Assassination Through the Netherworld
Chapter 45: Cursed Alleys
"So that's how it is, this hell is becoming more and more mysterious... but it doesn't matter, right now we have to focus on the task at hand"
Within the darkness of the night, the trio moved nimbly through the alleyways that represented humanity's 'freedom'.
In this place, there is no moral.
**
**
*PUCHI!*
*PUCHI!*
The three had reached a deadlock, with nowhere to go and only more and more alleyways to move through, they were lost.
*PUCHI!*
*PUCHI!*
The noise of metal stabbing flesh resonated through the misty alleyway, the sickening smell of rotting blood permeated as they walked, getting their feet progressively more 'stuck' in whatever was there on the ground.
They couldn't see, it felt like mud.
At some point, they reached a pair of figures to the front.
A pair of horns became visible as they saw how a demoness was furiously mounting a man, while also stabbing the man's head relentlessly!
!!!!
"AAHHHH!! L-LET ME GOO!!!!"
"YES! M-MORE!! DON'T STOP!!"
...
"..." Valentine, Fayette and Vera looked at one another with what could only resemble a combination between disgust and shock.
"!!!"
The demoness stopped her movement, leaving the knife or whatever that thing was, deeply stuck inside the poor bastard's head.
Her red eyes turned to the trio and her gaze moved like lightning through their bodies, especially Valentine's, when she saw the weapons... whatever intent she had of abusing the latter disappeared, replaced with a degree of curiosity and desire.
Because these obviously don't look like 'carbons'.
They must be Onyx.
"I mind my own business, you do yours... if you attack, I will scream." those were the only words she said to the trio before her hips started to move again, sucking the soul out of her prey, feeling the ecstasy of that despairing soul, those wails.
But even as she did these, her gaze never moved away from the trio.
The three seemed to reach a consensus, indeed, that sounds like a nice deal, therefore Valentine nodded and the three moved on their own way...
"H-Help! Help me!!"
"SHUT UP!!"
*PUCH!!*
"AAHHHH!!!"
With the wailing noises of the bastard permeating through the misty alley, they moved, they're no saviours and this is hell, that man is paying for what he did, whatever it might have been.
"This place is just... ridiculous and massive, we have walked so much and not only hasn't the moons showed themselves, we don't seem to reach any of the main streets, should we head the other way?" Vera asked, not tired at all but she started to think this walking is hopeless, they were heading nowhere, in fact, they might be heading farther from the southern gate.
Fayette's gaze had been focused on every single detail, any possible signal there might have been, but there is nothing...
Valentine too wondered, why does this place look like it's never going to end? his gaze moved to the skies, there is no moon, the buildings reached far above them enough for only a small wisp of the skies to be seen.
But these buildings have no doors, or windows, they're just walls, it doesn't make sense... as much as he tries to scheme within his mind the structure of those walls, he just can't do it, this looks more like a maze than anything else... but then, why was he able to come back the last time?
"I think this place is like the forest Vale..."
"...?" The thought alone didn't sound reassuring, not only that but the circumstances are different, one thing is to be in an endless forest, the other is to be in an endless city.
For some reason, the latter makes even less sense.
"We're going nowhere, we're just finding people being tortured, demons killing each other... no matter how much we walk, there is nothing... we should have found the main road by now if we're heading straight." Not only that but it's as if the smell is getting worse and worse.
If before they intended to follow the trails left behind by the other bastards, now they have no idea of where they are.
"Let's just keep walking, so long as we don't meet any demon soldier we will be okay..." Valentine asserted, indeed, it had to end sometime, and if it didn't... they have already been through this, they will find a way.
"I think we should ask someone... that demoness from before..." Vera suggested anyone who could give a hint, it would be something...
"She said that she'd shout if we did anything... don't you think that's stupid?" Fayette placed her delicate finger on her red lips, wondering out loudly... thinking about everything that has happened so far to draw a conclusion.
"Why?" The duo asked as they didn't even bother to give another step forward, they just stood where they were, barely able to see each other's expressions.
"Look at the place we are, sure, we're finding people and demons every so often but... it's not to the point that her shouts would be heard... do you think she deceived us somehow?"
"..."
"Let's go back and see if we can find her, we can threaten her to speak... she's a demoness, surely she will know the direction."
...
She's nowhere to be seen.
"Fuck..." Fayette laughed a little with mockery, mockery at the current situation they're in.
"Now there is no doubt, something is going on with these alleyways" Valentine concluded, not only they didn't find the woman, but they also didn't find a corpse or anything...
"She wouldn't leave and take a corpse with her... and if she took the crystal, then the corpse would be left behind... this is not the place we came from at all." Before Vera could ask why... Fayette uttered the reason out loud.
"Leave marks on the walls, Faye, leave some marks." Valentine grit his teeth and uttered.
They took out their knife and scratched the walls, it was difficult to see as they could barely see each other's faces, but if they touched it, it's possible to feel it.
"Keep scratching the wall all the way through three intersections." He commanded and the two understood his intention, as ridiculous and ominous as it felt.
