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2024-10-29 19:42:56I could hardly remember what took place after I put myself into a deep sleep. Yet the uncertainty was bugging me. I never felt this kind of lightheadedness as though I might pass out again any second.
I pushed my body to lift from laying but the unsteadiness of my balance and my muscles that are out of shape was a sense of disorientation of space that affected the range of my senses, making me woozy on the spot.
I could even say that a slight movement to leap out from the bed will make my surroundings spin. I can tell that I'll faint any moment if I'll try my luck to drag myself further.
"Don't move. You still need to recover your strength."
My whole body felt weak and exhausted and when I tilted my head to glance at him, my head throbbed.
"W-what happened before I passed out?" my hoarse voice denoted that I just awakened from my deep slumber. It was slightly raspy and crooked.
"Here. Drink some water to ease your throat."
He handed m
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I brushed off the quilt from my body and hopped out from the bed. My body was strangely fueled by Sovine's blood. Speaking of him, I glanced at his side."I need to hear some explanation from you regarding this matter.""I thought you wouldn't ask. It's a relief that I'm prepared for this before doing this kind of deed."I sat back on the bed and listened to him thoroughly. I don't wanna skip any information if I don't take notice of his every word."We've also gone through that. The awakening of an Eleanor's power was overbearing. Hence, when the Sovereign discovered that he can ease the suffering through drinking the blood from his own kin, he took advantage of the Eleanor's blood. I just thought that this method same applies to you and my guts didn't fail me."I breathed sharply and my eyes cast downward. "Is the Sovereign you say was the ruler of the Royal family?"When he nodded, I confirmed my suspicion."A Royal family that was
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"The truck has been loaded. We're off to go."I was in deep thought when Sovine gathered my attention.Looking at him, I tilted my head a bit, gesturing to him that I'll talk to him for a while. He nods and we strode to the niche where no one can hear our conversation."What do you want us to talk about?" he said and I notice the hint of seriousness in his voice.My face grew grim and my brows were slightly pulled down."My instinct never failed me but there's something off that I'm having a bad feeling about this trip. I'll leave the Aardwolves and the Black Vultures in your care. Do tell this to Cerulean before we left."He was silent and I took that as a vestige to continue my narration."I want you and Cerulean to protect these people when things go wrong. And if I fail to do my task, leave before everything mess up. There's a lower chance that I can get out but I'll squeeze my way in. I'll take it from there, don't wait for my si
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"Stay closer with each other. There's a lot of undead lurking around, ready to pounce at any of us. Be vigilant."Sovine and I lead the way while Grande was fixing her troop to gather together with the things we needed if something came up unexpectedly."You don't have a gun? Why?"My attention bounced to Lieutenant William. I'm slightly irritated because he stuck himself to me like a leech.I lifted my dagger. "This will do. I'll prefer this dagger than to run out with bullets."This dagger was handed by Cerulean which he saw from the basement way back. He says that this dagger suited me. Its tip was sharp, that one contact with it, it can penetrate in someone's skin.The stillness of its shape was a guise that anyone wouldn't know what's lurking beneath the surface. Wielding this, the dagger flickered dangerously more than its contour.I was driven by my deep recalling, hence, when I peeped at him, he was looking at me with strange
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"Is anyone injured?" I asked Grande when she walks closer to me."Some were barely a wound but they'll live.""We're about to enter the capital of the Cape city, ready your men. You don't want your men to knot in the tricky trap, do you?"She immediately shook her head. "I'll line them up.""Go," I urged her. "We can't delay our pace if something might come up this time. The circumstances were twisted and I'm afraid that someone might web us in their deceit.""Same thoughts," she murmured and gazed around. "I felt strange about this city unlike the other."I hummed and prowled my eyes in every nook the way. "Yeah. This city fell to ruin. I'm also having a bad feeling about this.""Xiomara... was it just me or various eyes is watching our every move?" she whispered, a bit edgy.When I was about to retort, there's a scream that infiltrated my hearing.I immediately looked back and my eyes dimmed deeply when I saw an arrow
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"We can still talk this out. Violence was never an answer to sort everything, Xiomara." Lieutenant William quickly spoke as he held my hand and squeezed it.I halted my hound from attacking and looked at Lieutenant. Poloy growled in defying but I hushed him through a wave of my palm."Sometimes killing is the best excuse to shut them up. I still grasp some mercy, Lieutenant. Cutting their hands will be enough as a payment."I shook his hands away and took a step forward. With my head lifted high, my glare grazed at the men whose egos were pinched up."I'll give you a chance to change your mind."Yet they took my words as a laughing stock and aimed their guns at us."Leave! We don't need any of you here!"A sarcastic chuckle invaded my mouth and peeked at Lieutenant William."See? Where did my statement go wrong, Lieutenant? I'm asking them nicely but they compensate it with such a rude act. Now, tell me. Should I spare them an
