Emmy stood there motionless as he said those word, he didn't know when and how the words has left his mouth, originally, he was just going to walk past her, then turn back to see how her backside will be, before giving a comment. Because facial appearance might be deceiving sometimes, so he was going to confirm her beauty from her backside, but he had muttered the words on his mind out as he got closer to her.
The lady blinked for a couple second and look around if there's anybody around, she wants to confirm if the thing in front of her is really talking to her, or someone else. And after sighting no one on their way, she just smiles and said;
"I'll take that as a compliment." She said with a smile and move away.
"Huh? She didn't lash me? I mean, she didn't give me a good beating? Is it my luck? Or she just didn't have the strength to do that to me?" Emmy was really surprised, if it were another person, his bone would've have been crushed now and then, and here, the lady just took the words as a compliment.
Turning back to look at her, Emmy couldn't help but say;
"She's really the definition of beauty."
[Quest in progress]
[Curse three people for three days: 3/3 cursed]
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Emmy got to his so called home and decided to rest, he didn't know what will happen in the next few hours, so he decided to rest first, because he knew the next two hours or so will be tough as he could already feel his tummy screaming in hunger, although he can still endure it for now, but he knew in the next two hours, the system will force him to find something to eat. So, he decided to rest before going into another trouble.
Emmy didn't know how he had fallen asleep, but he was awoken by the rumbling of his tummy, and the shooting pain he could feel inside. He was really hungry.
"Damn, I fell asleep." Emmy said as he looks around and could see that everywhere was dark. For a second, his heart stopped beating and in the next seconds, it started beating faster like ever, sweat was running down his face as he looks at the darkness that surrounded him.
'Did someone abduct me? Was I being followed to the uncompleted building and got abducted while I was asleep?' He thought as he started moving in a random direction, his first suspect was the lady who he had cursed earlier.
'No, she can't do that, she can't abduct me just for abusing, right?'
Turning around, he could see a ray of light dimly appearing a few metres away from him. He move towards the source of light and that's when he could see, he could see where the light was coming from.
It was the night sky, he could see that he's still in the uncompleted building, but it was night already and the ray of light came from the night sky through the entrance.
'Wait, it's night already? I slept the whole afternoon.' He was surprised, he originally thought of sleeping for an hour and the pangs of hunger waking him up.
He move towards the window and remove a bunch of dry leaves that he used to block the window earlier in the afternoon before he fell asleep. The room has a total of four windows and he had blocked the four windows before he sleep which had lost the room from light when the night fall.
After removing the obstructor of the night sky from the window, a notification appear in his line of sight.
[10 more minutes before you get yourself filled]
[Punishment: going through hell for one hour]
[The countdown begin now]
'What??' Emmy had his mouth left wide opened, going through hell for one hour.
Is lord Lucifer and the system crazy all together, why who they punish him so hard for not eating. Yes he's hungry, but is it lord Lucifer hungry? How does it affect the bastard.
Like the system could read his thought, a new line of message appear
[Lord Lucifer cares for his followers and he won't let you die of hunger]
'F*ck you, who tell you I'm a follower of that bastard.' Emmy yelled inside.
Emmy don't have any time to waste, because even if the system didn't ask him to get himself filled, he know he need to get something to eat because the demons in his tummy aren't friendly at all, it was as if his internal organs we're being chewed.
Quickly moving outside the room, he walk towards the gate and started moving faster. But before he got to the gate, he turn his head left and could see two dull yellow eyes besides the condensed leave that crawled into the building, the eyes was getting weaker by the seconds.
He couldn't see what it is as everywhere was dark, the light from the night sky could not cover everywhere, so this place was specially lost from light.
He wanted to run away, but he was getting a familiar feeling from the owner of the eyes and his gut was telling him to move closer.
But who is he to follow his stupid gut when he didn't know the identity of the creature, he wanted to turn around and run away but the familiar feeling he was getting from the creature was growing weaker and for some reason, when looking at the two eyes, he didn't feel scared, his hand and legs were not shaking and it was as if the creature meant no harm.
But he couldn't just go to the darkness and look at the creature when he knows nothing about its identity.
And as if the creature knew what Emmy was thinking, it started moving towards him, he wanted to turn and run, but his leg refused to turn. In fact, his body was moving towards the creature.
'Did this bastard take over my body again?' Emmy thought.
When he could get a clearer view of the creature, his heart skipped and ache. Tears was rolling down his eyes. It was a dog, and not any dog
It was Jone...
But this is different from the Jone he knew before.
There was not a single hint of white on its body, the poor dog's fur was painted black and red, there were different visible injury all over the dogs body, mark of claw and teeth, deep and large cut and it was slowly breathing.
The dog is on the brink of death.
The Jone he knew before was a healthy dog with white glowing fur.
"Jone, I'm sorry, I couldn't stop those damn bastard from chasing you into the tunnel and to fight those damn wild rat. I'm sorry Jone, but I won't let you die." He said as he picked the poor dog and moved it inside the large room and give a few checkup before running out of the building.
He peeked at the system....
[7 minutes]
He had wasted three whole minutes, so he's currently short of time.
Running as fast as he could, Emmy got to the second street in less than a minute, he walk around a few times before a message finally appear in his line of sight.
[Target found]
[Get your target package]
A lively convenience store could be seen up ahead, people coming in and out of it, both male and female, teens and adults. There were no guards station outside, but there were different security measures that a criminal couldn't escape once in it's range.
Of course, Emmy knew of this and he knew going there will be a suicide mission; although, he hadn't been in a convenience store himself, but his time spent in the library and his leisure period spent reading wasn't just for some fantasy stories or some history book, he also read research book and get information through magazine, even though he has no smart phone to browse the net.
Emmy waited with patience; but deep down, he really don't know what to do, the system state that 'target found' but there were more than one person coming out of the convenience store, so he couldn't just go and steal random people's package, because not all of them went to get food, there are different stuff sold in the convenience store. And for some reason, his body hasn't started moving on its own like it usually did, so he thought lord Lucifer is waiting for the target to get closer.
But the more he wait, the more hell is coming closer, time is not on his side.
[4 minutes]