Tara: " Do I take it as a 'yes'? "
Hari: " Of course, it is my honour to keep you company."
He whispered as she gazed straight into his eyes.
Tara mumbled.
" Your eyes are just like hers."
" Hmm?"
Tara : " By the way, I already knew that you didn't stay in any country long enough to call it a home."
Hari tilted his head a little.
"You were born in India, stayed there for 11 years and then moved to Japan after that America, France and finally here in Korea."
Hari was taken aback. Tara continued.
"Mother is Indian and father is Japanese. Your mother left you when you were young with your father because she couldn't stand him. You still have trauma from it."
Hari just stared at her, frozen. Tara continued.
" You are also overwhelmingly strong which made you a delinquent more precisely a criminal, that too at a very young age."
He yanked her off himself.
" Who the fuck sent you?"
However, she kept clinging to him regardless.
" Now now, calm down. What's with that look?
Oh! Perhaps, were you reminded of 31st July? "
Something inside Hari broke.
He figured that it was his rationality.
Hari never used force against a woman but he forgot all about it.
Grabbing her neck, he was trying to snap it into two.
"DIE"
He said, with immense bloodlust.
' No one, absolutely no one besides us must know what happened that day.'
Tara smiled as she was being choked.
" Gosh, how impatient!"
Her hair started disintegrating into tiny purple luminous butterflies and so did her body. There was golden dust on the hands which were snapping it.
" What the fuck is going on? "
He mumbled.
The purple butterflies started hovering around him and he was shrouded with golden dust.
He coughed up blood but that didn't faze him.
Hari : ' Where's that bitch? Gotta kill her first.'
He fell on the ground. Something was wrong. He couldn't move his arms, his eyes got heavy and his consciousness was slipping away.
He heard her voice.
" Oh my, you're still awake?"
His blood boiled at the ring of her voice.
He could feel his fingers faintly , grabbing onto that sensation he clenched his fists until they bled.
The striking pain kept him awake.
" Whoa! you're so stubborn. Even if you have thick blood, I still belong to the upper- grade. "
Her voice rang.
The butterflies started crowding near the blood and his fingers were numb again.
Hari narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth.
' Damn...No! No! Who was it? How did she know? I can't... I can't...
I must kill her first.'
Hari screamed silently.
His head started throbbing suddenly.
Everything went black.
Everything went void.
A familiar feeling.
'Ah...what a bad timing!
It's 'that thing' again.'
The butterflies scattered away as Hari's body was emanating immense bloodlust.
They integrated again and formed Tara's body looking like a human.
" I guess I went too far..."
She mumbled.
" I'm sorry, My Lord.
However, I can't have you going on a rampage in the Human realm."
She took out a small glass vial filled with deep blue liquid.
She tried to get him to drink it but all in vain.
Hari's consciousness was hanging by a thread.
His bloodlust was getting thicker.
" Damn it."
She fed it to him using her mouth.
He downed it somehow even if he didn't want to.
It was instinctively executed.
She clapped her hands twice and the last of his consciousness faded.
The last thing he remembered was the sound of those claps and something very heavy yet intangible crushing his body each and every cell in his body.
Hari was half awake but couldn't move his body at all.
He heard some voices.
'A woman and a man?
No... it's more like a boy.'
He thought, still unable to move.
Woman : " He is a coworker two years senior to me. Although, we work in different departments."
Boy : " I am more like an abandoned puppy that he picked up."
Woman : " Hahaha... What's up with that?"
Boy: " I'm telling you the truth.
We met on the road a few times and he decided to look after me. "
Woman : " That's so random.."
Boy: " Right?!! He feeds me when I am hungry and sometimes cheers me up when I'm down."
Woman : " Is that so? He comes off a little pushy and flirty to me. I mean he is known as 'CC' "
Boy : " What's that?"
Woman : " Chivalrous Casanova"
Boy: " Pfft... What the heck?!
That is so accurate."
They both laughed .
" Ugh...So noisy."
Hari groaned.
" Huh?! You're awake?"
Hari slowly opened his eyes.
It was all still blurry but he saw two familiar faces on his left and right.
Hari saw them and rubbed his eyes.
"Hey, didn't I tell you to stick to one lang--
Wait..what's that?"
Hari gasped.
His eyes popped out.
He saw Eliana and Seo sitting on armchairs (which is actually an understatement to call it one)made out of Silver.
Blue and shiny cushions were used which looked like they were made out of velvet.
It was carved out beautifully and was embedded with gemstones, sapphires dominating.
Seo: " That was exactly my reaction when I first saw it."
Hari : " I'd be a millionaire if I sold even one of them. Goodbye corporate slave life."
Eliana: "Um...Senpai, have you seen what you're sitting on?"
Hari tilted his head in question.
He glanced at his own chair.
He realized that he was at a higher elevation than the other two.
He was spellbound.
His body went stiff.
He punched himself once to see if this was a dream.
He hit a little too hard.