Group C, Esna and Seto(ch-7)

Desdemona:

Walking besides Seto who was looking around the malls interior was better than being paired with someone too energetic, though I won't complain much.

Since we're separated from the others, it'll be difficult to make sure they're fine... I guess it'll my fault if anyone of them um, gets hurt or dies since I kind of suggested it...

But, than again...

To think it's a bit... to calm over here, it's way too suspicious, are those rats—Fiends hiding and preparing to ambush because there's only me and Seto? If they are intelligent... it's going to be trouble for us.

I wrinkled my face yet again as my eyes landed on the pool of dark blood, a corpse on the floor with his arms cut off.

"What a sight."

I turned to Seto as he murmured that to himself, I agreed with him. I couldn't count but on our way in the mall, we saw a number of corpse ye know...

"oh... it smells... sweet..?" I murmured under my breath, it was also strong. It kind of smelled like period blood, but there's no reason for me to get periods anymore...

I turned to Seto, his face said that he also smelled the sweet scent.

"Maybe a woman was having periods before she, you know... got killed..." I murmured, trying to be quite, but my voice still echoed.

Seto nodded as he exhaled and pulled his shirt's collar over his mouth to block the smell. I didn't have any problem with the sweat smell, I always used to smell it until the age of, uh, 15 I think? Yeah.

We continued to walk, we didn't find anything important yet—we won't be looking for anything to carry unless we are heading out, to somewhere else.

I noticed the atmosphere got a little dense, it was getting a little difficult for me to breathe—it reminded me of when I saw first saw that fiend break in a kill someone—I was careless to act like the leader.

Seto slowled down and he put his hand on my shoulder"...I don't like it here—I feel like we shouldn't go there..."

I suddenly flinched and looked over back, Seto was kind of sweating, eyes at the ground as he didn't dare to look at me—or maybe, behind me. "Huh? I thought you were leading the way."

"You're walking front, I mean, you walked past me so I just decided to follow you." He gulped down hard, lowering his hand. "But still... we should turn back or just somewhere other than there..." He sounded... disturbed?

What got him so distributed? "And where is there?" I wondered, and that confusion and curiosity flew out like flash as soon as I turned back from Seto.

Now I got to know why my breathing was getting rough and heavier, and why Seto was distrubed... That amount of bloodied corpses, the amount of blood on the ground, the horrible smell that even if I stopped breathing I could smell it...

"oh..." I didn't realise but I had forced a smile as I looked over my shoulder to Seto, he saw it too, that one singular Fiend.

Oh that wide grin that goes ear to ear, the sharp claws reminds me of that fiend that killed the bitch that threw the lipstick at me... "...smash..."

"This's not the time for that...Esna..." He whispered in my ear, a knife already in his hand as he tightly clenched on it. Was he going to try killing that Fiend? Oh yes he was, and if I can I'll see what it's weakness is.

The only disadvantage was the intense smell that's like torns deep inside the nose—all the bodies piled up in the Emergency Exit hallway "... I'll lock the door after I enter... you somehow run behind while I distract and go lock the exit." I paused before I continued "I'll lock the fiend to the ground with me, while it's down, try finding it's weakness and kill it."

"...Let me hold it-"

"Nah, I can hold it down, so before I die let me act cool and hold the Fiend down." I took a step, a light step as Seto scratched the back of his neck before he exhaled, walking past Esna and going first.

Good thing he has the guts of a man, but I'd actually smash that Fiend for real if it wasn't hostile... What if I kissed the Fiend in the cheek? the face cheek, will it blush or chomp my lips—face.

I followed behind Seto who was increasing his pace, was he just nervous? or excited? I doubt he's excited—he hated these type of things where he needs to harm something or someone, Kallisto already told me but... Can't help it, I want to. Does that make a horrible friend? Yeah?

The second I stepped my foot inside the hallways, I immediately locked the door from behind making a 'clank' noise which alerted the Fiend that someone is there.

Sending a chill up our spine, I could see it in Seto's sudden tension in his shoulders "Now run behind that rat..." he told him as I grabbed on my dagger, tilting my head to him as he glanced at me before he ran.

The feind's first response was standing up and dropping the arm he was chomping on which slowled him down, even I would have a better response—I think.

The fiend swinged his claws, trying to scratch Seto but was unsuccessful as Seto dodged, dashing under the fiend's arm as he ran to lock the exit. He did figure out why Esna will want to exit locked, to prevent the fiend's from entering the hallways.

The fiend immediately looked back, thankfully it was stupid, his full focus on Seto. "You forgot about me Fiend." I jumped on it's back—the neck to be exact—making the fiend fall—am I that heavy?

It tried to fight back, so did I, I stabbed it's palm down and stomped on the other while sitting on it's back, "You have... long long nails long nails don't you... What I bit it off? will it hurt you?" I asked that fiend, not expecting any answer from it.

I suddenly lost my balance as it started to get up from the ground "H-hurry up Seto...!" I yell-whispered as I saw Seto coming closer, thankfully.

I manged to chop off it's right hand from the wrist with my dagger and tried to chop off the other hand as well.

Seto huffed as he tried to catch his breath, increasing his pace. "...hu... lock that thing... down Esna..." He said as he wiped his sweat, it was awfully hot and I can't lie about that, even I'm sweating like crazy.

"I'm alright on it, just... mentally prepare yourself." I told him as I raised my leg and locked both arms of the fiend behind. "Arms... done..." He gulped, I didn't want to be here anymore, I had an urge to puke due to acting like the hero and doing so many stunts.

"...yeah, a second." He took a deep breath which made his lungs ache—I think? because whenever I did that my lungs would hurt. "I'll kick him down, be careful not to fall."

I nodded as he kicked the Fiend down, he licked the popliteal fossa area but I don't know if that's what Fiend's call it. Arm wrapped around it's neck, it tries to bite and it gets it's neck twisted.

"Go on Seto... drag your dagger down to every area, we can't loose this change to get to know it's weakness." I glanced down at the Fiend before looking back at Seto who crouched down and dropped a sweat .

I couldn't imagine him saying 'It's not a big deal, it's just dragging a dagger' in his head.

Seto starts from the head, to the cheeks, the chin, the neck and finnally marking it to it's torso.

As the dagger was dragged down and lower, the fiend began to act up, moving restlessly as it tried to bite Seto but the neck was quickly twisted by uhm... me, it was on instincts, I'm not a phycho.

"S-shit... it didn't die.. huh.?" I asked myself as I starred at the eerie eyes starring back at me with a wide grin. Mouth half open. "hurry, is it the torso?" I gulped down my saliva with a small nervous smrik as I tried not to mind the weird look that fiend was giving.

Seto nodded—he noticed how the Fiend will get more restless whenever he went up/down the torso so he assumed the weakness was in the torso. "Yeah, there's... it's like something is inside the Fiend?"

"...Hah? what do you mean?"

"There's this ball-like thing that's glowing inside... the in Middle portion of the torso." He glanced at me, asking what he should do, I really wanted him to cut that fiend open and see what it was but... I felt bad since he's such a green flag I didn't wanna traumatized his already traumatized ass...

"Seto, step on the legs and grab it's head so it doesn't bite me, I'll try to cut this fiend open..."