It's something that they have to do.
**
**
Panic, or better said, cautiousness.
They walked through three intersections, and this time they made sure to only give right turns.
And that's precisely why everything became so stupid and ridiculous.
Valentine said three turns but they actually went farther to make a fourth one... by logic, they should have arrived at where they were, even if the alleyways don't have the same length...
And there were no marks... none at all.
They're walking in circles, as if literally in circles, and the moment they depart an intersection, they're no longer in the same place.
"For god's sake... what do we do?" Even Vera the 'slowest' of the three, could tell what kind of predicament they're in.
Surely one can't be any more lost than this.
Ridiculous, they passed from wishing they didn't meet any demon soldier, to desiring anyone could appear just so they could ask them how to get the hell out of here!
"Do you think if we do the same thing with the fire, will it work?"
"We don't have a way to prepare fire here..." Valentine racked his brain thinking about what they could do, perhaps just stay here until it became the day? but with the number of hours they have been walking, it should have been the day already.
As they discussed while leaning through the walls, Fayette sensed something that the three of them seemed to not have noticed.
"The ground is no longer muddy..."
...
Silence, the three of them made silence as the conclusion of Fayette's preposition dawned upon them, seemingly not important, but it's a detail that was oblivious to them mainly because they had paid more attention to whatever little detail they could see in this hazy darkness, than what they could feel.
The smell is still as disgusting as before.
Amidst the silence, the noise of some 'bushes' moving permeated through, and that was the moment Valentine thought something is not right.
What 'bush' is going to move here!?
"Be alert..." he whispered, not intending to move until a threat became apparent.
Fayette leaned against the wall and prepared her arrows, feeling the slightly bumpy surface.
Wait... bumpy?
!!!
"!%"$·&$/&(/%(&·$%/[·!!!"
A naked man came out from one of the sides of the alleyways, the side they came from, his figure became apparent amidst the misty place, they had to furrow they brows deeply to regard him and Valentine, who saw him running towards them, immediately prepared to strike.
But the man, now more than clear that he belongs to another circle, didn't even pay attention to them!
"·%&$/%&((%!"
"..."
"V-Vale, what do we do? he's running from something..." Vera's lips shivered, one doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to know what this implies, either a demon is coming... or perhaps it's something worse.
"Run! follow him!" Valentine wouldn't risk it, if it's a demon soldier, this darkness is the worst possible place to fight him.
Therefore, they ran, but at that moment... 'something' latched against Vera's leg!
!!!
"AAAAHH!!*
*THUD!!*
The woman fell face-first against the ground!
"VERA!!"
Within the darkness of the night, the trio moved nimbly through the alleyways that represented humanity's 'freedom'.
In this place, there is no moral.
**
**
*PUCHI!*
*PUCHI!*
The three had reached a deadlock, with nowhere to go and only more and more alleyways to move through, they were lost.
*PUCHI!*
*PUCHI!*
The noise of metal stabbing flesh resonated through the misty alleyway, the sickening smell of rotting blood permeated as they walked, getting their feet progressively more 'stuck' in whatever was there on the ground.
They couldn't see, it felt like mud.
At some point, they reached a pair of figures to the front.
A pair of horns became visible as they saw how a demoness was furiously mounting a man, while also stabbing the man's head relentlessly!
!!!!
"AAHHHH!! L-LET ME GOO!!!!"
"YES! M-MORE!! DON'T STOP!!"
...
"..." Valentine, Fayette and Vera looked at one another with what could only resemble a combination between disgust and shock.
"!!!"
The demoness stopped her movement, leaving the knife or whatever that thing was, deeply stuck inside the poor bastard's head.
Her red eyes turned to the trio and her gaze moved like lightning through their bodies, especially Valentine's, when she saw the weapons... whatever intent she had of abusing the latter disappeared, replaced with a degree of curiosity and desire.
Because these obviously don't look like 'carbons'.
They must be Onyx.
"I mind my own business, you do yours... if you attack, I will scream." those were the only words she said to the trio before her hips started to move again, sucking the soul out of her prey, feeling the ecstasy of that despairing soul, those wails.
But even as she did these, her gaze never moved away from the trio.
The three seemed to reach a consensus, indeed, that sounds like a nice deal, therefore Valentine nodded and the three moved on their own way...
"H-Help! Help me!!"
"SHUT UP!!"
*PUCH!!*
"AAHHHH!!!"
With the wailing noises of the bastard permeating through the misty alley, they moved, they're no saviours and this is hell, that man is paying for what he did, whatever it might have been.
"This place is just... ridiculous and massive, we have walked so much and not only hasn't the moons showed themselves, we don't seem to reach any of the main streets, should we head the other way?" Vera asked, not tired at all but she started to think this walking is hopeless, they were heading nowhere, in fact, they might be heading farther from the southern gate.
Fayette's gaze had been focused on every single detail, any possible signal there might have been, but there is nothing...
Valentine too wondered, why does this place look like it's never going to end? his gaze moved to the skies, there is no moon, the buildings reached far above them enough for only a small wisp of the skies to be seen.
