Chapter 40

Sheena

Alicia brought me to the other place where she found the seventh person that I needed to kill in order to get rid of the curses that wanted to tear my whole life apart. As usual, she told me everything that I needed to know about the seventh person. Alicia told me that she was a rich woman who owned a jewelry store. She is not just rich, but also powerful.

"That woman is living in that jewelry store." Alicia pointed her index finger at the store, which had many guards and people coming. Not just that, the store is near the highway, and it seemed difficult to fight that woman because there is a police station near it.

"G*ddammit! It seemed to be difficult to enter that store because there were many people, guards, and also cops," I said, complaining.

"Don't you say that, you have the power to kill whoever you want. Don't forget that everything you need is already there. You are clever and swift."

"Right!" I exclaimed. "I am swift and I can use that power to kill the woman that owned that jewelry store."

"Yeah, you can use that power, but first let me tell you what things your enemy can do. That woman is not just big, but she has the power of earrings, which can create millions of pins or needles. This time, you definitely need to be careful because she will definitely throw you the needles that came from her earrings. That is so painful if they hit you."

"That sounds dangerous, but don't worry too much. She cannot kill me because I already know what to do in order to defeat that woman.

"Okay, I believe that you can defeat her. Just take care, because I will not help you kill her. I need to search for the next person because..." she had not finished her words when I interrupted.

"Stopped! That's so monotonous. I already memorized that speech you are saying. You better go now if you will not help me kill that earrings lady," I said.

"Whoa... how can you make a sobriquet of your enemy on the spot?" Alice asked.

I replied, "Nothing, I am just using the source of their powers to give them a sobriquet, so that I won't need to call them the 'seventh person, eight person, ninth person,' and so on," I said.

"You have a point; that is quite uninteresting if you are calling them numbers, but you can call them numbers too, so that you can't forget how many people's houses have already been killed," Alice said.

"Why do I need to know how many people I have already killed if they are already destined to fight me? I will be fighting no one if there is no one left that was destined to fight me."

Alice said, "Right, I better go, because you seemed to eat me if I stayed here and watched your fight with the, earring woman."

"I will definitely eat you if you do not come back here at the right time."

"Don't worry, I will come back here so that you will not eat me."

Alicia suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing. I also went near to the jewelry where the earring lady was. I joined the crowd and pretended to be one of those people that wanted to buy something from the jewelry store.

After waiting for some minutes, I got an opportunity to talk to the owner of the store. She was wearing a beautiful shirt and leggings, but she was just a little bit fatty. She asked me if I wanted to buy something in her store, and because I didn't know what I wanted to buy, especially since I didn't have any money because buying something is definitely not the reason why I went there, I searched for an alibi.

I told the earrings lady that her earrings were beautiful and I wanted to buy them in any amount. She was surprised when she heard me saying those words. She replied that she would just sell the other pair of the same earrings because her earrings are already worn and they have sentimental value for her.

My intention was different from hers; therefore, I coerced her to sell her earrings to me, but she chose to have a dispute instead of giving them to me. Maybe her earrings are so powerful that whatever happens, she will not sale them, though I will offer her a billion dollars.

I didn't want to destroy my plan for her, and because of that, I became submissive in that case, and I told her that I would buy another pair of earrings that had the same appearance as her powerful earrings. I and the lady went inside another room of the jewelry store because her earrings in the front room were no longer the same.

The opportunity showed up by itself when the earrings lady was taking the earrings that I wanted to buy. I used my power to become swift, and I suddenly grabbed her earrings with a kick on her butt. Because of my strong kick, she landed on the large container containing her jewels.

I didn't want her to stand up and fight me again. That's why I seemed to place her inside the container as I kicked her with all my force. After ten quick kicks, her head was bleeding. She even did not growl, because I was so fast and even though she was so fat, I made her out of consciousness. There are many loud sounds that I made while kicking the thick butt of the earring lady. I am still lucky, because even though there were many loud sounds that I made, nobody went inside the room.

To end her life, I turned her neck and a loud crack appeared in the room. After many loud cracks, the earring lady totally became flabby and breathless. I noticed that she is not totally ugly, because even though she is fat, she has a high nose, a round face, black eyes, and white skin.

After killing the earrings lady, Alicia suddenly appeared in front of me and she smiled, seeing that the fat woman had already died. As what she always did every time I killed the enemies, she offered the spirit of the fat woman to her master, which she believed to be powerful. The body of the elderly lady disappeared from the spot where she was lying. That was a good sign that her spirit was accepted by Alicia's master, and Alicia didn't need to worry about it. Alicia stood up and I already know the next word she wanted to say, that is to ask me if I am ready to go to the next person that I needed to kill. Well, I am always ready and she don't need to ask me about that thing anymore.

