Chapter 23: The Little Boy

"I'm not interested in your ugly image!"

"But Miss Anne said my picture was good." He said while showing a picture of his work in a drawing book.

He also showed a picture of a family consisting of father, mother and son.

"This is dad, this is mom and this is me." He said while pointing one by one the characters in the picture.

"Ugly as hell,"

"Can you draw, uncle?"

"I've never done it before, but I'll try." He said while taking the boy's drawing book and pencil.

He tried to draw a picture of a monster rampaging in the middle of the sea, causing a ship to almost sink. The boy was amazed at how good the pictures in his drawing book were.

"What is this picture, uncle? Is this a monster?"

"Yes, this creature is a very terrible monster. He lived at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years. He made big storms and destroyed ships in the ocean."

"Do monsters really exist? Miss Anne said they don't exist."

"The monster exists and told stupid Miss Anne that the monster lives at the bottom of the sea. Do you understand?"

The boy nodded and smiled. He initially felt very afraid because he was left alone in the park. Slowly starting to feel calm.

"Sick-"

Suddenly he felt pain in his stomach and made him wince in pain. He tried not to cry because he was afraid of being called a crybaby.

"What's wrong with you? If you want to die you should just go there!"

"My stomach hurts, uncle. I'm hungry, the provisions that mother gave me have run out and now I have no food."

"How long have your father and mother been gone?"

"Since this morning, mom and dad left me in the park and they said they would be back soon. But now it's late, they haven't come to pick me up. I'm scared," finally, after trying hard not to cry, the tears flowed too.

He sobbed, scared and panicked because his parents had not yet come to pick him up.

"Where is your house? I'll take you home!"

"I don't know, but I just moved to this city yesterday."

"What a nuisance! Then you just wait here for your parents, I have to go now!" He said as he left the poor boy alone in the park.

"Wait, uncle...!" The child immediately chased him and grabbed his hand.

"What's wrong? Don't hold my hand if you don't want to die?"

"I'm afraid to be alone, it's dark here. I want to go home. I want to see mom and dad."

"That's none of my business! I don't want to get involved in human affairs." He let go of the boy's hand and continued walking without looking back.

But when he arrived at the park entrance, he felt something strange. The disgusting laughter of a soul that has been incited by a devil and also the miserable cry of a helpless human.

"Damn it, this shouldn't be any of my business!"

He decided to return to the place where the boy died and as he had expected, the boy was no longer there. A van was passing on the highway through the park. He quickly realized that something had happened to the boy.

Meanwhile in the van, a boy was crying with his mouth covered with a cloth. Two men laughed loudly after making the boy tied with rope.

"Damn, what is that-"

Braaakkk...

The car hit a strange object that suddenly appeared in the middle of the road. A man driving the car immediately hit the brakes even though their car had hit the mysterious object.

One of them got out of the car to check what was blocking their way because they felt as if they saw a wild animal.

"What was that creature earlier?"

"S-he disappeared-"

"I'm here!"

The two men looked back when they heard a man's voice. Their eyes bulged when they saw a man dressed in black standing on top of their car.

"Bastard, what are you doing up there...?"

Leviathan took out a cigarette case from his coat, took out a cigarette and lit it on fire from the tip of his index finger.

The two men were surprised to see how a strange man standing on top of their car could make a fire burn with just the tip of his index finger.

"F-fire? H-how could that be?"

After exhaling smoke from the first puff, Leviathan got out of the car by stepping on the front hood of the car with his feet. Every step causes the car to become dented.

"W-who are you? What business do you have with us?"

"Humans are very disgusting creatures, don't you think?"

"W-what-"

"Because of that, I'd better speed up your path to hell."

"Aaaagh..."

The two men fell to the ground with their necks twisted. They die with just the slightest touch.

He heard the sound of a small child moaning from inside the car and when he opened the car door, the boy he met in the park was in the back seat of the car with his hands and feet tied with rope. The boy's eyes were bruised as if he had been beaten.

"What a nuisance!" he muttered. He untied the rope that tied the little boy's body and carried him.

"Uncle?" The boy's eyes filled with tears. He hugged the man who had saved him. He sobbed with his body shaking.

"What can we do about it."

He realized that he had no other choice now because he had already saved this child and it seemed like he was forced to take this child home to Edelweiss.

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