Room 445

[Warning! Host is leaving his designated domain. Host's spirit will gradually dissipate when outside his domain. Once the spirit dissipates, the host will cease to exist.]

[Time remaining until spirit dissipates: 600 seconds]

Stepping through the hallway, Pro cautiously peeked his head through the wall of apartment 445. An apartment that was oriented in a similar way to apartment 444 was revealed in front of Pro's eyes, but Pro frowned as soon as he laid eyes on it.

There were dried blood stains all over the walls of apartment 445. An old, fabric sofa sat facing the front door, and with a glance Pro noticed it was nearly dyed reddish-brown due to dried blood.

Turning his to take a glance of the kitchen, the electricity seemed to be out as the fridge is off. On the counter, Pro saw a bloody butcher knife inserted into a blood-stained wooden cutting board; however, the cutting board seemed to be soaked! A trace of blood leaked down the side of the counter and a puddle of blood formed on the kitchen floor.

"Bloody hell, isn't this too bloody? And that blood still looks fresh? Did the evil spirit here just cut up some human? But no one even comes here?" Pro muttered as he glanced at the butcher knife, but saw nothing abnormal with it.

However, to be on the safe side, Pro cautiously floated up to it, activated his claws and smashed the knife into pieces.

Clang! The metallic noise loudly rung in the apartment room as the butcher knife was smashed to pieces as the claws sliced through the kitchen counter as well by accident, but the room still stayed silent with no reaction. Deactivating his claws, Pro muttered to himself sadly, "Dang it, I knew it couldn't be that easy."

Walking out of the kitchen, Pro strolled into the living room and noticed a bloody dining table against the kitchen wall. There were still chunks of bloody flesh on top of the table, as if its owner dined on it not long ago.

With a frown, Pro glanced around at the fairly empty living room and found nothing. He then glanced at the silent bathroom and bedroom doors with frustration, "I made such a loud racket out here, so the evil spirit must have heard me, but it still didn't respond. Is it hiding from me? Did it feel my strength? Although I have much more time now, I don't have time to play hide-and-seek all day."

Strolling up to the bathroom, Pro decided against destroying the lock to his possible future toilet. He gently twisted the knob on the door and softly pushed the door. The door slowly swung open to reveal a bathroom that had newer bathroom fixtures than apartment 444's bathroom, but everything had traces of blood in it. The sink and bathtub was filled with bloody water and seemed to be clogged.

Glancing into the toilet with a bit of curiosity, Pro couldn't help but comment, "Hey, I bet my toilet after constipation is much more bloody. Heh."

Seeing nothing wrong with the bathroom, Pro hesitated a bit before he decided against smashing the mirror. He had no mirrors in his domain, and he might need one in the future.

After glancing at the time and at the silent bedroom door, Pro decided to ... play safe of course. He left apartment 445 and went back to his domain to recover. After recharging to full energy, Pro confidently strolled back to apartment 445.

Standing in front of the bedroom door that he didn't need for his domain, Pro smiled as he smashed down hard with his claws.

Boom! The door was smashed into pieces before falling over to the ground as cracks appeared on the doorway. Glancing into the blood-stained bedroom, Pro blinked his eyes in confusion as he was met with silence.

"Uhh ... I've already knocked on your home turf's door, yet you still hide? What kind of cowardly baleful spirit are you?" Pro couldn't help but mutter as he checked the room thoroughly from outside the doorway.

Noticing the stained area in front of the doorway that was much darker than the rest of the carpet in the room, Pro rolled his eyes as he raised his claw up a bit in preparation. Then, he swiftly dived into the room before swiftly turning around and glancing towards the wall above the doorway.

As expected, Pro saw an evil spirit camping there preparing for an ambush! Floating in the air above the doorway was a female head with a dirty face and sparse, dry black hair! Long, bloody tentacles dangled from its neck that seemed to have been chopped off! Seeing Pro stepping through the door, the evil spirit's mouth opened to reveal bloody fangs as it pounced down!

Bam! Without hesitation, Pro swiped his claw upwards towards pouncing head.

