The CURSE: Deadly Games

● TWENTY ●

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The next day....

A pair of fresh bodies are seen entering a small library not far from the hotel, it only takes 43 steps to get to the quaint little-forgotten shophouse. No need to bother to spend effort to find a book in that place. Because there are only a few books, especially fantasy books that only continue to be laughed at by adults.

With their eager observant eyes after a fairly satisfactory break, a lot of time was not needed to search for a book that had definitely been named.

Seen as soon as they entered, it was not long before it had come back out and continued searching for that justice door book in another library place.

The day just passed with feet standing looking for the book. The two decided to look for him tomorrow after undergoing some library.

"Bye!"

Baylor's hand waved towards Eleanor who had first entered due to Baylor's coercion. Eleanor remembers seeing Baylor's back come in first.

However, when it was felt Baylor had entered his hotel room, Eleanor slipped out and walked quickly out of her room and also from the hotel. I don't know where he went, but the time was already late at night.

***

Kringg .. cring .. kring....

The clock still points to the number 6 in the morning. What did Eleanor's watch do that early?

Eleanor rushes out of her bed and opens a plastic bag that is still full. It turned out that the items were all bought by Eleanor late last night.

I opened the recipe for making steamed cake and started to include the written ingredients and follow the entire direction of the site.

"Finally, ready as well," Eleanor muttered as she left only the last step, steaming the dough.

He took out the pot that the hotel owner had provided and started an electric fire with a pot of cookie dough on it.

He paused for a moment to the edge of the bed and laid himself down. Not to forget he also set an alarm 30 minutes from now to wake himself up, just in case he falls asleep.

It did not take a minute Eleanor had slept asleep and let out a loud snoring that was a sign of fatigue.

Thirty minutes passed, but the alarm was not heard and did not even sound. The smell of the charade began to smell throughout the room, but it was not sensed by his nose.

Tokk .. tokk....

At 7 o'clock it was an agreement to meet Eleanor and Baylor. Not getting a reply, Baylor knocked even harder. His tapering stopped as the smell of smoke escaped from Eleanor's hotel room. He rushed to the reception and asked for a spare card key, citing the smell of smoke.

"Ele, Ele!" yelled Baylor while scanning the card. Soon he ran inside and found Eleanor lying on her bed. It was unthinkable for him that he was asleep, but unconsciousness that directly infiltrated his brain.

In a panic he immediately patted Eleanor's cheek hard.

"Abs!!"

With just a single slap Eleanor had woken up in pain.

"Ele, are you okay? Where's that sick?" baylor asked shortly after he woke up.

Eleanor flinched when she saw Baylor still blurry. He was confused and smelled a bad smell. She thought of her steamed cake. He immediately ran into the hotel's kitchen, leaving Baylor confused and turning off the electric stove.

"Huhuuuu," his whine was annoyed with his own stupidity. The cake was burnt and could no longer be eaten.

"What's up, Ele?" baylor asked puzzledly to see the cake making activities that are not like Eleanor usually.

Eleanor looked away and said, "You're a birthday."

Baylor's cheeks were immediately round as his smiling mouth was so wide that it showed off a row of white teeth that had been brushed earlier. He approached Eleanor and pinched her cheek.

"Sugary. Woooo," said Baylor with his head shuffled following his hand which still pinched the cute cheek of Eleanor.

"Udah, already, do not frown again, it will be ugly," he continued angrily.

Eleanor's face grew even more sullen at Baylor's words.

Eleanor immediately went from where she was standing and stomped her feet hard, took her clothes and went to the toilet to take a shower. While Baylor still smiles on his own, can not stand the behavior of his loved ones.

***

Somewhere else....

"How's it going, Sofia?" ask a man of short stature to a good tracker.

Yes, no need to ask again, he is Catoo the short man, the professor who tried to kidnap Eleanor.

"No, Prof. Their last trace was found in apartment ### (where Eleanor and Baylor lived). However, it seems that they left the city about 5 to 6 days ago" Sofia said.

"Then continue the search. I don't want to lose them anymore" Catoo said in a threatening tone as he kicked the table, that made Sofia speechless and instantly refocused on her computer screen and fingers by nimbly typing strange words on her keyboard.

***

"Ele! Why is it so long today" Baylor said, knocking on Eleanor's bathroom door.

"Sit down and do your work. I'll be out in a minute" cried Eleanor from the bathroom.

"You're really slow like a turtle, Ele. Even turtles should be faster" Baylor said.

Eleanor, who was unwilling to argue with Baylor, simply silenced her and continued to bathe as she pleased as if nothing had happened.

"Geele!!" yelled Baylor, furious with Eleanor.

"Can you be patient?" eleanor said as she opened the bathroom door.

Baylor, who was standing right in front of him, was fixed in place, his eyes unable to get rid of Eleanor, not even blinking. He was stunned to see the beauty of Eleanor with a blue knee-length dress and hair breaking waves.

"Hey, Lor!" eleanor exclaimed, casting out Baylor's gaze.

"Hey! Since when do I have a friend as pretty as a fairy?" baylor said as he blinked one eye.

"You are, Lor. Let's go or we'll run out of time" Eleanor said, pounding Baylor's arm.

"Auch! Pain, Ele. Hehe. Come on, our mission begins!" baylor exclaimed as she pulled Eleanor out of the classic bathroom.

***

"Lor, how much longer do we have to search. I'm so tired. It seemed impossible to find him, Lor," Eleanor grumbled as Baylor focused on the book.

The time has shown at 4 pm when they are still busy looking for the book. They had already visited the third library for today, a total of seven libraries they had visited.

"Ele, did you find him?" baylor asked, looking at Eleanor.

"No. We've searched the entire shelf. There should be no book in the library either" said Eleanor, looking desperate.

"All right, how about we go back to the hotel? In an hour you'll change" Baylor said.

"Yes, I guess so. Tomorrow we just continue our search" Eleanor pulled Baylor's arm and walked step by step out of the library.

"Lor, how about we just walk. I haven't been walking around in a long time to see this city," Eleanor asked as soon as she walked out of the seventh library.

Baylor complies with Eleanor's desire to walk to the hotel.

Not long after walking, Eleanor's steps came to a halt, her eyes fixed on someone special. Someone he knew very well, someone he loved very much, whom he had been looking forward to seeing again.

"Papa?" muttered Eleanor, making Baylor turn towards her and the two stopped.

The man known as Eleanor's father was someone who was very sensitive to her surroundings. He who was busy chatting with some friends while enjoying a cup of warm coffee felt that someone was staring at him deliberately. He immediately looked in that direction. He was suddenly stunned, his mind began to spin, his eyes did not blink staring at that figure.

"Minori?" muttered Jaydenn, Eleanor's father with teary eyes.