"You failed to make her stay here." A voice that sounded harsh as if it was the devil who was talking to Ruru like they have a familiarity with each other. "I-i can't do it! I can't let her suffer in this space." Ruru abruptly said his reasoning while bursting to tears, he can see Latrice's body decaying in front of him.
"Fine. Since you broke our agreement, I will turn you into an Evil Spirit." The voice sounded upset from what was done struck a dark shade smoke to Ruru's neck, "Urgh!" Ruru felt the wickedness of the smoke immediately, it was slowly eating his soul.
The poor ghost squirted in pain as he closed his eyes, struggling painfully in the ground. "Ahhh--!" he hopelessly screamed. Without anyone, without any help, he was crying alone in the darkness.
"But I'll give it a twist. Since I gained a little energy from the girl, I'll give you a little hope. If the girl chose you over another human, the curse will disappear. But if she chose a human over a mere ghost like you, you'll turn into full-fledged evil spirit that will kill her loved ones and you will become the reason she will get submissive to the darkness but of course, you can't tell her that you have a curse in you. Don't worry, the curse comes with some benefits. You can touch anything, even if the curse isn't activated yet and you can touch and hurt humans." The voice said then evil laughs followed.
When Ruru opened his eyes again, he finally felt relieves from the curse that was struck from him. Although his eyes shimmered in blight bloodstained red, his behavior gradually changed into a sinister one.
The ghost that once struggling in pain laughed maniacally as if someone is controlling him.
"HAHAHA! Thank you for this curse, I will definitely keep her with me forever." He's getting sinuously in that darkness alone falling deeper into his desire.
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Chapter 22: Doubt.
(Latrice's POV)
I'm on my way home when I passed by the Omi-Hachiman stationed hotel, I saw an old lady that sweeping the ground weakly. There's a lot of leaves in the ground, I guess she's planning to clean the whole place.
I decided to walk in close to the old lady, I held the dustpan as I kindly fetched it to her. The lady would just stare at me for a while, she's probably confused from what I did but after that, she took the dustpan and swept the leaves, placed it inside.
"Thank you, actually. I'm having a hard time sweeping the whole place. The tenants here are so lazy. I'm really old, my back is hurting but I don't get help from anyone. Only you, young missy, seemed to be like considerate enough to help me." I smiled at her politely, "If you want, Grandma... I'll go here everyday same at this hour to help you." I made a blissful expression to her, the old woman seemed to be surprised.
"What a wonderful child you are."
Well, the truth is. This is all because of Ruru. I don't wanna ask her on the first day, she might get mad and shoo me away as the other guy did. People here may be trying to hide the truth about Ruru so I need to be careful.
After I helped her, I bid my farewell to the old lady. She looked grateful but of course, that's the part of my plan. When I got home, everything is so quiet. I didn't see Euclece in the dining area or living area, even Ruru. I put my things above the table in the living room as I start calling those two.
"Euclece, Ruru... I'm home!" But they didn't answer me, from that moment. I knew there's something wrong, "Euclece... Ruru...! Oh, come on--where are you guys." I searched for them, the apartment is just small so I'll find them in no time, I guess so.
I tried looking inside my grand mother's room but they weren't there, also tried the bathroom or the storage room but they were nowhere to be found.
"Where are those two seriously? I couldn't find them anywhere." They aren't even bothered to answer me, "What are they up to now?" I'm getting a headache looking for them, I still have to self-study and write down the notes. "I don't really have much time for these."
If I can't find them, then. I'll just let them be.
I got my things from the table and decided to go upstairs where my room is.
"Where did they go, Ruru told me that he'll go home. I wonder if he's here already and Euclece didn't do this even for once, I know she always greets me every time I arrive home. This is the first time she ditched me actually." I kept talking to myself until I reached my room.
I was about to open my room's door when I felt this extremely eerie inside me, I'm hesitating to open it somehow.
What is this? I never felt something like this in our house before, why am I being couped with such feelings? I'm nervous, scared, frighten, just like when I got wrapped in space and anomaly things.
"What are you waiting for? Open it up." A strange voice approached me besides, I got surprised to the point I stepped backward. "Man, you are so boring." A guy is walking closer to me, "W-who are you?" My voice is shaking, and my body is trembling.
He has silver eyes, and like Ruru, he got white porcelain hair although it's very long. He's taller than me I guess but, I think his boots only make him taller. This guy infiltrates my house, I should call 911! B-but my phone is inside my bag so if I make a move right now, he might attack me.
"Oh, I'm your friendly ghost's friend. What was his name again... Ru..?" What? Is he talking about Ruru? "Ruru.." As I corrected him, He suddenly laughed maniacally.
"You said you were his friend but you don't even know his name!" I complained angrily, He moved back and forth as he spread his arm, "Who cares about his name? More importantly, he's my friend. And we'll also become friends soon."
Huh? What is he talking about?
He made his steps closer to me so I moved away myself until my back touched the wall.
I saw his grins within his very face, "Don't be scared, I'm not here to hurt you. In fact, I'm here to serve you, My fair Princess."
"Do-don't move any closer! I-i'm warning you! I will shout!!" I tried to threaten him but he just gave me a sinister smile, "Why don't you try shouting?" Is he trying to dare me right now? Does he think I'm lying?
"Someone!! someone help meee---!" However, I halted when he gripped my hand and he kissed it passionately. My eyes widened; I don't have an idea of what he is doing. My heart keeps on pounding.
"W-what are you d-doing?" He looked at me with those cold eyes but he never erases that sinister smile on his face. "I told you, I'm not here to harm you. I just want to be your friend." He's still holding my hand, I guess he doesn't have any plan to let go of me.
"I don't want to be a friend of a stranger like you, where is Ruru? What did you do to my friends?!" As I frowned at him, he snickered at me. "Don't worry. I told you that 'Ruru' is my friend although, I don't know what happened to the other one." I felt frantic when he spouted something like that.
"W-what did you do to Euclece?!" I yelled at him, he just raised his shoulders as a response so I pushed him away and ran toward my room's door, "If I were you... I wouldn't do that." Glaring back at him, "Thank you for the warning." I annoyedly said.
As I opened the door quickly, I couldn't believe what I'm seeing right now. Someone is standing near my window, but I noticed Euclece in the corner unconscious. "E-euclece!" When I ran toward her, someone stopped me by catching my body to his arm.
"No, Euclece!" When I looked at the guy, my mouth just dropped from shock.
"R..ruru..?" He's reverting his eyes away from me but I could tell it was him. "I told you, he is my friend." The other guy uttered.
"Why, why did you have to do this to Euclece. We're family!" How can he able to touch me? We're not in a kind of space right now, aren't we? "Latrice. I'm doing this for you." With his weak voice, I know to myself that he wants me to believe him but I shook my head.
"You are not doing this for me, you are doing this for yourself." I pushed him away, I was a bit shocked as he was but I don't mind. I ran toward Euclece, I couldn't touch her. I'm crying because of how twisted Ruru is, and how he ruined our family just because he easily gets swayed to the things other evil creature tells to him.
I faced Ruru angrily, "Get out."
"Latrice, you can't do this to me. I'm also your family right?" He said with an uncertain voice.
"GET OUT!"