"What do you mean?" Louis leaned back with a confused and curious expression.
Zach tried to explain what he was experiencing but as if what he was experiencing was a dream.
"Astrals?..."
"Mmm, since when did astral use weapons like swords or arrows?" Victor sighed in disbelief at Zach's words.
"Since long ago dreams have often been stated as reminders. But even so, if it was Astral's doing then there should have been signs from the two corpses." Louis again knocked on the table continuously.
That's right, Astrals are shadow creatures created from decaying souls. They will brutally kill the humans around them. But in their every action, they must leave a trace or mark.
In contrast to the case of the two people outside, who purely died from being hit by a weapon attack.
Zach tried to remember what happened before. "That's true, the only one who was directly attacked by Astral was me" Zach was confused again.
"It seems there is no clue, I think the previous person is also suspicious. Mr. Alfred has a solid alibi, different from the previous person" Leon gave an opinion.
After several additional questions unrelated to Zach's dream, the interrogation finally ended. Louis sighed before motioning for Zach to leave.
But suddenly, when Zach wanted to open the tent, he was stopped by Louis. "Don't open the tent now!" Louis stared seriously.
Zach was confused and followed Louis' orders. "Is there any problem?" he asked.
Louis put his index finger in front of his lips indicating to remain silent. After a while, the previously bustling atmosphere became quiet outside the tent.
Leon and Victor started to break out in a cold sweat. He sensed that something was off. While Louis still remained calm, even though his gaze was serious.
"Gone already..." Louis said as he slowly walked to the entrance of the tent.
Leon and Victor stared at each other, while Zach was silent. Louis opened the tent and came out. As soon as his feet stepped, red liquid filled his black shoes. Louis stared ahead with a face almost in disbelief.
Zach, Leon and Victor also came out and were shocked. Zach fell to his knees and the red liquid splashed onto his clothes. The sight before them was a sea of corpses.
"Captain!?" Zach said softly when he saw Dellon's head stuck in a spear facing upwards.
"This is beyond my expectation!" Louis tried to calm down.
Zach looked to the side and saw a trail of blood leading towards the town. "No, it's headed for town!" Zach panics knowing the town is in danger.
"Emma!" Zach suddenly remembers that his wife is still in town.
He staggered to his feet and ran towards the city. Meanwhile Louis, Leon and Victor still had shocked faces. "What strong Astral can kill a police officer and a Gate Keeper at once" Louis smiled scared.
"Has Obsidia reached its end?"
...
Zach ran without stopping, regardless of the considerable distance. "Shit!" Zach kept running while cursing in his heart.
On the city footpath, Bloodstain stopped. Zach looked left and right and found no Astral who was killing people at the gate.
Without minding that, Zach ran to his own house. Without knocking, he ran in looking here and there. Until Emma came out of the room with a confused expression.
Zach broke down in tears as he quickly hugged his wife. Emma sees Zach's bloodied clothes and frantically asks what happened to Zach. "What happened? your clothes?" Emma almost shook with fear.
Zach stabilized his breathing, he turned to the door and ran to quickly close the door and lock it. "Thank god you're okay" Zach hugged his wife again.
Zach outlines what happened at the gate. Emma was scared half to death, but she still hugged Zach to calm him down. However, Zach who saw the scene in person must have been even more shocked.
Zach calmed himself in Emma's arms. After a while, the sound of knocking on the door came again. Zach was shocked and started to panic, and so did Emma.
But when a familiar voice sounded in his ear, Zach felt relieved.
"Is that Mr. Stark?" Emma looked a little more relieved.
"Wait here" Zach stood up and was about to open the door.
The door creaked and sure enough, the figure behind the door was a terrified looking Vilion. Zach invited Vilion to enter and locked the door again.
"Thank goodness you're alive. I thought you were dead" Zach gave his best friend a hug.
Vilion cried out in fear. After a while, Conditions began to calm down. Zach stood up "I'll make some hot tea to cool off"
"Astral can't enter a closed room, as long as this house is closed there's nothing to worry about" Zach seem calmer.
Emma stood up too, "Just let me, you must be tired" Emma volunteered to make hot tea.
Zach nodded and he himself turned towards the window, "I'll see the conditions outside" he said while walking towards the window.
The conditions outside were still nothing out of the ordinary. Even though no one was hanging around, there was nothing that could make Zach's skin crawl again. Zach sighed, there was no way out for him.
After that, he returned to the living room. Vilion was no longer in the chair, Zach looked the other way and couldn't find him. "Did he go to the toilet?" Zach felt bad.
As he took a step, the sound of glass breaking was heard from the kitchen. Zach ran towards the kitchen, where he saw Vilion standing wiping his cheek with his arm. On his cheek there is a scar incision. His gaze was not like before.
When Zach turned to the other side, Emma was sprawled on the floor, her eyes glazed over and almost empty. Blood pooled around her. Zach's heart beat quickened. Don't understand what's going on.
"Emma?" Zach walked slowly, kneeling in front of his motionless wife. He lifted her head and placed it in his lap. "Vilion, what happened?" Zach asked then looked at Vilion.
Vilion was stunned when he saw Zach nearby, The look of fear he had shown earlier grew even worse. It was at that moment, Zach realized something very important. "Wait a minute, how could He survive the chaos at the gate. Not even the captain and other soldiers survived! After all, his house is closer to the gate, why did He come here and not his family?"
He looked at Vilion as he realized it, "In my previous memory, Kyle did say that Vilion was on guard. Then why did he lie to the detectives? Then the warehouse..."
The corners of Zach's mouth twitched as he said through his teary eyes, "You killed Kyle and Ben!"
"No! it wasn't me... when I saw them, they were both dead! Not me! It wasn't me who killed my parents! It wasn't me who killed my whole family!" Vilion bit his lip until it bled.
Vilion held his face while crying, then suddenly his eyes widened, his hair fell one by one to the floor. His skin wrinkled before finally peeling off. Black smoke billowed out from the crimson colored flesh.
His eyes became round and bright red in color, A slowly changing laughter sound rang out as Vilion's entire body turned into black smoke with bloodshot eyes.
Zach hugged Emma tightly while staring fearfully at Vilion who turned into an astral. "What..." Zach's breath started to erratic.
Astral Vilion grabbed Zach's head and slowly lifted him up. "Grrr!" A resounding hoarse voice. It made Zach's ears ring.
Zach's vision starts to fade as Astral Vilion crushes his skull.