It was already evening when Alicia brought me to the place where the eighth person that was destined to fight me lives. The crescent moon appeared in the sky, the stars started to shine and the houses lights around the place. I remembered when I was still in my mansion, I was always looking at the moon that looked like thin wafer of pale lemon, looking at the thick shadows that represent the stables and everything else. In the place of eight person I saw a different view of the moon, it was a white in color with some black stained on it.

I am already wont of the changing climate, because I seemed to travel the whole world in order to be totally free from the curse. Sometimes I am in a warm place, sometimes in a cold place, but in the place of the seventh person, I felt like normal, perhaps it was a tropical country.

Then, Alicia told me that the eight person that was destined to fight me is a boy. A boy that has the power of watch. She told me that the boy can change his appearance into different aliens.

I thought that he was Ben Tennyson. I asked Alicia and I thought that I was right because of her replied that sounds the same. Alicia told me to take care because 'Ben Carson' and not 'Ben Tennyson' is powerful. I told Alicia not to worry about me because I am already great and whoever wants to fight me, I will definitely defeat them. I will defeat even Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Spider Man, Flash, Green Lantern, Cat Woman, Captain America, Aqua Man, etcetera etcetera. I will defeat all those heroes in those world to get my freedom.

Alicia told me where Ben Carson lives, so that I can attack him secretly and the same with the earrings woman, he could not use his power anymore, because before that happened he is already out of consciousness. I would be seizing his neck and hung him in the air.

Thereafter Alicia told me if where is the watch boy, without saying anything and unlike before, she just suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing without saying goodbye or saying where she wants to go. Well, that is her life, a life of a spirit, and I cannot control the things that she must do, or what I want her to do. She had her freedom, though she is still in a curse. It is always making me baffled if why she needs to go to the place of spirit if she can just be happy in this world without thinking about anything.

If Alice was contented of what she has, she did not need to put me a curse and definitely, we lived a happy and peaceful life unlike that life that we were experiencing now. Maybe I don't need to kill people anymore and I am just reading the books of Warren Remo II in my library room. What else I could do is to emit a long, deep and audible breath as I expressed the regrets and pushes them out from my mind.

The past is just a memories and files that are stocked in someone's mind. The more I would delete that file that more it could not be deleted; therefore, I would better not to thought about those things anymore and they would just delete themselves if they wanted. In that time, I focused on how to defeat the watch boy and I thought the same way.

Eventually, I went near to the house where he lives. The house is looked old and simple, it is made of polished woods that perfectly attached to each other. As I looked at the axe on the ground, I remembered when the curse was still controlling my body. It used an axed to kill some people, maybe I can also use this axe to kill the watch boy. Maybe I would pretend that there's other thing that was controlling my body. I knew that was not easy, because when the curse controlled my body, it was just okay if someone would hurt me because I could not felt any pain, but in killing the watch boy by using my own body is totally a different kind of thing. I knew that it was so painful if someone would punch, kick and hit me with something. I knew that it will only took three punches of a man in my face, and the blood will totally streamed and diffused my face, because they what I noticed to those people that I punched.

Therefore, I continued walking towards the door and knocked on it with my left hand, because my right hand was holding the sharp axe. After many times I knocked on that door, someone had opened it and because it was already night and the moon is the only source of light, I had not recognized the face of that person. Without any doubt, I hit that person with the sharp axe between his forehead. I knew that he was an old man when I pull him out the house and I entered there freely. His skull was definitely damage because of the sharp axe that I used to kill him.

The house is small, and I easily found the watch boy that was sitting on the wooden chair beside the table. He seemed eating something, a rice and chicken wings, that looked so yummy, but I knew that food was not the reason why I went there. The reason is the boy eating them.

I went near to the him when he suddenly stood up with his plate, as he would be putting it to the sink. The watch boy was tall and he has a short hair, looked like Ben Tennyson, but he was Ben Carson. I also saw the watch on his wrist. He is wearing a green shirt and a lavender pants, above his forehead, there was also an eyeglasses. He stopped when he saw me and uttered a words.

"Hey! Miss beautiful, what are you doing inside my house? And what did you do to my grandfather?" he asked.

"Hello handsome boy, your grandfather is already dead and I killed him, now if you don't want to follow him, fight me!" I exclaimed.

"What? Did you killed my grandfather? A girl like you can kill my grandfather in just seconds? That's unbelievable."

"Whahahahaha!" I laughed. "Did you see this axe? This is the axe that use to kill your father, I stroke him between his forehead, and if you don't want me to strike you too, fight me!"

Maybe he noticed that the axe on my left hand is so sharp and also prolific of blood that might came from to his grandfather. He was dazed, he did not know what to do. He seemed to be a wind blowing back and forth at my front. He stopped and hold his head firmly, until he finally said that that he will kill me too as what I did to his grandfather.

