Although Seo was still far from their house, he already noticed something amiss in their gate so he speeded up.
Seo finally saw it. The large hole can fit a grown man easily.
Seo quickly got serious and inspect the large hole.
"What happened here?"
Seo carefully enters through the large hole, avoiding the sharp corners of the irregular hole.
He was worrying about his mother's safety. Just from the hole in the gate, you could see that the intruders possess mystical abilities that he can only read on novels.
A few seconds later, Seo arrived in their door. Sadly, the door was nothing but chipped woods now.
Seo avoided the chipped woods in the floor and ran inside to check on his mother, Anna.
He looks in every corner of their sala. All of their things are thrown around. Their sofa was cutted by something sharp, their TV was broken, and even his mother's favorite plates was broken along its shelf.
"Are they trying to find something?" Seo whispers in the wind. He observe the sorroundings that was clearly chaotically searched.
He ran next to the kitchen, wondering if his mother was hiding in there. Sadly, he was left disappointed. His mother, Anna was not there. Just like their sala, the kitchen was also left in chaos.
Seo decided to go upstairs where his mother's room can be find.
Before he leave the kitchen, he grab a sharp kitchen knife to use for protection. He's not stupid to ran up without weapon, that's suicide.
Seo slowly and carefully walk up to the stairs, vigilant in his sorroundings. He was holding the knife in front of his chest while his other hand was protecting his stomach area.
The whole house was quiet and Seo can hear his own breathing clearly.
When he finally stepped on the second floor, his body's signal bell suddenly rang.
He jumped forward to a roll, avoiding the sharp claws of his attacker. Seo immediately fixed his position back, ready to attack at any moment.
He gaze at his attacker vigilantly. It's a large breed of dog with sharp fangs and sharp claws. It's possess black and shiny fur. It's most glaring feature is the medium size horn in its forehead. However, the smell of blood coming from the wolf was intense. It's like the dog always get stained with blood.
Seo was stupid when it comes to dog because he's a cat lover but he's sure that there's no such breed of dog in the world.
The dog stares at Seo with its red eyes, clearly taking Seo as it's own food.
The dog lounge again but now that Seo is prepared, the dog can only wish to land a hit to Seo.
The moment the dog jumped, Seo quickly ducked under it. After that, he twists his whole body and attack the confused dog who bare his back unguarded. He stab the kitchen knife in the dog's neck before pulling it out quickly.
The dog was shocked by the sudden pain and cried out loud.
It launched another attack to Seo but was once again avoided. This time, Seo showed no mercy and stab the knife in the dog's open mouth and straight to it's brain.
The dog twitched a bit more before slumping in the ground, dead.
Seo spit out in disgust while wiping the blood from his knife and hands to the dog's fur.
"What the hell is this dog? Looking so ferocious yet so easy to kill." Seo roll his eyes. He was confused by the appearance of the dog. As far as he knows, no dog or any from canine species have horns.
Seo observed the dog's corpse more throughly. He look in the dog's foot, legs, tail and other part of the body until he find a tattoo of a necklace with a beast tooth hanging in its forehead.
Seo take note of this before standing up properly. He fixed the creases in his clothes before starting his search once again.
Seo walk slowly around the second floor until he arrives in his mother's bedroom.
He saw some mens wearing black robes standing by the door, guarding it. They were buff and Seo was sure that he will not win if he use force. Fortunately, he was not seen because he was hiding in a corner.
Seo was now sure his mother is inside. Aside from the fact that this room was being guarded, he did not see anyone in other parts of the house.
He look around him, trying to find something that can be easily thrown. And he did find a vase filled with water and roses that his mother love.
He removes the rose from the vase before carefully spilling the water on the ground quiet far from his mother's room. Then, he walks silently to the other corridor.
Making sure he was set, he shouted loudly to the men guarding his mother's room
"Cult Wannabe!!"
The two man turns their attention to the new man shouting at them.
The man in the right look at the other man before speaking: "Kill that pest. We don't want to disturb Lord Zerna."
The other man nodded before following Seo who was now running away.
Disgust and loathing can be seen in his eyes while gazing at the running Seo: "Pest. Who the heck is that?"
***
Seo use all of his strength to run but forgetting to observe the buff man following him. The buff man seem to be at ease and not putting Seo at his eyes at all.
'Dumbhead.' Seo mocked in his head. He turns in a corner where the empty vase was placed. He held it strongly while hiding behind the corner.
He peek at the running man before sighing to calm his nerves.
The moment the man's head appeared in Seo's vision, he smashed the empty vase in the man's face. Following that is the bloodied knife slashing in the man's neck.
The man can't even react before he falls while clutching his neck.
Not even a minute passed, the man died from severe blood loss.
