Chapter 8: Shadows in the Night of Full-moon (1/2)
Kadyn gazed at the ceiling as he laid on the bed, reckoning. Only three days passed, but so many unbelievable things occurred with him—transmigration, system, magic shop, and who knows how many things are waiting for him in the future.
He sighed and stood up. ”I can't sleep.”
He opened the door and went out. There was no one in the hall, of course. The lights of his parents' and sister's room were off. 'They must already be asleep.' He thought and went to the kitchen.
”Whoosh!”
Just when he drank water from the refrigerator and was about to retreat into his room, he saw a shadow outside from the kitchen's window. He padded and peered out, but found no one. He squinted, reckoning. ”I am sure there was someone.”
Peering into the opening, he hesitated for a brief amount of time. But then he headed and opened the door, looking at the beautiful full moon in the star-studded sky; dark and empty roads; gigantic shadows of trees waving in the wind. There were streetlights on either side of the road, though some of them broken, or maybe stolen. He had no idea.
Kadyn observed his surroundings but found no one. He peeked inside Eddena's garden but saw no one inside. Just when he thought nothing was wrong, something came into his view. Under one of the broken streetlights, two shadows stood, talking. He didn't notice before because that area was obscured in the shadows of trees, but when the gust of wind passed and the moonlight fell down, the scene became clear.
Without alerting 'em, he moved closer and closer with the help of the shadows of the trees. When he was ten meters away, he heard a voice of a male. ”You were the one, didn't you?”
”So what, it was me?” a woman replied. ”You can't run from your destiny.”
”Destiny?” sneered the man. ”I make my own destiny.”
”That's why you destroyed your bloodline?”
”You know?” the man sounded shocked when the woman talked about his bloodline.
”Of course I know.” She said. ”No matter how many times you try to remove it from your veins, it will recover time after time. Don't you know that?”
The man was silent for a moment, but then he replied in a firm and deep voice. ”No matter what, I won't go back to that life. You hear me!?”
”We'll see.” The lady sounded smug and confident in herself.
”Klank!”
Suddenly a sound of pebble-rolling on the ground clanged, and both of them peered towards Kadyn, but due to the darkness of shadows, he failed to see their faces. ”Who are you?” he asked, eyeing at the obscured figures vigilantly.
”Whoosh!”
The duo exchanged glances and disappeared. It looked as if there was no one present at that place ever before—Kadyn froze with disbelief, and his mouth slacked open. Two people vanished in thin air and in front of him as if they were some kind of wisp. He knew he was living in a magical world, but it was his first encounter with such a mysterious thing.