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"You seem bothered. What thoughts hooked you to be in this deep state?"I lifted my head and saw Grande in front of me. She walks to my side and sat while holding a cup and a bottle of liquor. I don't know where did she get that, perhaps, she found it inside."Something troubling I pondered deeply to sort out."She chuckles and downed her drink. My thoughts zoned out again and the disturbing silence engulfed my nerves. Not until Grande nudged the cup on my arm. The cold metal against my bare skin jolted me from my trance."Have a taste. It will forget your subtle thinking for a while."I accepted the cup without a fuss and drank the liquor she poured. The bittersweet whiff of the liquor dampened my throat and somehow, the bleak tinge soothes my thoughts for a moment."Care to tell me your problem?" she suddenly asked.My eyes stared from nowhere and after a minute of being mute, I peeked at her."Do you think that my existence
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Darkness overruled the sky and evening seems dingy and dangerous for the time being. However, I held the binocular and lifted my awareness while scrutinizing the surrounding from the high spot of this building where I stood."Hey..."I put down the binocular and turned my back to face him."Hey," I greeted and smiled a bit. "Haven't talked to you for a long time."He chuckles lightly and walks to my side. My grip from the binocular tightened as I leaned in the railings. While he settled his hands in the balustrades and gazed below."Yeah. You were surrounded by cool people. I can't stand a chance to have a chat. Your time was colonized almost by them.""Herofus," I laughed a little. "I'm free to have a conversation anytime. You're just sheepish to roll along.""Honestly, I'm succumbed by the hesitation I felt. You know, you've done something to be proud of while I'm just a burden you saved back there. I felt so... so useless. Am I wor
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"Sorry for disturbing your time with each other but I have news to tell."Both of us turned to Grande. Her face depicted seriousness and with that kind of emotion, I can tell that there's something urgent we need to see.Trudging towards her, I say, "What is it?""We saw two buses that we can maneuver to enter the border and reach the place of the Royal family."My brows furrowed upon hearing that. "You already checked those out?"She nodded. "Yes. My troops can squeeze to the first bus. The other can be yours to seize.""If that's the case and there's no hindrance in our way, we can catch up in the border right now. However, I'm not certain about the circumstances. I saw movements outside of this building earlier when I've done a thorough inspection."Lieutenant William walks toward us. "She's right. I can hear the buzzing sounds of the undead lurking around. The danger was scarcely creeping its way to pinch in.""Precisely. I
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She weakly pushed me away but I gripped her waist tighter, afraid that if I would let go, I won't see her ever again. And I'm deeply terrified at that thought.However, with all her strength, I was shoved away forcefully by her in the end. Now, there was a boundary in our post. Having this few distances away from her makes my eyes sting with tears. A painful tug in my heart gives me a wave of agony. Everything she does was plain torture for me.Yet, the look in her eyes made me shiver. The distress and suffering I felt thrived huger without cease."Stop being weak in front of me!" she scolded in a firm voice. "I told you to be brave and face everything onward without being vulnerable!""Mom... how can I act tough if I'm breaking inside?! How can I face everything bravely if the reason I'm breathing was in front of me... wishing me to run and leave her alone, dying because of me! Mom, how can you be so heartless?!" my voice broke at the same time, my heart shattered bits by bits.I'm
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My mother didn't say anything the whole drive. She was quiet and it bothered me so much that my head throbbed in turmoil and confusion. My mother's words hounded me as I also keep the track of traces to find more clues about her statement, hoping to seek an answer to her confusing message with hidden meaning underneath.My brows furrowed while thinking. Not until my mother lightly tapped my head."I know what's running inside your little mind," she chuckled. "Don't pay any attention to it. It will just make your head ache in pondering."Her chuckle gives me a sense of forbidding. It was like a Deja Vu when she locked me up inside my room when everything started and she was gone in a snap. What she did back then left a deep scar in my heart and now, it's slowly bleeding because of what she had said.Feeling cold over, my palms sweated a lot. A dreadful emotion blows me up with a bang that almost makes me wanna jump at her and question her about it. Nevertheless, I halted myself from be
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"M-mom..." I whispered and gritted my teeth to stop myself from tearing up. This sudden reunion made my heart tremble in anticipation and at the same time, it scares me about what will happen next."Xiomara..." she uttered my name with longing in her eyes.My hands clenched tightly as I scrutinized her figure. I saw some scars, old and new on her body that made my eyes dim in rage. Her pale lips were quivering and my nails sunken in my palm even deeper upon seeing her situation.I can tell with a single glance that she suffered a lot in their hands. A burst of anger almost suffocated me yet I inhaled deeply and suppress it. This isn't the right time to take action against them because I know for a fact that we can't win against their powerful force.All we need is time to wait. For now, tolerating their existence might be the last card of patience I have for them."She's our hostage now. If you don't come with us, then see how I'll deal with you." The man with a dominating presence sp
