After an unusual morning, Alexis finished her personal hygiene and had breakfast. Although everyone has to find a job when they reach adulthood, Alexis's health is limited, so she doesn't work anywhere other than cleaning the house and cooking meals, supporting her family's business.
Her family runs a fast food business for sports people, and there are quite a few wealthy customers among them, so she earns a decent income.
"Alexis, can you deliver the goods to the customer?" - Mother
"Okay, where is the customer's address?" - Alexis
"I left it on the table, go deliver it right away" - Father
Alexis started working as a delivery person when she was still in middle school. At first, she felt tired because she had to travel far and was exhausted. After a while, she gradually got used to delivering goods by bicycle, and her health improved a lot, but the business was often unstable because it was not always smooth.
So when she received an order, she was very happy and ready to deliver the goods.
The delivery route was not too far, just passing a few apartment buildings and arriving at the destination, her phone rang, it was the customer's phone number.
"Hello, I'm here to deliver Family SeLov's goods!" - Alexis
"Yeah, could you please bring the goods to my room? I can't come down."
"I'm sorry, but our policy is not to bring goods to customers' homes. Can you ask someone to come down here and get them?" - Alexis
"Listen, young lady, do you know the saying that the customer is king? If the customer has personal matters and cannot receive the goods, the delivery person must listen to the customer's request!"
"But..."- Alexis
"Regardless of your rules, if the customer requests it, then follow it or I will lower my opinion of your store!"
This customer was really rude, she never thought she would encounter such a bad customer. With no other choice, Alexis had to park her car in the basement and use the elevator to go up to the customer's apartment.
Inside the old, rickety elevator, you could still hear the sound of machinery, not to mention that there were quite a few advertisements pasted on the elevator walls that she didn't bother to tear down. Feeling both uncomfortable and uneasy, Alexis's heart was filled with worry, when the wolf Wiro appeared and sat on her shoulder.
"Hey, watch out, I can smell the disgusting smell in this building"- Wiro
"I know, but work doesn't allow me to turn around. Even though I'm shaking"- Alexis
*Ting*
The elevator bell rang, the elevator door opened, and in front of her was a long and dark hallway, Alexis looked back at the floor she was on and was shocked because it showed the 13th floor. A number that is considered bad in spiritual beliefs
"Floor 13... no way, there's no apartment building that has a floor with such a bad number?!"- Alexis
Alexis tried to press the close button but the elevator door couldn't close. Then her phone rang.
"Hello?"- Alexis
The response was a creepy silence, trying to swallow her fear and slowly walked out of the elevator. The only light was from the elevator that was still wide open, the sound that echoed in the space was her footsteps, the apartment that the guest lived in was numbered 13-7.
The door of this apartment was made of old and rotten wood with a sign on it saying 13-7, this was the customer's apartment. Alexis knocked on the door gently because she was afraid that this old wooden door could collapse at any moment.
*Creak*
The creaking sound was very creepy, Alexis couldn't see what the person inside looked like because there was no light. Although she was a bit scared, she still put on a business smile.
"Hello, I've delivered. Thank you for ordering our food" - Alexis
The person in the apartment didn't say anything but just reached out to receive the food when suddenly she grabbed her hand. The dry and cold hand made Alexis jump in fear.
"Can you let go of my hand?"- Alexis
"Young lady...do you know that no matter how unreasonable the customer's request is...don't listen to those threats..."
"...!"- Alexis
The wooden door slowly opened, the light from the phone lit up. Alexis could clearly see the face of the customer holding her hand. A haggard face with skin that was being gnawed by worms, smelling of rotten flesh.
"Like that...it will be dangerous...Ouroboros..."
"Ah..."- Alexis
"Run!"- Wiro
Wiro immediately pounced and used his claws to scratch the face of that horror creature, the creature's hand let go of her hand. Alexis quickly ran to the elevator and repeatedly pressed the elevator door close button, but no matter how hard she pressed, the elevator door still wouldn't close, so she had to take the emergency stairs. Wiro jumped off the creature's face and quickly ran to Alexis's back, the girl was scared and ran down the long and narrow stairs while the monster with its massive body was agile in the narrow space.
