Chapter 61: She will kill him (1/2)
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*[FLASH BACK - 7 YEARS AGO]*
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A boy is standing in front of a house. A lazy cat is sitting on his shoulder. His face is half hidden. He is wearing black sunglasses and a red baseball cap. The door of the house is currently locked. A trail of black smoke escapes from his finger and enters into the door's keyhole. With a click, the door is unlocked. The boy walks into the house as it belongs to him.
The living room is full of garbage and broken items. The windows are closed. It's difficult to breathe in the house because of the smell. The boy moves the couch with great difficulty and finds a chained secret door. He waits for a moment. There is no sound. A whisker of smoke is released from his index finger again. This time, it snaps the chain in half.
He lifts up the door and sees a ladder going into the darkness below. He climbs down the ladder without any fear. The cat on his shoulder opens its mismatched eyes. The boy walks deeper into the dark hidden room. The hidden room smells like faeces, blood and urine. The boy covers his nose. Something cracks under his feet. Surprised, he chants a spell. A ball of purple fire with faint light appears in his hand. He sees piles of bones everywhere.
”You could have warned me.” Fang Aisa, who is dressed up as a boy, says to Rene Reis.
”Let's get moving. We don't have much time.” The cat's voice is rather calm. ”Find the kid.”
Fang Aisa walks on the piles of bones without any hesitation. In the last few months, she has seen the worse. Now, a secret basement with full of bones is not surprising to her anymore. This is the house of a man-eater who is away at the moment. Fang Aisa is not keen to meet him.
Fang Aisa has been trying to track the man-eater for months. He never stays in one place for long. He is a human organ trafficker who sells the organs that he doesn't eat. It doesn't take her long to find the unconscious boy on the pile of the bones. When she touches his face, she finds that he is cold and barely breathing.
”As I suspected, this boy is a fae.” The cat climbs off her shoulder. ”Hurry, we have to return the child soon.”
”What about the man-eater human?” Fang Aisa asks him.
”Don't worry. She will kill him,” Reis replies. ”Why should we get our hands dirty? Kismet will do the deed. When she is angry, she takes it out on her pawns. He will meet his appropriate fate.”
Kismet is the other name of Fate. Fang Aisa purses her lips. Reis has been right so far. She picks up the boy who is light as a feather on her shoulder. She rushes out of the house. Before she leaves, she sets the house on fire. The bones burn in the fire along with the rest of the house.
They get out of the city as fast as possible. When the boy doesn't wake up, Fang Aisa is worried.