80 Gwendoline has the eyes green (1/2)
”This damn door again, why is the mechanism broken … wait. It is opening?” A quite audible male voice resonated through the small opening of the stone door. Like the woman before him, he tried many things to open the hidden path toward the room, to no effect. So when the door magically opened, he was quite perplexed and hesitated a bit. The completely dark room in front of him was not reassuring at all, and quite creepy for him. Normally, he arrived late and a few others would already be inside, talking in a relatively lightened environment.
”He-Hello? Is-is … no, no one is inside right? RIGHT?” His voice slightly shook while he was nearly shouting the last word. It was not enough to truly be audible from afar, but it resonated in the room, allowing everyone inside to hear it distinctly. Since no answers were made and the room was still as obscure as before, the man just waited outside. Seeing this, Davion shook his head. Apparently, not everyone was as curious or foolish as that woman.
The moment he made his first step, he didn't try to be discreet at all. The loud sound produced immediately reached the unfortunate man outside, sending shivers in his back. Turning around, the latter tried to see through the darkness but to no avail. Inside the mind of the human, he was debating with himself between running away in fear or enter the room to inspect what made that noise. Normally, it should have been empty…
Thomp
The sound of a second step immediately finished convincing the skinny man. ”RUN AWAY!” He screamed as much as he could and buggered off more quickly than a rabbit at full speed. Not expecting that reaction from someone supposedly trying to not be found, both Davion and Meridiana looked at each other, a little bit lost. Was this someone trying to kill others? Past that small moment of surprise, the orodil pursued the man without waiting any further.
After his first scream, the man then remembered that it would be bad for him to be found inside the sewers. But while he was thinking this, he failed to see one small pile of garbage on his way. Stumbling on it, he nearly ended up inside the putrid water that was carrying even more things. However, he lost his torch in it, turning the entire area dark. Using his hand to stand up and then navigate inside the labyrinth of corridors, he couldn't see the thing standing right behind him.
Snap
”wwwwwwwwhat?” The weak voice barely escaped the lips of the now terrified human. He could have sworn to have heard a metallic snap behind him. But even if he was offered thousands of gold, he will definitely not turn around. Robotically raising his legs to walk away from that sound, he tried his best to remember where to go.But whether it was his instinct or not, his head was only filled with the idea of seeing what was behind him. He could felt not, even if it was irrational. He felt that something was extremely dangerous and that something was right behind him.
The moment he finally turned around, a dark gauntlet suddenly left the darkness and grabbed his own throat. Seeing the dark veins on the hand that was grabbing him, he couldn't help but shudder at that sight. Only one man had something like that, someone so powerful, so terrifying, that no one dared to even try to attack him. Linking that man with the immense faction behind him, the human realized that maybe death will be better. In that moment of panic, he preferred to die than ended in the hands of those lunatics.
Feeling the mana inside the body of the man running amok, Davion was extremely perplexed. What was happening to this coward for him to turn like that? Even if he couldn't use mana inside his body or even outside, he could still feel the extremely strong force rampaging inside the poor human. If that kept going, he would die. Shaking a bit his victim, that only reinforced what was happening inside the human body. In the end, he saw blood pouring out of all his orifices, and when he released his grip, a lifeless body fell on the ground.
Even after he came back inside the room, Davion was still a bit surprised by what he just experienced. What kind of misunderstanding provoked this? If it had been a normal situation, no one would voluntarily give up their own life when encountering a danger. Helplessly, he put it aside but didn't forget to bring back the body.
”Where is the man? Wait, why are you carrying him like that? Is he dead?” Meridiana looked at the spineless corpse that was hanging weirdly. Because Davion was so tall, only the head of the man was touching the ground, making it quite weird.
”Yes, he … killed himself?”
”Huh? You, tell me why?” The employee was immediately questioned and she easily recognized the man. He was also working inside the City Hall but as an accountant. Even if he was not one of the main treasurers, he was not insignificant either. At least, this man had an extremely good grasp about the entire finance of many of the forces in Archet. At the same time, he rarely had any conflict with anyone and often submitted without even fighting back.
”I don't know, Mistress. He is not really a coward, but will not actively seek a fight or danger. I don't know a lot about him since he was usually very quiet, but he had immense hate and fear about the poor area, never entering it once. Except this, I have no idea why he will kill himself without proper motivation.”