Ouroboros's Soul

Ryu and Jack were running for their lives as the Wiro wolf chased after them, although the wolf was fast, it was still nothing compared to the two of them.

This long and endless hallway, who knows where to find Alexis.

"Is it time to get that annoying guy out?"- Jack

"Shasha doesn't like to be bothered"- Ryu

"I don't care what that guy thinks, the important thing now is that we're about to become that rabid wolf's meal!"- Jack shouted

"Fine, then you go find Alexis"- Ryu

Ryu reached into her pocket and took out a black cloth bag, opened the bag and the tarot cards inside flew out. She stopped, ready to confront the Wiro wolf.

"Shasha, I'm counting on you"- Ryu

The cards gathered together to form a middle-aged man in a European-style dress, with chestnut-green hair. Seeing the wolf charging towards them, the middle-aged man didn't seem afraid at all, but immediately slapped the wolf hard on the face, sending it flying away and hitting the nearby wall.

Seeing the man's actions, Ryu just sighed.

"Are you still angry, Shasha?"- Ryu

"I'm not angry, you've misunderstood something, master. I just don't like my nickname at all. My full name is Shadow"- Shadow

"But Shasha sounds cute, right?"- Ryu

"Shut your mouth, master. So what's the problem? Out of control animal, why don't you call animal control?"- Shadow

"That's funny, Shasha. That's the tarot soul of the newcomer we met last time"- Ryu

"The tarot soul of Ouroboros? That big wolf was the puppy from last time?"- Shadow

"Well, she must have been injured and hiding somewhere while she couldn't control that wolf. Jack went looking for her"- Ryu

"Okay, what do you want me to do now, master?"- Shadow

Ryu looked at towards the wolf Wiro who was staggering to stand up and prepare to attack again, Ryu's eyes were indifferent and indifferent.

"Whatever you do, teach that wolf a lesson to remember for life"- Ryu

"Okay, as you wish"- Shadow

Wiro growled fiercely and then quickly rushed to attack Shadow.

Meanwhile Jack was still searching for the girl Alexis in the dark hallway, with the knowledge of a police officer, the psychology of a girl when in danger would definitely find a small place that fits her body. Especially when hiding, the sound of a heartbeat would ring out.

Jack covered his ears for a while then slowly let go, it seemed like he could hear more clearly in the space. He could hear every smallest corner, when he heard the sound of someone's heartbeat.

Entering a room where the sound of a heartbeat was coming from, he slowly opened the door of the room and saw no one, but the sound of a heartbeat was unmistakable. Jack tried searching the entire room from the easiest and most visible places to the hardest to find places, but still couldn't find anyone.

It was strange, the heartbeat was clearly inside but no one was seen, this could be because there was something hidden in this room. The policeman recalled the information about this apartment building, strange disappearances often occurred, although those missing people had returned, their minds were no longer normal. When they were put on the ambulance, those victims looked very panicked, they didn't want to get on the ambulance at all.

That's not right, the skin of those victims looked pale and lacked vitality, their panicked expressions were like... claustrophobia.

Meaning those victims were locked in a place that was both cramped and narrow. If they were locked in a dark and narrow space and also mentally tortured for a period of time then....

"Hey, where are you!!! Speak up!!!"- Jack

In a dark and cramped place, Alexis opened her eyes, but everything around her was pitch black and she couldn't see anything. Then she heard someone's voice.

'I'm here...I'm here...but it hurts so much...I can't speak'- Alexis thought

Her mind was still a bit dizzy but she still remembered something.

It seemed like she and Wiro went back to the 13th floor to look for something, then they were suddenly attacked. Wiro held them back so she could escape, but she didn't expect someone else to ambush her afterwards...

After that...

What happened after that? Why couldn't she remember anything?

"Someone please...help me...it's too dark here...hard to breathe"

"Please anyone...I want to go out"

"It's too dark...too dark..."

"Let me out...let me out..."

The weak voices that reached Alexis' ears made her think that she was a bit dreamy and imagined those voices. The pleading voice sounded pitiful, it must have been trapped here for a long time but no one outside heard it, an innocent being trapped here without anyone knowing.

*Thump!*

A loud crash caught Jack's attention, he noticed the wall behind him and noticed something strange. The closer he got, the more he saw the strangeness, the marks on the wall looked like wallpaper carelessly placed as if to hide something.

"Here!"- Jack

He immediately peeled off the wallpaper to reveal a rather old wooden door, behind that door was Alexis who was unconscious, the wound on her head was flowing a thick red liquid down her jaw. Jack immediately carried Alexis out of that room when suddenly Ryu appeared in front of him.