His appearance had changed into an alien that was a fire breather. There was a continuous fire that coming out form his mouth and he was not only a fire breather, he can also fly. By the used of being swift in my movements, I avoided all his attacks and I fight him with the powerful fan. I thrown him a big hurricane that caused his house to be destroyed. It was not totally me who destroyed his house, but his fires because he seemed to burn me alive of his anger.

If he thought that he can killed me easily, then he was disappointed, because the fires that he thrown to me, I also thrown them back to him by using the powerful fan. He seemed to burn himself in his own fire, because he cannot hit me, but I hit him many times and his body burnt. He collapsed because of the hot fire that came from him. He got not a normal burnt, because he totally turned into a coal.

I did not expected that the fire that coming out from his mouth would be so hot. He even turned himself into a coal because of too much burst that was coming back go him. He died because of his own fire. Meanwhile, Alicia suddenly appeared beside me, as she has a power to know when the person that was destined to fight me is already dead.

"Oh Sheena! What happened to the watch boy? Why he seemed to be burnt by a large burst of fire?" Alice asked, appalled.

"He kill himself, he made a fire and burnt himself. Will it matter if he looked like a coal? Will your master will not accept his spirit?" I replied.

"Of course not, it was just his body who burnt and his spirit like me cannot be burnt, except if a powerful spirit will burnt him again, and he will be totally died for the second time," Alice said.

"If that so, you better waste not your time, because his spirit might elude if you cannot offer him to your master," I suggested.

Alicia offered the spirit of the boy to her master. Eventually, we went to the place of the ninth person. I would not stopped as long as I could not finished my mission in order to get rid from the curses, because stopping even for a while is just a waste of time.

"The next person lives here. He's also a boy, but who has the power of ball. He can change his appearance into a thick, hard and big balls and he will roll down to you. You must be on focus, because he's so fast when he's rolling, and if you cannot avoid him, you will definitely breath your last. So always be on focus," Alice advised.

"Don't worry about me Alice, I can kill him even he will change himself into a rocks, just go to the next person and you don't need to tell if you will go somewhere," I replied

"If that what you wanted, I believed that you can kill him in a short period of time, the same with what you did to other people. Hence, I better go now and leave that boy to you, see you here later."

"Wait! Don't you have a plan to tell where's that boy now?" I asked.

"The boy that was destined to fight you is in the plaza, you know he is playing with ball, though he can even play to himself because he can change himself as a ball," Alice replied.

"Do you mean in that plaza?" I pointed an index to the plaza where there are some boys playing basketball.

"Yeah, is there any other plaza here?" Alice replied.

"I don't know, you can now go to where you want to go, just don't forget to go back here at the right time," I reminded.

"Don't worry Sheena, we are partners in crime, so don't doubt that I will not go back here because my freedom also lies to the people you had killed. Let me just asked you if why you seemed to miss me quickly if I will go somewhere?"

"Are you out of your mind? I don't miss you okay? I only cares for myself, because if there might be many people that can see the crime I did and they will fight me, that will be a big trouble, that's the reason why I am asking you to get back at the right time because you may not see me again."

"Don't see that Sheena, you are still young to die," Alice said.

"Can you stop pretending that you care about me because I know that you only care for yourself and for your freedom, that why you seemed to care as you don't want me to die."

"You said it, I don't want you to die, so don't doubt that I will not help you if there are many people that wants to kill you, because I don't want you to die for my freedom."

Alicia was seemed to be crazy. Well, she's not the only one that seemed crazy, but also me, because we seemed to talk throughout the day if we had started talking about something, through those things are not important. It was Alicia who always changes our topic into an unimportant one and not me. I better not to say anything if she talks about unimportant thing.

The people here are not totally too many, there are just few who are sitting on the benches and looking somewhere. Maybe they are thinking about many things, thinking about their past and love ones. I hope that I can also have someone to love soon, maybe there is also a male who was destined to be my lover. My sky will just turned cloudy because that male seemed to be still a sperm of his father.

I just thought if how it felt to fell in love with someone who has great gap with my age. Well, I could not decide if who would be the male that could make me fell in love. I also could not escape the possibility that I may experience to December love affairs as long as I am single. I am just seventeen and there is still time for that thing.

As Alicia disappeared from the spot where she was standing, I also went near to the boys that were playing balls in the plaza. Definitely, I went very near to them and I even joined them playing basketball, though I don't know how to shoot that ball, there is nothing will gone if I tried.

My intention is not totally playing balls, but to hurt the ball boy and make him show his anger to me, so that he will asked me to play one on one, but I don't really want to play, I want a fight and to kill that ball boy, so that it would end. I had not got any points in shooting the ball to the ring, but I got many points in hurting him, as I did many fouls.