Hissssss! The female head defied gravity and flew sideways to dodge the swipe. It then tilted its head to aim its tentacles at Pro. The tentacles then grew and shot out like snakes ready to devour its prey.

Not wanting to experience tentacle h*ntai, Pro swiftly dodged sideways as he swiped his claws down to cut the tentacles.

Puff! Hisssss! The bottom section of the tentacles were cut off, causing the evil spirit to hiss in pain. To Pro's shock, the cut off tentacles actually wriggled around on the ground for a bit before they began to slither towards Pro as if they were alive!

Backing off towards the bed, Pro vigilantly glanced at the floating head in the air as he smashed the bed into chunks with his claws. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out to be the evil spirit's possession object as the floating head didn't seem to be in pain. Instead, a female's hoarse, creepy cackle echoed in the room as bloody tentacles began to slither down from the walls on every side of the bedroom.

Rolling his eyes, Pro muttered in frustration, "I'm already a blood spirit, I don't believe I can't deal with a trifling baleful spirit!"

While fending off the floating head chasing him around, Pro dashed around room and began smashing all the furniture in hopes of hitting the jackpot, but even after he smashed the wardrobe, the desk, the bedside cabinet, and a dressing table, the floating head was still swooping around to hunt him.

Seeing his efforts in vain, Pro dashed around the bloody tentacles slithering towards him on the ground and ran out of the bedroom as he hollered, "Come catch me if you dare!"

The head stiffened in place in mid-air as it watched its prey leaving its trap. It then hissed in anger as the head floated towards the doorway, intending to follow, but it suddenly backed away as it dodged the sudden claw strike that came through the door.

"Tsk! It dodged," Pro lamented as he truly felt this evil spirit to be troublesome, "If only I could fly or had ranged attacks, it would have made this a whole lot easier."

With a thought, Pro targeted the evil spirit and activated his ability, "Spirit Isolation!"

Hisss! The evil spirit aimed its tentacles at Pro once more. Pro dodged towards the front door as he watched the tentacles shoot out of the bedroom doorway. Of course, Pro wasn't polite and gave it a cut before backing off.

"Dang, it seems that its domain extends to outside the bedroom," Pro muttered as he stepped towards the front door intending to escape, but he rebounded back as if he encountered a barrier.

"F*ck! Baleful spirits know how to lock their domain!" Pro cursed as he saw the floating head coming out of the bedroom, "But too bad, the power difference is just too much."

With that, Pro smashed his claws rapidly at the front door of apartment 445!

Clang! Shockingly, the door was actually very sturdy and not sliced in half, but the force from the strike made a large dent in the door and sent the door flying outwards!

Bam! Seeing the door crashing into the wall of apartment 444, Pro turned around and swiped at the pouncing head as he retreated backwards. This time, nothing stopped Pro from escaping and he stepped out into the hallway with no problem.

On the other hand, the floating head that tried to follow him out seemed to have crashed into an invisible barrier and was launched backwards while it hissed in pain. Pro smirked when he saw this and couldn't help but taunt, "Hehe, come out and get me if you can~"

As if understanding Pro's taunt, the floating head shot its tentacles at the door, but they were also blocked by an invisible barrier. The evil spirit hissed in pain as it watched the tip of the tentacle, that made contact with the barrier, shrivel up.

The floating head then glared at Pro as it hissed angrily before it floated back into the bedroom. Pro calmly went back to his domain to recover as he couldn't help but mutter, "It's truly going to be difficult to take this baleful spirit out. Although it's a low-level and I probably can kill it with one smash of my claws, it's evasion capabilities are rather high and it has ranged attacks which I don't have."

After this event, Pro realized a weakness of his. Although he dealt with most of his enemies with his claws thus far, pretty much all of them liked to fight him head on. Now, he discovered that he had no abilities to deal with enemies that don't want to fight him head on.

"Fortunately, I still have a ranged attack weapon, albeit not too powerful against evil spirits," Pro concluded as he pulled out his Glock 17 from the kitchen drawer.

Making sure it was loaded, Pro held the gun in one hand while having his claw in the other.

"Time for round 2!" Pro confidently exclaimed as he headed back to apartment 445 after he fully recovered.