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A light tap on my cheeks woke me up. I rubbed my eyes lightly after slowly opening them. What greeted my sight was Grande's figure standing in front of me with a serious face."What's with the face?""Belle was gone."I sat up straight after hearing that. My brows furrowed and pursed my lips."That's it?"She frowned. "What do you mean?"Peeling off the dust in my pants, I looked at her. "It was expected.""Wait, what? Can you tell me what does it means?""She's a traitor," Sovine interrupted. "From the start, she was sent to spy on the military grounds. I mean, the Royal clan dispatched every assassin to monitor everyone's move against them.""And you know it all along without giving us some hints?" Herofus gazed at me with disbelief in his eyes."I don't. I was informed by Sovine ahead of you. Remember the bus?"He nodded."She's the one who sabotages it.""But I'm with her almost every hour!""Even a second can create a huge surprise, much less for a skilled assassin like her."Her
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All of them were gaping at me, stunned by my statement full of conviction. Yet, when exhaustion took over my body, all I could hear was their calling before I lost consciousness and completely blackened out.Something happened that defies my common sense, well everything was. However, this one was quite huge to take because... my consciousness seeped through me and entered into the void. Chaos started to bound my mind and almost I can imagine the veins thumping in my forehead.I struggled to wake up but I couldn't. As if there was a force binding me not to do anything. As of the moment, my consciousness lay there waiting for something I couldn't put a finger on.After a while, it was still eerily quiet and I can't understand what this possibly mean. The questions in my mind were surging forward like a tide. Yet, none of it was answered to enlighten me.My feelings were stirred. Like the alternate rising and falling of the sea. It was thorough havoc.
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I felt depressed and fell into profound thinking. I don't even know if my existence together with the strange power I hold was a blessing or a curse in disguise. It was as if everything was a tricky code that was hard to crack.My head hurts at that thought. All these things that happened in the world were caused by the Royal family of Eleanor was seemingly a bottomless chasm. That to think of a hundred ways to figure this out, nothing will fit to unravel the depths of the void.And if there's a rope of hope led down into the dark abyss that once pulled would rip up the whole truth, the threads of mystery will slowly crack. But if not solved, then I don't know what to think anymore.This discovery seemed out of the world."Xiomara?"I blinked and tidied my dazed eyes before looking at them. Clearing my throat, I softly murmured, "I don't know how to wield my mental strength."Sovine darted his eyes on me. "Try to concentrate and expand your
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To which extent the powerful attack can be, I'm uncertain of that. However, I sharpened my senses and continue striking at full force with the combination of power I have. Yet, I couldn't guarantee my stance of attacking if my stamina would deplete."Drive faster!" I shouted without ceasing from attacking.The car moves faster than the normal speed. It was sometimes swaying to avoid the obstacle hindering the way. However, halting, I checked the bullets and a soft curse broke out from my lips when I saw that there were only two bullets left.We aren't far yet from the chasing beasts but we're already at disadvantage up to this point. This situation was merely a pig ready to be slaughtered. Us, being hunted until we can no longer run was frustrating."There's a bunch of cars hampering our way!""This isn't good! They won't stop chasing us! What can we do now?""Are we gonna wait here and die?"Their kick-up commotion was unpleasant tha
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They ready all the equipment they've got. My eyes tidied across the upcoming beasts attacking the gate without halting. As my eyes cast downward, I saw the man riding on the beast's back, looking straight into my eyes.From afar, I could imagine the corner of his lips lifted into a mischievous smirk like he was floating in glee upon seeing the people in my side, struggling to keep up in this bloody fight he ignited.He was the wielder of the monster beast called Baku, the man whom we encountered the last time and ambushed us roughly. And this time, he was facing us- craving and waiting for his glory to win.Or so, he thought it was. I'm here and I would never make it happen!The crowd of undead clashing with the bullets turned over the place into chaos. It sounded dreadful yet the Baku stirred the havoc even more.It was humans between the undead and the beast named Baku.However, when the other people run out of bullets and the shooting cea
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For a moment, the silence took over my senses yet it was shattered when the noise of the undead thrived bigger each second passed by. It was alarming and threatening at the same time as if death was knocking on our door, though it seemed it was. Perhaps, the reality was cruel to even wish for this to end."Xiomara, the people who volunteered were now set inside the truck. We're ready to depart." Lieutenant William's voice rang in my ears that broke me out from mulling over my thoughts.I caught his eyes on me with a meaningful gaze when I looked at him."Grande and I will create a disturbance for your breakout. Use the back door for an escape route and make sure you'll get out of here and the others alive.""Xiomara..." there was an expressive meaning in his stares yet I shrugged those off. This wasn't the right time to ponder over that."Say what you want to say. Time is running and we can't afford to waste it any longer."He sighs deeply w
