"There's… Nothing?"
Looking at the man before her in disbelief, the young girl widened her eyes in shock as their thought of misheard what the person said quickly flashed in her mind. Trying to hide her nervousness, she asked once more to make sure of the other party's words.
"I'm sorry, but did you just say there's nothing in there?"
The middle aged man who sat across the girl nodded slightly while his eyes were squinting in suspicion. Both of his arms crossed, he leaned his back to the chair and spoke calmly, "There's nothing in the place you've mentioned. Moreover, if it's an esper, we would be notified immediately by the inform
'Should I go to Ellie's place right now?'Recalling Aaron's words who said that he would visit her made Elizabeth wish to not get back to her own house. She feels like staying overnight somewhere else that's more secure and safe.'I mean, he said it should be today but he didn't state the specific time for it. Seeing the remaining time, it should be tonight, right?'It was almost evening time and Elizabeth was still walking around the street near her neighborhood. With the current distance, she would be able to just walk to her home, even though it would take forty minutes walking time at the very least. Yet, there's no way for her
Putting down her bag at the nearby table, Elizabeth dived into the soft, bouncy bed and let her tiredness be taken away slowly. Both of her legs feel a little sore after walking for that long. As she stared at the ceiling with a blank look for a while, Elizabeth then stretched out her body and yawned. Faintly smiling to herself, Elizabeth then cast her glance upon the bag on the table, with the image of a certain book coming to her mind. Rising up, Elizabeth strides to the chair and takes a seat in there. In the next second, she reached out her hand to her bag and took out a book that seemed to be a little thinner than the usual book she would read. Opening the book and seeing the first page in there, Elizabeth couldn't help but recall an image of a figure whose face and body were hidden behind a thick mist.
While pushing aside the unnecessary thoughts, Elizabeth continued to read the story. Slowly but surely, time passing by before she knew it. Previously, she had read through the chapter when she was at the public library. But back then, she skimmed most of the parts of the story in order to search for her strange symptoms. Now after the meeting with Aaron, this story made Elizabeth see it in a different light. When it was an hour later since she began to read the story, a soft rumble could be heard from her stomach. Even though Elizabeth had missed the noise it made, the gnawing feeling in her stomach has nagged her mind and caused her to be aware of it. Glancing to the clock on the wall, Elizabeth saw that it was already eight pm and already time for
"Are you trying to run away?"When those words escaped the young man's lips, the tip of Elisabeth's fingers shuddered for a second. Subconsciously, she moved that hand behind her and awkwardly smiled. Aaron's commanding tone gave her a surprise, but that didn't mean she had to act uncomfortable so as to not further provoke the young man."No! Not at all. There was an assignment from the college, about the hotel's rooms and stuff. So that's why…" answered Elizabeth while she shook her hand. At the same time, she thought, 'Assignment excuse… Even twelve year olds would notice such a lame excuse, urgh.'Surprisingly, the young man replaced his previous frown with a few innocent blinks. Then, his eyes wandered the room as he murmured, "I see&helli
While Aaron was sitting on the chair, Elizabeth settled on top of the bed as she observed Aaron's features more closely. The young man's pale complexion and that eye of his was still eye-catching in Elizabeth's view. But now, she just noticed another peculiar trait of the young man. Aaron… Didn't have a shadow. Whenever and wherever the young man moved or stood, there wouldn't be any shade of his figure. The moment she realized that fact, the notion of Aaron being only a holographic image crossed her mind. But that idea was quickly discarded, considering how real the person in front of her feels. Not to mention, she didn't think that the latest holographic technology would be so smooth as to project someone's image so naturally. "So…" shifting her eye
"Me?" asked Elizabeth back as she raised her eyebrows a little. "They are looking for you," looking directly into Elizabeth's eyes, Aaron continued, "They hunted you, just like the others." "The others…? Are you implying that-" Abruptly, Aaron stood up and turned his head to the right side. It was as if his gaze bore through the walls, with his brows furrowed deeper in time and his face becoming more stiff. Then, he looked at the confused Elizabeth and stated without showing any expression, "They are coming." In the next second, the light bulb
'Where…'Within her panicked breath, Elizabeth's steps didn't slow down for a moment as she looked at her surroundings. Even when she could faintly hear the loud sounds of the battle in front of afar, the hallway of the hotel was unusually quiet. For a second, she wondered if she was the only person inside of the hotel's building.'Where's everybody?!'Soon, she found herself she had arrived at the hotel's lift with still no one in sight. But the moment when she was about to touch the button of the lift, something stopped her finger. Right when her finger was only five centimeters away from the button.A sense of Deja Vu emerged within Elizabeth's chest while she hurriedly placed her h
"Do you need any more help, Miss Elizabeth?"Half an hour later after both Elizabeth and the staff she stumbled across the hallway finally confirmed her identity as a customer in the receptionist desk, that same staff agreed to open the door of her room with spare keys. Though the young man and the receptionist bombarded questions to Elizabeth about how she could get out of a locked room without her keys, Elizabeth simply stated an awful lie about how the door wasn't locked back then and then magically locked by itself.Of course, the receptionist and the staff didn't believe what she had said. But since Elizabeth was adamant about that being the case and coincidentally, the camera in the hallway didn't catch the scene of Elizabeth going out of her room as well. It was as if she mysteriously appeared on the other side of the ha