The game ended, and the ball boy was very angry to me, because everytime I went near to him I punched, kicked or do anything just to make him felt hurt. I definitely wanted him to became angry and that there will be a camouflage reason why we are fighting, though the truth I want to kill him.

He wanted to lunged me as his face turned red because of anger. He pushes the other boys that wanted to restrain him to fight me. I did not expected that he was so strong that they had thrown away as he pushes them. Afterward, his appearance changes into a ball as he wants to hit me. He suddenly blow himself towards for many time and I tried my best to avoid them. I was nearly hit by that boy, as he was determined to hit me whatever happened.

The other boys had ran away when they saw that he had turned himself into a ball. They might thought he was not a normal human and could hurt them too if they would stay near to him, the reason why they ran away from us.

If the ball boy thought that he was the only one who was fast, then he was wrong. I thought that he was just a ball and I am a girl who can play him. So I used the power of being swift and I kicked that ball boy anywhere. I seemed to played football at that time, because I wanted to make him weak and that he could not fought me anymore. I did not stopped from kicking him, and because I am so quick, he could not escape from me. Until the boy, in a appearance of a ball turned flabby. It torn him through any way I wanted.

Eventually, he came back to his appearance with a torn clothes and not just clothes, his whole body was turned and he was not even breathing. Meanwhile, he was dead because Alicia also appeared by us. Alicia still wearing her black leather coat and pants. She was not changing them because however beautiful is her dress, it could not cover her sins and nobody can see them because he was a spirit.

"I don't want to asked you what happened to this boy, because I know that it was you who killed him and you will just replied me that it was him who killed himself. Our conversation is just repeating."

"Thank you Alice, I know that it will be difficult for me to fight many people and to be undefeated still without your help in telling me something about the enemies," I replied.

"You don't need to thank me, because what we are doing is we both benefit on it, so I must help you for the benefit." She shown a demon-like smile.

I know that I don't needed to thank Alicia because it was all her mistake why I am fighting now. I already learned my lessons, and that thing is just a part of the puzzle. What I should do is to make myself busy in the things that I needed to do. After a few moments of waiting, Alicia was already done in offering the spirit to her master.

"We're done what we needed to do in this place, so let's go to the next?"

"Don't be hasty Sheena, because the tenth person that you needed to kill is not just ordinary person and there is a big possibility that you cannot defeat that person," Alice said, worriedly.

"What do you mean?" I asked. "Can't you just tell me who is that person that I needed to kill? So that we cannot waste our time in just standing here?"

"That person is a woman who has a beautiful voice. Hold my hand and I will bring you to the place where she is living."

I held Alicia's hand and we suddenly appeared in the other place.

"The next person is a woman who has a beautiful voice. Her power also came from her voice. She can make strong waves through her voice and you must avoid hearing them, else you will be out of consciousness and you could not see her again nor kill her," Alicia said.

"Then tell me where is that woman right now," I said.

"She is inside her house, right there." Alicia pointed her index finger to the house ahead. The house is just simple but beautiful.

"Do you want to help me in killing that woman?" I asked.

"Why did you asked me that? Can't you do it by your own?"

"You told me that she is not just ordinary and there is a big possibility that I cannot defeat her, that is why I am asking your help. Don't worry about the eleventh person, because I will also help you to search for that person."

"You said it, so let us go there now and this will end."

We slowly went near to the house of the woman who has the power of voice. There are many houses standing near to her house, but seemed to be empty because it is so silence here. Maybe those people that lives here are already sleeping because of the beautiful voice of the woman. Sleeping is different from being out of consciousness, those people might out of there consciousness because of that woman.

It seemed that I needed to cover my ears while walking if she will began to sing, because I would be definitely out of consciousness too if I heard her voice. I and Alicia slowly went near to the house where she lives, so that we could not make any noise that can make her asleep. It was already evening and probably the voice woman was asleep.

Alicia used her power to teleport with me and we entered in the house of voice woman without making any noise. It was quite weird inside the house, because it seemed empty and there was no other people lives there. We slowly search for the voice woman; we found her sleeping inside a bedroom.

She don't have beautiful voice only, but also beautiful face. She has white skin, high nose, long, straight hairs. She's not just beautiful, but sexy.

Without doubt, I ended her life through putting the pillow on her face with force so that she could not breathe and dead. I heard her woke up and said something, but because she was suffocating, I could not understood what she was talking about. Eventually, she quieted down. Those happening is not too fast, but I thought that it would be the most easier fight that happened, because the enemy had not fight back. She meet death that was smiling at her.

"Ha!" I suddenly exclaimed. "This is the easiest fight that happened. I can't believe that you would like to tell me that there is a big possibility that I cannot defeat this woman," I said.

"That just... a... nothing," Alicia stammered.

"You just waste your time to go with me though you even had not help me in anything, and now we will need to searched for the eleventh person because you chose to go with me instead of searching for that person," I scolded.

