Lost Angel

Chapter 3: The Turn

The years passed very quickly, and Zoe and Jill's relationship also became closer, now Zoe is sixteen years old, and at the end of this year, he will go to university, if he passes the exam the school I want him to leave. From the orphanage to the school dormitory, Zoe felt happy just thinking about it. But what he's waiting for ahead of him doesn't go as planned, because a tragedy is about to happen, it changes his entire life later, which is something Zoe never even dreamed of.

In this orphanage, there are always older children who like to bully the younger ones, they form an aggressive group that specializes in taking things that do not belong to them, or simply dragging someone out to beat them up. Just for fun, they were pleased to see the frightened eyes of the children when they saw their figures pass and happy to laugh when they saw another child beaten to the point of tears, nose, and tears. cold brick background. And Zoe was one of those kids who suffered from their bullying, he was always treated like a sandbag by the older kids. When he was a little older, he could not avoid being tortured, at that time Jill could only watch and do nothing. It was a beautiful sunny day, that day was the university entrance exam. Olwen is the biggest kid in Zoe's class, leading the older kids to find the younger kids to tease and bully. Zoe is the sickest and easiest to bully here, in orphanages are strictly controlled by guards, so things like lack of food and clothing are unlikely to happen, but leading fights is rare. students are always there, even the administrators cannot watch and control them all. Zoe James inherited good genes from his parents, but when he was born, he had fair skin, a slender body, and polite and gentle speech, with the children in school he had never had any conflicts or problems. argue with anyone, even over the smallest thing. Even the chef's cat in charge of cooking is very fond of him, it often runs over to rub Zoe's paws when he comes to the cafeteria for a meal, and of course, is always given a large piece of bread. or a bone that was still covered with flesh to gnaw at. Living in this place Zoe was so used to the bullying of the older kids that Zoe herself didn't even realize it. Olwen's kids were about to come up with a new trick this time, they gathered in front of the bathroom and thought for a while, then grinned wickedly. Olwen grabbed the shirt of a kid standing next to him and whispered in his ear that he wanted to find a way to choose a time to drag Zoe to the bathroom. The plan was to strip Zoe of all his clothes and then use his phone to film him naked. Zoe had never had any bad intentions or said bad words toward Olwen, so he didn't understand why Olwen would do this terrible thing to him and not anyone else.

When Zoe's T-shirt was torn in two by the older children, revealing her upper body, Zoe tearfully grabbed Olwen's hand, begging and asking, why?

"Why? Why is it boring to want to try something new, and you're the first to try it, you know, laugh Zoe."

Olwen shook Zoe's hand with one hand and held the phone in the other while smiling while filming. Zoe's bloodshot eyes looked at Olwen with extreme anger, just for fun, did you destroy other people's honor and dignity? Why? Jill knelt to one side watching Zoe being tortured by the children, it was so angry that its transparent soul swayed from time to time as if it wanted to immediately melt into smoke, it couldn't do anything to help Zoe get rid of them, it can only watch Zoe being trampled and humiliated like before, it was also humiliated and trampled to death. If Zoe was like this now, he certainly wouldn't live any longer and die like her, just thinking about Jill's anger filled her soul during the extreme shaking. On the other side, Zoe is being grabbed by two older kids trying to push him to the end, Zoe's eyes are red like blood, and his hands are clenched on the cold tile floor, he doesn't want to be ruined like this, Can't let others just trample. Zoe stood up with the natural resistance in his body, he shouted, as if he could no longer control his mind. Zoe just used all his strength to open his mouth and scream. The power of this resistance awakened his ability to absorb souls, causing Jill, who was kneeling nearby, to be sucked into Zoe's body, a body of two souls. When Jill entered the body of a living person, it went crazy like a pillow that lost control, jumped up on its own, and knocked the two boys trying to hold it back then rushed to Olwen's side, grabbing the boy's legs. throw people out the window. Olwen was caught by surprise and did not have time to react and fell from the second-floor toilet window onto the street. When the two children saw it, they panicked and ran away, Jill in Zoe's body smiled with satisfaction, as if it were a natural reflex, it opened its mouth wide to reveal a dark wormhole that sucked up Olwen's soul floating in the air. central. Swallowing the life that had just been separated from the warm body, Jill felt extremely excited, it seemed to feel the energy circulating in the digested and harmonized body of the soul that it had just absorbed. When Jill came out of Zoe's body, her soul seemed to be strengthened, the transparent white color of her body was also more opaque than usual, and strong energy was being received by it. What is this? Is it a way to eat souls to gain more power? What if it absorbed as many souls as possible? Can it come back to life? Hay will become a powerful and immortal spirit and can kill people easily. This matter he had to clarify, but he couldn't let Zoe know, because only when it entered Zoe's body could it absorb the souls of the dead, which Zoe certainly wouldn't let it do.

Jill knelt next to Zoe, who lay motionless, unconscious from the great tremors of her body. The situation downstairs was very very chaotic, Olwen died of her injuries after trying to get first aid. Zoe was then taken to her room by the school's warden, and when she regained consciousness, she was sent to a juvenile control concentration camp for reasons of self-defense and manslaughter. At the age of sixteen, his bright future is closed, his classmates are struggling for college entrance exams, and Zoe is being held in solitary confinement for a week in a dark, filthy room without a single light. Any light can come in. This case is difficult to determine, the phone dropped at the scene shows the scene where the two children grabbed Zoe and then directly tore his clothes, next to Olwen's gloating laughter, there was no image of Olwen being thrown downstairs by Zoe, only the testimony of two boys bullying others is of course unreliable. How could a skinny kid like Zoe throw two tall kids and throw a fat kid like Olwen out the window? Maybe Olwen fell on her own, there's also the possibility that the other two kids blamed Zoe. Unable to prove anyone's fault, on the contrary, to outsiders through the video on the phone, it is clear that Zoe is just a victim. Even so, it can't be ignored, because if Zoe is released, this orphanage will become a problem, the bully teenagers are freer and freer to bully others. sometimes even intentionally lead to killing people. So the victim became the perpetrator, these gratuitous crimes caused Zoe to receive a three-year sentence sitting in a juvenile delinquent detention center. He was like someone who had just had a dream, a terrible dream that when he woke up he couldn't remember why he was in prison. Jill was always beside him, saying nothing but just staring at Zoe. It doesn't see the guilt it has caused Zoe, it just impatiently wants to know the reason why Zoe can absorb its soul, through which it can suck the souls of the dead as food.

But it didn't dare say it, if it did, Zoe would hate that it wouldn't pay attention to it anymore, and its plans to become human again or as a powerful spirit would be beaten to ruin. So it stayed by Zoe's side, finding enough funny stories to tell him to help him forget this unfortunate incident. And Zoe hasn't said a word since entering the orphanage, even Jill's words he ignored as if he hadn't heard. Waking up in the morning to do the things assigned to him by the teacher, and sleeping under a blanket at night.

One day Jill heard Zoe's sobbing sound coming from the blanket, cried until she was tired, and then fell asleep, Jill was still lying quietly next to Zoe as before.