"I will… kill you!"
Blood splattered on , and the side of my lips curled into a brief smirk. However, that was not enough to kill him as he slowly drew away, touching his bleeding ears.
He seed surprised, gazing at his palm after touching his wounded ear. I crawled away from him, pushing myself back with my feet.
I winced when he suddenly stuck his tongue out and licked his palm ever so slowly. This disgusting monster… he had really lost his mind because of his hunger.
My shoulder stiffened as soon as his gaze landed on . "Co close, or I will kill you," I warned, clutching at the branch tightly.
His response was a diabolical smirk, sending waves of fear in . Although the fear in was great, my will to survive was far greater. I knew taking a person's life was a sin, but that didn't matter to at this mont. This was a matter of who would die between us, and that was definitely not .
The vampire slowly stood up on his feet until he towered over . I forced myself to stand, but my knees felt weak and all I could do was look up to et his gaze. His steps towards were slow, making the crisp sound of withered leaves under his foot louder.
"Don't…" My voice shook, couldn't conceal my terror.? "… co close."
"Kill…"' he hissed and pounced on , flinging his hand and broke the branch in my hand. My heart instantly dropped to my stomach as he grinned maniacally.
"Kill."
His mouth parted, baring his fangs, but I instinctively grabbed him by the hair, tugging his head back.
"No!" I scread at the top of my lungs, my voice echoing across the hill. He hissed, but I gripped at his hair, knowing that letting him go was akin to letting go of my lifeline.
The struggle lasted for a long ti and I didn't know where I got all the strength to stop him. My hand slowly crept over his face, and I placed my thumb on his eye, while he suddenly wrapped his fingers around my neck, choking to death.
My breath hitched, slowly getting suffocated, but that didn't stop . I ground my teeth and yelled as I decisively pressed my thumb inside his eye.
'It bled…' I froze for a second, but his grip around my neck loosened as he shouted, so I continued. My thumb sunk deeper, feeling the soft flesh of his eyes around my thumb.
"Ahh!" he scread in pain while covering his eye. I pushed his chest away, and I crawled away.
The vampire scread, howled, hunching in pain with his hand on his wounded eye while on the ground. I watched him in horror and shock before my eyes snapped when I noticed his back trembling.
'End him!' my mind yelled in panic. 'He will kill you once he recovered!'
'That's right,' I thought, and I mindlessly looked around, crawling on the ground as I mustered my strength to run.
'No, he will catch you soon! Kill him!'' my subconscious mind whispered, making pause as soon as I took a step.
"If I don't kill him…" My eyes fell towards the huge rock which I thought I could carry. "… he will kill for sure."
"Ahhhh!" I glanced back at him, gulping down the little saliva left in , and decided.
I ran towards the rock and picked it up with all my might. While he was writhing in pain, I dragged my feet while carrying the rock towards him. My eyes were cold as I gazed down at him.
'I have to do it.' I convinced myself, clenching my teeth as I lifted the rock, and I shouted when I? unhesitatingly pounded it against the back of his head.
I crushed his head over and over and over until parts of his brain spurted around and blood splattered on . I only stopped squashing his head when I couldn't lift the rock anymore.
"Hah…" I exhaled through my mouth as I gazed at his crushed head and the blood and flesh around. "…hah." My breath hitched as my entire body shook.
"I did it…" I muttered, having mixed emotions of relief and dread.
Everything that just happened and what I had done didn't register in my head imdiately. Only when I raised my hand and stared at my palm covered with blood, I realized I took soone's life.
"Hah…" The beating of my heart drumd even faster as I hyperventilated. Tears ford on the corner of my eyes and they unhesitatingly rolled down my cheeks.
"Ahh… ahh!" I grabbed my hair, screaming, crying, standing on the fine line between sanity and insanity. It was too much for to handle. I felt like sothing in my mind broke.
"Ahhh… hah… hahaha!" my screaming gradually grew into hysterical waves of laughter until my throat rasped, losing my voice temporarily and my mind went into a blank state.
In the end, I stayed there for a very long ti, staring listlessly at the lifeless body these hands had taken. I didn't know what got into , but I dragged his corpse sowhere and dug a pit all night with my bare hands, where I buried his body.
**
At the crack of dawn, I dragged my feet back to my shack. My body felt heavy, but I managed. When my shack ca to my sight, I turned my head to the side.
"I should've listened to Old Olly," I mumbled, staring at the sun peeking over the horizon. "Why did I even want to go back here?"
The answer was obvious. It was because I felt like soone was waiting for to co ho.
"It was just your delusion that soone is waiting for you, Lilou," I told myself, letting out a low chuckle full of bitterness. I shook my head and dragged my feet towards my ho, but instead of heading inside, I went directly to my father's burial mound.
On the way, I halted as my jaw tightened. That warm air and aura from the burial mound were blowing past as if the wind were whispering words of worry in my ears.
"I… I'm sorry," I whispered and took a step forward. "I was busy." And I headed towards my destination with my eyes on the ground.
When I reached the back lot of my shack, I paused in my steps as I slowly raised my head. My eyes landed on a towering figure of a man wearing a cloak with his back facing .
"Who… are you?" I murmured and watched him slowly turned around. The feeling of dread imdiately crept into my heart but subsided when another gust of wind blew past .
"It's you?" My feet stepped forth towards him as he gave the sa feeling as that wind that had comforted . He looked a little puzzled, but stayed on his standpoint until I was a step away from him.
I slowly gazed up at him, recognizing his breathtaking beauty. "You ca?" my hand clutched on his cloak tightly, afraid he'd leave if I let him go.
"It's you again?" he asked in a low, nacing tone while his eyes narrowed. "How did you…" the man trailed off as he noticed the blood on .
The corner of my lips curled into a subtle smile as I hung my head low, resting my forehead against his chest.
"I'm sorry I'm late. Sothing happened on the way, but I'm ho now," I muttered under my breath, ignoring the different aura he exuded. "Don't leave now, hmm?"
Drowned with self-delusion and blinded with desperation, I mistook soone just because he saved once... and I have to pay a heavy price for it.
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