"Can you stopped scolding me? I know it was my mistake when I told you that your enemy is so powerful, I even did not think that every normal people need to sleep at night to rest," Alice said, apologizing.

"See? You even admitted your mistake, so please don't say unimportant things again. Don't say anything as long as you had not think well about it."

"I know—I know that, so you don't need to remind me because I am not having an amnesia, I had been strolling in this world and I don't need someone's admonition."

"If you don't need someone's admonition, why you are making mistakes though you had been strolling in this world for over thousands of years?" I asked.

"Nothing, I am a demon and however I avoid to make wrong to others, it was difficult for me to do, because I am born by mistakes, grew by mistakes, lived with mistakes and I am doing mistakes my whole life. That's how sinful I am and no one can removed that from me whatever they will do," Alice said.

"Wow... So you are bragging because you born with mistakes and lived with mistakes? Are not you felt ashamed because of the wrongs that you did to other people?" I asked.

"Sheena, we can't live in this world without making mistakes. What we can do is to accept that nobody can live in this world without making mistakes."

"I can't live in this world without making mistakes and so I can't live without doing wrong to others, because killing people is the only way to get rid from the curses that came from someone who loved making wrong to others though they are not doing wrong to her."

"Can you stopped mentioning the past? You better stopped talking for now and go outside, because I will be offering the spirit of this woman to my master."

I went outside the house without saying anything. I know that Alicia is just pretending that she know nothing about mistakes and doing wrong to others. She might just avoiding me to chide her mistake that could not be gone in my mind.

The whole place was dark and the moon is the only source of light, because there is no electricity in this place. I don't know if where we will do next, but I'm sure that the time there is different from the time here. It felt different to be strolling in the world by using teleportation, because it seemed that my world is spinning around and making me dizzy.

Eventually, after a few moments of waiting, Alicia went out from the house of the voice woman. She looked like the same and her hair is not spreading around her shoulder anymore. She learned to tied it because I told her that she looked like old Alicia if her hairs is spreading. She was not just old Alicia, but an ugly hag.

I am the definition of a tireless girl. Until now, I had not gotten any information that told the truth about myself. It sounds weird, but I am a girl who did not know myself. I don't know what kind of girl I am or why I have some kind of power that normal humans don't have. Maybe I will just live my life in this world without knowing the whole truth about me and my family.

After Alice offered the spirit of the voice woman to her master, it was time to go to the eleventh person. Maybe that person is a little bit strong and powerful, so I will be fighting and not just killing that person like an ant.

Alicia and I went to the place where the next person lives. The place where there were no more people but animals was not a zoo, but there were many animals in that place. Those animals were so many that their quantity measured a battalion.

"Alice, there are no people here. Don't tell me that the eleventh person that I needed to kill was not a person, but an animal," I said.

"No—she is not an animal, but her power source is related to animals. It may be difficult for you to kill her, because she has the power of these cats. Maybe we can call her the cat woman. She is definitely difficult to kill because she has nine lives," Alice replied.

"What the hell, Alice? Do you believe that cats have nine lives? What kind of demon are you? Whatever power she has, I believed that everything has only one life and they would die after I killed them. That is impossible," I said.

"How can you perform magic if you believe it's impossible?" Alice asked.

I thought that Alicia was right, because I am not here if I don't believe in the impossible things that are happening in this world. There's no use in believing in science anymore, because I am in the world of magic. There is nothing else I could do but believe in the powers that my enemies have, so that my life won't be endangered.

"So where is that cat woman that you are talking about?" I asked.

"She is living in that solitary house that is standing there." Alicia pointed an index finger at the lonely house that was standing ahead.

"Do you think I will need your help in killing that woman?" I asked.

"I don't know, it defends your capability. Just tell me if you need my help in killing her, because I am always ready to help you. What do you think? Do you believe that she is so powerful?"

"I don't believe that she is powerful. I am just asking you if you will help me kill that woman. What do you think? Do I have the capability to kill her?" I asked.

"Of course you have; therefore, you better not waste time. Go to that house and do what you need to do now. I will just search for the twelfth person," Alice replied.

I won't even admit it, but I am a little bit uncomfortable in this place, because it seemed to be a place of death. Well, being scared is just in my mind, so I'd better not think about those things that will scare me. Consequently, I bravely went towards the house of the cat woman, though my heart throbbed wildly and seemed to jump out of my rib cage.

There are no other sounds that can be heard in that place but the meows of cats that are strolling around. I slowly entered the house of the cat woman, but the door cried out when I opened it. I was surprised when there was a woman that jumped on me.

She seemed to be a cat when she scratched my face. It was so painful because her nails were so long and sharp. It made some wounds on my face, and the blood streamed onto my face. I was surprised because she attacked me and I had not prepared.

