"Just go home... Pretend none of it happened... Right...? Right?" I asked myself with an almost crazed tone before I looked at the walls. Sometimes, I swear I could hear his laughter. The people who looked after me even talked about it sometimes... I was not the only one who could hear him.
However, I was concerned as to why I was suddenly being bothered. This was meant to be a solitude cell, no? Weren't they supposed to leave me alone!? Was this just more of that killer's tricks!?
Had he come to taunt me more over that damned girl!? Did he want me to know that I had failed to save her!? Did he want to remind me of the blood he spilt on me!? I just wanted to go home and spend some time alone in my bed...
Away from this accursed city...
"Surgeon Stolpzhen, you are requested by Grand-Guard Inerish." a young woman told me. A sight which I immediately looked at with scorn. Since he dumped that poor girl before me, and framed me for her murder... No...
"Leave!" I bark before an armoured man stepped in ahead of her.
"Come on, let's not keep her waiting."
"H-HEY! LET GO OF ME!" I shouted furiously as they took me out of the magic-isolating room. It was the only place where that man could not get in. I had heard nothing from him since going in there! They had to let me go back in!
Yet, it was not to be, and, instead, I was forced into a room with a dark-skinned beauty. One I instantly turned away from as I did not want more blood on my hands. In doing so, however, my gaze caught a glimpse of a polished speartip under light. And I looked up at the holder.
"Surgeon Stolpzhen, what can you tell me about Smiling Jhurack?" he asked as he stepped forward.
"W-Why...?" I ask back as I slowly stepped away from the intimidating man.
"You were the last to encounter the killer directly. Tell me what you know." he demanded as I smacked into the wall.
"I don't know anything!" I tell him.
"Wrong."
"I DON'T!" I shout as my hands rise to show my submissiveness.
"What do you know?" he asked calmly, yet, I could feel that he was getting impatient.
"Again, I can just let you go over what we have..." the woman says as she rests a cheek on her relaxed fist.
"Answer my question." the man tells me as he stops moving right in front of me.
"He has a sword and is somehow able to get where he shouldn't be, okay!?" I tell him before I look around in worry. Surely he heard me and was going to do something now!?
"Get in where he shouldn't, how?" the spearman asked further.
"W-When I was... Performing an operation on the Sl'Ayiysab girl, he... Directly took control of the magic I was using to heal her with and turned it against her. Forcing me to resort to tool-based surgery..." I start to explain before his tightening grip made me go quiet.
"Thank you, Surgeon Stolpzhen." he says to me before he suddenly turns for the door.
"And you are going...?" the woman asks as she slowly gets up. And, I was thankful that I was not the only nervous one here.
"To save my Lord's daughter." he answers.