Hope Like an Angel

Treasure For Who?

All right, I'll check what's here, why is this place so protected?

This room is darker, smaller. A quarter of the living room, black and white wallpaper was changed to ordinary yellow paint, also torn and damaged.

Hmm..in front there is my high shelf containing books, decorations, and small candles.

Oh, there's a switch. Clack! I turned on the switch.

Gosh...not even better. Spider nets gathered in the corner of the roof of the room, the smell of dust and dirt came over.

There's a closet on my left, with four drawers underneath, the door's a family photo.

Boy, brother and sister, yes.the age of his brother is about sixteen years, and his sister two years younger. They were holding ice cream with plastic gun toys, smiling widely. Where are Mom and Dad?

The sounds of monsters, Jennifer and Raphael on the dimmer outside are still heard, I have to be quick.

I opened the drawer in the closet. Nothing, it's empty. Next drawer, nil, next drawer...

GREPS! DUK!

"Agh?!" Someone pulled my uniform collar and threw me!

"Fuck?!" Raphael sounded worried.

His wall was on the wall until it cracked.. Who is he?!

I wiped my uniform, full of dust.

"Heeeeisssaaaaaa..." The black-colored figure, slightly lower than me stood up, spread his hand upwards.

"Who are you?! Omni?!" I hurried to my feet, sticking out a sword.

"Yahhhhh!!!" The figure extended its arms, looking like an octopus tentacle, lengthened in attack.

SLASHY! I cut him off, moved to the right side to dodge.

"Heeuhh???" It was not an ordinary figure, it was shaped like a Fedora Hats Monster, but rather...? How do I explain it? Ah, just so.

He was astonished to see the left arm I had cut off, put on a confused face, his body pitch black, sticky liquid headed to the floor from his body, like a living gelatin.

"Hey! Answer it! Who are you?!" I prepared to stand by, still stretching the sword towards him.

"Heuuu'eh heuu'eeh!" He attacked again with his arm, BUM! I bowed, his attack hitting the wall.

Aarggp! What, anyway?! There is not a single letter that I understand!

JRASH! I cut off his two advancing hands at once, BUM! He attacked again, hitting the wall behind me, shattered. I could see the street outside, a hole about the size of an adult.

That's ability? Tentacle arm? And he can regenerate even if sluggish...

Thankfully, at least his abilities aren't as good as Arkane's.

"Graaaahhh!" He attacked, I was forced to retreat out of the house through the hole.

BOOM! His attack missed, making a hole in the ground. I dodged to the right.

He came out of the hole with his long arms, looking at me with jelly. His sticky black body littered the outer ground.

DUM! DUM! DUM! He attacked continuously, I dodged to the left.

JRASH! I cut off his advancing left arm, then ran towards him, CRAS! I split his body from the bottom quickly, his right and left halves apart. He fell helpless.

Phew...

Cret... WOOSH! Holy hooch! He wrapped around my feet and threw me deep into the sky!

"Kraaaaaa..." He whispered into my ear, jumped in and wrapped me hard four meters above the air.

BOOM! I was slammed down, falling into a big, deep hole. My head cannot be felt...

Buk. "Raaa..." The monster landed smooth, its tentacle hand was slithering everywhere. Disgusting.

"Fale?! Hey!" Jennifer's voice calling out was heard inside the house. It seemed like they were still not finished with the affairs of the small monsters.

I stood up straight, using sturdy horses, holding the sword forward.

"Well, you're so ugly..." My comment was short, seeing him slowly walking towards me.

"Grrr.r..." Well, what the hell did he say? Grr, wrr, hrrr, noisy!

CRAS! SLASHY! I cut off his two attacking hands, then advanced.

ZONG! He looked down, my attack missed. CRAS! SLASHY! JRAASH! Cut off his left, right, and both legs, ZUNG! He retreated to avoid me who was about to decapitate him.

"Liiiiiiyaaaa..." Huh uh? "Lia"?

It's name...

"JENN! RAF!" They both had numerous scratches on his face and arms, his uniform was also heavily damaged!

"Fale! Thank goodness..." Even so, Raphael was relieved to see me.

"Wait, your head!" Jennifer was worried.

I just realized, there was blood flowing from my right head, was it from the bull attack earlier?

The three of us immediately approached past the noisy sounds of the little monsters that were sprawling everywhere.

"God! Why is this so?!" Raphael objected, SLASH! Cut off the body of the jumping monster.

"Fale! What did you find?!" Jennifer asked loudly.

"No chance! That strange monster is protecting her!" I answered while splitting the opponent's body.

The situation becomes more and more difficult, Jennifer and Raphael face dozens of small monsters. Behind him, I was charging towards the strange monster, his tentacle hand bending up, down, in all directions alternately.

CRAS! I cut off the tentacle arm that was about to attack.

"Where is Leo when you need him?!" Said Raphael.

"Don't spoil it, Raf!" I replied, busy alert.

SLASHY! "I have a plan!" Jennifer follows.

"Fale! Fishing the strange monster as far as possible!" He continued his words, I nodded, went around him.

"Come on! Here!" He ran away, he followed me. Repeatedly misses his tentacle attack, some of the ground is broken and cracked.

CRAS! I cut the tentacles, still holding hands. Jennifer and Raphael are barely visible. I was in a very quiet place, the houses were not there. Only the streets and the big trees were lined up neatly.

CRET! Damnit damnit! Again she wrapped around me perfectly!

My body was brought closer, he looked at me seriously.

"W..." Whahuh? What does he want to say?

"Faaaaaaaaaa... Liiiia... Looooga!!!"

A... what...?

She said my name...?

Little by little, the sticky black liquid on his body fell down, melting, escaping from it. He was just an ordinary man.A man in his fifties, wearing a torn T-shirt and jeans, was already gray and short of his hair.

BUKS! He fell, unconscious.

This is bad, very bad.not only is my head getting dizzy, but behind the strange and disgusting monster earlier, is an ordinary human who looks like a damned...

I turned off the sword of light, then carried the person with both arms. I have to tell Raphael and Jennifer about this!

"Sorry! Jeenn!" I ran from far away, running towards them. Wow.. it's clean! The little monsters are gone!

"Falisha!" Jennifer replied, smiling happily. Closer to me.

"Eh, who is he?" Raphael looked at me in wonder.

"This is the guy, the monster with the strange tentacles. He's the one." I lifted her body, explaining.

"Why brought? Just leave him!" Raphael.

"I feel like he's a good guy, Raf. I mean, look at him. Such an old man had no aura of evil at all." Reply slowly. Stare pityingly.

"Oh yeah, how did your plan work, Jenn?" I'm astonished.

"They're connected, he's with those little monsters. The closer they got, the longer they could hold on. Because all of them use each other to merge and regenerate." Jennfier replied, still staring at the old man I brought.

"Thank God, we're all okay..." I'm glad that Jennifer and Raphael are alive.

"Yes, but your head..." Raphael pointed at the blood flowing through my cheek from above my head.

"Ah, it's okay. I'm sure there's still a doctor around here."

"Yes, but..." Jennifer put on a worried face.

"Fale..." Raphael put his hand in his pocket, about to take out something.

"This, this is the thing he's protecting. Protected all our enemies here." She's holding... photo? The palm-sized photo of my hand, showing it.

That's a picture of Dad, Dad and Mom carrying me when I was four, on the beach at sunset, it was beautiful...

But... why...? Why are they keeping the picture of Dad...? Is... does Dad have anything to do with those monsters?