Chapter 42 - Tithonus : Part 3

"That hurts!" Aster yelped as Rune rubbed another cotton filled with alcohol to the blond's head.

"Shut up, you whiny jerk. The monsters could hear us outside." She whisper-yelled at him, still patiently trying to clean the head wound Aster got earlier.

They had just arrived at the police station earlier, and Aster quickly yelled at his brother hysterically with a bleeding head. Rune was sure that the lieutenant had a heart attack for a second there despite his calm face.

So, in the end, lieutenant Valerian commanded all his men to the scene. At first, he was insisting on staying to tend Aster's wound, but the young Edelweiss had too much ego in him that he refused his older brother's help, saying that he could do it himself.

Of course, it turned out that Aster could not.

So here Rune was, trying to tend the blond's wound while the red-eyed monsters were roaming outside the police station.

Aster kept tapping his right foot nervously. Green eyes were trying to look out of the window while the red-haired girl struggled to wrap a bandage on his head.

The bouncing of Aster's legs made the blond's head shake every time he did the tapping. Rune was becoming more irritated as seconds passed and quickly smacked his head.

The blond yelped and held his wounded head like his life was clinging to it. He looked at Rune with a mix of betrayal and surprise.

"What the hell was that for?!" Aster ventured. Even though he yelled angrily at her, the boy was backing away from her little by little.

Rune put both of her hands on her waist as her hazel eyes stared down at Aster. "Stop moving around. I know you're worried about your brother. He's going to be fine. I'm worried about my dad too, so can you stop moving around every one second so I can actually finish bandaging your head?"

"I'm not- I'm not worried about him!" Aster defended, a blush crept upon his cheeks as he tried to justify himself. "I'm just worried that the monsters are going to kill us." The boy looked away from Rune, desperately trying to hide his red face.

The red-haired girl raised her eyebrows and started to walk over the blond again. "Uhuh, whatever you say, Aster."

Rune took another bandage and started to wrap Aster's head again. This time the latter stayed still, not wanting another smack upon his head and making the wound even worse.

Aster took a glance at the red-haired girl. There were wrinkles on her forehead as she focused on tending his wound. Her red ponytail was messed up from how fast they ran earlier.

Aster's green eyes kept staring at her before he finally decided to break the silence. "Do you think the mute murderer is okay?"

Rune stopped at the sudden question. She cringed at the mention of the criminal, knowing how he had just killed a man right before her eyes.

Hazel eyes glazed over the green eyes as they met with each other. The green ones were patiently waiting for an answer, while the hazel ones were contained with unexplainable emotions.

"He's the mute murderer. I'm sure he's fine."

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Axel was, in fact, not fine at all.

He was so incredibly screwed and tired of all the bullshits that were happening right now.

Why might you ask?

Well, you could ask the torn out cloak wearing person who was holding a dagger to his throat right now and being the main idea for him to be 'not fine'.

Because why? Because the damn universe hated the boy so much that he could not catch a single break from everything.

Let's rewind a little, shall we?

After the little debate Axel and Kiaran did, the demon left without any words, slamming the door closed, clearly irritated.

In Axel's tired state, he could not help but feel a little proud of himself for being able to outrun the Kiaran. The corner of his lips tugged upward a little as he stared at the door dully.

The boy blinked tiredly, taking one last glance at the person outside the window and finally closed his eyes.

Oh, wait-

Axel snapped his head toward the window so fast that he believed his neck cracked. His red and blue eyes widened as he had a face-off with the person outside his window.

The person was wearing a navy blindfold with a torn out cloak that matched the colour of the cloth over his eyes. The only thing that you could see from him was his unwavering pale lips.

Axel awkwardly smiled at the person while holding a hand to the air, trying to greet the cloaked man.

"Uh, Am I supposed to say hi?"

The person suddenly burst through the window, sending the glass pieces everywhere as he aimed a dagger at the boy.

Axel jolted on his bed, dodging the dagger swiftly, and backflipped to the floor, ignoring how he accidentally opened the bullet wound on his feet again.

"Okay, then. No hi, no hi! I get it, no hi!" Out of Adrenaline, the boy sputtered words out of his mouth, desperately trying to dodge the dagger that was an inch away to cut through him.

Axel went to the corner of his room, crashing his back to the wall when a silver arrow pierced through the wall right beside his left ear.

There was a beat of silence before Axel quickly ducked, almost hitting his head to the floor when another dagger tried to stab his face.

Axel rolled to the left, hair that was messy before becoming messier. His black locks covered his blue eye as he stared at the person who tried to take his dagger away from the wall.

Axel took this as his chance and silently stood up, backing slowly to the door without diverting his eyes from the blindfolded man.

When his back touched the door, the boy quickly turned around and twisted the door handle.

Only to realize that it was locked.

Axel chuckled bitterly to himself at the ridiculous situation. "There is no god." He whispered at himself as he caved in and turned around to face the cloaked man.

The person was already facing him with a dagger in his fingerless gloved hand. Blindfolded eyes were looking at Axel intimidatingly. "You should have been dead." He said with a dead tone.

"Oh, you mean the other me? I think he's in fact already dead like you said." Axel grimaced, nodding at the person as he tried to reassure the man and raised both of his hands. "You got the wrong person, I swear."

The person stayed silent at Axel's defend and tilted his head downward. "Then you should die too."

The cloaked man suddenly ran to him at a fast speed and tried to tackle Axel with his dagger again. Though, the boy was a beat faster and darted around the person. The weapon stuck on the door, earning a grunt from the blindfolded person.

Axel took no time to think and quickly looked at the window. The boy sucked his breath as his heart thumped loudly.

In a swift move, the boy ran to the window, closing his eyes and jumping out of it.

Though just before he actually fell from the window, the person snatched the back of his shirt and quickly dragged him back to his room with a dagger over his neck.

"Please, just let me rest! This is getting ridiculous!" Axel yelled as he wriggled on the person's grip, trying to break free.

And that was how Axel fell into the 'not fine' situation. Pretty neat, right?

The dagger was inching closer to his neck when the door suddenly burst open, revealing Adreanna that illuminated the lights around the room with two wide-open wings.

"Let go of him." She dully stated, red eyes glinting with danger as the demon glared at the cloaked person.

Axel could hear the person click his tongue before throwing him away to the wall, causing the poor boy to grunt.

Adreanna took no time to let the man escape and quickly sent her porcelain feathers to the cloaked person.

Axel watched as the blindfolded man dodged all the feathers gracefully as if he was dancing alongside the porcelains. It was rather an impressive thing to do with a blindfold over the man's eyes.

One of the porcelain feathers sliced through the man's fingerless gloved hand and hit the palm of his hand, causing some blood to come out of the wound.

The person threw the dagger in his other hand to Adreanna, who quickly tried to block it with her porcelain wing.

She widened her red eyes when the dagger pierced right through her wing easily and sliced the tip of her ears a little, making her froze in her place.

The person stood on the window with his back to the moon, looking at Axel with a tilting head and let himself fell backward.

"Until next time, Tithonus."