Chapter IV - Obsession, Part II

North Jeolla, South Korea

Lily was looking for her pendant around the place that Yejin had taken her, but to her misfortune, she didn't find it, disappointed and gloomy she goes back to where Yejin was:

- I didn't find him...

- Calm down, I'm sure he must be around here, maybe in the outskirts.

Yejin with his left hand holds one of Lily's fists and gently lifts her chin with his right hand:

- Don't be discouraged, describe to me what you are looking for and I will help you - he said with a gentle smile on his face.

Lily, would start a brief description of the pendant you are looking for:

"A simple chain holding a Celtic knot, which had a small crystal in its center. The Celtic knot was a symbol, represented by a loop, which had no beginning and no end, in a circle, all around the central crystal. The color was golden, suggesting it was made of gold."

After the description, Yejin begins to look around the place. They both separate, intending to cover a larger perimeter in their search, it was necessary, as the empty lot was large, on the site, apparently, a building was to be constructed, but the project was abandoned, and there were only traces of that construction.

Lily was searching near some debris, when she saw a crumpled metal plate with the words "DeM" on it, she felt a little strange, but before she could think of anything, she began to feel a tremor coming from the ground, and at the same time a rupture began to appear, and with her agility Lily jumped back, away from the rupture, The girl stands on guard, thinking it might be an enemy attack, a dark figure, whose silhouette was visible only, appears behind her. Before she can realize it, Lily receives a fatal attack on her neck, knocking her unconscious.

Lily regained consciousness little by little, woke up in a bed and with her hands and feet chained, still with blurred vision, she observed the place where she was, and soon realized she was in a room that looked like a madhouse, on one of the walls there was a "days passing counter" with scribbles, on another there were scratches and dried blood, it was disgusting. The only way out of this room was a reinforced metal door, everything contributed to the disgusting aspect of the place. Lily tries to get up from the bed she was on, but the chains that held her were connected to a wall, limiting her movement. At first the girl thinks about breaking it with her icy power, but rethinks her attitude according to the situation, then she sees that it could be worse, there could be several enemies behind the door, or monitoring her waiting for any movement.

A few minutes after Lily regains consciousness, the metal door begins to move, making a great creaking sound, echoing throughout the room because of its emptiness. Fully open, the light from outside entered and took the obscurity filling the, a silhouette of feminine appearance, with eye-catching curves at his waist, it was possible to see, thanks to the sudden light contrasting with the darkness of the room, with short, slow steps, again echoing through the place, approached Lily:

- Finally woke up Lilypad! - the voice said in an ironic and at the same time cheerful tone. - Why, I thought you were already in a coma, or something on that level.

For Lily the voice was familiar, she was drawing conclusions, a cold mechanical hand touches her chin, stroking her gently, that's when she took a big surprise, she slowly raises her head, in order to look directly into the eyes of the person who was touching her, concentrating on the face, her vision becomes clear even with the lighting coming from the door, she knew who it was, but didn't want to believe, observing the face, that white skin bordering on pallor, with a long black hair, and brown eyes almost black, there were no doubts:

- I was with you just a few moments ago, it's not possible that you forgot about me.

The mechanical hand that was stroking Lily before, now holds one of her hands, and pulls it towards the woman's face, who bends down to be at the ideal height:

- Come on, still don't believe it? Touch yourself.

With the hand she was holding the woman places it on her face, making Lily feel it:

- J-Jin? - with fear in her voice she asks the figure.

- Jackpot!

The face was now clear to Lily, really her old friend, whom she had just met again was in that dirty hole, in a state of shock, she is speechless to the situation:

- Lily, Lily, Lily there is still a lot you don't know, but honestly nothing matters, what matters is that you are here, with me. - She said as she took Lily's hand away from her face.

- Why? - stammered Yejin questioned.

- Why? Because... Calm down this can't be said like that, first I want to reveal everything to you.

Stepping away Yejin walks towards the old switch beside the door, turning it on, an old lamp in the center of the ceiling begins to flicker, but maintains its strength, and illuminates the small room:

- It all started right here, this Lily, was my room at DeM, yes, this was the place where I slept after a routine of daily experiments, see those day markings? - points to the left wall - that's the number of days I spent in this hell, or rather, you see those scratches? Those were my pain relief attempts, when they implanted this cursed hand in me, in the first week, my nerves that were attached to it, throbbed with pain, my whole arm agonized in pain, it was as if several needles were going through me simultaneously thousands of times, they had to hold me, so I wouldn't try to cut off my own arm? Soon after, they did a synchronization of the artificial Motus they had created in me, I remember that day clearly... It was me, four other boys... It was horrible... I can see perfectly well, when the synchronization was over, one of the boys was left with a ball on his chest, and marks of torn cartilage exposed. After that it was another whole month of sharp pain, this one was worse than the last, the damn artificial Motus wanted to leave my body, I felt like I was burning inside, my heart wanted to rip out my chest and jump out...

As Yejin told it, Lily couldn't take it all in, so much pain and suffering, she felt guilty for not being on her side when all this happened:

- But Lily, do you know how I got through all this pain? By thinking of you. - Slowly getting closer. - When my body accepted the Motus I was able to unleash this power to provoke illusions, but there was a catch, in people who possessed the true energy of the Motus I needed to touch first, with my left hand, or I could only "cover" an object with a three-dimensional illusion, as I do to hide my little golden hand, after this, that's when I met Mr. Erebos, who took me out of that hell, or rather, out of here... He treated me well, he trained me, he taught me his philosophies of life, he was almost like a father figure. He took me along to Bifrost, where you first met, but when he learned that Lily Dokgo Haaron was one of the people who would come to face him, I begged him not to kill her, yes, me and you little Lily, we were supposed to meet earlier... That's when he told me about a plan, something related to "Decide from Heaven to Hell" that he was going to apply to you... Well he sent me here, Korea, and asked me to wait that he would send you...

Yejin, already close to Lily, hugs her in an attempt to comfort her:

- So... You have arrived. - she said with tears running down her face. - I could hardly believe it... Well, from then on it's simple, I induced you to this, the former headquarters of the DeM in Korea... When I touched you, I created an illusion of tremor and then the hole, with that I neutralized your natural Motus defenses, and brought you here... Do you know why all this, Lily? - he kept his face facing Lily. - Because I love you...

Softly Yejin slowly inclines his face facing Lily, slowly moves his lips, and with a simple decline forward, kisses her...