The Frost Heart

Black Wind

Jack's house is on the edge of town, or rather located next to a junkyard and near TPA aka landfill. Usually, in the morning Jack would collect the trash at the landfill and directly sell it to the monger for breakfast and what was left for dinner. He will hold his hunger with tap water during the day.

Not many people live around Jack's house, because it is on the edge of the city slum. The people who live around him are scavengers and exiles from other areas that are rare in his city. So, in the neighborhood of Jack's house feels very quiet, different from downtown.

The night had come and Jack was cooking a porridge for his dinner. The porridge is made from rice leftover breakfast that boiled a lot of water with the addition of a little milk as a sweetener. The portion did become a little, but for Jack it was able to hold his hunger until morning.

"Ok, it's ripe..." Jack then took a spoonful of rice and took all the contents of the small pot of porridge into a bowl. Jack did not forget to turn off the furnace so that his small house did not fire because of his negligence. Then, he walked to the front room where there was a woman sleeping on his bed. That woman was the one Jack treated.

"Hmm, is he conscious?" Jack looked at the woman's face. He was sleeping with a white blanket wrapped around him. The hue on his face was quite pale, as indeed he had almost run out of blood due to his injuries.

"Well, it's impossible. Is there anyone who has almost run out of blood, can be immediately aware overnight after being treated?" Jack shook his head, refuting his own thoughts.

Jack sat down on the ground. Jack's house is very simple, to the point that it is only covered with land. Then Jack devoured the porridge after feeling the porridge became warm and within 10 seconds, Jack had finished the porridge.

"Huh, warm..." Jack patted his stomach with a satisfied feeling. Jack looked at the bed a woman was already in and thought about where she would sleep later. The mattress is very narrow for two people and it is not ethical for a man with a woman to sleep together without any bond, according to Jack.

Jack thought not to sleep alone, but dispelled the thought because he also needed rest for activity later in the morning.

"Maybe sleeping on the ground isn't bad..."

Then Jack nodded, agreeing to the idea. He had never slept on the ground, so the idea was a little interesting to Jack. Jack took some cloth for his bed to prepare him for sleep. He doesn't want to get dirty when he sleeps on the ground floor.

After finishing preparing it, Jack did not immediately go to sleep. he was not yet sleepy so just sat waiting for him himself sleepy while thinking to the future how.

"Ag, Ah!!!"

As Jack daydreamed, a woman's moans were heard on the bed and Jack rushed straight to the bed. Jack saw that the woman was beginning to wake up in her sleep.

Jack was wondering why the woman so quickly regained consciousness overnight. But, he understood, which one needed to be prioritized.

"A-I..in-where...?" The woman asked when she saw the ceiling of the house which she thought was different from before. Jack's face appeared in the woman's gaze and answered her question.

"You're starting to wake up!" Jack smiled. "You're in my house. In the suburbs of Jo—" Before Jack finished his words, the woman was shocked and reflexively hit Jack. Jack fell down after receiving the blow with his back falling for the first time.

"Gee!!!" The woman screamed in pain after hitting Jack. Jack looked at the bottom of his shirt there was a red liquid that kept coming out. Jack panicked, the wound on the woman's stomach opened again because of the movement earlier.

"You can't make a move that's too hard! Your wounds are open again!" Jack's Perspiration.

Jack approached the woman in a hurry to the point of falling down many times. The woman then took off her clothes and a bandage where on her stomach was a wide gaping wound that continued to bleed.

"[Minor Heal]!!!!" The woman said as she moved her left finger from top to bottom, like drawing a vertical line. And suddenly, a real, green vertical line appeared on the former woman moving her finger. Then the green vertical line was fused with his finger and then touched to the wound on his stomach and miraculously the wound began to close which finally closed perfectly.

All those magical things were seen by Jack and left him dumbfounded. He saw from the appearance of a green luminous line in the empty air. Then with one touch, the wide wound instantly healed in instant time.

"What was that?" Jack wondered in his heart.

After healing her wound, the woman breathed a sigh of relief. But when unknowingly seen by Jack, he was again shocked and became a little panicked. He was like a person who kept something secret but his secret was instantly exposed.

"Ah, uh, Huh..." The woman became nervous in short.

"You okay?" Ask Jack and come closer. He had already forgotten the blow that woman had given him

"W-did you m-m-see him?" The woman asked nervously.

"That green line? Well, I saw it."

"Ah, what a shit!"

"I was too panicked to the point of using magic in front of an outsider. I'm really careless" the woman muttered in frustration. However, the woman's murmur was heard by Jack.

"What's wrong?" Jack asked without concern for the woman's murmur.

"It's nothing!" Sergey the woman. "Can you forget what happened today and not talk about it to anyone else?"

The woman's expression was so serious, it left Jack speechless. He's more intimidating than serious.

"I can't forget it. But I won't talk about this man to anyone else."

The woman frowned when Jack said the first sentence, but became smiling at the next sentence.

"Ok, you have to keep your promise. Now, I have to go!" The woman seemed to want to leave.

"Wait, why are you leaving?" Jack held the woman by holding her hand. "Your wounds are still not healed. Even though you covered the wound with a mystical thing earlier, but it has not fully recovered. Stay here, at least until morning."

"I'm currently in danger and I don't want to involve anyone else!"

"Danger?"

"I don't have time to explain. I have to leave immediately!"

Then the woman wants to walk away, but Jack still insists on holding the woman.

"Take me off!" The woman's expression turned cold.

"I don't know what danger you're in. But it's safer if you stay here, until the danger is gone." Obviously Jack.

"It is more dangerous if I stay here and it is also free to wait until the danger is gone. That danger will never disappear for good and will continue to hunt."

"!"

Suddenly, Jack gasped in shock and reflexively hugged himself and looked back. He felt a cold wind that suddenly came and his heart felt restless afterwards.

"What's this crazy feeling?" Jack asked, looking at the door. The wind came from outside his house.

"They're coming..." The woman then put on her serious face, like there was a war she had to go through.

"They? Who're they?" Jack asked.

"They're called KuroKaze, the demons that want to kill me." Answer the woman.

"Where's my robe? Hey, where are you in my cape?!" The woman frantically looked for her robe.

"Cloak? Oh, here it is!" Jack then throws the robe and is captured by the woman.

"[Release]!" On the robe, the woman was like pulling something with her right hand. When Jack examined her, she was pulling something on a strange pattern. And miraculously, a knife appeared with a length of 30 cm in his right hand.

Jack was again surprised by the magic of the woman. But refocus when someone appears on the doorstep.

"That's...That's what's hunting you." Jack asked the woman, who nodded.

Jack then goosebumps looking at the strange creature in the doorway of his house. It was black, black like night. His body was still like a normal human being, but he had no nose, no eyes, no hair on his face, and a bald head. There is only a mouth with sharp teeth, like a piranha in the Amazon river.

Jack doesn't know what it is and for the first time in 5 years, Jack is feeling his name again in fear.