Chapter 96 - The Leftovers (1/2)

Luke looked at the two boys in shock in front of him and did what Nathalia would have done. He helped them before he called the other problems. Using the point of his fingers, which were still covered in blood, he cut the ropes that bound the two and then let them take off their gags by themselves.

”Fuck! You're pretty fucked up bro, thanks a lot!”

”What the hell was that, bro?”

”I don't know, but I've never seen anything like it, Anne just went crazy overnight!”

”Not to mention that creepy thick voice.”

”No calming down, please.” Luke requested, after enduring the two chatterers for seconds long enough. ”Did you guys know the girl?”

”If we knew her!?”

”What did you do with her!?”

”Did you exorcise her?

”Did you kill her?

”I killed her. A demon was using her body as a receptacle.” The half-wolf explained the situation as he wiped the excess blood from his hand on the inside of his cloak. ”There was no other way.”

”A demon?”

”Shit! Not another one...”

”Wait a minute! Did you say a demon!?”

”Shit... first Rodrigo, now Anne...”

Luke huffed, stressed and tired. ”Just stop with the litany of you two. I don't have time for this. Get up, and let's go. I'll drop you off somewhere safe.”

The inn was at least a few hours drive from any nearby towns, so Luke didn't feel it would be right to leave them there. The two young men nodded to the half-wolf and stood up, avoiding looking at the corpse of their former companion on the floor of the room.

The smell of the place was now as rotten as ever. There was an acidic mixture of stale blood with demon slurry and alcohol in the air.

When Alexis saw the half-wolf leave without any injuries, he judged him as someone to really keep an eye on because he would prove to be a tremendous beast in the future. Following him were two boys just over six feet tall; they had the same physique, same skin tone, same hair color, and even the shocking expression they displayed were almost the same. The only thing that made them different was their haircuts.

”How was it?” The half-dragon asked excitedly, not noticing the look of anger Luke had on his face.

”I'm not going to talk about it in front of them. Let's get going.” Luke said and walked past the half-dragon, starting to follow the barren dirt road.

Alexis didn't understand the reason for such stress, but she wasn't the one who expressed dissatisfaction.

”Hey, wait a minute! We have to burn our friends' bodies.”