The fight would not be over just as easily as that. I am clever; therefore, I used all my strength to kick the cat woman, which is the reason she was thrown away from me. She bounced against the columns of her house. Meanwhile, she stood up again and prepared to attack me.

For the second time, the cat woman tried to jump on me and wanted to scratch my face like an ugly cat. I have the power to be swift, and I used that power to avoid her ardour attacks. I swiftly kicked the cat woman many times. She bounced against the columns of her house. She seemed to be a cat that was difficult to kill.

The cat woman definitely looks like a cat. She has a high nose, black eyes, and white skin. Her hair is long, black, and tied. She also has a long black tail. She is tall and also strong, as she is so hard she can't be dropped, no matter how much kicked she gets.

If she thought that she was already so great that nobody could defeat her, she would be disappointed, because a girl named Sheena is the one who will end her life. I am not just an ordinary girl, and I can live even if I have to wait a very long time without doing anything. So I used that thing to kick the cat woman. I kicked her with all my force, and she could not fight back because I was so quick.

Eventually, after hundreds of kicks and punches that the cat woman got from me, she finally became flabby. Who will not be tired if they bounce against the cols so many times? Maybe that is me, because I am thicker than the cat woman.

The last kick she got from me ended her ninth life. Alicia was correct in assuming that the cat woman has nine lives because she was so cold-hearted and could not have died if she still had some lives. Meanwhile, after I killed the cat woman, Alicia also appeared.

After Alicia offered the spirit of the cat woman to her master, she told me something about the twelfth person that was destined to fight me. She told me that the next person that I needed to kill was a woman who had the power of a comb. My adversaries wield power from simple objects such as combs.

Then Alicia brought me to the place where the twelfth person lives. She brought me to a very faraway place, a place where many people live, many huge houses stand, old structures are erected, and tall buildings stand against the unblemished sky. It was already morning in this place, and the sun had just shown up in the sky. The sounds of roasters can be heard, and the streets started to become crowded when the transportation came on.

"Alicia, do you have a plan to tell me where the twelfth person that I need to kill right now?" I said.

"She was just living there." Alicia pointed her fingers at the big house ahead. It seemed that the twelfth person is wealthy, because she lives in a mansion.

"You may now go, just leave that girl to me," I replied.

Alicia suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing. Meanwhile, I went to the mansion where the comb girl lives. Her power source is the comb, so she will be called as comb girl. In that case, the only way to defeat her is to take her comb away from her.

There were some guards that were watching the wide door; therefore, we had a fight. They were just ants to me, for I could not defeat them whatever they would do. It only took me a few seconds to drop them down. Definitely, they were just ants that protect their queen, the big ant that own the mansion. I was surprised when I mistook the comb girl for the owner of that mansion, because I saw her cleaning the floor of the mansion and was ordered by the real owner.

She seemed to be Cinderella that was forced to do her job. I don't know why she also follows her wicked stepmother and the owner of the mansion if she can just use her power to fight them. I saw that there was no comb in her, but in the hands of her wicked stepsister, the daughter of the owner of the mansion. I don't know who to kill if the girl that was cleaning the floor is the one that is holding the comb. Definitely, I am clever and I know who to kill. Of course, the one who was destined to fight me will find a way to fight me and the one that would not fight me was not destined to fight me.

I was just hiding beside the white columns of the mansion at the time. I suddenly showed myself to them and bravely asked for a fight. I seemed to be a drunkard who was asking for a fight. I was surprised when the girl that was holding the comb suddenly exclaimed that she accepted my challenge. Meanwhile, she threw the comb at me, which I did not expect. It is a comb made of fine metal, sharper and pointed. It was a big mistake, because my arm was hit by that comb, the blood spurted out.

Another hit on my legs when the girl threw the comb at me again and my blood seemed to flow like a river. Even my tears started to stream down because of the pain I felt. She was going to hit my neck again when I used my power to avoid her painful attacks. She was a good shooter, because the two times that she shouted at me, I was hit in two parts of my body, in my arm and leg.

I hid myself back in the cols. I could hear that the wicked owners of the mansion were laughing like demons, as they defeated me in just a few seconds. I know that the fight is not over as long as I am alive. In the meantime, I used my power of dark magic to heal the wounds on my arm and leg. Then I immediately went back to the spot where I was hit with the powerful comb. If they thought that I would not go back again, then they would be disappointed, because I went back by myself and faced the death if they wanted to meet me.

They were surprised when they saw me again, but I was more surprised when the girl who was cleaning the floor was already gone. I sensed what it meant. They just used that girl to pretend to make me attack my weakness. They were definitely the two people who were destined to fight me and not the girl. I don't know why Alicia did not tell me that my enemies were also clever. But what I only know is that I will do everything that I need in order to get rid of the curse.