Seo look at the man's corpse without any other feelings. It's not like it's the first time he killed another human being. He just hates the blood that accidentally sprinkled on his clothes.
He started walking back while thinking how to deal with the other guard when he felt a heavy tap in his nape that force him to lose consciousness.
***
Seo unconsciously groan after gaining consciousness. He slowly open his eyes and survey his sorroundings slowly.
While doing so, he was scolding himself in his mind: 'So stupid! Why did you not look at your back?! Aish!'
He was currently sitting beside his mother's bed with his hands and feet was bound by a cuffs like thing.
He noticed his mother lying in her bed with the same cuffs as him, conscious but gagged like him. She was looking at him worriedly.
Seo blinked twice to convey that he was okay which calms his mother albeit slightly.
Seo started struggling to try escaping the thing bounding him. However, he didn't even struggle for a minute when the door opens and a middle age man wearing a black suit enters. The man held a serious look but can't hide his attractiveness.
He looked at Anna who was lying on the bed and Seo who was sitting beside the bed.
"Anna, my friend. Do you know that a while ago, your only son killed a subordinate of mine? It's really bloody." The man said, chuckling while looking straight at Anna.
Anna did not reply but she still look back without change in her serious look.
"You're not surprised? Did he do it often? If so, he really follows your footsteps." The man said mockingly.
He moves his finger subtly and the gag in Anna and Seo's mouth was removed.
"How did you find us here, Zerna?" Anna immediately asked. Traces of anger can be detected in her tone.
"Using a Treasure Awakener's Treasure of course. There's this new recruit that held a Treasure that can search anyone as long as he knows them. I give him your information and tadah I find you." The man, Zerna happily explain. Although his voice clearly sounded happy, his eyes is still cold and indifferent.
"Troublesome Treasure!" Anna curse under her breath. "Why did you come here? You already killed Ymir, what do you still want?" Anna said hatefully.
"I want take revenge on you too." Zerna slowly replied. His eyes slowly shifted from Anna to Seo: "And on his son too. He killed my wife and my unborn child so I need to kill his spawn too!"
Anna seems to be agitated by this: "Your wife was found out to be using babies' blood to keep her so called 'beauty'!!! She uses her influence to abduct new born children!!!" Anna shouted.
Zerna look at the agitated Anna indifferently before replying with a simple, "I don't care. You still killed my wife."
While Zerna and Anna was arguing, Seo was just listening and digesting the information silently.
'Its seems that my parents has more than meets the eye.' Seo thought.
He watch them silently and did not interfere like some other stupid protagonist. He did not want to include himself given that he knows nothing.
While Seo was thinking, a boom suddenly sounded from where Anna is sitting.
Covered in red glow, Anna destroy the cuff that's bounding him. Her face filled with anger. It seems that Zerna accidentally poked a sore spot and angered Anna.
Seo quickly scooted in the corner, vigilantly observing.
"Zerna! I'm going to kill you!" Anna screamed angrily. "Summon [Twin Axe Of Wrath]!" As those words sound in, two crimson Axe with the same appearance appeared in each Anna's hands.
Zerna jumped back before shouting as well, "Summon [Katana Of Winter Ice]." A delicate looking blue katana appeared in Zerna's hands.
He slowly pulled the blade from its sheath before pointing it in Anna's direction.
Anna, provoked by this, attack with all of her might. The red glow continues to sorround her twin axe.
Anna's axes and Zerna's katana constantly clashed, sending out shockwaves.
Anna attacked in a berserk manner while Zerna was just blocking Anna's light blows and avoiding her heavy slashes. He was playing Anna in his fingers.
Out of knowhere, Anna smack his axe from his right hand to the axe in his left hand before speaking: "[Wrath Explosion]."
A super strong shockwave that is colored red hit Zerna's body. Zerna flew out of the window to the backyard.
Anna immediately destroyed the cuffs in Seo's hands and feet before de-summoning her axes.
"Seo, I know that you have many questions. Sadly, I can't answer them because of the situation. But, I assure you that I will keep you safe. Let's go." Anna said quickly. Then, he drag Seo out of the room.
Seo did not say anything and just followed Anna.
Unfortunately, it seems that they were doomed to never leave this house. Outside the door was two man wearing black robe. Seo was familiar with one of them. He was the guard that Seo plan to kill next. The other one is not familiar to Seo but he guessed that he is the one that summons the dogs out. Seo judge from the fact that he is wearing a necklace with a fang design, the same as the tattoo in the dog's corpse.
Sorrounding them was horned dog the same from the one Seo killed by the stairs. There are about 100+ dogs baring their fangs out.
"Where are you going? Lord Zerna is still not done with you."