Chapter 4: Not of Your Concern
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Kai was paralyzed for a moment.
'That thing killed me last time, right? But that was when I didn't have my powers yet. But wait… I still don't have the powers! I mean, I managed to somehow use it in the grave that day, but…'
The thing was staring at his eyes with the same never-changing expression. This time it didn't give the chance. Noticing it was cornered in the room, it jumped right at Kai.
But Kai swung his body to the side with all the speed he had and dodged it by a hair's breadth.
“Woah!" Kai didn't know whether he was more surprised due to the thing's sudden charge of the fact that he actually managed to dodge.
'This isn't normal. I wouldn't have dodged that. It turns out I still have some of those powers, after all. Even if the scale is far inferior.' He thought. 'In this case…'
Kai's eyebrows curved in a serious expression. He extended the palm of his right hand at the creature while it was turning around to try and attack Kai once more.
As soon as it saw Kai's serious face, it froze down. It lost the desire to attack.
Is it scared of his eyes? Or maybe it felt something else…
Either way, the thing, and Kai stared at each other for a brief second, and then the monster decided to run away, as it had swapped places with Kai after the first charge-in. Now Kai was the one behind the shelf and the monster was closer to the door.
It ran to the corridor with all its speed.
“Hey, wait!" Kai shouted and proceeded to chase it down.
'Why do I feel some kind of déjà vu?' He asked himself while he followed it around.
He spotted the thing running down the stairs, even passing right beside one of the inspectors. The inspector didn't do anything. He didn't seem to mind. Instead, he even said in a loud voice:
“Hey, no running in the corridors!"
Kai didn't bother, he ran past him and kept chasing the thing.
“Hey, come back here!" The inspector shouted.
Soon the inspector had been left behind by Kai's recently obtained high speed. He chased the thing all the way to the courtyard, trying to fire another one of the waves at it. The pressure was very weak but it managed to cause some impact on the monster, which caused it to start bleeding lightly.
The monster then climbed the walls and jumped to the outside of the school. Kai was locked in, so he couldn't follow it.
“What are you doing!? You're making it run away!" A voice behind him said.
“Aimee?" He recognized the voice before he turned back.
She was staring at him, carrying the same metal shapeless idol-like object from the other day in the hands.
'Finally… She is here. Where do I start…?' Kai thought.
“What's going on Aimee? What is this thing?"
“They are called 'presences'.“
“Presences…?"
“Ghosts. Spirits. Whatever. You name it. Most people can't see or feel them."
“So that's why no one was hearing all that fuzz on the ceiling? And how do…"
“Look…" Aimee held his forearm menacingly “Most people shouldn't see them. You included. What happened to you was an accident. But I tell you: you are not ready for this. I'm going to take care of this one. Please go back to the class and pretend nothing of this ever happened."
With some difficulty, Kai managed to get his arm off of Aimee's grip.
“What do you mean, act like nothing happened? Who are you? What happened to me on that day? Why do I suddenly have all these powers? What did you say to my parents? How am I supposed to ignore all this? If you haven't noticed everybody is staring at me like I was… Like I was a ghost."
Aimee just ignored all of Kai's rant and began walking back to the class.
“I'm counting on you." She said firmly.
'Aimee…?'
She went back and Kai was left alone in the courtyard. The wind swept at his face like a cold shower, reminding he was in the middle of nowhere without anyone around during the class time.
'And now people looking at the window are going to think I'm even more the weird guy. Great.' He thought.
Kai followed Aimee's steps back to the class.
'Guh! Act like nothing happened! Like hell I'm going to ignore all that! Screw ghosts and living objects and such things. That damned thing killed me once and I got the chance to get my revenge. I'm chasing down the thing and if Aimee is not clarifying the things for me, I'm going to clarify them myself!' Kai muttered to himself in his head as he walked up the stairs.
The rest of the class went by pretty fast. The students would always whisper at his back and stare at him strangely, but he just ignored. At least he did the best to.
On that day, Kai was allowed to leave the gates at lunchtime, since there was no mandatory class after. He thought of finding Aimee and walking with her back home.
'She is going to act like an a*s, but she'll open in no time if I insist.' He planned.
But even if he planned doing so; Aimee was too fast in packing her things and leaving the school. If there was really a race of the students against the bell during the last period, Aimee was probably McLaren or Ferrari.
As he crossed the guardhouse at the gate, he went to the other side of the wall where the creature had climbed earlier to confirm a thing.
“There it is." Kai spotted a blood drip on the floor of the sidewalk.
“I've seen movies where people can work after analyzing a drop of blood like that. People can see that, right? I wonder what's going to happen if I catch a sample and send it to analysis…? Huh? What is this…?"
Kai noticed the shape of the grass near the sidewalk looked funny.
'"Did the creature do this…? No. It looks like a human. Footprints…? Oh…"
Kai realized that earlier Aimee probably had the same idea he had.
“So she is also chasing down the thing. What is she? Some kind of ghostbuster?" Kai considered his options, then abandoned the idea of the blood sample.
“Anyway… If I find Aimee, it means I'm probably going to find the creature."
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