Chapter 127 - A Man Defiles My Body! (1/2)

(Tom's PoV)

This time, there was no voice; only a soft hum buzzing in my ears which reminded me of the start-up sound an engine or machine made. Those holes opened up again. It still felt strange to me but if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would have told the person who told me this story to go to sleep. He must have been dreaming when he said he saw two holes filled with lava as eyes of unknown gigantic creature. Unfortunately, I saw it myself.

Seconds passed but there was no voice. Where was it?

As those holes opened up again, I could see the both of my visitors more clearly. The owner of the other voice belonged to a tall and hefty middle-aged man wearing dark clothes with striped inner t-shirt that I was sure it was red and white stripes, but probably due to some unknown circ.u.mstances turned into brown and dark red stripes. Even if it looked tattered like his friend's clothes, I could still recognize the origin of the clothes. It was traditional costumes from Madura.

I gulped. As far as I know, Madura was known for their straightforwardness. Their ancestors possessed some tricks in martial arts and mysterious power that made them formidable.

Seeing one in the form of non-human, I was one thousand per cents sure this man was not any ordinary man when he was alive.

Compared with the Hell-Boy looked like creature, this man looked more human. There was no horn on his head, no tail, no unusual skin color, and even though he looked ragged and poor from the way his clothes appeared, he was not dirty at all. I always thought Madurese would have thick mustache on their upper lips, but this man didn't have it. If it was not because of his clothes, I wouldn't believe that he was a Madurese.

Or... was he, really?

Staring at other people for too long might be rude, but not when you were engaged in a staring contest. I knew that I was not supposed to stare at them, but since they were staring at me, I thought I should return their good intention by staring at them, too.

Scared? Yeah, a bit. But, I had been living as a non-living human before and I had seen my fair share of ugly creatures, so even though I was feeling a bit scared, I was sure it was not because of their appearances.

I was mostly scared of new place, especially this place where no human could live.

Where am I? How can I go back to my own world? What will happen to Jane if I'm trapped here?

I had just returned from the waiting room to wait for my time to head towards the land of dead and I had not met my mother yet, how could I accept that I would be trapped into an unknown place?

But, being in panic was not helping at all. That was why I still put on my calm face in front of all of these bizarre things.

The ground was still shaking a bit under my feet as I was in staring contest with the visitors. I even forgot that the volcano could speak. My attention was still full on those men and only when the ground shook harder that I shifted my eyes to the ground.

”What is happening?” I asked myself.