Ouroboros's Soul

The incident at the apartment was resolved when Alexis returned with a few scratches on her body, she reassured her parents that she had only fallen off her bike and was being questioned by the police.

After putting a bandage on her body, Alexis returned to her room, although she had been treated, her body still felt sore. Ryu had said that the recovery sigil only kept her alive and could not fully recover, so there were still a few wounds that needed medical treatment.

Alexis placed the tarot deck on the desk and let herself collapse on the bed, and this was a bad idea because once her body hit the bed, the pain spread throughout her body, causing the girl to groan in pain and not dare to scream loudly.

"You're really stupid"- Wiro

"I know that without you saying it. It was a nightmare experience"- Alexis

"So do you know your mistake?"- Wiro

"Yes, I know. So stop being sarcastic with me"- Alexis

"I finally have a mouth to speak, now I can tell you"- Wiro

"Okay, I want to rest now. So shut up"- Alexis

Just as Alexis was about to fall asleep, her phone suddenly rang with a text message. She frowned slightly and tried to ignore it, but the phone rang more. Annoyed, she picked up the phone to see who the crazy person was texting her at this hour.

Quickly grabbing the phone, she sat up and turned it on to see that the text messages were all from an unknown number. The text message said that this person seemed very familiar to her.

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[???: Hey, is this Alexis's number?]

[???: If it's Alexis, please reply]

[???: Please reply now]

[???: I know you're there]

[???: If you don't reply, I'll spam you with messages]

And so Alexis replied to the message.

[Alexis: Yes, it's me, who the hell are you?]

[???: Oh, so it's Alexis's number. Sorry for texting you so much, but I need to know how you're doing because of your health. I forgot to introduce myself as Euca, Ryu's acquaintance. So you can talk freely without being nervous]

[Alexis: How could I know you are Ryu's friend]

[Euca: I can use my name to guarantee, if you don't believe me, you can click on this link to come see me]

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Although I was a bit suspicious, this person didn't seem to be lying. Another message popped up, it was a strange link. The phone screen suddenly turned off, Alexis was a bit surprised and tried to restart the phone but it didn't seem to react.

Could it be that the link had a virus?

She did something stupid again, how could she easily believe a stranger's words?

The phone suddenly lit up again, Alexis checked it and found nothing strange, there were no strange apps downloaded. Could it be that her phone had a problem and restarted itself.

The message that suddenly appeared was Euca, she opened it to read.

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[Euca: Sorry, I just did some operations to be able to connect to your mobile device]

[Alexis: What did you do?]

[Euca: Just to help you have more devices to help you, try checking the applications like maps, camera, or contacts. You will see the difference]

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Alexis opened the map application and saw that the map interface was still normal, except that there were some strange images on the outside, like the image of a door when you click on it, it shows a gate with a clear address and the level of danger. There was a gate quite close to her house, Alexis looked out the window towards the deepest part of the alley, in the information, that gate seemed to be quite safe.

Wiro looked at his master as if he understood what she was planning to do.

"Are you serious?"- Wiro

"I didn't do anything!"- Alexis

"Hey, I've been with you for two years, how could I not know that your curiosity killed a cat?"- Wiro

"Ah uh...well..."- Alexis

"It's not anyone's fault, it's your curiosity"- Wiro

"But isn't this worth seeing. I finally got to experience such supernatural things, I thought those things were only in my imagination"- Alexis

"So that near-death experience in the apartment building didn't scare you, you silly girl!"- Wiro

The little puppy then rushed forward and pressed its small body on Alexis' face, causing her to fall backwards onto the bed, not allowing her to leave the room. Although this little puppy is a wolf, it is very cute in this form, Alexis hugged the little wolf in her arms, although the wolf is in spirit form, only those who are tarot readers can touch it like a physical body.

In the end, both of them fell asleep without knowing it.

In the middle of the night, Wiro's ears perked up when he heard something, the wolf jumped off his master's body and headed towards the window, when he looked outside, he looked towards the gate in the dead-end alley and saw a skinny creature crawling out of the gate, around its neck was a collar for animals with a chain stretching from the gate.

The creature's nose kept sniffing the air as if searching for something, at that moment, a drunk person was walking into the alley. There was only one street light around, the man was not sober, his vision was not very clear so the man thought it was his wife.

"Hey, you came here to pick me up? I told you I don't need you! What a woman, you don't listen to your husband... wait, you're not my wife..."

Of course, the creature didn't understand what the man said, it immediately rushed to attack the man before he could scream. Wiro was above observing everything as the man was dragged inside the gate by the creature, the blood trail gradually disappeared without leaving any trace.

The next morning, the drunk man from yesterday was found dead in the zoo, he was a zoo janitor, the cause of death was an attack by a tiger that escaped from its cage.

"Who would have thought it was due to carelessness?"

The middle-aged man spoke up when he heard the news. He was Rowan Wood, a man in his late 40s, with a well-proportioned body, shaved hair, and thin glasses. He was a somewhat strict father who loved his family very much.

"I think it was just bad luck, but zookeepers have to check the cages regularly."

The woman who just spoke was Talia Wood, a woman one year younger than her husband, a bit thin, with short hair that looked very agile. Next was Daisy Wood, the little sister in the house, who was quickly eating breakfast to go to school, and finally Alexis, who was putting some hot noodles in her mouth and listening to the news without paying much attention.

This morning was also normal like this, making Alexis feel very peaceful. Today she didn't have any orders to deliver so today could be considered a day off. Most of her family's business is catering to athletes and the rich, sometimes there are a lot of orders, sometimes there are not.

If anyone wonders why Alexis doesn't look for a job, the most plausible reason she can give is that her health doesn't allow it and her mentality is weak. Sometimes she finds these two problems quite troublesome for her, they make her limit her contact with the outside world.

Today, she continued writing her story to post on the story writing website when Wiro jumped on the table and walked towards her.

"Hey, I think you should go contact someone"- Wiro

"Is there a problem?"- Alexis

"That gate in the alley that you said was a bit safe yesterday, last night something crawled out of there and attacked the man on the news"- Wiro

"Huh? Wasn't it because of the attack in the zoo?"- Alexis

"That was just a set-up to cover up the existence of supernatural forces. I saw with my own eyes the thing that crawled out of there and killed that man, it seemed like it was looking for something"- Wiro

"Maybe it's looking for me?"- Alexis

"Maybe it's true"- Wiro

Then Alexis quickly put her things in her bag and ran downstairs to get her bike and met her mother in the yard. Her mother looked at her with a surprised expression.

"Where are you going in such a hurry?"- Talia

"I... went to the coffee shop for a bit, my friend made an appointment there to talk"- Alexis smiled awkwardly

"You have an appointment with friends? Since when did you have friends?"- Talia

"We just met recently. I have to go and I'll be back for dinner, goodbye!"- Alexis

After saying that, she rode her bike out of the house and onto the street to go to the cat cafe. After a while, she arrived, but then suddenly stopped and saw a group of people standing in front of the cat cafe. They seemed to be a group of older young people, but there was something very suspicious. The dog Wiro jumped onto Alexis' head, his nose slightly raised to sniff.

"That group of people doesn't smell very normal"- Wiro

"How so?"- Alexis

"It's like the smell of...a corpse"- Wiro