"I almost killed her. I almost killed a person." these were the words repeating in Kyran's head as he looked at the mirror above the sink on the wall. He begins to breathe heavily to the point that his vision started becoming blurry till he stops and decides to take deep breaths in and out to calm himself down. He rinses his face with water from the sink's tap and takes a good look at himself through the mirror till he got the courage to walk out.
Once he got out, he finds students leaving the school grounds and is confused by this.
"What's going on?" Kyran asks one of the students going down the hallway.
"Didn't you hear?" the student replies, "the board announced that school's been canceled."
"What, how come?" Kyran asks.
"Well," the student answers "due to what happened to Ms. Travers, the school staff were panicking and decided to cancel the rest of the lessons."
"Oh, okay then." he sighs.
"Well, I have somewhere to be, is there anything else you need?" the student asks.
"No, thank you, bye." Kyran says as he heads off.
"Okay then," the student says awkwardly "bye."
Kyran heads off in search of Michael and Natalie but finds neither of them so he decides to head home. While walking out of the school grounds he hears many students talking about what happened to Ms. Travers which causes and increases Kyran's stress as he walks home. When he arrives at his apartment, he finds no one home which doesn't surprise him, so he makes himself a rice meal which he eats then goes to his room.
Nighttime arose with the winds picking up in the area, yet the city was still as lively as it was in the day. Some people continued their regular jobs while others were returning to enjoy the comfort of their homes. Sealers remained active with a little number of 3-5 portals open yet occupied by Orders.
Kyran is alone in his room staring at the ceiling while lying on his bed, busy thinking about what happened in his class. He continuously blames himself for Ms. Travers's condition thinking to himself that he shouldn't have used it on her then later blames the System for not telling him the effects of Reaper's Copy. He considers telling someone about it but then who would believe him, they'll just think he's gone crazy. He tries to watch videos on his laptop to see if anyone else has experienced this, but no one had such an experience. He considers posting about it online but who would believe some random kid and if they were to believe him how would they remove it?He then thinks about the Baron's return and the other beasts to come, thinking that he was granted the focus to stand a chance against them because would the best Sealer be there on time to stop them before they do too much?
He spends about 20 minutes thinking about what he should do, till he decides that he should check on Ms. Travers at the hospital and apologize. Although she might not understand why it will remove some stress from his mind.
He gets up and wears a black denim jacket, a red branded shirt, black jeans, and black and red sneakers. He exits his room and is about to leave but notices his mother sleeping at the dinner table with documents and her laptop on the table. He gets a blanket, puts it on her, and then heads to the door. He touches the door handle but just as he was about to open it, he feels a sudden electrical shock.
"Kyran," he hears and turns to see his mother pointing at the door with sparks of electricity coming from her index finger "where are you going?"
"Just going to the hospital to check on Kiana and Ms. Travers," he replies hesitantly.
She takes a good look at him and then replies, "Okay then, but don't take too long it's already late, and," she pauses briefly "you seemed frightened lately."
"I'm fine and I won't take too long," he says.
"Okay then, take care." she sends him off.
"Bye," he says as he exits.
He heads down the apartment building where he borrows one of the bicycles and rides it to the hospital. On his way, he sees only one opened portal which only reminds him of what happened in the past.
He arrives at the hospital where he parks the bike and is about to head into it but sees Ms. Travers waiting at a road crossing traffic light. She's wearing a white shirt with the design of large black checkers, black pants and white shoes. Just as he was about to call her, he sees a red taxi stop by her as she opens its back door. She suddenly attempts to quickly close the door and run but a man wearing full grey with vertically half black and red mask, pushes her into the car and gets in as it drives off.
Kyran panics for a bit then rushes to his bicycle and proceeds to follow the taxi. The car makes a series of odd turns while its lights were off as Kyran followed it. It reaches an area where there is a small factory building barely having people around. It parks at the entrance as Kyran hides behind a pile of steel building bars close to the building.
A man wearing full white with black jacket and the same mask exits the car as another man pushes Ms. Travers out of the car causing her to fall to the ground. She is blindfolded by a black cloth with a rope covering her mouth and has her arms and legs tied behind her. A short man exits the car and drags her by a rope as they entered the building. Kyran goes around and finds a window which he looks through while trying to stay hidden. The building filled with construction material and equipment as Kyran sees Ms. Travers being tied to the ground on her knees as she can barely move.
"Boss we got her." one of the men say.
"That's good." Kyran hears as he turns to the direction of the deep voice.
He sees a man walking down a flight of metal stairs wearing a red jacket, white shirt and black pants and boots, with the same mask covering his face yet his long brown hair could be clearly seen running down his upper back. He walks towards Ms. Travers and holds her by the hair and removes the blindfold and mouth rope.
"You thought you were sly huh," he says pulling her hair "you ugly fox."
"So, you're still alive," she says "c-congratulations"
"Do you even know who I am?" he says angrily.
"Of course, I do," she says cockily "judging by the dumpster perfume and the rotting dog breath you're, Colt."
"I see your insults are still high class." he says then, gives her a hard punch to her face.
"Boss can I say something?" one of the men say as Colt nods, "Once we're done getting the information, I know what we all want to do. There's a fine lady who's tied up and is unable to move, with no one around to hear her screams. I'm just reading our minds here." he says as the rest agree.
"Relax yourselves," Colt says as they go quiet "let's make her scream in pain first, for all the trouble she's caused us."
He draws out a pocketknife from his jacket and uses it to give a large cut to her right arm causing her to scream for a bit. He clicks his fingers signaling one of the other men who brings a 5-liter bottle of vinegar. Colt takes it and slowly pours it one her wounded arm causing her to scream intensely.
"You think this hurts," Colt says while laughing "you haven't seen the best part." His right hand glows a silver aura as he places it on her wound causing it to fade away. "Now tell me everything."
"I won't even say the slightest." Ms. Travers denies his request.
"Don't think I healed you because your screams are annoying." Colt says as he places the blade on her left arm. "It's the best thing I've ever heard." He proceeds to slowly cut her with a smile on his face. "I won't stop till you expose everything." He pours the vinegar as she screams intensely.
Kyran is shocked by what he sees as he only asks himself "What the heck is going on?" He suddenly feels a large hand grab onto his shoulder which sends a shiver up his spine.
"And what are you doing here?" he hears a grown man's voice but just as Kyran was about to look back to see who it was he sees a huge fist just before he blacks out.