Thus, I avoided all the attacks from the real owner of the comb. I used my power to move quickly, like thunder, and dropped the girl and her mother, who seemed to be the thirteenth person. If she was one of the thirteen people, then it still favored me, because I didn't need to go somewhere to search for her, as she offered herself with volition.

I pushed their faces with all my strength, though my other arm was still bleeding. I never gave them any opportunity to fight back again. I endured all the pain that came from my leg and kicked them every which way that seemed to throw them out of this world. They bounce against the hard coral that only appeared to be hard because their bones were broken as a result of their bones being broken and also as a result of my strength.

Thereafter, I got the comb from the girl's hands as she was not breathing anymore. Her mother's heart also stopped beating. I knew I could use the powerful comb to fight the next people who were destined to fight me.

Alicia was laughing when she appeared beside me. She was laughing because of what she saw. Maybe she was laughing because I had gotten some wounds from the enemies. Maybe she was laughing because even though I got some wounds, I am still alive. Definitely, she was laughing because the two people who were destined to fight me were already dead.

As usual, Alicia would offer the spirits of them to her master. After that, the bodies of the two suddenly disappeared from the spot where they were lying. Then Alicia invited me to go to a bar and stop killing people for a while, just to relax and drink some wine. Of course, I don't go with her, because she will just waste time and cause some trouble there instead of doing the job that she needed to finish.

Alicia took me to the other location, where the fourteenth person. She brought me to a very far place. I know that it was far because it took us seconds to reach the place, though we were teleporting.

It seems that the fourteenth person's power is related to nature, because Alicia brought me to the place where there are no more houses. There are some houses, but they all stand apart from each other. The sky is a little bit cloudy, and the wind whispers coldly. There are many trees, plants, animals, and many other things that surround us. There are many high mountains also. Everywhere I looked, there were many groves and copses. It was a breathtaking view, and the air was unpolluted.

"Wow, it is a nice place!" I exclaimed.

"Hey, can you stop thinking that I brought you her just to relax? I already asked you to go to the bar, but you don't want to go with me. So I will just let you fight the person that was destined to fight you, while I will be going to the bar," Alice said.

What the hell is Alicia? She seemed to be going into the bar even though her work was not finished yet. I don't know why she will be going there, though she cannot even drink a lot of liquor. I know that she will just cause some trouble, because she cannot avoid making some trouble, as she was born because of troubles.

"You have freedom to do whatever you want, but don't forget to tell me something about the fourteenth person before leaving. One more thing: do not drink liquor, and come back here at the right time, or else you cannot offer the spirit of the next person to your master."

"Don't worry about that, Sheena. Actually, I am just joking that I will go to the bar, but the truth is that I will not. I will only search for the sixteenth person that was destined to fight you, because you seemed to want to eat me if I did not help you in searching for your enemies."

"Can you please stop telling me that I will eat you, because if I could, I would have gone so already? You better tell me something about the fourteenth person first," I replied.

"The fourteenth person is a man who has the power of rocks. Those rocks there can do whatever he wants them to do. Did you see that house there? That is the house of the man." Alica pointed her index finger at the house that was surrounded by the precipice and cliff.

It seemed like a difficult fight was waiting for me and the man that was living there. If his power source were rocks, I'm going to call him the rocks man. Alicia suddenly disappeared from the spot where she was standing. Well, she doesn't need to ask my permission before leaving because her speech is so monotonous.

I went near the house where the Rocks Man lives to see if he was there. There were too many steep rocks around, and they seemed to pierce me with their pointed edges. When I reached the small house, there were no other sounds that I heard, except the beautiful chirps of birds that perched above the tall trees.

Perhaps the Rock Man is sleeping, because everything around him seemed to be singing a lullaby, cold wind chilled me to the bone and seemed to be making me fall asleep.

I slowly opened the door of the small house, it cried out as if it wanted to wake someone from a deep slumber. Therefore, if it didn't want to quiet down, then I totally slammed it. I seemed to wake up the sleeping house, because it was shaking when I opened the door. When I entered there, I was surprised, because I saw nothing. Again, I was surprised when I turned to go out of the house because of what I saw. It was the man who was looking directly at me.

That man is already old, but I don't like his demeanor because he scolded me when he saw that I seemed to be destroying his house. Well, I cannot judge him if he becomes angry because he has a reason to be. What is more shameful is to be angry without any reason. Maybe it was also because of anger that the Rocks Man showed their power to me. The steep rocks are floating in the air because of his anger to me.

At that time, I was bewildered and did not know what to do. I am afraid that the Rocks Man could hit me with those steep rocks because they looked so painful if they could hit me. So I do my best to run quickly to avoid the steep rocks that want to hit me.

My heart beat wildly, and I could even hear it while running. I used my power to move swiftly, but there were too many rocks that were blocking my way, and those rocks made me stumble. I nearly died because the Rocks Man was just behind me, and there were too many rocks that surrounded him. I am just lucky because I had a powerful comb.