But these buildings have no doors, or windows, they're just walls, it doesn't make sense... as much as he tries to scheme within his mind the structure of those walls, he just can't do it, this looks more like a maze than anything else... but then, why was he able to come back the last time?
"I think this place is like the forest Vale..."
"...?" The thought alone didn't sound reassuring, not only that but the circumstances are different, one thing is to be in an endless forest, the other is to be in an endless city.
For some reason, the latter makes even less sense.
"We're going nowhere, we're just finding people being tortured, demons killing each other... no matter how much we walk, there is nothing... we should have found the main road by now if we're heading straight." Not only that but it's as if the smell is getting worse and worse.
If before they intended to follow the trails left behind by the other bastards, now they have no idea of where they are.
"Let's just keep walking, so long as we don't meet any demon soldier we will be okay..." Valentine asserted, indeed, it had to end sometime, and if it didn't... they have already been through this, they will find a way.
"I think we should ask someone... that demoness from before..." Vera suggested anyone who could give a hint, it would be something...
"She said that she'd shout if we did anything... don't you think that's stupid?" Fayette placed her delicate finger on her red lips, wondering out loudly... thinking about everything that has happened so far to draw a conclusion.
"Why?" The duo asked as they didn't even bother to give another step forward, they just stood where they were, barely able to see each other's expressions.
"Look at the place we are, sure, we're finding people and demons every so often but... it's not to the point that her shouts would be heard... do you think she deceived us somehow?"
"..."
"Let's go back and see if we can find her, we can threaten her to speak... she's a demoness, surely she will know the direction."
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With nothing more to do, they tried to seek that demoness from before, she should be three turns away from them....
She's nowhere to be seen.
"Fuck..." Fayette laughed a little with mockery, mockery at the current situation they're in.
"Now there is no doubt, something is going on with these alleyways" Valentine concluded, not only they didn't find the woman, but they also didn't find a corpse or anything...
"She wouldn't leave and take a corpse with her... and if she took the crystal, then the corpse would be left behind... this is not the place we came from at all." Before Vera could ask why... Fayette uttered the reason out loud.
"Leave marks on the walls, Faye, leave some marks." Valentine grit his teeth and uttered.
They took out their knife and scratched the walls, it was difficult to see as they could barely see each other's faces, but if they touched it, it's possible to feel it.
"Keep scratching the wall all the way through three intersections." He commanded and the two understood his intention, as ridiculous and ominous as it felt.
It's something that they have to do.
**
**
Panic, or better said, cautiousness.
They walked through three intersections, and this time they made sure to only give right turns.
And that's precisely why everything became so stupid and ridiculous.
Valentine said three turns but they actually went farther to make a fourth one... by logic, they should have arrived at where they were, even if the alleyways don't have the same length...
And there were no marks... none at all.
They're walking in circles, as if literally in circles, and the moment they depart an intersection, they're no longer in the same place.
"For god's sake... what do we do?" Even Vera the 'slowest' of the three, could tell what kind of predicament they're in.
Surely one can't be any more lost than this.
Ridiculous, they passed from wishing they didn't meet any demon soldier, to desiring anyone could appear just so they could ask them how to get the hell out of here!
"Do you think if we do the same thing with the fire, will it work?"
"We don't have a way to prepare fire here..." Valentine racked his brain thinking about what they could do, perhaps just stay here until it became the day? but with the number of hours they have been walking, it should have been the day already.
As they discussed while leaning through the walls, Fayette sensed something that the three of them seemed to not have noticed.
"The ground is no longer muddy..."
...
Silence, the three of them made silence as the conclusion of Fayette's preposition dawned upon them, seemingly not important, but it's a detail that was oblivious to them mainly because they had paid more attention to whatever little detail they could see in this hazy darkness, than what they could feel.
The smell is still as disgusting as before.
Amidst the silence, the noise of some 'bushes' moving permeated through, and that was the moment Valentine thought something is not right.
What 'bush' is going to move here!?
"Be alert..." he whispered, not intending to move until a threat became apparent.
Fayette leaned against the wall and prepared her arrows, feeling the slightly bumpy surface.
Wait... bumpy?
!!!
"!%"$·&$/&(/%(&·$%/[·!!!"
A naked man came out from one of the sides of the alleyways, the side they came from, his figure became apparent amidst the misty place, they had to furrow they brows deeply to regard him and Valentine, who saw him running towards them, immediately prepared to strike.
But the man, now more than clear that he belongs to another circle, didn't even pay attention to them!
"·%&$/%&((%!"
"..."
"V-Vale, what do we do? he's running from something..." Vera's lips shivered, one doesn't have to be a rocket scientist to know what this implies, either a demon is coming... or perhaps it's something worse.
"Run! follow him!" Valentine wouldn't risk it, if it's a demon soldier, this darkness is the worst possible place to fight him.
Therefore, they ran, but at that moment... 'something' latched against Vera's leg!
!!!
"AAAAHH!!*
*THUD!!*
The woman fell face-first against the ground!
"VERA!!"
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