The young man ordered the women in the family to evacuate. No woman is allowed to be seen where they will be doing the ritual. They will perform the ritual near Gregorio's house. Josepha went to her in-law's house to spend the time there.
The teen-age boy finally introduced his name as Robert. Robert and his group had a hard time planning, it's hard to get rid of a woman-in-love especially if its unseen creature. The woman in their group had to exit also, she was only allowed to prepare the food for the men before and after.
The only people who will be working is the old man and Roberto. They don't want other men to be present there because she might jump to another man.
Roberto and the old man arranged a red blanket and hanged it in a place where she might be able to see. Roberto inspected the place and in his sight, she had been watching him.
The place where Gregorio's house is standing can be seen if someone would be standing near the oak tree. Their plan is to attract her with the red blanket, apparently red is a strong color to attract someone. Then they have to burn the oak tree, if it can't be burned down then they had to catch her.
Gregorio's state becoming worse, he seemed to had been falling deep into the world she had offered him. His eyes are like a deep black hole right now, there is no light, he would be conscious and unconscious by seconds. They had to tie him down to avoid him being hurt or to avoid the enchanting voice of the woman. Roberto will be the one to burn and run away.
And true enough in just minutes of waiting to burn the tree, Roberto already felt a cold air coming out from the oak tree. Roberto can see the woman coming out of the tree. He can see her peeking out just like how we imagined it, he can see Gregorio's house from the spot. She got curious, so Roberto started preparing himself. The woman was fixated at the color red, she was attracted to it, she wants to go to it. Without thinking much, she flew towards it, rushing.
The old man sense immediately that the unseen creature arrived, he can hear her heavy breathing around him, then he spoke:
"I know that we are both living here in this world but right now you have to let go of him, you should not be together. Because it will end up badly for both of you if you would persist."
He can't hear anything but he knows it's a bad sign, the wind is getting stronger, he started to hear shrieking that is clearly unpleasant. No one can hear it aside from himself so he can't do anything but Roberto can do something. Back in the mountain, Roberto started pouring gasoline.
It was super expensive but it's nothing compared to the mountain of pigs that they would've been butchered if they called for someone else. Pouring is easy but making a fire is harder, it took him half an hour to create a fire. But luckily or extremely lucky for him, he was able to lit the tree on fire before a rushing cold wind arrived. He washed as the whirling wind is trying its best to kill the fire, until the wind was eventually killed when the oak tree burned down.
He watched and waited as the fire slowly calms down as it already devoured everything. The ashes are still hot and still had those heartbeat-like fire but he had to continue his job. He removed the ashes on top and dug the untouched soil beneath it. He dug and followed the root. Since the oak tree has been there for some time, for some hundreds of years, maybe.
The roots are big and it seemed like the whole mountain would crumble if he would pull the roots. That's how old it is, the roots are everywhere, it would be hard work. They would be spending days, long cold days digging and burning roots.
Unseen spirits are howling; they are crying while others are laughing at the death of the woman. She is a strong one, the woman and her death is a breath of peace for humans and to her fellow unseen beings.
Roberto, Lito, Leon had been digging for days now. It is not hard but what made it harder are the ways that they have to manage. They could've had just let it be, but they knew the woman will never let them be. it may not be then but the following generation will be affected if they will not do it now. It is truly cruel for both of the party but they just can't be, they will be harming each other anyway.
It took them days, it's not just them who are having a hard time. Gregorio is having a hard time too, not to mention his wife. Josepha was allowed to return to their house, foe it is a little bit safer now. And he had to take care of him. He was so sick; he is vomiting non-stop. Josepha thought that maybe it did not work but the old man told her that it did.
His body is in cleansing mode, his body started to reject any unnatural things or food that entered his body.
Roberto checked Gregorio's vomit and can't find any particular unique thing. And that's a problem they should find a sign that the unseen woman's hold is not there anymore. Good news is Gregorio started to be consciously alert about the state of his body. His lean body before turned to a lanky one, and he hated it when he saw how his body decreased.
Gregorio is becoming desperate and is slowly being irritated with his own self.
He just vomited the last food that he ate for dinner. Tears started rolling down his eyes, when he turned his back and his wife was there, standing beside the door; looking worried.