A hint? "Wait!" I yelled while he was getting ready to leave, "What do you mean hint? We aren't playing a game," I said while gripping the chess piece, Satan looked at me and laughed, "Kuragari, we were always playing a game," saying this he vanished.
Well heck, just great.
A king with blood on it what could it mean....
Maybe someone killed a piece or maybe that's the king's blood.
Then it hit me, "Kill the king," I said while glaring at a painting of Satan.
Kill the king.
"Kuragari?" a maid said, I hummed in response, "Mrs Kai has been looking for you, the event has started."
"Well then let's go," I said while gripping the chess piece in my palm. The maid guided me to the ballroom.
I saw two large doors which were white and gold in color. Two butlers were standing on either sides of the door. Each of the butlers wore a white shirt with a black tie and black blazer. Their hair were neatly parted to the side. Both of them opened the doors.
The ballroom was huge, it had a dome shaped ceiling with golden pillars. The floor was covered in black and white marble. There were plants and vases all over that place. There were a lot of people as well.
There was a stage, people were talking and drinking champagne.
Women were dressed in elaborate ballgowns and men wore tuxedos.
I took a deep breathe, put the chess piece in my blazer's pocket and walked in. I looked for that middle aged woman who is probably my mom or step mom or half mom or ok yeah never mind....
I saw her standing in the centre of the ballroom holding Yuqi and a champagne glass. She was talking to a few people and Yuqi was just hiding behind her dress. That child looked very uncomfortable.
I would have loved to get Yuqi out of their but she'd only suffer even more if she was me.
I needed to look for the 'king'.
The king....who is he? Does he even exist? Is this a joke?
I was lost in my thoughts until my blazer's pocket started glowing. I went to a corner of the ballroom and carefully took out the chess piece.
It was glowing but the blood, it turned black. Black blood and a king?
I ran out of the ballroom and I found myself back in that hallway, standing face-to-face with that painting of Satan. I stared at his dark beady eyes, "Just what are you trying to say?" I muttered.
Suddenly my head started hurting, I was looking at a memory from my past life.
I was inside my house but both my parents were lying lifeless on the ground, there was blood everywhere. The wooden tiles were disappearing and the furniture was gone. Nine-year old me was just standing their in complete and utter darkness. I felt the pain of loosing someone all over again....it was agonising even if they weren't my real parents. I saw something glowing and I approached it, it was the chess piece with black blood, there was a note, 'You can only find me in the dark for I live in the shadows.'
My eyes burst open, I jolted up, my vision was blurry. After a few minutes of recovering from shock, I realized I was in my bedroom in plain clothes. I saw Yuqi next to me she was sleeping on my bed, I smiled.
A maid came in carrying some food on a tray, "Kuragari, please eat this, you need all the energy you can get," "Thank you, please put it there," I said while pointing to a side table next to my bed.
The tray had a bowl of warm porridge and some pills. I decided to throw the pills away and eat the porridge. By the time I finished, Yuqi was still sleeping.
I got out of bed and nudged her small face, "Yuqi?" I whispered in her ear, "Five more minutes," she said in a sleepy voice. I smelt something gross and I realized that I stunk.
I took a shower and put on clean clothes, I asked a maid who was passing by to make something for Yuqi.
In the mean time I wrote everything that happened on a piece of paper and hid it under the cushion of a chair. I stared at the chess piece, the king lived in the shadows? Who lives in the shadows?
I opened a drawer beneath my desk and I found a laptop. It was a MacBook pro and it was grey in color, I opened it up and received a notification, 'Password: I changed the password'.
I typed in the password and I opened a new document or so I thought. I got a feeling that something was wrong. I scanned the document for any clues and I found one but it was really tiny. I zoomed in and it said, 'I'm always watching, look behind you.'
I turned my head around, "What the fu-" I tried to scream but I couldn't.