Days on the cruise ship ( Part 7 )

Then Lan was free again.

He started running until he couldn't anymore. Then again he saw a person but this time he did not approach. He has already realized that he is in a special space where no one can hear or see him so , anyone he sees should be ghosts.

As he thought the body in front was someone he had killed. This time it was an old lady. He had killed her because of the bloodthirsty mania he had the first time.

Although he did not want to kill her, he had no regrets.

- Old woman, even if I didn't kill you, you wouldn't have survived. There are no old people in the world now.

But the old woman just looked at him. Lan didn't want to talk to ghosts or illusions, he wanted to get out of this black fog. But then the old woman opened her mouth.

< Even if I didn't survive, that didn't give you the right to kill me. I have a family and dreams too!>

Then she tried to strangle him the way he had killed her...

Lan struggled but again the body seemed to be stuck with something and there was nothing he could do.

'What's going on ?!'

Then when she was about to pass out, the old woman let go, then started again. He repeated the action 6 times and then disappeared like smoke. Lan was panting on the floor with bruises around his neck.

'This is crazy!'

He thought. After some time of adaptation, he wanted to stand up again, but he could no longer feel his legs. He looked down in horror only to see a woman eating his legs...

- Argg...

He screamed at the top of his lungs due to sudden pain. Then he continued to live scenes from memory, only the roles changed. Now he had already used his saving artifacts 8 times but the ordeal was not over yet.

'Who does this? Why is he doing this?'

A very desperate Lan was now cowering in the corner of the hall, trembling and foaming at the mouth...

- Please ... please ... leave us alone ...

He made intermittent requests for apologies and pleas, but no one answered. Then the ghosts appeared again...

- Aggar

His eyes were dug this time and he simply couldn't take it anymore. He took out a knife from his backpack and wanted to kill himself, but his knife was quickly taken by a white hand.

When Lan raised his head with difficulty and looked with his only remaining eye, he froze in amazement.

'Is Anka ...?'

But seeing the red eyes that she had, she realized that the living hell in the last hours was made by her.

- You ... you ...

- What's with me ?

- Why ?

Anka tilted her head to one side as if she was thinking how to answer. Meanwhile she was playing with the knife between his fingers...

- Because I can ? I want ? Must ?

Anka herself looked confused. So she shrugged her shoulders in the next moment.

- Because I can, I want to and I have to.

Lan received this answer which was not according to his expectations, then he started to beg again.

- Stay calm. There is another person who wants to meet you.

Then Anka disappeared into the darkness leaving a kneeling Lan crying in despair. Then from the end of the hall came the laughter of a child ...

Lan looked gloomily at the 2-year-old child who was walking towards him with difficulty.

This was probably the only one he truly regretted killing. A week ago he had argued with his wife and the child was not far away. His mania was again in force and even stronger this time, all he knew was that he was crushing his wife on the floor when the child came.

Then he being irritated pushed him without holding back his strength and his son had turned into a hairpin broken after hitting the wall due to the force.

Then after waking up from rage with a passed out wife almost dead and the child not breathing it was already too late.

Now Lan looked at his two year old crawling towards him with a silly smile.

' My son ...'

< Dad ...I want a huge .... I missed you ...>

Lan was starting to cry.

Blood was flowing from the removed eye, but the other was shedding tears.

- Son! Dad missed you too!

Then he crawls with the help of his hands towards the child. He took him in his arms and wept bitterly. Among his sobs could be heard apologies, regrets and so on.

The child just sat in his arms quietly ...

Lan knew there was nothing he could do. He knew the child was dead. He knew but still didn't want to accept. He regretted now everything he had done but he couldn't do anything it was all to survive.

He couldn't anymore. He knew that he probably wouldn't leave living this space but at least he could apologize to his son that he had loved.

- I'm sorry , you had such a bad father...

Then he left the child on the ground.

-Anka let's finish this once...

Anka was behind him at one point watching the emotional scene of the father and son reunion, but she didn't seem moved at all. Pick up the scythe confused for a moment how to do.

Then she loses control of her body again and the scythe cuts Lan in two from left to right...

Blood spurted out and Lan's body fell to the floor. A ball of light that was completely black floated from the dead body. Then all the fog that used to surround the floor gathers in one place looking like a black hole. Then Lan's soul passed through that hole, and Anka's 'body' threw the other souls there that were like pearls...

Then Anka was again the master of the body.

[Ding!]

[ The host has successfully judged and punished a soul! ]

[ 'I will judge anyone I see' (C- ???)

Development mode: Find five souls to judge and then punish accordingly.

Progress 1/5]

Anka heard the message but she really didn't care now...

' I'm so tired ...'

She crawled back onto the balcony and back to her room in Fahim's apartment and threw herself into bed...

She really didn't want to move a finger...

The clock on the wall showed 5 in the morning, and the sun was already rising on the horizon...

At 7, however, the alarm rings, and a wild-eyed Anka gets up to tidy up...

She was glad that scythe was long enough and she could stay at a distance without getting dirty. She took a shower to wake up and wanted to see all the system messages that she had ignored because of headaches...

[Ding!]

[ Warning ! The host has strange waves of cloudy energy invading the mind, 3 energy points will decrease per second.]

[ Attention! The host is subject to a lot of knowledge!]

[ The host endured a person's memory receives four control points !]

[ The host endured the memory of another soul gets three control points !]

[The host endured the memory of another soul, receives two control points!]

...

[The system detects major changes in the host's body and requests recalculation of statistics.]

[Recalculation approved.]

[Congratulations to the host for reaching over 20 controls!]

[ The host gets a free talent or power slot .]

[ We ask the player to keep working hard .]

Anka quickly opened the character window.

[ Character window

Name: Anka (Aira) Tenebris

Age: 24 years

Species: human

Titles: none

Coins: 34,430

Talents : I can use anything I get my hands on' (A-???) 'Controlling Magic' (A) 'What I cook has strange effects?'(F-???)

Special Power : I will judge anyone I see' (C-???) 'Ice Control' (C-???) ' Performer '( A- ??? )

Body status:

Strength - 6

Intelligence - 12

Control - 15 (+13)

Agility - 3

Resistance - 6

Precision - 2

Capacity - 80

Magic 1100 / 300

Energy 1360 / 90

Inventory: (11) grade C instant energy recovery potions; (6) grade B physical strength temporary potions; special scroll (S)]