But strangely, the stairs seemed to be endless and the ground floor could not be seen.
Finally, her legs were so tired that she could not run anymore so Alexis found a door to the next floor and slammed the door shut, causing the monster to crash into the door. She quickly locked the door to temporarily buy time.
"What's going on? Did we fall into some kind of spiritual trap?"- Alexis
"Look, we've been running around on the 13th floor since just now, which means we're stuck here forever"- Wiro
Her eyes looked up at the apartment floor number board and it was still the 13th floor.
"I just wanted to deliver goods normally and make money, but I can't even do that?"- Alexis
*Bam!*
The creature successfully broke through the door and rushed inside, luckily she was hiding in a nearby clothes cart, while being extremely scared, Alexis tried to calm herself down by telling herself that it was all just a nightmare.
"Come out here little prey...where are you...I'll just enjoy you gently"
"Each sharp tooth will slowly bite into your flesh...thick red liquid will flow out from there...I will slowly enjoy that red liquid without spilling a single drop"
"You can't escape from here....Ouroboros"
Alexis saw the creature passing by her and took the opportunity to sneak closer to the still open elevator, but then the elevator door gradually closed causing Alexis to panic and run towards the elevator.
"Oh no no no!"- Alexis
The creature heard the footsteps running and immediately turned back to see the prey, it excitedly rushed to chase Alexis.
How ironic that Alexis didn't have time to run to the elevator right when it closed, a feeling of despair enveloped her, when she turned around she saw the creature jumping up to kill her, was this the end?
Suddenly, a force pulled Alexis into the elevator, then a beam of light shot straight at the creature, causing it to fall to the ground in pain. The elevator door slammed shut, bringing Alexis back to her senses.
So she looked up at the person who had just saved her, it was Brother Ryu, the girl she had met at the cat cafe last time.
"Are you okay?"- Ryu
"No...I'm not okay at all. I thought I was going to die"- Alexis
"You need a place to calm down"- Ryu
The elevator dinged, then the elevator door opened, outside was a normal apartment lobby, Ryu pulled Alexis's hand out of the elevator and let her sit on a bench outside the apartment. Ryu bought Alexis a bottle of water and gave it to her to drink to cool down the feeling of fear in her body, taking the bottle of water, Alexis didn't hesitate to take a big gulp.
"To be honest, I'm quite surprised, we just met not long ago and you're already dragged into trouble"- Ryu
"I don't know what to say, just now I was just delivering the goods as usual and suddenly everything became chaotic"- Alexis
"It was just a coincidence, the goods you delivered to the customer were indeed on the 12A floor, but that creature you just saw. He used the space rift to change the 12A floor to 13, a number that only those who don't belong to the mortal world have"- Ryu
"Ah, this is really troublesome. How am I supposed to deliver the goods to the customer, I can't go back home and tell my parents "I can't deliver the goods because a magical creature is hunting me". There's no way I can say that!"- Alexis
"Actually, you can go back to deliver the goods to the customer, you just need to find a way to avoid the 13th floor to to 12A"- Ryu
"And how do I do that?"- Alexis
"Kill that creature"- Ryu
Hearing that, the water bottle in Alexis's hand fell to the ground, did she have to go back to the place where that disgusting creature was just to deliver an order.
"No way, I won't go back there. Why don't you go and kill that creature?"- Alexis
"I can do it, but this won't be the only and last creature. There will be more like that creature, and worse, there will be people who are even worse than that who will target you"- Ryu
"For example?"- Alexis
"For example..."- Ryu
*Thud!!!*
Something fell heavily to the ground, a red liquid splashed everywhere, followed by chaos and screams from those who witnessed what had just fallen to the ground.
It was the body of a man lying face down on the ground.