"Wha... What is that?!"
Rose cried out loud and she directly keeled backward and lost her consciousness from shock.
Jane also collapsed from fear into Scarlette's embrace.
"Shit! Stay back!" Calvin instantly shot up from his couch and ran towards the door.
He slammed the door shut, dragged Rose by her arm— and leaped towards the furthers corner of the room.
"Hide in the corners! Stay crouched, don't move and don't make a sound!"
Calvin gave his orders.
But everything happened so fast and the others were still blankly staring at the closed door.
Bang!
A heavy set of footsteps rang just outside the doors.
"Hurry up! Hide now!"
Calvin rushed towards the light switch and slapped the lights off.
The light was abruptly extinguished and Jane let out a scared yelp.
Sweat poured down Calvin's forehead as he leaped into the corner where the unconscious Rose laid.
He covered her mouth and remained crouching.
Bang!
A booming sound rang out.
But this time, the sound didn't come from footsteps.
Instead, the crashing sound came from the door that was abruptly destroyed by someone.
"Hieek!" Jane was rudely awakened by the crash, and she let out a yelp.
Thankfully, Scarlette swiftly covered her mouth and not a sound came out.
"Don't make a sound..." Scarlett softly whispered into Jane's ears.
Jane gulped a mouthful of saliva.
Tears welled up in her eyes. She wanted to cry but in order to survive.
She knew that she must endure the fear in her heart.
Thud!
A dull footstep rang out.
The footstep didn't sound as heavy as it did before.
But Calvin's pupils constricted when he heard that sound that he could never forget in his life.
It was because that distinct footstep came from special shoes that only belonged to a single person in the entire Asylum!
It was that Butcher!
Calvin's mind madly spun.
The Butcher was an absolute monster in the Mount Spirit Sword Asylum!
He was supposed to appear in the later stages of the final phase when the participants had just used the security access keycard that they had just collected from the Administration Block to access the elevator and get down to the ground floor.
From what Calvin could remember back then...
The Butcher would stick his hand into the elevator and try to stop it with his bare hands. However, he would end up dying and split in half due to the immense strength of the elevator as it goes down to the ground floor.
That was the end of the Butcher!
His appearance was brief, yet he annihilated more than half of Calvin's teammates back then!
Not only he was faster than any of them, but he also possessed superhuman strength and durability. He could easily pick up a full-grown adult and pluck their head off their shoulders!
'Why is the Butcher here?! But if it's really him...'
Despite the dangerousness of the situation, Calvin never panicked.
As far as he could remember, even though the Butcher was undetectable. He had one fatal flaw.
He was useless in the dark.
He couldn't see anything while in the dark.
Of course, the place has to be incredibly dark.
Thankfully, Calvin ordered his teammates to hide in the furthest corners of this room as he turned off the lights.
Thud!
Another dull footstep rang out.
"Twinkle... Twinkle... Little star... How I wonder... What you are... "
"Up above the clouds so high... Like a diamond in the sky..."
"Twinkle... Twinkle... Little star..."
'Fuck... This big fucking guy is singing....'
'This means that he knows of our presence but can't exactly pinpoint where we are...'
Sweat poured down Calvin's forehead like a waterfall as his mind went into overdrive.
He tightly held Rose's mouth, so she wouldn't make any sound.
Calvin stared right at the Butcher.
His appearance didn't change at all.
He seemed to be overweight, yet muscular at the same time. The overweight part of him was his bloated stomach littered with stretch marks and his muscular part was displayed by his massively powerful arms and legs. He hated the smell of filth so he tore off his nose and there was this eerie permanent sneer on his face.
But despite his terrifying ugliness.
His angelic voice was a vast contrast.
His voice had a magnetic charm that not anyone could easily resist.
Calvin was aware of that, so he gnashed his teeth and thought.
'I can't let this bastard continue his singing!'
He took off Rose's shoes and extinguished his breath.
Aiming for the slight opening of the door, he exerted his strength and hurled both of Rose's shoes into the distance.
Crash!
A loud crashing sound rang out.
The Butcher's movements grind to a halt.
After what seemed like an eternity...
He finally turned around and left the room.
He even politely closed the door as if he was afraid to disturb somebody else.
"Wheeew..."
Calvin let out an audible sigh.
But he still didn't let his guard down.
After noticing that none of his comrades dared to move even after the Butcher left.
Calvin gently placed Rose down on the floor as he walked towards the door and took a peek outside.
Upon seeing that there was no one in the corridors anymore, he closed the door again and locked it.
Afterwards, he opened the lights...
"Ah!"
Jane audibly gasped.
But when she saw that Calvin was the one standing there instead of that humungous monster.
She heaved a sigh of relief as tears dripped down her eyes.
Calvin approached Jane and consoled her, "Are you okay?"
"It's fine, it's fine... Everything is fine... That monster's gone already. You will be fine... We will be fine..."
His words seemed to have some effect as Jane's breathing stabilized.
Calvin then let out a sigh and glanced at Medea.
Medea still had that indifferent look on her face, yet the fear and anxiety remaining on her eyes were evident.
'It seems like this woman's not a complete ice-block!'
Calvin inwardly commented.
"What the fuck was that?"
One of the men spoke.
Calvin turned around and found that the one who spoke was Philip.
Philip still had this look of terror on his face as he asked Calvin once again.
"Tell us! What was that?! What's with that monster?! Did those bastards from Fivecent really sent us here to die?!"
Philip didn't dare to increase the volume of his voice, but his reddened eyes expressed everything that he wanted to say.
Fivecent promised to pay all of their debts and even take care of their families while they were gone. But little did they know that such a good thing really had a huge sacrifice. To think that they could potentially lose their lives!
They really were too naive...
And too stupid...
Calvin had no criticism for Philip this time.
He really couldn't blame him.
Philip was just an ordinary man before all of these after all.
An ordinary man facing a monster of unknown origin.
It would be strange if he didn't react like this.
Calvin shook his head and was about to answer when...
"Just who are you?"
Medea suddenly spoke.
"What do you mean?" Calvin's eyes narrowed.
All eyes turned to Medea.
"Rose's blunder should've got us all killed, yet your quick intervention saved us all..."
Calvin lifted a smile, "What? Why am I under suspicion when I saved your lives?"
The other newbies nodded. Medea was being ungrateful!
"That's right, you did save us..." Medea blinked her eyes, "But how did you do it?"
"We were stuck frozen from fear, but you recovered almost immediately and even took several actions in just a few seconds to save our lives..."
"Now, you are telling us not to be suspicious of you?"
"Really, just who are you?"
Medea's cold eyes seemed to pierce through Calvin's soul.
The eyes of the other newbies also landed at him.