Exit

After a long time of searching for a way out, Tristan finally found the exit. Unlike the other two exists, this one was only suited for a single skinny person to pass through. This exit door was behind the counter which had wine shelves and one could easily tell that this exit was for staff use only just like the way it had been illustrated on top of it.

"Now!" Tristan run for the door while the liquor bottles behind him were shattered by the claws of the corrupted beasts but Tristan didn't care as his eyes were redened with anticipation. This was the only exit remaining. If he missed this chance, then he would have no other way out.

Fortunately to Tristan's luck, he found the door was still opened as the staff that escaped through this door was too appalled that they forgot to close it.

Full of determination, Tristan barged in before he closed the door behind him. He had left the corrupted beasts far behind him just to have this moment, yes. He calculated everything since if he was a little bit late, he wouldn't have had a chance to close it.

Huff! Huff! Huff!

"That was almost close!" Tristan's heart was in his throat as he panted heavily. Right now, he had allowed himself to fall lazily on the floor of the other side of the door as he thanked the heavens for giving him another chance.

"My body is so painful. I feel like I can die the next moment. I need to get to the hospital." Tristan said to himself but his body was not listening. Previously when he was surrounded by the beasts, he was mainly acting because of his strong will to live but now that there was no stress of the beasts following behind him, Tristan's body could not help but want to shut down. Tristan knew that if he allowed himself to close his eyes, he would never wake up to see another day but he didn't have the energy to fight this strong force which was pulling him to the nether.

"I have to seek a way out of this Cursed world. My mom is waiting for me back home. If I die now, I will not have peace." Tristan tried to convince himself to remain awake but he couldn't manage the fight, he was slowly drowning a minute by a minute.

Clank! Clank! Clank!

Tristan first heard the sound of metal striking metal before it was followed by other scratching sounds as if they were countless corrupted beasts trying to claw the door out so that they could get in and have the enticing meal behind the door.

Tristan who was drowning was suddenly awake, yes wide awake. He tilted his head and stared behind him at the closed door and there, he could see an eye staring back at him through the gouged hole on the door.

"They are already here. They can't even allow me to have a rest." Tristan stood up sluggishly and pressed on the buttons of the elevator before him with his hands shaking like mad. The corrupted beasts were banging on the door madly upon realizing that Tristan was escaping.

"Open the door buddy! Your Daddy wants to use the elevator, allow him to use it or else you will get countless spankings on that butt of yours. Open now." Tristan took a glance behind him and he could see that the groove was widening as time goes. 

"I don't have much time." At last moment when Tristan thought that he was now truly goona die, the elevator opened and he shoved himself in before the elevator door closed behind him by itself. Tristan could even see that one of the beast had managed to get through the gap created on where the exit door was. This beats could only cry in disappointment when it saw the elevator door close taking Tristan with it.

The elevator that Tristan took was unique because it was only used by the staff and it only had two destinations, that was the bar that Tristan was in earlier and the warehouse on the ground floor.