"...They were burned?"
Shshshshshshshs
Suddenly thew book in Eleri's hand burned into ashes until there was nothing left
Eleri frowned and Kyle covered his nose in disgust
Suddenly Eleri remembered the same smell that came from Jacob
It finally hit her
She already knows a certain possibilty what happened to the owner of the library and his family.
*****
- Ding!
- It's night time dear dreamers remember to stay away from the nightmare and go with the good dreams!
At the center of the library
Luc looked around and asked "Where's Kyle, L, and Jerome?"
Jerry answered lazily "The two are probably searching for clues, as for Jerome I'm not sure"
Lana then spoke hesitantly as she said "Jerome said he's gonna go searching for clues a moment ago"
Hearing this Jerry frowned as Luc asked "But why hasn't he come back yet?"
"..." No one spoke and no one answered
Lana hugged herself as she stuttered "C- Could it be s- something h- happened to him?"
This gave everyone a chill in their hearts
Jerry thought solemnly 'But it was day time so there shouldn't be any monsters, unless the one that killed him is-'
'One of us, the Judge'
Luc suddenly spoke as he said "Could it be he was killed by either L or Kyle?"
Jerry wanted to say no but gritted his teeth as he said "It's possible, Kyle is a maniac for killing that was shown in his channel, while L… she is still unknown"
Suddenly they heard footsteps and thought it was Jerome expectantly but saw that it was Kyle and Eleri
Eleri had a gloomy face while Kyle was frowning
Jerry had to swallow back his questions about Jerome and instead asked "What happened?"
Kyle sighed as he said "We found another clue"
Everyone looked at them expectantly but Kyle broke it and said "But it was burned"
Jerry asked with one eyebrow raised "Burned?"
Luc tremblengly asked "But how?! Who burned it"
Eleri was the one to speak this time as she said "It burned itself"
Everyone looked at her in disbelief obviously not believing her words as Lana couldn't help but exclaim "Lier! How can it burn itself?!" she then gasped as she covered her mouth, Kyle looked at her coldly and she couldn't help crying as she said "I'm sorry…I didn't mean to…"
Eleri was indifferent as she hummed and turned around to sit on the floor and read a book of Dazai Osamu this time
Kyle said "What she said was true, we found a book that is a clue but before we could even read it the moment it was opened it already started to burn itself, we couldn't find a way to stop it"
Jerry nodded as he said "So are you saying-"
Kyle nodded as he said "-Yes, this is part of the game's setting"
Eleri read the book of Dazai and mumbled "Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in burning hell. Everything passes"
Reading this Eleri lowered her eyes as she begun to recall Jacob
Jacob seemed to look like someone but she can't remember, she already figured out the mystery of the library owner but she wouldn't reveal it
Now the only thing she awaits is time, as the time passes will she know when to reveal and what is to reveal.
*****
3:13am at midnight
While everyone was asleep Jerry who was supposed to be on night guard closed his eyes from the drowsiness
While he had his eyes closed Kyle woke up, stood up and left
Unbeknownst to him Eleri also woke up at that time and followed behind him silently
Unfortunately as soon as they left a monster suddenly appeared
Grrrrrrrrr
Hearing the growl Jerry immediately opened his eyes and he shouted "Everyone wake up!"
Standing up he went for a defensive stance and faced the black hound
Jerry saw that Luc and Lana were waking up but Kyle and Eleri were missing!
'Damn it! Where did they go at this time?!'
Grrrrrrrr
The black hound licked his fangs as his bloodthirsty eyes stared straight at Jerry
Opening it's huge mouth it let out a terrifying roar!
"Ahhhhh!"
___
Eleri turned around as she heard the scream
Gritting her teeth she cussed and immediately turned around as she ran back
As soon as she arrived she saw two giant black hounds, one was fighting against Jerry while the other was biting the right arm of Lana
"Shit!" She immediately ran and purple lightning emitted from her right hand as she aimed it at the black hound who was biting Lana, but--
Grrrrr
Suddenly another black hound appeared and was about to bite Eleri when she leaped backward and dodged it
She cussed and raised her hand as she aimed it the black hound
The black hound opened it's mouth to roar but Eleri was fast and took advantage of it as she released her lightning and the head of the hell hound exploded
Eleri looked around and saw that Lana was about to be eaten whole, she saw Luc at the second floor watching with a horrified face
She shouted "What are you doing?! Help her!"
Luc flinched but shook his head vigorously as he ran away
Eleri shouted "Coward!"
Just as she was about to ran to help Lana another two black hound appeared
"Why is there so many black hounds?"
Despaired by the situation she saw that Lana was already eaten and couldn't scream anymore as her lifeless eyes stared at her
Eleri suddenly clutched her head in pain as she recalled thousandths of scenes where people died
Just as the black hounds were about to attack a gray werewolf suddenly appeared and bit of the nape of it
The black hound howled in pain before it died
Kyle gritted his teeth as he shouted at Eleri "What are you doing?! Run!"
Seeing that she was not responding he picked her up and jumped to the second floor
Jerry also couldn't kill the black hound and ran to the second floor.
___
After running away from the black hounds everyone was tired and staggered to the ground
Eleri was silent as she had her head lowered
Kyle changed back to his human form and asked angrily at Eleri "What were you doing back there? You could've been killed! Hey! Are you listening?!"
But no matter what he said Eleri did not move
Kyle then noticed something was wrong and asked "Hey, what's the matter?"
Eleri raised her head slowly and Kyle froze, her eyes were dull and motionless as if she was dead
Eleri closed her eyes and recalled the previous things that happened in her life, she remembered when she and Raizel were left alone by their friends that fleed from danger without looking back at them
At that time countless of other children died and they were seriously injured that they were in coma for 3 months
Eleri took a deep breath as she forced a smile and said "It's nothing, I'm sorry for being a burden"
Both Kyle and Jerry froze when they heard this, why did she suddenly thought she was a burden?
But Eleri did not gave them a chance to react as she left silently.
[What happened? Why did the anchor suddenly became like this?]
[Did she had a trauma from that girl's death?]
The barrage were indeed right, Eleri had a weakness, and that is--
--She has a PTSD.