The voices in Arlo's head definitely got much louder after killing a human, they became even more blood thirsty and wanted Arlo to kill and mutilate Alfreda "Kill her, kill, her, kill her. Kill that pathetic little girl and eat her corpse". Arlo tried his best at suppressing their killing intent and silencing the voices. He got a huge headache from concentrating on getting rid of the voices, it felt like his head was getting stabbed countless times, the pain was far worse for him because he never felt physical pain in his skeleton body. He held his hand over his face because the pain was too much, some of the voices gained control over his physical body and movement. Arlo began licking his lips salivating with a sadistic smile while looking at Alfreda, he wanted to eat her. To him, she looked like a piece of delicious ham and he felt like a starving lion.
"What's with that look? You look like you want to eat me haha" said Alfreda with a half joking and half concerned expression.
Arlo couldn't hold himself back anymore, he figured that the intense pain would go away if he complied with the voices' commands. He pushes Alfreda to the ground and lies on top of her, getting ready to chomp off a piece of her face. As he was about to take a bit, he got stopped by a loud voice.
"STOP YOU A.HOLE, I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO ONLY EAT DELICIOUS FOOD!!! DOES SHE LOOK LIKE FOOD TO YOU?" Shouted the abyssal voice with a tone of pure rage.
"I GUESS I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SPECIFIC. DON'T EAT HUMANS ONLY EAT THE FOOD THAT THEY MAKE" said the abyssal voice with a tone of annoyance.
Arlo stopped trying to eat Alfreda because the pain went away and the voices calmed down after the abyssal voice's lecture. As he was lying on top of her, a female voice was heard from behind him.
"Brother!! Wha- what are you doing with that girl!!!"
Arlo looked back and saw Alice covering most of her face with her hands and blushing with an embarrassed expression.
"Wait, is that you Alfie? You also managed to escape the spiders?" Said Alice with a cheerful expression.
"Yeah barely, look at the shape I'm in"
Arlo helped Alfreda up and supported her barely standing legs by putting her right arm behind him and over his shoulder. He started whispering something in her ear.
"Does Alice also have demonic parasites in her brain?"
"No she doesn't. You probably wouldn't let me touch her even if she did anyways, since she's your precious sister"
"I'll let you touch her, it just depends on how much you're willing to pay $_$ (When did Arlo become a pimp?)" Said Arlo with only money in his mind.
While in the middle of their conversation, they hear Alice let out a loud scream.
"Brother!! What happened to our party, why are they all dead" asked Alice with a frightened expression.
Alfreda answered with a lie and fake sobs "They died while we were fighting the boss of this room"
"Well that's a shame, but I'm ok as long as brother is alive" said Alice while hugging Arlo's arm.
Alfreda told them that the next room is a safe place to rest, but Alice wanted to make graves for her fallen comrades so she told Arlo and Alfreda to go first. Arlo gave Alfreda a princess carry since giving a piggyback ride would hurt more because of all her wounds. Alfreda didn't mind and they arrived at the next room in no time. He placed Alfreda near the entrance of the fourth room and took a look around just in case. The room was identical to the first one. It was small, cozy and empty, it was a perfect place to rest and camp. The only problem was that the camping supplies were still in the first room, so he tells Alfreda before heading back to bring it.
"Don't worry about me and go. I'll be able to cast a healing spell on myself soon"
On his way back to the first room he bumped into Alice and she called him over to help making the graves.
"Hello brother, mind helping me make these graves? I'm using the residue of Octavia's earth magic to make them" said Alice with a proud expression.
"Hey sister, mind paying me for doing manual labor? People usually get payed for this stuff" said Arlo mockingly.
Alice walked over to Arlo with a joyful expression, grabbed his hands and placed a silver coin on it.
"There you go brother"
Arlo wanted to tell her to pay more, but he wasn't specific with the price in the first place so he let it slide. They didn't have shovels so they used their hands to grab the dirt and build a bunch of graves. It didn't take more than a few hours since Alice had already been working on it before and because of Arlo's immense stamina. After they both finish up, Arlo buried the dead bodies and they pray for the deceased party members (Arlo only pretends).
He looks over to Alice while she had her eyes closed while praying and noticed tears dripping down her cheeks, she was hiding her grief in front of Arlo the whole time to make him not worry.
"Brother *Sniffle* Oh you were done praying already. Sorry for getting a bit emotional, let's be on our way"
They make their way to the first room to take the supplies