New York , 17 years later
2012
A vast 40-meter long supermarket with a width of 40 meters and a height of 15 meters ; it consists of one floor besides the ground floor .
Inside this supermarket , the supervisor shouts at one of the employees ,
" What's the hell are you doing, Stal!! Are you attempting to suicide?? "
Stal is one of the supermarket employees ; at that moment , he was trying to pull a heavy tool weighing about 30 kilos from the top shelf.
There was a possibility that it would land on Stal's head. Weren't it for Peter's interference , he would have been dead and this was because Peter pulled him back at the right timing .
" What the hell were you doing , Stal !! Haven't I already told you to take a week off to relax and put your mind at peace from what happened?! Yet you've done something so stupid that could've killed you , "
Peter said , panting . His voice tone was full of concern.
Stal replied as he was looking at the ground, and talked with a very calm voice as if nothing had happened ,
" Why would you even care if something happens to me ?~ Mind your own busin....."
Before he could even finish his sentence, he heard a strange voice. It seemed like it's from a microphone and the voice was sharp and disturbing.
" The first question : What's your name? "
" What's that voice? Did you hear that, Peter? "
Peter looked at Stal in astonishment,
" What are you talking about ? what voice?! I heard nothing."
Once again, that voice returned but this time shouting,
" Wrong answer."
At that time, Stal got a fierce headache ; he felt that his head was going to explode. In addition to that he felt a sudden heat.
The voice returned again but quietly ,
" Let's repeat the question, what's your name? "
Stal fell on his knees, holding his head firmly facing the ground ; he couldn't raise his head as much as he tried . He shouted ,
" Ss..Stal , my name is Sam. "
After that answer immediately , Stal felt the headache vanishing away gradually and quickly. He turned to the right and to the left , panting from exhaustion , trying to find out the source of that voice ; he noticed Peter calling the emergency shouting from fear ,
" There is a 14-year-old boy suffering from a sudden headache. It seems that he is losing conscious… I don't know what has happened to him ; all of a sudden , he fell on the ground while holding his head tightly… It looks like he's hallucinating. What??... the address?? Oh, it's (saying the address) . "
Then the voice retuned once again , asking in a calm voice ,
"Second question : What's your father's name?"
Many questions came to Stal's mind like: what's that voice in his head , who's the one speaking to him , what did he want from him , and what are those questions . Although he knew that he shouldn't utter anything but the answers , he shouted at that moment,
"My father's name is Daniel . Reveal yourself , coward! "
The voice was vanishing slowly as he replies to him.
" Oh Stal , you've hurt my feelings. All I want is to protect you. , also you have no authority to keep the answer for yourself . Until next time , Stal. "
In addition to the headache , the pain , and the heat he felt earlier , he fell on the ground , feeling that his face and body are sticking to the ground as if the gravity was pulling him in . He tried opening his mouth to call for help, but he couldn't . He couldn't even think of what he wanted to say. He felt a great pressure on his body, and turned red as he tried to resist that pressure, but all went in vain . His heat started to rise in parallel with his vision going red and his eyes closing slowly until he lost consciousness.
The ambulance arrived at that time . Peter's face looked pale from fear as he didn't know what should be done. He saw the paramedics lifting Stal into the ambulance to take him to the hospital Peter went with them.
As the paramedics started doing first aid and putting the ventilator on Stal after making sure that he lost conscious.
"Will….will he be alright, sir ?, " asked Peter with worry and intense fear.
"Don't worry. He will be alright. Are you his father?"
Peter calmed down a bit although he was doubting that the paramedic was lying to him just to make him reassured.
" I'm not his father . He doesn't have a family . I'm just his co-worker . "
" You were so worried although you're just a mere co-worker to him, "
said the paramedic sarcastically .
Peter looked at the ground to hide his tears and said with a low voice that no one heard him,
" I wasn't worried about him, I was afraid of him "
Five minutes later , they arrived at the hospital . Now, it became clear to Peter that Stal was fine, so he felt a bit at ease ; however he was angry at that moment and did not go to meet Stal to check him out of the hospital. Instead of that , he called one of the workers to come and get him out , while he went to the workers dormitory and tried to sleep to calm down.
As he arrived and entered his room , he went to straight to bed and fell asleep immediately from the exhaustion .
Three Years later
New York, 2015
Early in the morning , the security guard of the supermarket yelled while he was in the shared lounge of the staff dormitory - it's a building of only one floor but spacious . It had more than ten rooms , a kitchen, three bathrooms and the shared lounge in the middle of the building-,
" Stal, come take the key and open the gate today . Also , you will work in my place for maybe an hour . I have matters to do . "
" Okay , coming ," Stal answered .
Yet Storm couldn't hear that as he was hard of hearing . Stal went and took the keys from him to open the supermarket and to work in the security guard's stead.
The first customer was a familiar one who worked as an officer in the Stal's region .
" Hey, Stal . Do you need training or something to help in your new job?, " he said jokingly .
There was a person with the officer that Stal hadn't seen before . A man maybe in his middle 40s , bald , his height was about 170cm , and muscular .
Stal guessed he was a bodybuilder from how big he was . They entered the supermarket after Stal reacted to the officer's joke showing annoyance.
While they were inside the supermarket walking , the man started talking to the officer ,
"I still remember this supermarket . It was 20 years ago , it's just a normal market back then with one worker. Although at that time the rest of the small markets had a security cameras , this one didn't have any . Don't you find that strange , Randio ?"
The officer's answered with a mocking tone ,
"Is this the reason why you think that this supermarket is linked with your wife's murder, David?"