"You found her! Now let's get out of here!"- Ryu

"What's going on?"- Jack

"That mad dog is really going crazy, it won't stop attacking even if it's seriously injured"- Shadow

Wiro walked forward angrily while the wolf's body was quite seriously injured, the wounds on its body had a lot of blue smoke flying out but its eyes still showed a bloodthirsty threat. The wolf rushed forward, Shadow immediately used his bare hands to grab the wolf's jaw to prevent it from biting him, but Wiro seemed to use all his strength to bite the prey in front. Ryu realized that the situation was not good, so he took out a square piece of paper from his pocket and drew on it with a pen.

"What are you doing?"- Jack

"Use teleportation sigil. I don't have any runes, so this is the last resort, the important thing is to get this girl out of here"- Ryu

As for Shadow, he tried to use all his strength to not let the wolf overwhelm him, although he had more than enough strength to turn the tables, it seemed that he could not match the level of bloodlust and madness of this wolf.

How could they be enemies, behind them was this creature from the 13th floor, it had noticed their presence and immediately rushed forward.

"Agh damn it!"- Jack

He immediately put Alexis on the ground, pulled out his gun, aimed at the creature, and fired continuously at the creature, the bullets hitting the creature caused it pain. However, it can only slow it down, not drive it away.

Alexis heard a slightly noisy sound, her eyes felt heavy as she tried to open them, but everything was very blurry, only two blue lights attracted her attention.

Wiro, it was the wolf Wiro.

Those glowing blue eyes, it was a frenzy, it could only be activated if his master was seriously injured.

That wolf had protected her and now he must be very angry when he saw how bad her condition was. Because of protecting her, the wolf was attacking other people. The wolf's mouth might be hard to hear, but in the end, he wanted to protect her, Alexis raised her hand towards the wolf.

"Wiro...Wiro..."- Alexis

Her call was too small to reach the wolf's ears, but she still tried to call out loudly. Looking at the blue eyes of the wolf that was attacking Ryu's tarot soul.

"Wiro...don't hurt them..."- Alexis

It seemed like the wolf was starting to react, it was hesitant, even though its eyes were blue Alexis knew the wolf was looking at her. So she pointed her finger heavily towards the creature that Jack was attacking and was about to pounce.

"Kill it for me, do it now!"- Alexis shouted

Alexis' eyes glowed blue, her pupils narrowing into wild ones.

Her scream reached Wiro's ears, causing the wolf's eyes to gradually return to normal and turn towards the creature in front. The wolf avoided Shadow and rushed towards the creature, as fast as lightning it pounced on the creature like a predator, the wolf tore it apart brutally. Until Wiro bit the creature's head and pulled it off its body, successfully finishing the creature off.

The other two had just witnessed Wiro attacking the creature without any mercy, as soon as the wolf turned towards them, Ryu and Jack defended themselves in case the wolf went berserk again. Alexis tried to get up and walked closer to the wolf Wiro, then she raised her hand to rub the wolf's muzzle.

"Good boy, you did well"- Alexis

"And you're terrible"- Wiro

"I made you worry"- Alexis

Ryu remembered the sigil, she ran to put the square paper on Alexis's back and the sigil glowed green. The girl felt her body no longer in pain, just a little numb, the bleeding had stopped, Alexis turned to thank her but what she received was Ryu's annoyed face.

"You idiot! I told you to sit still, why didn't you listen?"- Ryu

"I... sorry"- Alexis

"I should have hit you hard on the head or reprimanded you. But now you're like this, do you know your mistake?"- Ryu

"Yes, I know my mistake"- Alexis

Ryu didn't say anything more but just sighed and flicked Alexis' forehead, causing her to feel a sharp pain and want to scream but she didn't dare because everything was her fault.

"Let's go back home, the creatures of this place are dead, so everything will return to normal"- Ryu

The three of them were about to leave when Alexis remembered something and stopped.

"Wait a minute"- Alexis

"What else?"- Jack

"When we go back, can you please come back to this floor? That room, can we check it?"- Alexis

The young policeman seemed to understand what the girl meant and nodded slightly, Ryu didn't understand what was going on.

When they returned to the real world, Ryu and Alexis stood waiting for the police to search, after a while the policemen saw a rather large bag placed on the hospital bed and put it in the ambulance. Jack walked towards them with a bag of evidence.

"Found a dead body behind the wall of that room, looking at it, it was a child around 10 to 12 years old. And guess what I found?"- Jack

Ryu took the evidence bag and frowned, inside were old papers with many strange symbols drawn on them.

"A summoning paper, using the body of a child as a sacrifice. This method is like a witch or a black magician"- Ryu

"No matter who it is, that psychopath using a child as a vessel is too cruel"- Jack

"That's horrifying"- Alexis

"How did you know there was a dead body in there?"- Jack turned to look at Alexis

"I don't know...I only heard a voice when I was injured."- Alexis

"Anyway, you helped that child free himself from suffering, thank you"- Jack

Jack said and left, leaving the two girls behind. Alexis remembered that she had an order so she quickly delivered it, while Ryu was still standing there, thinking about something.