A Painful Choice

Pressure. 

The man quickly pulled his wife up, slowly backing away from the approaching intruder. 

He raised a steel rod with trembling hands, standing against his foe. 

"St... Stay back, I tell yah!... Stay back, or I'll really hit you!" 

"Hubby... "

Mia also tightened her grip on her steel pipe, planning to help her husband if worse came to the worst. 

Over the last couple of days, they roughly understood how these shadows acted. 

Many times, these strange creatures seemed not to be able to move, even though they wanted nothing more than to rip them to shreds. 

Sometimes, a shadow will stand on the same spot, screeching the floor with its nails and stretching forward to grab them. 

They had tested different locations, knowing this massive empty room that looked like a storage room was safe. 

That's right.

In here, not many shadows seem to want to step in.