Stepping into apartment 445 once more, Pro cautiously strolled pass the bedroom doorway. As if sensing him, the floating head dropped down from above the doorway as its tentacles fired at Pro. Pro dodged out of the way as he raised his gun.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

HISSSSS! Holes appeared on the floating head as it was knocked backwards by the force of the bullet impact. However, tiny tentacles wiggled around in the head as it quickly mended the holes.

Ignoring this, Pro dashed to the living room and began to smash all of the furnishing with his claws. The bloody head floated out of the bedroom not long later as it hissed and pounced at Pro.

Turning back, Pro fired his gun again while he smashed the final furniture with his claw.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

One hole appeared on the head as the head dodged and caused the other two bullets to miss. Seeing that its possession object doesn't seem to be a furniture, Pro frowned a bit before he recalled the dresser in the bedroom.

Dashing forward while waving his claws, Pro watched the floating head dodge out of the way as expected.

Bang! Bang! Pro fired two shots to intimidate the head as he dashed back into the bedroom and towards the dressing table. While keeping his eyes on the doorway, Pro broke apart the storage boxes of the dressing table. As expected, a variety of vanity items spilled out of the boxes.

Without hesitation, Pro began to smash them. As if sensing its impending doom, the floating head hissed and zoomed through the doorway.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Pro rapidly fired at the head to keep it back with the impact of the bullets. After smashing all the vanity items in the current box, Pro cracked opened the only box left over.

A group of tiny hair clips fell out. Before Pro can carefully look at them, bloody tentacles shot out of the nearby walls! Pro was forced to dodge away, but more bloody tentacles also shot at him from the other walls!

With a swipe of his claws, Pro shred a large section of tentacles that were coming towards him, but more shot at him. However, Pro did not despair as he seemed to have found his target.

Glancing at the hissing head that was glaring at him while floating in the air, Pro aimed his gun at the hair clips on the ground.

HISSSS! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Bullet shells decorated the air above the gun as they glided towards the ground. It didn't take long for the gun to empty with a click. Pro saw as all the hair clips were blasted in pieces, except one. Bloody tentacles had actually surrounded it in an attempt to protect it!

Without hesitation and ignoring the tentacles attacking him, Pro shoved his gun in his pants pocket, activated another set of claws and pounced towards the evil spirit's final defense.

Hissss! The head hissed in fear as its face distorted. It dived towards Pro as its tentacles on its head shot out rapidly, but no matter how fast it can float, it was still too far from the dressing table compared to Pro.

"I chop!" Pro yelled as bloody tentacles pierced his body.

Swish! Puff! Fwoosh! Clack!

With a couple quick swipes of his claws, Pro completely shred through the bloody tentacle defenses and smashed the small hair clip to smithereens.

The tentacles attacking Pro stiffened in place before they began to wither. Hissss! The floating head pouncing towards gave its final hiss before it exploded into clumps of black mist.

A sad female's sobbing echoed weakly in the room as an intact, transparent slim beauty in a torn, white dress faded into existence while sitting on a dressing table similar to the one Pro destroyed. Pro silently watched as the woman continued to sob as she tightly held a small hair clip in her hands.

A horrid, raging woman's voice then echoed from behind Pro, "You are only a parasite to him by being alive! He will never accept you who has been tainted by another! Just die and free him from this burden, you b*tch! End her!"

Pro glanced back but saw nobody, causing his brows to furrow.

"Nooo! No! Please! Let me see him one last time! Noooo!"

Swiftly turning his back to the lady in a white dress, Pro saw a naked buff male with a blurry face chop off the lady's head with a butcher's knife as blood splattered all over the dressing table. The small hair clip silently dropped to the ground as the bloody scene faded away.

Pro frowned as he saw the familiar bloody hair clip on the ground. He had already smashed it into pieces but now it was intact. Standing in the silent bedroom and seeing no danger, Pro walked up and picked up the hair clip with a sigh.

"Another pitiful soul ... may you rest in peace. I'm not a good guy, but if I find those that hurt you, I'll conveniently avenge you if I can," Pro whispered softly.

A soft woman's sigh echoed softly in the room before fading away. Pro gripped the bloody hair clip and headed back to his domain.