Shiva who realized that my face was irritated immediately patted me on the shoulder as we ran towards the exit of this hospital.
"Akio, calm down!"
"Tch..." I bit my lip causing a wound there.
"We'll be out soon. Hold your temper, we just need to get it out, those out there will handle it quickly."
I looked back and saw the creature running towards us.
"Why am I like this? Why can't I fight it? He had killed many humans, but I just kept quiet."
"Calm down, Akio! You really can't kill him right now due to your lack of experience in fighting and your lack of adequate equipment."
Just wearing this hospital outfit, it's obvious I won't be able to fight it. Plus, I don't have any weapons against it. It's very difficult for me in this condition, I always run away from him.
It's not that I'm afraid of the creature, but it's just, I don't want to be careless in this state. If I fight him right now, Shiva who doesn't have a weapon will come against him too, it will only harm her. So, with a state of heart that kept crying when I saw the corpse lying on the floor, I just kept running with her and hoped that everything would end once we got out of this hospital exit.
"Tch."
We saw a light ahead, so bright as a spotlight.
"They are already there waiting for us."
I don't know what made the place bright even though it was already night, what was clear, I kept running until I approached the exit.
"Akio-kun, the party has started, you don't want to join?"
I ignored the creature talking and continued running.
So far nothing has happened. Shiva and I are still running, running, and running.
But when Shiva and I were 7 meters away from the exit, suddenly I heard the sound of snapping fingers from behind me. And a few moments later, another Astral Being appeared and jumped at Shiva.
"Watch out!"
I, who realized the presence of the creature, immediately pushed Shiva's head down.
When we managed to dodge the creature's attack, I heard another snap behind me and saw another Astral Being leaping from in front of me.
Shiva who was still in the position of her head lowered didn't realize it, so I immediately hugged her and jumped to the side to avoid the creature.
We managed to dodge the creature's attack.
"What is it?" Shiva said, saw me above her.
"Why did other monsters suddenly appear?"
Shiva confirmed my words by looking at the two Astral beings who were there.
"You're right, there are already 2 Astrals."
I stepped away from above her, and stood up, and looked in the direction of the snapping sound.
"Did you also hear the snapping sound?"
"Yeah, I heard that too."
"Maybe it's just my hunch, the snap of that finger makes other monsters appear here."
Shiva also confirmed in that direction.
There were only Astral Beings disguised as village chiefs and a large lion stone.
"Could it be he who snapped his fingers?" I asked. "No, I don't think so." I also answered.
When Shiva and I were looking for it, again the sound of snapping fingers sounded so loud.
I immediately became aware of my surroundings.
"Be Careful."
"Ah..." Shiva was also wary of the upcoming appearance of another Astral.
For a few seconds, we continued to focus on looking around but found nothing.
When I looked at the 2 Astrals that were there, which we're trying to swarm us, I didn't see the presence of the 2 Astrals there.
"Lost? Where did the monster go?" I'm confused.
"We must remain vigilant. The two Astrals may be hiding and trying to attack us again." Shiva saw the exit, "we have to get out of here before the two Astrals appear again."
When Shiva walked, I immediately took her hand.
"No, wait!"
"Why?" Shiva said, turned to me.
"This is not right. There seems to be something here that is dangerous. We can't just walk away."
This is not right. How could I not, the Astral disguised as the village chief suddenly stood there and didn't even chase us anymore. The Astral was like a statue, continuing to remain silent without even blinking with those angry eyeballs. There must be something wrong with this place as a result of that finger-snapping sound.
Therefore, I should not be careless about this and continue to think about what is going on.
"But the exit is near."
"I know that, but we can get there first before we know what's going on here."
Although my experience is lacking in this matter, I have a strong feeling. If Shiva relied on her fighting experience, then I relied on my instincts in this condition.
"You don't feel what's odd?" I looked at Shiva, "that finger-snapping sound is so pitched."
"Pitched?"
"That finger-snapping sound is like a commanding tone for another monster."
"So, was the Astral that attacked us earlier an order from someone?"
"I don't know, I don't know either. Don't you know about that?"
"I don't know," Shiva said, shaking her head.
"Anyway, we shouldn't be in a hurry to go there." I pointed towards the exit. "Let's find out what happened first."
After I said that, Shiva immediately took out her earphones which were connected to a cell phone, then she started to put the earphones into her ears.
From what I can see, it seems that she wants to communicate again with her friends who are out there.
"Well, why..."
I saw Shiva suddenly startled.
"Why?"
"I'm not getting a signal. It looks like there is a wave here interfering with the signal." Shiva took out her earphones and put them back in her uniform pocket.
"I knew something was wrong."
After a few minutes of staying here, the sound of the snapping of fingers again sounded in our ears. And after that, suddenly all around us, already many Astrals that resembled dogs appeared.
"What?" I was surprised to see that and immediately grabbed Shiva's hand and ran towards the exit.
However, when I was in front of the exit, I was hit by a scratch on the back of my body from one of the Astrals, and it hurt me and fell to the floor.
"Aw!"
"Akio, are you okay?" Shiva tried to wake me up.
"How could I be fine."
After I said that, I saw an Astral preparing to attack Shiva behind her.
"Watch out!"
Realizing that, I immediately withdrew her hand and jumped to the side with her.
However, one of the other Astral Beings jumped at us just as we had barely managed to dodge.
I was still lying on the floor and Shiva was on top of me, I immediately hugged Shiva tightly and moved her position under my body.
"Akio..."
"Don't worry, it won't hurt for sure."
The blood from behind me from the scratch from the Astral just kept pouring out and the pain of this wound was so intense. But since I shouldn't look weak in other people's eyes, I try to survive as best I can. And now, the wound behind my body would increase—no, maybe I could just die with this attack that was about to hit me.
Shiva saw the creature in the air and immediately moved her body to and fro. But because I hugged her tightly, she couldn't move according to her will.
"Akio, you can die at this."
"Don't worry, my body is strong."
"No, you will die if you receive that attack."
"I will be fine. So just ignore me and don't look at it."
"No, Akio! Let go! You can't die." Shiva kept on fighting and kept trying to get her out of my arms. "Akio..."
When the creature's finger touched my back, Shiva immediately closed her eyes.
But before that, again the snapping sound was heard and made the creature whose finger had touched my back silent in the air.
PLOK! PLOK! PLOK! The sound of applause from a direction far enough from us was heard in our ears.
"Humans are great, even in this condition they can still make out like that. I salute humans."
Hearing the voice, I immediately stood up, looked at the big lion statue, and saw a human being on top of the statue's head.
"Who are you?"
"I? Hahaha. You don't need to know who I am, Akio-kun."
When he said that, he also threw a drink can up and kept doing that over and over again as he spoke.
When I focused my eyes on him, I saw his eyes were so dark red.
"Who are you?" I tilted my head in confusion.
After a while, he suddenly threw the drink can at me.
The drink can be speeding towards me, but I was quicker to get ready to protect my face with my arm before it hit me.
"Akio, watch out, behind you!"
PLOT! The drink can hit the back of my head.
"Awwwww… this hurts."
Although the blood on my head was spurting from the wound from the attack of the drink can, but I still had time to pick up the can which was on the floor after it hit my head.
When I picked it up, I was shocked to see the words "DIE!" red on the drink can.
"This..."