Chapter 14 (2/2)
In between burning pieces of wood, Captain Who looks for the source of the voice He sees the hand of his ene to help hiain, a few steps from his the arm
”Do not hurt !”
The left hand of the hairy man is cut off And he was burnt froht hand to lift his head off the floor and look at the person he is talking to In this pitiful state, Captain Who sees the man under the hair
”You are the monster who kills people?”
”I am the monsterhis back to the ground ”Forget cuffingme to jail…that only happens in comic books In real life, that isn't what happens when someone like you and someone like me meets You save the city, I save ations”
”Where is the child?”
”Do not hurt , and he soon finds the reason why: his son is behind him
Hooohrghh… Hooohhrrghhh…
A deep and rattling cry, but unmistakably human Captain Who carefully turns around Every move calculated Carefully, with held breath Until he sees under the lights of the scattered fires a whale-like giant As tall as hi Covered in thick fur, like the Mayor It has small feet by it's back that you could mistake for a torn tail, and short stubby hands by its sides, but all of them – its hands and feet – serve no function It can only crawl like a giant worm
”I tried being humanitarian to fulfill my lack of humanity I didn't want to pass my disease to my son…I didn't knoill have it so”He only needs the protein in hu And the supply and h”
Captain Who slowly retreats as the giant with the repulsive sht infants and five mothers simultaneously died in this hospital when it was closed down So the people saying it wasn't because of the epide the truth?”
”There is nothing right with theirto speak ”They know nothing They are the leeches of the world Parasites to one another!”
”The people do not knohat they're doing is wrong”
”But they also do not do what they know is right! Pests waiting for soives hope in this town!”
”And you charge it with the citizen's lives?”
”Because that is their debt to me!”
Captain Who has reached the end of the room, nowhere to back do He feels the cold of the wall he is forced to lean on, and the weight of the giant crushi+ng him on the front It's breath reaches inside the hel creature It's mouth is two spans wide, like a wallet that couldn't be opened much, full of human teeth
”My son's na4', not ' oncethis town”
The whale slowly bites Captain Who in the shoulder, a playful nibble by a dog to it's owner The savior endures the slight pain while trying to read the giant's intentions, trying to avoid violence
”Michaeeeeeeel!” A shout fro the floor killing some of the small fires He looks at the Mayor, the blood isn't his; his own shoulder, no wound; Michael, still looking at hi out of his side grew stronger, cut by a steel sink, turned upside down, rusting, and torn with a sharp point
”My son…” the father who has almost ran out of breath weakly lamented
Captain Who stares at the spilling blood of the people of Pelaez from the heavy body of the Mayor's son, which despite him shouldn't and couldn't be able to do, crawled to his father's side Michael finally collapses before the blood keeping hi out
The victim?! Captain Who suddenly remembers about the kidnapped child He runs to every corner of the hospital to look for the kid that could still be saved He sees the child in a pungent roo the place where Michael once hid But he groeak and his lungs tighten when he approaches the prostrated victi, bloody, unconscious…and not a child but a wo to a doctor
After arriving at the hospital, Captain Who quickly leaves the girl Behind hielio Who is met by the news that Tessa has passed away
Translation Notes:
1 – Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co tiest telecom and internet company in the Philippines)
2 – Radio Communications Philippines Inc They aren’t around anyrams
3 – enwikipediaorg/wiki/Aswang
4 – enwikipediaorg/wiki/Tikbalang
Both are o more in-depth with this in future projects, since most Philippine Fantasy is centered around PH mythos too