Exiled from paradise

Chapter 7: Monsters

“Is this the place?”

Kisara look down at the map again and responded:

“Yes, this is the place. I didn’t expect that the place leads us to a  rundown church. A building for public and especially Christian worship. Charlotte you’re from the family of Christians right?”

“Been a long time since I visit one. I have already forgotten that I was one. I don’t believe that God exists. If he exists why do people suffer…”

“...”

Kisara goes in the lead. Opening the giant wooden door. The walls ate by ivy. Having to step inside I can say that the church could still be a place where people could live.

From my back a stone hits me.

I turned my body and saw a kid. A girl dressed in rug-like clothing. She took another stone from the ground and throw it at me.

“Go away from our town!”

Before it hits me, I tilted my head. The stone trajectory is predictable. So it was easy.

“What’s the problem kid? We’re only here to fix the problem. We’ll leave after finishing the extermination.”

The little girl's expression turned more enraged. Clenching her hand like a fist. She immediately took stones and toss them at us.

The stone was stopped mid-air and moved sideways.

Charlotte’s eyes were radiating blue.

“Exterminators! Go away we don’t need you here!”

The girl started to go emotional while tossing stones at us. And the three of us don’t have any clue why.

More problems arise when Kisara has her nerves snapped out from the yelling of the kid. I could feel her menace immediately. She’s very irritated.

She walked toward the young girl and hold her up on her neck.

“Kisara! Let her go she’s just a kid.”

“I don’t give mercy no matter who my opponent was.”

I move forward and grabbed her right arm tightly as possible and free the young girl before she lost her ability to breathe. The girl fell chasing her breath.

“What the hell is that?! The girl could’ve died because of your childishness!”

I yelled into her.

She manifested the chain and tighten it around my neck.

“You have the guts to talk back to me… You’re forgetting that you’re just a slave nothing more nothing less.”

Her eyes looked down at me. Like those eyes before I fall down here. I won’t turn my tail into her and bow down like a coward. I’m a little sick of being looked down.

I got plenty this morning already.

Losing the ability to breathe my energy from my body is draining out. I have my body down kneeling before her.

My face is changing hue, getting paler and paler. I continue to hold my breath as long as possible.

She got closer to me and stomped and kick me non-stop.

“Who do you think you are? A hero? This is what you get from standing in my way. You must be thinking that you’re part of my circle because I become a little kind to you. I’ll repeat it, you’re nothing but a pet in my eyes. Pet that I could replace anytime. Stop getting on my way and just follow my orders. That’s all you have to do! That’s all you have to do!”

I’m naive looking up to her and giving her some respect is foolish. I thought she could be sweet and kind. I was dead wrong she don’t see me as a human. She is someone I won’t talk eye to eye.

This place is hell and this girl is a demon.

“Dying already… Well, you deserve it. You’re a criminal after all. Tossed down to our land because of your criminal action. You act tough right? Take this and this… And this!”

She crossed the line.

“Kisara enough.” Charlotte retorted.

“That’s uncalled for… You loved torturing other people right? Come and join me. We’ll kill this man and toss him on dump yard of scumbags.”

She can call me scumbag all her life.

Now it's very clear in my eyes. She is a monster pretending to be human.

Lucky for me, I have an amazing ability in holding my breath. Back in paradise when I was a kid. I got into lots of trouble and fought. Mostly I was defeated. Other kids always hold my head down to the river water trying to drown me.

The chain has limits in its tightness. I could breathe a little if I force to.

Continue to resist the pain in my neck.

I stood up and punch Kisara’s face. She is distracted by Charlotte at the moment arguing. She didn’t see me at all.

Her body fell with her butt. The chain disappeared and I made a heavy breath to restore the oxygen lost in my body.

“How dare you?”

I look down back at her with my sword unsheathed.

“Red… what are you?”

“Killing demonic monsters are exterminators job… I’m going to exterminate a demon in front of me. You’re just acting high-stacked because you have the leverage. How about fighting me in a fair fight? You’re the coward… I don’t have any gratitude left for you."

I said.

Kisara stood up biting her lips.

“You’re like him… After all, I have done… You’re ungrateful.”

“I didn’t ask anything for it.”

Flames formed into Kisara’s hand and shaped into a scythe. She charge forward and slashed down on me. I immediately intercepted her blade and rotated the side way and hacked down.

We both have the intention of killing each other.

“Enough… I said enough didn’t I?”

Before my blade hit Kisara’s side. “!?” (2x) Our body floated mid-air. Charlotte's eyes were glowing blue and anger was painted on her expression. The distance between me and Kisara got wide and released.

“What are we doing, Charlotte? Are you going in my way too?”

“At times like this, I want to just ignore you. I know you love beating up the weakling so much. I’m on Red’s side, you’ve gone too far. We’re here to finish the job not to kill another slave of yours.”

Charlotte said casually.

“Kill another slave… You’re killing slaves? I knew it, you’re a demon. This place is hell.”

“I won’t hide it… I’m killing slaves. Human and monsters. Once someone is labeled as a slave. I just lose my respect for them. Correction, I’m a human, not a demon.”

“We must not kill him, he proves great qualification in being a great slave. He could move while being strangled and even fight back with the intent to kill. He will show lots of results in the future.”

I’m just a tool…

Charlotte is also a demon. Everyone here is pretending to be human.

“That’s true… With all slaves we got he is the finest… But having a bad pet is bad.”

“Then, we just have to tame him properly. Until he bows down to us and looks on us like proper masters.”

Charlotte said and pointed her index finger at my body. My body got heavy and my muscles were restricted.

This sensation was like the first time I woke up.

“Air binding.”

Stone was tossed toward Kisara.

“Go away!”

“You’re still here…”

Kisara walked to the kid and kicked her away. The strength made her fly 3 meters away from the point she standing.

Kisara with my collar drag me inside the church to finish the job.

Eavesdropping in the conversation with some other person in the church. I find out that the demon kind was previously a human. For unknown reasons, the saint turned into a demon kind.

She didn’t harm anyone or kill anyone. The demon kind just does chores around the church like the saint used to do.

They said the demon kind still followed the pattern of schedule the saint used to do every day.

The near town got anxious about her existence and requested an extermination request.

The one girl attacking us earlier was the only company the saint have. For her, she is her motherly figure, and loves her very much.

While the demon-kind saint is waiting for the return o the little girl on the dinner table. Kisara decapitated her without a second thought.

“Have you seen that? Fear me, Red. That’s what’s going to happen if you further stand in my way.”

Kisara said to me.

Charlotte has undone the spell giving my body its freedom.

“Be a good boy and we’ll be good to you… We’ll forget today and move on tomorrow okay.”

The little girl earlier is in the kitchen hugging the head of the saint. Crying as I there is no tomorrow.  Want to say something but how should I approach her.

I’m too inexperienced for this.

“I know… I’ll join her.”

The little girl said and grabbed the fork from the table. Stabbing er neck multiple times. Blood sprayed on the dinner table and eventually, she lost her breathing.

The slap on my face was the truth that I can’t do anything. I’m unable to do anything in this place. She’s in front of me and my hesitation leads to being unable to stop her...

“She killed herself. That's probably fine, she was an abandoned child.”

“No one in town like another mouth to feed. If she is a beauty like the saint I won’t mind feeding her.”

“The saint become a demon kind after she prayed many times every day. Seems like her god abandoned her.”

The town men said.

Minutes later, while waiting in front of the church. The armored truck arrived to get us back home.

Everything is turning very depressing. They are not even troubled after what happened in the church.

Right now, I can’t look to Kisara or Charlotte after I uncover what they truly are.

They are monsters.