion of guilt. But the door was open.

“Oh!”

Kai went in. That didn’t look like a house at all. There was a bare minimum of furniture and everything was in a decrepit state. The very few utensils were all thrown into the floor.

“Excuse meee?”

There was no response or noise.

‘Is this really an abandoned address then? Did Aimee just lie her address to make a register, then? Sh*t, at this rate I won’t be able to… Huh? What’s this?’

Kai noticed a bunch of newspaper clippings were scattered through the floor. He bent down to check them. It was about stories of disappearance in an address near the school. Apparently, the daughter of a family had vanished and never had been seen again. Although she lived nearby, she didn’t frequent Goldenville, so Kai never heard of the story until now.

“Ok… The ‘ghosts’ are invisible. I thought if only I and Aimee could see it then maybe we were the only ones affected by their actions? But if that’s not the case… If they were to cause some harm to humans then it should be registered as a mystery case like that, huh?’

Kai took a picture of the clippings with his phone.

“What is Aimee anyway? Why is she living in a place like that and researching that kind of thing? Well… I guess it’s one more thing to ask her the next time I find her.”

Even after reaching the address in the newspaper, Kai couldn’t find Aimee.

‘Funny, if she isn’t here looking for the thing… Then where is she?’ He thought after spending a good five minutes in the entrance of the said house. ‘I guess I should ring the bell and say I’m friends with that Sally girl who disappeared.’

And so he did.

The mother came with a hopeful face, thinking the school colleague might have something useful to say.

“Please tell me you can help the police investigate. We have been waiting for weeks now…”

“Yeah, the police is not putting enough effort, right, ma’am? That’s why me and the colleagues are doing our best to collect information to try and help.”

“Oh.”

“We started a club at school to make sure the investigation proceeds properly. Could you please tell us some things about the day Sally vanished?”

“Sure… Come in.”

Unlike the last place he entered, the house was pretty normal there. The entrance led to a cozy warm parlor beautifully decorated.

“Say… Did Sally…” Kai began speaking but as he entered in he noticed something strange. It was nothing his five senses could feel, but inside his body something accused him. It was similar to that day when he felt the presence of the monster figure at the door, but this time he felt it on a large scale. Like he knew there was something ghost-related somewhere in that house.

“…Yes?” The mother asked him.

Kai confirmed the culprit was somewhere nearby just by the feeling he had.

‘Those powers I gained for no reason sure are interesting… But since I’m just a school colleague visiting I might as well play along now.’ He thought.

“Uh… Did Sally use to play outside or something? Don’t you know if she met someone strange on that day?”

“No. That’s what is the strangest thing for us. She never left the house without a prior warning. She was a really good girl, you see...”

‘Yep. The thing is living inside, then. Just a matter of figuring how to get to it.’ Kai realized without saying.

He asked:

“And what about friends? Did they say the same thing? Normally in these cases, there is a ‘friend’ who invited her somewhere she wasn’t supposed to go.”

“No… We really didn’t impose rules like that around the house. She was very open. We always talked about the things she wanted to do and most of the time we allowed her, that’s why she wasn’t afraid of asking. I think someone must have kidnapped… My poor girl.”

The mother seemed on the verge of crying. Kai wasn’t very good at handling those situations.

“I understand you must have answered a lot to the cops already ma’am, I don’t want really to bother you with more questions pretending to be the little cop, so if the mistress doesn’t mind… Could I just check Sally’s room? Maybe I can find out some familiar stuff. You know… There have been some rumors in the school…”

“Sure. If you think that will help…”

After some more chit-chat, Kai was finally liberated to climb the stairs all the way to his “school colleague’s” room.

‘Well… Now it’s the time to actually find that thing...’


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