Chapter 8: Bloodlust unleashed!!
The next day Kijiro trained to try to master the strange ability and perhaps gain strength to save the children.
Every day he retired to train in the backyard in the morning, very careful that there was no one in sight, and that was the routine until two months passed and he was standing at the end of a line that Pedro organized.
Kijiro heard the different laughter of the little children and saw the disguised Joel out of the corner of his eye.
It seems that he is waiting for the secret signal to enter and thus take the children to the forest, where he is going to leave them to be food for wild beasts.
Peter spoke —The demons will be hunted! Welcome the demon hunter!—he said loudly and with a false reverence in his voice.
When the children heard what Pedro presented to the demon hunter, they kept a deadly silence and stood firm, staring straight ahead without moving.
Joel heard the signal to enter with firm steps and a smug attitude in a ridiculous costume, resembling a jester more than anything.
Kijiro saw the whole tragic prank of two men acting as if they were actually good clowns.
Peter spoke—oh, oh! Mr. Hunter!—She said with a squeaky, excited voice that is obviously fake.
Joel heard Pedro's shrill and admiring voice; he puffed out his chest with more arrogance and walked with an air of superiority in front of everyone.
Joel, the fake demon hunter, spoke—Keep laughing! Now, now! Everyone will follow me in total silence! —he said with a very hoarse voice, failing when trying to do it.
When the little children heard that this supposed demon hunter was giving them an order to follow him, none of the children thought that these actions of going out at night were strange.
Pedro spoke when he saw Joel taking all the little children.
Pedro: "Children, remember to follow all the hero's orders and don't make any noise, please," he said with a soft, pleading voice.
The little children heard Peter's soft, pleading voice to nod silently in confirmation.
Joel stepped forward first to lead all the children who follow him like a baby duck to the mother duck. Passing the empty and dark streets, they managed to reach the beginning of the forest, where there is monster activity, among other dangerous and evil creatures...
Joel verified that all the children were following him, and when he saw that they had all arrived together, he spoke: Children, the first mission is to go as fast as you can straight through the forest; congratulations, you are a demon hunter, and some great prizes are at the bottom of the forest where you must run so they don't win them," he said with calm in his voice, looking at all the little children of five or six years old.
The children took off in a burst of speed and entered the forest without turning back.
Joel watched as all the children ran deeper into the woods and moved a little further to make sure the children couldn't hear the sounds of someone's voices screaming or decide not to go further into the woods. Then you just delete them, and that's it; after all, he has to go back home to sleep.
Kijiro felt a strong headache because of the nonsense of these brats running into the depths of a very horrible and, needless to say, dark forest.
He was the first to run through the dark forest to guide the children, and upon entering deep into the lonely forest, he decided to look around to find out what was happening with the children, and, indeed, they were following him as a leader...
Kijiro stopped behind a giant tree and shouted, imitating a wolf, "Ahuuhohuu!" He shouted at length with the loudest voice he could and added a little of the power of the black mist to achieve a beautiful giant wolf tone that was heard throughout the forest and also in the distant village. The sleeping inhabitants woke up alarmed when they heard that loud howl coming from the forest.
Joel spoke. —Damn, those kids run fast! he said simply, gasping for air.
Joel rested a little and then heard a loud howl from a wolf, but a very loud one when he heard it at a high pitch, which he believes was heard in the furthest part of the village, and perhaps even Pedro heard it.
Joel spoke. See you! he said with a shrill voice and turned around to run at the maximum speed he could use.
Joel's hair stood up in fear that the creature had finished devouring the children and was now coming for him.
Running as fast as her legs could go, she ran like a chicken, kicking up heavy piles of sand and dirt along the way. He managed to reach the end of the forest and did not stop until he saw the orphanage. He continued heading to the orphanage.
Kijiro sensed that the little children had fallen to the ground from the sudden cheap cry of a wolf and came out of the tree where he was hiding to count the children.
Kijiro relaxed when he saw that everything was fine—fifteen boys and five girls, everything in order. Now came the most difficult task, which is to calm the frightened children and thus try to help them return.
The children shout—Ah ah! Ahiau! There are monsters! demons!—he screams with horror and fear on the small face.
Kijiro spoke—calm down, there are no monsters; "I was the one who cried like a wolf, and what I want is for us to go back to town right now," he said with a kind and relaxed voice.
The children heard the strange boy's voice and turned to look at him as if he were a fool.
One of the girls said, —No! Don't pay attention! He wants to keep all the prizes!—he said with a voice that had no doubts.
The other children, upon hearing this, understood what was happening and laughed to pass by Kijiro and continue advancing at a fast pace.
Kijiro felt a sharp pain in his head as he saw the children running away without listening to what he said.
Kijiro did not stay behind for long to quickly run away and chase them into the depths of the forest, and what he sees next leaves him distraught and his eyes wide open...
Kijiro watched as all the children were eaten alive by a giant spider with eight mouths and five eyes and a seven-meter mutated tarantula.
Watching the faint screams of children who are poisoned and wrapped in cobwebs.
Kijiro saw everything in slow motion; he dazzled at how part by part they were devoured by the eight mouths of the giant spider, and he saw that the only thing missing was a skinny little five-year-old girl, urinating from fear and her eyes open in a state of total shock. Afterwards, the spider splits it in two with one bite, spreading the remains of bloody guts across the now red green grass...
Kijiro came back to life again and saw everything in a normal rhythm. He couldn't stand it, and with blood coming out of his eyes from anger and sadness, he shouted, Hahaaaa! Nooo! ahahaha! hiihiahaahaa! — I scream with deep hatred and a voice coming from the depths of my soul. The loud scream filled with horror, regret, hatred, pity, and drowned out by the overwhelming sadness reached the ears of all the inhabitants of the town, making them stand out and giving them chills from the strong emotions transmitted by the scream.
Kijiro felt the whole world shatter into pieces, and a searing pain broke through his heart. Revenge is the only thing on his mind. With these internal thoughts, shouting—Kill! Destroy! Revenge! Devour! Massacre! Die!—he thought with bloodlust, and then he saw black because of the fog that blocks the view; then he felt the physical changes that were happening to him, and he let himself be carried away by those thoughts, running directly to the spider without any kind of plan or shield.