I used the powerful comb to kill the Rocks Man by piercing the right side of his chest. I thought that he was already dead, because he did not move. He seemed to be stuck looking right at me while the prolific blood from his chest streamed down. Expectations hurt and I was surprised when the Rocks Man used all the steep rocks around him. He hit me, and I was totally out of senses because of the steep rocks that measure a battalion.

I can see nothing but darkness. Everywhere I look, there is nothingness waiting. I was in a place of emptiness. I don't know how I get into this kind of place. What I only remember is that I was fighting with the Rocks Man and I became out of consciousness because of the rocks that he threw at me. I don't know how to go back to the real world.

My world suddenly tottered. I used all my power to stop the earthquake, but it was so strong that it wanted to destroy my whole world. There is someone destroying my world, the world of emptiness where I can do whatever I want, because I have freedom here. When I opened my eyes, I saw Alicia looking at me.

"Oh! Alice, what happened to the rock man?" I asked.

"Good job, Sheena!" Alice exclaimed. "Your mission to that man has already been completed; you killed him. I'm sorry because I did not help you in killing him, but you still proved that you are powerful."

"That was just okay. I know that you are still helping me to search for those people who were destined to fight me," I replied.

"Your body was full of bruises. Are you just okay?" Alice asked.

"No more words, I am just okay. You better bring me to the next person who was destined to fight me, and this will end," I replied.

"Can you stop for a while? Let me just use dark magic to heal your wounds. You had told me that you could kill all your enemies. Well, look what happened to you. You were nearly killed by the enemy."

I sighed. "Alice, can you stop pretending that you care for me? I know that you only care for yourself and for your freedom."

"No—can you stop pretending that you don't like me to care about you? It's true, I really care about you, and I care about you more than I care about myself or anything else," Alicia stated, solemnly.

She gave me a hand and helped me stand up. I don't feel any pain anymore. It was because of Alicia's dark magic, as she healed my wounds and even the pain that I felt about everything. I seemed to be full of vitality that I could jump higher.

"Why won't you just bring me to the next person? You're just talking nonsense. How can you say that you care for me though you cannot even care for yourself?" I asked.

"Sheena, can you please give me a little time to explain why I care so much for you? I have been telling you that I care for you, but you are always changing our topic and won't even let me talk."

"Alicia... there is no other thing that was more important than you, and there are no other things more important to me. What is most important to us is our freedom, and have you forgotten that what we are doing is for our freedom? That we are fighting for freedom? Because some people seemed to be giving us curses, as their minds were our prisons and their eyes were our cage," I said, then my tears are falling to the ground because of the feelings that I cannot explain.

"You don't need to be free anymore because you are already free and what you must do is to enjoy that time that is left in your life. You can do whatever you want, but enjoy every day that comes because life is just too short. Enjoying life is the best thing to do so that one day you will not regret wasting your time on doing the will of others. Do not do the will of others if you will not be happy."

"Alicia?" I asked, curiously. "Is that really you? Why are you saying that? You are a heartless demon, are not you? You are the one who put a curse on me, are not you? You are the one who wants me to fight because it is for our freedom, didn't you? Why are you telling me these things now?"

"Why are you doubting my words? Why do you need to search for freedom if I am giving it to you? Why won't you believe that I care for you?" She asked.

"Why won't you just tell me the exact reason why you care for me?"

Alicia's face seemed to be telling me that she was crying, though there were no tears coming out of it. Her words seemed to be saying farewell to me. Maybe she was just saying farewell because she was going to search for the next person. I knew that there were still eighty-six people left that I needed to kill in order to be totally free from the curse.

"Because you are my granddaughter," Alice said.

I was surprised. I was drowned by my feelings because I did not want to be a granddaughter of the spirit who put me under the curse and cheated me. I cannot believe that I have a grandmother like her. Even though her eyes are telling me that she is telling the truth. I can't accept her! I don't have a grandmother that was so wicked. I hated her my whole life.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" I screamed. "I don't want to be your granddaughter!"

I suddenly sprang from my bed. The first thing that I saw was the table inside my bedroom. The window is open just a crack and the hither and thither movements of the cold air enter my bedroom.

It was incredible. I cannot believe that everything was just a dream and I am still here, inside my bedroom, awake and alive. I have realized that nothing in this world is permanent, and everything has an ending. Though many things had happened in my life, and however long my journey is, I will just consider them as a dream.

But before I totally woke up, I heard someone says, "A year elapsed and I had finished my task: killing a hundred people never became easy, but nothing happened, everything stayed the same. Is the prophecy accurate? Didn't happen. That demon told me that I needed to kill more people to prevent the curse from inflicting."

So I knew: I was lucky...