Back From the Apocalyptic Future

008 - Get Away From Me

That evil spirit is so ugly. It isn’t clear if it’s a male or female. Its shape is almost transparent like white smooth robe, having an image like a human with an unclear face.

  

Its long messy black hair is all over the place covering most of its face. But Arifin can still see the ugly grins of that devilish creature.

  

“There you are, the branded child! The one who has been sacrificed as an offering for the Carrion Flower Devil! That smell, I like the smile of you. It makes me so horny and hot.”

  

After hearing that evil spirit talking to him, only then Arifin can identify it as a female. He also can see most of her ugly face now.

  

“Wha, wha, what are you talking about?” replies Arifin with an eerie face, and the chill running down his spine. “Don’t speak like you know me. And, don’t talk like you are falling in love with me at first sight.”

  

But the evil spirit just laughs like a madwoman. “There’s no one who can stand your temptation.”

  

“Bitch, please! Look at your face in the mirror! You are so ugly, you know that?!”

  

The evil spirit just flies straight to Arifin with open arms. Arifin doesn’t know what to do in this kind of circumstance. His legs are shaking, and he feels so disgusted mixed with fear.

  

“No, no, no! Take your ugly face away from me!!!

  

He had fought all kinds of strange monsters and terrifying alien creatures in his previous life. But still, this is his first time dealing with such an ugly and terrifying ghost. And he doesn’t know what this evil spirit wants from him.

  

He braces himself to deliver a blow as hard as he could. But his punch just passes through.

  

Deg!!!

  

Weirdly, he feels some pressure in his mind. He also feels like a bit of his energy is being drained out as soon as the evil spirit penetrates his body.

  

Arifin loses his balance due to his own momentum. He falls to the floor, while that evil spirit is penetrating the wall. When he tries to get up and then turns around, he no longer finds that evil spirit to be there.

  

“Where did it go?”

  

Shortly after, that evil spirit reappears again simply by passing through the wall. There is also another evil spirit coming in, and it seems like it is also female. Those two even start fighting with each other over Arifin.

  

“Move! He is mine!”

  

“No, he is mine!”

  

“Yo, ladies!” Arifin interefers. “Chill out, would you? It's not like I want to be with any of you.”

  

They immediately avert their attention to Arifin. Judging by their look, it’s clear that they are not simply horny. They are tempted by something else.

  

“That corrupted soul! Give it to me!”

  

“Give me your soul!”

  

Arifin is startled to see them flying directly toward him with their mad faces. He doesn’t know anything, but he just ducks down by instinct.

  

He manages to evade one of them. But the other one passes through his head. And again, he feels the same pressure in his mind, and feels like a bit of his life force is drained out of his body.

  

“What the?”

  

He is buckled because of the pressure in his mind. He shakes his head, and forces getting back up. He immediately climbs the bed, and picks the katana which is hanging on the wall above the headboard.

  

“Come, you ugly bitch!” He draws the Katana, trying to brace himself to fight them. “I know you are trying to steal my energy away from me.”

  

“Your energy? I don’t give a damn about your energy.”

  

“But your soul! That corrupted soul is so delicious! It invigorates me,” says the one evil spirit who managed to touch Arifin earlier.

  

Arifin waves his sword around. But none of his attacks can hurt them. Those two evil spirits are laughing at his useless struggle.

  

The only thing that comes to his mind now is to get away from them. But they are blocking his way toward the door.

  

He just passes through them. Some thin white aura leaves his body. And those two evil spirits start enjoying the meal.

  

Arifin himself is tripped, and then rolls over on the floor. He is getting weaker, and finds it hard to just get back up.

  

When the pressure on his head becomes much lighter, he immediately opens the door and rushes out of the room. But there he finds more evil spirits have already infiltrated his house.

  

“So, it’s true there’s an offering to the Carrion Flower Devil in this house?”

  

“How long has it been?”

  

“But there’s only one offering. Is it enough?”

  

“It’s still better than having none!”

  

Arifin’s face looks so pale and lifeless by their nasty appearances. He stupidly throws a chair at them once, and then hurriedly runs toward the kitchen.

  

As soon as he is out of the house, he also sees so many evil spirits flying between the trees behind his house. At least, their movements aren’t too fast while hovering in the air.

  

He then runs to the front yard, jumping over the fence, and leaves the house by carrying a katana with him. He knows that this katana is useless against those evil spirits.

  

But he can’t just throw it away. Because it’s a memento from his grandfather. “What now? I can’t even fight them.”

  

The house itself is located on the outskirts of the forest, in the Lumin Park resident at the hills of Lubuk Minturun. This resident is not too densely populated. He looks around trying to find help, but he can’t find anyone so far.

  

Until at some point, there are a few people attracted to Arifin. But they can’t see the evil spirits who are following Arifin from behind.

  

“Arifin?!” One middle-aged woman greets him from her yard. “What are you doing carrying around that thing in the middle of the night? Don't tell me you've also become a delinquent now?”

  

Arifin looks confused for a moment, to find this middle-aged lady nonchalantly talking to him as if she doesn’t see all those evil spirits approaching.

  

“Hey, kid! What’s wrong with you?” asks a man from the other house.

  

“What’s wrong you ask?” replies Arifin as he keeps his run. “Can’t you see I’m running away from them?”

  

Due to his curiosity, that man leaves his yard, without noticing a legion of evil spirits are flying toward him from behind. A few of those evil spirits pass through his body, and that man immediately passes out.

  

Two of that man’s family members leave the house rushing to help him. But they are also collapsed as the other evil spirits hit and pass through them.

  

Arifin takes the chance to look behind, and realizes what has happened to those three people. “No way! I can't get near any other people.”

  

He continues his run for a while, until he stops again to catch up to his breath. He looks behind, to find out whether those evil spirits are still following him.

  

It happens that he is now standing in front of a small coffee shop owned by Minda’s family. And there’s also that girl keeping that shop at the moment.

  

“Arifin, what’s wrong?” asks Minda with a curious face as he finds Arifin holding a katana.

  

Arifin himself is already looking like a delinquent street thug trying to get away from civil service. And it makes Minda even more worried of him.

  

“Is that a sword you are carrying with you?”

  

“Oh, no! Minda, get away from here!”

  

“Huh? Why? You know this is my house. Why would you tell me to…”

  

Arifin averts his attention away, to take a look at those evil spirits again. And indeed, he sees them still coming to him.

  

“Shiiiiit!”