A Fateful Escape

I quickly make my way through the alleys. It seems that they have caught on that I'm making a run for it.

'This wound is not really helpful, but I guess I am lucky that I have some regenerative powers as a demon.' I think to myself.

'Let's hope that the old man isn't mobile.'

Making my way through the alleys, I can hear the yelling from my chasers coming closer and closer. I cloak myself in shadows, in the hope that I will be harder to spot.

Ten minutes have passed since I started running, and yet I still hear people in pursuit.

'Dammit, I can't seem to shake them off!' I curse mentally.

I decide to change my strategy as I see that I won't be able to outrun them. I stand still around a corner, cloaked in shadows. I see one of the pale orcs running through the alley that I came from.

I wait until he is about 5 meters from before I use shadow walk to climb out of his shadow. Luckily, it seems that he hasn't noted me.

'I guess sneaking my way to the tavern will be the smartest thing to do.' I think determined to make my plan work.

20 more minutes have passed.

'Have I lost them all? I can't tell for sure. Rather safe than sorry, I guess.' Are the rambling thoughts in my mind.

My thoughts get interrupted as I can hear something that I didn't expect. A small child seems to be crying.

'Is that a crying child? She sounds sad, but I don't believe she is in actual trouble.'

"Found you."

I turn around and look at one of my chasers. He looks rather human if you look past the fact that he is clearly stitched together. I look closer at what I am going to call a human doll. He seems to be duel-wielding swords. The swords don't really seem impressive. The problem is that I'm in no state to fight at the moment, and he is quite the opposite.

"I should applaud you. Managing to get this far while still being injured." He says, licking his lips more and more as he keeps talking.

"I would compliment you too, but alas it seems I can't find anything." I say before diving into another alley.

I kept running until I reached a dead end.

"Done running yet." I hear a mocking voice say behind me.

I wanted to respond, but instead, I notice a small little girl sitting in the corner. My chaser quickly follows the sight of my eyes and also notices her.

What we say is a small girl. Small goat-like horns are coming out of the side of her head. Her hair is snow-white, yet stained with blood. She has 3 green eyes that all look equally frightened at us. I could see her black lips quiver before she yells.

"Don't come near me!! Leave me alone!!" She yells while crying.

My chaser seems genuinely amused at the small child begging for her life. Seeing his clear killing intent, I decided to intervene.

"Shouldn't you be focused on me, Frankenstein?"

He gives me a glare before focusing on the small girl again.

"She's probably more dangerous than you right now." He says, clearly enjoying the situation.

He raised one of his 2 swords as he prepares to strike the girl. As soon as the sword began to make its downward motion, the girl screams.

"AAAAAAAHHHH"

The force of the scream is so strong that the chaser Is thrown towards the opposite building. My ears make a constant beeping sound as I try to locate the human doll person again. I look at the building against which he impacted. What I see before me, is a mangled corpse that you wouldn't be able to recognize. Blood is everywhere as all his stitches came loose.

'What a goddamn mess' I think to myself.