12 Instead of a partner they gave me a baby

In another hour, nine hours of torture will be completed. The living corpse lay constantly expelling liquids until it formed a puddle on the floor.

Railey in the form of a teenage girl is on the couch holding a japa mala (Buddhist rosary) and reading the account books belonging to Ashley waiting for his new colleague.

[I can't believe, there must be about 20,000 victims or more if we count their beginnings in the duchy. Disgust]

Dawn was approaching and anger was growing. Ray knew part of the story behind the disappearance of the maids but did not calculate that there was no limit to the bloody obsession of the woman sitting on the throne. The books actually kept track of the young girls who had passed through Sophia's hands and the potential victims of tomorrow. He ran his hands over his eyes to shake off the disbelief. The citizenry fully cooperated with these monsters, blindly believing in the promise that their sons and daughters would have a future working in the castle. Obtaining a position in the nobility is not an easy task and they, very devoted to their kings, saw it as easy.

The deception continued until they entered the castle and the veil that covered their stupidity fell off. If someone was found trying to open their mouths, they were eliminated and if families asked for their relatives they even paid them for their silence, this only showed that the people little and nothing cared what happened in reality. There was also a record of women abroad coming to work never to return and of slave women auctioned off in the Red Circle.

There were names, addresses, dates, price paid, and even ghoulish photographs of the bodies, which Ashley may have used as a threat or maybe she kept with her because of the sadistic and gore feeling that aroused her. You wouldn't know for sure looking at the records, but Ray was sure it was the second thing seeing the torture of the woman on the floor.

[I don't know whether to shoot them or incinerate them ... Tsk ... bastards]

Trying to calm down, he closed the book and placed it on the table. He continued with his morning prayer to avoid getting out of lane. At this moment it was preferable to meditate and get the twisted ideas out of his mind. Praying cleared his mind and released his stress.

An hour passed and the body of the woman on the floor stopped writhing and leaking fluids. The belly began to emit lights and to move as if something was inside preparing to leave. Ray woken up and sent the books and everything else into a space pocket to continue his research later. He stood on the couch, reached out and several golden shields with intricate writing appeared in midair to protect him.

Boom! Splash!

A dull exploding sound followed by black splatters on the walls ravaged the room. And there amid all the mess was a pupated, sticky-looking black pupa the size of a ball on a dry, squashed Ashley.

Ray unfurled golden rings that looked like fire on his feet to move toward meeting the newcomer. A bucket and a towel appeared in the air, holding the smell, he take the pupa with the towel and place it in the bucket.

[If I had known it was so smelly I would have prepared a mask]

Looking with mockery at the skeleton being on the floor and containing his discomfort, he retires from there until he disappears into the fireplace.

***

Ray headed for the back bay near a reef adjacent to the cave that served as the entrance to his residence.

He threw the pupa into an artificial pond to clean it. With a brush and lots of soap, he try to clean it as much as possible until it is free of sticky slime and black liquid. When he finished he dried it and showed a kind of hard, hairy ball. It was an egg.

He took the now clean egg and carried it in his arms to his new home. When suddenly the egg hatches and a small, black, tentacular creature begins to emerge from within.

[Oh shit it already opened!]

In total haste he runs inside. When he arrives he tries to lower the creature on a prepared bed, but it jumps to his face suddenly, preventing him from breathing.

-WHTLPG !!!!!! -

Losing his breath, he grabbed one of the tentacles and yanked it onto the bed.

-Shit!!! What the hell is wrong with you, why did you do that?!!! - reproaches him panting

He falls to the ground to recover the oxygen while the creature approaches the edge of the bed and watches. Ray takes out the notebook and begins to search for the reason for the murderous behavior of the creature.

Leafing through, he finds not very encouraging answers and re-read them carefully to make sure there is no mistake.

-Damn my luck! You are a newborn archon child-

Covering his eyes with a hand, he doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. The creature, it turned out, was a baby and jumping into his face was his way of greeting him. The baby archon had just mistaken him for his mother. But even with all that confusion a baby was of no use to him, he supposed that the baby would be able to help him advance and not the other way around.

-I should have read this crap more carefully before, fuuu, better now than ever-

He began to read the notebook and when he finished his reading he looked at the baby carefully and the latter moved his tentacles in a tone of joy. He remembered what his teacher told him once, that it was impossible to get mad at a baby because they don't understand anything.

-It seems I was wrong again, I'm sorry. You see, I never had a family and I have not dealt with children enough to know what needs they have. You will have to be patient with me and be obedient, okay? -

The baby tries to reach it with the tentacles and Ray reaches out to grab it then the baby clung tightly to the left arm as if looking for affection. Ray strokes the head a little and notices the blue eyes like a rainbow moonstone with a strange but familiar almost hypnotic adularescence and as usual the baby's name came out on its own.

-Meraki, that's your name boy-

The baby clung tighter giving the indicative that he liked his new name. Then Ray turned around, went to the kitchen and got some cookies and milk. He went to the library to have breakfast and show the baby his new home.

They had barely touched the chimes of 6 in the morning when they began to eat.

NA:

* Meraki means putting all of yourself into something to transcend in life.

* Adularescence is an optical effect that is due to the interference of undulating internal light that appears to float like a moving cloud found in moonstone gems.