Chapter 154: The Beginning of The Cursed Era (2/2)
Ellie looks at her front and saw the Awakened pointing at her, this makes her face drains from all colors as her blood go cold.
After getting picked, two guys went to Ellie and grabs her arms.
”No! Please, don't pick her!!”, Rafael shouted desperately, he tries to hold onto Ellie's hands that is getting further and further away.
Ellie also called out to Rafael in tears, ”Rafael! Help me!!”
Hearing his girl cried out for help makes Rafael feel devastated knowing that he can't do much, he's helpless in this situation.
Rafael stands in his spot as he looks at Ellie getting dragged away.
She got dragged onto the stage where the right Awakened is waiting,
Looking at Ellie who is struggling fiercely, the grin on the Awakened's face got even creepier as he can see Ellie is a beauty among beauty.
Even the other Awakened was shocked when they saw Ellie up close.
”Let me go!! I don't want to be this filthy guy's partner”, Ellie shouted fiercely, she doesn't even restrain her words and let them loose.
Arriving in front of the Awakened, ”You'll be mine for the next month”
TCUH!
Ellie spits on the Awakened's face making the other Awakened chuckle, the spit landed right on his left cheek.
Feeling humiliated, the Awakened wanted to slap Ellie but got interrupted.
”I'll volunteer to be your partner!!”
A woman voice was heard loudly,
The Awakened look at the source of the voice and saw another woman raising her hand, she's not as beautiful as Ellie but she's still very pretty.
Seeing the woman, the Awakened denied her request.
”I'll be better at servicing you rather than her that might bite your crotch off”, the woman said.
Hearing this, the Awakened frowns knowing that it'll be a hassle if he has to be wary of Ellie all the time.
After thinking for a while, the Awakened accepted the woman.
Ellie got brought down from the wooden stage as she walk past the volunteering woman, ”Gitta, you don't have to do this”, Ellie said.
”Go back to Rafael, There's no need for you to worry about me”, Gitta said as she walks past Ellie.
With that, the gathering ended as each Awakened got their partners.
Rafael and Ellie are relieved that the gathering ended, they manage to come out unscathed with the sacrifice of Gitta.
”Are you worried about Gitta?”, Rafael asks.
Ellie snapped out of her daze and said, ”Yes, I feel guilty letting her do that”
Both of them went silent, they then go back to their own houses.
Their house is not that far from each other, they can see each of their houses from their windows.
Ellie got back to her house and clean herself, the dirt she put on herself is a mask for the gathering before to avoid getting chosen.
It's a thing that everyone does when it is time for the gathering.
After cleaning herself, she went to the bedroom and lies down while still thinking about Gitta.
There's no one else inside her house, it seems that she's all alone without any family.
About three hours passed, Ellie can't fall asleep.
She then went to Rafael's house and threw a rock at his window.
Not long after, Rafael woke up and saw Ellie outside signaling him to go out to the forest again because she can't sleep.
Rafael then climbs out of the window to not make a sound and went to the forest again.
In the forest, they both pleasure each other again trying to wash all of their worries away and indulge in their intimacy.
After their act of intimacy, they lie down beside each other looking at the sky.
”Aren't you tired of this life?”, Ellie asks.
Rafael frowns, ”What do you mean by that?”
”I mean the Awakened are using us as slaves, the banshee comes and goes as they please and attack us. Aren't you just tired?”, Ellie explains.
Rafael rubs Ellie's head gently, ”I know it's hard, but we can't do anything about it”
Ellie then sits up and said with an excited expression, ”How about we run from here, we can just go to another city where no Awakened or Supernatural are attacking”
”I can't, my family is here”, Rafael said with a slight chuckle.
Ellie pouted trying to persuade Rafael to her plans, he then sigh, ”Fine, I'll think about it”
Hearing this, Ellie smiles before she hugs him and started to make out with him.
But just after they started making out, a loud commotion was heard from the city's direction.
Both of them looks at each other before they ran back to the city.
From the end of their vision, Ellie and Rafael can see people gathering and many of them are crying after seeing something.
They both went closer and realize that the people are gathering in front of Rafael's house.
Rafael widened his eyes as he runs towards his house.
He stopped when he saw four spears in front of his house, his expression changed as he looks at the scene in front of him in tears.
Ellie arrives at the place and saw the same thing, her expression crumbles.
In front of them, four spears are planted on the ground in front of Rafael's house with Rafael's family members on them.
His mother, father, sisters are all there.
They're all pierced by a spear from their crotch all the way until the spear came out of their mouths, it's a horrifying scene that is very inhumane.
Rafael grabs his head as he looks at his family members.
His feelings are mixed up resulting in him being unable to react to the scene in front of him, he approaches the spear and touches it with trembling hands.
The blood is still fresh dripping on the spear,
Rafael looks at the blood of his family member on his hand before it suddenly drowns him.
”No...No...”, Rafael started to cry as he touches his family's corpse, he can't believe that his family died just like that.
He wails with heavy hearts, ”I...I need to take them down”
Looking at Rafael who is devastated by the loss of his family, Ellie also started to cry and approaches him trying to stop his wails.
”I'm sorry, I'm sorry”, Ellie whispers to Rafael's ears but didn't get through.
Rafael already lost his mind as he try to take out the spear to no avail, the spears are imbued with mana and it can't be taken out.
The crowd watches this scene in silence,
Ellie looks at them and shouted, ”WHY ARE YOU ALL WATCHING! HELP HIM GET THEM DOWN!”
All of the surrounding people look at each other before one of them said, ”The Awakened said that anyone trying to put them down will be killed, I'm sorry”
Ellie was aghast, she blames herself for resulting in this.
Rafael is still mindlessly trying to take the spears down, he's already drowned by sorrow.
Looking at Rafael, Ellie can't see him like this before she runs away towards the forest bumping the people that watch this scene unfold.
She runs towards the forest with tears flowing down her eyes.
Ellie runs until she's out of breath and stops in front of a waterfall, she falls onto her knees while sobbing with tears.
The spears that she saw earlier haunted her mind,
She knows the person who did it, it is the Awakened that she spits earlier.
If she didn't spit on the Awakened and be his partner for a month, then Rafael's family will probably still be alive.
She blames herself for Rafael's family's death.
BUZZ!!
The sound of the waterfall filled the sad night, it makes Ellie becomes even more devastated as she knows that Rafael might not recover from that.
She becomes all alone in this world.
Writhing sounds can be heard from the surrounding, the banshees are near her place.
Ellie then looks up to the moon without caring about the banshees and clasp her hands in front of her, ”Dear God, if you're still alive please hear my prayer”
”My action brings calamity to an innocent family, they said the Awakened are people blessed by you but turns out it's just a lie”
Her expression becomes lifeless,
She then touches her belly before she said, ”Dear God, please let me birth two children. Make them represent Blood and Destruction”
Right after she said that the banshees writhing sound disappear.
Ellie's hair suddenly turns red, she rolls her eyes to the back as if she's possessed, ”Please grant me, dear God! grant me the Sibling of Chaos”